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Show Knievel makesit across canyon Daredevil breaks his owndis By MICHELLE RUSHLO. Assocuated Press Writer Knievel soared 55 feet into the vair over the 200-foot-wide gorge at 90 mph onanordinary Unotorcycle. , Officials said Knievel tr 228 fe t, record in televised stunt eclipsing ite record he set in Panama City, .Fla., in the early 1990s, after clearing the landing ramp, coming to rest ina cloud of dust in hay bales set up to cushiona fall, “I'm wiped out in the head a little,” Knievel said He was examined by para- muchFox paid him “You're talking about one of the seven wondersofthe world, and I want to do it,” Knievel, medics, who applied a neck brace and placed him ona gur- ney. He was flown byhelicopter to University Medical Centerin Las Vegas for an examination. ‘The jump was televised live by Fox on the East Coast for tape-delay airing later Thursday night in the rest of the country. Knievel, 37, the son of dare- If he failed, Knievel risked plunging 2,500 feet to the canyon floor on the Hualapai minute because of wind and cold weather, Conditions were much better this time, with clear skies, lighter wind and warm temperatures. Knievel tumbledoff the bike GRAND CANYON WES Ariz Motoreyele dar Robbie Knie: cleared a sliver of the Grand Canyon on ‘Thursday, breaking his world record of 23° feet with room to spare. ireworks erupted and a crowd of about 500 cheered as led ance Indian Reservation, west of Grand Canyon National Park. devil Evel Knievel, attempted the same jump on April 29 but it was canceled at the last Knievel would not say how the son of Evel Knievel, said earlier this week. “Everyonehas acalling, has to make a living. I'mnot trying to kill myself. 1 don't have a death wish,” he said. “If you makethe jumps andstayalive. it’s all worthit. Knievel refused to wear a parachute, saying it would weigh him down and push him off balance. chute thwarted Evel Knieve! 's attempt to cross the “Everyonehasa calling, has to make a living. I’m not trying to kill myself. I don’t have a death wish. If you make the jumps andstayalive,it’s all worthit.” enonble Knievel Snake River Canyon in Idaho in 1974, It deployedtooearly as hetried to makethe 1,800-foot jump in a rocket, The elder Knievel was fishedoff the bot- tomofthe canyon byhelicopter but suffered only minor injuries His son achieved notorietyin April 1989byjumpingthe foun- tains at Caesars Ps in Las: Vegas, a stunt that nearly killed Evel Knievel 21 years earlier. Rural counties losing money over new airline tax * SALT LAKE CITY (AP) Some rural counties are hurting from a courteriing Constitution to get back the andnowit i airline taxes or raise revenues through newtaxes or new tax and takeoffs — most of which 1 on Jandin, The owner of a $150,000 takeplace at the Salt LakeCity International Airport. that took away their tax rev: formulas. head more than $8 million to Salt LakeCity and the city’s school Steve Allred, an attorney for Salt Lake City. “This is value district, which beganfive years the court has decided should have always been given to the enue from airliners flying over At the: ame time, some also are su ring from a declinein revenue from oil and gas The airline ruling will mean ago to dispute the Utah Tax Commission's formula for dis “This is not a windfall,” said Some counties are reclee their property-tax limits, s Morgan County Attorney Kelly tributing the revenue. city and theschool district.” All that was done here was ‘Thetax used to be based on the miles airlines flew over correct a wrong that has been longstanding,” Allred told the Wright, representing the Utah each county on their way to Association of Counties. andfrom thestate's large airports. A state Supreme Court ruling earlier this month deemed that formula unconstitutional Legi lature’s Interim Revenue and Taxation Committee, The change means $14 tax cut for the average ownerofa taxes. He told legislators Wednesday that theassociation is considering whether to recommend changing the state $150,000 property in Salt Lak City. SALT LAKE casier for news organizations to get Oremdied May ‘Y MORTUARIES | Spanish Fork ® Provo * Payson * Orem! CITY “confidential” docu- ments filed in lawsuit sing the software giant predatory. business. pr "Serving our Families and the Community" yden Angelyn Quiring died May 17. 