Show JAbmwo B2 I Widow Sues Officer SL in Httsband's Death THE ASSOCIATED I I 1 1 LOCAL Sunday January 26 1992 The Salt Lake Tribune PRESS Mary Jane Pratt contends Madsen caused her husband's death May 17 by pursuing a car at high speed through city neighborhoods after the driver refused to pull over to receive a traffic citation The widow of a man killed in a police road chase last year has filed a lawsuit against Salt Lake City and the officer who initiated the chase The suit filed in 3rd District Court on Friday is the third lawsuit in five years against Officer David G Madsen and the second alleging Madsen caused a citizen's death James Pratt 36 was killed when the car driven by Sosaia Langi ran a red light and collided with his car Madsen and other Salt Lake police officers - 1111WEATHELOTROPO-:-:::- How to Enjoy Best Holiday of Year had been pursuing Langi's car for 35 blocks at the time Langi 19 was sentenced last week to 1 year in Jail and 300 hours of community service Mrs Pratt notified the city three months ago that she planned to sue for $2 million but Friday's action mentioned no dollar amount veteran of Madsen a the force was Salt Lake City's Officer of the Year in 1986 "HAPPY GUACAMOLE DAY SUPER SUNDAY!" It's the greatest holiday of the year when you get right down to it To start with Hallmark hasn't discovered it yet so you don't have to feel guilty about not sending a card It's always on a Sunday so it won't screw up your week It's the kind of holiday that doesn't require you to buy anything special for people you don't like or to whom you feel obligated In fact you can do all your shopping for the big event a couple of hours before kickoff It doesn't require any special decorating like putting yourself in a situation trying to string up some stupid blinking lights on a roof covered with snow and ice Then afterward you find out that there must be one burned-ou- t bulb so the whole mess won't light up and you have to go back up Super Bowl Sunday is the only holiday that you don't have to cook a turkey and eat things that you would never go near the rest of the year like yams In fact you don't have to cook anything unless you call mashing up avocados and pouring salsa into a bowl cooking Come to think of it that's what I cook every weekend Ice down the beer break out the nachos and you're set Another great aspect of this holiday is you don't have to visit any relatives you can't stand and you don't have to worry about any of them popping in and bringing some cookies or fruitcake on a paper plate covered with tinfoil and wrapped in 21-ye- ar Today's Report Compiled by Martin Renzhofer :' 0 Showy roads and danglorous driving conditions onion rsult trom stormy weathr Vou con incroasis trottic sotoly and rduc traffic congstion by taking Call Mil bus or a carpool Logan PICIoudy 1934 1 Ogden BUS-INF- 6 287-463- O PICIondy 2744 HORT KER NLITAt Salt Lake City PICIoudy Viendover PLCloudy Park City Cloudy 2845 2340 ProvoOrem Fog and clouds are predicted for the Wasatch Front Great Salt Lake deserts and Cache Valley The patchy Vernal PtCloudy 2040 morning fog is expected to give way to possible showers Areas of fog will also cover the Uinta Basin with clouds on top of the fog Variable high clouds and haze are on tap for the Price and valley areas The weak Pacific weather system that brushed across northern Utah on Saturday will be replace by another system in a westerly flow late today with possible scattered snow in the mountains 1134 PtCloudy 2450 Price PICIoutly Delta PICIoudy 1837 2446 SOUTHERN-UTA- Richfield 11Cloudy d NCloody 2040 s and variable clouds winds will 'brush the southern teaus Clouds are also forecast should break into the low 50s to approach 30 mid-50- ElandLtig Bullfrog 4l0fOltECASTSO NORM SUN Variable clouds and haze will continue throughout the next five days in northern Utah The fog may be dispersed a little tonight and Monday by possible scattered rain or snow showers Moderate temperatures will continue to cover northern and lows Utah with highs staying in the mid-40- s The clouds and fog may inin the high mid-20- s crease by the week's end 50 E3 low IM Ed Precipitation this month Accumulative deficit Precipitation since Oct Accumulative excess 1991 32 28 eldy Jerusalem 46 34 fair 541 Athens 52 41 eldy Jobannesbrg Lima M 59 fair 82 69 fair Lisbon 52 39 fair London 43 32 Madrid 48 27 eldy fair Normal high for this date Normal low for this date 39 degrees 20 degrees Record high for this date Record