Show fol88 No 15 Friday January 171997 Logan Utah © 1997 Bridgerland’s Daily Newspaper 50 Cents Inside -- c with Coping tragedy c if c n n n Family friends meet to remember avalanche victims By Michael R Weibel The Aggies flew past the Eagles Thursday night Page At staff writer 8 There were tears and weeping al T hursday's memorial service for three skiers killed in an avalanche last weekend But there were also smiles and laughter during a "celebration" of their lives and the way they touched so many people in Cache Valley and elsewhere Karl Mueggier Max Lyon and Keith Maas were killed probably in their sleep Saturday night when an avalanche roared over their tent which was perched in Dry Canyon below logan Peak Tim Yitalc who was goeid Iricnds with Maas for 17 years (old hundreds who gathered at Utah dilate University on Thursday that the purpose of the serv ice was to try to make some sense of the tragedy — "which is of course impossible" Family members and friends came from aeioss the country the end of your rope? This class overflowing the Page 13 might help Fcclcs 4114-se- Conference Center auditorium Instead Vitale and other friends and family members shaicd pictures and tales of the Update ihicc avid offering a glimpse not just ot tluii adventmes but ol the cliuiciei and iiiilities each ol the lliue men lived ami espoused Speaking ol his friend Vitale 'ml Maas was a model of cvitvihing that is right about lrmiuis He eiieif about people' he said Utah pageant winner aims for cute not carnal SALT LAKE CITY ( AP) — The slaying of JonBcnci Ramsey and television news slurics showing little girls taking off clothes during child beauty n pageants have pushed a subculture to the fore The nation is struggling to understand the underlying implications What to make of these images of girls moving with the assurance of sexually aware How to understand baby contests for “petites” and Junior Bride competitions for girls under 5? What about the parents who enter their daughters in the contests? And what of those who would exploit these children in the worst way? “A lot of friends have asked me that” said Don Rymcr whose ctcran of Tori is a 2 beauty contests and' the first Utah preschooler to win a national beauty title ‘‘I just want to give her options” Adds Teresa Rymcr Tori's mother: “She has a really good time (at pageants) She acts like a kid Judges say that is so refreshing — she takes time out to be a kid” But why asks teacher Farol Nelson would anyone want their children to just “take time out” to be themselves? “When kids are pushed into things way above their development level their childhood is robbed and they won’t understand that until they are adults” said Nelson who runs a "He did something about evcrvihing lie caicJ i bout He was a guy who got things done" little-know- 1'2-yc- ar See PAGEANT on Page 12 Cache lonight Cache Performances the Utah State University and Community Performing Arts Series presents Forbidden Hollywood' Gerard Alessandrinrs raucous sendup of mcviedom at 7:30 tonight in the Kent Concert Hall of the Chase Fine Arts Center at USU Admission is $16 and less Call the for pnees ticket office at 797-030- 5 r Other events Page 4 t S John WilkinHeraid Journal an avalanche last weekend along with Max Karen and Christ Maas talk about their brother Keith who was Utah State at service memorial Kart a and University's Ecdes Conference Center Thursday Lyon Mueggler during killed m Experts say slide in unlikely spot By Michael R Weibel staff writer Avalanche safety — Page 3 The avalanche that killed three skiers last weekfracture and slid 200 feet end started with a 40-fobefore fanning out to cover an area the size of a of snow and debris football field with 3- - to Carol Cilibcrti with the Utah Avalanche Forecast Vitale’ said that same message could be said iImuI all thiec men the fur and f n u Slides icvc-ilcon they enjoyed climbing skiing biking and river trips I he pietuies also showed the gentle ami eating nature that all three shaul linn Iyon cited an I mily Dickinson poem "Alter great pain a ! i tuii feeling comes" Bui he said he doesn't want a formal feeling at all Iyon said it implies mulling can be done about tins tragedy “My feeling is that we can do a whole lot about it" noting that people should live in a way that lionois his son and Max's Iricnds In a letter Maas wrote to his niothei antis ipitmg his See TRAGEDY on Page ot 10-fe- Center in Salt Lake City led a team of local avalanche experts to the fatal scene Wednesday about five miles east of Logan in Dry Canyon They measured the avalanche debris and studied the scene a process required by the US Forest Service after fatal avalanches Mike Jenkins director of the Logan Avalanche Forecast Center said the team confirmed what he suspected after seeing the scene late Monday night hen (he bodies were found and recovered He said the 40 to hO mph winds from the east caused snow to build up on a southwest-facin- g slope known to locals as The Folly The slope runs down to Razorback Ridge and Little Big Mountain where the three experienced skiers were camped Saturday night Jenkins said he is unaware of previous av Blanches on The Folly “It's not a spot that I had previously considered w Gingrich may pay Sec SLIDE on Page 12 six-figu- re Friends of Lyon set up web page Friends of Mjv Lyon have set up a web page on the For into links on ths Internet where peo- — mescan send CO"' V -- Sflp ple sages to the Iyon family to C hadwick School or to simply pist messages tor the general public In lead The page's aJJtc-stv max http: wwwsilieonbe-aeheo- fine Hollywood descends for Sundance WASHINGTON (AP) — The House ethics committee's special counsel and lawyers for Newt Gingrich have tentatively agreed to recommend that the speaker pay a S30()U(I0 financial penalty and be reprimanded by his col- lil ar Weather Temperatures will warm up as a weak storm heads this direction Page 12 Index plaints and defendants submitting inaccurate statements The New York Times reported today that evidence in the case would he turned over to the Justice Department for further investigation Two of the House sources said Colt film-make- AP photo House Speaker Newt Gingrich of George is greeted by participants of the Close-U- p Foundation poor to addressing the group in Washington today source said Republicans adamantly would not make that recommendation — but one of them said the investiga- - opposed a committee letter to Justice inviting the department to begin an live material would be available if fhe Justice Department asked lor it That investigation rs fimwi ! Off s’r Pete Postlcthwaitc who received an Oscar nop'iraivr for In the Same of the Father kickcJ otf the procecd’ngs by raising a bur glass to "the spin: and the feel ot Sind ince" "Independent films twee no allegiance to major corporations" soj Postloth-wii- o who appears in "Bi"ed Otf" as ihit i a pew a leader ef a brass bi--soi-c- e town's only pride Folmining lowing the screening lhi’c wlS a pcrteir-manc- c by the Bingham High School Ma’ehing The fe's’iv i is e’vpand g i b £ in I frtivf W 4 V 41 j' J 1 B-r- 1 i v I he SunSALT IAKF CITY ( Al’l dance Film Festival is about art sjjJ actor-directRobert RedtorJ as he edition launeheJ the "This festival is tor the artist is for the lilmmiker — it's what it s really all about" Redford sud in introducing the British film "BriscJ Ot!" to 'he estimated people at I lvrsjav 's gala at Abravanel Hall The screening arJ subsequent party launched 11 Jays ot ivov iegoirg in which lilmmakcrs Hollywood deal makers and film fans will sample 127 movies products of independent leagues House Republican sources said today Special counsel James M Cole w ho conducted a yearlong investigation of Gingrich's ethical problems and the speaker's lawyer Randy Evans were to make their recommendations separately at a public hearing later today The committee met in private earlier today as it struggled to finish the final investigation stages of a two-yeplagued by the most bitter partisan conflict The financial penalty was described by the sources speaking on condition of anonymity as a reimbursement for extra work the committee performed due to inaccurate statements submitted under the speaker's name The unique proposal was meant to he a precedent for lawmakers filing frivolous com- 12 1 |