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Show it' m nMBm""iHwr fit Friday, December 3, 19S3 The Daily Herald Workers resent politics tliaf will send jps south - Carjacking suspect Thiokol Corp. OGDEN (AP) workers who build rocket nozzles are angry that their jobs will be shifted to Mississippi over the next three to four years. The company's nozzle work will move to the Advanced Solid Rocket Motor plant in Iuka, Miss., to face hearing - A ColoST. GEORGE (AP) rado man has been charged with automobile homicide and kidnapping following a freeway collision and carjacking in southern Utah Tuesday night. Stephen Pino, 33, was charged Thursday in 5th Circuit Court with e felonies and the two the an scene of accident, a leaving misdemeanor. A preliminary hearing was set for Dec. 13. Police said Pino, of Pueblo, Colo., was traveling south at more than 100 mph in a sports car on a facility that would have competed against Thiokol's own manufacturing operations for booster rockets. The announcement by Thiokol chairman Ed Garrison and NASA second-degre- Interstate 15 Tuesday after-noon.T- Sixteen evacuated in Dugway incident - PROVING GROUND (AP) Army officials say J 6 workers were evacuated and underwent routine evaluations mustarafter finding a d-agent mortar round during a cleanup operation. The incident occurred Wednesday in the Ditto Test Area of the remote proving ground in the desert 60 miles west of Salt Lake City. Officials released the information Thursday evening. None of the 10 contract workers or six members of the Army's explosive ordnance disposal team were exposed to the blister agent, said public information officer MelyndaPetrie. "This was all very routine and was handled according to strict protocol," she said. Man told to stop AIDS machine use - The SALT LAKE CITY (AP) head of a West Valley company has been ordered to stop treating people with the machine he claims kills disease organisms and helps AIDS patients. Tim president of T&T Medical Products, said he would not comply. "None of your allegations apply to me, and therefore I will take no action," he wrote Assistant Utah Attorney General Mark Hirata, who represents the Utah Division of Occupational and Professional Licensing. failure to comply with the order could result in a fine, Hirata said. claims he has successfully treated more than 100 patients at no charge in the past two years, for afflictions ranging from AIDS to burns to psoriasis. He has not published any of his results but describes 25 cases in a patent application he intends to Themy-Kotronaki- s, Themy-Kotronak- is' . : be moved from Utah to Mississippi over a three- - to four-yeperiod, ar "My kids are saying, "Do v.e have to go to Mississippi?' I told them, "I think it's pertinent we all stay together as a family," said Buxton, a Tremonton father of seven. Utah Rep. Jim Hansen said the job shift likely will mean NASA wi!! look favorably ?.! Utah for future rocket contracts. It also likely will mean Southern lawmakers will support space station funding, eventually meaning about 1,000 jobs for the state. About 10 percent of the jobs would come from Utah, where Thiokol will phase out production of the nozzles, Garrison said. "We will basically be moving production from our Utah facility," Garrison said. Machinist Lamar Buxton said he's mad that politicians are treating Thiokol workers' jobs as a political football in a game to move jobs around the country . Themy-Kotronak- is SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -Utah continues to be the worst in the nation in class size and per pupil funding, according to a report by the National School Boards Association. While Mississippi and Utah are similar with large numbers of school-ag- e children and per capin ta incomes, the southern state spent $393 more per student than Utah. With the extra dollars, Mississippi has a ratio compared to Utah's ratio of tom." poverty-stricke- 17-to- 24-to-- -l pupil-to-teach- er l. Last year's "Mississippi in this week. An FA-1- 8 Hornet fighter jet arthe rived for repairs Wednesday first of more than 240 FA-- 1 8s Hill will repair over the next five years under a $61 million maintenance contract with the Navy. An aircraft maintenance contract with another branch of the military is a first for Hill, and base commanders hope it goes a long way toward proving to defense officials that Hill is worth keeping open. The average teacher earned $35,334 last year. Utah placed 44th with an average teacher salary of $26,997, better than New Mexico, Louisiana, Oklahoma, North Dakota, Mississippi and South Dakota. aged $5,598 nationwide during the 1992-199- 3 school year an increase of $ 144 per student over the previous year. In Utah the per pupil expenditure was $3,-12- 