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Show PROVO. UTAH. FRIDAY. MARCH 20. 108TH YEAR. NO 201 $5 00 1981 Maeoirs Cugirmiiiii PRICE MONTH 25 CKNTS Epidemic Lev By DICK HARMON and ROD COLLETT Herald Staff Writers The BYU victory over Notre Dame Thursday night in the X 3 NCAA's Eastern Regional caused everything short of a Mount St. Helen's eruption in Ctah Valley as people literally went berserk with ecstasy over the victory. More than 3.000 people staged an impromptu celebration at the BYU football stadium about 11 p.m. The party was havoc with a capital H as jubilant Cougar fans took part in a little insanity. The party had everything from music from car stereos wailing the popular hit by Queen. "Another One Bites the Dust." to toilet paper and rice. People were bent over steering wheels trying to push their horn activators through their car firewalls. Cars flooded 900 East and 51-5- 0 University Avenue with headlights bobbing and horns blaring. Some people at the scene said it was close to a riot A security officer observing the activities at the stadium said he heard on his walkie talkie that a disturbance was occurring at the Harold B. Lee Library. After bolting to the library a horde of BYU students were seen prancing through the library throwing rice everywhere. "People were driving on lawns and sidewalks." said Wes Sherwood, captain of BYU Security. Students even climbed on BYU President Jeffery Holland's home and tried to get in. he said. People driving on the streets were weaving wildly, some rode bikes through buildings and pickups were weighted down with people crammed in back. "Everyone was in a celebrating mood," said Sherwood. Only one person was reported injured, said Sherwood. "A girl was hit by flying garbage thrown by someone.'' he said. And some happy celebrants were seen hanging from street lights, he added. All access roads to campus temporarily were closed to pre- - DPI Telephoto Danny Ainge begins race to bucket. g game-winnin- - Provo City officials got "up close and personal" with Brigham Young University students Thursday when officials conducted a city commis -- sion meeting in the Wilkinson Center and set up displays and equipment to explain city services. See story on Page 4. Franklin Lawyer Says Deal Offered Justice Department lawyer declined to comment on allegations the agency's civil rights division tried to pressure convicted sniper Joseph Paul Franklin into admitting to the ambush wounding of black leader Vernon Jordan. A U.S. Franklin's attorney says he has offered a plea - bargaining arrangement for the man convicted of depriving two black joggers of their civil rights by ambushing and killing them. See story on Page 5. Secrecy Shrouds Shuttle Probe secrecy, engineers investigated the nitrogen gas accident that killed one technician and marred an otherwise suclaunch of the space cessful dry-ru- n shuttle Colombia at Cape Canaveral. Four other technicians were hospitalized when they entered the shuttle's compartment and began suffocating immediately when deprived of oxygen. See story on Page 2. Cloudy, More Showers Saturday Mostly cloudy skies are forecast lor Saturday in Central Utah. Scattered snow showers also are predicted. Overnight lows are expected to be near 30 with Saturday's highs in the mid-40- s. Additional Utah weather information Is on Page 3. A national weather story and temperatures are on Page 27. Amusements 16-1- 9 Classified Ads Comics 36-4- Community Crossword Notes observed: "I thought BYU students were more mellow than this. They sure know how to party. I know where I'm going to school." A woman, screaming at the top of her lungs, indicated the general consensus of the party: "Two, four, six, eight, who do we appreciate? Danny Ainge." A Provo Police commander was heard saying. "Let's just block off the stadium road and make it legal." Celebration took place in the most unlikely places. Inmates at Utah County Jail got to see the game instead of attending an alcohol recovery class. They ended up drunk with excitement, says an official there. "They were cheering all along. It would have been difficult to top-lev- National-Internation- 31 Opinions 11 Society Sports 33 12 Utah-Region- 10,000 Miners Stay Out on Strike By United Press International More than 10,000 soft coal miners were on strike in four states today; but the United Mine Workers union made progress in halting several other wildcat walkouts in advance of a threatened nationwide shutdown next week. Most of the miners still out in Pennsylvania. West Virginia, Kentucky and Ohio were striking over local issues. In Pennsylvania where gunfire and arson erupted at three mines earlier in the week, the U.S. Steel Corp. said miners at its Cumberland works at Kirby, Pa., defied a federal court injunction to return until the case of six fired employees can go to arbitration. point-of-sal- last-minu- Photo take their TV away and tell them to go to class,'' said John Carlson, Utah County Jail correctional coordinator. Arnie Ferrin. athletic director at the University of Utah, told The Herald this morning that Thursday night, when the final e Dame score was announced at the Special