Show m TONIGHT: Clear Lows in mid-40- s TOMORROW: Sunny Highs in upper 70s Page 2A V iC - i SHOW HUGE PEARL SEZHSEE - - JIp rate 1989 The number of new jobs created edged up only slightly with a net gain of 64000 There would HEALTH COSTS AND WHERE The biggest pearl in the world weighs 14 pounds Page 3A Utah’s landscape is ideal for amateur collectors Page ID Doctors making profits off of equipment they own Page IB :ner 50 CENTS SERVING NORTHERN UTAH SINCE 1888 suss ZES5X have been a decline had not 78000 temporary census workers been hired Utah figures reported Thursday showed a statewide drop to 45 percent The Labor Department’s surof employers from which the job growth figure is derived is often considered a more reliable indicator of economic activity than the household survey from which the overall unemployment rate is calculated The nation’s manufacturing sector which has been in a slump for months continued to falter as factory jobs fell by 22000 vey a sizable chunk it might prompt the Federal Reserve to raise interest rates in an effort to hold down inflation The Fed’s next meeting is May 15 However economists noted that at least part of last month’s rise in labor costs was due to the April I increase in the minimum wage which went from $335 an hour to $385 Meanwhile the service sector which has been carrying the economy added 179000 jobs but that was artificially bolstered with the census worker jobs Labor costs which have been speeding upward and are blamed for worsening the nation’s inflation problems continued to increase although moderately today’s report showed Average hourly eamings posted a 03 percent rise in April to $995 up from the $992 the average worker earned an hour in The Labor Department’s household survey showed that overall total civilian employment declined slightly to 1181 million in April The jobless March numbered Some analysts had predicted that if April’s labor costs rose by 68 million up from the 65 million out-of-wo- rk 54 Percent of work force seasonally adjusted Americans in March The average manufacturing work week declined 02 hours to 406 hours in April Overtime fell 02 hours to 35 hours Besides the drop in factory jobs construction payrolls fell by a seasonally adjusted 99000 jobs That sector had been pushed up higher earlier in the year because of unseasonally warm weather in January and February The service sector’s 179000 new jobs included a gain of held on 20th anniversary KENT Ohio (AP) — Kent 60 50 128000 in government and 24000 in retail trade Finn m 40 If mi MJ loss JF JASON0 1830 53) Sourco: U S 1 52 1 Dept o Labor APSnaanJ-Examine- M A ' April 90 Mar ‘90 April ’89 46000 for health services r 54) trophic f Missiles by rail in trouble Memorial marks Kent State shootings Ceremonies State University students many of whom weren’t bom when the National Guard opened fire during an anti-wprotest marched by the hundreds before the dedication of a memorial to four students killed 20 years ago today “This was the most tragic episode in American foreign policy history” said former Sen George McGovern who ran unsuccessfully for president as a peace candidate two years after the shootings McGovern who was invited to be keynote speaker at the dedication said beforehand that the Kent State shootings and the death of two Jackson State University students in Mississippi 10 days later in an anti-wprotest helped focus public attention on the war and opposition to it “There was a common note of humanity that was touched here" McGovern said Some student activists who wanted a larger memorial and more involvement in its planning promised a silent protest march during the ceremony The $100000 granite memorial is the most ambitious attempt by the university to commemorate the dead and wounded “We do appreciate what has been done and who did it” said Florence Schroeder mother of Bill Schroeder one of the four students killed on campus by the Ohio National Guard ' QUESTIONED unemployment rate nation’s unemployment 1 TO FOSSIL HURT as edged up to 54 percent in April the highest level in more than a year the government said today The civilian jobless rate as measured by a household survey was up from the 52 percent registered in March Before that the unemployment rate had held steady at 53 percent for nine months The last time the jobless rate reached 54 percent was January t - '- UP FOR SALE OGDEN UTAH WASHINGTON (AP) — The t 53 Standard Examiner staff and wire reports WASHINGTON — The Pentagon’s plans to deploy nuclear missiles on railroad cars is in “big big trouble” in Congress because of a reported proposal by the Air Force to eliminate funds for the system a senator said Air Force officials refused to confirm reports that the service had recommended that Defense Secretary Dick Cheney cut funds to move the multiple-warhea- d MX missile from fixed silos to railroad cars Canceling the railroad basing ar fi it - v O xt? 'v would plan ar 49500-square-fo- ot 80000-square-fo- Associated Press Students at Kent State University attend candlelight vigil Thursday night Mrs Schroeder said she was convinced the death of her son helped to shprten American involvement in the Vietnam War “He absolutely did not die in vain” Schroeder said at a news conference Dean Kahler who was para- lyzed from the waist down said he has forgiven the guardsmen who wounded him “I feel no bitterness only forgiveness in my heart” said Kah ler now an Athens County The lack of a memorial recommissioner in southeast flected continuing political difOhio ferences over an event that “Healing is something that brought the Vietnam War comes from within” he said home speaking from his wheelchair “I feel I could not be an angry bit- ter man” Until now the shootings were marked only by a gravestone-siz- e slab erected in 1971 in a corner of a parking lot where the tragedy occurred Some viewed the shootings as an unprovoked act of state violence others said unpatriotic protesters had finally gotten what was coming to them although many of the victims were bystanders rather than activists Campus police said they would maintain a discreet presence at the hilltop memorial