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Show A-6 The Park Record WedThursFri, May 19-21, 2004 Dead birds interest wildlife officials V) liiiiii r www.diamondpatking.com I Valet L ! Open so I I ! 50 S. Redwood Rd. I Salt Lake City, Utah ! 355-PARK I (7275) Self Park Per Day Compare to $6Day Expirt 063104 FREE Car Wash 24 Hour .Shuttle; SALT LAKE CITY (AP) As part erf the battle against the West Nile virus, the state Division of Wildlife Resources wants people to report certain dead birds. . They include jays, magpies, crows and small raptors such as hawks. In three weeks, the state Department of Health will start checking its sentinel chickens for signs of the disease. The department also has begun an ad campaign aimed at getting people to wear DEET mosquito repellent The virus is carried by mosquitoes and spread to birds, humans and horses. Eighty percent of those bitten by an infected mosquito will never suffer suf-fer any symptoms of the disease. However, the others may have headache, fever, muscle aches, nausea, nau-sea, vomiting or eye pain. Most of them will recover completely com-pletely within a week, but about one in 150 infected people will suffer neurological illness such as meningitis, meningi-tis, encephalitis or acute flaccid paralysis from spinal cord damage. About one in 1,000 infected people die, state epidemiologist Dr. Robert Rolfs said. In Utah, the virus first appeared last year, and health officials expect it will have greater effect this year. The first new generation of Culex tarsalis mosquitoes already has been born, said Sam Dickson, manager of the Salt Lake City Mosquito Abatement District. The district began seeing lots of larvae last month, and has worked on destroying breeding grounds. State veterinarian Mike Marshall hopes that owners gave their horses their first inoculation against the disease around April 1, and it's now time for the second dose, with another due in August. Horses previously pre-viously immunized need just two inoculations per year. The first human infections are most likely to occur in Utah around July 1 but now is the time to prevent it, said Jana Kettering, state Health Department spokeswoman. Group presses city for library computer filters Superior Quality! iuHof23HE 13!3eB (nut 0fl33 iHiE '-iiHiEIMEi r$CJ2KHri We also offer hand cleaning, restoration, appraisal, high quality rug pad, pick-up and delivery. Buytrade old rugs: ADIB'S RUG GALLERY SALT LAKE CITY (AP) The organization Communities for Decency wants the City Council to force the city's library system, to install pornography filters on its public pub-lic computers. "The Salt Lake City Library Board has had a policy in place for a number of years and is just absolutely absolute-ly dismissive of any filtering device," said Arthur Brady, libraries liaison for Communities for Decency. The library board has proposed budgets that do not include $22,000 in state grants. Under a new law, city and county libraries that do not install filters will not be eligible for state funds. Library board Chairman Roger Sandack said the board is still seeking seek-ing public comment about filters. "The difficulty we've had is this bill isnt protecting children, it is taking tak-ing away free access to information,"' Sandack said. Filters are often overly restrictive and prevent patrons from accessing legitimate Web sites, and filtering companies wont make pub lic the types of information they are blocking for "philosophical or religious reli-gious motivations," Sandack said. "The fact is you can get around filters very easily, and all these kids know how to do it," Sandack said. 'It's as simple as two strokes on the computer." Library officials also figure fig-ure it would cost $80,000 to $150,000 . to install and maintain filters. "It's doubling or tripling the amount of time spent on supervision," supervi-sion," Sandack said. "It's a ludicrous waste of time" especially since librar ians already monitor Internet use and evict people who repeatedly access pornography or sex chat rooms. Sandack said the library likely like-ly would filter computers in the children's chil-dren's book section. City Councilwoman Nancy Saxton said she would support filters if it made sense financially. "For me it's a cost-effective thing," she said. Councilman Dave Buhler said other libraries have a different stance on filters, and, "I find it curious that our library has resisted filters." Improvements now underway on U.S. 6 SALT LAKE CITY (AP) U.S. 6 through Spanish Fork Canyon is considered con-sidered Utah's deadliest highway, with 148 lives lost since 1991. The Utah Department of Transportation has worked on a number of improvements to reduce the toll, and this summer is committing commit-ting nearly $17 million to six projects on highway. At the same time, the Utah Highway Patrol has increased its patrols of the highway, particularly in the areas having the worst accident rates. "In the final analysis, it's a safer road today than it was five years ago," said Rep. Brad King, D-Price, who along with other legislators from Carbon and Empry counties has lobbied lob-bied for years for additional funding for the highway. "The important thing is that, over the last five years, there has been at least one real significant project each year," King said. Officials believe the addition of more passing lanes, with more signs informing motorists that passing lanes are just ahead, have made a difference. They also cite small improvements improve-ments like reflective striping and rumble stripping in the middle of the road. UDOT plans three new widening or passing-lane projects this summer, along with more maintenance mainte-nance work. U.S. will address prison abuse of Iraqis V DIRECT IMPORTER OF THE WORLDS FINEST RVGS 3142 So. Highland Dr. (about 1400 E.), Salt Lake City (801)484-6364 (888) 445-RUGS (7847) Mon.-Sat. 10:00 am. to 6:00 p.m. Continued from A-5 ly imported to Iraq techniques for prisoner interrogation used in . the war on al-Qaida. In early 2002, the White House announced that Taliban and al-Qaida detainees would not be afforded prisoner-of-war status, but that the United States would apply the Geneva Conventions to the war in Afghanistan. "There is a sort of morphing of the rules of treatment," said Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del. "We can treat al-Qaida al-Qaida this way, and we can't treat prisoners captured this way. but where do insurgents fit? This is a dangerous dan-gerous slope." The New Yorker magazine reports in this week's issue that the roots of the scandal lay in a decision approved last year by Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld to expand a classified operation for aggressive interrogations to Iraqi prisoners, a program that had been focused on the hunt for al-Qaida terrorists. ter-rorists. A Pentagon statement said the my tm inm. Yakima SpaceCase Specials reg. $449M, SALE $269 All CAMELBAKS 25 OFF! I 111 a . All Columbia Sportwear Men's & Women's Shorts 25 OFF! EXCLUSIVE OFFER fbi Rewards Card members: Earn TRIPLE points on U Asolo hiking boots," Kelty sleeping bags, lightweight tents, hats, Burn and Dansko casual footwear and Osprey backpacks! t ; ; ' Apply for your free membership and start saving today! : ; ) All TEVA sandals 20 OFF! i 1 t V " 1 ' -, v, X fWV II n n n o kw -. UN-2LJU UJkJ L-K-iXJ U U 0 New Yorker story was "filled "with error and anonymous conjecture" and called it "outlandish, conspiratorial." conspirato-rial." National security adviser Condoleezza Rice said in a German television interview, "As far as we can tell, there's really nothing to the story." But Michigan Sen. Carl Levin, the top Democrat on the Senate Armed Services Committee, said the reports that Rumsfeld approved the secret interrogation operation in Iraq raise ".this issue to a whole new level." Within months of the Sept. 11 attacks, Newsweek magazine reported. report-ed. White House counsel Alberto Gonzales sent President Bush a memo about the terrorism fight and prisoners' rights under the Geneva' Conventions. ' "In my judgment, this new paradigm para-digm renders obsolete Geneva's strict limitations on questioning of enemy prisoners and renders quaint some of its provisions," Newsweek quoted the memo as saying. Powell "hit the roof" when he read it, the story said. A White House statement said, "It is the policy of the United States to comply with all of our laws and our treaty obligations.",. Asked Monday about the memo that Gonzales purportedly wrote, Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Dick Lugar said, "Well, I would hope he didnt write it." 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