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Show The Boos Rise lo the Rafters The Salt Lake Tribune, Abuse and Bruises Are All Part Continued From l shins, the shoulders and the ankles at 100 miles per hour, and has climbed wearily into his hotel bed at night with more bruises on his body than a bundle of bananas. But it's a great job, insists Lance, rubbing his sore ankles. Really, it is. Not everybody can do this job. It requires a lot of skill. It requires a certain type of person. Yeah, no kidding. Somebody with Superman's reflexes, Rambo's personality, and the Hulks complexion. Well, you do feel sort of green, sometimes, says Lance. And sometimes, you feel mean. Sometimes you get mad. But you cant let it show. You can't let your emotions take control of the game. You have to be fair and decisive and willing to admit when youve made a mistake. It isnt always easy. You cant phone in sick, with this job. B-- started ice skating in Canada at and a few years later was playthe sport irate peewee hockey He age ing 3, fans still accuse him of playing today. lived and breathed hockey, and I knew I wanted to make a career of it, he said. But I was too small to all the other play professionally players kicked me around. So I got into refereeing. And now I can't quit. It would be like a scientist quitting in the middle of discovering a cancer cure. I love hockey too much. Its in my blood." Sometimes, literally. Well, yeah, you get a little battered in the hockey profession. You it's part get split elbows; split lips of the job. I was a linesman for two years and had to break up plenty of there fights. I never liked to step in are some big boys in hockey. But most of the time, the players break up the fight. I'd say that for every game with a big brawl, there are 30 games without any fighting at all. But the fighting games are the ones that everybody hears about, unfortunately. That's why some people call hockey a violent sport. There is a lot of speed and frustration, but I don't think the game is violent. It's fun. Working for the International Hockey League, he wakes up in a different town every morning, but usually doesn't get to do much sightseeing outside of the airport, hotel and hockey rink. People say I have a glamorous job, and I have to laugh," he said. I spend a lot of time on my own and sometimes, I get lonely. While my friends are drinking beer in the stands at the hockey games at home, Forecast for Th Hoh EST, Mon., Jan. 7 13- Utah Forecast - 30 The high pressure ridge over the western U.S. will give way to a pacific storm system on Tuesday. Until then, cold air will continue to be trapped in the valleys of the northwest. Conditions will be foggy with scattered showers developing by Tuesday morning. Highs in the upper 20s to low 30s, with lows in the teens and low 20s. 70 Temperatures FRONTS: tlljjg w Occluded Warm Showers Snow Ram Flumes NcrtionoJ Cold-- ww Stationary Weottver Service NOAA, U.S. I.ogan , -- 515 - Ogden 2126 Dept, of Commerce Sail Lake City Air Pollution Index liuunliful Suit Lake Provo Ogden 2228 Wendover 2226 Vernal Provo 1130 1955 Moab 2457 2658 Blanding St. George 2154 3268 1 t Area Forecast Monday and Tuesday Salt Lake City, Ogden and Provo Forecast The high pressure ridge over the western U.S. will give way to a pacific storm system on Tuesday. Until then, cold air will continue to be trapped in the valleys of the northwest. The forecast calls for widespread areas of fog continuing In the valleys through today. Fog locally dense with occasional snow grains during the night and morning hours. Fair skies above the fog. The highs will be in the upper 20s to low 30s both days. Overnight lows will be In the teens to lower 20s. Northern Utah Forecast Cache Valley: Conditions will continue to be cold with areas of fog, locally dense during the night and morning hours. Highs will be In the mid-teenwith overnight lows dropping to 5 below. Western Desert and Wasatch Front Widespread fog is expected, locally dense with occasional snow grains. Fair skies are expected above the fog. Highs Overwill be In the upper 20s to mld-30night lows will be In the mid-t- o upper teens. Uinta Basin: Conditions will be generally fair and hazy, with patchy late night and early morning fog. Highs will be in the low 30s. Lows at night In the low teens. Southwest ValSouthern Utah Forecast ley and Sevier Valley: Increasing clouds are expected. Conditions becoming mostly cloudy with widely scattered rain showers Weather Summary Intermountain St. George: Fair and unseasonably warm conditions. Highs near 68, with overnight lows In the mld-30Recreational Areas Canyonlands and Lake Powell: The forecast calls for Increasing clouds tonight with scattered showers on Tuesday. Warmer today but cooler on Tuesday. Highs at Lake Powell will be in Lows In the 30s. Canyonlands the mld-60highs are expected to be In the 50s, with lows likely to be In the 20s. Northern Utah ski areas: Conditions will have Increasing clouds today with moderate southwest winds by afternoon. Widely scattered snow Monday night Increasing Tuesday. Highs at 8,000 ft. will be In the mid-40Overnight lows will be in the upper teens to mid-20Northern Mountains: The region will be fair with breezy southwest winds developing. The afternoon highs will be In the low to mld-40- with