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Show Utah residents celebrate statehood UTAH DIGEST USU RECEIVES $1.4 MILLION CONTRACT TO FIGHT INFLUENZA: Utah State University has been SALT LAKE CITY (AP) Thousands gave a rousing welcome to Utah's second century yesterday, tipping their hats to its pioneer past as horse-draw- n carriages paraded down Main Street and cannon salutes echoed downtown. Winding up three days of revelry on statehood day, Utah residents began early with the raising of a flag over the Capitol and the introduction of Utah's own centennial postage stamp, which goes on sale nationwide today. Children in period knickers and caps, men in top hats and tails and women in long capes cheered and rang bells as a d Max Evans acted the part of the 1896 telegraph operator who spread the news. "President Cleveland has signed the Proclamation!" Evans shouted at exactly 9:13 a.m., the time the news arrived a century ago. "Utah's been granted statehood!" Standing outside a mockup of the 1896 telegraph office, he shot off two rounds of black powder and cork from an 1884 shotgun. Dancers and singers from the Utah Musical Theater at Weber State University, decked in pioneer dress, ran into the street to dance and sing, as Utah residents did a century ago. Utah had struggled for nearly 50 years through seven attempts to gain statehood, awarded a $1.4 million federal contract from the National Institutes of Health to help find new drugs to fight influenza. The money will allow scientists at USU's Institute for Antiviral Research to follow up on experiments they have conducted at the university over the past 10 years, said Robert Sidwell, institute director and professor of virology in the animal, dairy and veterinary science department. top-hatte- portraying Marion Brown, announces statehood for Utah during the centennial celebration yesterday, in Salt Lake City. which residents believed would free them from the tyranny of territorial governors and judges sent from Washington. But it was only after Mormon Church President Wilford Woodruff issued his Manifesto of 1890 endmg the church's official practice of polygamy that Congress saw fit to grant Utah its wish. LEAVITT AUTHORIZES USING STATE MONEY TO KEEP JOB SERVICE OPEN: Gov. Mike Leavitt has authorized using state money to keep Utah's Job Service offices open during the federal government shutdown. The loan would amount to as much as $2.5 million or enough money to keep the agency open for about two weeks, said Floyd Astin, Utah Department of Employment Security administrator. The funding comes from money set aside to pay off bonds used to finance new buildings for the agency about five years ago. LEGISLATOR PROPOSES KILLING RDA'S: Rep. Reese Hunter, wants to do away with all of the state's redevelopment agencies. His proposed legislation. House Bill 67, would make no provisions for financing proposed redevelopment projects and it would turn over any tax funds for existing projects to a special dissolution fund overseen by state district courts. Hunter's legislation follows last month's decision by the Salt Lake City Redevelopment Agency to declare blighted nearly two blocks of land downtown. ZION, 'S . '"""li'eFF 586-472- 5 I 491 S. Main , Cedar City Am cfPeccii(y& Uumm t O- - siii 26 0 (Freeportrait &ittitCJor- orcer) tmeifli J FREE I sitting 586-472- 5 j ! j with coupon 8x10 print with portrait ZION Photography i 777 South Main Cedar City 1 |