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Show 0 The Salt LakeTribune FORTHERECORD LOTTERY B-2 B2 | 687 | ARIes BASERAWLSON B4 OBITUARIES SUNDAY | FEBRUARY16, e 2003 i Buckling up more HOLLY MULLEN ; about choice than ° Utah P.Tro-.Busine5,Ss | safety, lawmakers say | | BY BROOKE ADAMS = scua CARS oe CRESTL ee Try as she might, onefxnr ‘ones ey ait Except When It . Is a Private Club banning kids from riding in pickup Utahns Be Buckled truck beds;a fifth bill remains in a Should ae mandatory = In the session's opening weeks, Rep. Chad Bennion, R-Murray,tried rules committee. to do away with seat belt require- “It's = that I'm against the Pledge of Allegiance,” said FPairclough, AAA Utah spokeswoman. “But how can youvote for this and notfor [those proposals]?” = say some TahSomer who have turned seatbelts, ster seats and pickup beds into ideological gauges of when governmentis Grivers and passengers? Yes (ENNENTONN 74% No [ENE 24% Unsure 11% r Should there be an exceptionin the seat belt law for large families or adults transporting a group of children? clough cannot understand hi tears on individual and parental lessed are the owners of small businesses, who sweatouta living ofAllegiance is more important than aoe them safeincarsandpickup “At some point, we have to balance the desire for governmentto do Maythey be free to earn a healthy profit, by excessive government regulatio n. Except, of course, for purveyors ofsin. The scores of people who ownsmall pri- Seaveoere whisked the pledge bill, which requires middle and high school students to hail the flag to do whatis best for ourselves, even _jfarpia of errr + 4.5 percentage points if it’s not in our best interest,” said ©00 The SatLakeTribne Sen. James Evans, R-Salt LakeCity. vate social clubs in Utah aren’inet seat belt use, booster seats and quiring children to recite the Pledge rights. in pursuitofthe American dream. blanketed by that blessing. A pen overhaul of state ibgoaeIn laws, Induding hefty license fee increases, would relegate them to the outercircles of business hell — which, come to think of it, is where most of the Legislature wants them any- Yes aeemi76% No |Mimmeapanimmmeemntygs, Unsure 84% that 74 percent back mandatory seat belt requirements for drivers and passengers. The poll's margin of error is plus or minus4.5 percentage whatis best for us and our freedom YaleyResearchstatewide servey o S03 adults “If grown-ups wantto be idiots, that would have madeit a primary that’s for them to decide,” said offense for an adult to not buckle up but supported the pickup truck ban. Evans, who helped kill a proposal ments for adults altogether, saying he wanted to restore individual rights “we took away a number of years ago.” Thatis a decidedly different view from the one held by a majority of Utahns surveyed in late January by The Salt Lake Tribune. The poll by Valley Research of 503 adults found points. About 70 percent oppose the cur‘Tent “big family” exceptionthat allows the numberof passengers in a vehicle to exceed the number of See SEAT BELTS Page B-6 CAKE BEATER way. ‘These are not the owners of those aeprivate clubs where you payto see be seen. Not downtown's New Yorker Lovee eeacertai $500, bu have some cushionto absorb the Consider, instead,the plight of Doreen and Ken Black, owners of Grant's,a pri- vate club in Spanish Fork. Or Ricki ArGutierrez, owner of Regis Club,the only private drinking establishment in Carbon County’s Helper. showed uplast week at ABC hearings on 250 pages of proposed changes to the state’s Byzantine liquor laws — amendments thatare sure to further hogtie them from making every bit as reasonable a living as an owner ofa hamburger joint, a dry cleaner ora shoe store. It isn’t that they oppose state regulation. They understandthatselling alcohol a special burden,They pay big taxes (set to reach a whopping 64 percent markup over wholesale) and observe strict operating laws. But where does reasonable regulation harassment Grant's, one of two private clubs in Spanish Fork. When their friend fell ill in 1999, im Leah Hogsten/The Salt Lake Tribune iGowenne, thythm beating on Saturday — with a bundt cake pan. The 2003 Utah Percussion Festival at Weber State University drummed up festivaigoers’ interest by exploring sounds made tic Wea a Sch ns hc placna 13 lbs Wap wad wily alas ama Wd ar aseThAcryPB. sic working-class watering hole ala ive. Grant's seatspeels, 75 its membershiptallies 150. The have replaced the roof, plumbing and wiring, and up the interior. “We clear about$500 a month,” says Doreen, who still works days ata printing business, “Wefigure we have about $80,000 sunk into it. We have a second mortgage on our house, Weare into this thi wT0fe increase wil be tough, but Keeping Backcountry Avalanche Kills Skier, Strands Four Utah Safe Costs More ‘THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE One skier died and four others were stranded Saturday after the BY DAWN HOUSE ‘THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE year’s first fatal avalanche in Utah The guarding three military storage facilities within Utah's borders has risen millions of dollars since the terrorist attacks on the United States. Before Sept. 11, 2001, private security health, peace,safety, wel : picidmatingicelata onal nia ADCEoadconwa Tenor the ABC board to protest. The effort hollow for her, though, I fects like adone deal. “T'd like to believe the hard work I put in to make a living is as good as anyone else's,” she says. “But knowing the politics ofthe state we live in, well, I guess I'm just dreaming.” arrived. The man’s name was not re- BY ASHLEY BROUGHTON ‘ThoSalt Lake Tribune attacks by as much as 30 percent. In addition, nearly 700 National Guard members from an entire Utah battalion and two California companies have been activated to — elp guard the three military instalJUDGMENT sprawling lations in Tooele County. Payroll costs alone for the military guards exceed $2 million annually, the BS a National Guard says. That price tag does not include costs for training the A”okohousing, food or Because of the threatof terrorism, we found there was a need to protect our stockpiles,” said Alaine Southworth of Deseret Chemical See UTAH SECURITY,Page B-5 slid through the Wasatch back. country between Mill Creek and Big Cottonwood canyons. The avalanche occurred about leased Saturdaynight, pending notification of family members. Asof 11:40 p.m. Saturday, rescue team members were preparing to execute plansfor bringing the vic: tim down via sled,on the Mill Creek Canyon side, and authorities said the survivors appeared well enough 6:30 p.m., two miles north of Big to ski out on their own. Cottonwood Canyon in the Gobbler’s Knob area, authorities said. Earlier, a LifeFlight helicopter spotted headlamps worn on the helmets of the surviving skiers, The group was cross country skiing when the slide occurred, officials said. Oneofthe survivors called 911 on a cell phone to summon rescuers. ‘The four survivors — two men and two women — were able to free the victim, a man in his 40s, from the snow before emergency personnel said Salt Lake County sheriff's Lt. Robert Sampson. The helicopter lifted Salt Lake County Search and Rescue Team members to a location just above the avalanche site, and rescuers See AVALANCHE,Page B-2 &CLARIFICATIONS George Pettigrew of Joyful Sound is a memberof the U.S. Army Re. serves, contrary toa story in the Body & Soulsection of Saturday's Tribune. PERIOD |
