| Show W— t f Page 3 Tuesday July 5 1994 The Herald Journal Logan Utah Cooler weather assists fire crews &r briel Some in Logan to get new zip code Beginning late this year some Logan residents will have to get used to a new zip code Hie change is the result of new borders created by the addition of the new North Logan Post Office according Aided by cooler weather crews expected by tonight to control the largest of the fires that blackened more than 17000 acres of western and southern Utah over the holiday weekend The biggest the 13342-acr-e Post Hollow fire in western Utah’s to Logan Postmaster Kim Taylor A site has been chosen for that new post office It will be located at approximately 1750 N 400 East Taylor said All Logan residents living north of 1000 North to the Tooele County was contained Monday night The Interagency Fire Center predicted control of the blaze 35 miles west of Salt Hyde Park border will be Lake City by 6 pm assigned the new 84341 zip code and their mail will be A few miles to the east the 100 residents of the town of Terra were allowed to return home Monday the day after a 2300-acr- e handled by the new post office Taylor said The new office is expected to be occupied by late October or early November “It’s really not a true North Logan Post Office” he said pointing out that Logan residents living north of 1000 Logan Three men arrested in weekend fight A Young Ward man was taken by helicopter to an Ogden Hospital two other men were injured and three arrested after a fight Satur- day night outside the Elks Club 900 N 200 West Logan Six Logan City Police officers were dispatched to the fight and confiscated a baseball bat two knives a tire jack and a belt buckle said Logan City Police Lt Jerry Bench Those involved said a gun had been fired but that the person with the gun left the area before police arrived Delfino V Corona 34 1960 S 1221 West was taken by helicopter to McKay-D- ee Hospital in Ogden after he was hit in the head with a tire jack He was in good and stable condition this morning and was expected to be released later today Martin Mendez 22 345 12 N 400 East Logan and Moses Villigas 34 San Antonio Texas were taken to Logan Regional Hospital where they were treated and released Corona was allegedly hit with the jack by Ernesto Gomez Jiminez 22 331 12 N 400 East Jiminez was arrested for aggravated assault a third-degr- ee felony disorderly conduct a class C misdemeanor and giving false information to a police officer a class B misdemeanor Two other men Vicente Perez 26 659 S 200 West No 1 Logan and lose Corona 31 421 W i960 South Young Ward were also arrested for disorderly West Point slaying shows volatile nature of domestic violence cases By Mike Carter SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — It was a deal that everybody was happy with: Kenneth Marchant would stay out of jail and get help for his violent temper and chinking Meantime his estranged wife Misty would still get to see him — as long as he wasn’t drunk and didn’t beat her Kamiah Marchant Most importantly would still have a mom and dad But what this carefully crafted plea bargain couldn’t take into account was a deadly cocktail of alcohol jealousy rejection and rage Kenneth Marchant armed with a shotgun handgun and sledge hammer aimeared at his wife’s home in the tiny community of West Point early Sunday morning and killed her and another man before driving to his they were fighting Worker foils escape plans A juvenile detention center worker foiled three hoys plans w jump employees aid escape trnm the center Saturday the boys had fashioned a See fl SRItrSwa pf I expected this” said Steve Kaufman Kenneth Marchant’s Ogden defense attorney “(Kenneth Marchant) came up with a plan that nobody could anticipate or control” added Deputy Davis County Attorney Carvel Harward “He killed other people and then himself” The parallel between Sunday’s tragedy in West By Congressional Quarterly Few Americans will ever visit the barren sweep of Sand Wash in northwestern Colorado or the Alvord Desert in eastern Oregon Nor will many tourists see the towering Douglas fir groves of the Pacific Northwest or the gold-ric- h Great Basin rangelands in Nevada Nonetheless all Americans have a stake in these empty landscapes TTiey are public lands part of an immense domain of 650 million acres owned by the federal government Today an intense political struggle is being fought for control of that common heritage Ever since white settlers first pushed west private livestock timber and mining interests have been using federally owned forests and rangelands almost as if they owned them In recent decades however environmental groups and recreation users have begun pushing their own agendas for how the US Interior Department and Forest Service should manage those holdings Over the last year and a half the Clinton administration's efforts to revamp federal grazing timber and mining policies have provoked what could turn into a climactic showdown Now Congress is reviewing the administration’s most controversial public lands initiatives re dosed Wednesday ' ' US' 89-9-1 between Brigham and Weflsville will be dosed from 8 ‘am to 8 pm Wednesday for ongoing highway construction In addition to periodic closures motorists can City expect delays through the canyon at any time Visitors to Sherwood Hills can still access the resort from the Logan side An alternate route is Utah 30 to MS Continuing construction on Utah 30 will also cause some delays in traffic For more information call surprises in the smoldering foothills east of Salt Lake And she said that dozens of small fires some caused by fireworks and others by unattended campfires were extinguished only because of vigilant patrols by See SLAYING on page 8 BLM and Forest Service rangers Over the last year and a half the Clinton administration’s efforts to revamp federal grazing timber and mining policies have provoked what could turn into a climactic showdown Now Congress is reviewing the administration’s most controversial public lands initiatives The battle for natural resources is being fought all over the West where federally owned lands are concentrated The struggle intensified on May 16 when a law passed 122 years ago forced Secretary of the Interior Bruce Babbitt to sell 1949 acres of federal lands in