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Show - .. t Thursday scr , ' V': V; f " ';.i V' July 5, 2001 , v J . - v A ';; 109tH ,, Year- - No. 54 .I f : ; .. V;-- . , - f - Price; Utah 7 50 :, answer Staff reporter . l r.' V ' ' - . r Thebighrate of teen ' . t; . .. : ;; Afyee class on sh&ken babysyn- drome is scheduled July 9 st Price. . The informative educational see--;! sion will be hosted from 3;30 until 8; 15 p.QLln the Urge bias Broom at Castleview HospltaL , ; Pinner will be provided to regis-- ; : . ; . : : A' V V, .'V-.x ; ." Vs s. " : ' ;i Vfr., tered participants. .. - - noexception. tsls, professionals add private . profit child abuse prevention Water spoils enthusiasts urged to exercise caution pole to catefi For registration information, County residents may con- tact tbe educational prefect office at popular resource, The lakes arid resdrvoirs around : :x ,.v V : (801) - ,4 m (if ! .r.1- J : .v Tr 4a. ; - f, - -- w j ' IQ 7. rfrr f LawenfMcfememdatatoi; law enforcement agencies jnypintrpftyl nfthnmlriAa dex crimes in Carbon Couuiy During200Q, kxl lawen- -. dropped significantly be fitooementoiQoa'samducted tween 1999 and 2000. aiminal investigations Into: LaBtyeai; Cartxm County Eigbt rape complaints, up from three to 1990. ; Tbree robberies, up from ; ported 673 rdated incidents ; to the Utah Bureau of one to 1999. 30 aggravated assaults, The from 32 cases in 1999. down 2000 , flgure repre-- ' sente a 14 peroent decrease 103 bursaries; down when compand to the 788 from 106 incidents in 1999. 486 larcenyAheft recrimes reported in Car: bon County during 1999. ports, down from 606 in V Index crimes indude ho- 1999. ; s86vfihidethatabiiDftxHii micide, rape, robbery aggra-vato-d assault, burglary laiv 36 complaints in Fbur arson cases, ihe. oeny'theft.motorvehidetiieft same as reported in 1999. andarsm. ; The rate is calculated at Local agencies contributthis dumber of.crimes per' ing data to the criminal im; formation bureau inducted 1,000 population V Hm local crime mte per the Carbon Counfy Sheriffs population registered at Office as wefi as the Price, percent last year; dpn HelpetWjlingtofi, East Carddenl6wertiumtbe3!fJ bon City and College of Eastern Utah police departments. i County during 1999, ;Atthestatelevd,atotalof .1 (Continued on Last year; Cartoi County pege12)' r . tndney transferred over to tltah (iffem '' ? ; . : : im it - . : , S. ; tT: - i- -. ? ; i necrercominues id replace sewer unesin several mceneign- borhoodi The street between 300 East and 200 East on 200 North is currently a deep hole. The roadway has been dosed to uifougn name anurnca cny cmzens are requested to retrain from using plumbing at residences while the crew members are working to complete the sewer line improvement project . programs, provided the money was received by June 36.The Utah Senate overwhelmingly approved the payoff resolution, ex--. plained the attorney generaTs office. However, the Utah House of Rep- resentatives came up one vote short to release the tends immediately. ! Unless the legislators provided a . ; nyi-- Utah has experienced a have already battled more 'it critically dry water year . and officials classify wildfire hazards throughout the . v. state as very high. . In numerous Utah locations, the wildfire riskB are 'V-- ': extreme, ' To alleviate the poten-tialf- y dangerous situation, ' Gov. Mike Leavitt urges all Utahns to include wildfire prevention in July holiday and summer outing plans. ; Nearfy half gf all viHd- fires are caused tyhumans, ' whether through general carelessness or the use of fireworks, indicated the governor.!' An of ns need to be ex--tremely cautious with all fcBTns (rf fire during the holi--. . day and summer season, especially fireworks, emphasized Leavitt Emergency personnel . i than 300 wildfires on Utah land in 2001, Last year, more than 100,000 acres burned. In Utah, costing the. state in , . In addition to the local regulation. Carbon County residents planning to visit ; different parts of .the state ; should be aware of the strict regulations imptemented.in