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Show The Daily Herald Wednesday, February 26, 1992 oosters: Bilofs - could do better than France di Most of the SALT LAKE CITY (AP) the Winter at observed recent problems Olympics in Albertville, France, would not be an issue if the Games were staged in Utah, two local boosters say. The worst difficulty for Albertville was WEST VALLEY CITY (AP) -Pthe widespread venues. As Don Cash, chief olice have found no clues to the executive officer of Questar Corp., put it: of disappearance Margo Bond. hell to "It's get there." Mrs. Bond, 42, the head custowho vacationed at the Olympics, Cash, dian at John F. Kennedy Junior told the Board of Governors of the Salt Lake High, vanished Friday morning, Area Chamber of Commerce Tuesday that leaving her purse, coat and car at he and his wife to four hours daily five spent the school. bus between venues. traveling by "We usually come up with The between the men's and women's something in the first three to five downhilltripevents was 2Vi hours one way. days," but have been unable to uncover anything, said West Valley Police Lt. Thayle Nielsen. Mrs. Bond is officially listed as a missing person with suspicious circumstances. "It's been five long, long days," said her husband, Warren Bond, 32. Bond, family and friends have distributed fliers with Mrs. Bond's picture throughout the valley. They are offering a reward for any information leading to her return. Search still on for missing custodian ; "You spent four to five hours on transportation. They had a pretty good bus system, but the road to Meribel was very similar to the one to Snowbird, ' ' Cash said. Verl Topham, Utah Power and Light chief executive officer and member of the Utah bid committee's executive committee, said Cash's description of the French roads was charitable. "On most of the roads you couldn't have two buses meeting on the curves of the road," he said. criticism of the AlbertAnother ville Games was that the athletes seldom had an opportunity to socialize with participants in other events because the venues were so oft-hea- rd o WEST VALLEY CITY (AP) -A California man investigated in a ry Girl 2-ho- ur gives up after standoff - A ENOCH, Utah (AP) girl held a police sergeant at gunpoint for about two hours before she surrendered and allowed herself to be taken to a treatment program for troubled youths. Iron County Sheriff's Sgt. Frank Slack had responded to a home near Enoch Monday night to help a representative from Charter Canyon Hospital, who was trying to give the girl a ride to the Salt Lake City program. But when the two entered the home, the girl pulled a revolver from a bedroom. "She just ran into the room and got a gun and held them at bay," said Sheriff Ira Schoppmann. .38-calib- er a SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -Utah juries unable to agree on the death penalty will be able to send a killer to prison for life without parole under legislation approved by A fire, foreground, helps keep skaters warm recently on the the Utah Legislature. Egglis family farm in Bothwell, Utah. The rink, operated by Floyd and Bea Egglis, is open to the public each evening and The bill, which passed in the will remain open as weather permits House last month, gives a jury or a judge a third option beyond the existing penalties of death or life imprisonment with parole in capital cases. The vote Tuesday was 23-and A those critical to Flint's customers, SALT LAKE CITY (AP) the House later concurred with mibit of since the end increased of a storms, flurry nor amendments by a vote of 57-- 1 . capped by an especially wet one January. But it is still less than 60 Former Democratic state senalast weekend, has improved slightpercent of normal, and not as good tor Frances Farley unsuccessfully in much of outlook the water as snowpack accumulations a year ly ran a similar bill in 1990. Utah. time. this at ago "We've had some significant A similar scenario holds true in increases in the snowpack this last the drainages for the Provo and four days. No doubt it has really Jordan rivers and Utah Lake, helped. But we're not out of the where the numbers are better than woods by a long ways," said Ivan month ago. COLORADO CITY, Ariz. "Last spring looked horrible. (AP) For half a century, ColoFlint, general manager of the Weber Basin Water Conservancy Dis- We were talking drastic ration- rado City residents have looked to trict ing," Flint said. "But then we got nearby Washington County in Tie snowpack in the Bear, We- all of those late spring storms so no Utah to provide library services, ber and Ogden river drainages, (irrigators and and now the county says it's time to used much water until June 