Show hvoi 87t No 242 Tuesday Octobers 1996 Inside Move airport for new road? That’s one option eyed for US 91 realignment but don’t call it a bypass By Michael R Weibel staff writer Now new moms have special rooms of their own Page 13 Update Lousy luck dogs unlucky lottery winner Cars may someday replace airplanes at e Airport as local officials consider realigning US Highway 91 between Logan and Richmond over the main runway At first some people attending Monday's meeting of the Cache Metropolitan Planning Organization thought it was a joke But Hyde Park Mayor Mark Daincs assured them the idea is getting serious attention Daincs said the airport has fog problems and it can be relocated perhaps to Cache Valley’s western hills where Box Elder County residents might be more apt to use it as well And at least Logan-Cach- for the length of the runway there wouldn't be problems with replacing wetlands when developing a new highway North Logan Mayor A1 Moser said “If you look at where the road ought to go it really ought to go where the airport is" The CMPO executive council agreed Monday the new road shouldn't be called a bypass Instead it should be called US 91 with the existing highway referred to as a business loop That way the state may be convinced to pick up more of the tab for construction and maintenance of the new road “This is not a bypass road This is Highway 91" Moser said noting that the local officials should think down the road about 50 years “It should be put where it ought to go” But Airport Manager Mike Nilson said moving the airport is not feasible “It would cost us millions and millions and See US 91 on Page 12 Mitch MascaroHerald Journal to could be relocated make way for a realigr Airport 91 but the airport's manager says such a move would be costly The Logan-Cach- US e State park visits soar in Utah PITTSBURGH (AP) — For most people getting rid of a lottery jackpot of $49 million would be a piece of cake Then again most people haven't had the had luck of William “Bud" Post whose life went downhill ever since he won the Pennsylvania Lottery in 1988 Now bankrupt Post arranged on Sept 26 for a federal judge to auction off what was left of his prize payments to Prosperity Partners Inc of West Palm Beach Fla for $265 million The money was supposed to pay off Post's myriad debts and leave him with $5(X)(K)n to $ I million But on Monday the company tried to set up a press conference to announce it was backing out of the sale Post who said he found out Monday afternoon 'that the deal had collapsed refused to attend “You know Murphy's law? If any-- ’ thing bad can happen it w ill happen? That's me" Post said “We keep this up and we'll he in the lottery business forever" Post said the prize will now go to the bidder Singer Asset Finance Co which hid $264 million That deal is expected to be finalized this week he said The aborted sale is the latest link in a chain of bad luck for Post a former carnival worker After winning his sixth w ife moved out on him his brother was convicted of trying to kill him and his landlady successfully d sued for of his w innings next-highe- st one-thir- Various businesses he started with siblings failed: his mansion is in desperate need of repair Now he doesn't even have heat with w inter awning on Lawyers for the state Department of Revenue which includes the lottery had tried to block the sale last month by arguing that lottery rules prohibit winners from transferring their prizes US Bankruptcy Court Judge Judith Fitzgerald said the transfer was valid The stale has not decided whether to appeal but Post said the perceived uncertainty of the sale was what killed the deal w ith Prosperity Partners “They said in court they've never backed out of a deal before’ he said “I trulv won the lottery of death I think" Cache tonight South Cache Freshman Center pawt-teache- r conferences will be from 4:30 to 7:30 tonight and from 8 to 11 30 am Wednesday No school will be held Wednesday Parents and students are encouraged to attend Other events Page 4 Weather Weather prognosticators are beginning to sound like a broken record Page 12 Index 50 Cents Logan Utah © 1996 Bridgertand’s Daily Newspaper Milch Four-year-o- ld Jordan Leavitt sits with one of the only pumpkins left behind by pumpkin thieves that struck his Hyde Park home Saturday night Jordan and his family were robbed of 12 pumpkins Thieves put dark face on Halloween for boy Bye bye pumpkins: By Miriam Rand staff writer Jordan Leavitt was with his parents as they planted the seeds for their pumpkin patch in Hyde Park last spring He walked through the garden with his father as the vines grew and blossomed and when his parents showed him the very first pumpkin on the vine last summer Jordan decided on the spot that would be “his" pumpkin He watched all summer and into fall as it grew larger and larger and finally changed from green to orange Then the big day finally came Saturday It was time to harvest the pumpkins and put Four-year-o- ld Mascaro Herald Journal they grew their garden including the biggest one which Jordan had tended all summer for Halloween in them on display on the front steps of his Hyde Park home “He was so excited" said his father Gary Leavitt But that excitement turned to sadness for the preschooler the very next morning when the Leavitt family awoke to find their pumpkins had been stolen from their front steps during the night “My pumpkins are gone" Jordan said crying His parents tried to comfort