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Show Ghe Salt LakeTribune ely => BUSINESS jominerlore’ 66 SATURBAY fo $ @FOR THE RECORD, B-2 = WEATHER, B-3 APRIL 15, 2000 Chenfical Plant Is Safe, Judge Rules Environmentalists lose Tooele incineratorsuit ‘© 2000,The Sait Lake Tribune Four-Wheeler Hits the Trail In Jeep Safari BY GLEN WARCHOL ‘THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE A coalition ofenvironmentalists failed to convince a federal judge that the Army’s chemical weapon incinerator in Tooele Countyis a threat to human health or the environment. U.S. District Judge Tena Campbell ruled Friday in Salt Lake City “there was Kneeney As white-haired Ber pares his red Jeep for anaans venture, he tosses off a few hints about how hegot hooked on four-wheeling. Hetook his two-wheeldrive vehicle on vacation to remote southern Utah and discovered there were places it would not take him. Sometimes he turned around. Other times he got stuck. no evidence that [incinerator] personnel, eer or the environment have been the harmed by these operations.” Marilyn Daughdrill, a spokeswoman for EG&G Defense Systems Inc, the company the Army hired to run the incinerator, said the defendants are ex- @ Web Links @ Past Stories move forward,” Daughdrill said. “She obviously found that the operations were protected.” The 3-year-old plant, 15 miles south of Tooele, has destroyed 30 percent of 27 million pounds of deadly chemical agent ‘stored in Utah without a major mishap, shesaid. Craig Williams, a spokesman for the tremely pleased. “After hearing all Chemical Weapons Working Group — one the evidence and the facts in the matter, = said Campbell's ruling is disappointing. The groups have not ruled out ap- Judge Campbell felt the program should culing it and are likely to bring new of three organizations that brought the safety breaches at the incinerator. Jones has denied he leaked the documents. “There's a plethora of new evidence, including the Jones stuff, that hasn't been looked at,” Williams said. “You can bet a S&CHEMICAL PLANT,Page B-4 Higher Ed NUDE FEUD A Steal — For Some wheeldrive. In 1983,he retired from a career as an electrical engineer and moved from New Jersey to Moab. Thatwas just the beginning. Imbalancecould lead to shifting tuition scales BY HEATHER MAY THESALT LAKE TRIBUNE “You get your four-wheel drive, PRICE — Compared to otherstates, see somegreat whatcollege students pay for an education at one of Utah's four-year universities is a steal. Onthe otherhand,thestate’s community colleges are overpriced. And that imbalance will probably lead to shifting tuition scales at the state’s stuff and see a washout,” explains Knight, 75. “You can’t do that be- cause you are not equipped. So you start equipping yourself more and more.If you see a hard hill with a oe ei ninepublic colleges and universities, the state Board of Regents said Friday. Meeting at the College of Eastern Utah in Price, the regents said they He began to meet people on the trail. Reading the Moab newspaper, he found a club called the Red Rock 4-Wheelers. Cautious aboutjoining — he was afraid they mightbe “redneck 4-wheelers” — he discovered it: club members were lot like ,in fact, among the mostrespected members ofthe community. Hejoined in 1984 in time to enjoy hhis first Moab Easter Jeep Safari. Now, as eee afor the club, Knight rank: best-known four annual Easmajorplayer ter Jeep Safari fat begins today and runs through Baster,Sunday. More than 1,700 four-wheel drive vehicle owners and their passengers will fill fetown, And manywill meet it. e club’s phonecontinually Tings at his home where he andhis wife, Charlotte,field Speers He often serves as a leader,using oneof his three Jeeps to introduce others to remote places with such descriptive names as “Chicken Corner,” “Cliff Hanger,” “Hell’s Revenge”and “Metal Masher.” BerKnightis a good person to haveonthetrail. He can fix a Jeep. “Mostpeople who do muchofthis find the weaknesses [in their vehi- cles] and carry the rightstuff,” he Says. Thesoft-spoken four-wheelerstill retains accoutermentsofhis engiheering career. His basementis filled with more than 400 maps,global jitioning gear and a computer. “I alwaysliked to go exploring,” he says. “Manytimes, you go out and see a road take off. You wonder where that goes. When you come back, you hope you remember what youdid. Now that we have GPS, you lownload [the data] and putit qn aan bling t actionsagainstthe facility. safe and the local community was a Map resem! a boutshot eye with Sate criss- wantto do away with across-the-board tuition hikes. “The two research universities ‘Trent Nelson/The Salt Lake Tribune Teaja and other dancers perform at Paradise Adult Entertainment Club ii n South Salt Lake, one of three lounges,including Leather & Lace and American Bush, endangered by a proposed Batiby the City Council on completely nude dancing. For Dancers, Ban Will Be Hard to Bare Womensay South Salt Lake’s proposed ordinancewill hit them in the pocketbook BY MARK EDDINGTON THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE SOUTH SALT LAKE — Ifnude dancing is banned in South Salt Lake, some dancers at the city’s three all-nude clubs say will taketheir stiletto heels and go — but where, they're not sure. Their passion,they say, is dancing under red spotlights until every stitch of clothing has been shed and the guys around the stage are applauding with cash in their hands. Theyprefer not to think about the day they cannotpractice their craft “I don’t know whatI'd do,” says Teaja, a 19-year-old dancer at Paradise Adult Entertainment Club who, like other dancers, goes only by a saucy first name. “Maybe I'd go back to being a private dancer somewhere else.” A ban on nude dancing at