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Show iLrwn iiH 50 CENTS THE NEWSPAPER iron:- FRIDAY. AUGUST 20, mm By CANDACE PERRY The Daily Herald High 94 64 Sports Cougs in training " 229-707- of BYU's fall football practices continues with a story about the - V SE nJ2T n) I 1 ' running A three-ca- r OREM collision in front of Eagie Hardware in Orem Thursday afternoon killed one man and seriously injured several others. Police are seeking witnesses to the 4:30 p.m. collision on University Parkway. Witnesses should contact Lt. Doug Edwards of the Orem Police Department at A white Chevrolet Cavalier 1 backs and The Daily Herald's daily update from the field. Bl-- 2 and a white Chevrolet Blazer heading west collided head-owhen both vehicles entered the center turning lane simultaneously. The driver of the Blazer, heading east n Robbie Dean, was transported to UVRMC, but was declared dead on arrival, said the UVRMC nursing supervisor. At impact, the Cavalier was sent airborne and rolled at least twice before coming to a stop in the opposite direction about 100 feet away from the Blazer. A Ford Expedition, driven by Angela Lloyd and carrying her three children, the Blazer. Neither Lloyd nor her children were hurt. "I saw the car flying through the air from a block away," said rear-ende- d Phil Sweat, 51, of Heber. The driver of the Cavalier was listed in critical condition but the passenger's condition Online: OF CENTRAL UTAH MORNING! i Coverage &tt.PiLju. httpwww.hefaldextra.com GOOD Low - was not released by late Thursday. Both were quickly taken by ambulance to Utah Medical Valley Regional Center, according to Edwards. The Blazer was carrying a family of four, all of whom were taken to UVRMC. The child in the rear passenger seat was not injured, Edwards said. The second young child was m $rfr-- IW Oram urn pinned behind the driver's seat, in which his father was sitting. He was rescued by Jerry Lund, 29, an firefighter from South Jordan in the area, who also put a neck brace on the off-dut- y child. BRIAN FIT7.(;CRAI.Dlhe Lund said he heard the Daily Herald Rescue: Orem firefighters work to remove the driver of a Chevy Blazer after a head-ocollision involving three vehicles on University n See CRASH, A2 Parkway in Orem on Thursday. TIME RUNNING OUT Local Fresh face Utah Valley State College has a named Dr. Bradley A. Winn, of Pleasant Grove, new vice president for planning and student services. A3 (Q)aD(D) dead! State Mad missionaries Dinpiredl Thousands of Mormon missionaries who served in England from 1980 to 1996 "nave been banned from donating blood because of the threat of a disease similar to Mad Cow disease. A6 By LOUIS MEIXLER Associated OMf f " Business Geneva loss Geneva Steel Co. reported Thursday a net loss of $29.5 million for the third fiscal quarter. t: Going to the Castle Theatre is even 4 1 Getaway Friday Castle anniversary more historic as the Actors' Repertory Theatre Ensemble celebrates the 10th ir DIMITKI MESSINISThe Associated Press man covers his nose against the smell of rotting corpses as rescue workers search through the rubble behind Yalova, 80 miles southeast of Istanbul Thursday. A Hope vanishing: him in Press Writer ISTANBUL Rescuers Turkey saved an Turkish boy who had been trapped for more than two days under the wreckage of his home, but hope was fading Thursday for thousands of others buried alive by an earthquake that has killed almost 7,000 people. Prime Minister Bulent Ecevit admitted Thursday what many Turks feared even the hundreds of professional rescue workers sent in from around the world will not be able to save all those under the rubble. Many earthquake victims will die of thirst and exposure. "Thousands of buildings are in ruins," Ecevit said. "It is not possible to See QUAKE, A2 HT "5 Orem paleontologist finally makes it big Jul if By CANDACE j in I Pretty sharp: Orem resident In 1977, Larry OREM Martin made a killing selling and commercial paleontologist anniversary of two of the group's productions. CI shark's teeth. Larry Miller displays some of his fossilized shark teeth. PERRY lie Daily Herald Sun newsand his him featured paper hobby, concluding with Martin's one big dream "finding the The Gainesville BRIAN KII.(,KHM I) Ihr Daily lleukl remains of the undiscovered prehistoric animal on one of his long rambles in the field." Twenty-twyears later, it happened. Though not quite as Martin o expected. This Orem fossil collector's findings were splashed in this and the Discovery Channel's Shark Week with no mention of the man who found them. And these aren't the average trilobite. Martin, a commercial paleontologist (one who finds, buys; sells and trades fossils), was month's National Geographic Sec FOSSILS, A2 THE DAILY HERALD PROVO, UTAH A BRAND NEW DAY NEWSPAPER Index j Business Dl rClassified D7 Comics A12 Horoscope Local A14 A3 MOVies L.8 Obituaries A6 Opinions B7 Bl Sports :Weather B8 Fact 1: Serving on any school board is a difficult, sometimes tortuous job. Fact 2: Making crucial decisions in the Alpine School District is tougher than sleeping on a bed of nails. Fact 3: The Alpine dilemma will become even more vexing in the near future. . 6 ni,61055 000501 lose-los- e . . Having issued those disclaimers, however, there is something about last week's controversial vote by the Alpine board which needs to be questioned. The matter at hand was the location of the district's next elementary issue which school a raised tempers and fired emotions in Lehi, Saratoga Springs and Eagle Mountain. Especially in Eagle Mountain. hot-butto- .... mation to dispute the board's deci- sion. Members clearly were in one of situations. those terrible What makes me uneasy about the resolution of such a hotly debated and obviously divisive situation, howr ever, is how the board vote came , ' . down. , ' members' of five Three the approved a motion to place the new school in Lehi, but the other two Marilyn Kofford and Ken Sorenson chose to abstain. Which is rarely the right course: I'm not questioning the motives or qualifications of either Kofford or Sorenson, two good citizens caught in a rough spot. But I do believe that, whether we're talking school boards, city councils or whatever, members are elected to vote. n Steve Cameron Residents of that booming young community desperately want a school in the city. They turned out in force to make themselves heard. But in the end, the board voted to place the district's newest school in west Lehi. Frankly, I don't have enough infor The only clear-cu- t reason for abstention is conflict of interest. In any other situation, citizens have the right to know how their 1 i KUDKUri i I iWj itoii'ftr- - "' 'r rep.-- ; resentatives feel. A vote, for instance, wouldn't have changed the Mountain decision, but it certainly might have altered the dynamic when the situation comes up next time. . ' r Conversely, a unanimous verdict would caf ry an equally- strong'' but distinctly opposite message to par-- . students and prospective voters. ents, ' A suggestion: Please ask your elected officials at every level to take a stand and raise a hand. 3-- 2 Lehi-Eagl- e , - - , " - Steve Cameron is managing editor of The Daily Herald. Phone 344 2552xr.. at scameronheraldextra.cbm.? ' ' : n ! v . I( |