Show erlamdl Local state By David Nelson staff writer i WM Ogden police Kxseize stolen goods W- ' Logan city and Utah State University are teaming up this summer to give local residents more control SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — North Ogden police are looking for owners ofseveral truckloads of construction tools and electronic equipment stolen from new homes - over water consumption and study conservation habits as locals try to save money and water resources The 2004 “Water Check” program which begins the first week of May irriwill collect data gation and water use from residents that volunteer for the program and recommend guidelines to cut water bills and consumption during the summer The program will also cata J and construction sites I £ Investigators served two search warrants over the weekend in Ogden and recovered more than $50000 in tools TVs DVDs and a handgun said North Ogden police Dirk Quinney The loot is from several months worth of burglaries in Weber Count- i detective y- log the attitudes and motivations behind conservation in an attempt to understand what methods could be effective as other cities in Utah g programs implement ‘The intent is to help them figure out the optimal (level) to conserve water and have green plants” said Mark Nielsen city public winks director who has organized the program with two USU representatives “It’s aimed at conservation but also aimed at looking at the details of conservation” Irrigated landscapes account for approximately 60 percent of yearly culinary water consumption in Logan city as well as the peak sum water-savin- By Mark Randall staff writer The city of River Heights rejected a request by Cache County to sign on to a countywide mosquito abatement district this wrek The City Council unani' mously voted not to fund a common district joining Iville as the only other community to reject the idea so far “River Heights is right in between Logan and Providence and they didn't think we would get much benefit out of it” said councilman Brent Greenhalgh County officials are uiging ’communities to jointly fund such a district to help them control the trouble spots in the county for mosquitoes and ' thus reduce the risk of West Nile Virus spreading throughout the valley Representatives from most cities in the county have already expressed support for sending the proposal to the voters in November The proposed district would be funded through a property tax assessment The county estimates it will cost $300000 or an extra $10 on a $100 (XX) home Greenhalgh said officials have already had to absorb cost increases in a number of county services “Everything has increased — from garbage to water and sewer property taxes and now that school bond is coming along” Greenhalgh said “There's got to be a stop some- A few years ago Floyd Armstrong and his wife Dorothy were at Utah State Valley College in Orem to watch one of their grandsons graduate As she sat through the ceremony Dorothy thought about the education her husband had postponed for years to support and care for his family which now includes seven children 34 grandand children 24 one great-gregrandchild And she thought up a challenge for ha hus- SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A new law taking effect Monday has Utah hospitals and clinics uncertain at band " Book Cliffs survey - “I was so impressed I said to him ‘I want you to march down that aisle’? ' said Dorothy Friday he did For the second time “I just never got to finish so I decided when I retired to go get a degree” said Floyd Armstrong who graduated with a master’s degree in psychology from Utah State University Seven colleges and almost six decades after he entered the Montana School of Mines in 1945 Armstrong was the oldest member of the graduate school class at USU this weekend The Armstrong was one of two Aggie alumni that walked across the Spectrum stage this weekend whom although past the halfway point in life stood shoulder to shoulder with students forty to fifty years their junior and looked squarely towards the future “It’s just a start for me” said Barney Wetmore who was the oldest under-graduate student in Saturday’s ceremony at age 65 Wetmore completed a bachelor’s of science in psychology from USU this spring ana will start a second bachelor’s degree this summer in accounting And maybe more “My goal is to be a PhD in both” he said However his goals weren’t always aimed quite so high Wetmore dropped out of high school and joined the Marine Corps for almost a decade Upon leaving theservice he worked as an electrician and crossed America many times as a freight trucker In the midst of which he said he place" A similar effort to establish a district last year failed after Brent StevensHerald Journal Barney Wetmore is the oldest undergraduate of Utah State's class of 2004 receiving bachelor's of science in phychology and is planning to further his education SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — An archaeological survey in eastern Utah’s Book Cliffs region could produce new insights into the prehistoric Fremont culture “This one hasn't been looted” Duncan Metcalfe archaeology cura- tor at the Utah Museum of Natural History said of the Range Creek survey grounds near East Carbon (panels uncovered pit houses and found granaries many high on cliff walls Marriage mystery: By Mike Stauffer would think after 27 years eating at the same fast joints washing underwear together and enduring SOCAL vacations in syyrnxisr with each other there wouldn’t be You many mysteries lurking in a marriage Was I wrong! The frequent trips she took alone to Kabul the unusual looking throw rugs on the floor and the fenny looking bibles that weren't really bibles at all should have tipped me off As two FBI agents stood at our front door recently her secret was revealed: My wife who FBI a remained intact “Just because you went to prison doesn't mean you have to give up" he never had enough time or money to enroll in college Those limitations changed however when