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Spectrum Wednesday, August 3, 1988 3 Local Briefs screen victims Compensation board to i i 1 1 I I fir I 4 jj Bangerter to visit Cedar City CEDAR CITY Gov. Norman Bangerter has scheduled a working visit to the area for next Tuesday and will spend the day meeting with state employees and constituents. The governor's tentative itinerary calls for a private meeting with supporters and campaign workers at 7:30 a.m. in the Zion's Room of the Southern Utah State College student center. While there he is expected to discuss plans for his current campaign for re-election against former Salt Lake City Mayor Ted Wilson ana independent candidate Merrill Cook.

At 11 a.m. the governor will meet with public employees at the Cedar City Social Sevices Building. Following that, at 1:30 p.m. he is scheduled to discuss the state of education in Utah, and his plans for improvement, with educators in the media center of the Cedar City Middle School. Bangerter will tour the Beehive Work Activity Center beginning at 3 p.m., and at 4 p.m.

a meeting with senior citizens has been tentatively slated. The governor will end his visit to the area with a picnic at the Cedar City park, where he hopes to meet with area residents and discuss the direction he is leading the state. The picnic is expected to last roughly 90 minutes, and people are encouraged to bring their dinners. A spokesman said people who miss one meeting are invited to attend any but the private morning meeting for campaign workers. Marsha Perkins, who helped arrange the governor's schedule, said the itinerary is still tentative.

Busy summer for conferences CEDAR CITY It's already been a busy summer for workshops and conferences on the Southern Utah State College Campus and August has just started. According to SUSC Conference Coordinator Carol Donovan, about 2,500 people have already attended conferences and workshops on the campus, twice as many as last summer. The groups cover a wide range of interests, including special education workshops, a singles conference a University of Utah Faculty Conference, family conferences, a number of LDS stake youth conferences and and gifted and talented workshops for youth. Donovan noted that nearly all the conferences, except the gifted and talented workshops, were generated by people contacting the college. Most of the people attending them stay on campus and about 80 percent of them attend plays at the Utah Shakespearean Festival, she added.

One group will be attending their own Renaissance Feaste. Two conferences are scheduled to begin tomorrow, including the West Jordan East Stake Youth Conference and an Opthalmological Society conference. Another seven conferences will take place on the campus before the end of August. Woolsey joins Cedar City UHP Wysocki, board member Nena Friend, chairman Cathy Gumaer, board members Marlene Bouldin and Marion Watson, will administer the program in the county. (Photo, courtesy Brad Nichols) KINGMAN, Ariz.

State Criminal Victim Compensation Program Director Jacqueline J. Gasser (left) along with Mohave County board members (second from left to right) Sheriff Joe Bonzelet, Sheriff's office coordinator- Mary Compensable losses covered include: medical expenses, funeral costs, loss of wages and mental health counseling, said Nichols. According to Nichols, Mohave County Sheriff Joe Bonzelet played a significant role in conceiving the program. He was appointed to the Arizona Criminal Justice Commission by then Gov. Bruce Babbitt in 1986.

He then worked with the commission to establish the structure and Erocedures for the individual county oards. He was also principally involved in drafting the rules the coun Washington and dine her because they think she is going to come through with some money close out some big deal." Bailey added that St. John has a criminal record in Florida and Ohio. Tune CEDAR CITY Trooper Boyd Woolsey is the most recent arrival at the Utah Highway Patrol office in Cedar City. Woolsey grew up in Cedar City and graduated from Cedar High School before entering law enforcement training.

He worked as a deputy for the Garfield County Sheriff's Department until going to work for the UHP in October, 1986. He worked out of Woodruff, near Bear Lake, and Cache Valley before transferring to Cedar City. Woolsey lives in Enoch with his wife, Rosalyn. and four daughters, Kristina, Regina. Alisia and I Piano Now fFOR A PIANO TO PLAY AND SOUND PROPER, IT MUST BE TUNED REGULARLY 1 Boyd Woolsey Daria.

Utah Briefs For a student to get proper technique and ear training they must play on a properly tuned piano. Now is your chance to get a concert technician with 15 years experience for almost half the normal rate. PROTECT YOUR INVESTMENT IN YOUR PIANO STUDENT PIANO TUNING SPECIAL JJ Pitch Raise and Repair Extra GsSX KINGMAN, Ariz. A five-member screening board to compensate crime victims has been set up in Mohave County through the Arizona Criminal Justice Commission's Crime Victim Compensation Program, according to Brad Nichols, County Sheriff's Department. The statewide organization is subdivided by county, and in Mohave County, the board consists of Chairman Cathy Gumaer, Bullhead City; Nena Friend and Marion Watson, both of Kingman; Marlene Bouldin, Lake Havasu City and Paul Runyan, Dolan Springs.

The board was set up to screen applications for compensation to determine if they meet specific criteria qualifying as legitimate victims. The losses must be of a compensable nature, said Nichols. The state of Arizona provides crime victim compensation to U.S. citizens who have been victimized in the state. Funds to pay crime victim compensation claims do not come from general revenues, said Nichols, but are paid by convicted felons.