Paradise, Leather & Lace and American Bush in South Salt Lake now looms as a real possibility. Mayor Randy Fitts and City Council members have directed City Attorney Craig Hall to draft an ordinance that would outlaw all-nude performances within city boundaries. That ardor to outlaw nude dancing comes on the heels of a March 29 U.S. Supreme Court decision that upheld an Erie, Pa., statute requiring dancers to be mini- mally attired in G-strings andpasties. “We don’t wanttolegislate morals, but we do wantto address citizens’ concerns about these places,” said City Council Chairman Robert Gray. He said a 1994 study conducted whenhe wasSouth Salt and therest of them.” With that in mind, the regents set up a taskforce that will delve into tuition issues this summer. But college presidents already have some ground rules in place: No school should lose funds because it raises extra money through a tuition increase, and lawmakers can't use tuition increases as an excuse to cut state funding for higher education. already are four semi-nude clubs in the “We must get an agreementthatit city of 18,600 residents, and since local statute limits sexually oriented busi- would not be treated as part of the regular revenue,” said Michael Petersen, an associate commissionerfor nesses to one for every 6,000 residents, there are no permits available for any more, the Utah System of Higher Education. Regents increasingly have looked For Teaja and 11 other’ Paradise danc- to students’ pocketbooks to cover ers, some of whoriare single mothers with little or nojob skillsto fall back on, a budgetary shortfalls. This year was a perfect example. The board agreed toa 3 percenttuition hike, but when the system received less than it hoped for from the Legislature, it tacked on an- ban on nude dancing would be a severe economic blow. Take-home pay for dancers at the club at 2285 S. Main St. ranges were responsible for a slight increase in violence, drugs and lewd behavior. Gray admits there has been no public clamorto shut down the clubs since the high court’s decision, but heinsists the majority of South Salt Lake residents has long believed the city has more thanits fair share of such businesses. If Hall’s revised.ordinance meets with Gray’s and otherelected officials’ approval, South Salt Lake’sall-nude clubs would have to shut down whentheir licenses frow® $60 to $435 a night for six hours worth of work, although one dancer remembers “one night worth dying over” Whenshebrought homeonly $1.50. Amber, whoat 19 is married, has a 2year-old daughter andis putting her husband through Salt Lake C College, said she generally earns about$16 or $17 an hour. Compare that, she said, with the minimum wage at a more mundane,if respectable,job. “I mean, McDonald's, dream on. Telemarketing, dream on,” she said. expire Jan. 1, 2001, and apply for a permit to operate as a semi-nude club. There See NUDE DANCING,Page B-4 Lake police chief showed the strip clubs [University of Utah and Utah State University] have to be considered separately,” said U. President Bernie Machen. “Let’s put a wall between us other1 percentincrease. See REGENTS,Page B-4 CORRECTIONS & CLARIFICATIONS Thelast six words of a quote were inadvertently dropped from story in Thursday’s paper on a forgiveness conference at the U. Thefull quote by Holly Campbell was: “Forgiveness instigates a course of action which will put behind us the 20th century in which 100 million human beings died in the violence of war.” Utahn, Aviator Comrades Gather To Commemorate Doolittle Raid ‘ata tand Management] we are to tothe. ant to use this, we oughtto here it is beyond some each old track remain Opel The mapping o1 of why he and Charlotteideedee" . with mewindshield down Ber much like ber t's motivations seem ofa mountain BY GLEN WARCHOL ‘THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE Navigator Chase Nielsen and his B-25 crew mates were listening to “Ted Steel and his Novotone Orchestra” on a Shang: hai radio station when the fuel ran out. eee eee enemas nee ” says Nielsen, now an 83yard Air Force retiree living in Brigham City. As the twin-engine bomber glided down through the darkness and rain to the China Sea, the crew tried to convince the bombardier to get out of the nose. “He wanted to stay there so he could warn the pilot to pull up if he saw something like an island or a rock,” Nielsen When the plane hit the water,it tore off a wing and broke up. The bombardier was crushed on impact, For Nielsen and the crew, it was the end ofone of the most audacious military in Raiders are holding a reunion at Hill Air Force Base today and Sunday. Now in their 70s and 80s, the aviators will drink toastto their fallen comrades and retire the goblets of those who have died. ‘Todayat 1 p.m. the surviving Doolittle Raiders will sign autographs. Calculated Risk: In February 1942, the United States was still reeling from the Japanese onslaught in the Pacific that followed the crushing blow at Pearl Harbor. Desperate to buy time, Navystrategists came up with a seemingly suicidal plan, Sneak one of its precious aircraft carriers close to the Japanese homeislands and launch long-distance Army bombers in a symbolic raid against the heart of the Japanese Empire. ‘The military impact of the handful of bombs would be negligible, but it just might force the Japanese to divert resources from the Pacific drive, See RAIDERS,Page B-4 U.S. Air Force Photo Lt. Chase Nielsen,Spey cwnenterergeeins irmbrng was part of the crew on one of the B-25 bombers from a carrier that struck Tokyo in 1942. Other crewmen,from left, Lt. Sgt. Donald Fitsmaurice, Lt. Robert Meder and Capt. William Dieter. Dean Some of the Tokyo raiders will rendezvous this weekend at Hill Air Force Base. r . v |