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Show P16 TheSalt Lake Tribune UTAH CENTENNIAL January28, 1996 NewCentury: Fledgling State Grows Up @ FromPrevious Page Park on 900 South and West Templein Salt Lake nation, a monster was loose. A psychopath named Theodore Robert Bundy was murdering women and girls in a homicidal odyssey across the United States. The handsome one-time law student is believed to have assaulted, rapedand killedat least 36 victims in shington. Colorado, Utah and Florida before he was ¢a ght His arrest in Granger, Utah, ona traffic violation ultimately led to charges of attempted kidnapping. City: then Derks Field (named for Tribune sports andauthorities began to peel away thelayersof his editor John C. Derks) at 1300 South and West Tem- depraved forays. (Heconfessedto killing eight Utah women, but noneof the bodies were ever found.) ple would play host to teams knownas the Bees. the Padres and the Gulls. In 1987. the national spotlight turned on a Pioneer League rookie team known as the Salt Lake Trappers. league recc one season who established a minor- winning 29 consecutive games in Derks gave way to Franklin Quest Field. a city funded $20million facility housing the Triple-A Salt Lake Bu baseball's refugee from Portland) owned by Joe Buzas. In 1994, the team’s first year Utah fans set a Pacific Coast Lea attendance re. cord of 715.000 GYMNASIUM AAP AP HEALTH = SrortT Ss Originally located on the block just East of Temple Square the Historic Deseret Gymnasium was completed in 1910 under the direction of Joseph F. Smith, sixth president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. savage spree in which two college womenand a 12r-old child werekilled. Bundy, after a sensational rt trial, was sentencedandexecuted in Florida's electric chair on Jan. 24. 1989, 10 years afterhis conviction And there was the owlish Mark W. Hofmann, re- turned Mormon missionary and rare-book and manuscript dealer, who killed two people with homemade bombsto coverhis tracks in a document scam. He mishandleda third bomb and almost killed himself. His nefarious schemes involved rare books Salt Palaceon Sept. 2¢ and attended by more than 13,000 faithful. It the LDS Church. Hofmann flummoxed document experts, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the highest Mormonauthorities, scholars, businessmen d ted by Bishop memoratedthe advent of the 1776 Dominguez-Esca: lante expedition from Santa Fe into what is now Utah 1978. the LDS Church struck down a 148-year-oldpolicy excluding blacks from its priest hood, the result of a “revelation from God.” letter to church leaders from President Spencer W. Kim ball and his two counselors, N. Eldon Tanner and and manuscripts, items of historical significance to and historians before he was unmasked as a forger. thief. confidence man extraordinaire and killer. inte st, trial andlast-minute plea bargain made onal headlines. The baby-faced criminal forever tainted the field of historical documents with his deceits. He currently is serving a life sentence at Utah State Prison for the two bomb mur- Marion G, Romney, noted that for some time members of the church had been expecting such an an nouncement, and that it had comeafter many hours ders of supplication for divine guidance to just that ef widespread flooding and earthflows in Utah in the mid-1980s. The wet spell also causedthe Great Salt fect. Accordingly. “all worthy male members ofthe church maybe ordainedto the priesthood without As Utahgrappled with growing pains, a more sinister element of its history could not be ignored. The bad menof this century were discovering new ways to horrify and outrage society In 1976, Gary Mark Gilmore, a troubled, self-de structive parole felon with 13 years in reform schools andprisons underhis belt, journeyed to Pro in 1965 under the direction of President David O. Mckay. Lake to rise to a modernhistoric high of 4,211.85 evaporation ponds of two mineral-extraction companies, forced Southern Pacific and UnionPacific rail roads to raise andreinforcetheir tracks and threat enedto spill over Interstates 80 and 15. Utah spent $60 million to build giant pumps to transport excess waters to the barren west desert. The pumpsstarted operating in 1986, just about the time the weather reverseditself and a drought loweredthelake level yo to find himself. In so doing, he robbed and killed significantly on its own and fouryearslater thefinal segment of I-15 linked the state to the massivetransportation network that Thirty-six-vear-old Gilmore challenged Utah to make goodits threats to put him to death: “Firing squad,” said he, “I did it and I deserve to die. Kill me if you havethe guts or let me go! And thus began a bizarre legal battle waged by capital-punishment opponents to save Gilmore from himself, in spite of himself measureof the law from Gilmore, the first to be executed in a decade. The aftershock was great Books were written, movies made and strident voices cried “Murder, most foul,” After a few months, the furor spent itself While the Gilmore charade was playing out the For membership information, personalized tours, or general admission, we invite you to visit our newly remodeled facility or give us a call. 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