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Show if - Injuries take toll on starting lineup Some bask in the idea of global warming's heat ujV"YYj W A 1 Sports Bl Ban on video poker may be in the cards World El A PULITZER COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER PROVO, UTAH 50 CENTS State C6 ( RIDAY. DK i Mill R 5. Wr Activists fight Yellowstone snowmobilers migrate outside of the park. If the machine's set to the regular fuelair mixture. Cooper said the gasahol will burn too lean and damage the engine. And some of the newer Yamaha Local thoughts gasohol would work in some, machines are equipped to run on either fuel. Doug Phillips, manager of but not all, snowmobiles. Most Utah snowmobilers buy "I can't put it in my the Strawberry Marina and their said he said. doesn't think machine," gas outside Utah County, Phillips Lodge, "Maybe so they don't have to worry snowmobiles would produce in the older ones." And Arnie Cooper, service about running oxygenated fuel that much pollution. He said the machines produce a plume manager at Frandsen's Rec in their engines. Cooper said the move at of smoke when the sled first Center in Provo, said gasohol's Yellowstone appears to he for not but snowmobila burn starts, problem engines usually another environmentalby step clean afterwards. ers. to ists snowmobile restrict "Most of the time, I don't see "Back East, that's all they in the park. Such talk activity run on," Cooper said. "They jet that much pollution." See YKLI.O SiOi:. A7 But, he added, Yellowstone it 5 percent richer." Gasohol could limit '97 touring season Local snowmobile purveyors said they don't know what the fuss is all about. The Associated Press WEST YELLOWSTONE, Mont. Hoping to spruce up the image of snowmobiles as PERRY BACKUSThe Associated Press Coexisting: Snowmobiles on a groomed trail zoom past a bison Yellowstone National Park mKwm.MmJlMlw.lmv, esearci olic acid cuts birth defect risk imw.u. ... ,r L ujbwww aKMsKM.Ma4i lu.iuij.u"jiiii i.j j t "au.ulw-s- - tiBi l mm., V x. f ..' 3 By PAUL RECER The Associated n- in polluters, fuel suppliers and some rental shops plan to start selling gasohol by the time Yellowstone National Park opens for the winter. Some groups have called for the elimination of snowmobile use in the park, citing the pollution and the theory that grooming roads allows bison to nucie ar diinip ML Press folic acid to women's Dosages of 400 micrograms cuts the defects by about 47 percent, Mills said. "We found that we couldn't eliminate all of the neural tube defects, but we could eliminate quite a few of them," of the study said Mills, published Friday in the British medical journal Lancet. One hundred micrograms of . folic acid daily is what experts believe people will receive once all U.S. wheat, rice and corn are fortified at the rate of 140 micrograms per 100 grams of grain. Food The and Drug , Li rv WWaM WYO. Provo O o By ROBERT GEMRKE ' The Associated Press UTAH Utah : lMii8WtM1MMMMMMMI13BMBftfl.il' wtMli)rtdMMMXiMi MmmllirMMMMlfehM riMMiigflWWUliTI MMlETMIt NMMdMMMMMMMfcMUMMtliMMMMhMMMI I MARC LESTER The Daily Herald Brough receives the infamous ugly brown blouse at the Provo City Christmas party. Lewis Billings, background, conducts the mock drawing. It's back: Marlise Mayor-elec- t Santa hands out latest chapter in saga of sisters' ugly blouse By MITCH WILKINSON The Daily Herald PROVO Santa had just given her the "ugliest brown blouse," and although Marlise tongue-tied- , and Brough managed two words: "Just wait." Thus goes another volley in a decades-lonprank between sisters. red-face- d g Transportation Commission late Thursday ordered a state takeover of the only road leading to a proposed nuclear waste storage site on Indian Goshute the Reservation. Gov. Mike Leavitt had asked the panel to approve the change so the state could block shipments of nuclear waste running Skull Valley along the Road if the storage facility were built. On a vote, the commission declared the road 40 miles southwest of Salt Lake City to be under state authority effective immediately. The decision must be ratified by the Legislature when it meets next month in order to remain in 37-mi- 5-- Brough, Provo City Library's director of audio visual services, has been surprised before by the polyester blouse; like a fruitcake, it keeps turning up in the darndest one seems to want. In a rigged drawing, Billings held an envelope of employee names fur Santa to pick the winner of a framed, autographed piece of art from ZCMI. places. the same name, Brough's, appeared on all those pieces of paper in the envelope, and the "art" was the brown But Thursday night, it reared its hideous top during Provo City's employee Christmas party. Mayor-elec- t Lewis Billings Santa deliver the gift no helped The See SURPRISE, A7 1 effect. "The shipment of high-levnuclear waste is an issue for all Utahns and not just those living in Tooele County," said Tom Warne, executive director