low for this date 59 degrees 22 degrees 744 MST 536 MST TODAY'S POLLUTION INDEO Carbon bionnude Partaculates 108 105 Qum 7 es Salt Lake City & Davis counties Provo Weber County atatelard loads standard) 100 Moderato lS12i Ultheallistal tos 275 Vete 88 73 86 72 Beijing Beirut 41 23 61 51 fair fair fair fair Belgrade Berlin 41 23 eldy Manila 88 73 fair 36 32 cldy 68 46 Bermuda 72 68 eldy Mexico City Montreal eldy fair Bogota Brisbane 68 46 Moscow 32 27 Brussels 37 tidy 54 fair 25 fair Budapest Buenos Aires 41 27 81 Calgary Cairo 28 13 Bryce 13 Bullfrog Cedar City Coalville 41 25 Flagstaff Phoenix 77 47 Tucson 75 37 Delta 43 20 Denver I 24 Fillmore 45 27 Grand Jet 37 Arizona M 26 40 50 27 Colorado 18 79 55 18 81 48 fair Flaming Grg Green River 30 New Delhi 30 0 Boise eldy Nicosia 61 37 fair Hanksville 27 4 Coeur d'Aleae 45 33 70 cldy Oslo 36 27 43 17 Idaho Falls 45 21 eldy Paris 36 25 ekly fair Heber City 17 37 22 Lewiston 57 37 83 46 cldy Rio 82 64 tidy Helper Kanab M 26 Pocatello 52 23 cldy fair Logan 35 17 18 Rexburg Twin Falls 43 44 43 Idaho 5536 61 tidy Rome 50 36 32 cldy 84 55 ts 61 SO 36 28 fair Midway Millard 17 Montana 100 Santiago Seoul Frankfurt 39 27 Singapore Stockholm 88 73 tidy Moab 38 13 cldy Monticello 39 Billings Great Falls 59 25 30 25 14 14 Helena 45 27 M M Elko 49 23 Las Vegas Reno 60 35 antbtr-GSnit Laxe City Davis & Weber counties FAIR and Ogden Provo titan counties - POOR warms 41 Geneva 34 18 tidy tidy fair Harare 82 63 cldy Sydney 77 64 Havana 75 66 tidy fair 34 19 Tokyo Vancouver 48 34 Helsinki cldy fair 51 42 Hong Kong Istanbul 86 57 fair Vienna 43 37 clity Warsaw 21 high temperature rim— Nephi 52 47 27 cldy Ogden Park West 46 16 35 28 cldy Price 31 15 19 tidy Provo 48 24 Randolph Richfield 26 6 52 20 Roosevelt 27 1 Salt Lake 41 25 zones for the day 401 do I ES3 RAIN o 60 WIC ' 70s 609 STATIONARY SNOWWWS AlLt orroolp Atipti 41"1" MAW' 441 oe sos e FRONTS: Tooele 0 EG rSTORWS 55 MC : FLURRIES SNOW OCE 1992 AccuMeatler zLI SUNNY PT CLOUDY Inc 2 a 0110Y 'Noe L'UtielMAR Super Bowl XXVI forecast: Highs in Minneapolis are forecast for the midteens lows below 10 and snow However it won't matter as the game will be played indoors The southern tip of showers enveloping the Northwest will pass into northern California Clouds are predicted and rain is likely tonight The southern Sacramento Valley will have night and morning fog The snow level is at 5000 feet near the Oregon border and 6000 feet near Lake Tahoe Low clouds and locally dense fog will cover the San Francisco region The forecast includes a slight chance of showers in the northern Sierras and Yosemite with snow levels between 6000 and 7500 feet Los Angeles will enjoy partly cloudy skies and highs near 72 Showers will drench western Oregon today although it will start to clear late tonight Isolated showers are forecast for the eastern portion of the state with increasing rain as the day con- tinues Rain is also on tap for western Washington and the Seattle area Showers ivill continue and increase Monday In- creasing clouds will begin to cover eastern Washington accompanied with a slight chance of rain tonight Northern arid central Nevada will get hit with showers late today The snow level is expected to be at 5500 to 6000 feet The fair weather covering soathern Nevada wT change to cloudy today 46 Idaho and Montana will be under clouds today Highs for Billings should approach 50 degrees as a high pressure system will cover the northwest into Wyoming The sun is expected to shine over northern Colorado and the Denver area Denver is forecast for a high of 57 New Mexico and Texas should hit the 50s for a high but southern Texas into the Mexico and the Gulf of Mexico will be covered in rain showers Clouds will be felt from the eastern edge of the Rocky Mountains to the Great Plains states A stationary front is covering the Dakotas Minnesota into Michigan and causing snow to fall Low readings remained below 20 degrees in eastern North Dakota Minnesota northern Wisconsin and upper Michigan and from northwestern Pennsylvania to northern New England Caribou Maine reported a high of one degree below zero A winter storm warning Wdb 111 etrect Ohio Snow reSaturday in east-centrmains a possibility today in northeastern Ohio Snow warnings will also be in effeet for western Pennsylvania and the northern panhandle of West Virginia northern Virginia much of Maryland and northern and central Delaware It will be sunny and warm over the e Southern eats A system is