Indiana Gazette (Newspaper) - February 8, 2002, Indiana, Pennsylvania Penns Manor girls wrap up conference title Page 15 28 pages 2 sections FRIDAY FEBRUARY Vol 98 167 Whos in the news There is good news today in The Indiana Gazette about the following area people Alexis Amalis Stephen Re bovich Adam Ritts Bethany Feulmer Fatima Mir Jack Hill Lacey Pifer Penny Johnson Ben Costello Jodi INSIDE Honor roll Indiana Area Senior High School Page 3 Live in a township Whos who in your township Page 7 Elsewhere The former CEO of Enron insists he of the and accounting schemes that engulfed the firm in scandal and bankruptcy officials hope President Bushs declaration that the Geneva Convention applies to Taliban detainees could help protect any American soldiers captured later Page 8 Deaths Obituaries on page 4 BRUBAKER Nancy 69 Blairsville JOHNS James 85 Aurora formerly of Indiana Forecast Partly cloudy tonight with an overnight low of 27 Saturday will be mostly sunny with a high of 56 Page 2 index Eye on Campaign Lottery Today in School Teddy Health is the thing that makes you feel that now is the P Adams American jour 18811960 This newspaper is printed on recYclable paper Please recYcle Newspaper contents copyright 2002 Printing and Publishing Indiana Pa Boomerangs Guest Chef Dean From With Broiled Scallops Filet Mignon Brown Hotel Crab For Your Weekend Try Ironwood Grill Karaoke DJ Julie Franks Inn Saturday Feb Professional Installation Affordable Interiors Mohawk Carpet Sale Call Rose Inn Tonight Its Finally Friday Party With Rich Bowen Strike Zone Tonight Greatest A passenger who kicked in a cockpit door during a flight is back in the Page 8 50 cents tuition increase likely at IUP By MARY ANN SLATER Gazette Staff Writer Tuition at Indiana University of Pennsylvania would probably go up at least 4 percent for the 200203 aca demic year and could increase even more depending on the action of the state General Assembly over the next several months Gov Mark proposed budget for 20022003 calls for a 3 percent reduction in funding for IUP and the other 13 universities that make up the State System of Higher Education That translates into a de crease of about million for the system That 3percent decrease is in con trast to the increase that officials had sought for next year Who will light the flame top secret By SELENA ROBERTS New York Times News Service SALT LAKE CITY The Olympic Five have a secret that can neither be coaxed put with a thick dose of truth serum nor cracked with a ce decoder ring This is not a dark secret hatched in a back alley But not long ago inside a nonsmoking room the Olympic Five got together and all but and swallowed the the person who will light the Olympic caldron when the opening ceremony for the 2002 Olympic Winter Games unfolds tonight Ive got some really confidential stuff in my computer with two lay ers of password protection on it and this is not even written in said Scott Givens the cre ative director of the opening cere mony Five people know and mats all Not even the lighter knows until a moment shy of the Referred to with a genderless alias in script meetings kept top secret by even the most loquacious leader of the Olympic Five Romney the president of the Salt Lake Orga Committee the lighter of the caldron is treated like a surprise gift for the warid Everyone asks me So whos it going to said Givens who is also joined in the five by the cere executive producer Don Mischer the Salt Lake chief operat ing Bullock and Dick Ebersol the chairman of NBC Sports My response is Do you re ally want to know Most They want the drama of that mo Nevertheless there has been much speculation about that mo ment with guesses on who the lighter be that range from the American downhill skier Street to a member of the Mir acle on Ice hockey team It is a human Romney Kenn Marshall spokesman for the system said officials knew when they asked for the increase that they would have to raise students annual tuition 4 per cent or SI 60 If lawmakers approve 3percent funding cut and makes no spending cuts annual tu ition could rise as much as 13 per cent or according to Marshall I dont think that is a very likely he said He explained that Board of Governors probably would not be willing to pass such a tuition in crease on to its students tuition to ail schools is a year for instate undergraduates What is more likely according to Marshall is some kind of combina tion of spending cuts and a tu ition increase of more than 4 per cent But he emphasized that the outcome is difficult to predict this early in the budget process I dont have that good a Ouija Marshall said The highest annual tuition in crease ever imposed by was percent or for the 199192 school year Marshall said officials were disappointed by propos al for the 14 schools Certainly we were hoping we would get more than In proposing the decrease in spending state Department of Edu cation officials have said that the state is facing tough economic times and that higher education could weather die losses for a year or two Continued on page 14 School districts facing budgetary nightmare By MARY ANN SLATER Gazette Staff Writer Already faced with mounting bills for tuition and higher payments to a state pension plan area school districts found out Tues day that their financial woes could get worse Gov Mark S 200203 budget a 1 percent increase funding the use to pay for general operating Olympics begin tonight Many details of the Olympics opening ceremony are traditionally kept secret until the event is staged especially the identity of the final torch bearer But there are some things you can expect from Fridays extravaganza Allstar cast Entertainment will include performances by Sting YoYo Robertson and music by John Williams pictured left to Ma Sob Olympic Stadium When the home stadium of the University of Utah was built in 1927 it held people Several renovations and 75 years later it is the largest venue for a Winter Olympics opening ceremony with seating for World order In accordance with Olympic tradition the parade of nations will be led by the and capped by the host largest delegation with 211 athletes in between the other 75 nations will march in alphabetical order The Olympic cauldron stands 130 feet talf and is constructed of more than 700 glass panels The million Olympic renovation included the installation of camera positions around the top of the stadium a new lighting system and a huge ice rink Entry Faces in the crowd President Bush and Kofi Annan are expected to be in attendance Salt Lake Organizing Committee Associated Press On TV tonight A NBC Opening Cer H SALT LAKE 2002 pf Ski jumping said We have three secrets left and we want to keep There are some other concerning the 2hour15minute opening ceremony a mystery talent or two Maybe Aretha Franklin will make the journey from Detroit to Olympic Sta dium Secrets