Show -- J - The eralid Voi93: NoT25ZMSaturday: September! 4 ’2002 Weather Warm and sunny with highs in the 80s — PageA8 Update People America’s rich lose billions but still worth a lot By Rebecca Gomez AP Business Writer improve die valley’s bus system Its most recent plan was approved in 1997 calling for larger busies a new transit center and a bus route All three goals accessing Wal-Ma- rt were met But what of the future? That was die question posed in four public hearings this week in Hyrum Smithfield Logan and Utah State University “What do you want? What are your pipe dreams” asked Transit Manager Ron Bushman “If you By Jeremiah Stettier staff writer The wheels keep rolling for bus service Logan's decade-ol- d faster now than ever before The question transit officials are asking is Which direction to travel for the t next five years Perhaps to Yorkshire Village with a new bus route Or maybe to the Blackhawk subdivision with another Logan Transit is now mapping out its plan — a plan meant to five-ye- ar -- r - ' magazines The oldest person on die survey is MaxFisher who made ' his fortune in oil and steel His net worth was put at $750 million Index Classifieds B8 Stocks ComlcsB6 Movies Opinion A5 Sports wwwhjnevvscom A6 A4 B1 routes in Logan city ' The first would send a bus into the Yorkshire Village area which is heavily populated by students Another would extend into southwest Logan serving neighborhoods near 1000 W 1800 South Finally a third would stop in the Blackhawk subdivision on the south end of town ’TryVr- - t Daniel Ziff who shares a $12 billion inheritance with his two brothers ages 34 and 38 His father William Ziff Jr built and sold a publishing empire that included PC Magazine Boating and Car & Driver - dent consultant It is a consultant transit officials say “knows the system" And he does The consultant is former Transit Manager Jeff Straw who pioneered the fledgling transit district in the early 1990s His charge is to pul " See TRANSIT on A7 restraints ' I f - '- lifted for J fcfir' 'v v- - Loganites By Jeremiah Stettier staff writer T H-vJ-l fr : V ‘ f vj :s if f--' V- 7 ijJ! &&£ ££ ” i 1 sprinklers clattered on hundreds of front lawns By late that night Logan residents had used a record-breaki3 1 7 million gallons of water It was enough to drain the city’s new two-mi- llion-gallreseryoir and draw other water supplies down to emergency levels But that was two months ago Temperatures have cooled ' iklra - $ v!- mid-Jul- O0 0 Tv- It was Sunday in y The sun beat overhead swamp copiers pumped on high and “$- j ng on " fV' V3IUIy Jli fcnri Datirinn Olrl Mitch MascaraHeratd Journal - " South Cache students are a blur through the heat' created by the ing American flag which was retired Friday as part of a school assembly bum-ntflllll- iy tion what the price may be” Since he graduated from Logan Crockett High School has been For many years he had fun with antiques arid other used merchandise which he bought sold and traded For the past five years he has made a living selling these items for other people ' “I was accumulating so much stuff that I was hiring an auctioneer to come in and sell what I didn’t need" he said “After doing that two or three times and paying them 1 decided I could doit myself” Crockett said many of die nearly 60 auctioneers in the state of Utah have attended special schools to learn the trade but experience has been a good teacher and the crowds are pret- ty understanding if IILJ ld self-employ-ed “Do I hear 10? There’s 10 How ‘bout IS? Will anybody give 15?” No matter the item — whether it’s real estate heavy machinery antiques or household merchandise — there’s a pretty good chance Logan resident Clint Crockett has sold it at an auction Crockett’s earliest memory of this type of public sale took place when he was about 5 years old He sat beside his grandfather Don Crockett at a cattle Cache people auction Now he takes his own grandchildren along Together Crockett and his wife Mary Ann have three kids “We get a bottle of pop and watch the cows come through" he said “I love the excitement the treasures that you find You never know what’ going to be there at an auc past vice president of the Utah Auctioneers Association and is currently on that organization’s Board of Directors “I found that the people that come prefer a slower-pace- d type auction because it’s easier for them to See AUCTION on A7 M J -V ' ' do 7 I demand and the failure of the city's Willow Park well Bob Laursen director of the city's water department feared the city “could literally run out USU gears up to track its foreign students M-- By Arrin Brunson staff writer When Miwako Checketls and Kaori Sasakura arrived ai Utah State University they didn't notice anything unusual The Japanese students said they scarcely considered the fact that their presence at the public institution of higher education is the focus of ' homeland security and a Brent StevensHerald Journal rushed effort by immigration Clint Crockett sells Items at an auction held at officials to better monitor forthe