Show Bridgerland The Herald Journal Logan Utah In brio! April 15 1997 A Logan man wan arrested Monday for suspicion of beating a Logan boy Sunday night Charles Sloan Jolicoeur 30 was booked into the Cache County Jail on Monday for suspicion of felony child abuse A police report said the boy ran up to q car near 600 W Center St for help after fleeing the beating Witnesses said His face and arms were covered with Mood and he was standing in a puddle cff blood He had suffered a concussion broken nose bone fractures in his face and possible damage to his eye ! He was taken by ambulance to Logan Regional Hospital where he vyas treated in the emergency room for his injuries and then released t Agendas 'The River Heights Planning Snd Zoning Committee meets at 7:30 tonight at the city offices 520 S 500 East ' The only agenda item is discussion df a proposed draft of the dty master USU students have fun throw up in zero gravity tests Combined Herald Journal and Associrted Press reports Two Utah State University students rode NASA's “Vomit Comet” aircraft frolicking and throwing up as they conducted an experiment in zero-graviconditions “It was a rush” said Paul Hepworth 28 an electrical engineering student “We had a chance to float around play do somersaults in the air and get stuck to the ceiling We squirted a little Gatorade in the air chased it down and then slurped it out of the air" Hepworth and Mike Sorenson 21 a computer engineering major arc among students from two dozen universities ty visiting Johnson Space Center near Houston to ride the KC-13- 5 aircraft over the Gulf of Mexico The plane on which astronauts are trained is nicknamed the Vomit Comet because it follows a nausea-inducin- g roller-coastflight path that causes weightlessness during the high points of flight USU spokeswoman Lynnctte Harris was to ride the plane today with Morgan Davidson 23 a mechanical engineering major and Mike Anderson 22 a biological engineering student er Sorenson and Hepworth flew for about two hours Monday as the plane did 40 roller-coast- er maneuvers They experienced 25 seconds of zero gravity at each high point of the flight path and twice the force of gravity at each low point When they got off the plane “their faces were pretty much a complementary color to their olive-gree- n flight suits” Harris said On the plane Hepworth and Sorenson conducted an experiment with an 8- - inch-lon- through the beads The device is similar to one USU sent on a space-shuttl- e flight last year It shows how waves move through granular material — information relevant to the physics of landslides avalanches and earthquakes and to the handling of materials like salt pharmaceuticals and highway sands and gravels “It was kind of hard to get as many runs of the experiment as we hoped especially when Mike was incapacitated on the ty free-floati- ng 27-pou- “I would have Hepworth agreed: gone again 10 minutes after we were on the ground It’s an experience unlike anything you can get here on the ground” standing it even though the plan By Michael R Weibel staff writer i i was supposed to be written so the general public could compre- Officials are getting back on hend it transtrack with a A public hearing was scheduled April 7 for comments on portation plan after earlier versions were rejected because just the transit portion of the consultants did not provide all of plan But that meeting too was the necessary information canceled because CMPO offiThe Cache Metropolitan Plancials learned that the transit part of the plan which includes bus ning Organization's Cache Technical Advisory Committee plans systems and proto meet April 24 to review the grams cannot be separated from latest draft of the plan the overall transportation plan The CMPO Executive Board is A new draft of the whole plan scheduled to meet and discuss is expected to be'rdady within 'a the technical panel's recommenweek While it may be more dations May 3 followed by a detailed than earlier drafts it’s public hearing tentatively schednot likely to appease some resiuled for May 29 dents opposed to upgrading their Adoption of the plan was postneighborhood roads poned indefinitely in January Several residents particularly CMPO planner Andy Huneck those along Center Street in said then that the plan failed to Logan and 100 East between address transportation as it is Logan and Providence have critrelated to land uses urban icized the proposed plan for failgrowth boundaries socioecoing to recognize nomic conditions and other facneighborhoods tors He said the draft plan Their complaints focus on the compiled by Leigh Scott A possibility of increasing traffic Cleary Inc of Colorado Springs on their roads Colo was incomplete and needThose residents also criticized ed to be cleaned up the process which has included The plan cost $64000 and one short public hearing defines future road improve- only since the plan was first published ments in the CMPO area in between Nibley and Smithfield That public hearing in January Projects must be listed on the which started with an unane CMPO transportation nounced open house was critiif plan they are to get state and cized for poor scheduling and the federal funding shortness of time for public com- & Zon- long-ran- ing Commission meets at 7:30 pm Wednesday in the City Council Chambers 69 N Main St Agenda items include: i A request by Timber Marks Co for a conditional-us- e permit to build jnd sell fomiture A reapplication by Mike K Johnj son for a conditional-us- e permit for a g zero-gravi- But at least their experiment was stationary Students from Purdue University had to follow their fluid dynamics experiment through the interior of the cabin over the heads of other experimenters Hepworth said they couldn't strap it down because the slightest jiggle would have affected its performance Sorenson said getting sick in zero gravity was messy especially when he missed the bag “In zero gravity the adhesive forces of the fluid are greater than the cohesive forces so it smears itself on anything it touches” Sorenson said “It’s good to have a towel” Despite getting sick “I’d get back on the plane tomorrow” he said “Weightlessness is indescribable” Transportation plan back on track CMPO officials say CKy Council rheets at 8 o’clock tonight In the Community Building 6 W Main St Agenda items include: A financial report by Boyd Lewis j A discussion with Stuart Smith on d multiple-famil- y overlay zone i A discussion on the Black and White Days celebration A discussion on the Historic Preservation Commission three-do- floor” said Hepworth who didn’t vomit quite as much The USU experiment was designed to be run by a pair of researchers