FRONT PAGE A1 Annie Butterfield, reigning Miss Tooele County, lives her dream See B8 TOOELETRANSCRIPT SERVING TOOELE COUNTY BULLETIN SINCE 1894 THURSDAY February 25, 2016 www.TooeleOnline.com Vol. 122 No. 78 $1.00 Tooele man arrested after ambulance chase by Steve Howe Medical Center to a Salt Lake- his wife was transferred from After the ambulance left for and onto Salt Lake surface streets ver involves an officer pulling STAFF WRITER area hospital this morning. Mountain West Medical Center to Salt Lake, the staff reported they before police attempted an inter- their vehicle along the rear of the Robyn Harrison, 48, is in the St. Mark’s Hospital, according to were being followed by Harrison, cept in the area of 3900 S. 700 suspect’s vehicle and intention- A Tooele man is in police cus- Salt Lake County Jail after being the Unified Police Department. who was speeding and driv- East in Millcreek. ally colliding with it to cause the tody after he threatened to harm arrested in Millcreek for terror- Officers were soon tipped off that ing erratically in a white Dodge According to UPD, officers suspect to spin out. himself and others while pursu- istic threats and fleeing a police Harrison was allegedly making pickup truck around 2:30 a.m., used a pursuit intervention The severity of the threats ing an ambulance transferring officer. suicidal and homicidal threats police said. Harrison pursued the technique, or PIT, maneuver to his wife from Mountain West Harrison became upset when and was thought to be armed. ambulance down Interstate 80 stop Harrison. The PIT maneu- SEE CHASE PAGE A8 ➤ School board says it fully supports superintendent Support comes in wake of news story that questions Scott Rogers’ credentials by David Bern Scott Rogers received a doctorate EDITOR in philosophy from a suspected “diploma mill” called Rochville A Salt Lake media news story University. The online school has that questions the academic cre- been cited by several states for dentials of Tooele County School providing degrees to applicants District’s superintendent is the without testing or knowledge result of people trying to “dis- evaluation in exchange for a one- credit him,” a school board offi- time payment, the story said. cial says. The story said Superintendent SEE SCHOOL PAGE A5 ➤ FILE PHOTO Congress is reviewing a bill to expand the Utah Test and Training Range in western Tooele County. The proposal would add over 625,000 acres to the UTTR’s existing 1.7 million acres. The bill includes transferring Bureau of Land Management land with mineral resources into state land. Stewart pushes UTTR expansion bill by Steve Howe STAFF WRITER Congress is reviewing the lat- Utah Test and Area #6 est proposal to expand the Utah Training Range Great Test and Training Range, which FILE PHOTO Salt would place hundreds of thou- A Salt Lake news story questions Superintendent Scott Rogers’ academic cre- Area #4 Lake dentials, but the Tooele County School Board has offered complete support to sands of acres of state and fed- the district’s top administrator. Rogers is seen here at opening day for the new eral land under the purview of Dugway High School. North Area the U.S. Air Force and Bureau of Land Management. The proposal would add Bonneville 625,643 acres of BLM land in Salt Flats Area #7 Tooele, Juab and Box Elder coun- ties to the existing 1.7 million 80 80 acres that comprise the UTTR. The expansion would also cre- Area #5 196 80 ‘Message bill’ about Cedar 138 ate a single contiguous territory Mountain Grantsville 138 between the north and south Wilderness 36 areas of the range. Area Area 112 deteriorating salt #9 Tooele Rep. Chris Stewart is spon- Area #2 soring the bill, which comes on the heels of a similar bill from Skull Sen. Orrin Hatch that was intro- Valley duced in December and referred flats passes House Rush Valley to the Senate Energy and Natural Utah Test and Training Range 199 Resources committee. SUN AND MOON SEVEN-DAY FORECAST FOR TOOELE UV INDEX 196 36 by Jessica Henrie know what, we’re going to get Area #1 73 In Stewart’s proposal, about The Sun Rise Set FRIDAY SATURDAY SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY South Area Friday 7:09 a.m. 6:16 p.m. STAFF WRITER behind this.’” 84,000 acres of Utah School Saturday 7:07 a.m. 6:18 p.m. The resolution text doesn’t and Institutional Trust Lands Sunday 7:06 a.m. 6:19 p.m. Monday 7:04 a.m. 6:20 p.m. A state resolution to spread appropriate any money or Administration land, scattered Tuesday 7:03 a.m. 6:21 p.m. awareness about the dete- make any demands. Instead, it amongst federal land