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Show The Satt LakeTribune TUESDAY WM FORTHE RECORD, B-2 MSTATE OF THE STATE, B-4 MCOMICS, B-8 Hometown Showdowns Today ROBERTKIRBY Hot S.L. mayoralrace, Cities’ issues top ballots ‘ NOVEMBER 2, 1999 He will have to protect city taxpayers during negotiations with the Salt Lake Organizing Committee for Olympicser. vices. Reid or Anderson will bear the weight of balancing uncomfortably tight budgets, reviving a struggling down: © 1999, TheSalt LakeTribune BY REBECCA WALSH ‘THESALT LAKE TRIBUNE Get Out There town, repairing and replacing aging ter lines and roads and redeveloping a Rocky Anderson or Stuart Reid will welcomethe worldto Salt Lake City during the 2002 Winter Games. Oneofthe And Vote — mayoral hopefuls will receive the Olym- All 4% of You wastelandofwarehot Residents in Utah’ called Gateway (0-plus cities and townswill gotothepolls today between 7 am. and 8 p.m. to choosecity council members andsettle dozens ofballot is: pic flag andsit next to America’s next sues, including a proposed ban on new alcohol licenses in Draper and whetherto morethan glitz and glamour. build soundwalls in Farmington. Besides settling Salt LakeCity’s mayoralcontest, president. But the next four years will be Before the Games, Salt Lake City’s new mayorwill plungeinto a more nuts- Todayis an important day. If you are thinking that it’s Culture Day, you are wrong. That's in Japan, and it’s tomorrow. Today is Election Day. wa and-bolts job. Washington Terrace and Cedar Hills In Salt Lake City, the stakes are “It’s a showcase election,” says David Magleby, Brigham Young University po: litical science professor. “This is a more visible election than Salt Lake City has ever had. This is going to be the mayor who cuts the ribbon at the Olympics. lights the torch, defines the city for the world.” Las ciudadesenel estado de Inthefinal days of such an election, much depends on, as Andersonputs it, “recency and primacy,” or “people re membering what they heard and saw Utah tendran hoy elecciones municipales. Las uras electorales abriran desdelas 7 a.m. hasta las 8 p.m. Para mas ast.” So the two candidates took to the informacion, llamealas oficinas municipales de elecciones. Sec HOMETOWNS. Page B-6 Holladay-Cottonwood, Herriman Municipal alcotfelaty Utah cities will be holding elections today. The polls will be open from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. Call your city offices for information on polling locations. nerve-wrackingly high voterswill select mayors in Ogden, Orem, eres Pile of Bones Believed to You haveuntil 8:00p.m.to de- cide what kind of weird you want for city government. Onething is clear. | will not be the mayor ofSalt Lake City. Not only wasI not invitedto participate in last night’s televised debate be- tweenSalt Lake City mayoral candi- dates Rocky Anderson andStuart Reid, neither of them botheredto Be Cop Killer ask for my support. I was ready to defend my stand on the issues. Unlike mytwo exopponents, I wouldnot have bored you with long-windedresponses te stuff like crime, education and whetheri goto church.Basically, I Remains are found two miles had three responses: 1. Oh, yeah? from site of May ‘98 shootout 2. Neener, neener. 3. I'm rubber, BY GREG BURTON lievein the political process. Namely, that it’s a good placeto test drugs for FDA approval. To provethat I amnotbitter, I offer the following help on where and how tovote. This is important information considering that only about4 percent of you are going to THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE, ched bones believed to bethat werefoundat dusk Sunday cideor waskilled by an accomplice withindaysofa May 1998 shootoutin Cortez, Colo. bother. First, you haveto be clear about yourcandidate’s standon theissues. The best way to determinethis is to ask supportersof the other candi- date. Here’s whatI foundout: Paul Fraughton/TheSalt LakeTribune Charmetria Walema,Katiee Tsinnie ahd Avery Walema on Mondaylookat proofs of a bookthey helped produce with University of Utah Press. The booktells the legend of how the Deep Creek Mountains were formed. ROCKY ANDERSON:If notactually Satan, as Reid supporters claim,Rockyis one of the Four Goshute Teens Turn Dream Into a Day Horsémenof the Apocalypse. If he gets elected, Salt Lake can expect: @ Tequila shooters a mandatory part of the school lunch program. @ Richard Simmons appointed Youths working to honortheir past inspire Indigenous People’s Day in Utah as the new policechief. @ Televised abortions during STUARTREID: The Anderson volunteers I spoke to were aghast of electing an active Mormon. If elected, Stuart would turn