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Show Suml.iv. Juh 20. STATE SALT LAKE CITY (AP) ::Jury finds teen guilty - SALT LAKE CITY (AP) A Ojury gave Preston Scott Wallace, the benefit of the doubt, finding him guilty of second-degre- e felony manslaughter in the ileath of Joe Paul Quintana. Wallace had claimed during 3iis three-da- y murder trial in '3rd District Court that he killed Quintana in March 28. f Wallace said at the time, he J believed Quintana was rushing f',"at him with a knife. But there no knife and Quintana was r'yas hot in the back, uccording to Evidence presented in the trial. Wallace could go to prison not life ; "for up to 15 years Xwhen he is sentenced Aug. 22 by Judge J. Dennis Frederick. self-defen- ', Environmentalists erected a fake oil rig next to the to Washington Monument protest drilling within Utah's new national monument, but few visitors noticed. "It's a steep education curve," conceded Tom Price of the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance. Most tourists visiting the Monument Washington g.ipiww on Friday barely glanced at the fake rig, with gushing oil simulated by black plastic, according to a story in Saturday's Deseret One Who did slow down to look was Lee Beltrone, Keswick, Va., who said she agrees that oil rigs do not belong in national News. monuments. "I traveled out West last year through many state parks, and they are awe- One visitor, Cindy Willen, said she was visiting from Germany and knows nothing of Conoco's drilling of a test well within the Grand Staircase-EscalautNational Monument. "And I'm not really interested," she said. e g iwins pre to return , ,, some places that should be protected," Beltrone said. Price and SUWA hope for more such reactions. "Most people don't want oil rigs in national monuments, and wouldn't SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -Bwho use Flaming Gorge Reservoir along the oaters border are not happy with U.S. Forest Service plans to burn and bulldoze more than 2,000 acres of piny-oand juniper t ree stands. The forest service wants to thin out the tree stands for fire control, and plans to make selective "holes" in the forest to create meadows that would become habitat for elk, deer and Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep. But the boaters say the trees Utah-Wyomin- g Utahns OK after crash WEST YELLOWSTONE, Mont. (AP) Four Ogden, men walked .Utah, away from a , crash at West Yellowstone AjrPort Friday evening, three of them without a scratch, but ., .the airplane was demolished. Gary Fairbourn, 29, had his right ear almost completely torn off and was taken to a hospital in Idaho Falls, Idaho, for treatment. Pilot Don Bryan, 56, and passengers John McCleary, 29, , Craig Kleinman, 29, and Fairbourn, were arriving for a weekend fishing trip in the West Yellowstone area. '"We got hit by a gust of wind, and I saw it was going to force lis down," McCleary said. "I just "closed my eyes and hung on for my life." The Cessna 320 bounced several times before the left wing wheel sheared off approximately 150 feet from the run, , away. Police raid pet store CEDAR CITY (AP) Police and animal control officers who raided a pet store here discovered the dead and decomposing carcasses of several animals and 51 other neglected ani- mals. ' ' Animal control officers found five dead cats, one already decomposing, at Pinky's Pets. Eight other cats were so ill they were euthanized Friday, said animal control officer Kerry ' Gunter. The cats were infected with a respiratory virus that affects their lungs, nose and throat and causes their eyes to stick shut. "This is the worst case of confinement and malnutrition I have witnessed," said Gunter, who has been the Cedar City animal control officer for more than six years. "It looked like they (the animals) had not been fed." . separation surgeries and recovery, will return home to Honduras this week. The girls and their mother, Doris Gonzales-Quiroz- , had a farewell party with the staff at Primary Children's Medical Center here on Friday. Now nearly 2 years old, the twins will be reunited with a father and four siblings and move into a new home provided by the Honduran government. "They really don't know a home," said Jack Walker, the neurosurgeon who separated them in a series of operations last year. He will escort the girls and their mother home. The twins were born joined at the top of their heads Sept. 23, 1995, in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. Salt Lake County dentist Kimel Fisher heard of their plight and arranged their transportation to Utah. Primary Children's Medical Center and its staff waived all costs for their medical care and the girls earlier this year underwent skull their last surgeries reconstruction that will allow their brains to grow normally. Since their hospital release, the twins and their mother have been staying with the Fishers. A