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Show to QDfeDa The Daily Herald Church leaders By VERN ANDERSON Associated Press Writer disabled protest Medicaid cuts - SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -Ajpout a dozen disabled people camped in the governor's office at the Capitol Thursday night to protest planned Medicaid cuts. fiThe state says the cuts in the program that pays for medical care for the poor are necessary because while the Medicaid budget has doubled in the past five years, the number of people qualified for Medicaid coverage skyrocketed, l oThe program is federally and Utah would need to find another $4 million to bring in $11 million in federal matching fttnds to avoid the cuts, id Gov. Norm Bangerter has said the money just isn't there, but the Utah Human Services Coalition has lobbied Bangerter to take the money from the state's "rainy day" fund. state-funde- d. FDA barring SALT LAKE CITY (AP) government's order little-know- three-memb- Smith in 1839. The a throughout the world who may desire assistance on a wide variety of topics," said the statement by church President Ezra Taft Benson South Salt Lake firm from marketing a respirator for premature babies is threatening the lives of cy ; one-ten- two-tent- Jet Ventilator, more than 200 hospitals. EPA proposes fine against Thatcher - ' serves as a resource to priesthood leaders throughout the world who may desire assistance on a wide variety of topics." statement from First Presidency rejoined the main body of Mormons in Illinois. Later, at a church conference on May 4, 1839, three men were appointed to a church committee to "gather up and obtain all the libelous reports and publications which have been circulated against our as well as other historichurch cal matter connected with said church which they can possibly ob- The cited scripture originally tain." Former Brigham Young was contained in a pair of letters from Smith to the church while he and other Mormon leaders were being held in jail in Liberty, Mo. Uni- versity historian D. Michael Quinn said it would be wrong to assume from the First Presidency state The prisoners later escaped and six-tent- hs th hs nine-tent- SALT LAKE CITY (AP) The Environmental Protection Agency has proposed $33,250 in fines ajgainst Thatcher Chemical Co. , alleging the Salt Lake company failed to notify authorities about a toxic gas release. EPA officials in Denver said the proposed fines stem from the Nov. 24 incident in which a transfer hose split while a railroad tank car was being unloaded and more than 1,000 pounds of sulfur dioxide escaped. '.; A Salt Lake VERNAL (AP) Emergency crews transported 315 people to area hospitals and City man has been charged in a evacuated 3,000 homes. One vicin eastern Utah tim was hospitalized overnight. and Uintah County authorities are seeking to identify a second man in the case. Willard Dale Taylor, 52, was arrested Wednesday and has been murder charged with Nickell in 20 death the of Greg .SALT LAKE CITY (AP) A said Officials ago. Taylor years franklin, Idaho, woman accuses also is being investigated in the ah Ogden police officer of violatNickell's of girlfriend. ing her rights when he arrested her rape and took her to jail without Uintah County Sheriff Lloyd to put on a shirt. Mecham said Nickell, then 21, had ;The suit by Michelle Mace, a just returned from the Vietnam jCqrmer Ogden resident, was filed War and was parked on an overlook outside of Vernal with his 1? federal court against the department and officer W.F. Cragun. girlfriend on Nov. 26, 1972. the A man approached the couple at to suit, Cragun According Ji0 responded to a domestic dispute at about 1:30 a.m., saying his car face's home Aug. 11, 1991. The was broken down. Without warning, the man fired officer allegedly went into Mace's bedroom, where she was sitting in a barrage of shots, hitting Nickell a chair, holding her daughter in her in the head, neck and torso. The man shoved Nickell's body Jap, the suit said. Mace's attorney, David Perry of Logan, said Mace onto the woman lap, where she pus wearing a bra at the time but cradled her friend's head during a drive on back roads. The po shirt. killer stopped on a dirt road along Utah 88, pulled her from the car and raped her. ' Another man had been following the killer. After the rape, the : RICHFIELD (AP -"- Hunters And wildlife lovers clashed at a :Utah Wildlife Board hearing on the fcear and cougar hunts . OGDEN (AP) A man acv"My fondest memories are those pursuing lions and bears," cused of repeatedly using a stun Cliff Mecham said Thursday. gun on a woman before trying to 'Hunting with hounds is part of abduct her was charged with felony kidnapping. life." Another hunter was quoted by Gary W. Simmons of Salt Lake The Salt Lake Tribune as saying, was ordered held in the Wean opportunity City ber Jail on Wednesday in ' '.Hunting provides County for family to get together. " lieu of $25,000 bail. " my Margaret Pettis protested hunSimmons was arrested Tuesday ting black bears in the spring, when flmales are emerging from dens night at his home after two Ogden detectives and three Salt Lake City ith cubs. elk . "We don't hunt deer or police officers executed a search warrant. Detective John Stubbs said. she have ;when they young," also ; spoke against said a stun gun was found. Opponents Simmons is the suspect in Monthe animals baits draw use of to tthe 2 a.m. attempted abduction arrows. with shoot to day's :lpse enough two-mon- th three-tent- nine-tent- hs hs hs two-tent- hs commiee ment that such a committee has existed from 839 to the present. After the tense period when the church was driven by mobs from Missouri and