Show ouima A 11 cu lb rasssmsa f ' MfeMtoKfflttgasrogag3gapsmEiiiuJMii Insldo Logan Canyon cabin owners have learned to expect it Dressing for Halloween success Page 25 Update mm By Michael R Weibel staff writer Earlier this month watchmen at a Logan Canyon retreat made headlines after detaining a large group of kids who were trespassing The kids didn't cause any damage to the property that day But months of vandalism — totaling more than $100000 — put the retreat’s owners and caretaker on guard against vandals Dirt-ekin- g well grounded nutritionally DANBURY NC (AP)— Maybe Mom was wrong when she said you shouldn’t eat dirt Two Canadian scientists tested soil in North Carolina China and Zimbabwe and pronounced it nutritious There is a warning however Don’t because it might be eat dirt willy-nill- y too dirty “The sticky point is today you don’t want contaminated soil'’ Susan Aufre-it- er ooe of the researchers said Friday “What with industry you don’t know what’s in it” But there’s nothing like dean old dirt The scientists found that subsoil in Stokes County NC is rich in iron and iodine beneficial for both children and women of childbearing age “It sounds a little bizarre doesn’t it?” Aufreiter said “There’s mental retardation in the world caused by a lack of those elements so it’s not trivial” Dirt eating especially among the poor dates back to slavery Clay connoisseurs would look for a certain smdl and texture and sometimes bake it before dining People also ate baking soda and laundry starch The practice called geophagy has waned in recent years Aufreiter a laboratory analyst at die University of Toronto and William Mahaney a York University geography professor used “instrumental neutron activation analysis” to get a precise chemical breakdown of the i They also found nutritional value in light yellowish soil from China’s Hunan province (iron calcium magnesium potassium and other minerals) and in red soil from Zimbabwe (kaolin-it- e an ingredient in diarrhea remedies 'Sunday spotlight jv Logan Transit Manager Geoff Straw shows where Logan By Michael R Weibel The Logan Transit District is starting to crack down on vandals who are destroying buses bus stops and bus shelters Logan Transit Manager Geoff Straw said fee city’s bus system has adopted a “zero tolerance” policy to combat vandalism Between Oct 1 and Oct 23 die LTD sustained $854 in damages to bus seat upholstery alone Another $500 in damages was the result of a vandal who broke a glass panel and bent some of the framework on one of the bus shelters at the transit center near Smith’s Food & Drug Center last week Freemen mb off on cellmates ' V unqualified! The lawyers are gal! 400 The LTD has had police officers riding the buses monitoring the activities of passengers But now their bus patrol hours have been increased from IS hours a week to 40 hours Also Straw said security cameras will be installed in all of the LTD buses at a cost of $1100 per bus — “but in the long run it’s going to pay for itself” AT THBt MILUNNIUN Faith In the Second Coming Whan do you Mnk EM Jaaus Christ Ml Mum to Earth? " Pareantaga oflLS sdutts who think Jasua Ml Mum to Earth: 66 by region v The bizarre claims are ille- from garden-varie- ty trade- the aisles while end-time- rs criminals of the jail’s most famous resi- dents They are firing their lawyers torpedoing their own plea agree- 200 1980 1 1985 1990 tL992-- 9 Mam SynMIMmU Jouml 1 Voather ments Writing their own legal briefs arguing — and ‘ their own cases They are life and work difficult miserable for those court system Don’t forget to “Free-manspea-k” Page 16 prosecutor Crossword27 Mini Page — 44 Opinion Sports ’ 10 IIIMtNUI 17 1 a By Miriam Rand atari writer A committee delegated with reviewing Utah State Univenity'i accreditation standing wound up a weeklong visit to the university Friday in the Eccles Conference Center with a brief statement op its prelim-inar- y findings USU drew praise from the committee — set up by the Northwest Association of Schools and Colleges — for been among the jail’a 300 Inmates its standing as a Research I university Research I universities earn dial status by See FREEMEN on Page 16 awarding 50 or more doctoral degrees in a Indox About Cache 4 12 Enterprise See CHRIST on Page 9 M USU fares well in accreditation review Chief public defender Sandy Selvey calls the Freemen a plague At least seven clients of nis office have tried in state court others have tried it in federal court “They're contaminating our District criminals" Iood Diane Ban says who tangled with the Freemen as a federal falback A MILLENNIUM other believers blow into