Show : it f Monday January 6 2003 A3 Local state Governor’s MlsSmil veto saves Chiropractor volunteers his skills at rodeo DUl squad SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Utah Highway Patrol decided against disbanding a squad that fights drunken driving after Gov Mike Leavitt blocked some legislative budget cuts from taking effect “It made my day” Public Service Commissioner Robert Flowers said “It's a bigthing for us” His department also dropped plans to pull an investigator from Utah Legislature the state’s Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force veto on Leavitt used his Saturday to restore $78 million of the $117 million cut in December d by the Legislature from the budget ’Die Department of Corrections dropped plans to give 400 inmates an early release agency spokesman Jack Ford said The budget reprieve also means line-ite- ©nod i Good eight-seco- Neighbors them to say that they have had their collar bone broken three times been unconscious three times and had three MRIs To these guys that is nothing” Stucky's place is behind the chutes where he provides free chiropractic service as part of a volun- By Jeremiah Stettler staff writer Jon Stucky has never straddled a bull tightened his gloves and awaitride But the ed an felt has “the juice” in man Nibley his own veins as the gate has crashed open with a cowboy bull and hollering spectators Stucky is what some would describe as a perfect fit for the rodeo scene He is a chiropractor “It is a rough sport” he said “These guys are getting some major trauma to their wrists to their knees to their backs and to their ‘necks i It is not uncommon for and regional news nd - tary organization known as ProSport Chiropractic He is no cowboy Never was But the adrenalin comes even without the helmet and chaps he said Stucky has adjusted1 cowboys like who Myron Duarte a bull-ridtook second place in the world this year and Lewis Field a five-tim- e world champion bronc rider who has since retired er The local chiropractor has watched cowboy after cowboy tear out of the starting gate And it still makes him cringe to see the amount of trauma their joints receive ‘ Not only are they whiplashed with the bucking of a horse or bull but their arms and shoulders are battened along the way Then they have to get off Stucky said They! may sprain an ankle land on their head or get stepped on by an animal And at last the cowboy may climb into his pick-u- p sleeping awkwardly against the window and travel 12 hours to the next rodeo Stucky’s charge is to be there when the cowboy needs his shoulder wrist or neck adjusted before a ride And he is there afterward to fix anything that may have been knocked out of place The local chiropractor smiled See SKILLS on A6 m Jon Stucky a local chiropractor volunteers his time to help out with rodeo injuries Pledge bill pushed in legislature deficit-plague- minimum-securit- y the 300-be- d Lone Peak wing at the Draper prison will remain open Ford said His department runs work-releaprograms at Lone who serve in firefighting and road crews The corrections department lost $105 million in budget cuts last year and “scaled back almost everywhere’' except for prison guanls Ford said Flowers said the public safety ' department w as especially vulnera- budhis Most of ble to budget cuts get is devoted to personnel and he can’t “just put otT a project until the economy picks back up" Other states also are targeting corrections and law enforcement agencies for budget cuts said Karen Fuller spokeswoman for the American Probation arid Parole Association which is holding a national conference in Salt Lake SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Students would be required to recite the Pledge of Allegiance under a bill that Sen Jordan plans to Chris Buttars sponsor in the Utah Legislature “Kids ought to know what our pledge says” Buttars said “This is America They ought to know what their government is about And the pledge tells you what that means definitively plainly and simply” His mandate would apply to all students in public junior high schools and high schools But it will have to negotiate a US Supreme Court standard and se Peak-fur-inma- overcome legal opposition from civil rights advocates and atheists “Students cannot be forced to salute the flag or recite the pledge" said Dani Eyer Utah director for the American Civil Liberties Union “It's dearly a violation of the First Amendment to require you to say something Students have the right to remain silently seated if they do not wish to recite the Pledge City - Rowers said he plans to fill only the most essential job vacancies as the Legislature returns to the Capitol this month to grapple with more budget problems of Allegiance” Written in 1892 to commemorate Columbus Day the pledge was codified in the 1940s Between I (XX) and 1940 19 states adopted laws requiring students to salute