_____ _________ - , c ■ 1 I C. U ' ' .... |.L l I— L Good m<norning ^S a v i nigsalr i o i o n i ]m eanss b ig g;e r fluiish ------------------------ i Today’s forecast1st: s at or above normal levelsels, the eluding increasingii«g the amount of water withi an anniial average ovciover'the five years Winter storm watclItch with periods of -Hw-Tl AsMciBted PitsB rainfall is 3ld T he Associated Press, spilled over the daniam s. o< f about 11.2 m illion orr 1111.3 million acrc mixed rain and snow,w. Snow level 5,000 “and Hie Tunes-News •' . sources tok ils for the. National Marinele Fish- If the targets for the foster water Hows feet,1 the ofTicials said, feet. Potchy fog. Highighs near 40. South- Officials !ongress are met, the agcn<;cncy is projecting an in- “That is an incrementallal iincrease above- I mph. Lows near 20. WASHINGTON - Federal:ral fish experts crics Scrvi<vHcc briefed members of Con -■west winds 10 to 20 ih population, the officials last-year's1 opinion," one,e oloITiciat said. “It P a9«A 2 hihave concluded saving, endon;langcrcd salmon on the planan and later unveiled the agogency's crease in the fish i means mking some water;r oiout o f the Mon- ^ ________ • min the Pacific Northwest will/ill require more five-year ‘1“biological opinion” on thele sstatus said. oirs, but how far water flowing through a masslassivc dam sys- of the endndangcrcd sockcye salmonion and F aster flo w s wiwill help push juvenile ttana and Idaho reservoirs ol o f it depends ex- ' tem without being used to getgenerate power, threatened;d C h in o o k salmon in the: SSnake salmon to the ococean before their gills <down, 1 don’t know. A lot ol sources soid Wednesdoy. and Colum'mbiti R iver basins, change from accepcepting fresh water lo salt -clusively-i oirtlie weather. •V targets. b:ised on The estimated 10 percentt in.increase in wa- Two go>ovcmment officials familiariar with water — a problenIcm for the fish sincc con- “If we meet these flow la back over the last ter flows could comc at thec e>expense of hy- the plan,n, speaking on conditiolion of struction of the dairloms slowed the flows. 1historical rainfall going bac Fixing the lawsVS J ling to cosl the re- dropower production and olholher river uses anonymityty, told the AP-today NMF!IFS has ' The opinion callcalls for the current water iseveral decades, il is going trying to repair the 530 million. That’s Lawmalccrs are try during drought yeius. But itt w>would have lit- concludedd it is unlikely the fish will11 ggo ex- Hows o f about 10.40.4 m illion acre feet to rise i gional power grid about S30 damage aOer Judge5e iDaniel Hurlbutt’s Jt tie economic impact as longing as snow and tinct os lorong as certain steps are takaikcn', in- to a peak o f 11.55>5 rm illion acre feet in 1998, P le a se seeSALMON/A2see ruling against two key:ey w ater laws. P a g e B l , LaRocco questistions range Renting ttrouble Farm lalab Rep. Larry LaRocccicco says a review of documents reveals5 n>no suggestion that ciirrenfA ir Forcc trainraining in Idaho is in- due anotJther adequate. P a g o B l a ■ E911 still alive'e state sulibsidy E911 board membaibers wonder whether The Associated Press the program will surviirvive without the city toes V//EST B o f Tw in Falls o n board•ard.' • and The Timcs-Ncws P a g e B l BOISE - Legislative budgetbud writers pro- —posed yet another subsidyly ftfor iiTami-chym------ ical laboratory in Twin FallsFal even as they brushed o ff new fundingI requestsrcc from olh- cr state agencies. ' • Norway boundid Sen. Dean Cameron, R-RR-Rupert, tlic lead- T onya H arding lyiilyid her ex-husband ' er of Tuesday’s successfussful attack on in- Jeff Gillooly arcrc headed for the crcased .state spending in iother iigcncies, Olympics: she to con:ompete, he to testify was al the forefront inI assassuring that slill against her. more general tax moneyy is Tunneled to the ----^ ---------------------- .......... Agriculture Department'sIt's Quality Assur- ance Testing Laboratory, Big Sky’s seconond half- Laboratory backers promised four years ' The Big Sky Confonfcrence basketball ago - when they got chase begins the secorcond half of its season S2 million from Ihc tonight w ith four team:ams tied a tth e top. P a g e D I state to build the lab- oratory on the Col- lege of Southern Ida- ho campus — that agricullure producers would finance ils 6p- j^H Hunters helpI «with rules crations, not the gen- Twin Falls area hurhunters asked the Ida- eral wxpayers. K;:; ho Fish and Game! D<Department to main* But in each o f the • . ^ on hunting lengths