Show :v- - i0m The Herald Journal Logan Utah USU Homecoming I Events scheduled Utah State University students will space race Jell-- 0 jump golf and pucker up to become true Aggies this week as part of Homecoming events beginning today This year’s theme Is "Aggies Pioneering the Future” Today students will participate in Space Races at 12:30 pm on the Quad or they can attend the Miss USU Pageant at 7 tonight in the Chase Fine Arts Center Center Kent Concert Hall on campus There is no admission cost Following is a list of activities: Tuesday Jell-- 0 12:30 pm Jump Taggart Student Center No cost 7:30 pm — Mr USU Pageant in the Sunburst Lounge at the TSC 10 pm — Street painting on the west side of the TSC Wednesday 2 pm — Golf tournament open to the public shotgun start at Logan River Golf n Course Format: nine-hol- e scramble Fee: $850 includes a light meal $1350 includes cart and light meal For registration and information call 5 Monday Octobor21 1996 Page 3 Icon: Fire caused $250000 damage By Mike Wennergren staff writer until next Monday a company spokeswoman said this e and 115 morning Icon employs about 900 workers at the plant part-tim- e Some will continue to work in the undamaged upholstery and materials sections while others will clean the rest of the plant Renee Awana said Awana said the remainder of the plant’s employees w ill Ik offered temporary jobs in Logan or Clearfield While said evacuation of the plant went smoothly and no one was injured although one employee who inhaled some smoke was briefly admitted to Iaigan Regional Hospital for observation full-tim- An Icon official said this morning a fire Friday caused less than $250000 in damage to the company's Smithficld manufacturing plant Jon While Icon's vice president of manufacturing said the fire began when an employee swept combustible material near a powder-healin- g unit Hie company coats some of its fitness products with a paintlike powder that must Ire healed Part of the plant at 900 S Main St will be closed TT ''A- r7'i 'I-'- - Deer hunter found after cold night r ' - -"s v’" v NV mJmr four-perso- By Miriam Rand staff writer 797-205- 2:30 pm — Mud volleyball at 1200 E 1200 North Logan Free 5 pm — Aggie Pride Night at Cache Valley Mall Free 7:30 pm — St Paul Chamber Orchestra at the Chase Fine Arts Center Kent Concert Hall 7 pm Movie Back to the Future TSC auditorium Free 1 V : A Plain City deer hunter was airlifted by LifeFlighl helicopter from Blacksmith Fork Canyon on Sunday night after spending Saturday night and most of Sunday stranded in the canyon after he fell 15 feel off a ledge while tracking a deer he had shot on Saturday A Cache County Sheriff's £ Thursday 2:30 pm — “What would you do for a trip?” at the Taggart Student Center patio 1 Office report said Brian Jones 20 told rescuers he tried crawling down the mountain after he fell in Free 7 pm — Pep rally in the parking lot below the Dee Glen Smith Spectrum (by the bull statue) Free Friday 12:30 pm — Out of This World Meal at TSC patio at USU 8:30 pm — Homecoming dance at TSC at USU Admission: USU students stuwith identification $12 rugged terrain near the top of Blacksmith Fork Canyon but became exhausted and spent the night under a pine tree Rescuers said Jones had injured both ankles and his back in (he fall and was cold non-US- dents $15 Midnight — True Aggie Night at the ‘A" on University Hill Free and wet when they found him He probably wouldn't Saturday 10 am — Parade on Main Street in Logan Free Tailgate party: Following the parade in the parking lot below the Dee Glen Smith Spectrum (by the bull statue) Free 2:05 pm — Football game USU vs Idaho at Romney Stadium For ticket 5 information call For information on other events call have survived another night OGDEN (AP) — A northern Utah legislator is drafting a bill that would require school districts to filter out “pornography and filth and 797-171- 6 Agendas The Cache County Council meets at 5 pm Tuesday in the Hall of Justice 120 N 100 West Logan Agenda items include discussion of an ordinance involving agricultural land protection discussion about the Cache Chamber of Commerce's contract to run the tourist council use of land at the North Park Equestrian Park and County Executive Lynn Lemon's presentation of the proposed 1997 budget i ' ! s The Logan Design Review Committee meets at 6 pm Tuesday in the mayor's conference room at City Hall 255 N Main St The committee is developing standards