Show I v' XVAIUBlfCOW : : Logan Utah Sunday December 28 2008 A2 — The HeraldJoumal P Nation I VV I ' - ' j One Times Square hot exactly What New year’s images lead one to think J mudslide victims SAN BERNARDINO Calif (AP)-- A Mudslides that heaved trees and boulders ' through two mountain camps jeft authorities with two grim - - NEW YORK (AP) —Only one man holds the key to this room deep under Times Square where the only sounds are a hissing pipe and a rum- bling subway overhead Behind the blue padlocked door are the pieces of the New Year’s ball that will mark ' midnight as it slides 77 feet down a pole atop One Times Square The crystal sphere lands amid the gritty water tanks rickety planks and iron grates that fill the rooftop of this — one of the most recogniz- ' ' able in the world The tower has hosted New Year cejebrations since it opened in 1904 with the famous “ball drop’’ added in 1907 For all its exterior glamour though One limes Square is a bit like an amusement pik funhouse — more glitz than gutsThe building is covered on the outside with billboards flashing lights ' and an electronic news zipper but it is virtually empty inside Countdown ' Entertainment which the annual Dec 31 event is the only ten- ant on its 2 1st and 22nd floors “This whole building is a promo- ' ap photo tional event’’ Countdown president !" Kart Kowalzik installs one of 72 new Waterford ciystal triangles on the New Year’s Eve 'Jeff Strauss said OneTimes Square earns most ofits Ball Saturday in New York The ball is covered with 504 ciystal triangles of which 72 are new this year configured in a design called 'Hope for Unity keep as a backbone for billboards ’ tasks Saturday: identifying lour children killed and pok ing through acres of mud and 'debris ip hopes of finding nine people still missing The bodies of the children' ages 9 to 7 and an adult were found near a Greek ' Orthiox camp while two other adults were found neat' 'another campgroilnd about ft v'c miles away “Given the condition of the remains it has been difficult for the families" said Deputy San Bcmardino County Coro- ner Rocky Shaw1 In Waterman Canyon where the children's bodies were' ' found enK’rgcncy crewsnine for searched peopled including several children "still missing J'roin Saint Sofia 'Camp after Thursday's mud- ' - ’ - ' i ' ' : one aiivi‘aid Cindy Beavers spokeswoman for the San Bernardino County Sheiv1 iiT's Department "AttlriS-- point it's still a search and ' : ' ! BOISE Idaho (AP) — Even beef potentially exposed to mad cow disease made its way into Idaho consumers do not need to worry state off" icials and retailers say: Local supermarket chains " have issued voluntary recalls ' after reports that Interstate Meats from Oregon delivered beef that may have been I cow disease 1 ’ if soils )n the next tangled phase of mad aiw investigation the Christmas withthe caretaker federal inspectors are concen- at the church cainp when the 'mudslide roared through! trating on byproducts from the ' burying buildingsunderse'ver-a- l tainted Holstein which might dtsn debris-fille- d have a to mud feet of gone trihutorsin the Northwest ) a v! and sweeping away two cab- ins Fourtecnpcople were res- - v said Dalten Hobbs i J’: spokesman fi)rthe Gregon ciiydencaptaloSSn— can Tlie cump was strew n with - Department of Agriculture mad toil i and iiprcHited trees' Now itYthe secondary disease a variant of that had been swept down ihc parts the riiw material for soil : Creutzfeldt-Jako- b dteecoe by canypn altcr a dow npitiur Fall soaps and candles that are w ildlires in thc area destroyed' : being recalled: i :While sitinte people fear ycgc'tatiin that would have' ' consumcrs could be infected '"Helped stabijize the ground Next toii small creek about by inhaling particles of fcrtilr residente should not worry Hi yards fromlhe caretaker's:' rzer or other productscontain-- ! about ° eet-- "Th® a lildren yhiinic had been ng jhc mutated protein'" it te npt even ' small ®9 and playgrouhdwith swings responsible for m cow-distv ' cliwibiiig bars said Ferrycase a bigger concern is stop- - V: nwny niche markets it makes Skaggs of fit SophiaCathe ping tainted byproducts from grants were celebrating : half-doze- “P®?" : -- - ’ ' Year's crew was assembling the ball in the basement room : - Strauss has the only key and he's a secret: new of the guarding pattern Waterford crystal triangles for this ' year’s ball An electrician unwraps 72 triangles