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4VOEBZ /PWFNCFS ridgerland " Local, state and regional news Retiring USU rocket team rocks Endeavour launch By Kim Burgess their roles in the construction of staff writer the contest’s winning rocket and legislators why they wanted careers in the A group of Aggies stood three aerospace industry. miles from the space shuttle Bowen Masco described how he taking lots Endeavour on Friday night found his passion fooling around — close enough to feel the ground with equipment when he was a kid, shake during its launch under a full an interest that threatened to get of money moon. him in trouble when he broke the The nine students earned the trip family computer. Luckily, he man- SALT LAKE CITY (AP) to Florida for winning the grand aged to fix it in three hours and has — Utah legislators retiring this prize in the 2008 NASA University been putting things together ever year are leaving with hundreds Student Launch Initiative competi- since. of thousands of dollars they can tion, which took place in Alabama “I find this awe inspiring to be spend anyway they want from in April. out here,” he told Talley. campaign accounts. During their time at the Kennedy A few of the students said they In all, 18 lawmakers are leav- Space Center, the team also got know they are in the right field ing office, some by choice and a bit of the star treatment, being because they always look up with others by defeat on Election Day. interviewed for a NASA Web cast excitement when a plane or heli- They include House Speaker that was broadcast live on the copter flies overhead. Greg Curtis, R-Sandy. The organization’s Digital Learning For them, seeing a space shuttle AP photo Deseret News reports that Curtis Network site. blast off was the thrill of a lifetime. Space shuttle Endeavour lifts off from pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center — defeated by a Democrat on The broadcast’s host, Damon on Friday in Cape Canaveral, Fla. Space shuttle Endeavour’s seven-member Nov. 4 — has $380,000 between Talley, asked the students about See USU on A9 crew is on a mission to the International Space Station. two political accounts. Defeated Sen. Carlene Walker, R-Cottonwood Heights, has $32,000. Retiring Sens. Darin Valley activism Air Force Peterson, R-Nephi, has nearly $30,000, and Dan Eastman, R- Bountiful, $22,000. wants more Utah allows campaign cash to be spent any legal way. Lawmak- Making their case space at ers can keep the money, give it away or save it for a future test range campaign. One lawmaker, The Gay rights activists march on downtown Logan Deseret News reported, even LAYTON (AP) — The drew on his account to supple- By Devin Felix U.S. Air Force is underesti- ment his wages last year, taking staff writer mating the noise and impact $6,300. that more combat operations Legislators take a daily stipend About 50 people gathered would have at the Utah Test that adds up to about $15,000 a on Logan’s Main Street on and Training Range, mili- year and receive generous health Saturday as one in a series of tary watchdogs and conser- insurance at little cost. demonstrations nationwide vation groups say. Eastman told the newspaper in favor of gay rights. The Air Force wants to fly that he plans to give half of his Holding handmade signs fighter jets more often and $22,000 to charity, much of the bearing slogans such as at lower altitude over the rest to other politicians and keep “When do I get to vote on White Elk Military Operat- some for himself. He joked that your marriage?” and “Love ing Area and push the low- he has no plans to buy a plasma is for everyone,” the dem- altitude operations father television set. onstrators gathered outside into Nevada, officials at Hill Eastman said there’s no need City Hall before marching for limits on campaign spending. Air Force Base in Layton up and down Main Street as said Saturday. The equation, he said, is sim- they chanted and sang. ple: “You elect honorable people, It also wants to fly jets at supersonic speeds at higher and they will use it in honorable To view an audio slide show ... ways.” altitudes over the parts of Eastman was one of few legis- Look Online Nevada’s White Pine and Elko counties, said Barbara lators willing to speak about his hjnews.com leftover money. Fisher, an environmental “I hope we raise aware- affairs spokeswoman for ness that there are people in Hill Air Force Base. In brief Logan and Cache Valley that The sonic booms could support equality for gay, les- be heard every other flying bian, bisexual and transgen- day, according to a draft Salt Lake County dered people,” said