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Show Lifestyle Mrs. Clinton hears farmers’ health woes Bill and Iva close landmark restaurant Page A3 Letter writing has become a fading art Cougars draw SMU in NCAA first round Page BS Page C1 Page Bi Ellie not“) ' eralb » Monday, March 15; 1093 Central Utah's Newspaper for 119 Your: - Provo, Utah Aspin says base plan will save billions ‘ Storm’s death toll hits 1 15 By RIC LEYVA . Associated Press Writer suspended until today. and 56 suburban Detroit youngsters were missing in North Carolina‘s Great Smoky Mountains. Ray Carson. a spokesman for the Cranbrook Kingswood Upper (See STORM,Page A2) By JIM ABRAMS , Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Les Aspin testified today that his proposed base closings will eventually save $5.6 billion a year when coupled with two previous rounds of shutting down military installations. Aspin told the Defense Base Closure and Realignment Commission that the 31 major installations he proposes to close repre- ....n.m new» Searchers looked for scores of young hikers in the snow-covered mountains of North Carolina and travel was snarled across much of the East today in the aftermath of the deadly weekend blizzard. A freighter sank off Nova Scotia early today in high seas. The storm was blamed in the deaths of at least 1 15 people from Canada to Cuba. East Coast airports were crowded with people trying to get away after being stranded through the weekend. Major highways were being reopened but many travelers remained snowbound. Hundreds of thousands of customers had no electricity. Northeast commuters were urged to leave their cars at home because city streets were choked with ice. “Getting to the train station was an event in itself.” said sub-a urban Philadelphia commuter Mark Cotterman. 32. "It was all packed dow'n. There was hardly any traction at all. “ The storm hit Florida with tornadoes on Friday and pushed up the coast with hurricane-force winds Saturday. wrecking seaside homes. As much as 4 feet of snow fell, and winds piled drifts 15 feet high. “It looks like something out of ‘Dr. Zhivago."' said Rooks Boynton of Clarkston. Ga. “Nothing‘s moving out there. ” Temperatures fell to record lows for a second day today. including 11 at South Carolina‘s Greenville-Spartanburg airport and 2 at Worcester, Mass. Rescuers used helicopters. plows. front-end loaders and four-wheel-drive vehicles to reach hikers. travelers and snowbound rural residents. In Camp Greenville. S.C.. about 100 teen-agers and camp counselors trapped at a camp by the storm were carried to safety Sunday by National Guard helicopters. One-hundred hikers remained hunkered down in shelters and tents in the mountains of East Tennessee. where the rescue was i. a? it :3: l 031?ng sent “difficult but necessary AP Photo A homeless man walks along Manhattan‘s Sixth Avenue Sunday in New York after a winter storm brought the city to a standstill. Everyone wears white at snowed-in weddings By JILL ROSE Knight-Bidder Newspapers STATE COLLEGE. Pa. — They thought they were so well— prepared. But nobody said the groom should have trekking boots. Nobody thought of bringing three days' worth of diapers for the flower children. Could they have tossed rock salt instead of rice? Could they have tied tin cans to a snow plow? “I‘m very upset." newlywed Michele Deter said Sunday from the Elks Country Club in Boalsburg. Pa.. where she had been stuck since late Saturday afternoon. Her entire wedding party spent the night on the reception hall floor. using tablecloths as blankets. Tom. her husband of less than 24 hours. was somewhere up the road stomping through snow to find medication for elderly guests. The diaper supply for the toddler flower children was a memory. _ And now. the couple‘s plans to fly out of Philadelphia Monday to get to sunny St. Martin are practically a joke. It‘s the kind of thing that happens when your wedding falls on the same day as the snowstorm of the century. “Never in my wildest dreams would I have thought it would be like this.” said Deter. 26. of Bel— lefonte. Pa. Tom, 28. is from Johnstown, Pa. “1 had planned for this for so long. I had so much money invested in it Everybody is being really nice. trying to keep my spirits up, but this is pretty bad. I'm kind of depressed. " Deter wasn’t the only local bride wearing a little bit too much white for the weather Saturday. of good humor. The 26-year-old from State College was at the Nittany Lion Inn on the Pennsylvania State University campus. where. like the Deters. she. her husband. Bret. 28. from Lewisburg. Pa.. and their wedding party have been prisoners of the snow since Saturday. That was when they realized they would never make it through the snowdrifts to the university’s Eisenhower Chapel. where they had planned for months To have the ceremony of their dreams. That was when they realized