Show I Page 4— Thn Herald Journal Logan Utah Tuesday October 21 1997 Motorists may not give a hoot but Uncle Sam does said “It would be lovely if we were able to triple our number of bags” There's a less lovely side though “There was more litter out there on the road to pick up" Stephenson said “We can't pick up what's not there” During the late 1980s the average amount of litter per mile piled up much faster than population or vehicle miles traveled More recent statistics aren't available but officials believe the trend is continu- KENNEWICK Wash (AP) — The bad news is that more and more motorists are tossing more and more trash out the window The good news is that more and more litter crews arc collecting more and more cigarette butts candy wrappers cans bottles and other refuse Last year the state Ecology Department crews gathered 20863 hags of garbage weighing about 417300 pounds This year they're nearing 12 mil lion pounds said Cullen Stephenson the agency's litter statistic analyst “We've gotten 52000 bags and we're still out there picking them up We're harking to get a couple thousand more before we quit" Stephenson ing “We know there is more litter on the roadways” said Rod Hankin son waste reduction manager at the state agency's office in Yakima “We have redoubled our efforts” There seems to be little difference from county to county Stephenson said “We see some more litter in the urban areas but it's not drastic” he said Each summer the department pays 14- - to $550 an hour to remove litter as the Ecology Youth Corps From spring to fall the state hires people generally 18 to 25 for $850 an hour until cold weather sets in usually by early November They fill blueplastic bags which are then hauled away by state Transportation Department crews It typically takes 140 items about 20 pounds to fill up each bag This year the two pregrams have engaged abouu 400 people to boost pickup after three yeass of f declining litter removal and an increasing buildup of unsightly rubbish “We looked at our performance and we were not doing levels that we used to do” Stephenson said “People were noticing that there was a kit of titter! on the road and we speed with them” The litter program is allocated $25 million a year roughly twice the youth corps allotment Stephenson doubts he'll spend more than $19 mil- lion but says the increase has meant cleaner sides road-- ( j ! Radio TV personality signs off More proof of life on Mars LOS ANGELES TAP) — lly Avcrhack a onetime announcer for Boh Hope and Jack Paar who was a producer-directo- r on M ASH h Tmup and many other television shows has died He was 76 Averhack who also had many acting credits in the golden yean of radio and television died Oct 14 following heart surgery at Cedars-SinMedical Center He appeared in films including The Benny Goodman Story and How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying In television he was a regular on Tonight and Our Miss Brooks Probably his most distinctive character was Tokyo Mose a SALT LAKE CITY ( APj — NASA scientist David McKay Critics still not convinced says there is additional evidence to support his claim last year that a meteorite contained signs of ancient life on Mars McKay said Monday that film- Martian The softball-size- d like material in the meteorite resembles slime secreted onto meteorite is made of rock that underground rocks by microbes formed on Man 4 5 billion yean on Earth ago A large asteroid or comet “We don't have a smoking gun smacked into Man 15 million yet but we’re increasing the yean ago and threw the rock into ai tongue-in-chee- answer k to Japan's Tokyo Rose during World MosWar II Over the quito Network Averback broadcast to US soldiers during the war from Guadalcanal self-style- d probability'' that Mars once harbored primitive life the Johnson Space Center geologist said in Salt Lake Gty during the Geological Society of America's annual meeting “I'm still not convinced" said paleontologist Jack Farmer of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Ames Research Center in Mountain View Calif Geoscientists who debated the issue at Monday's meeting agreed AP photo Found 'Odalisque' a painting by the French Impressionist Henri Matisse shown in an undated