Hinckley May 7 1999 atWSU n Saturday’s forecast: High 58 Low 40 yttvr V-- New graduates told nation is “in trouble" Partly cloudy Butterflies are free Darts on track Ogden High portrays children of Holocaust Davis boys girls win Region 1 titles trndard- - Examiner 50 cents http:wwwstandardnet 22 ifaayStel SERVING THE TOP OF UTAH SINCE 1888 Dvec waters rnsSmig Weber Basin official says snowpacks are 150 percent of normal By PAT BEAN Standard-Examine- ALONG THE : f- - Water is fast in running ' the Ogden ' ‘r f - 0 ubOr&t staff rs Any more shenanigans from Mother Nature and the Ogden and Weber rivers could overflow their banks Weber Basin Water Conservancy District manager Ivan Flint said the recent rains and snow along the OGDEN CANYON: r M &&K7JIV River Wasatch Front have increased snowpacks to 150 percent of normal and are causing reservoirs to fill up rapidly MARTA STORWICK Standard-Examin- Flint said Pineview Reservoir has 100000 acre feet of water in it “And it only holds 1 10000 acre feet That leaves very little room to handle snowpack melt particularly if it starts coming off fast” he said The faster melt is making home-ownenervous Shirley Linnen who lives on 40th Street along Burch Creek in South Ogden said this morning she has been anxiously watching the creek the last few days Her home has been flooded every year for the past four Recent construction changed some things on the creek but also added two more storm drains emptying into it on the court The Mailman can When he deliver Mailman? 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By JaNAE FRANCIS Standard Examiner Davis Bureau staff LAKE CITY transient nature of at the time Jermade his home at ry a Salt Lake City hotel when he arrived in Utah in 1985 to begin working for the Jazz Over the previous two years he had been fired as coach of the Chicago Bulls spent time as a scout and walked away from a teaching job in the Continental Basketball Association Now as an assistant coach for Frank Layden Sloan happened to be living in the same hotel as d draft choice the Jazz’s from the previous summer who also was just getting established in Utah Maybe you’ve heard of him His name is Karl Malone This young Malone showed some promise but Sloan wasn’t entirely convinced at the time Sloan had seen plenty of promise in young players before but few of them ever actually delivered on that promise Some promising players got happy where they were and never developed further Others developed their potential but changed the type of person they were Sloan remembers a conversation he had with the Jazz rookie at that hotel some 14 years ago when they talked about just that “I want to see who you are in 10 years” Sloan told him “Are you still going to be the same player you are today? Are you still going to be the same person?” Some 28000 points later Sloan sees Malone as the grand example for hard work one of the rare players who squeezed out every ounce of his ability At the same time Sloan omc local Jazz fans say the disenchantment they felt jearlier in the year with Karl Malone is behind them and they’re already rooting for their favorite player to be named most valuable player in the NBA Barbara Falk a Weber County court clerk who announced in January that she was changing her dog’s name from Sparkey Malone to Sparkey Homacek has gone back to calling her pet Sparkey Malone “You couldn’t be mad at that body could ya?” she said of Malone’s physique SALT first-roun- Morgan resident JOHANNA WORKMANStandard-Examne- HE'S THE MAN: Karl Malone is introduced Tuesday night against the Clippers while the Most Valuable Player sign in the Delta Center says doesn’t think Malone the person has changed a bit He's still the kid from Louisame down-hom- e siana he always was “You know what? He’s still the same Karl Malone” Sloan said “He’s obviously had a great deal of success but my association and my dealings with him are still the same “He doesn’t like some of the things I do I don’t like some of the things he does We have our little tills but that’s fine We know where we stand with each other and he knows what we're trying to accomplish and it hasn’t been a problem” rm l Malone takes that as a great compliment especially given all he has been through in the past year Almost immediately after last season’s NBA Finals ended and the Jazz had lost for the second year in a row Malone began his busy summer as if he were intentionally trying to alienate the See MALONE9A Overall payroll jobs actually increase by 234000 - The nation’s unemployment rate edged up slightly to 43 percent in Apnl as manufacturing