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Show - The Early Last October former' Governor Calvin Rampton and his wife, Lucvbeth, returned to Davis County where Rampton grew up to attend the 10th anniversary celebration dinner for the BountlfulDavls Art Center. But the conversation before and after his message was most fascinating. Me and Mrs. Rampton reminisced about old friends from Davis County and told some Interesting stories of events that had occurred. It was a reminder that Bountiful wasn't always a town stretching from a freeway eastward up a mountainside. There was a time, not that long ago, when few houses sal above Orchard Drive. Rampton recorded those stories and others from his birth to his Davis High School days and beyond, sometimes while traveling with Mrs. Rampton to and from their home In St. George, Utah. Here Is the context of the first volume of his memoirs with excerpts in this first of three part series. , 4 i J Year: Bountiful, Ramptons Home Testaments in Sunday school but "declined to teach the gospel doctrine class. Although he approved of the general religious philosophy, there were certain dogmas that I didnt accept," Rampton recalls. Social life was built around the Bountiful First Ward Chapel. I explored every inch of that old building when I was a boy. Even to climbing into the attic above the hall where the joints and rafters were of unhewed timber. The white building stood before the Salt Lake Temple was built. His Grandfather Rampton was a blacksmith, standing six feet two inches with about 230 pounds of muscle. He was hard of hearing. He could hear a little, but you really had to shout at were complications. Later his parents, Lewcllyn and Janet Campbell Rampton had two more children, ,'Byion and v Virginia. The family moved to another rented home on East Center Street with no lawn, just alfalfa," which they dried on a potato cellar roof to feed the family's 12 or so rabbits. Soon after, his family built the house where he grew up. The home sat just west of 'where Ser-vDrug now stands. For such a prominent politician CHERYL ARCHIBALD and for one of Bountifuls most Review Staff successful citizens, RamptoVs Rampton was born November days growing up in Davis CLfl-t6, 1913, in the Mitchell House, attending Stoker School dfhd an elegant red brick home with a Davis High School, typical framed screen porch. It was a .for an LDS boy growing yp in an rented house on Bountifuls Main LDS community. Street facing east from Center Rampton as a boy was active in Street. In 1913 most children all ward affairs and Boy Scouts. were born at home, unless there Later, he taught the Old and New us y, him. 11 Ramptons father was LDS, but was a free thinker and was disfel-lowshipp- cd for criticizing church his mothers side, was a railroad worker who became a widower and moved in with the Ramptons doctrine in public. He was charged in a church court and threatened jyith excommunication." The only reason he was not excommunicated was that his brother-in-laand good friend, B.H. Roberts, first presi- for a time. His Grandmother Campbells father was the only one of Ramptons four great grandfathers who was not polygamous, and all served time for unlawful cohabitation in the Utah territorial pris- w dent of the seventies and the Church historian, intervened. . Although his grandfather held the Aaronic priesthood at the time, he was never active after that and he never asked to be reinstated. Roberts was the pride on. Charles Mabey, Ramptons un- cle, was elected fifth governor of Utah when Rampton was about 7 years old. Mabey was also president of the Bountiful Bank. Rampton recalls seeing a crowd of Cen- terville," Rampton remembers. He was an impressive figure and people would make a point of greeting him in the street and walking with him to his home. Rampton doesnt know if he was so impressed with Roberts because of his bearing, his status or because he was the only polygamist hed ever seen. His Grandfather Campbell, on of people and cars gathering around his uncles house in Bountiful. He went through the back door (as he always did) and found his cousin Bob, a few years his senior, in the kitchen. He asked Bob what all the people were doing there. Continued On Page 2A Vol. 4 No. 49 CALVIN RAMPTON, 1914 Wednesday, December 12, 1984 Stores Must Have Consumers Needs, RDA Director Says CHERYL ARCHIBALD Review Staff BOUNTIFUL Residents of South Davis County will have to change their shopping habits and merchants will have to give area consumers what they want or all will be paying more taxes for their services soon. : That is the belief of Haven executive director of the Bountiful Area Chamber of Commerce. He and Randy Sant, Bountiful Redevelopment Director, and Lois Pickett, of Servus Drug, talked last week at a League of Women Voters meeting about the RDA, its function and its usefulness to Bountifuls business. To get South Davis shoppers to spend money in this area, said, businessmen should give people what they want. Variety is