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Show ore + spree ge Sher PRESSURE’S ON PROVO al HyRUM SMITHSS) CONFESSION Is AT&Tsendingcity cable a ee B-4 EMTHE QUIET MAN Businessman clearsup excommunication mystery C-1 Jazz’s Benoit there when needed D-1 LakeGribune. http://www.sltrib.com Utah’s Independent Voice Since 1871 ‘Volume 251 Number 89 ©2001, The SaltLakeTribune 2 SATURDAY, JANUARY13, 2001 =Tasegitne netaive,teiedot Leavitt Chides California In Kleasen ° ° on P Drain on Utah sources *feared; rovmiaanv toteweaves EEENIE) usieepgtenone Fes esting ha looming power crunch threatening ‘ Investigation BYKEVINCANTERA fz California’s power woes has been too ar =i i 5 Golden State urged to increase splotprice and supiy in omer Deregulation has allowed wholesale energy producers es ers is 3 to significantly raise rates on wholesale electricity and its own supplies to avert crisis proiom,"sidLevit.“uttepro: SEEMED| SITPclOns,niesFicshowe ‘THESALTLAKETRIBUNE geniieeimeeten: mission for The Church ofJesus Christ ofLatter-day Saints in Aus- tin, .Texas, nearly delivered a pointed letterto California Gov. asking him to cooperate with that state’s electricity crisis. governors — Utah, Arizona, Nevada, Wyoming and Montana — believe Davis’ response to with an unexpected ee cells from the inside of her ines releases sud Prdy, Davis sit and he,complicated Auralnenesteringhsede matters further. A drought in the Pacific dilemma.” Utah Gov. Mike Leavitt and four other Western gover- norson Gray ‘That sad chapter in her family’s suddenly aban dialnokeernerahaa solutionwill notbefoundjust California, I isa Western aneeee weer nem ‘THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE PacificNorthwest have “pledged toinvolveall the Western mara Gevelop Tegional solutions to the current energy California has experiencedsevere electricity shortages Northwest, reducing hydroelectric capacity, has also ag- gravated the situation. Z aae a this winter as supply has failed to keep pace with drastic To date, California’s response to the crisis has been a in demand caused bya colder-than-normal wincall for more conservation and to suggest that more power ter. The ‘situation is corigliaied by the deregulation of energy in the Golden State in recentyears. See POWER, Page A-10 CASUALTY OF 0 WAR’ W California relatives ofGary Darley, 's companion, was also killed in October 1974. Prosecutors want to test DNA e e S found onevidence gathered during the original murder in ofRobert Elmer Kleasen. Ifthe families’ DNA canconclusively tie blood found on the items to the young missionaries, murder Sharges will likely be refiled against Kleasen, once convicted of killing Fischer. “We are queued up and ready to go forward,” said Claire DawsonBrowne,assistantdistrict attorney for Travis County, Texas. “What we are looking for is the young men’s DNA on items collected well over 20 Ig on Layton Thingslook promising for new satellite campus BY KRISTEN MOULTON ‘THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE The only densely populated county in Utah without so much as a community college may finally get the money to build Weber State University’s first branch campus building. Davis County mayors and business leaders, who have been waging an intensive lobbying campaign for the Layton spattered clothing discovered within days ofthe murders outside Kleasen’s home. Human tissue was also found in shop next Kleasen’s home inthe hills ofwest Austin. Kleasen, a disgruntled member ofAustin Ward ofthe LDS Church in 1974, was suspected ofkilling the two missionaries when the pair visited him. Fischer,19, was from Milwau- time. But then Gov. Mike Leavitt proposed using $24 million of the one-time surplus for the Davis branch of Ogden-based WSU. “The prospects are excellent,” said Rep. Kevin Garn, R-Layton. The Legislature wants to spend $110 Israeli troops carry the body of Shaker Hassouni, 23, a Palestinian they shot and killed after he hurled an explosive Friday in Hebron, on the West Bank. Israelis and Palestinians held talks, but found little hope for a peace deal. See Page A-6. million of the surplus on newstate buildings, and Garn sayshe will push for money to build WSU-Davis’first classroom structure on a 105-acre parcel in north Layton. -| UDOT, UTASeek Pet-Project Funds sat on death row until 1977 when he was released on a technicali He went on to serve nearly 15 years in federal prison and a New York correctional