Illinois, there have been only two other times in the faith's history when committees were formed to meet perceived threats, said Quinn, who is writing a history of the Mormon hierarchy. He cited the early pioneer period in Utah when the church nearly went to war with the federal government, and the 1920s and 1930s when Mormon leaders feared the possibility of schism caused by fundamentalists who decried the church's abandonment of polyga- Restaurant prices increased of percent in July, 1 eight-tent- reversing June's downward trend. Higher costs for egg dishes and desserts offset lower beef prices. Over the past six months, local eateries have hiked prices 12.7 percent compared to of percent nationally. Housing expenses, for the month, increased due to higher rental charges. of Housing costs rose in July, compared to percent of percent national- five-tent- hs 1 fourth-straig- ht five-tent- hs 1 four-tent- iy- 1 - Local housing costs 4.2 percent more now than it did six months ago. h Health care costs rose of 1 percent, reversing a July decline. medicines were more expensive, one-tent- breaking a two-mon- slide. th my in 1890. "The point that they didn't address is that this (current) committee is maintaining files on people who are publishing or speaking about topics that are considered controversial by the LDS general authorities," Quinn said. fanat"These are not wild-eye- d ics who are trying to bring mobs down upon the church, and they are not schismatics trying to break up the church," he said. "Yet they are regarded as dangerous by the current leadership." Mormon historian F. Ross Pe- - tcrson said the First Presidency's statement was "stretching the scriptural justification. "Comparing Sunstone and Dialogue folks to people who were shooting Mormons in 1839 Missouri is unfair," he said. Peterson was questioned by local church authorities two years ago about his comments to the press concerning changes in the temple ceremony. He said the leaders drew items out of a file and asked him about things he had written decades ago. He said he was not allowed to see the contents of the file. "Files are a strange carryover from a paranoia that resembles McCarthy ism," he said. J. Bonner Ritchie, a professor of organizational behavior at BYU, said, "It's one thing to know who your enemies are. But it's quite another thing to label as an enemy church members who love the church, who work in the church, who pay their tithing, who go to the temple and who only want to help the church." Mormon scholars and feminists had long complained that the church was maintaining files on members it considers troublesome. Hatch seeks Senate ethics committee probe of allegations up slightly - i Internal This committee files...." children's clothing, but were offset by lower price tags for both women's apparel and men's wear. During the past six months, local clothing prices have declined of 1 percent, compared with a 1 percent rise nationwide. Groceries were of 1 percent less expensive in July, ending a period of higher prices. Nationally, food costs declined of 1 percent. Local increases for produce were offset by lower prices for shelf items, meat and alcoholic beverages. for transportation, housing, Transportation costs rose for health care and restaurant meals. the sixth month in a row, up of 1 percent in July, Utility costs remained unto of 1 perchanged. compared Wasatch Front clothing costs cent nationally. The principal rose 2.1 percent in July, followcause for Utah's increase was ing two months of increases. higher gas prices, up 14.1 perHigher prices were reported for cent over the past six months. Friday, Aug. 14,' 1992 1 ed and SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -For the third consecutive month, the cost of living along Utah's Wasatch Front rose in July. First Security Bank's monthly Wasatch Front Area Cost.of Livof 1 ing Report noted a comover increase June, percent of 1 percent pared to a rise nationally as reported by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. The state's inflation index was 115 based on a March 1988 level of 100 and compared with 120.4 calculated nationwide for July. Local decreases were measured for clothing and groceries, while Utahns were paying more York-Ston- us,ed by and his counselors, Gordon B. Hinckley and Thomas S. Monson. They said the committee members, Elder James E. Faust and Elder Russell M. Nelson of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, "neither impose nor direct church disciplinary action." The First Presidency cited the first five verses of Section 123 of the Doctrine and Covenants, one of four volumes of Mormon scripture. The passage purports to contain divine instructions to Smith about forming a committee to compile a record of "libelous publications that are afloat; and all that are in magazines, and in the encyclopedias, and all the libelous histories that are published. " A single unattributed paragraph accompanying the First Presidency statement said that while the church does not generally respond to criticism, it was doing so now because of "extensive publicity recently given to false accusations of secret church committees Cost-of-livin- g thousands of infants, doctors testified. "In its zeal to protect the public," the U.S. Food and Drug Administration "may cost 5,000 infants their lives," said Jonathan IA. Davis, director of neonatology at' Winthrop University Hospital, fate University of New y Brook. 