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Show Go The Daily Herald Gov. Leavitt to fill more judicial posts - SALT LAKE CITY AP) Gov. Mike Lea in has appointed 20 judges thus far in his term, the 1995 Legislature approved 10 more judicial posts tor him to fill and three more open( ings through retirements are expected vXMl. '"Every governor will hae some impact on the judiciary." Leavitt said W ednesday. "The first 2' years that l' e served. I've had a disproportionate impact." Some Utahns. noting his appointments of tw o w omen and tw o minorities, are optimistic that he w ill improve the diversity of Utah's bench. "We're delighted with him." said Robert Archuleta, past president of the Utah Minority Bar Association. "He has recognized, in terms of the judiciary, it is a real value to the a mstituency to have minorities. ' ' Ixavitt said he wants a multicultural bench. "If you end up w ith three equally qualified people, it is not without precedent to say. 'Well, this is perhaps a time when I could appoint a person who could provide some di- versity.' " The governor makes his selection for a post from three finalists (five finalists for appellate seats) picked by the judicial district's nominating commission from among applicants. Decorso to be in first police lineup Colleges encourage sober spring break SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -Utah colleges and universities are having mixed results in persuading students to make their spring break a sober one. Eight schools are conducting a "Safe Spring Break" campaign, encouraging students to sign pledges that they won't drink and drive. So far, more than .300 students at Salt Lake Community College and Utah State University have signed. "That's impressive." said Marc Gunderson. prevention specialist in the drug and alcohol program at the University of Utah, where 62 students have pledged a safe spring vacation. Final exams at most schools end this week. Thousands of students will head for southern Utah, California or Mexico and party. "The schools just want to show the college students that we are unified in this cause," said Diane Cashel, director of the alcohol and drug program at SLCC. "People travel to places for spring break and they may run into students from other universities or colleges, and maybe, just maybe (this campaign) will reinforce the importance of not drinking and 1 driving." Cashel's office handed out keychains that have a slot for a quarter, in case students need to call a cab. She also gave students free Kittles of nonalcoholic brew and encouraged beer drinkers to "suck on a couple of these." At the University of Utah, the otTce of alcohol and drug education w ill throw an alternative party next week w ith nonalcoholic "mockt.iils. " schools to get police officers 3 high - The ST. GEORGE (AP) Washington County school board has agreed to allow unarmed, plainclothes police officers to be posted at three area high schools. The board gave its unanimous approval to the plan on Tuesday, after negotiating a reduction in the district's share of the cost and an agreement that officers would be in civilian cloths and not carry firearms. "We got them, but we got them on our terms." board president Catherine Miles said. Police Chief Jon Pollei had lobbied for the positions since he was hired eight years ago. believing their presence would be a dcterent to school crime. Thre w ill be three officers hired, one each for Pine View . Dixie and Snow Cany on high schools. There w'as little opposition to the plan, but Washington County Utah Teachers Association President Evan Johnson said the money that will go to school law enforcement could be better spent on education. Glider crash kills 1, injures another HILDALE ( AP) - The engine of an ultralight glider apparently failed, causing the plane to crash pilot and and killing the24- - ear-ol- d his seriously injuring uncle. Edward Lew is Barlow of Hurricane was pronounced dead at Dixie in St. Regional Medical Center afterrnxm the after Monday George crash. His uncle. Darrel Cooke. 39. of Hildale. was in critical condition today at LDS Hospital in Salt Lake. Their craft was reportedly 00 to 200 feet up w hen it began to nosedive. Authorities said the engine apthe parently quit as they flew above of town border small Hildale. Cooke's son. Charles. 19. said he saw the plane go down on a small from the nearhill about a half-mil- e est home. 1 Utah-Arizo- Thursday, March 16, 1995 Friend: Martinez rehearsed slayings - SALT LAKE CITY (AP) A has been bound ov er for trial on capital homicide charges in the slay ings of his stepmother and halfsister. Nathan K. Martinez. 