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Show UTAH DRUBS AGGIES DE LA HOYA FALLS WALL STREET FRENZY U. starts slow, then rolls C-1 Trinidad beats ‘Golden Boy’ C-7 A dangerous obsession? E-1 Ghe Salt LakeCrib une ttp://www.sitrib.com Utah’s Independent Voice Since 1871 Volume258 Number158 ©1999, The Salt Lake Tribune 143 South Main Street (801) 2 Salt Lake City, Utah 84111 SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1999 U.S. Position Bball Sinise ia MOUNTA As Top Dog MayNot Last Need to defend homelandlikely will grow in 21st century, congressional panel warns BY JOHN OMICINSKI @ Leaders to tackle global agenda WASHINGTON Weaponsinspace. Perhaps an end to “the American moment in world histor More competition for available oil supplies. “Big ideas” Those were some of the key predictions for the next century offered Wednesdayby a congressional commission that by April will recommend Horseshoe Mountain Hardware, which Glen Peel openedin 1995,will soon face competition from a new Wal-Mart in Ephraim. For Glen Peel, dedication and hard work are. . . changes in U.S. defensestrategy and structure. The top conclusion by the commis: sion chairedby formerSens. Warren Tools of the Trade BY’TOM WHARTON TH ALTLAKE TRIBUNE MT. PLEASANT Asthesunsets on idea of America. Most havelongsince beenreplaced by strip malls and Wal-Marts. Glen Pee! stands inside his Horseshoe Mountain Hardwareand Rental Store on Main Street. It is located across the street from where his ancestor, Peter Madsen Peel, helped build a fort to pro- tect the fledgling town from hostile Indians. Peel's 6,000-square-foot store opened in 1995 in the M.E. Nelson Building,first built as an automobile showroom in 1937. The structure was empty when Rudman and Gary Hart was that after more than 200 years ofblissful protection by two great oceans, the A-2 UnitedStates faces greaterthreats to its “homeland.” Peel and his wife, Detina, rented it and Americans, it predicts, “will likely die on Americansoil, possibly in large numbers.” 1 Wharton's back onthe prowl Sanpete County, a shopper walking down Main Streetfeels caught in a time warp. Small towns such as this appear mostly as movie sets today anidyllic religious or populist spreading quicklyaroundthe world LynnJohnson/TribuneArchives spent two months remodeling. In a town where things appear to standstill, the 42-year-old shopkeeper knows much about abrupt changes. New customers immediately recog- The United States will remain the principal world powerfor at least the next 25 years, it said. But the prolifera. tion of weapons ofmassdestruction and nize the hardware store owner. His white cane and dark glasses quickly reveal morethanthis private man might want themto know. unreliable alliances are likely, and would threaten U.S. interests at home and abroad. It foresaw an America“int ‘easingly vulnerable to hostile att k on our uperiority homeland, and ourmilita: Glen Peel is blind. And now his busi- nessis being threatened bya giant Wal Mart being built 15 miles down U.S. 89 in Ephraim. After graduating from North Sanpete High School in 1975, the fifth-generation See STORE OWNER,Page A-14 will not entirely protectus.” The security environment over the next 25 years, said the report, “will Lynn Johnson/TribuneArchives Glen Peel says he enjoys helping people and canlocate anyitem notin a package. require different military and other national capabilities.” It didn’t spell out the new needs. They will come in two morereports between now andApril But among the major changes the A-4 report foresaw was that weapons will likely be put into space, an arena that, xcept for s| tellites, has been con sideredoff-limit At the sametime,thepaneisaid, war will still be a bloody, dirty bus “The essence of war will remain the same,” said the report. “There will be newcasualties, carnage and death; it will not be like a video game.” Former House Speaker Newt Ging rich, a commission member, said the final recommendations will try to address a “frustrating paradox” that “while we are the most powerful nation in the world, in some ways we are becoming more vulnerable.” Better homeland defense, he said, could require “a significant redistribu tion of authority and power.” Rudman said the look military will be characterized by “stealth, speed, range, accuracy, lethality, mobility and superiorintelligence.” Someofthem, he suggested, will be “highly controversial” and may raise hackles at the Pentagon It signaled a shift in emphasis to defensive thinking, a historic change from the post-World WarII strategyof containingthespreadof communism. And in an observation that may raise eyebrows, the report foresawthat over the long haul, the United States would recede as the premier world power American leadership will be of para mount importancein today’s world, it said, while adding, “The American moment in world history will not last forever; nothing wrought by mandoes.” Plaintiffs Against Gun Makers Note Tobacco Suit Successes BY JUDY FAHYS ® Tribunepoll on guns ® Killers talk about gun availability THE SALT LAKETRIBUNE Tanya Copier’s heart gave out before she learned