| Show Friday November 8 1996 The Herald Journal Logan Utah Page 3 Additive seized from dairy plant Logan LandlM No garbage pickup Logan Library Cache County Office Logan City Offices Logan City Ubnuy Banks Preston City LandH No garbage pickup Post Offices Preston City Offices Frankfin County Offices Utah Department of Agriculture finds dead release from (he department The discovery was made during a routine inspection of the food processing plant bugs leaves cement Casein is a milk byproduct used in making human and animal food and for industrial use DPSI officials could not be reached for comment this morning Combined Herald Journal and Associatd Press reports The Utah Department of Agriculture said this morning it has seized 35000 pounds of a contaminated food additive that was being processed in Wcllsville for possible human consumption A department inspector found dead insects leaves and cement chips in the shipment of casein at Dairy Products Services Inc according to a news In brief : on Oct 30 The 35000 pounds of casein was imported from Russia and is believed to be part of a larger shipment that recently entered the United States through Los Angeles ITic inspector noticed the foreign matter in a processing area and performed a random sample of 578 bags of casein He halted any further work after finding contamination in the sample None of the casein was allowed to leave the plant and the shipment is now under a state “hold order” while the owners arrange shipment to Besnier Seerma Co in Wapakoneta Ohio for treatment and eventual industrial use “This is a ease of one of our inspectors doing his job and making an important food safety find" said Kyle Stephens director of the department’s regulatory serv ices "The implications of this case are profound since Dairy Products Services processes raw dairy products for both animal and human consumption A book publishing plant in Logan has laid off 22 of its 60 or so employees ' blaming the job losses on a seasonal lack of business The layoffs were announced this week at Interactive Composition Corp’s plant at 10 S 100 East An executive at the corporation's readquarters in Pleasant Hills Calif said Thursday a lack of contracts forced he cutbacks “In our work we depend on receiving work from our publishers” Martha Emry said The layoffs were effective at the end if Wednesday’s shift and consisted of xrth full- - and part-tim- e employees said' anis Chutich plant manager Chutich said there may be more layoffs before the year’s end but a majori-- y of those who lost jobs will be invited work idck early next year for free-lanf contracts pick up as expected Chutich said two of the plant’s main uppliers have been sold to other pub-ishicompanies slowing contracts for he Logan plant The plant which has operated in Jogan for eight years handles mostly textbooks college-lev- el ' By Phil The Millville City Council meets in the city office 490 South Agenda items include: Business license for Todd Weston for Classic and Antique Auto Restoration and Storage at 280 S Main St ! Cunvassing of the water bond pm Saturday 3(H) Go! a local news tip? Call City Editor Jennifer Hines 752-212- 1 Ext 3023 Offi- NORTH LOGAN — “OK you can go hunting” Mayor Al Moser told several men as they walked from a City Council meeting cially the council postponed the effective date of the new ordi- withdrew a tough new ordinance restricting shooting effective since Oct 18 banned big-gaor rifle hunting within the city limits and restricted pheasant or shotgun hunting to above power lines roughly along 2(XX) East The old ordinance allowed big-gahunting cast of the three main power lines and upland game hunting anywhere in the city as long as firearms were not discharged within 600 feet of a building nance to Jan 1 saying it will study the issue between now and then The ordinance had been “Most of you didn’t really understand what you did” Public Works Director Dee Israclscn told the council of its Oct 17 vote Councilman Allen Kartchncr moved to rescind the new ordi- nance and give the city “more time to reason it out” but was opposed by Councilman Watkins Wayne If the vote three weeks ago was reactionary to complaints Watkins said still it “doesn't See HUNTING on Page 12 Thursday night the council Utah Power to drain: marsh for ramp work By Charles staff writer H Featherstone — — For Duck hunters on the Culler Reservoir will be high and diy for part of November as Utah Power drains the lake to install new bout ramps Starting today engineers from the Portland-base- d power company will let 2000 of water out of Culler Reservoir until Tuesday This is the first of two scheduled partial drainings of Cutler this full The second will take place in December “We're working with the US Fish and Wildlife Service to coor- con-scat- ed : ‘at 5 admitting its move three weeks ago may have been reactionary Jensen The new ordinance hastily passed by the council without notice three weeks ago had County over seizure of adult videos from stores Agendas the plant down on Nov 1 The city is considering action to enforce its Thursday night after the city sues Utah ht nate the smell have according to Wcllsville officials been futile The C'ity Council voted in October to shut dropped the whole thing ng late-nig- er staff writer ce SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Movie luffs has sued Utah County in federal court saying the county’s prosecutor and sheriff violated the store’s constitu-ion- al rights by seizing adult videos in chi and American Fork The video rental company also claims ic seizure of customer records at the tores is an invasion of privacy and it is ecking a court order to keep the records from being made public The Oct 25 raid took place after the fovic Buffo stores refused to remove s adult movies Sheriff’s deputies 500 videos and printed out lists the last 10 customers who had rented le movies County Attorney Kay Bryson was navailable late Thursday to explain hether he plans to prosecute Movie luffs and on what grounds But he told KUTV that the purpose of le raid was to rid the communities of omography The search warrant was issued after a citizen complained about te store’s adult movie section “What is pornography is defined by te standards of the people who live where it’s being distributed” Bryson said But Movie Buffo’ complaint filed icsday in US District Court contends its inventory of adult entertainment is protected by the First Amendment and is kept in special