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Show fMTiffi GGE3 Tears fall freely for fallen astronauts Recipes help beat the winter blues Orem unveils plan for land swap Page A3 Page B1 Utah Fourth-ranke- d sends Tulsa packing Page C1 Page B6 Wood Burning Conditions o OK Burn Day r tmisy, ssan to, ittt for 124 Yrc, Pwvo, Utah Central Utah - A Pufflw Community N 50 apapar cents PCI IT us uial fli-sun-i mod1 By PAT CHRISTIAN The Daily Herald almost 24 hours before officials had evening expected. On Saturday, a smaller avalanche fell from a small ravine on the south side of Provo Canyon, a short distance up the canyon from Bridal Veil Falls. It knocked an ice climber from his perch, and he fell 250 feet to his death. His climbing companion was buried under two feet of snow but, luckily, members of a nearby ice climbing party rushed to his temporary tomb of debris and dug him out. He was taken to a local hospital with internal injuries. While rescuers on the scene, they watched another avalanche come down Lost Canyon. Avalanche spotters stationed in the canyon also reported an avalanche near Vivian Park. You don't have to be a rocket scientist to grasp the fact that avalanche danger is high this year and clearly spookier than usual. Six Utahns have already died and many close calls have been reported. "It's very extreme," said Bob Easton, head of the Pleasant Grove Ranger District, of this season's avalanche peril. It's "worse than last year," added Doug Hansen, a local mountaineer who studies avalanches and teaches avalanche safety courses. Something's amiss in the mountains. You only have to look. Daily Herald photoBrian Winter Contract workers from the Utah Department of Transportation use heavy equipment to remove snow from an avalanche off of Highway 189 in Pro- - Sunday night a heavy and wet avalanche swept out vo Canyon Monday. Snow propelled by an avalanche blocked all four lanes of traffic in two places on "I hope no one is in here," said Doug Brumbaugh. of Slide Canyon, across four lanes of traffic in Provo Canyon. Highway Monday. 189 finally reopened Monday (See AVALANCHE, Page A2) Alpine team brings home 'blind soccer' trophy By RYAN VAN BENTHUYSEN The Daily Herald blindSANDY folds, ball chucking, body sliding, elbow-skinninmadness. All of the above are elements similar to soccer of goalball but a sport like no other. "It's blind soccer on the floor." said Kelsey Wilkin, 16, one of the three Alpine team members who : helped bring the 1997 Utah State Goalball Championship tournament trophy home. The tournament took place at Crescent View Middle School in Sandy. Goalball is the most widely played competitive team sport for the visually impaired. Invented in 1946 for blinded World War II veterans, it is played on a court a tad smaller than a tennis court with raised lines to help players distinguish where they are on the court. The raised lines run the perimeter of the court and cross where players must stand and from where they must throw the ball. The ball looks like a basketball but it carries twice the weight and does not bounce as fervently. There are bells inside the ball that jingle w hen it is in motion, allowing players to determine w here it is so they can keep it from entering the goal. Constant blocking in the game keeps the players on the floor, whether it be on their knees or even on their side after a full-bodive to block a hard-to- Fast-pace- d, three-on-thr- g, reach shot by the opponent. Each goal is worth one point and the game consists of two, seven minute halves. Because some of the players are not completely blind, every player must wear a blindfold to keep the competition equal. The team holding the ball has eight seconds to take a shot on the opponent's goal or they are penalized for delay of game. This rule d keeps the game at a pace that slaughters the hush of the crowd. All was evident Monday in the final playoff game between Alpine and Jordan 3, when Alpine came out victorious, But the crowd knows how important it js for the teams to hear everything that happens on the court, so they quickly calm for the action. "We have to be able to hear the ball going," Wilkin said, adding that the ears are the most critical tool used in the game. Although the score doesn't indicate so, the fight between Alpine and Jordan 3 was a fierce one, full of pressure and sweat on both sides. Noelia Rodriguez, 15; Robert Hunt, 18: and Wilkin are the Alpine team. Brawny Jensen, 13; Travis Legg, 14; and Quintin Williams, 12, made up the Jordan 3 team who landed second place. The Jordan I team w ith Jeff Blan-d- a, 15; Rich Spurrier, 16; and Rachel Jepson, 15, slid into third r f 1 Schools' social climate gets D- - - ,i 1V " " i i r 8-- 2. (See BLIND, Page A2) i - - (See SCHOOLS, Page A2 Daily Herald photoJason Olson Eighteen-year-ol- d Robert Hunt of Pleasant Grove reaches back to throw the ball as opponent Rich Spurrier of the Jordan 1 team stands guard during the 1997 Utah State Goalball Championship tour- - By MICHAEL FLEEMAN Associated Press Writer A6 CS Arts Business Classified Ads Comics Dl B5 D4 Crossword Dl Legals Lifestyle Movies O A6 B2 B4 B6 B3 A6 A4 Obituaries Opinions Sports State Television World Weather Tonight, a 60 percent probability of rain showers. Rain possibly changing to snow by late evening. Partial , clearing Lows 25-3- 0. after midnight. See Page A5. Air Quality The air quality report for today was unavailable by press