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Box Elder wins state softball title Gun control battle moves to the Mouse Senate OKs juvenile crime bill which contains gun restrictions the Senate voted The overwhelming passage 5 of the juvenile crime bill authored by Sen Orrin Hatch would have been improbable at best before the Littleton Colo school shootings but it was given added impetus by the additional bloodshed earlier in the day at a high school in Conyers Gj But Democrats never stopped crowing after Vice President A1 Gore east the vote at midday in favor of a key Democratic gun control amendment that had failed in nearly identical form a week earlier 73-2- INSIDE: Women’s changing views on gun control plus details of what's in the juvenile justice measure3A The Associated Press WASHINGTON - Propelled by a rash of high school shootings the congressional debate over gun control shifts to a new battleground the House following a contentious vote in the Senate that approved locks on all new handguns and imposed tougher restrictions on gun show sales But even before the Senate passed the new gun rules Thursday as part of a major juvenile crime bill there already was a clash in the House - over when to bring the issue to the floor House Speaker Dennis Hasten offered to bring a bill to crack down on violence by kids to the floor in the second week of June after the Judiciary Committee holds hearings In a door speech he left open the possibility of proposing additional gun restrictions but warned that the House wouldn't necessarily sign oil on all of the provisions passed by the Senate “Clearly we need to tighten current laws to make it more difficult for kids to get guns” Hastcrt said “We will take a look at the measure passed by the Senate to make sure that it is a reasonable and commonsense approach” Hoping to capitalize on the momentum generated in the Senate louse Democrats rejected the Republican proposal for a vote in June pushing instead for floor debate next week according to a knowledgeable official who demanded anonymity And Rep John Conyers ranking Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee already had proposed several gun sale restrictions by the time The amend- ment authored by retiring Sen 1 rank Lauten-berD-N- called for back- ground checks on all gun show transactions and wiped out a Re- L ALAN SWEET VICTORY: Box Elder's Marcie Neff cheers as her teammate and sister Ashley scores in Salt Lake City on Thursday Marcie was the winning pitcher in all three contests Thursday Bees recorded three consecutive shutouts to win their fourth state OQO New sports Alternative 1 medicine now more the norm multi-billio- By RYAN R OLIVER Standard Examiner staff It meetings in Salt Lake end with smiles8B By WINA STURGEON Standard Examiner correspondent Layton's Jennifer Davidson is more excited than ever about the Salt Lake Winter Games Beeause she could be participating The Salt Lake Organizing Committee announced Thursday it will recommend adding y skeleton sprint and women’s bobsled to the 2002 Olympic Games exDavidson a ercise physiologist at Health Care was the brakeman on the women’s bobsled team that won three gold and five silver medals during the recent World Cup season “We’ve been working long and hard on this” Davidson said “I’m pretty happy “This is amazing as a cross-countr- Inter-mounta- Utahn especially the last five 4-- A Utah has a presence in what’s n become a industry backed for 2002 INSIDE: IOC title in MUHRAYStandard Examiner softball championship game a run in the state beating Weber once and Fremont twice The years Story1 D in to think about representing the country in the Olympics in 2002” The inclusion of women’s bobsled men’s and women’s skeleton and men’s and y women’s sprint races would bring to 75 the number of events in the Salt Lake Games The 1998 Winter Games in Nagano Japan featured 68 events while the cross-countr- See SPORTS6A medicine treatments were widely as the practice of a few But today there's very little one could call alternative about alternative medicine n A dollar industry with twice as many patient visits last year in the United States than to traditional physicians alter- By JAMIE LAMPROS multi-billio- See MEDICINE6A Standard Liminof corrubjxjndl'nl -- V yV I A v zvr'Vi' V ’ rtta fLtj gat- - JOHANNA CHANGING MEDICAL FIELD: WORKMAN Standard-Examine- r Message therapist Alan a massage at Val’s Barker gives his daughter Holly TNT in Clearfield on Thursday SOU I II OGDIN- - It seemed to be another typical day in Susan Chrisman’s life Wednesday afternoon Until her son and his liieiuk came in the house and started yelling about bees “I told them to calm down It’s only a bee” she said But the boys persisted and Chrisman went to the door “I looked outside and saw what looked to be a huge black cloud” said Chrisman “It wasn’t just a bee Ft was more like a million of them” she said The bees had been run out of their home minutes earlier by Possible sighting of Four Corners suspects The Associated Press CHEYENNE Wyo - Two men who eluded hundreds of officers last year during a hunt for the killers of a Colorado police officer may have recently robbed a restaurant in remote Wyoming Alan Pilon and Jason McVean have been wanted for nearly a year ever since a policeman in Cortez Colo was raked with automatic gunfire during a traffic stop The men were chased by more than 500 officers at one point into the desert country of Four Corners where New Mexico Colorado publican version approved only moments before The amendment also would require that anyone who pawned a gun would have to undergo a background check before reclaiming it The legislation also requires that “secure gun storage or safety devices” be sold with new handguns But the measure also extends liability protections for a gun owner who uses a safety lock and whose gun is stolen and used in a crime In addition the measure continues current gun law that majority Republicans had succeeded in changing briefly earlier in the day Linder the measure as passed for example background cheeks could still take up to three days instead limit that Republiof the cans wanted on them ammuImporting nition clips would he banned and any juvenile convicted of a felony would be denied the right to purchase a gun for life 24-ho- high-capaci- South Ogden buzzing over tree removal was only about a decade ago native medicine has gone mainstream In Utah there are more massage parlors acupuncturists touch and energy therapists than ever before And with a local history of Utahns seeking cures using natural remedies there are no less than 40 manufacturers of herbal and vitamin supplements based in the Beehive State Traditional doctors medical schools and health insurance companies would have once preferred to ignore or remain silent on the industry But now with its financial growth and increasing influence on patients many feel they would only be doing so at a g J Utah and Arizona meet An alleged accomplice was found a few days later dead from a gunshot wound Pilon and McVean who were said to be practiced survivalists disappeared self-inflict- On Wednesday two men wearing military boots and ski masks stole $500 from the Rock Shop a souvenir store bar and restaurant in South Pass City in central Wyoming about 300 miles from Cortez They escaped in a white Dodge truck which was found near a gas refinery 60 miles away Authorities said a witness near the abandoned truck was shown a photograph of Pilon and McVean and identified them as men he had seen ivrriteiTfo May 21 South Ogden City workers who were cuumg down trees The tree that held the bees’ nest was three doors down Iron) the C’hrismans W hen the bees escaped several residents were Happed in their homes until the bees could be exterminated 1 John Gilmore who was visiting his grandlather was trapped in a neighbor’s home for over an hour "I was riding my hike and slopped over to see if my friend could play Then wc heard this big noise like a swarm of bees We looked up and they were right See BEES3A fv 1999 -- Vol 112 No 141 Printed on recycled paper Oti Z 73l!0000 1 - 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