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7 1 1 I 1 nr7. Easc.12-JwlyH.2Q0Q Utah's longer-term economic outlook remains bright COALVILLE After deliberating less than 2 hours, a jury, consisting of 1 woman and 7 men brought back verdict of child abuse Iwiiuciae, third-degree felony in the State vs. Loren Leavitt Case. Uayitt, Kamas, was accused of killing 22 month old Wyatt Rad mall, son of bis fiancee, GayLynn Goalen on Feb. 15.

Dori Schmalzle, an Air-Med Flight nurse testified, she beard the defon- Summit County Bee I cf 1 S.A.V A According to the Summer 2000 issue of Zions Bank's Insight Economic News ofUtah and the Nation released today, Utahs modest growth pace of the past 30 months rpmai ration track during 2000's first half, a departure from the more powerful growth that occurred during the 1993-1997 period. "This slower, but steady, growth pace is expected to continue during the next 18 months," said Jeff Thredgold, economic consultant to Zions Bank and author of Indight MANTI A former principal of the Manti LDS Seminary and a former director of the Mormon Miracle Pageant, has been acquitted of charges that he molested three different grandchildren. Ronald D. Hall, 69, was acquitted of one count of sexual abuse of grandchild. Hall had formerly been charged with five counts of aggravated sexual abuse of a child, a first-degree felony, which allegedly took place between 1994 and 1999.

Messenger Enterprise JTi r. "The state's tight labor markets will pfini continue indefinitely. Construction BRAND NEW-Walraan in Vernal will be moving into a SupcrWalmart in the near future. The building, which is under construction, is located south of U.S. Highway 40 and not loo far sway from the present PRICE The retrieval of two balloons entangled in power lines in Price proved to be extremely dangerous to Rowlee Hansen.

The 17-year-old Rowlee Hansen, was working on the repair of a fence when the mishap occurred. Using the backhoe, the police chief indicated that Hansen was lifted up to retrieve the first balloon. The resulting explosion blew Hansen o(T the back hoe bucket and rolled the teen backwards. Hansen was listed in critical condition snd (town to the University ofUtah burn center in Salt Lake City. Sun Advocate Phone plan insufficient, American Indians say MOAB When Gov.

Mike Leavitt first announced his Quiet Title initiative to break the logjam of dispute over county road rights, it seemed likely that it might garner the support of every rural Utah county. Pot the Ja rinwnty Cnimniinn, which has taken a leading role in the road rights fight, voted not to join the governor's lawsuit against the federal government. They claimed it doesn't go far enough and would likely be ignored by the Bureau of Land Management. Times Independent members must pay long-distance rates to make calls between the town of Box Elder on the reservation's western edge and Rocky Bqy.just 10 miles awqy. One reason some American Indian reservations face long-distance rates lies in the fact that there are not enough households with telephones for state regulators to justify giving the area more local calling price breaks, FCC officials said.

Officials at Triangle Telephone, which serves the Rocky Bey's reservation and surrounding area, agree that high long-distance telephone bills keep many American Indians from getting telephones. In fact, because of high delinquency rates, the company charges customers a deposit foe double their expected monthly long-distance bill before installing telephone service. FCC officials admit their aid package alone will not put a telephone in every American Indian household. The FCC has other programs to bring more telephones to tribes. For instance, the foderalgovernment is offering the same subsidy to encourage cellular and satellite telephone Navajo who is co-director oi the Harvard University Project on American Indian Economic Development Begay said his 100-year-old grandmother, Elizabeth Begay Just got her fust telephone on the reservation last year and ony because doctors needed to monitor her heart ailmenL The lack of telephone service has crippled economic growth on many reservations, he said.

The FCC, seeking to address the problem, a month ago announced that low-income American Indian households could apply for federal aid to bring their basic monthly telephone bill down to as low as $1. Tribal members can also apply for an additional $100 to cover the cost of the TOOELE Utah Industrial Depot and Portland-based Freightliner Corp. recently struck a lease agreement that will eventually mean over 100 new jobs for Tooele County. Freightliner is a heavy truck manufacturing and sales company owned by Daimler Chrysler Company. The deal with UID is reportedly the first of its kind for Freightliner, which sometime after Aug.

is exported to open an 85,000 square-foot diesel truck refurbishment plant. Transcript-Bulletin activity should ease in comingyears, tied to the completion of various mjor projects. However, momentum budding toward the 2002 Olympics should draw additional investment into the state. Utahs longer-term outlook remains bright" The quarterly Insight publication features updateson current and projected economic and financial developments for the state of Utah, the Intermountain region, and the nation. The Summer 2000 issue also features a focus on women in business.

