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Show BLAZERS THUMP JAZZ IN SERIES OPENER/ C-1 he Salt LakeGri http://www.slirib.com une Utah’s Independent Voice Since 1871 Volume 260 Number24 ©2000, The Salt Lake Tribune MONDAY,MAY8, 2000 TECH-FREE RANGE Wyoming Holds Its Own asLast Rural Outpost BY PAUL PRINGLE ~ ‘THE DALLAS MORNING NEWS RAWLINS,Wyo. — Robert Clevengeris the rarest of Rawlins residents, a would-be trailblazer whohas bucked the CowboyState trend. Forstarters, the 29-year-old Abilene, Texas, native is here for ajob, even as Wyoming’s own workers stampedeoutofstate for brighter prospects. More remark- in Street, Salt Lake City, Utal ‘elephonenumberslisted on A-2 Serious Crime Is Down for 8th Year 4percentin the South and 10 percent in the BY JOHN MINTZ Utah’s Crime Rate Also Fell in 1999, With Big Drop in Murder Leading Way Crimestatistics for Utah during the past two years indicate a downward trendsimilar to therestof the nation. In four categories of violent crime — murder, rape, robbery and aggravated assault — police agencies state- widereported a drop from 1998 to 1999. There were 43 murders in Utah in 1999, down from 60 in 1998, a decrease of 28 percent. THE WASHINGTON POST WASHINGTON — Serious crimefell Utah police reported 796 rapesin the state in 1999 after 852 in 1998, a change of6.5 percent. The state had 1,141 robberies in 1999, compared with 1,373 in 1998, down. nearly 17 percent. And aggravated assaults in Utah for 1999 totaled 3,763, down from 4,058 in 1998. Thatis a change of7.3 percent. — Kevin Cantera nationwide by 7 percent last year, extend inga decline that beganeight years ago, the FBI said in preliminaryfigures released Sunday. Criminologists disagree on the reasons crime plummeted in the 1990s: They variously creditstiffer gun laws, a crackdown ondrugsales,swelling prison populations, the aging of one-time youthful offenders and the fizzling of crack cocaine markets that had driven crimestatistics skyward in thelate 1980s. Comparing 1999 with 1998, the crime rate overall was down inall regions ofthe country, from the biggestcities to the.quietest hamlets. Crime dropped by 7 percent ableis that he has staked his Thestatistics were*somewhat uneven when murders were broken out. Murder declined 4 percent in the Northeast, 7 percent in the Midwest, 10 percent in the South and percent in the West. Violent crimes murders, rapes, aggravated assaults and robberies and property crimes burglaries, thefts, mo- torvehicle thefts and‘arsons — weredown 7 percent overall, the FBI said. “Thesestatistics showthat the historic partnerships we have forged overthe past seven years betweenlocal, state and federal lawenforcement are working,” Attorney General Janet Reno said in a state- ment. “These partnerships, which have prevented500,000 prohibited persons from See U.S. CRIME,Page A-7 in the Northeast, 8 percent in the Midwest, claim in high technology, an in- dustry that hasall but passed Wyomingby. “We're the only tech company here,” said Clevenger, a supervisor at tiny Altra, which manufactures a computer mouse in Rawl- Expert Thwarts Trout Ailment PROTECHNG THE PAST ins’ frontier vintage downtown. “If you have a backgroundin electronics,there aren'ta lot of choiceshere.” Bythe standards ofthe booming West, there isn’t a lot of anything going on in Wyoming. The Hetrainsthe fish to spawnearlier, reasonsrange from thestate’s escape spores of whirling disease vast emptinessto its punishing wintersto its spotty infrastructure. On topofthatis a flinty resolve among manyfolks to keep BYCHRIS H their part of the world small. SSOCIA’ Wyoming's population inched upless than 6 percent during the A Montanafisheries biologist says he has discovered howto savetrout from a devastating disease — hopeful 1990s, a decade when census counts elsewhere in the West news forfish, fishers swelled by several timesthatfig- andthefishing- and tourism-driven economiesofthe West. ure. The state remains America’s least inhabited, with about480,000 Dick Vincent, whirling disease research coordinator for the Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks, people. told the Idaho State Journal he has succeeded in Theso-called New Economy, “imprinting” three strains of rainbow trout. The trout spawned earlier this spring and subsequentlywill hatch and begin to mature in water toocold the engine driving muchofthe West’s expansion,has alsoleft Wyomingbehind.Colorado, ee and Montana, Oregon, Idaho Nevada — not to mention paceet ters California and Washington for ideal whirling disease spore dispersal. By the time water temperatures warm and millions of infectious spores are present, the young fish probably will have matured enough to fendoff a serious whirling disease state — have reaped thousands of jobs from the explosion in e- attack. United States in technology em- “Tt was a success,” Vincent said. “Wedidgetearlier. spawningfish, and that was one of our goals all along.” Randy Radant, chiefof the aquatics section for the Utalr Division of Wildlife Resources, said Sunday that commerceandan influx of investors. But Wyomingranks50th in the ployment — andno wonder. Few Vincent's workis a sign that scientists are beginning to ofits far-flung towns are wired develop new waysto combatthe disease. But he said this latest development will have little impact on Utah be- attracting Web-centric corporations. Many lack accessto digital subscriberlines, whica provide speedylinks to the Internet. Thestate’s principal telephone ‘company, US West Communications, says Wyoming’s thin cus- cause there are few streams in the Beehive State where with fiber optic