1999. A viewing for family nd friends will be held Friday, May 0999; Instead, Salt rdine, Lake lawyer James repres enting Microsoft, agreed to provide a n Boyce will it whether can released after reviewing it for trade secrets or proprietary the support of Calder Inc. of Orem, which is suing (Microsoft forpricing and marketing tactics it 187 S. Main, Spanish Fork Friends may eall Friday morning m 9 0 10:45 a.m, prior to theservices at the mortuary R, Theona Hall Jackson {Microsoft's MS-DOS. Both systems enable per sonal computers to perform basicfunctions. Microsoft has managed to keep mi ay documents, includ ing deposition tr nscripts, sealed under a broad court order in the three-y ear-old case. Since February, however, the company has had to get Boyce’s permission to file documents undera court seal At i sue are documents { sealed before then and any : future papers Microsoft may tryto seal. Boye id fede ] court has four boxes of “very boring” sealed documents and “if a , newspaper wants to print + them, that’s fine. It'll drive themright out of business.” he served in many capacities in the LDS Church ineludiny: 310 the ward Relief Society room 9:48 10:45 a.m, prior totheservices, DEATH NOTICES Leola Estelle Scott Hop Stewart, age 96, of mis: missionto the Sioux people in South Dakota and a also served with her Provo died May 9 pending and announced by Berg Mortuary OBITUARY ' FEES The Daily Herald charges for obituaries, Death notices, brief items identifying the deceased and the funeral home involved, however, run free of charge and must be placed by the funeral home ‘Temple hus! Mission Wo for Wilford Leshe (Les) Neves, known by his boyhood: friend Putty beloved husband, father, grandfather great-grandfather, brother, uncle, and friend, went home to his Heavenly Parents on May 18.1999) He is survived by wife, Gloria Gay Nutiall Neves, 12 chil three great children, th sisters and is pre coded in death by his parents, thre done grandson gle Scout, BYU 4p ad, and. air combat soldier inthe Pacific of World War Il, he was an She was horn information call 344-2533 DEADLINES Tuesday -Saturday 4:30 p.m. Day before publication. Sunday: 12:30 p.m. on Saturday Monday: 12:30 p.m. on Sunday Photo deadlines sameas above Funeral services will be held Saturday May 2 , 1999 at 10 acm, in the Oren Park Sth Ward Chapel, 1148. 100 West, Orem, Friends may call Vriday May 21, 1999 from6to 8 p.m. at Sundberg-Olpin Mortuary, 4958, State Street, Orem, andfrom9 to 9:45 a.m., prior the services at the wardchapel Interment will be in the City Cemetery Spanish Fork retive member of the LDS Chureh serv- Inge in numerous callin, family history m ‘ay anordinance worker at the St. George and Mount ‘Timpanogos Temples Funeral se will be held Saturday, May 22, 19 at 2 p.m at the Highland 15th/1sth Ward Chape W., Country Club Drive, Highland Friends may call Friday evening from 6 to 8 pan, at Olpin Family Mort services, Buri rove City Cemetery Military rites will be conducted by District IV of the Vote ‘ans of Foreign Wars. aday passed by that the world was not better bee ¢ this man, hum he was, hadlived Nathaniel ble Hawthorne Utahna Pace Jones Utahna Pace Jones, age 79, of Spanish Fork passed away ‘Thursday, May 20, 1999, at her daughter's home in Scofield. For further ly Queen n Angel to rth, and valiant nos Wilford Leslie (Les) Neves The Daily Herald obituary rates are asfollows: $15.10 per column. inch and $7.00 per picture, for each publication. & years in theLos Ange s Temple She lor hor daughter, son, and all of her grandchildren. Sho wa fondly passed claims i destroyed public demand for an operating system Sghat competed against 2 DR-DOS all who knew her here on ter solem will surely be withthos mple ‘an angel ta’ all tivape in the heavens in the Washington D.C. Temple She be business information The disclosure request had Carpenter in a.m. in the Walker Mortuary Chapel. ervices will be held on Friday, May on her husband, Wiley Marvin ‘onestake mission, one member locator 21, 1999 at 11 a.m, in the by all the grandchildren, and jreat 4 Dorothy was al before comingto this organizations to decide which documents they would like to see. If Microsoft: refuses to turn rule Arlington, Kan. 1999, in Lehi, Funeral Se vices. will be held I May 21, 1999 at 11 Fork 12th Ward Chapel Center. Friends may call called " many loved Survivors include he husbandof 63 years, her daughter, Dolor Richardson, (Ron) of Orem, her son Richard Carpenter Ganet) of vkan Washinton, enght grandchildrenand15 great yrandehildren. eded in death by her brother, Spoor. jovember 3, 800 North, Orem away May 18, 1999 in Provo, Funeral over a document, ment system for welfare recipients were not inclined to request an audit of the programat this time, Officials with the Department of Workforce Services acknowledged the Child Care Cash Out program, anelectronic cash transfer program, has suffered a series of “inadvertent errors” and lacks consistent oversight. But the agency is working diligently on the problems, and can solve them internally, spokesman Mason Bishop told the Workforce Services Interim Committee Wednesday. “Wewill fully admit to you wehavenot as crisply implemented the program statewide as we should. The problems are from office to office,” Bishop said. “But our suggestionis let’s continue to work with the providers and within the department to solve them.” Licensed child-care providers have arguedfor nearly a year that the program, which’ pays parents on public stance directly for their child care costs, is run so loosely as to encourage fraud. Under the system, DWS deposits a set amountof money in aclient's electronic account each month, where payments. can be withdrawn. DWS requires receipts from clients, but child care providers said some of the receipts are falsi- She marriedBill B. Jones on danuary 31, 1947, inLas Veg He died September 14, 1996. Utahna attended schools in Burley, Idaho, and SpanishFork. She graduatedfromSpanish Fork High School in 1938. She was a devoted ranchingpart ner to er husband for 49 years both in Scofield and Spanish Fork. Sheloved to sew for her children and grandchil- dren. She enjoyed photography and took numerouspictures of her family Shewas a member of The Chureh of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. She was baptizedin Burley, Idaho, and was sealed to her husband September 30, 1998, in the Provo LDS emple. Utahnais survived by her children: Jand B, (Suzanne) Jones of Spanish Fork; and Judy (Grant) Si ith of Scofield; eight grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her husband. e held on 99, at 11 a.m. in the Walker Mort ary Chapel, 187 S. Main,Spanish Fork Friends andfam: ily may call at the mortuary on Saturday onehour prior to the services. Burial will he in the Spanish Fork City Cemetery. hey. also said the sbite encourages welfare recipients to seek cheaper, unlicensed care, which may be hazardous to children. : Until July 1998, providers participating in the subsidy program were reimbursed directly by the state. That changed last year, when DWS adopted a stance of allowing recipients more choice and involvement in choosing thejr ownchild care provider: “But there is a differenge here,” said Lisa Palmer, BNae of a West Valley City child care center. “This is taxpayers’ money, and we should have a say in where the moneygoes.” * , a' Enrollment in commercial care centers in the last day year has plummeted 40 percent. The decrease is a survival issue for many centers, which mustprovethat at least 25 percent of their children are subsidized in order to pafticipate in a federal food Program. While child care providéts are anxiousfor the legislatife auditor to take up the issuk, lawmakers veered away fram that suggestion. They agreed to discuss the issuein future com- mittee meetings. “I wouldlike tos eanaudit, but not immediately,” said Rep. Sheryl Allen, R-Bountiful. P: lot of attentionto legislative audits, and I would use one a guide to the larger in child care we keep revisiting licensing, cost, quality of fied. DwaineF. Williams rs ago in their ward with ones andfr ds, was born to 10: enough for news list specific her daughter; Dolores Richardson, the Walker Sanderson Func 646 EB. documents. 