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Show Wednesday September ' Utah Valley edition ; 15, 2004 www.harktheheraki.CMn 50 CENTS YOUR TOWN S YOUR NEWSPAPER YOUR LIFE & STYLE SPORTS YOUNG WIT. VIEW PICKS UP WIN IN OT not alone in her obsession with England's famed female author Local fan Insurgents continue bombing ; 59 dead ; i tax off ea ot ) v 1 if ... Commissioner White changes vote after $200M commitment "I? Amie Rose DAILY HERALD After getting a commitment from several state legislators to move at least $200 million more into transportation funding each year, Utah County commissioners decided Tuesday in a 1 vote to sales tax for take the quarter-cen- t transportation off the ballot. The issue was put on the ballot last month in a 1 vote, with Commissioners Steve White and Jerry Grover voting for it. The tax would have generated about $12 million each year, and would have gone to a list, of 27 road projects around the county. The resolution that commissioners approved Tuesday calls for the question to be moved to the 2005 ballot, but they'll have to vote again for it to appear on that 2-- 2-- - , . VAHYA AHMEDAssociated See Press A3 TAX, Fireflgtiten try to contain an oR pipelim fir after an attack by insurgents near Beiji.250 kilometers north of Baghdad, Iraq, bn Tuesday. Saboteurs blew up a junction where multiple oil pipelines cross the Tigris River in northern Iraq on Tuesday, setting off a chain reaction in power generation systems that left - . the entire country without power. ' 'r. : , . Local Marine Iraqi police hopefuls killed, 1 14 wounded, in explosion at recruitment center 10 am near a police command and recruitment center in the Rahmaniya neighborhood. The blast tore through a crowd of job applicants gathered at a nearby tea house, killing 47 people and wounding 114, according to the Iraqi Ministry of Health. In Baquba, northeast of Baghdad, gunmen ambushed a minibus carrying recent police recruits, killing. 12. A statement on the Internet pur- -' portedly from Jordanian insurgent leader Abu Musab Zarqawi claimed . : Ashraf Khalil and Jim Krane WIRE SERVICES BAGHDAD, ' 1 ; Iraq - A car bomb and a mass shooting killed 59 people in Iraq on Tuesday, many of them policemen and unemployed young men seeking to join the country's beleaguered security forces. More than 120 Iraqis have been killed in the last three days as the nation's insurgency ' shows no sign of abating. , The car bomb exploded just before . , responsibility for both attacks. In other violence, the U.S. military announced that one soldier was kilted and five were wounded near the northern city of Mosul when their patrol was hit by small-arm- s fire, In Kirkuk, saboteurs blew up a junction where multiple oil pipelines cross the Tigris River in northern Iraq on Tuesday, setting off a chain reaction in power generation systems that left the entire country without power, officials said Firefighters struggled to put out the blaze after the attack near Beiji, 155 miles north of Baghdad. Crude oil cascaded down the hillside into the river. Fire burned atop the water, fueled by the gushing oiL In Vienna, Iraqi Oil Minister said the country Thamer would try to keep up its production of more than 2.5 million barrels of oil a day, 2 million of which is exported See IRAQ, dies in auto crash in Iraq Caleb Warnock DAILY AS A Marine corporal from Spanish Fork was killed Monday in a non- - High Ed. Report Card Preparation' higher education and compares the re' sults over a period, DAILY HERALD '' . ;" J out by The National Center for Put v ' ' '. 'High school students in Utah are ap-Public Policy and Higher Education, the aofor but college, ?r, report evaluates states on the perforparently prepared mance of their private and public four-yecording to a neW independent report, the schools and community colleges in state is not making the grade when it . five categories, with grades ranging comes to students actually going to colfrom A to Fin six areas. lege after high school especially mi" ' The report card, titled "Measuring Up nority students. -The 2004 National Report Card on 2004, looks at the preparation of high v. Higher Education, which was released to- school students for college and their actuday, grades states on different aspects of al completion in a degree program. It . . ) '. - Participation ar C Affbrdability Completion ; , Benefits ; , Q . J - , , - Incomplete Learning St i also grades the affordability of colleges d in the state and the benefits of people in the state. It also grades learning, though most states received an incomplete because there is no standard way to measure learning. Nationally, most states failed in one notable category: affordability of colleges. Utah, California and Minnesota are the only states that earned higher than a D. - Twenty-year-ol- d t Lance Cpl. Cesar F. Machadc-Ol-mo- A3 See BYU president , j ! ' David Randall ' OAIY HERALD- - . BUSINESS PS LOCAL PI WEATHER ' ' ; ' - " "While less dramatic and superficially ; less serious than the felonies which fffl the MARINE, ' nms media, they do give me concern and I ; ' Coming off weeks of controversy over a hope they do you as wen," he said from the . Marriott Center at BYU. . . football player sex scandal and the reorga- Samuelson said that while some may . nization of the school's athletic apartment, Brigham Young University President Cecil . tray the BYU Honor Code (the set of guide--1 Samuelson exhorted students Tuesday to, 4 lines for conduct and grooming students . are required to sign) as just a set of rules, "above all else, Kve with integrity, J ( v that it is really much more. He warned the students, ranked nation-air- y as the most "stone-col- d sober," not : ; - t "It's a personal commitment to five life in about crime, drugs or sexual promiscuity, . congruence with gospel principles, he ' said. "It is our recognition of the f but about "issues that seem to be much JOSHUA ROWNDaiiyxwald of our in others more common in our university," such as importance university ' BYU Prasldant CmrU n Camuelcmi resume tidArvjuw the students at BYU during padding and , plagiarism, cheating, i See HONOR CODE, A6 the Tuesday devotional at the Marriott Center. : - v downloading music illegally. 05 OBITUARIES M.D5 UFE&STYLE B1 OPINIONS A5 HOROSCOPE t5 MOVIES B5 SPORTS CI COMICS M Sunny to partly cloudy HIGH LOW 72 44 VOLUME 82 ISSUE 46 r , -- . 'ii AS INSIDE school Honor Code issues ; s is the first Utah County resi-- . dent to die while serving in the Iraqi conflict. Spanish Fork High School UtahgotaC COLLEGE, Lance CpL Cesar F. was assigned to the 2nd Combat Engineer Battalion, 2nd Marine Division. The incident was being investigated. Macha-do-Olm- college-educate- See -- combat vehicle accident in the Al Anbar Province of Iraq, the Department of Defense said Tuesday. Getting Mds to college a problem for Utah Elisabeth Nardl HERALD ',.,. .DIIIIII : ii"! 0""8 - |