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Cedar City (: Saturday December 10, 2005 Tabernacle Choir blends Seattle flies past PARTLY CLOUDY High 45 360 voices into holiday Utah, 106-90 LUW 13 1' Page B6 Page 45 Page Bl EW 1 yt fcs 'gift off top Huntsman's fiscal plan targets surplus for education, transportation duce the budget that I think blends our state's prosperity with what some of our growing needs are." Overall the $9.6 billion budget proposal for fiscal year 2006-2007 represents an increase of 6.9 percent over the current budget year, which ends June 30. State economists are projecting Utah will end this fiscal year with a record $344 Morning briefing China returns equipment Thousands of pounds of medical equipment ranging from stained bedding, surgical clothes, and expired medical equipment reportedly donated to China by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints will be returned. A4 similar rate change, although Speaker of the House Greg Curtis, R-Sandy, has said the GOP-controlled House would like to see a larger tax cut. In a statement issued late Friday, Lyle Hillyard, R-Logan, the Senate's chairman of the Executive Appropriations Committee, complimented Huntsman on his budget priorities and ex- By JENNIFER DOBNER Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY If Gov. Jon Huntsman gets his way, Utah's budget for the next fiscal year will reduce taxes and give the largest boost in state history to pro grams for education and transportation.

"I think we can summarize by saying this year's budget is a lot more Santa than Scrooge," Huntsman said at a news conference Friday in his Capitol Hill office. "I'm pleased to intro Patience a virtue with efforts to move historic house Towing group complains of favoritism ft jl BU IfcsTr C- 4-! HIM f'i X' Association concerned about sheriffs' tow calls By ELIZABETH CARLILE ecarlilethespectrum.com CEDAR CITY The Southern Utah Tower's Association will confront the Iron County Commissioners at the commission meeting Monday because the association is upset about towing abandoned cars and the favoritism to certain towing companies. "It has the potential to get real ugly," said SUTA Vice President Wayne Hall. "We've had it, and we're not taking it anymore. Our businesses are so down that we've got nothing to lose." Hall said the association is going to the commissioners 'because they oversee the Iron County Sheriff's Office, which is where they say part of the problem lies.

Hall explained that there pressed support for tax revisions that won't harm infrastructure, schools or other state programs. Huntsman's budget closely links Utah's economic future to the state's secondary and higher education systems. Overall, Huntsman is asking for a $68.4 million increase in spending to spur economic development. If You Go WHAT: Iron County Commission meeting WHEN: 9 a.m. Monday WHERE: Iron County Courthouse, 68 100 East, Parowan.

INFORMATION: To view the complete agenda, go to www.ironcoun-ty.net on the Internet. is rotation for tow-truck drivers and the sheriff's office subscribes to the service through Cedar City Communications Dispatch, but deputies will only utilize certain towers. "Certain companies are profiting off of this, and others are struggling," he said. "We need to have a law, rule or ordinance in place." The other issue the association is upset about is towing abandoned cars. See TOWING on A8 How To Help I To contribute to the 3rd Annual Tombstone Tribute, contact Julie Dennett at 586-5074.

There are also T-shirts and hoodies from this year's event. All proceeds will go toward the 2006 concert. brother Lance was killed in a car accident. Her own family didn't have enough money for the needed grave marker. Lance Dennett played in several bands, so the bands had the Halloween concert to raise money for a marker.

Last year the tribute generated $1,800 and this year, it generated "I asked the people at Cedar Memorial and the cemetery about people who didn't have a headstone," Julie Dennett said. "One lady died in 1999 and the husband has been paying on her headstone, so it was paid off." See HEADSTONES on A8 million in surplus revenue. Huntsman's budget sets $60 million in tax cuts as part of a proposed overhaul of the state's tax code that would drop the income tax rate most Utahns pay from 7 percent to 5 percent and could include a repeal of the sales tax on food. A legislative task force which has studied Utah's tax code is recommending a Cedar City's historic pioneer home, the Joseph S. Hunter House, gets some "cribbing" work from house-movers on Thursday in preparation for the move to the Iron Mission State Park.

