| Show wswuiwraK ms 1 i Page 4 —The Herald Journal Logan Utah Saturday June 5 1999 ESSSEESaei Prosecutors won’t charge Utah GOP chief SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Prosecutors are resisting the pressure of Utahns Against Gun Violence to charge Utah GOP Chairman Rob Bishop with soliciting bribery Utah Shooting Sports Council while serving as chairman of the Utah Republican Puty Salt Lake County District Attorney David Yocom said in a June 1 letter that he would not file criminal charges because he does not believe the statute applies to Bishop The decision came just days before at the State Bishop faces The nonprofit group advocating tougher restrictions on firearms purchases believes that Bishop's elected party position and his professional lobbying may violate provisions of the state's corrupt practices statute Bishop has been a paid lobbyist for the Republican Convention in Ogden That convention is Saturday The letter from Yocom a Democrat was released Thursday by Republican Party officials who had received a courtesy copy Reed Richards chief deputy to Utah A tty Gen Jan Graham said his office came to the same conclusion as Yocom when reviewing a referral for prosecution of Bishop several months ago Bishop said he was not surprised by the decision A Republican attorney reviewed the issue months ago and determined his lobbying did not run foul of die law he sail But other Republicans were nervous bout die possibility of criminal charges being brought either for legitimate or political purposes They quietly recruited former Republican state Sen Dave Buh-lto file his candidacy for party chairman in case Bishop was prevented from running Buhler who always supported Bishsaid Thursday he would op’s er on withdraw his name from consideration William Nash chairman of Utahns Against Gun Violence said he was disappointed "We still think having a paid lobbyist serve as a party chairman is a conflict of interest" The law at issue makes it a felony for a government official party officer or voter to solicit or accept money or other benefit for the propose of influencing an action vote decision or nomination Cities fear land grab from SLC River guides learn lesson the hard way JACKSON Wyo (AP) — All Snake River whitewater guides have something in common Before they float clients downstream in a raft they have done so supervised by a veteran guide at least 10 times How river guides gain the experience is what differs depending on what river outfitter the guide works for are generally There two schools of thought when it comes to hiring and training new river guides The first is to conduct an guide school The river trip companies that practice this training procedure do so because it attracts a large pool of applicants interested in becoming guides The company trains the applicants for an extended period of time usually one week and then hires a select few se se Applicants must pay a fee to attend the school usually refundable only once a candidate is hired and completes an agreed-upo- n term of employment The most notable Jackson-base- d company that conducts a yearly guide school is Mad River Boat Trips Other companies prefer to hire guides and then begin training Without revenue from a guide school these companies tend to hire more experienced guides Since guide schools generally do not begin instruction until college students are on summer break in SALT LAKE CITY (AP) May companies without them hire guides well before guide schools start The Mad River Boat Trips guide school started instruction its size by annexing the entire east side of the valley It's a move that’s making surrounding cities nervous recently Approximately 36 applicants convened at the white water warehouse for orientation hoping to secure one of the 13 available recently sent a letter to the Salt Lake County Commission reaffirming Salt Lake City's “annexation policy declaration” stating its intentions to annex most of the area east of 1300 East and north of Creek Road The annexation policy declaration has rarely been used since its adoption in 1979 mid-to-la- te guiding positions for this sum- mers whitewater trips Each applicant paid $300 for the week-lon- classes The g prospective guides who make the cut then go through a demanding three-da- y river rescue se program Veteran guides Greg Goodyear and Mick Hopkinson stage mock rescues and evacuations training the new guides how to react to situations The new guides then accompany experienced Mad River guides on anywhere from 10 to 20 shadow trips down the Snake River before they can take clients out alone “We train for every situation and even though our guides are training specifically for the Snake they will have the knowl- edge to guide on any whitewa- - ter" said Mad River Boat Trips ed into separate families and didn't see each other for IS years But after a search Salais six-ye- ar found her brother and they became close “He told me I was his heart because I was the one that reached out and found him" says Salais In August 1987 her brother Richard Ernest was at a personal crossroads His marriage had crumbled and he was leaving California and his son to take a job in Colorado after “When I got the call I knew' (Richard) was dead already” Salais recalls today “They hadn't found him they'd found his car But I knew" Authorities later discovered the body along Interstate 13 Ernest had been stabbed repeatedly in the chest and face with a hunting knife Parsons pleaded guilty to the murder and was sentenced to death At his sentencing Parsons claimed Ernest had made a sexual advance and then grabbed him to keep from escaping The stab- bing Parsons has always claimed was an act of self-defen- se “There was no evidence to support that" says Iron County first visiting his sister in San Antonio Headed for Texas he picked up hitchhiker named a Attorney Scott Burns who successfully argued for Parsons' execution “In fact my recollection of the evidence from the medical Joseph Mitchell Parsons who examiner is that many of the was homeward bound to Florida The two talked for hours as they drove along dusty Nevada roads Ernest told Parsons of his adoption and the sister he was going to see They stopped for dinner in southern Utah then at a rest stop