| Show Page 2 — The Herald Journal Logan Utah Saturday May 13 2000 move to SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — In push to maintain control of their own nominating process Republican lead ers are considering limiting their primaries to Republicans Delegates at the State Republican Convention on May 6 forced Gov Mike Leavitt and Rep Merrill Cook Leavitt’s opposition came primarily from a conservative bloc of voters card-carryi- ng who believed the governor was too liberal Now Republicans fear party 1 outsiders especially meddlesome Democrats voting for the weaker candidate could spoil the June 27 prima-Those fears have prompted consideration of a bill that would allow only registered Republicans to vote in future Republican primaries " “I’m told a bill is being drafted” said retiring House Rules Committee chairwoman Susan Koehn v Cross who supports the idea ‘ party” in the Legislature said Democratic Patty executive director Todd Tsylot - - Ikylor also believes it may violate a US Supreme Court decision that said states can’t overly regulate inter': nal political party functions State GOP Chairman Rob Bishop disagrees "Actually it’s up to the party not the Legislature” he said Democratic Party leaders say Republican lawmakers should butt out of internal party decisions Requiring all candidates go to a closed primary “would be another raw abuse of power by the majority : House Speaker Marty Stephens R-Farr West said Wednesday the issue! has come up before but he had not heard of specific legislation bein& prepared to dose primaries Taylor says he resents majority! Republicans in the Legislature “tryy problems V Log! ing to fix their with a law If they have a problem in demoli their party fix it there” Jilace intra-part- 1 Park Service its -- 1 M-'- Vl Vv : Vi ITkki f S ALT LAKE CITY (AP) — She is the mother of 10 and grandmother of four children a prominent Utah lawyer and v ST GEORGE (AP) — With fires set by the Park Service raging out of control in New Mexico and Arizona some authorities in Utah are setting aside plans for prescribed ' bums v The Park Service on Thursday ordered that all prescribed fires which are set intentionally in ah effort to reduce the risk of wild- fires must be approved by the regional director - Controlled burns clear out the overgrown underbrush that m ii SA I I V-''- faithful Mormon with well- name LILA K E 2 0 0 2y & a fi U' Bountiful ted 11th term would be in line for a committee chairmanship Yet McConkie Collinwood also week then tore through 20000 has some distinct advantages “One of the reasons I think it’s winnable is because I really think women haven't been represented but there are more women who are voting than men in some of the counties’’ acres It has engulfed Los Alamos destroying about 260 homes and forcing 23000 people to evacuate Another fire on the North Rim of the Grand Canyon outgrew its boundaries Tuesday to become a wildfire closing the 7000-acr- e : - 7 North Rim Lodge The Park Service which manages about 2 million acres of land in Utah had planned numerous small fires this summer In Bryce Canyon National Park crews have already safely burned 500 acres and had planned to bum another 1300 acres this summer That is now on hold V At Zion National Park Fire Man- agement Officer Art Latterell said he had already decided before the l - W t'Jtf f at v ' See POLICY on Fag 4 McConkie een Collinwood has become the latest Democrat to try to unseat Rep Jim Hansen' R- Utah who has served since 1981 and had only a handful of close races in the heavily 1st District community activist has the odds stacked against her Hansen who heads a House subcommittee ' overseeing national parks and public lands is a powerful congressto an man who if pro- - vides fuel for wildfires and have been a routine component of range-- : land and forest management for years But the practice has been under : scrutiny since a prescribed burn at Bandelier National Monument in New Mexico got out of control last ’ Logani 400 S Beca this wi build d she said in an interview McConkie Collinwood is endorsed by leading Utah Democrats and cones from a family that has long been 2S& s - AP photo ' involved in law politics and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-da- y Saints Her James brother McConkie is a Salt Lake attorney running for the state Olympic alternatives Anna Olson spokeswoman for Jackson Hole Resort In Wyoming displays literature proSenate seat vacated by Minoriduced to attract tourists in Salt Lake City Olson said Jackson Hole hopes to attract lamHies Leader Scott Howell He ty thatavant a skiing vaoapon hut hay been shoved off thefebportte Whsakfc Mountain slopes $97 mtfliob tjrcccnUyiwoDLA A -eeJ by tlWoiympidfMbmbn 20K ' Ik'- rfjiiOl li Jill H judgment Against Intenuodh- ttiextea UKXV£:l -- and se come $6 for tain Health Care in what is the state’s largest medical malpractice award and formerly ran for state attorney general Her grandfather andyo Cow enterta theWi Call at 730- - Oscar McConkie Sr was a Utah district judge who once ran for governor as a Democrat Her grandmother Madeline Bitner Car chil Wirthlin was active in the leadership of the Utah Repub-- 1 IkanParty ' Four of her uncles are the late Mormon Apostle Bruce R McConkie a lawyer and the author of “Mormon Doc- SAl Pei ever! her ca inside trine” Joseph B Wirthlin a member of the church’s Quorum of the Twelve Apostles Richard B Wirthlin a former political strategist for President Reagan and member of the Second Quorum of tl)e Seventy and Oscar McConkie Jr a senior attorney for the church who once ran for the US Senate Her see proponents McConkie Collinwood as hav--1 ing been cut from the same mold as prominent female Utah politicians such as Martha Hughes Cannon the first woman state senator in the nation in 1897 and Reva Beck Bosone a lawyer and :'Keel strapp and he I Lake Thurst thewq 'The unhan Explo doned Lake mon everyr can hi Salt Lake City judge who became Utah’s first woman in Congress in 1950 “She is the epitome of what a Democratic woman is — moderate and LDS homemakers but like a lot of Utah women she works” said Meghan Holbrook head of tbp iL i See ROOTS on Page 10 (vlviti-'- ' j m'v i 4— SA i Delta idismii iwasc show their team spirit to help out their school hubfi break Sal Ande ' the n joiner 'Lake does i rib admii -- :stiUa lLake he wi 'inUti The Herald Journal will donate the following amounts funds to the following schools’ ' s ByRI :ft Logan High School 1 00 Mountain Crest High School 398 Preston High School 1 20 Sky View High School 354 Utah State University 406 West Side High School 24 v Each school will also receive a list of those who ff" maim 4 ’ f t to their school i iMa hear |
