Show College football Cal St Northridge 26 Weber 10 USU 29 New Mexico St 26 (OT) Utah 49 San Jose St 17 http7wwwstandardnet 71 5U I MBWttlUg HMMMt JfeMIll SERVING THE FOP OF UTAH SINCE 1888 Weber proposal Corraling bison on Antelope Island 1 JTfc so V "rtf 7 hotly fiCy debated r rX j Voters will decide whether or not to change government A INSIDE: Bipartisan group of current and former county elected officials speak out against proposal6A 'ferm -- i ’ ‘ H W j J t J -- K 3 By CHARLES F TflENTELMAN 4 j v -- I" n liVf Security Council nf p£uir r lp A condemns Saddam’s Standard Examiner staff When Weber County voters go to the polls Tuesday they will decide one of the most hotly contested ballot issues the county has ever seen -whether to change the county's form of government Supporters of the proposal have traveled the county attending debates city council meetings and olher gatherings With virtually no budget for advertiMng they have depended heavily on news coverage and legally required public announcements to spread their message County officials past and present have banded together to oppose it Academics have criticized it Lawsuits have been threatened and filed The Utah Supreme Court was even " d vote Your 0 counts ONLINE ELECTION O-'- s By CHERYL BUCHTA Standard Examiner staff OGDEN - Weber County voters favor the change in county government but Ogden residents overwhelmingly oppose the proposed tram according to results from a Weber State University political science poll taken last week The random telephone poll conducted by students under the direction of political science professor Marcy Everest surveyed 303 Weber County A action US reviewing i SAM WHIRLYBIRD WRANGLER: A AVI helicopter helps herd bison into holding pens during Saturday s 2th annual roundup on Antelope Island the saddle7A NTEL OPE ISLAND - On the long four-mil- e trail to the southern tip ol JLAntelope Island Saturday morning Richard Myers had plenty of stones to tell about chasing wild animals And he had plenty of time to tell them ride from camp before It’s nearly a two-howranglers can begin herding stray bison toward the corals a dozen miles to the north It’s all part of their ritual on the Twcllth Annual Antelope Island State Park Bison Roundup an event designed to generate revenue for the state park and provide opportunity for bison health checks Myers of North Ogden has participated for 2 years - every year since the event began m 1986 His stories included a talc fit for I lallow-ee- n something about what he looked like after the horse he was riding sprinted through a shallow stretch of salt water which dried ghost-whit- e on him the next day Then there’s the time Myers and his group were appropriately called “City Slickers” by their cohorts when they accidentally pushed a group of bison through the main camp at the island ranch house “Bison won’t be herded like cattle” Myers explained “With cows you can crowd ’em m and turn ’em but with bison turns” you have to make big battle-shi- p A J 1 Post Genetic testing shows that Thomas Jefferson almost certainly fathered a child with one ol his slaves Sally Flemings according to scientists who argue that their results come as close as possible to solving one of history’s most enduring and contentious mysteries Researchers examined blood samples collected this year from known descendants of the family of America's third president and from those who trace their ancestry to Hcmings In a paper published in the Nov 5 issue of the journal Nature they report that DNA comparisons all but conclusively prove that Hcmings’ i? he animals run straight ahead when being chased by horses They often run deep 1 into the depths of the Great Salt Lake where riders try to rope and pull them back to dry land without getting loo close That’s w here a favorite tale of former Kaysville resident F ldean Holliday begins The horseman recalls a bison he and E Clark ol Kaysville had roped and dragged in from the wahns "He was pretty well weakened from the experience” said the veteran round-u- p volunteer Now a resident of Preston Idaho he said he and Clark watched as the animal they had rescued fell over “We jumped up and down on his chest” lolliday recalled “We didn’t know what to do We thought we’d try what works on humans ” The animal later was counted as one of two that were spared from possible death during that particular year’s round-u- p Holliday recalled a time near the beginning of the roundup tradition when floods had washed away the causeway to the island Dozens of horses traveled to the islands in corals on floating rubber rafts Back then volunteer horsemen did