extremely dry locations. In cooperation with the United States Fbrest Service of Land and the Management, Utah has imposed a fire restriction Including the following areas: A11 private, state and federal lands located In excess of $5 million. Recreationists are reminded that ifthey are starting a fire, thpy may ha bald fhumriwlfy liable for the costs associated with putting it out, stressed Kathleen Clarke, Utah Department of Natural Resources director. Cache, Rich, Bax Elder, In even the smallest Of Davis, Morgan, Tooele, wildfires, those costs easily Summit ami Utah counties, rise into the thousands of .with the exception of the doDara, pointed out Clarice. Carbon County has enLands .encompassed tered the closed burn sea- within the Wasatch-Cach- e, son. The closed season reUinta and Ashley forests. The national forests in quires Carbon residents to obtain a permit from tbe question are located in Salt county Ere warden prior to ' Lake, Daggett, Uintah and ... - Continued on pege 3) conducting a burn. Wfe-be- ; " ng two-thir- ds . n wildfire hazards across Utah : - ; . ney General Mark Shurtleff. . "It also means a lot more money wffi go to warn teenagers about the dangers of smoking, pointed out Shurtleff. The Utah Health Department will receive up to $2 million in additional tending due to a provision In state law that earmarked the revenues for anti-smoki- : Crews continue to work on Price city's sewer line replacement jproject '' : tn-de- x f , . C t ; v . dkate that tiie number of tor K. yrs'. i m .. -- : Last Friday, the Utah Attorney Generals Office presented a check totaling $6,850,549 to the statetresr national tobacco surer from the ' ' ' settlement ; The settlemeat money was being held to a trust account Bet up by a. federal judge to coyer claims filed ; by outside attorneys assisting with. : Utahs lawsuit against the tobacco ;. companies. .!; ' ' The tends bectome available after ' state lawmakers approved a settle-- v men! with the outside legal counsel during the Utah Legislatures special session oh June 21. Thin makes it possible for all of .Utahs tobacco money to start going .! into state coffers, commented Attor, .lilt 'jy, " ' 627-339- 9. ; Tobacco settlement crime - .. full irf uses nets to study and protect the ' - the state ara'cpected to he anglers, boaters and skiers, this; weekend so Carbon County residents are cautioned to he careful wnen pafpcipanng m'mnlnr in wdior spon dcuviues; While regular aiders must use s fish, the Utah Dmsion of Wildlife Resources" re-po- . ' - . . Carbon d T non- - orga1-nization- ; . t . : ; . . inUtahandits associated;: ' " . ; medical costs. The educational endeavpr repre- sarits a cojlaboration of toajor health care insurers.state agendes.hospl- - ? ccimmuni-cationan- Jr Vv. of shaking babies. The projectseeka to significantiy reduce the Incidence of shaken baby . . - of newborn infants about the clangers ad---dr- . . . Thepurpose of the Jufyfi prq--- . v grain focusesonteachingthe parents ! . . Thousahde Jpore ypiiugsters are shaken, andleftwith severe, permn- bent neurological disobllity. Utah is - ; . : . ; ' Every day, four children die In the United States as a result of shaking : . : ; july9 at Castleview t i ? .; clis set syndrome K sexual intercourse, increaa-- ; that studies have found that ; pregnancy in Carbon ingthe frequency ofsexual the Majority of Americans favorsome Ruin (rfsexual--; County has been the focus of intercourse, or increasing cMd advocacy groups and the number of sexual part- hy education in the public ;'! ners, In addition, some of sdmoils and also believe that the state media. ffiese evaluated programs .some sort, of Urth control A recently releasiBd-ror- : port by the United States .' increasedcondom useor infonumbm should be avafl- SurgeonGeneral Dr. David contraceptive use move gen Saher, piac at least some ; erforSdolescents who - A Kaiser FhmityRHindar oftheblamewith the Utah : were sexually active," Indi- tionstudy alxait public seccates tbe report. ondary school sex educatkm Legislature. ', The surgeon general Supports the findlngs