Show The Herald Journal Logan Utah Thursday January Sixth graders try again with seatbelt campaign - SALT LAKE CITY (UPI) e The class that last year convinced legislators to declare the bee Utah's state insect have launched a major campaign to urge youngsters — and everyone else — to buckle their seatbelts The 25 youngsters members of the Ridgecrest Elementary School's gifted and talented group traveled to the State Capitol Wednesday to thank Gov Scott Matheson for his support of legislation requiring children be strapped in sixth-grad- while riding in vehicles The 11- - and brought with them n of Utah representatives of a business who have thrown their support behind the children in their campaign to convince Utah’s youth to buckle up Matheson received a plaque of appreciation from the American Seatbelt Council for his support of seatbelt safety and signed a proclamation prepared by the children declaring April to be Buckle-u- p Month “I'm going to issue this proclamation today and put a copy on the desk of every senator" Matheson said in reference to the Senate's failure to allow introduction of the child restraint bill during the Legislature's budget session “I find youngsters have more impact than adults when they ask you to do something” cross-sectio- 20-da- y 26 1984- -3 BIGGEST Matheson said “You've got to fish or cut bait" Each child stood up and recited facts and myths about seatbelt use including some rather gruesome statistics They included the deaths of 31 children under 5 during the past four years Of that number one was buckled in a champion of the Sen Karl Snow child restraint bill was also honored by the youngsters and the council “I think that a state that is committed to the right to life of the unborn should be equally committed to the right to life of those already born" Snow said The children outlined for the governor an ambitious public relations campaign to be launched within their school — and statewide The youngsters polled their classmates last fall to find out how commonly their peers buckled up before embarking on motor trips To their chagrin only 25 to 30 percent of the children polled said they used seatbelts sometimes to always while 70 to 75 percent said they never or infrequently used the devices the children said So they were faced with a problem — “How could we take this 75 percent of kids in our own school and get them to wear seatbelts?" said Dr Rodney Pollary a parent volunteer at the school EVER ill-fat- ed life-savi- Legislative report Utah SALT LAKE CITY (UPI) -The Utah House has delayed action on a bill to extend the temporary percent sales tax increase lawmakers had approved during last summer's special session for one-ha- lf flooding The House circled HB136 Wednesday after killing a proposed amendment that would have increased the sales tax hike by another percent but exempted food items from the increase The sales tax proposal would make permanent the one-hapercent sales tax that was approved last summer for just me year That temporary tax hike is scheduled to expire Sept one-ha- lf lf 30 Salt Lake County Wednesday agreed to dredge its portion of the Jordan River a move the Governor's Office hopes will clear the way for the breaching of the railroad causeway on Great Salt Lake The county had delayed entering into an agreement with the state Utah County and the US Army Corps of Engineers because it wanted to make sure it was not liable for property damage due to dredging said Commission Chairman Mike Stewart But several members of the Utah Senate said they could not support breaching the causeway to prevent flooding this spring on the lake’s south shore unless the Jordan River feeding into the lake was dredged Utah County had already agreed to dredge its portion of the river which links Utah Lake to Great Salt Lake (UPI) Gov John r education” Evans speaking to the Joint Public Education Reform Committee called inadequate the panel's proposal to raise teacher salaries 17 percent over the next two years with 60 percent of the boost in the coming year The Democratic Governor called for increasing salaries 23 percent over two years with 75 percent of the hike in the first year An Idaho Senate committee is Region report Reagan's deer check SALT LAKE CITY (UPI) — It was a little tempting but the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources rejected a collector's bid to sell him a $100 check sent by President Reagan to help the state’s starving deer Utah officials cashed the check Wednesday rather than sell it for $600 Division spokesman Steve Phillips said his office made a photocopy of Reagan’s check for the collector hoping the man would also make a contribution to the “Save the Deer Fund” In addition a Salt Lake City radio station offered to auction the check to listeners and give the proceeds to the state's fight to save starving deer herds But Phillips said the White House did not think the sale or auction would be appropriate A White House official requested the check be cashed he said