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Show DAILY HERALD Saturday, September 4, 2004 Obituaries THESTATE Pam Harris Mickelson Pam Harris Mickelson, age 50, of Linden, died September 2, 2004, attheTim- panogos Hospital in Orem. She was born October 9, ican Fork, Utah to Kenneth Ernest and Jody Leyshon Harris. She married John E. lllllli She received great satisfaction from her job working with trou- bled teens, which she had done for the last 15 years. She was a friend to everyone, and was loved by all. Pam never got over the loss of her sister Shaunee, whom she now rt ft 1953 in Amer- m Mickelson on November 19, 1999 in Kona Coast, Hawaii Pam had lived in the same home in Lindon for 50 years. She attended schools in Pleasant Grove, and graduated from Pleasant Grove High School She was active in sports as a young woman, and played on the Timps basketball team She loved to ride horses. She enjoyed working in her garden with her husband John, and especially enjoyed the plants and flowers that they grew. One of her favorite things was the time she spent riding Harleys with her husband, and the many trips they took together. Jacob Zee man, 98, of Benjamin, died September 1, 2004 in Lehi, Utah Funeral services will be anFu- Stott, 79, of Provo, died September 2, 2004. Services pending, will be announced by Berg Mortuary of Provo. Melvin Pam is survived by her husband John of Lindon; her son, Kenneth Harris Nelson: three Andrea J., Jamie M, and Jessica A. Mickelson; three grandchildren, Tiff ani, Jessika, and Abigail; her mother, Jody L Harris; one brother and one sister, Larry Harris and Dorothy Sisam., and by many aunts, uncles, nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her father, and by three sisters Shaunee Harris, Ramona Lystrup, Rita Clark, and by one brother, K R Harris, and by her grandparents, J. Baxter "Grampie" and Helen "Muzzie" Leyshon. Funeral services will be held Monday, September 6, 2004, at 2O0 p.m., in the Berg Drawing Room Chapel, 185 East Center Street, Provo. Friends may call one hour prior to services. Interment, Pleasant Grove Qty Cemetery. NednSimkms Tucker, 89, of Sandy, and formerly of Provo, died September 2, 2004. Services pending, will be announced by Berg Mortuary of Provo. . Elda Rachel Fox Monson, 89, of Pleasant Grove, died September 2, 2004. Services pending and will be announced by Olpin Family Mortuary of Pleasant Grove. H. Laura Cantu, a female pioneer of Tejano music, died Sunday of natural causes. She was 78. Cantu and her sister. Carmen, gained stardom during the 1940s as the singing duo Carmen y Laura. Tejano music combines influences from country music, rhythm and blues, and popular Latin styles. Cantu recorded her first song, "Se Me Fue Mi Amor," in a living room with blankets on the walls to dampen the sound, Cantu's nephew, Armando Marroquin, said in Thursday's Corpus Christi s. Cantu and her sister have been recognized by the Tejano Conjun-t-o Hall of Fame in San Antonio and the Smithsonian Institution's Folkways Recordings. Entrepreneur Herbert H. Haft, who became a multimillionaire by offering consumers a variety of goods from prescription drugs to books and wine at discount, has died. He was 84. Haft died at Sibley Memorial Hospital on Wednesday, according to Lucille Hawkins, a hospital admissions representative. He had congestive heart disease. Robert Lewin, a screenwriter who received an Academy Award nomination for the 1956 war movie "The Bold and the Brave," died Saturday. He was 84. Lewin died of lung cancer at his home in Santa Monica, longtime friend Worley Thorpe said. Born in New York, the Yale graduate was a reporter for the Atlanta Constitution and Life magazine and a partner in a public relations firm before beginning his screenwriting career. Walker Carl E. 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They planned to resume the search this weekend after spending 21 nights since Jury digging up trash and spreading it out for cadaver dogs to run over. , "Our best information is, yes, that is where we believe she is in the landfill," Po deposited Sutherland disagrees with candidates on gay marriage amendment THE NATIONAL DEATHS Caller-Time- Police more than halfway through search, find Indicator' items but nothing more THE ASSOCIATED PRESS DEATH NOTICES nounced by Holladay-Brow- n neral Home, Santaquin. Landfill search for Hacking to resume joins. I (Mii 04 to same-se- x two-third- done. The trash pile is 30 feet deep, and machinery has compacted it to a weight of 1,200 pounds per cubic yard, Dinse said. . lice Detective Cathy Schoney said. The new DNA evidence ties Paul Foy ASSOCIATED PRESS THE SALT LAKE QTY An imprisoned convict was linked