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Show vor are lin sti- ry VIOTT OPEV ITT TENT ee CF EV ITT TOTES SOOO TOE ET EET The Salt LakeTribune . i BUSINESS ce % WEOMESBAY we MFORTHERECORD. D-2 ; £OTIOy, SISTATE OF THE STATE, D-2 MI CLASSIFIEDS, D-9 DECEMBER29, 1999 Bill Would Slice Size Of Schools ROLLY & WELLS PAUL ROLLY and JOANN JACOBSEN-WELLS (© 1998, The Salt Lake Tribune Sponsor: Fewerstudents leads to more success Poetic Murray Mayor Comes Out Smokin’ LT LAKE TRIBUNE, If there was one salve for schoolills that range fromdropouts to violence, it would be small schools, says Rep. David Cox. The Lehi Republican points to research that suggests scaled-down schools allow more Againstthe adviceofhis political studentsto get involved, to knowone another and their teachers, and to have a better chance for academic success. confidantes, Murray Mayor Dan Snarr recently took his “give 'em hell”anti-smoking message to Murray High Schoolstudents. During a student assembly, Snarr read this poem he wrote: But in Utah, high schools in the largest districts are builtto fit 3,000 student: teacher, wantsto limit enrollmentto 600stu For those ofyou who smoke dents at elementary schools and 1,000 at secondaryschools. Hehas sponsoreda bill for the 2000 legis- thejoke is on you. Your health willfail, and your body willfeel like hell. oe Photos by Rick Egan: Your breath is constantly bad, that makes your boy- or girlfriend feel sad. Especially when you kiss at night, . vey "Ul say your breathis out of sight. And so is the smell ofyour clothes as well, They poetlike they've comefrom the firein hell. Now we've spoken about hell and smoke, One and the seme. And as we all sit here we know who to blame. And it’s such a shame, It’s the manufacturers who do you harm, Forprofits are their charm. And they knowit ailtoo well, yourlife they take to make their profits swell, Ta'salljust stand and tell them to goto HELL! After having the student body standup in the auditorium and loudly tell ci fe manufacturers to "Goto Beiogstufae to tcecheat's oust ‘There, while lighting ee cigarettes onfire, the youths again chanted the mayor's “Go tohell” to mesgage at surprised motorists on State Street. en he asked an employee the meaning ofa “missionary special,” she responded,“It’s for Mormon boys whogo outto convert.” Shoemakerdidn’t qualify. Q Good, Bad and Ugly When employees of Varian Medical attended the company Christmas 'y Dec, 18. at the Cavanaughs Gms in Salt Lake City,sev: foundtheir cars being towed the hotel's west parking lot as attempted to leave. *" Itturns outthe hotelannounced lot was closed DyingIs a Part of Life at Zoo busloads of When Ken Haney, Varian's mar- keting mat statingpeapestad the ye, be ee eee verbal assault by the security managaee lative session that would authorize a $1 billion bond to build enough schools to reduce enrollment, “We don’t expect adults to work in that kindofsituation, put them in afactoryof2,000 people,” Cox said Tuesday. “It doesn’t work for adults, so why do wethink it would work for kids?” Cox's proposalis just one of three upcom- stageoflife.” Hogle workersstruggle to care for aging animals Zoo keepers and cetorinarl‘ians across the country have gone to great lengthsto preservethequalityof life of zoo residents. New treatments,in fact, are taking them into hitherto unex- BY LORI BUTTARS THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE plored realms ofgeriatric veterinary Hogle Zoo is no exception. Its oldest residentis Kali, a 55-yearold elephant whorequires 150 pounds of food a day andisin dangeroflosing meerkat at Hogle Zoo, raises his head andsniffsthe air. The cataracts on his eyes glow a ghostly white as they catch the rays of sun that warm the spot her teeth. There is a camel with bad hips, a giraffe that limps and an owl monkeytoo old to have a cage mate. So he lives with a stuffed monkeyas his where hesleeps. Creeping on hindlegs he can barely move, hefeels his way over to where companion. the keepers are handing out wax wormsandsmall bits of meat. If all goes as planned, Michael will down two pills in the process — one to build his atrophying muscles and an- other to keep blood flowing to his ATEN A sign on the window of the meerkat exhibit explains that Michael doesn't look so well because he is un- meerkat is Timon, the singing BoBo the owl monkeyis too oid to have a cage mate, so he shares his quarters with a stuffed-toy monkey. Last summer someof the patrons watching the zoo’s polar bear cubs complained that the brownbears next. doorslept too much BY GREG BURTON ‘THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE Beverly McGill coveted decorative figurines. Her Ogden house was awash in expensive ceramics. She fancied shoes, had some 248 pairs of pumps, flats and sandals. And she wasat- Butthebills mightnotsolve the problemof crowded classrooms iflegislators are unwilling to hire additional teachers, say some