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r PB2 —The r1 v r Herald Journal Logan Utah Thursday January 14 1999 I I Two hurt in rock slide Poll: Public is sour on lobbyist-lawmaklinks er SAUNA (AP) — Two people were injured when boulders as large as cars tumbled down a The rock slide occurred just before 11 am Wednesday about IS miles east of Salina on Interstate 70 The slide of unknown cause closed the highway until 3:30 pjn It demolished part-tim- SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah lawmakers look at several bills in- the upcoming legislative session that address the conflicts of interest that this winter have semitrailer a e teen percent believe lawmakers should accept only nominal items like a cup of cof- Legislators get too many costly ‘gifts’ they say mountainside in Salina Canyon truck and a van The semi was traveling in the westbound lane while the van was in the d east-boun- engulfed everyone from Utah House speaker Mel Brown to lane Van driver Shannon Haynes of San Clemente Calif was treated at Utah Valley Regional Medical Center in Provo for a broken leg ankle and hip The driver of the semi Douglas J Harward of Salina 38 was treated at Sevier Valley Hospital in Richfield for a small fracture to his neck and lacerations to his arms legs and hands “Those rocks were huge they were monsters” Harward said “I came around a turn at about 33 mph and I tried to turn out of the way but it was just massive Olympics officials And a new Deseret News poll 31 showing most Utah residents believe legislators accept too many and too costly "gifts" from lobbyists won't harm the effort either AP photo The Dan Jones ft Associates 11 shows that 62 percent of tahns believe lobbyists’ gen- Western stock show a cart loaded with bales of hay the stockyards at the 93rd annual National Western Stock Show and Rodeo In Denver on Wednesday StockraiserB from acroas the United Statsa and Canada are taking part in the National Western which la one of the largest livestock exhMtkxw staged in North America Ron Haflbauer of CarttnvMa II puds to a pen holding his cattle in erosity toward legislators should be curtailed — either cut out completely or cut back Thirty-eig- ht percent said legis- lators should accept nothing — not a pen not a soft drink Four- - fee while another 10 percent say it’s OK for them to accept gifts of $23 or less such as a lunch or inexpensive dinner The poll results were published in a copyright story of the Deseret News on Wednesday Jones queried 413 Utah residents for the poll conducted Dec 28-3- 0 It has a margin of error of 3 percent Rep Jordan Turner who is the perennial sponsor of various legislative and campaign reform bills that usually fail believes the Legislature will definitely consider three bills he is sponsoring for this year's session “Considering what's happened (recently) with some legislators and SLOC I think the Legisla- ture will seriously consider” these trills he said And Tanner has some new allies in the House including new House Speaker Marty Stephens West rr A bill Stephens and other member of the House Republican leadership have promised to support would drop the exemption for “intangible" gifts Under current law lawmakers gift-givi- may accept an intangible gift Tm-ner- 's greater than $30 But under bill “you couldn't take any gift over $50 period” he said Another bill would keep legislators and top members of the executive branch from becoming paid lobbyists for two years after leaving office or state employ-mem In 1998 the Republican majority leaden of the House and Senate resigned their posts and both picked up lobbying contract! The third trill would lower the legislative reporting by-na- amount from $30 to $23 That would mean that if a lobbyist spent more than $23 on a lawmaker within a period the lawmaker's name must appear on the lobbyist’s flnmei! disclosure form 24-ho- ur Lawyer says sex offender statute is faulty OGDEN Utah (AP) — A defense attorney says Utah's sexual exploitation of a minor statute is unconstitutional Neil Kaplan who is representing a man charged with nine secon- ments would be banned by the statute Deputy Weber County Attorney Sandra Sjogren disagreed “The Coppertone baby is an artist's rendering The law applies to a child a specific child So I think he’s reading the law too narrowly” Sjogren said “The law also refers to these things being done for the purpose of sexual arousal He may not have mentioned that” Sjogren said she would reserve additional comments for the legal documents she would be filing in for of children says the law does not felonies d-degree downloading nude photos require that the photos in question be pornographic or sexually explicit The law simply says nude he said which can imply any showing of private parts such as a child's bare buttocks Gary D Peterson 39 of Washington Terrace was discovered by a Weber State University of naked children to a total’bf nine counts filed one: for each j Kaplan said he has been photo police said After a brief court appearance involved in researching pornography laws around the country and Utah’s is the only one he has seen without the prosecution require Monday Kaplan said that the Coppertone baby in the suntan lotion’s advertise long-runni- ng Police’ here supposedly at least not yet” Kaplan said He said he wasn’t sure whether he would be asking Judge Baldwin to strike down the law as unconstitutional or to simply rule T LIKE prosecution f skV J sJ f±v rf ah MEMBERSHIP FEE SPECIAL WILL CONTINUE THROUGH JANUARY 25TH Wednesday's WILD CARD jackpot wM be an eatfcnaled $1 120000 ' t'XUriylfrefrcasbed In Dtf faj ‘TWEftfetf la MaRlMH IK vft MOt V 4 Circle K In Boiee ICnmiJmtNIUHBKWYnmtf IMWt S' I M matched feureut of flva numbers and the powerbal and won $5000 ha purahaaad hie tiefcet at 17 19 25 28 31 RMNtBHNDW nasti rlO iklt - rs w'v' JVJ If lift iH btnj ' &'Xacittt 1655 N 200 E WMtQMMCftRlClKraplTtCMKIttW mmwmmmiKnviiNumk l) XB r t o i iTMtnIH 1 1 ?hcJlriE3 JomeueiFy (SOocapcainiGO YOUR WAISTUNEI) it doesn't apply to Peterson’s Wednesday's POWERBALL Jackpot wi be an estimated $57 million That works out to ba before taxes a single cash payment of $327 million or annuity payments of $228 mNon per year tor the next 25 yearsll Second District Judge Parley Baldwin has set an April 8 hearing for oral arguments on what Kaplan promised would be “numerous" motions contesting tbe constitutionality of the states statute ib d 4 HI motions allegedly found in the office led against-Peterson- “We don't have ‘Thought response to Kaplan’s coming police officer in October allegedly downloading pictures of naked children from a campus comput- er Printout ment that depictions be sexually explicit or pornographic Without those terms he said legal case law definitions established for those terms can't be applied and any person's subjective definition can be substituted SqDo i C(u6J' 753-750- 0 rd w ea rSin i t I1M r i nLM a r 111 ot kScot 1 mmem - J MABA l VCtt ZC (ZENITH Ren Remote cable f h 4 bead ready — A v 4 heat ' (poop 3 ' - Al040jov 'tS£ vVwt YHis ? 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