Show V "'c 4 v v ' V r f v- v e - y i e S f A - X ' TODAY: Scattered showers by this afternoon TOMORROW: Showers High near 50 Page 2A OGDEN f t' - t f y r - SHOW PIZAZZ DARTS DOING GRID MAGIC The defending Midwest champs open season with a win Page IB Amputated hand was reattached after accident at work Page 1C With its 37-- 0 pasting of Cyprus Davis High advances Page IB SERVING NORTHERN UTAH SINCE 1888 UTAH 1 '' - REGAINING USE AFTER SURGERY ‘ " O- ‘ V UTAH JAZZ OVEMBERHH989 ' 4' 50 CENTS Public employees miffed at director’s endorsement By PHIL JENSEN Standard-Examine- Rhett Potter r Local and state political leaders of the Utah Public Employees Association say they are angry that their executive director ignored recommendations and endorsed challenger Scott Sneddon for Ogden mayor The statewide executive director Rhett Potter of Weber County said the Sneddon endorsement had the backing of the UPEA president and the group’s political liaison to Weber County But Ogden Mayor L Clifford He endorsed Scott Sneddon ignoring opinions of UPEA leaders Goff the man left out said Potter should be concerned about his job The flap developed Oct 27 after the two members of the UPEA’s local political action group interviewed both candidates and told UPEA headquarters by phone that the statewide employees union should remain neutral in the Nov 7 city election Terry Schow of Weber County one of the twoPAC members and second vice president of UPEA said he was shocked to pick up a newspaper the next morning and read that the UPEA had endorsed Sneddon Margaret Besso of Salt Lake City chairman of the union’s political arm Citizens Action for Public Employees or CAPE said Friday she disagrees with the en- dorsement and intends to take action to see to it that the process cannot be circumvented again UPEA President Bud Bowman a Utah Highway Patrol trooper from Cedar City said he concurs with the Sneddon endorsement and attributed the rift to “just a misunderstanding” Contacted Friday Bowman y as said “Keep this as low-ke- you can” Schow said what should have been a simple informational phone call from the local political action group turned haywire after Potter stepped in intimidated the caller and turned the recommen- dation of neutrality into a vote for Sneddon “It’s a total Schow interviewed the candidates to report a neutral position but was talked out of it by Potter “He led me into it a little bit" PAC said Williams a first-yemember and president of the Ogar circumvention of the process” said Schow who is in line to be president of UPEA in two years “It is the members of the UPEA who make the decisions and not the executive director who is hired by the members” Jackie Williams an Ogden City employee and the other local PAC member said he called UPEA headquarters after he and den chapter of UPEA “I told him I guess it was OK if it was OK with Terry but that he should call him” Schow said Potter called Sneddon and the news media instead “That does offend me that he didn’t call but he knew how upset I’d be” Schow said Schow and Williams said as far See POTTER on 2A East Germans i yell ‘freedom!’ Refugees allowed to go West PRAGUE Czechoslovakia (AP) — Thousands of East Ger- Reach for the sky Zina Smith 83 (above photo left) and Mary Archibaly (right) take part in the Sit and Stay Fit program under the direction of exercise leader Dawna Callahan (center) Callahan leads a group of six women at the JJnion Gardens in Senior Center stretching exercises every Tuesday and Friday morning Fay Jones 73 (left photo) has no problem with ‘chicken wing’ exercises to stretch the upper arm muscles Rescuers search for survivors of capsized ship LOS ANGELES (AP) — An oil drilling ship capsized during a typhoon in the Gulf of Thailand and rescuers sought to learn if any of the 97 people aboard were alive a spokesman for the owner Unocal said Friday No signs of life were apparent although rescue efforts were hamwaves and 15 pered by mph winds said Barry Lane a ot President trips over date again Knight Ridder Newspaper BLOOMFIELD NJ — There he goes again! Boy does George Bush have trouble with THIS date Speaking at a political rally here Friday night Bush implored the crowd to go to the polls and vote “on December 7th" Bush last year told a convention that it was Pearl Harbor Day SepL 7 spokesman for the Los Angeles-base- d oil company Ships and aircraft had been searching for the a Panamanian-registere- d vessel following a severe typhoon that swept through the arh ea with winds and 351-fo- ot Sea-cre- st 100-mp- 35-fo- ot waves Saturday morning or about 5:20 pm PST said Lane who had received news of the sighting from Unocal Thailand Ltd officials in ea Bangkok “They’re in constant radio con- A drilling rig mounted in the center of the ship reaching 60 feet or higher was stacked with equipment and there was concern tact with our ships planes and helicopters in the area" Lane said The ship was spotted with its bottom up by a Unocal vessel The Unocal subsidiary had aircraft and ships searching the ar which were joined by ships and aircraft of the Thai navy and air force the ship might have been too to weather such a fierce storm Lane said top-hea- vy mans crammed into the West German Embassy cheered “Freih-eit!