| Show "V wyi nmf wyy " Top of Utah SB Thursday May 27 1999 Standard-Examine- r Man pleads guilty to robbing seven banking firms including two in N Utah By RALPH WAKLEY Standard-Examine- sail r SALT LAKE CITY - To get everything wrapped up quickly a Nebraska man has agreed to plead guilty to robbing seven banking institutions in five states last summer including a pair of Northern Utah credit unions “I guess what it comes down to is rather than going from ju- risdiction to jurisdiction that you’re going to plead guilty here to all seven charges” Utah federal Judge David Winder said Wednesday “Yes sir” Douglas William Lux responded But before he accepted the guilty pleas Winder cautioned “These are extremely serious charges There are terrifically high penalties on these bank robberies You could be sentenced to 140 years in federal prison obviously for your life I'm not saying you’re going to get that but you could” Lux said he understood However in exchange for his guilty pleas federal prosecutors agreed to recommend that Lux be given a shorter sentence less than 20 years in pnson The defendant and his uncle Robert Jon Lux were arrested Sept 5 1998 four days after Douglas Lux took S7600 from the Health Care Credit Umon in Salt Lake City Douglas Lux also admitted to Kids “While a 10 percent From IB centage of children living in poverty: one in 10 or half the national average At Dee close to 100 percent of kids live below the poverty level “We’re really an anomaly: an inner-cit- y school m Utah” says Corby who has taught destitute children tn Harlem Thailand and along the Mexican border “A lot of our families are doing the best they can but many of them are in desperate situations” The report measured 10 factors to gauge conditions affecting American children including rates for poverty infant mortality high school dropouts teen births and violent crime arrests for juveniles According to Kids Count children growing up with multiple family risk factors are more likely to fail than the average American child A child from a family with four risk factors for example is 26 times more likely to drop out of school than a child from a risk-fre- e family likewise a girl in a four-ris- k category is 160 times more likely to become a teen female mother than her k counterpart This bothers Terry Haven As project coordinator of Utah Chil- - po erty rate and a 5 rate sound percent at-ri- sk remaikable that's still one in 10 Utah children liing below the poverty level and 35000 Utah children considered high-ris- k ” -Terry Haven project coordinator of Utah Children dren a statewide child advocacy group Haven agrees Kids Count brings good news but is more concerned with what it doesn’t say “As usual Utah did well and we deserve a pat on the back” Haven says “But while a 10 percent poverty rate and a 5 percent rate sound remarkable k that’s still one in 10 Utah children living below the poverty level and 35000 Utah children considered high-ris- k We really need to be aware of what’s going to happen to these kids a few years down the road as do no-ris- Across the Top of Utah most counties fared on par with or better than state or national taking $3280 from the Utah First Credit Union branch m Wood Cross on Aug 6 1998 His uncle has pleaded guilty to driving the getaway car m that Davis County holdup and was scheduled to be sentenced Friday The nephew’s sentencing was set for Aug 16 Federal prosecutors said You’re invited to a special Memorial Day Weekend Memorial Service at Douglas Lux confessed to holding up two banks each in Nebraska and Utah and one each in Nevada Oregon and Washington between June 6 and Sept 1 1998 Nebraska authorities also claim he robbed two other banks m that state but they would not add those to the other seven charges EVERGREEN MEMORIAL PARK averages In Morgan for instance only 5 percent of children live below the poverty level in Cache just 95 percent live in a single-parehousehold But at Dee Elementary 45 percent of children reside with a single parent And while Ogden showed a substantial 58 percent of children receiving a free or reduced lunch at Dee it leaps to 94 6 percent A Title I school in a federally-designate- d enterprise zone Dee learnutilizes an and to continues program ing serve needy youngsters after school and through the summer While Kids Count reports only 18 percent of Utah parents holding less than full-tim- e d work Corby says the mobility of her students demands d learning who’ve “I have SUNDAY MAY 30TH AT 5:00 PM AT 100 MONROE BLVD nt Sunday will be a very special day for us at Evergreen Memorial Park the guest appearance of the colorful Utah Scottish Bagpipe Band and Dancers presenting our Memorial Program The flag ceremonies firing squad and military honors will be accorded by the Hill Air Force Base Honor Guard and the rendition of the Star Spangled Banner will be by Michael Cram with Please plan to be with us year-roun- year-roun- fifth-grade- rs been through 11 elementary schools” Corby said “Parents lose their jobs lose their homes a A Cherished Memorial Now M move or double up with others in the winter to save on heat We have parents working two or E M O And For Future Generations Administrative Office At Myers Mortuary three jobs just to keep their 399-561- heads above water that are doing the best they can for their kids “And that makes it even more important that we do every thing we can do at Dee to help” You can reach reporter Tracy 9 Ghsson at or net 625-423- 6 Months Interest free FURNITURE COMPANY ’COMBSES: Through Mag 3 m A fine selection of sunny saxonies textures and brilliant herbers tantalizing 3 Barstool from the Mohawk family of carpets! 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