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Spectrum Sunday, October 15.1989-3 Leaders share ideas, resources Local Briefs irui 4. A "TZ il PTA meeting will discuss nutrition GEORGE Dr. Mark Sorenson will be speaking on "Dispelling Nutritional Myths" at a general PTA meeting to be held at West Elementary Wednesday at 7 p.m. The public is invited to attend. Refreshments will be served.

South African consul to speak ST. GEORGE Henk Root, consul for the Republic of South Africa in Los Angeles, will deliver two speeches in St. George later this month. Root will address the St. George Rotary Club Oct 23 at noon, according to a spokesman for the consulate, and the St.

George Area Chamber of Commerce Wednesday, Oct. 25 at noon. The consul's speeches will deal with South Africa in general, the recent general election in his country and U.S.-South African relations. Root will be interviewed at the Daily Spectrum Oct. 23 at 3:30 p.m.

Activities planned for Vets Day ST. GEORGE The Lester Keate Post No. 90 of the American Legion has announced several activities for Veterans Day. Elmer Pickett said Nov. 11 the city of St.

George will celebrate Veterans Day with a parade, a public program in the Tabernacle (broadcast live) and a banquet for all veterans of American wars. The parade grand marshall and program speaker wiH be former Utah governor Calvin Rampton. Pickett is also requesting that World War I veterans contact the American Legion as soon as. possible so they can be honored on Veterans Day. A veteran of that war can call Pickett at 673-6154.

Pickett is also asking for any "Goldstar Mothers" to contact him. "We want to honor at the program the mothers who lost sons or daughters who served in any of the American wars," he said. Details about Veterans Day activities are still being finalized and will be published in the near future. Senior Citizens to host dinner HURRICANE October is United Nations Month, and the Hurricane Senior Citizens Center will be holding an international potluck dinner at 6:30 p.m. Thursday.

Center director Mary Ann Reed said those attending should bring a favorite dish of food. Reed plans to encourage those who know songs in a different language to share them. Bingo and dancing will follow the meal. cited examples and suggestions. Beyond the workshops, Southern Utah State College hosted the Rural Expo '89 to complement summit activities.

Showcasing Utah corporations and the products made in this state, more than 300 people attended the expo on Friday and visited the dozens of displays. Products on display ranged from computers and software made in Utah to clothing, camping and sporting gear and assessories. The expo also offered business owners a chance to rub shoulders and share planning and marketing ideas. An officer for a St. George firm said he was impressed with the expo and the opportunity to meet other business owners.

In addition to the new business contacts, L. Brent Miner, president of Tritek Corporation, said he was impressed with the city and plans to expand his soft goods manufacturing firm to include a facility in Cedar City within a year. An international firm, Tritek makes carrying cases and other specialized soft goods products for military and industrial use. Sharron Mangum, co-owner of the Cedar City shop, Personal Impressions, said she received several work orders from other businesses at the expo. Personal Impressions performs computerized embroidery and monogramming work.

More than half the people who stopped at the Smith Pattern and Tooling display asked owner Bill Smith why he re-located his corporation to Kanab from Los Angeles. Smith said several representatives from other towns expressed interest in his firm and how to attract that kind business to their community. The Kanab firm is a tooling design and fabrication company which performs many jobs for industrial and aerospace applications. Several business owners hosting displays expressed their interest in future expos and summit-related workshops. "I think the expo and the summit prove that we have a lot of resources available for small business development," said Mangum.

by Lisa Jane Laird Staff writer CEDAR CITY While most governmental leaders gained several innovative ideas for attracting industry and economic development to their towns and counties, several small Utah business owners walked away from the Utah Summit on Rural Economic Development with work orders in hand for more of their products. Many small business owners said they valued the information and' contacts they made at the summit and at the Rural Expo hosted Thursday through Saturday at Southern Utah State College. People attending the conference received an overview of rural Utah's economy and some of the political issues that could affect it. For example, during one presentation on Friday, three lawyers who specialized water issues and a Utah State University water engineer said business development is directly tied to the community's ability to provide water. Ed Clyde, the "dean" of water law and the lawyer for the Central Utah Project, said several areas in water law must be defined for the public good and benefit.

Though Clyde suggested water planning, more specific legal codes and granting preferred use of available water resources to municipalities, he admitted that in reality the market will and should decide where water resources should go. Clyde said the "well isn't dry yet" and Utah should have plenty of water resources for the next decades, but Clyde said Utahns should plan water uses now. He noted that other western states, Arizona and Nevada in particular, are limited in their growth because they don't have enough water resources. Other political issues brought up in the summit included the lack of rural medical services and the proposed wilderness bill before the U.S. Congress.