file photo stolen by the Nazis and listed as missing lor more than half a century apparently is at the Seattle Art Museum Experts at the Los Angeles outlet of the auction house Christie's said it could be worth as much as $2 mMion Obituaries age 94 son of Thomas and Mary Ann Barker Poppleton He married Vera Parkinson on May in 28 1955 Ogden Utah She died on Feb 4 1997 He was a member of the LDS Church and he enjoyed playing pool and fishing He is survived by three stepsons and one stepdaughter LeRoy Mo- Kenneth Morgan Roy Utah Dennis Morgan Ogden Utah and Janet Morgan Parker Colo 22 stepgrandchildren and 33 rgan Cody Wyo stepgreat-grandchHdre- Jane a n will be at noon Wednesday Oct 22 1997 hi the Wellsville Cemetery Friends Graveside services may from 10:30 to 11:30 am before services at the Alien-Ha- ll Mortuary 34 E Center St In Logan His family wishes to give a special thanks to Sunshine Terrace for the staffs loving kindness and time that has been given to the welfare of Lawrence Frank J Reilly Frank J Reilly age 62 died Oct 18 1997 in San Diego Calif after a lengthy illness Frank was a former educator having worked as an elementary school teacher and principal in Phoenix Ariz and Grants NM He went on to operate two businesses with his wife and partner WEDNESDAY A free nutrition and wellness seminar is at 6:30 pm Wednesday al the Sports Academy and Racquet Club The public is invited For more information call 0 The Cache Valley Diabetes Association and the Bear River Diabetes Council present seminars on Living with Diabetes from 7 to 9 pm Wednesday The support group meets in the education classrooms at Logan Regional Hospital Living with Diabetes is a seminar held every third Wednesday of each month Different topics arc presented and discussed each month There is no charge An Advanced Cardiac Life Support Course will he held Oct 22 and Wednesday Wednesday Oct 29 from 8:30 am to 3:30 pm in the Education Classrooms al Logan Regional Hospital The course teaches skills needed to learn to in the Lewiston 3rd Ward Chapel 16 S Main St with Bishop Clark Gailey Saturday Oct 25 1997 toy store hi Logan Utah and most recently a Postal Annex franchise in San Diego He wi be missed by many former students friends customers and family He is survived by his wife of 39 years Jane three sons Dwight Matt and Doug a daughter-in-laLaVon four grandchildren Ren Valeri Shannon and Jennifer An informal memorial service will be at 2 pm Sunday Oct 26 1997 at Papalulu’s Restaurant 3368 Governor Drive hi San Diego conducting Friends may call at Webb Funeral Home from 6 to 8 pm Friday A complete obituary will appear In a future edition of The Herald Journal w orite contained evidence of ancient life on Mare The evidence included organic chemicals called polyaromatic hydrocarbons grains of magnetite miner- als resembling those produced by bacteria on Earth and objects that looked like fossilized bacteria smaller than any known on Earth rod-shap- ed The price for obituaries and cards of thanks is $4 per column Inch Obituaries are measured columns wide by Inches deep Including photographs All obituaries must be placed by a mortuary or hi person by someone authorized to make payment or arrange billing There la no charge for death notices placed by a mortuary For more Information call The 1 Herald Journal Death notice Elva L Telford - LEWISTON Elva LaMont Telford 84 passed away Monday Oct 20 1997 at Logan Regional Hospital from pneumonia Funeral services are planned for 1 1 manage cardiac and respiratory situations requiring advanced cardiac life support concepts for adults The cost of the course is $75 To register or for more information call the Education Center at Logan Regional Hospital 750-531- 0 752-212- am All Cache County residents are invited to attend a statewide Volunteer Summit at 6:30 pm Wednesday al Mount Logan Mid- dle School Sky View High School and Logan High School Special addresses by General Colin Powell and Governor Mike Ixavitt will he aired via commercial television focusing on impor- tant statewide goals for youth stock prices are quoted Mid-da- y BIRTHS Brigham City Community Hospital ROWLEY — Heather Jensen and Mark Trcmonton a boy Oct 2a Logan Regional Hospital BOWLES — Jenaia