The Daily Spectrum from Saint George, Utah • 3

Briefs Provo woman files suit ST. GEORGE A Provo woman has filed a 5th District Court personal injury lawsuit on behalf of her 14-year-old son against an Orem-based automobile dealership and two individuals in connection a with a Feb. 26 accident on I-15 near Hurricane. The lawsuit, filed by guardian Pamela Reynolds on behalf of Jared Campbell alleges defendant Michael R. Ferguson negligent in operating a motor vehicle, drove it at an excessive speed, and failed to keep the vehicle under proper control.

The suit also alleges defendant Washburn Motor Company employee Fernando C. was negligent in entrusting the vehicle to Ferguson who a allegedly lacked skill, training or a license. Washburn Company was also named as a defendant in the suit which seeks unspecified damages. 200 acre burn planned CEDAR CITY The Cedar City Ranger District of the Dixie National Forest is planning to burn approximately 200 acres of pinyon and juniper in the Mineral Canyon area. According to District Ranger Ron Wilson, the burning will be done sometime this spring, depending on weather conditions.

"The purpose of the prescribed burn is to reduce pinyon-juniper that is encroaching reseeded areas in mineral Canyon," Wilson said. "Wildlife habitat will be enhanced as a result of the 15,000 attend Regional Conference ST. GEORGE President Gordon B. Hinckley of the LDS First Presidency and Dallin H. Oaks of Council of the Twelve were keynote speakers Sunday at the 2nd Area LDS Regional Conference which drew an estimated 15,750 members, according to spokesman David Clove.

LDS members from the St. George and Virgin River regions, encompassing 12. LDS stakes, attended morning and afternoon sessions at the Dixie Center. Also on hand was Elder Paul H. Dunn of the First Quorum of Seventy as well as stake presidents from the 12 stakes.

Speakers during both sessions included Elder Hinckley and his wife, Marjorie, Elder Dunn and his wife, Jeanne, and Elder Oaks and his wife, June. More details of the conference will appear in the Daily Spectrum Church Life section Saturday. City adds temporary park position ST. GEORGE A temporary lead man position in the City Parks Department to oversee jobs being done, was approved Thursday by the City Council following an executive session, said City Manager Gary Esplin. Esplin said an existing city employee will be named to fill the position.

The council also upgraded the police secretary position in the City Police Department to an administrative secretary position. Benefiting from the council decision will be Peggy Allen. The council also granted a merit increase to City Animal Control Officer David Vane, said Esplin. Utah Briefs State floats irrigation loan SALT LAKE CITY (AP) The State Board of Water Resources will loan a canal company $6 million to help pay for construction of a secondary irrigation system in Weber and Davis counties. Work is expected to begin in Kaysville this spring on the first segment of the system, which will enhance irrigation in the two counties without requiring use of higher quality water supplies.

Board spokesman said the $8 million Kaysville segment is part of an overall system that will distribute irrigation water to eight communities. The board has authorized $38.7 million in loans to the Davis and Weber Counties Canal Company for the multi-phase project. The loan for the Kaysville segment will be repaid over 35 years. The board also approved loans of almost $1 million for four other projects and authorized two cities to proceed with plans for waterdevelopment projects that will require state loans totaling $1.4 million. Deer deaths up in Davis County FARMINGTON, Utah (AP) Traffic on a 12-mile stretch of U.S.

89 in Davis County has killed 176 deer during the past eight months, says the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources. DWR Conservation Officer Scott Davis said the deer road-kill figures are up sharply from the same period a year ago, when 124 of the animals perished. Davis said more than 400 deer have been killed in Davis County when the number of road kills, fence injuries, attacks by dogs and foodpoisoning are added together. "We've definitely seen an increase in the number of dead deer in the county," he said. "However, we've also seen the deer herd increase in the county with the recent couple of mild winters." Davis said DWR has encouraged hunters to take game in the area, but not enough deer have been shot.