Cache County Fairgrounds eign students r' i Colorado Gty Mayor Dan Barlow a spokesman for die FLDS church said about 4000 of those attending the funeral were area residents He said there also were 350 from Canada Most of tiie church members live in the Hildale-Col-oraCity area but the church has an enclave in Creston Valley British Columbia near the Idaho border Estimates of the membership have ranged as high as 12000 but a church attorney R Scott Berry said mid-Jul- See WATER on A8 Thousands attend polygamist leader’s funeral COLORADO CITY Ariz (AP)— A total of 5 080 people most from the polygamist bonder communities of Colorado City Ariz and Hildale Utah were allowed to attend the closed funeral Thursday for Rulon Jeffs president of the Fundamen-tali- st Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints Jeffs who became president of the church in 1986 and was regarded by followers as a prophet died Sunday at 92 He was believed to have had 17 to 75 wives rainstorms have descended and the demand for irrigation water has declined As a result Logan city is lifting its summer water restrictionsOutside watering is no longer prohibited between 10 am and 6 pm The restrictions were y amid hot imposed in water temperatures high - Auctioneer addicted to trade Silnday that it probably was 6000 to 8000 Barlow gave no information on selection of a succes- -' sor to Jeffs saying only that “The Erst Presidency will continue to lead the church” The First Presidency was made up of Jeffs his son Warren Jeffs 45 and Bishop Red M Jessop 95 Warren Jeffs or Jessop is thought likely to become the next president Jessop conducted the funeral Barlow said “Red Jessop is the only living witness now of the beginning of this work here in Colorado City” Barlow ' said Barlow said Jessop said Rulon Jeffs was a perfect man and a perfect example and a simple teacher Barlow said Warren Jeffs also spoke at the funeral Security was tight at the funeral and graveside service with police patrolling parking lots and guarding doors meeting-hous- e Even family members who were not on a guest list were not allowed into the funeral 2S a suspi-cionsabo- ut v ' U-1 - Though Bushman has his which will be included in the short-rang- e plan he said each idea will be analyzed by an indepen- Water ' NEW YORK — The rich are get ting less rich in America For the second straight year but only the fourth time in 20 years of rankings the combined net worth of Forbes magazine’s 400 wealthiest Americans declined this year reflecting the economy’s continuing troubles Their total net worth of $872 billion was down from $946 billion in 2001 and $12 trillion in 2000 Even the benchmark for being ranked dropped The 2002 survey included individuals with a minimum net worth of $550 million — down from the required $600 million in 2001 ' The top 10 remained the same with some reshuffling of the order The biggest loser on the list released Friday was also the richest Bill person: Microsoft Gates'-- ' Gates lost $11 billion for a net worth of $43 billion He now has lost $20 billion — mostly because of the drop in value of his Microsoft stock — since die tech meltdown began in 2000 The biggest winner was investor Warren Buffett who remained No 2 on the list His net worth increased to $36 billion from $332 billion Microsoft Paul Alien also maintained his ranking — third — but saw his net worth fall to $21 billion from $282 billion Five relatives of the late Sam Walton founder of Wal-Ma- rt Stores retained five of die top 10 spots Their net worth increased to $188 billion each from $175 billion in 2001 thanks to strong consumer spending Oracle chief executive Larry Ellison who fell from second in 2000 to fourth in 2001 dropped to ninth this year He is now worth $152 billion down from $219 billion last year Rounding out the top 10 Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer suffered a $32 billion loss for a net worth of $1 1 9 billion Neither AOL Time Warner’s Steven Case nor Sun Microsystems’ Scott McNealy made the cut this year casualties of the Internet implosion Martha Stewart was also among 35 people bumped largely because her company's stock drastically declined in value following her legal troubles Forty-si- x women made the list including the three granddaughters of oilman J Paul Getty They each inherited $400 million in 1986 The youngest among die 400 was want a bus going from your housie to your work then tell us” Out of the hearings emerged rec- ommendations for three new bus 32 “I didn’t feel that way because I just transferred my credit and they accepted me just like the other students” said Sasakura a junior studying biology “But I felt a little difficulty bringing my (international student visa) at the airport and they checked it more closely I had to wait in long lines when 1 came back from Japan” Sasakura is one of approximately 1000 international students who attend Utah State according to Negar Davis international student director at USU Although the students 20 may be unaffected by pressure ' 4 See TRACK on A8 |