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Show Springvflle's Grace Bible Church helps those in need Saturday fi' December 8, 2007 I I wi W I I i vk i I II I nir I'll IIIu iBill i II i wwwJieraldextra.com YOUR TOWN - I tlf i & style Jazz fall to Spurs on the road sports I mm v. w EI.: Gty Hall will help him either. We've never seen a situation like this before. It'll be the first real test of whether you can transfer - ; votes." Celebrity endorsements are nothing new during election seasoa Sen. Hillary Clinton's husband, Bill Clinton, and singeractress Barbra r. Streisand are on the campaign trail Jor the Gina Smith MCCLATCHY NEWSPAPERS 50 CENTS YOUR NEIGHBORS ' YOUR NEWSPAPER Obama and the Oprah factor ' Utah Valley edition ' After Oprah Winfrey's Sunday visit to Columbia, Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama will be left to one of two fates: .'' He'll gain a leg up among South Carolina women voters, perhaps catapulting ahead of for city front-runne- Sen. Hillary Clinton, Or her endorsement will have little impact, proving once and for all that star endorsements don't translate into female votes even when the endorser is one of the nation's most influenfront-runn- Pro wrestler Ric Flair and martial arts star Chuck Norris are backing Mike Huckabee. And John Edwards is appearing with singeractor Harry Belafonte. But Winfrey, a billionaire who has maintained her Everywoman appeal, may tial and popular figures. "Oprah's endorsement certainly can't hurt him," said Jack Bass, a political scientist at the College of Charleston. "But we don't know if it See OBAMA, A3 r T. use only i Council restricts all groups from public buildings; violations punishable by jail time Let the Powder fly Caleb Warnock DAILY V rw HERALD Open the door for Girl Scouts to meet in a city building in Eagle Mountain and you could now go to jail. For five years, the Girl Scouts have been trying to hold meetings at Eagle Mountain's City Hall. Now, thanks to a politically charged news conference, they' have their answer. They are not welcome, and neither are campaign news conferences. In a recent meeting, council members voted 2 to accept guidelines for using municipal buildings that would make violations a misdemeanor punishable by six months in jail andor a $1,000 fine. City attorney Jerry Kinghorn said the ordinance makes Eagle Mountain the first city in Utah County to threaten jail time for mis- use of a public building. Councilman David Lif ferth said the ordinance was made because he and Heather Jackson held a news mayor-elec- t conference days before the November election to fight a fraudulent ad that their opposition has sirice admitted to creating, according to media reports. Mayor Don Richardson and city manager John Hendrickson said they had tried to stop the news conference, and wrote the ordinance to keep such an event from happening again. Lifferth said the new ordinance is unconstitutional because only the mayor or designee can decide "on a whim" whether a proposed use of city hall is permissible. That allows the city's executive branch to hold sway over the legislative branch, Lif ferth said. In November 2005, the local Girl Scout troop offered even to clean the building, saying they had no other place to meet because their numbers had grown so large. 3-- CRAIG . DILQEHDaily Herald snowboarder passes under the lift at Sundance Ski Resort on Friday, the opening day for the resort. It had about 800 visitors throughout the day. Sundance accumulated 20 inches of fresh snow by the end of the day Friday and is expecting similar snowfall today. A Avalanche Center: High risk this weekend The Associated Press he danger of avalanches will T r :1 i t ' j lt iiKeiVjDe nigninis weeKena aiong L .1 1 1 . 1 ;the Wasatch Front. The Utah Avalanche Center is urging snow- starved skiers, snowboarders and otheifi'toblcareftil. 1 -- ? J f T Og-de- n, There is unstable snowpack at many elevations. Weak underlying upper-level INSIDE UFE C1 , , P1 S STYLE t Wet "M BUSINESS David Crary i -- .' V ;,EMTORIALS u " B4 OBITUARIES TVGUjDE WEATHER , l ,r :::: D5,rOLUME85 C8 ISSUE 130 ;flll!f . THE ASSOCIATED PRESS An Amish schoolhouse. A mall in Salt Lake City. A college classroom building, bustling with students and professors. An upscale department store at a mall, decked, with holiday ' ' . ' trimmings. In recent years, massacres have occurred in the most benign settings, confronting Americans with See a troubling choice move toward reports increased requests from re-taflers for advice and guards, airport-stylsecurity in a wide ' Yet security experts range of public places or NEWS fatalistically accept the say Americans dont want slim chance that tragedy ANALYSIS their stores to become could strike anywhere in , fortified, as they are in , a free society. Israel, where fears of ter- .;.-In Omaha, where a suicidal gun rorism have led to checkpoints and man killed eight people Wednesday metal detectors at shopping malls. at Von Maur department store, Israeli shoppers are accustomed to ( extra police have been deployed at See SECURITY, A3 shopping malls. A local security firm e . . ; , A3 CITY HALL, 11 slaughterhouse workers fall ill; removal method suspected pig-bra- in Martiga Lohn THE After latest mall massacre, Americans ponder how much security they want OUR TOWNS SPORTS snow combined with a large amount of new snow expected through today is an ideal recipe for an avalanche. The risk of avalanches will be on the rise and is expected to reach a high level by this morning. An avalanche watch has been issued for the mountains near Salt Lake Gty, Park City, Provo and the western Uintas. ASSOCIATED PRESS ST. PAUL, Minn. On the slaughterhouse floor at Quality Pork Processors Inc. is an area known as the "head table," but not because it is the place of honor. It is where workers cut up pigs' heads and then shoot compressed air into the skulls until the brains come spilling out. But now the grisly practice has come under suspicion from health authorities. Over eight months from last December through July, 1 1 workers at the plant in all of them employed at Austin, Minn. the head table developed numbness, tingling or other neurological symptoms, and some scientists suspect inhaled airborne brain matter may have somehow triggered the illnesses. The use of compressed air to remove pig brains was suspended at Quality Pork earlier this week while authorities try See ILLNESS, A3 2D 5V- - Mm immy. Mi (far ifliiMmee XJIEl'KAVAI LKAWAI Digital:; Starting at 'CCIiOGftAtlD DAUY FROM " |