| Show C2 UTAH The Salt Lake Tribune Zion Park Shuttle Funding Awaits Senate Vote in Fall the aw- - mu pre-- their August recess after Labor Day Department spending bill the House already has approved The Interior appropriations bill Whistles Bells Hail Railroaders Fest The House bill would give the BLM slightly more than $1 billion to spend next year which is nearly $27 million less than President also has earmarked $700000 for the Bureau of Land Management to buy land for desert tortoise habitat The bill doesn't name specific parcels The Senate is expected to vote on its Interior appropriations bill when lawmakers return from ST GEORGE Zion National Park could get $360000 to develop its shuttle system for visitors if the U S Senate passes an Interior 15 1533 Surdav - Aujust w Festivalgoers Turn Back the Qock To 19th Century At Golden Spike Site Clinton requested However the new budget would be a $76 million increase from this years By Jack Fenton THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE Whistles shrieked and bells as a clanged Saturday pair of gleaming red and black steam engines opened the 17th Annual Railroaders Festival at Golden Spike National Historic Site There was oldtime music and contests: boiler throwing and a greased pole stoking buffalo-chi- p climb Hundreds of visitors lined up to pump a handcart like ones that hauled gandy dancers to lay and fix tracks Randy Kane ranger of the Golden Spike National Historic Site remembers way back to the 1970s when the festival included a tent town with a blacksmiths shop and saloon called the Red Cloud People baked bread and made soap There also was a shooting at the saloon activWere getting back to more ities he said Spike driving may be the most railroad-orienteof all games Participants drive six spikes in the rail tie as fast as they can Ranger Tom Excell tells how a Union Pacific reworker who holds the worlds cord of just 264 seconds was competing at last years festival But when the railroad sent in the ties it sent hardwood instead of fir There werent any records Mr Excell said climb most activiExcept for the greased-pol- e ties have evolved over the last two or three decades Mr Kane said This is slippery said Devin Grey of Magna as PROMONTORY The August 15 Report Compiled by Don Robinson jV Loraa Pt Cloudv $hppfV modi and dangfout driving on tosuri from stormy condition woomor Hbu con incrooso trofUc toffy and rodoco traffic congestion by totting ttis but or o corpooi 5084 0dfn um Call BUS-INF- 287-4S3- O 6 PLCloudy 5985 Wendover PtCloudy Park Ory PtCloudy Pt Cloudy 6388 6886 w tiMaiRa Salt Lake City ProvoOrem PtQoudy After the day starts off with partly cloudy skies the chance of rain will increase as the day progresses Widely scattered thunderstorms will produce a 20 chance of measurable precipitation in the afternoon at Salt Lake City That increases to 30 at night when gusty winds and hail are possible Highs will be mostly in the mid- - to upper 80s except for Provo which is expecting 92 Vernal PtCloudy 4877 52S4 5284 Price PtGoudy Delta PtCloudy 5784 5285 rail-orient- SOUTHERN UTAH TODAY Green River PtCloudv d Look for widely scattered thunderstorms with hail possible in storm areas Winds will be southerly at 15 to 30 mph The chance of measurable rain at Cedar City is less than 20 Bullfrog should be the state's hot spot with a reading while St George will check in at 95 and Moab is expected to hit 91 Richfield could see a temperature span ranging from 42 to 85 6588 spike-drivin- g iwrasnass: a non on WASATCH FRONTSDAY FORECASTS ITTT August 24 First Quarter August 21 Waxing Crescent August 17 New Moon August 13 Waning Crescent rrr MONA unrni WED E7TT1T-1- I Temperatures should be two to four degrees cooler Monday with Provo's 89 the regions highest Showers and thunderstorms will be scattered possibly producing hail and gusty winds The chance of measurable rain in Salt Lake City is 20 Look for fair skies Tuesday but widely scattered showers and thunderstorms Wednesday and Thursday Hwn i ivi JA1 Documents Show Counselors Now Control LDS Assets j EnnnEnnEHHZEHH i Isolated thunderstorms are on Mondays weather menu with the chance of measurable precipitation in Cedar City less than 20 St George can expect a high of 92 while Richfield peaks at 84 