| Show YF 40 A V us fit lAj" 'fliTl a "CS5 Focus Learning to lead Sec Page 25 VoL 87f No246 Siixte Odobef 13 3 W6 i iO 01996 $125 Logan Utah Bridgerland's Daily Newspaper Olympics theme still undecided Mother of woman found dead a decade ago refuses to let her daughter’s murder be LDS religion unlikely to find place in motif of 2002 winter games PARK CITY (AP) — The Atlanta Summer Games had “Izzy” the blue-blo- b mascot in tennis shoes with lightning bolts as eyebrows Will Utah's Olympic mascot be a caricature of a skating Angel Moroni heralding the opening of the 2002 Winter Games? Not if Olympic organizers have anything to say about it “One thing we’re not hearing is that these should be the Mormon Games” said Dave Thomas the Salt Lake advertising By Charles staff writer H executive help- ing lead the search for theme for thc Featherstone Utah Olympics I Unsolved murder Chronology of events 1986: An unidentified woman is stabbed and beaten to death possibly in Utah Her body is found in a plastic bag in Southern Idaho's Dayton Canyon 1989: Rosalie Hibbs is led to Idaho in her search for her missing daughter Monica Using dental records authorities identify the victim as Monica Hibbs single-handed- 1991: James Harieston Linden the last person known to have seen Hibbs alive is moved from a California penitentiary to Utah to a serve prison term for aggravated robbery April 1996: Linden is paroled to Salt Lake City July 1986: Linden is after Rosalie Hibbs contacts the Utah Attorney General's Office ly EHEHECala: September 1986: Blood and hair samples are taken from Linden after Preston Police Chief Scott Shaw obtains a search warrant ks "P Safe School Act gets first Cache Valley test By Miriam Rand staff writer School Pnncipal Larry Olsen here" Under the I9WS law also School known as the Act an student who brings a Gun-Fre- gun lo sihiM’l — e come in and present their side bur if it’s established that he brought a gun into the school the expulsion is automatic” said Steve Zsiray of Cache County School District The resource officer at Sky View Del Dale Maples of the Cache County Sheriffs Office said the student was charged with theft of a firearm burglary possession of a gun on school property possession of a concealed weapon possession of a handgun by a person under 18 possession of marijuana at school and possession of drug paraphernalia He was taken into the custody of to any school automatically actons — may expelled for a period of not less than a year pending the outcome of a conference between school disirid officials and the student's here he remains this week The student told police he stole the gun from his stepfather w ho patents "Due pTixcss allows them to See GUN on Page 8 r be' Juxcnile Detention in Logan w 1 r w a rt I 1 a central figure in Mormon theology- Thomas and cohorts took their traveling road show to Park City this week as they sought an answer to the $1 billion question What are these pricey Games about? Mountains or cowboys? Canyons or Indians? The past the future ihc licre-and-no- “Most of the feedback is ‘Let's con- centrate on where we're going'" Thomas told city council members in the town which will host several of the skiing events The “theme team" was in Park City here midway through a swing to talk to Utahns about these questions Park City’s interest is acuic because it will host more Olympic events than anyplace else and will likely he more affected — for good or ill — than any other city ed 16-ci- ty Thus town leaders peppered Thomas and his small entourage — Mary Gaddic image director for the Salt Lake Organizing Committee and Tapes reveal LBJ quiet on Vietnam toll AUSTIN Texas (AP) — President Lyndon B Johnson kept quiet about the rising death toll in Vietnam while struggling to form a policy on the war according to newly-release- d tapes of his telephone conversations in 1964 Tapes and transcripts released Friday by the National Archives and the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library contain more than 80 hours of Johnson's telephone conversations from the White House spanning Januarx to March of like to haxc for this piriod wKn Mitch MascamMeraid Journal Stuaents Study Onrinn opring wlccft Steven Oyfer left takes depth measurements m Spring Creek south- west of Logan Thursday afternoon Oyter was one of several eighth- grade students from Spring Creek Middle School performing tests m the creek on such things as flow rates temperature and nitrogen levels The students are part of a school dub named The Crowned Eagles that has adopted the creek in an eftori to learn proper land stewardship as wed as improve the quality of the stxreline The dub win return tc the same places in the sprmg to perform new tests and compare data a See