| Show The Salt Lake Tribune p Wednesday May 11 1828 B3 Teachers Pie dged$l to §e e Video Says Expelled Student " By Stephen Hunt Tribune Staff Writer COTTONWOOD HEIGHTS - A Brighton School student permanently suspended from school High for his part in allegedly sexually accosting a school-hal- l monitor and making a video movie of the event says more than 100 students and at least two faculty members knew the incident wa3 going to take place ' The student says 107 students and two faculty members pledged $1 each so they could view the video movie ' Meanwhile Brighton High students are reportedly rallying in support of the three expelled students by making posters and wearing tags protesting the "criminal" treatment of the three The students — two seniors and one junior all state wrestling champions — were suspended after one boy grabbed a male hall monitor in his 50s from behind simulated a sexual act then grabbed the man's genitals sheriffs officers reported A second student filmed the incident with a video camera while others watched including a third student suspended for allegedly helping plan the incident sheriffs officers said But during an interview with the Tribune Tuesday one of the suspended students — an Eagle Scout and state wrestling champion in his weight class — said the incident was meant only as an innocent joke "We were even going to put it in the school Video Year Book" the student said "You could watch that video for family home evening" The student who grabbed the hall monitor had performed a similar simulated sexual act with the monitor on a previous occasion At that time the man laughed it off the youth told the Tribune "We thought he would take it as a joke again" he said The student denied the hall monitor's genitals were touched Following the first incident the hall monitor reportedly County Planners Delay Issuing Permits for xpansion at Hercules By Jack Fenton Tribune Staff Writer Hercules went to the Salt Lake County Planning Commission Tuesday morning hoping to win approval for a $150 million expansion at Bacchus West Ground was scheduled to be broken later in the day To meet deadlines construction was to be underway next month But instead of getting permits Hercules directors answered technical questions for 90 minutes and were told to prepare for more during a special planning commission meeting May 17 It has been two months since Hercules asked for permits to expand to ibuild motors for the Delta II and n IV But the county demanded more information Planners hope !next week's 7 pm session at the county government center 2001 South State will answer those quesTi-ta- tions "We're thinking about public safety personal safety vs economic viability" declared James W Smith planning commission member from Magna ! Still the government must consid- er jobs taxes and other benefits from the $2 billion project Specifically planners wanted to know how an uncontrolled blast would damage housing nearby " Had Hercules considered building new facilities to the south or west away from that housing? '" Planners aiid company officials 'were answering questions last week when explosions leveled a chemical plant at Henderson Nev blowing 'Cars off the road and shattering windows in Las Vegas 17 miles away information from the county's own consultant indicates expansion won't ! mow on CHEECH MARIN J T ULii n 4 i ' lA-- if - "Operations are different" explained Jack McCord Bacchus' safety director "Quantities are different We store it differently We handle it differently We isolate it" Bacchus would use about 400000 pounds of that solvent yearly he noted The Nevada plant produced about 40 million pounds Mr McCord pictured the Nevada plant as using "a lot of ingredients and processes" In contrast the solvent arrives at Hercules as "a solid" and is ground in small batches Steve Harris president of the Magna Area Council that has reservations about expansion quoted statistics saying an explosion at Hercules would have the force of 65000 pounds of TNT n 2000 Enjoy Special to The Tribune PROMONTORY SUMMIT Box Elder County — Some 2000 visitors enjoyed the sun Tuesday during of the 119th anniversary of the driving of the golden spike linking the nation's first transcontinental railroad Jim Dayton international vice president of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers was the featured speaker Terry Holzworth associate director of the county's public works program told a workshop minutes be- fore the hearing that county By Mike Gorrell Tribune Staff Writer Astrology is making news these days and not just because of Nancy Reagan Some people it seems believe the alignment of the planets was going to cause a cataclysmic earthquake in May possibly Tuesday based on the predictions of a doctor known today as Nostradamus Others don't give the idea the slightest bit of credibility Hercules considered different locations assured Bill Janney director of facilities But operations rely heavily on robotics and the vehicles controlled by radio signals "don't climb hills very well" Alternate sites suggested by the planning commission were ruled out because grades are too steep and excavating slopes too costly Mr Janney said 16th-centu- ry Hansen Planetarium officials certainly are skeptical And the founder of the Astrological Society of Utah said "I even