Show IWWSW! yoll94lol353Jt£ridaDecembecL1 9J2003 Could be foggy but V not too cold USU airport among we’ve had with funding" Hall saidallud- -' ing to the state budget chinches of reefent local entities for earmarked dollars 'years: The $820 billion federal spending bill which was approved by the US House of — PagA14 By John Wright staff writer Updoto HiffErmn Some are calling it “pork but Utah ' State University President Kemiit Hall has a slightly different view of the millions of dollars that appear headed to USU and Cache Valley as part of a federal omnibus ! : 3 Study shows drunk driving rates spending bill' “Iguess I would call it a welcome holiday ham given the incredible challenges ' : in line' ? Where tlie millions will go " ' Representatives last week contains thou- - v sands of “earmarks" or grants and fund ' authorizations for projects in federal legislators’ home states — that government watchdog groups have characterized as “pork" It included $120 million for pro--' jects in Utah and more than $10 million fur ' projects in Cache Valley The Senate is ' expected to approve the spending bill after the legislative session resumes in January Some key local projects that' would be : : Hare ie a breakdown of the more than $10 million in federal funded projects Cache ’ Vaitey will receive if the fiscal year 2004 omnibus apendtog blD is approved by Congress: Instrument Landing System Logan-CacAirport $500000 -- $797000 ture $875 000 ? Predator Ecology Research Station at the WildMe Research Center $13 mMoa Air quality research pro- : gnun $9000()0 Logan Transit District $220000 Intelligent Transportation System upgrades )1 miflon Logan Schobl District for support of the Eariy Reading See PROJECTS on A14 Source: OffkBotUS Sen Bod Sarvwff ‘H ' While strip malls and stihdi- visions may be an obvious " sigh of the growing number of ' residents in I cials are convinced the federal government hasn't noticed the- signals of a population ' : ar jktj if iA ' ' v ' v to fellow atiident : nfmlrm hu Uitrh a Ujqrjmfl tarnH LTmjil Mountain Crest student Stephanie Larson signs a memorial Chnstopher Boyer who died m a sluing Occident Wednesday in Park City Below is a Christmas tree made in memoryof Christopher brought into the school by the mother of cxieofChristopher's closef riends V yy Go to The Herald Journal Web site wwwhjnewscom to cast your vote on todays survey question Ses Tuesday's news- - ' paper for results ' and new ques- Son: ' HYRUM — The hallways of Mountain Crest High School were ' a little less noisy and a little more somber after news got around that fellow classmate Christopher Boyer wastragically killed Wednesday ' f after skiing into a tree at a Park y V Today’s question Do you blush your teeth with warm or cold water? : 1)'wiarm y ' j :' 2)- No ' V'v64-:'v-5t- percent Following are some of the that appear In local names today's Herald Journal: John Shivjk(C1)DonWahtetrom (Cl) Bob Weber (C2) Jon DeViUss (A14) Cedar Hodges (AS) Mkthelle Salisbury (AS) Cards! Butter(BI) Josh Burnett (B2) Josh Gammil (B2) April Hansen (B2) Andrea Fsntn(BS) Index isafsiM IC9 Obituaries ComteaC7 OpinionA4 B1 Movtos Cache Sports wwwhjrKtwscdrn : :r'-- v : J : City resort Christopher’s clpse friends were called out of class and informed of ' his Wednesday afternoon ‘ school counselor Tonya jewell said An announcement was made ov1 the intercom tofhe entire school on Thursday v“In the process ofskiiiig some- thing occurred and lie went off the trail and struck a tree sustaining fatal injuries to his head" Summit ' : 42922 "'Xhey're shiiwiuE ’about no Laurie Tanner Lp'gan city director of ndmiiiisiratiye set?' Vices who mailed the paper- work involved withthe challenge to the Administra- lion of Records anil Methodi- -' ‘cal Research at the census "'V1 bureau inWasbington DC on : ‘‘We’re' challenging Thursday what has happened since Low population estimates ' ‘ can negatively impact city ' ‘government applications for federal grants or state sales tax revenues of skew demograph- ' ie surveys said Taniier The " discrepancy has been blamed V as a cause for low Sales tax ' ' ' : revenues Logan has received 'from a state pool by Logan v ' Mayor Doug Thompsiin an- issue currently in negotiation between the city and state tax commission Christopher’s family “Chris had so many friends” :: Jewell said Down the hall a vase of flowers stood next to a picture of the senior ’ who as Jewell suggested was by his classmates “We will miss you tonz!" one girl wrote