Tomi Green Submitted was a child. I passed her house going to and from, because I lived two blocks south, up the street, and it was always just a magnificent house as far as a little girl was concerned." See HUNTER on A8 lowed him," Hughes said. The car entered the 55 mph section of the gorge and began to speed up, allegedly reaching 90 mph. Hughes said Worthington knew the highway patrol was following him, but kept passing cars at high speeds. Hughes did not try to stop Worthington in the See CHASE on A8 Tomi Green Submitted cation.

The house will be moved to the Iron Mission State Park and Museum after the Christmas holiday. A crew from Robert E. Wells Housemovers works Thursday to lift the east side of the 1886 Joseph S. Hunter House in preparation for relo- I 1 ITALY GHANA II U.S. faces tough World Cup draw South American powers Brazil and Argentina drew European opponents they might want to avoid in the first round of the World Cup.

That was still better than the United States, which got double trouble with the announcement of the 2006 World Cup draw on Friday. B6 Runway concerns renewed A deadly accident in which a Boeing 737 slid off a snowy runway brought renewed demand for safety measures. A1 2 Delta unfazed by pilots' decision Delta Air Lines, Inc. says the decision by its pilots union to ask rank-and-file members to authorize a strike doesn't change the company's position on its need for $325 million in concessions. CI Feedback sought on storage site The federal Bureau of Land Management plans to ask Utahns to comment on a proposed temporary nuclear waste dump in Skull Valley, a move opponents hope could lead the agency to block access to the site.

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Spectrum 674-6212 Daily News GAWJETT 586-7646 2005 The Spectrum 50 CENTS. Tombstone Tribute helps Cedar families obtain headstones Hunter House relic on wheels, but not rolling By JENNIFER WEAVER jweaverad.gannett.com CEDAR CITY Waiting patiently has been the theme surrounding the rescue and restoration of the Joseph S. Hunter House, which will be moved to the Iron Mission State Park and Museum sometime after Christmas a month later than anticipated. Peg Thorley, a dependent of Hunter, said patience is a family virtue she learned as a child visiting her great aunt Mattie Booth, the youngest daughter of Hunter. She reflected on experiences where patience was How To Help To donate to the Hunter House project, make checks payable to the Iron Mission Museum Foundation.

Make a notation that your donation is for the Hunter House, and mail or drop it off to: 635 N. Main Street, Cedar City, UT 84720. shared, which keeps her optimistic for the day when the house will be in a safe, secure place and used for educational and historical purposes. i "Aunt Mattie got the house, and she'd call us down in the summertime to teach us how to read. She was also my first-grade teacher, and I had some friends who rented the upstairs and I remem- Washington City, did not roll, however.

Worthington was arrested by the Utah Highway Patrol and booked into Purgatory Correctional Facility on a charge of reckless driving. Trooper Steve Hughes of the Arizona Highway Patrol said the incident began at 1-15 mile marker 9 near Beaver Dam when Worthington driving a By ELIZABETH CARLILE ecarlilethespectrum.com CEDAR CITY The second annual Tombstone Tribute a benefit concert and costume party that took place just before Halloween raised enough money to give headstones to five families. Sandra Burchard, whose son Thomas Culley died after falling from the Center Street bridge over Coal Creek in September, was one of the recipients. "When you go through the death of a child, it's always hard," she said. "But somehow they've lifted some of that weight off my shoulders." Burchard went by the Cedar City Cemetery Friday and saw the grave marker for the first time.

"If it hadn't been for Julie, my son would still only have a temporary marker," Burchard said. "I just went and saw it this morning and it's beautiful." Julie Dennett was the tribute chairwoman. The event was created after her High-speed chase ends with near-rollover ber being there a lot then," Thorley said. "My mother would also send me down to Aunt Mattie's to get some herbs that they used in the olden days called marshmallow tea. "It was still growing in Aunt Mattie's yard when I white 1992 Infiniti G20 allegedly began to pace Hughes at 87 mph.

Hughes stopped the car at mile marker 12 and gave him a citation for speeding. Though Hughes said he djd not have any reason to detain Worthington, he felt something was not quite right. "I had an instinct, so I kept my camera on and fol- By BRIAN PASSEY bpasseythespectrum.com ST. GEORGE A high-speed chase through the Virgin River Gorge ended when a man reportedly tried to flip his car on Interstate 15 just south of St. George.

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