of the it Utahs education plan, states that although parents .surgeon general ; , " 7,which focuses on abstinence While parents agree that pnfy.fras, Insufflcientre-- ; shouUbetheprimaiysaj- search td back claimsthat ahty educators ofthmrchQ-- : : me basics of reproduction; the approach delay? sexual dren,theavail)leevidmce Information about HIV activity among unmarried regaining tbe effectiveness AIDS and other sexually teenagers, according totie ; of school-base- d sexuality transmitted diseases, and IL Slsurgeon generalBre-centf- y education makes it clear are tidies that should be released GUI to 4f-- , that providing sexuahty edi tion to Protnote'Sezual cation in the' schools ia a covered, they would have "Health and Responsible' usefid mechanism to ensure sdiools go farther and Issues often consW-ere- d SemalSebavion that this nations youdi have : While praising the value a basic understanding of controversial; ; - The topics teclndeaboN nf tmnhlng iijyrtlTMihiy, fha'. sexuality .r Traditionally; schools . tion miH awwiiii orientation, surgeongeneral found that d programs which emphasize have had a rote In insuring as weil as teach skiUs. cover but also equityofaccesstohiformar abstinence, coding Both parents and eduction thatis perils greatm1 ates tiiink the amount of time of contraception, havfe a, than mpm other Institutions. larger body of evaluation-. In addition, given that one-- spent ion siex edncatin in half of adcdescenta in the classrooms diould be sig. eridencethat indicates eiv thernOpffQet ini tyilHnthVnnf . United States are already nificantly expanded. at risk ' ; Parents look to Sex edit-sexual activity or, in some sexually actlve-an' cases, a delay in the inltiar of unintended pregnancy cation to provide ehildren ' and jSnVHIV Infection-i- t. with tlmpracticalskills that tion of Bexual activity. This evidence gives - also seems dear that ado-- studentsand teachers rt ; are not ednaiatentiy strong1 support to be pohctoK lesoents need accurate in' covered. skmihat provMing informa- formation about contracepcan methods tive sothai tion about Contraception (CkMktuedpn page 2) they : . 7 Free shaken tiiaby . . 7 Check but toe newspaper's website at wvw.sgnad.cbm or call 637-073- 2. , rUvuthoserisks," reports ; f. JDr.Satcher either sexual activity, by alsoThe onsets of noted the ; report bastening Glkteittihg study proceeding, 1 : does not inoeaseadalesomit By JACKIE ANDERSON t ' " - . . , ' ! ; majority, the money would have been held up for 60 days, too. late to get extra cash for smoking prevention. The delay would have resulted in less interest for the state. The Utah House of Representa-- ! tlyes voted a second time and the resolution passed , Utah became the 16th governmenlawtal entity to join a multi-stat- e suit against the tobacco companies " on Sept. SO,, 1996. , Two years later, asettlementwas reached that would give Utah nearly $1 billion by 2025. The outside attorneys on the to-bacco case subsequently filed a lieu against Utah. .The attorneys claimed that they were entitled to 25 percent of the settlement or approximately $250 million. Chief deputy Raymond Hintze of tbe attorney general's office negotiated a settlement with the law firm .for $9,950,000. . This was a reasonable resolution to a dispute Involving a very cejn- -. plex contract, commented Hintze. .Tm glad Utah will finally get the rest of its money. After the latest deposit, Utah has received nearly $56 million from tobacco companies so far. ' ' - f, 5 is ) it 53-1- 7. - '. .T : i.r a . ' f . . : w . . ; . , r, ; ' ' , . Flro fighters receive emergency vehicle certification : Area fire fighters practice dealing with road hazards and fight situations white operating emergency equipment Aparking lot was turned into a cone fiQed.obstacle course when train- from the Utah Fire and Rescue Academy presented an emergency vehicle operations course for Helper and Price fire crews. The group of lfi local fire fighters passed written . and practical exams to receive the emer-er- s gency vehicle operations certification. : ,i !, . . ' . . t |