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Show SUNDANCEFILM AWARDS & THE WORLD'S BIGGEST STAR / B-1 Utah Centennial CheSalt Lake Cribune 1896-1 Utah's Independent Voice Since 1871] VOLUME 251 NUMBER106 Copyright 1996 aoe January 28, 1996 TODAY'S READERSHIP; 408,300 SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH 8411 Taylor’s Death Was Quick Editor's Note: Tribune reporter Harold Schindler has witnessed five of Utah's 49 executions, including John Albert Taylor's death by firing squadFriday ByHarold Schindler 1996, THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE But Some Weren't So Lucky cution chamber to theinstant that four .30-caliber beenbizarre twists and controversies through the slugs slammedinto Taylor's chest years, If ever John Albert Taylorfelt consuming terror. it would have beenin the agonizing 45 seconds be- thodical, or so fatally efficient. fore a Utah lawofficers: Several condemned men donated their bodies to science, andone 18-year-old sold his for a bag of Barton Kay Kirkh: In June 1958. he bee squad. Hewas the first to will his eyes to a special the other in 1951 Andwhile the condemnedhave been given op- Warden Hank Galetka pulled a hood overthe convicted child-killer’s head and stepped fromthe exe- injection, 40 have died from gunfire. There have ist in California: his body went to the University of Utah. @A prisonercheatedthefiring squad by taking a drug overdose the night before he was to be shot tions of hanging and — in recent years — lethal n > the last prison piano, chatting with reporters and sheriff's monitor his heartbeat during his death by firing squads have bungled two executions — one in 1879 “with everything “Who else orderedpizza? in Utah. Kirkham spent his last hours p! Aninmate allowed an electrocardiograph to firing his life early Friday morning. That the elapsed time from the moment State Prison firing squad snuffed out When Taylor ordered pizzas for his last meal, it struck a chord for some veteran Among candy Not all of Utah's 49 executions have been so me- In fact, including one claim of beheading. the quirks As quicklyas the breath explodedfromhis lungs. it was over. Taylor was dead before the doctor could maketheofficial pronouncement — before witnesses could bring themselves to breathe again ties and eating “pizza and ice cream’ in the pris auditorium The melody Kirkham noodled on the ke yboard was simple. but he could not manage it. “I'll just @ See EXECUTIONER'S, Page A-10 erbs Set Free In 1-Sided Swap COMBINE SERVICES TUZLA, Bosnia-Her zegovina — Responding to intense int ernational pres: sure, the Muslim-led Bosnian government and its Croat allies released hundreds of Bosnian Serb prisoners Saturday. Despite expectations, Bosnian Serb authorities failed to release any of their prisoners. citing technical problems. ‘They did not comy ply,” official Pierre Gauthier Red Cross said of the “I hopethat it will happen to Serbs. morroworin the next few days. rb leaders vowed that it would stressing that their prisons will be emptied ofcaptives from the year re A father hugs a Bosnian Serb POV released in Sarajevo on Saturday Event the Muslims and h ee Doseszh oe ay lir m some of their captive held back reached in Dayton, Oh io, last fall. Unaccord. each of the parties was requiredtorelease all prisoners by Jan. 19 but none com- despite In a meeting Friday between top of ficials of the Mush im-C) roat federation peace accord was signed in Pari month Mirza Hajric. spokesman f der the U.S.-brokered and the BosnianSerb side, the parties again pledgedto set fr ee all captives Len Bayles, a parent volunteer at Hillsdale Elementary School, instructs sixth-graders in the school’s computer lab Reading, ‘Riting and ROMs — Computers Expand The Three R’s, But Utah Schools Still Must Close... Kapos and Samuel A. Autman THE SALT LAKE TRIBUN educational equity: sixth-graders Adri- Computer: all up a math lesson playvideo gamesorevenwrite a research paper using global data bases or pages from the World Wide Web. After all, there is one computer for ev- ery three students in their class at Salt Lake City’s Bennion Elementary School But whenthebell rings, the cyber-con. nection ends for Erika, who has no com puter in her home. Adrienne, however. can log on the minute she walks in her front door, cruise the Internet and use more than 25 different games and pro- Will computers bridgethe gapalready created by race economics, gender and language? Or will it only aggravate what some call techno. logical apartheid? It depends on whomyou ask Computersare theleveler,” says Paul McCarty, principal at Hillsdale Elemen: tary in West Valley City. “They are the equity agent in a school that doesn’t have a PTA that canraiselots of money “Computers areblind to the economic status ofa child. It is where a child who maybehasadisadvantaged homelife and grams For educators in Utah and aroundthe country, Adrienne andErika represent a a child who has everything nagging question about technology and Education Data Inc.. INSIDE