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Show w i r.Snenccr, universal Mlcrcfilat 141 Plorpaat Avenue General Office, , 01 UUh News. Business 487-740- 1 IF YOU FAIL TO RECOVZ TOUR COPY OF TEE REVIEW Action Ads 487-227- BY THURSDAY NIGHT, CALL THE REVIEW OFFICE AND ONE WILL B E DELIVERED TO YQU. 8 Circulation 487-181- 9 Vol.X No. 44 The Weekly Newspaper Serving Sugar House, East Mill Creek. Holladay, Cottonwood WASATCH EDITION Zip, Annex, Zap-Zon-e Not Our Fault, But, Then Its Our Problem When things go wrong the government is usually the easiest and handiest scapegoat. Often governments deserye the brickbats all the way, but problems crop up In this county with some regularity where the government, be it county or municipal gets the blame when It doesnt really deserve It. The past week, two instances have come to pAlic attention that bear up the observation. In both cases the areas involved have been tagged "no man's land" and aptly so. But In both cases most of the responsibility for the problems must come to roost at the lack of fore sight on the part of the sufferers. They both involve a lack of public utility serv- ices. These two unrelated kin circumstances Involved a fire at Dhrco 8th West, and 7200 West and 8700 South that came before a meeting of the Granger-Hunt- er Community Council Distributing Co. 1761 South an unimproved subdivision at Monday. The first area was called because It Is a section of Salt Lake County that Is cut off from the rest of the County by Salt Lake City tp the north and South Sait Lake to the south and also to the water supplies of all three. Since Salt Lake County has no means of supply water as a regular part of its utility structure, and since all water is supplied by a complex network of districts and private companies, Dhrco, like many new companies by it gets water from wells enough for most purposes except fighting fire. The name was coincidentally given to the second area (by other people) because it lies Just beyond the limits of the and Magna Improvement Granger-Hunt- er .... districts. The companies In the Industrial pocket want fire control - the 25 home-owne- rs In the west part of the valley want sewage, but the two are related through a common bond of misery People in both areas are frustrated In their attempts to get Any obvious solution would cost help a pile of dough. Slmlar problems have come to the attention of the Review in recent weeks, who mostly dealing with home-owne- rs too late, that certain have found . improvements were not provided by the subdivider, or other problems Involving culverts, canals and unprotected areas have been discovered too late. For the most part the "caveat emptor" ( Continued on page A 4 ) ... two-in-o- In an afterthought the city commission decided to have a hearing In three weeks on the retorting By annexing this land, Murray City scored one on the county, other Interested parties sought to haYe the same land toned commercial, but wanted It to remain In the county. Mr. Wallace Woodbury, attorney representing the "Kresge" interests In Salt Lake City, said at the commission meeting that the new store would be one ce of the department the building complete, without stores merchandise to coet about $1.5 million to build. "K-Mar- t," self-servi- Mr. Woodbury stated that the building would occupy about 105,000 square feet located on a land area of 478 square feet, with parking enough to accommodate 793 cars. The store win cost anout $12 a foot to build. .... JUST THAT FAR says Earl Tanner, chairman of task force assigned to study hazardous conditions in Granite School District. Mr. Tanner presented an interim report to the board Tuesday night, and Indicated how fkr his group had come 5DD ommissione rs C a u Home Owners to Worry Quiet C tea. o He predicted that the new store win generate between $4-- 6 million worth of business yearly, which will pour several thousand tax dollars Into Murray. City Attorney Robert Dansle pointed out that there migni oe a question of legality surrounding this case because the city annexed the property, then changed ltstomhg. However, he advised the commissioners to either accept or reject the a public hearing petitloo as submitted will be held in about three weks for cltl-te- ns to present any opposing views. noted that aU the staje requirements regarding traffic control Into and out of Cottonwood diagonal traffic pattern have been met. Mr. Woodbury In other business, the councllmen voted to purchase about 17 acres from Joseph Serre, 520 Vine Street, for $6,000 an acre The land will be used as an addition to the Murray City park. In a letter to Mr. Serre, Mayor Greenwood stated, "Murray city has made other concessions to you such as usage of all or part of the property until It Is developed by Murray. We will further make payments to you over a period of time for your best Interests, rather than cash, which condemnation proceedings would require," he said. The council also approved to pay $301 to eleven residents who suffered electrical damage due to a mysterious power surge near 5600 South and 2nd West last September 14. Congressman David S. King November 4. 