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Show EMS Boys and girls club under new direction Suspicion mounting in case missing-childre- n Easy makeup tricks you can do at home Page A4 Page A3 Utes cruise to easy victory over Miners Page B1 Page Central Utah's Newspaper for 120 Years, Provo, Utah Sunday, October 30, 1994 1.25 iced at Dancing in the streets By NANCY BENAC Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON - A Colorado man armed with a Chinese-mad- e assault weapon sprayed the White House with a barrage of bullets on Saturday, authorities said. The bullets struck the mansion, where President Clinton was relaxing, but no one was injured. Witnesses said passersby tac- kled the suspect, who was identified as Francisco Martin Duran of Colorado Springs, and turned him over to Secret Service agents who vaulted the fence surrounding the White House compound. Twenty to 30 shots were fired at the mansion. "The president was in no dan- ger whatsoever," said Richard Griffin, assistant Secret Service Herald PhotoJennifer near the campus. Even though the Cougars were dismal on the gridiron, losing to Arizona State students and alumni The International Folk Dancers from Brigh-aYoung University strut their stuff during the Homecoming Parade Saturday m Life 36-1- 5, Grigg alike had many other activities to participate in over the past week. For a complete wrapup of the game, see Page C1. bursts toward the White House. People scrambled for cover, as he began moving east away from the building. Witnesses said he trained A massive snowslide cascaded down steep slopes in American Fork Canyon that Friday, killing n miner George Tyng. had just walked into his Tyng mining office, a lean-t- o at one end of his cabin when the avalanche blasted the structure into kindling. By MIKE CARTER Associated Press Writer - well-know- The SALT LAKE CITY high-wir- e a circus of suspense act is nothing to Rep. Bill Orton, a Democrat working without a net in Utah's very Repub- lican e. And just this month, during a time of Halloween magic, Tyng bewitchingly walked into a class- room at American Fork High School and lectured to students about his life and a different time in thnearby canyon. it's not every day you get to talk to a dead man," Tyng told the students. in Showing them an old black and white photo of men and women at a mine, he said, "Some of your grandparents might be in this pho- to." This wasn't history from a book. This was living history and the students paid an unusual amount of attention to their lecturer. He told them there had been a thriving lumber business in the canyon in the late 800s and early 1900s that served the massive min 1 Garden .v. Legate Lifestyle Movies Nation Obituaries Opinions Political Forum Religion Sports State. Travel World Weather A9 Fl F7 E4 B4 A4,F1 Bl E4 A3 A4 A18 A 19 El CI A6 CIO A5 Brigh-a- ing industry in American Fork Canyon. Mutual Dell and Little Mill were just a couple of them. "Did you know there was a railroad that went up American Fork Canyon?" Tyng asked. It had been built by Major Evans and it went bankrupt around 1888. There had also been two aerial tramways to move ore to the train. The longest one started in Mary Ellen Gulch and terminated at As Tyng spoke, written on the classroom marker board near him was "Anita & Jay's Theater presents, 'REFLECTIONS'." Jay Allen, a teacher at American Fork High School said he began playing George Tyng as a summer ranger at Timpanogos Cave National Monument and performed with another ranger, Anita Pul-hafor visitors to the monument. Pullham plays Patience Loader Deer Creek City, now Tibbie Fork. (See TYNG, Page A2) Sunday mostly sunny. Highs in the Sunday night partly cloudy. Lows Monday partly cloudy. Highs in the upper 50s. The ultraviolet index forecast for Sunday is 3. See Page A12. mid-50- s. 30-3- 5. America is back on standard time. The shift from Daylight to Standard time occurred at 2 a.m. today, moving an hour of daylight from evening to morning and providing an extra hour of sleep to replace that lost in the spring. In addition to changing the clocks, public safety experts Air Quality Saturday's air quality was good for most areas along the Wasatch Front with little change in pollution levels expected. See Page A2. are again encouraging another change put new batteries in the home smoke detector. The International Association of Fire Chiefs wants replacing smoke and fire detector batteries to become as common a ritual as changing the clocks. m y. But Orton doesn't see anything puzzling about it. And it angers him when anyone credits his continued success to a fluke or to Republican debacles. Miners pause for a photo taken at a cabin in Mineral Basin, American Fork Canyon in 1895. WASHINGTON (AP) -Business Classified Ads Crossword Entertainment America. "It's a mystery," said Fall back Find it Congressional Young University political science professor David Magle-b- once-upon-a-ti- American Fork Canyon bustled with a surprising level of activity. When men with gold in their eyes dreamed of finding the mother-lod- 3rd District. and some Despite all odds thanks GOP to bumbling say Orton remains ahead in the polls and apparently headed for a third term representing a district which is