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Show Page THE HERALD, Provo, Utah, B6 The Friday, January 19, 1990 Vermont-chalnsa- fteriroffyiinig masterpiece? rural areas, power saw goes from horror films to sculpting In - Chain WATERBURY, Vt. (AP) saws aren't just for massacres anymore. Now they're for art, too. In Vermont, as in some other rural areas of the country, the power tool best known for felling or as a prop in horror trees is being used to sculpt movies figures out of wood. Along Route 100, between Water-bur- y and Stowe, roadside menagere ies have sprouted, featuring bears, buffaloes, eagles, moose, skunks and giraffes carved with a chain saw. At one shop, hidden behind layers of sawdust, ear plugs and a pair of welding goggles, Max Osorio bobs and jabs like a boxer except he's armed with a chain saw and his opponent is a block of wood. Wood chips fly. Curious tourists stop and watch. But Osorio does not stop. It takes him eight hours to make a bear or Indian, the two pieces that sell the most. Osorio starts with a tree trunk and envisions the figure. Then, he hacks at it with unwavering attention, and recognizable parts begin to appear. First the coarse head, the beak, then a wing, the talons, and slowly, an eagle is born. "It is still very rough, but when you consider I am working with a chain saw, it's remarkable," boastlife-siz- ot ed Osorio. "I try to make the most detailed, realistic sculptures as possible with the tool," said Osorio, who placed second last summer in the fourth-annuWorld Championship Chain-saContest in Hill City, Minn. al w "It just takes practice." a naturalized U.S. citizen Osorio, who was born in Mexico, began carving after working as a dishwasher in Stowe. "One day I drove by a place and saw the wooden bears they were selling them for and I $800 thought to myself, 'I could do that,'" Osorio said. Carving wasn't as easy as it looked, but he started with a seated bear and has worked ch his way up to life-sianimal and human figures. "Once I learned how, I wanted to do more than just the static bear sitting, doing nothing. I try to get detail and action," he said. There is plenty of action in Oso-rio- 's latest creation, an old man on skis chasing a buxom skier in a bikini. Even the locals turn their heads. Osorio, like other Vermont carvers, learned the craft at the Spinning Wheel, a Route 100 gift shop. Owner Milo Marshall said he learned the skill six years ago from an Arizona man who was traveling through Vermont. Marshall's wife, Emma, said half of the shop's $400,000 gross annual ze , income comes from jQ 't&!$!I t" '5fe J-'- ; It: 4 $ 1 . chain-sa- w sculpture sales. After two years at the Spinning Wheel, Osorio moved to the Mousetrap, a gift shop down the road. Some of Osorio's sculptures sell for $2,000, and most between $250 and $500, with a 10 percent commission to the shop, but Osorio is reluctait to disclose how much he makes. "All I'll say, is for somebody without a degree, who doesn't speak good English, it's a good living." One statue of an Indian that Osorio made was so perfect, he said, he wanted to keep it for himself so he put a high price on it. "But a man from Long Island came and his girlfriend liked it. He was not scared of the price," Osorio said. The man also paid Osorio to drive it to Long Island, where the man wanted to stand the AP Laserphoto Max Osorio puts the finishing touches on a sculpture of a bear he made with a chainsaw in Stowe, Vt. Indian behind his desk. With three shops on Route 100 in sculp- Waterbury selling chain-satures, the competition is fierce, but friendly. "If the place down the road spe-w 10-fo-ot cializes in pigs, I won't do a pig," Osorio said. "But bears, everybody does the bears." Pine Tree Creations, the smallest of the three, feels the competition, owner Doug Joslyn said. He said he Mrs. Marshall said tour buses recently put up a sign that now often stop in her shop. brings more tourists to his shop. "But if I had a quarter for every "Some buses stop just because person who took a picture, I'd be on e P0 Dus start scream- better off than selling them," said said. she 8. 