site to keep order but did not expect a disruption To mark the anniversary of the shootings a candlelight vigil an annual tradition began at midnight on this campus of 23000 students The vigil followed a candlelight march by more than 2000 people 12-ho- ur 824-ac- cross-cam-“p- re us some affect operations at Hill Air Force Base Under mobile basing some MX trains would come through Northern Utah although Hill would not be one of the bases for missiles on alert However MX motors would be moved to Hill for maintenance In conjunction with that program the Ogden Air Logistics Center at Hill plans a storage lot and an spares warehouse “The Air Force supports the president’s budget that’s on the hill for the Franklin C Miller deputy assistant secretary of defense for nuclear forces and arms control policy told a Senate Armed Services subcommittee But Sen James Exon ot D-N- chairman of the subcommittee on strategic forces and nuclear deterrence said Thursday the committee is aware of what the Air Force recommended and that proposal is undermining support for the system on Capitol Hill “The MX proposition is in big big trouble here since we know what the Air Force recommended and whether or not the secretary overrides that it’s going to have a bearing on what we do here” the senator rail-garris- on Ogden officials still want an ice rink for city By DENNIS ROMBOY Standard-Examine- r OGDEN — Even though local Olympic boosters have chosen Weber State College as a poteng oval site Ogtial den City officials still want a practice ice rink for the city Mayor Scott Sneddon said this morning potential sites for the practice rink have yet to be identified Downtown locations and sites near existing recreational areas such as city parks will be Northern Utah Olympic bid speed-skatin- high on the list he said “1 could see a lot of pluses to having it downtown” Sneddon said There are also advantages to “affiliate it with another recreation area” he said The rink would be fully enuse Sned closed for year-rou- nd don said He said the facility would be beneficial to Ogden as “an added attraction and ameni- ty” A committee made up of Sneddon council members Bonnie McDonald and Michael Miller Rocky Fluhart public works director and Nate Pierce management services director will study potential sites and report back to the council later this month Fluhart said the Utah Sports Authority would fund 60 percent of the initial building costs for the practice rink — which initially could be used for Olympics practice and training — and the remainder might have to be raised privately The site proposal must be turned into the sports authority by June 15 That’s the same day the venue proposal is due to the sports authority Final site selections are to be announced July 10 speed-skatin- g Local officials wondered which governmental jurisdiction would submit the oval proposal to the sports authority “It is not clear right now that proposing it is appropriate (for Ogden City)” Fluhart told the council Thursday night Fluhart sits on the site selection committee for Weber County People for Jobs Opportunity and Olympics According to the sports authority’s request for proposals criteria See RINK on 2A Thursday said In another Senate hearing Lt Gen George L Monahan Jr director of the Strategic Defense Initiative Organization said a cut of $1 billion from the sum proposed by President Bush for “Star Wars” would clearly “put our deployments further out in future" the Sen Arlen Specter raised the possibility of such a cut R-- Pa Scientists report ability to make brain ceils grow WASHINGTON (AP) — History’s first continuous culture of human brain cells may eventually be used to replace the tissue lost in the brains of people with Alzheimer’s disease stroke or head injury said a study published today Dr Solomon Snyder of Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in Baltimore said his research team used tissue removed from a child during brain surgery to develop a colony of human brain cells that divide and grow in laboratory dishes Never before Snyder said have scientists been able to coax human brain cells into growing and reproducing in a laboratory But the new cell line can now be expanded at will through thousands upon thousands of generations he said Asked why the brain cells taken from the child were able to divide and grow in the laboratory when so many similar earlier efforts had failed Snyder had no answer “They clearly had a intrinsic potential to divide more than conventional neurons" he said in a telephone interview “Just why we simply don’t know" Other researchers called the discovery one of “tremendous the brain humans at birth have significance" that may cause an all the brain cells they will ever explosion of new research and have If a substantial number of treatment in brain diseases brain cells are damaged by disAlthough brain cell transplantation is the eventual goal Sny- ease injury or stroke functions der said it will take years of controlled by those cells are lost laboratory studies before the forever brain cells can be used on human Snyder said the cultured cells underwent 3'i years of vigorous patients A report on the research is testing to assure they aren’t an published in today’s edition of abnormal growth such as cancer the journal Science but are in fact normal brain Scientists have long been hamcells "We have every confidence pered in their study of the brain because human brain cells won’t that they will function that way when transplanted" he said “If reproduce Except for very limited exceptions in isolated areas of they were placed into the envi f ronment of the brain we would expect them to be functional” Brains damaged by degenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s or by stroke or trauma may one day be repaired by transplanting cells grown from the brain cells cultured in the Hopkins lab Sn- -' der said The cells that founded the cul- ture were taken from the brain of an girl who underwent surgery in 1986 The voung patient was suffering from seizures and doctors determined that one side of had grown more than the"1 1 other her-brai- n - i |