Following are a few highlights from the "Utah Economic Outlook section of the Summer 2000 issue: Three primary factors continue to impact the Utah economy. The positive factor is global economic strengthening. Impacting Utah negatively is the rising interest rate environment (six monetary tightening moves by the Federal Reserve during the past year) and tight labor availability (Utah maintains one of the nation's tightest labor markets). Utah's jobless rate averaged 2.9 percent during this year's find half, the lowest average rate in 50 years. Average jobless rates in Salt Lake, Davis and Utah Counties were even lower.

The Utah economy added 24,600 jobs during the moat recent 12-month period, a growth rate of 2.4 percent Utah's 2.6 percent job growth rate during 1999 ranked 15 of the 50 states, a major departure from the early to mid 1990s when Utah consistently ranked among the top three states. Updated Census Bureau date notes that during 1999 Utah lost 8.600 more domestic residents than it gained. The net impact is now the slowest Utah population growth rate since 1990. PRICE Several arts of vandalism were orchestrated in the San Rafael Swell. Preliminary investigations indicate vandals knocked down two signs at the intersection of the Buckhorn and Wedge Overlook roads.

The vandals also reportedly set a kiosk on fire at that location and spray painted signs next to the kiosk with bright pinkish red paint. Sun Advocate telephone connection. Un nder the federal A new government plan to bring tribal areas into the 21st century by providing cheap basic telephone service makes a key first step, but is flawed because it does not address the stark economic realities of reservation life, tribal and telecommunications officials said. A break on their local telephone bill does little to help tribes such as theNavqjo, which still lacks the telephone lines to reach many tribal members on the reservation, an area larger than West Virginia. And in states such as Montana, where some reservations are isolated from cities and jobs, low-income tribal households need a break on their longdistance telephone bill, not their local bill, officials said.

"Its really good to do this, but you've got to look at reality," said Russell Standing Rock, a member of Chippewa Cree tribal council on the Rocky Boy's reservation in Montana. Most Americans take telephone service for granted. But on poverty-stricken reservations, particularly in the West, telephones remain ahixury. Only 47 percent of American Indian households have telephones, compared with a national average of 94 percent of households, according to the Federal Communications Commission. On the Navajo reservation, which is the hugest in the nation and sprawls across parts of Arizona, New Mexico and Utah, only 22 percent of households had telephones, the FCC said.

You essentially have Third World country conditions in the world'srich-est nation, said Manley Begay, a plan, local telephone companies receive a subsidy to provide the kre-cost basic service each month. The aid goes into effect Oct. 1 and would be paid for by adding a small fee on the long-distance phone bills of callers across the nation about a penny on a $25 bill. Up to 300,000 American Indian households should benefit from the assistance, FCC Chairman William Kennardsaud. companies to offer service to reservations.

Underground cables would not have to be laid to provide such wireless technology. WASATCH COUNTY Wasatch County has denied two additional requests by Binggeli Rock Products, to construct an asphalt plant at its Daniel-Charleston headquarters. Now, the county is facing a potential lawsuit from the gravel company. The complaint, was filed in Heber Citys 4 District Court the same day the Wasatch County Planning Department formally turned down two separate requests that an asphalt plant ba located in the G-l (grazing) and 1-1 (industrial) sones. Binggeli's complaint alleges that Wasatch County acted in an "arbitrary capricious and "erroneous manner by denying the permit The Wasatch Wav Reprinted with permueion of the Sail Like Tribune.

But Navajo spokesman Ray Baldwin Louis said such assistance will not help many of the 270,000 people on the reservation. It can cost too much about $100,000 for the local phone company. Citizens Communications, to run telephone lines to remote tribal areas, Louis and phone company officials said. In Montana, Chippewa Cree tribal ohhb V' V. -4 a IS -Li The Duchesne County Chamber of Commerce would like to thank High Valley Nursery fir providing the plants and Pauline Scott-fir the beautiful job she did on the main street planters.

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