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' Sloan’s remarks toughest year Angry resident tights for S Ogden trees NASA txrnorsThiokol with highest award Showers ft asking IB 4B has coach Quick exit if he’ll be back ID §tandardExaminer 50 cents http:wwwstandardnet SERVING THE TOP OF UTAH SINCE 1888 Cop out: Fewer want to be police Departments find tow pay fear of danger reduce number applying By PATRICK PARKINSON staff Standard-Examin- officials throughout of Utah say a tight market combined relatively low wages danger and heavy public criticism mean there are fewer new police recruits “We’re seeing anywhere from a 35 to 40 percent decrease in applicants” said Ogden Police Lt Scott Sangberg “If you’re looking to become a cop right now and can pass Police all the tests you have a good chance of getting a job” On the other hand Davis County Sheriff Bud Cox said his department has plenty of applicants -it’s qualified ones whom are harder to find In Utah to become a police or special-functio- n officer such as a bailiff or constable an individual must graduate from a police academy said Kent Paskins director of Weber State University’s police academy “In general we’re finding there are many fewer applicants than there used to be” said Sid Groll a former Logan police chief who oversees Peace Officers Standards state-certifi- Barriers ahead for and Training a police training fa- cility in Salt Lake City Like Groll Paskins has also seen his academy’s enrollment drop over the past year But he disagrees with Groll about danger being a major factor in the decline “I don’t think it’s the danger that they (students) think about I think it’s more their livelihood” Paskins said referring to police officers’ relatively low wages And Utah’s low unemployment rate only fuels law enforcement’s present recruiting dilemma said Austin Sargent a labor market economist with the Utah Department of Workforce Services TRAINING: Applied Technology Center in Logan leads his students on a jog just outside the center ALAN MURRAY See POUCE5A At least 9 die in Little Rock Wellsville’s Standard-Examine- r American Airlines plane catches fire on landing GWOW® jjsft curves Joel Lamm physical instructor for the Police Academy at Bridgerland ©IT By MEUSA ANN WILSON the first major US airline accident in a year It’s staff Standard-Examin- Utah Department of Transportation officials say they will and a half begin installing a curved barrier in July along a deadly curve on Highway 8991 through Wells-vill- e Canyon that has claimed the lives of 15 people since 1996 Public pressure inspired by the series of wrecks forced UDOT to take a second look at installing the barriers along the stretch that locals commonly refer to as Sardine Canyon Region One Director Dyke LeFevre said the original estimate of $25 million for the barrie ers in the median of the stretch was based on a new type of straight barrier and widening the road But using curved barriers UDOT already has in its inventory will save money LeFevre said the barriers as well as rumble strips along the highway that make noise when a vehicle crosses the line should be installed by November The department will begin installing barriers just north of the Sherwood Hills resort in Cache County and continue until the money runs out he said The curved “Jersey barriers” are portable structures that can be removed or left permanent-lyUDO- T has already started designing and engineering the barrier with $500000 it received from the Utah Transportation Commission The commission allocated the money in April on the condition that the barrier could be easily removed The barriers will be placed only as a test LeFevre said UDOT would closely watch the area over the next few years to see if the barriers cut down on the number of accidents Many motorists have said placing a concrete barrier in the median the entire length of the canyon would prevent the often fatal head-o- n collisions You can reach reporter Melisa Ann 5 or Wilson at INSIDE: More The Associated two-mil- - w THE CRASH A sup SURVIVOR: Investigators examine the wreckage of the American Airlines plane after it crashed in MISS ARKANSAS Little Rock Ark 50 miles David Stanley (right) hugs his TEXAS sister Sarah as another woman makes a cellular call Stanley was a passenger on the jet 1998 fatality-fre- e US the deadliest on record niece testifies about incest -- Vol 112 No 153 PEACE PLAN GOES TO BELGRADE3A Printed on recycled paper '08773 0000 JR COPY i 4a 4 Vint Press LITTLE ROCK Ark - An American Airlines flight with 145 people aboard skidded off a run- way while landing during a half storm broke apart and burst into flames Sources familiar with the investigation said nine people were known to have been killed The deaths in the crash just before midnight Tuesday were the first on a major US airline in nearly 1 12 years After sliding down the rain- slickencd runway in winds gust- -' ing to nearly 90 mph the twin- slammed engine Super MD-8- 0 into a steel tower split into pieces caught fire and wound up on the edge of the Arkansas Riv- er As flames spread through the plane some passengers squeezed one by one through an emergency exit while others escaped through openings created when the plane’s fuselage fractured They scrambled away from the plane across lowlands near the river in darkness rain and hail "We grabbed each other and ran away” said Missy Lewis traveling with her husband and teenage daughter Sources familiar with the investigation said authorities could account for nine deaths in the crash of Flight 1420 from Dallas The airline said the plane’s captain was among those who died At least 80 people were injured and taken to hospitals Fourteen people were not immediately accounted for Fifty-on- e others did not require hospital treatment “The plane was going so fast when we hit the ground we went off the end of the runway” Barrett Baber said at a theater near the airport where survivors were taken to meet with families and friends As Kingston trial opens Standard-Examine- j in commercial flights US airlines also had one of their safest years ever in 1 997 a year after one of SPENCER TIREY TTie Associated Press By TIM GURRISTER i aviation officials celebrated a fatality-fre- e year 1998 aboard scheduled US Lawyers debate whether polygamy should be an issue - 50 km AP 625-423- 21999 ) O Little Rock le June TENN Momphis coverage3A 77 t- - 7fr t i i r staff SALT LAKE CITY - The niece of David O Kingston was scheduled to take the stand today for what promised to be punishing by defense attorneys after she spent four hours on the stand Tuesday detailing alleged polygamous incest by her reputed uncle-husban- David O Kingston confers with his ON TRIAL: d David O Kingston 32 is charged with three counts of incest and one count of unlawful sexual contact for allegedly consummating the marriage to his then niece who testified she was Kingston’s 15th wife attorneys during the start of his trial in Salt Lake City on Tuesday Tuesday the girl sat composed through four hours of testimony quietly See LEAH HOGSTEN Th Associated K1NGSTON5A TrtV r va jv'i t 4‘ f vmw ) ifibif ’ |
