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Friday October 304898' :i- In v 1 :iVdt fPrestonmarr collision head-o- n in te : Charles RJohas6u20"of Preston ras pronounced dead at foe scene of h colliiion Thursday afternoon after his tar hit head-o-n by another vehicled W 1838 S State St in Ptetoo??- Rbyahn Warden 38 of Preston war traveling south on State Stmt in 1992 Aid faro-to-n track when she lost coikU’ tool and dossed the center liner accotd-ingto die Idaho State Policed Johnson iwar going north on State Street when i Warden’s track tan into his 1988 Chejy " : i ' : i -- Berctta the BP repbrted'tHxJ£ 1 WatdaU was treated at PrMlinCoan-- f Hospital and released die ISP report r- ' ' "m Ml ct I f t were totaled according to foeISP sad the accident was still under investigation today ' - Ftmeral services for Johnson priHbe at apoa Monday in the Preston 3rd $djBothvehicles -- — - s etfah is 1130 area at Woodruff Elementary School fhrimTWQrkhd out so parents who ' drive their kids to school are bemgm?ved back the old 1000 west cmrancr But the change has left many parents wondering what’s going on PEA vohmteeR directed parents g beck lo die dd anaagement rf V s' 4 f s icy 5 Ji'1-- 1 - - Wellsville pole fire A utility pole at 261 M 100 West in WeHsvilte caught fin Thursday after-- ’ noon and investigators were stiD trying --! to determine die cmise this morning ' - ' s 'f " parent-volunte- er “ftwas a disaster" added Heidi Ricks another volunteer The original plan for the new area and parking lot was to move parents whobnng their kids to school by car onto 600 South and take buses to the former main entrance lo foe school on 1000 West we thought it was two yean down The 1000 West entrance is mare the reed” he said The new plan will send foe of a hassle than ever became of foe read work at 1000 yfnt and north drop-o- ff area hick to foe 600 South where crews are laydrawing boaird to enlarge the MihMif ami flit ) bfflfr IOTW ing foe foundation for a traffic signal School modate buses but changes were officials said the signal is still a going to be needed wherever the year or so away but the waring curbs tad gutters are going in Moving them to foe school’s j£ouriiaidt ihcewarings' and main (entrance would have drop-of- f Wrong poison phone! jdirectoiyi numbersjn ' numbers tot Control edition of theBridgeriand Phone Booklnc directory are not correct The coreect V phone nnmbere as listed in dw US West directoryatKUtafa pnson Cootnd Ir! 80(M56-770-7 ldahb Poison Control 1 long-await- !nO aiulv04 - VVellsville accident sendstwpto hospitaj !jaccideminWelwnlwjibiimprn inghad dietaim ttf Halloweenas tww members of dm Blood fiumfy nm ipfft® - road near the WeUsville Cernetery According to Utah Hitway Fund ’ WeUsville r 'I-'-- - Ceaeiay Wo-- ml todayJ-'-- failed U& Aviation flight school have been given a Nov 14 deadline to either find miother school change fodk status the United States Skw fM'Aboot $ SO vi Oct Hi Zv&y ?? Many of the students don’t have enough money for a new school But if am their they don’t get into n bankruptcy j At 'PM wiU expire on the Novemher Vt “We feel that everything we 4 France has been lost” : a:' i and other stndenU paid the school for their education up front in tame cases as much as $55000 They calculate that the flight school owes thein $57800 in prepaid fees $ ? V iAa '£ J’ ' - ’! Corrocllon J’i : ‘v Name misspelled 4 Psychologist Gary Sazame’s name was spaflad Incorrectly in an aifids In Wadnae-dt- a Herald Journal about a Preston man being sentenced for aggravated assaud Got a local news Up? Call City Editor Mike Wennergren 752-212- 1 Ext 3323 la addition to Bennen’s comfortahle lead Rep Chris Cannon is without a ta lb C V Demokd U - f - 1 8iwoalIhstncl and Rep Em Hansen 4 Wifoaiackofcoinpetitivencesfarthe enJ03rs huge enduon m foe polls wer aUenger Steve Merida in state’s three Democratic UA Senate end ti 1 District £: A ! v- s A- - ““4 r tiu daj i vS - i B : ”u“ r2S - lhe body contested nee between GOP dectioa in involves absentee and Democratic Cook Menfll registered Utah RP ZHL casthallots of Distrid V billots Lfif Eskelsea 01 percent higher ' voters The Republican Party mailed oit ballot with iritiatives to kmg change foe fou foe record low set in 1978 National 60J0Q applications for absentee ballots ly votretuniout in 1994 wu also 57 per--' vfortn of county governmem and tighten- - to party loyalists to Salt Lake County inf races for county commiisioner could