He said under normal circumstances there are about 12 to 14 bucks per 100 deer. He said it's now estimated there are about 20 bucks per 100 deer in Davis County. "We would like the public to take those bucks during the hunting season," he said. Davis said the problem really developed during the 1983-84 season when the harsh winter forced deer to come down into the communities for feeding. "They came down to eat and went back in the spring to have their young, and the next year they brought their young down to feed," he said.

As for the increasing number of deer getting hit by vehicles on U.S. 89 from Farmington to South Ogden, Davis said it's a serious problem and motorists should be aware of the danger. Sanpete County battles hepatitis MORONI, Utah (AP) Sanpete County public health nurses have administered nearly 300 gamma globulin shots to students in an effort to stem a hepatitis A epidemic. The injections were given to students at Moroni Elementary School Friday where health officials identified the outbreak as originating earlier this month. "They didn't like it (the shot), but most of the kids were really good," said public health nurse Sherron Boynton.

"Only 10 were really bad." Boynton said six cases of hepatitis A have been confirmed five in Moroni Elementary, one in Moroni Junior High School. "We have also seen lot of flu-like illness, but those cases haven't been confirmed as hepatitis," she said. "We may have to immunize the junior high school kids, but one case doesn't justify that yet." Wayne D. LeBaron, district health officer, said hepatitis virus A is usually transmitted by contaminated food and water. "It is much milder than hepatitis and people are usually much more responsive to treatment," he said.

No one has had to be hospitalized, he said. LeBaron said family members of the infected children have been treated with immune globulin to reduce their chances of contracting the disease. Health officials believe the outbreak is confined to Sanpete County. GOP Chairman has big plans to restore Republican unity SALT LAKE CITY (AP) Jack Roberts, the new state chairman of the Republican Party, has some big plans and he's decided to seek a full, two-year term to the post he was appointed to in early January to carry them out. Roberts, the party's national committeeman, was a consensus candidate nominated the first of the year to prevent a heated party fight.

Besides Roberts' new face in GOP leadership, there's a new party executive director: former GOP State Chairman William Stevenson. Stevenson was state party chairman in 1979-81. He was Salt Lake County GOP chairman in the early 1970s, and has considered seeking the Republican nomination for the 2nd Congressional District several times. Former GOP Executive Director Greg Hopkins resigned to return to Washington, D.C., and seek his fu- Spectrum Monday, March 20, 1989 Judicial system cannot tolerate crime by Loren Webb Staff Writer ST. GEORGE Members of the criminal justice system will need to go into the 1990s with "attitudinal vigilantism," maintained State Department of Public Safety Commissioner Douglas D.

Bodrero. Bodrero, speaking to the Utah Corrections Association last week during its mid- winter conference at the Four Seasons Inn, referenced the need to convince society that crime will not be tolerated anymore. This new attitude, he added, means pushing for more correctional facilities, expanding training programs and paying higher salaries to professional people in the criminal justice system. In past decades, Bodrero said the attitude was to lock up criminals in jail "throw away the key and forget about That trend changed to examining why criminals commit crime. Next came the attitude of helping criminals learn job skills, but they were still committing crimes, so the criminal sysgot into psychological evaluations and after they got done with them they had well-adjusted psychological criminals with job skills.

The next phase was to educate criminals. Now, the process has come almost full tilt and officials have found that none of those programs really work and officials are wondering where do they go from here, said Bodrero. The realization of the 1990s will be that no single issue is responsible, said Bodrero, and officials need to realize that these criminals commit crimes because they choose to be involved in criminal activity. "So it's important that we look at a total approach to corrections," said Bodrero, realizing that corrections' number one role is to protect the community and society. While corrections officials have these criminals in their custody, Bodrero said they should work with them to prepare them to meet the outside world, because nearly everyone who goes into the criminal justice system will eventually come out.

Bodrero also noted that whatever happens to one aspect of the criminal justice system also affects other components of that system. In the past, Bodrero said society has tolerated crime and accepts it as a way of doing business. Insurance companies bill frauds into their rate schedules, department stores build profit margins into their goods to account for shoplifting. Other countries like Japan, don't have the same crime problem that the U.S. has because they don't tolerate crime.

