Show - - Jiwvw 'v :v v : ffrr$p T “ wu 1 irThe mk Logan Utah Q 1996 Bridgeriand's Daily Newspaper Wpilfh t Cit Ulvi ijrApo yt Inside — r'iflF Jou 87 Na 257 Friday October 25 1996 Vbl Js 50 Cents Early snow storm snarls traffic douses lights collapses roof By Miriam Rand staff writer litis morning’s snow caused its share commuters of problems Rush-hour were forced to navigate Main Street without the aid of traffic lights and a portion of a building on 1CN1 West that was being renovated collapsed Also today Utah State University already-overcrowd- canceled its Saturday Homecoming Valley youths playing large are looking small and Cache parade although other events will go on as scheduled Sgt Eric Collins said that Logan City Police Department had all its officers tied up this morning with snarled traffic Officers were busy directing traffic along at 800 Main Street at the South 4X) South and 300 South during the morning rush Despite the problems there were no reports of accidents An officer was also sent to slow motorists at 400 North and 400 East after the flashing school crossing lights went down as Adams Elementary School students were on their way to Q&A with local school board candi- Page 2 dates school he said The wet snow also took its toll on the Dansantc Building at 100 West between Center Street and 100 South currently being renovated by the Utah Festival Opera Company for various uses See SNOW on Page 12 Update G- Tt 35 ¥ a- - a- - : C throwing rocks bricks and bottles at officers in riot gear businesses and passing cars “They were tossing everything at us but the kitchen sink” said Sgt Denny Simmons who was struck in the arm during the initial standoff between police and a group of about 100 young men Twenty people were arrested Stephens w'a- rt’ AJvate x E ca a w'Xf a'C 5C za r :es ‘y jesse Dawyr pa 1 fir named Newton nationwide “We’re going to get AP photo St Petersburg Fla police in riot gear hold their line as a television news truck bums in the g crowd of several hundred people set fire to busibackground A rock- - and nesses and vehicles after police fatally shot a man during a traffic stop Thursday evening bottle-throwin- fires still burned The trouble started after two officers slopped a car with two people inside Police would not immediately say why the car had been pulled over Officer Jim Knight opened fire striking the driver after the car lurched forward apparently trying to run the officer over police said But witnesses said Knight was standing with his hands on the hood when the car inched forward and his partner yelled for him to shoot the St Petersburg Times reported Lisa Craft told the newspaper that at 752-75- 6 A V- - l t Micr- - Dust eff the sf'owboa-d- s and it s nigh to "ie head for the hills skis t Page 12 Index CrCSS ArOrd Voves Oo'hso'1 17 2 16 Knight fired five times “The boy wasn't going fast enough to run them over He wasn’t even going 2 mph” she said Police identified the man as Tyron Lewis 18 He died before reaching Bayfront Medical Center a hospital spokesman said It was the sixth police shooting of the year in St Petersburg coming just one week after another shooting in the same area Shortly after 9 pm Thursday hclmctcd police carrying shields cordoned off several blocks around the intersection Utah Steven Brown leff and Maaca-otferai- C Journal Gal Bingham USU wheat project researcher check water content data from their experiment on the space Staton Mir State a heart defibrillator for our First Responders” said Jay Rigby mayor of the town of 650 in northwestern Cache County Residents of each of the Newtons had to call in and say which flavor of a new cookie the) liked the best The tow n w ith the greatest percentage of its population calling Nabisco won And it wasn't even a contest A third of Newton Utah residents called in April and May comNewton pared to the second-plac- e in Alabama where fewer than one in 10 residents responded Or the dismal showing by Newton Mass home of the Fig Newton Only one out of every 500 residents called the company s KOO number “We were very surprised and excited" Rigby said lhc citizens responded very enthusiasti- cally" high) said the defibrillator which is used to shock a stalled See NEWTON on Page 12 By Jenie Skoy staff writer )' Hr $i mort Page 4 17 Er b r r Weather Cc-- os r I Featherstone contest the company staged among the 10 municipalities USU space wheat project thriving j H Nabisco docs give a fig about Newton Utah The tiny town in northwestern Cache County won $2500 in a re Cos aaityvs For Other events Cs't:s By Charles staff writer School jyese'rts M xv of the Newtons evaTtons Tjy be -- 79’ 301 j:--- : ht fco Aud--- 12-ho- ur shifts and step up patrols today Twenty-eigbuildings were set on fire he said Firefighters also pelted with rocks and other debris pulled back and let some buildings burn Among the many buildings and vehicles set ablaze were a police substation a post office police cruiser and TV new s truck But by shortly after midnight