Show Rob Bishop learning congressional ropes ' ' -- A3 Sky View girls find Pocatello too tough -- A9 kVolZ94 No?22MWednesday7January IL'oganlUtahl© 2003IS50 22’ 2003 Weather f Could it realiy snow? — Page A12 Update iffMEraua Husbands wives disagree about intimacy issues CHAPPAQUA NY ( AP) — Love and sex are more important to a happy marriage Tor men in their late 50s and early 60s than at any other time in their lives a new survey says Unfortunately for them that's just when intimacy becomes less important to women The survey being published in the February issue of Reader's Digest found that between the ages of 57 and 64 men become more attentive to their wives while women finally freed from family responsibilities find more goals outside of marriage "The guys are saying ‘Now I get it I want more intimacy"' said John Gottman a marriage expert who analyzed polling data lor the magazine “And the women are saying ‘Sorry bub I've already done that I've got my own goals now'" A New York woman in the survey said she was finally getting the chance to travel but her retired husband didn't want to "What am I supposed to do? Slay home?" she asked ‘‘Life's too Hyrum Wellsville wonder where to draw By Joe Rowley staff writer HYRUM — What began as an aggressive Vision of the city's future growth has been pared back somewhat in defer- ence to neighboring cities The Hyrum City Council on Thursday gave final approval to the city's new annexation dccla- ration and policy plan When the plan came up for a public hearing earlier this month Wellsville Mayor Ruth Maughan city councilmcmber Marcene Parker and City Man- ager Don Hartle took the chance to lobby the Hyrum City Council to agree on a common boundary between the two municipalities In sending instructions to the Planning Commission to come up with a new annexation plan the City Council originally asked the commission to be as aggressive as possible Mayor Gordon M Olson said Hyrum city and its neighbors are beginning to butt up against each other and this will likely end up being the last annexation plan the city adopts Because of this city leaders wanted to make sure the plan included as much land as possible Just because a city has laid claim to a piece of land other cities are not precluded from claiming the same land In fact Hyrum Nibley and Wellsville's the line annexation declarations all overlap in one area near US But a city can- Highway 89-9- 1 not grant annexation to a prop- erty that was not previously included in the declaration After going through two pub-Jic hearings in the planning commission Hy rum's proposed western boundary snaked back and forth exactly following Wellsville's current city bound- ary But Wellsville people have always considered the Meridian Road 2400 West to be a natur- al dividing line between the two cities Maughan said People on the west side of the road already consider themselves Sec BOUNDARY on A7 SALT LAKE CITY ( AP) — Gov Mike Leavitt proposed a radical shift Tuesday in education funding linking state aid and graduation to students' mastery of basic skills instead of "seat-time- " attendance The state Board of Education is ready to test the funding concept by this fall if legislators give it the authority Leavitt said during his State of the Stale address The board already is moving to Lcgislsturc D best-educat- versation" Leavitt's plan has the support of the state hoard of education and tentative support from the Board of Regents which oversees Utah's nine public colleges and universities Those schools already provide limited opportunity for students to gain 1 credit without silling in classes hut would need more time to move to a full competency-base- d system of graduation Higher Education Commissioner Cecelia Foxley said The Utah College of Applied Technology already bases graduation on students' mastery of skills For nearly a century public schools in Utah and other states have used the Carnegie credit system which dictates how much time students must 57-lo-- Sec INTIMACY on A 12 Quick read Definitions ' of the See UTAH on A7 Mobile park owners ask Hyrum to install Week in the news Eli czar Russian tssar emperor Slavonic tssar tsar1 from Old Russian king from Old Church from Gothic kaisar from Greek from Latin Caesar emper- or See caesar 1 also tsar or tzar (zSr tsar) A male monarch or emperor especially one of the emperors who ruled Russia until the revolution of 1917 2 A person having great power an autocrat: “the square-jawe- d ruddy complacency of Jack Farrell the czar of the Fifteenth Street police station (Ernest Hemingway) 3 Informal An appointed official having special powers to regulate or supervise an activity: a racetrack czar an energy czar — Dlctionarycom Index wwwhjnewscom 8 “ lency standard for high school graduation Leavitt called the attendance-base- d funding for public schools an anachronism and the changes a “big deal" that will bring a new value to education lire Republican governor also pleaded with legislators to maintain or increase education funding — “first no backsliding'1 — despite a difficult budget year Taking the long view Leavitt said "In the economic race of this century the society with the people w ins Period End of con- research group which randomly chose 5(H) married men and5(X) married women but no pies Questions were designed to determine how happy their marriages were and find out about specific behavior and attitudes Gottman w ho leaches at the Uni' versity of Washington and is the author of “The Seven Principles for Making Marriage W'ork” then compared the answers to find the relationship between marital happiness and particular behavior and attitudes Women in the age group rated good sex at 46 on a scale of l(X) for its importance to a happy closer look at words ' “ adoptacompe- - Chap-paqua-bas- ed A Herald Journal map Leavitt proposes dramatic shift in education funding short" The nationwide telephone survey was conducted in June lor the magazine by the Ipsos-NP- Hyrum 'expansion area' 9 Canyon rollover LuceroHerald Journal Utah Highway Patrolman Cory Thomas checks out an Isuzu Trooper while Dixie Allen fills out paperwork after her vehicle rolled over in Logan Canyon near the Card guard station Tuesday morning Allen and her friend Daylarie Phelps were on their way to snowboard at Beaver Mountain when they hit ice on a comer After getting the truck righted the two continued on to the ski area Neither suffered injuries and both were wearing their seat belts at the time of the roiiover Cloned cat unlike the original COLLEGE STATION Texas (AP) — Rainbow the cat is a typical calico with splotches of brown tan and gold on white Cc her clone has a striped gray coat over white Rainbow is reserved Cc is curious and playful Rainbow is chunky Cc is sleek Wayne Pacclle of the Humane Society might be inclined to say: I told you so But then so would cc's creators at Texas A&M University Sure you can clone your favorite cat But the copy will not necessarily act or even look like the original Cc(for carboncopy) is just over a year old I ler birth Dec 22 2(X) I was big news when it was announced last February because it was the first time a household pet had been cloned Previous mammal clones were barnyard animals like cows and goats Cc's creation was funded by Genetic Savings & Clone a company that See CATS on AI2 110 water meters By Joe Rowley staff writer HYRUM — A small'inveslment in manpower could pay off big in the way of water conservation or al least that’s what the city council members hope will happen if Hyrum city agrees to read water meters in the Valley View Mobile Home Park While no agreement has been made yet the council Thursday authorized City Administrator Brent Jensen to meet with park owners to work out a possible arrangement Owners of the mobile home park located west of 400 West and south of South Cache 9 Center asked the city to participate in adding meters to each of the 1 10 trailers that make up the park and in reading the meters and helping recoup the costs of the meters through a surcharge tacked onto 8-- mobile-hom- “One Rainbow left nuzzles 00" for “carbon copy” A&M University on Jan Texas a little more than the ear of her done on a table at Texas 8 in College Station a year after cc’s birth Si e water hills of the perennial items with the trailer park is water and billing and conservation'' Jensen said Right now the water flowing into the trailer park is measured in one place only a master meter where the pipe enters the park Everything that meter makes up a private distribution jieyond See WATER on A7 Aha |