20, 1999, at the home of She married he Salt Lake Tribune, San services will follow at 11 a.m, in the Jose (Ca.) Mercury News and Orem City Cemetery, 1520 N. 800 Bloomberg Business News Thursday asked federal Max Larsenpassed away May 18, Ate Ronald Boyee to unseal us many as 40 pretrial exhibits and some 50 other sealed or heavily blac ed-out SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Legislators hearing arguments over a controversial child-care Dorothy Spoor Carpenter Dorothy Etta Spoor Carpenter85, of see documents Microsoft Corp. will make it suffers from errors OBITUARIES Microsoft may allow media to ‘The Associated Press property in Duchesne County can expect to pay $82 more tax because of the airline ruling and another $171 for the oil and-gas decline for a total tax hike of $253. The combinedtax increase would be $147 in San Juan County and $127 in Uintah County. Taxing districts within Grand, Iron, Uintah nd Jashington counties will gain roughly $177,000 from the changeintheairline-tax distribution Averagetaxes in 19 counties will go up because of the a line-tax ruling. Child care cash plan Dwaine F. Williams, born June16, 1921, in Vineyard to Frank H. and Ella Aston Williams, passed away ‘Thursday, May 20, 99, in American Fork, Hewas raised in Vineyard, School in 1939, He joined the 145th Infantry Division in April, 1940, after the outbreak of World WarIT served with the h Field Artillery Division in the Western Pacific, receiving anhonorable discharge October, 194: He married Lorraine Hansen, his high school sweetheart, November 13, the Salt Lake Temple. ated their 50th wedding anniversary in 1995. He worked construction with United Construction Companyon the Aqueduct Tunnel associated with Deer Creek Dam. He also worked for Oakland Construction. He went to work for Brigham Young University as supervisorof thecarpenter shop in the Physical Plant facility. Heretired August 31, 1983, after SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Thetrial of a Millcreek man charged with suffocating his girlfriend's child has been postponed. Steven D. Ahlstrom, 31; tis charged nan Orereranl ating from Lincoln High in Trial delayed for man accused of killing baby yearsofserv: ice, Heenjoyedhis special high school ‘crowd”right uptothetimeofhis pass ing. He was also anactive member of the Utah Whistle Stops and Roadrunner Good Sam Chapters, ma ing many dear friends. At thetimeof his death he was a High Priest in the Windsor Ist Ward, Windsor Stake, survived by his wife Lorraine, children: Lynn D. (Pat) Williams, Sharleen (Dick) Allen, and Annella (Mike) Carter of Orem, Tom (Carol) Williams of American Fork. He leaves a legacy of 13 grandchildren and nine greatgrandchildren. Heis also kurvived by a ister, Bernice (Alma) Hansen of American Fork, and a brother, Max K. (Trudy) Williams of Spanway, Wash. He was preceded in death by his parents and one sister Margie (Margo) Tucker. Funeral Services will be held with second-degree felony child abuse homicide in the Jan. 5, 1998 death of 16month-old Deverl D. Garlick. His trial was scheduled to begin Wednesday. Instead, he told 3rd District Judge L.A. Dever he was dis: satisfied with his defense attorneys, David Mack and Heidi Buchi. “I just want to have a more active role in my defense and know what is going on in my case,” Ahlstromsaid. Still, he said he was ready to proceedwith the trial. But Mack and Buchitold the judge theydid not feel comfort- able going forward with the trial. Judge Dever said he no choice but to assign Ahlstroma new public defender, Scott Williams, and rescheduled the trial for May28. In Augu: 98, Ahlstrom waived a preliminary hearing and pleadednot guilty. Thechild was sleeping in a crib in the same room as Ahlstrom. A 3-year-old child, whoalso was in the room, was unharmed. Prosecutors say the boy's mother found him dead, with a folded blanket wrappedtightly around his head Visit usonline Monday, May24, 1999 at 11 a.m. in the Windsor 1st Ward Chapel, 1300 N. Main St., Orem. 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