Show I erianci Page 3 Wednesday March 17 1999 The Herald Journal Logan Utah Little to cheer educators say In brloff Former Aggie pays fine and avoids trial After reaching a plea agreement with prosecutors former Utah State University defensive back Johndale Carty will not stand trial on drugs and weapons charges In exchange for the Cache County Attorney’s Office dropping a third-degrfelony charge of possessing a firearm in the presence of a controlled substance Carty paid a $330 fine for a misdemeanor charge of possessing marijuana according to 1st District Court records Carty who was represented by Logan attorney Lyle Hillyard was to stand trial March 30 and 31 C arty's roommate James Harrison who was charged with the same crimes received the same deal ee Harrison and Carty were arrested April 8 after Logan police entered their apartment acting on an anonymous tip that someone was smoking marijuana According to police reports Harrison was the only one home and he produced a marijuana pipe after police told him they would get a search warrant over the telephone The report said police then noticed' Superintendent says legislative score was “three victories four ties and 99 defeats” immediate increases are losing in the long run by failing to support schools By Arrin Brunson staff writer financially said Steve Peterson the Cache County School Superintendent Steve Norton summed up Utah's 1999 legislative session in a nutshell at a Region 1 School Board meeting Tuesday night “We had three victories four ties and 99 defeats" Norton said to members of Box Elder Rich Cache and Logan City school district boards meeting at Bridgerland Applied Technology Center “It was very hard for us” Public education officials across the state are still smarting from wounds suffered at the recently concluded session where they say minimal financial gains were made Even the perceived winners taxpayers who will not have to endure Utah School Boards Association’s associate executive director A major disappointment for many educators and parents was the failure of a bill to provide funding for textbooks Cache County School District Board Member Tamara Grange spent countless hours on the bill Peterson said which proved to be too great a funding issue for legislators to tackle this year “You shouldn't have to pay for textbooks in a free public education but the price tag was $11 million at $30 a student to eliminate fees for textbooks” he said But Peterson said the bill may fare better if it is reintroduced next year “A lot of things don’t happen the first year Hope springs eternal” Gov Mike Leavitt’s initiative to allot $3 million to assure students will be reading by third grade passed Peterson d said Local schools with plans will have access to a portion of it district-approve- “This can be used in any way that the district and board feel it can be used in the most effective manner” Peterson said House Bill 33 for assessing students' skills also passed bringing $393000 in the year 2000 and $1 million in 2001 to the State Board of Education to develop tests for all grade levels Included in this bill is a plan to implement a basic skills competency test that must be passed for students to earn their diploma Peterson expressed grave concern over House Bill 120 which was proposed to protect $243 million in state trust lands Within the next 10 years the value of the lands is expected to reach $1 billion to $3 billion “They were set up primarily to fund public education in the state of Utah" Peterson said “We set a goal to get a hill written this year to say these funds must be used for education over and above amounts already coming to them not to supplant those funds" The plan was approved but Peterson fears Leavitt will veto it “If it goes this has the potential for every school in the state and every student in the state to be affected in a positive way" he said “My feeling is that if it is vetoed local boards will never see it in the form that it is in now" Teen faces charges in crash death marijuana stems and seeds on the kitchen counter and obtained a telephonic search warrant from 1st District Court Judge Burton Harris While police were searching the apartment Carty returned home the report said The search report states both men had 9 mm pistols and remnants of marijuana in their bedrooms Carty a key player on the Aggie's defense played last season despite the charges “All Big West" player A two-tim- e Carty finished his senior year fourth in Aggie history for career tackles He suf--: feted a shoulder injury near the end of the season and completed his final year of collegiate eligibility on the sidelines ' - A vehicular manslaughter in the death of her friend pleaded innocent to the charges at her arraignment Sarah Mullins is scheduled for a pretrial conference on March 31 I Fire officials warn : against open burning 1 The Logan City Fire Department — wants to remind residents open burning is not allowed within the city limits There are exceptions for barbecue pits ' and recreational fire