Show ©m March 18 J 2002 A3 Local state arid regional news 3 More residents unhappy with lawmakers! Paralympics officially end 40 days of Olympic glory SALT LAKE CITY (AP)— An increasing number of residents are displeased with the job done by legislators and the governor in handling the $250 million shortfall during this year’s legislative season Lawmakers led by the Republican majorities in the House and Senate cut budgets to the bone ' Perhaps 200 state workers will lose their jobs as state revenues dwindled Twenty-seve- n percent of Utah residents disapproved of the job the Legislature did before adjourning Mach 6 white about 54 percent strongly or somewhat approved and 19 percent didn’t know enough of the Legislature’s work to venture an SALT LAKE CITY (AP) —After nearly a decade of preparation Salt Lake City snuffed out the last Olympic flame officially bidding farewell to the 2002 Olympic Winter Games On Saturday night the state’s 40 days of welcoming the world came to a Harding conclusion with die closing ceremonies of the 2002 Paralympic Winter Games StadiThe flame atop um that radiated for most of die past six weeks is now extinguished The closing ceremonies like die rest of die games for the disabled were smaller than those for the Olympics which concluded Feb 24 But the competitors spectators and organizers were no less enthusifireworks-punctuat- ' Monday i - ed Rice-Eccl- es ' ’ i wy - ' The overall legislative job' ‘' Although legislators raised the cigarette tax and boosted dozens of state fees and permits they did not raise any general tax deciding in this election year to cut budgets and employees instead All of the 75 House seats and 16 of 29 Senate seats go before voters this year Most of the incumbent legislators are filing for 4—: — V-- v ' Y' In' Thai compares to 46 percent of the £ Democrats who approved and 46 ” percent of the independents who S approved Asked how in general the Legis- lature compares to the political ide- ology of those polled 51 percent of foe Republicans polled said it is about the same 26 percent Said the Legislature is more conservative than they are 17 percent of Republicans said the Legislature is more liberal than they are approval measured last week is one of the lowest in recent years 'AV- - ' VV-VS"- Jones found many respondents £ broke down on party lines About 65 percent of those surveyed who said 2 they are Republicans approved of the 5 Legislature’s overall job perfor- 5 mance approved Forty percent disapproved and 14 percent didn’t know V astic “Paralympians volunteers Salt Lake City you are die greatest!” said Salt Lake Organizing Committee President Mitt Romney in his last public appearance before he returns home to Massachusetts Sunday There were no major security breaches or other serious problems during the Paralympics which aided Saturday night nor during die Olympics Romney said at an earlier press conference that thanks to the Para- lympics brisk ticket sales SLOC was able to mend more than planned on the Paralympics and die fireworks finale and the decorations around die venues Romney reported that some 88 percent of the 240000 tickets avail-abto the Paralympics were sold ft a total of $15 million $300000 more than budgeted SLOC also-made $3million more from die sale ofOlypipic tickets than the $180 million budgeted As Romney wrapped up his final press conference Saturday he had a quiver in his voice and a tear in his eye “I’m getting emotional just thinking about it" he said referring to the games’ end In an essay The Salt Lake Tribune summed it up this way “Now the flame is out the athletes and artists have finished performing But Utahns will not forget this Camelot of a moment in Salt Lake City's history this winter of 2002 when the world came to ' Utah andboth were wondrously enriched”' budget year use of the state’s rainy day funds and bonding to balance the budget only 46 percent opinion Following the 1998 general sum 61 percent approved of the job lawmakers did After the 1996 session in which legislators gave an $80 million tax cut 70 percent approved The statistics were reported in a copyright story in the Deseret News ' on Sunday that was based on a poll taken by Dan Jones & Associates for Deseret NewsKSL-TThe poll was conducted of 404 ' Utah residents over four days after the Legislature concluded The poll has a 4 percent margin of error Asked if they approved of how the Legislature and Leavitt handled the $250 million shortfall in the current ' ' ‘ -- ' y y v' - V '' x v 17-d- ay ' - ' 4 V - ' ’r r le - Brent StevensHerald Journal Rich Macatee titfSl AVON — Rich Macatee is going BOISE Idaho (AP)— Three peo-p- k in a plane fort crashed near Atlanta on Tuesday died on impact a coroner's report said ' state-own- ed Saturday The bodies of Jake Jor--i of Idaho Falls Idaho Juvenile : William J Mann ofCaldwellandpilot Jay Lee Morris gf Emmett were recovered from the remote crash site Friday afternoon Autopsies were conducted Saturn day Boue County Chief Deputy Coroner Mike Johnson said no drugs or alcohol were found in any of die three bodies ' As required bythe Federal Aviation Administration blood and tissue samples from fee pilot wiUbe sent to Oklahoma City for further testing he ' ' j Edltor’a note: Each week The Heraid Journal repubbhea artidee that ran in the newspaper 25 50 75 or 100 years ’ a befly chain and was sdQ strapped in his seat bdt when he was found” Johnson said 'TThe handcuffs and the bdly chain were