weeping Gonzales-Quirosaid through an interpreter she will never forget what the medical staff has done for her daughters. "If it wasn't for them, the babies probably wouldn't be alive right now," she said. She plans to tell the girls all that happened once they are old enough to understand. "I will tell them that it was really sad some days and really z calculated the distance to camp so it ended up being much Continued from Fl longer. been part of the real Mormon migration by wagon or hand-- ! cart that had started in 1847 l and continued until the rail-- I road reached Utah. "The trek bonded us closer to each other and to our ancestors, but we even bonded as (a) family to the people in our specific '.handcart company," Becky said. i ! i ; miscalculation Now, back home, the sisters talk a lot about one particular - SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -Formerly conjoined twins Bessy and Doris Gonzales, who have been in Utah for 17 months of SISTERS A day they walked and pulled their handcart 30 miles. ' "I don't even like camping, ami I thought I was going to die," Susan said. '"She said Dianne runs marathons and Becky had trained diligently for the lormon Trail trek. "I would have never done this unless my sisters roped me into it. But now I'm glad I did .it," Susan said. "It was a event. And an important lesson I learned was that you can do far more than you think you can, even though you ijifop't want to and it hurts you." ,'. Becky said the day day, ,was scheduled as a but someone apparently mis- , 30-mi- 23-mi- le COPY l ull I "I was just a long, long day, and toward the end it was harder for everyone," Becky said. "But then Dianne and Sue started singing songs, and we all joined in singing every song church we could think of songs, campfire songs, Primary songs, any song." She said some people were limping by then, and there were stories of people praying for help and having their pain disappear. A love for others During her first days on the trail, Susan said she cared mostly about herself and her sisters. "But then I started growing so close to everybody participating in the trek that I began hoping for everyone to make it," she said. "It just wasn't sisterly love. It had become love of everyone, even people I didn't know." Susan said as hard as the trek was, it was just a small taste of what her ancestors had gone through. "We just got a tiny glimmer of what they went through. We had portable toilets and other stand for it if they knew it was happening," Price said. Which is why SUWA built the fake oil rig at the Monument to Washington attract attention from tourists and the news media. SUWA also posted pictures and the real of the fake rig on rig in southeastern Utah its Internet home page to drum up opposition. Conoco wants permission for four more test drill sites on federal land within the monument. Currently, it is drilling on land within its state-owne- d borders. "President Clinton set up a planning process lor the monument," said Cindy three-yea- r Shogan, Washington representative for SUWA. "To go ahead and approve anything as ludicrous as this would make a mockery of the whole planning process" Forest Service's tree plan angers some boaters n ' ll( KM I). I'i.imi. nvironmentaliste rig up display to protest oil drilling UTAH . IW Mil happy others; that they went through many things lv.il that in the end, it turned out nil right," she said. Walker said he cannot say for sure how the girls will progress. Bessy, who suffered more complications from the surgeries than her sister, likely will have a useful but weak right arm and suffer developmental problems in school. Doris known as the social probably will have butterfly cognitive problems, "but she will do well," he said. The biggest threat the twins face is difficulty with the shunts that drain excess fluid from their brains. "If they suffered a sudden shunt malfunction and the pressure built up too quickly in the brain, it is not as easy to get help in Honduras as it is here," Walker said. "The neurosurgeons down there know what to do, they just need the facilities to do it." Walker is taking along medications for the girls and four extra shunts as well as their and medical records. Honduran neurosurgeons have been told about everything that has been done to the girls and advised on what care they will need a checkup every six months until they are 5 and yearly after that. "First sign of trouble," Walker said, "and I'm the one going down there." Members of the Utah medical team that performed the separation said they will wonder about the girls as they grow SERVICE Continued from Fl cemeteries. In one area in the Philippines, improvements were made to the housing conditions in a leper colony. And in Russia, where religious freedom is being threatened, LDS congregations beautified neighborhoods and parks and volunteered in hospitals throughout the country. In