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Show Tr T rr-fT- Hf x Thursday UTAHVALLEY AUGUST 23, 2007 Edition 50 CENTS JoePyrah employee income. OALVKKRALO Triggered by the audit, current y: MATC pre$ident Clay Christensen and Rob Brans, the former president Astale auditor sreport released Wednesday sharpy criticizes top-- ' X who is now president of he school's ranking Current arid former officials oversight organization, the Utah Col--. of the Mountainland Applied Technol- lege ofApplied Technology, were ogy Coflege,which has three cam-- . placed on a paid leave of absence last puses in Utah County. One of the risk factors you deal V The report accuses them of breaking laws, including falsifying account with right up front is trustworthiness records, failing to comply with open ' of management, said state auditor Auston Johnson. "WeYe got manage meetings laws and underreporting ' . . $ . '. ment overriding the controls. That ' puts our reliance on management at the agency at zero. The audit claims that Christensen falsified time cards of employees who. worked on a steel chassis donated ; by a trucking company to the Utah County Republican Party for a parade float. Utah law prohibits the use of public money for political purposes, X and MATC Is publicly funded. Questions about the float transaction are what initially prompted . . : - the audit. , Assist ant Ut ah attorney general Bill Evans said Wednesday that if . the Republican Party had planned all along to pay for .the project r-- as Rep. Becky Lockhart says then jt would be a legal transac-tio- a Similar exchanges happen often when pditical parties use public facili.... ties, then pay the bill, he said. It remains undear.why MATC officials did not simply bill the Republi- can Party for the chassis work. : One early aHegationthat was . explored was that Christensen was political pressure from Re-- : publican Sen. Curt Bramble of Provo. But that accusation was dismissed by Johnson on Wednesday, Bramble has been desired of any ethics violations. by Sea Mike Dmitrichof frice, a Democrat who is cohairman of the Senate Ethics Committee. . Lockhart said that it was the o) . -- . x- - . . See MATC, aio Exotic Burglary fpiHlfflJ Jeremy Puda -- " . .oaatKMip.;'..' The Utah National Guard on Wednesday released the names of the two pilots killed When their helicopter crashed near Fairfield, one of whom was a longtime Utah County resident. The Guard identified .the ' pilots as chief warrant officers Clayton Barnes, 90, of Payson, and James Under, 33, of West Jordan. The two died on Monday night when their AH-6- 4 Apache helicopter crashed during a training mission in Cedar Valley. They were members of the Utah Army Natural Guard's 1st Battalion, 211th Aviation, and both served dur-- ; ing the battalions deployment to Afghanistan in 2004 and . vti . A. . .. ,2005..-,..- f ... 1. James Under ' ' ' ,Uy ; See PILOTS, M .. r A9 Clayton . lames X. & f.f : .... ' lSryi ii li A ; - - i2L IURIO MNZDaily HeraW Taxidermist Ken Kkkham of Orem stands In his shopon 100 North hi Orem on Wednesday. Kirkham's shop was broken into robbed of $40,000 worthof furs and animal parts. and New outlet center ' ' V,,. Grace eong ; X pAiyatliAiD Traverse Mountains stalled retail project in hiatus after it found a new partner. Oaig Realty Group, a Newport Beach. Calif factory outlet operator that manages 3J5 million square feet of retail space globally, is building what will be called The Fashion Outlets at Traverse Mountain, officials said Wednesday. The 550,000 square-foupscale factory outlet anchored by Cabelas is part of Traverse Mountain's mixed-us- e mew 17 project- in Lehi is coming oiX of a two-ye- . ' : ar . .. leiinpactofit -- .V dermy services. The impact of k would be nodifferent than Leopards, crocodiles and bobcats are bn the loose m Utah County, Or at least the expensive robbing a bank; But the difference is money can -be replaced, Kirkham said. You cant just go parts of them are. Orem taxidermist lost about $40,000 worth ' get a leopard. Even if youve got the money to go v An id exotic animal skins, skulls and antlers over the hunt one, the chances of getting one are pretty weekend when thieves targeted his shop. Ken- - , slim, , Some of the animate, such as the leopards and neth Kirkham, owner of Kens Rocky Mountain ' crocodiles, are from Africa, and the cost of hunt- Taxidermy, said he lost two leopard skins, three V animals be can Permits. several cat deer skins, bobcat skint, Extraordinary, ing the SkinS and an alligator skin. Also stolen was a lor hunting crocodiles are extremely expensive, crocodile skull and replica crocodile head, elk ant- Kiikmmt said, and the owner of the stolen croc'1' skull was only able to shoot the animal because it' lers, deer antlers and about 30 pelts. The two leopard skins alone are worth about attacked a guide on an African hunt in which he took part. Kirkham estimates that the hunt cort $25,000, said Kirkham, which is a low estimate. But that doesnt include the cost of actually ac- -, See BURGLARY, A9 qwmg them. Kirkham said many of the stolen , ring-taile- ' . : would be no ; . d Tobbingabmik Hut the diflerena1 is money can he j' . 0; replaced." Ken Kirkham . ' ' . million-square-fo- at OUTLET, kerns are virtually irreplaceable. All belonged to customers who brought the items to him for taxi- - . . ot See .; DAIYWRAU) . . LehL It will replace Terrace at Traverse Mountain, .. a proposed 4 lifestyle center that was to have been codeveloped by Forest City Development. . Jeremy Duda . ot miQion-squareo- ' .. . Orem taxidemiist . AS aren INSIDE .Partly in Thursday's New England Journal of Medi- advice, but was commissioned because sex is cine not some scandal sheet. important to health and happiness.. Most people assume that people stop Its about time, said Ruth Westheimer, o Dr. Ruth was right after alk You the radio and television sexpert doing it after some vague age,' but that apwho has crusaded against age bias where. , ' pears untrue, said researcher Edward Lau- are never too old to boogie. ' ' mann of the University of Chicaga Many seniors are still having sex, intimacy is concerned. Older people should stop looking at their For example, more than half of those age and if they aren't, k is likely due to 57 to 75 said they gave or received oral sex, poor health or lack of a partner, the bodies and saying, My body doesn't look as did about a third of 75- - to like k did when I was 25.' 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