Show XfTT VdI 67 No 243 Wednesday October 9 1996 Logan Grizzlies beat Sky View in overtime Page LONGBOAT KEY Fla (AP) — Ahead of their only debate Vice President A1 Gore has been shooting hoops and Jack Kemp has been whacking tennis balls to relax between practice sessions On stage tonight the former House colleagues and friends plan to take careful political aim — not at one another they insist but at President Clinton and Republican challenger Hob Dole And they’ll be hitting on the same themes as their bosses: lax policy the nation’s economy education welfare and other social issues and (he US role abroad heading into the next centur- this oul with dignity respect" Back braces reduce strains study shows LOS ANGELLS (AP) — Home improvement store workers who wore wraparound hack supports suite red a third fewer k injuries than those who went without the increasingly popular girdles a researcher said Tuesday “Until recently J wasn't sure they worked” said Jess Kraus an epidemiologist at the University of California Los Angeles “We found compelling evidence that hack supNits can play an important mlc in helping to icduce hack injuries among workers who do a lot of lifting” he said 'Hie study used the workplace injury histories of 3f(KN) employees in Home Depot's 77 California stores between early 198V and late 1994 The company phased in a mandatory back support policy between 1990 and 1992 The back supports generally 8 inches to 10 inches wide wrap around the body like a wide bell or girdle and sometimes have traps or suspenders Kraus' study found that before the supports were required workers sustained 31 back injuries lor every million work hours Once the supports were mandatory that rale fell to 20 injuries per million work hours I'he benefits were apparent for both sexes across age groups and among those with high and low levels of lifting the study found But the biggest benefit accrued to workers considered at highest risk of back injury — men either 25 and younger or over 55 who had worked for the company one to two years and had jobs that required the most lifting Home Depot imposed no additional workplace training or safety measures that could account lor the drop in injuries the study lound the National InstiLawrence tute of Occupational Safety and Health in Cincinnati said his oil ice in 1994 lound no substantial published evidence that the belts wcic effective but "we have an open mind” NIOSH Kgs the worker compensation cost lor lower back injuries at about $11 billion a year — at least “if this could lie the reduced pain and significantly suffering to the employer is going to be grcatly diminished" Kraus said “The cost for doing business is going to Ik greatly diminished" low-hac- Cache tonight s The Cache ValymHome and GardenHall dub meets at 7 tomgiit the Logan City puMc meeting room 226 N Main St The grojp wdl discuss using squash and pumpkins from the garden Fo more information call Velys Nelson at 762-276- Page 4 Other events Weather Getting tired of Mother Nature s boring behavior? Tough luck No change in sight Page 12 Index Classifieds Comics Gross wo d Movies 9 18 Opinion ic Sports 1 50 Cents t COPY 15 16 8 ’96 DEBATE dis- agreeable” Gore declared “We've been friends for a long lime" And opponents this year — something that won't he loigullcn during their sparring session tonight in St Petersburg Fla Historically vice presidential debates don't have any noticeable affect on how people vote in presidential elections political scientists say Bui given that Gore and Kemp are considered presidential prospects for the year 2000 the dehate is important to their political aspirations and olfcis an opforluniiy to make a good impression with future voters Both men dismiss such talk as a dis- traction “In 2000 Boli is going lo Ik running for and 1 just luiK lie keeps me on Ihe ticket" Kemp said Gore shrugs off the question: “I am f(Kuscd on 199fi" While Dole has raised questions AP photo Workers put the finishing touches Tuesday on one of the podiums for tonight’s debate beginning at 7 pm MDT J mmStuW civility and “You can disagree without being y- 8 Update K mimtfi Gore Kemp keep eye on the ball one-on-o- ne - - Logan Utah © 1996 Sridgefland'8 Daily Newspaper Inside gfSKi?- mm ? about Clinton's character as part of his campaign Kemp pledged not to follow in the footsteps of then-Vic- e President Dan Ouaylc who in his 1992 debate with Gore struck at personal issues “1 don’t have to be an attack dog” Kemp asserted “We’re going to carry ST PKllJtSUUKG I- - IIJMJUA PLACE: Bayfront Center St Peter abura Fie DATE: Wednesday Out It TIME: 9 pm to 10:30 pm LDT MODERATOR: Jim Lelirer of PBS TV COVERAGE: ABC CBS NUC and PBS will broadcast live On cable CNN and MSNBC albu will carry live FORMAT Each candidate wHI make a two minute opening statement and a dosmg statement withtlie order to be determined by coin toss Wlioever elects to go first at the start will go last at tlar end AP Natural resources Fake flood deemed success PHOENIX (AP) — Mother Nature was right after all More than 30 years after a dam stopped the Colorado River from flowing through the Grand Canyon a manmade flood brought the ecosystem back to life The spring flood restored several major waterways and old beaches in the canyon and returned nutrient-ric- h sediment lo fish and plants according to government studies being released today The studies prove that the government- - Cache connection Two Utah State University faculty members geomorphologist Jaclk Schmidt and water engineer Trevor Hughes were on advisory committees that helped the government plan the flood A Logan