Show The- T -- - Actors bring London re to local stage —Cache I 1"- ' 01194 SV volleyball tops thriller MC in five-s- et — B2 W MoT29Z£f1clayrOctober 24’ 2003 Logan’ Utah!© 2003 1 $50 IPridgeriancI’? Dally Newspaper Voathor ’ ?n ft® Cooling off into the 50s with lows in By Shawn Harrison sports editor the 20s H A day many Aggie fans have been waiting for arrived Thursday The Western Athletic Conference invited Utah State and New Mexico State to join its athletic league ms Thursday — PageA12 Reaction — ' B1 andi schools had accepted by noon A teleconference was held by the WAC followed by another teleconference held by USU President KennitL Hall and Athletics Director Ranee Pugmire AP photo This new species of scorplonfish Scorpaenopsis Vittapinna was found In area the Indo-Padf- Conference to officially join die WAC on July 12005 Today’s announcement of New Mexico State and Utah State clearly outweighs the disappointment of last Friday’s announcement of the potential loss of Rice SMU and Tulsa and sets the stage for a bright future for the WAC” WAC Commissioner Kart Benson said The vote by the WAC Board of Directors to invite USU and NMSU was a unanimous 10-- 0 Benson said The vote included the three depart- - “On behalf of die university I am pleased with today’s developments” Hall said via phone from Washing-ton DC This is a wonderful day for Utah State” added Pugmire who is at NCAA meetings in Indianapolis ' The WAC based in Englewood Colo is comprised of Boise State Fresno State Hawaii Louisiana Tech Nevada Rice San Jose State Paso Southern Methodist Texas-and Tulsa Rice SMU and Tulsa announced last Friday they plan to leave the WAC for Conference USA which opened the door for USU and NMSU both now in the Sun Belt El ing schools USU has tried for yean to get an 1 SeeUSUonA12 ‘ A: Waatem Athletic Conference r ii : ' t i Boise Stats Fresno State ’Southern Methodist Hawaii UTEP L Louisiana Tech Nevada Rlce: V Vr San Jose State Tulsa j Utah State New Mexico State : ’Thame leaving for Conference USA? r- ITIsemawWedOd 23 2003 'v 'i Federal sweep of stores nets illegal workers ' WASHINGTON (AP)— An unprecedented census of life in the world’s oceans is discovering three new fish species a week on average and predicts as many as 5000 unknown fish species may be lurk-- : ' ing undetected according to the first ' - More than v in interim report By the time they’re done in 2010 scientists say they may find more than 2 million different species of Wal-Mar- ts 300 arrested across nation ' ' WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal officials arrested more rt stores across the than 300 illegal workers at 60 and searched the office of Thursday morning' country early one of the retail chain’s corporate executives a federal offi-riWal-Ma- marine lifeThree hundred scientists from 53 ' countries participating in the $1 bil-lion study reported their first find-in- gs Thursday three yean into the decade-lon- g project So far die Census of Marine Life comprised 15304 species of fish and 194696 : to 214696 species of animals and ' plants estimated to be roughly 10 percent of the world’s total The census is adding about 150 to 200 species of fish and 1700 V ' of animals and plants each t ' : Coming "tand going ic Count expects to net 5000 new fish types ' : said ' al - ’ Several law enforcement sources who spoke on condition ' of anonymity said the investigation grew out of earlier probes rt of cleaning crew contractors in 1998 and 2001 Based on recordings of meetings and conversations among ' ' rt executives managers and contractors the law enforcement officials said “various immigration violations' ' had continued to occur with direct knowledge by the Wal- Mart corporation” The workers members of cleaning crews that the company hired through contractors were arrested as they finished their night shifts at stores in 21 states All were in the country illegally according to Garrison Courtney a spokesman with Immigration and Customs Enforcement rt Stores Inc based in Bentonville Ark is the '! Wal-Ma- Wal-Ma- : year Wal-Ma- See FISH on A9 Quick read Go to The Herald i— journal woo sttOi wwwhinewscom to cast your vote on today's survey question See Tuesday's news-paptor results ty er andanew tion ' ques- - Important note: This le not a scientific survey Results simply reflect the opinions of some of the people visiting the newspaper’s Webpage - Today’s question Have you read the Book of Mormon