Show 1 UTAH DRIVERS ARE SPEEDING UHP notices early change to higher speeds Page 4B 7 OGDEN UTAH SERVING NORTHERN UTAH SINCE 1888 Shuttle is now school V - v Chapter OKs full membership: By CHARLES F TRENTELMAN Standard-Examine- kids’ imaginations PAUL Standard Examiner staff HUNTSVILLE Ala — The Sun Team filed through a dark tunnel into a mock space shuttle Blinking blue arrows pointed the way The children sat in front-roseats and stared at a movie screen in the blue glow of the padded cockpit w blast crackled through speakers and the room jolted as the film showed a shuttle lifting into blue sky Red lights flashed as the movie depicted flames and smoke boiling from boosters thrusting the ship toward space Scott Mattsson a at Uintah Elementary “It’s cool” said Jill Jerman 9 in fourth grade at the same Weber County school Her face glowed with reflected light from the filmed shuttle The fake cockpit tilted backward as the movie showed the vehicle leaving Earth Earlier Monday afternoon er full-servi- an older group of youths learned about the physics of thrust enabling shuttles to escape the Earth’s gravitational pull They were lectured on scientific laws governing orbiting planets and satellites Twenty Northern Utah students and about 18 from the Salt Lake City area crammed lessons and activities into their See CAMP on 2A staff near-unanimo- us “This is weird” shouted fifth-grad- r OGDEN — The OgdenNorth-er- n Utah YWCA has decided to allow men to become full members but director Gaye Littleton doesn’t seem worried that the move may have put g the local center in hot water with the national YWCA “We just went ahead and approved to change our bylaws and not deal with national” she said Monday “Rather than ask questions we’d rather do it and let national react to it” The change approved by the Ogden YWCA’s membership at its annual meeting last week allows men to become full members of the YWCA for the first time Until now they could be associate members only not able to vote or hold office As far as Littleton or anyone at the YWCA national offices in New York City knows this is the first time any YWCA chapter has taken this step Littleton said the change approved by a vote is in line with the Ogden YWCA’s efforts to become a community agency Many of its programs help men now she said and “a lot of our best volunteers are men” So far the national office of the YWCA in New York has not reacted officially to the Ogden development When Lillian Kimure associate executive director was contacted Monby the Standard-Examinsaid “We did know she not day about this Can we give them (Ogden’s YWCA) a call?” Contacted again later Monday Kimure said she still could not comment She said another staff member was working on the situation Efforts to contact that staff member today were unsuccessful Minutes after the Standard-Examincontacted the New York office Littleton got a call from trend-settin- Space camp A ce er Gary ClarkStandard-Examine- r er Uintah student Tim Foster is fitted for a space suit by camp counselor Alien Kitchens ‘Christian Women’ title to go By CHARLES F TRENTELMAN Standard Examiner staff PHOENIX — Gov Evan Mecham should be removed from office for obstructing an investigation of an alleged death threat senators were told today during opening Republican’s imarguments of the trial peachment Prosecutor William French also said the man accused of making the alleged threat former state official Lee Watkins had claimed that jobs in the Mecham administration related “to the amount of money that you were able to bring into the campaign” French said the evidence was “overwhelming” that Mecham violated criminal laws and his oath of office and committed malfeasance in office “any one of which call for impeachfirst-ter- m ment” However defense lawyer Fred Craft later told senators that Mecham broke no laws and was acting within his authority “What has this man done?” Craft said during the beginning of his opening argument “He’s had the book thrown at him” Craft said the accusations resulted from a “mutiny” by Attorney General Bob Corbin and Ralph Milstead director of the Depart Associated Press Gov Evan Mecham conducts a news conference from his Glendale Ariz headquarters ment of Public Safety Mecham who also faces a March 22 criminal trial and a May 17 recall election did not appear at the Senate on the second day of his impeachment trial The impeachment counts against Mecham d include an allegation that he ordered not to cooperate with the attorney general’s probe of an alleged death threat by Watkins then the state prison construction chief Watkins has denied making a threat against Donna Carlson a former top Mecham aide who testified before the state grand jury on Mecham’s failure to report a $350000 campaign loan French said Watkins complained about the job he was given by Mecham and told Corrections Director Sam Lewis “If they don’t treat me right I can bring Mecham’s