time. For almost a SANTA MONICA. Calif. week, jurors in the O.J. Simpson wrongful-deat- h trial have listened to seven lawyers argue, rant, plead and drone on and on and on. Today, for the first time, the jurors get to talk. Deliberations were to begin following a few more hours of plaintiff rebuttal by lawyers Tom Lambert and Daniel Petrocelli. Jurors must decide whether Simpson should be held responsible for the June 12, 1994, knife Nicole Brown Simpson and slayings of her friend Ronald Goldman, and if so, whether to award damages that could cost Simpson millions. Simpson was acquitted of murder in 1 995. Among the factors jurors have to weigh variously described by the lawyers as critical evidence, crucial facts, uncontradicted truth, lies is one important testimony and flat-opressed Monday by the defense: the frame-uIn a powerful finale, lawyer Robert Baker asserted that Simpson was the victim of a police conspiracy led by former detectives Mark Fuhrman and Philip Vannatter. Baker delivered his accusation in words even more blunt than those Johnnie Cochran Jr. used at the criminal trial. "That's planted evidence," Baker said of the Fuhrman contended he found bloody glove behind Simpson's house. "There's no question ex-wi- fe nament in Sandy Monday. Hunt and his teammates on the Alpine School District team won the state title. Hunt is considered the best player in the state by many of his peers. about it." To support the theory. Baker pointed to the absence of blood drops around the glove and noted that the blood on the glove appeared wet when it should have been dry because it had been sitting there all night. "He has been vilified and ridiculed. You can give him his life back and render a verdict like was done before and give Justin and Sydney their dad back." Robert Baker, Simpson lawyer ut p. trl State educators better push the pencil harder if they want to improve the environment in Utah's classrooms. Education Week's yearly report card of each state gave I'tah a grade in the "social climate" category. Social climate, in part, includes d small class sizes, management and school safety. That means the Beehive State's students are being educated in atmospheres which compare to California. Florida and Mississippi the only other states to receive the grade. To receive a passing grade in social climate. Utah's schools would have to have kindergarten classrooms through sixth-grad- e with fewer than 25 students and a large percentage of secondary site-base- O.J. jurors finally get to deliberate case Find it : By BRANDY ANDERSON The Daily Herald high-spee- aW Utah Vannatter, too. was part of the conspiracy, according to Baker, by suspiciously handling three of the most important vials of blood: that taken from Simpson and the two victims. "The evidence in this case simply is not trustworthy," Baker told the jurors. "It's not worthy of your belief." Jurors listened intently, and a few who had their note pads opened them again and Kut away jotting notes, in an aggressive rebuttal. Petrocelli argued that the conspiracy theory w as nothing but fan tasy cooked up by a desperate, guilty man with help from high-priclawyers and scientific consultants. "They have invented arguments. They have invented defenses with no basis in reality. They have no facts to support them," Petrocelli said. "It's a fraud. It's a fraud on you. It's a big lie. It never happened. It's what guilty men do." r Earlier, during a speech delivered in a sometimes whispering voice. Baker said there was neither motive nor time for Simpson to kill. The lawyer urged jurors to risk being politically incorrect and embrace Simpson as an innocent man, as another jury did. "He has been vilified and ridiculed," Baker said. "You can give him his life back and render a verdict like was done before and give Justin and Sydney their dad back." Baker risked criticizing the relatives of the victims and. for the first time, Goldman himself. Baker ridiculed Petrocelli's suggestion that Goldman, had he lived, would be running a restaurant by now. Baker said Goldman's history of financial troubles made that unlikely. "Ron Goldman wouldn't have a restaurant now. He would be lucky to have a credit card," Baker said. Yet the thrust of Baker's argument was that Simpson was victimized by shoddy and malicious police work. . He spoke of bloody gloves and socks show ing up where they didn't belong and said. "We have blood at the most amazing places." ed two-hou- Fatty food risks begin at early age By JAMES ROWLEY Associated Press Writer The cheeseWASHINGTON burgers, french fries and milkshakes children eat can build up fat in their arteries that could cause heart attacks later in life, researchers say. A new study found that teenagers and young adults ho ate h diets or smoked showed higher risk factors for heart attacks than those who ate less fatty foods and didn't smoke. Ml 1 Deposits of fat and raised lesions, believed to cause heart disease, were found in the aortas and coronary arteries of young people with high levels of cholesterol, according to autopsies on 1.079 men and 364 women between the ages of 15 and 34. Fewer deposits and lesions were found in subjects who had lower levels of cholesterol. The autopsies were performed on young people w ho died violent or accidental deaths. The data provide the most comprehensive evidence that diet and smoking at an early age can begin the process that fat-ric- (See FOOD, Page A2) |