'Stop!'," Joslyn. kill Idaho birthday plans may Dispute Commuters hitchhike in Washington - A group BURKE, Va. (AP) hitchhikers was there waiting when Rose pulled into the Rolling Valley Mall parking lot in search of the "warm bodies" that would enable her to use the express lanes on the interstate and get to work on time. situation for "It's a win-wi- n everybody," McMurray says as she piles two riders into her car. Drivers get to use the vehicle, or HOV, lanes, and cut 20 minutes or more off from their commute traffic to through downtown Washington, D.C. Passengers get a free trip. Without government direction or subsidy, the informal, instant carpooling system has evolved into a unique commuting mode that relieves pressure on the of well-dress- ay cy mind-numbi- subsidized bus system, cuts congestion and saves commuters money. Transportation researchers call it the "Springfield underground" because it started with the opening 15 years ago of HOV lanes down the center of to the Washington suburb of e Springfield, Va. The HOV lanes are restricted to buses and cars carrying three or more passengers during rush hour. two-lan- Most carpooling involves people from the same office or the same neighborhood or those matched by formal programs. But in Springfield and the nearby bedroom community of Burke, it's stand there, and take your chances. The only other area where the instant carpooling occurs on a large scale is at bus stops leading to the east entrance to the Bay Bridge between Oakland and San Francisco, according to a study by the Urban Institute. Arlee Reno, who heads transportation projects for the Urban Institute, said he has taken a suburb slide show on Springfield's hitclihiking commuting system to Houston, Minneapolis, Seattle and Los Angeles. But researchers caution that several conditions have to be met if such systems are to work. Among them: At least 500 commuters in the given area. HOV lanes that save enough time to give drivers a reason to pick up passengers. A parallel bus system that gives hitchhiking commuters an alternative if no cars show up. One drawback of the system is the reluctance of people to climb into a car with a stranger. But riders see little risk with three people in the. car. "A requirement of two persons per vehicle in order to use the HOV ianes would undoubtedly result in a much higher level of psychological resistance to instant carpooling," Reno said in a study of the Springfield system. The "Springfield underground" has been so successful that nearly all the spaces in lots along the route are taken up by hitchhik- park-and-ri- ers, ranging from stylishly dressed single women to uniformed military officers heading for the Pentagon. At one lot, surveyors watched 553 people get into cars with strangers and only 25 board buses that pass by the lot. Drivers call out their destinations and the next riders in line pile in. Ms. McMurray alternates between driving and hitching rides at the mall, located about 20 miles southwest of downtown Washington. "All we need is warm bodies for the express lane," she says. Dottie Cousineau, head of commuter programs for Fairfax County, said the system has freed morning buses for other areas. A proposed BOISE, Idaho (AP) Idaho Centennial Trail intended to treat hikers to the state's rarest beauty from Nevada to Canada suffers from a sharp pain in its midsection. Centennial officials and vagabonds alike hope to complete deroute tails on the roughly by Idaho's birthday party in July. But a confrontation with the Forest Service ovef a trail through the of No Return Frank Church-Rivwilderand the Selway-Bitterronesses in central Idaho could hobble the project or stop it in its tracks. On the southern leg of the trail, the Air Force's proposed Saylor Creek bombing range expansion may force hikers eastward to escape shrieking jets and bomb drops on the desert landscape. And, if some state endowment lands near Priest Lake were approved for log- ging, the route would have to be redrawn temporarily, or for good. "The trail is kind of on the stall," said Roger M. Williams of Meridian, one of the two men who laid boot tracks along an route in 1986 from the Jarbidge River on Idaho's southern perimeter to the upper Priest River and British Co800-mi- le er ot " 815-mi- le lumbia. A member of the Lasting Legacy Committee charged with tracing a state trail, Williams has championed a path running through the heart of the two wilderness areas. The Forest Service opposes that option, saying it would put too much pressure on one trail. It