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Show Piigt A4 THE DAILY HERALD, Provo, Utah, Friday, March 20, 1998 NATION MOP.... liltR. w im. in .k. P President Clinton seized on the statistics to push his education agenda. He urged Congress to pass a 1999 budget that WASHINGTON Twenty includes additional spending to percent of American middle hire 100,000 teachers, modernschools and high schools reported at least one serious crime ize older school buildings and such as rape or robbery last keep schools open for youth after hours on the year, according to a national activities from school principals, counted , survey estimated, based on data only crimes reported to police at from a sample, that schools, aboard schoolbuses or events. schools at nationwide expepublic The elementary, middle and ) rienced more than 11,000 fights in which weapons were used, high schools surveyed were in; 5 4,000 rapes and other sexual all 50 states and the District of ... Columbia. assaults and 7,000 robberies. q Herb Berg, superintendent of "The threat of such violence schooldays. hangs over children's heads and public schools in Alexandria, f survey. "We do not need to and we closes their minds to learning," Va,, appeared at the White.., Student crime is mostly in make Clinton Bead. "We cannot let vio- House ceremony with Clinton. urban schools, must not ever have to larger choice between a safety and lence, guns and drugs stand to showcase his schools' efforts 4 report tby the Thursday's crime-fre- e between standards, conbetween our children and the to counter student crime. of Education high Department schools and modern classcluded. Indeed, it said 43 pereducation they need." Eerg said Alexandria's T.G. cent of public schools surveyed rooms," Clinton told a White The survey on school crime Williams High School uses par- - a serious House ceremony attended by was produced by the Education ents and grandparent as hall d reported zero crimes in the 1996-9or minor educators, law enforcement offi- Department's National Center monitors and a cials and members of Congress. school year. Only crimes reportfor Education and Statistics. cated policy of "zero tolerance" Clinton said he was troubled The survey, based on responses of guns and drugs. ed to police were tabulated. if By ROBERT BURNS that the Education Department Associated Press Writer - n 4! r-- 7 1,200-scho- ol fc school-sponsore- d v . , a, t " The Associied Press t : ' Sarfous problem: President Clinton, accompanied by Sen. Charles and Attorney Genera! Janet Reno, announces new fedRobb, eral funds for school safety at the White House on Thursday. well-commu- ni 7 . Researchers unveil system to nip salmonella By CURT ANDERSON AP Farm Writer - WASHINGTON In a for breakthrough improved food ..' . percent grocery Broiler Richard of the chicken in the safety, researchers unveiled a 'method Thursday for prevent-- . of the technique ing salmonella bacteria in development chickens by growing benign at the Agriculture Department microbes inside newly hatched and is now a top officer of MS Biosciences, said Preempt is a chicks. "This is a major milestone for culture of 29 benign, naturally-occurinbacteria discovered in food safety," Agriculture 1993 hy USDA researchers in Secretary Dan Glickman said Station, Texas. College in a National Press Club The involves technique speech. hatched chickspraying newly Food The and Drug Administration last week quiet- - ens with a solution containing ly approved use of Preempt, as the 29 "good" bacteria. The MS chicks instinctively peck at the from product their wet feathers and ingest ' Biosciences Inc. of Dundee, 111., the solution that way. The culis known. The company jointly ture then grows inside the developed the product with the chicken when it is most vulnerAgriculture Department and is licensed to market it beginning able to infection and shuts out other microbes including salin May. Glickman said tests on monella. "There is no space for it. It's a 80,000 chicks had reduced the for food. There isn't competition of salmonella to zero presence food for all of them," Jvith only cne application. He enough DeLoach explained. said the department is now focusing research on whether it Mimicking nature can prevent salmonella from The method is time getting into eggs and, other the FDA has everthe first approved a work is examining whether similar techniques can be used mix of bacteria as an animal to control E. coli and other drug, but it mimics what was once a natural process. Chicks organisms in cattle and hogs. can get benign bacteria through The Glickman t product, added, "may prove just the tip the droppings of mother hens, of the iceberg in a new food but in modern agriculture the two are separated long before safety revolution." eggs hatch. "The next frontier is having