Show 5 lfriylllfriN-n- i ' t' r'z-y- "' ‘'T1' JSJWtt'sss! fr V’"1 Lrf-if- "4 ''’T3IV1 “ - - s - " T - s v ' “ f a r t I I i I y I Voi V 90 No 202 Thursday July 22 1999 Inside By Lance Pitcher staff writer ft t Logan developer Bradley Hoggan is indeed in a precarious situation When the Logan Municipal Council annexed 52 acres Wednesday night Hoggan's plans to build a neighborhood dubbed the Arbor Meadows subdivision took a step forward However like a Chinese finger trap the next step may snare Hoggan and his plans - Helping the most helpless Russian After unanimously approving the Page 19 refugees Update Uff ' ? annexation at approximately 1800 South and 1600 West the council postponed rezoning the area Since land annexed to the city is automatically zoned agricultural Hoggan's plans to subdivide the land and build homes are at the mercy of the Logan Municipal Council While utilities schools and services are the reasons Hoggan says he would like the subdivision in the city he could have developed the land to an extent when it was still a part of the county However if the land is not rezoned to single-famil- y traditional — as Hoggan and the other landowners have requested — or to a zone to fit their plans Hoggan could be left high and dry “I'd have to fold up and file bankruptcy I guess" Hoggan theorized after the council made its decision to postpone the rezone Surprisingly calm alter the decision Hoggan is gelling used to the wait His Imd f I I P Here we go again: JFK Jr conspiracies USU annexation and subdivision plans hate been batted around government agencies since former Logan Mayor Darla Clark’s administration From the Logan Planning Commission to the Cache Count) Boundary Commission to the Logan Municipal Council and not necessarily in that order Hoggan has seen the plans he says the city encouraged him to draw hashed out in several public meetings Hoggan said Clark approached him during her administration w ith a ropiest he build an affordable-housin- g development in Logan After a few rev isinns subdiviHoggan is presenting a 9X-lm sion offering the minimum square footage allowed for houses in the city The plans also include an area reserved By Nicole G Farrell N Mitch MascaraHeraM Journal USU Professor John Evans upper right talks about noon during the Greenville Farm's field day herbicide-resista- nt wheat Wednesday after- ORTH LOGAN — For farmers have cast eyes skyyears ward in hopes of a successful growing season But these days they may be looking for help front satellites and planes Farming has come a long way since 18 the year Utah State Agricultural College started its research farm in North Uigan About 120 people w ith agricultural interests gathered at that farm at 800 E 1800 North Wednesday to hear the latest studies on stronger crop varieties fertilizer placement growing techniques and the merging of space technologies and fanning The annual field day at the "oldest continuously operating irrigated research farm in the United States" is part of USU's efforts to promote sustainable agriculture said Phil Rasmussen head of the plants soils and biomcicorology department “The key is to keep farms in business” Rasmussen said "We’re losing farmers right and left “We do anything we can to help farmers grow more for less and get more return on their investment” Rasmussen noted that Utah farmland is in danger as lough times force more farmers to surrender land to development At the Greenville Farm’s field day Rasmussen was scheduled to talk about a pilot program that brings the technology of NASA to the fields of Utah growers However he had to leave the event early to attend meetings on the new program in Salt Lake City Beginning Oct 1 he will oversee the high-tec- h program and USU's partnership with NASA and Groove to the blues with Blinddog Smokin' at The White Owl tonight Other events Page 4 Weather Head for the hills brother Page 12 Index wwwhjnewscom other agencies is the first one “up and going" in the United States he said His position however won't be made official until approved by the USU Board of Trustees The National Aeronautics and Spiiee Administration Space Grant Geospatial Extension Program allows NASA to use a network of land-gracolleges to disperse information with agricultural applications It is being tried in three slates Utah being the first and more are expected to follow in the coining years USU was able to participate because of its connection with NASA through the university's Space Dynamics Lahorattiry Rasmussen said Using global positioning systems geographic information systems and remote sensing technology Rasmussen said the program promotes "precision agriculture" The practice is intended to eliminate for example wasteful irrigation and environmentally unsound fertilization “NASA has mounds of data but in many cases it isn't getting out into the world to solve real world one of those problems problems is agriculture and production" Rasmussen said For instance the program uses global positioning system technology to guide fertilizer application equipment according to remotely sensed crop and soil maps to an an accuracy of about eight inches This can prevent excess fertilizers from leaching into groundwater because they are applied according to the varying soil types in a field Rasmussen said Another agricultural application involves using remote sensing to control (he irrigation of com Using measurements taken from a nt See FARM on Page 12 Loved ones say farewell at sea Board favors tax increase FALMOUTH Mass (AP) — In a farewell at sea a Navy destroyer carried family members today to a ceremony to scatter the ashes