Show VoL87Nol103 Monday I April 2 - Bridgertantfs Daily Newspaper Logan Utah Vi 0 1996 50 Cents Shortage blamed for soaring gas prices Inside By Charles staff writer H Featherstone Cache Valley gasoline prices have gone up about 20 cents since April 1 but motorists angry at gas station owners may be yelling at the wrong person “The refineries set the prices" said Dedicated residents document Mention's May Day Page 9 Update Diet Eat less and live longer study finds Lm Bowman 8crippa Howard News Service By Cutting back calories by 30 percent lowen the body temperature and could lead to a longer life — at least in rhesus and squirrel monkeys Researchers at the National Institute on Aging reported Ticsday that a lower metabolic rate and accompanying lower temperatures was noted as the monkeys adjusted to reduced feeding and while they were on restricted diets for several years They report their findings in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Scientists have known for decades that fewer calories in rodents and other wwall animat can lead to longer life maintain vitality and delay or reduce disease But the NIA’s study of 200 monnearly decade-lon- g first to look at priof one the is keys mates The ratio of lower temperatures in monkeys is similar to those noted in rats and mice that lived longeron reduced diets “This work in monkeys raises the possibility that the beneficial effects of caloric restriction may occur in higher primates and might even someday include humans" said Dr George Roth lead researcher in the study Most mammals use a large part of their food to maintain a relatively high body temperature In people reduced body temperature due to caloric restriction has been seen only in starvation studies where calories were limited by more than 30 percent of normal eating The researchers speculate that reduced body temperatures may affect a number of biological processes such as DNA damage and repair and the development of certain tumors lt They have suggested that the erf a complex biochemical chain reaction could oe a possible “biomarker" that could be used to measure the aging process This chemical compound called has been found to increase with age In caloric restriction studies animal on restricted diets had a slower accumulation of the compound and it may be associated with longevity Roth said that “pentosidine and body temperature may be only two of many aspects of aging that exhibit lower levels in calorically restricted animals" Pete Kendrick an office manager for Jardine Petroleum one of several gasoline and petroleum product distributors in Cache Valley “We’re at the mercy of the market just like the consumer is there’s nothing we can do about the price of gas" said Scott Rees manager of the Phillips 66 station The Utah price increase reflects a national increase in gasoline prices although according to an Associated near the corner of 200 North and 600 West According to Steve Moore vice president of Jardine Petroleum the nigh-priis based on a very real supply shortage in Utah “I get asked about 14 times a day why the mice of gasoline is so high Supply is tight because one of Utah’s three refineries the Amoco refinery is down for scheduled maintenance” Moore said Moore said he did not know when the Amoco facility would come back on-libut added that the price has probably peaked and should start to come down Press story prices in Cache Valley have gone up much more steeply that average prices in other parts of the country with an 8 cent average increase throughout the Rocky Mountain states Prices for a gallon of regular unleaded in Cache Valley range from a low of $127 to $136 with an average price of $132 not much higher than ce pcr-gall- on rock-botto- the national average of $130 at ne m self-serv- e pumps Also adding to Cache Valley prices is the cost of trucking gasoline over the soon mountains “There’s a minimum cost of two cents a gallon to get gasoline in here” Rees said According to Kendrick higher prices don't mean more money for gasoline retailers “Higher prices mean lower margins It takes about five cents a gallon to operate and gas stations are keeping their margins as thin as possible How do you keep a customer at $140 a gallon?” he said There are three refineries in Utah — Chevron Phillips and Amoco — plus a SinclairConoco gas pipeline that comes into Salt Lake City from Casper Wyo Utah art teacher of year Color her committed Sky View educator draws on her own difficult childhood to relate to students By Mike Mender staff writer A 1 i Sky View High art teacher was named Utah High School Art Teacher of the year this month No one would be more surprised than the grade school teachers who dealt with her in her childhood You see Zan Bumingham flunked kindergarten In fact she flunked first and second grade too After testing school administrators labeled her retarded and she spent the next six years in the special education class “They said ‘She’ll never learn just let her sit in class and socialize and participate as much as she can" Bumingham of Logan said “And that’s what I did until about the seventh grade “I tried to slough school all the time because I didn't want to have to walk into the first grade teaching room The kids would wait for me so they could call me a retard 1 was in the fifth grade and I was going into the