and Cedar City 80 Plan on fair skies Tuesday with widely scattered afternoon and evening thunderstorms Wednesday and Thursday 66 1160sMON J 1 THUR - B Continued from 90s 90s 90s 92 l0WE3 mm 60s" TUESJ I IWEDJ Monday will bring isolated thunderstorms to the region as temperatures follow the pattern of the previous day A reading for th? high in Bullfrog will contrast with Monticello's 78 After fair skies on Tuesday expect scattered showers and thunderstorms mainly in the afternoon and evening on Wednesday and Thursday mm OAllLMANAOHWMii Precipitation 0 00 Precipitation this month Accumulative deficit 0 46 Precipitation since Oct Accumulalive excess H L Prep 4 63 97 34 highlow for this dale Record high for this date Record low for this date it Bullfrog If Bryce Canyon 9063 degrees T Phoenix 106 Tucson 98 69 T 80 176 COLORADO 100 degrees in 1960 47 degrees in 1938 6 37AM8 28PM SunnseSunset today ARIZONA Cyn De Chelly 87 60 79 50 Flagstaff 1902 1992 L Prep H UTAH 011 1 Utah high Utah low Normal intermountainmmi Yesterday 82 62 Boulder Colorado Spgs 81 59 Denver 84 64 Grand Jet 84 T 65 0 03 65 003 IDAHO Boise 91 Coeur d'Alene 78 45 Idaho Falls 84 44 Lewiston 83 57 Pocatello 88 46 Reiburg Twin Falls 82 43 82 51 Billings Great Falls 83 55 79 48 003 012 Helena 79 48 001 Kalispell Missoula 80 43 84 47 0 01 NEVADA Wasatch Front Air Qua My Elko 86 44 Ely Las Vegas Reno 83 39 Accu-Weath- 0 Forecaat-539-1- 311 forecast for noon Sunday Aug 15 er 70S zones for the day M Albuquerque 82 60 0 20 SantaFe 76 56 044 Missing T Trace Casper 89 50 T Cheyenne Evanston 82 61 T 77 40 Laramie 77 52 Rock Springs Yellowstone 79 50 67 37 nM''l!l31l3HECT 80s H WARM HtGH L LOW C-- l NEW MEXICO 9 Bands separate high terrperature COLD State Slow to Act Against Deadbeat Informant Dad B Continued from 87 54 WYOMING The transfer property and handle banking matters But for the first time the 1989 or documents gave plenary absolute power to the two counselors Entitled Certificates of Authority and dated May 23 1989 the documents say Presidents Hinckley and Monson can keep even if those complete powers President Benson becomes disabled or is determined by a court to be incompetent Mr LeFevre of the LDS Church said the decision to file the documents was made by President Benson and his two counselors and that the filings simply affirmed powers already granted Some laws require that the filing be renewed periodically and this was done four years ago as well as during the administrations of previous presidents of the church Mr LeFevre said Although the 1989 documents are the only ones ever filed with the state that confer plenary power over the corporation to the two counselors the church made no 97 66 Waalhtr-575-7- Highway Rnrer Recreational C- -l STATIONARY EB E3 E3 SHOWCS WW STOWS T 1993 EZ3 FtUeFS E3 SNOW S ICS & SlJWr PTCLOUDY Inc Q Yesterday Todav fice sought a lead role in the inquiry it remains unclear which agency is running the investigation Mr Hunt has arranged for two hearings in September and October in Duchesne and Tooele counties to bring civil contempt-of-coucharges against Mr Dimmick Such charges carry a maximum jail sentence of 30 days And recently Mr Hunt said an analysis of Mr Dimrnicks assets was completed showing he owns nothing and is jobless The asset check however may have missed the sale of his old pickup truck rt Mississippi River Thunderstorms in Iowa produced about 3 inches cf rain near Palmer 25 inches near Newell and 225 inches near Pomeroy the National Weather Service said Fort Dodge got 355 inches of rain in just three hours Litchfield Minn got 150 inches of rain in about 45 minutes and minor street flooding was reported there and elsewhere in Minnesota at Appleton Willmar Madison Milie Lacs and Elk River the weather service said Lowland flooding also developed in he said policy Where there is not firmly established policy we have talked with the president and received his approval As recently as last month Mr LeFevre said that Bensons counselors report to him and review with him major decisions before those decisions become final However Steve Benson grandson to President Benson and a Pulitzer Prize- - winning cartoonist for The Arizona Republic has said that his aging grandfather no longer possesses the mental facuh ties to handle