Show yr" ©iraaijKQi A3 Local state My two cents worthCache Valley views on topics of the could last the TV Guide channel?” - another 1--2 years day r 7m Question: "Do you miss and regional news By Hold Gunnell staff writer 'w- rv - 'ArV& M any local TV watchers got a surprise last week when they turned the dial to channel 14 What was once tiie TV Guide channel — a place to plan your TV watching schedule find out who is dating your favorite movie star while simultaneously checking the time and weather — had become KJZZ Channels 3 and 4 had switched places but the TV Guide channel was no where to be found According to AT&T Broadband representatives the company doesn't have enough bandwidth to carry die channel on its basic package There doesn't seem to be any immediate plans to bring the channel back to Cache Valley living rooms Some residents want it back and said they would be willing to sacrifice another channel fo get the TV Guide channel back SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Southern Utah is facing its worst drought since the 1950s new i study shows Eut die study which charts mote than a century of weather data shows dry periods lasting 5 years are a regular event across Utah Those thy periods vary in intensity The study by University of Utah students charts precipitation and soil moisture by the month from records going back to 1895 helping to put into perspective die four-yedrought dial has turned Utah a into parched tinderbox “Drought happens it’s like hurdles on a running track” geogra-phy professqt Fred May said Thursday drawing his first conclud sions from a set of the time charts “There’s a drought in your future There’s no way to avoid it" Another analysis released Thursday by die National Weather Service shows that five southern Utah reservoirs now at 38 percent capacity are headed for their low est levels since 1977 Hut study looks back only as far as 1970 May’s study is more revealing His Students have produced charts for four of seven regions of the state that vividly illustrate bow (fay periods show up in Utah every five years or so turning into prolonged droughts about three times in die past century Utah is in the grip multiyear drought The worst of it seems to be in the state’s spufowest coiner now in its 48th consecutive month of extreme drought said May May revealed perhaps the study’s most surprising finding: On the whole Utah has had more wet than dry years and even most of die dry years are not severe though every now and then they bring devastat- ing droughts An especially haid drought lin- gered for seven years at die turn of the 20th century with month after month of little or no precipitation The dust-boera of die early 1930s brought another extreme drought that charts show hit northern Utah harder than southern 2-- ar AT Jessy Barrett Robbie Gonzales Logan Logan miss the TV ' Guide channel They should put it in the place of “I Lifetime Lifetime is boring do miss the TV Guide channel I would probably put it in the place of T C-Sp- an and Martha Stewart stinks!" Efraln Ruiz Logan BrandonDeapaln SmKMiekJ "I don't really care about the TV Guide chan- nel I don’t have cable see If I Dick Cheney one more time rilshootmy Ben Cope Ogden "How do you know what’s on? I would put They should put it back on channel 14 the TV Guide There’s 10 channel back on channels we the same never watch ' that they could’ve replaced instead like channel 38 or TV" 71" color-code- 1 I - 1 " i ft i & I’m f if : : wl i Ittff Utah: Utah’s last major drought was in the 1950s though the 1990s opened with a few dry years V :J Now Utah is in the fourth year of another hard drought that May diets could for another two years in the northern mountains and another year in southern Utah “It’s very typical" he said “It’s Utah die second driest state” after Nevada'- y pre-ing- er I I1 Brent StevensHwald HOt v In brief K 7’ ' : cure If selected the mercury would be ' - ' stored at the Utah Industrial Depot near and formerly owned by the Tooele Army Dejx Officials clas--sify mercury jp a commodity not hazardous waste :'(! Idgested mercury or inhaled vapors can damage the brain and kidneysandWfectt developing fetus Mercury has been used in 7 Li ' thermometers automobile lights hospital equipment and dental fill- - ''j'--ing-s V ::- - - :m The DNSC1 an arm Of the Defense Logistics Agency stopped selling excels mercury in 1994 after concerns by die Environmental Protection Agency that too much mercury had entered the global1 ecosystem The DNSC must complete an environmental impact statement stages nea rly perfect ‘Murder' By Bfucs Ackerman For The Herald Journal too feds’mercury — Tooele ia TOOELE i Lee Buck fills his Coca-Co-la vending machine on Wednesday morning The vending machine is built into hiq fence akxig 2500 North In North Logan Buck said that he got the ides from his daughter's lemonade stand and so he utilized a soda vending machine that he owned entrepreneur r Old Lyric Tooele could get Utah(AP) one of at least six sites under con--- S' sideration for possible storage of die Defense National Stockpile ' Center’s excess supplies of mer In 1954 Alfred Hitchcock teamed up with playwright Frederick Knott and created an instant film classic “Dial ‘M For Minder” On Thursday night tiie Old Lyric Repertory Com- pany brought dm masterful mystery: to liife mi strong production The stellar cast was led by a nearly less performance comer Aaroh Lamb v Actually to call this play ai be somewhat misleading Ire the traditional “whodunit” we know “whodunit” tidily early in the game and we aooh understand both the motive and the method behind the culprit’s diabolical plot This foreknowledge creates foe flaw-TOLR- Cn - a We’re on the edge ofoiir toi tee seatswut-in- g marriage has caused Mar- got’s heart to ' stray Enter Review : i MaxHalliday writer murder things mys-teriespf- Ewnattodoutith 4408 metric terns of mercury ensemble for this production and guided them to “M” for mountainous too many risks! enlists -- make heights Amber Tuttle 35 Margot is a that extOrts — the services of an old fauly sympathetic victim She has sufficient vulnerability and virtue college compatriot turned two-b- it con-ma- n that we easily forgive her infidelity to commit the act Tragic But asher husband’s own seems set especially inevitably destiny what fiction murder writer Max 'duplicity is unfurled Eric VanTielen as Max Halliday murderer Tbny understands real-lif-e seemed slightly off rhythm on open-overlooks Hut is expect the unex-pectAnd it is in the unexpected ing hight His portrayal of the Amer-ica- n that murderers fail and Dial M truly mystery writer who unwittingly ' solves foe crime is generally solid ' excels Aaron Lamb’s “M” for masterful perhaps a little too ' afetlt’s a delicate balancing art yal of tiie dunning and dia--' 7" too much sexual energy between Tbny Wendice carries this couwill -' and makethe heis Max a to and Toy Margot watclj production too little Lamb is possessed by ihis Characterspie less sympathetic leaves one wondering why Margot is V and it shows in every nuance and ' v tempted to kray from her charismat- sweeping gesture Tbny is smooth confident and deljciously devious! k legal companipn Look for this wine to improve with age Tliere are times when we almost t want him to succeed Yrt underneath nfthrisiexcellent as the ! n hired it all Wb can almost sep the adrenaInspector Lesgate r line flow And when the unexpected t (among other names) He is appro- ‘ - : of - The: two carried oh ' a clandestine affair for apmeundis- ckW period hutMaigot cooled 7: ed ' when Tbny started spending more time at home Max is back ia London for a visit and the cbuple reunites: What they don’t know is Tbnyhas known about tiie relationship for : some time His apparent anxiety about losing his wife to another man and his Cash flow along with her '!' 'Ahak led him to take tiuitten into his own hands He has carefully laid if tiie murder will (day foil 1 - all i little ’s resistant a less to 'perhaps web than one would expect One of the most fascinating-scenein the play is when Tbny a Tbny’ socialite wife Margot Their kveles pUniimpreve Hehai 7 : I s : hit-ma- ' 'before Journal S ' mix of panic and self control His rafonMnceu so compelling that for a lesser supporting cast it would likefybbtooupktagitig ' But Director Sid Pokes has solid assembled an 4 across-the-boa- rd J n Wen-dice- ill-fat- ed ’ - See MURDER on AC ' K |