Hard to control farm-levinterventions," Salmonella, one of the lead-m- g these said the Broiler Council's Lobb. causes of foodborne illnesses and a particular problem in "It's a tool that will improve the poultry, is carried primarily in microbiological profile of the fin animal's digestive track and birds." Caroline Smith DeWaal, food jp transmitted through feces. It $nd other pathogens cause safety director at the Center for some 9,000 deaths from food Science in the Public Interest, poisoning every year in the agreed that the technique is an .linked States, according to the important advance. .federal Centers for Disease "Delivering a cleaner bird to the plant will improve the safeControl. Processing plants use chlo ty of the food at the supermarrine washers and chilly temper- ket," she said. atures to control the bacteria, Although the FDA approval but it still winds up on about 20 is only for control of salmonella AP Military Writer ft g el interior may modify Jet Ski ban changes" in the plan, Molly Ross, the Interior Department official in charge of reviewing it, said Thursday. Ross said she is considering the conservationists' complaints but declined to elaborate. "I encourage folks who have called me to hang tight," she said. Americans now own 1.2 million personal watercraft and sales are running at 200,000 a year. Park superintendents are concerned about their impact on the tranquility and natural Associated Press Writer Amid WASHINGTON .criticism about loopholes in its proposed ban on Jet Skis in national parks, the Interior Department is reconsidering whether park superintendents should be allowed to exempt their lakes and waterways. Conservationists say that gives the superintendents too much discretion. They say Jet Skis and other brands of personal watercraft should not be resources. allowed in any national park or recreational area without a thorough environmental review and approval by top agency officials. That's the same process required for permitting vehicles, snowmobiles or mountain bikes in the national parks. "We are definitely discussing ; off-roa- d ; ss $FAST $ Home Loans For: PurchaseRefinance Debt Consolidation Bad Credit No Credit BK. Foreclosure WE CAN HELP!!! Don't Delay fattofr N I J !! Call Now!! Anthony C. Myers 374-310- 3 WASHINGTON The Pentagon's specialist on Persian Gulf War illnesses is denouncing a contention by a veterans group that as many as 400,000 troops may have been exposed to depleted uranium from shells fired during the war. Bernard Rostker, Pentagon adviser on Gulf War illness questions, told reporters at a Pentagon briefing Thursday that too few Americans were on the battlefield during the war and shortly afterward to have had so many exposed to the hazardous substance. The Pentagon estimates that about 250,000 service members were involved in ground combat or served in- Iraq or Kuwait in the months following the 1991 war. When hostilities broke out, 541,000 men and women had been shipped to the region, with at least 83,000 at sea and tens of thousands based in Turkey, Saudi Arabia or nearby nations. "If you look at the number of u j R '1 Depleted uranium is a metal IT residue left when natural uranium is refined. It is used in artillery shells and bombs designed to penetrate the armor of tanks and forms protective shields for armored By SUSANNE M. SCHAFER . By PHILIP BRASHER Pentagon denounces claims of depleted uranium exposure case, said National Council spokesman Lobb. Some 32 million chickens are processed every working day in America. John DeLoach, who led 1 vehicles. Most of the U.S. troops who came into direct contact with the substance were in vehiclea hit by fellow Americans in mis- . taken attacks the Army calls "friendly fire." Although depleted uranium is relatively harmless when sealed in artillery shells or bombs, some of the metal burns and oxidizes into small particles when a shell hits its target. This creates an airborne dust 1 "X. that, if inhaled or ingested, can "' ... 1 be toxic in humans. 1. t A veterans' hospital in Baltimore has been monitoring 33 people who had direct exposure to the substance, some of whom still carry shards of the -material in their bodies from friendly fire attacks. "They have shown no delete-- . rious health effects," Rostker people who were' in combat sit- said. The Pentagon is attempting uations, who could have even come in contact (with depleted to contact about 113 veterans .... 