Show The Herald Journal Logan Utah Wednesday October 2 1996 — Page 5 Gritz denies committing any crimes SUFFIELD Conn (AP) — Right wing survivalisl James G "bo" Grit had no intention of kidnapping two cliil dren in Connecticut and was there lu investigate if they were satanicall abused nis wife says Gritz 57 and his son James R Grit 38 on Tuesday had their bonds lowered to $50000 from $1 million during a hearing in Enfield Superior Court but their attorney said they would not be able to post bond until today forcing them to spend a second night in jail The Gritzes were arrested Monday after being spotted in the parking lot ol McAlister Middle School in Suflield One of the two children involved in fight is a student there The Grilzes wete each chaigcd with attempted kidnapping and luileiing on schuoi grounds Hie younger (itil also was chaigcd with possession ol a weapon and possession of huiglaiy tools Police said the weapon was a knilc "There was no kidnapping attempt at all” said Claudia Giil I min her home at salanically abused" Neither ol the Gritzes entered a plea luesday Hut in a written statement Glitz said: "I'm innocent My word is my bond" I le said the teal issue was not him but lire safely of the two boys ages 10 and 7 Ilatlfoid lawyer Jon L Schoenhorn who lepiesenled the two men said the chaigcs stemmed Irom a custody battle lietween his client Unda M Wiegand and hci ex husband 'Ihomas Wilkinson She was arrested in July in Las Vegas wlu-rshe lied with her two young sons in I 994 alter losing a custody battle The the Almost Heaven constitutional covenant community neat Kamiali Idaho “The intent was for ho to go hack there to check out il they weie being e children were returned to Wilkinson and she was freed on bail Gritz had taken an interest in enough evidence to charge the Giitcs but he said “no jury is going to convict case and decided to come to Connecticut to check il out alter she brought into Superior Court with his legs shackled Grtlz told Judge Wendy Susco that he had never seen the two children lire judge's response: pictures of the kids were found in the elder Grilz’s pockets In agreeing to lower bond Susco ordered the Gritzes to have no contact with the children Gritz a former Green beret who ran for president in 1992 is a national leader of the patriot movement Wie-gand- appeared recently on his radio talk show “Freedom Calls” Schoenhorn said When Gritz was arrested he was driving a car with Nevada plates owned by a friend of Wiegand The Gritzes said they were near the school because they were looking for a 1957 Chevrolet being offered for sale on the same street as the school the attorney said Schoenhorn acknowledged there was Bomber crash victims memorialized rand ReOpening r' 50 years later V- a - : j bUFFALO VALLEY Nev (AP) — Their remains are long gone but shards of metal still J 0 ? AT D E S E R ETi B O OK ! fufi' September 27 to October 14 Same Location Bigger litter the desert one-ha- lf century after II men died when their 9 bomber crashed in a driving rain At 1(1 am Tuesday 50 years to the day and hour after they lost thrir lives the soldiers may finally have heard taps or a salute And their descen- You’ll love the service ano selection Free giftwrapping (with minimum purchase) Free imprinting ‘(with the purchase of any book) Lamination service Framing service Computer software demonstration area Additional tearing areas Wider selection of LDS children's and national titles 21-g- dants have joined in paying them a long delayed tribute "The event which brought us together is now part of history” James Ferrigan told about KJU people who made the hour-lon- g trip from battle Mountain down a dusty road to attend the service Don’t Mtsa the special r to an air show at Fairfield ' Kingdom from 8:00 T N I i: O M K WEST VALLEY CITY (AP) — Gov Mike Leavitt hat 1 500 North Main St Logan 752-003- 3 Regular store hours: Monday - Friday 10 am 9 pm Saturday 10 am - 9 pm II E A ' r 'I'w-'- J i :£! ft lafJ - r : 3“Vy-- i Friday October 4 10 am to 6 pm Logan Regional Hospital r S - i df v mip nw L Tours of the new Birthing Suites SBOTijnrirrirrir'M' & - Ji p ' ' - treadmill irom ICON an Prizes Including a space-saveovernight stay at Center Street Bed and Breakfast and many more Refreshments r V&- Using the law West Valley expects