FRONT PAGE A1 www.tooeletranscript.com TUESDAY TOOELE RANSCRIPT Grease returns T to THS after a 22-year absence See B1 BULLETIN November 13, 2007 SERVING TOOELE COUNTY SINCE 1894 VOL. 114 NO. 50 50¢ County grapples with high cost of inmate medical care by Suzanne Ashe for the first time, they are often STAFF WRITER prescribed anti-anxiety or anti- depression medication, she said. Each week, nurse Caleen Some of the inmates are on a long Loving treats diabetics, back list of medications that are pack- pains, abdominal pains, pregnant aged in small packets and dis- women, and a variety cuts and pensed daily. Each inmate is given bruises that come from fighting. a day to take their meds. It’s an Loving is not on staff at a hospi- honor system, Loving explained. tal or medical clinic. For the past A doctor comes in twice a week 10 years she has worked as the and a local dentist will close his jail nurse at the Tooele County regular practice several times a Detention Center. year to treat inmates at his office. “The biggest misconception “The most common complaint people have is that if they have a is pain. Insomnia is also a prob- medical condition they don’t have lem,” Loving said. “We have fake to come to jail,” Loving said. outs — fake chest pains, fake sei- Each new inmate is screened by Loving. If someone is incarcerated SEE CARE PAGE A6 ➤ photography / Troy Boman Ted Elliott stands in front of his recently closed business, Alliance Capital Mortgage, in downtown Tooele on Tuesday. The high rate of defaults on subprime mortgage loans caused many of Elliott’s lenders to go out of business, forcing him to close up shop as well. Subprime crisis weighing on local mortgage companies by Doug Radunich ing responsibility for their actions or fixing gone,” he said. “Our order counts and loans STAFF WRITER things in order to get a good loan.” are down right now, and I’ve had lenders tell Elliott said the day of the subprime mort- me they are done with subprime loans and With the national mortgage industry gage is over, but mortgage companies could are not even looking at the market. However, crashing under the weight of subprime be suffering their aftereffects for a while we know we’ll survive because we’ve been loans, mortgage and title companies in still. here for 50 years, and we’ve seen enough of photography / Troy Boman Tooele County are down — and a few may “I see subprime mortgages eventually these types of trends and cycles.” Tooele County jail nurse Caleen Loving hands out Q-tips inside the county detention be out. going the way of the dinosaur, and I think Bank of Utah Mortgage Manager Ellen facility Tuesday. Loving distributes a wide variety of medication and sees about 200 One casualty already in the books is eventually everything will go to banks and Pedersen said that although her company inmates per month. Alliance Capital Mortgage in Tooele. Owner credit unions,” he said. “Very few people has weathered the storm because of its bank- Ted Elliott closed his business at the end of are buying subprime loans anymore, and ing services, she worries about the future for September as a result of the subprime crisis. most don’t want to touch them. There are a smaller, broker-only businesses. “The main reason I closed was that there few large brokers sticking around, but a lot “I think it’s the smaller places that are Settlement Canyon were over 180 banks and mortgage com- of people are getting out of the industry left only brokers and don’t have a lot of backers panies around the nation that closed down and right.” that would need help,” she said. “I worry that completely, or closed certain portions of Tooele Title Company owner Jerry some of the mortgage brokers in town might to implement water- their business, due to the subprime and all- Houghton said his business, which closes not be here next year. We have less loans pay market. And roughly two-thirds of those loans for home buyers, is also falling off after right now, but we’ll make it the long run companies had lenders I could sell loans the subprime crash. because we’re a bank and have more money metering system soon to,” he said. “People were not refinancing or “We’re slower than what we were, and backing us.” continued to have bad credit, and we lost a we hardly haven’t seen any subprime loans Changeover will tie usage to number of shares owned lot of lenders out there. People were not tak- lately because the market is pretty much SEE MORTGAGE PAGE A6 ➤ by Sarah Miley we can see to rectify the problem,” STAFF WRITER he said. “This is the only way we can fairly distribute