rams' horns their shrieks announcing the Second Coming The end is near The are here “We're running out of lime We're running out of time” Sister Gwen Shaw the group's matriarch says at the Handmaidens' annual convention “This is God’s last call” While these Handmaidens may be on America's evangelical fringe their beliefs about the millennium and Christ's Second Coming are remarkably mainstream According to a recent Associated Press poll nearly non-Freem- en 250 d robes glide through fellow inmates in the Yellowstone These ardent students legal fantasies 300 middle-age- women clad in white and gold zealots who have beat jailed here awaiting trial since their 81-dstandoffended 16 months ago But the claims are now coming il Many faithful expect return of Jesus (and soon) them ay 350 See VANDALS on Page 16 golden” Around marks of the Montana Freemen ' out-of-to- WASHINGTON — Jesus Christ is about to return and the 1500 folks packed into the Sheraton Washington ballroom couldn't be happier Handmaidens For 16 hours a day the End-Tim-e pray and sway singing of the day they will “dance on streets that are the militant I' Cache County Attorney Scott Wyatt said people should put themselves in the owners’ shoes The owners bought the property as a place to get away once in a while with their families After cleaning up the place and leaving a few odds and ends behind Wyatt said one of the owners returned with his family to find his child's toys burned in the fireplace He said the owners of St Anne's retreat learned a lesson that most Logan Canyon cabin owners have learned over the years — they can't stop vandals “The sad reality of this world is that everybody with recreational property will have vandals” Wyatt said The problem is so widespread that many cabin owners simply leave their doors unlocked so nothing is damaged by vandals breaking into their property They also make sure that nothing of value is left behind and they leave the curtains open so potential thieves and vandals can see that there’s nothing inside “They don’t put anything of value By David Briggs AP Religion Writer “To hell with you and your I 9 Utah t'C replaced the same day it is discovered Buses with painted or marked profanity are taken out of service immediately until the potentially offensive words can be cleaned off Straw said most of the damage is being caused by kids And he added the LTD will bill parents for the replacement costs if their kids are caught He noted that it’s only 2 to 3 percent kangaroo court!" one defendant bellows at his sentencing for dealing drop ‘ UA 450 W 500 N in of the kids who are a problem In fact most of the kids are great he said adding that some even help to identify the ones causing the problems Drivers can’t monitor everything that happens on the buses Straw said their primary concern is safety and to the court! The judges are - ' I The LTD tried to use “vandal-proseats with hard plastic backs that are resistant to marking and carving But Straw said vandals have used lighters to melt die plastic Vandals have also etched graffiti into the glass and metal frames of bus shelters Most damaged equipment with the Standing scornful and defiant the defendants shout their cases They are sovereign citizens not subject : UAeiee1" - a bus shelter at 150 BILLINGS Mont (AP) — QnrbtlMftmaiMiOnBvhw Utah area of gloss was broken out by vandals at of staff witter aed averaged ever 3 te 5 ma a pane I MMCBiOff MittM JOUfTwl Destructive acts plague bus system 4 500 J" T : ‘ptrlSMM SOUKS: j w' MIICVi Cache & counting When cancer calls UtahTs UA s ' year and receiving at least $40 million in federal support That standing puts USU in the position of national leadership Committee Chairman Michael Malone said But it may also be contributing to a problem noted by the committee: USU is getting leu and leu of its funding from the “Over the past decade die university has found means to support its programs m the face of decreasing state fending” Malone said “This heavy reliance on outside fending is placing USU in an increasingly precarious position” USU gets only about a third of its fund Jl ing from the state USU Vice President for University Relations Paul Norton said That means the university is becoming more and more dependent on unpredictable sources of money during a period of record-breakienrollment which topped the 21000 mark for the first time this fall The committee also found educational assessment acrou the curriculum “uneven” and recommended that graduate producing dwindling numbers of j Committee members also be implied USU hu pud little more dun lip ng See USU on Page 16 COPY |