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'f rr 'Vi xi1 f tTrrf irtT rvriHrrr yTTV r'TM" class size of oar owe9 Insido Smaller is really better local teachers say ByArrin Brunson staff writer Broad efforts to reduce the Editor’s ndts: This article is the second In a three-pa- rt series on teacher-to-stude- nt ratio have affected many The Orlando experience is for all ' ages ail 11 Page Cache Valley schools but efforts don’t go far enough in many cases according to teachers whose workloads have yet to be reduced The Herald Journal received 150 responses from teachers in the Cache County and Logan city school districts after they were asked how m?ny students are on their rolls each period reduction A complex issue class-siz- e efforts have been addressed from the top of the nation’s education'system to each classroom in Cache County Update 3 Today’s the day the tax man cometh schools 4 education funding e reduction benefits reducResearch shows that class-siz- e tion in the early grades leads to higher student achievement in reading and math when class size is reduced to 15 to 20 students The benefits of smaller classes are greatest for disadvantaged and minority students The benefits are both immediate and long-terand they increase from year to year both in early grades when class- es are small and in subsequent years when students are placed in larger Class-siz- m See CLASS on Page 10 Residents of Utah city live in fear of cancer WASHINGTON (AP) — An estimated 26 million filers are facing a ' midnight deadline for getting their income tax forms on the way to the ' Internal Revenue Service But residents of New England and upstateNew York will have a day’s grace thanks to the Patriot’s Day holiday in Massachusetts home to an IRS processing cento1 that ban- - MAPLETON (AP) — Resi- dents of this Utah County suburb say a spill from an explosives company is to blame for an outbreak of cancer that has affected at least ' dies their returns The tax agency advisers tax procrastinators to take time to double-- 1 check their math and take care to use the correct tax amount from the tax table: One way to save possible headaches later on is to correctly list Social Security numbers including those for dependents IRS spokesman Don Robots estimated that some 37 million tax returns would be filed in the final two weeks before the deadline — 11 million last week and 26 million postmarked or electronically filed x MondayIn all about 130 million individual returns are expected this year Many post offices will be open ' until midnight to put a Monday can- cellation mark on returns The IRS accepts a postmark as proof the return was filed on time Taxpayers can request an automat-- ! ic extension for filing ' returns but they must pay any estimated taxes on time Otherwise the IRS will assess a penalty and interest currently run- ning at 8 percent Extensions can be obtained by — 4 phone by calling (888) ' some information from the 1999 return is needed to verify identity — or with Form 4868 ' For people facing a big tax bill they cannot pay all at once the IRS offers several options One is credit- c$rd payment through one of the two last-minu- te v : four-mon- th late-paym- 796-107- ‘ numbers: (888) ALL- fAXX or (800) 2PAYTAX iThe call is free but die companies toll-fr- ee ' that run the services for the IRS collect a “convenience fee” for the transaction The IRS points out that itgets none of this money nor does nirni- iCcollect and store credit-car- d 37 people Residents say they don’t trust the tap water and some even refuse to eat fruits and vegetables grown in their own backyards with irrigation water'-- Trojan Explosives was fined $200000 for the 1986 spill but denies any responsibility for the illnesses The wastewater spill unleashed a plume of polluted ground water a mile wide and 3 miles fong In a copyright story The Salt Mitch MascaioHerald From left Loralie Platen) Douglas Hyldahl and Heather Francom were instrumental in creating a community garden plot on 600 East near Logan Regional Hospital Shared labor makes garden grow By Arrin Brunson TX he clich6 “many hands make light work” could have originated at the community garden plot behind Logan Regional Hospital' ' The fruits of labor at the garden are a result of efforts by dozens of gar-deners and an equal number of com- muriity volunteers who provide land water and labor for CacheAfalley residents who lack a garden spot of their own Last year Douglas Hyldahl an Intermountain Health Care family practitioner initiated the community garden with piermission from Rich Smith a Logan Regional Hospital -' Good Neighbors administrator on a plot of land directly west of the medical