nighttime lows in the low to upper 20s. Southern Mountains: Conditions will continue to be fair and mild throughout the perl od. Winds will be breezy from the south west. Highs will be in the upper 40s to low 50s, with nighttime lows dropping into the mid-teen- Extended Forecast for Utoh Wednesday through Friday A pacific Northern and Southern Utah storm system is expected to move out of the Intermountain region on Wednesday. A high pressure ridge over the western U.S. will once ogain dominate the weather for Utah. The forecast colls for areas of rain and snow tapering off on Wednesday. Be coming fair to partly cloudy Thursday and Friday. Highs mostly In the 30s and low 40s, with lows In the teens and 20s. Extended Forecast for Idaho Wednesday through Friday Northern Northern and Southern Idaho Idaho: The region will have a chance of rain or snow showers on Wednesday then dry Thursday and Friday. Afternoon highs will be In the upper 20s and 30s, with lows In the teens to Southern Idaho: Conditions will have a chance of snow showers Wednesday then dry Thursday and Friday. Afternoon high temperatures will be In the 20s to with overnight lows In the teens to mid-20- m!d-30- mld-20- Global Temps Yesterdays Conditions Trace Missing T M developing Rain turning to snow late Tuesday. Chance of measurable precipitation at Cedar City will be 20 percent tonight increasing to 40 percent Tuesday. Highs will be In the upper 40s to low 50s. Overnljht lows will be In the upper teens to mid-20West Carbon County, Castle Valley and Southeast Utah: Mostly sunny, fair days expected throughout the period. A little warmer today. Highs will be In the upper 40s to low 50s. Nighttime temperatures will be in the mld-t- o upper 20s. Utah's Dixie and Yesterdoy's Conditions H L 53 23 Precip Utah Blanding Brigham City Bryce Canyon .... .... Bullfrog Cedar City Coalville Delta Fillmore 17 2 M M 50 M 29 20 35 1 38 38 11 Greenrlver M M Hanksvllle Heber City Helper 53 35 14 2 22 44 Kanab Logan 61 10 Midway Milford Moab Monticello Ogden 30 M 52 4? 25 26 46 Orem Park City Price Provo 49 25 11 Randolph Richfield Roosevelt Salt Lake City Snowbird Spanish Fork St. ... George Tooele Unlv. of Utah Vernal 48 M . .... .... Wendover Zion Nat. Park Nevada ... 25 27 22 69 Reno Wlrmemucca Wyoming Casper Cheyenne .... . Rock Springs Evanston Laramie Idaho Boise Idaho Falls .... ...... 17 38 7 It takes a toll on your personal life I'm divorced and have a daughter I hardly ever see. And I cant talk to anybody about my job because hardly anybody else does what I do. It's great to get together with the linesmen after a game, because they understand how I feel. Nobody does what they do, either." no wonder. The hiss of the skates and the hiss of the crowd is It's just about all a hockey referee hears, when he's whizzing back and forth on the ice. It isn't easy, keeping up with 12 hockey players all fighting to control a frozen piece of rubber, Watching Lance toss a puck into the rink is akin to watching a zoo keeper throw meat to the lions. You have to be fast In this game or miss a call, he says. "I have to right there, with the puck; w' M the players. You have just one second to make a call, or it's too late. I have 86 rules to go by, and I have to know all of them. I watch for hooking, I watch for holding. I watch for tripping, C kneeing, spearing and slashing. Sometimes, the players get upset when I call a penalty on them, but they have to live with it. I always play fair and I hope they know it. The players may know that Lance but the audience doesn't. A woman in Billings, Mont., crocheted Lance an eye chart after her home team lost three games in a row. is a fair referee, "They throw popcorn," said Lance, "and they throw peanuts and beer cans. Ive had darts thrown at me, Ive been spit at, and one guy even Plan Draws Attention Of U.S. Dairymen By Dawn Tracy Tribune Staff Writer Once the government paid farmers not to produce milk to reduce dairy surpluses. Now dairymen will be paid to slaughter entire herds and farmers across the nation are asking about the program. Easterners think it would be great if a few 3,500-codairies in California went on the whole-her- d buyout program. Westerners think it's more likely that dairymen with combination farmdairy operations with less say in the expensive equipment will choose to quit the Midwest dairy business and turn to farming instead. But few experts are making guesses about what dairymen in their own areas will do except to say that farmer interest in the buyout-prograw ers Inc., San Antonio, Texas, the nations largest dairy cooperative, producing 11 percent of the U.S. milk supply. Mr. Eskin said AMPI leaders are concerned about what will happen to the nations surplus when the whole-her- d buyout program is over. Farmers most likely to participate will be dairymen close to retirement age and farmers with financial problems, he said. Bruce Snow, Dairylea Cooperative Inc., New York, said another group of dairy farmers considering the program are those planning to submit high bids for the government to buy them out and then wait to see if the price is right. Mr. Snow added, however, that the government isnt likely to accept highest allowable bids of 310 per hundredweight. Sam McCroskey, Dairymen Inc., Missouri, the nations second-large- st