lacking, especially downtown. And he said parking should be more available downtown. Any kind of activity, such as the Gateway Park, the RDAs first big project, will help, he said. Burningham was in favor of a mall which the RDA under another director. Kit Bettilyon, had proposed unsuccessfully a couple Bur-ningha- Bur-ningha- m of years ago. The only way businessmen can afford to expand enough to give other malls competition is through the RDA, he said. But he told the League that area residents are apathetic and that they should key an eye on the RDA and also the city council. Mrs. Pickett, active in the Downtown Merchants Association, told the League she is afraid that people do not know what is going on with the RDA, that it has the ability to go where it wants. The RDA can go anywhere and the next time your home may be involved, she said. She was responsible a few years ago for taking a survey asking 300 people why they shop where they shop. The results' indicated that most people in this area shopped at Grand Central because of the bargains and that the main problem was no selection. She told the League that she was interested in knowing exactly what consumers want, so Bounti County Looks for Drinking Drivers FARMINGTON number of drunken driving arrests, and the sheriffs department wants the word out they wont be relaxing on their DUI enforcement. December is the highest month statewide for DUI arrests, said Gapt. K.D. Simpson of the sheriffs department. People need to be more cognizant of the fact that though they may drive under the influence, this doesnt mean they will get away with it, he said. The department will increase its patrols during this month of holiday festivities, he said. In some areas of the county, officers will be patrolling specifically for DUI cases, There are more parties, more drinking during this month. People are relaxing a little, but we ful merchants can accommodate those needs. Bountiful merchants are concerned that the population of the area is not sufficient to sufvyt new stores coming in. Merchants in the past maddef-fort- s as a group to improve the downtown area, Mrs. Pickett said. At one point they tried to present a plan to expand in phases, paying for improvements without city help. But their viewpoint was misrepresented and since then, they have not been consulted on any moves by the city to redevelop thg'tfowntown U area. Davis County is third in the state in the - -- Sant explained to the League that the main purpose of the RDA is to bring in new RDA purchases property at a fair price, sells it at a lower price to developers and makes up the difference through tax increments, he explained. Although an RDA can declare eminent domain and condemn property and buy it, Sant said new laws have limitedjhat ability. If 40 percent of the residents of an area to be takenlare against it, the issue has to come to a vote. The Bountiful RDA under Sant, who was appointed last year, is operating in the shadow of former controversy over a mall,' a plan shot down after five public hearings with 113 people against and 114 for. When he took over the Bountiful RDA Sant said his goal was to get people involved and find out what they didnt like and what they did like. Another goal was to establish a project. The Gateway Park construction at 500 West and 500 South will begin in January or February. In Comfort Inn it will be an it Motel, a Sizzler Restaurant, theatres and office and fetiail spaces, : he said. , busi-ness.T- he arent, he said. Simpson said sheriffs offices statewide are arresting as many DUI suspects as the Utah Highway Patrol. In a recent state DUI statistics report, sheriff s officers are arresting approximately 19 percent of DUI cases. The UHP is arresting about 20 percent. City police officers make up the remaining percent of DUI arrests, Simpson said. -- Davis County accounts for 12 percent of the states drunken driving cases. Over an eight month period this year and last year, the county has 854 of the arrests. Salt Lake County had 2,563 and Utah County had 912 DUI arrests, the report states. Weber County accounts for 7 percent of the number of DUI cases, with 555 arrests from Aug. 1983 to March 1984. But this years drunken driving cases will remain fairly consistent with last years figures, Simpson projected. Last year, the sheriffs office arrested 226 DUI suspects. With the latest figures of Dec.l, this number is 220 so far this year, Simpson said. We will arrest more no doubt, but its staying the same as last year, he said. Last year, a big push in October skyrocketed DUI arrests statewide, Simpson explained. He also noted 88 percent of the DUI suspects arrested are convicted. An approximate $299 fine and a few days in the county jail e usually accompany first-tim- drunken driving convictions, Simpson said. This is becoming more the rule than the exception to have a mandatory jail term for a DUI conviction, he said. Hearing Approved For Suspension FARMINGTON The Davis County Environmental Health department has granted a