in the Wednesday 7:01 a.m. 6:22 p.m. rioration of the Bonneville Salt “strongly F urgesSa theSu MBureau Tu Wof Th Great Salt Lake Desert, would be Thursday 6:59 a.m. 6:23 p.m. The higher the AccuWeather.com UV Index™ The Moon Rise Set Flats has passed the House and Land Managementnumber, the greater theto need formulate for eye and skin absorbed into the test range. In Friday 10:14 p.m. 9:05 a.m. entered the Senate in the Utah a plan, withprotection. the0-2 Low;participation 3-5 Moderate; 6-7 High;of 8-10 exchange, the state would gain Saturday 11:10 p.m. 9:36 a.m. Legislature. the UtahVery Alliance, High; 11+ Extreme Save the Salt Area #8 Simpson approximately 99,000 acres of Sunday none 10:08 a.m. Springs Monday 12:06 a.m. 10:44 a.m. Rep. Stephen Handy, R-Davis Coalition, and ALMANACother concerned BLM land with established min- Tuesday 1:01 a.m. 11:23 a.m. County introduced Concurrent stakeholders,Statistics forincluding the week ending IntrepidFeb. 24. eral resources. Considerable Historic Wednesday 1:55 a.m. 12:08 p.m. Mostly sunny Mostly cloudy Partly sunny Cooler with some sun Mostly cloudy Partly sunny Temperatures Thursday 2:49 a.m. 12:58 p.m. Resolution 8 into the 2016 ses-cloudinessPotash Wendover, LLC, to restore Pony Express The additional acreage sion with support from Sen. Peter the BonnevilleHigh/Low past Salt week Flats to safe 58/24 Fish Springs Trail is designed to create a buffer Last New First Full Normal high/low past week 46/27 54 37 52 28 50 32 43 29 49 35Knudson, R-Tooele52 34 County. 57 35land speed racing conditions.” Wildlife around the current test range Average temp past week 39.0 Refuge “The purpose of the resolu- After receivingNormal average a tempfavorable past week rec- 36.7 Area #3 Current Testing Range to allow the testing of more TOOELE COUNTY WEATHER Daily Temperatures High Low Mar 1 Mar 8 Mar 15 Mar 23 tion is to raise awareness of the ommendation from the House advanced weapons, including Shown is Friday’s weather. salt flats and hopefully get some Natural Resources, Agriculture, Proposed Annexations to Testing Range F-35 bombers and long-range Forecasts and graphics provided by Temperatures are Friday’s highs and Friday night’s movement,” Handy said. “It’s a and Environment Committee, Proposed BLM Lands Transfer to SITLA bombers. 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I hope it will All boundaries and labels are approximate reach the BLM, who will say, ‘You SEE BILL PAGE A7 ➤ SEE UTTR PAGE A7 ➤ UTAH WEATHER Thu Fri Sat Sun Mon Tue Wed Logan BULLETIN BOARD B7 Grouse 43/25 Wendover PrecipitationAIR QUALITY (in inches) INSIDE Creek 54/35 Knolls Clive WEATHER Lake Point Thursday CLASSIFIEDS C6 45/28 50/34 51/34 51/38 HOMETOWN B8 Ogden Stansbury Park Good U.S. Forest Service Pagnani Physical 51/34 Erda 52/38 OBITUARIES A6 Grantsville names new district Therapy strives for Vernal 53/37 Pine Canyon Friday KID SCOOP B11 Salt Lake City 47/22 53/38 47/33 laid-back feel Tooele 54/39 Bauer Good ranger 54/37 Last Normal Month Normal Year Normal SPORTS B1 54/36 Tooele Week for week to date M-T-D to date Y-T-D Provo Roosevelt 54/37 50/23 See A2 See A3 50/30 See Stockton SnowfallSaturday (in inches) Price complete 54/35 56/28 Good Nephi forecast Rush Valley 54/27 52/32 Ophir on B5 49/33 Source: www.airquality.utah.gov Delta Manti 55/31 56/29 Green River Last Month Season 62/29 Dugway Week to date to date Richfield Gold Hill 54/35 59/28 Moab 51/35 SNOWPACK Hanksville 61/30 Beaver 60/31 Vernon Tooele Valley-Vernon Creek Basin 57/28 Ibapah 53/30 54/30 Snow Water Equivalent as of 12 a.m. Wednesday Rocky Basin Mining Vernon Settlement Fork Creek Cedar City Blanding Snowcover 18.0 14.8 10.6 St. George 62/31 58/32 Average 16.3 14.1 7.8 75/42 Kanab 65/28 Eureka Percent of average 110% 105% 136% 48/28 Source: Utah Natural Resources Conservation Services A2 A2 TOOELE TRANSCRIPT-BULLETIN THURSDAY February 25, 2016 Potential new SPOC telescope a labor of love for its creator by Steve Howe the Herriman resident to con- Complex, where it would be open equipment became available. ing. The spy satellite would have building around the telescope STAFF WRITER struct a series of amateur tele- to the public. A mirror, intended to end up used a camera to capture images, at the current observatory com- scopes, including the crowning The current telescope housed in a spy satellite designed to take so it was unknown if the mirror plex, Clements said the telescope Since he was a child, Mike jewel of his collection — a mas- at the Stansbury Park observato- images of the Soviet Union dur- would work with the naked eye.