back Utah's socialclock with the following “moral”changes: @ Mormonism a prerequisite for citizenship. As a memberof the Goshute In- @ Mandatorynine-month preg- diantribe, Hooper is among a dozen or so teen-agers from the Ibapah In- nancies. If you're early, too bad. @ Private clubs would have to dian Reservation whose work will learn how to make margaritas out of Sterno. be featured in Pia Toya, or Big Mountain, a book to be published by the University of Utah Press. The booktells the legend of how the Deep As you cansee, yourvoteis crit: ical. To illustrate how important it is, the remainderofthis column is Creek Mountains, in Utah’s west desert near where the youngsters live in Tooele County, were formed. devoted to helping you doit. WHERE:Votersare divided into The volume is just one way the teens are working to honor their past. After studying such historical figures as Christopher Columbus districts, Exactly where you cast your ballot depends on where you reside. For example, St. Georgeresi- and Martin Luther King Jr. — both of whom have special days cele- schools. By law, voting cannot take brated in their honor —the students decided that a month should be des- peyote lodgesorpublic rest rooms. ignated for learning about American Indianhistory. Their proposal made it from the The most accuratelist of voting places can be foundin this newspaper. Checkit out. Do not use thelist there should be a day. “You guys can be really Three years ago, Lorenzo Hooper drew picture of a rabbit hopping through trees, never thinking it mightone day endup ina book. “I would have donea better job,” he said with a smile as he fingered a copy of his drawing on a page proof of a book that will soon goto press. that Salt Lake City would even think place inside saloons, opium dens, “We had to write why we thought BY LORI BUTTARS TH AK IBUNE, LDS Family Home Evening. dents would vote for either Reid or Andersonattheir local 7-Eleven. Manyvotingplacesare inside of a cop-killing in the southeast ernUtahdesert, still hunkeredat the roots of a cedar tree where investigators surmise he committed sui Thereare lots of proud ofyourselves.” Forrest Cuch State director of IndianAffairs accord- Utah today.” Seeing someoftheir goals come to fruition has hada great effect on to Gov. Mike Leavitt, who madeit official: November is American Indian History Month and Nov.22 is Indigenous People’s Day in Utah. “You guys can be really proud of yourselves,” said Forrest Cuch, the state director of Indian Affairs, meeting the students during their visit to Salt Lake City on Monday. “This will makehistory.” This was not the first time the students had wondered howto honortheir past. But by diving into the bureaucratic process andlearning how government works, the stu- the students, said Denise Hooper, education director at Ibapah. “It has changed their attitude about how they approach things,” Hooper said. “It has encouraged them to know that if you want something, you can achieve it by working harder.” The students will return to the Capitol on Nov. 12 to see the gover- nor sign the proclamation. Cuch said he hopes thatwill lead to sym posiums andother cultural evalua tions of AmericanIndian contribu tions to history. dents turned their wishesintoreali- “This state has beenin denial for ty, said Karen Duffy-Webster, edu- too long,” he said. “As a consequence, the relationship between cation director in the state Office of IndianAffairs. It took more than a year. “I just wanted a day. . . in honor of American Indians,” Hoopersaid. classroom to Utah's Tribal Council reasons, ing to the proclamationtha Ls for an “understanding of present-day tribal governments, languay sovereignty, arts, sports and social customs vital for the growth of the American-Indian people living in Th eleton was wrapped ina bulletproof Kevlar vest and camouflage parka stuffed with pipe bombs. A semiautomatic rifle, military-style helmet, hand gun and backpack lay nearby, perhaps dragged by animals from the man’s prickly hiding spot in Squaw Canyon near Hovenweep National Monument A group ofhunters found the body just two miles from where desperadoes Alan LaMont Pilon, J: Wayne McVeanand Robert Matthew Mason d peared on May 29, 1998, the day Cortez Polic Dale Claxtonwas shotandkilledinhis patrol c The spot was less than a morning's walk from Hovenweepandthe Anasazi ruins where a manhunt centeredfor seven days afterthekilling. OnSunday, deer hunters stumbled ai a back pack andrifle and then saw the skeleton lodged in the web ofcedar limbs. Theskull was in two pieces, sug: gesting massive trauma but revealing no obvious causeof death, investigators said “The animals