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Show A World Sports compromise? Cojgar defensive back Chris Ellison believes BYU can find a better way to deal with black athletes who "make Honor Code mistakes. Bl. Embassy closed Football Friday The closure of the U.S. Embassy in Tel Aviv came in response to a warning about a possible attack on the compound relayed from Washington and not because of a threat delivered locally, an Israeli security source said Friday. A4 It was couch potato heaven on Friday with a full day of college football across the country featuring six bowl games. See Bl and B3. MILY HERALD T A PUUTZER COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER PROVO, UTAH 50 CENTS . ."r .., . ... i Spqrts SATURDAY. JANUARY 2, 1999 s m ol tan Family, volunteers join forces m: It . to create new Habitat house 1 By ANN POTEMPA The Daily Herald . PROVO The littlest speakers drew the biggest response at the dedication of for new ' Habitat the Humanity home New Year's Day. V. K. J BRIAN WINTERThe Daily Herald Moving In: Gary Montierth, left, and Rich Zundel take a bathroom vanity out of its box in the kitchen of Montierth's new home Thursday. Montierth ; and his family are getting the new home through Habitat for Humanity, and they have put hundreds of hours into helping build the house. Sisters Hillary, 5, and Angela, 7, told almost 50 people who stood in front of 382 W. 700 South that they appreciated the people who helped build their new Provo home. Some of those listening had tears in their eyes. "I wanted to say that all the people that helped my mom and my dad work on the home, thank you for helping my mom and my dad," Hillary said Friday morning. Gary and Nettie Montierth, Hillary and Angela's parents, are the recipients of the first home in Utah County built with the help of the House that Congress Built project. The project links the efforts of Habitat for Humanity of Utah County, The U.S. House of Representatives and the in National Partners Homeownership. The Montierth's home is the ninth Habitat for Humanity house built in Utah See HABITAT, A2 New vehicle fee system, safety inspection requirements now in effect By SHARON GHOLDSTON The Daily Herald ; spokesperson for the Utah State Tax , Passlnglfe-clowners with January renewal dates will receive the first wave of regUTAH COUNTY , Commission. : e istration renewal packets with a new sliding fee based on vehicle age. The new sliding fee scale reflects a change from Utah's vehicle property tax system," said Janice Perry Gully, long-standin- value-base- g d Owners of newer cars, trucks and motorcycles P should be aware that as of Friday, safety inspections will only be required every other year until a vehicle is five years old, Gully said. On the fifth year, and each year thereafter, annual safety inspections will be required. Annual emission inspections will still be required for vehicles in Utah, Early arrival makes baby county's first of new year Salt Lake, Davis and Weber counties. The 1998 Legislature changed Utah's 1.5 percent motor vehicle propuniform fee erty tax to an on all passenger vehicles also effective age-base- Jan. 1. Gully said the new fee system is intended to do the following: Make vehicle registration fees more uniform Remove the inflationary effect of the fee ; The Daily Herald : ':. ; AMERICAN FORK CANYON Timp Cave is entering a new age, according to superintendent Kit Mullen. With the tremendous growth W'.- occurring along the Wasatch Cave Front, Timpanogos National Monument has become and Mullen an urban park said she wants to meet the chal- Tamyra and Mark Nicholas won the one Contest they didn't want to win. 2 Tamyra gave birth to Utah County's first baby of 1999 at T;18 a.m. Friday in Orem Community Hospital. Nicholas family, of C The 0rem, downplayed the significance of their new baby's birthday. When, nurses woke Up Tamyra to tell her that India Ann Nicholas was the first baby born this year, tamyra says she replied: "OK, can I go back' to bed low." 7 pounds, 2 ounces India BRIAN WINTERThe Daily Herald was 20 inches long $id A first: Tamyra and Mark Nicholas admire India, their new daughter, Opposed to arrive Jan. 9. Friday at Orem Community Hospital. India became the first Utah Jamyra was hoping her baby County baby born in 1999 when she was delivered at 1:18 a.m. Jwould wait even longer than Thursday after- fiiat. Tamyra, now a mother of and few people are around to water brokeIndia was on her and noon celebrate whose child has another birthdays during of time this The in year. January. birthday is See BABY, A2 Nevertheless, Tamyra's holidays are busy, she says, " I ., 'PMd lenges growth brings. There was a time when visits to the cave took place only in the summer," she said. "Now it's hoped there can be year-roun- d programs. We don't .have the staff now to respond to requests for programs, but in personal discussions with community leaders, I am convinced the community wants these programs." She hopes 1998 was the start of a move forward for the monument. . ji, "We were able to have more tours this year, and the visitors' center will. remain open until . Jan. 3," she said. Rolling in the dough? Despite being upbeat about the park's future, Mullen said she was distressed by recent news reports that stated the park had more money than it knew what to do with. circumstances were receiving." 1 Mr I DAVID irrn-- T KENNARDrthe Daily Herald The reports confused two where programs funding Timpanogos Cave is concerned" she said. The first is the regular fee program charged for tours of the cave, and the second is the fee demonstration program in American Fork Canyon and the Alpine Loop in which the park and the Uinta National Forest are partners." The news reports, based on a survey by the federal government's General Accounting Office, said the national parks had a surplus of money and reported Timp Cave received 61 percent more than its base budget. That's based on the assumption that the base budget was adequate to start with," Mullen said. "Actually, it was about 50 percent of what was needed just to maintain the park. Making improvements She said the money from cave tours is sent back to the U.S. Treasury. "We submit programs to the National Parks Service office in Washington, D.C., and then it's allocated back to us based on programs approved by the service," she said. The most we can get back is 80 percent. We collected $376,755 and got back $301,400." The second program is the fee demonstration program in American Fork Canyon and the Alpine Loop Road. "While we are in partnership with the Forest Service, it's controlled by the Forest Service," she said. "Allocation of the funds collected is determined by a committee made up of representatives from the Forest Service, National Parks Service, the Utah Department of Transportation, See CAVE, A2 MaMHUU .L Today: Workers frozen out A V, The base budget was so low and the park's facilities in such dire straits that there was serious discussion about closing down the cave completely, or turning it over to the Forest Service to operate. Our budget was not in parity with what other national parks of similar size and By JOSEPHINE ZIMMERMAN The Daily Herald OREM sGnspkg cave p3s3ns omTtitn) .( : sport-utilit- y f n By ANN POTEMPA - d Bring Utah vehicle registration of their fair market value, Gully said. The property tax for vehicles less renewal costs in line with neighboring than three years old is $150; for vehistates cles three or more years old but less Simplify the motor vehicle renew than six years old, $110; six or more al administration process The new fee system applies only to but less than nine years, $80; nine or more but less than 12 years, $50; and vehicles, passenger cars, 12 or more years, $10. vans and light trucks. Gully said the best way to deterMotorcycles, motor homes, trailers, boats and other recreational vehicles mine the fee level for a particular required to be registered with the state will still be taxed at 1.5 percent See CARS, A2 ToMomw: four-da- y freeze that struck shortly before Christmas in California's Central Valley has ruined much of the citrus crop, leaving thousands of workers without jobs. ES Massacre monument The site of the infamous Mountain Meadows Massacre had been largely ignored until this decade. 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