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Show THE UNIVERSITY JOURNAL• SOUTIIERN UTAH UNIVERSITY• WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1995 UTAH DIGEST Lawrimore, 36, ancfhis son, Richard Dan Lawrimore, 18, were booked into the Salt Lake County Jail for investigation of armed robbery and attempted homicide. The Statehood Centennial Commission unveiled robbery began shortly after three Arby's its plans for celebrating Utah's 100th employees closed for business around birthday, the promise was made that no tax dollars would be used. Now, the commission midnight Tuesday. The suspects, armed with knives and a gun, allegedly approached the says it needs $500,000 to defray the trio, ordering them back inside the centennial's costs. "Five-hundred thousand, restaurant, said Sgt. Jim Potter. Joe Hare was frankly speaking, at a time when the state ordered to lie down by the older man, and can afford it, is not too much to ask," said the gunman kneeled on his back and put a Rep. Jordan Tanner, R-Provo, a member of gun to Hare's head, Potter said. Meantime, the commission. Tanner said tax dollars are the younger robber forced the female needed after all because special i::entennial employees to take off their clothes so they license plates have not sold as well as the couldn't run away, Potter said. It was about commission had hoped. "We are in for an that time Hare began to panic and struggled absolutely wonderful year of noting our with the older bandit. During the fight, Hare statehood centennial," Tanner said. "We was shot and stabbed several of times. need to come together and support this propo~;·.l." Gov. Mike Leavitt " is not adverse Despite his injuries, he threw a table through the restaurant's northeast comer to some state funding," according to his window, following it through the shattered spokeswoman, Vicki Varela. She said it's unlikely that enough money will be raised to glass and running to a neighboring gas station, where he asked for help. pay the party tab otherwise. So far, no tax "Meanwhile ... the son, apologizing as he did dollars for the commission are included in it, proceeds to slit the throats of the girls," the governor's budget. Potter said.The women were still able to drive themselves to St. Mark's Hospital after FATHER..,, SON ARRESTED IN the robbers left.Chantel Mann, 23, and BLOOD 1 RESTAURANT Charee Hoppal, 20 were listed in fair ROBBERY: A father and son were · condition at St. Mark's Hospital.Hare, 24, arrested after one employee of was shot and was flown by helicopter to the University of stabbed and two women workers cut on Utah Health Sciences Center, where he was their necks during a robbery at an east Salt in serious but stable condition following Lake fastfood restaurant. Richard Leamon surgery. CENTENNIAL PANEL WANTS $500 000 IN STATE AID FOR CELEBRATION BILLS: When the THE STATE First Security predicts growth, stability in '96 SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - Utah should once again lead the country with gains in population, growth in personal income and new jobs, according to predictions at First Security Corp.'s 28th annual economic symposium yesterday. "Utah's 1996 economic outlook remains excellent," said Kelly K. Mathews, First Security's chief economist. Low interest rates will help sustain home building, which will mean strong consumer durable goods purchases. Spencer F. Eccles, First Security's chairman and chief executive, said the "soft landing>' for the economy in 1995 will continue this year, boosting U.S. business prospects. "With low interest rates, low inflation and only modest growth, those businesses most successfully combining excellent customer service with cost efficiency and employee productivity will be generously rewarded," Eccles said. First Security's specific forecasts for Utah's economy in 1996 include: • The state's population will increase 42,000, or 2.1 percent, to 2.01 million. • Personal income will increase 9.2 percent to $39. l billion, following a similar 9.4 percent increase in 1995. • Non-farm jobs will increase by 46,000, 5.1 percent. Last year, there was a 5. 