that half the guests were stranded at airports in Philadelphia, Pitts- ably may have been her last trace bride recalled. choices" as the military shrinks in size. “We are downsizing in the way many major corporations are," Aspin said. “Just as they are eliminating overhead and closing unneeded plants. so we are eliminat— .ing overhead. and closing unneeded military bases worldwtde." The closings. together with proposed realigning or scaling back of 134 other military installations. are economic bad news for dozens of communities nationwide. particularly in coastal states such as Cali— fornia. South Carolina and Florida hit by the Navy's efforts to reduce its force. Aspin said 24.000 military jobs and 57.000 civilian jobs will be affected by his recommendations. He said 140.000 workers will be Things looked up when her stepfather managed to find a fourwheel—drive to fetch the minister. “I knew I was going to get there even if] had to walk." she said. Thanks to an understanding Inn staff. where the reception was already planned. a hotel lounge be-‘ came an altar and the florist was even able to get the arrangements in place. A pianist. a violinist and a disc jockey were also on the ready. Gretchen. Bret and the wedding party finally arrived at the hotel at 2 pm. . just as the brunt of the blizzard bore down on the burgh and other cities across the area. As 60 mph winds whipped forcountry and their 100-person midable snowdrifts outside. the guest shriveled to 50 close couple took their vows by a toasty friends. fireplace. And. to add insult to injury. The reception also went with"It was a bit of a disaster." that was when they heard that the out hitch. except that the 30 newlywed Gretchen Horner Phil- minister was sno‘wed'in miles inches of snow pretty much nixed ips said Sunday morning of her away. thoughts of leaving the hotel. The nuptials, with what understand“I was a nervous wreck.“ the moved. The independent eight-member commission has until June 30 to accept or modify Aspin‘s suggestions before forwarding the list to President Clinton and Congress. which may accept or reject the package as a whole but cannot change it. "1 caution everyone to respect our independence." said Jim Courier. chairman of the commission. “For more than a decade. the American government tried and failed to close unneeded military installations. Lawmakers couldn’t do the job. so they gave it to us. " Aspin said no bases were closed until two years ago. and cutbacks in facilities were lagging well behind the planned decline in the defense budget of 42 percent from 1985 to 1997 and plans to reduce military personnel by 30 percent to 1.4 million by 1997. Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Colin Powell. testifying together with Aspin. said that with the proposed closures “we still retain our ability to operationally de- (See WEDDINGS, Page A2) ploy and employ our forces. In (Sec BASE. Page A2) 1‘ mm '* Flf'ld It ' park National donate cam p ai 9 n funds concessions Uth'Nt' ar a s aiona IP'k behrs W115) secrved in the just-fin- Spark debate concessioners at Utah's national is ed 10 n ongress. Associated Press Writer Among the expenditures: G W 0 Former Rep. Marty Russo. 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But l' . . . alsod givmg h, re 1 ip‘lfifn‘ie to] "1‘: 33’6”; paying mcnl. i e atio‘na' ar ‘5 an Glen Canyon. , BullfrogMarina.. $10.6 million. . _ $212,500 and lows near 40‘ Rain pick- . Tuesday With - up again ing says. Association Conservation t th N d' , N Glen Canyon. Wahweap Marina, $27 million, $611,000 highs near 50.8eePage A5. Alf ouéllty Ezrgagdiditeg C arities an [in m' Ohio. transferred his remaining Much of the retired members’ figdSigiigg‘agngommunity semce “Wat 13a)rkdflct)osrtiiit21gityoMimi: mint; Conleessionrgrsh genefiate Glen Canyon. Glen Canyon, Halls Crossing, Hlle Marina, $6.7 million. $1.5 million, $135,000 $30,200 Weather Recently retired House members are spending their leftover outh Rotary Foundation. - R0 Rep. Chalmers P. Wylie. Park vendor . F008 Paid Revenue ~ _ Today’s air quality was Ieftovercampaign money. howev- . Rep. Ed Feighan. D-Ohio. Plos'g‘ng‘ liming: fgif‘ih'g‘reufr; Glen Canyon, Wilderness River. $1.2million, $29,400 and for all Wasatch Fro nt g areas, with little change in pollution levels expected. See Page A2. er, has yet 10 be spent. The ex-lawmakers are sitting on $11.8 million. the AP found in a check of the federal campaign re— paid $240 for Cleveland Ballet , _ “tickets-events." 0 Solarz, D-N.Y., paid $250 in parking tickets, had legal bills of ‘ p y me taxes and have fees“We felt the present law ‘ p _ , (See PARK' age A2) - Park. Zion . TW Sewices - . $5 ' 4 million ' $135 ’236 . ports of 11] retired House mem- (See FUNDS, Page A2) in Ado” got nouns. to motion-mo . / ' Source: National Parks and Comoivation Association WWWM For home delivery, phone 375-5103 |