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Show Sunday, October THE HERALD, Provo, Utah, 11, 1992 - Page Oteh Hobo DmgSg Salt Lake police nab 'deadbeat dad' - SALT LAKE CITY (AP) A Los Angeles man who gained notoriety as a "deadbeat dad" who gave $500,000 at a Republican fund raiser while owing $100,000 in child support was arrested at Salt, Lake International Airport Saturday morning. Michael Kojima was surprised but dhd pot resist arrest by airport police and Salt Lake County deputies, authorities said. He was arrested, in the Continental Airlines concourse before a scheduled 8:30 a.m,.MDJ flight to Denver. Kojima, is in Salt Lake County Jail, where he faces an extradition hearing Tuesday. TheLas Angeles County district attorneys office has been tracking Kojima ,since May, when Los Angeles, newspapers ran a photo of him seated at President Bush's table during an April 28 Republican fund rajser. Court upholds election results Court has ruled SALT LAKE CITY (AP) The Utah Supreme Brent Richards' Republican primary upset of state Sen. Dix will stand, but the ousted lawmaker says he isn't ready to Mc-Mull- in give up. McMullin said Friday he still may not accept defeat, though the justices have dismissed his challenge of primary election results based on mistakes in balloting. "I'm going to reserve saying that I would support (Richards). Maybe I would consider a write-i- n position on this ballot," said McMullin, a 10-ye- ar Senate veteran. McMullin said there is "a lot of dissatisfaction" with Richards as the Republican nominee, partly because of his past affiliation with the Libertarian Party. "We would have to consider whether or nut he's the proper candidate for the Republican Party in our area," McMullin said, adding he is planning to survey residents in his Senate District 5, which encompasses a portion of southwest Salt Lake County. But Salt Lake County GOP chairman Richard Kuchinsky said the party stands behind Richards. U.S. 40 project gets under way ConstrucPARK CITY (AP) tion has begun on an $1 .2 million project to widen a section of U.S. 40 between Interstate 80 and the 1 HeberValley. The three miles of highway beSilver Creek Junction tween and the Park City Junction, now twej lanes, w ill be rebuilt, widened and paved in concrete, says Lorine Pope of the Utah Department of Transportation. An interchange will be provided at Silver Summit, she added. Because the alignment of the old highway Is being used, drivers will hav jo iecome accustomed to traffic Jfclays caused by heavy equipment. of Twpe'ars ago the sect-oU.L 4Q south between Park City Junciiso nd the Midway turnoff was jbjHlt due to construction of theJordanelle Dam. Pope said the road project, being handled by Gilbert Western Construction Co., is expected to take a year. Congress OKs . railway study funds OGDEN (AP) Congress has appropriated $200,000 to study the feasibility of building a tourist railway itvveen Ogden and the Golden Spit? National Historic Site. The! money will go to the National Park Service for a cooperative study with Ogden on the route, costs', projected tourist use. revenue; and community benefits the project could generate. Mike Burdett, an Ogden dentist who has been an active supporter of the proposal, said the railway is now one step closer to becoming a reality. "I feel that this is a site that It belongs to the American people. is one of the most important sites in the history of the American West, and we need to promote it," he said. The proposed railway would carry passengers and freight from Ogdcn's Union Station to the 52-mi- le site where the transcontinental rails were joined in 1869. The entire journey, with proposed stops in Brigham City, Corinne and at Thiokol, would take three hours. Education officials hope to up spending SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -Forget leading the nation in per pupil spending, or even matching the national average. All the Utah Office of Education wants is to get which means out of the cellar catching 50th place Mississippi. On Friday, state school officials revealed a "Mississippi Catch-Up- " plan to bring Utah's ranked a expenditures 5 st among the states and the District of Columbia up to par il per-pup- rock-botto- m 1 with the next lowest state. But just to do that would cost Utah taxpayers an extra $106 million annually. "Utah must start to catch up to attract quality teachers and provide edour students with a world-clas- s ucation," Deputy Superintendent Laurie Chivers told the Utah Board of Education. "This is the year we must have additional dollars for education," added board member Neola Brown. Utah and Mississippi are almost identical in their large numbers of school-ag- e children and incomes. But Mississippi, despite the highest poverty rate in the nation, still manages to spend $252 more per student than Utah, Chivper-capi- Lee says religious freedom law may be unconstitutional SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -Brigham Young University president Rex Lee warns that a proposed Mormon Church-backe- d religious freedom law may not pass constitutional muster. Speaking Friday during a symposium on religion