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Show The Salt Lake Tribune UTAH Sunday, November 23, 2003 Comicstrips have beenseriousstuff since 1734 orget the Religion section severed parts of a snake with the names “Hide the cartoon called “Down ——i his death Walt was, well, anybody’s at ra comic pages are the truly sacred of England’s colonies and the injunc- Spent Urani- for Joseph Pulitzer’s New Yor guess. HK weeat any modern newspa- tion, “Join, or Die” — and it was reborn and the Wall Street Journal don’thave zoned, “Don’t Tread on Me.” per. (Of course, The New York Times comic pages in the Journal,thefi- um.”) in the Revolution as the flag embla- Nast de- Napoleon Bonaparte supported a nancial pages are sacred, and in the Times all the pages are sacred.) The Salt Lake Tribune changed its comics generation of British cartoonists, but the Civil War created thefirst great American comic penman, Thomas haven't melted downyet, they might. “my greatest recruiter.” Nast came into Monday,and though the phones Trying to knockoff “Mary Worth” is a tough proposition, but what do you Nast, whom Abraham Lincoln called ones P WHLL BAGLEY New Yorkpolitical boss William Young introduced Blondie Boopadoop, million-dollar low Kid” was born. So was the term “yellow journalism,” to denote news written by reporters lacking the Kid’s integrity and good girl” comicstrips. She bribe to study artinEurope, but after Tweed fled looks. family disowned him, and ever since Spanish police publisher William Randolph Hearst — used a Nast who hadbuilt his media empire with mustbe going on95: She still looks the fortunehis father had partly ex- great — butto aging boomers, even Mr. In his newspaper war with Pulitzer, Blondiefirst appeared in 1930, so she Tweed’s Tammany Hall from the pages cartoon to nab him. Today The Tribune’s evil-geniuscartoonist carrieson tracted from Utah mines —transferred Nast’s craft by relentlessly persecuting Swinnerton to New York and Hearst’s ated the first comics in 1734 with three great strips “Harlot’s Progress,” the people’s money?” as Tweed andhis cronies pointed at each other. Utah politicians in their fearless defense of the rich and powerful. Mode” that would be a tad too risqué for modern audiences. care what the papers write about me,” Boss Tweed cried. “My constituents strip is hotly disputed, but Jimmy Swinnerton created the “California Alley” in the Chicago Tribune in 1918. Readers now mourningits demise can “Stop them damned pictures.I don’t Creditfor the first American comic Journal American, which published the first Sunday comicsection in 1897. Frank King introduced “Gasoline To support his plea for a colonial can’t read. But, damnit, they can see Bears”in 1893 at the San Francisco _ take solace in the knowledge that Walt pictures.” (Too bad Nastisn’t alive to Examiner. Two years later, Richard found baby Skeezix on his doorstep political cartoon in 1754. He labeled the comment on Utah’s current game of Felton Outcault launched a one-panel Feb.14, 1921, so Skeezix is now 82 and Public safety newsfrom Tribune staffand wire reports Officials release identity ofwoman killed in auto crash Centenarian recalls a life on the go Authorities have released the name of a woman whodied late Friday in a fiery crash on Interstate 215. Anne Dean, 45, ofSalt Lake City, died in the crash near Fashion Place Mall just after 10 p.m., Utah HighwayPatrol troopers said Saturday. Dean was westbound on 1-215 when she attempted to take an off-rampat 280 Kast. Her car overturned, eventually hitting a tree and catching fire, said UHP Sgt. Steve Manful. Dean, who was alonein the car, was pronounced deadat the scene. @ Continued from B1 Woman charged in killing also accused ofstealing and Callie Mae tried to support their sprawling family as song and dance performers. One night, a family in the audience spotted Jackson peering out from behind the stage curtain and befriended him,he says. Soon, they had asked John and Callie Maeif they might help out by taking Jackson and raising him alongside their own children — which is how Jackson came to spend part of his childhood in the white, Jewish homeof Sophie and Sam Strauss, who was related to Levi, the inventor of blue jeans. A woman accused of having her boyfriend kill her ex-husband now faces charges that she stole from a relative. Tamra Rhinehart was charged Thursday with felony communicationsfraud, theft and burglary, in addition to the count of aggravated murder she already faces. Prosecutors allege Rhinehart invited an elderly relative to dinner in June so her boyfriend could break into therelative’s home. Craig Duncan Nicholls, 40, told investigators he stole about $6,000. Nicholls pleaded guilty earlier this month to fatally shooting Rhinehart’s ex-husband, Logan plumber Mike Boudrero, last July and was