'He testified in behalf of Bunnell Inc., which makes the Life Pulse Hjgh-Frequen- er "This committee serves as a resource to priesthood leaders Doctors testify in dispute with SALT LAKE CITY Mormon Church leaders have cited scripture to justify the existence of an internal committee that keeps tabs on the writings and statements of church scholars and critics. n The committee came under fire last week at the independent Sunstone Symposium from speakers who contended the panel was compiling secret files and directing a campaign of intimidation against the church's intellectual community . On Thursday, the governing First Presidency of The Church of Saints Jesus Christ of Latter-da- y issued a statement defending the work of the Strengthening Church Members Committee as a necessary aid to the church's lay clergy. The body also said the committee's work is compatible with divine instructions given church founder Joseph defemidl B price SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- Hatch was a target of Manhattan has District Attorney Robert Morgan-thauSen. Orrin Hatch, asked the Senate Select Committee investigation of alleged on Ethics to investigate allegations' fraud involving U.S. banking regthat a former member of his staff ulators and BCCI operatives.Barbara Thompson, a representmay have had improper contacts ative of the Manhattan district atwith the Bank of Credit and Commerce International. torney, would neither confirm nor the committee Wilson Dabney, deny that Hatch is a target in that staff director, said the committee probe. Hatch has not been contacted by will look into the allegations. has the U.S. attorney, said Hatch's Sen. John Kerry, raised questions about the former press secretary, Paul Smith. He also criticized the Post story as staffer. Kerry is chairman of a subcommittee on terrorism that is conspeculation. "If they were writing ducting one of three investigations a reputable story, I think they would have contacted us," he said. intoBCCI. Sen. neither Kerry "It's a rehash of old reports." "Although On the Senate floor in February nor his staff have asked me ... about this matter, I would like to 1990, Hatch defended BCCI in a resolve the issue once and for all." speech he later admitted was partly said Hatch. He said he hoped the written by BCCI attorney Robert investigation would "settle this is- Altman. Hatch also has acknowledged sue completely and avoid further confusion." dealings with two businessmen The New York Post recently linked to BCCI. He met several quoted unnamed sources as saying times with Mohammed Hammoud. 's - SLC man charged in 1 972 murder - Idaho woman sues Ogden policman first-degr- - allow-jngh- er 14-mi- le Hunters, wildlife Jovers lock horns - " second man helped drain the gasoline from Nickell's car. The men used the gas to set the car on fire, with Nickell's body inside. After a wandering, four-hodrive in the second car, the woman was raped by the second man while the killer walked up a hill and fired random shots. The men later dumped the woman at the side of U.S. 40 near Duur chesne. Roadblocks and a massive ground and air search turned up no clues. Days later, two men were held for questioning in Nevada but the woman said they were the wrong men. Taylor is accused of being the gunman. Mecham said authorities have several leads in a search for a second suspect. Uintah County Attorney Harry Souvall refused to disclose the evidence used to arrest Taylor. "When you look at the evidence and the chain of evidence the efforts that have been put into it, it's a solid case and therefore we feel comfortable going. forward, even though it's 20 years after the fact," Souvall said. .. He said his office has been lucky in contacting witnesses and track- - ing down much of the evidence in the case including bullet fragments and other items kept in evidence lockers. "Basically, the case was put together with a lot of good, police work, and now we're relying on a little more modern assistance," Souvall said. Taylor was arrested 7:30 a.m. Wednesday at his home in Salt Lake City after investigators turned up the new evidence as a result of a investigation, Mecham said. "When I took office in January 1991 as a newly elected sheriff, I pulled all the unsolved cases in Uintah County," he said. "I started to review the Nickell's case first and there was evidence in the file that led to further evidence. " Police found four guns and some ammunition in an attic during a search of Taylor's home, a Salt Lake City police officer said. Officers also seized 15 pill bottles that were hidden behind a dresser. The contents were being analyzed. Taylor's wife said he has never said anything about the slaying and she believes he is innocent. She said Taylor works at an industrial park doing a number of odd jobs. th Stun gun assailant charged with kidnapping first-degr- 1 i ee of a Clinton woman who had stopped off at Smith's superstore on Harrison Boulevard for a coffee break from her job. The woman told police that as she was about to get into her car, a tall, bearded man approached her and asked if she could jump-sta- rt his car. After she had pulled her Mercury over to his car and was opening the hood, he used a stun gun on her four times and grabbed her, police said. He punched her in the face and she retaliated by grabbing a handful of his hair and kicking him in the groin, police said. After being forced into his car through the driver's door, the woman said she slid across the seat and attempted to get out of the car through the passenger's door. She said the door handle wouldn't work even after she had unlocked the door. The suspect's index finger was clamped between her teeth at about the same time another car pulled into the parking lot and the woman was able to get away, the police report said. driver of that The car noticed something was wrong and followed the man's vehicle to get a license plate number. JJcOMMODOREy |