Show I i A6 —The Herald Journal Logan Utah Friday October 24 2003 Seiniatie vofles 'to WASHINGTON (AP) — Defying a threatened presidential veto the Senate joined the House Thursday in moving to restricend tions on travel to Cuba “It is not constructive at all to try to slap around Fidel Castro by imposing limits on the American people’s right to travel” said Sen Byron Dor- - ' gan D-N- D The Senate voted 6 to bar the use of government 59-3- money to enforce current travel restrictions Last month a nearly identical measure passed the House setting up a showdown with the administration which says President Bush will veto a $90 billion Transportation and Treasury four-decade-- : end iresttoidlnoinis bm faaveD Department bill if contains the Cuba language -"The administration believes that jt is essential to maintain sanctions and travel relictions to defy economic resources to the brutal Castro regime” the White House said in a statement The Treasury Department ( estimates that about 160000 Americans half of them : i 1 '' visiting family members traveled to Cuba legally fast year Human- itarian mid educational groups journalists and diplomats are also allowed Visits but thou- sand&'of othdr Americans visit illegally by way of third coun-- 1 fries risking 'thousands of dollars in fines frnt imprisonment Cuban-America- ns Sen Lany Craig the amendwho ment to the spending bill with Dorgan said the lYeasuiy Department’s Office of For- eign Asset Control a key office in the fight against terrorism and drug trafficking shouldn’t be devoting resources to American tourists going to Cuba ft© (ftioltoa - “Ten percent of the OFAC budget is used to track down little old grandmas from the West Coast who through a Canadian travel agency chose to bike in Cuba” he said ' "J Opponents warned that the ’provirion sent a wrong signal at a time when the Castro regime has escalated its crackdown cm dissidents History Continued from A1 grandfather Nathan Davis ' Thatcher deeply touched Ulrich remembers her father telling about the his mother died ‘Many of his stories were about close scrapes with death” Ulrich said “But he didn’t tell it this way I remember it as a tale of loss and sorrow and cold snow” Nathan Thatcher’s account of his mother’s death included recollections of the family struggling to transport the body back to the Tabernacle for a funeral j Rachel Thatcher's funeral was held in the basement of the Tabernacle — the same building in which Ulrich was dissecting the aftermath of that tragic morning : But Nathan Thatcher’s account of his mother’s death was only one side of the si ' LDS Apostle Moses Thatc! er Rachel's brother-in-la' would later recount the inci- dealt not as a freak accident but as an incident in God’s w t ' - : f : ‘ : ’ v " divine plan trials of After recounting the Job Jesus and Abraham Moses Thatcher writing to Rachel’s son John Thatcher Jr who was serving an LDS mission tells the young mis- sionary that the same God who sustained them would 'sustain him "This was no longer they ' i fatal accident of the V V newspa- con-- Xnected it (the death) to God’s holy plan”? lit the letter Moses Thatcher per” Ulrich ritaLThis - '?' continued to talk about the shoddy workmanship that found in the cabin where the family lived moral Moses was the “For i not about shoddy workman- ship it was that Rachel was : j ' A meant to die” Ulrich concluded “All the detail assured Moses that the death was meant to be” He then assured John Thatcher Jr: “No other place in this room could your mother have found this untimely v death” Since Rachel’s husband John Sr did not build the cabin he was absolved of any part of the death Ulrich said StilL she pointed to another point of view of Rachel's death “ John Thatcher Sr also had another wife — Sarah Maria Davis Rachel’s younger sister by 15 years The diaries and letters of Sarah Thatcher ' revealed that although Rachel was her sister there were strong jealousies between them Yet when Sarah heard of her sister’s death she wrote mournfully of the tragedy “(The) saddest moment of our life has befallen us” she wrote in her diary Newspaper accounts of the death don’t mention her as a wife of John Thatcher Sr’s Instead of seeing the death as an accident or as part of a divine plan Sarah Thatcher questioned the death “How could I take a mother’s place in caring for these children?" she asked How could God leave those children? she wondered Later in life she would tell her grandson Ted Thatcher now a River - - Men's ENTIRE STOCK Heights resident that she felt partly responsible for her death Sarah Thatcher had admit tedly been jealous of the relationship John and Rachel shared Most of the marriage Sarah spent in Logan while John loved the ranch in Gentile Valley Through (he dairies and letters Ulrich resurrected a story that doesn’t have one ending but many which still weave their way through the split trunk and branches of one family tree winding their way down into the past ending up at the roots of Logan's history NAUTICA SPORTSWEAR Nautica not awailabte atalDRanfs SALE DISCOUNTS TAKEN AT REGISTER AS marchandiaa la SELECTED unlaas othorwtoo noted Selection varies by store Limited to Mock on hand Basic norvsaaaonal nwchandis ia not included Sony w cannot accept phono or mat order on cloarenca merchant ' |