In America, for instance, the "Officer Friendly Program" is introduced to children to show how police ST. GEORGE Local winners of the Deseret News spelling competition are (from left) Marshall McConkie, Holly Jessop, Kristen Grimshaw, Amy Pickelsimmer and Miican Jeffrey. (Spectrum Lynette Olsen) Students win spelling honors ST. GEORGE It will be a long time before Miican Jeffery of Hurricane forgets the words "disquisition" and words Jeffery during the 28th round spelled of the annual Deseret News Spelling Bee, Friday, earning her the title of best speller for Washington County District. Seventeen students, from fourth through eighth grade, representing all elementary, and intermediate schools the district, gathered at Dixie Middle School for the competition.

Each school representative was selected from school spell-offs earlier this month, by becoming the school spelling bee winner. The top five places went to Jeffery of Hurricane Middle; Amy Picklesimer, second place, Dixie Middle; Kristen Grimshaw, third place, Washington Elementary; Holly Jessop, fourth Phelps Elementary; Marshall' McConkie, fifth place, Bloomington Elementary. Jeffery will now advance to state competition Lake City on April 7. The winner of that competition will then move into national competition May 28 June 3 in Washington D.C. Jeffery earned the title after several consecutive rounds where all words were spelled correctly.

Upon exhausting the pre-prepared study list, the final contestants then spelled words selected from the dictionary. Utah scores well in health SALT LAKE CITY (AP) The U.S. Department of Health and Human says Utah has the lowest rates in the nation when it comes to smoking and lung cancer deaths among women. In its annual report on the nation's health, the department said that Utahns in general are healthier in many ways than Americans on the average. The just-released report entitled, "Health United States 1988," reveals that the lowest percentage of men and women who smoke belongs to the Beehive State, where 70 percent of the state's 1.6 million population is claimed as members by the Mormon Church.

The faith discourages its members from using tobacco, alcohol and caffeinated beverages. Other health categories and Utah's ranking mentioned in the report include: -Smoking: Utah has the lowest percentage of male adults who smoke, 18.2 percent. Alaska has highest, 41 percent. Utah also has the lowest percentage of female adults who smoke, 10.2 percent. Nevada has the highest, 33.9 percent.

Lung cancer: for women age 55-74, Utah has the lowest lung cancer death rate, 44.9 per 100,000. Nevada has the highest, 173.1. Heart disease: for adults 45-64, Utah has the fourth lowest heart disease death rate in the country, 315 per 100,000. New Mexico had the lowest at 301.4, and West Virginia had the highest at 528.5. Utah women in that group had the fifth lowest heart disease death rate, 99.3 per 100,000.

North Dakota had the lowest at 91.8 and West Virginia had the highest at 192.8. Brest cancer: Utah has a relatively low death rate among women from breast cancer, 79 per 100,000. Nine states have lower rates. Hawaii has the lowest, 58.5; the District of Columbia has the highest, 111. Suicide: for males 15-24, Utah has one of the higher rates at 23.3 per 100,000.

Thirty-six states have lower rates. The lowest is New York, 14.2, and the highest is Nevada, 40.2. Leukemia among men: the leukemia death rate among men in Utah is among the lower rates at 3.98 per 100,000. But 15 states have lower rates. The District of Columbia lowest rate, 2.6; Nebraska the highest, 5.98.

Infant birth weight: relatively few babies are born in Utah weighing less than 2,500 grams (about 5.5 pounds). The rate is 5.6 per 100 live births. Nine states have better rates. Alaska has the best, 4.8; Washington, D.C. has the worst, 12.7.

