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Show U heSalt LakeTribune FRIDAY, September 8, 1995 SECTION B OBITUARIES BUSINESS Page B-9 Page B-10 ROLLY & WELLS LET'S DO LUNCH? Congresswoman Enid Waldholtz’s worst nightmare? Roll Cail, the Washington, D.C., daily that covers Capitol Hill, reported this week that former Democratic Corgresswoman Karen Shepherd most likeiy will be appointed by President Clinton to the bipartisan Federal Elections Commission (FEC), the group that investigates allegations of irregularities in campaign financing. Shepherd was involved in two bitter campaign battles with Waldholtz for the 2nd Congressional District seat. Shepherd wonthefirst; Waidholtz the second. The Nationa! Democratic Committee has asked the FEC to investigate Waldholtz’s hiring of a private investigator in 1994 to investigate donorlists of Shepherd and Independent candidate Merrill Cook. Also, the committee wants the FEC to investigate apparent diserepancies in Waldholtz’s campaign-finance reports. More Work, Less Play at Some Schools By Katherine Kapos Robles said Thursday, noting that recess takes up 90 hours THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE of academic instruction time during the year. Anewstate edict calling for children to spend more time The Salt Lake Teachers Association was angered that in class has hit some Salt Lake City students in the one subject area they most covet — recess. Robles made the decision without input from parents and teachers The unionalso said the thedistrict violated teacher contracts because any changein a teacher’s working day must come through negotiations, says Elaine Tzourtzouklis, as- Several ofthe district’s 27 elementary schools have done away with either morning or afternoon recess. And those that have kept both breaks have had to shorten lunch or add minutes to the school day. Tn most Utah districts, elementary-schoolrecess is considered physical education, and the breaks are counted as partof the instructional time. The time set aside for lunch is not counted. Butafter the State School Board mandated thatall children attend schoo! 980 hours over 186 days, Salt Lake City Superintendent Darline Robles decided that her schools would countonly one 15-minute break toward the requirement. “WhatI've heard over and over is that we need more instructional time with our children. People are talking about extending the school year and longer school days,” sociation president. “Why should we add 15 minutes to the day when the state recognizes both recesses?” Tzourtzouklis said. The association hasfiled a grievancewith thedistrict but had notreceived a response by Thursday. Theassociation has its monthly meeting with Robles today, where they hope to discuss the issue. Sherianne Cotterell, principal at Lincoln Elementary, said her faculty was willing to adjust minutes so students would have two breaks. “Wefelt like recess was part of the day, and kids need the break as much as anybody does,” said Cotterell. But in a backlash against the State School Board man- date, other schools have notbeen as willing to give an extra 15 minutes. “The[state] boardsaidit’s got to be square andfit within this box and took out every kind of creative option out there. In retaliation, teachers havesaidit will be 990 hours and nota minute more,” says Amy Wadsworth, principalat Wasatch Eiementary. Caughtbetweenare the parents and children. “A lot of parents are really upset aboutit,” said Alta Davis, PTA president at Uintah Elementary. She said many teachers have taken their students out for organizedactivities, appeasing many parents who worry that children lose interest whenthey havetosit at a desk for long periods. But many wonderif that will continue when the colder weatherarrives. “Weare just trying to look at it positively and giveit a chance,” Davis said. Robles said her decision stands for only a year. During the coming months she will appoint a committee to research the issue and make a recommendationto the board “By next year, it may look completely different,” she said. Forced Therapy For Sex Crimes? o UTAH IRON MAN In light of baseball star Cal Ripken's longest consecutivegame streak established Wednesday, KISN-97 morning team, Fisher, Tedé and Erin, took nominations from listeners to find a comparable Utahn. The winner: Gale Toiman, a clerk for Dick's Market in Centerville. He has not missed work since 1967. QO SURPRISE, SURPRISE Deseret News TV critic Scott Pierce praised the KJZZ camera crew’s coverage of the Utah-Oregon football game last week. He noted how different it was from the consistently poor camera work done by the formerUte station, KUTV. it was the same crew. The Channel2 guys contract out for games onotherstations.It was also that same crew that did a 1994 BYU-Utah gamein which Pierce praised the camera work done by KBYU, which took a feed from Channel 2. 