all put on properly as standard procedure for a prison j “transport V He said Mann’s bodywaS thrown from the plane during the crash and Morris was found inside die plane y’i ’with Jorgensen' Vv ” Mann and Moms were transporting Jorgensen from an Idaho Falls deten-- i center to a Nrtnpc corrections center for assessment when die plane j ' y-Went down ’ ’ stick-fram- wishy-wash- y construction’’ Maca- tee said ' Macatee 'contracted with a former to tie his straw into custom-lengt- h tnles so that three bales would fit between two wall supports When he stacked high he ' but recruited help from friends for some of the bigger tasks such as stacking those 300 bales “It certainly helps to get volunteers to offer them a good barbecue and a little bit of cold beer” he two-bale- ' s See STRAW on A7 : V was granted and he stepped inside the tent while foe sheriff remained outside talking to some of the workmen In a few minutes' foie officer went into the tent only te discover fort his man had crawled out at foe rear end '' officrooffois ipcamHe rtarterlout after DeShazo on Friday night and SheriffGeorgeRigbycameinv strildng foe trailrtT)nentoiifinidly : from Idaho cm Sunday morning hav- located his man rt Jorgensen’s camp i ing ln chrtge1 foe notorious BjertDe A orl foe Wert Cache canal near West- - SuzoforwhomfoelSahLalte! police aufobrities have been seeking ' since! he held rep Officers Gillespie end Roberts :ibf Salt Lake’s “finest" ' j v In securing his prisoner the Sher- iff had foe most exciting of his career as the principal peace : (rtabnoonoaSanuday ' arrest 1 straight down foe hiU to Westtm creek wfaich he followed to its junc-- y-y ' : of it and flown The fogirive went I ' ' tionwifo Bear river and tien being unable to cross the stream he fol- lowed it pp to foe Whitney bridge and foen struck for Plterton wifothi ‘ofiScerhotonhis'traiLv Arriving rt foe home of Me A E a short distance fois side of Lwis ammiinitionDeShazohadonapair of overalls which he claimed Y y anid He (daced him under relieved him of hixrevdver and : T v bekmged to another workman in the I pumfo was getting warm' so stole campand he asked permission togo!Me Lewis’ horse and started norfo as asfoe beast could cany him' Learning of this foe Sheriff pushed on to Preston and securing hones for himself and Mr Lewis he started out on foe Mink Creek road lea ving Lewie to take foe Battle Creek route Lewis came up with DeSbazo rt' — Oxford where foe youthful crimiha! had stopped to grt somefoing to eaL The Merton man secured the horse V but was evidently a little timid about ' taking peShazo In fact he allowed l him to walk off and when the Sher- rs iff got to Oxford of an ” hour later he found his quarty still ahead of him 'f : lt Was dark of bouneknig before v this andit was quite a task locating foe fugiive trail but discovering it foist intofoetentandtakedianofflt ! March 18 1902 8peHngand grammar appear in the atory as R was otfginaly Sheriff Rlby hike's lured time with Bert De Sham big barbecue plaster and beer party” Some straw bale houses are not much more than stacks of straw forming Walls oftencovered up with adobe or stucco But Macatee’s home is built to last He desi gned his house based on e traditional construction of fiberglass for instead straw using insulation so “it’s not just like a bunch of bales stacked up” “I just basically wanted to make it all last I didn’t want some There are 300 bales of strew in foe walls of Macatee’s home which is nearly finished and has been six yean in foe making He has done most of the work himself agoTods’UtahThenrisfrorh ' said “That’s how I’ ve gotten a lot of my walls plastered is just have a lasts all night for county sheriff Criminal ' a involved” le mid-’90- ' v ley and build something but did not know what After a frteod told him about straw-bahouses he became interested in the subject and began reading articles and books about them “I hadn’t trolly planned on doing it until I got here and realized how cold this site is” he said The insulation value of strew appetded to him though he did admit that strew does notrealty insulate any better foanmanurec- - : ''a “The juvenile was in handcuffs and said’' involved w tured material But Macatee was enticed by memories from his youth of building forts in the hay loft on the ranch where he grew up He also liked the challenge fort the process posed and the idro that he would be using a renewable resource And strew is cheaper if you do not count labor “It seemed cheaper because you’re thinking it’s only 50 cents a bale” Macatee said “But the labor seemed cheaper because you’re think: ing it’s only 50 cents a bale But the labor “It to live in a strew house No not the sort of strew structure that is imagined in tales about pigs Though this house is much sturdier than fort only 18 inches of strew will protect Macatee from foe snow outside'Macatee 39 did not include a “trufo window” in his home but he might still add one A truth window is actually a small door that opens up to show foe inside of his walls where bales of strew are stacked between foe wooden studs - Macatee is building foe home both as a place to live and as a stu- dio where he can work on his ' 'ceramics'''' While he attended graduate s school in Ohio during the he pLanned to move to Cache Val- - Plane crash victims died on impact : a By Jos Rowley Utah on® fDQflS staff writer In brief has built his house with straw in Avon ' three-quarte- - 1 See'CHASE on A7‘ 3- - |