Salt Lake Tribune | 2002-09-28 | Page 13

FOR THE RECORD BUSINESS Joe Cannon's GenevaSteelis Tunninginto objections over plans for a Utah Powersubstation. UTAH The Salt Lake Tribune B-2 READER ADVOCATE STATE OF THE STATE Bs STOCKS SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 28, 2002 Page B-6 Albertson’s COLLEGES COMPETE Hits ‘Stop’ on Edited Flicks Utah stores cite directors’ lawsuit against ‘cleaned-up’ film versions BY VINCE HORIUCHI THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE Jeannette Duwe said Friday “So we made the decision to take these off the shelf.” Albertsons Food and Drug stores in Utah pulled edited Sides,to a prospect Friday at the National Association for College Admission Counseling. The three-day convention at the Salt Palace in Salt Lake City focused onthe competitive world of college recruitment. See story on Page B-4. Legacy Contractor, State Negotiate E Ending contract, bridges at Burke Lane and Shepard Lane, both in “spaying daily costs _ among choices Farmington. BY JOHN KEAHEY THE SALT LAKETRIBUNE State roadofficials, facing » at least another yearof Legacy a_ Highway delays, are negotiat aeSing with contractors to see © how longbuilders should stay appropriated $17 millionearlierthis year to keep FAK and its assembled trucks, earth moyers and a skeleton crew through Sept. on the job ontothe job, “a er sherlarger anything availe in Ut: h,” Njordsaid. sion was handed downonSept. “Wehaveto decide whether it stays or whetherit is released for work elsewhere in 6. Whattheydidn’t expect was the outcome. The appeals transportation solutions, in: cluding commuter rail, should be pric d Anoffic ial for the Federal orderedstudiesstill unknown, Highway Administration pre- “it would be wise [for UlDOT] to cancel the contract,” said Whenthat time runs out Monday, UDOT will have spent $16.3 million of that money. The remainder could dicted last week that thoseex. panded studies andtheseries several days, if not a few ofpublic hearings theyrequire eS < ct altogether. No matter whatis decided, ~ officials say FAKwill continue u building non-Legacy highway longer. “We'll makea decision be- complete. UDOTand FAKnegotiators are wrestling with a numberof UDOTexecutives targeted Sept. 30 becausethey believed the 10th U.S, Circuit Court of Borgenicht, whose organiza tion Utahnsfor Better Tr could take up to two years to fore we hit $17 million,” Njord said, hesaid. If the decision on whether to keep FAK on thejob were up to Legacy opponent Roger Borgenicht, he says he knows precisely what he would do, With the result of court- Choices range from con: tinuing to pay daily suspen- bout $40,000 each working or abandoning the con- the country. There's sociated with that de court extended the stop-work orderissuedlast Nov. 1 6. The state now must conduct additional studies onalter rout andon how avariety of on thejob. * sion costs to contractor Fluor Ames Kraemer (FAK) now i “We're exploring both of those extremes and everything in between,” John Njord, Utah Department of portation executive di id Friday. Appeals would reach a decision bythen. They wereright. The deci- decisions, Njordsaid. For example, FAK latelast year moved a giant crusher portation helped bring the Legacy appeal to the federal court. “If they keep hanging on, they are going to keep wringingthe taxpayer,” hesaid. [e-mail] second-largest, pulled the mov ies Mondayafter the Directors Guild of America (DGA) and 16 directors, including Steven Spielberg and Robert Redford, filed an injunction against businesses like Cleanflicks, Trilogy Studios and Video II, the Sandy-based video distrib utor that provided Albertsons with theedited movies. “As a retailer serving the entire community, we feel we haveto remainneutral as this dispute goes forward,” Albert son's Ine. BY HILARY GROUTAGESMITH THE SALT LAKETRIBUNE, ‘Thecallerfrom the John D, and Catherine T. MacArthurFoundationsoundedalot like a telemarketer to Min Kim. Shealmost hung up the phone, but finally agreed to takea tele- phone numberfor her husband and ask himto returnthecall. When hedid, Erik Mueggler’s life was changed forever. The caller from cipients of what “Youdon't i Erik Mueggler relaxes at his home in Ann Arbor, Mich. Mueggler won a $500,000 » grant for his work on China, years High School orc! concertmas PG-13-rated “Showtime.” All but one of Utah's 46 Alber stores rented the edited videos. Albertsons started renting edited movies last summer asa pilot gust. cials ing project that ended in Au At that time, store offi decided to continue rent them out in Utah Albertsons. Duwe said the movies will remain off the shelves pending resolutionof the lawsuit ‘We will continue to have discussionswith all parties in volved,” she said. “When the dispute between the studios and video editing businesses has been resolved... we hope to again provide that similar See ALBERTSONS., PageB-5 Millcreek Township On Verge of Reality S.L. County Council to vote on proposal that has wide support from cherry-picking our best Ditto, says resident Howard Holfeltz, “I’m all for it,” he said. “It's way overdue.” Millereek Township, the county'sfifth, would take in a Sandy-size chunk of the Salt BY THOMAS BURR THESALT LAKE TRIBUNE Nearly 85,000 residents of easternSalt Lake Countystand to becomepart of a new town ship this fall, a movethat will by othercities. The County Council is poised to create Millcreek Township inthe most populous unincorporated area in the county. Supporters welcome thetransition “It’s the only way to go,” said Ken Smith, head of the Mount Olympus Community Council. “This will stop the other cities Lake Valley's east bench, stretching south from Sait Lake City to Murray and Hol laday and east into Mill Creek Canyon, The status leaves the area under county rule, but gives residents more control over