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Show OLYMPIC SWITCHEROO | Ice events may swap venues C-1 TAX BREAKS | Now’s thetimetoact C-6 NOT-SO-GREAT EIGHT Runnin’ Utes lose in Chicago D-1 CheSalt Lake Gri http://www.sltrib.com une Utah's Independent Voice Since 187] Volume 257 Number 50 SINGING CELEBRITIES Ford Commercial Lets Utahns Play Bill Would Ban Gunsin Schools Utah lawmaker’s measure also would give churchesthe option of barring concealed weapons BY JUDY FAHYS Name That Face THESALT LAKE TRIBUNE Concealed weapons would be outlawed in schools, and churches would have the option of banning them BY VINCE HORIUCHI ‘THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE Night after night, Utah viewers hear and probably hum that catchy tune from the Ford TV commercial. “Gonna buy me a Ford truck and cruise it up and downthe roooaaad,” six Utah celebssing Who are those people? you ask. Probably they are famous and maybe you (i 143 South MainStreet (801/237-2800 Salt LakeCity, Utah84111 THURSDAY, DECEMBER3, 1998 © 1998, The Salt Lake Tribune undera bill being proposedfor the 1999 Legislature. A bill by Rep. Dave Jones,D-Salt Lake City, would revive debate about the state’s concealed-weapons law. Saying it obviously needsto betightened, Jones also is considering adding a provision that would allow property ownersto resirict concealed weapons on their premises. With the Utah House under newleadership, thebill may have moreluckthan in past legislative sessions. Outgoing House Speaker Mel Brown, a Republican, has opposed anyrestrictions on guns or concealed selves, and if you are going to take away that right what areyougoingtoreplaceit with? Powell said that outlawing concealed weapons in “There are just places where guns armedsecurity officers are posted in all the buildings where weapons are banned. weapons ‘The bill's primary purposeis to do what common sense suggests we ought to do,” said Jones, whois House minorityleader. needto be.” some don't Although the wording of CLICK HERE FOR MORE DETAILS wwwsitrib.com ELSE. |) Jones’ bill has not beenfinalized, gun-rights advocates already are prepared to fight the measure. It’s unnecessai aid Elwood Powell, a board member for the Utah Shooting Sports Council, a group that advocates gun rights. ‘We have a constitutional right to protect our- haveseen their faces before. But you can't quite place them certain places would prevent permit holders from protecting themselves from lethal harm, unless Sen. Mike Waddoups, R-Taylorsville, said he also would fight the proposedrestrictions. All that will do is let the criminals know those are goodplaces to take guns because no one therewill have a gun to shoot back,” said the lawmaker, whose 1995 legislation helped make it easier for Utahns to See UTAH BILL, Page A-4 Study Says Glaciers Eased Earth’s Tilt Thesix share being crazy “bout a Ford truck and, thanks to the Wasatch Front Ford Dealers, sing of the great American pastime: four-wheelin’ fun “T saw it and damn-near died,” Ted Wilson. “How would you embarrassed 10 times a day’ It says poles were warm,tropics cold The J. Walter Thompson ad agency, with headquartersin, whereelse, De- before buildup, melting ofice sheets troit, the Motor City, came up with the idea — getting famous Utah faces to sing THE ASSOCIATED PRESS with country crooner Alan Jackson “We wanted to make surethat every- The Earth might have tilted far more toward the sun600 million years ago thanit doestoday, making the polarregions warm and thetropics cold, researcher bedy knows who they were and that they haveinstant recognition,” said Mary J. Walter Thompsonrep. hat the agency got are not exact- ntists say this could explain evidence that there ly household names, which might add to once wereglaciers in what are nowthe tropics This theoryofplanetary tilt has been aroundfor a the charm. Utahns have turned the advertisement into a guessing game. For the record, the singers are: Ruth Hale, 90, the actress who co- while, but researchers at Pennsylvania State Univer. sity have come up with an explanation of how the Earth could have moved from an angle as great as 55 degreesto its currentposition, a more modest 23.5 owns the