Show STANDARD-EXAMINE- MOVIES OBITUARIES CLASSIFIED R SATURDAY APRIL 20 1991 0 CITY EDITOR: 625-422- run for governor Sneddon now says he By STEVE GREEN Standard-Examine- staff r would not accept an invitation to be running mate and is only interested in winning the mayor’s job and term serving the full four-yeBoth Sneddon and Lowder said they are willing to increase taxes to maintain or improve current levels of police and fire protection And while Sneddon has said he would hire City Manager Robert Hunter as his chief administrative officer Lowder said he would frc Hunter and reinstate Joe Ritchie as police chief Each of the current six city council members said they either plan to seek or are considering election bids for the mayor’s job Councilman Michael Miller said he will run again for his Ward 1 seat repre De-Paul- is’ OGDEN — Scott Sneddon Ogden’s e mayor has filed papers declare ing he is a candidate for the mayor’s job that will be created when the city's form of government changes next January So far Sneddon’s only declared competition in the mayor’s race is perennial local government candidate Larry Lowder who never has won an election and is a former supporter of Sneddon’s Both filed candidacy papers this week with the city recorder No one has filed yet for any of the seven city council seats that voters will fill in the Nov 5 election The mayor and council races are part-tim- full-tim- non-partis- an Soviet: Party ar “I’m running because Sneddon really wants to be lieutenant governor” Lowder said Sneddon said that at one point he was interested in running for lieutenant governor on the Democratic ticket should Salt Lake City Mayor Palmer DePaulis The council seat for Ward 2 of north--easenting West Ogden which will be for a two-yeterm Council members BarbaOgden currently held by Saunders ra Dirks David Haun Darrell Saunders and for Ward 4 of southeast Ogden now Bonnie McDonald and Robert De Boer held by McDonald w ill both be for four said they are considering election bids years runis toward Dirks said she leaning Beginning with the 1993 election all of four-yea as a new for the council seats will carry four-yeposition ning seats councilwoman representing the city at terms The two and ward seats 1 and 3 will be up for large Dirks and De Boer are now servterms election in 1993 Under this staggered ing “In two years you’re just getting your election system the' 1995 election will be council seat and for mayor one feet wet” Dirks said 2 and 4 council positions Besides the four-yeposition The filing deadline for the mayoral council there will be two more council races is Aug 27 and the priThe and two of terms initial with seats years council seat for Ward 3 of mary election is Oct 8 Citizens must Ogden currently held by Haun also will register this year with the county clerk' or already be registered in order to vote' initially be for two years st r ar ar two-ye- ar at-lar- east-centr- al F TRENTELMAN SALT LAKE CITY — A freeway interchange west of Brigham City isn’t listed in the bonding bill passed Thursday by the Utah Legislature but Rep Rob Bishop swears “it’s in there” City and Bishop the House majority leader said the Interstate 15 interchange is a high priority for him and others “The governor has committed to the project” he said Sen John Holmgren River City said before the special session debate on the bonding bill that he felt the interchange was essential He was angry the interchange wasn’t on a list of state road projects the Transportation Commission sent to Gov Norm Bangerter early in March At one point Holmgren said he’d even rather see the bonding bill held up until next January just so he could get the interchange listed The bonding bill doesn’t actually list any transportation projects It provides $19 million to the Utah Department of Transportation but the selection of which projects get built is up to the Transportation Commission and UDOT Projects that are on the UDOT list of suggested priorities include finishing the widening project for Washington Boulevard in Ogden enlarging US 91 through Sardine Canyon and other large road projects around the state Box Elder legislators are push- - SALT LAKE CITY — The Soviet Communist Party still is in control of a nation on the brink of upheaval and the survival of President Mikhail Gorbachev is in the West’s best interest a Soviet professor said Friday The Communist Party has been able to exert control in everything from government to industry despite widespread anger among Soviet citizens over a crippled economy and growing political factions said Oleg Gubin an associate professor of political science at Moscow State University Gubin spoke Friday at the Hinckley Institute of Politics protests are Gubin still” very dangerous warned “The Communist Party is still very strong” BrrghamWdMFcfJi Proposed Interchange An overpass exists at the site where Box Elder legislators hope to get an interchange built The Interchange would link with areas planned for development west of Brigham City 5 JZ - ar ist Gubin would not predict whether the beleaguered Gor- bachev will survive but acknowledged that his