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Show 1 jrj r; -- w atttKo oooo: PROVO, UTAH, FRIDAY, JANUARY 114TH YEAR, NO. 131 $6.75 A MONTH 1, 1988 12 others die in hotel fire - WASHINGTON So happy New Year and be it resolved by your public servants that, in 1988, taxes will be simpler, grapes will be safer and overstuffed airline lug- gage racks will be a thing of the past. Lest the euphoria of "tax reform" overcome you, be advised that Social Security will be taking a bigger bite out of your paycheck. But you can quit envying the neighbor who is two income tax brackets above you. Beginning today, Jan. 1, 1988, there are only two personal income tax rates: 15 percent and 28 percent. There were five in the year just past. The bill you run up on your credit card this year will not be as valuable when 1988 tax time comes around. Only 40 percent of consumer interest interest on credit expense Vichien Sae Tang, a rescue worker for the Ruam Katanyu Foundation, said the woman died when she fell off a ladder dangling from a police helicopter that tried to rescue her from the hotel roof. Vichien said the fire was still blazing when the woman plunged to the roof of a house about 150 feet from the hotel and broke her neck and legs. The Ruam Katanyu Foundation assists in disasters. A man is lifted aboard a rescue helicopter early today in Bangkok, Thailand, fleeing a hotel fire that claimed 13 lives. Letters ask judge to intercede letters and telephone calls from people who support Alan B. Hadfield, the Lehi man convicted by a jury last week of About half the letters are seven counts of child sodomy and sexual abuse. Sandy Starley, court bailiff for District Judge Cullen Y. Christensen, who heard the case, said approximately 80 letters have been received so far, plus a petition signed by more than 300 people. form letters asking Judge Christensen to intercede in Hadfield's behalf, even to the point of overturning the jury's decision. The letter also brings to question the methods used by worker, in extracting information from the children who allegedly were involved. Starley said most of the letters came from Lehi and were from people attesting to Hadfield's good character, but same came from other com- - Dr. Barbara Snow, social (See JUDGE, Page 2) No deduction, but what a New Year's gift! By TOM WALTON Herald Staff Writer Darlene Hebert was hoping for another exemption on her 1987 tax return. What she ended up with is a trip for two to Orange County, Calif. r I 1.'. y Either way, she was elated. Hebert, an Orem resident, gave birth to a baby girl at 2:15 a.m. today at Utah Valley Regional Medical Center in Provo, the first local baby of the New Year. Other hospitals in Utah, Juab, Sanpete and Wasatch i. a.m. Darlene and her husband Keith are winners of a geta- fV. .y--- ,'" ' ' K '' Doug Lind Photo Darlene llebert, Orem, lands a good morning kiss on a yawning Katie Marie. Katie became the first locally born child of the year when she arrived at 2:15 a.m. today. way vacation for two to Orange County in the First Baby of the Year contest sponsored by The Daily Herald, Morris Travel and Ask Mr. Foster. Since her baby was due Dec. 30, Hebert wasn't too concerned with winning the trip, (See BABY, Page 2) recalls mislabeled medicine Government - The (AP) than more government says 100,000 bottles of potentially WASHINGTON cold medicines could contain instead a dangerous tranquilizer and are mislabeled being recalled. The Food and Drug Administration said Thursday that percent before the tax changes. If you don't itemize on your tax return, the standard deduction will go up in 1988. That won't put cash into your pocket until you fill out the return next year. For some people, the new year brings a pay raise. White collar federal workers will get 2 percent more and so will military personnel. A 4.2 percent cost-of-livi- ng increase will show up in the paychecks of Social Security beneficiaries, raising the average monthly check for a retired worker from $492 to $513. An estimated 3.6 million former federal civilian and military employees also get an extra 4.2 percent, and so will retired railroad workers and veterans drawing pensions not based on service-low-inco- (See RESOLUTIONS, Page 2) spree shooting - PoNASHUA, N.H. (AP; lice suspect a drug deal that went awry may have provoked a rampage in which a gunman shot three men to death and seriously wounded two others before he was killed in a shootout with