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C ft'- - the Daily Herald Friday, Qowboy Caucus 50ft without 'jefe' A nice SALT LAKE CITY kid or a dangerous pedophile. A sick, despondent man or someone at peace with himself. By DONALD W. MEYERS The Daily Herald ( It seems the Cowboy Caucus is without getting a bit its leader. "The caucus is a small band of rural representatives that was led byjhe flamboyant Rep. Met Johnson, Harmony. Johnson, who once boasted having cowboy boots made from "liberal Democ-rats"kinresigned to pursue a business venture and continue his work on state's rights. During a lull in Thursday afternoon's floor session, Rep. Tom H Descriptions of John Albert Taylor were often ambiguous and even conflicting. Few people his family knew him well. Nobody called him a friend. The only family member who watched as Taylor died early this morning hadn't seen him since he was a child. Taylor's execution was carried out more than six years after he was convicted of raping and strangling a child near Ogden, where he was born 36 years ago. Taylor maintained his innocence to the end, where he showed a steely resolve in going through with his death wish that hardly reflected a life given over to drugs, violence and pedophilic appetites. soft-heart- w s" announced Hatch, the caucus held a lunch meeting aJuTvoted to put an animal on the Endangered Species List, a surprising act for a group of ranchers. The animal in question is an I890s-styl- e feather hat that Rep. Patricia B. Larson, wore during the Legislature's presentation on the 100th anniversary women's suffrage in Utah. 'The House approved the rnotron, with an amendment from Lake Rep. Steve Barth, City, : to include Rep. Peter C. Khudson's toupee. Knudson, City, proudly removed theh,airpiece and displayed it and hip bald pate to the full House. least 18 months "SALT LAKE CITY (AP) The Youth Parole Authority has ordered a boy to be irlcafcerated at least 1 12 years on homicide charges stemming from the deaths of two classmates. Laramie Huntzinger appeared before the board on Wednesday. He had been sentenced to the Decker Lake youth facility in De,c,epber after 3rd District Juvenile;. Judge Arthur G. Christean found him guilty of two counts of automobile homicide. ' Christean had ordered him to a lockup facility for an undetermined time not to exceed his 21st birthday. "Witnesses that testified Huntzinger was drunk and had marijuana in his system when he hit1 three girls walking on a Sandy sidewalk early Aug. 10. Elizabeth Phillips, 15, and Jennifer Neddo, 16, were killed instantly. Jaimie Cogswell, 16, was critically injured. Huntzinger also did not have a driver's license. Desert bighorn sheep released REEF NATIONAL Wildlife officials are releasing up to 20 desert bighorn sheep in southeastern Utah this week, hoping to reestablish the ablmals in their natural habitat. 'By; late Wednesday, 11 ewes aflitSne ram had been flown by hicjppter to a staging area at the Grand View Point Overlook in Canyonlands National Park, 60 miles' to the east of here. ,',The sheep, to be joined by eight more by week's end, were then loMJd into a modified horse trailer fortheir trip to a release point on thp northern end of Capitol Reef. Yhe transplant operation is part of a cooperative effort between the National Park Service and the CAPITOL PRK (AP) j Utah'' Division of Wildlife Resources. Legislator vants to close mines thou-sahd- 1 -f 1 1 -- Taylor quickly became But when it came to the end, his voice was steady and he accommodated the guards who strapped him into the specially made chair and sat still and quiet while four marksmen shot him through the heart. "This was what he wanted," said warden Hank Galetka. Taylor was raised in Florida by his stepfather and mother after his parents divorced. Later, after the family moved to Oregon, an uncle, Gordon Lee, remembered him as a "nice little kid" who wanted to be a truck driver like his father, Albert, whom he worshipped. WiM need $44 million to close all tile state. At the rate we're going, to see nnepf us will be around Dave said mines closed," tljosiT LuuuJki. board chairman. For two hours, John' educational campaign aimed at increasing public awareness of railroad dangers. January has seen three fatal accidents involving trains, the latest when Ken Quach, 39, was killed after his car was struck by a train at a North Salt Lake railroad crossing about 5:30 a.m. Wednesday. Police Chief Val Wilson said Quach drove around the crossing arms and ignored flashing warning lights. The Union Pacific Railroad train, traveling from Los Angeles to Denver, was going 51 mph when it hit Quach's car. The vehicle was dragged for half a mile before the train could come to a stop, Wilson said. Quach was killed on impact, he corridor could convince Union Pacific to launch a train safety said. On Monday, Ruby McMillan, 68, was killed by a train while she was walking her dog along the tracks in Morgan County. Union Pacific officials said campaign locally. The company would work with community leaders and school officials to educate residents and their children, and Union Pacific officials also would cooperate with state transportation officials in sounded warnings engineers before the train struck her from behind. o About 65 percent of all accidents at track crossings . The two. Lindsey and' ss It, J) kw'S , 5k mm, he, ,1.3 AP Photo J. Terry Bartlett, director of institutional operations for the Department of Corrections, plays John Albert Taylor's last statement on a tape recorder for the media following Taylor's execution by firing squad early this morning in the Utah State Prison at Point of the Mountain. mother would often take out her animosity toward her on her son. VIDEO Once in prison in Utah, the reclusive Taylor became even more withdrawn. PROFESSOR' The 