Hale Centre Theatre; Wilson; former Miss America Sharlene Hawkes; degrees. ‘The buildup and meltingofglaciers duringthis pe- former news anchorPhil Riesen; former Utah Jazz center Thurl Bailey; and for- riod might have created enough force to cause the planet to straighten up onits axis, the researchers mer University of Utah (1957-58) quar- terback Lee Grosscup. Their pay: No oneis talking, but Susie McCarty, who helped put together the ad, indicated, “It’s in the thousands.” Apparently, J. Walter Thompson and the McCarty Agency, Salt LakeCity, which cast the commercials, tried to get a slew of recognizable Utah faces. They wanted Frank Layden, Mark Eaton and Antoine Carr from the Utah Jazz, but it was no go since they work for competing car dealer Larry Miller. Theyalso tried Rick Majerus, Ron McBride and Lavell Edwards. No luck. “A lot of people wanted to do it, but they were out of town,” said McCarty. They did not ask Utah's best-known actors Robert Redford and Wilford “Like when yourepeatedly push on a swingat the PERJURY McCarty With two days and one faceto find for the shoot, a desperate McCarty called up Grosscup — her ex-busband. Theyshot all the 30-second commercials on Oct. 12 in and around Salt Lake City and HeberCity. The Penalty: You can gotoprisonfor it, say Utah attorneys, but people rarely do BY STEPHE! © 1998, THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE The meanderingpath of the House Judiciary Com- Nearly everytrial, whethercriminalor civil, comes downtoa battie between opposingversionsof events. trail to a sensational mid-1980s South Carolina perjury case pitting two Utahns against each other. That's what it has boiled down to in the case against President Clinton — did he lie while under oath about having sex with a White House intern? accusation against President Clinton — can have harsh consequences. Utah businesswoman Babette W. “Babs” De Lay, to 15 years in prison, is seldom prosecuted in Utah mittee’s impeachment inquiry nowincludes a side House Republicans broughtthe 1984caseto light to show that lying under oath about sex — a key whoonceplayed a pivotalrole as a surprise witness “T had to sing it 15 times,” groaned Riesen. Ofthe six, it is clear in the commer- cials only Hawkes has a professional singing background. She sang in Spanish for the Miss America talent competition. “When they came to me, they said you don't have to be a great singer for it,” Baileysaid. ‘They were trying to make it fun.” So are these six really crazy ‘bout a Ford truck? samepointin the swing cycle,” said co-author James Kasting. “If you giveit a little push at the righttime the swing goes higher and higher.” The seasons as we know them occur becauseof the tilt of the Earth asit travels around the sun. When the North Poleis tilted on its axis toward the sun, summer occurs in the Northern Hemisphere and winter in the Southern Hemisphere. If the Earth’s axis had beentilted morein the past. day and night over much more of the globe would The Lie: Utahns squared off in 84 case that has resurfaced in Clinton inquiry BY JOHN HEILPRIN © 1998, THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE Brimley. “| knew they wouldn't doit,” said theorized in today’s issue of the journal Nature ichael J. Miller/The Salt Lake Tribune Babette “Babs”De Lay, a Utah real estate broker, is amused by her recent connectionto the Clinton impeachmentprobe.Hertestimony helped send a womanto prison in 1984 forlying underoath. in the case, has fielded calls from reportersnationally since her name surfaced this week. DeLayisa Salt Lake Cityreal-estate broker whose 2%-hour weekly KRCL 91 FM radio show happensto airthis morning, The unexpected attention from her Perjury, a second-degree felony punishable by up courts. But whenit is, it is up to the jury to figure out whois telling the truth. Most dramatically, the defendant in a criminal trial might take the stand to claim hedidn’t lie, despite an long days during the summer and extremely long nights during winter. In addition, the poles would have received most of the sun’s warmth, and the equator would not have been the warmest place on Earth, as it is now. That would have kept the poles ice-free