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Show The Daily Herald Monday, January 29, 1996 Briefs Executed man's uncle remembers UNION, Ore. (AP) The uncle of the first man executed by firing squad in the past 20 years says his nephew was more afraid of lethal injection than being shot to death. Gordon Lee said he ate pizza with ' convicted child killer John Albert Taylor, and counseled him about dying in the hours before the execution. ' "I said, 'Johnny, it's a trip everybody has to make, and everybody has to make it by themselves,'" Lee said. '',Taylor, 36, was executed Friday at .the Utah State Prison. At his request, his uncle was among the witnesses. 2 Lee said his nephew was not visibly agitated or nervous when he was placed in the execution chair. ."He moved his head to where the warden could adjust the hood and the strap under his neck," Lee ! firing-squa- d . said. '." Although some speculated that Taylor chose the firing squad to embarrass the state, Lee said his nephew didn't trust lethal injection and recounted stories of prisoners who suffered during the pro- cedure. Bill would punish cursing students 'SALT LAKE CITY (AP) A bill before the Utah House would allow schools to suspend students who utter "foul, profane tor abusive language." Minority Leader Scott Howell, is sponsoring the bill because of problems his aunt has faced as a public school teacher. su "Essentially, students can say atever they want," he said. "HvlyVaunt is at wits end with a fourth-gradwho continually word and other ijrsesthe obscene language in the classroom. Then he became abusive and it just went on and on." ,. SB33 has passed the Senate and has been forwarded to the House for consideration. Merilee Terry, who teaches a combined fourth- - and class at Maeser Elementary in the Provo School District, agrees that respect for the teaching profession has declined over the past decade. n . er 'f fifth-gra- de ,, Study reveals tax cut drawback .SALT LAKE CITY (AP) Eliminating the state's share of property taxes this year may mean that Utah legislators will have to increase other taxes later, according 6 a new study. The report by nonpartisan policy researchers at the Utah tion states that doing away with the state's nearly $180 million-a-yeproperty tax is likely to make state revenues unstable and jeopardize the health of government ancTbusiness in Utah. The study comes as the Legislature wrestles with how to spend nearly $550 million in surplus tax revenues, fueled by a state economy Gov. Mike Leavitt has termed as "sizzling." Utah lawmakers have not specked which taxes will make up the j00 million in cuts they are lead-mg this year, but some SALT LAKE CITY (AP) Some of Utah's congressional delegates were more successful at getting their bills passed last year than others, according to year-en- d reviews of 1995 legislation. Republicans have supported targeting property taxes. 5 Foundation director Mike Christensen said the state's tax structure, which relies and sales tax2j income, property the is "over long run, substanes, to tially superior one that is depen-cfeon just one or two taxes." ld nt w fee causes blaze inside business SALT LAKE CITY (AP) Melting ice has been blamed for a Salt Lake County business fire about $250,000 in tssr;taused damage. Salt Lake County Fire Battalion drhief Ron Morris says it appears ice sheets on the roof of Guy's Inc. metal-tub- e repair shop slid into a chimney, knocking it loose from the fireplace. J Embers are believed to have forked the blaze in the attic about 2:10 p.m. Sunday. 35 ; It took 23 firefighters about fire. minutes to control the Damage occurred not only to the building itself, but a motor was outside Home parked destroyed. No injuries were reported. high-profi- m le et Snow-basi- eaents OKs switch to s emesters SALT LAKE CITY (AP) Students and faculty at all nine of the state's public colleges and universities soon will be dividing their academic year into semesters rather than quarters. Meeting at Salt Lake Community College, the Utah Board of Regents voted to convert eight of the state's nine schools to the longer semester calendar by fall of 1998. Utah Valley State College in Orem already follows a semester calendar. Many faculty members and students opposed the decision and questioned whether the Utah Legislature will appropriate the necessary funds to make a smooth transition. "In order not to risk degrading the educational experience of our students, it is imperative that appropriate funding be put in place before a timetable for shifting to semesters is established," said Benny Rushing, dean of the Uni- versity of Utah's College of Sci- ence. The regents authorized the commissioner of higher education to seek $500,000 during this legislative session for planning. Eventually, $2 million to $5 million will be needed to convert calendars system wide. Larzette Hale, the only regent board voting against the switch, argued the state on the has more pressing issues to address such as relatively low faculty salaries. "We are good institutions whether we go to semesters or stay with quarters," she said. "Money-wiswe ought to look at our real e, priorities." University of Utah President Arthur K. Smith, who strongly supported the change, said if the money is not forthcoming, he would favor delaying the implementation from the fall of 1998 to 1999 "or beyond." Students should not be financially disadvantaged, "nor should it be financed on the backs of the faculty," Smith said. He also cautioned that the transition "will be inconvenient