pits less than in diameter Logan Fire Marshal Liz Hunsaker said But mass burning of yard waste is not permitted she said On April 3 the Logan street depart- S John Ready for the big time? ment will begin its annual spring cleanup starting in northwest Logan City employees will pick up yard waste that residents have hauled to the curb Truck snags line knocks out power ! ! i Most Franklin residents were without electricity for four hours Tuesday afternoon after power lines were accidentally ripped down About 2 pm a truck drove under power lines on Main Street a few blocks east of La Tienda The truck snagged the cable TV line which runs along with the power lines pulling down sev- -: structures the lines eral of the cross-arrest on m “Most people who live east of the highway were out of power” said Rick Ijingman Utah Power's Northern Utah manager Officers from the Franklin County Sheriff's Department protected the area until crews from the Smithfield and Idaho divisions of Utah Power removed the lines from the road t I i FARMINGTON (AP) — A Kaysville doctor who supplied his patients with drugs to feed drug addictions has been sentenced to 60 days in jail and ordered to serve 1000 hours of community service Dr David H Workman pleaded guilty earlier this year to me count of fifing a r i ! i I I fraudulent insurance claim and two counts of distributing a controlled sub- t I felonies stance all third-degrWorkman was accused of supplying several patients with the narcotic pain I t r killer Lortab Second District Court Judge Michael Allphin said Monday that the jail time was meant to be a “reality check” for Workman adding that the doctor held a position of trust in the community and he broke that trust “It wouldn't be right to have you i walk t I r s r k r t t i t t ii I without spending some time in jail” Allphin said Investigators also said that for more than a year Workman — who has been a general physician in Davis Weber and Utah counties — has used his wife's son's to name as well as his 15 -- year-old write out prescriptions for the opium-base- d nasal spray Stadol State news Ups Call reporter Mike Weibel 752-212- 1 Ext 3034 WHkirVHaraJd Journal Brittan Lawk la launched off a luge ramp by Randy Hi on Tuesday morning at Spring Creek Middto School In Providence Students also sampled other Winter Olympic sports like speedukating bobsledding and slalom racing The program was part of the Salt Lake Organizing Committee's ‘Short Sport1 youth program aimed at giving kids a chance to be introduced to Olympic sports before the 2002 Games “Her attorney and the prosecutor will meet with me and decide whether they can work out an agreement or whether she’ll go to trial” Juvenile Court Judge Bryan Murray said Mullins who entered her plea Monday is charged with vehicular manslaughter driving under the influence of marijuana possession of drug paraphernalia and possession of marijuana A police report paid a glass smoking pipe containing marijua- na residue was found in the Chevrolet Celebrity Mullins was driving the morning of Feb 12 when the accident occurred Mullins’ friend Ashlee Shaver 15 was ejected from the car and died at the scene Scientists - in-making keep talking shop Editor's note: Staff writer Cindy Yurth is on assignment at the Johnson Space Cen- -' ter in Houston following a group of Utah State University students whose experiments have been selected as part of NASA's Get Away Special program The students their experiments and journalists S will fly on NASA's simulator plane next week This week meanwhile is devoted to physiological training and preparing the experiments KC-13- zero-gravi- ty By Cindy Yurth staff writer HOUSTON — These folks can't stop talking shop You can fill 'em full of beans and rice Bud in front of 'em and put a long-nec- k ’s still every conversation at Cajun House on Tuesday night is about space or physics or space physics One guy has even brought an electrical component from his experiment with him in his pocket so he can explain it if someone happens to ask “We’re all nerds here” Utah Slate University engineering major Glenn Roth had remarked earlier “That's the best thing about it” The journalists are starting to glaze over It’s bad enough we’ve spent the in the last half-hoflight simulation chamber but now we can’t drink until the effects of the environment wear off Something about Cajun food and Diet Coke just ticks you off Anyway this party isn’t for us it's fix' the 200 science undergrads we're supposed to be covering the members of 44 Pe-Te- Doctor gets jail time for fake prescriptions POCATELLO Idaho (AP) — girl charged with ur high-altitu- low-oxyg- Get Away Special teams from around the country Headhunters from Boeing have invited this concentrated pool of the ramyouthful genius to 's Pe-Te- shackle hangout across the street from Ellington Field where NASA’s planes are stationed When the astronauts come home from flying a mission the first place they head is ’s ’s has And with good reason that Right Stuff ambience — a corrugated roof and