18, could face the death penalty if com icted. Follow ing a preliminary hearing teen-ag- er k "In Utah, especially at Utah State, people come up and find their freedom and experiment for the first time," said Travis Morgan. USU prevention specialist. That can lead to a lot of binge drinking and underage imbibing. Morgan is not convinced the campaign w ill transform spring break this year, "but I don't think prevention education ever falls on deaf ears. ... It will show them that someone up here besides their parents cares about their responsibility." While relatively few U. students signed the pledge, there is a trend away from booze, says one student leader. Martinez, were found shot to death in their Bluffdale home. Martinez was a rested at a Nebraska motel the follow ing day . Hamblen said that Martinez admitted to him that he had killed his stepmother and "He said he shot Lexie first, once in her head, and then ran into Lauren's room. He said she sat up and looked at him and then he shot her and she fell face down into the bed." Hamblen said. dead stepmother's car first to Logan and then to Pocatello, Hamblen said. Defense attorneys Lisa Remal and Mark Moffat suggested Hamblen was the killer and questioned his detailed knowledge of the crimes. Hamblen said that during their trip together. Martinez retold how he committed the slay ings until Hamblen knew the smallest details by heart. Deputies found both victims covered w ith blankets on Sunday , Oct. 30. Martinez's father. Ben Martinez, and brother. Brent Martinez, had left for a hunting trip and were not in the home at the time of the shootings. Martinez also purportedly discussed killing other people as he fled the state, apparently mimicking a killing spree depicted in "Natural Born Killers," a movie Hamblen said Martinez saw at least six times. Hamblen said Nathan Martinez told him he pulled the blankets over the bodies "because he couldn't stand the smell." The confession came as Nathan Martinez drove Hamblen in his However, Hamblen also said in an earlier interview that Martinez was depressed after the slayings and that he sobbed and said. "It's nothing like the movies. They're dead. They're just dead." half-siste- Wednesday, 3rd Circuit Judge Philip K. Palmer ordered Martinez to stand trial. He w ill be arraigned March 27 before 3rd District Judce Michael R. Murphy . A friend of Martinez testified the youth rehearsed the slayings two days before they occurred. Bryant Hamblen said Martinez, rifle, walked carry ing a to the foot of his parents' empty .22-calib- students with spring-breamessages scrawled on chalkboards and broadcast over the radio. USU bombarded bed and mumbled. "Boom, boom." then darted across the hall to the room of Alexis half-sist- Martinez and repeated the action. Hamblen said the incident occurred on the afternoon of Friday . Oct. 28. less than 36 hours before Alexis and her mother, Lauren - mother, said police Detective Ray Dulling. On March 9, a robber with a bandanna on his face stormed into Edward Hanly's house, took $32 from Hanly's wallet then forced man to drive to an the ATM machine, according to police. After the robber withdrew $300, he forced Hanly to drive back to the house. The assailant ransacked the home and was about to steal a television when police showed up and he fled. Dulling said. PoSALT LAKE CITY (AP) a have arrested lice boy they say robbed people in two homes, kidnapped them and forced them to withdraw $600 from automated teller machines. They say the youth also ripped w oman. the pants off a The boy moved to Salt Lake ld City from Wendover about a w ith his Realignment plans are vague, officials say - SALT LAKE CITY ( AP) The proposed realignment at Dugway Proving Ground has generated considerable uncertainty, with plans still vague and estimates of job cuts conflicting and confusing. Col. Gene Fuzy, the base commander, told the governor's Dugway Technical Review Committee Wednesday that he does not yet know what the Pentagon proposal means in terms of job losses and mission transfers. Fuzy said it appears from initial orders that Dugway would retain its overall chemical and biological test mission and lose smoke and obscurant testing and some laboraresearch-and-developme- tory programs, along with the English Village community. One Pentagon list puts job losses f.096 directly at Dugat 1.715 619 and way indirectly within nt - Tooele County. Another claims 165 military and 963 civ ilian jobs would be lost. Fuzy said he only has 633 em70 military and ployees on base 563 civilians. Another 525 are contractor personnel. a lot of numbers he said. "We around." floating "There are have to sit down with the BRAC (Base Closure and Realignment Commission) people and negotiate and find out w hat all these numbers mean." Meanwhile, the Army still intends to build a new biological test center to replace the aging Baker Lab. Desicns for the new Life Sci ences Test Facility are finished, and groundbreaking is tentatively set for June, depending on what funding Congress prov ides. The committee was told of testing set to begin next month. Two projects will involve the n use of polymerase in to detecting help technology biological agents. The third adds four new viral agents to a list of organisms being used to test the Army's Chemical Biological Mass equipment being Spectrometer developed to catalog all known chemical and biological agents. chain-reactio- Dugway began testing the spectrometer in 1993 with pathogens and battlefield materials that could confuse the device, such as gasoline fumes and diesel smoke. The goal is a detector that can