church affairs The church has misrepresented the condition of President Benson and stated flatly that his role as prophet has in no way been impeded Steve Benson said this week My grandfather has be come a storefront mannequin while the business of the store is conducted behind closed doors He said a signature machine has replaced his grandfathers hand on all personal and family correspondence Steve Benson said Evidently the signature machine had not been programmed to sign Grandpa Mr Hunt said if criminal charges are ever filed it wont be in the near future Judges prefer that state lawyers exhaust civil contempt-of-cour- t proceedings first he said Moreover Ms Grahams office may decide against filing criminal charges because Mr Hunt said Mr Dimmick has had drug and mental-healt- h problems He speculated the informant could use those problems to argue that he has a diminished capacity to obliunderstand his gations The snails-pacpursuit of Mr Dimmick seems contrary to the public image Ms Graham has sought to mold During last years election campaign she depicted herself as a candidate deeply interested in child abuse child support and similar issues More recently Ms Graham has explained her offices failure to go after rampant violations of child-suppo- rt e campaign-financ- laws by indicat- e ing she prefers to invest resources in issues with a greater impact on the populace The important priorities are violations that hurt people she told The Salt Lake Tribune in June The lapses in the Dimmick affair are not sur: prising to national experts Its because the ment community in the United States has not looked upon nonsupport as a crime even though they have it on the books say$ Geraldine Jensen president of' the Association for Children for the Enforcement of j Support Nearly 500 members of the! group live in Utah and Ms Jensen says their complaints about Utah officials are common: Authorities are slow to garnish wages and! i take other enforcement steps Children are being robbed of their childhood because they have to go poor she added The Dim-- ! mick matter represents the nor-- ! mal rather than the unusual child-suppo- rt law-enforc- 2500-memb- er i ! Mental-Healt- h Records ClOuO USJSUMMAR' the forecast On Saturday showers and thunderstorms extended from South Dakota and northeastern Nebraska across the upper ident Benson has authorized them to fulfill the various responsibilities delegated to them President Hinckley said As it was during the time when President Spencer W Kimball was ill we have moved without hesitation when there is Convict Seeks New Trial Says He Was Denied Informants By Ted Cilwick THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE More than 3 inches of rain fell on parts of Iowa on Saturday as the latest series of thunderstorms rattled the upper Midwest In the California mountains snow was in announcement of the change It has continued to portray President Benson as the ultimate power behind church affairs Mr LeFevre confirmed that a signature machine was used at President Bensons direction to execute the documents This has been the practice throughout his administration and had been followed by him prior to his becoming president of the church he said This is a common efficient practice followed by leaders of many major organizations President Bensons signature is affixed mechanically to thousands of documents and missionary assignments each year Mr LeFevre said Fran Fish notary public administrator for the state Department of Commerce said signatures written by machine are legal as long as the original signature on which the machine copies are based is written by the signator and duly witnessed Still Ms Fish who advises and trains the states 28000 notary publics on signature protocols said use of a signature machine on state corporate filings is certainly out of the norm At the LDS Churchs October 1992 General Conference President Hinckley talked about President Bensons involvement in church affairs All the LDS apostles have been given the keys of the priesthood of God and Pres 002 MONTANA UTAH UPDATES he unsuccessfully tried to climb the pole with a $10 bill at its top Mr Kane laughed Early climbers wipe off grease so those ho follow can shinny up he said Picnickers fairgoers and others