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Show Pa;r - THE HER AID, Provo, Utah, A4 Saturday, February 20, 1993 rem's public works director res! By JANET HART Herald Staff Writer Public works director ()RI:M Ott Dameron has submitted his resiiMiuiion to the city slating career interests as his reason for 'leaving. I just need to move on to other things. made the decision," said D.imeron, who officially turned in his resignation Tuesday. Dameron has been with Orern for approximately 8Vi years. He spent the first two years in the administrative services department and then moved on to public works as a division manager before becoming director. "Looking back, I've had a great time and it's been a great place to live," Dameron said, adding the possibility of a transfer always exists with a career change. Dameron said he is confident in the abilities of public works employees to carry on the department's activities. "They're all professionals and they're going to " 1 be fine." Mayor Stella Welsh said she is sorry to see Dameron leave but feels there isn't too much animosity among city officials about his decision. "Mr. Dameron is a good man. I think it's the best thing for him and I think he is leaving on good terms," Welsh said. Stewart Cowley, solid waste manager, said the entire public works department has been affected by the announcement. Employees' emotions are high and questions are circling about what will happen next. When the city council decided to privatize the solid waste collection system, other employees naturally questioned the security of their jobs, Cowley said. "To have this happen, it's that much more uncertainty. Anytime you have a change at that level it impacts the whole department. Across the board, emotions are high," he added. Bruce Chesnut, water resources manager, said Dameron is a "good individual" and seems very positive abo&t the change. Public works is involved in a variety of projects so the interim period may be difficult, Chesnut said. However, the department will continue to function and serve the residents of Orem. Dameron's resignation becomes effective Feb. 26 and plans are to have Richard Manning, Orem's assistant city manager, take over as the interim director. Deseret Towers is a really swell place to visit, but . . . As a freshman male at BYU, I am more or less required to live in Deseret Towers (motto: " Home of the Sheet Rock Pillows)." And while I generally enjoy dorm life an If.; J V.. . I ,v Y As outsider can't possibly know the joys of walking into someone's room and finding its occupants anxiously engaged in a Jergen's lotion fight I must admit that there are a few things I don't like about DT. Naturally, I will be more than happy to share them with you. Ott Dameron, Orem's public works director, submitted his resignation this week. w omen's art exhibit opens i n capital It SALT LAKE CITY (AP) may have been called "sick" and "degrading" by protestors who sought to stop it ;n Utah, but hundreds Hocked to the opening of an art exhibit by 25 Utah women in the nation's capital. "I just laughed at the controversy in Utah. I couldn't believe some of the women there became so upset." said artist Heather Romney, it who painted a sty lized nude selected for "Out of the Land: Utah Woman" at the National Museum of Women in the Arts. self-portra- "The controversy probably brought much more attention to my work than it would have had otherwise," she said. "This is exciting. This is the biggest exhibit I have ever had." Several protestors in Utah County had petitioned state offi mi cials and the exhibit's organizers Linda Jones Gibbs, one of three living in the Washington area atseeking to stop it before it reached jurors who selected the winners, tended a posh reception to open the Washington, saying many of the and a former curator at the LDS exhibit on Thursday complete with pieces selected were offensive or Church History and Art Museum. 4 string quartet and champagne not true representations of most Another controversial piece was that was hosted by the Washington-bUtah women. a sculpture of an empty cradle covased Utah State Society and Loretta Nixon of Mapleton led ered with snakes, a gila monster Utah's congressional delegation. the protest. She told the Deserct and flowering cacti. Artists whose work was selected in regional and state competitions, it And Romney 's News, "The majority of the art chosen for this exhibit includes nude, with a transparent box include Sharon Alderman, Trent protest statements about society around the stomach displaying Alvey, Cassandra Barney, Susan and the women of our state " seeds and steel balls she collected, Beck, Lee Udall Bennion, Laural Among the controversial pieces was also controversial. Gibbs said Casjens, Susan Cheal, Shauna