planning and zoning and provides annexation protec: tion from neighboring cities. An ordinance creating the township and a map of the new area will be up for approval ‘Tuesday, If the County Council signs off, the township would become effective by Dee, 1 at See MILLCREEK, PageB-5 mandingacademicschedule, hew: dedicated. WhenI hadhis full attention, he was incredibly focused.” Mueggler received a bachelor’s degree in rr. aroundalot, but fell in love with the south “I taught in a coastal city and traveled apply for this. There’s no indi cation you've even been chosen,” Mueggler said in a telephoneinterviewfrom hisofficeat the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, wherehe is anassociate professor of anthropology. “It’s beena total shock. sociated Press: Ashton, who conducted theI 1987 from Cornell University and traveled to Chinato teach English fi PI he discovered hislife passion. become knownas a nius grant,” awarded bythe group ever said Ted r the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Mueggler, a 1980 graduate of Logan High School, was named one of24 Rosalie MuegglerofLogan. The award was not ashock to those who watched him grow up in northern Utah. “Asa youngman, he was quite passionate included edited ver Mel Gibson's R-rated “We Were Soldiers” and Eddie Muryphy 8. spokeswoman, protect them from annexation _ Logan Native’s Love for ChinaIs a Pot of Gold That sions ofsuch popular movies as 79 ‘Al Hartmann/‘TheSalt Lake Tribune Mother and daughter authors Margo Bane Woodacre, left, and Steffany Baneexplain their book, Doors Open From Both movies fromtheir shelvesafter Hollywood's top movie direc: tors filed a lawsuit nst businessesthat rent or sell vid eos scrubbed of sex, violence and swearing. TheBoise, Idaho-based grocery chain, the country’s westpart of China,” he said Mueggler earneda master’s degree in 1990 and a doctorate in 1996 from Johns Hopkins University. His research on the effect of the people in China grew into a book, The Ageof Wild Ghosts. Init, Mueggler draws onritual, folklore and his own experience to frame his analyses ofthe township of Zhizuo. In awarding the grant, the MacArthur search on Chinese communities and the re percussions of the Cultural Revolution. 4500S. Cultural Revolution in thelives of everyday fellow, he will receive $500,000overfive in a no-strings grant to further his re- Mueggler, 40, still visits Utah everyyear to NORTH Stove Baker:The Sall Lake Tr See LOGAN,Page BS spend time with his parents, Walter and o » CedarCity Pioneers’ Sacrifices Show How Much Utahns Used to Value Education EDARCITY Utah's educ: ‘ation motte seemsto be “We ‘emdeepandteach BC ‘emcheap.” Leaders could learn something fromtheef: fort Cedar City residents madein 1897 in order to establish whatis now § uthern Utah Univer: sity. Gerald Sherratt, oncethe president of SUU and now the mayor ofCedarCity, tells the amazing story of how the town saved its school. “When in the spring of 1897 the people of Ce- dar City learnedthat the Utah Legislature had authorized a branchofthe state's teacher train ing that would cost $35,000 million today equivalentto $3 wasgoingtotake their schoolav notevenif CedarCity encountered several problems. Landhadtobeobtained, That was when owners ofproperty on Academy natedlots orsold them a it meant buckingthe solved mountain snowsto get the lumberto construct Hill do- the new building.” Rob Will Bulloch ‘Thefirst classes were taught at Ward Hall in thefall of1897, But, after two months,the school nearly closed when Utah's attorneygene) fused to pay the teachers. According to Sherratt, heruled that Cedar City’s use of Ward Hall did not comply with a provision ofthe law whichre- quired that the school haveits ownbuilding on ing school, it was welcome new the town’s citizens believedi s for Cedar Cityto be selecteda the impossible, Nobody analmost insurmountablegoal for what was then a poor townof1,700. wrote about problems buildersfacedin the history book For Sweet TOM WHARTON Learning's Sake. “Remembertherewere nosources which to get supplies no lumber yards, land deeded tothestate. He opined that, if brick building wasnot erectedby thefollowing machinery or equipment, only hard manual la bor,” he wrote. “Thenearest railroad station wa 45 miles away. That meant bricks hadto be made, lum: though, perhaps because it had no saloonsor Three families paid the teachers by mort ing their homes, Building a teaching hall in the dead of one of history's worst winters was another matter. otherthings done, and hereit was thedeadof poolhalls. It had to guarantee constructionof a build “To the everlasting credit ofthe people of Ce darCity,” Sherratt writes, “they set out to do winter, site,” Sherratt writes in his pape: The Founding ity and Lron County didn't have mucl h political clout. The townwasselected, Copy } tember, the school wouldbe lost ber ¢ yards, no hardware stores, no building ‘ock quarried, digging and a hundred ‘Thelumbersupply was 35 miles away. That is wherea horse namedOld Sori | pitched in. Arecord snowfall thatleft drifts 15feet high and 100 y s long threatened to stop the first lumber expedition but the big 8&-year-old horse hit the snowbanks, sat downlike a dog, andgot up and hit them again. Sherratt said the big animal plowed a road that saved the expedition, He is now honored with a statueat the college. Volunteers survived frigid temperatures and of supplies. ome made brick with their hands. The local sheep co-op donated stock to raise $5,000 for windows The original college building, Old Main, sur vivesto this day, It is a monument toa time when Utahnsvalued education so much that they were willing to mortgage their homes, risk theirlives and donate theirlabor. One can only wonder why modern Utahns are so reluctant to make much smaller sacri fices for education. [e-mail]