the city will use when reviewing designs for new buildings Agenda items include discussion about design criteria in industrial zones and the delineation of neighborhoods throughout the city The meeting is open to the public 'The Hyde Park City Council meets at 7 pm Tuesday in the city office 1 13 E Hyde Park Lane Agenda items include: Closeout of the water project by Sunrise Engineering Public hearing on commercial and industrial water rates First public hearing on the Community Development Block Grant Proposed hunting ordinance City Council meets at 7 pm Tuesday in the city offices 15 S Main St Agenda items include Business license for Dennis and Sherron Patterson for Patterson's Foam and Upholstery at 310 S 200 'The Providence West : Discussion on dog kennels with Michelle Spuhler Public hearing on rezone request by Tony Baer for 1021 acres at 275 fy 100 West I Public heanng on proposed modifications to street definitions City building cleaning contract Review contract with Utah State University class to review impact fees: Review of the city's revised annexation declaration map Got a local news tip? Call City Editor Jennifer Hines 752-212- 1 COPY Ext 3023 outdoors rescuers said Jones said he had spent most of the day Sunday huddled in a snow cave hut was able to gel up and wave when he heard the LifeFlighl helicopter go over Rescuers then shuttled paramedics down to Jones while the helicopter went back to refuel Jones was moved to a site more accessible for the helicopter and was taken out of the canyon at 8:20 pm Jones had been reported missing by members of his hunting party who said they had last seen him about 7 ain Saturday Jones was taken by heliHospicopter to McKay-De- e tal in Ogden and (hen transferred to Columbia-Ogde- n Regional Medical Center where he was treated for a hack strain and bruises and released Legislator drafts bill urging safe surfing 797-030- 'V There was another fire at the same plant in July 1995 when an employee improperly placed a set of powder-coa- t filters inside an oven Although fire officials had criticized the company's evacuation procedures in that fire Cache County Fire Chief Kelly Pilcher praised the quick and orderly evacuation of the plant Friday White also praised the Smithficld North Logan Logan Newton and Richmond fire departments lor their quick response to the fire which closed US Highway 91 for about an hour With the help of a sprinkling system inside the building about 60 firefighters with 19 trucks put mil the lire in about an hour smut” before allowing R Hart EvanaHerald Journal Deer check Chris Hudman warms soup for himself and other workers as a deer Is checked Saturday afternoon at the mouth of Logan Canyon Deer hunters dealt with inclement weather for the opening weekend of the annual hunt forcing many groups out of the mountains early Saturday morning Actual numbers of deer taken were not yet available but officials said the deer taken so far have been very healthy stu- dents access to the Internet Sen Robert Montgomery Ogden says it’s time for state lawmakers to set the standards for Internet use by Utah's schrxilchildren The effort will he Montgomery's top priority for the 1997 legislative session if he is he said It also would he Utah's first attempt to use stale law to regulate use of the Internet “What we want to do is prevent young children from seeing some of this tremendously violent and porno- graphic and perverted stuff'' he said “We just want to keep it out of the classroom We're not talking about censorship in the community or in people's homes or in business” But the American Civil Liberties Union already is warning that any new law attempting to regulate Internet content even in the schools is likely to run afoul of First Amendment protections and lead to a legal challenge The ACLU has sued four states that tried to restrict Internet content Idaho to force schools to tighten their belts By Charles staff writer H Feathers! one Idaho schools are going to find themselves with a little less money (his fall Because of a downturn in the slate's economic fortunes Idaho's coffers aren't as full as they should he To ensure the state doesn't run a deficit Gov I’h i I Halt has ordered a 25 percent spending cut in all departments called a holdback effective immediately According a memorandum circulated by Deputy State Schools Superintendent Jim Smith state funds arc going to fall short by $176 million — $10 million