suggested paths around the two wilderness areas, but the Legacy Committee pressed for at least one route through them. Unless that board meeting in Boise on Jan. 22 agrees to Parks and Recreation Director Yvonne Ferrell's call to endorse multiple wilderness trails, the matter could go under federal review again, precluding a statewide byway by July, said Dennis Dailey, ranger for the Moose Creek District in the Wilderness. Or, it could just be dropped. To ready the path for hikers, volunteers must be contacted to spruce up each section beforehand, and time is slipping away. The trail has been a "white hat project," with all sides certain it Selway-Bitterro- ot would be a unique way to take in the best Idaho has to offer: amid granite peaks, remote wild rivers and sheer desert canyons, Dailey said. Williams and Syd Tate of Boise crossed the length of the state in 86 days, stopping off at 12 supply caches along the way. Starting at the Nevada line, they headed north to the Bruneau Canyon, past Mountain Home and up the South Fork of the Boise River to a steep crossing of the Sawtooth Mountains. From there, it was down the Middle Fork of the Salmon River, across the Main Fork and into the t. The two trekked along the North Fork of the Clearwater River, Kelly Creek and Lookout Pass near Wallace. The final segment brought them along the Selkirk Crest and down to the point at the border near the town of Porthill. Along the way, they encountered only two towns: Clark Fork and Naples. Williams disputes the notion that extending the trail through the wilderness would spoil its fragile nature. "I can't imagine the few back- wild-flowe- rs Selway-Bitterroo- high-mounta- in Both the state and Forest Service MAY HARVEY. TRUSTEE, Under the Declaration disagree. Trust, dated July 19, "We don't have any arguments of 1975, as Trustor, to the with Roger that the two wilderness CONTINENTAL BANK areas are the superlatives of Idaho, AND TRUST COMPANY, the two gems," Dailey said. "But I (Now WEST ONE BANK. as wonder if Idahoans would want to UTAH), real Beneficiary, covering property losee 20 to 30 parties per day in the cated at 1509 South 400 Selway-Bitteroot- ." because they had not received any complaints. "We could not do anything until there was evidence it was subvertng public morals," the spokesman said. Medical experts denounced the g pamphlets as blatant racism and said the authors were trying to create widespread public right-win- fear. Dr. Dennnis Sifris, a senior AIDS specialist at Johannesburg Hospital, said the pamphlet was "ridiculous" and completely misleading. "It's obviously put ' out by an extreme lunatic fringe group who are trying to scare everyone," he said. contact, including toilet seats, The three-pag- e pamphlets, swimming pools, multiracial churches, multiracial hotels and produced by a previously unknown distribution of communion wafers group called the AIDS Information Distributing Society, claim many during church services. South African blacks carry the A police spokesman said today that authorities were not investigat- deadly HIV virus that causes Acing distribution of the pamphlets quired immune deficiency syn drome and that whites must protect themselves from infection. Whites are urged to avoid areas where the races mingle, such as integrated hotels and churches, and to have black servants tested each month to ensure they do not carry the virus. The pamphlet appeared at a time when authorities are moving to desegregate some public facilites as part of the government's stated aim of dismantling apartheid. Many whites oppose such moves. Professor Ruben Sher, head of the South African Medical Research Council's AIDS Center, said the pamphlets make a number of erroneous claims, including assertions that AIDS is spread by casual contact and through mosquito bites. East, Unit 8, Orem. Utah 84601 and more particuDesignating a special trail and larly described as follows: and it adds interest use, Unit No. 8, contained win-ti- n publicizing said Ed Bloedel, recreation staff the FLEETWOOD officer for the Sawtooth National SQUARE CONDOMINIUM PROJECT, as the same is Forest. He cited the Appalachian identified in the recorded in the a Trail, popular throughfare Survey Map in Utah CounEast. ty, Utah s Entry No. 6938 "The Selway is looked upon as and Map Filing NO. 2974 (as said Record