Utah County Saturday morning, groups were everywhere cleaning roadsides, doing home repairs and landscaping the grounds at parks and schools. The service to community, carried out by more than 20,000 LDS congregations around the world, was in conjunction with "Worldwide the Pioneer Heritage Service Day." Service and selflessness was a way of life for the pioneers who made the trek to Utah 150 years ago, and church leaders are hig'the sacrifices of the past will be remembered through charity in the present. "In remembering together before the Lord the poor, the needy and the oppressed, there is developed unconsciously are a priceless commodity on a lake whose shores are dominated mainly by sagebrush. John an Holderegger, Evanston, Wyo., businessman, keeps a Bayliner at Cedar Springs Marina on the Utah side of the lake, and is among the protest its. "I go (to Cedar Springs) because it has trees. The other marinas do not," he says. David Bull, a ranger for the Ashley National Forest, says "Pinyon-Junipe- r the 28-fo- Modification" proposal is mis- understood and a victim of bad publicity after a failed effort last year. At issue are thousands of acres of pinyon and juniper, mainly on the south shore of the reservoir, that have become overgrown because of fire-su- pression efforts during the p;ii 100 years. "The natural lire regime has not been occurring," said Bull, finr noting the est burned every 30 to 50 years. "We've got more acreage in older stands of pinyon junipei than what Mother Nature would have prescribed." but realistically a love for others above self, a respect for others, a desire to serve the needs of others," said LDS Church President Gordon B. Hinckley. "What miracles would happen in the lives of the children of America, and of the world, if they would lay aside their own selfishness and lose themselves in the service of others," he said. Getting an early start on the service day, on Friday evening, members of the Provo Pleasant View Third Ward were raking and cleaning gravestones at the Provo Cemetery. Ed Hinckley, a cousin of President Hinckley, with rake in hand pointed to the gravestone of their grandfather, Ira Hinckley, and mentioned Ira was born in 1828 at Cove Fort, the settlement set up by Brigham Young as protection from Indians. He died in 1894. "You reflect on what the people contributed who are buried here," he said. Another ward member, Katelyn Craig, 12, was edging grass and weeds around the base of a gravestone with her grandfather, Ralph Morgan. "I like doing service projects and I feel good when Craig said. I do them," At Nelson's Grove in Orem, pinyon-junipe- six LDS slakes participated in clearing away dead wood and underbrush and dredging d her husband and son, said she had relatives in Canada also doing service. Main Street came alive in Spanish Fork early Saturday morning as youth groups assisted the city workers in cleaning the street and pruning flower beds that line the street. The Memorial and North iv Park Wards landscaped grounds of their church building because it is the first LDS chape people see when driving said into Spanish Fork, Memorial Ward bishop. Mike Booth. He said ward members also helped clean out the yard of an elderly lady and "no one has done anything to that place for probably over 25 years." But still, the Memorial Ward only completed 50 hours of the 150 asked of each ward. "We're going to do it." Booth assured. older. "They, didn't, even need a last name around here, it was always just Doris and Bessy," said Kim Hissong, an anesthesiologist on the team. "They are fixtures here, in .our minds. Hopefully well heara&JMlthem." things modern," Susan said. Dianne said the knowledge that their ancestors had it so much worse left those traveling the trail unable to speak too openly of their pain. "You didn't dare complain because our ancestors had it so much worse," Dianne said. "This is the Place" They talked and talked and ... Before Becky joined the trek, I she trained by walking near her home almost every day. She said one of her sons, who knew how much she and her sisters liked to talk, joked, "Mom, you need to be practicing talking, too." The sisters agreed he was right because they almost literally talked and sang their way along an portion of the Mormon Trail. Today, the sisters could add a verse to the popular Primary song. It might go something like, "Pioneer grandmothers, they talked and talked and talked and talked as they walked That would have certainly have fit the trekking grandmothers. And they think it would have probably fit their ancestors, who must have talked and sang, too all the way to the Great Salt Lake. 80-mi- le July 24th Mall Hours: 10 a.m. a pond in an area expected to be made into a city park sometime in the future. Piles of debris were left behind that would require dump trucks to haul away. One worker. Gladys Litchfield, who was busy with spring-fe- 6 p.m. |