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Show OIILXITE: V7rAv.hcraldcritra.com Tuesday APRIL 1, Utah County's 2008 Ir. Ui Leader in Local news ? . 50 CENTS YOUR TOWN YOUR NEIGHBORS YOUR NEWSPAPER ' " - M ...tom ,. .V.L. j, . i, j, , ffigh court to hear EG. moi ill entcase Jeremy Duda Pleasant Grove city is hoping that the Supreme Court will overturn a 2007 ruling by the U.S. 10th Circuit The U.S. Supreme Court announced Court of Appeals that granted the d Salt Lake Monday that it would hear the case religious group of a group that wants to erect a reliSummum permission to put up a gious monument in a Pleasant Grove monument of its Seven Aphorisms in Pioneer Park, which already displays park. ' DAILY HERALD City-base- . sides will file several briefings with the court. White said he expects the asking the Supreme Court to not hear court to hear the case in the fall after the case. its summer recess ends: Ed White, an attorney with the "Obviously we're very happy that American Center for Law and Justice the court accepted this case. It's a in Ann Arbor, Mich, who is reprevery important case," White said. "This case has implications for all the senting Pleasant Grove, said both Summum filed a brief in February cities in Utah and throughout the federal 10th circuit." Summum was founded in 1975. The group follows tenets of Gnostic Christianity and ancient Egyptian teachings, including mummification. See A2 SUMMUM, Excavating Stonehenge Watchdog questions Questaris $500K claim '. I .. .' ''' J ' ' . rT r--. Grace Leong J DAILY HERALD The state Committee of Consumer Services is questioning the fairness of Questar's attempts to recover $500,000. from 500 Utah customers for billing errors caused by faulty electronic transmitters nn ffas meters. The faultv transmitters resulted in usage amounts . d for as long as being three years in some cases, a utility official said on Monday. The state consumer advocate on Friday asked the Public Service Commission to investigate Questar's claims following several informal complaints filed in recent months to challenge the utility's collection efforts. At least seven formal complaints have been filed by irate Utah customers so far, and the commission's ruling on these cases will affect all 500 customers. It's still unclear how many of the 500 customers are in Utah County. "What alarms me is the assumption that the individual consumer will have to pay these big back bills for Questar's errors. If it's a utility's mistake, it's a question if they should get paid by anyone," said Michele Beck, director of the Committee of Consumer Services. The committee asked the state commission to determine precisely when Questar knew about its transponder or radio transmitter's faulty readings, and when Questar should have been aware that it was receiving incorrect information from its transponders. The committee also wants to examine the full a Ten Commandments monument. 1 "v S f YZ.rA 1 ( under-reporte- See QUESTAR, u KIRSTY WIGGLESWORTHAssociated Press on Monday. Archaeology students Steve Bush right and Scan Ferguson sieve through earth amongst the stones at Stonehenge, England, First dig in .44 years hoped to unravel niysteries ' Gregory Katz LONDON Some of England's most sacred soil was disturbed Monday for the Jirst time in more than four decades as archaeologists worked to solve the enduring riddle of Stonehenge: When and why was the prehistoric monu A2 tors the world over, has become popular wifh and New Agers who attach Druids, mystical significance to the strangely shaped circle of stones, but there remains great debate about the actual purpose of the structure. The dig will be led by Timothy Darvill, a lead- - ' ment built? The excavation project, set to last until April 11, is designed to unearth materials that can be ysed to establish a firm date for when the first mysterious set of bluestones was put in place at Stonehenge, one of Britain's best known and least understood landmarks. The World Heritage site, a favorite with visi , : THE ASSOCIATED PRESS neo-Paga- V See STONEHENGE, A2 CPR methods revised for cardiac arrest A.F. SEX MEETING Janice Peterson DAILY f i 0 .. See a photo you would like to have in your home or office? Daily Herald photos now are available online at HERALD Stephanie Nano A previously canceled meeting concerning pornography and same-se- x attraction was held Monday night in American Fork, but without the sponsorship of the ' , THE ASSOCIATED PRESS You can skip the breathing and just press on the chest to save a life. In a major change, the American Heart Association said Monday that hands-onl- y CPR rapid, deep presses on the victim's chest until help arrives works just as well as standard CPR for sudden cardiac arrest in adults. Experts hope bystanders will now be more willing to jump in and help if they see someone suddenly collapse. Hands-onl- y CPR is simpler and easier to remember and removes a big barrier for people skittish about the breathing. "You only have to do two things. Call 911 and push hard and fast on the middle of the person's chest," said Dr. Michael Sayre, an emergency medicine professor at Ohio State University who mouth-to-mout- PTSA. The meeting was to be held at American Fork High School last Wednesday, but it was abruptly canceled after school officials learned gays and lesbians would be discussed. Stephen Graham, of Standard of Liberty, presented : his message about the dangers he attraction present felt same-se- x to youth. Graham said he did not feel he would have been able to '' discuss the topic at a PTSA meeting in the future, though he was previously invited. Graham said he felt the principal, Carolyn Merrill, canceled the meeting, but it was not her place to it organization Standard of tell the PTSA what it could discuss. Stephen Graham, president of tht lAhcrtv. aneahs to an audience on the darners of homosexuality during d ; See MEETING, A2 parent meeting at the American Fork library on Monday. ' ' V non-prof- ; heraldextra.comgallery. h mouth-to-mout- See INSIDE BRIEFING A4 EDITORIALS A5 OUR TOWNS OBITUARIES B1 B4.B5 BUSINESS B6 SPORTS CI C6 WEATHER Very cloudy HIGH 50 LOW 31 h CPR, A2 LIFE & STYLE COMICS D1 04 VOLUME 85 ISSUE 245 '61055 0005 |