0 THE BURNING QUESTION Mary Morganwasenjoying a quiet lunch Wednesday at the Market Street Broiler, a Salt Lake City restaurant converted from old Fire Station No. 8 on 1300 East near 300 South. Suddenly, 2 Salt Lake City firetruck bolted to the front of the cafe and several firefighters, adornedin hats, coats and boots and carrying axes, ran into the building. As they scurried past the startled patrons, one firefighter, Kevin Kochevar, pulled off his mask and hat, feli to one knee in front of Morgan’s table and asked her to marry him. The crowd burst into applause. Kochevar’s brother-in-law, Fire Capt, Richard Berrett, got permission from the city and restaurant management. Patrons Upendra Achanja and Kul Bhurtyal, who are in Utah from Nepal through an educational exchange, were aghast, The youngfirefighter had not gotten permission from her parents. o PRESCHOOL BATH The Associated Students of the University of Utah may have learned a small lesson this month after taking a $40,000 oss (from student activity fees) on the Reggae concert held on campus last week. “Planet Reggae” sold 1,665 tickets and grossed revenues of about $35,000. But expenses, inchiding guarantees for the bands, security and advertising. totaled $75,000. Having the concert on Labor Day weekend, several weeks before the start of school, may have had something to do with the poor attendance. Oo BRING BACK RON? Afier reviewing 7006 candidates from grandmothers to pigs, FIC&N Advertising has not found a suitable replacement for Utah Football Coach Ron McBride as a partner to BYU Coach LaVell Edwards in Bank One Commercials, The search continues. ' By Dan Harrie THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE No convicted sex offender would be released from Utah State Prison without first undergoing therapy, undera plan being considered as part of a sentencing-reform package. Board of Pardons Chairman Michael Sibbett supports mandatory sex-offender treatment, but only if the Legislature provides the funding. “We're not mandating it now, and that’s a misiake,”’ Sibbett said Thursday. “But you can’t mandate something that you can’t provide.” Lawmakers have never appro- priated a dime specifically earmarked for sex-offender treatmeant. Four prison staff therapists currently work with sex offenders. But only about one-third of the prison’s sex criminals receive therapy in prison, and more than 100 inmatesare on waitinglists. Inmates not treated in prison are ordered into therapyin half- way housesor private counseling centers as a condition of parole. The plan being discussed would prevent parole of those inmates until they had received treatment. Because sentences for sex crimes are upto life in prison, the parole requirement would, in effect, impese mandatory therapy. Still, treatment is controversial and many question its value in protecting society from child molesters, Assistant Atty Gen. Rebert Parrishhas said there is simply no eure for hard-core vedophiles. “Successful treatment means only one thing —- the offender has decided to be celibate.” A mandatory-therapy proposal is being debated by the Utah Sentencing Commission. The 27member pauel is scheduled next month to recommend changes to Steve Griffin/TheSalt Lake Tribune It took almost two hours butMillie gavebirth to her newborncalf, Willie, at the Utah State Fair in front of about 200 spectators. Fairgoers Flock to Barn, Witness Birth of Calf By Nerma Wagner ‘THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE It was slow going Thursday, the opening of the Utah State Pair. Even forthe animals. An hour after the gates drew hack, the rides hadn’t fully cranked up, candy apples sat twinkling in’rows under the sun and the hawkers hadno one, well, to hawk to. Maybe that’s because the real show was in the cow barn, where 200 pairs of eyes were fixed on Millie, a Jersey cow in iabor “We've been here for almost two hours. Wedidn’t think it would takethis long,” said Louise Forkof Salt Lake City, who vowed to stay for the duration. “I’m a mother and she’s a mother and I know how that cow is feeling. We're here for moral cow support. Besides, you can see a fair anytime, but you can't always see a newborn baby. The cow’s owner, Dale Chugg of Ogden, said Millie broke her water about 2 p.m. Thursday, sparking what he thought would be a quick labor. “We had hergoing pretty good and then the stupid band went by — boom, boom, boom — and she got back up.” Chugg andhis son, Nathan, are hoping for herfirst sighting, she answered, ‘‘As long as he stays in there, I’m fine.” Nextdoor, Harley the big 1,100-pound pig lay snoring in the hay. His attendant, Steve a female so she can be implanted with an embryo from an Angus cow in Montana. If acknowledges Harley is not the most attraetive animal, but said that’s not why people it’s a male, “We've got preblems. Heck, he’s got problems — he'll be used for beef!”” Meanwhile, outside the barn and down a couple of booths, Al the giant gator, Thimble the miniature horse, and Harley the unbelievablylarge pig, sat alone and ignored. “It’s a little slow,” said Leo, sitting at the booth titled “Could This Be The World's Smallest Horse?” Strangely, he rarely is asked that question. Apparentlythe answer is no. “The Guiness Book of World Records says there’s onethesize of a chicken,” Leo said Across the way, in the giant gatorexhibit, fairgeer “Virginia” got an eyefulof Al. ‘I've never seen one before, I'm from West Virginia and we don’t have gators then laid down, up again, down. The crowd grew anxious, then impatient, then plain bored, Half of themleft before Millie deliv. ered. “How long doesit usually take?” Michelle Seamons, 44, Salt Lake City, asked a person she assumed knew the answer. “It was fun for a while,” seid her friend, Yvonne King, 43, “but it’s taking too long.”’ Eleven minutes after they left, Millie delivered ‘Willie.’ The 70-pound male calf is the newestattraction at the Utah State Fair, there,” she said. Asked what she thought of which runs through Sept. 17. pay to see him. “This ain't no beauty contest,” he said. Back in the barn, as the minutes ticked by, the crowd continued to grow. Millie looked bemused. The wait grew longer. She got up, @ See MANDATORY,B-3 ‘Inspector Gadget’ Teen Didn’t Intend to Kill, Builds Tiny ‘Bugs’ To Track Thieves ButStill Faces Murder Trial By Brian Maffly THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE Prosecutors have all but conceded Dino Jones did not intend to kill when he fired a buliet through his friend's head while By Robert Kirby SPECIAL TO THE TRIBUNE PROVO — Last year, the owner of a Provo eiectronics business called police after he found what he thought was 2 bombin a stereo he was repairing. When the bomb squad examined the device, consisting of tape wrapped aroundtwo batteries sprouting wires, one of the officers thought, “Wait a minute, maybe this one of Patterson’s bugs.” He was referring to Utah County sheriff's Sgt. Lacty Patterson, known in policecircles as “Inspector Gadget” for the array of electronic tracking devices he builds to nab criminals. Called to the scene, Patterson confirmed that the device wus indeed a transmitter he had planted in the stereo recently and had notyet tracked. Patterson got the name of the custcraer wholeft the stereo for repairs and arrested the man, who was charged with felony theft. In the past 12 years, Patterson’s transmitters or “bugs,” have helped pelice collar more than 600 felons whose crimes include theft, burglary and rape. Patterson makes tracking bugs smail enough to ecncealin skis, televisions, saddles, guns, VORs,stereos, and, in one case, a pair of women’s high heels. Hethen leaves the items in a vehicle in a public area where thefts have become a problem andlets human nature take its course. “J've learned that everyone has a greed gland,” demonstrating a gang-initiation rite. But the 17-year-old Arizona boy harbored something just as criminal — “depraved indifference” —- toward the life of GorTony Yapias “Everyone has a greed gland,” says Sgt. Larry Patterson, who makes devicesto track pilferers. don Kee, says Deputy Salt Lake County District Attorney Ann Boyden. That makes the Oct. 1 shooting at Kee’s Salt Lake City apartment Patterson said. “Everyone wants something for nothing, even peopie you wouldn't think capable of ste aling.”” Patterson says the people he goes after will only steal something when they're absolutely sure no one is watching, unlike the career criminal whose actions are more brazen. “Sometimes the items will sit there for a while,” Patterson said. ‘Other limes they'll be gone in a few minutes,” Once the stolen property is located, he arrests the thief or gets a search warrant. if he locates an item with several people present Bt tH See BUGS, Page B-8 worthy of first-degree-felony murder charges, she said at Jones’ preliminary hearing Aug. 223 On Thursday, 3rd Circuit Judge Robin Reese agreed and ordered Jones to facetrial for criminal homicide, which carries a life sentence upon conviction. Jones, certified by juvenile court for adult prosecution, claims ne thought his semiautomatic 9mm Smith & Wesson was unloaded and the safety was on. “This is a very unfortunate and tragic accident,” defender Mark Moffatsaid. “The clip of that gua is in and out all night long. They were on friendly terms. When {the gun] discharged it was as mucha surprise to Dino asit was to anybody.” On the Friday evening before he was shot, Kee, 15, wasvisiting with teen-agefriends ai his home, 870 E. 500 South, when Jones arrived, testified Kee’s friend Jonathan Wiiliams. Jones, an acquaintance of <ee’s, had moved to Arizona and wasin Salt Lake visiling family. “He showed us his gun in his waistband,” testified Williams, 17. “He pulled the clip out and handed the gun to everyone.” That evening, the teens got drunk on St. Ides malt liquor and Jones was seen smoking crack cocaine. As they walked around the neighberhood, Jones repeatedly pulled out his weapon and worked the action, Williamssaid, lot, he “stuck the toward Gor- don’s head aabald, ‘You 2 W See JUVENILE,Bt _ ¥ ; |