to raise $4 million in redevelopment funds for a $54 Displays and give aways Going to the USIJBUJ game' The first 100 people to stop by the open house after S pm will receive a free sports fig- ured the population reached mug (2 per family please) 100000 more than a year ago But the Census Bureau still listed the city's population at 1994’s estimate of 94663 Census workers believed the city had a 10 percent vacancy rale Since then Joseph Moore the city's community and economic-developmedirector and intern Leisa Perkins have been trying to convince the bureau that the resi-decity had at least 5337 more nt Moore flew to Washington six months ago with statistics on the city’s 9 percent growth rate birth y figures Not good enough duplex basement apartment and complex for residents R II s " s Last month Perkins walked door to door checking every I Open House V'iS rt building-occupanc- I Birthing Suites 3s 100000-plu- s and death rates and pm CARE IAIN Women’s Center N U me 6:00 to Deseret Book e Leavitt proclaims West Valley a big city million hockey arena Actually the city officials in Zion: True Stories of Yount Pioneers Building (he e father Sgt Don Finnell and the other men who died with him II veterans The World-Wawere on a peacetime mission en route from Grand Island Neb Neighborhood Development Act cities to allows Utah’s first-clasuse redevelopment fund to pay for sports arenas Salt Lake City used the law to finance construction of the Delta Center and Franklin Quest Field Meet local audurr Susan Arrington Madsen signing her new book Gntuang Up Senior Airman Todd Hudson of ttie Nevada National Guard plays taps at the end of the memorial service at the site of a bomber crash 50 years ago Tuesday in Buffalo Valley Nev Icars swelled in her eyes as "Il s amaitig how it affects Zebedee of Gainsville Fla memliers of lire Nevada Nalion-a- l you" Rainey said scanning Ihe was not yet born Guard paid tribute to the dead endless horizon on this hot “We've heard so many differsalute and laps autumn day "Een 50 years ent stories over Ihe years” John with a n ZelK-deechoed across the valley later 1 didn't sleep last night said “Nobody has had A b-- 1 bomber hid the “Of all Ihe comrades I ever a chance to visit Ihe site deceased a final farewell with a lost this is Ihe first chance I've before” Fur him and his brother makflyover As ils thunderous roar had logo lo a tncmoiiul" Al this deserl grave Rainey dimmed with distance a baging the trip lo the remote desert brought a sense of closure and piper look up Ihe salute with and his wife Mildicd of Vacaville (alil mourned alongside closeness lo Ihe father they “Amazing Grace” John Rainey was one of the Ihe two sons Zebedee left never knew “It is one trip I would have original crew members who was behind of Si Ihomas John ZelK-demade under any circumlobe oil thf djiiumprj flight Oct! 1 194b but lie deferred his post Virgin Islands was aurally 2- - stances” John Zebedee said to Sgt John Zebedee who years old when ihe father he Added his brother Ron “This warned to visit family was named after died Ron is a day to remember” 21-gu- the day came after countless years of searching records to try to learn all could about her The designation has been important to the city because the Saturday October 5 AP photo mother Marian Saval Ferrigan was one of the first at the scene of the crash as a young woman “It js the who we come here to remember today” he said For Dawn Finnell Sherman population needed for the designation and Wert Valley officials have had a tough time proving the suburb has that many folk But on Tuesday Leavitt city officials neighbors and reporters crammed into the still-diyard of Den and Mark Warner to honor Den as the city’s 100000th person based on when the family moved in EVENT— ONE-DA-Y ‘‘The why we will never know” said Ferrigan whose Valley have the Store Save up to 75 on re leered products Free drawings for new Deseret Book prod u ere Free balloons for the kids b-2- declared Wert Valley City Utah's second firrt-da-u municipality Only Salt Lake City and Wert them” LEBRATION Families mourn Calif when the plane crashed It was Dawn Sherman1 of Prescott lArizj who organined the memorial service at the victim’s final resting place ’s Logan Regional Hospital A Sen ut ol Imermountoin Health Care Pi m |