hearing to David Early Tires of Bountiful, whose emissions inspection license was suspended recently. The department is very definitely continuing its emissions inspection crackdown on a few stations in the county performing emissions tests, said Jim Duckworth, automotive specialist for the county. He declined to say why the 84-un- Plans to develop the downtown-busines- s area have been drawn up by architects and are now in the cost evaluation .stagel Next, merchants of downtown Bountiful will get a chance t6 scrutinize and criticize the plans through meetings with the RDA, Sant the heart is but is a Christmas tree where It must it? be, for the folks at Swiss Boy parked a you park tree in a truck to advertise one Of the seasons symbols they are selling. This novel method to display their wares was designed to circumvent city regulations that prohibit temporary billboards. The truck is moved only from a parking lot onto the street and doesnt cruise the streets of Bountiful snagging power lines with its 16 foot tip. HOME IS WHERE stations was permit suspended. . Richard Harvey, director of the department, has emphasized that only a few of the approximately 70 stations do ing the tests may not be com- plying correctly. This weeks hearing will be conducted by Deland McGarv-ey- , assistant director, since Harvey is out of town. Duckworth said a change in the county attorneys office in which chief prosecutor Steven Vanderlinden resigned to accept another county position, has set the investigation back a few days. In April of this year, the county was required to begin an emissions inspection and maintenance program for all vehicles registered in the county. The program must continue until federal ozone requirements are met for two. Late Electric Bill Payers Bountiful Acts on Debris Basins Now Have Less Time runoff would go to either side of the de- tinue their development. If geologists reports are unfavorable, bris basin, preventing costly flooding in Business action was the spring. BOUNTIFUL the city may eventually buy 40 acres of taken on three debris basins-o- ne already retirement land and pay to build the in involved are Three developers gradfinished, one under construction and anthe road near the basin, the Eggetts, road. other just being planned-- at last weeks ing the Memorial Estates Cemetery and the Bountiful City Council meeting. Construction on Stone Creek was startretirement board. The retirement board voted to The city pay for road grading in September of this year. However,' ed move on their portion, Jack Ballacross the Utah State Retirement won't to obtain funds from Davis action beengineer told the council, Board's portion of land by the Barton ing, city recover $ 50,000 already paid to County State for a from it is cause waiting report Creek debris basin billing the Board later was taken by the council last the by city Geologist Bruce Kaliser on soil condi- week. In an when it begins to develop the land. agreement with the county Unstable conditions could make The Barton Creek debris basin was re- tions. Bountiful will design, supervise, oversee unfeasi-blland their some of of developing and inspect the debris basin . cently completed and the city plans to extend Bountiful Boulevard across it. ' Papers were signed and the council ap- The city wants to see the road graded City officials say they feet it is unstable if even road and Millcreek to intfr-ccproved a request to. the county for between Barton tant to grade the develthe $924,301 for construction costs plus 15 and Eggetts, exist surface drainage and aid in flgod conditions have to anxious are North the percent for engineering, contingencies to control. opers con .; . to over runs. and them enable the is road $50,822, but the road graded to Cost to grade CHERYL ARCHIBALD Review Staff BOUNTIFUL Bountiful electricity is being fair. users will have a month less in which to pay their bills before their power is turned. off.- - The city council last week amended the ordinance governing disconnections. Late bill payers did have as many as four months of electricity use before their delinquency (Taught up with them. But now they will have' their power shut off after three month!" ,, . . r Since utility users actually get a credit because bills are sent out after a month s worth of electricity has been used, city manager Tom Hardy told Bountiful Mayor Dean Stahle that he feels the city t ) - If they havent paid their utility bill in three months, Jhey will get a notice saywithin 10 days or ing they must-pa- y their power will be disconnected. The service man will then place a warning on their front door informing them they have 24 hours to' pay their bill before their electricity is 'shut off. f i e. If people' are outv of work, if they come in and talk to us in good faith, we never shut off their power, Hardy said. But there are those people who get free ' power from the, city by waiting until the last minute before their power is shut off before they pay, he said. A 9 1 v r , , , - pt . 9 t If A |