Show 3 L 87 Na 259 Monday October 28 1996 nAjI Logan Utah Bridgetland's Daily Newspaper 01996 50 Cents iH Inside Clinton claims deficit down ’ Dole: White House turning into animal house ST LOUIS (AP) — President Clinton The Salem Witch Museum offers a Page 9 creepy look at the past Update Environments m A 3 Mt St Helens still building for future blast headed down the electoral home stretch taking credit for a bit of sunny economic news: the smallest budget deficit since 1981 “Wc have more evidence today that our economy is on the right track” he declared Opening a campaign swing through three Midwestern states Clinton announced that Endorsements — Page 4 “I’m willing to wait up all night on Nov 5 waiting for California to come in for Bob Dole and Jack Kemp” the Republican challenger said Sunday “And on the way home I want to drive by the White House and honk — I want ’em waking up in there” bid to Returning to issues in his all-owin California Dole planned to attend a rally today outside San Diego’s City Hall There Republicans hoped to increase support for Proposition 209 the state referendum to end race- - and preferences the deficit for the fiscal year that ended Sept 30 was $1073 billion The White House said the drop was due largely to a stronger economy than the administration had projected Meanwhile ut taking heart from rambunc- tious crowds and Ross Perot’s attacks on President Clinton Bob Dole is professing confidence as he lampoons the administration’s “animal house” and plots Election Night hijinks sex-bas- ' AP photo ed See ELECTION on Page 8 With 10 days left to campaign President Clinton apeak School Park in Springfield Va Sunday Jewell: Media FBI rushed to wrong judgment LONGVIEW Wash (AP) — Mount St Helens has spent the last 10 years sitting quietly But that shouldn’t fool anyone Like many naturally occurring phenomena the volcano’s lack of activity is nothing to be complacent about As of this month a decade has elapsed since its last eruption but the volcano continues to grow gradually heading for a future blast Slow-movilava is continuously making its way to the surface through a pipe-lik- e conduit There it cools contracts and hardens clogging the volcano’s outlets and making it likely that the next eruption will be more violent than the eruptions that have occurred since the big May 18 1980 blast said Ed Wolfe a volcanologist at the Cascades Volcano Observatory in Vancou- ATLANTA (AP) — Richard Jewell cleared of suspicion in the unlikely and there is less ice and snow avail- able (on the mountain's flanks) to generate lahars (mudflows) as there were in 1980 So for the time being it is not as threatening” Wolfe said However there is a new threat to Mount St Helens — almost 70 million cubic yards of snow and ice The mixture has accumulated in the shaded back portion of Mount St Helens' crater in the last 10 years enough trapped water to fill nearby Castle Lake nearly twice Cache tonight Tht Cache Cotosssum wtf present "Creepy Cannibal Spook AMay from 7 to 10 tonight Tuesday Wednesday and Thursday nights at 275 W 400 South Logan Cost is $2 per head 85 per family The event is sponsored by tfie Cache Employment and Training Center which serves people with disaMibes The North Logan Pumpkin Walk nH at open dusk Monday and run through Halloween night at 1100 E 2500 North The hours are from 9 am to 10 p m Tuesday Wednesday and Thursday The pubic is aivited and there is no charge For more formation call 753-718- 2 or 753-115- Other event Page 4 Woathor Page 8 Indox their own personal agendas Jewell said He said that during his ordeal “the knowledge that I did my job and in the process might have saved lives kept me going My faith in God gave me peace of mind I thank God it is now ty guard tearful- ly thanked his mother and his lawyers for their faith in him y through his effort to convince the world of his ended” 88-da- innocence “For 88 days I “I’m glad that the emperor has finally admitted that he has no clothes” said his attorney G Watson Bryant Jr Jewell did not take questions from reporters after reading the lived a nigh- tmare” Jewell said "For 88 statement Also today federal prosecutors released the FBI affidavits that were used to gain warrants for days my mother lived a night- mare too Mom thanks for sticking behind me and believ- ing in me” The July 27 explosion during a late-nigconcert in Centennial killed one person Park Olympic and injured more than 1(X) Jewell was the man who found the sus- picious knapsack minutes before it exploded but then he came under suspicion While he was never charged his name was leaked to the media and he became the center of searches of Jewell’s home and other property in the days after ht Robert HendricksHerald Journal Chris Fowler 8 helps his sister Amy 2 build a snowman in front of their home in Logan on Saturday Forecasters predict more snow for Cache Valley this week The children's parents are Brian and Aleta Fowler of Logan Let it snow the FBI and the media almost destroyed me and my mother” reporters his voice breaking at times “I set out to do my job” The onetime Olympic securi- the bombing The papers which a judge had ordered unsealed quote several