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207C 050092 120393 2 est em Micro graphics 712 3 2600 Salt Lake City UT 4119 pm 1FW Mi ha aw ta Serving more than 60 communities at the crossroads of the West Volume 27 number 189 September 7, 1993 20 pages, 2 sections 50 Cents fttara Wednesday Thursday Friday NY HI 1 i I I II 1 1 ll 1 1 1 f'i-j i Li a southeast of Big Water near the Arizona border. Scarth was kept in custody a few Jim Scarth: He's arrested on charges of disorderly conduct, public intoxication. Area Forecast Tonight, partly cloudy with widely scattered showers and thunderstorms, mainly in the evening. Gusty winds near thunderstorms. Wednesday partly cloudy.

Page A12 From staff and wire reports hours before being released. When contacted today, Scarth said he "had to go to court" and declined to comment. National Park Service arresting officer David Van Inwagen and other police were unavailable for comment and public intoxication, according to police records. Under the terms of Scarth's June probation on a reckless driving charge, which was reduced from a DUI conviction during an appeal, Scarth can "consume no alcohol." When the case was transferred to Salt Lake County because of widespread publicity in Southern Utah, another prosecutor was assigned to the case and the deal was struck. Deputy Davis County Attorney James E.

Gregan recommended the plea bargain to the Kanab City Council to save the expense of sending witnesses to Salt Lake City for trial. Kanab officials agreed. Scarth was fined $1,480, was given a suspended two-day jail term and was placed on probation. "I'll have to take a good look at this," said Davis County Attorney Mel Wilson. "Our office was the prosecuting agency on this, so the ball is in our court." If a probation hearing is called and Scarth is found in violation of the order, he could face the maximum penalty for a class misdemeanor, which could put him behind bars for up to six months.

Saturday's incident involved Scarth, 56, and a friend from Kanab. The two allegedly got into a fight that was quelled when National Park Service officers arrived at the site in Utah eight miles hi zy I -4 KANAB, Utah Kane County Attorney Jim Scarth has apparently violated a probation order from 3rd District Court in Salt Lake City. Scarth, who also is under investigation by the Utah State Bar, was arrested Saturday night at Lone Rock Beach on Lake Powell. He faces citations alleging disorderly conduct, interfering with police Jim Scarth Monday night. Scarth's arrests and controversies have Please see SCARTH Page A12 New look in downtown r'-: Number one: Washington Redskins Coach Story Richie Petitbon picks up his Page first NFL win as a head coach A9 in defeating Dallas, 35-16.

yt-, -6-1-4 ilr i SgS4 MML-villi! wiiil sft 4Jci mil f-s nlll Desert survival: Death of daughter is latest tragedy for surviving woman's family. By ERICA C. WILSON Staff Writer ST. GEORGE Janet and Zora Jacobs were going to make a new life for themselves in California after a tragic year. But their hopes for the future were shattered on the side of a road in the Nevada desert.

Janet Jacobs, 45, died from exposure and her mother Zora, 68, is hospitalized for dehydration after their car and moving trailer broke down in the Delmar Mountains east of Caliente, Nev. They had taken a road they thought would take two hours off their travel time. But they got a flat tire and were stranded for eight days. By the time someone drove by Sunday, Janet was dead and Zora was suffering from extreme HtilG iimni 1 RJET swJ On average, a Utah youth must commit at least six felonies and 18 misdemeanors before being locked up. Page A2 Like the now-famous Baby Jessica, Michael is caught in a heartbreaking adoption limbo.

Page A5 Labor unions in the '90s are using the public relations tactics of big business to communicate better with their members and the public. Page A7 A great deal of civilization can be attributed to its foundation in Greek heritage medicine, mathematics, literature, science, art, architecture and food. PageBI Spectrum photo Steve Fellers The new Zions Bank building will be dedicated Wednesday. Zions Bank building, city plaza opens a 4. ftt Kf.t dehydration.

"Someone told us about (the short cut)," Zora Jacobs said today from her room at Dixie Regional Medical Center. "But we ended up taking a left instead of a right. We didn't know what to expect. "We had a U-Haul and the road was so narrow we couldn't turn around. We Reinventing government Janet Jacobs What: Zions Bank and City Plaza dedication.

The event is open to the public. Guest speakers include Mayor Karl Brooks and Zions Bank officials. There will also be a ribbon cutting. When: Wednesday, 2 p.m. Where: St.

George Boulevard and Main Street had a spare, but we were on an incline we just didn't have the strength to fix it. "It was a nightmare. I couldn't live through it again." The Jacobses were moving to Petaluma, 40 miles north of San Francisco, when the accident occurred. Zora was finally picked up by two men driving amm through the area. The By LOREN WEBB Staff Writer ST.

