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Show Tuesday, October 20, 1998, THE DAILY HERALD, STATE "The church, traditionally, The Associated Press Drug issues opposed SALT LAKE CITY (AP) Police chiefs from the country's largest cities have voted to oppose ballot initiatives for the medical legalization of marijuana or other drugs. The vpte of the Major City Chiefs Association, comprised of chiefs from the 52 largest metropolitan police forces in the U.S. and Canada, was announced Monday at the International Association of Chiefs of Police convention in Salt Lake City. Voters will decide the issue in the Nov. 3 general election. - has addressed the needs of the SALT LAKE CITY The Mormon Church has begun to offer its extensive network of e social services to all local of residents, regardless religion. On Oct. 1 the church officially opened a Salt Lake agency, low-incom- Family Support Services, designed to help improve the quality of life for all of Utah's poor. poor who are members of the church in this community," said Gary Lloyd, who with his wife, Donna Lloyd, is assistant manager of the agency. "(But) the main thrust of the Family Support Service program will be to join members of the community in addressing the needs of all individuals and families who are in need in the Salt Uke Valley." Care worker feces trial SALT LAKE CITY (AP) ..; A health care worker accused of raping a mentally retarded ,,, woman has been ordered to 1, ;V stand trial. Prosecutor James Cope claims the woman who reportedly functions at u. was T the level of a ""legally incapable of consenting ""to sex with Donald Earl Barnes. ' The alleged crime occurred 6 at the Bungalow Care Center in Salt Lake City. ''Sept. Highway in flood plain 'J Lloyd said agency mentors and trainers, many of them nonmembers themselves, will not do any proselyting for the church. In fact, almost none of the material and information given out at the center will mention the church or its teachings. The church has previously been involved with other agencies' general social programs, but Family Support services is the first attempt made by the church to fill those community needs themselves. Family Support Services is r operating on a pilot program basis. "We don't know exactly how one-yea- successful this will be," Lloyd said. The agency will provide programs intended to help families become strengthen their home and family, prevent substance abuse and overcome obstacles e self-relian- t, in medical services, employment, education, legal services, housing, transportation and mental health. It will also provide support and counseling to single parents. Salt Lake County officials, who run many social support service programs and who have been meeting with Family Support Services principals in order to coordinate programs, are enthusiastic about the new outreach. Utah State University, Logan city declare war on predatory parking enforcers The Associated Press fc Page AS Mormon (Church opens social services agency to all r " Prow. Utah LOGAN Utah State University is asking Logan officials to crack down on parking enforcement companies that police private lots. The companies anger students, faculty and citizens by placing an immobilizing metal boot on a car's wheel and charging large fees to get the device off. The companies' many opponents say the and the booters themselves practice are unnecessary, incredibly annoying and maybe illegal. Logan wouldn't be the first city to legislate against booters. Faced with growing complaints from Brigham Young University students, Provo passed a "predatory towing ordinance" less than free-lanc- e a year ago, according to Ted Dowling, executive director of Provo's Municipal Council. The Provo law sets price controls on the companies fees, makes it illegal for companies to pay apartment owners for the right to boot there, requires conspicuous signs warning drivers of the consequences of illegal parking and requires booters to cut the fee in half if the car's owner returns before the boot is put on. The charge is led by Utah State Studentbody President Ryan Dent, who says he has been booted twice in his three years at the school and has even taken the owner of one local booting company to court, Since then, Dent has been joined by USU President George Emert and Cache County Attorney Scott Wyatt, who has volunteered legal assistance to students in the cause for the past eight years. Dent would like to see a city ordinance prohibiting companies from using what he contends are predatory practices that take unfair advantage of stu- ber of USU students are considering filing small claims lawsuits to get their money back. Everybody is suspicious of (one booter) because he will only take cash and offers them a ride to the ATM machine." Dent, Emily Croshaw and former studentbody president Andy Croshaw took Brady Pierce, the owner of Cache Autobooting Service, to court in June, hoping to get their money back, but a judge ruled in favor of the company. dents. "This guy's writing the law, enforcing the law and collecting the payment," Dent said. That's just not how we do That wasn't the first time Pierce has been in court with a student, however. Assault charges were filed against Pierce two years ago when he allegedly hit a student in the head with a socket wrench while booting a car near things." Wyatt takes it a step farther, arguing that booting is an "illegal lien" against a vehicle. 'They don't have a legal authority to hold the car hostage," he said. "A num SALT LAKE CITY (AP) Federal officials and environmentalists contend the state's proposed Legacy Highway is - unworkable because a large j portion of it would sit on a flood plain. To deal with the potential-'flooissue in pyears, highway planners have promised to build the road 5 ifeet above what they term v "natural ground." That, they j say, would place the road's surface well above the historic level of 4,212 feet .last reached in 1986 and 1987. 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