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Show It's FREE and worth more than the price of this newspaper PAGfeAl THE NXWSPAPf.R Of ' gO CENTS nn ON I RAl. LTAH V LUWE 83, IGjDE One home Of sends four UVUU sisters to cheerieading competition House OKs Amber alert raters iAgnss wtod SnoiiMfl Council to reconsider Tuesday home in Prova Omaalryreoordingbjsveto, Billings, who has been in office By JUSTIN HILL The Daily Herald - PROVO In his veto, Mayor Lewis K Billings first-eve- r killed a controversial ordinance Thursday that would have reduced the number of singles allowed to rent a Nationwide system lumped in with other issues since 1998, filed a disapproval form in the rity recorder's office. Then he drafted a letter to members of the City Council, by city spokesman Michael Mower, hand-deliver- outlining the reasons for his actions. In the letter, Billings said he was concerned with the ordinance's approach. doesn't make sense. Ifs not good policy," Billings said. ' "It's just too broad and too overreaching for me. .. This process needs to go on so we can refine the proposal a little more." It : The mayor's action sent Chairman Dave Knecht proponents of the ordinance wants to extract the conscrambling to salvage .the tentious provision that parts of the reduces the number of singles measure, which the City allowed to rent a unit in the ' Council passed 3 two weeks dty. from the rest of the ordiago. Five votes are needed, to" nance. The legislation was override the veto, and' "the , ; jcntended to streamline' the council must act on the issue way the zoning laws at its meeting Tuesday, r, ;V 1 define the tity family unit Many Because he thinks an overr See VETO, A6 ride is unlikely, Council Vice . , 4-- -- - DISARMING IRAQ By ELIZABETH LEVIN Los Angeles Times - WASHINGTON The House on Thursday overwhelmingly voted to expand nationwide use of the Amber alert system, which enlists the public's help in searching for missing children. The measure was included in a bill meant to deter child abductions and sexual predators. Though expansion of the alert system has firm support in both the Senate and the House, critics of the bill said other provisions that have been added to it including minimum sentencing, expansion of wiretap authority and mandatory sentencing of sex would prevent it offenders from becoming law. The bill, approved by the House 410-1now goes to the Senate, which in January that passed legislation approved only the nationwide expansion of the Amber alert system. The House and the Senate passed similar bills last year, but the legislation died when Congress adjourned without agreeing on a compromise. A spokesman for Sen. Dianne Feinstein, a By GEOFFREY MOHAN, JEFFREY FLEISHMAN and PAUL WATSON Los Angeles Times sandy A ferocious storm broke Thursday; allowing U.S. warplanes to swing back into heavy action over central Iraq and giving a boost to ground troops who had bogged down on the road to Baghdad The capital wW shaken by some of the strongest explosions of the , war, but its leaders remained " defiant two-da- V I - C't.V 'y " ,'4 Iraaiofnaakisaidthey expect Baghdad to be encircled in five to 10 days and predicted that the campaign 4, to unseat President Saddam Hussein will founder there. Lead elements of the 1st Marine Division and the Army's 3rd Infantry Division are pointed at Baghdad's southern flank, where the Medina division of the Iraqi Republican Guard is arrayed, as the two sides steel for what is likely to be the major battle ofthis conflict With the invasion of Iraq entering its second week and Saddam apparently still in power, President Bush said mm n r. See ALERT, A6 A U.S. Marine points his rifle at a group of Iraqis stopped on a road in central Iraq near Qal'At Sukkar on Thursday. Resistance by Iraqi irregular units has slowed the Marines' advance and forced them into skirmishes in . urban areas they would have preferred to avoid. Coming Sunday V See IRAQ, A6 An with Church President Gordon E Hinckley. IDS w WorJi begins on road to connect High 45 Low 26 By tammy :? HIGHLANTi J Developers are four-lan- e hopeful, thiat ' a tiiree-mil- e, road uptiie side ofTraverse Mountain in north 'Utah County will pave the ' way to prosperity. Construction crews are scheduled to begin work today on SunCrest Drive, which will connect S.R. 92 with the THE DAILY HERALD PROVO, UTAH titty NEWSPAPER INDEX H SunCrest Development, a master' planned community in Draper that straddles the Utah County and Salt Lake County lines along Traverse Dl .C4 Classified . Comics . , . Business Horoscope. Movies Obituaries . Opinions. . Sports . . Weather. . . Mcpherson The Daily Herald VB9 C2 C3 . A8 Ridge. counties BIO ill!! JIJL remaining homes planned, Stephen Sowby, a TSSD board ber. , - - i tii r-- said mem- - The TSSD, which provides waste- water treatment for the cities in north Utah County, has been working with SunCrest on the past diiikg lUKiB DAi::;2i iiiiD , ir- ' completed. Along with the road, SunCrest will build two water lines and the necessary infrastructure to connect to the Timpanogos Special Service District sewer lines, a connection the development needs to build the majority ofthe a sewer agreement for years, Sowby said. The road will form a direct link "Suncrest doesnt have a way to get between homes being built on Tra- the sewer down ... They need to get verse Mountain and the north Utah the sewer built,"yet he said. The road will County area, and is a crucial compo- - make that possible. nent of SunCrest, which plans to build Besides moving the development 3,000 ofits 3,800 homes in Utah Coun'forward, the new road will be the first ty. paved route between Draper and its "It makes sense to have a link north Utah County neighbors, Alpine, between the two counties," said Ed Highland and Labi Grampp, vice president of Terrabrook, The existing public route requires the parent company of SunCrest See ROAD, A6 Development He projects the road will ,A5 Bl 4,f take two, construction seasons to be :T1 1 A Spencer Crlttedden prepares ground for a road that, when completed, connect Draper and Highland through the SunCrest Development (7Ti(T) will ODOIIQClSi " ' ' i i "f 'I |