the water.” HONORING VETERANS In an effort to fairly distribute Currently, there are 851 con- water to all its customers, the nections — including both homes Settlement Canyon Irrigation and farms — and 4,249 shares Company hopes to begin using owned in the Settlement Canyon irrigation water meters during Irrigation Company. the 2008 water year, although no There are still some kinks to timeline for installation has been work out in the metering plan. set. For example, the company hasn’t The move is designed to rec- decided what to do when a share- oncile the discrepancy between holder uses all their allotted water water shares owned and actual — whether they’ll be shut off water used. or charged more for additional “Right now, anybody on our water. They also don’t know when system can use as much water as or where the first meters will be they want no matter how many installed. shares they own,” said Gary Bevan, Bevan said the company will Settlement Canyon Irrigation pattern its new metered system Company president. after the Grantsville Irrigation Bevan said that is especially Company’s. damaging during years of drought, He added that the Settlement because it’s harder to enforce Canyon Irrigation Company water restrictions if the compa- has tried using water meters in ny can’t measure the amount of the past, but was unsuccessful water being used. because the meters frequently “When we go on restrictions became clogged by rocks. there’s really no way to enforce “But Grantsville is using a filter them,” he said. “When we have a in front of the meters and it seems lot of water, there’s no problem. to be working for them, so that’s The problem comes in these water what we’re going to do,” he said. years where there are droughts.” The installation of water meters With the new system, the more won’t be done all at once, Bevan shares someone owns, the more said, but rather in increments, a photography / Maegan Burr water they’ll be able to use, he section at a time. William Mair, a member of the Patriot Guard Riders, a nationwide group of motorcycle riders that honors fallen soldiers, stands for said. the retiring of the colors Saturday during the Elks Lodge Veterans Memorial ceremony held at the Dow James Building. “Water meters are the only way SEE WATER PAGE A7 ➤ WEATHER OPEN FORUM A4 HOMETOWN B1 INSIDE Partly cloudy conditions will pre- OBITUARIES A6 BULLETIN BOARD A9 Cage fighting draws big crowd vail through Thursday with highs TV LISTINGS A8 CLASSIFIEDS B3 over the weekend in the low to mid-50s. See A10 Complete Forecast: A2 SPORTS A10 ANNOUNCEMENTS B2 A2 A2 TOOELE TRANSCRIPT-BULLETIN TUESDAY November 13, 2007 Utah & The West Valley Weather Forecast Bill set to speed up chemical weapons disposal Local Weather by Bruce Schreiner Tue ASSOCIATED PRESS 55/35 LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — The 11/13 Pentagon would have a 10-year Considerable cloudiness. High deadline to destroy lethal chemical around 55F. weapons stored in states across the country under a bill approved by Congress. A provision in the defense spending measure would set a 2017 deadline to Wed destroy stockpiles of chemical weap- 55/38 ons in Utah, Kentucky, Colorado, 11/14 Oregon, Arkansas, Alabama and A few clouds. Highs in the mid 50s Indiana. and lows in the upper 30s. The measure won final approval Thursday and was sent to President Bush. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., was among those Thu 59/39 pushing to speed up the disposal 11/15 work. Without the congressional action, the Pentagon had indicated Partly cloudy. Highs in the upper it would not finish the disposal at 50s and lows in the upper 30s. the Blue Grass depot before 2023, McConnell said. ©2005 American Profile Hometown Content “It is vitally important that we keep Service the pressure on the Department of Defense to get the job done,” photography courtesy of Deseret Chemical Depot Temps / Precipitation said McConnell, the Senate’s top The Pentagon would have a 10-year deadline to destroy stockpiles of lethal chemical weapons stored in Utah and other states by 2017 under a Republican leader. bill approved by Congress. Tooele’s Deseret Chemical Depot is expected to finish their weapons destruction by 2012. Date High Low (prec./inches) Craig Williams, director of the Nov. 8 65 36 0 Kentucky-based watchdog Chemical fighting a war that was based on weapons to be destroyed by 2012, but sites are expected to continue beyond Nov. 9 60 40 0 Weapons Working Group, said Friday claims that Iraqis had weapons of the Pentagon said it will not finish by 2012, he said.