distinguish biological agents from other w artime materials. r. Teen robs elderly in two homes month ago and was living - SALT LAKE CITY AP) In an effort to crack sev eral open robbery and sexual assault cases, prosecutors are planning a police lineup for murder defendant Michael S. Decorso. The lineup w ill be the first for the former Miuvale firefighter, who already faces sodomy, rape and robbery charges in addition to a count of capital homicide. "I can't discuss the specific cases we're linking at ... but hopefully we'll know whether he is a suspect in them after the lineup." said deputy district attorney Kent Morgan. Salt Lake County Jail officials plan to hold the lineup by Friday or early next week. Morgan said prosecutors w ere investigating possible links between Decorso and as many as six unsolved cases. Since that statement. Decorso also has been charged w ith aggravated burglary of a Pay less Shoe Source store in Draper. fa A.--, Tuesday night, the robber broke into a home through a basement window. He forced the woman to drive to a bank. He withdrew $300 from the machine and told the woman to drive him back. Again, he ransacked the house, then put the woman on the bed and removed her pants, police said. She screamed, waking her Navy, will allow microbiologists to take a piece of DNA and make millions of copies of it, allowing for extremely ld sensitive detection of DNA from pathogens. The Army polymerase program of anthrax, four strains of plague, the Venezuelan Equine Encephalitis virus and the Q fever and rabbit fever pathogens. will use four strains ordered both to lie on the floor of the basement and then fled in their car. "She hasn't had any sleep," the husband said. "She's still pretty shaky." Wednesday morning, police officer Dave Harris pulled over the suspect, who was driving the stolen car, for speeding. Officers Morgan Sayes and Jeff Webb were nearby and told the officer the car was stolen. A BB pistol resembling the weapon brandished in the robberies was recovered from the car. Dulling said the boy could be charged with aggravated robbery, aggravated kidnapping, aggravated burglary and possibly a sex offense. gflq oft) ld husband. The assailant Mi M- - fhs filmi liitin r tJ w lilt i r Introducing J ion i bay's Antebellum Collet lion'" with fine details including twisted, reeded turnings Previous tests have used organisms that cause anthrax, food poisoning, Q fever and Venezuelan equine encephalitis, among others. The organisms to be added include Yellow Fever; Adenovirus Type 2, which causes sore throats and colds; Vaccinia (Lister strain), which causes cowpox: and Influenza A. "We've gone through the bacteria and we've gone through the toxins. Now we want to look at viruses," said John Middlebrook, new chief of life sciences at Dugway. the polymerase programs, one for the Army, the other for the ; saiins ' introductory 15 off 10 days only! From our Design Studio, Former Democratic Party chairman dies SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -JKlas. 77. former chairman ohn H. of the Utah Democratic Party, has died following several years of poor health and a series of strokes. Klas. a Holladay area resident, was a retired Salt Lake banker and civ ic leader. As a young man, he was an Army colonel and received the Bronze Star and the Purple Heart for his World War II service. He was elected to the top Democratic Party post four times between 1968 and 1976. the year he resigned to run for governor. He was defeated in the primary by Scott M. Matheson. Klas had been doing volunteer work for Salt Lake County Commissioner Randy Horiuchi. and in the past had done volunteer work for former Utah Rep. Wayne Owens. He was a vice president at Continental Bank and Trust, served as chairman of the United Fund campaign in 1957. and later was president of the organization, as United Way. Klas also served on the boards of the Salt Palace. Traveler's Aid Society and the Utah Girl Scout now-know- Council, was a member of the Salt Lake Rotary Club, the Holy Cross Hospital Foundation and the Utah State Fair Foundation. He w as chairman in 1970 of the University of Utah Alumni Fund Drive. At the time of his death he was a member of the Utah Air Travel Council and a member of the Salt Lake Community College Foundation. "John was particularly proud of having been promoted to colonel in the U.S. Army, having served in the 90th Infantry Division during World War II," said his wife. Jackie Nokes. whom he married in 1988. "He was totally dedicated to his country, his community and his family. After the war he v isited the families of every man in his division who lost their lives during the European theater of operations. He was among those who landed at Utah beach in France." Klas died Tuesday at University Hospital. Serv ices were scheduled at noon Friday at Mount Olympus Stake Center. Graveside services will be private. mahogany finished tables inspired by the genteel elegance of furnishings in 19th century Southern homes. From the collection, top to bottom: Console with glass top. brass ormolu. 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