acquaintances speaking of Jewell's fascination with police work They also quote witnesses who saw Jewell in the vicinity of the explosion but none who saw him handle the bomb -- A ’L Food fight: Will there be enough? WASHINGTON (AP) — It's :re j’n- - £ I frr4Gp-”- " l-- ' i ffX t Ji ' iv 5 4 it A’' iCTKcC w J' shaping into the great debate for the 21st century: Can the world produce enough to feed another few billion people? Agronomists and other scien- U -- It- - more money to research everything from milk cows that also pull plow to hybrid potatoes a x Population activists and Both sides in the debate agree that the earth's land and waters give up about as much human nourishment as they can with current technology The bottom line: without big scientific advances sharp reductions in population growth or both starve in the early fr' u some social scientists say no and they believe the only solution is to limit the mouths to feed people who arc going through those kinds of problems" And it's why Kerkmann himself a By Charles H Featherstone staff writer said the retired steel worker Over tfy I ld 2(1 f years U S Kerkmann devel- oped Hodgkin's lymphoma a rare cancer of blood tissues and kicking it has hampered his health ever since Robert Hsndnoks'HwaM Journal as Hospice of Cache Bo Kerkmann in their final Valley chaplain months find peace Cache Vkllcy in 1959 is the chaplain for Hospice of Cache Valley Hospice is a group T tion treatments I started to develop heart disease so I had bypass surgery" Army in Germany Jl native of Germany who came to how he deals with the tension “Because of radia- ago while serving with the si helps people Brush with death inspires volunteer Bo Kerkmann laughs as he describes his brush with death It's tists say yes and they want millions more people could Balmy daytime highs in the 50s will be replaced with nippy 30s by Tuesday ended Saturday when federal prosecutors sent Jewell a letter clearing him of suspicion “In their mad rush to fulfill nearly destroyed his life “I did not set out to be a hero” Jewell said in a statement to sky-bou- costs “A big blast and landslide are intense coverage The effort to clear his name Olympic Park bombing said today the FBI and the media engaged in a “mad rush” that ver “The next batch of magma that reaches the surface will have to break its way through” causing tremendous pyroclastic flows of gas and pumice as ash he well as towers of said The mountain’s lava dome now 1000 feet high would be blown apart “At the moment there is nothing to suggest any imminent eruptive activity at Mount St Helens” he said It has been so tame that fellow volcanic peak Mount Rainier — because of its potential to send giant mudflows cascading down populated valleys — has moved up to No 1 on the volcano hazard list Mount St Helens’ most destructive blowup occurred on May 18 1980 when 57 people were killed and 230 square miles of forest were leveled The pressure of the eruption sent a cloud of ash circling the globe and caused more than Si billion in damage and cleanup at a rally at Lee High “I've been close to the edge of death so to speak" Kerkmann said “Because of that I can cmpalhic with of a volunteers who workwith pcopje diag nosed as terminally ill and generally wiihin ?l ) 1'Tf six monlhs of dying The idea is id help people in ihcu final monlhs allowing them lo die with dignity and comfort in their ow n homes “He's a very kind compassionate man who seems lo have an understanding of whal people need" said See NEIGHBOR on Fsge 8 2fNJPs The main disagreement is over how much food the planet can yield The environmental research group Worldwatch said in a pessimistic report last month that “food scarcity is emerging as the defining issue of a new era” where future supplies will depend more on family planners than fishermen and farm- ere But that's not the wav the See FOOD on Page 8 Scalia says no constitutional right to die WASHINGTON (AP) — The Constitution does not create a die” “right to says Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia who with the rest of the court will soon decide e whether states may ban doctor-assisied mo-od- In a recent speech at Catholic University Scalia said it is “absolutely plain that there is no right to die There were laws agairsi suicide" when the Constitution was dratted The high court agreed earlier this month to decide whether doctors can he harTcd from drugs for terminally prescribing ill patients who no longer want to live SloM stales forbid doctor-assiste- d suicide but lower courts have struck down such hans imposed by New Yirk and Washington state Scalia did not mention the assisted suicide issue according to a transcript ot his (Xt 18 speech to an audience at Catholic University's school of philosophy But he g repeated his previous statements that the Constitution iWs mV protccl a right lo die latgal ethics expert Geoffrey Hazard a University of Pennsylvania law professor said today that while Scalia had a right to speak he thought the justice's statement was "very poor form" Another legal ethics expen New York UmvcTMty law professor Stephen Cullers said Scalia's statement wouldn't disqualify him from hearing the case |