8 for 1992-199- 3. " from the Utah Office of Education called for $106 million to beat Mississippi's per pupil expenditure. It proved to be a futile effort but drew attention to the school problems. "Some people were offended Catch-Up- a Per pupil expenditures aver- The vate property owners to follow certain tree harvesting standards. "In some cases, the (timber company) will offer a certain amount of money to leave the slash (tree trimmings). That results in more money to the landowner but it's to the detriment of the environment," said Craig Pettigrew, a state forester who oversees north- Schen, forest stewardship coordinator for the Utah Division of State Lands and Forestry. In Utah, a typical seller is a rancher who sees a lucrative timber sale as salvation from a depressed livestock market. The price of pine, for example, has tripled from about $50 to $150 per 1 ,000 board feet over the past couple years. A thousand board feet of aspen, which sold for $9 five years ago, is now fetching $30. For timber companies, Utah offers a business climate relatively ern Utah. Slash in ponderosa and Sandy. Dick Wilson, who directs the department's plant industry division, said trapping and tracking will continue through 1995. Findings could be used to plan a new campaign. Quarantines will con tinue. Gypsy moths were found on Salt Lake County's east bench and in Wasatch Front canyons in 1988. Salt Lake City Public Utilities Director LeRoy W. Hooton Jr. could not remember another time the watershed had been sprayed. Planes carried a bacteria that occurs naturally in the soil, so that drinking water would not be contaminated by chemical pesticides. where national forests banned logging, said George Nickas of the Utah Wilderness Association. Nickas said the biggest problem in Utah is that private landowners aren't even required to notify the . "It was pretty e pine forests discourages he explained. What happens to the Ti5 million acres of forested land in Utah held by 3,200 private owners concerns conservationists. Unregulated tree cutting on private lands in the northern Rockies damaged watersheds to the point State wins gypsy moth war of SALT LAKE CITY (AP) The state Department Agriculture has claimed victory in its war against the gypsy moth. The agency says spraying will not be needed next year. About 14,000 traps set around the state last summer caught just five moths, three of them in one box at the mouth of Bells Canyon east of lodge-pol- state of their timber harvesting plans. "They still have to comply with the Clean Water Act," he said. "But who's monitoring it? No one's aware it's even going on." If not outright regulation of pri- bad," Russell K. vate timber harvesting, Utah should at least require notification of such operations, Nickas and state foresters said. Hone, watershed manager for Salt Lake City, said of the watershed infestation. "Scrub oak was their primary diet." F-1- 6, contract rescues ar Court rules officers may not choke 'evidence swallowers' free of barriers to harvesting trees on private lands. Unlike neighboring Idaho and Colorado, Utah does not have a forest practices act requiring pri- ty mill over the next 10 years. "We're probably seeing three or four times the amount (of private tree harvesting) that we were seeing five years ago," said Dave five-ye- - 300 jobs for workers who will im Environmental crackdowns increase logging pressure on private Utah lands SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -Driven from national forests by environmental crackdowns, lumber companies are turning to private Utah timber lands to fill their orders. Among those companies are some from the Northwest, where efforts to protect the spotted owl, a threatened species, have forced the U.S. Forest Service to cut back tree harvesting, the Deseret News reported Thursday in a copyright article. "People are beating on our doors, wanting to buy our trees," said Paul Redd, who owns 15,000 acres on the east side of southeastern Utah's La Sal Mountains. Redd plans to sell about 25 million board feet to a San Juan Coun prove the air frame fatigue life, electrical systems and electromagnetic interference protection and will work on paint stripping, repainting and other maintenance work. Workers became familiar with the Hornet when a group of Ma-- ', rines flew in recently for exercises at Hill's Utah Test and Training Range. Hill crews helped the Marines launch and recover aircraft,, remove and install engines and' perform some avionics work. The Hornet is larger than the Air for which Hill has Force's long been the. maintenance depot. So Hill had to enlarge the repair hangar. HILL AIR FORCE BASE (AP) A critical piece to the puzzle of Hill Air Force Base's future flew smoke screen," said