in the exhibit, which opened it and other exhibits "show women Cook Clinger and Lee Deffebach. in were their and control bodies of Also, Carole Alden Doubek, Thursday Washington, taking It Mary Ellen Hogle, Cynthia F. photos of a nude in the desert. The deciding how to display them Springville Art Museum declined is blatantly honest and open. ' ' Hudgens, Jeanne to show the photos with other enMichelle Loury MacFar-lanAlong with a few other controSusan Makov, Jean Martries, but allowed people to view versial themes and nudes, the exthem in another room. hibit also displays pieces ranging shall, Kristi Mercer, Barbara from traditional landscapes to a Richards, Edie Roberson, Heather "People saw it as erotic and pore But has who quilt-likcoat featuring Utah Romney, Diane O. Shaw, Pamela anyone nographic. looked at pornography knows mountains, sea gulls and beehives. R. Stanger, Bonnie Sucec, Erica that's not what this is about," said Hundreds of former Utahns now Wangsgaard and Linda Wilson. self-portra- ... Leighton-Lund-ber- e, nsiies Drug shipment Louise Jones Jewkes Vest Ixmise Jones Jewkes Vest, age 71, died February 17, 1M3 in Provo, Utah. She was born September 15, 1921 in Mt Pleasant, Utah, a daughter of William g D. and Fontella Jones. She married Alvin J. Vest September 1, 1940 in Payson, Utah, the marriage was later in the solemnized Provo Temple. Ii)uise was educated in Payson High School. She was a member of the IDS Church and was active in Relief Society. She was a Pink I.ady at Utah Valley Hospital and a member of the Ladies of Elks. She was assistant manager at Sweetbriar for 15 yeVs. Ii0ui.se is survived by her husband of the home; two sons and two daughters: Sondra Iouise Andersen, Marysville, California; Fonzell Mane Thompson, Sedalia. Missouri; Dennis James Vest. American Fork, Utah; and Timothy T R Vest, Orem, Utah; 17 grandchildren; six greatgrandchildren; one sister, Christy Ware, Orangeville, Utah. Funeral services will be held Monday, February 22, l'J3 at 2 p.m. in the Berg Room Chapel lYovo, 185 E. Drawing Center Street. Friends may call Sunday evening 6 to 8 p.m. or Monday one hour prior to services. Interment, Provo City Cemetery. Ren-bur- By MYRNA TRAUNTVEIN Herald Correspondent A shipment of coNEPHI caine with a street value of $14.4 million was kept from reaching the market this week when a Utah Highway Patrol officer stopped the vehicle carrying it on Interstate 15 riearNephi. The driver of the vehicle, Pierre Sellan, 20. Richmond Hill, New York, and his passenger, Armando Lopez. 27, Los Angeles, Calif., were arrested and turned over to federal agents to be tried in federal court. UHP Sgt. Paul Mangelson said the men were transferred to federal authorities Tuesday evening. Lees corner By SHEILA SANCHEZ Herald Staff Writer - PROVO Brigham Young University President Rex Lee's son was elected student body president this week. Election results showed Michael Lee received 1,906 votes, or 38 percent of the votes beating out Dawnese Noel, with 1,525 votes and Trip Meredith who received .422 votes. Lee appears to be following in his father's footsteps, who served 1 National Obituaries Kerry Adkissno - DALLAS (AP) Kerry Adkisson, a member of pro wrestling's Von Erich family, died Thursday in what police said appeared to be a suicide. He was 33. Adkisson, who wrestled under the name Kerry' Von Erich, was found dead of a gunshot wound to the chest behind his father's farmhouse, days after he was accused of cocaine possession. He already was on probation for a drug offfense. James B. Carrithers James B. JUNEAU, Alaska (API Carrithers, who founded a support group for people with the AIDS virus, died Tuesday of the disease. He was 37. Carrithers was a founder of living with HIV and was honored by the U.S. Public Health Service last month for his work. AUskans-America- Mark Ellington Mark ROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP) Ellingson, president of the Rochester to Institute of Technology from 19: 1909, died of a stroke Feb. 12. He was - 88. Ellingson joined the faculty of the Rochester Athenaeum and Mechanics Institute, the forerunner of the Rochester Institute of Technology, as an economics teacher in 1926. g, as ASBYU president in 1959. He graduated from BYU in 1960 w ith a bachelor of arts degree. President Lee was out of town Friday and his son could not be reached for comment. "I'm not going to make a commitment that either one are going to want to talk about it. They may Case dismissed Feb. 8. decision, the case against Kenny Gurulc was dismissed after prosecutors determined by use of a voice analyzing machine that he was not the man they were searching for. Gurule had been charged with one count of arranging to distribute a controlled substance. In a senger had a possible prior