police. Nashua police said Thursday the gunman, Rafael Rodriguez, 38, had a history of drug arrests, including two indictments in June and July on n charges. "We've talked to a lot of witnesses, but try to visualize that," Nashua Lt. Donald said in an interview at the police station. "These people: have to go back out on the: street after they say what they ; been reluctant to talk since Rodriguez was shot by an officer Wednesday night after firing twice at him in a gasoline station parking lot, police said. Police said Rodriguez was putting gasoline in a car after n Nadriving from a shua neighborhood to Londonderry about 10 miles away and back. During the trip, he shot five men once each in the head with a revolver, police said. "He said that the guy who lived in this apartment owed him money," Lorene Flores, who lives in the neighborhood, told WCSH-T"(Rodriguez) told him to come out and he wouldn't come out. Then he cocaine-possessio- Witnesses, however, have drug-ridde- trie tranquilizer, haloperidol, could be fatal, especially to children. LaboThe FDA said My-ratories of Morton Grove, 111., K e is recalling all bottles of its cold medicine bearing lot number 15718 with an expiration date of 1288. four-ounc- The bottles, all 105,000 of which bear the same lot number and expiration date, were sold under the following brand names: Osco Aphedrid Syrup, distributed bv Osco Drug Inc. of Oak Brook, 111. Myfed Syrup, distributed to military stores. Life-Lin- and Trifed e civilian Democrats and Republicans are finalizing candidate selections for important races this football opponents from this past season met in Pitt and Texas the Bluebonnet Bowl Thurs Two of BYU's Fair tonight and Saturday with areas of fog and low clouds developing. Lows in the mid t.?eus. Highs in the URL Syrup, distributed by United Research Laboratories of Philadelphia. d One woman, however, who said she witnessed one of the two Nashua attacks, told a Maine television station Rodriguez apparently tried to collect a debt. started the shooting." "We suspect it's because of the suspect drug-relate- d, in- volved," Nashua Police Chief William Quigley said at a news conference. year. For a look at who to watch in '88, see election stories on page 5. day with the Longhorns the Panthers For details, turn to Page out-lasU- 32-2- 7. 13. mid to upper 20s. Outlook for remainder of the holiday weekend: areas of fog, low clouds and cold. Where to find it Classified Ads Comics 15 International, National. ...20-2- 3 25-3- 2 Uni-Fe- say." Cloudy and cold Life-Lin- if. el Bowls, bowls and more bowls Svrup, e distributed by Pharmaceutical of Hayward, Cal- Ha--m- Racing toward November 6 V.. . 100 awry spawned counties were stilling waiting for their first 1988 births as of -"-. cards and personal loans will be deductible. It was 65 percent for 1987, down from Drug deal gone Show of support for Hadfield they have been flooded with The same. tralian passport. Herald Staff Writer (AP) government isn't exactly going on a diet but it's making New Year's resolutions just the nine-stor- Fourth District Court personnel confirmed Thursday that CENTS sane safe and - An early Thailand (AP) morning fire raced through a Bangkok hotel today and killed at least 13 people, including an American and a woman who lost her grip on a ladder from a rescue helicopter, authorities said. Police said 3G other people were injured in the blaze, which broke out a 4 a.m. at the y First Hotel in central Bangkok. Lt. Gen. Manus Krutchaiyunt, commissioner of the Metropolitan Police Bureau, identified the dead American as Daniel James Ryan. Hotel guest Leo S. Roland of St. Louis, Mo., said Ryan, 27, was from Jacksonville, Ark.. Roland said he and Ryan were aircraft methanes for Boeing Co. and had worked during the last year in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. He said the two had arrived in Thailand on New Year's Eve on vacation. A Singaporean Embassy official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said four of the dead were Singaporeans and another was an ethnic Vietnamese woman who held an AusBANGKOK, By JOSEPHINE ZIMMERMAN 30 Motto for '88: Keep it simple, American, The cause of the blaze was not immediately known. Apichart Sungsithiveth, the hotel's night manager, said the fire began at a switchboard of a second-floo- r room usually used for - PRICE Movies Obituaries 20-2-3 4 Opinions Sports State, Regional Television listing Today 6 13,U 5 23 13,19 : , : |