A $100 assessment per felony count is imposed on each felon at the time of conviction, and deposited in the Crime Victim Compensation Fund, he said. The commission, recognizing many innocent persons suffer physical injury, extreme mental distress, or death as a direct result of criminal acts, or in their efforts to prevent criminal acts, or apprehend persons committing or attempting to commit criminal acts, will allocate public resources where needed. "Lots of times the insurance companies do not pay right away and then all of a sudden they pay. So that individual who received compensation would be responsible for paying Con artist (Continued from page 1) from the condo and home which was later found in the Mercedes, the police report states. St.

John had given Stringham a business card of International Law Foundation of Legal Services and Legal Research Corporation, supposedly in Washington D.C. where she was listed as general chairman. When St. John found she had been discovered, she contacted England Trucking and made an offer to buy the company, with a request first to have a test ride in one of the trucks. She was put on a truck and ended up in St.

George after the company discovered the hoax. St. John showed up at Dixie College Housing Department where she talked to an employee. She told the college employee she planned to lecture at the college and needed a place to live until June 28 because her car was being repaired. On June 28, St.

John asked to stay 10 more days. During this time, she made contact with numerous people, the police report states. A few days later, Cathy Dotson told police she had' hauled St. John around and wined and dined her because St. John was going to buy three condominiums at a development.

Dotson told police St. John had asked her to "give her a ride to the ends of the earth, and asked how to get to 1-15." Following a stakeout by police at the dorms on June 30 and July 1, police arrested St. John on a theft of services charge as she was exiting the St. George Temple where she had been to talk with the temple president. Among the items found in St.

John's belongings, after a search warrant was executed at the Tra-falga Restaurant where she had left her luggage, was a black leather like telephone-address book, three pieces of Dixie College president's letterhead and 11 pieces of Dixie College stationery and three City of St. George envelopes. Det. Dennis Bailey, St. George Police Department's affidavit of probable cause supporting the search warrant, stated that St.

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15, 1937 birthdate. "I have no idea whether she (St. John) has ever been legally em- Eloyed," Bailey told the Daily pectrum. He said the state Attorney General's office, the FBI and St. George Police Department were still investigating her background.

"She is learned on the ways of the world. I think she plays on people's greed," said Bailey. "She is not stupid by any means. She is a pretty good scam artist." Bailey noted he could only find $17 to her name when she was arrested. "As far as I can tell, she has been in Idaho, Montana, New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado, Illinois, and Washington D.C.

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Teams or individuals fielded by Utah Power and Light Huntington, Utah, took first place in every event and finished first and second in two of the four contest areas. John D- Gardner, UW associate professor of mining engineering and contest coordinator, said Monday the 1988 event attracted more than 200 competitors and judges. Competitors represented underground mining companies active in Colorado, Utah and Wyoming. Gardner said individual events were in mine rescue, first aid, a combination of both and the benchman event. Utah Power and Light's Silver Team received the Dragerman Award traveling trophy, carved from a single block of coal, as winner of the combined first aid and rescue event.

Gardner said the top teams will go to national competition in September. Competitors are all regular' miners who are trained to assist fellow miners in the event of cave-ins, mine fires or explosions or other life-threatening disasters. $25,000 in block grants available SALT LAKE CITY (UPI) Community development block grants of up to $1,800 each are available to city neighborhoods as part of a newly created Neighborhood Self-Help Grant Program, Mayor Palmer DePaulis ays. The program, which has earmarked $25,000 for neighborhood projects, requires a 20 percent cash match or an allowable in-kind contribution for eligibility, the mayor said. Neighborhood projects eligible for the grants include planting trees or flowers, clean-up projects, neighborhood fairs, newsletters, and a home repair training program.

"Our neighborhoods are the lifeblood of our community," said DePaulis. "It is essential that we continue to find ways to help our citizens enhance the areas in which they live. The Neighborhood Self-help Program is an exciting step in that direction." Applications are available at the Community Affairs Offica and the Salt Lake Arts Council. Road work to continue WEST VALLEY CITY, Utah (UPI) Road work that has restricted traffic on Interstate Highway 15 between Lehi and the Point of the Mountain will likely continue beyond the original Oct. 22 completion target, officials said Tuesday.

Two shipments of sealant for the road rehabilitation project were determined to be below contract specifications, forcing a delay in work, said Utah Transportation Department spokesman Kevin Beckstrom. The work has caused lane restrictions on the approximately 5-mile stretch of 1-15 since late March, with the three northbound lanes closed and all traffic diverted onto southbound lanes, Beckstrom said. Project engineers Tuesday said the lanes would continue to be closed until Aug. 12, when traffic will be switched to the northbound lanes and the south side of the freeway closed, he said. The $3.9 million project entails replacing deteriorated asphalt shoulders and roadway with new concrete sections, Beckstrom said.

Boy's death investigated OGDEN, Utah (UPI) Police said Tuesday they are investigating the weekend death of a 2-year-old boy as a homicide, but are awaiting autopsy results that could take up to two weeks. Preston Sherman died Sunday night after his mother's boyfriend said he heard the child scream and found him gasping in an Ogden home, according to police. Detective David Lucas said police have suspects in the apparent homicide, but declined further comment pending outcome of the autopsy and the expected filing of charges. lg. I 1c.

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