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Show BESTAVANLABLe Copy MFORTHE RECORD, B-2 MLOTTERY, B-2 OLYMPIC NOTES, B-4 MWILSON/BARBERI, B-5. M OBITUARIES, B-6 Mi HEARTLINES, B-5 ° Utah Cities Power Up LDSProphets #070 ent For Summer Crunch © Electric agencies rent generators, build plants to beat soaring prices Were Proud to Be ‘Mormons’ 1 Huge power plant planned for West Valley City @ Logan project creates “Sober-thinking and sound- reasoning people will sooner listen LOGAN — Utah cities with municipal power systems are ‘power p) ¥y will not b electricity prices on the open market this summer. gan, which drained nearly $6 million from its power See)’s reserves in the last halfof2000, is now running six portablediesel generators to boostits energy independence. Those generators will cost the city $130 to $150 for each megawatt of power they provide, which is about 10 times the price Utah cities traditionally have paid for power. “It’s horrible, but when you compare it to the [spot] mar- MicArth director of St. George Water & Power. & McArthur’s southwestern Utah city is renting seven pprtable diesel generators to get through the scorching summer. Nearby Hurricane, where a new power plant building burned a month afterits generators were fired uplast summer, has rebuilt andwill rely on those two diesel to keep thecity’s air conditioners ht “Ifwe didn’tdothat, we'd pay the spot-market price,” said Hurricane City Manager Clark Fawcett. A third diesel gen- managerofLogan Light & Power.“It’s makinga badsituation as good as it can be.” Electricity on the spot market, where Logan previously Murrayis spending $24 million on three new eal -gasfired turbines anda building to house them. Onewill be on by, ing the word “Mormon” whenre- ferring to the church. LDS congregations had the new ket, it makes sense for us to run them,” said Ron Saville, Ryan Galbraith/The Salt Lake Tri : i Tom Murray, maintenance operator at Logan Light & Power, services an engine that powers a generator. policy, whichhas hit a few snags s deregulation combined with a shortage throughout the West to send prices sky-high. Each megawatt probably will cost between $300 and $500 on the spot market this summer, according to municipal hauling in portable diesel generators and building This past week, The Church of Seen CsLaeey ee A news media church members refrain from us- tensions least as muchas itdid last summer when California’s botched BY KRISTEN MOULTON © 2001, THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE to the voice oftruth, than be led astray the vain pretensions of. the self-wise,” wrote the LDS prophet Joseph Smith. “I may safely say that the word ‘Mormon’ stands independentofthe learning and wisdom ofthis generation.” Apparently,this is still true. 7 nei power directors. “I'll bet we see $1,000,” said Wayne erator is onits way. bought about 30 percentof its power, is expected to cost at See ENERGY,Page B-2 CANINE CRASH COURSE to date,read to them last Sunday. Historical records reveal that ®” LDSprophets considered “Mor- e- In May 1843, Smith answered ‘the charge that Mormon came ' ‘from the Greek “marmoo,” which t Bailey’s Dictionary defined as gE . Notso, said Smith, who then >t displayed his talentfor linguistics. mm “Wesay from the Saxon, ‘good’; Of, as we say in Utah, gooder. “Whatdoes the word ‘Mormon’ pea Inthe strict sense, andas it lated by the ancients,it eee ‘more good,’ ” LDS Church der Brigham Young said in 1871. | “‘Mormonism’embraces all the truth that there is in heaven and on the earth; andifthere is any in hell it belongs to us. Every truth in the sciences andin the arts, andall “he knowledge that God has given to man,” he continued, was incorporated in “whatthe world calls ‘Mormonism.’” It was notvulgar to call his religion Mormonism, Young said. “Mormonwas a good man, and he is in heaven, or in a good place at anyrate; and the Book of Mormon is namedafter him, and webelieve it” Church President Joseph F. Smith noted that the Jews were hated because they were God’s chosen people. Like the word ‘Mormon,’ “nowhere in the world todayis the word Jew wholly disassociated Leah Hogsten/The Salt Lake Tribune Skijoring dog team Lucy, JackTerrell and Rolly pull Pam Allen to a tumblingfinish at Saturday's Incredible Dog Challenge. More than 75 dogs competed in canine versions of Winter Extreme Gamesat Park City Mountain Resort. Skijoring, popular in Europe, teams dogs and cross country skiers. See Page B-2. Slide Near Oakley Kills 2 Twofellow snowmobilers escape avalanche uninjured Unification’ s Moon Offers Social Message ‘Time for America to awaken,’ hetells SLC crowd with the feeling of contempt,” he wrote in 1904. “Contemptis the heritage ofa chosenpeople.” This contempt had disappeared by 1930. “Today the word ‘Mormon’is a certificate ofcharacterin all parts ofthe United States and in many otherparts of the world where we are known,” President HeberJ. Grant wrote. “The word ‘Mormon’ today is a synonym for an honorable, upright, sober, industrious