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Show ONLINE: www. hcraldcjrtra.com . Saturday March 29, UIAHQK'N'IYS I.IADI K IN l.(VAI. NlAVS 2008 50 CENTS YOUR TOWN - YOUR NEIGHBORS 6 Li pi M si - YOUR NEWSPAPER j; urr mi - 2i Mormon Massacre site to become landmark Tabernacle Choir names new director Jennifer Dobner THE t PRESS - i SALT LAKE CITY The LDS Church said Friday it will seek National Historic Landmark status for Mountain Meadows, the southern Utah site where 120 people were massacred on their way to California in 1857. Dan Bischoff THE ASSOCIATED ASSOCIATED PRESS SALT LAKE CITY Mack Wilberg is the new music director for the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. Wilberg, 53, has been the associate music director since 1999. He succeeds Craig Jessop, who suddenly resigned March 5 after directs choir for nine ing the years. "Jessop's legacy will continue for a long time," Wilberg said Friday. Wilberg said he and Jessop became the "best of friends" and could almost read each other's minds. "Our style and ultimate goals will be the same," he said. "We're just going to continue, continue on." As music director, Wilberg will oversee the choir, the Orchestra at Temple Square, the Temple Square Chorale and the Bells on Temple Square. He will be responsible for selecting new members and choosing music for concerts, recordings and tours. Wilberg, a former music professor at Brigham Young University and an active composer whose arrangements have been performed throughout the world, said he's' starting to feel the pressure of taking over a choir that performs up to 450 pieces each year. "Being associated with this organization is like being on a speeding train that never lets its passengers APRIL L. BROWNAssociated Press replica of the original Mountain Meadows Massacre monument stands in Carrollton, Ark., on Friday. A The disclosure came during a meeting of descendants and representatives of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-da- y Saints in Carrollton, Ark. "It just sort of guarantees that the site at Mountain Meadows ... will be a sacred place," Elder Marlin K. Jensen, church historian, said in a telephone interview from Arkansas. In December, the Mountain Meadows Massacre Descendants, the Mountain Meadows Association and the Mountain Meadows Monument Foundation had asked the church to pursue landmark status for the site, 35 miles northwest of St. George, Utah. The announcement was a major shift after church leaders had rejected similar appeals in 1999 and 2007. "This is a huge step forward," Mountain Meadows Monument Foundation President Phil Bolinger said. Last fall, Bolinger presented letters and petitions from more than 1,200 descendants asking for landmark status. Jensen said it had become obvious that the church needed to do something to ensure that those who died would be appropriately remembered. He said church See MASSACRE, A2 world-famou- Remembering - tt a tragedy : f I 7 off," Wilberg said. But that pressure is the best kind, he said, because of the people involved. "It's one of the things' I love most about this job," Wilberg said. Edgar Thompson, the former director of the University of Utah School of Music, was named as interim assistant until The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-da- y Saints names a replacement. "It's the highest honor that could come to me," Thompson said. ".J Wil-berg- 's COLIXNG TOMORROW ASHLEY FRANSCELLDaily Herald Rebecca Ives, mother of Samuel Ives, who was killed in June 2007 of a bear attack while camping in American Fork Canyon, and Tim Mulvey, Samuel's stepfather, talk about the order of events the night of their son's death during a press conference Friday. Family files lawsuits over fatal bear attack Joe Pyrah The bear was eventually found and killed as well, and was confirmed to be the same animal that had entered the campsite the night before and rumLawsuits filed Friday against state and federal maged through food coolers. wildlife officials demand that the family of Sam The black bear was classified as a Level III Ives be paid at least $2.1 million for his death from animal, which means that it should be euthanized, and wildlife officials did attempt to find the bear a bear attack. after its first appearance but were unsuccessful. Ives, 11, was killed by a black bear on June 17, The suits allege that since the bear was unable 2007, while camping with his family about a mile above the Timpooneke Campground in American to be found, campers should have been notified and the campground closed. The family said Fork Canyon. He was ripped from his room in a module tent he had bought his stepfather for Friday that they are experienced campers well Father's Day, before being dragged off and killed. aware of the risks, but had they known of the DAILY IDS Wee!; Your guide to April conference, strengthening family, and living MySpace tip leads NYC mother to lost child INSIDE Clare Trapasso Briefings A4 OPINIONS A5 OUR TOWNS B1 Cloudy, OBITUARIES B4 breezy BUSINESS B6 SPORTS CI HIGH 53 LOW 35 WEATHER LIFE & STYLE COMICS THE D4 VOLUME 85 ISSUE 242 rea. ' III llll6l655"0005( jiih 6 Lail m ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK Tiffany Rubin had all but given up hope of ever seeing her abducted child again when she received an anonymous tip through her MySpace page. Someone had son and spotted her in South Koher ,C6 D1 HERALD The Queens special education teacher caught a flight to South Korea on Sunday. She sneaked into her son's school, found Kobe Lee in a classroom, disguised him with a wig and sought refuge in the U.S. Embassy before bringing him home Wednesday. "It's great," Rubin said. "I never thought this day would come." Her ordeal began on Aug. 21, after her Jeffrey Salko disappeared with their child after a visit. At the time, he had joint custody of their son but was facing up to six months in jail for not paying child support. The boy lived with his mother and saw his father on alternate weekends. law Kobe's guardian, Joseph Fredericks, had recommended Rubin receive sole custody. "They were constantly at war over this child," Fredericks said of the parents, who separated when Kobe was 4 months old. After Salko disappeared with her child, Rubin was afraid her ex, born in South Korea, had court-appointe- d See MYSPACE, A3 bear they never would have stayed in the area just 15 minutes from their home. "If there wasn't an attack the night before, we wouldn't be here arguing it," said Ives's biological father Kevan Francis. The family claims that there were two chances for the state to warn them of the bear danger. The first was when they went through the gate to get to the campground. The second chance was a little more eerie. e "The family passed a Division of Wildlife Re-Se- IVES, A2 Almost anybody can pose nude at UVSC Brittani Lusk DAILY HERALD Art majors who want to help their fellow students learn more about the intricacies of the human form must do it with their clothes on, under a new UVSC policy. Other students can pose nude for the sake of art. Brigham Young University on the other hand, if you couldn't guess by the Honor Code, doesn't allow for nudity whether an art student or See NUDE, A3 |