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Show r The Daily Herald in fatal shooting SALT LAKE CITY Most voters still (AP) Salt Lake City police believe drugs were the motivation in the man at his slaying of a apartment over the weekend. Sgt. Jim Faraone said cocaine and packaging materials were found in the apartment where the man died of a single gunshot wound to the chest Saturday night. The shooting occurred at Apartments on Redwood Wood-have- SALT LAKE CITY (AP) Perennial candidate Merrill Cook is in the lead of a crowded pack of candidates for the 2nd Congressional District seat, according to a n new poll. However, Road. a full 46 percent of voters polled last week by Dan Jones & Associates said they w ere undecided. Jones conducted the poll for the Deseret News and KSL. and the results were reported Sunday in the Deseret News. The poll of 202 residents had a 7 percent margin of error. Cook, who rejoined the Republican party this winter after six years as an Independent, was favored by 22 percent of those sun eved. Democrat Kelly Atkinson got the nod from 13 percent, and the rest of the field got lesser shares. Eight Republicans are seeking the paily nomination to run for the seat Rep. Enid Greene Waldholu plans to relinquish after her current term. Two Democrats are competing, and there are five candidates from other political parties. The Republicans and Democrats will have conventions in May. and. if necessary, primaries in ILt. Cairoll Mays said no arrests hid been made by Sunday night. 'Witnesses at the apartment complex told police they saw three black male suspects fleeing d through the neighborhood after the shinning. Mays said. The victim's roommate witnessed the murder, but did not intervene. "He saw and spoke with the suspects, but stayed out of it apparently." said Mays. The roommate ran out of his apartment and told a security guard about the shooting. By the time paramedics and police east-boun- arried, the victim was dead. Ogden won't give more for stadium Utah (AP) OGDEN. Ogden's Crty Council already has voted not to spend more money for a baseball But that stadium. won't slop stadium proponents from seeking another $525,000 to put funding over the top. Whn the council doubled the taxpayers' contribution to SI. 5 million last y ear, it passed a reso- June to determine their candi lution saying that was the limit. On Tuesday night, however, the council will be asked to approve a e Jones noted that much of Cook's support comes from name identification. This is his seventh race in a decade, over which he has spent millions running for Salt Lake City mayor ( 19X5 ). county commissioner (1986). governor (1988 and 1992) and for the 2nd District (1994). Jones' poll gave Cook 26 percent support in a Republican primary and fellow Republican David Harmer. Waldholt's former chief of staff. 10 percent. Among those w ho said they are "strong" Republicans. Cook has 22 percent support to Harmer's 14 percent and R. Todd NeiNon's 8 percent. The rest had smaller proportions of support. In the Democratic race. Atkinson, state House minority whip, faces local attorney Ross Anderson in a race that threatens to split the party between politically moderate Mormon Church bers and more liberal party memmem- bers. Nearly 60 percent of the district's voters were undecided in a Democratic Party primary matchup, according to the poll. Atkinson had 23 percent support, and Anderson. 19 percent. Among those who said they were Democrats. Atkinson had 27 percent support, and Anderson 16 percent. Among "strong" Democrats. Atkinson was at 25 percent. Anderson percent and 64 percent were undecided. 1 1 stadium development to the financing d contributions. Some $725,000 from an unnamed donor has been pledged for construction costs. Proponents also hae cut down on the sie of the $6 million. t 5 project, trimming $1.5 million from the costs because .000-sea- they have not yet sold the rights to the stadium's name. Instead, said Mayor Glenn Mecham said, "a viable stadium" will be completed downtown in thav phases if the city council agrees w ith the proposal Tuesday. "This is what's affordable and what we can manage now." he Or! Council members Garth Day and Adele Smith said the council may lean toward user fees rather than dipping into the city coffers again. "The stadium will hae a huge impact on Northern I'tah. and people from all around come to see the Raptors play." Day said. .;A Utah man wants AP Photo daughter back week-ol- d 17, holds hit baby boy. Hongphakdy, a founder of the Salt Lake City gang the Oriental Posse, wants to get a new job and start a new lite, but the pull of the gang he belonged to is strong. Experts say fatherhood may help him out of the gang. Ai Hongphakdy, A CHEYENNE. Wyo. (AP) Utah man has asked Wyoming's Supreme Court for custody of his daughter, who was adopted by a Wyoming couple. Greg Johnston. 