Richmond aboyOcL 10 BIGGS — Clover Passey and Nicholas Franklin a boy Oct 19 ERICKSON — Stephanie Means and Tyion Providence a objects are too rod-shap- ed He also rebutted other criti- cisms and presented more tecent findings which received little notice when he first discussed' them at a March meeting in Houston Scientists studying under- -' ground pollution at the Hanford' Nuclear Reservation in Washing- Columbia River basalt At depths as great as of a mile found organisms' they possibly bacteria grow in cracks said in the rock y He said the organisms secrete filmy slime that under the microscope appears “like a lace' curtain that's tattered” and proba--' i ' bly helps the microbes stick to) Martrock and to each other The ian meteorite has a similar’’) “filmy very thin material bridged’ across cracks" in the meteorite! suggesting it was placed there by' Martian microbes he said Farmer said bacteria in hot springs on Earth produce such slime but it is destroyed unless it is infiltrated by minerals that pre- serve it two-thir- ds one-cell- ed Mi-Ka- 1 Commodities Livestock - POCATELLO 'Idaho (AP) Idaho Farm Bureau Intarmountain grain and Iveatock report for Tueadey POCATELLO — White wheat 313 (down 2) barley 485 (steady) 14 percent spring 396 (up 8) 11 percent winter 345 (up 12) OGDEN — White wheat 355 (up 3) bailey 490 (steady) 14 percent spring 371 (up 8) 11 percent winter 352 (up 5) PORTLAND — White wheat 401 (up 1) barley 11500 (steady) 14 percent spring 483 (up 10) 11 percent winter 431 (up 8) CALDWELL — White wheat cwt 525 (steady) & Shoshone ' on and com- -' Utility Monday: Saieyard metcial cows 2800-340- 0 heavy feeder1’! steers 8000-820light feeder steers 8300-870- 0 Stocker steers 9500-- ? 9900 light hoMein feeder steers 5600-5800 hofstein springer heifers Valley) 108000 per head (at lambs (from Idaho Falls) 8000-830- 0 ’ uOHty and commercial buds 3600-437- 5 Ight' heavy feeder heifers 7000-730Stocker’ feeder heifers 7400-780- 0 stock cows 47500- heifers 8000-82052500 per head feeder lambs (Idaho’ LIVESTOCK AUCTION 0 (from-Treasu- 0 ' FaDs) 7700-830- 0 - In 9:30 am today the Jones Industrial Average was 798431 8287 These quotes wore Al approximately Dow taken at that Mme and provided to The Herald Journal by Edward Jones BoiasCaacade CampbelSoup Chrysler ConagralNC Edison ML First Security Bank Ford Fred Meyer 42916 5478 3714 3338 26716 - 118 18 318 1 --- 518 516 58 18 38 14 34 48516 916 26516 - 316 31 teer Shop located at Smith's Food and Drug in Logan The Shop is open Monday through Now Open Thursday 9 am to 7 pm Friday from 9 am to 8 pm and Saturday from 10 am to 6 pm For more information call Chris at 752-31- £Puaoi Saturday October 25th at 1:00 pm 03 MiQuimtQURtii CONSOLIDATE 0000 JllOmo 50000 550mo 1 huge estate and antique coflection loaded with quaflty homo furnishing and art objects from several palatial estates and 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it' written that Martian bugs have to be identical to Earth bugs?” through the year 2000 The Summit will also kick off the Volun- girlOct19 MECHAM — Jamie Evans and Matthew Logan a boy Oct 19 POULSEN — Julie Larson and Kevin Logan a girt Oct 10 the ’ Krvvww from noon News of record formed under conditions too hot for life the organic chemicals arc created throughout the universe by processes that don’t involve life the magnetite grains can be formed by chemical reactions and Grain Obituary policy Selected stocks About Cache 753-750- space ft fell onto an Antarctic ice field on Earth 13000 yean ago In August 1996 McKay and eight other scientists published a study suggesting tiny globules of carbonate minerals in the mete- Critics argued the globules Lawrence Poppleton Lawrence B Poppleton died Sunday Oct 19 1997 al Sunshine Terrace He was bom Nov 10 in 1902 Wellsville Utah a the question of whether life once existed on Man is unlikely to be answered until a NASA spacecraft lands on the planet in 2005 scoops up soil ana brings it back to Earth for analysis “My feeling is Martian meteorites will not give us a definitive answer no matter what we throw at them” said biogeochemist Jeff Bada of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla Calif Y" Saturday ' Dinner 5:009:30 30 and Poultry PM |