Show Tugh day at state for i vt I vaiey soccer teams Bi Ellis Elementary celebrates 110 years -- A3 'oganXUtah&©J2003$50 BjdgerlancCCDail7Newspape of!541J(3T295MyVedriesda7Octobe2l2003 Voalhor Looks like we’re in for one more record day — PageAlO ran pasf Temperatures Logan breaks record highs for two days By Arrin Brunson staff writer The Faculty Senate at Utah State University is sending a message to the governor and Legislature of Utah — give us more A letter drafted Monday on behalf of faculty repre- sehtatives of USU’s col- and departments is ' "We the Faculty Senate of Utah (State University fully designed to gain the attention of the governor and £ ' ertdofse the Utah System of Higher Education's budget legislators as the they 5 priorities for FY :V begin work on the 2004In particular we urge you to 05 academic year budget:1 support an increase in com-The letter endorsing the pensation for faculty and & : Board of Regents’ 2004-- ! staff A third consecutive £ i ' A? ' 05 budget priorities for year without a compensation the Utah System of High- increase wH further degrade " er Education Utah’s ability to recruit and emphasized that academic quality retain faculty "and staff thus further would “further degrade” without a compensation' ": degrading academic quality and ultimately the value of increase for faculty and ' : From staff and wire reports ' Logan shattered record highs on Monday and Tuesday as an unsea- sonably warm October continued A but Cache Valley residents may find themselves shattering ice this week-en- d after a cold front moves through " mi Thursday The mercury peaked at 79 degrees ' Tuesday at KVNU radio station Logan’s official recording site for "3 the National Weather Service according to NWS meteorologist xlV Karen Kahl Thai eclipsed the prcvi-- 4 ous record of 76 which was set in ! ’VX' ' ' "? ' 1992 : yssfc-s shcV " fjMP-- t 2004-200- " high-calib- ?-' " V was set in 1977 Kahl said Today’s forecast calls for a third straight day of record heat The previous mark was 75 degreesin 1960 but the': NWS forecast calls for temperatures in the lower 80s this afternoon ' The record brat will come to abrupt aid Thursday though as a cold front is expected to drop into the low to mid-2by i early Friday Kahl said Friday’s s v: be the will low to in highs with lows Friday night and Saturday morning in die upper teens " NWS lead forecaster Dave ' Sanders said homeowners who haven't yet drained their devices may be in for sortie trouble in the next few days “It's going to be a good hard freeze” he said “If you haven’t busted a pipe yet on your swamp cooler you will” ' Lows are expected to rebound to about 30 by Monday night but some forecasting models show another cold push behind this weekend’s front “We may be below normal from staffi!rS senates at other j‘ mid-50- El LueeroHerald Journal Preston Junior High students Brandon Ostler left and Dean Loveland watch as a stream of water from an irrigation pipe shoots water into the air at the school Tuesday afternoon According to the Preston fire marshal a group of students accidentally kicked off an air vent causing the gushing geyser - Herald Journal staff report Week A broken air vent sent irrigation water gushing 50 feet into die air and flooded die site of an addition at Preston Junior High School Preston Fire Marshal Scott Martin said a group of students were playing with an air vent and accidentally kicked it off “They broke it off and water came shootpipe pretty high” Maring out of a the news ha n the pilgrimage to Mecca that every Muslim is expected to make at least race — Webster's New World Dictionary Third College Edition 12-in- ch tin said People Index Journal: Classifieds Comics Movies- - - The school called Martin thinking it was a city water line that had broken “It was an irrigation line that they use to ' water all the grounds at the school” Martin said “I don’t have water that shoots that high out” No one was hurt in the incident and the water line was eventually shut off Howev- er work on the foundation was disrupted Maintenance Director Brandon Shaffer said the footings were flooded with about 3 ' to 4 feet of water “We had half of them poured and were just getting ready to pour the rest of them” Shaffer said “If it