firm Bio-We- st is under contract to study the effects of the flooding on native fish in the canyon managed dams need to provide more natural water flows scientists say The Interior Department report of the studies obtained by llic Associated Press details how the weeklong flood in March replenished beaches rapids fish vegetation and various endangered species along the Colorado River It culminates six years of research on the o effects of the Glen Canyon Dam on the - " CxjI-orad- Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt was lo release the report today along with new guidelines that will iicip the government manage dams so that the water flows more - ' - tfr -- veL - f y j- - - v--- ’ V5 AH file photo See FLOOD on Page 12 Water pours out of four main tubes at the bace of Glen Canyon Dam into the Colorado River in Page Ariz New sci- studies have concluded that the purposeful weeklong flood March helped revive natural habitats along the Colorado River The studies done by more than 100 tisls are expected to be released today in scien-entifi- c Iff Pentagon shot another seeding County gives reconstructs By Michael R Weibel staff writer The Cache Count) Council agreed Tuesday night lo give Mother Nature- a little help again this winter The council voted unanimously to participate in a cloud seeding piogiam and to encourage Box Lldcr County officials to join it Box Elder officials have been reluctant in recent years to participate in the program conducted by North American Weather Consultants and have considered purchasing the necessary equipment to do it thcmsclv cs Cache County has considered (he same option and will likely continue studying that alternative during the next vear Cache Countv Executive - -- Jxmon said laws in Utah are from in Idaho where it is common for counties to operate their own g programs Lynn dif-fere- nt cloud-seedin- Cache County agreed to a program this winter with an option lo terminate the contract after four-mont- h ihre-- months if the snowpack is ade- quate II the slate contributes 5U percent of will have to pay the cost Cache $2L0MJ tor a piogram with Box Elder's participation or $25075 without (he other county's involvement In other business the council Heard a request to support the Cache Valley Scholarship Pageant But four-mon- th Council Chairwoman Ins is just one more in a list Ihe county piobably will not Ik able to fund Agreed Ant Mat Road should be closed during the w mlci and lire- county executive should Ik given the flexibility to delimitin' when il will Ik dosed I county of requests" Gulf illness WASHINGTON mm the vein ans community tin Pentagon acknow: edges its own mistakes contributed t" credibility gap on its handling ol Peisan Gulf War illness Five years alter tlu end of llc ( e conflict the Pentagon has found no vl i dier who died of suffered iu to exposure to cliemici' age it Pentagon spokesman said luesday Gnly now is the military painstaking1) reconstructing a dinoinior operation in March 199) that may have dispitsiJ two terns of deadly sam gas ovu i area crowded with US Hoops If here roughly beiwein Dec I J lie county attorney will draft a resolution lor the council to vote on at a later meeting a un tract Accepted as with the Utah Department of Transeach ycai and mid-Apri- — l first-readi- portation outlining planned trail ic lights along US Highway 91 at 25Ki 3 J f K) 42iiij and 5KHI North Ik! ween Logan and Smithfield as well as and (irtti South in Sniiihlield 3fR) Sarah Ann Skanchy said “Cache County is a poor See COUNTY on Page 12 were- injuries they may have - Utah may hit 3 million mark by 2018 Cin SALT LAKE (AP) — Utah grew to 1 million people 7U years alter statehood The population hit 2 million 30 years later — sometime last June — and the not million is cxputid bv 201b This growth makes ihe stall I’agile and vulnerable lo turning into another California says former Univirsi'y of Utah President Dav id P Gardner Gardner who served as University of Utah president (rom 19“3 lo )9b? and lalir headed the Uniursiy o! California madt the comment if1 uniarks prepared for today s meeting of the (Aralilion for Utah's Future Gardner describes life in 19 California with its 40 million residents: clogged to freeways universities handle grow ing numbers of studenis and a migration ol people elsewhere includ- ing to Utah He compares Utah today to the ( of thi early 1930s when its population was fiwtr than 4 million Ias Angeles was a small city and much of Southern ( aiibmita was farmland ia lit ureis Utahns to “take hold o' our Ireislraiiif (AP) by continued suspicion I mvestigalois spice bite heir involved less d'as-ti- c 'athcr than drifting into it future (with) our options unclear and unexam-ine- d and as a resuif torlcilcd irrevoca- symptoms But so fat officials hau drawn no link between tin ineident and the thousands of eases of Gull War syndtome Ihe difficulty ol coming up with firm answers is the iireir reason f bly ihe (lustration had bun ovetiy occupied wrii i economic succsves overly liKUscC or the present overly congratuwhile latory of ir “(I anon-p'ishmenis- igri'i'ing aie:i loigcstior poliu'ion 1 irtotnation racial tensions aiiJ ci ciurg infrastructure and crime The coalruvr wi"’s t" !fi- how Utah alHu the I handles g'ow'h Viars de'i'g :!c nxi J ' among veterans according to Navy f'api Michael Doe hieday tire Pmiagor pokismat- He' i d hi Pm'a DouMiCay acknow ledge i's i'w r poll'll ms n 're dd g m iuh through p or management i! he a 1 i in i la 'v it gtadecl'y eneovered iir! weapons ixposett it Piisttn e n an hi1' Sillii ( II W c i’ ('Vi si ! la I - a v " lu'lis :s l f |