by DNA evidence to five unsolved rapes from the early 1990s just before he came up tor parole, Police Chief Rick Dinse said Friday. But Rudy Romero, 40, who is in prison for aggravated robbery, cant be prosecuted for serial rape because of Utah's statute of limitations. "The police are frustrated that they can't do anything, so ' they look to us as a kind of salvation for the community," said Kent Jones, a hearing officer for Utah's parole board. Jones said Romero will have another scheduled parole hearing in about six months, after which the parole board is likely to decide to keep him locked up indefinitely. "We could possibly hold him . for the rest of his natural ufe based on this new information," Jones said. The victims of the Parkway rapist are "very upset that this r man cant be prosecuted," po SALT LAKE QTY An attorney for the conservative Sutherland Institute disputes the conclusion of the three candidates for Utah attorney general that the proposed state constitutional amendment to ban gay marriages also would bar extending basic partnership rights to unwed couples. The proposed amendment, which goes before voters in November, says: "Marriage consists only of the legal union between a man and a woman. No other domestic union, however denominated, may be recognized as a marriage or given the same or substantially equivalent effect." The attorney general candidates, mcumbent Republi- - ' can Mark Shurtleff , Democrat Greg Skordas and Libertarian Andrew McCuuough, contend the second part of the proposal would bar the Legislature from ever extending even the most basic partnership rights to an unmarried couple, such as rights to hospital visitations, to emergency medical decision-making and to inheritance. The Sutherland Institute attorney, Bill Duncan, told the Deseret Morning News Editorial Board on Thursday that the amendment "freezes ' in place current policy. "We think these policies are separate," Duncan said. "On one hand there's the definition of marriage, on the . other hand there's hospital visitation." Dani Eyer, director of the Utah ACLU, said, "It actually begs the question: 'At what point is something substantially equivalent to marriage?' I think the fact that even before we vote on it, most of the lawyers in town weighed in on this in different directions is an indication it is loosely drafted." Duncan agrees with Republican gubernatorial candidate Jon Huntsman Jr., who supports the amendment and wants to create reciprocal beneficiary legislation. Amendment opponents say such legislation would be barred by the amendment. "We want to see a bill move forward that's not just limited g as-y- et Romero to five of nine rapes committed by the Parkway rapist from 1990 to 1993, when Romero was out on parole after committing the robbery, Jones said. A parole violation sent Romero back to prison in 1994, when the rapes occurring near the Jordan River parkway stopped. He's been in prison ever since. Romero was sentenced to five years to life for the robbery. He has no previous sexual assault convictions and wasn't a suspect in the Parkway rape cases until the state crime lab began to take saliva samples from prison convicts to match against DNA evidence in unsolved crimes, said Maj. Stuart Smith, chief of the state Bureau of Forensic Services. Romero was scheduled to be paroled Jury 27 after serving ten years of his sentence, but the parole board rescinded the date after learning June 22 he ' had been implicated in the Parkway cases. Paul Foy THE ASSOCIATED PRESS In a SALT LAKE CITY harrowing feat high over the Utah desert, two helicopter stunt pilots will try to snatch a floating space capsule that holds "a piece of the sun" and bring it safety dowa If all goes as planned d Wednesday, the Genesis capsule will be gentry lowered at Dugway Proving Ground with its tiny, fragile collection of solar wind particles, which could reveal clues about the solar system's origin. But first, the $260 million mission will have a couple of white-knuckmoments. The capsule must be steered through a "key hole" high in the Earth's atmosphere, and if NASA can't fine up the precise entry and angle, Genesis win be waved off on a elliptical orbit of Earth. Then there's the midair helicopter retrieval, which sounds like trying to swat a fly out a car window at 40 mph except the pilots wiU have five opportunities to get in position to grab the capsule. The stunt pilots say their biggest challenge win be flying 400-poun- six-mon- th couples," at 40 mph nearly a mile over the Utah desert without any visual reference points to judge distance or speed as they close in with hook and cable on the capsule, which win be ing 400 feet a minute at a