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Show Daily ee 18,2006 www heraldextra.com ek UTAH VALLEY EDITION 50 CENTS YOUR TOWN > YOUR NEIGHBORS° FOUR NEWSPAPER Tax incentivebrings tech company toUtah FormerMicronplant houses IM Flash, expected to bring in 1,850 jobs, $1 billion in salaries erations herefor at least 10 years. “Forinstance, in year one, IM Flash has to pay state incomeand sales taxes,file a rebate on those taxes, and Grace Leong will make NAND memory chips at Micron plants in Lehi, Boise, Idaho, and Manassas, Va. A significant portion of DAILY HERALD A state tax incentive program aimed at making Utah more competitive in recruiting businessis starting to reap dividends.It has helped attract $3 billion — the largest single businessin- vestment ever made in Utah. On Friday, the Governor's Office of Economic Development Board approved an incomeandsales tax incentive to IM Flash Technologies ‘Inc., a joint venture of Micron Technology Inc. and Intel Corp. that now occupies the former Micronplantin Lehi. Headquartered in Lehi, IM Flash these chips — typically used in portable music players such as Apple iPods, digital cameras, portable storage and then in year two,they'll get a rebate on taxes they paid in year one,” said Michdel G. Sullivan, director of com- pay Micron andIntel $250 million each. munications andlegislative relations with the Governor's Office of Economic Development. Twelve other companies in Utah havereceived the state tax incentiveto date. Hiringis under wayfor the 1,850 Underthe state's Economic Develop- positions at the former 400-worker Mi- handheld devices — will be shipped to Apple Computer. Apple is expected to mentIncremental Tax Incentive, IM Flash will receive a rebate that won't exceed 30 percent of state sales and ircome taxes paid overa five-year period. Toreceivethe rebate,it has to create 1,850 new jobs in Utah during the next five years and commit to keeping op- cron plantin Lehi, which is expected to transition from testing computer chips to making NAND products by early 2007. Job openings are now available in operations, engineering, research See INCENTIVES, A6 | period over Alan Choate DAILY HERALD Therewill some campaign debate for Utah County elections this year — several races are contested at the party level, including contests for both county commission seats and county treasurer. Amongthe contenders for Utah County Commission are men whohaveheld the office before. Inside » There are several ‘Openseats in the Legislature See Qur Towns, D1) Springville attorney Gary Anderson is looking to unseat incumbent Jerry Grover, and David Gardnerof Springville — who hada » Get a complete highandtroubled list of races for the | 2006 November election See AG profile during his tenure in office — is entered as an independent in the race in which Steve Whiteis the cur- rent officeholder. Oneof the most interesting races may be the county attorney contest, however, wherethe incumbentis being challenged by twolawyers who work for him. Kay Bryson has beenthe county attorney for 16 years — too long, accordingto Jeff See ELECTIONS, AG ROBB COSTELLO/Daily Herald DR. YOENY DOBSON CHECKS THE HEARTBEATOFZEEBO,a cockatoo, at Riverwoods Pet Hospitalin Provo on Friday. Zeebois a resident animalat the hospital whereall types of animals are treated. Dr. Dobsonis the owner and founderof the pet hospital andspecializesin avians, exotics andreptiles. Judge in Moussaoui case allows some aviation witnesses Two more die after Father avenging son’s death using abortion pill in Iraq is ready to go home Andrew Bridges THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Two more women havedied after using the abortion pill RU-486, regulators said Friday in a warning that brought renewed calls for pulling the controversial drug from the market. The organization that provided the pill to the two womiensaidit w tely stop disregarding the approved instructions for the pill’s use, ‘The Food and Drug Administration warned doctors to watch for a rare but deadly infection i two deaths. However,in oneof them, the woman's symptoms appeared to resemble those in the cluster of four cases in California where the womendied SIX MONTHSAGO,a 48-year-old Georgia man left his grieving wife to seek revengein Iraqafter their son was killed by a roadside bombin Baghdad. This is the Army corporal’s story. Charles J. Hanley THE ASSOCIATED PRESS nthe desert chill, on the lonely nighttime roads of Iraq, Joe Johnsonlooks out over his machine gun andthinksof Justin. ~ It was on Easter morning 2004 that a chaplain anda colonel on Joe and Jan Johnson's Georgia doorstep with the news.Justin, the boy Joe had fished and hunted with, the soldier son who'd goneoff to Iraq a monthearlier, was suddenly dead at22, killed by a roadside bomb planted in a Baghdad slum. Today it’s Joe who mans the M-240 atop a Humvee,warily watching the sides of the road, an unlikely Armycorporal at 48, a father who came here for revenge, a Christian missionary on a crusade against Prosecutors seeking to execute al-Qaida conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui partially revived their case Friday after a judge reversed course and agreed to admit someevidence about aviation security. Read more on A6. INSIDE Alittle <O¥ rain lili UFE&STYLE BY same SPORTS a y~CMIGH 45 OURTOWNS Bt LOW 30 "| BUSINESS VOLUME 83 ISSUE 230 D6 COMICS US.Army Cpl. 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