| Show 'r i i The i Thrilling finish femQ gymnastic championship — B1 ' Enforcement of Logan’s occupancy rules at EM QJJ VolX93JJoI82j3aturdaMarcK'23rT2002 at USU issue Brldgerland’s'Daily'xNewspapec J -- A3 LoganTUtalif © 2002$50 Voathor Rain snow possible with dip in tem- perature — PageAS Utah North Carolina gird for battle over trict in case it prevails Campaigns already are under way in North Carolina for its new 13th congressional seat “North Carolina believes it won this seat fair and square It’s just too late for Utah to be challenging the results of the census’’ North Carolina Attorney General Roy Cooper said “It would cause serious problems to undo’’ the results of die 2000 census Utah' Gov Mike Leavitt is unapologetic “It’s simply an issue of fairness” he said “We want the seat”' The case boils down to one word US SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The US Supreme Court will hear argu- Update ments Wednesday over an obscure census practice that helped give North Carolina an extra congressional seat and left Utah howling in protest claiming the seat as its own The high court agreed to resolve before the fall elec- the jtions An optimistic Utah has drawn an optional fourth congressional dis irnsss Servicemen’s remains share single casket tug-of-w- ar — “actual” — in the requirement by the US Constitution for an “actual enumeration" of state populations every 10 years States can gain or lose congressional seats based on shifting populations Truth be told the Census Bureau uses a bit of guesswork for a tiny sliver of the US’ population after exhausting efforts to verify whether households exist at addresses listed in its master file But if it is unable to actually count people after six vis- its the bureau simply assigns the same number of occupants to tire presumed household as that of its nearest neighbor House seat That trick added less than half a percent to the total US population in the 2000 census But it was enough for North Carolina to edge Utah another state in the reallocation of the final congres-- a sional seat Utah argues the “phantom” households could just as well be businesses storage units or typographical errors North Carolina gained four times as many households as Utah under this practice k called imputation - fast-growi- ng hot-dec- “If there were six follow-u- p visits See CENSUS on A8 ARUNGTON Va (AP) — Two World War II airmen who died together when their plane was shot down were buried die first time 56 years and several hundred miles apart On Friday newly discovered remains were buned in a single coffin Science has made it easier to identify remains even tiny fragments from decades-ol- d battles But sometimes it’s impossible to separate the remains In such cases die military buries them together usually at Arlington National Cemetery And so Lt Col Earle J Aber Jr ' of Wisconsin mid 2nd Lt Maurice Harper of Pell City Ala how share one casket' and headstone“I like the idea-- ' said Harper’s sister Mary Elizabeth Lamberth who attended Friday’s ceremony “They've been together so long it was appropriate” The number of group burials has increased as the science of identifi- cation has progressed There were nine by the Ariny last year up from seven the previous year Numbers for the other military branches were not available To separate remains investigators need a fragment about the size of a quarter sard Shari Lawrence spokeswoman for the US Army Personnel Command Smaller remains still can produce good DNA samples but it’s impossible to separate the identifies Aber and Harper woe killed March 4 1945 when the were piloting was shot off the coast of England by British gunners who mistook it for German aircraft They maintained control of the plane long enough for the nine crew men to parachute to safety then crashed into a river estuary Only Aber’s arm was found identifiable by a Boy Scout ring he wore It was buried in Englandin 1945 Relic hunters discovered the plane’s wreckage in late 1999 and a (earn from the British Navy and the US Army's Central Identification Lab recovered it in June 2000 Harper’s identifiable remains were returned to his family and buried last fall in Birmingham Ala Aber’s ' identifiable remains will be laid to rest soon in England alongside his severed arm i Maj Kevin Upson of die Army’s Hawaii-base- d Central Identification Lab said (he lab works about 265 days a year searching for the remains of missing soldiers believed killed overseas “You couldn’t imagine a better job in the world than when you go out and find someone and faring than back to theirfamilies” he said For the Aber and Harper families the long search has been a bonding experience “People talk about closure but for us it has been an opening” sud Earle Williams Aber’s nephew “We’ve pie who knew my unde1 ! - y - By Leon D’Souza staff writer most of us homeland security is a hew mantra a buzz- word spawned by the devastating attacks on “America’s commercial - 4 - £5 OpinionSports- -! A7 ' f f wwwhjnewscom ’ V -- :y s : r- - o1-- f in I v J1 tance of aerospace education” Logan said “Experiments con- ducted on our space shuttles ulti- mately benefit us by way of technology for health or other modes of transportation so we would like to introduce more kids to this field of study” As deputy commander for CAP cadets — his second avatar — Logan spends a considerable amount of time with valley youth “It’s great to be able to teach them right from wrong what to do and what not to do I went through it and frankly it was the best time of my life” Logan said adding “now I want to share my experiences with them It’s almost like a (he port office w artdPf0d 11 i i"-- Middle East truce elusive ' $037 First-clas-s ss f Airport he See PATROL on A8 More for mail Tlteau boost as it tries to cope with declining business and hundreds of millions of dollars in costs frpm tire terror attacks'last fall p All that remains isforthb Postal Service’s gov- - 1 ' i'' erning board to set the idate : Postal Rate Commission Chairman George A Qmas announced approval of thereto agreement which was worked out by thepost office and l £ f nearer 60 organizations ami businesses That-'agretanentallowed the commission to avoid the 41 Logan-Cac- ' al - yyv' -- : WASHINGTON (AP) — From birthday cards to bank statements charitable appeals to rtewspa- pen and magazines till cost more to send' mail m idsummer ' Tfhe increase — inclining i3-ceboost to 37 mail — could cmne as soon as cents for first-cla- A8 A4 v missions' nt B11 ' than flying air- planes on rescue increase : at the morning can be dispatched to local squadrons as the need arises Logan explained But dime is more to the CAP wecanbe - D-D- ay a plane Friday deployed to other “Emergency services mid dis-puts of die counaster relief is just try if theUS Air Force needs our one of our mis- sions We also resources for any Cache people places & things run a cadet pro- operation” : Most recently which pro- -' gram vide training in aerospace Logan’s unit was involved in prostudies Logan said viding support to the Olympics “We did flights over die venues Aerospace education is high on the CAP’S list of programs for to make sure everything was OK Cache Valley youth there” Logan laid “We would like to let the gener-The Utah wing of the CAP operates a fleet of six aircraft which public know about (he impor- - cathedrals” last September But for members of the Cache ' Valley Composite Squadron of the US Civil Air Patrol homeland security is mare than just some newfangled idea It’s part of the job and has been for more than 60 years since the inception of the CAP six days before December 1941 “We are a vital component of the local homeland security team” said 1st Lt Michael Logan unit Index Obituaries public affairs officer explaining the role of his branch of the CAP’S Utah wing “Primarily if there is a downed aircraft we will be called to assist in search and rescue but F - Classified Comics Movies Brent StevenaHerald Journal Civil Air Patrol members Mike Logan Benson Muyan and Arihur Mahoney inspect -- ' k j) S 88 to JERUSALEM US UP) r- Responding ' proddjngv Israel and PalestiniJ0? 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