- ” — Freedom! — when they heard late Friday that their communist homeland was allowing them to go directly to West Germany and some immediate headed West The estimated 5000 refugees jammed in the embassy building and in 30 tents hurriedly thrown up on its elegant grounds shouted in joy and flashed with their fingers as they got the first word on West German radio They burst into cheers again when West German diplomats later announced the East Germans could leave legally by any means they liked by simply showing their East German identity documents The first private cars and two West German tour buses with about 100 refugees on board headed toward the West German border at midnight Friday about an hour after the announcement The diplomats who spoke on condition of anonymity told reporters no time limit was set on the exodus It was not clear if this meant the effective removal of barriers on trav el to W est Germany for East Germans who may visit Czechoslovakia without permission from their government West German officials said many of those in the embassy would depart on special trains from Prague’s Liben station Saturday morning West Germany said the agreement was reached with East Germany permitting the third such exodus from the West German mission in Prague in six weeks Scores of East Germans arriving fresh from their homes turned up at the embassy astonished and happy to discover they could already leave More than 12000 East Germans had swarmed across the border into Czechoslovakia in the three days since their government lifted a month-ol- d ban on travel to the country the only landEast Germans may visit without prior permission More than 2000 East Germans flooded into the Pray mission on Friday alone many voicing See FREEDOM on 2A Contras ask delay in meeting at UN SAN JOSE Costa Rica (AP) — Nicaraguan rebels said Friday that they would not attend a meeting with Sandinista officials at the United Nations next week and proposed it be postponed a week President Daniel Ortega asked for a shelter delay and that Honduran officials take part Ortega had requested the talks for Monday and Tuesday after truce with the ending a Contras fighters The Contras instead decided not to attend next week Wilfredo Montalvan a director of the Nicaraguan Resistance said Friday US-back- ed by telephone “The date proposed by Ortega of his political party Montalvan said "That is he proposed that date for his convenience Therefore we propose that it be Nov 13 to be able to prepare ouris a strategy to take us off-guar- selves “And if Ortega thinks the only thing that is going to be discussed there is the unconditional surrender of our troops he should forget that since he is very wrong" he added “Our demobilization is voluntary and will (occur) when you can observe that Nicaragua is taking true steps toward the route of democracy" Nicaragua called the meeting — which would be the first direct talks between the two groups in more than a year — to discuss disbanding of the Contras An Aug 7 peace agreement signed by Ortega and four other Central American presidents calls for the oluntary demobilization and relocation of rebels from Honduran camps by Dec 5 The Contras were not a party to the agreement and hae not agreed to disband The Honduran government See REBELS on 2A New Jersey races peppered with nasty ads NJ (AP) — downand Glossy sophisticated right nasty fliers are filling mailboxes around New Jersey in a campaign that" some state lawmakers say has never before been so concentrated glitzy or vicious Ore campaign flier depicts Assemblywoman Marion Crecco as a poodle decked out in sunglasses seated in the front seat of a Jaguar sports car “She p amised to fix our insurance problem" says the Democratic attack on Crecco noting instead she introduced a bill to TRENTON ( STUMPi Bushes campaign for 4A gubernatorial candidates provide health insurance for pets "I think it’s deplorable This is about the lowest form of campaigning" said Crecco “It’s very demeaning to all women in government to depict me as this poodle sitting there in sunglasses This is gutteral campaigning" Stakes are high in the state Legislature race If the Democrats who already control the state Senate can wrest control of the Assembly they would be able Y to redraw the state's congressional districts in line with the 1990 Census to give their party an edge in US House races through the decade David Welch a Washington-base- d consultant responsible for the Republican mailings said mail warfare has been used in California since the 1970s And it is particularly attractive for New Jersey candidates because they usually can’t afford the cost ot television ads in the expensive New York and Philadelphia broadcast markets L “If California is the major league states like New Jersey Pennsylvania New York Illinois and Florida have become the Triple A league" he said “The pieces are designed to deliver a very purposeful and specific message" he said and if most are negative it is because the campaigns are nasty But Cliff Pintak the Republican’s strategist for Assembly campaigns said one candidate's view of nasty is another's “comparative campaigning" See NASTY on 2A W |