person.” ChurchPresident David O. McKaynoted that “the Saints were first called Christians.It was first applied to them in derisionjust as the word ‘Mormon’was firsta) plied to the Churchin this day, but later was accepted as an honorable title.” , It maynot be possible to persuade the world to use thefull name of the LDS Church instead of Mormon,a wise LDS leader observed in 1990, but the nickname could win luster, honor and re- as spect for the faith. “Because of the shortness of the word ‘Mormon’and the ease with which it is spoken and written, they will continue to call us the Mormons, the Mormon church and so forth,” said President Gordon B. Hinckley. “They could do worse.” Historian Will Bagley believes he still is a’ Mormon, BY FRANK CURRERI ‘THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE LAKETRIBUNE OAKLEY — A dayof leisure turned lethalfor The Rev. Sun Myung Moon has two snowmobilers Saturday when an avalanche erupted on a mountain near Oakley in Summit County. The massive snowslide — estimated to be at least 900 feet long, 180 feet wide and 12 feet deep — buried the two men at around1 p.m. while the fatherof one victim helplessly looked on, according to Lt. Joe Offret of the Summit County Sheriff's Office. The victims, identified as 29-year-old Jason Wadeof Layton and 29-year-old Steven Barlow of Salt Lake City, marked Utah’s third and fourth avalanche deaths of the year, Wade and Barlow, along with a friend andthefather of one of them, had beenjoyriding in a popular snowmobile haven ofUpper Chalk Creek that is commonly referred to joined forces with dozens of Chris- HeberCity 4 Rhonda Halles Maylett/he Salt Lake Tribune as “the chutes.” Suddenly, thousands of pounds of snow came rumbling down the estimated 9,000-foot-high mountain like a gigantic wave. One man, 25-year- old Jason Peacock,tried to outmaneuverthe slide on his snowmobile, Offret said. Peacock’s flight attempt was unsuccessful, Offret said, but may have saved his life; Peacock was only partially submerged under the snow’s weight andhe escaped withoutinjury. See AVALANCHE,Page B-2 SLOCto Offer Lower-Priced Tickets BY!MIKE GORREL!L THE 8 fi LAKE "TRIBUNE Utahns will get an exclusive shot soon at lower-priced tickets to Opening and Closing ceremo- nies of the 2002 Winter Olympics. The Salt Lake Organizing Committee plans to put 2,600 tickets to each event on the market in late spring or early summer, All will have less desirable views than the $885 seats offered in the U.S. public sale that ended Dec, 12. The better of the restricted-view seats will be classified “B”level; the rest will be listed as “C” seats. Exact prices have not been determined nor has the process for giving Utahns a chance at these tickets, said SLOC President Mitt Romney, But when the International Olympic Committee approved Salt Lake’s ticket plan in December 1999, SLOC estimated “B” tickets would go for $625 and “C” for $320. Slightly higher numbers were bandied about when Romney talked about this impendingticket sale to reporters following last week's SLOC management committee meeting, but he emphasized that final prices have not beenset. “Wecould sell outall at $885. These lower-priced tickets will be a windfall for whoever gets them,” said Romney, predicting high demand will require SLOC to set up someform oflottery to See SLOC,Page B-4 tian clergy to save the world —and especially the United States — from moraldecay. “I havetranscended race, idealogy and national boundaries to pursue a movementfor one world under God,” Moon told more than 700 people gathered at the Hilton Hotel in downtown Salt Lake City on Saturday night. “The time has comefor America to awaken once again,”he said ina prepared speech hehasrepeated in cities across the nation.“It is time for the country as a wholeto create a new movementto build true par Jenna Isaacson/The Salt Lake Tribune The Rev. Sun Myung Moon spoke about social unity Saturday. ents, true families, a true country anda true world centered on God.” Moonis touring the country, the guest of mostly black churches, pitching social rather than theologicalunity. The Unification Church is “moving into the mainstream,” said the Rev. David Carlson, associateprofessor of worldreligion at the Unification Theological Seminary,in an interview with The Salt Lake Tribune. Carisonis traveling with Moon. Utah's only Unification congre- gation has nine families and the church's total U.S. membershipis between 1,500 and 3,000 members, Carlson said. Ratherthan seek new members, Carlson said, the churchis building political and spiritual alliances, “This is a prophetic mossage for America at this time,” hesaid. Though there were Catholics, Baptists, Buddhists and Muslims among the Hilton dinner crowd,it was clear that much of the message was directed at members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latterday Saints. The evening's master of céremonies, the Rev. Michael Jenkins, president of Moon's Family See REV. MOON,Page B3 Aa |