aside the core questions about the opening ceremony may only be answered after the final note of the million show Did producers avoid the air of jingoism that has plagued past Olympics based in the United States Was the right tone struck between rousing entertainment and the poignancy of reflecting on Sept 11 Will the theme Light the Fire Within come through as an international mes sage of inspiration Im probably most nervous about whether people will appreciate the message were trying to Givens said And Im a little nervous maybe its just called butterflies about whether it will measure up to bur three goals of reaching local national and world The Mormon Tabernacle Choir will sing the national anthem and there will be plenty of nods to trie spirit of the West To reach beyond the host state entertainment ele AP ments will include recording artists such as Sting the Dixie Chicks and LeAnn Rimes along with the cellist YoYo Ma To introduce the theme the show will begin with a child balding an ominous storm a metaphor for overcoming adversity That will be followed by the parade of nations The opening ceremony will con with a production that blends fire and ice as visuals Almost 800 of the cast members will skate across swirls of ice on the stadium floor Were reinventing the medi said Sarah Kawahara who is the choreographer for the figure skater Michelle Kwan and was be hind the routines of the Olympic Scott Hamilton We dont vant to present this as an ice The fire displays during the night Continued on page 14 Dozens of agencies involved in security By TIM DAHLBERG AP Sports Writer SALT LAKE Olympics open tonight in a jittery world changed by terrorism and under the a million security effort unprecedented in the history of sports The massive plan has a little bit of everything from helicopters and jets to hightech surveillance devices and a force of nearly security workers on the ground What all the money and prepara tion cant buy though is a guaran tee it will all work We may not eliminate risk entire ly because mere is no such thing as an absolute failsafe guarantee in Salt Lake City or anywhere Homeland Security Director Tom Ridge said Thursday Police found that out on the eve of the Games when a bag that ap to contain an explosive was discovered next to a parking garage near the downtown Olympic media center I think you can make the argument that this will be the safest place on Earth for the next 25 Salt Lake Olympic chief Mitt Romney It turned out to be nothing but some electrical wires and fuses But the massive response by Olympic security underscored fears that it might have been a ruse designed to see what the reaction would be Theres some concern it was like a trial Salt Lake Police City spokesman Craig Gleason said A plan three years in the making gets tested right away in tonights opening ceremony where President Bush Kofi Annan and three other heads of state will join fans and the worlds best winter athletes in the University of Utah football stadium On the field the hundreds of per formers in the ceremony can get away with a mistake or two The thousands who provide security cant There is no margin for Se pret Mark Camillo said We dont get a second To make sure none is needed sniper teams will be positioned on nearby roofs and Black Hawk heli copters will hover nearby To be extra sure all flights in and out of Salt Lake International Airport will be halted for four hours Outside the stadium spectators will shiver in the frigid air as they stand in long lines waiting to get through metal detectors under the watchful eyes of National Guards men carrying Everything is in place Nothing it is hoped has been left to chance Were peaking at the right said David Tubbs executive director of the Utah Olympic Public Safety Command Fiftynine agencies make up the LUU n security force which rivals the size will help patrol the National Guardsmen armed Continued on page 14 grounds AP photo costs Although officials were not expecting a large increase in next years education spending they were hoping for more than what they got Harvey Long superintendent for the United School District said he had previously heard that districts were up for a 2percent raise in their basic subsidies UI was a little Long said Continued on page 14 119 project to take next step By JOHN COMO Gazette Staff Writer HOMER CITY With just a few issues to clear up of the Pennsylvania Depart ment of Transportation hope to begin 119 between Homer City and Black Uck in Sep tember Plans for widening the highway to four lanes from Black Lick in Burrell Township to Route 56 in Homer City were on display Thursday in the High School That project dovetails with the reconstruction of the Route 119 22 interchange near and the widening of Route from Route 22 to Black Uck now under construction Richard Hogg chief engineer in the departments Engineering District 10 office in White Township said bids for construction will be opened June 20 Hogg said the Route 119 project will be constructed in two phases The first phase will be from Route 56 to Power Plant Road in CenterTown ship the northern end of the project The second phase will be at the southern end from Blaire Road to Power Plant Road The construction is scheduled to be completed in the summer of 2005 Hogg said the work is starting at the north end of the project for bet ter traffic control during construc tion We didnt want to create an area of construction involving the interchange and the southern end of the widening proj Hogg said About 90 people attended the two hour public display of the plans in the high school The traffic signals at Campbells Mill Road in Black Uck and at Route 56 in Homer City will remain No new traffic signals are proposed in the plans Jughandle lanes will be built at Dean Drive and at Hollow Campbells Mill and Josephine roads all in Burrell Town ship and at Way Coke Oven Lane and Tearing Run Road in Center p Noise barriers will be constructed in Black Lick Coral and Red Barn The construction plans include a walking and biking trail from Holi day Lane in Center Township to the Josephine Bridge which crosses Black Uck Creek near Savior Park in Burrell Senate Coal which has a rail road facility for coal ship ments near Josephine reached an agreement the Transportation Department for a realignment of Street around its property The trail will be built along Lloyd Street so that it does not border the four lane highway as it proceeds to the Josephine Bridge The trail will connect with the Trail to Indiana Trail en hope to build additional trails to connect it to the Ghost Town Trail to the east and one southwest through Blairsville to follow the Conemaugh River to Saltsburg Jim District 10 communi coordinator said the public display of maps of the project was the last chance people had to view the plans before construction begins On the Net