learned that in the 19 th century But the stars of the show were the steam engines replicas of the Jupiter and No 119 that participated in the May 10 1B69 ceremony completing the transcontinental railroad with the driving of several spikes including one of gold Both engines were scrapped near the turn of the century Traditionally locomotive blueprints are saved said Bob Dowty member of the reconstruction team who drove No 119 on Saturday It didn't happen this time Eric Dowty Bobs son and Jupiter's engineer on Saturday said Union Pacific lost blueprints for locomotive No 119 in a 1918 fire at its Omaha Neb headquarters Nobody knows what Southern Pacific did with blueprints for Jupiter Bob Dowty said the old locomotives So engineers scoured the Smithsonian Institution railroad museums and other places looking for photos and dimensions If it wasnt for the right side of No 119s sand dome where crews put sand to improve the locomotive's traction it would be authentic Bob Dowty said There are no pictures or reports of what was on that little steel drum Because the domes left side carries a painting of Johnny Appleseed artists suggested a mountain man for the right side Its supposed to be Jim Bridger" the elder Dowty said of the painting But there arent that many photos of the storied frontiersman either he grinned Kansas following 290 inches of rain overnight at Densmore and 170 inches at Logan the weather service said north-centr- Heavier rainfall during the six hours up to noon MDT included 096 of an inch at Redwood Falls Minn 089 at Wilmington NC and 087 at Alexandria Minn In spite of the calendar snow was in the forecast in the West Local advisories warning of up to 3 inches of snow were posted through Sunday at higher elevations of northern Californias Shasta and Siskiyou mountains the weather service said Heat advisories were in effect into Sunday over most of Arkansas Saturday mornings low for the lower 48 states was 33 at Truckee Calif Temperatures around the 48 states at 1 pm MDT ranged from 59 in Washington at Bremerton Everett Port Angeles and Seattle to 100 at Fort Riley Kan and Fort Worth Texas Most of the 20 or so Uinta Basin residents set up by informant including his Craig Dimmick pleadApril Harrison ed guilty and never squared off with Mr Dimmick before a jury Now the only target of Mr Dimmick convicted by a federal jury wants a new trial because he says he was denied access to the ex-wi- fe informants mental-healt- h re- cords Meredith Brumfield of Roosevelt contends that if federal prosecutors had shared with him records of Mr Dimmicks two stays at the Utah State Hospital in Provo he would have convinced the jury that Mr Dimmicks testimony was not credible Brumfield had argued he was entrapped But the jury in November convicted him on all nine counts of dealing pipe bombs and dynamite through Mr Dimmick senHe is serving a tence th His attorney Dixon D Hindley in court papers argued that he asked prosecutor Mark Vincent for mental-healtrecords but was not accommodated Mr Hindley cited an account of those records in a Salt Lake Tribune article in which family and friends categorically branded Mr Dimmick a chronic liar He says such information would have discredited Mr Dimmicks testimony and led to an acquittal Had the jury known of the key witness prior incarceration in a state mental hospital it may well have been the quantum of proof necessary for one of them to find him less believable" Mr Hindley wrote In opposing Mr Brumfields h bid for a new trial prosecutor Vincent stated he did not learn of Dimmicks hospitalization until the newspaper article And he noted that some of the defendants witnesses testified that Mr Dimmick is a liar The jury already knows the informant lies Mr Vincent stated If this did not convince the court to doubt the informants credibility parading more witnesses into court to testify about the same thing will not change the result A ruling by US District Judge Aldon Anderson is expected soon The majority of defendants in federal and state court fingered by Mr Dimmick pleaded guilty thus waiving the opportunity to confront him at trial Most got probation and were fined for their small drug deals Others got brief jail terms including Ms Harrison who received a sentence 10-da- y |
