Show Remodeled USU Fieldhouse a “step the right direction” mm ’mhlfc 93 No 269 IThursday September 26’ 2002 VoL Weather ' ' jlifwtwihw ' A ' i- freeze creeping up on gardens Update Exhibit shows how photos — A3 Hard work pays off for this Aggie — B1 Logan? Utal&© 20021550 Brldgerland’s Daily Jlewspape t&Majhi census snapshot that reveals a rise in the nation’s poverty rate for the first ' time in eight years along with a decline in household income The reports based on a national canvas of 78000 households last March also detail a significant increase in the number of “severely poor” people — those with incomes lf of the poverty threshbelow old — and a slight increase in e women’s earnings compared with men The Census Bureau considers a family of four (two adults' and two children) earning $26128 or less to be living in poverty Census Bureau says — Page A12 f iv Night in household incomes also on the decline ’ SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah is leading the nation in the rate at which its residents are joining the ranks of the poor according to die US Census Bureau The number of Utah residents living below the poverty line rose by while 24 percent during 2000-200- 1 the state’s median income decreased 16 percent during the same period ' The findings are part of a national one-ha- full-tim- At 8 percent Utah's poverty rate still remains well below the national average — 1 16 percent — but the state’s increase in the rate of poverty also bespeaks' an economy battered by the loss of many high-tec- h jobs ' “We understand that this recession is largely a technology recession” said Natalie Gochnour' Gov Mike Leavitt’s spokeswoman “It is the tech industries that have suffered the most We are more than typical states and we have been hit harder than most States” However Pam Perlich senior analyst at the University of Utah’s Bureau of Economic and Business Research argues that the survey's sample of 705 Utah households is too small and its two-yetime frame too narrow to reach definitive conclusions: “You can conclude that the poverty rate has increased but you can't really conclude that Utah is the most rapidly mowing of all states” Per- lich said “I don't see this l8reprat 38 showing that we're standing out in any significant way” The Census Bureau did call its comparisons less reliable than national estimates The ar nt state-to-sta- te See UTAH on A12 portray kids WASHINGTON (AP) — Any family album is likely to have more cute photos than serious ones but now the Library of Congress is showing how experts have portrayed children over more than a century and the images are meant to be seri-ous rather than cute " The show does have & close-u- p of two tiny feet peeping out over a sheet one big toe stretching half way across the sole from its neighbor The picture “The Newborn” ' was taken in 1955 by Suzanne Szasz who specialized in children The little feet are a serious matter for Dr Robert Coles the Pulitzer prize-winnichild psychiatrist who wrote the book that goes with the show both titled “When They Were Young” The exhibit opens Thursday and will be on view through March 22 The feet Dr Coles wrote serve as a reminder that “we who have mastered standing were once thoroughly in need of the outstretched arms of i K ‘ v ' ' i A ng others” Dr Coles 72 has written 60 books including a “Children of Crisis” and is a psy- chiatry and social ethics professor at Harvard University In a Dorothea Lange portrait of a framer tenant farmer’s child in Texas worry can be read in the girl’s eyes and in the hand fingering her mouth The picture was taken in 1937 during the Great Depression when Lange worked for President Franklin D Roosevelt’s New Deal five-volu- J 1 - yva b'-- V ' kl r ' s ' 1 M n- mi - - i' : r - jS -J f ' - : I A Jl & ' " Eli LuoeroHerald Journal Working on HIS Landon Knight carries a freshly cut pumpkin out of his garden in Nibley on Wednesday Knight and his sisters Savannah Kiera and Shalise have grown the pumpkins for four years The pumpkins are for sale on Main Street in Nibley psten agencies She was documenting poverty on the farm a job that made much of her reputation “All those children the world over” Dr Coles comments “trying their hardest to get through the See PHOTOS on All Quick read WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle accused President Bush on Wednesday of playing