consistently among the top 10 a pat. his gun on the crowd just before he was tackled. Duran, 26. was taken for questioning to a Secret Service field office where he invoked his right to an attorney. "He's not saying anything anyway." special agent Tim Cahill said. "All we can do is make him comfortable, get him water and food." The Secret Service said Duran carried a SKS Chinese semiautomatic rifle, which has been banned from import into the United States since last May. The government said more than l million SKS rifles are in circulation in the United States alone. White House press secretary Dee Dee Myers said the U.S. attorney's office was considering what charges would be filed. She said no formal charges would be lodged before Sunday. Myers said authorities were checking the man's fingerprints to verify that he was in fact the person listed on his driver's license. It was the second major breach of White House security in as many months. In September, a plane was crashed into single- -engine the lawn and the wreckage tumbled (See SHOTS, Paje A2) Orton on high wire in GOP-lade- n 3rd District . Tyng was crushed to death in the slide on Jan. 19, 1906. Dug out from his white grave, his body was carried to American Fork for burial. But when his last will and testament was read, it turned out Tyng had asked to be buried on a grassy knoll near his cabin. He was carried back and buried. ; Today the mining baron's grave is surrounded by a white picket fence on a remote, secluded knoll above Dutchman flat. And from time to time, even today, flowers are found there. It's a stark reminder of Tyng when and a di- rector for protective operations. Mrs. Clinton and their daughter, Chelsea, were not in the mansion at the time of the attack. Clad in a dark trench coat, the heavyset gunman pulled out his weapon in the midst of a crowd of tourists and began firing in short goes on for miner George Tyng By PAT CHRISTIAN The Daily Herald C1 "I was elected because I worked my tail off," Orton said. "I talked to people about issues, not partisan politics." tax Indeed, the attorney would like tovshun political labels altogether. What he says he's seeking is honest debate and then consensus, never mind party lines. "It kills me that (Governor) Mike Leavitt, who probably is ld more liberal on issues than I am, is out campaigning against me for no other reason than I have a 'D' behind my name and he has an 'R' behind his," Orton said. It's an attitude that has made him something of a pariah within his party in Washington, where he has a voting record as conservative as any Democrat. In Utah, he fares little better with party bosses and backers who balk at his stand against abortion "It's a gruesome reality for the Democratic Party in Utah that there are a lot of people who would rather lose with the right message than win with a candidate they don't agree with on every issue," Orton said. All that aside, he's proven he's a Democrat who can win and that in itself soothes some of the intra-part- y unease. Calling Orton a political maverick, then, is to risk redundancy. Orton's success would not qualify as phenomenal if it had occurred elsewhere in Utah. But the 3rd District encompasses Utah Valley, the conservative heartland of the state, and a dozen rural counties stretching from Wyoming to the Arizona . border. (See ORTON, Page A2) Tossups key to control of Senate By JOHN KING AP Political Writer final full week of campaigning. An - Little more WASHINGTON than a week before Election Day, Republicans have a clear opportunity to seize Senate control, with the balance hanging on the survival skills of Democratic incumbents in several tossup races. The GOP needs a net gain of seven scats to wrest the majority from Democrats, and a analysis of the 35 Senate contests suggests Republicans are virtually certain to gain at least four. That in itself would nudge the Senate, and President Clinton's agenda, to the right. Beyond that, however, the outlook was murky heading into the state-by-sta- te 7 extraordinarily high number of races were considered tossups, and a major unknown was whether Democrats had time to reverse a turnout dynamic that at present appears likely to benefit Republicans. "Seven is a big number but we have a very gwxl shot at winning seven or more in the Senate," Republican National Committee Chairman Haley Barbour said in an interview. "If all of the close ones go one way, we will either fall just short or gain the majority by a few seats." A 50-5- 0 split after the Nov 8 elections is hardly out of the ques' tion, either. "Old AI spending a good deal of time with us," Senate GOP leader Bob Dole joked recently, a reference to Vice President Al Gore's tie breaking role, as president of the Senate. Of the 35 Senate races. 22 arc for seats now held by Democrats; 13 by Republicans. Democrats currently have a 56-4- 4 edge, aud have held the majority since 14K1; Most ripe for Republicans ale seats now held by Democrats th Maine, Ohio, Tennessee and Arizona. In each case the GOP chair lengers who arc ahead are also dk: tinctly more conservative than tlic Democrats they would succeed. - -From there, the GOP, to contxd the Senate, would need to gain might be franipffiyfl (See SENATE, Page A2) :' |