Infant mortality rate: Utah has the fifth lowest overall infant mortality rate, 9.1 per 1,000 live births. North Dakota has the lowest, 8.4; Washington, D.C., has the highest, 21. Utah also has the fifth lowest neonatal or just-born infant mortality rate, 5.4 per 1,000 live births. North Dakota has the lowest, 4.7; Washington, D.C., has the highest, 16. But Utah has a relatively high post live infant births.

mortality Thirty-five rate of 3.8 per 1,000 states have lower rates. Connecticut has the lowest, 2.4; Alaska has the highest, 5.3. Utah had a fairly low fetal death rate, 8.2 per 1,000 live births plus fetal deaths. Nine states had lower rates. Maine had the lowest, 6.5; Hawaii had the highest, 15.8.

AIDS: Utah has a relatively low incidence of AIDS cases. Its rate is 3.65 cases per 100,000 people. Sixteen states have lower rates. The lowest is North Dakota, 0.58; the highest is the Washington, D.C., with 78.9. Doctors: Utah has 17.4 doctors per 10,000 residents.

Eighteen states have. lower the rates. The lowest is Idaho, 12; highest is Washington, D.C., 56. Hospital use: Utah has fewer hospital beds available per 1,000 residents than any other state, 2.7 per 1,000 residents. Washington, D.C., has the most, 7.7.

Mental health care funding: Utah state government spends relatively little on mental illness at $17.30 Florence convicted of fraud ST. GEORGE A four four-man 5th District Court jury deliberated less than hours Friday before finding William Barney Florence guilty of insurance fraud. Sentencing for William Barney Florence, 32, convicted of second degree felony filing a false or fraudulent insurance claim on his now defunct Five Star Solar Screen business, is set for Wednesday. The court will also review Florence's earlier conviction of third degree felony burglary and theft in connection with the June 21, 1988 break-in of Big 0 Tire at 825 East St. George Blvd.

Florence remains incarcerated in will help them, then the kids get into the family car to go home and "there sits on the dashboard, dad's fuzzbuster which dad bought and makes a game of violating the law," said Bodrero. Then when the youths reach their teenage years, adults tell them to get an education and a good job and if they do that they can make a respectable $40,000 a year job as college graduate. But then they see a buddy who is making $40,000 a week selling drugs, said Bodrero. He noted that 70 percent of all felonious drugs is tied back to drugs or alcohol both of which are socially acceptable means in this society of surviving. Then society turns to the criminal justice system and says it's the system's fault and it's their responsibility to take care of them.

"One of the messages that is going to have to go out in corrections, law enforcement and criminal justice in the 1990s is that we can't take care of it for you (society)," said Bodrero. "We're going to have to take care of that as a society and it is just as much your problem out there as it is our People scream for stiffer and longer sentences and then they vote against a bond issue to build a new jail or correctional facility. Yet in reality, it is everybody's problem. Bodrero said teenagers are receiving messages that there aren't any more heroes. He said sports heroes today are seen as overpriced jocks, them on drugs and getting kicked off teams and having to submit to drug tests.

The political scene has also turned into a joke since Watergate, said Bodrero, and "we really have no George Washingtons or Abraham Lincolns left anymore and in fact we are going back and picking up the like the he fact are down dirt on those falls, because we don't in the history books as There are also no religious heroes, because they have turned into tv evangelists who are con artists and the ones who are not out there visiting bordellos or skimming money from their income taxes are on the 10 O'Clock news. So the youth have no more heroes and society says whatever happens to these kids, the criminal justice system will handle it. To counteract this situation, the society has to commit the resources to train correctional officers and then pay them professional salaries commensurate with their jobs. With the possibility of privatization of jails, the criminal justice system has to be willing to actively seek change, said Bodrero, and "do it in a world turned upside The system has to keep looking for the mechanism and the program if it expects do any kind of correctional job in the 1990s. Coal Creek bid awarded CEDAR CITY The Utah Department of Transportation has opened bids on a project to replace the aging bridge over Coal Creek on State Road 14 in Iron County.