police officers were removing barricades from the block area and only a few AOsson Sta'e - said Police planned to work I "W Town wins battle Stores were looted and thick smoke clouded the predominantly black neighborhood just south of downtown Groups of youths ran back and forth in the night at 7 30 pe0"n — Fla (AP) — ST PETERSBURG Streets where buildings burned and mobs pelted police with rocks were deserted early today following a riot that began when a white officer shot a black man to death during a traffic stop “The city is very calm right now” Police Chief Darrel Stephens said at a 6 am news conference “No new incidents have taken place” At least 11 people were injured including a police officer who was shot and a newspaper photographer who was beaten as hundreds of people swarmed through the streets after the shooting Thursday life-givi- Cache tonight Robert HendricksHeraid Journal wall when last night's storm helped speed up the destruction one worker said the process of tearing down the Calm returns in Florida after riot The top cookie Salton Sea: Always dying but never dead SALTON CITY Calif (AP) — From the ha window of his factory-bui- lt home Norm Nivcr sips a martini and w atdu:s thousands of birds glide over the Salton Sea as the setting sun reflects against the Chocolate Mountains "It's unreal" says Nivcr a musician who has lived on California's largest lake since 1978 “You sit here in the afternoon sun and you'll see sea gulls in front of the w indow just hanging there" Outside the scene changes like a mirage m the hot desert sun The w ildlife is still there — but so arc dead tish dead birds a dying economy and a brackish sea 30 percent saltier than the ocean The Salton Sea is beautiful and as well as nasty and lethal An niant imp stop for millions of birds on the Pacific Fly was thousands have Ken killed by toxicity from dying fish On higher ground abandoned resorts rot in a climate that many say is superior to Palm Springs "One day these birds will fly in and die here with no place to go" Nicer said "And this will have consequences on the Western Hemisphere if not the whole world" ftcr years of debate on how to save it officials hate tentatively decided to sacrifice pan of the 3st sea to prevent all of it from evolving into a gi ittt rancid salt flat The Salton Sea Authority wants to build a dike that would separate an inflow of fresh water from an evaporation por J on the other side The south wall of the ‘Dansante’ building on 100 West in down- town Logan collapsed Thursday night Construction crews were in Lucid — Page 6 University researchers’ dream of harvesting wheat in space may be about to come true US astronaut Shannon Lucid and her two Russian crew mates on the Mir space station first planted USU wheat seeds on Aug 3 They watched wide-eye- d as the wheat grew Lucid reported Thursday afternoon in a news conference broadcast on NASA television and viewed at Utah State University “I raised the window up and looked in there and you could see the little babv seeds" Lucid said “I rushed into the base block and I said ‘Hey ya'll you've got to come really quick because the baby seeds are coming' so they came in there and looked and they were just really excited" Lucid started the project hv chance after her departure from Mir was delayed But upon leaving Mir Lucid turned over the wheat experiment to current Mir 23 crew members who are now surprised by its heart) growth See W HEAT on Page 12 Digitran calls shareholders’ $13 million verdict victory By Mike Vi'eone'3'en Staff enter Representatives of Digitran Systems Inc — a cnmpanv that was ordered by a jury Thursday to pay $13 million in damages to shareholders — said this morning the verdict w as actualfor the company ly a Ln:e::a Trcvtrs Digrran's chairwoman presidin'-anthief executive ici-’'- officer said the verdict exonerated the company’s current management and will enable Digitran to get back to business “I consider this a victory in that it's over with" Trevcrs said The lawsuit was filed by five law firms on behalf of several hundred shareholders w ho accused Digitran executives of securities fraud and misstating rev enucs Bbbie Coray who helped convince tbc company to move to (ache County from Lafayette La in 19SS said the lawyers who filed the lawsuit were really trying to win a large judgment from the company's accounting firm Gran' Thornton “The plaintiffs were after Grant Thornton's deep pockets" C'iay said “and they were not able to do n Rick Knuth a Salt Lake City lawyer who represented sha-- c hildir in tr-class-actio- n lawsuit said the plain’ ‘s had hoped the iurv would bold 'he com pany's accountant liable doesn't understand hw Hut he said he 1 revets could call the verdict a v ictory c did no pre"We arc disappointed vail against all t the defendants" knufh said "but I J r I thirk she be tdk inc to you it we os " The jury in :K L S District ( ou-- t in Salt lake Ci:y determined Digitran aid it SysTims president --- DIGITRAN on Pjf 2 |