and it will be disrup- tive." Student Regent Stacey Yardley said she has found general opposition to the switch. However, she said, students would accept semesters so long as they are not forced to fund the change through higher tuitions and have a voice in the planning process. Students will be the primary beneficiaries of a conversion to semesters, said Higher Education Commissioner Cecelia Foxley, who last week announced her support of a switch. The longer semesters give students more time to digest and retain material, she noted. trying not to forget the past. "In the camp I was beaten and hungry." said Seid Zimic. "But I was like a camera focusing on what was going on. I can't forget the picture." Zimic says he saw Serbs shoot POWs, beat prisoners, then tie them to trees and leave them all night. The former literature teacher took notes on the back of a shoebox lid, memorized what he had written and then destroyed his written observations. By SHAWN FOSTER For The Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY One Muslims the Bosnian one, by quietly wept as they talked about the torture, hunger and cold of the Serb detention camps. And though their towns in eastern Bosnia are now occupied by the Serbs, most of the new arrivals in Utah say they wish they could return to their war-tor- n home. "I just want to go back to Bosnia, it doesn't matter Esad where," said Avdagic. The seven Bosnian Muslims were among the first prisoners of war released by the warring sides in the 3 12-yeconflict in the former Yugoslavia. Now, it appears that most of those in captivity had been freed under the peace accord. The prisoner exchange is widely seen as a key test of the agreement that took effect in December. But it will take more than a release of prisoners to bring peace. The seven Bosnians said that 10 years ago they could not have imagined a land ripped apart by ethnic and religious hatred. The power of the Yugoslav leader Josip Broz Tito hard-hittin- Now, Zimic has material for a book that he hopes will keep the atrocities of the war alive in the world's consciousness. "I would like to forget, but I am going to write about it because I want people to know the truth," Zimic. said the ar Friends face charges in murder case "I'm going to need a lot of time to find peace again. After that, maybe I can think about the U.S.-broker- ed SALT LAKE CITY (AP) Two friends have been ordered to stand trial in the 1995 death of a man who was found near a stream in Big Cottonwood Canyon. Jerry W. Dickey, 34, and Brandon G. Korous, 21, will be arraigned Feb. 2, in 3rd District Court on one count each of murder, a felony. Amir Mednolucanin Zimic and the others were captured in August 1995 defending the border town of Zepa, when it fell to the Serbs! The men were released from the camps last week with nothing the surface. But after the fall of communism, the country fell apart when its ethnic and religious communities could not settle Dickey originally faced the centuries-ol- charge alone, but prosecutors filed the count against Korous about two weeks after the pair were arrested on Sept. 27, 1995. Friends of the men testified Friday at a preliminary hearing that they watched Dickey hand a revolver to Korous, who then allegedly shot Michael L. Bartlett, 19, in the head on the evening of Sept. 24. An angler found Bartlett's body two days later. Witnesses said Dickey, Korous and Arrom Shoemaker had thrown the dying man down a steep ravine after he was shot. Shoemaker, contrary to his first statements to police, testified that Korous shot the man at the urging of Dickey, who was concerned that the victim was "talking too much" about a planned drug deal among the members of the group. but the clothes they were wear-- ; ing. "All they had when they arrived were plastic bags con- -: taining immigration paper-- ; work," said Edward Knowles, of the refugee resettlement, organization International Res-- , cue Committee. In the past year, the committee has helped more than 300 differ- political d ences. The war in Bosnia erupted when Muslims and Croats, envisioning a multiethnic state including Serbs, voted to secede from the old Yugoslavia. Serbs living in Bosnia wanted no part of such a state and rebelled. .38-calib- er The Bosnian refugees find alliances changing among the different sides in the the primarily Orthodox war Christian Serbs, Catholic Croats have and Bosnian Muslims taken the lives of hundreds of thousands of people. Now, the former POWs say, it is hard to think of a land without sniper fire and mine fields. "I'm going to need a lot of time to find peace again," said that, maybe the future." I , ' apart-- ments, enroll in English classes and get jobs in Utah. The seven former Bosnian soldiers are the first POWs to arrive in the state. The seven men live together in a apartment in the same complex where many other Bosnian Muslims and a few Bosnian Serbs have made their homes. m Boxes of donated clothes, plastic bags of apples and blankets line the walls of the small "After Amir Mednolucanin. . future." and communist government tanks kept tension firmly under first-degr- , can think about Other former combatants are apartment. Mu seum aids recal WWII ar con-mleri- ng Former POWs just want to go home work I've been able to accomplish some bills are part of a multiyear this year. I plan to continue that effort to pass legislation." He lost a work in the coming year." crusade to Orton blamed his record mostly ban flag desecration. on an unwillingness by Republican Three of 10 bills passed