19. of Vernal, is thj biological father of the girl, wljose mother gave her up for adaption after having the baby in in April IW5. Swjeetwater County At ivsue in the case, which the hih court took under adv isement. is whether Johnston ever accepted responsibility for the child within the time required under Wyoming law. judges rt in Cedar City next month to discuss how much access the public should have to kids' court heanngs and records, will meet topic of increasing interest a nationwide. Utah already has opened part of the juvenile justice system; the Legislature last y ear passed a law that makes the criminal records of juveniles age 16 or older public if they are charged with a felony. "With the increased number (of young, violent offenders), the public is entitled to know." said Utah Juvenile Court Administra- tor John McNamara. "There is nothing secret or magical in being in that courtroom." Indeed, many states are unlocking their once secret files and opening courtroom doors. Fifteen states and the District of Columbia have opened their court hearings to the public, regardless of the offender's age or type of crime, according to a survey by the National Center for Juvenile Justice in Pittsburgh. Thirty states have limited access to juvenile court records ranging from releasing the offender's name to complete disclosure of criminal records. states' Remaining juvenile records are closed. In Utah, juvenile court judges have the right to open hearings for juveniles under 16 it is under that provision that 3rd District Juvenile Court Judge Kimberly Horruk will decide on Tuesday whether the news media will be allowed into court heargirl accused ings of a of killing her mother Jessica kaddourah has pleaded innocent to charges that she OGDEN (AP) They are all the closer everywhere. Getting time. Quick Cash. Check Mate. Utah Juvenile Court Administrator Cash-4-Yo- Xtra-Cas- u. Cash-4-M- F ast h e. a State District Judge John Troughton had ruled Johnston failed to do so and approved the baby's adoption by a Wyoming couple. But Johnston's attorney LaVoy Taylor said Johnston had regis tcrtd in Utah as the father prior to the birth and said he has shown Ite w ants to raise the child. She said if Troughton's interpretation of the law is upheld. "We have a statute that allows someone to vtcal someone's child when he has not been proven unfit." Johnston met the child's mother in Utah in April IW4. when they were both 17 and she was in the care of 'oster parents. her mother. Donna Kaddourali Shelton. and left her body in a Murray pond on Feb 20. The girl turned 14 several days later. Hornak's decision may have a lasting effect on how many other juvenile proceedings are nude public. Other juvenile-cour- t judges are expected to use her ruling as a guideline The family had moved to Utah from New Mexico just Jays attorney. Lynn Donaldson. "They tend to get stigmatized and have to move to another school or another home." he said "If they're really trying to do what's in the best interest of the kid. publicity is way down the list " Utah juvenile court judges are celling fed up. however, over negative publicity about how courts handle cases. juvenile They say it's not the judges who sometimes gne hardened teens breaks, hut a system that is undcttunded and overworked. "The juvenile court sutlers more because ... of this veil of confidentiality." court administrator McNamara said. "But they (judges; were eager to lift that veil and still stand firm about those kids who are protecting "' v ictinis "ve want the community to see what happens." McNamara before Shelton died In that state, juvenile records have been open since the mid- lsSOs. said. "These are community problems." whites, blacks and Latinos called them "Chinks." and constantly picked fights. To protect themselves, the Laotians turned from dancers to gangsters. The beatings stopped. It was not long, though, before Hongphakdy