of John F Kennedy Jr his wife and sister-in-laat a site not far from where they died A group of about 15 family members carried the cremated remains of Kennedy Carolyn Bessette Kennedy and Lauren Bessette onto the USS Briscoe Their ashes were to be scattered off Martha’s Vineyard about three miles from where the bodies were recovered Wednesday Dressed in dark clothing family members boarded the Coast Guard cutter Sanibel which took them to the Briscoe shortly before 9 am at By Arrin Brunson staff writer w Cache tonight help staff writer ne See JFK on page 12 See ANNEX on Page 12 Satellites planes now drafted to help family farms survive It wasn't an accident — it was a plot the Mafia the CIA space aliens or by er drug-ridde- F armers get high-tec- h Scripps Howard News Service even the White House Before John F Kennedy Jr's plane was even found late Tuesday night wacky conspiracy theories about why it had crashed had sprouted like twisted weeds on the Internet On Web sites dedicated to one longtime conspiracy or another as well as on the “message boards" and memorial sites set up specially for people to comment on the latest Kennedy tragedy those with a skewed view of the world vented forth with their suspicions and suppositions Given the fertile soil that the assassination of President John Kennedy — — has provided father of “John-John- ” conspiracy buffs for 35 years it is hardly surprising that the crash Friday night of the younger Kennedy's single-engiplane has spawned an array of goofy theories of its own Kennedy 38 died along with his wife Carolyn Bessette Kennedy 33 and her sister Lauren Bessette 34 when the aircraft went down in the sea about seven miles from Martha's Vineyard in Massachusetts Using breathtaking leaps of illogical connections and a wholesale suspension of rational thought dozens of Internet users have knit together facts and fantasy to form conspiratorial explanations for what was in all likely reality the tragic accidental death of three glamorous young people whose lives had seemed full of unbound promise A stroll through the weirder byways of cyberspace turns up example after example Someone who identified himself as “Rod Walker” posited on RemarQ a discussion network located at wwwremarqcom that the crash had been faked by Kennedy so he could finally escape “constant (ness scrutiny” Presumably those involved in recovering the three bodies would have to be in on the hoax (A person with the Web name of “Pelican Brief” noting the absence of “credible proof” for such a scenario countered that that conspiracy would have required such an extraordinary degree of logistical coordination as to render it all but impossible) Another suspicious message-post“Lewy44" suggested that the crash was linked to the likely entry of first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton in the New for a park The desires of some however are not the desires of others Rachel and Benny Moody who live near the area Hoggan wants to develop stepped to tlic podium Wednesday night challenging the city to clean up their ncighhoihood before it builds another one next to it Rachel Moody said her southwest n dangerneighborhood is a ous area Site said children have no place to play and gather in mass numbers at a single bus stop to head to school "Over 100 kids in grade school alone are at one bus stop" Rachel Moody said “There's no yards for kids The streets research By Lisa Hoffman DR COPY 01999 50 Cents Developer between annex and a hard place f I Logan Utah Bridgeriand’s Daily Newspaper five-memb- er Woods Hole port The mourners included Kennedy’s sister Caroline Kennedy his uncle Sen Edward M Kennedy and cousins Maria Shriver and William Kennedy Smith The Bessette sisters' relatives also were attending including their mother Ann Freeman stepfather Dr Richard Freeman and Ms Bessette's twin sister Lisa Ann Bessette a family source said Defense Secretary William Cohen approved a request by the senator While it is difficult to estimate the value of knowledge Nurd members are in favor of a proposal to raise the funding for education in the Logan City School District according to Business Manager Paul Jensen Home and business owners in the city limits should receive notification of an anticipated 357 mill tax increase from Cache County Auditor Tamra Stones in time to respond at a truth in taxation public hearing the school board scheduled for Aug 10 If approved by the school board property taxes for the 1999-200- 0 year will be due Nov 20 Jensen said The tax increase equates to $1964 on a home valued at $100000 bringing Logan's tax levy for education to $39132 The increase for a business valued at $100000 will be $3570 “We don't think it's too big a hit for everybody" Jensen said “Our board doesn't jump to raise taxes Our board is really conservative” Part of the tax increase will be used for debt service Jensen told the board in a meeting Tuesday More than $155 million of a $224 million bond approved by voters on Nov 4 1997 has AP photo Carolina Kennedy center leaves her home in Bridgehampton NY today to attend a ceremony to scatter the ashes of her brother John his wife Carolyn and Ink sister Lauren Bessette at sea and the Bessette and Freeman families for Navy assistance for the cere- the Pentagon said this morning Two Navy chaplains and a civilian priest — all Roman Catholics — were to officiate at the mony ceremony the Navy said The Cape Cod Times reported today the Kennedy family had asked that no photographs be taken during the autopsy of JFK Jr because they could end up in tabloids or on the Internet Such photographs are See BOARD on Page 12 "l' |