sections of the stores whcre people under 21 are not allowed ' The suit says the stores are losing $1000 a day in rental foes and seeks $100000 in actual damages and $1 million in punitive damages Movie Buffs attorney Jerry Mooney said the tapes seized are legal and concable subtain material a scriber could see “This store doesn’t want to offend the community and doesn’t think that it docs” he said ! Bryson said the customer records are important evidence that could be used in court Since December 1995 DPSI has been operating without a business license in Wcllsville because of town complaints about the smell from its three waste-watholding tanks The city ordered DPSI off the city sewer in 1995 after studies by the Utah Division of W'ater Quality showed that the milk waste was overloading the town's sewage treatment plant Attempts by the plant to try and elimi- North Logan drops hunting restrictions Publishing company laying off workers ulovie Buffs " Stephens said Today’s incident was just the latest in a string of problems for Dairy Product Serv ices Inc dinate this project with water needs in the Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge near the Great Salt Lake” said Carly Burton a hydrologist with Utah Power And according to Tom a sport fisheries coordina-to- r Pct-tcng- ill Robert HendricfcaHerald Only 48 days until Christmas Journal a worker for the city of Smlthfletd hangs a Christmas decoration along US Highway 91 In Cy Hardman Smithfield on Wednesday afternoon Motorists can look for the decorations to be turned on the Monday after Thanksgiving with the Utah Division of wildlife resources Utah Power's action is not unusual “They've done it every year for the last four years This really isn't anything new” Pettcngill said info-lin- on this topic M http7wwwhjnawcom Initially Pettcngill said hunters did complain to DWR about Utah Power’s water releases “But they’ve gone on every fall now I guess people have gotten used to it” he said Local duck hunting organizations could not be contacted this morning for comment Utah Power was required to install the three new bout launches along the 5 500-acr- e western Cache County reservoir after the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission relieensed the company in 1995 to operate the Cutler Dam While Utah Power docs plan to have Cutler Reservoir's level raised by Nov 26 it will drain water from the reservoir again in late December after the banks have frozen enough to shore up erosion “They can't do this in summer” Pettcngill said “because that's when the irrigators have the water” Salt Lake County recounts 287000 ballots SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Workers today began inspecting by hand and recounting all 287580 ballots cast in Salt Lake County on Tticsday alter some were found to be defective Election officials ordered the tedious recount after it was discovered that some ballots were not fully punched through when voters poked them with a stylus It wasn't known why the ballots were faulty “We want to make sure they're absolutely correct” said Salt Lake County Gcrk Sherrie Swenscn as 32 election judges using fingernails and tweezers prepared to remove the paper chads or punch holes that were not fully punched by the voters’ stylus Forty defective ballots were found in a sampling of one precinct “Hope springs eternal” said Jim Decker a losing Republican in a Utah House race in West Valley City lie and several other candidates watched attentively as the ballots were inspected Early this afternoon the judges planned to begin running the inspected ballots back through optical scanners that record the results on tape which us fed into a mainframe computer The same procedure was followed Tuesday night Swenscn said the results would not be announced until ail the ballots had been recounted sometime later today “I'm almost certain the numbers will be different" Lt Gov OIcnc Walker the state’s chief election officer said at a Thursday press conference but it's not dear if the outcome of any race will change “Some of the ones that arc closer it could affect them” she said The closest races were for four stale House scats loss of Repuband the closest of those was the lican Rep David Brcsnahan to challenger Perry Buckner Brcsnahan was the only candidate to have contacted Swcnscn's office seeking a recount by Thursday afternoon she said The three other races were decided by margins of 305 to 612 votes Brcsnahan was happy to learn the recount would Ik made without him having to pay for it Tm very pleased My campaign fund is rather dry” he said Buckner said “Obviously they need to be fair I'm confident that (he clerk's office will do the right 72-vo- tc thing” Other Utah House races that could be affected include Republican incumbent Ron Bigelow's 305-vo- tc win over Democrat Allen C Rushton Democrat incumbent Neal B Hendrickson’s 469-vot- c victory over the Republican Decker Democrat Gary F Cox's 352-vowin over Republican Rep Sue Lockman and Democratic incumbent Kurt Oscarson's win over Republican Kelly C Casaday by 612 votes Another narrow vole was the one that retained 3rd District Judge David Young who had been the subject le of had ratings by lawyers and an ouster campaign by women's groups According to Tuesday night’s vote count 122018 cast ballots to keep the judge and 120215 voted to toss him out oT office — a 803-vot- e spread It's unlikely the recount could change the results of the closest congressional race — in the 3rd District Democratic Rep Bill Orton has said he won't concede the election to Republican Chris Cannon until questions are answered about the Salt Lake County ballots On Wednesday Orton said he intended to ask the lieutenant governor to investigate the bad ballots 1 “Thirty-thousan- d ballots counted incorrectly could make a difference” he said Orton had 11415 more voles than Cannon in Salt Like County but Cannon had 19133 more voles in Utah County Of all the 3rd District ballots cast 22 percent were in Salt Lake County Cannon had 105297 voles 9707 more than Orton Swenscn said she called the lieutenant governor's office Wednesday after hearing a report that one voter had repealed trouble punching holes in a ballot on Tuesday Together she and Kctlccn Potter who supervises elections for the lieutenant governor 's office inspected the ballots from one precinct They found 40 ballots or 7 percer in which the chad or punch hole was not 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