moving over Mississippi Alzbama Georgia and Florida 18 52 30 Yellowsto Nevada 61 34 Wyoming Cheyenne Evanston 40 37 8 Laramie 41 13 Rock Springs 30 20 24 M—Missing H Yesterday L Prep Albuquerque 53 29 18 T—Trace Anchorage Atlanta 19 16 001 H Today L 53 27 ptrl 24 12 snow Fit 59 28 58 34 may Atlantic City Austin 29 17 32 24 63 39 57 47 ptcl ram Birmingham Bismarck 64 26 60 30 25 09 33 12 Boston 2217 22 15 ptd 20 10 snow 52 30 many 30 15 ddy 36 19 ptel 26 10 30 21 ddy ddy Buffalo 16 9 Charlotte 52 24 Chicago Cincinnati 29 22 40 22 Cleveland 22 12 Columbus 29 16 801 001 020 008 007 019 snny eidy Concord 13 6 17 1 snow Dallas 66 38 57 40 Des Moines 34 22 42 17 My pld Detroit 23 10 23 11 mow El Paso 61 33 58 32 mod Fairbanks 41 13 4 25 many Fargo Grand Rapids Hartford 16 7 20 0 snow 22 11 23 12 snow N 15 23 12 ptd Honolulu 98 63 00 60 Houston 68 37 59 cloy nun Indianapolis Jacksos MS 36 23 32 48 18 66 30 60 31 ptel 42 28 53 24 wady snny Kansas City tittle Root 003 009 006 002 003 65 41 53 32 76 52 72 52 ptel 52 29 42 24 'any Memphis Miami 65 35 55 35 many 0952 73 51 Minot ND M M N ptd It Milwaukee 28 18 014 024 NW 29 14 mow 16 8 29 239 52 n snow New Orleans 62 66 35 BO 42 New York 28 21 2920 Oklahoma City Omaha 60 40 57 33 21 46 20 pld ptd ptd ptd Orlando 6639 67 42 say Mioneapulia Nashville Philadelphia 30 23 Pittsburgh 23 9 18 1 Fordo& ME 38 31 22 ptd 27 16 sod 19 5 VI) oit42 as snow Awe Sacramento 51 Sao Antoci) Sas Diffo San Frmacisco Seattle 61 Sioux NI St Louis Spokale Tampa Tulsa 24 49 36 39 008 26 $8 5648 69 47 WI 43 56 4! 52 47 53 43 tidy ram 21 0 2318 mod 4714 4614 47 24 41 N wry mod 64 37 6 42 may 59 46 Wbhingloa Wichita 34 25 37 27 pid 47 39 59 N Vatnorm 30 21 22 23 snay ptcl 011 a Continued -- -- from B-- 1 and others "Brother's Keeper" directed by Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky is about the Ward brothers of Munnsville NY illiterate dairy farmers who became the focus of the national media when one of Omni wai aCCII6ed Cor killing a fourth brother while he slept Other awards handed out Saturday night include: The Filmmakers Trophies given by filmmak ers attending the festival to their peers went to the documentary "A Brief History of Time" and the dramatic film "Zebrahead" The latter film directed and written by ttnt'l ny 1' - Barberi a big red bow Super Sunday is the one holiday you can celebrate with a few selected friends or alone and it's OK! This is one holiday that even fans have reason to celebrate Football widows can finally breathe a sigh of relief knowing that this is it Oh sure I know we still have the Pro Bowl coming up but that isn't a game so much as it is a form of football methadone to help those of us who are starting withdrawal If you don't care a whit about as football — as that is — this is the the perfect day to do anything outside and feel like the world is yours We will be wading through the guacamole and chips our buddies after every play our favorite team makes (Don't you really feel silly when you go to a friend and you're off high-fiva just couple of inches?) You can go skiing and feel like you own the mountain or go for a drive and feel like you own the road To help you in your enjoyment of this most sacred of holidays a few tips are in order When John Madden starts to explain how a play develops using his "Telestrator" it's time to go for that beer or restroom break Anybody who has watched as much foot non-footba- ll high-fivin- g e game: Somebody somewhere usual- ly near the end zone will hang a banner saying John 3:16 In another end zone there will be a group of men wearing dresses and hats with pig noses on their faces A sideline camera shot will reveal a player either saying "Hi Mom" or waiving his index finger in the air indicating his opinion of his team or a combination of both We can take comfort in the fact that none of these people is a relative or neighbor CIAO! heard on and FM from 6 to 10 Tom Barberi can be ICALL-A- Thousands Spent at Ten parimutuel tracks are located within 125 miles of Utah borders and rely on border-fligh- t to bolster their average daily handles — the amount wagered on race days The tracks and their daily handles as estimated by Western Racing News are: Wyoming Downs Evanston Wyo $110000 Sweetwater Downs Rock Springs Wyo $60000 Pony Express Downs Ely Nev $60000 who belong to the Utah Quarter s are Horse Association involved in 'racing Mr Murray said For the past three years Mr Giles and his wife Carolyn have had the largest number