Show jgniMi iTif p 4ia ftuViitii iirff j &£e ftftir j IWirNi 4 50 cents SERVING NORTHERN UTAH SINCE 1888 OGDEN UTAH 'SSBEXSaSi km£ Court: Boston’s St Patrick’s parade can exclude gays Supreme - WASHINGTON (AP) The longtime sponsor of the Sc Patrick’ Day Parade in Boston should have been allowed to exclude a group of gays and lesbians from participating the Supreme Court ruled today The unanimous decision said state court rulings m 1992 and 1993 that forced the parade's sponsor to include the homosexual group violated the sponsoring group’s rights is whether Massachusetts “The issue may require private citizens who organize a free-spee- ch parade to include among the marchers a group imparting a message the organizers do no wish to convey” Justice David H Souter wrote for the court “We hold that such a mandate violates the First Amendment” he said State courts had ruled that the annual parade was at least through 1993 an open recreational event whose sponsor could not discriminate against people based cm their sexual orientation To do so the lower courts said would violate a Massachusetts law prohibiting bias by public accommodations The South Boston Allied War Veterans Council which for years has run the parade argued that the lower court rulings violated associations! and rights by forcing it to include the gay group and its message In rejecting that argument the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruled that prior to 1993 the “lack of selectivity exerted by the veterans over the parade’s partici in final Standard-Examin- er Although they once stood jointly in support of one another the nation’s five air logistics centers now are acting more like Lons moving in for the kill has Hep Jim Hansen gone so far as to tell the Defense Base Closure and Realignment Commission that it should close at least one ALC to keep the others from suffering “slow water torture" Hill Air Force Base in particular stands to gam from die closure of McClellan Air Force Base in California According to base closure studies 70 percent of the work now being done at McClellan could be moved to Hill ’ Supporters of the Northern Utah fatality fairly secure that Hill is going to successfully escape closure when the BRAC makes its decision Thursday also have been lobbying mightily to get the tactical missile work now being done at Letterken-n- y Army Depot The argument is that Hill which misd already does most sile maintenance can do it cheaper The Army however is fighting to maintain control of the weapons it land-base- takes to war and wants the work moved to Tobyhanna Army Depot if Letterkenny is closed as recom- - tee -- of lo- cided sometime Thursday morning A spokesman for the Base Closure and Realignment Commission said this morning that the ALCs will be one of the first items on the agenda when the panel begins its final closure deliberations at 8 30 a m Thursday in Washington D C During the heanngs the commissioners and staff will publicly discuss each installation on its list and vote on whetrer to keep it on the list or remove 1 The commissioners have until July 1 however before they must make their final recommendations to President Clinton He then has 1 5 days to forward the recommendations to Congress If both houses in Congress do not pass a resolution of disapproval within 45 days the recommendations become law suicide The explosion which shook this rural community 80 miles north of Salt Lake City about 9 a m Sunday killed AJ Simmonds 52 His partially clothed body was found in what had been the front room of the house Cache County Sheriff Sid Groll said late Sunday that the evidence indicated the blast that killed the curator of USU’s renowned special collections of western Americana was natural gas in origin “We are investigating it as a possible suicide” Groll said “We do not have any (suicide) notes however there are some indications of depression (prior to the blast)” the sheriff added noting that Simmonds had separated from his wife Jeannie about a week ago There has been some discussion among Boston officials of finding a new sponsor for the parade Past Supreme Court rulings have interpreted the First Amendment to protect the right of people to associate for expressive purposes In determining whether particular group conduct such as a parade qualifies for First Amendment protection courts generally have looked for an intent to convey a particular message and the chances that message will be understood by those who view or hear it In today’s decision Souter said that the Massachusetts courts wrongly treated the veterans’ “speech” to be a public Irish-Americ- Gay Lesbian and Bisexual Group of Boston to march m the parade m 1992 and 1993 In 1994 the veterans canceled the parade rather than allow the gay group to participate This year the veterans council adopted new standards - participation was by invitation only and the parade would commemorate the role of traditional families m Irish history and in protest of the earlier court rulings All agreed the 1995 parade was an expressive activity protected by associational and free-speec- h rights - meaning the veterans council legally could exclude the gay group ! x if- - JSsS? - 5 Sr - nrilllf' 1 ' 4 hi5 rl tv a - a ' A - K ii BvXafcS V k4 i r ±1 w v mended Now McClellan is making a case for repairing Army ground communications and electronic equipment handled at Tobyhanna That could just be an offensive See BASES on 2A Groll declined to further discuss the case except to say that body had been turned over to the state medical examiner’s ofSim-mond- s’ fice An autopsy today was expected to officially determine the cause of death Simmonds made headlines a decade ago when he became one of the first historians to question the authenticity of some documents being peddled by collector Mark Hofmann The documents many of them purported to involve early Mormon Church figures were found to be part of an elaborate forgery scheme which unraveled after Hofmann became a suspect in a pair of fatal in October 