Show The eraM Aggies prep for game with Iowa Hawkeyes — B1 MiES: juijpni djj OH jijfcf VoL 93' No 264 21 ’2002 ISaturdayi September Special ed classes connect in game — A3 71 TVOTI T-b- all Logan ’Utah 10 2002$50 Brldgerland’s Daily Newspape Weather Sunny and pleasant this weekend -P- age AS Update Flirting takes on new scene with gadgets By Jeremiah StetUer staff writer The Top of Utah Marathon is attracting more than running shoes and pasta specials to the valley this weekend It is attracting the pennies nickels and dimes of more than 1500 runners and their families What that means in economic terms is at least a quarter-millio- n dollars in new revenue for local business tourism officials say According to Tourism Director Maridene Hancock the Top of Utah f Marathon ranks among the valley’s largest summer events in terms of hotel stays Scott Goss front desk supervisor at the Crystal Inn would not dispute that He said the marathon has a “definite” impact on his business “We sell out every time” he said Melissa Garrett assistant manager at Ramada Limited spoke of similar impacts For the past three years the Ramada has filled to capacity with the ' marathon Not only that but it has also felt a 25 to 30 percent bump in business at the company’s nearby Gteip) MDs RV park “Almost every room in town sells out by Friday night” Hancock said But the hotel sector is not the only one affected Tourism officials predict increased business in local restaurants Some restaurants like' the Juniper Inn have noted little difference in their dinner-hou- r traffic But others like Chilis spoke of a marathon-weeke- nd swell Chili's Manager Sharon Weston said sales have climbed as much as 10 percent with the weekend Overall the Cache Valley Tourist Council estimates a $250000 impact on the valley's economy this weekend That includes hotel stays entertainment restaurants and knickknacks: “People don't realize how much tourism-relate- d money it brings into the area” remarked Cache Chamber of Commerce President Bobbie Coray prior to the 2000 marathon “If you can bring a thousand people into the val- ley a weekend that amounts to about $93000 That is money that See RUN on A8 102-year-o- ld ‘ jit1 By Martha Irvine AP National Writer On her way home from London Sara Gartman checked her cell phone and saw the text message from a friend she’d just left: “if we had met earlier and u werent leaving ” read the line he’d tapped in from his own cell phone So much for the love note In the age of wireless communication flirting has gone mobile via such devices as cell y pagers4phones and “People say things they don’t normally say over the phone and especially in person I think you’re more uninhibited” says Gartman a senior at Brandeis University in suburban Boston She spent last semester studying in Britain where text messaging is already wildly popular h This often flirting and punctuated with smiley-face- d has its winking “emoticons” and instant messag-- j roots in ing the private online conversation done in real time and most often by computer As technology improves and expands however flirts are increasingly punching in messages on their cell phone key pads Still others use PDAs (personal digital assistants such as Handsprings and Palm Pilots) to make another kind of PDA — a public display of affection Peter Shankman a New Yorker has landed more than one date that way It started when he saw a woman on a plane who seemed stressed as she futzed with her own PDA Using a function made possible by infrared light he beamed the word “smile” from his Handspring to her device “She laughed and said ’Thanks' — and I thought ’Why not keep it as a regular thing?’” says Shankman ' 'who travels often in his role as CEO of the Geek Factory a public relations and marketing firm Now he stays in touch with his y current girlfriend with a hand-hel- d small device a that pager allows him to send text messages to ed two-wa- - : high-tec- ail two-wa- See LOVE on A8 ' around 7 By Joe Rowjey staff writer V when he was 17 A trip to America was no small matter at the time Keller’s family left their home on Dec 17 1917 — he still remembers the date — and traveled to France where they spent a night with no bedding because they had missed their ship to New York The next day they boarded a tanker headed the same direction During the 14-dtrip the family ate nothing but smoked fish and ' smoked w hen Ulrich Keller was bom in Switzerland-WilliaMcKinley was entering the filial year of his presidency halfway around the globe When Keller's family got on a boat and travejed 14 days to New York then another week on a train to Logan Woodrow Wilson was in the White House bread On New Year’s During Keller’s lifeDay they time America arrived in has gone New York through 19 of City her 43 presi- - Cache people places & things Tt was a litdents and he's tle bit hard on still going strongmy parents That's a little bit too long when you have young 'As the oldest known person in Cache Valley Keller is children” Keller said He was the third of seven children approaching his 103rd birth- -' After 102 years Keller has a day in February few stories to tell One of the “I'm looking forward to more exciting ones comes being three years old” he said from that trip across the simplifying the number by Atlantic first hundred when a German sub- off the leaving years ‘The way I feel I think I marine “put a torpedo in our could live another few years tanker” They simply patched the hole and kept going west It would be nice if 1 could for he said around another four hang Keller recalls people's or five years” Keller was a new century names and events as he tells stories from 80 years ago He baby bom Feb 9 1900 in V- tells about the family that took Switzerland where his family them in for several days when fanned and lived in a large Mitch MascarcVHerald Journal home They joined The they arrived in Logan the Ulrich Keller is 102 years old He oldest known person in Cache Valley and he - 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New hybrid car joins Logan fleet Utah could rent some jail beds to other states By Jeremiah Stetfler staff writer “You want to see the car?” Fleet Manager Coy Ashby lpoked up from his desk “Here take it for a spin” He rummaged briefly through his drawn and tossed the car key The routine was not unfamiliar for the veteran fleet other employees had stepped manager A half-dozthrough his office door asking to take the city’s new Honda Civic for a spin en Eli LuceraHerald Journal ' See HYBRID on A6 Logan city has anew by the water department electric-gasoli- Bush outlines strategy of WASHINGTON (AP) — President Bush declared in an aggressive new Constitution celebration Horizons Index Classifieds Comics Movies wwwhjnewscom A8 A4 bi pre-empti- 35-pa- ge self-defen- se pre-empti- ve - r hybrid ne onmeter-TOadin- g car which will be used routes strikes ve “Given the goals of rogue states and terrorists die United States can no national security strategy Friday that longer solely rely on a reactive posture the United States will stop any adveras we have in the past We cannot let our enemies strike first” Bush sary challenging America’s military wrote in the document submitted to polsuperiority and adopt a strike-firicy against terrorist threats “before Congress as required annually by law ' formed” “As a matter of common sense and they’re fully The document titled “The America will act against National Security Strategy of the Unitsuch emerging threats before they are ed States of America” marks the end fully formed” he added to the deterrent military strategy that At a time when Bush is struggling to dominated the Cold War and officially convince Russia France and other shifts the country to a polwary United Nations members to supicy that Bush first outlined at West port an offensive against Iraq’s Sad' Point in June dam Hussein Bush’s doctrine included st B8 Obituaries B6 Opinion A5 Sports : an unequivocal statement of America's right to act bn its own: “While the United States will constantly strive to enlist the support of the international community we will not hesitate to act alone if necessary to exercise our right of by acting against such ter- rorists to prevent them from doing harm against our people and our counself-defen- se try” The report Bush's first since becoming president essentially summarizes his strategy as it evolved after the See STRATEGY on Afi SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah legislators want tQ put some of the state’s jail space up for rent to other states With 700 empty beds in prisons Utah could turn a tidy profit by renting the surplus cells said Sen Chris Buttars of the Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice Interim Committee “You’re looking at millions of dollars a month” said But- - ' tars Jordani Corrections officials said they're studying the option Wyoming prison authorities have asked the Utah Depart- -' ment of Corrections to take about 150 inmates while a new wing is added to the Wyoming prison Weber County also is shopping for jail space New Mexico officials are so See RENT on A6 |