15. We pay up. came out of it beautifully. And the Washington County Library fall was wet, so we had a 50 perBoard Chairwoman Marguerite cent holdover in reservoirs going Orton said the problem is Arizona into the winter. residents using the "We're in much better shape library for free. than we were a year ago," he said. "We certainly don't want to So is southern Utah. come across as Simon Legree," drains into Orton said. "But we're on that The snowpack a very SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -"the Virgin and Escalante rivers and we have our to watch of budget; The Boys Twilight" premiere streams of southeastern Utah are tight '' . in be will time seen very closely pennies Saturday prime all above normal. Colorado City, which accounts in the Utah area after all . Utah central With featuring for the largest percentage of nonKSL-Tin the CBS affiliate that are roughly resident library patrons, is located Salt Lake City, said Tuesday the snowpacks of normal and other key just across the state line and its program will be broadcast immeslightly below average, residents are not required to pay drainages diately after the San Diego the statewide average has climbed the Utah property taxes which supYoung basketball game, since the end of January from 60 to about 9:30 p.m. port the library. 74 percent of usual. The mystery series stars Wil- Washington County Commis ford Brimley and Richard and was filmed at Park City AP Laserphoto Lata skate Water outlook improved - SALT LAKE CITY (AP) disappearance of a - The Bluffdale girl Feb. 16 is being investigated by Salt Lake County sheriffs officers as a possible abduction. Evangeline Rebecca Allred, a member of a Bluffdale polygamist family, disappeared at the same time as a man who had been living with the girl's family, said Capt. David Glad. The girl is the daughter of Marvin and Rebecca Allred. There were no witnesses to the girl's departure and she took no personal items, Glad said. According to some sources, the missing girl was betrothed to marry the man next year, the captain said. The Allreds do not believe the girl .went willingly. . . 3 homes raided for 3, mid-Februa- ry s) Premiere to be shown in Utah area after all county-subsidiz- ed V, two-thir- ds State-Brigha- Farn-swor- m last fall. Because of its commitment to broadcast the game, KSL had wanted to show the premiere about 11 p.m., but CBS balked. Park City Chamber of Commerce and film commission officials on Monday wrote Dave Man-ooki- When the Caregiver Needs Care "I'm being optimistic. I'm hoping they (prices) will stabilize so people will feel better about what's going on," he said. Paul Ashton, executive director of the Petroleum Retailers Organization that represents between 100 and 150 small independent gasoline operators in the. area, said competition at the retail level has caused prices to go up and down so fast. "The wholesale price bot- tomed out three weeks ago because the price of crude quit going down and started going up. Usually, this is the time of year it goes up, but it's a little early. Usually., it's in March or April." City in 1980. Sen. Lyle Hillyard, said he could recount a dozen cases in which people who committed heinous crimes were not given the death penalty, mostly because a jury could not reach unanimity for "The main thing is, it will keep our most dangerous offenders off the street for a longer time, and thereby give society greater safety," said Rep. Merrill Nelson, the Grantsville Republican who sponsored the legislation. Besides, Hillyard said, many juries sentence an offender to life imprisonment believing they never will be eligible for parole. "This doesn't do away with the death penalty," Hillyard said. "And states with this (sentence) don't see a decrease in death penal- execution. One was Dan Lafferty, whose 1 on the death jury deadlocked in the his for conviction penalty 1984 murders in American Fork of and her baby his sister-in-ladaughter. racist Another was Joseph Paul Franklin, who was given a life term with the possibility of parole despite two capital ties." He also assured his colleagues convictions in the shooting deaths of two black joggers in Salt Lake the legislation would not let inmates already on death row use the new penalty as grounds for new appeals. Indeed, he said, the 11-- w self-avow- option likely will from tying up such inmates keep the legal system. sioner Jerry Lewis said the problem is significant because county residents pay an average $40 per year for library services. About 770 library cards have been issued to Colorado City residents, who last year checked out 5,000 books, periodicals and nr ni r audio- -visual equipment. r i 1 Kinko's has just remodeled. Come celebrate at both locations. Specials in every department. UP TO n, 500 - A Support Group 4 Utah Valley Regional Medical Center offering Is M ON 8va x w FOOD 1 1 PAPER WHITE FREE! Dttklop publithing rtnltli f Computet Return FREE COPIES timet Binding 1 fmnhing , F itmct t mor Otticc Supplies DRAWINGS is and April 2, from limited. 