sentenced to life in prison without parole. Stabbing in SLC brings attempted murder charge A 47-year-old manis charged with attempted murder,a second-degree felony, for allegedly stabbing a Salt Lake City man four times in the torso. Prosecutors filed charges Friday against Jackie Joseph Sanchez in the Nov. 19 incident at 315 E. 200 South. Police found the victim, Arthur Ferrell, lying in front of the apartment building, according to documents filed in 3rd District Court. Officers followed a blood trail to Sanchez’s apartment, documents say. Sanchez admitted stabbing Ferrell, documents say, and said he deserved it. Police said the two apparently had been feuding for weeks. Baby-store clerk, othersjump robber; shots fired and Callie Mae Jackson. The family, which eventually included 16 children, moved from Nassau, Bahamas, to Montgomery, Ala., when Jackson was 9. As they had in Nassau, John At 14, Jackson married one of the Strauss’ daughters and became a father — to twins, one of whom died — for the first time. He struck out as a performer in his own right as an “acrobatic waiter” — spinning the large woodenserving trays (emptied of dishes) while singing and dancing during band breaks — at places such as Club Maytag in Montgomery and The Sussex An attempted robbery at a baby store went awry Saturday whenthe store clerk and others jumped the suspect, police said. The suspect entered Hector’s Baby Shop, near 1000 North and 900 West, about8:30 p.m. and pointed a gun at the clerk, said Salt Lake City police Lt. John Cardona, but the group jumped him before he could speak. During the struggle, two rounds were fired into the ceiling and three more were fired outside, he said. The suspect got into a waiting vehicle and fled. He may have been bleeding from the head, possibly from a gunshotor from the struggle, Cardonasaid. Noone else was seriously injured. Gunman fires rounds afterfight at birthday party Salt Lake City police are seeking a suspect after gunshots were fired after an altercation at a birthday party. The incident occurred about 9:15 p.m. Saturday at a home near 950 West and 300 North, said police Lt. John Cardona. Two mengot into a fight, he said, and one of them wentto a car, got a semiautomatic rifle and started firing rounds. Mostof the roundshit the house, Hotel in Springfield, Miss. And that is how Jackson met Al Capone. “He was just a little stubby guy smoking cigars. He was very nice. You wouldn’t think he was that type of person,” Jackson says. Jackson came to Utah by way of the Army, which he joined in the 1930s. He did tours at various camps stateside, fought in Europe during World War II and ended his service in Utah, where he worked as a military police officer at Camp Kearns. “That allowed me to go in places where African American soldiers and others couldn’t go,” Dithers is starting to look ney good. _And Jimmy Swinnerton? Diagnosed with tuberculosis and advised he had not long to live, he moved Los Angeles in 1920. Swinnertondied in Palm union, Benjamin Franklin invented the For THE RECORD ed take of her life onFeb. 17, 1933, bes she married the rich young play Y, Dagwood Bumstead. His aristocratic he’s beena poor working stiff. of Harper’s Magazine. “Rake’s Progress” and “Marriage a la s clad in a nightshirt. When the paper’s selling apples in 1932 as Apple Mary? His masterpiece asked, “Whostole ‘ engravers colored the shirt, “The Yel-__shewas simply one of pane AE expect from a grandmother who started English artist William Hogarth cre- . When cartoonist eee Chic It featured an ugly bald street urchin clined ahalf- overseas, HISTORY MATTERS his own in the 1870s whenhe battled orld. Springs on Sept. 8, 1974, at the tragically young age of 98 years. : : : Will Bagley is afrustrated comicstripper. U.S. hometo mostpeople 110 or older The oldest living person is Charlotte Benkner, 114, of Ohio, according to the Guinness Book of should be onthelist, contact Whitaker at 538-3915. Records and the The Los Angeles Gerontology Re- celebrated a birthday in November: @ Orem resident Russell B. Clark, 103, received kudos this month from Experience Works as search Group, which tracks the oldest livingpeople in the world. The groupestimates there are around 300 to 450 “supercentenarians” worldwide — people whoare 110 or older — including about 60 to 75 in the U.S. It lists 41 supercentenarians on its Website (http://www.grg.org) whose ages have been validated; most of those — 36 — are women. Seventeen of the supercentenarians live in the United States, while Japan has the second mostwith eight. The oldest living Utahn is Pearl Blain of Roy, whorecently turned 108. She is amongthe 88 people currently on the state Division of Aging and Adult Services’list of centenarians. Lee Ann Whitaker, who maintains thelist for the state, puts out a call for