and his friends w ho came to Ctah w ith their families to escape communist regimes in Southeast Asia began breakinto cars, ing busting heads and shooting stolen guns Three member, of the Posse have been conv icted of murder, and another is wanted in the November clerk at a killing of a Midvale Kentucky f ried Chicken restaurant. Police sav the 245 Asian cane members in Salt Lake County are becoming increasingly violent Yet for teen-ager- "The competition has picked up the last two years," Berman said. "We used to have it pa-ttmuch to ourselves " He estimates there aa' now as many as X) of the specialty shops loans making one- - and for up to $200 between Logan and Orem. most with the catchy d names implying speed and but you get the idea. Postdated check services, or "payday loan-et- " as a state official calls them, have sprouted up and down the Wasatch Front. In the Weber-Davi- s area, there are about a dozen between Ogden and Lay ton along 1900 West alone. Check the yellow pages and they take up three pages. About five ears ago. there was one in Lay ton and one in Ogden. "I was the first guy in the state to really push them, to advertise them." said Mike Bernun. founder of Check Post. His original shop was in Ijivton. and he has a second in Salt Lake City now and ties to a half-doe- n more under different names. "It's an accepted way of changing one's life without repercussions.'' sIk' says. "Kids have told inc. T have my woman. I'm givina have my baby, it's time for me to move on.' " Hongphakdy s parents. Boun-thaand Ait Lnda. hope the baby will help their boy grow up Both work on an assembly line making denture cream in South Jordan and also have pan time jobs. The family's foui children ate well-fe- d and properly clothed, but the Hongphakdy s are frustrated that they have not had more time to spend with their wayward son They were saddened when Hongphakdy was arrested March If a month atter his son was bom for hiding a sawed ott in the family's well-kep- t shotgun home, where visitors must remove their shovs upon entering "My tears aa' going to bv bkxd coming mt. I cry so much." viys the boy "s mother, Hongphakdy long juvenile rap sheet could lead to his being certified as an adult, which would almost certainly land him in prison He currently lives in the home of a proctor, where he can be closely supervised One afternoon. Hongphakdy enjoy s a rare v isit home, an y electronic-monitorin- Can I be ea pre-opprov- before I start looking for a house? He stares out the window while his mother. hoMins: tinv Asm on OtWtfiJ AflPWtf 1 the valley's 3.2(H) documented, gang members. TViese people who range in s live in age from 10 to 53 rich and poor, and represent virtually all ethnic groups. The crimes tliey are committing range from theft to murder. And the increase in incidents is staggering trom ;sS in to S.5O0 in In terms of sie. latino ganes are Salt Lake Valley's largest with 1.400 members, whites aa-- second with Si. Pacific Islanders are third wuh 3V blacks fourth with 25. Asians are fifth with 245 and a small contingent of American Indians is sixth. "These are kids who feel like wial outcasts." adds Alan Call, a West Valley City police detective who gathers intelligence on street gangs "They want girls, they want cars, they want status And out of frustration they form their little neigh-borfkxvl- 15. group " Hongphakdy says he never has g crime gotten in on Robbing convenience stores and stealing stereos netted him. at rmst. 5lt) at a time," he says. "And it's gone in a day He docs not think gang life ever will pay off Still, he struggles w ith giv ing it up. high-payin- Cfrwr Hmutet: Of Invocation aid Pledge of Allegiance No minutes tor approval QvnfofitlSlJte Coonci fruj Wapr; ConntA9fnda; There are tour items trom tte March 13, Commission MeetmQ For more information on these items, 20 Muncipal Counol CV at 379-- 1996 Planning call the Provo 1 lh 199- resolution o lh Munop -. de use f Council oHh City Caput tnprcvenwm hma m appropriation tr Mjncr Counol has "$ Junt X. Genera) sca( fMf Km from Cy Adrmneration thai ST3 Kinfl lo Purpose 0 ms!amg preempt r Provo. Utah. idprDprt-vx- j autnonty nal apply to recawwJ a recommeda- iX t appropriated m the General Captai Improvement devices or patKSjiaf intersection tor emergency eh PROPOSED 0KWNANCC 1 996--. Kn oronance amending. Section 120C 030. 