ity on unrelated before in 1990. cade later, again on the wrong side ofthe law.ey at age 68, he’s behind bars in England, serving a three-year sentence for weapons violations, Heis expected to be released — and immediately deported —in June. “Wewill need to be ready to go She wouldn't say when prosecutors might be ready to refile charges, or ifthe death penalty will be Melissa Fischer-Pietrzak, Mark's sister,is torn over the prosisiting her brother’s “T would like to see [Kleasen] put awaywhere he can’t hurt anybody,” says Fischer-Pietrzak, who veeo 18 when her brother died. “Butit has been so many years. {Our family] is at peace over Mark’s death. It might be difficult to relive everything.’ 2001 Legislature holds the purse strings for Legacy Highway and commuterrail BY BRANDON LOOMIS THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE. The Utah Departmentof TransportaSS coneDaan aint 's legislative session with two big items atthe top oftheir list: funding for their newest flagship projects and enhanced condemnation And UTA needs the state to help pay Union Pacific Railroad an undetermined amount for a right of way for commuter rail from Ogden to Salt Lake City. “The issue is whatever contribution the state is going to make for commuter a‘A General Manager John Inglish wvous in Davis, Salt Lake and Weber counties approved a quarter-cent salestax hike in November to pay operating costs for commuter rail, new light-rail lines, more buses and Sunday transit service. UTA expects the federal governmentto cover most commuter-rail construction costs, but first the agency must-get the right ofway. @ Mental health bill hits snag Theland, which thestate boughtfive years ago, is along state Route 193 on the Layton and Clearfield border, just east of Interstate 15. Garn even gothimself appointed to the House Appropriations Committee's capital See WSU,Page A-4 A-10 New Bavis Campus bso with the railroad for other snes as well. They includepossible light-rail lines from downtown Salt Lake City to Sugar House and to West Jordan. Although it’s unclear how muchlegislators are willing to spend on therail push, Inglish pointed out that transit construction the Davis County corridor was part ofthe state’s bergain for winning federal approval for Legacy. “The environmental work [supporting the highway] talks about the need for a Inglish noted that UTA is negotiating See UDOT,UTA, Page A-10 Mormons Settled Parowan, Southern Utah 150 Years Ago BY WILL BAGLEY \ SPECIAL TO THE TRIBUNE Exactly 150 ‘ago today, 120 men, 31 women, and 18 children ended a 260-mile trek in bitterly cold weather from Salt Lake Valley to camp on Center Creek at the mouth of Parowan of iron ore and the coal landlocked creek its’ first camp, and dedicated expansive plans in 1850, Their leaders envisioned a string of settlements reaching to the. Pacific that would let them ship English con. ‘verts to Zion over a route that was cheaper and shorter than the Mormon Trail from the Missouri River. : See Oemecinn panty wader q rich deposits Ann Landers cs ‘Asimov/Bridge D412 and independent.That policy dictated the need Astrology Business Sa ne oe _lake gave the local geography a passing resem _blance to its counterpart to News, called for men of skill and openupthe mines. The article did not meet with a , and Brigham Young had to resort to “calling” capable men and women to, found what was called the “Iron Mission.” ‘The Mormon leader was determined to make his Zion in the Rocky Mountains self-sufficient INDEX ee i List of Parowan anniversary festivities A4 for an iron industry. ne call to lead the colonizing expedition on Sunday, Comics Nov.3, 1850, That evening President Smith met with the Quorum of Seventies to recruit volunteers. Not many people were eager to abandon comfortable Salt Lake City-area homes to start Movies Obituaries ma Apostle George A. Smith réceived his formal Classifieds _ over in a spot 200 miles from the nearest town, Sports With no volunteers in sight, Brigham Young wentcalling. The prophet’s adopted son, John D. Lee,offered $2,000 if he could stay in Cottonwood. Lee said he was willing to do anything the Lord wanted, “but to go to the Little Salt Lake was revolting to his ” Brigham Young said the Iron Mission “was one ofthe most important things now in contemplation.” Lee had to go. See PAROWAN,Page A-4 ‘TV Programs __ WEATHER:Chance of snow north, with highs in the upper20s to mid-30s; partly cloudy south, with |