Josh Der, environmental impact state- one of the event’s organizers. ment. jail staffing down, The protest came together Thursday was the final quickly because organizers day for public comment on overtime rising weren’t aware of the national that document — and critics SALT LAKE CITY (AP) effort until this week, Der had plenty to say, according — The cost of paying overtime said. Organizers applied with to accounts in three Utah to guards at the understaffed Logan city for a permit to Photos by Meegan M. Reid/Herald Journal newspapers. Sale Lake County jail has nearly demonstrate on Thursday Maya Vandygriff Stephens, 2, holds a “Why Do You Hate” sign as she sits atop Paul Rogers’ The Air Force study says tripled. and got the permit Friday, he shoulders during a demonstration in favor of gay rights on Saturday in Logan. the new operations would The Salt Lake Tribune reports said. cover an area of 1.6 million the overtime bill climbed to $3.2 Maure Smith, program acres, which equals 2,500 million last year, up from $1.1 coordinator of GLBTA square miles. million in 2003. Services at Utah State Uni- Sorties over the entire Jail chief Rollin Cook says the versity, said she was thrilled test range would increase to jail has dozens of unfilled posi- with the turnout at such a 9,600 a year, up from 400. tions. hastily organized event and Pilots could drop chaff Council member Mike Crock- stressed that neither she nor — explosives filled with ett says guard pay isn’t attractive her office had organized it. aluminum strips to throw enough. “I think that people in off radar-guided missiles — Guards are logging more Utah have wanted to do and flares, which can divert hours. The Deseret News report- something for a long time,” heat-seeking missiles. ed a year ago that guards were Smith said of the larger-than- “They wouldn’t propose working 12 to 16 hours a day. expected turnout. “There are doing this over Ogden The Utah State Prison has a people who think equality or Salt Lake City,” said hard time keeping jobs filled too. is valuable and this is some- Grace Potorti, a member thing they could do.” of the Reno, Nev.-based The effort came in Rural Alliance for Military New wind farm in response to laws banning Accountability. Utah’s west desert gay marriage passed earlier The 400,000-member this month by voters in Cali- Aircraft Owners and Pilots breaks ground fornia, Arizona, Florida and Association says the Air MILFORD (AP) — A wind Arkansas, Der said. Force failed to look at the farm in Utah’s west desert will The demonstrators avoid- effect more military flights start with 97 giant turbines. ed walking in front of the would have on civil and Newton, Mass.-based First Demonstrators in favor of equal rights for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered people commercial aviation. The Wind held a groundbreaking Fri- See MARCH on A9 walk down Main St. in Logan on Saturday. Air Force study says it took day. It already was building gravel those concerns into consid- roads and delivering blades to the eration. site 10 miles northeast of Milford. “This is a new special First Wind President Paul Advocates conduct rally in Salt Lake City use air space we’re creating Gaynor says the $400 million SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Gay- “I would like my family to have nizer Elaine Ball, who had the crowd underneath our existing air project is the company’s largest rights advocates rallied at Washing- the same rights as everybody else,” yelling whoops and cheers. traffic control-assigned air- and includes 88 miles of transmis- ton Square in downtown Salt Lake said Michelle McCardell, 36, a One demonstrator’s sign showed space adjacent to the Utah sion lines. City, speaking out for equality. financial coordinator with the trans- an image of the LDS Church’s Salt Test and Training Range,” Fisher said. First Wind has a contract to Thousands gathered to alt-emo- plant program at University Hospital Lake City temple with a line adapted send the power — up to 200 Regular sorties could megawatts — to Los Angeles, rock music as parents waved plac- in Salt Lake City. from former Republican vice fly as low as 14,000 feet Burbank and Pasadena, Calif. ards with their kids and dogs in tow. In her job, she said, she sees president candidate and Alaska Gov. instead of 18,000 feet, she That’s enough to power about The three-hour demonstration, people who are uninsured because Sarah Palin: “I can see discrimina- said. Supersonic flights 160,000 homes, according to the one of several held in major U.S. cit- they can’t get coverage through a tion from my house.” would be conducted no U.S.