Show 2C Standard-Examin- Sunday Dec 31 1989 er teachers Linda Visser of Hillcrest Elementary Gaye Pesout of Kanesville Elementary and Lynette Grow of West Uintah Elementary supported strike At left Anne RaupStandard-Examine- Above mechanics inspect Lagoon’s rollercoaster the day after Kilee King died when she fell out r Top stories have major implications for ’90s -- just two days before Ije was scheduled to die at the 'Utah From 1C (£the land itself had not been con-- £ State Prison y No new execution date has been set and all that Utah can headbe sure of is that i lines will continue into the ' laminated Then a former Forest Service geologist claimed the site contained a flowslide area with potential of becoming an-other Thistle landslide 2 Snowbasin's geologist though agreeing there are unsta-vbl- e soils in the proposed trade area disputed the size of the and the potential hazards v And Snowbasin assured every-£on- e it would not be building on unstable ground Nearly 500 letters and lust 2- - about as many phone calls from people with opinions on the were received by the Forest "Service which is expected to Hi make a decision on the d land swap the end of Jan-2- 2 Hi-F- K 1990s Andrews and Pierre Dale Selby entered the shop just before closing time on April 22 1974 What was supposed to be a simple robbery of stereo equipment turned into a four-honightmare Before ityvas over three people were dead including a al-- ar-H- ur ' passerby and twoftljefs both relatives of the victim were left for dead Andrews and Selby were arrested the next night in their Hill Air Force barracks after belongings of the victims were found by children in a trash bin ' outside the Selby was executed by lethal injection on Aug 28 4987 State prosecutor Earl Dorius labeled the Hi-the state’s jnost heinous-' 'crime ever "V pro-pose- uary 22 If the agency agrees to the self-confess-ed H trade it will take another year for a decision to be made on Hi what lands the Forest Service jt will receive in exchange foot-lon- F-1- ' ’ Blair KooistraStandard’Exammer engine similiar to the ones the FBI purchased in the sting operation is displayed at Hill An F-1- 6 funding state road ' projects through the Utah Department of Transportation trig-germ- torture-murde- Fi : Operation Punchout News that three g 6 jet Snowbasin ski resort stands to gain the most from the highway’s opening More than half the land on which the highway is located was donated by Snowbasin Yet to be built is a connector road between Trappers Loop and the resort Once the road is in place it will eliminate 14 miles that skiers must now travel to reach the resort What is now blocking the construction of this road is the proland swap posed 1320-acr- e between Snowbasin and the Forest Service Unique to the building of Trappers Loop Highway was the method in which it was initially funded Some $6 million in state money came through a state legislative bill that circumvented the normal procedure of y Since its opening Earl Olson an environmental geologist has predicted a section of the highway will suffer damage from a “nuisance” landslide by this spring UDOT officials disagree Olson said the proposed connector road whose maintenance would be paid for by taxpayers is also fraught with flowslide areas rs ’’ Bond failure :L 17 en- gines worth at least $63 million were stolen from Hill Air Force Base early in July caused amazement and concerns about u military security iir- - Buv eventually the FBI and i the Air Force revealed theyknew what was going on all along The engines were sold to 2 undercover agents who had been buying stolen military r supplies through a phony Roy v surplus store for 2'h years- y US Attorney Dee V Benson promised more than 100 in the probe called Opeand the Air Punchout ration Force said more than 260 peo- pic were implicated in stealing or illegally selling materiel from bases in the West and South-- : --n— jl f Ogden voters ! n Octo-?- l ber delivered1 a re-- I sounding “no” to a d city syl—'issuance council-propose- of‘$63 mil- lion in bonds to perk- up the central downtown business dis' trict i ' 1 Th$ lionds would havf fcluded $22 million for Union Station expansion $2 million of the Egyptian ' ‘Theater and another $22 million for repairs and additions to the Municipal Gardens and $ downtown landscaping Most observers Said the death of the downtown' bonds was a reaction against higher taxes not the projects themselves But almost as convincingly as they threw out the downtown pro posals voters enthusiastically' west a raise in taxes to pay 'embraced : By year’s end 27 people had for street repairs citywide f -in y civilian or been charged j ' On the same ballot where courts Eight were Hill se? marked ill and seven ‘voters almost j curity policemen on the vote no downtown plans Y were surplus dealers £ Four people had been con- - they approved $5 million for marvictcd or pleaded guilty includ- - street repairs by a gin ing the policemen who stole the For Union 'Station and the engines Two defendants were the voter rejection was gardens t acquitted Charges against three not crippling since both are al 2erc dropped The Air Force