information on centenarians each January. If you know someone who Jackson says, such as the city’s finest hotels — the Newhouse, the Utah and the Temple Square. After leaving the Army, he worked a few odd jobs and then got on with Morris-Knudsen, which was building railroad lines around the state. One job took his crew to Juab County, where he had an encounter with a little boy that still makes him smile today. Jackson had knocked at the door of a homein Fairview to ask permission to use a yard pump to get water for his crew. The little boy came to the door, took one look at Jackson and went running for his mother, crying out, “Mama, Mama, a TV fighter, a TV fighter,” says Jackson while seated at the kitchen table in the Rose Park homehehas lived in for 32 years and now shares with a niece and her son. Jackson says the boy’s mother apologetically explained her son’s only experience with African Americans had been watching them box on television. Jacksontells this story as a bridge to things he’dstill like to do. “Tf it were possible, I’d like to speak in parts of Utah that haven’t been exposed to African Americans,” Jackson says. Other Utah centenarians onthe state’s list who America’s oldest worker. The retired physician keeps busy managingrental properties he owns in California, Utah and Nevada. Clark, whostill drives, credits his longevity to good genes,a good diet, steady work,a positive attitude and regular exercise. @ MaudeFeldt, 101, credits her strong mind and strong bodyto faith in God, the good mineral water she drank as a child growing up on a Nebraska farm and the habit of getting through sleepless nights by recalling U.S. presidents or states and capitals. Feldt is known forher delicious cinnamonrolls, featured last year in a Salt Lake Tribune food story. — Brooke Adams;Salt Lake Tribune archives It’s not that Jackson, who was 87 when he “semi-retired” from the University Park Hotel, has idle hours to fill. He works on genealogy projects for the LDS Church and, after a break this fall, plans to return next spring as a lecturer in Gaylen Buckley’s classes at Salt Lake Community College’s LDS Church Institute of Religion. Jackson met Buckley five years ago after Buckley, an LDS Church member whoworksas a hospice chaplain, gave Jackson a “death blessing.” Jackson, ill with colon cancer, was comatose and wasn’t expected to live much longer than a few hours, says Jackson’s step-daughter, Bobbie Prestridge of Salt Lake City. Three days later, Buckley learned that Jackson was not only doing fine but wanted to meet him. And at 96 — 27 years after first getting a Book of Mormon andtelling people he would consider the church when “the spirit hits me” — Jackson decided the time had come. As a lecturer, Jackson talks about “coming through trials, things like that,” Buckley says, “and students just love him.” Some of those students adopted him as their grandfather, becomingpart ofthe hordes whorefer to Jackson that way. Through various marriages and relationships, Jackson had 40 children, 38 of whom are still living; they range in age from 88 to 51. He has 52 grandchildren, 46 greatgrandchildren and 18 great-great grandchildren. Most of his progeny andsiblings live out ofstate, which makes for a whopping phonebill during the holidays, but it also lets Jackson do what he likes most: talk. “T love to socialize,” he says. “I enjoy talking to people.” That, he says, is one of the secrets to long life. Here is another: “T try not to let nothing worry me. If you worry over something, you deteriorate realfast.” He still misses those he has loved and who have passed on — his mother, father and his wife Esther, who died in 1994, but he is past mourning for them. On his mind these days, he says, is the way the world is changing, the way “the whole world is beginning to unite to- gether” and how “to a certain extent, we’re getting beyond color and taking people for what they are worth, what they standfor.” Ifyou know a centenarian who deserves to be profiled, contact Brooke Adams at 801-2578724 or by e-mail at badams@sltrib.com. but one killed the family’s dog, Cardonasaid. Both the shooter andthe intended victim had left when police arrived. Witnesses were not being cooperative, Cardonasaid. The incident remained underinvestigation. Icy roads cause crashes e Continued from Bl and overpasses. “There’s ice pretty much everywhere.” Temperatures in many Utah locations, including Salt Lake City, never rose above freezing Saturday. The high in Salt Lake City was 29 degrees reached just after midnight Friday, according to the National Weather Service. The mercury fell steadily throughout the day, accompanied by snow and freezing fog in the early afternoon. Conditions were windy, with gusts of up to 32 mph recorded around noon; low temperatures were expected to dip into the teens. But cold temperatures and gusty winds failed to faze Utah skiers, who headed for Salt Morewateris coming to Shivwits Band And fresh snow continued to fall. “It snowed really hard today,” Fields said.