have a hard time believ- Canyon hadn't been taken seriously because without a tunnel it would have required fill that would have blocked the road and dammed natural drainage "You can see what a tremendous amount of earth work you would have" Mr Janney said putting that cost at $15 million I ing it" Nonetheless some people did buy the theory and called the planetarium to find out what was going on Patrick Wiggins a planetarium education specialist said he didn't really know so he ran a computer Golden Spike Superintendent Dayton of Dayton Ore said completion of the transcontinental railroad in 1869 was the greatest engineering achievement of the 19th century He said journals of the union from that time say: "From California's mines came a golden spike A spike forged as an expression of appreciation to the workers and citizens of Utah Next a sledgehammer was presented to California Gov Leland Stanford and the last spike was driven" Den- ny Davies told the audience the gold- en spike and the mall used to drive it were wired to a telegraph at the May 10 1869 event so all of the country would be notified at the same time when the spike was driven He said the ceremonial taps on the golden spike sent messages to cities throughout the nation When the spike was driven a ball was held at the nation's capitol whistles were blown in San Francisco and program to pinpoint the location of the planets this time "We found out that the alignment just doesn't exist" Mr Wiggins said "If you were to plot all of the planets on the face of a clock with the sun in the middle Jupiter would be right around 2 o'clock Mercury a little past 3 Venus about 6:30 Earth and Pluto around 7:30 and the remainder around 9" he said "I can point into the sky and show these are not in alignment" Mr Wiggins added "Mars is in the morning sky Venus in the evening sky How can they say they are aligned? It really doesn't make any sense" Part of that may be a result of the writing style employed by Nostradamus which actually is the Latin name for Michel de Notredame a French physician who wrote "Centuries" a series of prophecies in verse in 1555 He became legendary four years later when King Henry II of France died in a manner predicted in the prophecies which are vague and of- - Hearing Set for Suspect in Kearns Killing A June 2 preliminary hearing was set Tuesday for a man accused of killing a pregnant West Valley woman at a Kearns video store while her chil- Caesarian section minutes before she died at a Salt Lake hospital dren watched nary hearing for Mr Hodges' alleged accomplice Raymond Darl Young 34 He is charged with second-degre- e murder for allegedly driving the getaway car and obstructing justice a second-degre- e felony for concealing information from Salt Lake County Sheriff's Deputies Mr Young's attorney Joseph Fratto Jr told Judge McCleve he doubted his client would be ready for the preliminary hearing since he is in St Mark's Hospital following back surgery Third Circuit Judge Sheila set a June 2 prelimi- McCleve also Charles Kenneth Hodges 44 will face a preliminary hearing before 3rd e Circuit Judge Paul Grant on murder and aggravated robbery charges for the April 22 shooting at Video Voyager 5448 S 4220 West Mr Hodges allegedly shot Anna Lee Davis Holmes 31 3845 Grouse Circle in an unprovoked attack while robbing the video store I EJ £12 HOME VIDEO $8395 Give us your tired and poor but keep Cheech Marin That's the hilarious situation the hip comic is faced with when he is accidentally deported to Mexico without ID or knowledge of Spanish and can't convince US officials to let him back in the United States This contemporary comedy is Cheech's first soio film and one of his funniest Reeky ftn Video 1900 West 3500 South WVC 972-0G5- 8 Authorized Distributor: VIDEO TREND INC You win with RIGHT NOW Plus 21 a lush green 69 APR FROM VOLKSWAGEN ON 2 YEAR 3 4 GL FOX 30040 e e lawn with weed-fre- e or 5 YEAR FINANCING LOWER PAYMENTS BEST PRICE IN UTAH BEST SELECTION IN UTAH WAS $8398 Scoffs Turf Builder Plus 2 You win with a lush green weed-frelawn with Scoffs Turf Builder Plus 2 0t ft 6AA f e 10000 5000 Sq Ft Coverage Kmart Sale Price Less Mail-I- Scott s Rebate Your After (fcHfcrttU Kozek J of Driving of Golden Spike ent ltlh You win $w® ways k Nick the Liberty Bell in Philadelphia was ' ' rung Davies said President Ulysses S Grant was notified when the last rail had been laid and last spike driven to end the project that began in Sacramento Calif and St Joseph Mo Delone Bradford Glover president of the Golden Spike Association of Box Elder County was master of cer- emonies Tuesday J Nostradamus a False Prophet of Doom Say Stargazers consultants said the Nevada blast was the equivalent of 500000 pounds of TNT Coon Re-Enactm- fer widely ranging interpretations ( "It's possible" Mr Wiggins conceded "me not being an astrologer-typf- j that I did not understand what Nostradamus was saying But to me it doesn't make any sense" j Sue Apitz is an astrologer But she doesn't put much stock in Nostradamus' predictions either citing their ambivalent nature and the lack of resources which the Frenchman had £o consult "I did a lot of research on earthquakes I find it hard to believe in his prediction" said the founder of the state astrological organization "He didn't have the things to work wi(h that we