Show 01MEPNeOgi Om 0111M1 or 011011100 47:!:t g::1faktZ14‘ 011006-aNNW j IVEDN7ESDAY AIX I 4 1000 q0mo VW 2004 si B - otood tag mmi Fai100 44 - — -- F-1-7- ‘ 1 11 ( wintAttrtzeis ) tnt -11 ITT 1 1) 11 For the Record 92 46 Obtuaries st:61 of e3 C!ty EZ -- Utah's large families —and oodles of kids are legendary It is common knowledge many classrooms are crowded teachers are underpaid and resources are stretched thin by national standards But now state lawmakers are questioning an- belief an influx of stu- °tin long-helden in the future will require more money this year Despite projections that 145003 ad- ional students will enroll at Utah el-entary schools in the next decade legislative leaders have their own theory Senior lawmakers point to US CensUs figures that show the size of d Utah families is shrinking slightly If that's true they figure smaller lard- lies mean more adult taxpayers Will come along with those exta children And that means the state Legisla- ture should focus on creating jobs and recruiting businesses to Utah rather than spending on education now "If we are going to have 145000 new students in 10 years where are they coming from?" Senate President Al Mansell asked Tuesday "We never talk about the other side of that 145000" In hopes of bolstering the argument Mansell plans to ask a group of corpo- rate economists to create a model corn- paring Utah family sizes with school- population projections to determine if the state's education budgeting efforts 11 t jr3 0 Utz h schz:1 pz:xlati:n crowth Murder trial opens aes 517 (populabon levels atter 2003 are Prolected) r3 r to accommodate the are really - TA4 bulge ? necessary Census figures show Utah family sizes are shrinking a" faster than the na- ' tional average 14N Neil Ashdown deputy director of the Governor's Office of 0 Planning and Budget 13 44 confirms Utah's "de-- sawte David &des pendency ratio" — the ratio of dependent children to working adults — will decline slightly over the next decade But Ashdown said other Utah demographic factors could tralize that change The state still leads '4 i ! '08 '09 '05 '00 '01 hovi of Businese '11 '15 '20 '25 '30 711e Nithen: The prosecution describes how Trisha Ann Autry died the defense passes on an opening statement Salt Lake Tribune the nation in household size and the number of women per capita of childbearing age — 15 to 45 years old Utah Skv LAWMAKERS Bti THE DREAM OF KINGS Aoad46 -- with grisly details Cc dy - ! loo EL PLANNED LtTztzs I Ell 96 Shrinking family size could ease crunch some lawmakers say BY REBECCA WALSH The Salt Luke Tribune LI---7(- CALLS FOR UNITY New theaRty on EThe ' GUN-SAFE- I 111 NI CHID MAYOR ANOERSON BY STEPHEN HUNT Me Salt Lake Tribune LOGAN — Kidnapping and killing year old Trisha Ann Autry was not enough for Cody Lynn Nielsen according to Cache County prosecutors They contend Nielsen beat the girl to death then at mpted to eradicate her from the Pace ut the Earth using fire chemicals and a variety of tools including an ax knife bone saw hacksaw shovel and the crushing tires of a back-hotractor "He took her apart piece by piece" special prosecutor Scott Wyatt said Tuesday the first day of Nielsen's capital murder trial "When he was done there was nothing but charred remains 15 e Ok — nibble" - Wyatt warned the 1st District Court jury he was making no attempt to soften the impact of the grisly evidence "You can't sugarcoat evil" Wyatt said "This is one of the most horrendous crimes any person can commit on 4 another" 44- (' Defense attorneys Shannon Demler and AW Lauritzen declined to give an opening statement reserving their comments for next week at the beginning of their case But Demler told news reporters that See NIELSEN B8 I Conservatives' words used to fight ban on gay marriage - By BROOKE ADAMS lhe Suk lake Tribune PALJLFiHnNTheSuhLakrThhww Yolanda King relates a fable to her Utah Valley State College audience about reaching out to people King daughter of Martin Luther King Jr performed dramatic monologues as she portrayed figures from the civil rights movement at Tuesday's 10th annual Martin Luther King Jr Commemoration at the Orem college PTSC honors the slain civil rights leader's daughter who urges positive action Borrowing the words of conservative politicians and pundits the Human Rights Campaign launched a multicity offensive Tuesday with radio and newspaper ads opposing a constitutional amendment to ban same-secivil marriage The message apparently reached its target audience in Salt Lake City — with mixed results The ads urge residents to call conand ask gressional representatives them to "be conservative with the Constitution" Both the radio and newspaper ads quote five conservatives who have spoken against the proposed Federal Marriage Amendment Sen Chuck former Sen Alan SimpBagel son former Rep Bob Barr RGa and syndicated columnists George Will and David Horowitz Many Utahns responder(' as asked About 100 people called Sen Orrin Hatch who previously has said It may be time to consider a constitutional amendment to protect traditional marriage But many callers were confused about the point of the ad said x V BY MARK EDDINGTON The Soli Lake Tribune up "off your apathy and do in the fight to Martin Luther King Jr's dream ofjustice and equality Yolanda King daughter of the famed civil rights activist urged Utah Valley State College students and