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Hugh Daniels, president of the Police seized Park City Chamber of Commerce, OGDEN (AP) more than $200,000 worth of and Nancy Volmer, director of the drugs, several guns, three cars and Park City Film Commission said some cash in raids on three Weber "The Boys of Twilight" pumped an estimated $1 million a week into County homes. the state's economy during pronight The operation Monday last year. duction a investigation capped "Whether or not this TV epithat involved three federal agencies, several state organizations sode is 'picked up' by CBS is deand police from nearly every jurispendent on the ratings of the first diction in Weber County. episodes," they wrote. If CBS passes on the series, It landed six people in the Weber various Bluff Production Co. on Blindman's drug Jail County Reed to the state and Utah not will return charges and County Attorney arwill lose millions of dollars, DanRichards said Tuesday more iels and Volmer argued. rests were expected. KSL's programming departMore than 50 law officers scattered into teams beginning at 9:30 ment was hit with complaints Tuesday. p.m. two-mon- difficult" to predict what the Battle lines drawn over library use lawn-waterer- Family says girl didn't go willingly Both men also agreed Utah should continue its bid for the Vinter Olympics. Barring a breakdown in world relations, Topham said, "I think we have a super chance for 2002.!' New penalty created: Life without parole I L Yet Topham said he was impressed by the hundreds of volunteers who worked to make the French Games a success. "You have to remember these are small towns. Albertv ille isonly 18,000people," he said. SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -Terry Harclerode, operations Gas prices along the Wasatch manager for the Amoco refinery Front are going up again after in Salt Lake City, said seasonal several months of decline, and cycles do affect consumer industry experts say competiprices, but the cost at the pump tion, seasonal demands and oil primarily is influenced by supply and demand. prices all are factors. "Crude oil prices have been "I can't explain why demand fluctuating up and down, and is up (and) whether people are that puts pressure on finished Harclerode said. more," driving product prices," said Joe Bob "When demand is high, supply Riley, Northwest Region mar- goes down." keting manager for Chevron USA. He also said uncertainty re"Then you have normal win- garding what actions will be taktertime production. During the en by the Organization of Petrowinter on the Wasatch Front, we leum Exporting Countries adds have more supply than demand to the price changes. "Anytime and that puts downward pressure you have uncertainty with a supon prices. Thus, you've got fluc- ply, prices do fluctuate," Hartuations the market's trying to clerode said. He added that it's "extremely find itself." : spree of robberies and sexual assaults has been identified by four West Valley City victims, police said. The four women picked the picture of John Joseph Catanzarite, 30, from photo lineups, said West Valley Police Detective Randy Lloyd. Catanzarite was arrested in Springfield, 111., on Jan. 29, and was returned to California where he faces dozens of counts robbery and sexual assault. Two West Valley stores were hit on Jan. 15. At about 8 p.m., a man entered Dollar Cuts barber shop on the pretext of inspecting the plumbing. said. Utah, however, already has many facilities to host the Games, which Cash said are superior to the venues used in Albertville. "Clearly, the ice hockey rink wasn't in the same league as the Delta Center or the old Salt Palace," he said. And since the distance between the proposed venues of the Salt Lake Games is significantly shorter, most of the transportation waits would be eliminated. "I don't think there's a doubt we could do as good if not better. The primary reason is we've nearly got all the facilities built. I'm convinced we need to continue to push and develop the plans to get those Olympics," Cash said. Prices at gas pump affected by competition, seasonal demand Man identified by four Utah victims cross-count- isolated, Topham said. Telecommunications also were a problem throughout the Games, he said. "It was nearly impossible to make a telephone call out of this place in the world," h 835 N. 700 E. Provo 377-179- 2 |