from boxes that arrived from Ireland more than 400 other crystals peek from metal storage trunks Near- by sits the metal “skeleton” that holds the crystals the pulsating strobe lights and hundreds of other bulbs ! Days before the big night the 1070-poun- d ball is moved to the roof Its halves are clipped onto the steel pole that rises loward the sky along 'with steam from a giant “hot” noodle soup advertisement below On New Year’s Eve the rooftop will become a maze of cables and ' - - gul tricing elair line — 'We use : daush 112 WetayejKari percent utilisation of the ani have so mal' But when-yo- '! FOO Sit ES S A G E"l TH tToCXTc every- - aid Najarasaid' i Final desti- - incarnations in fcr Slcpltanic hul wouldn't reach-thTest of his l'aiiiil T HI of the sick y ps nation including nunterous' ajura Gilbcrto Juarez hud fmhW W5 aH to their RQ 0 G T ye n i fTo n m entaIuDEPARLMEN Christmas Treecycling : : ' for Christinas ' Logan City is offering 28 drop-sitThe last day for collection of trees will ' be January 16 2004 After thaf date please bring your trees to foe Logan Landfill Green Waste facility to be v es TREECVCLING: Vi' ornamentsuidmetal r‘ C stands Foradditional question or for the nearest you drop-sit- e : please cajl 71 ' or email recycle t'loganutahirg Look for foe Treecycling sign in yourarea! J-! - 71 6-97- ‘ 53 wwwloganutahorgenvdiv t'- ' ¥ ' J’ o - ' ' wires “The light power is theequivafent-oa Broadway show’ says John Trowbridge a production lighting expert who will direct the crew’ f : ' cow after It is slaughteredand boils it down into tallow used ’ for candles lubricants and : soaps and brine meaj used in involved in the voluntary recall ' fertilizer arid animal feed was not available Saturday If the US Food and Drug “Ifs a recall that's based on Administration determines " an abundance of caution that the material is tainted! the '" Boiey said loss could total ' company's ' Boiey said Fred Mayer was said $200X)0 spokesriian returning to its shelves all Ray Kelly other Interstate Meat ground v "It’s obviously a tragic ' 4 beef with current code dates thing for the whole bexf ? after the company issued a let-but a it's definitely industry ter stating their products are V sizable hit for us” he said ' ’ Darling International Inc Idaho-base- d Albertsoo'a and v the nation’s largest indepen-- ’ retailers prevF dent rendering operation in theUS has also been Con- ousiy announced they would : remove' and recall certain tacted by the FDA: But offi- - ' cials at their Tacoma and ground beef frprii their stores ' in northern Idaho Washington Portland plants as well as at Utah’ their international and headquarOregon ters in Irving Texas declined WriMtait stores and Sam’s : to comment on how their Club stores were riot affected operation has been affected spokeswoman Sharon Weber ' VOur first priority waste said' sure it didn’t go into the' Hobbs : ! suPPty’ in’its Seattle and upt processed vreiterating that meat sent to "two Oregon distributors was recalledearlier in the week measurable ” Siroky said “1 ' wouldnl be concerned VYmCo Foods pulledaU ground beef products Tuesday ' in the wake of reports that a supplier had delivered some of the beef in question said Mark Read the Bqiee-base- d chain's ! vice preside nt x Since then WinCo issued a : voluntary recall for some ' ground beef-!- ' j : ' ! : ' -- “It's a super-precautkx- Read said i” Even the product other-Northwes- Meyer issued a target- - agepef grOundbeef patties distributed to 75 stores hr Idaho Washington Oregon and Utah spokesman Rob ' v Boiey: said Information on which Utah Fred Meyer outlets were Los Angeles-base- d Baker ' : t - - they probably Wuiuldn t have had a vhancv Skaggs sjiul V’v!' SatUr' 4 '4 " ' KnneJitare7 anil her ' ' Voluntary recalls made in Idaho Utah —? - iniiiii- - 'of them Guatemalan : 1 PORTLAND Ore (AP) Cow parts including hooves bones fat and innards used in everything from hand cream and antifreeze to poultry feed andgardening : people many Twenty-seve- n : cow in slides “We're still hopeful althis point that we will find soiikv rescue" ! 25-sto- ry 1 : electronic ads and the New Year’s ball It serves as “an icon of advertis- ing and modern culture’’ says enter- tainment analyst Louis Brill Inside its labyrinth of staircases hallsand elevators are dotted with ' dust balls and wrapped in an eerie husK On a recent afternoon the New : 't t MD MlracS V'l - i i Children i i: ' C' ' |