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Show The Daily Herald Tuesday, October 3, 1995 s: Corradini must release financial records riefs Checkout errors examined in study - SALT LAKE CITY (AP) A Weber State University professor and student went grocery shopping and found a 4 percent error rate at the checkout stand, with the over- charges and undercharges about equal. Professor Cliff Nowell and student Sherri Waterbury bought 60 grocery items at five Ogden stores. They took the same shopping list to Albertson's, Fred Meyer, Harmon's, Smith's and Stop and Shop. Then they compared shelf prices to those on the receipts. The store that came closest to a correct total also was the store with the most errors. Scanners there miscalculated five items, yet the bill was 8 cents below the accurate total. One store charged the correct amount on all 60 items, but two items that had not been purchased appeared on the bill, adding S2.55 the highest overcharge of all five stores. - LOGAN (AP) The National Transportation Safety Board has determined that a loose nut on an oil line, coupled with clouds and snow, caused a light plane crash that killed a father and son. On Oct. 1, 1994, the pilot had radioed air traffic controllers that his plane had lost oil pressure and he was going to try to land at the Logan-Cach- e Airport. But he never made it. His Cessna 210 crashed a few hundred feet from the summit of Cherry Peak east of Richmond, killing him and his son. Walter "Buzz" Ashcraft, 57, a surgeon from St. Louis, Mo., and Clint Ashcraft, 25, Woodland, Calif., were en route from Woodland to Lander, Wyo., when they crashed. A safety inspector who examined the plane's engine discovered at- Whistleblower suit settled for millions - A WASHINGTON (AP) Utah whistleblower will receive nearly $19.4 million in settlement of a lawsuit alleging Lucas Industries and two subsidiaries know- ingly shipped defective parts to the Pentagon and failed to test military plane parts. The British corporation and its two U.S. subsidiaries will pay the U.S. government $88 million to settle the lawsuit. A former machinist for the company, Frederick Copeland. will receive nearly $19.4 million of the total as compensation for bringing some of the allegations to light. His 1993 lawsuit was filed under the "private whistleblower" provi- sions of the False Claims Act. the Justice Department said Monday as it announced the settlement. Copeland sued Lucas Western Inc.. of Park City, where he had worked for three years. Lucas Western manufactures aerospace gearboxes, hoists and similar devices for the military . Corp.'s Chapter - SALT LAKE CITY Two federal judges have rejected Salt Lake Mayor Deedee Corradini's attempt to keep thousands of pages of her personal financial dealings from being released. On the eve of the city's primary election, Corradini and her husband, Yan Ross, did not appear for a hearing Monday at which their attorney asked U.S. District Court Judge David Sam to block the release with a stay order. Sam said the couple had not shown how they would be hurt by release of some 7,100 pages, including income tax returns, that were turned over to the trustee overseeing Bonneville Pacific 1 bankruptcy reorganization more than two years ago. "Mr. Ross and Ms. Corradini have not pointed to a particular harm that would warrant special treatment," Sam said in his ruling from the bench. The couple provided no affidavits or other evidence to show they should be allowed to shield their private financial dealings, he said, "just immediate decision was made on 1 generalizations." whether to seek a stay from the appellate court. "We're going to review what we may tensen said. do." Chris- Vern Hopkinson. an attorney for the Bonneville Pacific bankruptcy trustee, began photocopying some of the documents late Monday for release to reporters. Corradini called the isiue "dirty, negative politics at work "I have already been examined by the (bankruptcy court I experts. They have looked at these records and found there is nothing there," she said. "So. to release these the night before the election is un. The judge also denied the couple's request for a stay so they could ask the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver for a stay. The couple appealed the bankruptcy judge's order to U.S. District Court. Hal Christensen, an attorney representing the couple, said no 72-ho- fair." Free-lanc- e reporter Lynn Pack- er has long been trying to get the Murder suspect arrested after cai! connection with the April 22 California man wants to know why police are looking for him city on the east side of Los Angeles. Police found Anthony Moreno. 42. dead on the front steps of his house. His sister, Maria Moreno. 39. was found dead inside the living room along with Gustavo Aguirre, 36. who was visiting. exe- cution style slaying of five El Monte, Calif., residents including boy who was shot in the head whiie lying on a blanket. Bennion said she couldn't find out what the problem was. but promised Valdez a deputy could help clear up the matter. She asked for his address and he gav e it. Deputies arrived at Valdez's home shortly after 3 p.m. Sunday. He was arrested without resistance. Valdez, 22. was booked into the Salt Lake County Jail and faces extradition to California. At 10:34 p.m. on April 22. police received a 911 call from a home in El Monte, an industrial a - Loose nut caused fatal plane crash the loose nut on the oil line tached to the oil pump. By KRISTEN MOULTON Associated Press Writer SALT LAKE CITY (AP) A man wanted in the slaying of five people in California was arrested after he called Salt Lake County sheriff's dispatchers and asked why the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Office was looking for him. As dispa'cher Anita Bennion entered Richard Valdez' name and birth date into a computer Sunday, she jokingly asked "You didn't kill anybody, did you?" "No, I don't think so," he said. But a warrant had been issued in Maria