eenL:’i and dm Democrats countered with 4&000 to to turnout Lake Salt Turnout ted to peak presidential generate healthy oftheirown f ? years and certainly docs better when' County Jones believes About 1400 of those applications have He interest seen in Proposition alro has there are hotly contested been returned said Salt Lake County races at foe lap of the ticket — to other 5 — whidi would mandate s Cktk Shenie Swensea who expected to ' majority to pass uy wildlife initiative words years Malika this one ! "Sometimes propositions bring out send out about 600 more before today's In 1996 turnout was 6S7 percent Aad four years earliei more than 80 percent more people than candidates” said deadline There has been an even split of registered voters turned out for the Jones who still would not be surprised to between Democrats and Republicans she s' f presidential race and see 50 percent turnout foe lowest since sail V As of 1998 foere were 4601728 regisrecords were first kept to I960 Bob Bennett-Wiyn- e the Even LL Gov Oicne Walker the state's tered voters to Salt Lake County With Owens campaign for the US Senate chief elections officer is reluctantly pre- about half expected to vote foe anticipatSo if tbe gloomy forecasts are accurate foe state’s bighest-cve- r voter turnout — dicting a record low showing according ed 2000 additional absentee ballots i ’ would make up just under 1 percent bf just below 90 percent for Lyndon John- 'to spokeswoman Atm Peterson ' The minority Democrats generally the vote son's landslide presidentiu victory to But with statistical dead heats to polls 1964 — could wind up dwarfing this considered to benefit most from a robust for the 2nd District race and one county turnout are what can 40 with doing year’s by a whopping percent they “The one thing that might depress massive phone banks and mailing to commission race foe additional votes could make a difference i (turnout) mote than anything else is foe change the anticipated low voter interest “We have the biggest coordinated Swensea also points out that the 50 lack of a teal strong race at foe top of the we hare had to years” said percent voter turnout may appear deflated ticket” said Ted Wilson director of the Hinckley Institute of Priitics at the Uni- - Meg Holbrook chairman of tbe Utah because of a change in the law that Democratic Party focused primarily on allows people to register to vote when versity of Utah The only statewide race for political the 2nd District but also on county comthey renew their driver’s license office between COP Sen Bob Bennett mission and legislative races The change has expanded Utah’s votud Democratic challenger Scott Leck- - Wilson is among those who believe ing rolls but may not increase the num- man isn’t considered close enough “to low turnout generally favors RcpuMi-- brn showing up at foe polls In foe last ihi Tl!-E!E2- chaI-1Tt- t“ :£ : le j Gintoo-Bu&h-Per- : two-thir- ds - ot ng ' V ’ I i nation revenue diortfoll font ednen ton blame on this fidl's cooversioa v ' 1 ? Tkqr did not want to ask for that money on top of foe $40 milltoa being longht by the schools to make sue their computers do not IMbSSoSSSmS ? k f V w to seek $75 million to cover a voters say ulSSowt kS 1 al pay raises for fopufty and staff or costs to construct new buildings The regents this week decided not n tmhMi ttmkmirn tm Amencu tmKLAha I 4 )That figure don not reflect annu- He points to two factors that could sake a difference One is the Cfintoo scandal whidi could either energize or DgMOMk ?' We'ieata waUandhaveno wayto climb over It” said Tom Dudet Of - 4UBSout barely cracking 40 petcenL la fact about 90 potent of those ferenL east predicts a uid ' high-profi- &rv brought Dudet live on foci (Salt Lake Valley’s) i bcach'r Wilsoa who - to cast ballots v “It tends to gnvitate more toward foe steady types the cboservative types who uhracouservatives posture as defenders of the Constitution and types preach Vigilance against encroachment SALT LAKE CTIY (AP)-- The state Board of Regehte is asking for a $31 milfion inoease in the $500 rnUlion stitte'Thadtog for Utah’s nine public colleges and universi- - 5 CHIi 'V-V- J! : M: Mormon S?5SSI rSJ3S?rfSis5 tam students ftom various for’ were stranded when US countries hip Aviation closed its doors and dedwnd e all the predominant After J j fW- hike in funds clmich encourages political iavolvemeau ?:?T00DEN(AP)w Stadenta of 4 t‘ T in to'' ' SEoroign students! igiven