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Show leads networks NBC Utah possible site of new observatory with 20 Emmy wins Teamwork behind Miss America crown Page C3 Pegs A4 CsRtrai Utah' fsewejj&fisf for 123 Tsars, Centennial makes fair event to remember fmm, Utah A 1 . . Pulitzer Community Newspaper COttii Hurricane gains momentum, heads for land f . Page B1 A5 Page Mission accomplished r ,JC , Sampras, Graf claim titles at U.S. Open By SHEILA SANCHEZ The Daily Herald By MARION LLOYD Associated It SALT LAKE CITY twitched its whiskers and gently sipped cool water. It then licked Amanda's right index finger without biting. rabbit is The English-spo- t among dozens being showcased at the 1996 Utah State Fair's livestock exhibits and Amanda and her family learned that the small white buck, with perfect black spots and black ears, is an old animal whose exact origin is unknown and has been bred extensively in England since 1880. For Orem residents Kristine and Gary Daynes, and their three children, the most popular attracd mother tion was a swine and her seven hungry piglets. "The kids love to see the animals. That's the big draw. They like the pigs and the rabbits," said Kristine. Amelia Daynes added, "We also like the horses and the goats. They're cute, and fun to look at." have , Thousands of people flocked to the 140th annual event which opened at Salt Lake City's Fairpark, 155 N. 1000 West, last Thursday with Utah Gov. Mike Leavitt officially ktekingoff- - the celebration with the theme, "A Utah Centennial Celebration." Organizers say the 11 --day spectacular, which runs through Sept. 15, is the largest single celebration of the statehood centennial celebration. ...Springville residents Norman and Sharon Young said they visit (he event every year because they enjoy its commercial exhibits and the food stands. "I like to see what's here and go to the concerts Norat night," said man. "I like people." Sharon agreed with her husband, but interjected, "I like to sign up for all the free stuff." The fair features hundreds of exhibits, demonstrations, and competitions, including a rodeo, a "Centennial Village" display, sheep dog trials, a Texas longhom show, a twin contest, fireworks, a a firefighter compechili cook-of- f, tition, a NASA space station habitation module and a variety of entertainment. The "Centennial Village' is iTf Q 300-poun- Projected Writer SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico Hortense, after revving up to hurricane speed, stalled off the U.S. Virgin Inlands today and threatened Puerto Rico, prompting some Caribbean residents to board up trjeir homes and seek shelter for their boats. The National Weather Service issued a hurricane warning for Puerto Rico, warning islanders to expect dangerously high winds and seas within 24 hours. The Dominican Republic issued a hurricane watch, particularly for its south coast. Hundreds of tourist yachts, sailboats, house boats and government vessels moved into shelter, crowding mangrove swamps in bays of southwest- ern Puerto Rico. "I've been boarded up jn my house since yesterday," retired tour guide Sweeney Toussaint said in St. Croix. "It's a long wait." Hortense had stalled 100 miles south of the U.S. Virgin Island at 8 a.m. EDT, according to the National Hurricane Center near Miami. Five-year-o- ld (See FAIR, Page A2) Press Biologist Bill Gladfelter and his family played Scrabble at their home on St. Croix, which has been battered by three hurricanes in the past year. ' Daily Herald PhotoJennifer Grigg A member of The Mob, a pelntball team from Delta, Colo., ends a game against Mo Jo's Men, a paint-ba- ll team from Sandy, by capturing the flag Saturday at the Patriot Games peintbatl fields in Alpine. Nine teams,' each donating $150 to the Muscular Dystrophy Association, competed in a paintball tournament which benefited the MDA. The Mo Jo's Men team won the division It competed in. Car crash kills 3, injures 2 From DAILY HERALD STAFF and Wire Reports Three men died WILLARD and two others were critically injured Sunday morning when their car crashed en route to a friend's LDS Church missionary homecoming celebration. who graduatThe 21 year-olds, ed together from Provo High School, had recently returned from their own LDS Church missions and had spent the weekend together at Bear Lake. They left the lake early Sunday Authorities believe morning. David Liddiard was driving about 90 mph on Interstate 15, apparently in an effort to make a sacrament -- meeting church service in Provo in time. Their friend, Chris Strong, was waiting for them there, where he was to give a report on his mission. Police speculate Liddiard may have looked away from the road for a moment or was tired. He drove his car off the freeway at the Box ElderWeber County line, said Utah Highway Patrol Trooper Paul S. Stephens. The car flipped and Liddiard, Darin W. Garner and Ronald Standi, were killed, the UHP reported. Gregory J. Biddulph was in critHosical condition at McKay-De- e pital in Ogden early this morning, where he was undergoing surgery to repair internal and head injuries, broken bones and facial cuts, a nursing supervisor said. Michael H. Paulos was upgraded from critical to serious but stawith ble condition at McKay-De- e a head injury. ' Paulos had returned from an LDS Church mission in Jacksonville, Fla., with plans to attend Brigham Young University. The four others in the car all attended Snow College in Ephraim, said Biddulph's older sister, Melanie, 23. Biddulph served his church mission in London. , "The dogs don't like it at said, to whimpers from all," he three dogs huddled nearby. "I paths of Hurricane Hortense Conditions as