The structure is located seven miles east of Cedar City in Coal Creek Canyon. Of the three bids received, Ralph Wasdswoth of Salt Lake City was the apparent low bidder with a bid of $679,083. UDOT's official engineer's estimate for the work was $769,054. The contract will not be awarded, however, until the bids are reviewed to make certain no errors were made and that all requirements were met. existing bridge over Coal Creek is an old concrete bridge that is structurally inadequate for current traffic demands.

This project involves dismantling that and replacing it with a new bridge constructed of precast concrete beams, a concrete deck and concrete parapet walls. The new structure will be 36 feet wide instead of the exising 28-foot-wide bridge. The project also involves reconstructing the highway approach on Obituaries Dixie P. Stout CEDAR CITY Dixie Petty Stout, 57, died March 18, 1989 at the home of her mother in Cedar City. She was born Oct.

28, 1931 in Cedar City to Nathan Alma and Pearl Eddards Petty. She married Vern Jim Stout Oct. 28, 1947 in Las Vegas, Nev. He, died Dec. 12, 1972.

Dixie was an active member of the LDS Church and worked as a laboratory technician. She is survived by a son, Steven Owen B. Cram KANAB Owen B. Cram, age 68, died March 18, 1989 at his home in Kanab. He was born Jan.

1 10, 1921 in Kanab to Fannie Bunting and John S. Cram. He married Doris Shelton June 5, 1942. they later divorced. He graduated from Kanab high school and was a drum major for the high school band.

As a veteran of World War II he served as a sergeant in the U.S. Air Corps. He was an Eagle Scout and served in the Scouting organization for many years. He was a priest in the LDS Church. He attended and played basketball at Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Utah State University in Logan and the University of Southern California in Los Angeles.

He was a each side of the new bridge so that the road matches the wider structure. The highway alignment also be improved in order to eliminate a sharp curve in the highway on the up -canyon side of the structure. In order to widen the road the contractor will have to cut into a large, rocky hill adjacent to the highway. That work require blasting the hillside and will necessitate stopping traffic for short periods of time when blasting is done. A temporary detour will be constructed to route traffic around the project area while the new bridge is under construction.

The detour will cross Coal Creek approximately 200 feet upstream from the existing bridge. Work on the project is expected to begin after mid-April. The highway carries a substantial amount of traffic during the summer months and the work will cause traffic interference and slower movement through the detour area. The contract allows 110 working days, or approximately six months, and should be completed by early fall. Stout of Pomona, six grandchildren, her mother of Cedar City and four brothers and three sisters: Rodio and Mack, both of Henerson, Nate, Guy and Mrs.

Earl (Joan) Paddock, all of Cedar City; Mrs. Gilbert (Peggy) Alvarez of Bellflower, and Mrs. Michael (Diana) Hornak of Chino, Calif. Graveside services were held Monday at 1 p.m. at the Cedar City Cemetery.

has the Washington County Jail on a no bail hold pending sentencing. Prosecutors claimed Florence hired two individuals to burglarize Five Star Solar Screen, 861 N. Red Rock Road, then filed a false insurance claim with Great Basin Insurance of St. George to pay the loss of stolen tools and materials. Florence's claim was referred to Royal Insurance Company of Salt Lake City who referred the case to Global Investigations, also Salt Lake, City, to investigate the matter.

Based on Global Investigations private investigator James Ashby's recommendation, no claims were paid to Florence. salesman for Black Decker and Proto Tools and for Boise Cascade. He is survived by four sons: Donald Owen Cram Eugene, Layne Kevin of South Pasadena, David Scott Cram of Altadena, Calif. and Mark Bradley Cram of Temple City, brothers and sisters Mrs. Easton (La Von) Blackburn of St.

George, Madge Workman, Norman Cram and Locklon Cram, all of Kanab; nine grandchildren. He was preceded in death by one sister, Clara Pratt, and five brothers, Milton, Donald, Smith, Theo and Claud. Funeral services will be held Tuesday, March 21 at 11 a.m. at Mosdell Mortuary in Kanab. Burial with military honors will be at the Kanab City Cemetery following the services.

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