Show ROTC Instructor earns Bronze star -- A3 Aggie gymnasts stick home opener — B1 Vol 94 NO25ISaturdayrJanuary 252003 Brldgerland's Daily Newspaper Weather Is ILoganlUtahX©2003S50 ®d”G pDsddd it January Logan or did we skip to in April? — Page A12 Sherwood Hills could add 355 homes in future By Joe Rowley staff writer Update 12221 Trying to make gambling pay child support By John Curran Associated Press Writer - So you ATLANTIC CITY NJ just hit a slot1 machine jackpot? Congratulations Now wait for your money while we check to see if you're on Uncle Sam's blacklist This could he the future of gambling The Bush administration wants to garnish the winnings — at casinos racetracks and elsewhere — of gamblers who owe child support Child support collection advocates say they would welcome any tool to recover some of the estimated 5Xl) billion owed by deadbeat parents But critics worry it would turn parimutuel clerks card dealers and others into collection agents "Good intention good cause hut it's implausible" said Chris Sclierf d spokesman for the National Associations which represents 45 racetracks "It's no more practical than saying you're going to do it in every bar w hen someone orders a drink taking the money and saying ‘lie's u deadbeat dad and this money should be sent to Washington'" Under the plan announced Monday by Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson President Bush's upcoming 201)4 budget will include a proposal to aggressively pursue gambling w innings to raise $700 million for families over five years Currently the government can garnish lottery prics but not winnings by child support scolllaw s at casinos horse tracks keno parlors jai k ulai arenas and betting parlors Indian-ru- n casinos would he from the garnishing unless exempt they are ow ned by tribes with federally funded child support enforcement agencies according to Horn Eight tribes fit that distinction he said It would cost about $40 million to establish a secure Web-base- d system allowing gambling establishments to lists of check government-provide- d who owe people Thompson said WELLSVILLE — It wasn't all bad news for Sherwood Hills Resort in dealing with the Planning Commission this week Though commissioners stood firm in opposing proposed street lights on the road leading into the resort they did unanimously approve a concept plan for develop- ment at the resort The plan outlines development of 355 new recreational homes in addition to the 100 units that are ' already there Planning Commissioner Loyal Green complimented developers on putting together a proposal that was much better than one the commission saw three years ago Still commissioners covered their bases by imposing several conditions with their approval including restrictions on d occuvehicles pancy and landscaping 10-ye- ar in As part of the plan engineers performed a study to determine how much of the land at the resort could actually be built on The study considered things like slope soil drainage and seismic hazards Cache Landmark Engineer- Hills resort ing project manager Lance Anderson said It was determined that 630 acres of land is developable on the resort and golf course which is under separate Ownership ' Because the golf course is owned separately that makes a year-roun- Herald Journal map See RESORT on A 12 Grocery caters to Hispanic Walking in one is greeted by wafts of freshly baked pastries and authentic Mexican pan or bread The meat counter displays pork and beef feet tripe and pig stomach Tomatillos coconuts and pineapples grace the produce rack imported from Tijuana weekly There are even frozen banana leaves And all this can be found in down- - DiisfiiC - Classifieds Comics Movies B7 Obituaries B5 Opinion Sports A10 wwwhjnewscom 79 0001 AS A4 B1 & things "It's like a small Mexico" said Fernando Leonhardt manager of La Ranchera Market La Ranchera is not your average grocery store but rather a unique busi- ness that provides services and products that Hispanics have trouble finding elsewhere in Cache Valley Customers from not only Mexico but also Chile Argentina Brazil and the llnited Stales mix and mingle under d the ceiling "Mostly I come for fresh bread that is a better quality than in other places Instead of making bread every (wo days they make it every day" Wellsville resident Ramon Torres said “There are it lot of Mexican products that a lot of times I can't find in other piiiula-lestoone- Eli stores" Lucero'Herald Journal La Ranchera carries a few ordinary Ramiro Rangel makes bread at the La Ranchera Market on Jan 1 5 La Ranchera is not your average grocery store but rather a unique business that provides services and products that Hispanics have trouble finding elsewhere in Cache Valley USU See GROCERY on AM argues against cuts Death sentence for By Arrin Brunson staff writer See GAMBLE on A12 Index Cache people places town Logan off-trac- Horizons tastes By Heidi Thueson staff writer Thor-oughbre- Women behind the hockey mask Logan Sherwood SALT LAKH CITY — Dark clouds over Capitol Hill on Friday afternoon had less to 'do with the weather than they did the state's economic woes Fiscal analysts said the oulhxik is bleak for Utah State University and Utah's other nine institutions of higher education all of which were represented at the first meeting of the Higher Education Appmpriations Committee Officials from Utah State joined presidents from each of the slate's colleges and universities to explain to committee members the impacts of ll e recent budget cuts Legislative Fiscal Analyst Boyd Garrioil summarized the difficulties of the past and predicted more storms ahead In fiscal year 2002 the Legislature cut $207 million from the higher education budget and in 2003 another $36 million was lost he said Garriotl predicted more financial storms in the future for the colleges and universities which rely in laigc part on state funding For example there are 96(j0 students on campus in Utah's public institutions that have not been funded with any state dollars Garriotl said costing the institutions approximately $54 million "What you need to understand is that these students arc on campus They arc being taught by faculty They have needs for advising counseling They use tlie library" he said “There's no money to ££?Utah Legislature accommodate them except for the tuition revenue that's being generated" Other costs not hieing funded appropriately by state revenues include the construction of new facilities and infrastructure as well as associated operating and maintenance funds Garriotl said Stale funds are also needed to help mitigate the rising costs of health and dental benefits increased costs in retirement programs campus expansion projects and increases in fuel and power costs Garriotl estimated (hat approximately $40 million is needed to cover these expenses Coupled with (he latest budget cuts Garriotl suggested that the current deficit in higher education is nearly $76 million “This is a serious situation for them because the students are on campus the buildings need to be heated and the lights need to come on in the classrooms - and we've got a problem” Garriott said Utah State University Provost Stan Albrecht told the Higher Education Appropriations Committee that preserving the quality of higher education in the state of Utah is a sound way to protect the state's economy Preserving quality at the land-grainstitution has been foremost as the nt See USU on A8 Utah inmate vacated SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A judge vacated the death sen- tence of Elroy Tillman on Friday ruling that the defense for Utah's oldest and longest-servin- g death-roinmate was denied access to important evidence during his 983 murder trial Third District Judge Leslie Lew is' ruling provides for a new sentencing hearing for Tillman but it was not immediately dear Friday w hen or if a new sentencing would occur Aficr several days of testimony in December about Till- -' man's case Lewis ruled that important evidence was withheld faun his defense hut she put off a formal written order Tillman now 67 was sentenced to death for the slaying of Mark Schoenfcld who was bludgeoned with the blunt end of an ax and then set ablaze inside his Salt Lake City home in May 1982 Prosecutors claim Tillman killed Schocn-fel- d w 1 because hcwas dating Lori Tillman's Gropeman Just weeks before Tillman's scheduled execution in 2001 AP photo Elroy Tillman enters a courtroom at a hearing in December 2002 in Salt Lake City A judge vacated Tillman's death sentence Friday his lawyers received 50 previously undisclosed pages from police Sgt Ken Thirsk’s polygraph tests and interviews with Carla Sagers a girlfriend of Tillman's who had said she See TILLMAN on All ‘S |