options bylNS’J thiex “ ' IsAUTLAKE CTTV (AP) —Iris chic for Utah iesidents to uy they plea ?jThe 4 ' 'k- f ' UHP trooperssaid dietarcameto rest on!a hillside lt wss necessary to secure the vehicle with a cable Man ' Blood andhis passenger Sazie Blood ITT also of hbndon could be removed dean the eat weren’t hart Bloods were taken to Logaaf Regional Hospital where they woe 'ik tremed for cuts and bnusesl Thry were stiU beuig checked for other hgnriea at Mf Cf '' ' Regents seek (Blood’s) foot iii: jsrid UHP Trooper Ariow Hancock tei tSmtteiif in MoffodadtatigN U SdOitioa ' tempdfinv cloture 6f ThretfFoinf'' roomtoturearoUnd’ But the ultimate solution lo the Avenue nmneled even more ihore traffic onto 1000 WesL : ' "I£ tnffiejam parents free every day tiX: And while somC parents rfidnH at the school is to reduce the Traffic etedte lup’iii'mn drivuniiqr at Woodrolf Etementeiy School In Logan on Ihuredsy after!1 oooa Parents end PTA merabein ere eoncemed about IteWc probtoms around foe school when' like die move hade to foe 1000 " West dropoff area mofoer group See SCHOOL oo Page 14 peranteerepicldngif(Chldraa::rr£ 'iy was eastbouad on 400 Ntreth! in WeUsville about 730 Un wben be lost 0pmrdlbfhis l984Nblks4genJetta r't Blood’ ear sUd off the road and struck n tree directly sonth of the - -- ed of Mepdoe lieporta Douglas Blood 16 I other planned safety measures kicked in earlier than expected including (dosing foe bus driveway on foe west side of the school and putting in n fence by foe nod The city wanted that driveway dosed because it was loo dose lo Hi Will Smith inlfriurtMH Jfgffg 'said “We knew that was coming bin from entrance “4 v Poison tekjpmme Utah and ldaho in the 1998-9- 9 administrator “It just didn’t wok" he said area will Now the new drop-of- f be reserved for buses Woodruff just lost its old bus entrance when until they came to pick up their kids yesterday” said Bonnie Hauuitt as she directed traffic at the school’s s’ V T - Also there just wasn’t space at the crowded school for cars to queue without spilling out into narrow 600 South said Paul Jensen the district’s business The mothers and fathers were crews from Utah Power already there Electricity to die pole was cot oft and the blaze was quicuy doused tovestiga-tors speculated a tightmng strike ignited pote- ol not happy "Pareiits didn’t know about this 4 'j w '2 r The WeUsville Fire Department responded to the fite'MS33 pjntofind'i£ d lem Most of foe students who walk to end from school head north right through traffic foe area has brought new drop-of- f continued at 1000 West and 600 t South and departing shift workers headed beck to Logan from Icoe Health A Fitness V -- i i - And that wasn’t the only prob- dur-in- after-scho- ‘ T1 super-intenden- Thursday’s drizzly rush while read work onto 600 South' V ttedvr? investigators study “Parents were very concerned that they could not see their children especially small duldrea go into the door” said Allen Lowe L Logan Cftjr School District - aim Mqik‘ 4& didn’t like dropping kidsoff at the new north entrance For pne thing the view of the school’s mtianpow is blocked by portable classrooms ByMiriamRand Ctetf writer t jWatdQivel 155 N 2nd West Friends' jnayyisit foe churdifrom 6 to 8 pjn£f Sunday and 10:30 1 'X ft : X toy & - Parents say they’re womed aSbKeavy traffic mWs®: ' "x-- vu ’ ' cnfo Jim 1 20001 n : h-!- - ’ “We need to solve that problem” ! said Regents Chairman Charlie Johnson ’’Throwing the tuition f issue on top of font did not seem v Eke wise position to approach the Legislature and governor with” The Ktniber of students on Utah's public college campuses this faU dropped 9 percent Higher Ednc- tion Coomtissiooer Cecelia Foxley attributes that to thp semester Coo-- 4' version and predicts student nusKr hers will rebound next year when students become more accustomed to foe longer terms ' tf-'t ' Fraley’s initial budget included n request to cover the tuition shortfall but sire said Wednesday site ' dropped foe request because of foe Y2K problem and a predicted decrease to tax revenue growth that could affect all of state government' : - vf- 4 it' v “The revenue picture is still healthy for Utah but revenue pro-- ! jections are not ns strong as they have been” said Foxley “Reading die writing on foe wall we’re say- ing this would be a good candidate for higher education to take its share of foe hiL” i J i $ y M I SL ? 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