dairy cooperative, said all categories of dairymen are considering the buyout program. Im guessing that heavier produc er participation will be in more eco- nomically distressed areas, perhaps in the Midwest grain states," he said. Farmers there are probably more distressed than say, a southwest Missouri farmer. In Utah, Joseph Hill, a Kaysville dairyman and president of Milk Producers Association, said he knows farmers who are talking seriously about getting out of dairying. He said some fanners have stayed in business because up to now no one was willing to buy them out. The government must get 12 billion pounds of milk out of production to solve the surplus problem, said Mr. Hill. That may be tough to do because many farmers won't want to have their facilities sitting around for the required three to five year time period theyd have to stay out of production. But its difficult to say what farmers will do until after they find out what the regulations will be. booked. The man, whose identity is being withheld pending notification of next of kin, was listed in critical condition at LDS Hospital after the suicide attempt. A jail trustee found the man hanging in an isolated cell less than three hours after he was booked into the jail on charges of passing forged prescriptions, said jail Lt. Elray Dow of the Salt Lake County Sheriffs Office. He was arrested by Salt Lake City police at LDS Hospital Sunday morning after overdosing on pills Saturday in a hospital restroom. Admitted to the hospital for treat 11 20 22 12 13 20 Daily Data M 22 29 8 29 9 16 5 19 44 48 49 40 51 31 33 53 21 30 9 17 11 74 22 6 0 26 1 M M 35 16 .02 Note: This Information Is received aoily from the National Weather Service at the Salt Lake International Airport. Preclplta tlon readings and temperatures are those recorded at the airport. Yesterday's Weather Data 0.02, Precipitation 0.25 Vreclpltatlon In January Accumulative deflcency 0.25 1985 5.91 Precipitation since Oct. 1, 1.68 Accumulative excess Utah high 69 at Zion Natl 14 at Trenton, Utoh low S.L.C. high 27 degrees, S.L.C. low 22 degrees, 37 degrees. Normal high for this date 19 degrees. Normal low for this date 60 degrees, Record high for this date 18 degrees, Recoi d low for this date - 7:51 MST Sunrise Today Sunset Today 5:73 MST, Utoh Agriculture Forecast: Fair with con tlnulng haze ond fog mainly late night and early morning hours. Continued From l el in secrecy although they are allowed to bring along their own attorneys if they wish and are required by law to keep whatever they say to the jury secret." Jury members, too, are required to keep the proceedings secret and even the judges are not allowed in the proceedings, although they can advise the panel when requested to do so. "It is an investigative proceeding of an inquisitional nature," Boyce said. He added the grand jury system can be traced back to 10th Century France and flowered in the 14th, 15th and 16th Centuries in England. he said. The concept is "It is to investigate allegations of wrongdoing and it is to shield the tar B-- two-fold- ," side-by-sid- They didnt cheer Lance Roberts. But I wouldn't expect anything else, says the former peewee referee. Just keep the chairs out of the rink, and I dont care what you call me. After all, Im in the rink, calling the plays. Im In with the real action. And youre not. So there." Promoter Paradise Shells Add To Utah Fraud Woes Continued From l ling interest. His stock is restricted and can be sold only in small portions B-- one-fourt- four-for-on- on pc-ti- free-tradin- 500-co- w free-tradin- free-tradin- free-tradin- ment after the overdose, said Lt. Dow, the man was released Sunday morning and hospital personnel notified police who arrested him and transported him to the jail. He was placed in the cell after he reportedly told jailers he was suffering from AIDS. Because of this, the man was placed in one of the isolated five cells in the jail near the booking area. He hanged himself with a hospital gown he was wearing, said Lt. Dow. Sheriffs Detective Kathy Diamant said she has been unable to determine whether the man is suffering from AIDS, but she confirmed he had been tested for the fatal disease at the hospital. Detective Diamant said she has no indication that the arresting Salt Lake City police officer told jail personnel that the man had attempted suicide the previous day. Publicity, Lawyers Can Hamper Grand Juries, Says Professor 18 23 12 They forgot that Lance was a human being in the Salt Palace recently, when the Golden Eagles played the Indianapolis Checkers. The crowd e double fist cheered the when cheered players fights; they slammed each other into the walls. They cheered their home team. Inter-mounta- in Second Attempt at Suicide Sparks Probe by Police A Salt Lake City man jailed after attempting suicide earlier in the weekend tried to hang himself in his jail cell Sunday morning, leaving jail officials wondering why his suicidal tendencies apparently were not reported when he was threw his chair at me. Now, this is going too far. I can only take so much abuse. Im not just a guy in a black I'm a huand white striped shirt man being, too. Sometimes, the fans forget that. under security regulations. The shell game began in the early 1960s following the uranium boom of the 1950s when