“I left about 2:30, and the canyon was completely clogged. Traffic was moving about 5 mph down the canyon,It was definitely snow- Adiadicated: A settlement is reached in a dispute over the drainage ofthe Virgin and Santa Clara rivers packed roads. The lake effect By Mark Havnes was kickingin.” Fields said when he stepped off the tram at 8 a.m. Saturday, the temperature at the resort was below zero, with winds at about 25 mph. “I didn’t have any exposed skin.” The Salt Lake Tribune Temperatures CEDAR CITY — After 20 years of adjudication, requirements of settlement for water rights in the drainage of the Virgin and Santa Clara rivers have been resolved. early The cooperative agreement Saturday broke records in eight locations, including Alta, Brian Head, Coalville, Logan and Nephi. Cedar City tied a record at 30 degrees, according to the National WeatherService in Salt Lake between the Shivwits Band of Paiute Indians of Washington County and Washington County Water Conservancy District includes an increase of water rights from a few hundred acrefeet annually to 4,000 acre-feet a year for the small band of Paiutes. City. Today, high temperatures Oneacre-foot of water equals 326,000 gallons, the amount of water used by an average suburban family in a year. to take advantage of excep- should reach the lower 30s with mostly sunny conditions forecast, the weather service said. Tonight, lows near 20 are forecast with tional early-season conditions. clear conditions, but winds modernized waste water treat- are estimated to be between mentplant and pipeline, costing about $15 million and paid for by the Shivwits and federal govern- Lake-area ski resorts Saturday “The skiing is just phenomFields, 10 and 20 mph. As another spokesman for Snowbird Ski and Summer Resort in Little Cottonwood Canyon. The re- fast-moving Pacific disturbance approaches Utah on Monday, the forecast calls for mostly cloudy conditions enal,” said Dave sort was among several opening early after receiving sev- eral feet of snow this month. “We were laughing at how good the conditions are for Nov. 22,” Fields said. and a 30 percent chance of snow showers with highs near 40. Winds will remain between 10 and 20 mph, the weatherservice said. 4 Washington County will see a the waterrights settlement since July 1980. The federal governmentwas, in part, representing the rights of the Shivwits band as its trustee. On Friday, Sen. Orrin Hatch announced that the Interior Department said it had completed requirements for the Paiute Indian Tribe of Utah Water Rights Settlement Act, signed in August 2000. The settlement will now becomefullyeffective. Another water project, the 15 miles northwest of St. George. Also, a $5 million trust fund would be established for the tribe for economic developmentassociated with the increased water rights. Glenn Rogers, chairman of the Shivwits band, said Friday that the increased water rights means a brighter future for the small band of 300 members. “We're looking at what we can do now in terms of agricultural, and economic development Santa Clara Project, will con- projects that can make a better future for those 150 or 200 years struct a pressurized pipeline to deliver 1,900 acre-feet of water to for the conservancydistrict, said Friday the settlement will benefit all involved. She said the initial adjudica- tion evolved from the need to establish all the waterrights in the drainage — given out at various times by the state under differ- ent statutes — on the samelegal footing. “Something hadto be done to clarify the gray areas,” shesaid. mhavnes@sltrib.com the Shivwits. It also would increase instream flows from Gunlock Reservoir to benefit the Virgin spinedace, a fish indigenous to the river, which could become subject to the Endangered Species Act if its numbers continue to fall. Theproject will be paid for by LOTTERY SUa The winning numbers drawn The winning numbers in Ida- Saturday night in Idaho’s Pow- ho’s Wild Card lottery, worth erball lottery, worth $33 million, are 9, 12, 17, 29, 45. POWERBALL: 4 $135,000, are 4, 12, 13, 19, 25. WILD CARD: King of Hearts the state and federal govern- ments and the conservancy district. The Shivwits also receive the rights to 100 acre-feet of groundwater from wells developed on the 29,000-acre reservation about ment. This project, still in the design phase, would deliver 2,000 acre-feet of water to the Shivwits reservation, which is oneoffive bands of the Utah Paiute Tribe in southern Utah. The state and federal governments, have been adjudicating in the future,” said Rogers. 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