Nevada to a Canadian-base- d mining company The lands hold an estimated S10 billion worth of gold but the General Mining Law of 1872 required the government to sell them for S5 an acre earning less than S10000 for the federal Treasury The sale was “die biggest gold heist since the days of Butch Cassidy” Babbitt declared When the 1872 mining law was passed the West was still being settled To encourage the region’s development Congress offered public lands for the taking by enterprising homesteaders stockmen miners and loggers The frontier closed a century ago and since then Congress has taken a number of steps to keep the remaining public lands under federal ownership But public land agencies continued to make federally owned lands available for logging mining and grazing livestock Environmentalists have been complaining for years about public land policies that they say subsidize extractive industries like mining and logging while ruining the ecological health of federal forests and rangelands Critics contend that strategies for developing the West’s federally owned resources are being determined by outdated policies — what University of Colorado law Professor Charles F Wilkinson has described as “the lords of yesterlaws policies and ideas that day a battery of arose under wholly different social and economic circumstances but that remain in effect due to inertia powerful lobbying forces and lack of public awareness” Wilkinson and other environmentalists argue that sustainable resource Protests mount against land policies Conservative ranchers are organizing con- bow many people were involved in the fight or why father’s home and turning a gun on himself Kamiah Marchant was left alive with the memory of watching her father jshoot Swann to death Friends say Kirt Swann a divorced father of four girls killed in the shooting had promised to protect Misty Marchant from her husband Police speculate that Kenneth Marchant found out and went berserk “Never ever in a million years would I have Canyon Westerners fight Clinton over public lands duct for their alleged involvement Bench said it is not known Brent Wright of Logan trowels the surface of the new curb and gutter along the parking area of First Dam The new curb wit help keep cars off the grass said Tom Pitcher of Tom Pitcher Construction who was doing the work for Logan Forecasters predict cooler temperatures and a chance of rain showers which might keep some of the crowds away from the popular recreation spot First Dam project Logan the new facility in North wildfire forced their evacuation One home was burned to the ground Officials said the Terra blaze contained when 150 firefighters completed digging a firebreak late Monday should be declared controlled by midnighL “Things are going really well for them out there” said fire center spokeswoman Kathy Jo Pollock “The wind has died down and crews can go in and work on the hot spots without the wind pushing the fire further along” So far Pollock said it appears the Beehive State passed the Independence Day holiday relatively unscathed The single fire which broke out Monday — a 100-acblaze near Echo Junction 40 miles east of Salt Lake — was quickly doused by a helicopter which scooped water out of the adjacent Echo Reservoir “Actually we’re looking pretty good” she said Still she cautioned that lightning storms which moved over the eastern mountains Monday night may have left a few unwelcome Ron BinghamHandd Journal North will be assigned the new North Logan zip code even though they live In Hie site was chosen after several months of searching The zip code change will go into effect when the new post office is occupied Taylor said he expects it will be dose to Christmas time “It will be a mess for a while” he said But he added he expects that many residents will be happy to have Press By The Associated It d as a startling sight: ragged-loolin- g ranchers in cowboy hats and hoots parading hack and forth on an Albuquerque NM sidewalk chanting slogans and bolding pirk-- ct signs President Clinton was coming to town for a fundraising event that evening and the cattle and sheep ranchers were protesting his “war oa the West” and demanding that be fire Secretary H the rior Bruce Two decades agn during the tetnam War “most of ns would have wanted all those Inte- protesters shot” one of the ranchers Clinton “is very pKlcripg Kisnkdffd Inimtiic foe lot cf these prjt” aJJed ClarVs CvOmas eiKCne imM of the AnetKit Land Rights Association who efforts to fight Babbitt grass-roo- ts organized the protesL Bui these days the West's conservative ranching families along with miners and loggers are feeling desperate They’ve always resented the power that die US For- est Service and Interior Department w ield over the lands they use and now they arc resistance to Babbitt’s mounting grass-rooefforts to tighten regulation of public lands And they’re doing more than just carrying placards Wuh financing from big mining and timber firms Westerners from small communities have set up grass-root- s organization like People for the West to fight loggirg ts reductions grazing restrictions and other they feel threaten the economic rnlcitsthethatrural Hen And they arc finding allies among elected cos try goveramest i officials who have large federal landholdings within their jurisdictions Catron County NM took the lead by plan for public adopting its own land-us- e lands within its boundaries and demanding that the federal government comply with the plan to preserve the area’s traditional “customs and culture” Federal attorneys say there’s m legal basis for such measures but other local governments in the West have adopted similar tactics as part of what they call the “ersmty movement" Cushman and other activists say county 19th-centu- ry See LANDS oa page 8 See fKOTLSTS aw page S govammanl owns mora land In tv of Vw 12 NAlaska Idaho Navda ha (Mac gon and Utah Mora than al pubfcc land m 471 4 444 342 HI 327 Colorado 1 781 33 824 Ul M0 204 441 dune Smm of Land Sw-- wa 1 2-- 323 m 17 a Owgon ua 7 MO nr set Mltauua 1SB3 of Pwcwto I M2 land Ore- to pamart MO fewca WW-a- u W fw Wait Fadarul goveraments should share authority to decide what happens oa federal lands witha their boundaries because (hry are the unit of gi veremcat cVwcst to the people “I've been Mail Thu Own t |