Beyond the political issues affecting rural Utah, summit planners developed several workshops relating success stories in rural economic development which CEDAR CITY Tory Torres. 1 1. browses at the items displayed at the Visors by Lynn booth at the Rural Expo '89. The daughter of Debbie and Mike Torres of Cedar City, Torres and hundreds of other people attended the expo showcasing products manufactured in Utah. (Spectrum Lisa Jane Laird) No hunting at Hon Park Utah MWMIHIIIIIII i 2 XWJ IMS at summit caught and unfortunately, some cannot be called sportsmen.

He said about six doe per season are shot and left by the roadside inside the park. The park superintendent said the park staff has posted almost 2,000 new boundary signs and park boundaries are better marked than before. Anyone observing or suspecting hunting activity in the park, should call park headquarters or report the incident to a park ranger. He also recommends calling Utah's "Stop Poaching" hotline at 1-800-662-Deer to report game violations. Topographical maps can be purchased at the park's visitor center at Zion Canyon and Kolob Canyons.

Grafe also announced park visitation figures for September were 277,080, a three percent decrease from September 1988. Year-to-date visitation stands at 1,911,155, a two percent increase over the same time last year. drug screening ary injunction barring the screenings until an arbitrator had considered the case, said union attorney Arthur Sandack. "Essentially, they tried to initiate the drug screening program during the time of the contract, a rather substantial departure than any they'd done before," he said. Briefs were submitted last fall to the arbitrator, a law professor at UCLA, but he has yet to render a verdict.

Meantime, Amoco appealed the injunction to the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver, only to be rebuffed in a ruling last month. The company had sought to implement the program while the issue was in arbitration, but the appellate court said workers would suffer irreparable damages if the arbitrator rules for them. "An arbitrator cannot put Humpty Dumpty back together again once a person has been required to submit to this drug-screening process," Sandack said. "Their privacy has been violated and there's a great risk of injury to their reputation.

And though an arbitrator might fmd the company has a right to do this, the court has agreed with us." Screening A Comprehensive center Includes many things: Full Time Medical Staff Medicare Certified Outpatient Surgery Surgery-Including: Cataract Implant Laser Surgeries Glasses Contact Lens Exams Complete Optical Shop i SPRINGDALE All hunters are reminded to know their locations during the deer hunting season, said Zion National Park Supt. Harold L. Grafe. "Zion National Park is closed to hunting all wildlife in the park is protected," he said. All sportsmen are urged to obtain accurate maps and know where they are while hunting.

This responsibility belongs to the hunter; persons caught hunting on national park lands could receive substantial fines and risk impoundment of their hunting equipment and vehicles. Grafe said last year, park rangers contacted about 20 hunters involved in hunting activities in various areas of the park. While some of these violations were deliberate, about half were persons who did not realize they had wandered into the park. Nevertheless, these individuals were cited as federal regulations make it clear ignorance or carelessness is not an excuse. Grafe said not all hunters are Workers fight SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -When union workers learned in mid-1986 that Amoco Oil Co.

planned to institute a drug and alcohol screening program at their residential refinery, they went straight to the bargaining committee. Three years later, Local 2-286 of the Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers has negotiated another contract, seen its case through two courts and remains one of the few, if not the only, chapters that still hasn't submitted to a company-wide testing program it considers an invasion of privacy. "We were told they were going to instigate a drug program, and the members felt it was wrong," says former local president Duane Letham. "First off, because what they were saying interfered with our private lives, and second because we had a contract in place at the time, and we felt the company didn't have the right to do it without negotiation," he said. Discussions came to an impasse that year, although a new two-year contract that did not address the program was reached in 1988.

In the interim. Local 2-286 went to U.S. District Court for a tempor Fire Prevention Week HURRICANE An annual event for the Hurricane Fire Department is to visit the Hurricane and LaVerkin Elementary School during Fire Prevention Week. Chief Ed Campbell and Captain Frankly Fireless also known as Sharon Campbell take a fire safety message to the students teaching them how to prevent fires, and what to do in case there is a fire. A fire drill was conducted at each school.

(Spectrum Marilyn Alder) Von Trapp family member performs for handicapped Sandy man dies in car accident WENDOVER, Utah (AP) A 42-year-old Sandy man was killed in a one-car accident on Interstate 80, 47 miles east of here, the Utah Highway Patrol said. The victim of the 8:15 p.m. Friday accident was identified by the UHP as James D. Cary. The patrol said Cary apparently lost control of the car when it struck a piece of tire tread off of a semi-truck, went off the side of the road and rolled about four or five times.

The UHP said Cary was ejected from his vehicle during the accident. There were no passengers. Drug raid reveals hybrid pot SALT LAKE CITY (AP) Narcotics officers raiding a south Salt Lake County marijuana farm were forced to shoot and kill a dog guarding more than 50 of the illegal high-grade plants. Lt. Ken Thirsk of the Metro Narcotics Strike Force said the confiscated marijuana was "some of the best hybrid pot we've ever seen." -No arrests were made in the raid this week on the farm, concealed in a cornfield.