more than last year's shortfall “Hopefully holdback notification dx:sn't become my annual fall memo concerning finance'' Smith's memorandum read Both the Preston and West Side school districts will find themselves having to cut already light budgets by significant amounts For the Preston School Dismaintenance and trict with a 1996-9- 7 million that of $79 operations budget means a nearly $16300(1 cut For West Side with its annual operating budget of $2 million that's $50000 “You can't touch vour contracted salaries so Ihe money will have to come out of other tilings: supplies travel so fortli" said Preston Sucrinlcndcnt led Taylor “We'ie just going to have to keep tight' said West Side Superintendent Melvin Beutler “We have a contingency fund in case the furnace blows up or the rixif blows oil lliat will cover half of it (the shortfall) if nothing happens" The $176 million statewide shortfall will allecl only operating budgets and not construction projects like the new Preston middle school or West Side's proposed expansion of its middle school holdback because funds legally appropriated in this year's state budget simply aren't available funds Called a can be held back for a period hut even- tually have to go where they were appropriated The Idaho legislature has four options to deal with the education shortfall: Cut other portions of the state budget further and give that money to education Make up the education deficit from the “rainy day” fund Revise the current budget and strike out $176 million from education thus eliminating the shonfall Add a deficiency levy to property taxes to make up the shonfall Although these funds would not he available until next year the slate superintendent could do this without legislative approval laist year the Idaho legislature simply replaced all the school funds from other sources It's still too early to tell how the legislature might deal with n this time around “We'll just have to see when we get there and see what the economic situation looks like" said Rep John Tippets Education is a priority Tippets said but (he size of (he shortfall is such that Tippets isn't going to make any predictions So parents and teachers should be ready lor some real and immediate budget cuts “What I do know is that wc'vc already liccn told to lc prepared for it” lay lor said 1896 Crime spree bilks hotel shoppers in valley in Editor s note: In celebration ot Utah's Centennial in 1996 The Herald Journal will feature each week articles that appeared in Cache Valley newspapers 100 years ago Spelling and grammar appear in the stories as they were written a century ago Excerpts from Ihe Journal Oct 20 22 and 24 S96: Right Here in Logan As a result of a neat piece of shoplifting carried on in laigan a young lady of Smithficld is out about $iV It appears that on Saturday afternoon two women walked into the lliason Sisters' store and asked to see some hatpins 1 hey asked foi a certain kind whufi were not stoik I hey then said they lake would ther kind and the young lady w ho was waiting on them stepped to another part of in the siuie to get 1 the article asked foi In the mean- time Miss Annie loricsier ol SmiihlulJ was trying oil sonic jaikels and had laid her purse on the counter wiih $15 inside When the young lady returncJ with the halpins the WoliKii wile llils'ine and so was the purse- Hu officer' were at nine - notified and staned out in hot pursuit Ihe gypsy camp was visited and two females brought to the store but they were not identified as the guilty panics he police still endeavored to "nail" all suspicious looking persons hut could not get the right ones lestciday Marshal McCulloch went to Providence (heaven knows what clue he had) and discovered the two women whit had so suddenly disappeared before they gm the ha'pins They arc thought to he the guilty parin' and arc now in luslodv T (H AL POINTS I ars Larsen of ProvreLnie was driving down Second Street I biinh vi'lir day afternoon with his wife and child in a light spring wagon when the shafts broke and the horse commenced to run throwing the rxvupants out Mr Larsen was badly bruised but none were seriously hurl The Hotel Bilked A si i anger put up at Ihe logan House on Oct 7th last registering as J C Schenck of Boston Mass a representative ol the "Mutual Reserve Fund Life Association v A rule of the hotel is that all guests without baggage must pay in advance but the Mr Schenek earned a See THEN on Page 8 |