politics with the' debate over war in Iraq and By Jeremiah Stettier staff writer death” at cmccolumO hjnewscom and I could appear here Don't forget to leave' your name and town of residence This week’s featured Web site: wwwcpeusuedueb kjohnsonfarmshtm look This website offera a dose-u- p at some of the conhsy farms around Cache N&Bey presented by Kurt John-son’- s fs from Ecfith 3rd-- and Bowen Laboratory SchooL The class visited the farms and then created a 4th-grade- webpage about each of the farm's s year history cunent farming techniques as wel as students’ 100-plu- No apology was forthcoming at die White House where spokesman Ari Fleischer said Daschle’s attacks comments Bush made mis-stat- See IRAQ on A12 Proponents of a new library and museum building in Hynim will be hitting the streets and knocking on doon Thursday to drum up support fra the projectAbout 130 volunteers including the mayor two council members and Citizen's Fundraising Committee members will try to contact every household and business in the city between 6 and 8 pm Thursday Leslie Gittins committee AS B1 i ' Senate - co-cha- ir- ' APphoto Leader Tom Daschle makes an Impassioned speech on Wednesday on the Senate floor where he accused President Bush of seeking to politicize the debate over war with Iraq and demanded that he apologize for implying that Democrats Were not interested in the security of the American people Majority i Index A4 j Hyrum library boosters By Joe Rowley staff writer Gabriela Woodworth has heard tires screeching outside her Logan home She hasn't seen an accident yet but near misses arc common at the off-sintersection of 1000 North and 600 East she said It is that problem that Logan engi-- ! ' neers are trying to solve Amid orange cones and the wet cement of a reconstructed sidewalk ' stand two new stop signs covered in black plastic By early next wepk the bags will be removed to make the intersection of 1000 North and 600 ! East a four-wa- y stop Woodworth who lives on the northwest comer of the intersection said the project i a “good idea” in terms Of safety She favors the ' ‘Change Jake Aplanalp another resident was more cautious He questioned ' whether the city is approaching the ' problem correctly “It does need something” he said "but I don't know if a four-wa- y stop ' is the way to do it ” flour-way Aplanalp feared a stop would reduce the efficiency of vehi- cle flow along 100Q North Instead j of planting new stops signs he sug- gested a stoplight that would balance the heavy traffic of 1000 North with the lighter flows of 600 East Logan Public Works Director et ed earlier this week At the same time the spokesman declined numerous times to say whether Bush stood by his remark that die Senate — controlled by Democrats — was “not interested in die security of the American people” And Fleischer said Bush impressions —Submitted by Kurt Johnson wwwhjnewscom up in D-S-D- 752-212- C6 Obituaries Classifieds Comics MNOmir C4 Opinion C2 Sports Movies stop sign coming 4-w-ay demanded the commander in chief “apologize to the American people” “We ought not politicize this said in blunt war” Daschle remarks on the Senate flora less than six weeks before the midterm elections “We ought not politicize the rhetoric about war and life and Is there a fun or fascinating Web sits you would liks to share with fellow ' HJ readers? Cal the newspaper at 1 or edttor Charles McCollum Daschle: Bush politicizing Iraq issue seek support woman said That’s more than 1600 homes to visit Thle purpose for the canvass is education as well as Volunteers will distribute a letter from the city describing the new library project explaining why a new building is needed and outlining sources of money dial have already been committed “We want to tell them about the library how we've grown and what we can’t do that we’d like to do” Library Director Ginny Tremayne fund-raisi- ng ! : flalf of tire $13 million the city has committed has ben used or ear-marked to purchase the property east of Elite Hall on Main Street and to demolish the buildings that are cur- rently there Hyruitl residents have already donated more than $50000 the letter says and the remaining $2 S million is yet to be found After Thursday night Gittins hopes to have some bargaining chips to throw on the table when seeking grants t '( See LIBRARY on A12 ‘said See STOP on AIL I S X 7 y |