Events Center, there were cheers for the BYU-Notr- Cougars. "I didn't have a chance to watch the BYU game on TV because we had our own game against North Carolina. But as the scores were announced, there were some cheers. I think there are some fans up here who think that if we can't advance in the NCAA, then it's nice to have some Utah team back there." said the Ute athletic director. Continued on Page 2. u 2,27 32 23,24 HO 5 1 But she said Matheson had not decided whether to veto the second measure, the one which would create the new revenue distribution scheme. By DOROTHY KNOELL , Herald Staff Writer You mav not believe this, but it's spring. Although the weather outside is frightful, spring officially arrived in Utah at 10:03 this morning, ignoring the cold, clouds, rain and threat of snow to bring its annual renewal of life. Buds will be bursting out soon, although if they're smart they'll stay pretty tightly closed at least for the next few davs. - Spring, as defined prosaically by Webster, is season of the year in which plants begin to " grow after lying dormant all winter "that More poetically, it's a time when daffodils and crocuses begin to brighten the bare ground, a slow curtain of green begins to spread through the trees and bushes, and a young man's fancy turns to love (or in a college town, to finals). Polish Strikers Protest Poland's indepenBYDGOSZCZ, Poland (UPI) dent union movement struck nearly all of north-centrPoland today, canceled talks with the government and went on a national strike alert to protest police beatings of unionists. "Practically the entire nation is already on strike alert," Solidarity leader Lech Walesa told a militant crowd of 1,000 in Bydgoszcz. scheme effective on July 1. 1982. That delay was designed to give large cities time to prepare for the change. But lawmakers forgot to change the effective date of the first measure to make it match the compromise date written into the second bill. Because of the difference in effective dates, Wilson and the other mayors told Matheson Utah's cities and counties would be barred from imposing any local option sales tax from July of this year until July 1. 1982. Press Secretary Alene Bentley said the governoi had decided to veto the first bill the one repealing the existing local option sales tax law. in order U: keep the svstem in force. Skies Hide Spring's Arrival - Obituaries 3 their request: They called the new distribution scheme a "raid" on the revenue of large cities, which would cut their earnings from the three-quartpercent local option sales tax by hundreds of thousands of dollars. They said lawmakers made a drafting mistake in preparing the bills which would leave the state's cities and counties with no local sales tax revenue for a year. One of the measures would repeal a law which allows the local option sales tax and dise tributes all the revenue it generates on a basis, a system which favors major commercial centers. The repeal would be effective July 1. The second bill would create a new system which would funnel some of the money collected by big cities to rural and suburban areas by distribution 10 percent of the revenue on the basis of population. In a compromise move to win approval of the measures by the State Senate, the second bill was amended to make the new distribution Beatings of Unionists Where To Find It .... . out." Pandemonium nearly broke out at the stadium when a KSL-Tcamera crew began filming the throng. Firecrackers were ignited to the chagrin of police. "We've got to let them have their fun. But what would happen if they won the NCAA?" said one officer. Perhaps the best sign of the Cougarmania was the chants from the crowd. One co-e-d from Helaman Hall yelled, "I have two tests tomorrow and I have hardly studied. Now that they've won the game. I don't care what happens to that class or that test." A Provo high school student By MICHAEL WHITNEY SALT LAKE CITY (UPI) Gov. Scott Matheson is considering a plea from nine mayors that he use his veto power to kill a pair of bills which would let rural and areas dip into the sale tax revenue collected by big cities. Mayors from major urban centers, led by Salt Lake City Mayor Ted Wilson, Thursday asked Matheson block implementation of the measures, which were passed by the Legislature on Mar. 12. the final day of its 1981 session. The bills would take 10 percent of the tax revenue away from the commercial centers where it is collected and distribute it throughout the state on the basis of population. Wilson and the other mayors gave two reasons for Provo Sends Displays to BYU Commerce vent damage and BYU Security sent a sound truck to the stadium parking lot "to play some rowdy music and try and tire everybody Susan Hollingworth Matheson Mulls Tax Bill Veto Plea Friday: Under government They say the Cougars will be 'Numero Uno.' U. A I ,w MX crocus says it's spring. - Spring also is a time for planting, and garden-hungrUtah County already is sporting many patches of tilled land lined with neat furrows which soon will supply peas, beans, radishes and other tempting edibles. Now, if we can only avoid that almost annual spring freeze. |