www.tooeletranscript.com TUESDAY Tooele County’s Person of the Year a savvy elected official, and cancer survivor See B1 TOOELETRANSCRIPT BULLETIN January 24, 2006 SERVING TOOELE COUNTY SINCE 1894 VOL. 112 NO. 70 50 cents Teenager Cool Cruising Scientists ecstatic arrested about cosmic dust in knifing Some particles larger than expected by Jesse Fruhwirth by Mark Watson The Stardust capsule touched STAFF WRITER STAFF WRITER down safely early on Jan. 15 A violent scuffle in a south- Microscopic specks of dust in the west desert. The con- side Tooele home led to charges are creating an enormous tents were temporarily held at of attempted homicide Sunday. amount of excitement for NASA Dugway Proving Ground until A young man and a juvenile — scientists. being sent to Johnson Space described by police as a runaway Researchers who opened Center. — stand accused of attacking with the Stardust capsule last week During a seven-year voyage a knife and pool cue the man who at Johnson Space Center in the spacecraft swooped past the had given them temporary shelter. Houston are ecstatic with their Comet Wild 2 in 2004 and used According to Tooele Police Lt. findings. Some of cosmic specks, a tennis-racket-sized collector Steve Newkirk, the fight broke which will be analyzed to learn containing a gel-like material to out when 36-year-old Quenten more about the origins of the snatch dust from space. Christensen asked or demanded solar system, are larger than Among the scientists who that 18-year-old Chris Weston and expected, according to lead sci- are impressed with the pres- the 16-year-old juvenile leave his entist Donald Brownlee ervation of the cosmic dust home. “That’s why we’re jumping up and the Stardust mission is for- “[Weston] brandished a knife and down,” Brownlee said. “We mer Tooele resident Dr. Carol and tried to assault [Christensen],” were totally overwhelmed by Stoker, principal investigator Newkirk said. “While [Weston] the ability to actually see this.” for the Mars Analog Technology was going after him the 16 year Most of the particles, however, Experiment. She works at old assaulted him with a pool cue. are too small to see with the “The victim received a minor naked eye. SEE STARDUST ON A5 stab wound, very minor. He refused medical treatment,” Newkirk said. “[Weston] had minor injuries and was taken to the hospital then Substitute arrested booked on charges of attempted homicide ... The 16 year old fled the house and was later arrested for aggravated assault.” for sexual encounter Weston’s injuries were from a flashlight that Christensen used to “defend himself against the attack.” with THS student “It started over a dispute in the house, some name calling and by Jesse Fruhwirth Transcript-Bulletin has a policy something to that effect,” Newkirk STAFF WRITER to not identify victims of sex said. “[Christensen] was attempt- A Tooele High School substi- crimes. ing to kick [Weston] out of the photography / Troy Boman tute teacher has been arrested Despite having first met in Tooelean Alberto Wachterdorff and his 2-year-old son Santiago make some turns on a scooter on felony charges for allegedly the classroom, the alleged crimi- Tuesday morning in Tooele. Fog and haze are expected to increase toward the end of the week. engaging in sexual activity with nal activity happened off school SEE STABBING ON A2 a 17-year-old student. grounds after school time. Cameo Patch, 29, was arrest- According to the police state- ed last Friday after an interview ment, at the police station. At the time “... [Patch] and the juve- Rep. Bishop touts BRAC, PFS victories of her arrest, police had already nile met in a local restaurant, interviewed the student who is exchanged phone numbers, and by Jesse Fruhwirth lobbyist Jack Abramoff was men- were BRAC and Cedar,” Bishop consortium of nuclear energy pro- not facing any charges. arranged to meet to talk later in STAFF WRITER tioned by the crowd as much as any said of the Base Realignment and ducers that plans to store nuclear According to a police infor- the evening. During the course Rep. Rob Bishop visited Tooele other issue. Closure Commission and the Cedar waste on the Skull Valley Goshute mant that instigated the inves- of the meeting between the two, County last week. He greeted over Bishop will head back to the Mountain Wilderness Area. reservation. tigation, Patch “performed oral sexual activity between [Patch] 30 residents at his “Town Hall” nation’s capital at the end of the “Sometimes you want to savor Bishop is also proud of his sex” on the student and did and the juvenile occurred.” meeting at the Lake Point fire sta- month when the second session of for awhile and say, ‘we did it,’” he involvement in BRAC