Show Bosmess feels heat over story USU trustee tells restaurateur he will steer people away from eatery for Bell Character assassination' By PM Zanavoo and I will encourage all my employees friends and out of town Jensen staff writer business guests to avoid your establish- A member of the Utah State University Board of Dustees has written a letter to the owner of a local restaurant threatening to hurt his business because the restaurateur was quoted in an article raising questions about the actions of USU Athletic Director Chuck Bell ogan High's Brandon Stephens la thtetoof the Year Page 10 The fetter criticized the owner of Zanavoo Restaurant for his role in a fiklafo pw i aby boomers lock to spas p delay aging June 1 story in The Herald Journal that series on use of was part of a three-da- y public funds by Bell The letter dated June S is addressed to the restaurant in Logan Canyon and is signed by Jim Laub Laub is an eight-ye- ar member of USlTs governing Board of Trustees "Your recent participation in the attempted character assassination of Chuck Bell have soured my attitude towards your restaurant" the letter says "In the future I will not patronize ment" Laub reached at home Tuesday night refused to discuss the letter "1 have no comment to you" Laub told a reporter Laub's letter a copy of which has been obtained by The Herald Journal begins: "Attn: Casper Berry” Berry is the owner and manager of Zanavoo Restaurant and Lodge which catered a Christmas party in December at Bell's house Die university was two months late in reimbursing Betty fur his $523 cost Laub is completing his second four-yeterm on the board a policy setting body Laub's letter labeling the newspaper series "attempted chancier assassination" came the day before USU appointed a special committee to investigate ar See TRUSTEE on Page 14 USU Trustee Jbn Laub right Joins USU Athletic Director Chuck Bell left and other members of the Laub family In breaking ground last month for the planned new Stan Laub Training Center buNt largefy from donations from the Laube Apparently angry over newspaper reports about the expenses of Bel Jim Laub has informed a local restaurant owner quoted In the story that he wi try to steer business away from the restaurant Chum Associated Press writer Mouthy Rodman may draw sanctions fcfilCAGO — Barbara Downing ! i IVeaYer treated herself for her 48th birthday paying $105 to be bathed in sea mud wrapped in plastic and put under three sun lamps ' fit’s supposed to take the toxins away but I tell you it made me feel like a million bucks' the real estate agent said : Baby boomers who grew up with Nautilus and step aerobics are now mending millions for new ways to feel like a million And they're turning to day spas which offer the amenities of an Arizona resort but the convenience of a long lunch Clients have graduated from pedicures and hot waxes to professional massages seaweed skin treatments and herbal body wrapt "The baby boomers — they started th club trend a few years back and now they're getting older and they don't want to get older" said Stephanie Matolyak who specializes in one-da- y sojourns for magazine in New York A decade ago the nation had about 30 day spas in a $50 million-a-ye- ar industry Matolyak said Today the figures are 600 and $250 million Most of the growth came in the last five yean she said People freauent spas to revitalize their win and temperament as well as ease tired muscles ' Donna Buczynski a secretary with creamy white skin started getting facials 10 yean ago She said hey are worth die $30 to $50 they LDS Church has no comment on latest brouhaha SALT LAKE CITY (API — When Dennis Rodman cursed on live television the Chicago Bulls suspended him for two games When he kicked a courtsiJc cameraman he got 1 1 games Now that he has offended an entire religious movement judg- Spa-Finde- rs COSL i"Fm getting older and I like to have hem done around my birthday" she aid "I feel better and very relaxed when I do it" Those willing to pay $350 can truly elax at The Grand salon in downtown Tiicago session starts with n The full-da- y mousine ride to the posh spot and ndudes hair cut and style manicure edicune facial massages champagne unch as well as herbal body wrap and ody polishing to exfoliate rough skin nd make it gleam brand owner Kathy Fanskrw said of her nefreonstitute about one-thir- d liems which is typical for the Indus-- VThe spring session of Beyond FOod Mfnues from 7 to 8 p ovary Wednee-- r in the Education Classrooms at Span Regional HospBaL Telephone 750-infmore information m er Paged Ydcihor Like a romance novel: hot and steamy Page 14 ITT Sdox G jassifieds imica Crossword 20 Opinion 18 Sports Dennis after the finals are 8 17 -- 10 con- cluded" NBA Seariet owner of Kate’s Kitchen and Don Olson lift connect pipes used to pump water from the parking lot of fee restaurant Don spokeimin Brian In south Logan The lot (Wed with water from an overflowing Spring Creek which runs behind the business Tuesday afternoon McIntyre said Tuesday in an official league Storm adds to valley water woes of the water was moved back into the creek so Katie’s Kitchen could open for By Michael R Wefeel and Charles Feafeanone staff writers dinner