and allowed glaciers to form around the equator. Still, even the paper's authors concedetheir workis clouded byuncertainties. Kasting, who wrote the paper with Darren Williams and LawrenceFrakes, said: I'msortof sitting on the fence as to which mecha- See STUDY, Page A-13 Humanscould leam from the amazing ant BA arrayof prosecution witnesses and evidence to the contrary You might sit in a courtroom and know somebody is lying,” said Walter “Bud” Ellett, chief prosecutor connection to the impeachment inquiry amuses her in a slightly annoying way. “Tf it’s a trail back to me, it’s kind of a dead end,” See UTAHN, Page A-22 have beenlike the days and nights now experienced only in Alaska and other polar regions — extremely See PERJURY, Page A-22 @ Ogdenlawyerto standtrialfor perjury C3 “T've never owned a Fordtruck, to be honest,” Riesensaid. “I drive a Dodge,” Wilson said. “But if I had money, I would buy a Ford truck.” Hawkes and Grosscup drive Chevys. And believe it or not, the elderly Hale, all 5-foot-2, drives a truck. Sorry Ford, she hauls in a Toyota. Only Bailey drives a Ford — an Expe- dition. The commercials, off the air after Slot Cheat Will Tell Cops Whirling Disease Is Found His Million-Dollar Secrets In Yellowstone Park Lake THEA CIATED PRESS LAS VEGAS — Over the past 22 years, Dennis Nikrasch has raked in millions of dollars as Neva- da’s premierslot cheat. Now he is promisingtotell Dec. 15, are making these celebrities gambling regulators how he and his counterparts rip off the state's casinos for about $40 million a famousagain. Well, sort of. “A lady told me the other day, ‘I don’t know who you are, but you're trying to sell me a Ford truck, right?’” said Wilson. “It's been so funny.” “He had the mostsophisticated system we've ever seen,” said Keith Copher, chief of the Enforcement Division of the Nevada Gaming Control Board. “We don’t know that he’s passedit along, and if he has, he'd bettertell us.” Nikrasch was convicted in 1986 of scamming $10 million from Las Vegas casinos by rigging slot ma- chines between 1976 and 1979. He wasreleased on parole in January 1991 and returned to the trade Ann Landers B-2 Movies Obituaries Dé Bridge Col. E6 Puzzles E3 Asimov Quiz Business Classifieds Comics E2 B4 Sports Star Gazer TVPrograms WEATHER: Very warm. BS D4 £2 BS Details: E-1 iw. COPY» five yearslater. Nikrasch, 57, was arrested again in June, along with three others, in a $6 million slot scheme. A dozen cohorts, all from the Phoenix area, also may be charged, accordingto a federal prosecutor. Nikrasch cut a deal Tuesdayto tell his secrets to state and federal authorities. He pleaded guilty to charges of conspiracy, interstate travel in aid of BY KURTREPANSE EK SPECI | TO THE TRIBUNE Whirling disease, a crippling maladythat has vir- tually wiped out some Rocky Mountain trout populations, has been discovered in Yellowstone National Park. Park officials are not sure howextensive the in- festation mightbe. “This is based on one samplein onepartof[Yel- lowstone Lake],” park fishery biologist Dan Mahoneysaid Wednesday. He added that further test- ing will be conducted in the spring Thediseaseis the latest threat to the huge lake’s native population of cutthroat trout, which has been undersiegein recentyears by non-nativelaketrout. Parkofficials believe theyfirst were dumpedinto the lake in 1994 by anglers. The laketrout feed on the cutthroat, whicharea vital food supplyfor other animalsin the park, including grizzly bears and While parkofficials believe they are having suc- racketeering, money laundering and interstate transportation of stolen property. In the 1970s, Nikrasch and other cheats dealt park, located in northwestern Wyoming. See SLOT CHEAT,Page A-8 \a Bubble Boy pelicans. cess in containing the lake trout, the whirling disease presents a potentially more deadlythreat to the cutthroat and could spread down the Yellow- stone River to other prized fishing streamsin the , See WHIRLING DISEASE, Page A-8 ' Barklee Baskin, 4, of Kaysville tries to blow a bubble while standing inside another bubble at the Festival of Trees. The fund-raiser for Primary Children’s Medical Center continues through Saturday atthe Salt Palace. |
