Show Utah's Independent Voice Since initio Mn 4a 3k Sat jr "v © 1871 r r November 29 2004 Monday 2004 The Salt Lake Tribune r vg—ngjr A 15 LEGACY PARKWAY Utah A calendar of Utah's holiday events Home B1 & Family —— - II— Ls 1 St® BENGALS LIGHT IT UP CI WI Storm puts freeze on holiday weekend — WWWSITR1BCOM 8 SFeagles clinch SUGAR PLUM VISIONS BATTLE BREWING v v r - IMIrl m Iraqi terror cell grows new tentacle group driven from Fallujah now bloodying Mosul Al-Zarqa- wi By Maggie Michael The AssocuUed Press Mark HAvmsWieSaltLake Tribune Interstate 15 outside Cedar City are narrowed to a single lane Sunday about pm while emergency crews work an cident involving several cars Several people were injured in the accidents which caused traffic to back up for miles The northbound lanes of 1 ac- - r Icy Utah road conditions force travelers to seek shelter By Michael N Westley The Salt Lake Tribune The winter storm that dumped more than 2 feet of snow on Utah's northern mountains this weekend wreaked havoc on highways across the state killing eight people and filling motels as holiday travelers faced roads Sunday night Thirty-on- e inches of fresh snow was reported at Alta as of 5 pm Sunday Nine inches fell in Park City 13 inches in Nephi IVi inches were measured in Sandy and about 3 inches were tallied at Salt Lake City International Airport according to the National Weather Service A heavy-snowarning was in effect Sunday night for central and south central Utah "The combination of holiday traffic and Keith Koziba night desk clerk at Paraweather make this one of the worst situaBeaver dise Inn in Beaver said people were sleeptions I've ever seen" said ing in their cars in the parking lot County deputy Cody Black A semitrailer jackknifed near the inter"They couldn't face driving on the freechange of Interstates 15 and 70 around 4:30 way back to Cedar City because of the road and weather conditions" pm Sunday backing up traffic along ' : Rooms also were full in for more than 30 miles "— — Milford 30 miles west of Bea The delay from the accident coupled with roads 'covere(THjfSnovv is good news ver and in Fillmore 54 miles snow sent with wind-blownorth of Beaver rooms were for water supply B2 in central Utah travelers filling fast With Beaver motels full scrambling to find a room for motorists were being sent 50 miles south to the night Cedar City where Jackie Long desk clerk But by 6:30 pm rooms were scarce at El Rey Inn said that by 7 pm Sunday "We have no available rooms" said Rachel Cook manager of the Butch Cassidy only 19 of the motel's 72 rooms were occuInn in Beaver "I've been trying to place pied but she was expecting an onslaught of travelers people at other motels in Beaver City but See STORM A8 there are no rooms" ' n ' road-wear- y Resorts report a powderific weekend Snowfall lures Utahns N j out--of " tf By Jason Bergreen 7he Sail Lake Tribune Shoosh Shoosh Shoosh Shoosh That was the sound Bill Hammond's snowboard made as it cut through more than 2 feet of fresh snow blanketing Snowbasin ski resort The sound of a banner season in the making The wet weather system that has clothed Utah mountains and valleys in white gold since Friday also enticed thousands £2 IT :'i 'Jw w "f 'JL MlCHAtlColvlThrSakLcikrTnhinc Eric Schildroth left and Ben Ditto pack it out Sunday after a day of backcountry skiing on Will's Hill along the Park City ridgeline oflocalsandout-of-townerst- o nine ski resorts already up and operating this holiday week- - end "I wasn't going to go this yesterday Saturday" Hammond said after six runs Sunday morning "There's a lot of powder out there" The Thanksgiving weekend traditionally is the first of three big holiday moneymakers for resorts along with the Christmas holiday and Presidents Day weekend And it was a good one "The excitement of people about the season is a lot more pronounced than it has been in the last few years" said Craig McCarthy the director of marketing and public relations at Brian Head near Cedar City He said this was the best Thanksgiving weekend in five years "This weekend was enor-SeeBI- weekend until it snowed all day DUMP A8 BAGHDAD Iraq — Iraq's most feared terror group claimed for Sunday responsibility slaughtering members of the Iraqi security forces in Mosul where dozens of bodies have been found The claim raises fears the terror group has expanded to the north after the loss of its purported base in Fallujah Meanwhile insurgents attacked US and Iraqi targets in Baghdad and in Sunni Arab areas Two US soldiers were injured in a Baghdad attack and another American soldier died in a traffic accident north of the capital the military said - ' US and Iraqi forces killed 