12 02 and OT 060 aaomng nem eectnc utwty customers with good payment htonet to no longer be equved to pay the nem customer oepott ton lesxwntiai units ot tour or less) and mo increasing the penaHy tor ectnc mry service tampering C RESOLUTION 19M-- . A lesotueon eutoortfing the acquisition & two parcel ot re property ot tea We ai easements and lestnctont ot record, by negoaakon or together by condemnation tor purpose ot wderwig TOO East Street located awng tie West side ot said ?0C East Street located between 90C Sou and 950 South. Provo. Utah, whose legal aeacnnbon ere speceev set torts ENM 'A' ot ins resolution 0. PROPOSED OAOMANCt lew-- . An iHenrn ordnance repealing the Suns Clause on Secton ISO 050 ot se Provo Cv Ordinances whrti Section requm developers to prondt suthoenl ale: ngN to the Cy to Meet tukjre Cukrwy water needs ot the development, ot si key tiereol. to pay to Cy tie coat 0 Ottenng such water right PROPOSED ORDNANCE 19V. An ordnance adopting Prove CNy Code' a tie oKcsil led of passed by tie Prove Oty Murnop Counol as ot February 1. 1994 general la I. 12 e obvious. sjs PROVO MUNICIPAL COUNCIL MEETING AGENDA Action. Agenda. A RESOLUTION S23 R?0 1 consumer and mortgage credit. Ken Goddaid. said the growth of the postdated sen ices has become bracelet g shackled to his ankle. her lap. kisses the baby's forehead and coos to him "He's going to be good now." n 1 nda says, glancing over at her son "1 used to he heartless," Hong"1 didn't care. for phakdy nobody, not my mom. nobody. And ieel like I'm gonna sometimes change Then other mites I feel like running and doing son. thing crazy." Lt Scott Atkinson, who heads, the Suit Lake Area Gang Project, sees the foolishness attributed to DATE: April 2, 1996 Time 7:00 p.m. JKJS I'HTT.j MU EE TELEVISED 0.V CAUCHMH2!X two-wor- k p,.w er. money and respect. Becoming a father helps some walk away, says Susan Mirow. a psychologist for fun's youth sir m two-wee- k currency. It works simply enough: They give you a check or cash for $100. for example. You give them a check for $ 20 and they don't cash it for two weeks, or whatever the terms might be. The state office where the pay day toaners register in the I'tah Department of Conimea-- dtvsn't have businesses baken down statistically to allow a good count of how many there are among the 1.500 non-banfinance entities the in department's tegistered Division of Financial Institutions. But the division's supervisor over like Hongphakdy. s belonging to the gang bungs y Cash. Check Mart. Fast Fundinc. Zippv Cash. Quicker Cash. Quickest Cash Lot-sCash Check Cash Cash Cash Some of the names were made up for the purposes of this story, Insta-Cas- cent, said Salt Lake City defense John McNamara, strangled "It makes w a lot easier, and the public has the right to know." said New Mexico District Court Juvenile Judge Mike Marline. "It keeps nie in the courtroom and addresses issues that are important, not whether the records should be open or not." But children publicizing also comes wuh crimes charged with detrimental effects, particularly if they are later found inno- "With the increased number (of young, violent offenders), the public is entitled to know." Payday loans big business one-year-o- - AKE CITY iAPi juvenile-cou- Other youngsters said. pi L 21 1 overv iew of the stadium plans, the Legislature will kick in the SI million it approed in 1W4. $477,500 will come from first ) ear donations and S272.0IX) from j SALT Utah's Ai SALT LAKE CITY ( API II he stole when was Hongphakdy a bike. At 13. he npped off a car Shortly after his 5th birthday, he attacked a gang rival with a knife. Now. at 17. Hongphakdy probation officer has given him an ultimatum: Get out of the gang or go to prison. It would seem the time is right. Six weeks ago his girlfriend. Phuong Tang, gave birth to a baby Kn. And after introducing little Asin to his parenis. Hongphakdy got their permission to move his young family into his bedroom. He wants to get a job and start a new life. But the puli of the Oriental Posse is stiong. Hongphakdy was 10 when the group of Laotian boys fonned in 19S1). seven yeao. after his family came to I'tah from a refugee camp in Thailand. They started out as a break-dancin- g crew busting moves to the rhythmic beat of rap music. that will require more than $2 million from the city. The downtown stadium is proposed for the Ogden Raptors of the Pioneer League. 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