but Hepworth said without help during the phase he had to work both ends of the experiment “I had to float over and do one side then float over and do the other side” he said 'The Richmond 'The Smlthfleld Planning box filled 2 spring-loade- s I g with tiny glass beads They used a d lever — like the pin on a pinball machine — to send shock waves plan ! Page 3 ‘Vomit Comet’ earns its nickname Logan man arrested in alleged beating i Tuesday ge park-and-ri- kennel at 270 S 300 East a conditional-- j use'pemm (Paramount Fence Inc AlvapolicatiorTlty to rent manufacturing buildings to allow manufacturing of vinyl fencing at 150 W 700 South An application for a conditional-us- e permit by Rebound Action Sports Inc to use rental units at 150 W 700 South to allow for manufacturing of recreational products A request by D Clark Kunzler for a conditional-us- e permit to expand a conditional-us- e permit to sell cars at 96 S Main St A request by Lowell King to put up monument signs to identify subdivisions and commercial developments in all zones A discussion on redefining the city's ordinance on group day care An application by the dty to construct an announcers’ tower at the Little League Diamond de long-establish-ed long-rang- 'The College-Youn- Township Planning Commission meets at 7 pm Wednesday in the Cache County Council Chambers 120 N 100 West In Logan Agenda Items indude: n A request by Brent A Freda to renew a conditional-us- e permit to divide 333 acres of farmland with one home already on it in order to build another home at 2890 W 2200 South Young Ward A request by Robert J and Ruth C Adams for a conditional-us- e permit to divide one acre of farmland for a home at 1260 S 3200 West Young g rick-so- April in the valley Horses graze this morning in a pasture at 3200 West and 500 North Snow still covers the Wellsville Mountains but with temperatures expected to rise into the 70s by the end of the week the mountain scenery should change soon Ward ''The Preston School Board meets at 7:30 pm Wednesday in the district offices 120 E 2nd South hi Preston Agenda items include: A request to raise activities fees A motion to officially dose Jefferson Junior High School Idaho State University fall 1997 : student teacher requests Review and first reading of senior t arty out policy Review and update of building f ogress on new middle school -- 'The Welltvllle Planning Com sisslon meets at 7 pm Wednesday i the city office 75 E Main SLAgen--c a items include: LeGrand Johnson Construction Co’s request for renewal of a t condi-tbnal-u- se a gravel pit at bout 200 South and 400 West permit for f ( r Consider recommending to the ity Council the creation of a new iskfential zone residential critical i roA Zan Sharp of 1 request a conditional-us- e permit to build a building at 390 N 900 ge I Smithfield man pleads guilty in canyon assault By Miriam Rand staff writer A jury trial has been called off for an Smithfield man charged with attacking a woman in November as she walked her dogs in Smithfield Canyon Jason Ashcroft pleaded guilty to one count of forcible sexual abuse a second-degre- e felony Under the terms of a plea bargain with the Cache County Attorney's Office a more serious charge of aggravated sexual assault will be dismissed 30 days after sentencing said Deputy County Attorney Pat Nolan The woman told Cache County deputy sheriffs she was approached several times in the canyon by a teen-ag- e boy who later ran up to her from behind tackled her touched her inappropriately and then fled She was able to get a description of his truck as he drove out of the canyon and she called police Later that evening the woman's daughter saw a truck like the one her mother described parked at a fast-foo- d restaurant in Smithfield and called police Ashcroft was arrested at the restaurant and police said he later confessed to the attack Ashcroft was released to his parents after being referred to juvenile authorities in Logan The case was later moved to 1st District Court Ashcroft is scheduled to be sentenced June 2 in 1st District Court asl i CMPO Director Jim Gass said Monday that “the technical committee went through it page by page sentence by sentence and We literally word for word were so disappointed in the way it was done” Gass said there were a lot of inconsistencies in the plan and it would have been an embarrassment to present it to the public He explained that members of the technical committee had a hard time reading and under ments The CMPO sought to change the procedure of its public hearings when it scheduled a ques- tion answer and comment hearing on the plan March 27 It was subsequently canceled and Logan Mayor Darla Clark who chairs the CMPO board said Monday the next public hearing will follow the same procedures as the first one with an open house before the comment period Salt Lake focuses efforts on reducing pimp numbers anti-prostituti- on SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Vice officers here are taking a new approach to prostitution: through intervention programs classes on building healthy relationships and contact with prostitutes families officers hope to stop the cycle The number of arrests on sex-relat- charges dropped from 940 in 199S to 883 last year and officers hope new programs will push the numbers even lower Pimps are now a primary target By making it tough on pimps — taking away their cars and their prostitutes — word gets out that Salt Lake City isn’t a good place to work the streets And finding out who the women are rather than just booking them into jail immediately on what are probably fake IDs makes a dramatic difference said Salt Lake Police Vice Sgt Ken Hansen If a prostitute looks like a minor she is booked into the juvenile detention center Officers then try to notify a family “The girl thinks she's the girlfriend” Hansen said “(The pimp) usually makes her think it was her idea to work If we can make a connection with a relative we're more likely to get the girl to turn against her pimp” Officials also hope to find a building or apartments to be used as a safe house for former prostitutes “A lot of girls I talk to get arrested nd go home and (the pimp) goes and gets her again” Hansen said “It's a whole system of taking advantage of the girls” Intervention cffois like the Choices and Turning Out programs also are changing things The Turning Out program was the brainchild of Cynthia Chandler who bad worked in the escort industry in Salt Lake City Chandler went to Salt Lake Mayor Dcedee Corradini with her frustration over the difficulty of leaving prostitution and the result was a program to tell prostitutes about the resources available |