1985 Prosecutors said the bombings were intended to cover up Hofmann's documents fraud and divert investigators’ attention Hofmann in a deal to escape a possible death penalty pleaded guilty to murder and is serving life sentences at Utah State Prison pipe-bombm- t "v - t n i£S82StS& SUSAN lATHAMSndafdExarrwwr Andrea Mock and her 1 daughter Alana play in their apartment In Ogden Mock now e student at Weber two-bedroo- m at home AJ Simmonds Day explosion that killed a Utah State University historian and destroyed his ancestral home were looking at the blast as a possible it 5 A - Court orders forced the veterans council to allow members of the start i Blast kills USU historian TRENTON (AP) Investigators probing the debris of a Father’s In ruling against the veterans council m US District Judge J Harold Flannery said “History does not record that St Patrick limited his ministry to heterosexuals or that General Washington’s soldiers were all straight Inclusiveness should be the hallmark of this parade” 1993 4I the nation's five air gistics centers including Hill Air Force Base most likely will be deThe staff and wire services “Evacuation Day" George Washington's victory that forced British troops out of South Boston in 1776 A fresh decision comas Thursday days Insh-America- brated free-spee- ch The ALG wars: No more unity Fingers pointing pants” and the parade’s historical roots made it more a public accommodation than any expressive activity protected by the Constitution’s First Amendment The Boston parade which some years has featured as many as 20000 marchers and a million spectators traditionally not but also celeonly honored State and her four children were helped by Your Community Connection’s sheltered homeless program Seeking refuge from the home Number of sheltered homeless growing in Weber County By MONTE WHALEY Standard-Examiner staff - Andrea Mook’s life was a lot got better OGDEN lived init an Ogample three-sto-ry den home with five bedrooms and a fenced yard until a husband she said was abusive forced her and her four children onto the streets “I knew in order to survive and for the kids to be OK we had to get out” said Mock 37 She packed up the few things she could in May 1994 collected her children from school and left while her husband was at work The crisis center at Your Community Connection became Mook’s next home There she and her family shared a narrow bedroom with a pregnant woman and her three children Mook also got therapy and prepared for her and her family’s move to transitional hous- ing After 30 days at the YCC she snared a small apartment She got more job training learned how to budget money and pieced together paperwork for a student loan These days Mook studies social w'ork at Weber State University teases her children and the neighborhood friends they bring over and frets about the yard in front of her aged but cozy house she rents with help from the Ogden Housing Authority ' She squirrels away what money she brings in and eyes a graduation date in about two years Mook says she never regrets stepping out of her former house - and life She said she was too busy surviving to be afraid “I knew what I did wasn’t a bad thing” Mook said She realizes she is lucky When she left her husband she knew she could get help from her family who lives in Ogden Mook also held down a good job even while at the shelter She in addition possessed good reading m skills and two years of college These are attributes that a burgeoning number of homeless women with children don’t have Karen Thurber said Thurber head of the YCCs Homeless Services Center told Ogden City Council members recently about other grim trends in local homelessness when she briefed them on the Homeless Continuum of Care Report The document inventories what’s available m Weber County and Ogden to help people without a place to live and was compiled by from the University of Gretchen Nduse-FettUtah It estimates that there were 380 sheltered and 255 unsheltered homeless in Weber County as of July 31 1994 Yet the actual number of homeless is tough to come by the report said because many don’t seek services or they are living with another family Most distressing however is a 107 percent climb m the number of sheltered homeless m only four years Although local gioups have worked hard to a runaway cost of $123 million it’s a fine dam visitor’s center At - it’s city visitors center by a dam Boulder any site for that matter Nev (AP) Brass railings gleam in harsh desert sunlight diffused by tinted windows imported from Italy Australian tile lines the floor and elevators whisk tourists through shafts bored 530 feet into solid rock More than a dozen years in the making the Hoover Dam visitors center opens to the public on Wednesday at a cost of $1 23 million - nearly four tunes the original estimate and almost as expensive as the dam itself which took half as long to build The complex began as a way to get visitors out of the sun and safely across the highway that sits atop the lowering structure bridging the Colorado River 35 miles southeast of Las Vegas 70-sto- er See June 19 1995 -- Vol HOME 2A 108 No 170 No one’s quite sure how it became a art deco tourist attrac- 44000-square-fc- tion complete with a revolving theater “I don’t see how anybody can justify spending Si 20 million on one building” said Dan Beard who took over as Bureau of Reclamation commissioner with the project nearly complete “My overwhelming emotion is to make sure this kind of thing never happens again” The center which stretches out on three levels from a canyon wall overlooking Hoover Dam ts expected to delight the million or so tourists who annually visit the engineering wonder of the Depression era Not so happy however are power users such as those in the nearby Overton Power District who Vtill end up footing the bill Se DAM on 2A i r The new visitors centers! Hoover Dsm scheduled to open June 21 cost $123 million four times the original estimate The Associated Press y Pi Inted on recycled paper y e jj |