criminal record. He noticed a space on the driver's side near the rear wheel well, said Mangelson. "I strongly suspected a bed compartment," said Mangelson. The vehicle also smelled highly of air freshners and there were bolts and tools of the kind needed to disassemble a bed compartment in the glove compartment of the truck, said Mangelson. The bottom of the vehicle had been freshly undercoated, he said. And, in addition, there were road maps. "There was just a whole list of things that made me suspicious. "They were coming from a said. Mangelson said he requested the right to search the vehicle and was given permission. When he called into dispatch he was told the pas BYU presidential market feel it's exploitative and I don't think it is, but I don't know what their response will be," said BYU spokeswoman Margaret Smoot. Lee was one of five students nominated by a special committee allowed to run in the school's Feb. student issues and represent the student body to the BYU administration. Voter turnout during this year's BYUSA's presidential elections was low with only 4,853 total votes. Low participation in the election is nothing new at the school. primary elections. The nominating committee, however, disqualified Steve Turley Feb. 4 from participating in the BYU Student Service Association (BYUSA) elections. Turley, a senior from Seattle, Wash., served as president and member of BYU's Student Advisory Council (SAC) during the last two years and is a member of the school's Honors Student Council. BYUSA has four service arms which include administration, programming, university relations and SAC, which consists of elected and appointed representatives from each college who research 10 With an enrollment of more than 27,000 students, BYU's student presidential elections don't seem to attract the interest of the students. "Voter turnout has been low for a long time, and it's low at other universities as well. Students usually have a lot on their minds and classes take priority," said BYU spokesman Brent Harker. Lee will succeed current student body president Jason Hall. He will officially take over BYUSA at the beginning of fall semester in September. Fire causes minor damage child playing with a cigarette lighter caused approximately $50 damage Thursday after starting items in a closet on fire. Firefighters responded to 950 W. 200 South, Provo, at 9: 12 a.m. after being called for help. The fire was out on arrival by someone who poured a bucket of water on the flames. Damaged was some clothTina Thurston, daughter of ing and a coat. Boyd and Shiree Thurston, was The Eureka VANDALISM called to serve in the Netherlands. vandalized again was Office Post Amsterdam LDS mission. She w ill recently. speak at her farewell Sunday at 9 This time, said officals, the outin a.m. the Timpview Third Ward, side lobby door lock was tampered 10N. 1075 Hast. with. The tampering made it impossible for postal employees to unlock the entrance door, said the A postmaster. Every now and then, Furthermore, sometimes someone's phone will ring when there's no one there to answer it, and the caller lets it I've counted three ring million times before giving up. Furthermore, there are approximately 10 Hispanic students on my floor, all of whom speak primarily Spanish, although they can get by in English. As I type this, it is close to 2 in the morning, and they are all in the room next door, talking and laughing and singing really loud in Spanish. Now, I am not the slightest bit prejudiced against anyone, but I think that if people are going to talk and laugh and sing this loud, this late at night, they should at least have the decency to do it in a language that I can understand. Furthermore, do they honestly think that simply because there is a wall separating us, I cannot hear them every night when, like werewolves, they suddenly and source city and going to a city where drugs are used," said Mangelson. "A lawyer will ask, 'Is it against the law to have a road atlas?' No, it isn't, but it is one of the things every drug courier has," said Mangelson. Drug carriers have several things in common, he said, and officers learn to be suspicious when they are found. When he discovered the compartment, said Mangelson, it contained 72 kilos of cocaine. Also discovered was a stamp which may be LSD. Mangelson said Juab County had purchased a video camera for his patrol car and he has the cam On The Light Side Correction FLOWERS FROM - 1 J 1 i SAY IT BEST! 39R.I300 8.Orm-m-B60- 0j 2- - mysteriously turn into mariachis? Every few weeks, we have room inspection. I don't know ; which neo-Nawacko control freak came up with this idea I; certainly hope it wasn't a general authority, considering the description I just gave him but it's a stupid idea. I mean, ' I can understand checking up every now and then to make sure we're not in the process of damaging something 1 ' A permanently (e.g., cutting things out of the window glass)" but I fail to see how whether or not my bed is made (it's not, by the way) makes any dirterence in terms of my quality as a " Li J J V; fi? " student. 