continued to be battered by the global economic crisis But a flood of new jobs in service industries helped to push the hnemployment rate among blacks to the lowest level on record i The Labor Department said the April rate was only slightly higher than the 29- ear-loof 42 percent reached in March The nation’s unemployment rate has been at or below 45 percent for the past J2 months the best show mg in three decades despite the troubles being suffered fcy manufacturers and formers w Job creation actually accelerated iharply in Apnl as the losses in manufacturing were more than offset by big gains in a number of service industnes from of In all payroll jobs shot up 234000 in April after inching up only by 7000 jobs in March which had been the weakest monthly increase in more than three years The unemployment rate which is based on a separate survey of households rose in Apnl because while jobs were up the number of people entering the work force looking for employment grew more rapidly Federal Reserve Chairman Mhis PIkisds in GO ONLINE: Learn more about Karl Malone and visit Web sites dedicated to The Mailman Goto wwwstandardnet AMANDA SASLOW Standard-Examine- r five-ye- ar season-tick- holder et said he was so excited to see the season begin he’d sold his tickets Durrant said he’s purchased tickets for the playolTs “It’s hard when you’ve cheered for someone for so many years to just give up on them” he said Durrant’s sons Joshua and Broc wanted to “boo” Malone at See FANS8A says bombing must stop fice workers to restaurant employees INSIDE: Clinton comments4A The Associated Alan Greenspan said on Wednesday that the US economy is enjoying a “phenomenal” performance of rapid growth and low unemployment existing along with low inflation But Greenspan’s remarks shook up Wall Street because he warned that imbalances reflected by tight labor markets were likely to trigger wage pressures and higher inflation down the road However markets rallcd today Karl he's our man the r it all Michael Christiansen said he’s paid to go to a Jazz season game and plans to attend some of the playolTs even though he’d vowed not to do so as games began in February Christiansen and his friends may even break out their secret weapon a ceramic pig cookie jar they point to and kiss while they watch games in his living room to bring their team luck “I’d love to see Karl get the MVP” he said Ernie Durrant also of Morgan said he’s even ready to stand behind Malone In February the Milosevic ready to talk Jobless rate edges up f See WATER4A the fans still disenchanted with The By TOM McEACHIN WASHINGTON Echo and Wanship reservoirs on the Weber River “The fact is all our reservoirs are getting too full for comfort” Flint said And that’s exactly opposite of what was happening just a little Are Malone always does what’s asked of him The Associated Press Pineviews It is also doing the same thing at still Sloan says outspoken Standard-Examin- “I was kind of nervous a few days ago but we didn't get any so maybe they fixed it” she said Flint said the district is letting the maximum amount of water possible - without flooding west Weber County farmlands - out of Press BELGRADE Yugoslavia - Slobodan Milosevic has signaled he’s ready to discuss a peace deal for Kosovo after Russia and Western powers agreed to broad outlines of a settlement But first the Yugoslav president insists NATO must stop the bombing NATO jets struck again overnight hitting the airport in Nis Serbia's second-largecity and the city's industrial zone 120 miles southeast of Belgrade the Beta news agency reported The alliance confirmed the airport attack Beta said at least eight people were killed and several injured when allied missiles hit NTs’ city center near the local hospital and a rark shortly before noon today The agency said duster bombs hit the st i J0&773"GQQQ1 Printed on recycled paper hospital and fire broke out in a nearby residential building The latest attacks came hours after foreign ministers from the Group of Eight industrialized nations - including Russia Japan and six NATO members - reached agreement on a seven-poin- t peace plan for Kosovo The plan calls for the deployment of “effective international civil and security presences” in Kosovo “capable of guaranteeing the achievement of the common objectives” It must be endorsed by the UN Security Council Many details still have to be worked out Among other things Russia and NATO have different interpretations of a “security presence” Russia also wants a halt to the bombing while NATO is demanding that Serbs first stop attacking ethnic