forward speed of 20 mph.. Because of that, the pilots rate the difficulty of the maneuver at an 8 or 9 on a scale to 10. Military pilots were unavailable for a mission that required a commitment. It wfll be the first time any objects are returned from farther than the moon, said Roy Haggard, Genesis' flight opera- ; tions chief and CEO of Vertigo mc.,wluch designed the capture systeni The civilian pilots have replicated the retrieval without fumbles in dozens of practice runs, but are terrified of flubbing it live on NASA television with a worldwide feed. ' . t--; "It's like flying m formation with a giant floating jellyfish," says backup pilot Dan Rudert; who wiU be flying a second helicopter. Cliff Fleming, owner of 's South Coast Heli-- ; copters, wfll get the first crack , at hooking the capsule with a fishing pole-lik- e apparatus. If he misses, Rudert wfll give it a six-ye- ar le Fleming's qualifications laikutahorn ; - UOHTWE1GKT MrWQhjNorKiryVrYArC4C"h A i iLi-Mir',- .' v ' March. Romero, however, cannot be prosecuted for the early 1990s rapes because of a four-yestatute of limitation. Utah legislators have since eliminated the statute of limitations for violent crimes, but Romero is entitled to protection under the old law. Jones said he confronted Romero a month ago with the DNA evidence, asking if he committed the rapes. Romero didn't deny or admit to being the rapist, instead, pointed out that the rapes hap- pened a long time ago, and he wondered about his liability after a decade, Jones said. At his next parole hearing Romero will again be asked to deny or admit the rapes. He's been given copies of graphic police reports and educated on DNA analysis, Jones ar , Parole board members dont need an admission from Romerojiowever, to hold him in prison indefinitely. of gold, sapphire, diamond and silicone are ho bigger than a few grains of salt, but scien- -' tists say that's enough to reconstruct the chemical origin of the sun and its family of . planets. Genesis has been moving in tandem with Earth outside its magnetic shield on three orbits of the sua Now on a trajectory back home, it is picking up speed rapidly as Earth's gravitational pull brings it closer and wfll hit a top speed of 24,600 mph be--' fore the atmosphere slows the descent. Scientists wfll keep busy for ' five years after Genesis completes its wild ride back to Earth. It wfll take at least six months before they expect to learn much from the solar wind particles. But they expect to learn the ..' precise composition of the sun, which "has them aU excited and drooling," said Don Sweetnam, Genesis program manager, who said the discovery could rewrite textbooks for the next generation. , ' Simply put, "We're going to bring a piece of the sun down to Earth," said Dr. Charles Elachi, director of Jet Propulsion Laboratory. 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Rud- 0 Cfiissa:-iUr-t3Ii6i!i-'ir er Genesis space capsule to return with secrets of solar system shot.-- IntraLASIK" A backhoe is clawing up the tightly bound trash, and bulldozers spread it out for dogs to ' . sniff over. Mark Hacking has been jailed on a charge of murder, accused of shooting his sleeping wife in the head and dumping her body and a firearm in separate trash bins. Police believe the hospital orderly killed his wife after she found out he wasn't enrolled in a North Carolina medical school, where the couple was packing to move. Mark Hacking's family has said they were stunned to learn he had been lying for years about his education and plans to become a doctor. It turned out he never even graduated from college. DNA identifies Parkway rapist suspect ASSOCIATED PRESS Duncan said. commit-te- d to letting dogs go over all the trash dumped in one section of the landfill the day Lori Hacking disappeared Jury 19. But he gave no promise of ' any further effort, saying it would be too to start over with a "visual search of every scrap of garbage. And he said police have no plans to look elsewhere in the dump. "We can only search so much. There's only so much we can do," said Dinse, hinting the search was becoming costly. Speaking generally, the chief ' said that searching landfills for criminal evidence "historically" has proved unsuccessful He said police have found some "indicator" items from the same trash truck believed to have carried Lori Hacking's body to the landfill, but nothing more. Police are churning through an estimated 4,600 tons of trash in one part of the landfill that was cordoned off after the woman disappeared. Dinse estimated that effort s was between halfway and Suite 00j, Prjctm Parli 4 Prow, UT L - -.- t- 4Cub.Yl CiA.Yl, 8Cub.Yd.t . AFTER HOURS: 940-239- 4 : ' |