do" She said numerous charts of trje season and subseasons are needed to predict earthquakes and pointed out that the existence of one planet Pip-t- o wasn't even known when Nostra' damus lived "It was done too long ago" she said "It's bordering on folklore" j No matter Some people find it fascinating hence the calls to the planetarium whose recorded "Starline" i tape debunked the theory Utah Air Committee To Hear Dugway Geneva BP Public proposed settlement in an violation issued to Geneva Steel will be presented Thursday to the Utah Air Conservation Committee The meeting begins at 1:30 pm Jin room 125 of the Martha Hughes Cannon Health Building 288 N 1460 We$t Monte Keller manager of the Utih Bureau of Air Quality's technical evaluation section said the settlement was proposed Tuesday afternoon As a result it was not included on the meeting agenda distributed Jo the public He said terms of the potential settlement are confidential until J presented to the committee Committee members will review the proposed settlement and determine whether they want the air qui-t- y staff to negotiate with the steel J company The proposed settlement involvei a notice of violation the Bureau of Air Quality recently issued to Geneva ?pr an alleged failure to comply with to reduce the amount of "particulate matter" — or dust — Released during the slag coolipg operation Mr Keller said two other items have been added to the agenda One! is a request from the Army for a variance from state air quality regulations to allow them to condtlct "smoke obscuration tests" at Dugway Proving Ground The committee issued a similar variance last year The other is a discussion of BP Minerals' most recent plan to reduce the amount of dust blowing from )ts tailings pond in Magna Mr Keller said interested citizens are invitedto the meeting to express their views on the proposal A Retail a visitors The Mrs Holmes the mother of three gave birth to a fourth daughter by Suggested r marks the 18G9 completion at Promontory Summit of the US transcontinental railroad The weather cooperated Tuesday at the 119th anniversary of the driving of the golden spike watched by some 2000 Comedy Bordering On Insanity J " — pnoto by Tnbunt Correspondent first-degre- A Results of a hearing Tuesday afternoon between the' boys' parents who are appealing the permanent suspend sion and Jordan School District officials were unavaiK able The youths' parents do not condone their sons' actions but feel school officials have blown the issue out of pro- -' portion they say De-Ma- another planning commission suggestion CASSETTE ties No money from people who pledged money ever changed hands he said A large number of Brighton High students apparently sympathize with the three students Half the student body is reportedly wearing paper tags bearing words of support for the three Also dozens of posters and hundreds of ' flyers have been made and distributed around school AM student "sit out" strike was reportedly planned for" Wednesday Die Tribune requested permission to interview students at the school but was denied by Principal Bob Day who said he had seen no evidence of student protest "" change overpressure — winds generated by a blast — Hercules' Jack stressed Tuesday Bacchus' director of public affairs stressed that Pacific Engineering and Production Co of Henderson made a component of the rocket fuel mixed by Hercules Bridging VIDEO began making inquiries into the sexual preference of the student who grabbed him When word got out that the hall monitor suspected the student might be "gay" the student was "dared" by others to perform the act again "He said if he could get $50 he would do it again" the student said "But then everyone wanted to see it and he didn't want people around" That problem was solved when another student proposed recording the event on video tape Names of pledgers were recorded on two pieces of paper The student interviewed by the Tribune said he appears in the video at the beginning as the students searched the hallways for the hall monitor Then he along with about 10 other students watched from inside the school while the other two students grabbed and video taped the hall monitor outside Two other hall monitors were walking beside the victim at the time The three boys later viewed the video at a home but no one else saw it until it was turned over to school authori 1 Net Colt Rebate 1477 -- 400 1077 4DR GL deluxe Interior luel Injection (ront wheel drive 2 Sq Coverage 2900 Rebate 800 Rebate 2100 Your Alter -- Net Cost Plus 2 nourishes lawns while it clears our dandelions and other common e lawn weeds pellet form works in all types of spreaders Turf Builder Easy-to-us- l!U:lY!SabEndsMay14 America's Favorite Store mrQczxi —Eh $9488 $ 4IS? 700 1 70560 H 4 DR Air front wheel drive fuel injection deluxe interior 2 yr 24 warranty end more GL JETTA 40150 power steering 5 ip deluxe interior 4DR front wheel drive fuel injection 2 yr24 werrenty nd more Air YOU SAVE MO $21 55 WAS $12'272 700 s10j988Srjy f $2604 M0 YOU SAVE WAS $14660 GTI 16V r $1340 WAS $10503 GOLF GL Kmart Sale Price Less MalWn Scotts YOU SAVE s12988 5 70090 (unroof alloy wheels deluxe sport Interior recaro style seats 6 sp fuel Infection front wheel drive and more Air YOU SAVE i fiJtjMe If b J1 miii is $3292 H 011 KfaWiiMiiaaSH dust-contr- |