first I would grade class to Icam to read hide in the bathrooms The stigma was pretty bad” Though Bumingham endured difficult times as a special education student those experiences shaped her life and gave her perspective to succeed Things began to turn around for her in the seventh grade A teacher took an interest in her and gave her some individual instruction Bumingham credits o c a R Hart EvowHartod Journal Art teacher Zan Bumingham affectionately pats one of the multitude of objects adorning her Sky View classroom the teacher with changing her life and providing her motivation to go into tfaching “She taught me how to read and 'gave me confidence" Bumingham So said “She changed my self-imaI just worked with my limitations I’ve gotten smarter as I’ve matured and I’ve found ways to lcam — my own ge ways But let’s face it it’s a good thing I’m teaching art" Bumingham laughed as she said it It’s typical of her style Ask Bumingham about the award she won and she’ll quickly deflect attention to her students “They got me the award" she said “They made me look good” self-effaci- ng Indeed Bumingham ’ students have done well Fourteen of her students were selected to show their works at the prestigious Springville Art Show — the art eauivalcnt of the state tournament in high school athletics Of thousands of entrants only 250 are See TEACHER on PSge 8 end-resu- pen-tosidi- ne Cache tonight SctortMi of aB aps are tovtod to axptor ton acoustics to zoology to tonight to Utah StatoUrWw-tot- y Th Mrt la free and opan to toe putc AcMlae are eat tor fie Dlaoovery Carter Room 132 of tie Scianoa and Engineanrg Raaaard) buSdtog and toa aaoond Door teeaioway of fie Patoreon Engineering toild-toFor more totormafon cal Lynnefto Harria 77-135-8 or too Dwoovery Carter alternation ne dUctoltoaa g 797-072- 3 PagO 4 Other events Woaihor weather retreats leaving Wintry springlike temperatures on this week's agenda Page 8 Index About Cache 4 CUssieds 13 Comics 11 Crossword Movies Sports Clinton plans crackdown on meth labs use 11 10 6 IM -- a i?jS libera Nurse sees no boundaries to offering help MIAMI (AP) — President Clinton announced another assault on drugs today to stop the spread of the cheap and popular drug methamphetamine “before h becomes the crack of the 1990s” Standing before students who pledged to be drug-fre- e Clinton proposed making it a crime to store use or handle chemicals for the purpose of manufacturing methamphetamine The drug creates a euphoric high followed by depression paranoia and when used long term violent rages Deaths from the use of methamphetamine — also known as speed — have doubled in the past fout years Clinton said In Los Angeles alone deaths rose from 68 in 1992 to 219 in 1994 “That is a deadly drug I’m glad it is not here yet” Clinton said “But we have to stop it before it becomes the crack of the 1990s and we are going after it right now" He called for raising the minimum sentence for possessing methamphetamine to the same as the By Mike Mender staff writer As child with asthma Logan resident Betty Daines 29 learned how lonely a hospital can be for a child As a nurse Daines has seen miracles wrought by modem medicine and lives changed forever for the good So when her cousin Criig Merrill a plastic surgeon from Virginia introduced her to Operation Smile she knew it was something she had to be involved with Operation Smile is a volunteer program that sends teams of medical professionals to developing or Third World countries to help children — performing pediatric surgeries and educating native medical professionals about current health care techniques The volunteers who work with Project Smile pay a large percentage of their own traveling expenses The rest of the project funding comes from donations and fund-raisiprograms For Daines one of the most difficult parts of volunteering wrh Operation Smile was leaving behind her young family Both times she volunteered with Operation Smile she left behind infant children But when she looks at her two children Spencer 3 and Julian 18 months she real ires she made the right choice “It's eay to see H on the news and say that it’s far m R Hart Evans Logan s Batty Danes volunteers as a nurse abroad through Operation Smile widely criticized penalty for crack cocaine: five years in prison for five grams He also wants new resources for helping law enforcement agencies ferret out secret meth labs and shut them down Clinton appealed to Congress for $151 billion for drug control next year a 93 percent increase “We cant stop drugs if our schools hospitals and communities don’t have the money to get the job done” Clinton said “This has got to he a bipartisan effort” American Clinton’s announcement has political overtones The Clinton campaign believes that Florida's 25 chunk electoral votes — the nation's fourth-large— are within reach this year Drugs are an important l issue here and Clinton hopes the anti-dru- g strategy-wilwith inroad an Florida voters who give him have voted Republican in every presidential election since 1976 non-politic- al away it's not here" Daines said “But they're our brothers and sisters God never made those boundaries that we've created as nations They need our help” Daines' first mission was in 1993 to Bucharest Romania The focus of the Romanian mission was deft Sec NURSE oa Page 8 l - st |