faculty Tuesday The keynote speaker at UVSC's 10th annual Martin Luther King Jr Commemoration King said her father's dream of a day when people will be "judged by the content of their character Instead of the color of their skin" did not die with him in 1968 when he was gunned down by an assassin in Memphis Tenn "1 am a 100 percent believer in the dream" said the activist daughter who was named the first recipient of Get card-carryin- g the Orem college's Martin Luther King Jr Award for the her role in the "advancement and justice and human dignity" King her father's and Coretta Scott King's eldest child has actively promoted civil rights as a member of the Martin Luther King Jr Center for Nonviolent Social Change's board of directors She also has appeared as an actress in the "Ghosts of Mississippi" "Kine and in many other movies and television series "It seems only fitting that she be the recipient of this particular award" UNISC humanities Dean William Cobb said about King who has lectured in nearly every state and many counties For her part King says no one would be more displeased than her father if Americans observed Martin Luther King Jr Day on Jan 19 with "We need to celebrate our differences until those differences don't make a difference" YOLANDA KING rest and relaxation instead of doing something constructive to embrace diversity and the causes he espoused Performing brief sketches of civil rights luminaries such as Rosa Parks — the black seamstress whose refusal in 1955 to surrender her seat to a white passenger on a bus in Montgomery Ala ignited the movement —King highlighted past victories in the struggle and called upon students to con tinue the march of progress for which her father gave his life Instead of being bystanders or ceding victory in the fight to the purveyors of hate prejudice and ignorance King urged listeners to "choose to believe" and get Involved "You have to do your best and then God will step in and do the rest" she said King said humanity must learn to live together as brothers and sisters and to acknowledge and honor ethnic and cultural diversity while still recognizing we are more alike than different "We need to celebrate our differences until those differences don't make a difference" she said LIVSC's two-da- y commemoration of Martin Luther King Jr wraps up today with panels workshops and film screenings meddingionq sltribcom See CROUP 115 Rescue team says unhelpful security guard hindered search I hen Dominic Valente a cabin owner in the gated private community of Timberlakes near Heber City became lost v: t75nowmobiling Jan 3 the Was7 County Search and Rescue Team an unexpected barrier early 4t morning 47174 gate was locked They could not trt-tlthe area where he had ven- - tt - 1:10 A T ti-1- t—i t emergency number on the E- st':iA gn turned out to be disconnectC1-771en ! k- -- ti ki a :y -- :: 1 a security officer for the cornwas finally reached by phone unhelpful according to mein- - the rescue team Searchers H- through the gate when they 111 of a cabin owner who was an 'iIntance of one of the rescuers VVente was spotted 444 - ROLLY & WELLS EIMIEMMMII 41 0-- - - vett ' cop IT a bill aimed at abolishing the firing squad at the Utah State Prison Cole who called Allen "an inmate hugger" who has no understanding of "how things work" at Corrections received an obligatory response from the senator He also got an email from Ray Allen a Salt Lake area firefighter who Cole sent to mistakenly got the Sen Allen Unlike Ron Allen who says firing-squaexecutions focus attention on death-roinmates instead of their victims Ray Allen told Cole "I feel that televised executions and body cavity searches should be Implemented so the pal lc can become aware of the scum which people like yourself must deal with on a daily basis" Ray Allen says he occasionally re d later that morning by a Life Flight helicopter after he had spent the night in a snow cave he had dug lie was OK Different strokes: John Cole an employee of the Utah Department of Cor- rections recently sent a scathing to Sen lion Allen D Stansbury Park aftellAllen announced he is sponsoring for Ron Allen and typiceives cally forwards them to the senator But he couldn't resist answering Cole Different strokes We wrote last week about Peter and Amy COITOOn'S dilemma when a power outago from the snowstorm over Christmas prevented them from retrieving their rented video from their VCR They notified Blockbuster of the problem but got unsympathetic ears When power was restored after three days and they turned in the video they were hit with a late fee But when Jamison Livsey and Nathan Brian had the same outage-relateproblem with their DVD they told their problem to Hollywood Video at MO East and 400 South and were glanted a waiver on the late fee record-breakin- d We also recently wrote of a Salt Lake City resident who received a check as part of the settlement by Citibank of a class action suit then followed up last week with Doug Winters of Salt Lake City saying he got a check from the same settlement for 3 cents Salt Lake City resident Bob Cole beats them all Ills settlement check from Citibank was for 2 cents Must to sule: In response to America's mad cow scare owners of Ideler's Prime meat and deli inside The Store in Holladay erected this sign: "We have happy cows" - 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