Show I The Herald Journal Logan Utah In brief Texas pilot student survive plane crash OGDEN (AP) — A pilot and his stu- dent woe in critics! condition Sunday from injuries suffered when their light plane crashed in a mountainous area of northeastern Utah Stripling Smith 23 of Pent Worth Texas a flight instructor and his stu--1 dent ' Timothy Weiner crashed their single-engin- e Piper Warrior Saturday evening They were pulled off the mountain by Writer County sheriff’s search and rescue crews early Sunday Both were in critical condition at e McKay-De- Hospital Sunday a hospital I spokeswoman said I Shim’s Lt Klint Anderson said the I causedf die accident has not been determined but that rough weather may have been affactor Ahqopon said Weiner was Smith’s roommate in Fort Worth ami the men had IfjMin to Oregon a week ago to visit Weiner Ji parents They were returning when the accident occurred went down shortly altar 6 Flight control officials at Lake International Airport a distress call v 7?ft t1 1 Bridgerlanel Radio contact was made later with the pilot pn die ground who reported that both he and Ids passenger were seriously injured A helicopter ambulance was dispatched and located die wreck but had to ledvc the area due to low fuel and an approaching thunderstorm Anderson saUf ground searchers found the wreckage1 apout 1 Monday August 10 1998 Page 3 Expert: Be wary of wildlife because their occupation involves dling animals Bv USU Media Relations In the past year two Utah youths have contacted rabies from handling sick bats But the risk of contacting diseases from other wildlife — particularly raccoons and skunks — is much greater says Terry Messmer a professor in Utah State University’s fisheries and wildlife department “Unfortunately continued human han- Diseases of wildlife that affect humans include rabies brucellosis hantavirus plague Rocky Mountain spotted fever Lyme disease tularemia leptospirosis psittacosis and trichinosis Messmer said there are small precautions people should take to reduce their risk of a conflict with wildlife First and foremost use extreme cau- encroachment on wildlife habitat means many species of wildlife are now in close association with humans” Messmer said “These species include bats rats mice snakes skunks coyotes raccoons deer and in some cases cougars Inevitably with continued close associacontion the number of human-wildliflicts will likely increase” Of particular immediate concern is the possibility of spreading wildlife diseases to humans Diseases of wildlife can cause illness and death to animals and significantly affect wildlife populations Wildlife species can also serve as fe natural hosts for certain diseases that affect humans Messmer said These diseases are called zoonoses and rabies is a prime example The disease agents or parasites that cause these zoonotic diseases can be contracted from wildlife directly by bites or contamination or indirectly through the bites of mosquitoes ticks fleas and mites that previously fed on infected animals he explained Some of the diseases are acquired by humans tion when you encounter wildlife Never ever handle wildlife even baby wildlife Baby wildlife can also carry diseases This is particularly important advice if the animal looks sick abnormal or appears in areas where they have not been noticed before Protection from diseases spread by insects includes using personal protection measures such as insect repellents special clothing or simply tucking your pants cuffs into your socks if you are entering an area infested by tides An equally important preventive measure is having some knowledge of the diseases and the wildlife present at the time of the year you visit specific habitats Knowledge of the risks and recognition of the early symptoms of diseases are essential to preventing severe illness If you hunt or trap always wear pro- tective clothing such as disposable gloves when skinning animals Make sure the implement you use is properly cleaned after each use Avoid eating or drinking while handling or skinning animals and be sure to wash your hands thoroughly when finished Properly dispose of the carcasses and tissue as well as the gloves used When preparing the meat of wild game be sure to thoroughly code the meat If you become sick following exposure to a wild animal immediately con- tact a physician and inform the physician of your possible exposure If you are bitten by a wild animal or have had contact with an animal suspected of being diseased the following first-ai- d measure should be applied Scrub the exposed site including bite wounds with soap and water and flush thoroughly Then apply a strong first-ai- d treatment iodine for instance or cream treatment is an effecAlthough first-ai- d tive way of reducing your risk of infection it does not eliminate your need for medical attention Contact your physician or local health department and pro- vide information about the type of animal involved its behavior whether die bite or attack was provoked and the first aid administered According to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in 1991 there were more than 11000 reported cases of humans contracting wildlife diseases Of these cases 192 deaths were reported Lyme disease which has not been reported in Utah accounted for more than 9000 of the cases but none of the fatalities More than 1000 cases of encephalitis were reported accounting for 142 deaths Three cases of rabies in humans were reported all died