a few miles outside Cedar City A day later Parsons was sleeping alone in Ernest's car in Satina when he was awakened and arrested by a highway patrolman Parsons had used Ernest's credit card to buy some merchandise at in Richfield and had a been seen dumping bloody clothing at a Beaver gas station blows from the knife were inflicted in all probability while Ernest was sleeping" After more than years od death row Parsons is pressing a federal magistrate to let him drop 1 1 his appeals and be put to death by lethal injection possibly by the end of the summer But like so much about the case — lives and relationships included — Parsons' motion to drop his appeal is on hold Last Tuesday US Magistrate Ronald N Boyce ordered a psychiatric evaluation before further considering the inmate's motion And his death sentence ulti BIRTHS Franklin County Medical Center But recent rumblings about cities have brought it back and that has put Murray AP pinto officials in a confrontational Mad Rivar Boat Trip Inc guide school director Corey MlWgan Ml and guide hopeful Sara Staton stand on the idea of a raft while holding hands and leaning out aa they float down the Snake River If one person lets go they algo In the water head tmstman Judd Ballard Barker-Ewin- g River Trip guides will have just as much training before conducting solo trips down the Snake without having been to guide school Frank Ewing said Co-own- er that guide schools while valid as a beginning point are never the culmination of a guides training situation to "It's an open-ende- d become a highly qualified high- - nai noi neen wining 10 min a guide unless there is a boatman job available and that due to a mood Murray is eyeing annexation to the east to Highland Drive — encroaching on Salt Lake low turnover there are usually only two to four positions open each summer season "We look a lot more closely at experienced people with strong water skills and perhaps five or six years of experience If there is relative little prior experience but good potential or strong water skills it may take two months City's intended territory Now Sandy officials hearing about Murray’s intent say they too would like to annex farther north beyond Creek Roiul also conflicting with Salt Lake City “Cities are becoming more aggressive on their own” County Commission Chairwoman Mary Callahan said A few months ago Callahan in her position as president of the before that person is running tours" Ewing said wall-to-w- all - up commercial tax base the county is being carved up with the pieces going to new or expanded cities A consultant hired by Salt Lake County last month is now looking at the Fi court-appoint- lot of pain” says Salais “I looked for him since I was 9 and we had our years old whole lives ahead of us” She has a picture of Ernest on the wall of ha San Antonio home and seeing it sometimes brings a flood of emotion In western Oregon Beverley Thurston's memory of her 55 fr'ICamtvaL mw tax-po- residential or areas such as Kearns in various scenarios colonial kids did for fun SUNDAY SCHOOL 9:301m 24S-S80- The IdJoumal newspaper mmgumm§ USPS Rlihed 241-82- 0 awry evening Monday through Fridqr and Saturday and Sundry moniq by Cache Vriley PuHidwy LLC 73 Wert 300 North PO Bo 4S7 Login Utah S43234MS7 Toll Fret (800)275-042- 3 UuhlhlephoK (435) 732-21Periodic Pottage Paid Log Utah knee ra K Smith Cheriei McCollum Managing Cyndi Fulton Bum nest Rick G Wallace Ad voliiinj Director - 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Oma -- cache VhBeyPMiihra LIT asi wwwhjnews com moms PISH Weather Movies local News??& IMSn Find out what remains fresh because of the resemblance she sees in their son now 20 and in college neers Cache Museum opening is from 4 to 7 pm Sunday at 160 N Main St Logan Refreshments will be served and the public is welcome including 300 S Center Hynm Utah JIM HERODPutor WORSHIP nd Pio- financial impacts and general feasibility of incorporating all areas Emmanuel Baptist Church NiHaiW3a IT MM ch SEEKING GOD? wvmvKruttescom opnn tx aoo pm 8004U-502- 1(9 Ml IT MM tax-ri- ed DISCOUNT by for Ernest'a family "I have a lot of anger I have a The Daughters of Utah w joeel lode at the cities proin Salt Lake posal County With a spate of recent annexations and incorporations gobbling tahga Herald Journal 'Ssl Salt Lake County Council of Governments spearheaded a new be crime of passion simply did not mately could be reversed if piqfqs jrqii have Boyce decides to finally issue able to do that? Whathappened compare with those of criminals after 3 12 years an opinion on in his life to make him that evil?” executed in recent years in Utah: Parsons' federal appeal In April Parsons has been silent repeatthe Hi-Shop killers who torthe judge said he expected to rule edly refusing interview requests tured and maimed their victims within 90 days He has never expressed remorse and Arthur Gary Bishop who “I've been under a sentence of His attorney molested and killed five young death for 11 years and I honestly Greg Sanders is convinced Parboys don’t see anything good coming sons does not deserve to die Indeed Sanders believes Parout of it” Parsons told Boyce “If it was my brother would I sons would have escaped a death last month “It's not fair to my think he’d deserve the death sentence if he hadn't been an outfamily the state of Utah or any- penalty? I would probably still sider to the rural Parowan jury one else to continue this (appeal) that condemned him even though say no" he said further I've nude my peace any Sanders argues that Parsons' he admitted his guilt with myself and my family and it's time to move on” Peace has been hard to come CRUISE CENTER SUNDAY KIMBER — Debbie Chadwick and Grant Smilhfield a boy June 2 WEIGHT — Keri Goliehtly and Robot Logan a girl June 4 VEGA — Angelica ana Jose Preston a boy June 4 HATHAWAY — Carrie Johnson and Wendell Roy Preston a girl June 4 Corradini wall-to-w- About Cache News of record Deedee Mayor Sister seeks peace 12 years after brother’s murder SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — When Jana Salais was born her mother left her in a crib and her brother Richard in a doctor's office The infant siblings were adopt- -T- he city intends to nearly double a DVVxJC We a t h e r: 4 |