Moreno's boy. Ambrose Padilla Jr.. and daughter. Laura Moreno, also w ere shot to death. Maria Moreno's other children, boy and had escaped from the home girl, because the suspects ran out "only of ammunition." said Los Angeles a County Sheriff's Deputy Mark Bailey. Meteorologist: Utah's water year great - SALT LAKE CITY (AP) It was a great water year, one that was beneficial to the whole state, said William Alder, National Weather Service meteorologist. "It started off fabulous last fall and continued wet through the spring." he said. "About the only prolonged dry period in many areas was during the summer. Even then, we benefited in a few areas from deluges like last Friday in northern Utah." Precipitation during the water year that ended Saturday was 128 percent of normal statewide, according to hydrologist Randall of the Natural Resources er Conservation Service. The wet spring raised fears of Hooding along Little Cottonwood Creek in Salt Lake County and triggered an April mudslide that wiped out a section of highway in Zion National Park. Repairs were completed by Memorial Day. and the slide had minimal impact on visitorship. Instead, tourists to southern Utah's national parks were treated to more luxuriant foliage among k the landscape. Plant life at Zion nourished w ith 26.42 inches of rain and snow dur171 percent ing the water year of normal. red-roc- 2 new downtown parks dedicated in Salt Lake SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -City and Mormon Church leaders have dedicated two new downtown parks as refuges and reminders of the state's pioneer heritage. Gordon B. Hinckley, president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-da- y Saints, said Monday the pair of adjacent parks would be places of peace and contemplation. "What has happened is a thing of beauty that w ill bless the lives of people for years to come." he said. Hinckley lives in an apartment overlooking the Brigham Young Memorial Park, one of the parks that was dedicated. He was joined at the ceremony by 'Mayor Deedee Corradini. who said she was "thrilled" when Other parks fared nearly as well. Bryce Canyon's total was 132 percent of normal while precipitation in Moab. a hub city for Canyonlands and Arches, was 135 percent of average. With the exception of Wendov er, northern Utah was comparably wet. Randolph had 19.8 inches of precipitation and was 219 percent of iiormal. Nearby Woodruff was 148 percent ot normal. The Great Salt Lake was a foot higher Sunday than it had been the prev ious Oct. 1. The lake's southern arm now is 4.199.70 feet above sea level. -- torprcuousvears. Allen was acting on a request by Packer, who wanted to look at the documents Corradini and Kin hd provided to Segal two veais ago when thev struck a S7f0.()(Ki settlement to keep their names out ot a lawsuit The couple, massive c has paid all but SI 00.000. due in two remaining installments. Corradini was an executive in a ' company that eventually became' Bonneville Pacific. :md received-loanand travel expenses fiom an offshore company that federal investigators believe was fraudulently used to drain money from Bonneville Pacific. She has not been indicted on criminal charges, ' as have five other former execu- in the balloting to winnow the con- test down to two for the November general election. Polls show Corradini far ahead of her opponents in her bid to w in a second term in office The order Sam let stand was signed earlier Monday U.S. bv I i . Bankruptcy Judge John Allen, and required the trustee. Roger Segal, to release the documents Monda evening. Hopkinson said he would release Corraciini's and Rosv' 1990-199- 2 tax returns first and the remainder today. Allen's order allows Corradini and Ross until next Mondas to turn over the 1.800 documents the trustee had returned to them. tives, but federal investigators Those included income lax relurns have said the probe continues. Preliminary hearing begins for Decorso SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- two girls, the foiled robbery of Draper shoe store and the October 1992 rape of a woman at The Haunted Old Mill. Decorso was arrested in February after a woman told police Decorso gave her a ride while she was hitchhiking, then kidnapped and sexually assaulted her at gunpoint. .After she jumped from his van. he drove over her. she testified at a preliminary hearing in Mav He awaits trial in 3rd District Court for this alleged murder attempt. His initial arrest led police to link him with unsolved crimes in which women were robbed and assaulted. Investigators compared his fingerprints and DNA with evidence recovered at the crime scenes. In addition, one victim identified him as her The slayer of Payless clerk Margaret Ann Shoe-Sourc- a e Martinez first wrapped her face with duct tape. He stabbed her in the neck and breasts. He ripped the clothes from her body. The tape "was wound tightlv enough that her nose was completely flattened and her eyelids could not open." Maureen Frikke. a pathologist with the State Medical Examiner's Office, testified Monday at the completely and tightlv . preliminary hearing Michael Scott Decorso. "There was no way for air to enter her nose or mouth." e Decorso. 26. a former firefighter, faces capital murder charges in the Feb. 15. 1994. slaying of Martinez 50. during a robbery. A store manMid-val- attacker whether there is enough in line-up- 's ry. pair of scissors lav near the body, and a gang insignia had been smeared on a w .ill vv ith her blood, police sav evi- A dence to warrant a trial on eight felony counts. The other cases are the kidnaping and rape of F'rTfrTri r37T? 1 court s. records say. A fingerprint matching left middle finger was lifted from a piece of duct tape used to bind Marline, testified fingerprint expert Scott Spjut of the Utah State Crime Laborato- ager testified S850 was missing from the store's till and safe. He also is charged in attacks on other women and girls. 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