In 1991 675 cases of rabies were reported in animals While people tend to associate bats with rabies the risk of getting the disease through contact with raccoons and skunks is much greater Messmer said Raccoons and striped skunks accounted for more than 73 percent of the rabies cases reported in 1991 A total of 670 cases of rabies in bats was reported The expansion of raccoon populations in urban areas continues to pose significant risk of rabies transmission to humans Other injuries from bites or attacks may also result as people spend more time outdoors build homes in remote areas fe disease exposure contact your local USU county Extension office for a free copy of circulars on raccoons skunks and bats am Sunday Lightning strikes give firefighters busy time “Conditions were less than ideal" Anderson said Thjc plane crashed in rugged terrain near the area where Weber Rich and Morgan bounties intersect The area is about fiO miles northeast of Salt Lake City Farmers slow to protect their lands By Michael R Weibet staff writer PROVO (AP) — Farmers across Utah are facing increased restrictions on their activities and encroachments on their land bpfjejy of them are taking advantages of government remedies to their problems A law passed by die Utah Legislature in 1994 grants framers engaging in stan- Thunderstorms over the week- end Uyett" havoc witff local power systems and kept firefighters busy on tree and pole fires throughout Bridgerland Deputy Cache County Fire Chief Jen Peterson said firefight- dard agricultural practices immunity from nuisance lawsuits prevents zone A delight to dump in? ers checked on several reported lightning strikes in the forest cast of Cache Valley A Utah Highway Patrol trooper reported one strike in Franklin Basin but Peterson said firefighters were unable to locate a fire there possibly because rain put it out Rain also put out a grass fire at 1300 North and 7800 West according to Cache County Sheriffs Office reports Firefighters weren't so lucky Trio recycling bins from the Logan Environmental Health Department were awarded beet design in the July issue of The Business Magazine for Waste Management Professionals This bin at the Smith's Food & Drug Center's parking lot with fish painted on the skies and a bin decorated with frogs at Mount Logan Mickfle School won the award after Logan Environmental Health Director Roger Sunada submitted them in the magazine's contest Ryan Orion Gunner Olson and Nate Smith three artists who contributed to the design of the bine were awarded gift certificates Canyon and Logan Dry Canyon where a lightning strike started a fire that kept firefighters from the Ogden Ranger District busy mopping up Sunday Ogden firefight- changes without their consent and makes it more difficult for land to be seized through condemnation proceedings “Jt altowk die farmers to declare ‘We were here first and if you move out ban yon me put onimtice that we hove some special rights’ ” Utah County Commiprioner Jerry Grover said “In essence! pity have the right to farm” “We’rd trying tri keep whatever fannstill out thpre framing ers long as we cany” Grover said 'e Agendas t Tlw Rivsr Haights City Counel meats at 6 pm Tuesday kttw city offiot buMng 520 & 500 East Agenda tome Muds a review of park pavfNon use and a raqusat by Gian Troatla lor a ooncKttonakJM pern The Logan City School DMrtct Board of Education moots at 4:30 pm Tuesday in the board room oTLogan CHy School District offices 101 W Canter St Agenda Hams I Include: Reoognizing a GoUan Apple volunloor Appimingpoisonnolraoommondaliana AocopUng action prioritise Adopting tho revised 1998-0-9 Adopting 1998 tax fries budget Appointing a representative to tho Utah School Board Awodatton delegate assembly Hearing board m ambers' concerns and ?RapolIng on condttons In the dstiloL The Hyde Park Cy Counel moots at 7 pm Tuesday at tlw city office 113 E Hyde half Lana Agenda tarns Include: Discussing an appropriations resoMton Holding a nuisance oirinance hearing writ Rflflif liUCSOfli Hohtog a nuisance ordnance hearing vrih Jim Tippetts Discussing highway development with LaOrand ncadsr Reviewing ttw audtt report wNh Alan Aired (Morning property at 400 E 3100 North wtth Brian Hickman Discussing Blair Kadfs com dd maze The ttrovtdanoa CHy Counctt 630 pm Tuesday at the cRy office 15 8 Main SL Agenda boms include: Addressing Btovon W Hacri rsquest lor a business Scenes lor an aoonomle research and censuring offcast 2518 300 East Approving a Inal plri modrioatton for Country Drim automaton at 325 W 300 Borih Discussing a resolution supporting tlw Cache Countywide Comprehensive Plan and lanttusaatomonL msnissing inWfmountaln Hsabh Cars and community support Accepting ttw bnal plat and dsvriopmant agraamant lor Cmekalds subdMsion approri-mtfsl- y 500 W 200 North Got a local Cal ntm Up? CRy EdRor Mika W8nrwfgran 7524121 Ext 3023 and as wildlife populations increase in urban areas Data indicate biles from rodents far exceed the number of attacks from bean cougars and coyotes An estimated 26700 people in the United States are bitten by rodents 300 by foxes 730 by skunks and raccoons 7000 by venomous snakes The total number of human fatalities caused by bites or attacks by wildlife averages about 10 to 16 per year Ninety percent of those are the result of snake bites Ultimately the best form of treatment remains prevention For mare information on how to reduce your human-wildliconflicts and reduce the risk of Diana MutvihiHHerakt