of quarter horses in Utah to win races They "Rockin Tepee say their Ranch" injects a big chunk of money into the state annually The 74 racehorses currently in their charge plus brood stock consumed 540 tons of hay last year at $95 per ton — "Every bale was purchased from a Utah farmer" said Mr Giles In addition he buys 22 tons of oats every 11 days from a Utah feed store and spends $1200 weekly for wood shavings as bedding Up until this year the Giles' business has been able to operate out of Utah traveling to Wyoming Idaho and New Mexico throughout the year Sanctioned races at the Laurel Brown Track Ogden's Weber Downs and Dixie Downs in St George have helped offset costs even though purses won at Utah tracks are often a fraction of those at parimutuel tracks Wyoming Downs' average daily handle — the amount of bets placed — is $110000 an estimated 85 percent of which is wagered by Utahns according to Mr Freston The average day's bets per capita are $48 — the lowest in the nation and especially conservative compared to a $134 national avertwo-third- six-acr- e age Citizens to Put Utah First used a figure half the national average — $67 — to calculate the potential impact of parimutuel racing on a rural community Parowan has 14 days of racing every year during which the county- owned track attracts an average of per-capit- a zcn is about racial tension among Detroit high school students Cinematography awards went to Ellen Kuras for "Swoon" and to Trinh T Minh-hand Kathleen Beeler for "Shoot for the Contents" "Swoon" entered in the dramatic competition is shot in 411 1C1462 '04 nu w uii flat Leopold-Loekidnapping in 1924 "Shoot for the Contents" is a color documentary about China The dramatic and documentary juries gave out special awards An award for "artistic excellence" went to Christopher Munch whose "The Hours and Times" is a fictional speculation about John Lennon and Beatles' mTager Bri a ot b ---- Tracks Out-of-Sta- te Elko County Fairgrounds Elko Nev $90000 Oneida County Fairgrounds Ma lad Idaho $40000 Pocatello Downs Pocatello Idaho $60000 Rupert Downs Rupert Idaho $40000 Cassia County Fairgrounds Burley Idaho $25000 Uranium Downs Grand Junction Colo $35000 San Juan Downs Farmington NM $110000 500 people Multiplied by $67 in bets per person daily the county or would reap 10 percent $60000 in two weeks said Mr Murray Under the proposed bill about half that amount would go to the state's coffers Supporters of the t parimutuel bill would like to see that go to education For people like the Giles racing would enable them to work almost entirely within the state "Our money would stay here" Mr Giles said If that incentive is lost however Mrs Giles said they would have to move their operation to a parimutuel state AQHA representative Moore is incensed that people like the Giles and Mr Labonte would be unable I to make a living here "The time has come for Utah to realize that this parimutuel racing would be a boon to the state" Monticello's Rep David Adams and San Juan is sponsoring the parimutuel bill filed last week If it passes Mr Murray said 5 percent of the tracks' gross revenues would fund a racing commission to monitor the industry Another 5 percent would benand Future Farmers of efit America programs in all of the state's counties regardless of whether they have a parimutuel pari-mutu- el 4-- H track "At this point I'm pretty confident we can get it through the House" Mr Murray said "Phase II — the Senate— is our next playoff game" Gov Norm Bangerter last week promised to veto the bill if it passes meaning the proponents would have to woo a majority from both chambers veto-pro- two-thir- 'In the Soup' Takes Independent-Fil- rain 45 59 n the most popular racing breeds Horses have sold for up to $45 million Of the 500 quarter horse owners may tidy 73 121 001 es and 15000 thoroughbreds — any 089 &MOM Itichmond 15 parimutuel 87000 with 60000 quarter hors- ptd Los Angeles Louisville 10 Non-sanction- 55 27 NATIONAUNISIONMS pl 3'39 7021Niki W Spanish Fork 47 25 M 25 St George 30s7lorm104:9 vio:11 Vb lioseelsts0 Zion NP 41 77 sc LOtSi 59 40 46 22 Blanding Brigham City 40 18 Copenhagen Dublin d1150111's HI 38 22 Wendover 24 Nairobi 73 0slos& OSCAN 42 L Prep 2 eldy fair forecast for noon Sunday Jan 26 NAM Alta H 28 Caracas Lines COLD Utah Yesterday's Weather L Prep Venial Ts Accu-Weath- er V'111 H "There are tracks within 125 miles of Utah's borders and that's not a coincidence They're built close to the borders of Utah not