schoolleaders. The optimum schoolsize is 300 to 500 stu: Someofthe other animals — such as a 16-year-old cougar that at a younger age would be fine in Utah’s climate — now rarely go outside of the same things humans do, and we anymore. “There's no doubt that these ani- are nothere to just display the perfect animal or the prime animalinits best See ZOO,Page D-3 clever shoplifter — will be featured on ABC’s “20/20 Wednesday”tonightin a television news story about the psychology of kleptomania. To that end, the newsmagazine interviewed Susan McElroy, an expert on obsessive-compulsive disorder and impulse disorders such as compulsive shopping, binge eating and yptomania. “Stealing,” McElroy said about McGill, “is her addiction. She gets a high whenshesteals. Just like some- one with alcoholism would get a high See BILLS, Page D-3 Woman Raped After-Hours in S.L. Library “They are in their 30s now;that's what they do,” Davidson says. sidekick in the Disney movie “The Lion King.” “These things happenin life,” says Kimberly Davidson, Hogle Zoo's general curator.“Animals go througha lot TV Show Profiles Utah Thief’s ‘Addiction’ But some say she’s not a kleptomaniac,just greedy ing bills that would either mandate or en. courage schools anddistricts to reducesize. care. At feeding time, Michael, the oldest shock to visitors whose idea of a 5 While doing somelast-minute \* Christmas shopping in Salt Lake City’s Crossroads Plaza, Joel Shoemaker saw this.sign in the window of Pretzelmaker: “MISSIONARYSPECIAL: BUY tae GET ONE FREE. MUST SHOW LakeTribune Michael, the oldest meerkat at Hogle Zoo, receives medicationto help with his atrophying muscles. derveterinary care and suffering from age-related problems. Butit is still a Discrimination? del ementaryschools can house morethan 1,000. That's why Cox, whois an elementary school compulsive. She was simply a skilled thief, they say. “I’m not sure where the kleptoma- nia came from,” Weber County prosecutor Gary Heward said. “When we arrested her and charged her, at no time did her lawyer ever give any indication his client was suffering a mental illness . . and even if they your have, that doesn't exonerate eile “20/20" does not settle questions of McGill's motivation, the show Victim wasthere to pick up her aunt,a library janitor BY GREG BURTON THE SALT LAKETRIBUNE Within earshotof her infant, a wornan was raped and then she and her aunt were bound with rope and shreds of cloth early Tuesday during a burglary and assault inside a Sali LakeCitylibrary. Sometimebefore midnight, a masked man dressed in a ponchoorraincoat vised a pry bar to break into the Day-Riverside Library, 1575 W. 1000 North, where a female janitor was at work, Aboutthe sametime, the woman's niece pulled her car to the front of the builiing, where she frequently waited ta give her aunt aride home. At somepoint, the man knocked on an in terior door. When the aunt — expecting:the niece — responded, the man ‘threatened the womanwith a knife: He then walked outside and forced the woman's niece, who was carrying her baby in a car seat, inito the library. After tying up the aunt, tthe suspect or when they become intoxicated with Problem was, she appeased her whims with sticky fingers, not cold alcohol.” Butinvestigators who worked the case scoff at the idea’ that McGill's does spin a fascinating tale about a conniving crook and her live-in boyfriend — a former Ogdenjailer and community resource officer — whose dered the younger woman into an adjoining room where he raped her, saicl Salt Lake Gity police Sgt. Ken Hansen. McGill — arguably Utah's most hankering for haberdashery was Sec THIEF,Page D-3 See LIBRARY RAAPIST,Page DS Towers Making for Timely New Year’s Celebrations BY KRISTEN MOULTON ‘THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE. KAYSVILLE — is on pins and r Brian Cook a this week, awaiting installation of a $45,000 clock tower the cityke will start Rekies a the stroke of midnight New Yi ve, party, which will include singing, dancing, bingo and, Cook hopes, the clock tower's debut. Another Davis County city, Clinton, can rest easy. Its new 25-foot-high clock tower has been in place for weeks, sagpeen hapa will be dedicated on New Year's Eve. Atabout 11:30 p.m., aloud boom will signal the start of the dedication and of a time capsule in the 6 monument below the tower, City Manager Dennis Cluff crowd will count down to midwhen the clock will be turned on fireworks will be shot off, Cluff “It's a celebration, but not a big into's tower, with clocks fourdirections, |sjust castofthe station and south of City Hall. & for the community,” and Clinton have raised money for the clock towers through donations from residents and businesses. Clinton’s cost about $26,000, and Kaysville’s $45,000, Kaysville’s tower is taller and has a built-in music system capable of playing 120 songs, said Brett account executive of Intermountain Electric Si nn joy See eT Ter Ee Tey ETT |