cable, a mustfor rainbow trout spawn naturally. Most of the rainbows taken by Utah fishers were raised in hatcheries where exposure can be controlled. Radant's biggest concernis that whirling disease could spread to Utah rivers where wildlife experts are trying to restore the native cutthroat trout. The disease now is tomer base doesnotjustify the found in the Logan, Weberand Provo river drainages, as well as several streams in the Loaarea and parts ofthe cost of outfitting every remote area with thelatest hardware. SevierRiver. Thathelps explain why more Whirling disease spores, called triactinomyxons TAMs for short — thrive when watertemperatures hover between 50 and60 degrees. Unfortunatelyfor most strains than half of University of Wyoming graduates abandonthestate to start careers and families. ofrainbowtrout, fry beginto hatchat aboutthe gametime But as Gov. Jim Geringer and sporedispersal peaks. Thespores young fish andbegin to eat away otherelected officials note, times are notaltogether tough for Wyomingites who put down roots. The state’s unemploymentrate stands ai4 percent. And while Wyoming’s salaries are barely average for the West, its housing prices are generally a bargain and taxes are amongthe nation’s lowest. attach thems at an animal etal tissue. Eventually, damageto thetissue anda fish's nervous S) toll and, whenexcited, thefish often swim in fast circles, giving the disease its name. The youngera fish is when exposed to TAMs, the greater chanceit has of becoming seriouslyinfected with whirlingdisease. A severe whirlingdiseaseinfection canbefatal to fish Residents are ambivalent about in the salmonidfamily, whichincludestrout and salmon. The disease has been found in most Westernstates, how much growth Wyoming should pursue. State surveys find that most residents want some growth, especially in the tech sector. But thereis a vocal think- See FISH EXPERT, Page A-7 SuavePrince of Hollywood small crowd throughout thestate. It includes environmentalists in love with Wyoming’s peaks and Douglas Fairbanks Jr. Dies plains, mom-and-pop merchants fearful of mega-malls and ranch- ers who have prospered on the ‘Trent Nelsou/The Salt Lake Tribune boundlessrange. “T don't wantto see this town grow into a townlike Jackson,” said Saratoga’s Kathy Campbell, proprietor of Wolf Hotel with husband Doug.“We didn’t come here to makea lot of money. We came Pioneer Bones Moved From Harm’s Way here for a wayoflife.” BYJIM WOOLF INDEX Ann Landers B-5 Comics Asimov 8 D9 Movies Astrology Business ‘THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE Obituaries D4 Classifieds D4 Pu B4 BG 8-7 oe cl Crossword 0-7 TV Programs B-8 TOOELE — About 150 years ago, a young woman in this frontier community apparently died in childbirth. Shewasburied in a wooden coffin with the tiny coffin of her newborn resting on her stomach. Archaeologists on Sunday uncovered their grave along Highway36 just south of this rapidly growing community. They are among 11 pioneer bodies being exhumed from the old Tooele Cemetery to make room for a wider high: wayandutility lines. All will be reburied onland adjacent to the old cemetery after a scientific analysis, WEATHER:A 50-60% chanceof rain north; partly cloudy with 60s, 70s central and south Details: B-8 BY ADAMBERNSTEIN DanaKollmann, left, and Derinna Kopp work to uncovera pioneer's remains next to Highway 36 in Tooele. Astrucks and cars raced by several feet fromthe open grave, University of Utah archaeologist Shannon Novak carefully sketched the scene before her: A skeleton with reddish bones lay in the spongy remains of a decayed woodencoffin at the-bottom of what once was a 6-foot-deep THE WASHINGTONPOST Douglas Fairbanks Jr., 90, the son of Hollywood royalty whose debonair presence in about 80 films as cads and good-natured gadabouts gave way inthe1940sto 4 0 r as atelevision produce social lion, died Sund t a hos in New York. The cause ofhis death wasnot disclosed. “She was young,” Novaksaidof the mother. “Wewill doa detailedanal: back in the lab, but she probably was less than 25 years old.” Just a few feet a’ , Dana Kollmannused atinyplastic trowelto flick pieces of the dirt fromthe skull of what appearedto be another young woman. “I’m guessing she was ‘airbanks mayhave inherited his screen-legend father’s gableathleticism with whichtheelder 14 to 16 years old,”shesaid. Fairbanks so electrified audiences in Kollmann’s normaljobis helping police in Baltimore County, Md., look for clues from the bodiesleft behindat crimescenes. But on Sunday shewas looking for clues about the daily broad, rakish smile and trim figure, but he never adopted as a trademark theindefati: silentfilmc Fairbanks Jr. * ics. The youngerFairbanks had a more sophisticated energy that enlivened should provide hew information about burial practices scores of workmanlike dramasandlight comediesofthe e8 1930s. With clipped, almost British inflections, a hairline mustache and an expression of gentle worldweariness, he usua ayed mouthy menabouttown, sly newspapercolumr nd adventure-seeking youths, Someofhis best-known. films include “The Narrow Corner,” a 1933 dramabased on a W. Somerset Maugham See PIONEER BONES,Page A-7 See FAIRBANKS JR., Page A-7 life and death of Utah's first white residents. A careful study ofthe skeletons and the graves can provideinformation about the age, sex andstatureof the people whowereburiedin this cemeterybetween1850 and 1867, said Kollmann, It might reveal what killed them and their overall level of physical health. The excavation also grave, Her child's coffin rested on her abdomen, tiny bonesvisible through the wood, |