by leaders to work with Democrats. A Republican Sen. Bob Bennett While first-terbill he helped included measures to improve conRepublican balanced-budgtrol of salinity in the Colorado Rep. Enid Greene Waldholtz had a develop with 21 other moderate River and to help reform securities perfect batting average despite Democrats known as The Coalition was killed in the House. litigation. He also introduced a controversy surrounding her perwith sonal and campaign finances, her now in the Senate Labor Comdon't bill, us, negotiate "They Democratic colleague Rep. Bill and they often don't even negotiate mittee, that would impose nationOrton was unable to pass any bill. with their own members," he said. wide standards to safeguard the Most of Waldholtz's bills were "The only people they really negoprivacy of medical records. resolutions from the Rules Comtiate with are lobbyists." Republican Rep. Jim Hansen mittee that govern the debate of Republican Sen. Orrin Hatch passed seven of his 21 bills, other bills. Their passage is nearly passed more legislation than the including a bill to create a Great Western Scenic Trail and some automatic, and they fail only in rest of the delegation combined, rare cases. One g bill which he does virtually every year. land exchanges. He said many that was passed bars gifts to House His legislation included a bill to more are posed to pass the House members from lobbyists. It took stiffen penalties for sex crimes quickly this year, and blamed effect Jan. 1. against children, a bill to help ban stalling by Democrats and budget The Salt Lake Tribune and commercial counterfeiting and an battles for preventing their considDeseret News detailed the deleamendment to save and increase eration last year. stoin Hansen's stewardship of the funding for the Office of National gate's legislation separate n Wilderness Act, the Utah ries on Sunday. Control Drug Policy. land exchange and national Hatch said his average could be "I've worked hard to be a good even higher, "but you have to park reform drew an onslaught of representative for the 2nd Disin said Waldholtz a trict," prepared introduce a lot of bills as markers criticism, and has yet to see resolustatement, "and I'm proud of the (for negotiations with others), and tion. By TOM QUINN For The Associated Press experience First Lt. A. OGDEN (AP) Dale Michaelis of Garland, Utah, died Sept. 28, 1944, when the 7 he was piloting fell from the German sky on his 17th combat mission with the U.S. 8th Air Force. The fallen pilot was Lynn Michaelis' first cousin. Lynn was at the Hill Aerospace Museum on a historical mission. In less than an hour, Lynn found kin out more about his war-her- o than he had ever known before, even down to the weather on the B-1- 7 was knocked day Dale's down by enemy flak. When Lynn's research is completed, he will present it to Richard son, Michaelis, Dale's who never saw his father alive. Dale was at the museum along with scores of people associated with the 8th Air Force, from bomber crew members to historiB-1- ld ans. Nathan Mazer, museum information monitor, said making all 8th the records of the 400,000-maAir Force available through the collecfacility's tion of books, records and computer links is just the beginning. "There were 10 units called an Air Force that fought in World War II, and we hope to be able to supply the same detailed information on all those someday as we can now do for the 8th," Mazer said. Mazer was in the 8th from its inception until June, 1964. "We who were in the 8th during World War II are getting old. We want to share knowledge to the public, widows, children, and anyone else who needs answers now," he said. n about 200 Utahns Today, 8th Air Force Histor the to belong ical Association, many of them veterans, but the organization is open to anyone according to Bud Gunner, museum curator. Among the veterans is John L. Moore, 73, Holladay, who was the navigator-bombardion a That job had him perched out in a plastic bubble in the plane's nose away from the heating system. "In addition, to the bad weather, flak, and the Luftwaffe, there was for me another problem: cold. We would fly at an altitude of 25,000 to 30,000 feet and the temperature just outside the bubble would be about 50 degrees below er 4. Wlinii zero." P-3- lf Grimshaw said. i .IrnUimiiri nin ' in " ' ' T "" Try being a Daily Herald carrier, Never injured in 35 combat sorties (the maximum allowed) Moore's only wound came from being hit by a bike ridden by a comrade in England. But he had a more serious close call: "The engines were on fire and we couldn't get them put out. The pilot said we'd parachute in 30 seconds or so. Then by divine intervention or something, the flames went out and we were able to fly back to the base. When we landed, I took a look at my parachute. A piece of flak had turned the chute into rags." Fighter pilots had to fly more missions than bomber crews to earn rotation out, so John Grimshaw, 73, Bountiful, had 67 flights into enemy territory. "I loved those They could do anything but dive better than the German Focke-Wufighters. Fortunately, when I shot one of them down, I got behind him before he got behind me," nnTr'rtMTil1iTnraMrri-im- and collecting for papers once a month! It's probably as frustra' ig for you as it is for your carrier! Have you ever missed your carrier, : been out of change when they come to collect? Here's an easy way to sc . e those problems. You can pay by maill It's easy, safe, and convenient. 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