of Survey that wilderness in the lower 48 Map may have heretofore states most likely to be managed as been amended or supplea pristine area," said John Barnes, mented) and in the DeclaParks and Recreation outdoor rec- ration of Condominium Project recorded in Utah County, Utah as Entry No. 6939, in Book 2120. at want to focus attention on one Page 476 as said Declaration may have heretofore specific trail in the wilderness." been amended or suppleAs the trail committee tries to mented. Subject to ease- planner. "The Frank Church is one of a kind. ... We don't reation monthly tests to ensure they do not have AIDS. "This is a blatant racial slur," Sher said. Johannesburg newspapers said nothing was known about the group behind the pamphlets. South Africa has reported about 300 AIDS cases among whites, with an unknown number of people afflicted by the HIV virus. AIDS lr thought to be more widespread among blacks, reflecting the major spread of the disease among heterosexuals in some other African nations. The HIV virus damages the body's immune system, leaving victims susceptible to infections and cancer. It Is spread most often through sexual contact, needles or syringes shared by drug abusers, Sher also criticized the pam- infected blood or blood products, phlets' suggestion that whites make and from pregnant women to their their black servants take regular offspring. while the public hearing process continues, said Lt. Col. Jim Cooper, director for realignment of Mountain Home Air Force Base. "We haven't settled where the bombing areas would be," he said. "We won't start drawing any lines on the map until the second tier of the environmental impact statement is considered." Legal Notices Legal Notices Legal Notices NOTICE OF TRUSTEE'S SALE The following described property, situated in Utah County, State of Utah, will be sold at public auction to the highest bidder, payable in lawful money of the United States at the time of sale, at the West front steps of the Utah County Courthouse, 51 South University Avenue, Provo, Utah County, Utah, on Wednesday, January 31, 1990, at 11:00 a.m. for the purpose of foreclosing that certain Trust Deed With Assignment of Rents, dated October 28, 1987, ana filed or record on October 29, 1987, as Entry 'No. 40135, in Book 2463, beginning at page 847, and was packers and horsepackers there on November 16, 1987, as would have the same impact as elk Entry No. 42019, in Book hunters and fishermen hiking to the 2468, beginning at page in the Records of lakes," Williams 724, Utah County, State of said. Utah, executed by IVA Medical experts slam 'racist' AIDS pamphlets JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AP) Pamphlets claiming that South African whites face extinction from AIDS unless they take drastic action to protect themselves from blacks have been condemned by racism. uuctoii as right-win- g Hundreds of the pamphlets, entitled "Facts on AIDS" have been handed out in parts of Johannesburg, urging whites to "save the white race from extinction." The pamphlets claim that many fads about the disease are being covered up. They claim, for example, that AIDS can be spread by casual sketch a thin footpath across southern Idaho, the Air Force has proposed converting a monumental expanse of desert into a high-tec- h bombing range for F-- 4 fighters. Under the 1.5 million-acr- e plan the Air Force initially suggested, the trail would bisect the eastern third of the range. But the military has dropped any acreage estimates ments, restrictions, and rights of way of record. TOGETHER WITH the un- divided ownership inters! In said Project j common areas and Declaration of Condominium provided tor periodic alteration botn in the magnitude of said undivided ownership interest and in the composition of the Common Areas and Facilities to which said interest relates. DATED this 27th day of December, 1989. Geri A. Allison Attorney for THE BANK AND TRUST COMPANY, NOW WEST ONE BANK. UTAW No. 1299 Published in The Daily HERald January 6. 12. 19, 1990. CONTINENTAL Hills, Utah, which meeting shall begin promptly at 7:00 o'clock p.m. but if the meeting date is a legal holiday, then the meeting shall be held at the same time and place above described on the day next following that is not a legal holiday. Georgia Bianclwd Town Recorder No. 1350 Published in The Daily Herald January 19, 1990. 