To Talk UTAH Du Pont Out come to believe in themselves Yet a 1994 national study by Quality come students and those of color are more likely to have reduced access in the publicschools than those in well-to-do ar- eas. Holed-UpSlay Suspect Has Wealth, ee The organization ranks Utah 21st out COMBINE of 50 states in terms of student-to-com puter ratio — although state funding and business partnerships have improved the ratios dramatically In elementary schools. the ratio has gone from 43-to-1 in 1990 to 13-to-1 in 1994. At the secondary level, the ratio went from 32-to-1 to 9-to-1 Overall, Utah has aratio of 13.3-to-1 compared with the Western-state aver age of 12.7-to-1 But while the number of computers is @ See CYBERGAP, Page A-6 a Denver-based edu NEWTOWN SQUARE, Pa. — Hoping to avoid a shootout Belts: at tried to negotiate by te ley urday with a gun-colle ting fo to who barricad the du Pont ed himself in his mansion after al legedly killing a wrestling coach on his estate. A force of 75 office: rs, including GROWS UP three SWAT teams, surroundedthe mansion on John E. du 1 Pont’s 800: acre este urb fora slaying This special e in this Philadelphia sub. ond day a fter Friday's Massacre Site From Old West Triggers a New Fight ByChristopher Smith THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE homes, use resources and travel freely Numberof Indian Site People Killed* Date graze on the land, dotted with the shells of as it changes the story of what happened here 133 years ago Monday empty houses. piles of mattress springs. old refrigerators and abandoned tractors. It is For morethan a century, it was called the Battle of Bear River. A bronze plaquede- enclosed with a barbed-wire fence. posted No Trespassing scribes a skirmish in which American In dian attacks on peaceful settlers were A Battle Creek resident recently built a squelched by bravesoldiers enduring deep trailer park next to the massacre site. zero. Shosh mi descendants consider sacred They are afraid they will lose the right to snow and temperatures 20 degrees below The encounter between the U.S. FF PDE But some of the 28 landowners who hold title to the site are opposed to any historic preservation, fearful their private-devel opment rights would be restricted. Cattle Army build if the massacre site is protectec and the Northwestern Shoshoni Indian tribe Jan. 29, 1863, nowis labeled by some historians as the bloodiest killing field in If you take one more step,” betweenprivate landowners andpreservationists National Park Service researchers want to preserve the place where 4 orter at the massacre said some 240 slain § hoshonis wereleft “warrior piled on warrior, horses mangled and wounded in every conceivable form, with here and there a w and a papoose \ » Park Service says. Nc ) r displaced fore Plans range from no change to full-blown status, with costs varying from $1 million to $15 million. A new stu property national-park notes it would be the first unit of the park system recognizing “this uncomfortable as: pect of thenation’s history — the massac of wholevillages of American Indians, the knowledge ofthe violence that bought all Ameri icans the right to own’ land, build wn violent and eccen a sort of dalai lama,” te nship Police Chief Michael Mallon saidpe slice knew of Schultz Police Lt. Lee Hunte elected to wait out du than attack for one and protection of Y et tribal members have told the ney th y are allow angry that increased tour the r said police Pont rather on: “We would be endangering thelives of our officers We intendto take as long as it takes to resolve this problem with any other peopl le being injured,” Mallonsaid Du Pont. 57 owns a large ca of weapons andeven military ar out mored personnel car former business mar | id his } said officers and € force with bulletpre oof We do am im | day af predominantly white community of Prestonto “make a buck off W See KILLING SIELD, Page A-9 opened fire tside from y of the W Section P SAvIED snOWniort 4 40s no motive for the shoo! ting death of list Dave gold me Olympic peess mains. WEATHER tric and fancied himself landowner Kathy Griffin told Park Service official last n h. “we get our throats cut Land will be acquiredonly fr illing thehistory of the Old West — the Bear Riv- er Massacre There still is a fight outside the south eastern Idaho town of Preston, this time An: er wants to operate apig farmatopland Pont had tion, the last of four outlines Utak wth fron er to crossroads Although acquaintances said du BATTLECREEK, Idaho — Timecontinues to changethe course of theserpentine BearRiverthroughthis loamy valley. much failure to lib cational-researchfirm, shows that low-in. ByKatherine enneand Erika Serbs’ @ See POWs, Page A Cops Trying The Cybergap Among the Classes the any Prisoner prisoners — Si HAs ays 22 was the largest in one day since plied The Salt I oats th. Ase war by Monday The refusal of the former combatants to release the last of their regis teredprisoners hadbeen the most bla tant violation of the peace agreement © |