him by taking him out to look for the missing pumpkins Sunday was spent driving around the neighborhood for any sign of them and even on Monday Jordan was still begging his dad to try and find them “If the people who took ihini knew how much they meant to a little who waited paliuill) all summer to pick them and couldn't wait io put them out" he said "Sure we can go out and buy a bunch more pumpkins but it won't be the same for him It s a sentimental " thing Marcy Morilscn secretary at the ('ache Counts Sheriff's Otliee said the agencx gets lots ol calls on stolen and damaged pumpkins and decorations around Halloween and agreed that it's not so much the money as the sentiment not a big dollar amount" “It's usually she said "It s just that people spend a lot of time on their decorations" Man faces prison for plunder of Little Big Horn binoculars DENVER (AP) — Twenty-fiv- e years ago a glint of sunlight led a tourist at the Little Bighorn Battlefield in Montana to a pair of binoculars some belies c may have belonged to Lt Col George Armstrong Custer Now the tourist a Champaign 111 man as been accused of plundering the field lasses from the site of Custer's Last Stand and awaits a review of the case under the Archaeological Resources Protection Act The act prohibits the unauthorized excavation removal or sale of such relics from public lands The battlefield once know n as Custer's Battlefield in 1991 was renamed the Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument by Congress The man whose name has been withheld pending charges told authorities he pried the binoculars from the ground after seeing a lens glinting in the sun at the battle site where Custer and 262 of his 7th Calvary soldiers died on June 25 1876 He may face up to two years in p'lsm and a S200U0 fine POOR COPY Park Scofield Reservoir and Oner Creek State Park also mort than doubled in those five yea's In many eases the attractions have been improved listing an I camping and most visitors have been Utah residents In nther cases the stale sins have attracted the overflow from rational parks and most v isitors have been from out of state I he most popular state parks Si? PARKS on Page Hyrum State Park in Cache Ccu-t- y Hy'um- State Pars enjoyed a banner yea'- in ana saw a kg me'ease m revenue generated according to Parfc Manager Lee Gyiienskog While visitation went to 84 415 for the 1996 fiscal yea' horn 83 673 m 1995 the park s revenue lumped to vs-itat'- d 95 m fe a-- etn to"ore peer e yea irg s n-- i" vs t rt :a‘e adantace c fo fsnng s "3 ca"1'? ng at tnc 45I1 acre e -- er: cv' Bear Lake State Park S'atc- - Pa And at Bear which added 132 ne boa' s' rs T os mama last vea' Fa- - Manage Eldon PoPnson sa d v s ‘s td iae t- -e re'u’C sed increased a"d cica"ce3 caar catty f s vea :r 1otaec S3f Fee 1996 Rrthnson d'dnt gjes 'ead''v av s Pal CC3-- n ea“y c‘ pnoiG Nat oa' Fe’i Sev ze a3rmer v ctor-pa' o’ bnocuia'S found at Murtgjin holds a the Litfe Bi3sr" bnoc!ers ae AnSfOn ' tr ‘er -- tr 3 ed a r Montana irrsi c The 25 yeas age l: Cc: Gecge DOC hae ’?? fa: ne'ease a'ter 990s fe when f : 3" yea's - —? 3 tt essemaN she or-most at Bev beaches Lse yea's “av? been f nea tc cacac 4rr— through labor Dav Pobnso" said Next yea' shou'd as een bus?' r? added as 1 ay See EIG HORN on Page 12 96 from $55 300 m The increase was mest'y result c camcers stavrg ic'gc and ne tc oa'es Gy"ensiiog sa-- yeah” The field glasses were reportedly found in 1971 about 500 yards south of the stone obelisk monument atop the ridge where Custer and a large group of his men fell Sam theorized that the glasses might have been dropped by an officer viewing the scene before the attack fallen out of a saddlebag during the retreat or been picked up and later discarded by a warrior Another theory is that they may have 12 Parks hereabouts' S61 000 The binoculars still in excellent condition are brass and arc covered by calfskin They arc the third set known to have been recovered from the Little Bighorn Battlefield in southeastern Montana “Whether this pair was Custer's or not is really difficult to determine especially without knowing the context in which they were found" said Doug Scott a park service archaeologist at the battlefield site But asked if they might have been in Custer's hands Scott replied “It's a possibility SALT LAKH CITY (AP) — The five national parks in Utah may he considered the crown jew els of the state's tourism economy but state parks are outstripping them in the pace of visitation growth Between 1990 and 1905 the number of visitors to sev en Utah state parks rose more than 100 percent according to a new tourism report issued by the Utah Travel Council "We are starling to see greater use of all the slate's resources not just the national parks" said Spencer Kinard assistant director of the Utah Travel Council "We think the message is getting out effectively that there is more to Utah than five national parks" What tourism promoters iNn find cnaiuraging is that diflcicni pans of the slate are reaping the benefits Visitation at Starvation and Slcinakcr reserv oirs in the l intah Basin grew by 40S and 317 percent respectively in the live y ears ending last year At Utah Lake the nunikr ot visitors increased from 15“ooo per year to 600000 per year a 282 percent increase And ai Snow Canyon near St George visitation went from 19(looo tiw i years ago to 686000 in 199? 2hl percent increase Visitation at Escalante Stalk ?-- rma-jun- e ‘r-'- s at r? iae srav z on " |