'I I suspect this is another instance of BYU trying to keep " up its Oz-- 1 ike image to the rest of the world they want everyone to think we're all neat-an- d tidy. So I'll do my part: DESERET TOWERS RESIDENTS ARE SLOBS! ALL OF US! ' There are old pizza boxes in '' into mutated my room that have brand-neorganisms. Every V, article of clothing I own is currently spilling out of the closet and taking over the '. room, due to the fact that I haven 't done laundry since ' approximately October. There are bodies of previous room inspectors stuffed in my dresser drawers. But overall, I like it here. Eric D. Snider is a freshman at B YU from Lake Elsinore, California, and he just loves living in Deseret Towers, except for room inspection, which really frosts his shorts, as. : he mentioned. '. w ( , -- ; Me era running when he stops any ve-- ' hide for any reason. He carries sound recording device which al-- " lows the camera to record the sounds of the conversation as well. " "When suspects come to trial they will often say they did not grant permission for the search," he said. "The camera and sounds, V' '. " prove they did." Mangelson also has a car phone" which allows him to call the justice, court judge and obtain search war- -, ' rents if they are needed, he said. find Mangelson said the 72-kiis the largest in the county in 1993. ' ' The largest drug find was 95 kilos ' and the person arrested for it watf recently sentenced in federal court' ; ' ' to 20 years in prison. " Io Springville discusses proposal for special improvement district By LEANN MOODY Herald Correspondent - The SpringSPRINGVILLE ville City Council this week discussed a proposal for a special im- provement district or other financing that would extend the sewer system up Canyon Road. The council hopes to put in a portion of the line that would meet any developer in the immediate future and says it will probably ask residents along both sides of that road to hook on. Residents could be looking at a cost of $ 1 3 .50 per front foot for the line which will extend the system to new developments on Canyon Road. The council hopes to meet with the residents in coming weeks to discuss alternatives in financing the line. City officials say they will bear the cost for a portion of the line and , , would like to get it done. They, , have a commitment to a developer, , to have the line ready to meet the. line he is installing. In other items, the council accepted project applications for the, . Community Activities Grant from:. Utah County. ",.'. Each city can submit five projects for grants from surplus. , restaurant tax money. The council,, accepted projects from seven city organizations including arts, parks, , and recreation and the Chamber pt Commerce. ;.,.-- ' Among the larger financial pro,. posals would be help with the Cenr. tennial Wing of the Springville Art" , Musuem and a new home for the.. Chamber of Commerce. ..'.-,The council also made several. appointments. Doug Bird w,ill serve as the state surplus repre--j: sentative and John Child and Peter .' Round were appointed to the recra-atio- n board. ,,t. , -- B8S3E SMrn. 'r&rmi FLOWERS 'Z Parents are cautioned when sending young children to the post office for mail, to instruct the children to use the key in their box only. Eric D. I A cracked by UHP officer in Mangelson stopped a 1986 Nissan Tuesday at 8:40 a.m. the officer said the vehicle was traveling too fast for conditions. Sellan produced a New York state driver's license but the Nissan had Tennessee license plates, said Mangelson. Sellan had a lube invoice for work done in New York on Jan. 8, 1993 and since then had traveled 7,000 miles in five weeks. Other information given by the suspects made the officer suspicious. "It just didn't add up," he f zi I run into a couple guys in the basement TV room who really, honestly, in their deepest inner souls, would rather watch Studs than David Letterman. This is, I think, one of the signs of the Last Days. The walls between the rooms appear to be made of brick, but, in actuality, are made of a sturdy cardboard, and you can hear a phone ringing through them two rooms down. N 1 0 OBITUARY FEES The Daily Herald PROVO FLORAL "Our Flowers Say What The Heart Whispers" 107 North 509 West 373-700- 1 Provo charges' for obituaries. Death no-- , tlces, brief items Identifying the deceased and the funeral home involved however, run free of charge. 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