and the law at the church-owne- d school, the former U.S. solicitor general referred to the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, which also is supported by the American Civil Liberties Union. The law, introduced in both houses of Congress, is designed to protect religious practices purportedly weakened by a 1990 Supreme Court ruling. In the case of Oregon vs. Smith, the court ruled that the prove it has a "compelling interest" whenever it interferes w ith the practice of religion and that there is no other way to achieve state could deny unemployment benefits to two American Indian drug counselors who were fired for using hallucinogenic peyote in religious ceremonies. The court's decision concerned legal and religious scholars because it expanded government authority over religious practices. If a general law is enacted, there does not need to be an exception for religious groups, the justices said. The high court interpreted the First Amendment protections as prohibiting only the laws that are specifically aimed at religion, said BYU law professor James D.Gordon III. its ends. Lee said he was in favor of the but expects it to be proposal challenged as unconstitutional. "Can the Congress of the United States simply lay down a completely different rule of (constitutional) law?" Lee asked. He said the proposed law could diminish the Supreme Court's authority in its relationship with the legislative branch. It's the court's role, not that of Congress, to define constitutional rights, argued Wayne The proposed Religious Freedom Act asks the government to McCor-mac- a University of Utah fessor of constitutional law. k, pro- "'The statute proposes to against state encroachment, but the Constitution says nothing that gives Congress the right to define the free exercise of religion." he said. Lee and McCormack agreed the Religious Freedom Act may not be necessary because future court decisions could refine or reverse the Smith ruling. One case that will be considered this term involves Caribbean immigrants whose religious ceremonies include the ritual sacrifice of animals. The Santerias are challenging a municipal ordinance in Florida prohibiting the practice. Bra Fittin gWeek ta r ers reported. With the extra dollars, Missis-l pupil-teachsippi enjoys a ratio compared to Utah's ratio of 17-to- almost 24-to-- er l. Utah already gets a better return on its investment, having more high school graduates and higher ACT test scores. Because of its poverty rate, Mis- sissippi gets more fedei. aid, Chivers notes. In the future, Utah could get more federal money if legislation sponsored by Rep. Wayne Owens and Sen. Orrin Hatch is approved. The measure would change the current distribu1 tion formula, states' per-pup- il which is based on expenditures. Without that federal help, education officials do not expect to catch up all at once. Instead, they will ask for only an extra $10.2 million as part of their 1992-9- 3 request to the Legislature. The catch-u- p money is part of a $119 million budget increase for education, which also includes about $32.5 million to fund an estimated 13,000 new students. Utah's school population is larger than expected due to a surprising amount of migration to Utah from more recession-battere- d states, Chivers said. State officials also want another ! $5 million to reduce class size by two or three students in kindergarten. In the past two years, the Legislature has given money to reduce class size in first and second grades. LeBaron may plead guilty SALT LAKE founder of CITY (AP) a free consultation Is your bra comfortable? Does it enhance your figure? If not. you're probably one of the seven out of ten women wearing the wrong bra. And now this week, you can do something about it! A il polygamist clan LeBaron has tentatively agreed to plead guilty next week to the 1988 slayings of a defector and his daughter, a television station reports. In its Friday night newscasts, KSL-Tquoted unidentified attorneys in the case as saying that Richard LeBaron. 21, could face up to life in prison on guilty pleas to federal charges of murder and witness tampering. The attorneys said LeBaron's sentencing would be delayed apparently as a guarantee of his coopuntil after three of his eration brothers and sisters go on trial in January. KSL-Tsaid Richard LeBaron is expected to plead guilty at a hearing next Thursday to the June 27, 1988, Houston shooting deaths of Duane Chynoweth and his daughter, Jenny, 8. Prosecutors say the slayings were connected to two other homicides Mark Chynoweth, also of Houston, and Ed Marston, of Irving. Texas. In federal indictments handed up Aug. 24 in Houston, Richard LeBaron and five other cult members Aaron LeBaron, Jacqueline LeBaron, William LeBaron, Patricia LeBaron, and Douglas Barlow were charged with murder, conspiracy, witness tampering and weapons counts. Prosecutors say the six are members of the violent sect. Church of the First Born of the Lamb of God, founded by the late Ervil LeBaron, who died in Utah son Join our fit experts and receive Er-v- I 4- - am V V clan-relat- ed State Prison in 1981. 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