chief rival for control of a “new” Soviet Union Russian President Boris Yelstin is formidable Yelstin warned of complete collapse of the country during a radio interview last weekend and is said to be promoting a political coalition to tackle the nation’s crisis According to Western news wire dispatches out of Moscow Gorbachev himself warned this week that there are only weeks perhaps days left to rescue the country The Soviet Union has been rocked by near economic collapse that has resulted in empty shops O k CO c Forest Street a 2 5 A i N Standard-Examine- r ing for a new interchange on west of Brigham City where there is now just an overpass The interchange would link the interstate with areas planned for industrial development west of the city Bishop said the cost of the interchange estimated at some- where between $45 million and $7 million will be partially paid with federal dollars Officials are still working to get those dollars he said Asked how he would get the interchange on the state list of priorities Bishop just smiled “We’ll just ask the Department of Transportation to do it” he said And they’ll just do it he was asked? Bishop smiled and winked 15 prices and strikes ’spreading throughout its republics Rebelling Baltic republics are pressing their demands for a complete break from the Kremlin and local autonomy A group of Soviet legislators meeting in Moscow this weekend was to consider calling for an emergency session of the Congress of People’s Deputies to demand Gorbachev’s formula for saving the country Still Gubin said the Communist Party will survive without civil war as some factions are predicting “The Communist Party still controls everything" Gubin said adding that the party is conmen trolled by “strong-wille- d who are prepared to use force ' against people" He described Gorbachev as a liberal and a reformist who instituted the perestroika reforms “to survive” “There was no other way" said Gubin who did not identify his political affiliation “The strategy was to destroy the opposition" Despite the economic crisis Gubin said the Communist Party with 60 million members has been able to maintain control in part because competing political factions are bogged down in their i at-lar- Standard Examiner staff staff h ar By CHARLES By PHIL JENSEN sky-hig- at-lar- lawmaker promises concrete live dangerously “Anti-commun- at-lar- ge Though plan isn’t on paper Anti-communi- sts r at-lar- ge ar The Stealth Interchange Earth mover remains strong Standard-Examine- ar two-ye- t HEATHER Michael Horigan a at the School of St Peter 1204 E 1450 South in Clearfield carries a load of trash he picked up around the schoolyard Friday for Earth Day Other third-grad- er STONEStanaara-Examine- r events students participated in were a symbolic Earth dance and a treat called ‘dirt & worms — chocolate pudding crushed Oreo cookies and candies shaped like worms Bored woman volunteered Sheriff’s Capt Wes Goldsberry (right) explains use of metal detector outside Judge Stanton M Taylor's courtroom to' deputies (from left) DW Archuleta Blaine Holmes James P Hansen Now North Ogdenite stays busy meeting helping people OGDEN — When Jolene Dahle moved to North Ogden with her family six years ago she didn’t know anyone But now because of her membership on the Retired Senior Volunteer Program Advisory Council Dahle said she’s met many people “It was summer and I was bored I decided to volunteer at the RSVP office because I thought it would be a good way to get to know the area and be involved with people” the 42 volunteer said “It’s been year-ol- d really good that way" RSVP is a branch of the Volunteer Center a Weber County WE SALUTE By Kathy Schvaneveldt r stall hang posters at the Newgate Mall for National Volunteer Week The posters recognizing different agencies and volunteers will stay up for a week In celebration of National Volunteer Week Sunday through April 27 the Volunteer Center is sponsoring a free movie for all volunteers at pm Wednesday at the Newgate Cinema 4 3601 1 Wall Avc ip Ogden Some 600 to 800 volunteers are expected to attend Each volunteer must present a special social services agency This past week Dahle was red ticket at the door Tickets See SALUTE on 2C busy helping other volunteers Matt Zwemke Ray Day and Terry Thompson Metal detector set up to keep guns from court By TIM GURRISTER Standard Examiner staff OGDEN — Plan for the worst and anything less is a pleasant surprise That attitude is what prompted Weber County deputies to learn Friday how to use a metal detector that sniffs out any concealed weapons people might try to carry into a courtroom “Most of the people we’ve caught coming through with a weapon you could just tell beforehand It's just something walk-throug- h about the way they act" said Russ Dalrymplc of the US Marshal’s Office in Salt Lake' City as he demonstrated the “Magnetometer" metal detector h The unit was donated to the Weber sheriffs office because Marshal’s Service had several spares walk-throug- The deputies were learning to use the Swedish-mad- e mag- nctic device Friday in prepara- -' tion for an attempted-murde- r See TRIAL on 2C |