of Mon. 5 a.m. EDT ' 64.6W winds: 80 mph Gusts at 100 mph : 16.0N, Max. '. MovingWNNat7mph vr Source: Inc. wish it would get out of out neighborhood soon." ;Z Hortense, the eighth tropical storm of the Atlantic season, comes on the heels of Hurricane the . Fran, which skirted Caribbean before slamming into the U.S. East Coast late last week, killing .more than two dozen people. This latest storm started packing sustained winds near 80 mph early today," well over the 74 mph speed necessary for a tropical storm to qualify as & hurricane. The storm radiated hurricane-forc- e winds 60 miles from its' center, with tropical-forc- e winds stretching another 1 75 miles. just ; Flooding threatens drenched East coast; damaged her family's deck, By TED ANTHONY AP National Writer N.C. Normawere creeping North Carolina's inland commuas power winked RALEIGH, lcy's trappings back storm-mangle- nities back into d today on sporadically and the federal government stepped in with more assistance. On the coast, resilience isn't as easy to come by. "It won't be the same here for years," said Lorel Carroll of community Burgaw, a hard-h- it about 15 miles from the coast. Trees felled by Hurricane wind Fran's garage and pickup. Even as yet another hurrU cane formed today in the Atlantic, federal agencies worked to get hospitals and wastewater treatment plants working and to set up emergency power for some rural areas heavily damaged by Fran. Gov. Jim Hunt asked for additional help for 18 hardest-h- it counties, the Federal Emergency Management Agency said today. FEMA, however, cautioned that it was still coping with the effects of from hur- (See FLOODING, Page A2) (See CRASH, Page A2) Iraqi civilians flee in wake of Kurdish advance By BRIAN MURPHY Find it Arts Business Classified Ads Calendar Comics Crossword Legal Lifestyle Movies Obituaries Opinions Sports State Television World Associated Press Writer A7 B4 C5 C2 C4 D3 .C5 AS ..A7 C2 B6 Bl .C3 A7 A6 Weather Tonight partly cloudy with a slight chance of thunderstorms. Lows mid-t- o upper 50s. See Page A3. Air Quality No air quality forecast was available as of this morning. The ozone forecast calls for a reading in the good range. See Page Al DOKAN, Iraq Traveling eastward in trucks, taxis and even old Mercedes sedans, a Kurdish faction backed by President Saddam Hussein chased after a rival Kurdish group today in an apparent military rout. Fearing for their safety, several thousand civilians fled northeastern towns as the Kurdistan Democratic Party, an ally of the Iraqi military, pressed its offensive against the rival Patriotic Union of Kurdistan. The United States has made clear it has no plans to take sides in the fighting between the Kurdish factions. President Clinton said today that the United States was doing all it could "to help anybody that needs to be out of Iraq," but he declined to offer direct assistance. With Saddam's forces backing it up, the KDP seemed headed for a sweeping victory in northern Iraq. If this happens, Saddam will effectively have influence over northern Iraq for the first time forces established a since U.S.-le- d Kurdish "safe haven" there after the 1991 Gulf War. A long convoy of KDP fighters leadership apparently had fled, possibly across the border to Iran. PUK leader Jala! Talabani, however, remained in Sulaymaniyah. He made an urgent appeal for help but seemed resigned to the fact that the Americans would not come to his rescue. "The United States is not in a Related story, Page A4 position that can obstruct a (KDP) invasion, which is a kind of support indirectly to Saddam," he told responded with heavy artillery fire a group of journalists, including into hills covered with dry golden APTV. He also predicted that KDP grass. Their immediate target was leader Massoud Barzani would Dokan, a hub for both electric and come to regret his alliance with Saddam after the fighting was finished. water systems in northern Iraq. GunThe Patriotic Union claimed ners shelled the lightly defended town and assembled few miles away that thousands of people fled the towns captured Sunday, and thouas they prepared to seize control. sands more were fleeing Sulayto be Iraqi forces appeared front-lin- e KDP behind the maniyah, fearing an imminent moving fighters, but the Iraqis were not assault on the city. "There is a huge exodus from the playing a major role in the fightas the Iraqi army makes prepacity accounts. most to according ing, rations to attack," said Shazad Saib, it is takes KDP the If Dokan, then likely to go after the city of a PUK official in Ankara, Turkey. But in Kuysanjaq, a town that Sulaymaniyah, less than 60 miles to the southeast and the last major fell to the KDP on Sunday, only about 40 families fled, according PUK stronghold in the region. U.N. guards in Sulaymaniyah to Mayor Ashir Jamal. said most of the Patriotic Union Rupert Colville, a spokesman headed east today with strips of the faction's colyellow ribbon tied to their guns. They were or in hot pursuit of their retreating and outgunned foe, the PUK. KDP troops encountered a few sniper ambushes and quickly ii mm, am AP Photo Palestinians march In Gaza City Sunday as they shout slogans protesting recent U.S. missile attacks on Iraq. Last week, U.S. forces unleashed cruise missiles on southern Iraq In response to a Joint attack by Iraqi forces and Kurdistan rebels on the city of Irbll in northern Iraq. for the United Nations High Commissioner of Refugees, said in Geneva that up to 3,000 people had fled their homes in the region, but there was no mass exodus so far. : . : "There is no humanitarian crisis yet," Colville said. "We-ar- e making preparations for every eventuality." |