4 .jo"! uranium), it is much less than believed to have come in direct, 400,000. The number 4s not contact with the substance and u I1 Rostker said. ' another 200 who may have L credible," ft 0 t The National Gulf War been involved in moving those r Resource Center released a vehicles, Rostker said. An unknown number of study this month that estimated 400,000 men and women troops may have come in con The Associated Press had contact with depleted ura- tact through such activities as Prevention: B. M. Argis, professor at Texas A&M University, watches nium either during combat, mounting destroyed vehicles to 100 chicks as they are sprayed with Preempt in his lab on campus while recovering contaminated have their pictures taken Thursday. Preempt was approved last week by the FDA. weapons or while visiting the something Rostker said he did.' ii Rostker also branded as battleground after the conflict. in chicken, DeLoach said tests the "good" microbes. The poulclaims by Iraq Paul Sullivan, the center's have indicated success against try industry wants to move executive director, said at the that children have suffered Ja other bacteria away from antibiotics anyway time that his group believed the increased cancers or malforma-- , such as Campylobacter, E. coli because harmful bacteria are number "is a conservative esti- tions because of the depleted-uraniu- ;I and listeria. In addition, he said developing resistance to them. mate of those exposed." weapons. "This has rO it is effective in preventing salFor consumers, DeLoach But Rostker contended been a campaign of disinforma,-tion,- " monella on turkeys. estimated the cost of Preempt Thursday: "The basis for their he said. "We don't believe ii Farmers who use Preempt at about 2 cents per pound of estimate of hundreds of thou- it is possible." must take care not to feed their chicken, which would cost the sands is not at all credible. The In January, Rostker's office U birds preventative antibiotics average consumer about $1.50 surveys they have are not com- acknowledged that thousands a majority of growers do a year if passed along by petent, are not scientific sur- of troops may have been di ' today because they could kill "S3 veys." exposed to the material. r di u Advertisement I . 1. Mhi,. f .'Hi uh' -- . - : '"M ' " ' , ..-- f 1 r ' t ; illness-causin- " g m u . ! Used Cars to be Sold for as Little as $99! . di ,z. di :i One of the area's largest dealerships is overstocked and is forced to sell some car s and trucks for as little as $99 this Saturday, March 2 1 st during an unprecedented one day sales event. Ai BOUNTIFUL, UTAH Gary Hatfield, General Sales Manager at Menlove Dodge Toyota, has just annosinced plans to conduct a $99 used car sale this Saturday. According to Hatfield, record new car sales at Menlove over the last few weeks has resulted in an overstock of used trade-in"Since the first of the year, our sales have increased at a remarkable rate," Hatfield said. "Now we can reduce the number of used vehicles on our lot to a more manageable level. During the sale this Saturday, every used car and truck will be sold for thousands of dollars less than the original cost. For example, cars that once sold from five to eight thousand dollars will now be sold s. from three to five thousand. Some cars will be sold for as much as $10,000 off MSRP." "These highly discounted prices will be even lower than those found at used car auctions," Hatfield said. Auction bidding cally inflates the value of a used car so you could end up paying a whole lot more. Every car here at Menlove will be on a first come first serve basis with no bidding. It's the perfect time to get a used vehicle at the lowest possible price. "We are a locally owned and managed dealership and have been at the same location in Bountiful for more than 35 years. We want to support our community by offering local residents the first opportunity to buy these overstocked cars rather than sending them to a used car auction," Hatfield stated. "Every used car and truck we sell has undergone Menlove 's Used Car certification program. You can be sure you ere getting a quality vehicle." All vehicles will be on display in the Menlove used car lot at 2380 S. Highway 91, just off exit 318 on At 9 a.m. this Saturday, the vehicles will be unlocked so that buyers may inspect them for the hour prior to the start of the sale. At 10 a.m., Menlove "Slasher" will arrive 8nd begin "slashing" prices on all used vehicles. Whoever is sitting behind the wheel when the "Slasher" strikes will be given the first chance to purchase the vehicle at the new discounted price. And on some vehicles, that price will be as low as $99! , "Wholesale buyers will be on hand to accept trade-in- s during the sale," Hatfield said. "We will also have business managers and k lending reps who can help arrange financing. Mark Marine, head of our Fresh Start program, will be available throughout the day." "We want to emphasize that this is & one day sale only," March 23, when our inventory Hatfield cautioned. "On Mor-dais sufficiently reduced, we'll remove our ssle3 prices and return to business as usual." For ino information, call low-co- st 295-348- 1. "'1 |