hundreds of companies sold stock in the local penny stock market. Promoters buy the company's stock held by insiders, such as the companys former officers and directors, brokerages and former shareh holders, usually for about of a cent per share. This might give the promoter control of 70 percent of the outstanding shares of the company. The promoter then reserve splits the stock, reducing the number of outstanding shares. There are any number of devices you can use, all designed to clean up the market, a source says. The promoter eventually plans to merge his public company into a private company Economists at Utah State Univertypically a start-u- p sity have estimated that 10 percent of company with a better mousetrap. Utah dairy farmers will opt to quit The merger is done through a tax-fre- e dairying. exchange of stock. The company e So far, the most common bid prices and exsplits its stock farmers in the Maryland and Virginia changes 80 percent of its stock for the Milk Producers Association are talkassets of the private company. ing about is the maximum bid of $10, There is nothing illegal about this according to Allen O'Hara, assistant business transaction, provided the director of membership service for of the company is disthe cooperative. Mr. OHara said ownership closed. bankers may end up twisting farmThe promoter makes his money by ers arms to heighten participation in the shell, a source says. But selling the program. most mergers include a large One California dairymen said he's of g stock controlled by the promoter as part of the agreeplanning to slaughter his herd, but not for less than a $9 per ment. hundredweight bid. He said the move Simply, controlling a large chunk will be profitable because he can subg of the stock through divide the land after he quits dairynominees makes it easier for a stock ing. promoter to pull off a merger. The can sweeten the deal by promoter The farmer, who asked not to be g stock identified until regulations come out, sellingsome of his to of owners the the afsaid he may go back into dairying private company ter three to five years, whatever time at a discount. .n addition to receiving a finder's limit the government imposes on fee, a promoter also may earn a nice dairymen who participate in the prog gram. profit by selling a portion of the stock he controls through nominees. M 14 18 39 24 29 51 71 Las Vegas Twin Foils 27 67 26 42 Eiko Ely Pocatello Rexburg 27 47 I usually referee six five days games a week. gram that requires a career decision that could affect generations? said Jim Eskin, Associated Milk Produc- Green River Cedar City Im working another game in another town. This month Ill be home for only is high. How can we speculate on a pro- 1835 B3 1986 of Hockey Referees Daily Life Herd-Slaught- er Todays Weather Monday, January 13, get of the investigation from improper accusations, if it turns out there is no basis to make the charge. That is why it is so important that the proceedings be kept secret. The grand-jurconcept also provides a citizens panel to protect the target of the investigation from the y abuse that could come from public officials without input of the citizenryThe grand jury meets as long as it deems necessary until its investigation of the specific allegations is completed. They can meet as often as they want," Mr. Boyce said. "They set their own calendar. He said the jurors are compensated for their time, "but it isn't much. It's about the same as jurors in normal court proceedings)." A promoter who bought 100,000 shares at of a cent, for example, and sells them for 10 cents a share picks up more than $9,000 after commissions. Merging a public company into a private company also can be done with blind pools. These are companies that have raised money through a public offering that have no stated business plan. When a private company merges with a blind pool, it receives the cash raised in the public offering and the stock promoter receives a finders fee. This can be quick money for the promoter. You have a $30,000 blind pool selling for $75,000," says John Baldwin, director of the Division of Securities. Merging with a public company has advantages as well as temptations for the private company. The companies often are developing a product and need money. Although the owners have given away 20 percent of their company when they merge with a shell that has no assets, they can now raise money by selling restricted stock privately to investors in a transaction called "a private placement. The rule of thumb is that restricted d stock sells for the market price, a source says. The problem is how to create an artificial value for a start-ucompany that often has a negative net worth. If the company's stock is selling for $1, the company can sell its stock in a private placement for 33 cents a share; if the companys stock is selling for 3 cents, the company only can sell its stock in a private placement for 1 cent a share. The temptation is to manipulate the market. One of the easiest ways to manipulate the market is to control the supply of stock. This is another advantage to a promoter controlling most of the outstanding stock. "The product of the company is paper, Mr. Griffen says. "The assets of the company are the publicly traded stock." one-four- th one-thir- p |