discussions. not have sexual intercourse. Police declined to say if Patch tion. the 109th Congress convenes. He said. The commission threatened to The informant also alleged that admitted to the activity but that Those in attendance asked the said he appreciates input from his Victory was recently achieved close or deplete military installa- Patch had paid special attention the probable cause for the arrest representative about recent and constituents as he heads back to on creating the wilderness area. tions throughout Utah’s first con- to the student in class prior to was determined “through fur- controversial Supreme Court deci- Washington, D.C. Bishop sponsored the bill that cre- gressional district, but Bishop took the incident. ther interviews with the 17 year sions, natural gas prices, Social He had plenty of good news to ated the bill that effectively banned credit for successful promotion of Revealing the police infor- old and [Patch], that sexual Security reform and private bring home to Utah. a proposed rail spur through the mant’s identity would identify accounts. Disgraced Republican “A year ago the two big issues valley by Private Fuel Storage, a SEE BISHOP ON A3 the alleged victim. The Tooele SEE PATCH ON A2 New parking strip ordinance tackles Radio celebrity dilemma for Tooele City homeowners by Mark Watson ment is now available at Tooele those strips. They’re hard to water to Chamber: STAFF WRITER City Hall. and snowplows spray salt in there Those strips of ground between “Parking strips have been a when they’re clearing the roads in sidewalks and roads in front of nightmare,” Councilman John the winter.” Hansen said. “Here we’re stress- After extensive research from ‘Preserve past’ houses and businesses are receiv- ing a lot of attention from Tooele ing water conservation and then new Public Works Director Cary by Karen Hunt City leaders. So much so that the we have a code on the books that Campbell, the city has come up Tooele City Council passed an states that the only thing accept- with an ordinance that lists mate- STAFF WRITER ordinance last week which lists able for parking strips is grass. A rials suitable for landscaping park The likeness of Doug Wright is expected to what can and cannot be used to lot of people would be in viola- bobble around Tooele County for a while. Two landscape those areas. The docu- tion. It’s tough to grow grass in SEE STRIPS ON A2 dolls of the man we can almost call our “home- town boy done good” were purchased at a charity auction for a total of $1200. Decades after radio celebrity Wright started his Give your two cents on quarter design career at KDYL radio station in Tooele, his very own bobble head dolls are here to stay. by Jesse Fruhwirth they sought designs that would children, simplicity of design KSL talk show and movie show commenta- STAFF WRITER impress with simplicity. and collectability. tor Doug Wright has many memories of Tooele Three proposed designs for The three designs include a “We looked at what other County from when he was young — visiting grand- Utah’s quarter were unveiled last beehive, two train engines meet- states had and what we liked parents, working at KDYL radio station, talking to week. The governor will have the ing at Promontory Point and a about them,” Hunt said. old-timers. He told Tooele County Chamber of final say on which design will be snowboarder soaring across a Some that most impressed the Commerce members at St. Marguerites Saturday chosen for the 50 State Quarters mountain backdrop. commission were the quarters it felt good to be back. program. A month-long public “The U.S. Mint is encouraging from Connecticut that features “As a young 17-year-old kid working on my comment period may inform his children to collect coins and their state tree, Delaware embla- records around the Tooele Valley railroad I never decision a spokesperson for the learn about the states through zoned with Caesar Rodney riding would have dreamed I would have been here quarter design committee said. collecting,” she said. a horse to the first Continental tonight,” Wright said. Margaret Hunt, director In choosing the designs, the Congress and Texas that epito- photography / Kari Scribner As keynote speaker at the Installation banquet of the Utah Arts Council and commission followed the crite- mizes simplicity with a simple Each Doug Wright bobble head doll sold for $600 at the chairperson for the Utah ria of uniqueness to Utah, his- the Chamber of Commerce banquet Saturday. SEE WRIGHT ON A2 State Quarter Commission, said torical significance, appeal to SEE QUARTERS ON A3 WEATHER OPEN FORUM A6 HOMETOWN B1 INSIDE Mostly clear with patchy fog OBITUARIES A7 DOINGS B2 Dugway boys, Tooele girls tonight.