Show Standard-Examine- Friday August 5 1988 r 3B Utah Hofmann letters may target three people for vengeance SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Coded letters written by confessed bomber Mark W Hofmann contain information about three people possibly targeted for vengeance sources have been quoted as saying The Salt Lake Tribune and KSL-Tquoted law enforcement officials who were not identified V as saying FBI cryptologists in Washington had found letters Hofmann wrote his wife contained biographical information about Board of Pardons members Victoria Palacios and Board OKs funds to pave Burr Trail SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The state Community Impact Board has voted to provide $3 million to pave the Burr Trail in Garfield County The grant money would go toward paving the 50 miles of scenic dirt road outside lands controlled by the National Park Service Utah’s congressional delegation is seeking an additional $75 million from the federal government to pave the 16 miles of the road in Capitol Reef National Park and Glen Canyon National Recreation Area “I’m thrilled with the board’s decision” said Tom Hatch a Garfield County commissioner He said paving the road between Boulder and the Bullfrog Marina would increase tourism and provide an economic boost for all of southern Utah Already visitors wanting to see the controversial road have provided a significant economic boost to Garfield County he said Rodney Greeno representing the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance said the impact board made a serious mistake in its vote Thursday “There’s something wrong with the policy makers in Utah when that much money can be given away in the middle of a budget crisis” said Greeno He described the board's review of the funding request as “cursory unprofessional and emotional” The $3 million for the Burr Trail won’t be available until fall It’s part of the money the impact board will receive as the result of a court settlement involving coal mining royalties Even if the money was readily Gary Webster and documents aminer George Throckmorton ex- Throckmorton exposed many of Hofmann’s documents as forgeries and Palacios and Webster recommended in January that Hofmann be kept in prison for DO II the rest of his life In a controversial second-degre- 15 murder in e 1985 his fraudulent document dealings a diversion He told prosecutors he killed Christensen to prevent him from exposing one of his transactions in fraudulent Mormon historical documents and left the second bomb outside the Sheets home as KSL and the Tribune said the coded letters lent confirmation to statements by prison informants in Hofmann pleaded agreement guilty to the Oct plea-barga- pipe-bom- b slayings of Steven F Christensen 30 and Kathleen Webb Sheets 50 and to theft by deception in to authorities that Hofmann intended to have certain people harmed or killed HOW MUCH WOULD IT COST C2 VI TO CARPET YOUR HOME? 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