Show Aggies run over Vulcans ' in final exhibition game — bi State to send inmates to Cache County’s new jail — A3 94 NoT31 9 B Saturday November1 5’ 2003 'v JS£ Woother It’s r I®'' V? !ft I UiS§stepsupiagainstimsurgents9 beginning to look a lot like Thanks- - ' i J3 ' - V- i ‘g anAmericambase BAGHDAD up their campaign against Iraqi stepped j ! insurgents killing seven people preparing to rocket an Ainerican base nearTiluit and bombs on a target dropping satellite-guide- d near the Syrian border the military said Update fc '0 Bankruptcies nearly double in last decade - BankWASHINGTON (AP) ruptcies have nearly doubled in the past decade including more than 16 million people who filed for person- -' al bankruptcy this fiscal year alone ‘in a hangover of debt from the free-'- £ spending' 1 990s Continuing the recordrsetling pace of recent years personal bankrupt- cies rose 78 percent in the 1 monthsendingSept30 according' £ to data! released Friday by the ' ' ' Friday!' A leading Shiite cleric warned the Amer- jeans that attempting a military solution to Iraq's crisis “will only make things ' worse Grand Ayatollah Mohammed Taqi US-led ajso criticized the coalition for failing to usher in democracy seven months after the collapse of Saddam ' Hussein’s regime and another wounded when gunmea attacked a convoy Thursday near Balad 45 miles north of Baghdad the military' said The victims were not identified In the south on Friday gunmen fired on jeeps carrying Portuguese journalists: wounding one reporter and kidnapping another Portuguese media reported It was the first abduction of a journalist since the occupation began in May ' : See IRAQ on A8 An Apache helicopter patrols the area inTikrit lraq! on Friday An Apache helicopter crew fired on arid killed seven Iraqis believed to be followers of Saddam Hussein who were preparing to launch-rocket 'attack on an American military base an official said Friday ' 'JsThe upward trend has continued despite signs of recovery iii the economy aseffects linger from the ’f consumer spending binge of the ®IJ' : £ 1990s and the historically loyy inter- " est rates that encouraged borrowing sj The rate of bankruptcies generally lags behind direction changes: in 'other economicindicatoisf?l:: ip filina ‘‘art' (vino ntfp’rwhelfri- - i A' t '1 CThp 1 American Bankruptcy Institute aVg group of bankniptcyjudges lawyers and other expertsfhey do reflect Sthe- buildup of heavy consumer '&M The total number of 'bankruptcy! filings including both personal and j§ business' grew by 98 pcrcenttothisjl the rate of growth- infjM $§f However bankruptciesslowed somewhat Jt in the period of this § year Compared with the same period & year earlier That is likely to con-- " as the effects of tighter c'fedit tinue § granting standards and the improving economy begin to be felt some economists believe Employers have added workers' in B i'lf each of the past three monilhs after i$r many months of job er Ilf i§a jfiS-- m By Mark Randall' staff writer ldsses?: v See BANKRUPT on A8 J " Quick road A have the Capitol Holiday ree Trom PRESTO — An enUiusiasttc' v Idaho in our presence": said Mayor crowd complete with Christmas car- -' olers and the Preston High School Jay Heusser “This is something for the kids that imiildbe a onee in a marching baiid fumed out iii the cold & things Cache places people lifetime thing that you Will see” afternoon see to the Capitol Friday —-- the first The tradition began back in 1964 ' Tree Christmas tol Holiday Tree People are really Holiday when officials iri Washington DC ever to copie from Idaho excited”' The68-foo- t The 1 1000 pound tree was cut from decided to place a Christmas- free in EnglemannSproce ' ' front of the US CapitoL trail arrived in Preston on a the Boise National Fewest at Boiling ’‘Foir the first few yeaisit was a in er wrapped colorful plastic as pari Springs just outside of Crouch Idaho of a statewide tour to celebrate the '" 70 miles north of Boise nursery tree a Douglas Fir : from state’s being selected to provide the! Pennsylvania” the Matthew Evans US Capitol Mahoney said it would But in 1970 decided nation’s capitol with this year’s the selected they Architect Landscape ' ' be more appropriate to bring a tree Christmas tree tree from a group of finalists ' off of a national forest from around “We’re very happy to be here" “We picked 15 candidate trees ' said America”'' from three national forests ” Maggie Mahoney spokesman for the 2003 Capitol Holiday Tree Mahoney said!' “He said it was the See TREE on A8 tour “This is Idaho's Capi-perfect tree” a ‘ A t m 1 1 VI 1 111 11 w lllTO ill lw i£ ! : How many : members serve onthe Logan Munici- 70-fo- ot 24-fo- ot pal Council? AUSTIN Texas (AP) — Weeks into the project the contractor hired to build an : first-ev- Pooplo Indos er : "Journal: U Kim Cheshire (A3) Dean W Oiayte(M) Pat Sadoski (A4) Monica Eames (A6) Mike Ahmad (BI) -' David Dantey (B2) Betty Witonson (B4) Angela Thompson (B4) JndoaClassifieds Comics Movies: ! B7 ObftuariesA6 £5 Opinion A5 SportsB1 wwwhjoewscorn ' - FoSowiog are some of the local names that appear in today’s Herald rA4 FULLERTON Calif (AP)- - Detective Mike Kendrick began photograph- ingdie body of a little girl on an emergency room table for an investiga- tion of a drowning' Then through die lens he saw her chest move Just spasms he thought ' Then he saw h move again And again! “Am I seeing things? Does she look like she’s breathing?” Kendrick asked his partner ' Less than an hour earlier Kendrick had broken die news to die girl’s mother that she had been pronounced dead by doctors khnutes earlier he stood by as the mother said goodbye to her daughter But Mackayala Jes-alive On Friday she was indeed persen ' was in serious condition at Children’s Hospital of Orange County where she was transferred after being revived Her case has baffled hospital and emergency workers They had straggled to revive her with CPR breathing tubes a heated blanket How' could they have missed the fact that die toddler was alive? The Medical Board of California has launched an inquiry into whether physician error played a role although the 'everseen ' ' ' AP photo 112 At Danze a who has protested outside clinics' compares the building of an abortion clinic to construction of a concentration camp dur- -' ing the Holocaust “We can’t just look the other way” he said “We ' '' -- See TODDLER abortion clinic hit a brick-wall: Plumbers and carpenters '' would not work for him Dry- ' wall installers and heating subcontractors w ould not do business! with him Cement suppliers (of miles around would not touch the job He had been hit w ith a boy- cou organized by 'abortion foe and construction-industr- y 'executive Chris Danze The builderfmally quit the- job this month stopping the clinic project in its tracks in what national Planned Parent- hood officials said was the first such boycott they have : 1 Last Saturday’s Answer The higlv est peak in Cache County is Mount Naomi sitting at 9979 feet : monfw in a tamiy handout photo See CLINIC At ' : |