buildings Additionally the medical center pro-vidpd water throughout the growing ' season which allowed 186 people to farm 53 plats Before the first cold spell hit Cache Valley community jarideners had donated 300 pounds of produce to the ' Cache Community Food Pantry A survey of participants reported other benefits “The people who 'participated said On the Nek Internal Revenue Service: AP photo An ambulance and medical crew wait outside the Harbormasters office in Cotonou Benin on Sunday for the possible arrival of children on a decrepit vessel suspected of carrying child slaves in bdmfcs:12 Classified: focus— £ Movies: 14 Obituaries il Sports yinimhjnewsoom 6 Environmental Protection Agency’s limit of 10 parts per million for drinking water s See FEAR on Page 4 COTONOU Benin (AP) — Benin appealed Monday for help from the United Nations ana Western powers in the search for a missing cargo vessel suspected of carrying child slaves off the coast of West Africa The aging and decrepit Nigerian-registere- d vessel MV Etirino was refused entry riding in- a boxcar filled- with the stench of death Baras was sent to the Nazi death camp as a prisoner in 1944 Now at 73 die is taking part in a March of the Living to' retrace those steps with several thousand Jewish teen-age- rs from around the world along with a handful of Holocaust survivors and educators Baras left Monday joined by her son and granddaughter Her husband Sidney p also a survivor found it too painful to return ‘To go back is terrible terrible I can’t imagine I am very anxious about it” said Vfola Baras of Fort Lauderdale- “The reason I’m doing if is for my granddaughter that it will have a lasting impression on her and the other young people so that it never never happens again to anyone not only Jews” s death-cam- to find child slave boat 18 er $T PETERSBURG Fla (AP) — approved by the IRS Index were sophisticated enough to detect an explosives chemical in city arid private wells called RDX for Royal Demolition' Explosive RDX does not occur naturally so the finding confirmed the tainted groundwater came from Trojan Explosives The company has denied ' responsibility for the nitrates also measured in the ground-watsaying the nitrates could have come from septic systems fertilizers and farming operations Nitrates restrict oxygen in the blood and can cause cancer at levels higher than the US Viola Baras trembles when she thinks of the journey back to Auschwitz This time she will be walking’ willingly and not 8 percent interest and a penalty of 025 percent per month once it is Pago 10 See GARDEN on Page 4 - industrial explosives It wasn't until 1994 that tests ‘March of the Living’ will retrace Auschwitz death trip ’The IRS also will most likely approve a request for an installment payment pjan if the taxpayer owes less than $25000 and can pay within a five-ye-ar period To obtain such a attach Form 9465 to die front plan of die return there is a $43 fee to set up an installment plan which carries Warmest day of the year on slate? it gave them a chance to get outside to get some work done to meet other people in the community as well as get some extra produce’’ said Heather Francom an agriculture extension agent at Utah State Univer- sity who collaborated with Hyldahl on the project Hyldahl called the growing season at the community garden “a big social event” and said plans for the coming year include adding a demonstration ' garden that will highlight different foliage and gardening techniques With donations from IHC the com- munity garden wijl include raised garden beds for people who want to ' garden but might have trouble staff writer bw Weather Journal Lak Tribune surveyed 37 cases of cancer among 62 households near the factory which makes ignitions for at two African ports over the ast week after apparently eaving Benin’s capital of Cotonou some 10 days ago It is believed to be carrying 0 100-25- impoverished children intended for sale as unpaid domestic and plantation' ers work- See SLAVE on Page 4 About 3000 Jewish high school juniors and seniors from 35 countries k were to make the trip to two-wee- Poland and Israel for the annual event first held in 1988 “It is a very powerful experience” said Leon Weissberg of : Viola Baras 73 iseen outside her Tammarac Fa apartment is faking part In a March of the Living to retrace her jour-ney to Auschwitz a Nazi death camp as a prisoner in 1944: Boca Raton executive director of the Jewish Education Commission and director of the March of the Living southern region On Thursday the group will gather for a silent march retracing the steps Holocaust victims were forced to two-mi- le life-changi- ng JU See MARCH on Page 4 r - |