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Tl IE DAILY Spectrum 4A Utah And The West Sunday, August 23, 1992 Utah Briefs ytalfo ffaires i 1v, 1 r- whipped by winds cials believe lightning ignited the dry grass and shrub. As embers at Little Sahara cooled Saturday, Cache Valley was filled with smoke from the Golden Spike fire, believed sparked by a welder's torch Friday afternoon. The Box Elder County Sheriff's Department reported that firefighters had contained the blaze by mid-day and a skeleton crew was keeping a watch against any hot spots rekindling. About 70 firefighters struggled to gain the upper hand on an obstinate blaze devouring in brush and forest lands along the Stansbury Mountains west of Grantsville in Tooele County. The Interagency Fire Center in Salt Lake City reported the Stansbury fire, fanned by 80 mph winds overnight, grew 250 acres before crews halted the spread and resumed cutting fire lines around the flames.

At one point Friday, the strong winds forced a helicopter that was dropping water on the flames to land. Authorities believe lightning sparked the fire on Wednesday. Barring any recurrence of overnight winds, firefighters expected to contain the blaze by 6 p.m. Sunday. No injuries or structural damage were reported in any of the fires.

Lynndyl blaze extinguished, others rage on LYNNDYL (AP) Firefighters extinguished a grass fire near the Little Sahara recreation area but crews continued to struggle Saturday with wind-whipped blazes in western Utah's deserts and mountains. The largest, estimated at 3,500 acres, was being brought to heel near the Golden Spike Historical Monument in northwestern Utah's Box Elder County. In the west desert's Stansbury Mountains, a 750-acre fire was burning. On Friday night, firefighters doused stubborn hot spots and then were pulled off lines around the Little Sahara fire, seven miles north of the Millard County town of Lynndyl. Bert Hart, Bureau of Land Management spokesman, said 15 firefighters, four engines and a bulldozer had battled the blaze to containment by 3:30 p.m.

MDT. Three hours later, aided by calmed winds, crews declared control of the 5-mile-long, 1-mile-wide blaze. Bureau of Land Management engines and crews from Juab and Millard County were first dispatched to the blaze about 3:30 p.m. Thursday. Fire offi CASPER, Wyo.

Natrona County Sheriff Dave Dovala sits on the Fremont Canyon Bridge. 40 miles southwest of Casper on Aug. 14. Rebecca Thomson Brown apparently plunged to her death from the bridge Nearly 1 9 years before she from the same span by attackers abducted, raped and beat the her 1 1 -year-old sister. The sister Brown managed to survive.

(AP) Navajos remember soldiers and enemy-defying code i Death scene based on their language. There are no words in Navajo for modern armaments, so the code-talkers substituted words for plants and animals. They used the Navajo word for frog, "ch'al," for amphibious operations or equipment. Potatoes became grenades, eggs were bombs and America, "nihima" literally, "our mother." The Japanese never broke the code, because Navajo is an unwritten language and because of the use of substitute words as a "code within a code." "We had code words for everything from dive bombers to battleships. There were hundreds of words to memorize," said Foster, now 68.

He returned to the reservation after the war and became an interpreter for the Public Health Service at Fort Defiance, Ariz. While the Japanese didn't understand the code, they did know that the radio marked the code-talkers as important, Foster recalled. "You'd have to send that message quick and get out because if the Japanese spotted you with a radio, they'd throw everything they had at you," he said. Ccde-talkers were routinely assigned bodyguards; one of Foster's was shot dead beside him on Iwo Jima. Foster himself was wounded superficially in the on July 3 1 was thrown who woman and died, but Minister seeks permission to be Catholic priest married with children Unwritten language stifles Japanese threat by Bob Mills Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY -When Japan bombed Pearl Harbor, Harold Foster knew little of what lay beyond the desert sands and redrock country of the Navajo Reservation.

But he and hundreds of other Navajos answered the call to arms as Marine Corps "code-talkers," using an intricate code crafted from the Navajo tongue to. baffle Japanese intelligence uuring wona war li, JMany, plaa tojreumte at, the Native American Veteran's Me- morial Association, which begins here Thursday. Foster, who joined the Marines at 16 with his parents' permission, translated and transmitted critical information for artillery and aerial bombardment of enemy positions. He served in Pacific campaign battles including Tarawa and Iwo Jima. The code was invented early in the war, after the Japanese had broken several other U.S.

codes. Marine officials asked Navajo servicemen to invent a code Abduction ordeal ends on viewer tip SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -A woman who allegedly kidnapped her grandson two years ago was arrested after a Salt Lake viewer recog nized the woman from a tele vision show. Patricia Farmer was being held in Salt Lake County Jail Saturday for investigation of custodial interference and kidnapping charges. KUTV television reported Saturday that she was arrested by FBI agents and sheriff's deputies at an area residence. The boy was unharmed.

The FBI's Salt Lake City office said it could neither confirm nor deny "the report. However, Salt Lake County Jail records established that a Patricia Farmer, 60, had been booked into jail early Friday morning. KUTV reported that her grandson, 5-year-old Jarrod Lee Peters, had been reunited with his mother, La-donna Morrow, of Lovington, N.M., at an undisclosed Salt Lake location Saturday morning. The boy's story had been broadcast recently on the TV shows "Unsolved Mysteries" and "Maury Povich." A viewer called the state Department of Human Services after recognizing Farmer. The agency reportedly then notified the FBI.