the flag and recite the pledge In 1943 the US Supreme Court struck down a West Virginia law ruling that schoolchildren cannot be compelled to salute the flag if doing so conflicts with their religious beliefs Still in 1954 President Eisenhower signed an order adding the words “under God” to the pledge Last June however a three-judg- e panel of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco barred the pledge from being recited with the words “under God” in public schools When Utah lawmakers three years ago approved a law requiring elementary school students to say the pledge each day they got around the Supreme Court precedent by allowing students to opt out of the pledge requirement with a letter from their parents Legislators could avoid constitutional problems the same way this year American Atheists’ Utah director Michael Rivers plans to challenge any pledge bill that becomes law “We don’t mean to be disrespectful in any way” Rivers says “But we don’t want to be forced into beliefs that we don’t share” In brief M —I 1— sheriff still Write-i- n being considered — It’s SALT LAKE CITY (AP) nearly down to the wire in Wayne County The county commission has not said what it intends to do about Sheriff-eleBart Albrecht who has not passed the entrance exam necessary for him to receive the state Peace Officer Standards and Training certificate Without passing the exam and getting a POST certificate state law prohibits him from taking office If he gives it a second try he would remain unqualified to hold office until August Attorney General Mark Shurtleff said he advised Wayne County Attorney Marvin Bagley on Friday against holding open the office until Albrecht is certified Albrecht 36 had worked at his father's gas station when he upset sheriff by 665 votes to the two-ter609 in the November election He is due to be sworn in Monday He has no law enforcement experience Shurtleff said the commission favored leaving the office empty until Albrecht was certified so he could be sworn in “They are trying to fulfill the wishes of the voters" he said Shurtleff advised that the commission could appoint an interim sheriff If one is not appointed current Sheriff Don Torgerson would continue to hold office perhaps for ct ld Rl icinoCQ ici ial9 as iUdUai uuoil icoo 9C AP photo Kody Richardson and his new bride Andrea of Pocatello Idaho pose for their wedding pictures in front of the Mormon Temple along the Main Street Plaza pod 0n Thursday in Salt Lake City The debate over public access and rights on the plaza is one of the most divisive in recent city history m up to two years Feature story idea? Call feature! editor Cindy Yurth Ext cyarthiljaewsxoai 752-21- 21 c Residents in Utah's breezy places study wind power COLUNSTON (AP) — Wind is a nuisance in this Box Elder County community that no one can shoot poison or pray out of existence But Lonn and Sherry Bingham have begun to look at wind another way Like dozens of others collaborating With the Utah Energy Office the Bingham family is measuring the economics of installing wind turbines above their fields of alfalfa safflower and winter wheat “It would be an absolute hoot if this thing turned out” said Cindy wind gauge Tugaw as a was hoisted atop a bluff at their 500-all acre Beaver River farm The anemometer is on loan from the Energy Office one of 17 placed around Utah to measure wind-powpotential Each month for a year the Binghams will compile wind speeds using an electronic data plug The owners of Willowwood Turf in central Utah’s Richfield erected another gauge in November Kirk Harris says the turf farm will supply its own electricity and sell the excess er if windmills prove economical Utah’s only modem wind turbine belongs to Urn Utah National Guard at Camp Williams The state helped turbine fund that 225-kilow- of the The guard plans camp's electricity to use federal funds to erect a turbine windmill which could supply enough electricity for 450 homes J Wind developers are wooing landowners near Monticello in southeastern Utah and Randolph in northeastern Utah said Christine y Watson Utah’s officer Tooele County's Stockton Bar area also has potential and is especially attractive because it is close to the populated Salt Lake valley ! The School Trust Lands Administration which manages 34 million which supplies a good portion att wind-energ- acres of Utah lands for the benefit of public schools erected three anemometers on windy sites in the past year One is in northern Utah's ' Rich County another in southwestern Utah’s Beaver County and a third near Cedar City Watson said Farrell Badger who lives at the mouth of windy Hobble Creek Canyon in Utah County’s Maplcton could lead the way with wind power Badger's was only one of two state anemometers last year that measured enough sustained wind to justify the expense of building a turbine His wind averaged 13 mph but the See WIND on A6 3 |