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Show BYUs John Beck looks to the future sports History's most famous death remains hot topic life & style I 1 Saturday Utah Valley edition www.heraklextra.com 50 CENTS APRIL 8, 2006 YOUR TOWN YOUR NEIGHBORS BYU alumni house to be named after Interest reviving for charging federal government for western schools THE Anna Chang-Ye- n DAILY HERALD A building being planned as a first-sto- p for visitors and alumni on BYLPs campus will bear the name of IDS Church President Gordon B. Hinckley. "We think that's going to give it a tremendous amount of public interest and visibility," said Ron Clark, director of public affairs and guest relations at BYU. "He is loved and adored not only throughout the church, but I think throughout the world." The Gordon B. Hinckley Alumni and Visitors Center will combine the current visitors center and alumni house in one location, where the alumni house now stands. That building was being torn down on Friday afternoon to make way for the groundbreaking in June. According to the BYU alumni Web site, the current alumni house, near the intersection of West Campus Drive and North Campus Drive, was dedicated on May 26, 1962 under president Ernest L Wilkinson. At that time, BYU had 80,000 alumni. Today there are more than 355,000 living alumni. Charlene Winters, director of alumni marketing and communications at BYU, said the groundbreaking will be on June NEWSPAPER for in the West .edncafim Fajiig Jennifer Talhelm Hinckley r YOUR Versions of the idea have been around for years, and they mostly have gone nowhere. But in an election year in which school funding remains a big issue, law- -' makers' interest is picking up again. This week, Sen. Orrin Hatch introduced legislation first championed by fellow Utah Republican Rep. Rob ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON A recent finding by the US. Census Bureau that Utah remains last in the nation in the amount of money it spends per school child is reviving interest in a plan to make the federal government turn over some of the vast public lands it holds to pay for schools. Bishop. And Bishop recently plugged it before what he said was a receptive audience at the conservative Heritage Foundation think tank. "I'm encouraged," Bishop said in an interview with The Associated Press. "I think there is some traction with the idea." The bill would require the Interior Department and Forest Service to give 5 percent of public land to western states. States would hold the land in trust to be sold or leased with the proceeds going to public schools. The idea is based on the argument that Utah and 12 other western states lose out on sales tax because of their vast acres of public land. The federal government owns on average just oyer half the land in those states, compared to about 4 percent in the rest of the country. t See A4 SCHOOLS. 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The lasting. drought and the lack of an irrigation system at the park has hurt most of the trees, which were believed to have been planted originally by settlers. Park management have pruned the trees to cut off the deadwood. The black willow trees at Utah County Daily Herald photos now Cathy Allred NORTH COUNTY left like mammoth toothpicks poking up from the earth, the black willow STAFF years of drought have taken toll on the once-giatrees at Utah County Park. Where leaves once gently whispered over the banks of the Jordan River in Lehi now stand only sheared off stumps, a memorial to the most recent drought. Some cut clean at the base, others Six Jennifer Quinn CI C8 OUR TOWNS OBITUARIES PI P4 BUSINESS P6 LIFE & STYLE B1 COMICS B4 MOVIES B5 OPINIONS A6 I THE Sunny and mild HIGH 61 LOW 40 VOLUME 83 ISSUE 251 ASSOCIATED ' off. Willows can live from 80 to 100 years and love water, said Adrian Hinton, a horticulturist at Utah State University Extension Service. Most are found along river banks and other wet environments. Without water, they become susceptible to insects and disease, The park property was annexed into i Lehi in 1998, but it remains under See WILLOWS. A4 Richard Leigh, book, "The Holy Blood and the 8 Holy Grail." "It would be quite wrong if PRESS LONDON "The Da Vinci Code" author Dan Brown and his publishing house were cleared of , copyright infringement in a British court Friday, with the judge finding the lawsuit based on a contrived and "selective number of facts and ideas." Authors Michael Baigent and Richard Leigh had sued Random g House, claiming Brown's novel "appropriated the architecture" of their 1982 nonfiction best-sellin- 055 "00050"" . third of all the remaining trees chopped Judge: 'Da Vinci Code' did not breach copyright laws INSIDE WEATHER trees are dying and park staff are trying to save what remains. "We've lost a lot, 200 plus that they've cut down," said Ralph Larson, park host. "I don't know how many they've cut down to the stump; some they dug up." Even though the drought is over, until the park gets a permanent water source and irrigation system to guard against future drought, there is little the tree populapoint in tion, said Russ Eager, parks director for Utah County. "We did not like having to cut the trees, butwhen the wind blows, the deadwood falls and it is a hazard," he said. "There are some in there that are just huge. Some are just groves of younger willows." The county has been pruning dead-woo- d from the trees since 2002. The November and December 2005 pruning brought noticeable results with the top are available online at heraldextra.comgallery. . SPORTS Willow Lack of water endangering ancient grove , PHOTOS FOIl SALE 1 T IV fic- tional writers were to have their writings pored over in the way DVC ('Da Vinci Code') has been pored over in this case by authors of pretend historical books to make an allegation of infringement of copyright," Judge Peter Smith said in his ruling. Both books explore theories that ; Jesus married Mary Magdalene, the : couple had a child and the bloodline M ' r-- V a best-sellin- V- - KIRSTY See CODE, WWW.HERALDEXTRA.COM A4 CALL 375-510- 3 W1GGLESWORTHAP :tt" nlr.t'u i?:rdsnC:nt:r Size Anv Tvne Anv Container Tomato &Vede starts All mllj TO SUBSCRIBE r Any X'. 1 of the 1982 book "The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail" is surrounded by the media as he leaves the High Court in London on Friday. A British judge ruled that the publisher of g the thriller "The Da Vinci Code' did not breach copyright. f -- rr ready now! r " 5. 3S3SCC3E'Ar.:rJcnrcrk |