on a scroll of paper hear the flowers “You were such a good person' ' See MEMORY on A13 well-like- d ’' "' r See CENSUS on A10 NASA Unvei Is new oa nhcprvathrvrzih J canture imaGS 0 not seen before ’ : i telescope ': clouds ofdusr and gas U oC Va!A : “This gives us a powerful 7 new capdiility that will enable us to see things not seen before G and to answer questions we c couldn’t ven ask beforeThis is a very powerful new tool for WASHINGTON (AP) — NASA unveiled the first views astronomy’Michael Werner an astrophysicist af the Jet' Thursday ftoiri its space infrared telescope a super-- : Propulsion Laboratory in ' 7 Pasadena Calif raid at a cooled minting observatory news conference He is (he V that can looktiirough obscur--: to dust project scieiiti5t for the Spitzer capture images ing ' Space Telescope named in never before seen The telescope a $670 million honor of the famed astronomer project launched in August can Lyman Spitzer Jr waves of Added Giovanni Fazio an AP photo detect extremely faint astronmner at the Harvard- The first dazzling images from NASA’s newly named Spteer Smithsonian Colter for AstroSpace Telescops are clockwise from lower left comet a and a Spitzer V °f physics sorting dusty galaxy a hidden newborn star and a glowing tellar fields mat had Xxta “We are now able researcher of the the stellar nursery demonstrating telescope's power first time to lift the cosconfor at tne from ' (he view bkxated Infrared detectors to capture cosmic features never before mic veil that hu Mocked out ventioiiBl telescopes by dense s ' ' : ’ - 000" - A1 2 v ' :growthim showiAperv v Total Responses: 124 Iridox - ' - ':484V' v V ’ Number 60 ':'" ’ MCHS Keeps happy memories Quick redd 1) Yes V1'- y So now it's time io prove it A formal challenge vas sub-milled to the United States Census Bureau on Thursday to ' 'contest population estimates ' that city officials say have : fallen short of the actual since the : growth numbers 2000 census " ' 'Some at City Hall have ' reported the current numberof Lxigan residents as high as 45000 and rising However-the CeHSUS Bunfail estimates the population of Logan at : VI 'See DRUNK on AI0 Answers -- -' ' - ‘ y increase-- v- fM ' Important note: This is not a scientific sur- vey Results simply reflecMtie opinions of some ol the people visiting the newspaper's ’ Logan-cityo!Ti-- : Do you enjoy your work Christmas ' party? x ' : By David Nelson staff writer ol Tuesday’s survey results : challenges population estimates - '2)CoW V V' Logan city v Safety Administration’s report which was released Thursday calculated the fatality rate per 100 million miles driven NHTSA considers a 'crash alcohol-relate- d if a driver had anything above a 001 blood-alcohlevel which is far lower than the 008 legal limit in 45 states - : South Carolina saw the greatest increase in its death rate during the four-yeperiod followed by Kansas South Dakota Rhode Island and Wisconsin The states with the ' highest numbers of alcohol-relate- d deaths per miles traveled were Montana South Carolina South Dakota Nevada and Louisiana " 7 Barbara Harsha executive director of the Washington-base- d Governors ' Association said Highway Safety experts can’t explain why’ some states have far fewer drunken dri- ving deaths than others “There don't seem to be any pat- : terns” she said “Some have seen ' increases after a period of decreases and they’re doing the same things as 'they were In the past” Harsha suspects rates remain high - ' ’ WASHINGTON (AP) — Alcohol-related traffic death rates increased or held steady in 19 states between 1998 and 2002 according to new V federal data suggesting that efforts ' to curb drunken driving have " reached a plateau The National Highway Traffic Webpage Ini- Drought Management tiative USU College of AgricuL he : Utah Botanical Center :’ $175miori See PORK on A 14 : Aseletence Project $100000 Northwest Public Paik c' : : view and see tjw universe in all of its components " Some pf the first views from the Spitzer included: 7 a galaxy that was mostly blurred in the view bf other ' telescopes In the Spitzer image there are vast fields of stars in a spiral necklace the galaxy The ' image also detects clouds of carbbh dust glowing a patch of sky that appears black and empty in visible light telescopes is revealed by the Spitzer to hea stellar nurs‘ ery a large cloud of dust wherein stars and other bodies are forming r “That’s what the solar system ' looked like in the beginning" ng See SCOPE on A10 ' ' ' v |