a majority of the roundup work Saturday while tho‘c on horseback set out to glean a piece ol Americana the majority of one of the nation’s oldest and largest bison herds already was being corraled by helicopters and jeeps Some years experienced horsemen complete the entire ride without seeing a single bison But that hasn’t changed how wranglers feel about the event It’s a reunion and a chance to get back in touch with nature Washington might thi eaten military action acting U S Ambassador Peter Burleigh replied “1 m not going to comment on that " The Iraqi action exempted only a handful of International Atomic Energy Agency experts who monitor suspected nuclear sites The count1! called Baghdad s announcement “a flagrant violation” of council resolutions and of an understanding between Iraq and U N Secretary General Kofi Annan The written understanding averted militaiy action against Iraq in ebruary over another inspections crisis It reiterated Us oiler to icview Iraq's compliance with U N resolutions if Iraq resumes cooperation with U N weapons inject-- 1 1 ors OFF THE RANGE: A bison runs into pens on Antelope Island The feeling wasn’t lost on Syracuse resident Cindy Rhoades who said she looks forward to being with wildlife that isn’t afraid of humans What’s it like9 “It’s exhilarating” she said You can contact reporter JaNae brands at 1 orjfratuisiastandard net 776-495- In Washington President Clinton's national security advisers were reviewing the situation and consulting with allies and U N officials said David Leavy a spokesman tor the National Security Council Defense Secretaiy William Cohen was en loute to Hong Kong when he canceled a week-lon- g Asian tour to participate m the discu'sions Returning to Washington Cohen said during a refueling stop at tins W'ake Island in the Pacific does not portend a military strike Iraq's ban was seen as a to a U N Security Council decision I riday to review Baghdad's progress on eliminating prohibited weapons se tests show Jefferson link Genetic samples show third president fathered child with one of his slaves POOR CQPYfi Exmainer 1 Bison wranglers tell of favorite roundups The Washington DEANSlandard including barring them from monitoring sues - a mote quickly and unanimously condemned by the UN Security Council The council meeting m New York demanded Baghdad immediately and unconditionally rescind the decision by Iraqi President Saddam Hussein and his top advisers It did not threaten action against Iraq but when asked whether DNA Printed on recycled paper v r Standard Examiner Davis Bureau support for changing county government t i By JaNAE FRANCIS WSU survey shows Mi ’V inspectors INSIDE: A view from oppose tram idea t BAGHDAD Iraq - Iraq announced Saturday it is cutting off all dealing' with U N weapons DATABASE Poll: Most " s e The Associated Press word-of-mou- th Fsee WEBER6A J i V Xh youngest son Eston was vides far more than a window into the sexual mores of a revered fa- thered by Jefferson founding father “The question for 200 years has been ‘Did they or didn’t ” said Eric S Lander a genetic researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who a companion essay to the Nature article “There is such a strong case that Jefferson had a liaison with Hcmings” Lander said “that the DNA evidence converts that possibility into a near certainty” Word that researchers had found scientific evidence for the country’s oldest presidential sex rumor has fallen like a bombshell they?’ among scholars Historians many of whom felt strongly that Jefferson was morally incapable of coupling with a slave now find themselves preparing to revise their texts Some say the conclusion pro- - M A Jefferson-Hemrng- s allair casts new light on the president’s tortured position on slavery and his public stand against racial mixing - echoing the country’s unresolved issues of race relations and racial identity “This story is about family and who we are as Americans” an said Annette Gordon-Ree- d associate professor at the New York School of Law whose 1997 book “Thomas Jeflerson and Sally Hcmings an American Controversy” argued that the oral histones of blacks were being pushed aside to protect Jelfer-son’- s reputation “We’re not two scpaiate people blacks and whites” sue said “We’re related by culture and by blood That reality h is been ” PRESIDENTIAL DESCENDANT: Attorney Robert "Bob” Cooley a descendant of former U S President Thomas Jefferson poses with a protrait of Jefferson that hangs in his living room in Richmond Va A new genetic study shows Jefferson fathered at least one child by his slave Sally Hemings JAYPAUU The Associated Press |