Show The Herald Journal Logan Utah Monday April 1 1996 Page 3 Juvenile judges consider changes i Jtr SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah's 21 juvenile-coujudges will meet in Cedar City next month to discuss how much access the public should have to kids' court hearings and records rt a topic of increasing interest nationwide Utah already has opened part of the juvenile justice system the Legislature last year passed a law that makes the criminal records of juveniles age 16 or older public if they are charged with a felony “With the increased number (of R Hart EvanaHeratd Journal Demler Quarterhorses chariot racing team won the Cutter and Chariot Racing World Championships for the second year in mud Demler watched the back of Sherm Hadley of Roy all the way down the 440 yards Finishing second That forced race on Saturday for Demler a Quarterhorses to get into the Final Dash Sunday was a different story Hadley chased Demler to the finish line His team Wasatch Slopes from Ogden finished second in 2243 and Monty Atrosa from Snake River Idaho took third in By Shawn Harrison sports writer OGDEN — For the second year in a row Gydc and Shannon Dernier are the best in the world at chariot racing The Wellsville-base- d Demler Quarter-horse- s won the Cutter and Chariot Racing World Championships Sunday at the Weber County Fairgrounds after five days of racing Gyde drove the team of Six To Spare and Merridocs Moon Lark to victory in the Final Dash in front of an do-or-d- ic 2247 “I knew these horses come on at the end so I felt confident” Clyde said “I was pretty happy at the end” So happy that he raised his arm and threw his whip into the air as he crossed the finish line a full length ahead of Sherm Hadley Clyde said he had never done that before Last year the father (Clyde) and son sec- onds “We broke out good they lined up I put the whip away and we went to running” said Clyde after the race “I felt good because I wasn't behind" During preliminaries on Friday in the (Shannon) team won the world title for the First time After chariot racing for 20 years the Dcmlers are enjoying being on top “Both were great I’m on top of the world” Clyde said “I’m as happy with this win as 1 was with last year’s” “It’s tough to get two horses that run together but these two have done well” Shannon said "These horses seem to run just fast enough to win” Before the championship race the Dcmlers announced that the 11 -- year-old Six To Spare had run his final race He will be retired "1 don't want to hurt him” Gyde said "He has done it all and doesn’t owe us anything” Gibbs Racing with the Skyline Racing c“ Genae Stevenson ing their once secret files and Association in Smithfield took fifth in opening courtroom doors Fifteen states and the District of Columbia have opened their court hearings to the public regardless of the offender's age or type of crime according to a survey by the National Center for Juvenile Justice in Pittsburgh the top division and also won the Showmanship Award Other local teams that placed in the the other divisions include: Gibbs Thomson A Wright of Skyline took fourth in the third division Wilker Ranch of Cache Vfclley (Preston) ran to second in the fourth division Pitcher Bennett Clark A Munk of Skyline Thirty states have limited access to juvenile court records ranging from releasing the picked up fourth in the fourth division Gibbs & Wheeler of Skyline took third in the fifth division Cory Bingham of Weston was named Rookie of the Year Driver He drove for his parents Wayne and Marcella Bingham with the Cache Valley Association in the first division See Friday’s Cache magazine for more on the Demler chariot racing team offender’s name to complete staff writer Technology is changing the way the Logan post office docs business Two new services have recently been implemented according to Postmaster Kim Taylor Logan has been chosen as one of the first cities and one of 49 in the state to accept credit and debit cards for purchases "We’ve had this service for about a month now and people are really pleased with it” Taylor said "It's really popular with students because many don't have a checking account” dis- closure of criminal records Remaining states’ juvenile records are closed In Utah juvenile court judges have the right to open hearings for juveniles under 16 It is under that provision that 3rd District Juvenile Court Judge on Kimberly IfornA'wlf Tuesday whether' tht) neWs "Alcala will be allowed into court hearings of a girl accused of killing her mother Jessica Kaddourah has pleaded innocent to charges that the stran- ' The service is also available in North Logan and Thylor said the service will most likely be offered by other Cache Valley post offices in the future Credit cards can be used for all retail purchases and services except money orders The post office also began Global Priority Mail service last Monday This service provides quicker delivery to 27 countries in Western Europe and the Pacific Rim "Anyone who has a missionary is mailing under 4 pounds and wants to get it there quicker will greatly benefit from this service" Taylor said "It gets there faster because it doesn't have to go through customs” Taylor said the service which starts at $375 will get mail to these international countries in three to four days the young violent offenders) Post office keeping pace with technology By I public is entitled to know’’ said Utah Juvenile Court Administrator John McNamara “There is nothing secret or magical in being in that courtroom” Indeed many states are unlock- team races to victory Father-so-n overflowing grandstand in 2233 a row as opposed to regular service which can take over a week In addition to the new services the US Postal Service will undergo major rate changes starting July 1 Taylor said "This will be the biggest rate restructuring of the postal service in 100 years” Taylor said gled her mother Donna 4 r t Kad- dourah Shelton and left her body