of the ARIZONA UWIMM SWKII n U:i. (,1,1,1 of Utah Department Transportation, who proposed the change to the commission on behalf of Gov. Mike Leavitt. Tooele County officials expressed adamant opposition to the of the road and were angered at not being consulted. "Tooele County has been stung once more by the Wasatch Front," said Tooele County Commission Chairman Teryl Hunsaker, who wanted the transportation commission to delay the vote so the change could he studied. "The governor has become our guardian angel telling us what we can and can't do." "If the governor had been ethical he would have come out. he would've sat down with us Sec ROAD, A? Pathfinder evidence shows red planet was more Earthlike than once thought By PAUL RECER folic acid be added to all food Dutrient added. A pound totals about 454 grams, and a microgram is one millionth of a gram. ; Dr. Richard B. Johnston, medical director of the March of Dimes, which supports birth defect research, said the Lancet rinding is reassuring because it shows that fortifying food will have some effect. But he said women of childbearing age should not depend on food alone to get effective levels of folic acid. i ! SALT LAKE CITY Administration has ordered that grains by the start of 1998. Many breads, cereals and pastas already are being sold with the IDAHO Tooele County officials angry at state's move WASHINGTON Adding diets during childbearing years can reduce brain and spinal cord birth defects by almost half, says a study that reinforces federal plans to fortify bread and cereals with the vitamin. Dr. James L. Mills of the National Institute of Child Health Human and Development said the study shows that adding even a small amount of folic acid a day can have a strong effect on the number of babies born with neural tube defects such as spina bifida. "There has been a lot of debate if a small amount of folic acid will do anything to prevent neural tube defects," said Mills. "Nobody knew what minimum dosage was needed." Now, he said, it is clear that daily dosages as small as 100 micrograms of folic acid can reduce the number of such birth defects by around 22 percent. may have a problem, given the large number that operate in the national park during the winter. Phillips added he believes h The Associated Press WASHINGTON The Pathfinder robot uncovered evi- dence that Mars was once warm, moist and more like Earth than its forbidding surface might now suggest. All of this is "a shot in the arm for the possibility of finding evidence of life" on the Red Planet, said one researcher. "The body of evidence returned by Pathfinder are suggestive that conditions had been conducive for the forma- - Pathfinder mission scientist studies "appear consistent with and lead author of a research a water-ricplanet that may be Earthlike more than previously Science. report in the journal Golombek said several lines recognized, with a warmer and of evidence have produced a wetter past in which liquid strong consensus among scien- water was stable and the tists that Pathfinder landed atmosphere was thicker." Finding evidence of liquid July 4 on a Martian plain that was sculpted by liquid water water, said Golombek, "is a shot sometime in the past and that in the arm for the possibility of such water proves the planet finding evidence of life. If there was no liquid water, then there once was a warmer, more would be no need to search for place. Although Pathfinder and its life on Mars." "There's nothing we found wheeled faithful rover, would preclude life on evifound no definite that Sojourner, dence of life, the report in early Mars," said John T. Science said the spacecraft Schofield of the Jet Propulsion . 4., .lTi ' KEVORAK DJANSEZIAiVTnc Associated Press Mission to Mars: Dr. Matthew Golombek and Richard Cook, speak at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. tion of life early in Mars' history," said Matt P. Golombek, a ly Laboratory, the California Institute of Technology agency that controlled Pathfinder for NASA. "Because there was liquid water billions of years ago, it is conceivable that there could have been life," said H. J. Moore of the U.S. Geological Survey, one of the principal researchers with Sojourner. "The liquid water makes that a possibility." Liquid water would mean that Mars was much warmer than the temperatures experienced by Pathfinder, the researchers say minus-100-degre- e in Science. GOOD MORNING! THE WEATHER t. ' S Today: Increasing clouds and hazy with highs Tonight mostly'cloudy VV 1 with lows 40-4-5. 25-3- 0. Tomorrow: Cloudy with a 30 percent chance of rain. Highs Turri.to A8 for comnlete weather information. INSIDE INDEX Artftil combination: Composer Merrill Arts Business D3 Classifieds E8 Jenson and artist Greg Olsen have combined their talents in a new Christmas compact disc released by Shadow Mountain. The album is about children and Christmas reminiscences. 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