Show Page 2 — The Herald Journal Logan Utah Tuesday November 15 1994 - Attorneys push for release of Tooele safety record SALT LAKE (TTY (AP) — Attorneys for a fired safety director are appealing the Army's refusal to release a report they say might confirm his allegations of hazards at the Tooele Army Depot's chemical weapons incineration plant Joanne Roycc a lawyer for the Government Accountability Project said Monday that her nonprofit organization is seeking release of an Army Inspector General's Office report under the Freedom of Information Act The report documents an inspection of the $400 million western Utah desert plant conducted in August one month before Steven Jones was fired Jones says he was terminated after 2 12 months on the job because he refused to cover up what he considered serious safety flaws at the facility located at the depot's remote South Area about 50 miles southwest of Salt Lake City The plant designed to destroy Tooele's stockpile of aging nerve and mustard gas rockets and artillery projectiles is scheduled to begin operation in September 1995 Jones contends that deficiencies in the d plant’s design and operations if could result in a catastrophic uncor-rcctc- release of deadly chemical agents The Army has refused to release the inspection record claiming that it is an “internal document" resulting from an unofficial visit made at Tooele’s request Roycc maintains the document is “purely factual” in nature not a policymaking memorandum exempt from the FOIA “The only thing sensitive about it is that it may be embarrassing to the Army” she said Suzanne Fournier spokeswoman for the US Army Chemical Demilitarization office in Aberdeen Md said the Army took Jones’ allegations seriously enough to conduct a special investigation An Army Safety Center team visited Tooele Oct and looked into each of 109 safety violations Jones had alleged she said Maj Dave Medaris a spokesman for the Department of the Army in Washington said a report on that inspection would be released sometime later this week “Wc want to make sure we’re on top of (Jones’) allegations which are a concern to us’’ he said “We’re dealing with a plant with a very critical mission” 3-- 14 sentence Weber official OGDEN Utah (AP) — Without Waiting for prosecutor arguments 2nd District Judge Stanton Taylor rejected a motion to overturn Weber State University administrator Phillip O Austin’s kidnapping conviction Taylor set sentencing for Nov 28 Austin was convicted in September of second-degre- e kidnapping in the March 12 incident in which Colby Clifford 20 said he Was picked up by Austin in Clearfield sexually propositioned at gunpoint and escaped by leaping from Austin’s car in Roy Austin 43 WSU director of student advisement was tried on a aggravated charge of kidnapping but the jury found no ‘ AP photo Robyn McClung struggles to dear snow her sports car in Denver early Monday after a foot of snow blanketed the Mile winter storm Hlgh City as a off in uumpea-o- fast-movi- swept over Colorado's front range While the snow has stopped for now forecast- ers predict cold temperatures win enve- lope the state in the storm's wake gun was used and convicted ' i i USPS 241-82- t 0 Published every evening Monday through Friday and Sunday morning by Cache Valley 7S West 3001 PO Boa 487 Logan Utah 84323-048- 7 SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Genealogical Society of Utah celebrated its 100th anniversary this month with spe- UtahTclepbone 3 Idaho Telephone Second ChmFmuy Paid ia Logan Utah Bruce K Smith Publisher Fat McCulctieon Managing Editor Wayne Ashcroft Advertising Director Cyndi Fulton Office Manager Steven P Woods Circulation Manager Steven Hess Systems Manager EMtedge Webb Press Foreman Addressing an audience that included visiting historians and archivists Hunter said “The objective of family history work is to make the blessings of the temple available to all people living and dead” When the genealogical society was organized on Nov of 11 volumes donated by its charter members cial services honoring Mormon Church President Howard W Hunter "hieJnarries ofHoward W are i:” saicTPresidcnt' Thomas' S Monson second counselor in the First Presidency of The Church of Saints Jesus Christ of Latter-da- y ilhiiaiinjiyiitoiy One hundred years later it’s the largest library of its kind in the world offering researchers access to 18 million reels Pfekidenf 'Gbrda'h B Hinckley first counselor in the First of microfilmed genealogical records 258000 books and Presidency" noted’ that while only a “handful” of people mi viin-i- i feed tHe ftunify history resources at the turn of the century morotha 300000 microfiches " the number of researchers has exceeded 750000 in each of In addition to the main library in Salt Lake City the church operates 2200 branch centers in 60 countries five-sto- Monson conducted the services in the Tabernacle on Temple Square on Sunday ry the past five years About 40 percent of the patrons at the main library — 60 percent at the branch centers — are not members of the church 1 While the extensive resources of the library are used by historians archivists students and people who are simply curious about their background church members use them to identify ancestors so “sacred covenants and ordinances” can be performed in their behalf “There is nothing else to compare with this treasury of family history on the face of tlx whole Earth” Hinckley said Legislature may debate part of Proposition One JO Single Copy Daily Single Copy jido One Month Carrier (Utah) J96 One Year Carrier (Utah) One Month Carrier (Idaho) $840 One Year Canier (Idaho) jlOOJKI Idaho rales include applicable Idaho tales tax $11 One Month Mail (Utah) One Month Mail (Outride Utah) $12 3132 One Year Mail (Utah) $144 One Year Mail (Outride Utah) Mail Subacriphone Mual Bn Paid in ANance Subscribers not receiving delivery of their Herald Journal by 3:30 pni M-- F or 8 am Sunday please phone your carrier or The 8 or toll free from Herald Journal at before 7 pm on weekIdaho For your carrier's days and 10 am Sunday 8 name and phone number please phone toil from Idaho free or between 8 am and 7 pm Monday through S8 POST FALLS Idaho (AP) — But I think they’re also more tolIdaho erant than in years’ past” The Republican-dominate- d Simpson said a move to push Legislature may take up a portion of Proposition One — the failed through part of Proposition One y initiative — in the comnarrowly defeated at the polls is ing legislative session possible Republican lawmakers set about divvying up power and setting a legislative agenda at a meeting in North Idaho Sunday “Everyone's concerned that we facRomance might develop a hard-riganti-ga- Advertisers purchase space and cireulalion only All property rights to any advert nr mnM produced for the advertiser by The Herald Journal using art work and or typography fur-- I or arranged fur by The Herald Journal I be the property uf The Herald Journal No ad or any part thereof may he reproduced ' without the consent uf The Herald Hour: 8:00 am to 5:00 pm CioMd Saturday and Sunday tion" House Speaker Michael ONE DOZEN ROSES with babya DOTY 17 You’re a a v- huufiu & RacycM Kcwvprau Arranged $H79S 41 North Main HcraldJonrml Csuli NEWSLINE 51 Wrapped just FREDS FLOWERS sister friend! We love you!! O I W4 Cache ViBtv FuNiiku rnmpov 0 WEATHER JOKE OF THE Logan nM ia— - f yy J 5JS - M Y IV Onr 'autodooy fev 75J-MS- Use a touch tone phone listen for directions and 752-UN- E THEATER 0MONEY SREAL ESTATE m FORUM -- 9T DAY 'gVr W-'"- It also could reopen an issue that split the party in the past — something Simpson and others do not want to happen Simpson said he wants to put the focus on fiscal f - daughter Tbr HcuMJaurml fly” Also possible: a move to ban Medicaid funding for abortion “But as long as the state accepts federal Medicaid funding I’m not sure we can do anything" Simpson said PALL ROSE SPECIAL said Simpson “Wc do have some new members who are very conservative wonderful Monday-Fride- y “If it said that homosexuality can't be taught in schools as an acceptable lifestyle (it) might have a chance” Simpson said “I don’t think the rest of it would BY OZEN! THE CHEAPER them with rosesat prices you’ll love ht Friday Office ar 13 1894 its library consisted Hunter who celebrated his 87th birthday Monday led the society from 1964 to 1972 He is credited with bringing new technology to what is now called the Family History Library and for making the facility a worldwide resource 1 16-ye- Genealogical Society marks 1 00th anniversary f e SANDPOINT Idaho (AP) — about the campaigning for key GOP Gov-elePhil Batt told posts that often goes on at events like the legislative tour and the members of the new overwhelmingly Republican Legislature that Idaho Republican Party’s fabled he would give lawmakers free rein bickering to rewrite rules from his adminis“I wish you all luck as you tear tration each other limb from limb" he “I’ll sign any bill allowing the said But he said he believes party Legislature to repeal regulations in conflict with legislative intent” members agree on fiscal issues Batt said Monday The GOP made a commitment to Such proposals were blocked in trim government he said and the past by retiring Democratic “We have to deliver” Gov Cecil Andrus Batt said Batt endorsed “in principle” the He told about 300 people at a plan from a legislative committee banquet for the North Idaho to move Idaho’s juvenile justice Chamber of Commerce legislative system into an independent tour that he would give the GOP department and out of the Departmajorities of 27-- 8 in the Senate ment of Health and Welfare 3 in the House greater and “We’ll spend some money say in how agencies regulate there We know that” he said things like business and the enviBatt called for no that ronment Beyond tax dollars new costing programs The state’s first Republican lawmakers to be thrifty He reiteraturged 24 in also governor years ed that his legislative priorities with the state’s cash surplus and to fund property tax relief would be trimming government and taxes Alternative tax plans already spending cutting have begun to surface meaning reforming juvenile justice that property tax relief may not The legislator and former state GOP chairman joked come easily 57-1- first-degr- ee w Medaris said he knew of no plans to bow to the latest pressure to make the Inspector General’s report available Royce argues that the Inspector General’s report is critical since it was Jones who conducted the tour for Army inspectors a month before his Sept 13 firing by incineration contractor EG&G Defense Materials Inc ct ‘ ‘ Occupational Safety and Health Administration Batt offers lawmakers free rein to rewrite rules Judge to Austin of second-degre- e kidnapping Defense attorney Don Hughes argued that since no gun was used his client could not be guilty of any kidnapping Hughes said the trial evidence showed there was no prolonged restraint by Austin Jones’ allegations also have triggered probes by the House Armed Services Committee and the Utah Division of the IIL’HIM THEATER Local TTwstar T COMING SOON The latest Dew Jones a local stocks cf interest ColdweU Danker EZ3 1 GcM Fay I di urveys cAtomeire )ce rrdtrtg tfosA Upccjng Feature 9 J 1 |