The Division has received about $190000 in donations nationwide The contributions are about half of what the state needs to feed the hungry deer driven out of the northern Utah mountains by record December snowfall The division estimated half of the approximately 100000 deer in four northern Utah counties would die this winter without supplemental feeding Phillips said the check from the president will buy about 1000 pounds of feed for the hungry deer Singer gets 3 years SALT LAKE CITY (UPI) — A federal judge has sentenced a former member of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir to three years in prison on his guilty plea to charges of defrauding diamond buyers out of about $135000 Judge Aldon Anderson ordered Jeffrey Randall Peo 35 Salt Lake City to give the money back to his victims The judge also said Peo will must undergo a psychiatric evaluation before he is placed in a federal prison During his sentencing hearing Wednesday Peo told the judge he was completing a $300 million deal in Europe involving the use of windmills to generate electricity and he would repay the diamond buyers But federal prosecutor Richard Lambert called Peo's windmill plan "just more pie in the sky" - first-eve- The 1983 complaint against Peo alleged he aimed his fraud at doctors and dentists seeking investments in his diamond and precious metals business Lambert said Peo never delivered the gems to victims years A return to biennial sessions — a format discarded in the late 1960s — was proposed dnesday We- Walter Sen by sgfl®Sl View Yarbrough The Senate State Affairs Committee agreed to introduce nd n sPeC‘°' so cnthus’iaS'' M's amendment which has been defeated by legislators several times in recent years Evans testiin his mony before a legislative committee — called Wednesday for quickly increasing Idaho teacher salaries to the level of surrounding states Evans said he took the extraordinary step of appearing before a legislative committee because “there is no task more important to the future of Idaho than a sound financial base for — iV"l sessions only in the proposed constitutional Idaho BOISE considering a proposal ordering the Legislature to hold regular “? oeo n'° la' The Senate Judiciary Committee has introduced a bill that would establish procedures under which alleged violations of the Idaho Open Meeting Law and claims for damages for the actions could be debated in district court The proposed statute would allow a judge to determine whether a challenged decision by a governing board or public agency was reached within the guidelines of the law A judge who decided after a court hearing that a violation had occurred could declare the agency’s decision null and void order the offending body to remedy the action and award damages to the complaining °’ A ed 0 rt'ousa'' nevet rec Seveal h 'Ne hove the® rices 0tforin9 have Woe rol0Y®°s- - B Al't ''' been have theWWr s0e prices the6 'eS boy for oxCbe chandis® sole -- Hod' can''v:ches fosts nty Vi No party A bill to give authorities more discretion to incarcerate juveniles in youth detention centers rather than county jails has been sent to the printer by the Senate Judiciary Committee Dispatcher goes to jail - A former BONNERS FERRY Idaho (UPI) Boundary County Sheriffs dispatcher has been sentenced to three years in prison for stealing $913 in traffic bond funds Audrey Schenk who pleaded guilty last month to misusing public funds was sentenced Monday in Bonners Ferry by First District Judge Dar Cogswell who said the woman when exposed to someone else’s cash “has an impulse to take that money” Cogswell ordered the former dispatcher to serve her time at the state facility at Cottonwood Boise gambling ring BOISE (UPI) — Boise police raided a local bar and residence Wednesday and found evidence of a gambling ring involving a number of sports Sgt Paul Phelps says He would not reveal the evidence seized at Seavy’s bar and the Boise home in the search at 11am Phelps said arrests are expected one has been apprehended yet although no Tax protester's threat POCATELLO Idaho (UPI) — Tax protester Clifford Turner has threatened to shoot any law enforcement officer who challenges his “life liberty and property" Bannock County authorities said Wednesday Turner of Georgetown recently attached a statement to court documents saying he is armed at all times and is prepared to protect himself from the government “If we encounter him for some reason I have warned my officers to use extreme caution" Bannock County Sheriff Shirley Ga meson said Murray fire kills 2 - SALT LAKE CITY (UPI) A Murray-are- a couple died in an early morning fire today when flames swept through their trailer house The names of the victims were withheld pending notification of next of kin Salt Lake County Fire Battalion Chief Dale McMillan said firefighters received the call at 1:19 am and the first unit arrived four minutes later at the Majestic Oaks Mobile Home Park near Eighth West and 4600 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