walls plastered with pictures of astronauts and rockets oddly juxtaposed with an ancient leather saddle a faded print of an old steam engine and ’s other such south Texas relics food has flown in space seven times and even the Russian cosmonauts have tasted it Shannon Lucid insisted her colbarleagues bring along some of s becue when they picked her up irom He’s not too modest to admit they feel “We’re all nerds That’s the about it” here best thing - Glenn Roth USU engineering major Pe-Te- Pe-Te- the same way about him mostly some of the best barbecue in Texas? By far the most interesting person at 's himself Cajun House tonight is Pe-T- e Pe-T- e is a alias Les Johnson (“Pe-Te- ” Pe-Te- corruption of “petit” French for n Cajun “small") is a from Louisiana lb hear Pe-T- e tell it the Johnson clan beat Columbus to the New World by a good 30 years Pe-T-te says he came by feeding astronauts for a living “just accidentally” Twenty-tw- o years ago he was working Mir as a petrochemical inspector when he The Boeing guys have made sure to to work sandwiches of a couple brought invite astronauts tonight — shuttle comone day mander Jim Weatherbee is here along “By the end of the month I was up to with Jim Voss and Bonnie Dunbar — so recalls the journalists can be forgiven if they 200 sandwiches a day” he it across and van a He parked bought students a the for from wander away from Ellington Field catering to the while to drive all The astronauts while extremely nice lunch crowd that didn't want he knew Before Houston into the way as as interesting people are not nearly and Aeronautics National the Space one might expect About the best Weath- it him to erbee can come up with about being in Administration gang was pushing a defunct service station right at the space is “It’s a lot like floating in a buy turnoff to the NASA hangar pool except you don’t feel the water” You might say Pe-T- e was drafted into And you don't get hungry apparently business He's never the restaurant even not because you're holding up your own weight so you're not burning off regretted it though “The astronauts are the best people in many calories foe world” he says and you can tell he talk about to But who wants being means it on when munching you're weightless seventh-generatio- Pe-Te- Pe-Te’- because he says he’s not starstruck “Td me they’re just regular guys just like me and you” he says “I never say ‘Hey looky who I got here Do you know who that is?'” Besides when they walk into 's the astronauts know they're safe from the media “Whenever they landed they all came in here” Pe-T- e says “I'm there at the doors and here come Channel 1 1 and Channel 13 'We're here to interview the astronauts' 'Hey private party' I say and (Johnson Space Center Director) George Abbey goes out and gets rid of them I don't know how” Pe-T- e knows how the astronauts feel because he’s a celebrity himself He's a three-hobeen dee-jayiCajun music show for KB FT in Houston for 17 years and when he goes out he can be besieged by Cajun music fans who recognize his voice “I go somewhere and I want to have a good time and all these people want to talk to me" he says “so when the astronauts say they want privacy I know just what they mean” Rumor has it a lot of the crew selec’s tion for shuttle missions goes on at in the form of informal dinners and lunches Pe-T- e confirms the rumor but insists he stays clear of the office politics “People are always asking me ‘So do you think this is about that?’” he says “I say 'Better ask someone who knows not me'” Pe-Te- ng ur Pe-Te- Teacher returns to classroom after investigation By Arrin Brunson staff writer Providence Elementary School teacher Dirk Henningsen is back in the classroom following a formal investigation by the Cache County School District educator was placed The on probation in November after he pulled a fire alarm and disrupted class at Mount Logan Middle School in the Logan City School District to protest the principal's refusal to immediately call an assembly so Henningsen could talk to students about relief efforts for victims of Hurricane Mitch No one was hurt in the evacuation and school immediately resumed Henningsen was cited for giving a false alarm and disrupting school operations both class B misdemeanors He said the charges were later dropped by the court and he successfully completed a requirement to seek counseling Henningsen said he was sorry for the misunderstanding and wanted things to get back to normal Kirk McRae Cache County School District human resources director said Henningsen has been back in the classroom since Feb 16 following a unani- mous decision by Providence Elementary School Principal Bill Lin- - dauer district administrator Pat Hansen and himself “He's resumed his duties with the same kind of competency skill and care that ho showed before he left The transition has been wonderful and there have been no problems whatsoever" McRae said The school district is not planning to implement policy changes as a result of the November incident McRae said |