The Daily Sentinel from Grand Junction, Colorado • 11

ONSIDa Lou Roe was a trophy-winning kisser after Massachusetts beat Temple 70-59 Thursday to win the Atlantic 10 title. For more, see page 4B. Rifle girls fall short 3B Rockets fly by Sonics 4B Sports Shorts 4B Scoreboard 5B The Daily Sentinel Friday, March 11,1 994 Glenwood bench presses La Junta 3B in top form TT 4 Rapist denies violating terms of probation 1 ft 7 IQ 0 report alleges that Smith neglected to make a required report to probation in September 1993; that he had multiple unsupervised contacts with two Mesa County girls between September and November 1993; that he provided alcohol to a minor in September 1993; and that he failed to attend one of his mandated counseling sessions in January 1994. The new violation, filed Wednesday by probation officer Jim Cheney, alleges that Smith has been terminated from the counseling he must attend as part of his probation. I think Mr.

Smith knew this was coming, Glenwood Springs Assistant District Attorney Jane Westbrook said at Thursdays hearing on the new charge. Westbrook prosecuted the Glenwood cases against Smith and is handling the new alleged violations as well. Westbrook also said during the hearing that her office had offered Smith a plea agreement, which he turned down. She declined further comment after the hearing. Smiths attorney, Public Defender Matt Daymon, also declined comment.

Sharyn Wizda Daily Sentinel Glenwood Springs rapist Shannon Bear Smith on Thursday denied charges that he violated his probation by having unsupervised contact with two 17-year-old Mesa County girls. Smith entered an innocent plea to five probation-violation charges ftom last month and to one new charge, that he has been terminated fTom required counseling. A hearing on the charges was set for March 31. Smith, 21, is serving a six-year probation sentence in Mesa County after pleading guilty to four counts of second-degree sexual assault. The incidents the legal equivalent of statutory rape involved a group of four Glenwood Springs girls aged 12 to 14.

His case was moved to Mesa County because of conflicts with Garfield County judges. Mesa County District Judge David Bottger sentenced Smith to probation on the condition that he have no unsupervised contact with girls younger than 18 and that he attend specialized sex-offender counseling. The original probation violation Dean HumphreyDaily Sentinel Derby days The cars didnt use any fuel, but the racing was very real as Cub Scouts in Pack 358 competed in the annual Pinewood Derby. Tyson Moody, 8, left, and Hunter Heinburger, 9, get their cars ready to go head-to-head after the regular race. All Cub Scout packs hold derbies for their scouts and the boys team with their parents to build the wooden cars.

Samsung executives from Korea to train in Grand Junction levels. Ron Bradley, president and executive director of the Center for English and Business Education, said arrangements are being made for the Koreans to divide their local visit between the Grand Junction Hilton and stays with families. Grand Junction is one of four cities where such leadership training will be' delivered between March 27 and April 5. Similar programs will be conducted in Seattle, Pittsburgh and Grand Rapids, Mich. development and marketing strategies.

One of those strategies is to send 400 employees abroad for 12 months. The executives are given no instructions, but are expected to return with intimate knowledge of their host countrys language and culture. A few years later, they will return to that country to push Samsung products. At the end of this five-year program, Samsung will have an army of 2,000 managers honing in on international markets at product-development and marketing company, Samsung is Asias largest non-Japanese conglomerate. Its chairman, educated in Japan and the United States, is targeting those markets with an emphasis on product quality and new marketing strategies.

Lee Kun-Hee reportedly wants Samsung to be one of the worlds 10 largest technological powerhouses. Business Week magazine recently reported that he is revamping Samsungs corporate culture to reorganize investment priorities and focus more tightly on product Ginger Rice Daily Sentinel Thirteen midlevel executives with the Korean Samsung Corp. will visit Grand Junction later this month for a variety of. business training experiences. During their 10-day stay, the executives will conduct community research projects and visit local companies.

They also will learn to make formal presentations, host international guests and become area experts on some aspect of Grand Junction. The training program is sponsored jointly by the Grand Junction-based Center for English and Business Education, an affiliate of the Colorado International Education and Training Institute, and Aspect Korea, a broker for international education. Samsung is a $54 billion conglomerate consisting of some 30 companies, the best-known of which is Samsung Electronics the worlds largest maker of leading-edge memory chips. Founded in 1938 as a rice trading 7-year-old wont take stand; in Nortonsen murder trial Montrose Re-lJ superintendent says hell quit, wants to teach Josephine Adolf and her children a ride to California, where she was going to look for a job. She was unable to find work, and she and her children planned to return tq Grand Junction with Nortonsen.