1 Computer Instructor in the World! " S pvN US S mH H I ! ! '5? Choose from WINDOWS 95, r i i I 8 4QQS5 &-- 1 value! i tt ' Windows 95 INTERNET, DOS, MS t - WORD, WORDPERFECT, LOTUS, EXCEL, QUICKEN, MS WORKS, WINDOWS 3. Lunches and Dinners at Hires 1 and many more! Simply call us and let the operator know which software you would like to learn. create wonderful family memories. Free toJ ta sg 2448 North University Parkway Inside Dining and Car Hop Service jL. Josh, who asked that their' last names not be used, said Taylor spoke in a pleasant monotone, showins emotion. only when he mentioned hiV son, whom had not seen in years. "He said that he had a son' that he missed along," Lind- -' sey said, "he would love to talk to his son again." but' had mixed feelings because such a talk would hurt the' boy. Taylor skirted the topic of his previous sex offenses," and. as he has all along.' denied he killed Charla King. He said he broke into" King apartment in search of' money and left 10 minutes" ";; later. Taylor said he chose to, die by firing squad to protest what he called the "murder"--, of an innocent man. c Delicious, Fun, and Nostalgic 2 H i nri,,MJff.;t,Vj:lr::i' .:i ptnntiPQ 375-525- d on. studying ways to prevent Create Family (South oMoties8n the Plum Tree Shopping Center) 1 LmMffl education campaign are caused by motorists who disregard warning signs, said Union Pacific spokesman Mark Davis of Omaha, Neb. He said many drivers also misread how fast a train is going. "It's like watching an airplane land at the airport. A 747 looks like it's floating in the air, but it's really going 200 mph," Davis said. There are exceptions, such as an accident Jan. 12 in Clearfield where a railroad worker reportedly raised the crossing arm and waved traffic through. Joseph Roberts was killed when his car was struck by a train as he was crossing the tracks. The Federal Railroad Administration may conduct its own investigation into that accident, FRA Spokesman John Fitzpatrick said. Davis said the high number of Lake accidents in the Ogden-Sa- lt student reporters, talking., about his childhood and the, murder he denied commit-- , ting but for which he was. executed early today. "He was very courteous,, very polite," said Lindsey,, . 17. "He spoke in these big,; .. long words that no one uses." The two students from ' Valley High School's news- interviewed staff Taypaper lor Monday as a marshal and ' teacher-looketheir journalism 111 Officials considering NORTH SALT LAKE (AP) fatalities has A rash of train-ca- r railroad officials considering an Hires Big H fc been a tnulttm for j5,mrc in faSdltLike Mfo'ffrhifixxlmulck-erfulsmic- and is not in I'lab li to wyon e Ibis bnsfialii): , Albert Taylor spoke to two self-doub- Taylor, Lee said, would sometimes run away to search for his real father. Lee was the only family member who asked the judge to spare Taylor's life. And the only relative who watched him die. Taylor found his father in Ogden. Utah, where he moved in 1989 after serving 10 years in a ; SALT LAKE CITY (AP the prime suspect in the case. He was arrested and charged when police found his fingerprints on the telephone in King's bedroom. Galli testified against her brother both at the trial and penalty hearing, urging that he be put to death. She testified that Taylor raped her when she was 12 years a crime that sent him into a old sex offenders program in 1978. While in treatment, Taylor confessed to exposing himself and molesting other young girls. "I have been into all types of sexual deviations since I was 10 or 11 years old," he wrote in 1979. "For me, sex was one way for me to release the feelings I was going through. But I didn't know how to express them so I would go out and do something deviate or I would use alcohol or drugs to get the same effect." He said the behavior stemmed t, from a life of hatred and feelings of insecurity. Lee told of seeing his nephew tied to a bed and crying in a tub of cold water. In interviews with freelance writer Beverly DeVoy, Taylor described his natural father as a loving, decent man. His stepfather, he said, "never spared the rod." And he said his "domineering" policy-makin- of these abandoned mines around interview plex. Prosecutors say he either forced or coerced his way into her apartment, strangled her with a telephone cord and raped her. Police say he stuffed her panties in her mouth to silence her screams. The girl's mother found the body. After learning of the crime, Galli became suspicious. Her brother, she said, was too quiet that afternoon. train-aut- .'jSXLT LAKE CITY (AP) -Proposed legislation would pump an additional $1.5 million into efforts by the Utah Division of OifcQas and Mining to seal of abandoned mines. --rThe bill is being prepared by in Matthews, Rep.'Tom Jerimiah the wake of Etherington's fatal plunge earlier this month down the shaft of an old Tooele County mine. State officials estimate there are as.many as 20,000 abandoned mines in Utah. g The division's boHfd endorsed Matthews' legislation Wednesday and is writing a latter asking Gov. Mike Leavitt to sfcpport an appropriation. jit, is estimated the division 11th-ho- ur Washington Terrace apartment Char-l- a w hen he spotted year-old in lived comthe who also King, pounds. Teen to serve at Teens get munity. On June 23, 1989, he was visiting a sister, Laura Galli, at her At age 13, he stabbed his abusive stepfather. At 17, he raped his own sister. While in prison, the Taylor ballooned to 261 D-S- aiitbmobile Florida prison. His five sisters also lived in that northern Utah com- By MIKE CARTER Associated Press Writer January 26, 1996 No obligation to purchase Limit! tree title per household. You w m ton 'Only s395 for shipping and fondling. IBM &Corrp3!ibks only. tim approximately' minutes. Some restrictions may Punning p. ' |