Journal on the ridge between Logan Fire bell rings in greater confusion Editor's note: Each week The Herald Journal republishes articles that ran in the newspaper 25 50 75 or 100 years ago Today’s Utah Then" is from 100 years ago Spading and grammar appear Hi the etoriee as they ware originally written From August 11 1898 The Fire Quite a commotion was raised on Tuesday afternoon by die clanging of the fire bell which announced in die most ambiguous manner dial there was a fire in some part of the city which the ringer of the alarm bell alternately designated as the Fourth Third and Tfenth ward until people began to imagine that either the whole town was afire or else the man doing the ringing was badly inebriated It was finally ascertained however that the fire was somewhere near the Fourth ward meeting house and after impressing a horse into the public sendee (for the fire department is one short) Chief Robbins got aboard the old hand engine and made a run to the scene of the conflagration that was a in more ways than one and made every Kodak fiend in town curse the hick that brought them out without their apparatus The fire which was caused by the combination of the small hoy and matches was in a haystack belonging to Mr Peter Sorensen which contained perhaps six or eight tons of hay Quite a number of workmen being in that vicinity they kept the fire within bounds until the arrival of the fire boys who promptly coupled their hose to a hydrant on Fifth St and pot out the Maze before Anther dam- record-break- er age was done The burning stack was surrounded on every side with barns stacks were in the city Saturday with some line specimens of ore from their new strike in Smithfield Canyon called the Accident mine It is galena ore and runs well in silver They claim to have quite a body of it and report the vein widening with every foot of work done Word reached this city on Saturday of a bad accident which happened at Richmond on Wednesday to Mr Christian Petersen of that place The unfortunate man was buggy driving about town in a one-hothe state of our beginnings what the animal became scared and ran away The occupant of the vehicle was and outbuildings and had die fire occurred thrown out and alighting on his head was at night time hundreds of dollars worth of nearly scalped the right side of his head property would have been destroyed Chief being fearfully lacerated Mr Petersen has been very unfortunate Several yean ago Robbins did excellent work considering the way he is handicapped by die loss of in an accident with a mowing machine he lost both hands and less than two weeks one horse of die fire team Local Points ago THE JOURNAL chronicled the news or his having lost his home and nearly all Girls wanted at the Kaittingfactory his property through fire He is now in a Fresh butter daily at Logan Creamery IS helpless and almost destitute condition cents per lb Best article guarantee and Hon Jos Monson came down on SatWheat or barley will be taken in urday to seek aid from the county for the exchange far beer at the Logag City Brew helpless victim of so many misfortunes eryRCKldgettMgr The Horseshoe mining claim situated A son of Mr John Maughn near the Hercules power plant in the of Wdlsville was thrown from a hone on canyon was sold yesterday under an exeSaturday and sustained a bad break of his cution by Sheriff Turner JE Anderson of left arm He was brought to Logan for sulo- Salt Lake City was the purchaser the price gical attendance beinp $21520 It is supposed to be a good LOST — Rom Aquila Nebeker'a Rich bearing property County ranch one black horse Clyde Joseph S Nielsen and M Tyberg of stock no brands same white in forehead Hyram were riding in Blacksmith Fork d weights 1600 pounds when in canyon on Sunday evening when Nielsen condition bolds his tail to the right was thrown and broke his arm A surgeon good side Reward for information leading to in Hyram set the member after Nielsen had remounted his horse and reached recovery Address Laketown Rich Co Mesrs RobL Reeder and Ed Pitcher home ne raw-bone- I )R COPYl Jt l" ers were called because the Logan Ranger District doesn't have a fire crew They also responded Sunday morning to a tree fire near Tony Grove Lake Once there they spotted a second tree fire and put both out Peterson said Assistant Logan Fire Chief Lynn Clark said city firefighters responded to several utility pole fires Saturday that were started by lightning strikes The storm also set off several fire alarms at local businesses Lyle Powell Logan's electric distribution manager said the pole foes caused isolated outages throughout the city A group of homes in die Island area as well as an area around 900 North and 400 West were without power for about an hour Saturday night while crews repaired the system He said electricity to the whole city blinked for a moment Saturday when a transmission line was struck by lightning A circuit-breaktripped and immediately er restored the power but crews were busy this morning repairing Power which serves most of Cache County outside of Loan reported several pole fires and tripped circuits too “We had our share Saturday night" said Delray Barrington operations manager for Utah Power’s Bridgerland District He said most problems were isolated except a brief outage that affected all of North Logan Sunday night's storm cansed fewer problems Powell said the only incident he knew about was a tree that toppled in Logan cutting off electricity to one home |