administration down” French warned the Senate to “keep your eye on the ball” and not be distracted by any attacks on witnesses in the case “Know that this is being done because there is no defense” French said Mil-stea- OGDEN — The Farmer Jack store on 24th Street has changed hands for the second time in a week and will reopen as an IGA store next Tuesday according to a spokesman for Fleming Companies Inc which handled the sale Brent Johnson who has worked as a district manager for a Las Vegas Nev supermarket is the Ogden store’s new owner said Cheryl Hudak spokesman Fleming Johnson bought the store from Fleming which had purchased it from Farmer Jack’s parent organization Borman’s Inc of the sale were interpretation of the contract accumulated vacation pay and disclosed not signed last year when Safeway have now lost all vacation and sick pay that had accumulated Johnson was unavailable for sold the store to Borman’s comment Janeen Angell of the United since the Borman’s purchase now that Borman’s has sold the store Johnson has told employees he Food Workers union which repemto interviews meat the set to resents up job department plans staff the store said Farmer Jack ployees at the store said the sale Hart said Johnson plans to opmanager Scott Hart Hart said the of the store to an independent erate the store himself Johnson is now employed as a district employees have been given notice grocer will make it “hard to organize" a union there by Farmer Jack and should conmanager for the Food 4 Less assumed Borman’s said sider themselves unemployed unstores in Las Vegas Food 4 Less Angell d chain less hired by Johnson the existing union contract when is a Modesto Two unions represent employit purchased the store but Meanwhile three other area ees at the Ogden Farmer Jack employees took wage cuts ranging from 50 cents to $186 per hour Farmer Jack stores are still for Teamsters spokesman Dino sale by Borman's said the union hopes to and agreed to forego pension conThe for a year employmeet with both Fleming and tributions Layton Farmer Jack Manager Johnson this week to negotiate an ees also gave up their last week Terms Calif-base- Ape-dai- le V ri T -' ' -- the YWCA regional director in Phoenix Sandra Burton j “She was mighty upset about it” Littleton said “She said it was my job as director to explain why we were the way we were” Burton told her men should join the YMCA Littleton said “But the nearest one of those is in Salt Lake City” Littleton said The disagreement is nothing new “We have not been close to our national at all” said Littleton When Ogden was raising funds to build its new building on Adams Avenue north of 23rd Street it got no help from national she said And when the national director of the YWCA visited Salt Lake City last year while the Ogg den drive was going on Littleton said she wasn’t even See YWCA on 2A fund-raisin- The opening arguments today dealt only with the alleged threat Arguments will pre- cede discussion of the other allegations against Mecham as they are reached during the trial On the trial’s openig day Monday the Senate strongly rejected efforts to dismiss im- peachment charges against Mecham Also the Arizona Supreme Court was ex-- ’ pected to rule today on a defense claim that the impeachment trial the fu st of a US governor in 59 years should be delayed until after Mecham’s March 22 criminal trial on charges of concealing a $350000 campaign loan The high court last week refused to grant a temporary delay and Mecham said he planned to take the issue to federal court if : necessary If convicted by the Senate Mecham would be removed from office and could be permanently barred from holding elective office in Arizona Mecham 63 won election in a three-wa- y race after five tries Ogden Farmer Jack store to become IGA outlet Standard Examiner business writer - OGDEN — When the: Young Women’s Christian Association of Ogden voted to allow men to become full members it also voted itself a new problem What do you call the association now that it isn’t just for young Christian women? Gaye Littleton the Y’s director said all the 180 people at the 42nd annual dinner meeting of the local YWCA last week voted for the change Of another 90 mail-i- n votes two were negative “We’ve always allowed See MEN on 2A illecham evidence ‘overwhelming’ By KRISTINE LOOSLEY - Local YWCA to allow mem ' Lessons touch off By JENNIFER 50 CENTS Keith White said his store will continue to operate as usual until it is sold as will store in Brigham City and Tremonton Borman’s Inc bought the stores from Safeway last year and announced last week it intends to sell them as soon as possible The Ogden store — along with 20 others in Utah Idaho and Wyoming — was sold to Fleming Cos in a sale announced last week Fleming in turn plans to market the stores to independent grocers Hudak said The Ogden store sale to Johnson is the first sale to have been finalized she said 1' ‘Y |