Nortonsen said that en route to Colorado, in a remote area in eastern Utah, Bobby Adolf fell from the tractor-trailer. Nortonsen was scheduled to go to trial in 1992, but fled the state while out on bond. Nortonsen said he fled because he felt it would be impossible to get a fair trial in Mesa County. Laiche had asked that Nortonsens trial be moved because of pretrial publicity. Adolf had a fractured skull, numerous bruises, what appeared to be rope burns on his arms and legs, and injuries to his penis.

Nortonsen and Adolfs mother, Josephine Adolf, told investigators that the injuries were caused when the boy fell out of the cab of Nortonsens tractor-trailer. Investigators say it appeared that Bobby Adolf was tortured before his death. Josephine Adolf pleaded guilty to child abuse resulting in the death of a child and is serving her sentence. In an exclusive interview with The Daily Sentinel, Nortonsen said he didnt kill Bobby Adolf and never tortured him. Nortonsen said he gave Greg Grant Daily Sentinel A 7-year-old boy who witnessed the death of his brother will not be allowed to testify in the murder trial of Lester Noftonsen.

Chief District Judge Charles Buss made the ruling Thursday during a pretrial hearing. Jury selection for Nortonsen, accused in the 1991 death of 3-year-old Bobby Adolf, is scheduled to begin Monday. Nortonsens attorney, Steve Laiche, said he understood why Buss ruled not to let the 7-year-old boy testify. Laiche said the boy should have been evaluated to see if he was capable of testifying. At the time of his death, Bobby Mesa Mall plans to go smoke-free Stacie Oulton Daily Sentinel MONTROSE The superintendent who took over Montrose County Re-lJ School District during a fierce controversy last year said he will give up the job to return to teaching.

Russ Stone, who has served as superintendent since February 1993, told the school board Wednesday that he will step down from the position at the end of the school year. I just want to get back to the kids, Stone said. He hopes to return to Olathe Elementary School, but that depends on an opening there. The board picked Stone as superintendent after Robert Collins quit during a firestorm that followed his move to demote three principals to teaching positions. Stone said tha effort to find a new superintendent for next school year would begin immediately.

The board also unanimously approved a new sex-education curriculum that removes birth-control information from classroom sessions and teaches that abstinence from sex until marriage is the only approach. Students wanting information on birth control and other controversial sex topics can receive such information during a one-day, off-campus seminar available to dents taking elective health classes that semester. The board and the committee who designed the program said the new approach was innovative and allowed parents to tailor-make what their children will learn about sex at school. The program, which is probationary pending evaluation after three semesters, should satisfy both those who oppose teaching birth-control and those who support it, the committee and board members said. A will retain the right to set their own smoking policies, Paquette said.

Most stores in the mall already have no-smoking policies in place, she noted. To accommodate smokers, Paquette said areas outside the building will be designated for We are trying to create a more pleasant and healthy environment for our employees and customers within the mall, she said. Customers and employees have shared their concerns regarding the harmful effects of breathing secondhand tobacco smoke and were responding to their requests. The new policy will ban smoking in the hallways, the food court and restrooms, but store managers Ginger Rice Daily Sentinel McDonalds did it, the military did it, and on April 1, Mesa Mall is going smoke-free. The timing is coincidental but, clearly, theres less and less public turf on which smokers can light up and puff away.

Laurie Paquette, general manager for Mesa Mall, announced the malls smoke-free policy this morning. i PrattSpecial to The Daily Sentinel Raising the roof Richard Reed of Bob Horinek Construction Co. of Tulsa, works on the Atrium Assisted Living Center at 2840 N. 15th St. Smoke-free policies already are in effect at six shopping centers in Colorado, Paquette said.

Books on sex banned from middle School library Rangely parents also ask for new selection process to screen the books before they hit library shelves principal and three parents who are members of other committees. The school board this week, at the' request of several parents, also asked VanDerWege to review the criteria used in selecting books for school libraries. The parents said they would like a selec-. tion process reviewed to see what can be done to further screen materials in a sensitive area," VanDerWege said. That process is expected to begin soon, he said.

s' C. Patrick Cleary Daily Sentinel Two of three books describing explicit sex acts were banned from the Rangely Middle School Library and a school official said their book-selection process will be reviewed. The two were removed because of their age-appropriateness, said Bob VanDer-Wege, media coordinator for the Rio Blanco County School District Although the material was definitely 4 VanDerWege said the review panel felt the gay teens book contained appropriate material. The review committee took action on the books after at least 60 people twice complained to school officials. The committee is made up of VanDerWege, the school appropriate for that level, they did continue into levels beyond middle-school age.

The two books removed were titled Girls and Sex, and Boys and Sex. The book a review committee left on the shelves is titled Understanding Sexual Identity: Book for Gay Teens..