whether her medical bills would be covered by the maker of the gun that left her paralyzed the last years ofher life. The Murray woman's 1991 lawsuit against Smith & Wesson might hav seemed laughable at the time, Govern: fars and rumorsof wa killer earthquakes, hurrican that workedexactly as intended Copier sued anyway, arguing Smith & Wessonhadgood reason to expect inno Tribune's series on the cent people would be hurt and killed by Millennium change. its product, .38-special revolver her ex husband usedto shoot her. Statistically, SUNDAY MAG. WEATHER Mostly 70s, 80s. hundreds of thousands of dollars,” says Russell C. VOCERCE Page A-20 THE ARTS ‘Theworkof choreographer Molissa Fericks, Copier'’s Salt Lake City lawyer. “I wanted Smith & Wesson to pay for my client’s injuries.” The courts never did address Copier's question about the gun company’srole in A Utah Perspective ment saw no sense in making firearm companies pay damages for products andtornadoes. It must be TH END. Ninth installment of The A6 A-6 her paralyzing injury, which eventually caused the heart failure that killed her. Last in aSeries ‘They dismissed hercase on grounds Utah it was used for crime more than any other gun. “If she had been in an auto accident it [the case] would have been worth law had no category for gun-company lawsuits. But four years after the 44-year-old mother’s death, the question recently has gained new life in courtrooms nationwide. Frustrated withinaction by state legislatures and Congress, 27 cities have suedthe firearms industry over the humanand financial havoc they blame on guns, and they ha’ aiterned their strategy on last year's tobacco settlement Noneof the gun-industry casesis in a Utah court, but many directly involve Utahns Two Utah firearms companies have been named as defendants in cases filed outside the state, Browning, a Mountain Green manufacturerfamed for its rifles and shotguns, is named as a defendant in 14 cases. Another defendant is Arms See GUN PLAINTIFFS, Page A-6 From Small Farm to Big Pharmaceuticals Fenley will be featured this week at the U Page D-1 TRAVEL Look behind the stereotypes as a cruise unveils images of the Arab Gulf States. Page H-1 SENIOR LIVING Did you know it’s nevertoo late to get in shape? Or that graying is natural? Inside Entrepreneur's career changed Utah economy,buthestill lives by Depression-era values BY GUY BOULTON THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE employs 1,400 people companywide including 900 in Draper. ‘The success of his first company set Spinoffs from those two companies becauseof Dale Ballard in motionthat marvelof creative cap: talism in which spinoff company be ts spinoff company. Inall, morethan 52 6. D4 = Ann Landers Births Book Reviews Classifieds ro Crossword F-16, 5-2 II Lottery 4 ol Movies 0-13 | Obituaries 8-7 | Personal Ads 5 Puzzles F-16 Real Estate Ft Star Gazer Fay 34945 | 02345 1 | cm q employ thousands more Yet Ballardis far outside thestate's innercircleof powerful business lead half a dozen medicaldevice compa. ers. Heis not on any bank boards. He trace their lineageto Ballard. sions. He will not be found at social events for the upper crust All he has done is create jobs. On Thursday, Ballard Medical will be sold to Kimberly-Clark Corp, for about $771 million. Ballard is 76. The nies, employing nearly 6,000 people, “I don't think anysingle individual has had a greater impact on Utah's in dustrial infrastructure,” says Gary Crocker, a venture capitalist: who himself founded and later sold a dis posable medical products company Ballard co-founded Deseret Phar maceutical in 1956, running the com: panyuntil its sale in 1977, The follow. ing year, he founded Ballard Medical | Corp., employs about 1,100 people in Sandy at a factory roughlythe size of five Wal-Mart stores. Ballard Medical Utah is billions of dollars richer Products Inc The former Deseret Pharmaceuti cal, now part of Becton Dickinson serves on no government commis sale could mark the closeof a career that drew little attention but changed the state's economy Ballard is a modest man. The de scription is overused whendescribing people whose net worth approaches $100 million. But Ballard has lived in the samehousefor ars. He doesn’t belong to a country club. He owns no vacation homes. His company car is a pick-up truck He's just a good-old farm boy from Draper,” says Butch Walcott, execu tive vice president of Ballard Medical. Ballard still owns a 180-acre or so farm in Draper the largest piece of undeveloped land in the city, The farm, run by a brother, is less of an investment thanatribute to his roots. His father was a farmer who also managed Draper Egg & Poultry. Bal lard grew upin a close family, with seven brothers and two sisters. And his early life followed the path of many raised during the Great Depression. His first job was herding and milk ing cows for cents a day, At 19, he was in Europe, a foot soldier in Pat ton’s army. He says he walked across Europe. See BALLARD'S CAREER, Page AD Dale Ballard, owner of Ballard Medical in Draper and other companies,is getting out of the business, \ POOR COPY ; |