17 suspected insurgents in raids south of the capital Sunday Iraqi police said Operations there included a dawn speedboat assault by US Marines and British and Iraqi troops on suspected insurgent hideouts along the Euphrates River British media reported A statement posted on an Islamist Web site in the name of A Wide-eye- d soldiers component for more efficient production of hydrogen By Matthew L Wald The New York Times — Researchers at a government nuclear laboratory and a ceramics company in South Salt Lake say they have found a way to produce pure hydrogen with far less energy than other methods raising the possibility of using nuclear power to indirectly wean the transportation system from its dependence on oil WASHINGTON The development would move the country closer to the Energy Department's goal of a "hydrogen economy" in which hydrogen would be created through a variety of means and would be consumed by devices called fuel cells to make electricity to run cars Experts cite three big obstacles to a hydrogen economy: manufacturing hydrogen cleanly and at low cost finding a way to ship it and store it and reducing the astronomical price of fuel cells "This is a breakthrough in the first part" said J Stephen Herring a consulting engineer at the Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory which plans to announce the development today with Cerametec Inc of South Salt Lake OOR COPY? The developers also said the hydrogen could be used by oil companies to stretch oil supplies even without solving the fuel cell and transportation problems Herring said the experimental work showed the "highest-knowproduction rate of hydrogen by electrolysis" The heart of the plan is an improvement on the most convenient way to extract hydrogen which is to run electric current through water splitting the H2O molecule into hydrogen and oxygen a process called electrolysis But the plan requires the building of a new kind of nuclear reactor at a time when the United States is not even building conventional reactors And the cost estimates are uncertain n vri: Iraqi election timetable Iraq's deputy prime minister says a Jan 30 election is a challenge but that delaying it would bolster insurgency A5 in Iraq led by JordaAbu nian terror mastermind See TERROR GROUP A4 at the breaking point in assault on Fallujah territory: As the battle rages young GIs confront the specter of death head-o- n many for the first time New Part two of three "OK that's a sniper right there" he said with a small grin as his men grabbed their guns Editor's note: This story contains strong language accounts of graphic violence and other detailed descriptions of combat By Tom Lasseter KnitfU RithierNemSewut and crouched so only the tops of their heads showed above the roof line Just the night before Monday Nov 8 Sims had led his men Alpha Company of the 1st Infantry Division's Task Force deep into the eastern district of the city as part of a US and Iraqi military effort to reclaim the city from insurgents Sims picked up the radio and called in an artillery strike to "soften" the sniper positions His call sign was Terminator Six " 2-- 2 FALLUJAH Iraq — Capt Sean Sims wondered aloud if the bullets flying by his perch on a rooftop in the Askari district of Fallujah were aimed at him During the next couple of minutes several ricocheted off the roof near him rebel-infeste- d Utah company is part of hydrogen breakthrough Alternative fuel: Cerametec Inc makes makes a key Hadi MaBMineAmriatrdPrmi i female US soldier escorts a woman out of danger after a car bomb blast Sunday in Baghdad Inside If the electricity comes from coal which is the biggest source of power in this country then the energy value of the ingredients — the amount of energy given off when the fuel is burned — is 3' to four times larger than the energy vnlue of the product Also carbon dioxide and nitrogen oxide emissions increase when the additional coal is burned Hydrogen can also be extracted by mixing steam with natural gas and breaking apart both molecules but the price of natural gas is rising rapidly The new method involves running electricity through water that has a high temperature As the water molecule breaks up a ceramic sieve separates the oxygen from the hydrogen The resulting See HYDROGEN A4 See FALLUJAH A6 Against US Israel Iranians are signing up for cide missions Births World BS Business BIO A6 Horoscope C6 Movies C4 Classifieds D8 Obituaries B6 Comics CS Puzzles C6 A10 Sports D1 Television B7 Editorials Carolyn Hax C6 Weather " £ - ?3- - Pag C8 Continued cold with partly cloudy skies statewide highs in low 30s north 40s south Volume 269 Niimhkr46 !!!!! 34945 " f sui- - II |