However, authorities said the man. believed. to have, been tending the plants has been identified. The dog, which was secured to a cable that ran in front of the entrance to the marijuana farm, had to be killed so officers could search the area safely, Thirsk said. "There was no other way to get around the dog," he said.

"We've had to kill a few other dogs in other drug raids. "It's getting very popular for these kinds of guys to use dogs to guard their illegal drugs. It's unfortunate that they would use animals like that," Thirsk said. Candidate pleads innocent SANDY, Utah AP) An Alta High School janitor campaigning for a seat on the Sandy City Council has pleaded innocent to a charge he assaulted a 17-year-old student. Scott L.

Cowdell, 41, has been charged with a class misdemeanor for allegedly attacking the boy on Sept. 20. A Sandy 3rd Circuit Court clerk said Cowdell's lawyer, Frank R. PignaneUi, entered the innocent plea by mail this week. Police reports show the student alleges he was pushed into a wall, knocked to the floor, "choked until it was difficult to breathe," and pushed down some steps by Cowdell.

Cowdell says he was only trying to restrain the student, who was destroying a chair in the lunchroom. After repeated warnings from Cowdell, the student began shouting obscenities and refused to be escorted to the principal's office, Cowdell maintains. Cowdell told police the youth was swinging fists at him. While trying to restrain the student, the two tripped over some stairs and he fell on top of the youth, Cowdell said. Christensen to be consultant SALT LAKE CITY (AP) Harold G.

Christensen, former U.S. Attorney General Edwin Meese's pick as his No.2 man last year, will serve as a consultant to the state attorney general on Utah's anti-fraud efforts. Christensen, who returned to Utah after not being reappointed by the Bush administration to the Justice Department, will work with the state's fair business enforcement unit, said Utah Attorney General Paul Van Dam. Van Dam said late Friday that the appointment eventually will lead to greater investments in Utah by wealthy out-of-state residents. He said such investors currently are scared away by the state's image as an easy target for fraud.

"I firmly believe that in order for Utah to have a more robust economy we must develop a national perception that the laws regulating fair business practices in this state must be enforced rigorously so that Utah will begin to receive its fair share of investment capital," Van Dam said. Van Dam said he created the unit to aggressively prosecute anti-trust, securities and investment violations. He said Christensen will create a perception nationwide that Utah is creating an atmosphere conducive to fair competition. A Salt Lake attorney, Christensen, 63, moved to Washington in 1988 to become Meese's chief deputy. He replaced Arnold I.

Burns, who resigned in a protest over the way Meese administered the Justice Department. Christensen could not be reached at his Salt Lake City office Saturday for comment. His home telephone is unlisted. OGDEN, Utah (AP) He drew smiles and nods with foot-tapping yodeling, and hushed the crowd with a soft rendition of "Amazing Grace." Then he charmed them with "So Long, Farewell," from the movie, "The Sound of Music," which made his family famous. Werner von Trapp, the grand-nephew of Capt.

George von Trapp, is in Ogden performing benefit concerts for handicapped children. He performed Friday and Saturday at the Ogden City Mall, giving hourly concerts. Born Dec. 25, 1950, in a castle in Schellenberg, Germany, the singer said he spent 21 years in a Catholic convent because his mother had tuberculosis. It was at the convent, he said, that he began to sing under the strict tutelage of the nuns and a priest.

Von Trapp can sing in four octaves and credits that ability to those early childhood teachers. "The sisters, they teach me voice," he explained in his thick 77. 7 German accent. Von Trapp, smiling as he talked about his experiences in the convent, said the sisters would slap him if he sang in a tenor voice. "I had to sing their way in so- Erano.

Or it was slap, slap, slap," said, swishing the air with his hand to demonstrate. But during evening lessons, when he attempted to sing in soprano before the priest, von Trapp said he would be sternly told to sing in tenor, "like a young man should." Von Trapp said he knew many handicapped children as a result of living in a convent. It is the memories of those children that prompted his desire to raise money for handicapped children through his worldwide touring. All proceeds from his Ogden concerts benefit the Utah Easter Seals Society. Although he sang before a sparse crowd on Friday, von Trapp didn't let numbers dampen his enthusiasm for performing.

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Cook said it appeared Clark had jumped a southbound freight train but had gotten off at nearby Camp Williams. Cook said he was apparently trying to "slip through" searchers and head north when a prison tracking dog picked up his scent and led law officers to the bushes. "He was told to come out or the dog would be released, Cook said. "He surrendered without Incident." The search was conducted by officers from the prison, Utah and Salt Lake County deputies and Draper police. (Tickets available at Jollgy' in St.

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