8 L. Loan No.: NOTICE OF TRUSTEE'S SALE The following described property will be sold at public auction to the est bidder on the 7th day of February, 1990, at 10:00 a.m. at the West front steps of the Utah County Courthouse, located at 51 South University Avenue, Provo, Utah County, Utah, for the purpose of foreclosing a Trust Deed executed by Scott D. Weaver and Sheila M. Weaver, as Trustor, in favor of Utah Housing Finance Agency, as Beneficiary, which Trust Deed was recorded May 15, 1984 as Entry No. 14339, in Book 2135, at Page e59, of the official records of the Utah County Recorder, covering real property located at 1518 South 450 East, Orem, in Utah County, State of Utah, and . more particualrly PUBLIC NOTICE de- scribed as follows: Unit No. 1, contained within the FLEETWOOD SQUARE CONDOMINIUM PROJECT, as the same is identified in the Recorded Survey Map in Utah County, Utah, as Entry No. 6938 and Map Filing No. 2974 (as said Record of Survey Map may have heretofore been amended or supplemented) and in the Declaration of Condominium Project recorded in Utah County, Utah, as Entry No. 6939, in Book 2120, at Page 476 (as said Declaration may have heretofore been amended or supplemented). TOGETHER V.'ITH the undivided ownership Inter-oin said Project's Common Areas and Declaration of Condominium provided for periodic alteration both in the magnitude of said undivided ownership Interest and in the composition of the Common Areas and Facilities to which said interest relates. Notice of Dault was recorded October 3. 1989 as Entry No. 29789. in Book 883, of said official records. Successor Trustee will sell at public auction to st the highest bidder. cash, The governing body of the Town of Woodland Hills shall conduct one regular city council meeting which shall be held on the third (3rd) Wednesday of each month at the home of Georgia Blarv cnerd. 410 South Woodland Hills Drive, Woodland Successor Trustee, and advances, if any, under the terms of said Trust Deed. DATED this 4th day of January, 1990. Robert C. Hyde Esquire, in his capacity as Successor Trustee Stacy Howard Parsons. Behle, Latimer 185 S. State, Ste 700 P.O. Box 11898 Salt Lake City Utah 84147-089- payable In In lawful of the United States, at the time of sale, without warranty as to title, possession, or encumbrances, the property, for the purpose of paying obligations secured by said money ahove-describe- d T'usl Deed, Including limitation fees, chaigss and expenses of without PB&L No.: 09103.015 PMI No.: 10002985498 No. 1323 Published in The Daily Herald January 12. 19. 26. 1990. NOTICE OF TRUSTEE S SALE The following described property will be sold at public auction to the high- est bidder on the 7th day of February, 1990, at 10:00 a.m. at the West front steps of the Utah County Courthouse located at 51 South University Avenue, Provo, Utah County, Utah, for the purpose of foreclosing a Trust Deed executed by Brent G. Jones and Sheree S Jones, as Trustor, in favor of Utah Housing Finance Agency, as Beneficiary, which Trust Deed was recorded July 3, 1980 as Entry No. 22650, in Book 1844, at Page 555, of the official records of the Utah County Recorder, covering real property located at 2524 West 800 North. Provo, in Utah County, State of Utah, and more particularly described es follows: Lot 17. Plat "A", HARBOR PARK SUBDIVISION, Provo, Utah, according to 'he official plat thereol on file in the office of the Recorder, Utah County. Notice of Default was recorded October 6. 19e9 as Entiy No. 30244. m Book 2633, at Page 649, of id official records. Successor Trustoe will sell at public auction to the highest bidder, cash, payable in in lawful of the Uniied States, at the time of sain, without warranty as to title, possession, or encumbrances, the property, for the purpose of paying obligations secured by said Trust Deed, including without limitation tees, charges, and expenses of Successor Trustee, and advances, if any, undor the terms of said Trust Deed. DATED Ihis 8th day of January, 1990. Robert C. Hvde Esquire, in his capacity as Successor Trustee Stacy Howard Parsons, Behle Latimer IBS S. Slate, Ste 700 P.O. Box 11898 Salt Lake City Utah 84147-089L. loan No : 932708 8 PB&L No : 09103 023 No. 1324 Published in The Dairy Herald January 1?. 19. 26, 1990. money above-describe- d |