Tuesday night The water was lower this morning trout might have been an appropriate special Tuesday night at Kate’s kitchen where fee swollen Spring Creek breached its banks sod surrounded much Finesh of fee restaurant with water Don Searks who owns the restaurant 71 E 1200 South said fee creek that runs right behind his business was rising oa Sunday and had to be sandbagged Monday "We thought we had a handle on it Monday” he said But a large puddle greeted him Tuesday morning Wife fee help of eight pumps enough Seartes said but he still had four pumps running and he joked about the need for an ark Logan Emergency Management Coordinator Scott Douglas said state officials believe fee recent thunderstorms dumped enough water in the nearby mountains to raise fee level of Spring Creek He didn't have measurements from Spring Creek but Douglas said fee nearby Blacksmith Fork River increased by 200 cubic feet per second slier fee storms Tuesday's storms dropped up to half an inch of rain in Logan which was one of response to Rodman's latest offensive comments Rodman used a cursing expletive when referring to members of the Mormon faith who make up the majority of the population in fee Utah Jazz's home slate He used the term Monday then repeated it — and defended his the hardest-h- it areas in fee state National Weather Service meteorologist William Alder called fee storm "a dash of fee air masses" "The air mass was already so moist and it added another trigger to produce heavy thunderstorms" he said from Salt Lake City "The heaviest were around opinion — on Tuesday in an interview session with the media on the eve of today's Game 5 Ogden Brigham City and the Cache Valley A southwest flow always does well up there with the configuration of the Wasatch (Mountains) and Ben Lomond See RODMAN on Page 14 wmmm Peak" Fans looking for somewhere Douglas said flood problems should be to gather to watch the game can attend a Utah Jazz party lonighl tram 630 pjn until the under control as long as there are no more big storms The Country Manor game ie aver on the south lawn of the Logan Recreation Center 185 S 100 West See STORM on Page 14 Logan to contract with Cache for buses lacho tonight events ment will nave to wait "We will he dealing with ByJohn J Wise agreed Tuesday afternoon not to renew a uteff writer contract with After yean of contracting with private firms for busing services the Logan City School District intends to cut n deal wife the Cache County School District which owns and operates a bus system Logan District Superintendent J Allen Lowe said this morniag that although details have yet to be worked out fee district intends next fall to get its students to school os county-owne- d buses The Logan district's Board of Education Colorado-base- d Laidlaw Transit he Lowe said Die Logan district spends about $450000 per year for busing Laidlaw's director of operations said this morning the company was disappointed by the decision Bob Conciennc said the company made offers to fee district to extend fee contract which expires June 30 but the offers were rejected He said Laidlaw owns 22 buses in Logan Busing in the district has been a thorny issue since a state audit more than a year ago criticized driven far making loo many stops and allowing students who live within walking distance of fee school to ride buses for free Lowe said he expects fee “partnership" between the two districts to offer "economies of scale" for the Logan dis- trict He said fewer driven will be needed as well as less clerical work Also only one maintenance facility is needed and the Cache district has its own facilities It is unknown whether contracting wife Sec BUSES on Page 14 The party will have three JumboTron televisions broado casting fee Utah Buis NBA Finals gams Admission is fret and free snacks and pop witi ba provided People tre advised to bring lawn chairs blankets a Jacket and extra snacks During halftime feera witi also be hundreds ol Jazz-Chicag- Urea prize drawings The event is sponsored by 96 FM 0-8-2 FM 945 FM The FOX' 610 KVNU AM 1380 KIX KLQN Pepai Coca ColaSurge Logan Parka and Recreation Stokes Brothers Sonic Cable TV and Voyager nuQUCwfil McVeigh’s parents take the stand to plead for his life DENVER (AP) — Timothy McVeigh's lawyers eaded their bid to save the convicted Oklahoma City bomber from the death penalty today wife his parents pleading for his fife and remembering him as a happy child and a good son "I Mill cannot believe to this day be could have caused this devastation" Mildred Frazier choking back lean said of her son as she read from a brief statement "He is a human being as we all are" she said "He b not fee mooster he has been portrayed as" ftosecutors did not question kin Frazier who divorced McVeigh's father in 1986 She was followed on the stand by father William McVeigh who played a brief videotape of his son's childhood Defense attorney Richard Burr showed him a picture showing fee smiling father and son "Its a happy Tim It's the time I remember most of my life" William McVeigh said I "Do you love the Tim in this picture" Burr asked “Yes I love Tim" "Do you love die Tim in this court- room “Yes" "Do you want him to stay alive" See MCYKIGII on Bure rase 14 |