and ANDY ARENZm» TtamJinrt • three budget year.s tain big-gomc season I C a m e ro H sincc then, another ‘ moke any odjustments:nts neccssary by low- Jeff Grigg, owner ofif VVideo W eet Iri Twin if ren ters refuses e to return m aterial, hfeie (considers ^ stof&n. ^ ering controlled pernermits or unit ovemll S90.000 to S I00.000 inI gergeneral tax receipts harvest have been pumped into:ito lab o ra io t^ ; O n ! P a g e D S Wednesday. Cameron worwon approval to up Mercth a n tsn[nayfiiid d delinqiluent the ante in the 1995 budg)udgel to SI50.000. ^ Species act reveview coming . That would bring the tolaloial general cash in- fusion to nearly 5^450,000.00. I reviewing the Endan- Congress begins ro Cam eron adm itted thnllhal the general lax this spring to sec if it-- gered Spccies Act thi ters toug;h to preosecute nowi subsidy may never end, ; wants to renew the lejlegislation. rente "Wc had hoped the QuQuality Assurance P a g e D 7 B y Sean L M cCarthy no longeger accept grand theft casess irinvolv- cuting attorney'ss ooflice to decline m osl o f Laboratory would be takiilaking care o f itself Times-News writer ing renteitcd or leased merchandise, these eases, Bevan/an said W ednesday, by now." he told the Jointoint Finance-Appro- “ O nily lj coses where proof off oactual - '‘We’ve got sucVuch a caseload thal w e’ve priations Committee. "Wc'Wc're not sure that TWIN FALLS - Everv n wondered what criminallal intent is obtained will b«be pur- got to cut back,”” h<he said. will ever come lo. fruitionion com pletely. But would happen if you rcnrented a vidcocos- sued,” sisays a Feb. 4 memo from1 CCounty Besides, crimesles involving theft of renl- wc think its very importaiartant thal wc don’t No way to leararn sette recorder and did notnot return it? Prosecul:uting Attorney G. Richardd 1Bevon cd or leased merchrrchandisc “arc almost im- abandon the project now.)w. It's very critical Keep violence out of schools by any How aboul if you drove■ove away in a rent- lo the T\Twin Falls Police D^artmenlent. possible to prove'c crimc inally," he said, to our farmers.” The latest infusion of geigeneral tax money, means necessaiy, toditoday’s editorial advis- ed car and never cam e bacback? “Thosose parties seeking prosecutioItion will “They say I can’tcai prove intent when which was not recommencicnded by Gov. Ce- cs. The answ er may be nolnothing, at least in therefonarc be expected lo seek relic:lief in a you walk into thehe store,” said Jeff Grigg, P a g e A 6 cil Andrus, will be usedsed to hire a chief Twin Falls County, whci/here the prosecul- civil forarum,” Bcvan stated. owner of Video■ WWest. Iget cutbacks have forced the | chemist, chemist und secretaryseer as well as ' ing attorney bas said tha'lhat his office will Budg< P lea,ease see RENTERS/A2 P le a se seeSUBSlDY/A2se« Addiction alsoso target i h o ld l President Clintonm aannounces a strategy ‘Posse GOomitatus’ C U n ton: Alattacks rislT” o f cutting A m erican:an demand for illegal drugs as w ell as fighti The Associated Press Pullullback pledge - C* defendss Burley ^ NATd’s - ■ J ? W ASHINGTON — PiPresident Clinton i Lakes becomeae icy plains praised NATO's resolveIvc W ednesday in |» rts thatthai the Serbs, in the face of tJ Bitter winter weateather turns the Great irnnatIte, 83 issuing an ultimatum to Bosnian Serbs timatum,Lim, had dccidcd to pull badick the Deny Fliglight I , Lakes into a layer oof f ice wider and thick- lo remove artillery upI to 13 miles from 500 hea'icavy guns they have in thele hills / . er t ^ any tim e sinc<ince the late 1970s. By William Brock Sarajevo, but warnedd tthat any action aroundd Sarajevo.S And he said the UUnited currentoperatica tio h s : P a g e A 4 w ouldn’t be "risk- States; wouldwi take new steps to rein Times-News writer backing up the threat wo I I Vince the startirt ofofOpofBlioriiDeny, • free.”. ■ rate peapeace talks Serbs, Muslim; FllflhllnApril.18921893,t4ATOairoDn Illness may hahave U.S. tie SHOSHONE,- Claimirming to enjoy “a s^arate “No one should douloubt NATO’s rc- Croatss arca due to resume Thursdsday m . Kava e f l^ B ly ^ t tha u seof solve," he said. "NATCTO is now set to Geneva,va, Switzerland. • • A senators links5 ilillnesses suffered by and distinct status” fromt>m the'rest o f socicty, a irihfBfl n ^ .n Q ~ ■' Intemirmational mediators are prom)moting f a ^ n s W a nlinstmmenlbfvrarln inst American scrvicemc;men after the Persian group'of Magic ValleyIcy residents is seeking, act.” )f the decision tok- a partititition plan that would Icavavc the Bosnla4^0f^ogoyilQovina.