OLYMPICS on Page 8 Johnson was concerned and confused about the future of I S mxolxc-men- t in the war which at the time involxcd US advice and training for the Soutn Vietnamese army rather than fighting by American troops “There may be another coup but I don't know w hat we can do If there is I guess that we just — What alternatives do we have then? We're not going to send our troops in there are we?" he asks aide McGcorgc Bundy in a conversation on March 2 164 Johnson continued to demand answers on Vietnam tcilirg Defer si I would Secretary Robert McNamara d said ‘Wc’rc plowing new ground r t 1964 Our View — Page 21 Sk View I he lb- - ear-olHigh Si hool Mudcnt suspended Iasi week for bunging a loaded handgun to school may be the first in Cache Count) School District to face disciplinary action under the slate's new Safe School Act “This is the first instance of a gun in the school since the law look effect” Sky View High - Moroni is n a comer of the Preston Cemetery known as “potter’s field” sits a simple wooden cross marking the grave of Monica Hibbs For three years following her May 1986 murder when her body was found wrapped in plastic near the mouth of Day-to- n Canyon a headstone simply marked her final resting place with the name “Jane Doe” Now 10 years after her life was violently ended her killer could be identified Chartes FeattwrrionaHerald Journal and may even come to justice And all The pauper's grave of Monica Hibbs which at first was marked simply Jane Doe sits in the because Monica's mother wouldn't let comer of the Preston Cemetery known as "potter's fieid" anyone forget “Some parents never know who killed said Somehow she maintains her compoguy in Colorado said there was another their children or they get no resolution” it’s dear even on the teleunidentified female in Idaho It was her sure though said Rosalie Hibbs “But our daughter that she’s working very hard not to that was a shocker for all the family” phone may get some kind of resolution” cry “I only do this because the God I According to Hibbs Linden was a susThe end result is that James Harieston in keeps me going every day” believe at the time But no one was entirely pect Linden — an inmate of the Utah State From her home in Broken Arrow sure where he had disappeared to And Prison and believed to be the last person where she raises Joshua she there was simply no way in 1989 of conwho was with Monica in 1986 — had has been an outspoken activist with the necting Linden with the crime scene samples of his blood and hair taken two Tulsa chapter of Parents of Murdered “Forensic science has come a long way weeks ago at the request of Preston Police Children and tracked the since 1986” Shaw said Chief Scott Shaw Linden down to a halfway After moving to Broken Arrow Hibbs “A murder case is never dosed" Shaw house in Salt Lake City where he had just worked with some connections in the Calsaid “But what got everyone looking at been paroled ifornia Department of Corrections to find this is that when Linden was paroled the “I suppose in the beginning it was just Linden thinking he may have been in the girl's mother contacted the Justice to save ourselves” Hibbs said of the origstate’s San Quentin Prison After serving Department and the Utah attorney general inal search to find her missing daughter a sentence in California Linden had been to see if there wasn't something we could transferred to Utah to begin serving who disappeared from San Jose Calif in do to resolve this” another spring 1986 “Linden made the most dasRosalie Hibbs has The tardly threats (in May 1986) and in late “By the time 1 found him he was spent the past seven years trying to find already in Utah on parole” Hibbs said May we left our house for five weeks at her daughter's killer That Hibbs has the urging of the police” made it this far is itself amazing In 1992 See MURDER on Page 8 As Hibbs and her husband Russell only eight months after moving from San scoured the country following up leads on Jose Calif to Broken Arrow Okla her their daughter Linden disappeared into husband Russell died leaving her alone the California prison system to raise Monica's son Joshua “Someone in Colorado had an unidentiAnd over the course of her days she on this topic For info-linfied girl We put together denial records has buried each of her five children but it didn't match” Hibbs said “But the “I call them my little angels” Hibbs bttp7Awwwhjnewscom Monica Hibbs C- everybody is asking me someth me m my own words and say Hire ire and here's our theory and here's what wc'rc basing it on '" He told McNamara he didn't want to disclose figures showing that 2i1"ii Vietnamese on both sides had beer killed in fighting in lwv compared to 5000 in 1062 See LBJ on Page 8 it |
