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T7 Cedar City Daily News Tuesday May 27, 2003 Field of dreams A Washington City boy finds his own field of dreams Page B3 Stopping surfing Businesses wrestle with limiting employees' Web surfing Page ci HOT AND SUNNY High 91 Low 53 Page B6 7 KMBE j. i Remembering the dead Morning briefing Foreign students return to Utah Two foreign students and researchers at the University of Utah are back in Utah eight months after making an emergency trip to China and then having their return blocked by U.S. authorities. A2 Kira Horvath AP Linda Lodmell, the great-grandmother of missing 19-month-old Acacia Bishop, speaks about her daughter Kelly Jean Lodmell during a news conference Monday in Salt Lake City. Looking on is Acacia Bishop's parents Adam Bishop, left, and Casey Lodmell.

police capture Utah suspect in Eiidnao case -W "1 vf 1 Jit Hi, Jw-T -v't'V' rt'fc I V. The child's abduction Sunday evening set off a national Amber Alert early Cedar veterans honor bombardier from World War II By ELIZABETH MILLER emille2thespectrum.com CEDAR CITY Families, friends and patriots gathered Monday at local cemeteries to pay tribute to military personnel who have died for the cause of freedom and to show their respect for the Memorial Day holiday. 'This is Memorial Day," Leon Matheson, a Vietnam veteran, said. "It's always nice to remind people of the sacrifices people made." Matheson said such a small sacrifice is required by people today, compared to the sacrifice that was made by people who fought in the war. American Legion Post 74 chose to honor war hero and Cedar City resident Harry Sonntag, a World War II veteran, who was a bombardier.

Although he was honored for his military services, his thoughts were elsewhere. "I think more of the ones that lost their lives," Sonntag said. "So many died and they were all good men and good friends. They paid the awful price." Sonntag was ejected from a plane at 3,500 feet and pulled his ripcord, which Paul Warby, World War II veteran from Cedar City, said was a big mistake. German fighters started shooting at him until an.

American P-51 shot down the German plane that was firing the shots. "That was a chancy moment with all four guns going right at me," Sonntag said. "I don't know how they missed me, I wasn't even nicked." Warby, who was the voice giving recognition to Sonntag, said Sonntag really wants to meet that American pilot who saved him. Sidney Rodabough, a retired "flying tiger" who now lives in West Jordan, made it to the Parowan celebration but regretted he was not in his uniform. "If I knew this was happening, I would have worn See MEMORIAL on A5 Elizabeth Miller Daily News From left, Don Snyder, a WWII veteran City and Bruce Winslow, a Vietnam veter-from Cedar City; Phil Adrian of Enoch; an from Las Vegas, help raise the flag at Richard Gunn, a WWII veteran from Cedar the Cedar City Cemetery on Monday.

Veteran numbers up in Utah Reward issued for missing coin A nationwide bounty hunt is under way with a $1 million reward. The target: a 90-year-old nickel. The whereabouts of the last of five Liberty Head nickels has confounded collectors for at least 40 years. A7 Crowd drawn to Oklahoma bridge Interstate traffic over the Arkansas River went on Monday, even as hundreds stopped on a nearby bank to remember 14 people killed when the same span collapsed a year ago. A3 Plane crashes in Turkey; 75 killed An airplane carrying Spanish peacekeepers back from Afghanistan crashed into a fog-shrouded mountain in northeastern Turkey and exploded Monday, killing all 75 people aboard.

A7 U.S. hands Iraqis $1 million a day American troops and officials are handing out $1 million a day in Iraq, according to the Pentagon-led Office of Reconstruction and Humanitarian Assistance. That spending is in addition to multimillion-dollar contracts awarded by the State Department and the roughly $1 billion a week it takes to keep U.S. troops in Iraq. A7 Big trouble in Chinatown In Chinatown, the signs of a community in trouble are as obvious as the advertisements for SARS prevention and the sales at the jewelry stores on Canal Street.

Tourism has plummeted since the Sept. 11 attacks. B6 Inside Today Answerline Around Town A4 Obituaries B6 Opinion Snapshots C4 B1 State SW Living CI TV Grid C2. B6 World Classifieds C5 Comics Crossword C7 Local Movies Nation J6 Subscriber Service If you haven't received your newspaper by 7 a.m. call Subscriber Service before 10 a.m.

and a copy will be sent Spectrum 674-6212 Daily News GANNETT 586-7646 2003 The Spectrum all veterans. Civilian veterans are defined by the census as anyone older than 18 who is currently not on active duty but who once served on active duty in the U.S. Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, Coast Guard or as a Merchant Marine in World War II. The area of Cache, a census-designated place in Cache County, has 55.6 percent veterans. Also in the top 20 most saturated veteran towns are Rockville, Kanab and Scipio.

Although the total number of veterans decreased, the number of women veterans increased nationally by about 500,000 to a total of 1.6 million. nor's Office of Planning and Budget, i Ashdown cited the 4,000 National Guard members and 1,500 reservists in Utah who were activated for the war in Iraq. "Utah had one of the largest active contingencies in the nation when measured by the percentage of population," he said. The bulk of Utah's living veterans 3 1 .7 percent served in the Vietnam era. World War II vets were the second-largest group in the state with 22.1 percent, followed by Korean conflict veterans with 15.4 percent.