GEORGE Merchants in the Downtown Historic District believe business will be revitalized with Wednesday's dedication of the new Zions Bank building and adjacent City Plaza. Dave Clark, Zions Bank vice president, said the three-story bank building and plaza will become a gathering place and a focal point that will help to revitalize downtown. "I give the city very high marks," Clark said of the city's support of the bank building location and the City Plaza. "I feel it is a very positive statement on behalf of the entire city." The bank officially opened today. Bob Nicholson, community development director of St.

George, called the bank building and plaza "a major milestone" for the aged downtown area. Copiers. "It is really an enhancement to downtown St. George and Main Street." Trent Riplinger, owner of Lip Trix, 21 N. Main, said the opening of the bank and plaza will benefit adjacent businesses.

"The more people down there, the better," he said. "The more foot traffic, the better. The more chances we will be able to sell more merchandise." Richard Preston of Preston Copiers and Fax, 61 N. Main, was also impressed with the bank and plaza. "A lot of good things will happen downtown," Preston said.

"I think it will be a great improvement to the downtown area, especially with the improvements to the block we are on." Preston said he hopes parking spaces will take the place of the soon-to-be-razed Terra Title building. The White House today recommended a wide array of cuts and changes in the federal bureaucracy that it said would save $108 billion by century's end. Page B4 Two U.S. Army Rangers were slightly wounded today in a pre-dawn airborne assault on a suspected compound of fugitive warlord Mohamed Farrah Aidid. Page B8 The bank and plaza "will anchor future renovation efforts," he said.

"It has turned around the real estate values downtown and made a major contribution to the entire downtown." Downtown merchants were equally pleased today. "Last night I visited the bank building, and it really is beautiful," said Gail Bevans, owner of Steamrollers Springdale gets its first mayoral candidate "I'm still in shock. I still haven't come to the full realization that she's not going to be around anymore." -Zora Jacobs whose daughter died when they were stranded in the desert for eight days men drove her to Dutchman's Market in Santa Clara, where the Washington County Sheriffs Office was called and an ambulance was dispatched. The older Jacobs said she and her daughter were hoping to start a new life in California. They moved to St.

George from Las Vegas in March after their home was allegedly broken into and Janet was raped and stabbed by an intruder. "It's been a bad year," Zora said. Pam Seifert, a friend who worked with Janet at Dick's Cafe in St. George, said Janet was unhappy in Utah and was looking forward to moving to Senate evaluates Elders WASHINGTON Dr. Joycelyn Elders was poised for confirmation as surgeon general today as Congress returned from its summer recess with substantial unfinished business, including a hemispheric trade pact and health care reform.

As the Senate returned for its fall legislation session, lawmakers also were awaiting final action on the National Service Act, the program that President Clinton has put forward to help students go to college. "She is a diamond in the rough. Her opponents see the rough, but they also miss the diamond," Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, said today as debate resumed on the Elders nomination.

Republican opponents had successfully stalled a vote in the days preceding the break for the August recess. From the Associated Press By LISASNEDEKER SPRINGDALE, Utah Phillip Bimstein is running for mayor of Springdale the only candidate to file so far in this year's nonpartisan election for mayor and two council seats. Bimstein, 45, is a five-year resident of Springdale. He was bom and raised in Chicago, 111., and moved to Southern Utah after visiting the area several times. "I moved here purely because I fell in love with the landscape," he said.

When Bimstein moved to Springdale in 1988, he said he didn't know a soul. "I moved here because I felt I wanted to live in the area," he said. "Shortly after, I met the people who live here and now I love the people In the community as much as landscape." The artist has volunteered his ser vices to the non-profit Z-Arts! Council for last three years and is the executive director of New Music Utah. "I'm currently president of Z-Arts," he said. It's because of the work he has done with these organizations that he would like to work for the town as mayor.

The work I have done with the people in town has had so much good feeling," he said. "It's that kind of organization and positive energy that IVe seen people In this town capable of and I believe that kind of tone can be brought to the municipal level that spirit of cooperation and working for things together." Bimstein said he would try to bring the different camps in town together. "I think this community is very capable of not being divided that way," he said. "There are different beliefs regarding development and zoning and I believe there are legitimate arguments on both sides of issues. I wouldn't go in as an advocate for any particular position.

I'd like to facilitate all voices being heard. I see the role of mayor to be potentially more of a facilitator than an advocate." Bimstein's professional background includes 15 years in business. "My business background helps me as an administrator of the arts programs," he said. "I was a sales manager and vice president and president for an education book publisher. What I focused on, aside from general management, was marketing and public relations, skills I feel this town could use." Bimstein is a composer by trade.

"I compose music for commissions and grants," he said. "For example. I wrote music for an NBC movie of week." Bimstein said that some of the things that have happened in the past Please see BIMSTEIN Page A1 2 California. "She had a job waiting for her" at a Carrow's Restaurant in Petaluma, Seifert said. "Her mom needed medical attention and they just couldn't make ends meet here." Janell Young, a waitress at Dick's Cafe, said Janet will be missed.

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