had goodpickins onit,” said San duan CountySheriff Mike Lacy. “It's just jackass luck that these hunters foundit.” Despite widespreadbelief that Pilon and McVean had equippedthemselvesfor desert survival, nofood or source of waterwas foundneartheskeleton. On Monday, the bodywasflownto Salt LakeCity, where medical examiners will try to match denta records to McVean orPilon. Fivedaysafter Claxton’s death, Mason's body was found ina makeshift bunkernearBluff, Inve: believe Mason, facing captureafter wounding San Juan County Sheriff's Deputy Kelly Bradford, shot Skeleton Found The skeletal remains of a man found this weekend near Hovenweep National Monument may be those of one ofthe two fugitives wanted in the shooting ( a Colo: rado police officer. 1 ETA | AREA Skeleton found —_ Blanding ' | HOVENWEEP NATIONAL MONUMENT fio} non-Indian and Indian has been very superficial. This should be a time to heal andtolearn and to enjoy and to be enriched.” in the Deseret News. You haveto fill out a big questionnaire that asks stuff like, “Whenwasthelast time you or your illicit lover had a barjum enema?” WHEN: Thepolls close at pre- Judge Won’t Let Tooele City Kill Ad BY RAYRIVER Jury Duty.” Please rememberDaylight Savings Time ended this week. This gives you anentire extra hourto forget to vote. HOW:This is the tricky part. It used to be that votes were cast, meaning that you tossed your ballot into a box. Everythingis high-tech now.Votes are poked,notcast. Us- ing a small pin, you pokeit into your candidate's name.It’s much more accuratein thatit closely resembles a voodoo rite. Whenyou go into the voting booth, please rememberto pull the little curtain behind you. That way, if you haveto get undressed to make up your mind, noonewill be influ- enced by your choice. Just rememberto vote.Do it now, OOR COPY} ‘ThoSalt LakeTribune See BONES,Page B-10 cisely 8 p.m. Mountain Standard Aquarius Time,After that, your vote goes into a box labeled:“Idiots for THE SALT LAKE, It states that the twoofficers, whose namesare not mentioned, allegedly IBUNE unfairly prejudice any potential jurors, City officials asked that a softer “forced their way into a mobile versionof the ad be runinstead, mi- home, improperly searched it and federal judge on Monday denied a bid by Tooele City to quash a newspaper advertisement that asks arrested one of its occupants on nus the headline and information about the alleged forced entry and trumped up charges.” It asks any Tooeleresidents with “We simplyfeelit is improper to claims thatcity police officers vio- similar experiences to contact the Lawyers representing three cur- Associates, which is representing residents to come forward with lated theircivil rights. rent and former Tooeleresidents in a federal lawsuit against the city purchased the ad in the Tooele Transcript-Bulletin, a twice-weekly publication, hoping to establish a pattern of civil rights abuses by the police department. ‘Thead, whichis scheduled to run for two weeks beginning Wednesday, opens with the headline “Civil Rights Violations!” and gives general information about the lawsuit. d s \ Salt Lake City law firm of Sykes & false charges. accuse the city of trumping up chargesin that kind of forum,” said City Attorney Roger Baker. the three plaintiffs. City officials learned about the pending advertisement last week “There's nothing legitimate to be Bulletin reporter who was writing a story about the ad and the lawsuit. ‘The story was published Oct. 28, posed changes amounted to censorship. when contacted by a Transcript The next day,thecity filed a mo- tion asking U.S, District Judge Dee V. Bensonfor a temporary restrain: ing orderto stop the ad,City officials deny any pattern of civil rights abuses, but said the ad would ) gained from it.” But lawyers representing the three plaintiffs said the city’s pro- “It seems what they're trying to dois neutralize our ad,” said attorney Ron Kramer. “We don't think the message will be nearly as strong if they're allowed to make those See TOOELE,Page B-6 i CORRECTIONS & CLARIFICATIONS Theair-quality hot line for information about whetherit is OK to burn wood in stoves andfireplaces is 975-4009. The Salt Lake Tribune on Monday pub: lished anincorrect number, dueto incorrect informa tion provided by thestate. Q ‘The National Association for the Advancement of Colored Peopledoes not endorsecandidates. A graphic Friday may have impliedotherwise. Q Paleoanthropologist Meave Leakey’s lecture, “The Search and Discovery of Our Earliest Ancestors,” is scheduled for 7 p.m. Wednesdayat Kingsbury Hall on the University of Utah campus, A Tribune story on ‘Thursday gave the incorrect time. ‘ at |