Lily Eskelsen, president of the Utah Education Association. "It's about averages. You will see them compare us on the percentage basis. Teachers in Connecticut earning more might take a lower percentage at retirement but it is still more money." nt Lead nozzle machinist Larry Stewart said the politicians' logic' confounds him. When the nozzles are built in Mississippi, they still will need to be shipped back' to Utah for attachment to the booster, then returned to Cape Canaveral . gets f irst Hornet Tigmer unaer contrac According to the report, between 1986 and 1992, the average number of pupils per teacher in American schools fell from 17.7 to 17.3, continuing a downraward spiral in teacher-studetios during the past 20 years. The largest decreases were in Alabama, Hawaii, Louisiana, Nevada, New York, North Carolina and Texas. "That is just facility was nearing completion, when funded was halted by Congress in October. HAFB The study did not include career ladders or retirement systems, said Chivers. Utah teachers keep a higher percentage of their salaries than most American teachers. by that," says Laurie Olivers, deputy superintendent for the Office of Education. "But we made our point. A lot of people now know that we are at the bot- Taxpayers already have spent .5 billion on the ASRM about in Iuka. The Yellow Creek facility thereby possibly creating more new jobs in Utah. Utah still 'worst' in class size he sports car struck a pickup from behind, launching it off the freeway. Carol Cropper, 64, of Las Vegas, a passenger in the pickup truck driven by her husband, died Tuesday night at University Medical Center of Southern Nevada in Las Vegas. Melvin Cropper, also 64, was treated in St. George and later transferred to the Las Vegas hospital. He is expected to recover from his injuries, authorities said. The uninjured sports car driver tried to hijack the vehicle of a motorist who stopped to help. The attempt failed and police said Pino then stopped a Cedar City couple, Douglas L. Robison, 24, and his wife, Kelli Ann, 22, demanding they let him in their car and then ordering them to take him to St. George. DUGWAY Administrator Dan Goldin officially was made Thursday at Iuka but had been reported previously. Last fall Congress killed funding for the Mississippi plant, an action many Utahns hailed as a measure that both locked out competitors from building the nozzles in Mississippi and cemented Thiokol's future presence in Northern Utah. The rocket nozzle facility would - were incomplete and returned thfc case to Young for another hearing to determine whether Officer Tony Garcia choked Hodson . Hodson may appeal the ruling to the Utah Supreme Court or await a new hearing before Young . Hodson was arrested with the assistance of police informant Janet Wardle. The day before, police had arrested Wardle as she tried to mail a package of heroin. As part-o- f her plea bargain, she agreed to set up others. SALT LAKE CITY (AP) The Utah Court of Appeals has ruled officers may not choke suspects to prevent them from swallowing drugs or other evidence . "We are adopting a standard representing the middle ground and hold that it is constitutionally reasonable for the police to 'place' their hands on a suspect's throat to prevent the swallowing of evidence, as long as they do not 'choke' him or her, i.e. prevent him or her from breathing or obstruct blood supply to the head," the court said in a ruling made public Thursday. The court adopted the standard in the case of Dennis M. Hodson, arrested in Salt Lake City for heroin trafficking in July 1 99 . Hodson was convicted after a nonjury trial before 3rd District Judge David Young and is serving a - to sentence. Hodson's appeal claimed the was choked into coughing up the heroin and the judge should have suppressed it as When Wardle completed the heroin deal in Hodson's car, she gave a signal and the two officers moved in. Then, Hodson popped something in his mouth. "Garcia grabbed the defendant 'by the cheeks' while he was still in the driver's seat, put a gun to the side of his head and ordered him to 'spit it out,' " according to the Court of Appeals. The officers yanked Hodson out of the car and, with Garcia's arm wrapped around his neck, Hodson spit out several chunks of black tar 1 1- 15-ye- ar evidence. The appellate court said the facts heroin. I EXPANSION REAL ESTATE WORKING CAPITAL EQUIPMENT 45 LENDER FRANCHISES BONNEVILLE BANK : INVENTORY 0D. - Mm 80 ra aDD Spas A. "W 'W HOT SPRING PORTABLE wu A 7 FOOT SLATE THANKSGIVING SALE! SPAS AS LOW AS'--y SPA - THE 1 , SELLING AND RECEIVE P70L TABLE (coupon does not apply to this offer) Save even more on toys and books with this coupon offer. 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