1965 jqc The Granite School Board Tuesday night almost, but not quite , gave a lift to 240 of its pupils now exposed to the dangers of heavy traffic in their travels to and from school. State law says school districts can't transport elementary school pupils to school if they live closer than a mile, and secondary school students If they live closer than two miles, and receive state help But the last session of Utahs legislature made some exceptions to that law. They said that if "hazardous conditions exist within these radii, the state would help with the cost of transportation therein. Only trouble Is, nobody has yet decided what "hazardous conditions are. Some exist, and a Urge angry crowd from Magna told the board Oils in nn uncertain terms in late September. The crowds protest, plus coropUlnts from other areas around the district prompted before them, the Murray City Commission ne move Monday made a quick afternoon, annexing 20 acres of land from Salt Lake County, and sonlng it C-- 2. The land. Just west of the Cottonwood diagonal near 47th South and 9th East, was sorted after a petition was presented by Salt Lake developer Wallace Woodbury anc Michigan developer Arthur T. Lanning representing the Taubmao Co. Inc. Then Mr. Lanning told the commission the land would have tobe toned by Monday afternoon or the deal would be off the commission lost no time. The area was toned residential by Salt Lake County, where It originally laid. THE MQRNflG AFTER Cottonwood Heights KI Speedy Act Nets Center With the promise of a 105.000 square foot shopping center, dominated by the Kresge natioaal department store chain dangling & se 1 Nature Lovers Pleas 9 Increased volume of water dawn Mlllcreek. is carrUft "Drinking water can have only a one million bacteria count. ...Ulllcmk would be nothing but an open sewage ditch, he said. (Continued on page A4) 161 Vote, Thats All Through no fault of residents, three councllmen -- at -- Urge were elected CottonTuesday to the seven-memb- er wood Heights Community Council to terms. citizens had enough community spirit to cast the votes which incumbent Paul Bywater, returned serve four-ye- ar Only 161 7040 South 2870 East, to odce and elected two new members. Mart R. Cram, 7646 Dell Road, and William H. Clayton, 2875 East Pamela Drive. Serving with these new officials will be current council members, Mel Hall, Gil Houghton, Stan Malstrom and Roy Urry, district representatives. Their terms of office will expire In 1966. Other nominees who sought election this year were Hans South 2980 East; Mrs the board to appoint a task force to study the problem. The task force, with lawyer Earl Tanner as chairman, came up with an Interim report Tuesday night. Mr. Tanner said the report wasnt final, but his group did recommend carrying 240 children by bus in extremely hazardous areas, where excess capacity on buses Is now available. But the board, wary of setting a precedent, delayed actioo until finding out if the state would reimburse the district, and by so doing take at least part of the monkey oft the board's back. How long It will take the state to examine condi tioM than any district u. the state, or tor that matter the state department of public Instruction itself. The opinion was expressed by members of the Granite administration Tuesday that the state Just might use Granite task forces criteria in developing their own. The problem is that the criteria must be very carefully selected, to provide bus service where conditions are truly hazardous, and vet to limit It In terms of a cost the district can afford with state reimbursement. Came Close The four areas recommended by the task force for Immediate action were: 1950 West to 2700 West on 3500 South. 100 Children at West Lake Jr. High; 3200 South to 4275 South on Wasatch Boulevard. 60 children. Churchill Jr. High; 4200 South to 39O0 South on Highland Drive and 1400 East to Highland Drive on 3900 South, 60 children, William Peon School; 2300 East to Highland Drive on 6200 South and 6200 South to 6500 South on Highland Drive; 20 children, Oakwood School. The task force carefully eet up a rating system using points to evaluate each am. Tm highest number of points Indicated the most dangerous am. West lake and Churchill were rated at 57 points, of the schools rated the lowest was 32 points. The following criteria were used to rate particular areas; Volume of traffic during school, type of traffic and speed; average are of pedestrians; width of road, presence of sidewalks or shoulders, presence of traffic control signs or lights; type of am (commercial, residential or rural) visual obstructions, access, driver behavior; accident experience; permanence of conditions, effect of weather. On the basis of this system schools were evaluated by the committee as folwith the provision that the report lows was interim and that changes might well occur at any time; No hazard; Eastwood, Canyon Rim, East Mill Creek, Mlllcreek, Oakrtdge, Morningslde, Sanatory, Hillsdale, pioneer, Granger, Webster, Lake Ridge, Granger High, John C. Fremont, South Kearns, West Kearns, Rosecrest; Hazards requiring school action: Evergreen Jr, Wasatch Jr. Olympus High, Howard R Drlggs, Cmtvtew, Whittier, Monroe, Kearns Jr. Valley Jr., Oqulrrb Hills, David Gourley, Granite Righ. Schools with hazards requiring district action: Upland