close to the 'borders of other states" Without parimutuel racing and a racing commission that would come with new legislation the AQHA has said it won't sanction races of any sort in Utah in 1993 The organization has eliminated weekend races in South Jordan and cut the number of races at that track in half It's not worth the association's time and expense to send officials to Utah because races are not lucrative without betting said Frank Moore Salt Lake City AQHA representative in the Intermountain region races are of little interest to serious horse racers since the value of their animals — which can amount to millions of dollars — is determined by points and winnings tabulated only in approved races Utah's horse industry with all its economic components ranging from feed to trucks and trailers and the horses themselves is estimated at $15 billion annually according to Mac Murray chairman of Utah Citizens to Put Utah First a group of horse owners who back parimutuel racing Mr Murray asserts the Legislature's vote could affect a large population but without a racing commission to keep track no exact numbers in Utah are known Mr Murray said A study conducted by Logan's Utah Horse Council over the past year did help focus the picture: Utah is the nation's fourth largest producer of registered quarter horses after Texas Oklahoma and California The number of registered horses throughout the state is riTTrr 11 n SI Unhealthful ASIII 78 44 (KO is Federal 50 Good Bangkok Barbados 38 INTERMC1 - B-- 1 Utah's law could force him out of business Wyoming Downs wouldn't be the only business hurt if Utah counties legalize parimutuel racing Utahns cross all of the state's borders to neighboring tracks of the said Jon Freston Western Racing News a magazine of Intermountain horse racing published monthly in Ogden mr'"7rrrrr!a 133 Utah County Ogden 17 26 L Summ Amsterdam 4 at Hanksville Sunrise Today Sunset Today H 031 at Zion MP 59 Weather U Continued from The next five days in southern Utah will look about the same — fair to partly cloudy with patchy morning fog Low temperatures will vary greatly with the mountains dipping into the teens while the lows near Milford will stay betweer 28 and 31 degrees Utah's Dixie will have the warm est highs near 60 while the average high will stay in the low 50s woRLDoimiiiN0mit 0 63 Utah high Utah low Po Woo n Yesterday's L Summ 3 45 Ab 1 ball as we devout members of the Church of the NFL knows exactly why a play worked or didn't This isn't Eke Stormin' Norman diagramming Desert Storm Hopefully this will be the last Super Bowl that the words "the play is being reviewed" will be used If they don't get rid of officiating by instant replay they should cut the pay for officials in half as they don't have to make decisions anymore However when you hear these words it is another opportunity to fetch a cold one hit the rest stop or replenish the dip These times allow you to pay attention to all the commercial breaks which are important because advertisers sold their children to pay for air time during the game and who would want to miss Bud Bowl IV? It could be more exciting than the real thing Finally my predictions for the Parimutuel Bill Is a Long Shot A4- WIITIIS4'1:)AVIFOR E EDI 11 1 46 26 51 None Precipitation The 46 EIB DA1M:ttmANAcilliiis 51 47 51 LI cr 41 high Alitt''" 49 low IMUlta trtnuct LD turn partly highs in the Light westerly ridgetop mountains and high plaHighs in the Milford area while the low is predicted MOH 77AL 41 mom tSUNIII 52 2549 2641 3959 high PICIoudy Pteloudy PICioudy A some of the the extreme south-centr- Cedar City PICloody 3052 area Variable clouds will cover the Cedar south wind of 10 to 15 mph will stir up possible haze Saturday's fair weather in southeast and valleys will cloudy today Utah's Dixie will experience Moab 2450 St George H 1mummains ' I m Prize an Epstein and a weekend they spent together in Barcelona A "special mention" was given to Jean Pierre Gorin for "My Crasy Life" a documentary about Samoan gangs in Los Angeles The festival which wraps up today has drawn the highest attenA— voa 44au 1 9 " 114"ftm alibt31A0y aging director Nicole Guillemet estimates box office sales will be up at least 10 percent from last year She expects that almost 40000 seats will have been filled by the end of the day compared to 33000 last year Ms Guillemet said that the first order of business after the festival is to find an additional screening facility for nelt year AMA 1111 1 |