Gulf War veterans and those serving in active duty in August 1990 or later comprised 13.2 percent of. Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY The nation's population of war veterans decreased in the past decade, but the number in Utah increased during that period, according to Census Bureau figures. In 2000, there were 161,351 veterans in Utah, 10.7 percent of the civilian population 18 and older. That was up from 146,630 in 1990. Nationally, the number of veterans went from 27.5 million in 1990 to 26.4 million in 2000.

"It isn't surprising. Utah citizens have always contributed to the country's armed services at a very high rate," said Neil Ashdown, deputy director of the Gover Police search Snake River for missing toddler By C.G. WALLACE Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY Police on Monday detained a Utah woman accused of abducting her 19-month-old granddaughter and taking her to Idaho. Divers searched the Snake River for the child after the woman, described as a paranoid schizophrenic, told authorities she lost control of the girl while dangling her feet in the water. Kelley Jean Lodmell, 38, ran to a nearby power plant and told an employee that the child was lost in the river at Idaho Falls, Idaho.

Twelve dive teams were searching the murky river while police dogs and officers scoured a nearby park for the girl, Acacia Patience Bishop. Idaho Falls Police Sgt. Steve Hunt said the only evidence of the girl found so far was a pair of baby shoes and a doll left on the river bank. "We can't say positively that the baby went into the water, though that's what the grandma said originally," Hunt said. "But there's information that leads us to believe the original story may not be accurate." He refused to elaborate.

Lodmell was emotional but cooperating with police, he said. more than $28 million over the next four years. Instead, the bill was amended and passed by the committee, and on Monday the full Assembly accepted the amendments. The revisions include one to automatically repeal the change if the federal standard is no longer in place; and another to change the measure's effective date to just one week before the federal requirement becomes active. Assemblywoman Chris Giunchigliani, D-Las Vegas, sponsored the amendment, but said she still won't support the bill because of the federal arm-twisting.

While testimony in the Ways and Means Committee focused on fiscal issues, the Assembly Judiciary Committee's earlier hearing on AB7 considered the bill for its public policy issues. Laurel Stadler, of Mothers Against Drunk Driving, said Bishop Monday. Lodmell and the child were last seen at the home of the child's great-grandparents in Salt Lake County at 6 p.m. Sunday. Lodmell, described by authorities and family members as a transient and paranoid schizophrenic, was found at Idaho Falls.

The girl was last seen Sunday night when Lodmell checked into an Idaho Falls hotel along the Snake River. The clerk said he noticed nothing unusual about the pair. Salt Lake County Sheriff Aaron Kennard said. Authorities are hoping Lodmell 's account of losing the baby in the Snake River was false and that the child might be found safe somewhere else, Salt Lake County Sheriff's Department spokeswoman Peggy Faulkner said. Lodmell was cooperating with investigators but was frequently changing her story, Faulkner said.

Ken Lawson, dispatch supervisor with Idaho Falls Power, said the woman ran into the hydropower plant just after noon on Monday. See ALERT on A5 driving limit lowering the legal BAC level won't necessarily affect the number of people arrested for driving drunk, but it would serve as a general deterrent for all drivers. She said 100 lives would have been saved in Nevada if the Legislature had changed the law in the early 1990s. Similar proposals has been before the Nevada Legislature six times before now. At least three of those earlier efforts stalled in Ways and Means.

Assemblyman Mark Manendo, the bill's sponsor, said he's taken part in numerous drinking studies to show the effects of alcohol on reaction time and other critical driving skills. "Make no mistake about it, when you're at 0.08, you are impaired," said Manendo, D-Las Vegas. At least 34 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico have all adopted the 0.08 standard. Nevada to vote on drunken Toronto back on SARS list IF I "1 I IS CLOSED untIl FURTHERS ft LL BEN KIECKHEFER Associated Press CARSON CITY, Nev. When Congress approved a nationwide 0.08 drunken driving standard it was viewed as a way to lower alcohol-related car crashes.

But money seemed to be the main factor that finally got Nevada's version of the standard to the Assembly floor for a vote. An Assembly vote to move AB7 to the Senate is expected in a day or two a vote that followed a key committee chairman's refusal to accept a motion to kill the measure and leave Nevada with its current 0.10 blood-alcohol standard. Ways and Means Chairman Morse Arberry, D-Las Vegas, wouldn't accept the motion last Friday from Assemblyman Bob Beers, R-Las Vegas. Arberry said the state couldn't afford to lose federal highway funding By TOM COHEN Associated Press TORONTO Precautions at Toronto hospitals since last month's SARS outbreak failed to prevent dozens of possible new cases, health officials conceded Monday as the World Health Organization put Canada's largest city back on its list of SARS-affected places. The WHO designation is routine for transmission of new cases of severe acute respiratory syndrome and a spokesman for the U.N.

agency said Toronto was nowhere near another WHO warning against travel to the city. Elsewhere, the number of new cases reported in China was down to eight, while Taiwan reported 15. The health chief for Taiwan's capital resigned to take responsibility for a SARS outbreak at a hospital. Kevin Frayer AP A hospital worker wears protective clothing as he stands in the doorway of the closed emergency ward at North York General Hospital in Toronto on Monday. ther spread while investigating how eight probable new cases and 26 suspected cases slipped through upgraded monitoring and reaction systems designed to catch SARS.

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