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Show The Last Supper' comes to life at Provo church iustvu Pwtilmleftil Saturday APRIL 10, 2004 www.hai1ctheherald.com YOUR TOWN ' YOUR NEIGHBORS RUNNING ON EMPTY County gets short return on federal gas tax N.S. Nokkentved Utah Valley Edition 50 CENTS YOUR NEWSPAPER UVSC trustees OK connector lane deal if I U ; Project expected to get final approval; lane scheduled for completion by Sept 1 fir. ChristiC. Babbitt THE . THE DAILY HERALD More of the federal gas tax collected in the urban parts of Utah County has been going to road projects in rural areas of the state than to help ease the congestion in the heavily populated parts of the county, says a recently released study by a national nonprofit watchdog group. ' "It's cyclical," said Nile Easton, spokesman for the Utah Department of Transportation. "It's basically coming around to being Utah County's turn.1' From 1998 through 2003, drivers in the Provo-Ore, area paid about $39 million more in federal gas tax than the area got back, says the study by the Environmental Working Group. ProvoOrem got about 84 cents for every dollar paid in gas tax to the federal highway transportation n trust fund. By contrast, the Salt Lake counties area got back $1.14, and in Utah got back $1.62 per dollar paid. That may soon change, Easton said. By 2007, Utah County should see an influx of funds for projects that the Transportation Department is studying, he said. like others in Utah, when drivers in Utah County fill up the gas tank in their car, the price per gallon includes 18.4 cents that goes to the federal government. Congress divvies the money up among the states according to their needs. There is no lack of need here. For two years, transportation and government HERALD DAILY Utah Valley State College is one step closer to reductraffic congestion at its main entrance. UVSCs Board of Trustees on Thursday evening approved an agreement between the college and Utah Department of Transportation for a new traffic lane that would connect UVSCs College Drive to westbound traffic on University Parkway. lane would leave College Drive just The west of a roundabout at the college's main traffic en- J trance. Traffic could then leave campus without going through the roundabout.The agreement, which still requires approval by the Utah Transportation Commis sion and the Utah Board of Regents, would give UDOT Herald the easements necessary to construct the project. ing 'OQ- CD j vVfJ m matt SMiTHDaiiy Motorists travel east towards the UVSC roundabout near the south side of campus Wednesday afternoon. See A8 LANE, Oty-Ogde- See GAS TAX, Halt in lighting Weir Misses Gut at masters undercut by gunfire in Iraq A8 One year after fall of Saddam's regime, 11 much of Iraq is chaotic Sen. Clinton joins effort Lee Keath ........ THE ASSOCIATED W:W..h...,;.WA.v to end Mormon baptism Iraq A U.S. AC-13- 0 guBship raked insurgents after hundreds of women and children fled the besieged city of Fallujah during a U.S.teclared pause in the Marine offensive. On the anniversary or the fall of Saddam Hussein s regime, Baghdad and parts of central Iraq were chaotic. At a square in the capital where Saddam's statue was toppled a year ago, soldiers took down a disturbing new icon: pictures of the radical bniite cienc wnose iouow-er- s have risen up against coalition forces in the south. Gunmen running rampant on Baghdad's western edge attacked a fuel convoy, killing a U.S. soldier and an Iraqi driver and causing a fiery explosion. Two American soldiers and an unknown number of civilians were missing after the attack, and 12 people were injured, Pentagon officials said. A Baghdad Arab correspondent for television said at least nine people BAGHDAD, ht of Holocaust victims Mark Thiessen THE ASSOCIATED PRESS . ' DeSALT LAKE CITY spite a directive from Mormon leaders to stop the practice, members of the Church of JeSaints sus Christ of Latter-da- y have continued posthumously baptizing Jewish Holocaust Sen. Hillary Clinton victims into the Mormon faith, aHHinir more rnnrentration I camp victims to its roster of ' ' I those offered conversion in the afterlife. A New York Jewish organization was so outraged that it t asked US. Sea Hillary Clinton to intervene, prompting a meeting in early March between the former first lady and Utah Republican Sen. OrSen. Orrin Hatch rin Hatch, an IDS church member, The Associated Press has learned "It was a private meeting between two senators," Clinton said when declining to comment on what was discussed. Likewise, Hatch, through a spokesman, would not comment; calling it a private . 'f L7 matter. See BAPTISM, PRESS ra were killed. Another U.S. soldier was killed in an attack on a base elsewhere in the capital, and large groups of insurgents battled U.S. troops in two cities to the north, Baqouba and Muqdadiyah. One Marine was killed in Fallu- l i i ai i jail aiiu anouiei wuuiiueu ui of fire after U.S. forces called a halt to offensive operations in the city, a spokesman said. The death along with those of three Marines a day earlier announced Friday brought the toll of U.S. troops killed across Iraq V i. . A8 County prosecutors to charge baby sitter in death of infant r : V . j : . . es See IRAQ, A3 INSIDE Elisabeth Nardi THE DAILY HERALD LOCAL County prosecutors plan to file charges against a infant girl they say killed a in an Eagle Mountain home in she was baby-sittin- g January. Sgt. Spencer Cannon of the Utah County sheriffs office said an autopsy from the medical examiner's office gives the county sufficient evidence to file charges of child abuse homicide against the baby sitter. Formal charges are expected to be filed in the next two weeks, after attorneys meet with the medical examiner. Chris Yannelli, deputy Utah County attorney, is ' still deciding the level of charges to file, Cannon said. The level of the charges, which could range felonies, depend on if from second- - to third-degr- See , !' f D4 BUSINESS BABY SITTER, fly A8 KEVIN LAMARQUEReuters Masters champion Mike Weir couldn't Defending a poor first round that included three bogeys and missed the cut Friday. The former BYU golf er finished in a tie for 45th while the top 44 contenders moved on to the weekend competitioa Story, C1 . Mi) IV -1- 1 It D6 OBITUARIES D3 LlfE&STYLE B1 OPINIONS A6 HOROSCOPE B5 UTAH D2 SPORTS a V COMICS 1.: Partly cloudy HIGH 51 LOW 30 VOLUME 8 ISSUE 254, B4 '61055 0005 Of'" . wlomJm&W it 1 D1 . WEATHER 4 8 |