in a Murray pond on Feb 20 The girl turned 14 several days later Homak’s decision may have a lasting effect on how many other The change will largely affect bulk rate customers juvenile proceedings are made Because of automation Thylor said bulk customers will need to update the way their mail comes to the post office "If they can adjust they can save a kit of money” Thy-lsaid Stamp rates will remain at 32 cents The change will help the postal service keep average rates down Tfcylor said public: Other juvenile-cou- rt judges are expected to use her or ruling as a guideline The family had moved to Utah from New Mexico just days before Shelton died 1 Utah Highway Patrol gives school buses safety awards By Phil Jensen staff writer School buses that haul around thousands of children in Cache County arc about as safe as you can get The Utah Highway Patrol has dished out gold and silver plaques to the Cache County and Logan City school districts for bus safety and special awards for dean buses The honors followed two state inspections of the bus fleets in which all 95 buses in Cache and 22 in Logan were checked The plaques were presented at a recent conference of the State Pupil Transportation Association in St George Cache was tlie largest of Utah's 40 school districts to get a gold plaque the highest safety award possible Ten other districts and the Utah School for the Deaf and Blind in Ogden got the gold but the next largest was in Washington County Washington went through 139 inspections compared to 168 in Cache County Cache operates 95 buses and has 75 on the road during an average day taking children to and from school said Bill Hcrtoiio district director of auxiliary services Bcrlolio said 8500 of the district’s 13000 sludcnls take the bus Cache received a gold plaque twp yean ago along with the award for most improved bus fleet Bcrtolio said Wayne Reese Cache's transportation supervisor said school buses are being retrofitted to eliminate potential dangers of students getting drawstrings on their clothing caught in handrails as they enter or leave buses Reese said the snag can be dangerous if a driver doesn't realize it and doses the door Meanwhile the district urged parents not to dress children in clothing that has drawstrings The Logan district is one of eight to get a silver plaque Logan has 22 buses with 18 on the toad dui-in- g an average school day Pat Bauer division manager of Laidlaw Transit Inc which operates Logan's bus system said Logan received only one demerit for an inoperable stepwcll light fj A Hart EvanaHaraU Journal Children board school buses at Mount Logan Middle School Friday The Utah Highway Patrol recently declared both the Cache and Logan school district buses sate and dean a fiu Conflicting evidence surrounds mystery of missing Frenchman nolo: In calebraton at Utah's Cantonnial 1996 The Herald Journal features sach week atcta that appeared in Cache VaSey newspapers 100 years ego Spelling and grammar appsar m the stones as Swy ware written a century ago Editor In mystery Will it ever be answered to the name of Prosper Cbazal That the latter was murdered seems sat- That is a query that is now agitating the gray isfactorily certain: that the zinc box corpse is that of a man who met with ? fully-unwound- Excerpts from The Journal April 2 matter of many persons both in and out of official THE TRUNK MYSTERY circles While it seems 1896: Conflicting Evidences Regarding the Identity of the Salt Lake Cadaver Thought to Belong to a Person Who Disappeared in Washington but the Salt Police Still Believe it to be Cbazal A kink has occurred in the attempted further unraveling the thread that runs thtough the Salt Dike and Chicago trunk to have proved been beyond rny question of mistake or doubt that the sslt-pct- cr cured lime corroded remains discovered in Chicago were shipped from Salt Lake the fact has not yet been absolutely established that they were once inhabited by the spirit of the restless roving and cnanc Frenchman who foul play is equally certain But are they one and the same man? Nearly every Salt Lake detective and police officer familiar with Chazal's disappearance as well as the few remaining members filled with gold or amalgum or whether a truss encircled his bony anatomy there is one other important discrepancy The dispatches say that the Chicago corpse was that of a man of five feet six inches At the bank in this city where Chazal his money the vault keeper is of kept unswerving in his statement that the the once famous or rather infamous French colony answer emphatically that they feel sure of it There is however some room for speculation on this point Aside from the controversy that has arisen as to whether Chazal had a closely cropped head of hair and a smooth shaven face and the corpse a fairly elaborate post mortem hirsute as to whether his teeth were Frenchman was a powerful athletic fellow whose stature was not a whit less than six feet one inch To a News man he said "I had every opportunity to judge his height He came into the bank very often sometimes paying several visits to the vault in a day The vault keeper thinks that if Chazal was ever murdered it was with his diamonds in his possession This is also "fSL1 apparently the theory of Detective Sheets who said today that he remembers very well the expressman who is said to have driven the box to the depot His name is Cunningham and is said to be in a Southern California town Sheets says he can pick him out of a million men It now transpires that there is only one "Morgan” connected with the affair and not two as given in the dispatches That is if the information which comes officially to Chief Pratt is correct A letter to him from the captain of police at Austin Illinois savs practically that G M and C M Morgan arc one and the same that the former w as consignee and consignor But there is not the slightest clue to the v f identity of this decidedly mysterious individual — Deseret News b p " - - r |