Terrace, Libblt Edward, Hill View, Granite Park Jr., Lincoln, Madison, Blaine, Woodrow Wilson, Cottoo-woo- d, Holladay, Olympue Jr., Magna, Western Taylorsville, Rills, Vista, Academy Part Meadow Moor, Sherman; Red flag school needing immediate attention: Churchill Jr., William Penn, Roosevelt, Oakwood, Woodstock, Bonneville Jr., Skyline, West Lake Jr., Redwood, Cyprus, Brockbonk Jr , Plymouth and Central Jr. Mr. Tanner said the committee would come up with final recommendations within a month -- Congressman King Supports Several hundred residents who built homes up and down the little Mlllcreek stream are afraid that they may soon be "up the creek." If the Salt Late Cpunty C ommlsslonfersToff To pass the "recoin -mendatloos made February 1964 by flood control engineers "Caldwell, Richards and Sorensen, Inc." The County commissioners have remained silent on the matter which has made residents living in the above mentioned area very distrustful. In Caldwell, Richards and Sorensens "Master Storm Drainage Study of Salt Lake County," recommendations were made to the county commission that a right of way approximately thirty feet wide at Wasatch Boulevard increasing to a 100 foot width at State Street he acquired on both sides of Mlllcreek. Many residents would have their prop erty defaced if the plan Is adopted.... some would also lose their homes, which in the eastern end of the creek cost anywhere from 35 to 60 thousand dolUrs. After leveling several tirades at the county commissioners, which Mlllcreek property owners claim fell on deaf ears, they asked a more Influential candidate to battle for their cause Congressman David King accepted. One of the spokesmen for the group, D. H McGarry, charged "The county commissioners wouldnt work with us. If they did, we wouldnt have had to go to Mr. King ... they wouldnt even give us an alternate study," be said. Dr. Harold Lamb, 2604 Evergreen Avenue said that the proposed plan would regularly pour four times the maximum water flow down Mlllcreek that has ever been recorded In a run-of- f. He also noted that the bacteria count which has been Increasing each year In Mlllcreek would reach as high as 23 million when the El u Muench, 7226 Boyd Llgnell, 7149 South 3080 East; Be rale Gatherum, 7041 South 3050 East; p. Frank Gamble, 2405 Dolphin Way, and J. Lynn Bradford, 7284 South 1440 East. LACK OF WATER THWARTS FIREMEN INNO MANS LAND The unavailability of water In an isolated section of Salt Lake County thwarted efforts of firemen Friday in controlling a raging fire at Dhrco Distributing Company, 1761 South Eighth West. Fire had already claimed over $150,000 of the furnace and air conditioning inventory before Salt Lake County and South Salt Lake firemen arrived on the scene This was attributed to the fact that people in the burning building were unaware of the fire, which was finally reported by occupants of a neighboring building County Fire Chief Frank p. Jones said the fire was almost under control when the tanker truck ran out of water While trucks travelled to 21st South to refill (the nearest county water supply), the fire spread through the roof into the concrete portion of the building and at least another $100,000 damage was done before the fire was out. Rumors were flying among the large crowd gathered at the scene that Salt Lake City would not make water available from their hydrants to fight the fire, but these were quickly dowsed City Battalion Chief A S ' Donaldson said they received their first call at 11.01 a m from city property owners and they Joined in the battle to protect the city property Chief Donaldson said city bourriaries in the vicinity of Eighth West include the frontages along the south side of 17th South and the Dhrco building was only In the small section of Salt Lake County surrounded by incorporated areas three-quarte- rs limits. of a block outside the city "No effort was made to prohibit the county from hooking onto our hydrants," Chief Donaldson said "We directed them to the hydrants available We have a different sue thread and connection, but both city and county have adapters He said the city laid lines and protected the north side of the building and neighboring homes, while South Salt Lake and county trucks protected the south Don H Rasmussen romrwnv president charged that the county Didnt have the tools to do the Job He went on to say that water cannot and will not be given to the area ' R E Harlinof Progress Mill and Fixture Company (adjacent to Dhrco) said the "city won't let us hook onto their water and the county has no mains that we could hook onto He explained that the only way businessmen of the am, who now get their water from wells, could get city water would be to annex onto Salt Lake City and to get county water they would have to pay for their own water mains Chief Jones said the fire was already well underway before the department was called "We tried our very hardest, but ended up with a big loss, he said "The thing I can't understand is bow a (Continued on page A4) w P.ONG CONNECTIONS slowed progress of ng Friday at Dhrco Distributing Company, 1761 South Eighth West. A delaved fire report and unavailability of water combined to bring damage to more than $200,000. fire-fighti- |