7 percent increase in such jobs. •Utah's unemployment rate is expected to average 3.4 percent in 1996, unchanged from 1995. • Building permits for new single-family homes are forecast to increase 550 units, or 4.2 percent, for a total of 13,750 homes in 1996. Total construction value in 1996 is expected to top $4.4 billion, up 47 percent over 1995. •Taxable retail sales are expected to rise 8.5 percent, slightly slower than last year's 8.9 percent increase. - - - - - - - - - - - - - i[ TH~ATIO~JI~ Court OKs Clinton sex harassment case U.S. DIGEST CABIN FEVER STRIKES EAST: Crews digging the East out after the Blizzard of '96 piled the snow 15 feet high or dumped it by the truckload into rivers Tuesday as cabin fever set in among idled workers and snowbound children. "For the first time in my life I felt like a prisoner. You couldn't leave, you were a hostage here, a hostage to the weather," said Jim Vans tone, a traveler from Montreal stuck for two days at Newark International Airport in New Jersey. More than 85 deaths were blamed on the storm that paralyzed much of the East under l 1/2 to 3 feet of snow. In New York, airline flights began arriving and taking off again as runways were cleared of snowdrifts up to 20 feet high. Frustrated commuters elbowed for space on the few suburban trains running. SCHOOL BUS DRIVER CRASHES, KILLING SELF, INJURING 37 CHILDREN: A school bus driver with 39 students aboard drove yesterday into the path of a semitrailer truck at a slippery Green Bay, Wisc., intersection, killing himself and sending 37 children to hospitals. The children suffered wounds ranging from head injuries and broken bones to cuts and bruises. Eight were admitted to hospitals, including one in critical condition. Police Capt. Glenn Matzke said the bus driver, 60-year-old Richard Winters, may not have yielded to the truck or stopped for a stop sign. CLINTON VETOES WELFARE OVERHAUL BILL: President Clinton, just as he promised, yesterday vetoed a Republican plan to overhaul the nation's primary welfare programs and end the federal guarantee of aid to the poor. The House and Senate passed the bill the week before Christmas, but by margins less than the two-thirds majorities needed in each house to override the president's veto. The sweeping rewrite of the nation's 60-year-old federal welfare system would replace federal guarantees to the Aid to Families with Dependent Children program with block grants that could be used by the states to fashion their own welfare plans. I WASHINGTON (AP) - An Arkansas sexual Clinton has denied ever having an encounter harassment case against President Clinton can with Jones, and has said he cannot recall whether or not he ever met her. Bennett has go to trial, a federal appeals court ruled tried to have the case dismissed on grounds of yesterday, setting the stage for a Supreme Court battle. presidential immunity. Clinton's attorney argued that Clinton should In a statement, Gilbert Davis, one of Jones' not be questioned under oath on attorneys, said his client was "very pleased" with yesterday's ruling. such matters while serving as "This goes beyond the parties in the president. But an appeals panel in St. Louis decided on a 2- 1 vote that the case because it stands on the case brought by a former Arkansas proposition that no one is above the state employee, Paula Jones, can law," Davis said. proceed. He said the next step - barring "The president, like all other any further legal delays - would be government officials, is subject to taking sworn statements from the same laws that apply to all other Clinton and a former Arkansas state members of our society," the court trooper that Jones has alleged first told her that Clinton was interested ruled. A sitting president is not immune from civil suits for his in meeting her in the private hotel unofficial acts." suite. "Obviously, we're a little Bennett argued in September that disappointed, but there was a very Paula Jones letting the Jones' case proceed - - -- - - - -- - would set the precedent of exposing strong dissenting opinion ... which we believe the Supreme Court will sitting presidents to lawsuits by follow, assuming it takes the case," said Robert anyone who disagrees with their policies. In Bennett, Clinton's attorney. addition, Benn ett has contended that the If the top court did agree to take the case, lawsuit would unfairly distract Clinton from the there's virtually no chance a trial would start performance of his official duties - an argument often employed by government before the 1996 election. The Supreme Court officials to avoid testifying in civil proceedings. would not hear arguments until October at the But Davis, Jones' attorney, has asserted that earliest, and a decision would not be expected until sometime next year. his client is due the same rights to a fair and Jones, a former Arkansas employee, alleges speedy trial as anyone else - whoever the that Clinton sexually harassed her during an defendant is. Bennett has two weeks to appeal the threeencounter in a Little Rock hotel suite in 1991. judge panel's decision by asking the full 8th She has said she rejected Clinton's suggestion that they engage in sex. Circuit court to consider the matter. 11 |