said unnamed ready maintained by the city But for the Egyptian it wa9 others had faced real Mow administrative action The landmark barely ducked the wrecking baJlC ? K M i Hi-murders Liquor laws - 1 - in-"- ’ ! Associated Press ts 'W? -- mili-tar- &hop The awful Hi-murders that sickened Utah nearly 16 years ago have now spanned three decades with the final chapter yet to be scripted The state was ready to close the book last August with the ‘execution of the second and last man convicted of killing three people irt the basement of the Ogden stereo shop But a federal appellate court awarded William Andrews yet another reprieve Fi 4 prcscrvationlsis8 purchased “t from an owner considering d- molition The coalition grew into the Egyptian Theater Foundation which has found g on the theater’s behalf difficult The foundation has begun negotiations to restructure its loan agreement with the city which lent $125000 for the theater’s purchase The foundation is delinquent on its first payment on the loan fund-raisin- laws were recom- mended by a special state task force as 1989 came to a close but the package could run into opposition as the new decade unfolds The task force was appointed by the Legislature two years ago and spent most of 1989 gathering public opinion on the whole scope of liquor sales and consumption When it was finished the task force drafted a voluminous proposal that is now being trans- -' formed into a bill for the 1990 session of the Legislature which convenes Jan 8 Basically the proposal would g do away with the practice of customers carrying liquor and wine into bars and restaurants replace the minibottles with liquor dispensers ban the sale of beer kegs and allow in public lounges at the Salt Lake International Airport The task force also has incorporated what it hopes will be a solution to the controversial ban on customer drinking in limou“fun buses” sines and an issue that provoked accusations of Mormon Church controls on the Legislature The church has issued a “noopposition" position on the task 17-oun- al Fi liquor brown-baggin- 10-po- non-judici- The most sweeping changes in Utah’s of--I A -- indict-men- 1 v y '!! 5 5 Ik irm!V Robert ‘ liquor-by-the-dri- T A v5 v - PopeStandard-Examine- r Tj Voters said 'no' to Issuance of $63 million in bonds to ed Trappers Loop Envisioned as an alternate route into Ogden Valley nearly 70 years ago Trappers Loop Highway became an asphalt realic ty Sept 23 when the stretch linking Mountain Green honcsi-to-goodne- ss 95-mil- I with Huntsville opened to the public The $14 million highway which parallels a trail between Ogden and Weber valleys once used by Indians and fur trappers not only provides an alternate route into Ogden Valley but also a new artery for force proposal Still Utah's many members of Legislature already arc picking at the package saying they mostly are con part-tim- e cerned with complaints from beer taverns that a ban on g could throw them out of business brown-baggin- Lagoon accidents It was a grim year for Utah’s premier amusement park as two ride-relate- deaths d within a period of six weeks marred Lagoon’s usual summer season of fun and thrills Tragedy struck on April 30 when d Ryan Beck-stea- of Bountiful fell from the Puff the Little Fire Dragon kiddie roller coaster and was killed by the ride on its next loop of the track On June 9 Kilee King of Bountiful died when she fell from the front car of the large wooden roller coaster that has been Lagoon’s most identifiable landmark over the years Police investigations determined there was no criminal negligence on the part of either Lagoon or its employees in either of the accidents In both cases however the families of the deceased children filed civil negligence lawsuits against the amusement park Those suits are still in litigation and pretrial hearings for both have been scheduled for April 2 in 2nd District Court before Judge Douglas Cornaby Vernal attorney Robert McRae who is representing both families in their lawsuits against Lagoon said prospects are good for a pretrial settlement in the Beckstead case but indicated the King case will probably go to trial Death sentence Ogden resident John Albert Taylor became one of the few men from Weber County ever to be sentenced to death for murder He was convicted of the June 23 rape and strangulation murder of Charla Nicole King of Washington Terrace Taylor 30 asked to have his case heard by 2nd District Court Judge David E Roth rather than a jury Following seven days of trial in early December Roth found Taylor guilty of the crime and two weeks later sentenced Taylor to death by lethal injection The case is being appealed to the Utah Supreme Court Three of Taylor’s fingerprints were found on a telephone in the bedroom where King was murdered That physical evidence combined with behavioral changes in Taylor noticed by his family immediately after the murder led to his conviction Taylor maintains his innocence claiming he burglarized the apartment earlier in the day when the apartment was empty Taylor was staying with a sister in the same apartment building as the victim at the time of the murder first-degr- 4 |