cover-to-cove- r? Yes 2 No Tuesday’s survey results Did you set your docks back due to the graphic The Herald Journal takenly ran Saturday? Answers 1) Yes 2 No mis- Percent 25 138 75 Total Responses:184 Number 46 People Index Following are some of the local names that appear In today's Herald Journal: Mike Weibel (A3) Fred R Hunsaker (A4) Lucille Hansen (A4) Jay Ban (A4) Johnnie Ferrari no (B1) Trad Weaver (B2) Kerma Forsberg (B4) Caroline (Cl) Scott Anderson (Cl) Mike Beeny (Cl) Kimber BaJIam (C2) Lynsi Reeder (C16) Jake Wuthrich (Cl 6) Austin Wuthrich (Cl 6) Classifieds Mitch MascanVHerald Journal A rrmntn nUUUIIli y I in nrn III nnan IUUII uuyail Country music duo Kix Brooks and Ronnie Dunn perform at the Spectrum in Logan as part of Icon Health and Fitness’ 25th year celebration Thursday night See Saturday's Herald Journal for details u C6 Obituaries ComicC4 Movies Cache Sports Opinion wwwhjnewscom ip" A8 A4 — B1 See ILLEGAL on A12 Bombing anniversary observed Crowd gathers at n Beirut Memorial to mark 20 years JACKSONVILLE NC (AP) — As a hushed crowd milled around him early Thursday Jeff Nashton’s mind went back to a morning in ' Beirut 20 years earlier He was a Marine lance corporal assigned to the 1st Battalion 8th Marines The day began with a horrific jolt: “Just a big red flash and darkness” Nashton was lucky — he survived a terrorist truck bomb that killed 241 Marine Navy and Army service members On the 20th anniversary of the attack Nashton of Rome NY joined hundreds of survivors and other veterans and friends to honor the victims and other US service members who died in peacekeeping efforts in Beirut in the 1980s Nashton now 44 had been on the ground floor in the northeast corner of a barracks housing members of his unit when a truck frill of explosives exploded Oct 23 1983 tearing open the barracks and causing the bvdlding to collapse rela-fiv- Index world’s largest retailer Wal-Ma- rt spokeswoman Mona Williams said the company raids when store managers started calling the wind of got ’ headquarters Thursday morning number arrested a of members of the floor cleaning “They crews They are (employed by) outside contractors they’re associates” Williams said not Wal-Ma- rt conShe said the company uses more than 100 third-partractors for cleaning services in more than 700 stores in the United States “We require each of these contractors to use only legal workers” she said ' Many of the workers said they were Eastern European and a few were of other ethnicities Courtney said The arrests stem from a November 1998 investigation done in conjunction with the Pennsylvania attorney general's office That investigation also targeted contractors and ' es Sv :p livi L nuv LitRii nc V ' fJUBiundltHr ‘ ' JBSf VKMMBI tilll ' ttfMJS puiitzer Prize pra winner shares ' local history u By Darrell Edward Ehrllck staff writer - NIUtNK i jmmciiwbw Jealousy heartbreak tragedy mem- -' ory redemption and history — all in the Logan LDS Tabernacle on Thurs- £ few day night Prize-winnii Pulitzer s IfOl ' XP photo Navy Senior Petty Officer Darrell Gibson touches names on the Beirut Memorial on Thursday In Jacksonville NC after a service to mark the 20th anniversa7 of the bombing of the Marine Corps barracks In Beirut Lebanon that killed 241 servicemen “I woke up and Lebanese soldiers and a black Marine were pulling rocks off me saying they needed to get some more help to get me out” be said “I looked around and I saw little fires and screaming I thought we’d i hit by a rocket” Anniversary services have been held annually at Camp Lejeune V ' since 1986 when The Beirut Memorial was dedicated at the base gates “It’s a very sacred day” said Danny Wheeler a Navy chaplain who was trapped for 5 12 hours in the barracks rubble “These young men they took me in and I was See BEIRUT on A12 Harvard historian Laura Thatcher Ulrich presented die ninth annual Leonard Arrington Memorial lecture and summoned up die ghosts of Logan’s past as die spoke shout her tragic death in 1882 Ulrich's roots are planted deep in (he soil of Logan and her family the Thatchers is inextricably linked to the city’s founding Her lecture traced how that family's history was impacted by an event that has been burned into four generations Ulrich’s Rachel Davis Thatcher was killed in Gentile Valley on Jan 17 1882 when two beams from a roof in part of a log cabin crushed her The event left Rachel's family including Ulrich’s ng great-grandmot- See HISTORY on A6 |