had happened an hour later we would have been in a real mess ” Shaffer said damage was minimal aside from the flooding “It mainly just cost us time” Shaffer said ' wwwhjnewscom AS M BI i Jft - cians” The 4 vote came three weeks after the House passed 2 the same measure by Bush had urged Congress to pass the ban which Republicans had pursued since the GOP captured the House in 1995 and the president had said he would sign it into law But opponents said the first federal ban on abortion since 64-3- 281-14- See ABORTION on A10 uses fake FBI site By Jason Bergraen staff writer The Cache County Sheriffs V Office is cautioning residents to beware of a new Internet scam claiming to protect against credit and identity theft by actually requesting that recipients provide the sender personul information including account numbers ail APphoto man Identified as Klrt Jonas lies at the shoreline at the base of the Canadian Horseshoe Falls after surviving a plunge over Niagara Falla with only the clothes on hit back to protect him In Niagara Canada on Monday See NIAGARA on A10 O"5 a ' caV" D-Ca-lif Tuesday Kirk Jones 40 of Canton Mich is the first person known to have plunged over the falls without safety devices and lived He could be fined $10000 “It was an impulsive thing and in a second and a half 1 was in the water” Jones said in a telephone interview with WXYZ-Tin Detroit “I was in the water for about eight secI was immediately enveloped by what seemed i ! ’Net scam A j being killed “This is indeed a historic day” said Sen Barbara Boxer lead opponent of the legislation “because for the first time in history Congress is banning a medical procedure that is considered medically necessary by physi- - : NIAGARA FALLS Ontario (AP) — A man who went over Niagara Falls with only the clothes on his back and survived will be charged with illegally performing a stunt park police said onds like tons of water” r Family and friends said Jones had been considering the stunt for yean — but more so in recent weeks - R-K- an one-seco- nd C5 Obituaries C3 Opinion C2 Sports j- ng Man faces charge for Niagara stunt some of the local names that appear in today's Herald Foflowing are Index V WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate on Tuesday voted ' to ban the practice that critics call partial birds abortion - ' sending President Bush a measure that supporters and foes alike said could alter the future of US abortion rights A court challenge is certain Years in the making the bill imposes the most limits On abortion since the Supreme Court in 1973 confirmed a woman’s right to end a pregnancy ‘This is an enormous day It’s been a long seven-ye- ar fight about the issue of partial birth abortion” said Sen He was a leader of the drive to Sam Brownback end abortions generally carried out in the second or third trimester in which a fetus is partially delivered before Accidental geyser Preston Junior High addition site flooded by broken air vent Bonnie Archibald (A3) Kerry Watts (A3) Renee Christensen (A3) Elliott Larsen (A3) Juana Post (Cl) Julene Reese (Cl) Kaye Christensen (C2) Dan Christensen (C2) Brandon Heaton (B2) Erin GraybUI (B4) Kacia Thompson (B2) Steve Saunders (BI) ‘ See RAISE on A10 ' - See HIGHS on A10 Ip ? j'4 Senate passes ban on some abortions ! closer look at words " : “ ("'ft ng A higher education in Utah: ir The quality of academic pro- - r grams in Utah cannot be : rX 4 maintained — much lees x grow— if there is no budget Vincrease for higher educe- - Faculty Utah institutions of higher education are also' being encouraged to support the letter and send a strong J3fi message to the governor LtttW tO QOWfOOt f and Legislature A statewide movement by?v?X:ntftoflWefore from USU FaciUty Sonata faculty senators from nine institutions of cation in Utah ttfsend a letter supporting the Regents’ budget proposal began in Faculty Senate September but representatives from USU’s " opted to act independently along with the other members of your faculty edu--Vlf- -- - Quick readDefinition of the f - tem-peratu- 0s M er : v On Monday Logan recorded a ' high of 80 degrees breaking the pro- vious marie of 75 degrees which '0:' Buidget appeal s Local law enforcement agencies were informed of the See SCAM on A1Q - |