he was sent to the Central Utah Correctional Facility in Gunnison Fortunately Wetmore 's ambition yields discovery Metcalfe discussed the findings Friday at the opening of a museum exhibit “America's Public Lands" ’’ The Fremont people lived in pit houses made pottery and grew corn beans and squash for more than a thousand years in central and northern Utah until about AD 1300 Metcalfe said Archeologists have found rock art to endorse abatement district plan By David Nelson staff writer Abortion law has Utah clinics unsure r City refuses oldest grads attain bachelor’s master’s degrees Utah sands” he said See WATER on A14 USU’s and a flatbed trailer’s worth of Utah “We found about 130 untouched - (sites) and I think there are thou- - teers must be willing to take a survey on water-us- e habits for a research project use only city culinary water for irrigation and have an system to water the yard Hoover who has a master’s degree in water efficient landscaping and horticulture said the checks will measure landscaped area and parcel size of the yard and compare that with how often and how long the irrigation system runs The checks will also include a visual inspection of sprinklers while running a “catch-cup- ” test that measures how much water a system dumps on a M-riD- goods ’ mer demand on the system USU grad Jennie Hoover and current graduate student Mark Guthrie assisted by two local high school students will survey irrigation systems from May until August in hour and a half sessions to determine what improvements or changes could be made to cut costs and water use “We’re reall ’ trying to teach them about water use Decrease their water bills in the end but also save water because we are in a drought” said Hoover Residents and small businesses interested in participating must meet three criteria said Hoover Volun- - rofile Graduate Police were able to crack die case April 21 when a North Ogden business owner reported he had been burglarized twice in the tame day The man found his auto repair business in Hanisville burglarized in die morning then return to home to find his garage door had been pried open Quinney said Police identified two suspects by checking the surveillance video tapes at a convenience store where die victim’s credit card was used within hours of the home burglary A truckload of stolen merchandise found at one of the suspect’s home was returned to its owners but police still have another truck-loa- d whether they can terminate pregnancies in cases where fetuses won’t survive birth “We’re all in limbo” said Steven Clark medical director for maternal and fetal medicine at LDS Hospital in Salt Lake City The Prohibition of Public Funding for Abortions bill approved by the Legislature and signed into law by Gov Olene Walker makes it a misdemeanor crime for doctors clinics or hospitals that receive any state funding — “directly or indirectly” — to perform abortions ' The law makes exceptions for rape incest or the likelihood that a woman would suffer “permanent irreparable and grave damage to a major bodily function” if she delivers It does not however make an exception for doomed fetuses If doctors continue to induce fetal defect terminations hospital administrators will have to certify that no public funds were used Health department employees who pass on funding without acquiring those cer--1 tifications first could lose their jobs “The Department of Health is concerned that it prohibits funding It doesn't say that the hospital can’t do the abortion” Odendahl said The problem is determining “direct or indirect" public funding which could cover clinics or hospitals built with state money A3 and regional news Logan USU unite for water use study In brief (Wasatch Front Sunda May 2 1004 said See AGGIES on A14 Logan and Smithfield objected to the hefty share their residents would have had to shoulder to fund the S8000(X) price tag Cities have until May 15 to pass a resolution supporting the creation of the district The county plans to schedule a public hearing sometime in June query reveals wife’s secret masqueraded as a deputy sheriff was a cell phone terrorist! On a cold February day a couple of months before J Edgar's boys came to call state lawmakers were hustled out of the State Capitol building in Salt Lake City An early morning cell phone bomb threat sent Governor Walker into an undisclosed food storage pantry near the furnace room The rest of the building's occupants waited in parking lots close enough to the building that if it did blow up they would be only slightly injured by flying debris and might get 10 seconds on Channel 5 Highway Patrol troopers with the comfortable assignment of Capitol security searched the venerable old building for suspicious packages While several were found in plain brown wrappers under the desks in the House and Senate chambers none turned out to be bombs at least “Where do you live? Where do you work? What’s your blood type? What kind of laundry detergent do you use? Where were you on February 19?” She was peppered with the of questions until the with his last gasp forced out “I'm Agent Tim Gumfoot-sk- i w ith the FBI" “Of course you are" my w ife responded “and I'm Prince Charles" She hung up Finished writing her mother a speeding ticket as the Kibley city treasury was getting low and went merrily on her w ay remaining alert for more traffic criminals In exactly an hour and 15 minutes my phone rings at work It's my daughter She speaks with a teenager's typical emphasis “Dad! There are these tw o dudes at the mini-inquisit- A Cache Valley perspective not of the explosive variety That night on local television news the focus wasn't on continuation of government but rather that the Capitol security detail had not enlisted the City Department of Bureaus the County Office of Combined Agencies or the State Division of Coordinated Offices of Eventual Response to assist in the search In any event fast forward to the day the snow began to melt in Cache Valley My wife's cell phone rings: gg: — See STAUFFER on A14 I |