Banned trucks must avoid canyon SALT LAKE CITY (AP) The Utah Transportation Commission has banned trucks carrying hazardous materials from Provo Canyon, forcing some drivers to detour miles from their cur rent routes. The resolution, Sept. 20, forbids the jjui t. oi me materia ojj, u.q, Highway 189 between Olms- tead and Heber City. The goal is to prevent contamina tion to drinking water.

UDOT's decision on Friday follows a June 8 spill of ammonium nitrate fertilizer from a tanker truck that rolled from the highway and landed in the Provo River. If the tank had ruptured. large amounts of chemicals could have polluted the river, wnicn supplies water for residents in two counties. The Central Utah Water Conservancv District asked for better truck traffic control in the canyon followine the accident. But the ban could hinder companies such as Premium Oil of North Salt Lake, which nils oil trucks in eastern Utah and usually uses the highway to reach the south ern part oi tne state.

A detour through Parleys Canyon will add 100 miles to the trip, at $1 per mile in added operating costs, said Rulon Hymas, Premium's transportation chief. Regional Briefs Man mauled by bear at Glacier BABB, Mont. (AP) A 47-year-old man was mauled by a bear in Glacier National Park, suffering serious puncture wounds and cuts, officials said late Friday. The victim was not immediately identified. Park officials said the man was hiking along the Swift-current Pass Trail about four miles from the trialhead when the incident occurred.

It was unknown whether the black or grizzly bear was involved. The wonded hiker was carried by park employees to the trailhead and taken by ambulance to Browning where he was prepared for an emergency helicopter flight to Columbus Hospital in Great Falls. The Swif tcurrent Pass Trail was immediately closed from the trailhead at Many Glacier, to Swiftcurrent Pass until further notice, of leg there by mortar shell fragments. Others, such as Thomas Claw, were wounded while substituting for their buddies on the front lines. Claw was wounded by a Japanese grenade after he volunteered to relieve tired Marines standing guard on Okinawa.

"I was lucky. All I got was shrapnel below my eye and cheek," said Claw, who lives off the reservation in Parker, Ariz. Nevertheless, only six of the 400 Navajos who became Marine code-talkers died in combat. About 300 are still living, according to the veterans group. SAKE'S ALIVE 1 MISTRESS BAGLEY'S 45 HAPPY BIRTHDAY Eduard Perelygin Eduard, 19, is on the Russian championship-winning mixed couple team.

He and his partner captured the '90 and 91 USSR championship and the 1992 CIS silver medal. He enjoys all spectator sports and enjoys playing basketball. MEET 6 OF THE WORLD'S GREATEST ATHLETES mri i ur mt vvumlu OHAMHUN ACROGYMNASTICS TEAM OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF INDEPENDENT STATES (THE FORMER SOWET UlSoN) SEE THEM AND THEIR TEAMMATES TOMORROW NIGHT! SANDY (AP) Former United Methodist minister Robert Taylor is seeking permis--sion from the pope to become a Eqpian priest a priest carried, with children. "One night I woke up very comfortable. I felt God was calling me," Taylor said in a copyright article of The Salt Lake Tribune.

"It's the end of one journey and the beginning of another." Taylor converted to Roman Catholicism after service as a United Methodist minister in Bedford, and while there are no married Catholic priests in the Utah diocese, there is precedent. Nationally, 75 former Episcopalian priests are serving as married Catholic priests, said the Rev. Jim Parker, a South Carolina priest who oversees the transition of former Episcopal priests into the Catholic Church's priesthood. At least four others, including two former Lutheran and two g- mi-: DAILY B3 Spectrum USPS 307290 PUBLISHED SEVEN DAYS A WEEK. EVENINGS MONDAY THROUGH FRIDAY AND MORNINGS SATURDAY AND SUNDAY.

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former Methodist clergymen, also serve as married Catholic priests. "In 1981, the Holy See granted a nrovision where marriprl Episcopal, priests could convert and be granted the priesthood, Parker said. "A few Protestant ministers have inquired, but when a former Protestant minister asks, his bishop deals directly with Rome. The pastoral provision was set up for Episcopalians." The distinction between Episcopalians and Protestants is based on the Episcopal Church's connections with the Church of England, which was a "Catholic body" in spirit and practice, Parker said. But the Catholic Diocese of Salt Lake is optimistic about Taylor's chances of approval from Rome.

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She is a student of the Pedagogical Institute. She is 19 years old and loves the outdoors and watching television. She also likes gymnastics and swimming. Vasha Ambrofobs A member of the men's four team which won the championship of Russia, Europe, and the world, as wel as capturing the World Cup. Vasha loves al kinds of sports, especially soccer, basketbal, and voleybaL He is 29 years oU and the father of a daughter and a son.

He hobs a bache- bt's degree and coaches. I 1 I ton 4 -i- 1 I Aksana Perervoirm Ivan Chernov With his three teammates, rvan has won charnpionships of Russia, Europe, and the world. He is also holder of the 1991 World Cup in men's four oomoetbon. He holds a bachelor's degree and likes to study business and spend time with his wife and two Daughters. He is 32 years old.

Aksana is a 15-year-old high school student at Olympic Reserves School. She and her partner are the current mixed couple champions of Russia. She is also a 1990 and 1991 USSR diarnpion and 1992 CIS siver medaJst Aksana Ikes to participate in gymnastics, and she ikes to IgorYakushov Igor's men's four team has captured the World Cup as well winning the championship of Russia, Europe, and of the world. He is 29 years old and hobs a bachelor's degree; he is sM study-hg on the university level He and his wife have one son. Igor Ikes basketbal, acrobat- a ii iot cs, and rearing.

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