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Show OCTOBER 6, 1987 '(CvcbDodtids By Brian Gray Davis CouCLEARFIELD ntys merchants werent exactly planning their trips to Bermuda, as a rule, based on January-Marc- h less than Clearfield Job Service Manager Jack Bailey reports sales growth was sluggish in some cities, while it saw a healthy gain in other areas. growth. Layton's sales actually saw a tiny increase in the same period, he reports. Cash registers took in $54.1 million, a drop of about $300,000 over the same period a year earlier. Merchants there did better than the rest of the county, volume-wishowever, for the year ended March 31. Sales total- thats not all. A jury in Connecticut awarded $7.5 million to an intoxicated man who fell over a railing while talking on a pay telephone. Once sober, the man argued that the telephone had not been placed in a safe location since it was only several feet from the railing. Im announcing to Mountain Bell that I, Cyclops, will not hang around pay telephones while Ive been drinking anything stronger than grapefruit juice. And all I ask is that Mountain Bell send me a check for $75,000, a mere one percent of the potential award I could win in Connecticut. Mountain Bell executives are probably not fully aware of the great number of pay telephones situated near railings. A study of the problem could cost them an easy $100,000. So it makes perfect sense for them to settle out of court even before the incident occurs. No bad publicity.. .No court action... No copy-ca- t telephone drunks toppling over patio railings. time-consumi- led $259.1 million vs. $245.6 million a year earlier. Other cities that saw pluses in both first quarter comparisons between 1986 and 1987 and year-over activity for the first quarter included: Centerville, 13.2 percent for the quarter; 5.9 percent for the year; Fruit Heights, 30.2 and 12.2; Kaysville, 17.8 and 29.7; North Salt Lake, 29.2 and 14.2. Also on the black side of the ledger were South Weber, 60.8 percent for the quarter and 60.5 percent for the year; and Syracuse, 27.9 and 12.9. News wasn't all that good for some of the other communities businesses, however. Clearfield registered a 36.2 percent drop, from $25.1 to $16 million for the sales dipped quarter. Year-ove- r 14.4 percent, from $79 million in the year ended March 31, 1986 to $67.7 million this year. Drops were also recorded in neighboring Clinton, down 9.3 percent this quarter over the same time a year earlier and 6.2 percent down overall; Farmington, up 19.9 percent for the quarter this year bur slightly down, a half percent, when the total year comparisons are made. Sunset reported a five percent drop for the first quarter 1987 vs. 1986 and a 3.5 percent decline for the year-ovperiod. West Bountiful merchants experienced a 1 .9 percent drop when just the one quarter is compared h but a hefty drop for the whole year. West Point, with the smallest amount of business, saw an eight percent increase this vs. a year earlier but a March 4.5 percent decline when the two total years are reviewed. Woods Cross saw a 16.7 percent drop first quarter 1987 vs. 1986 but recorded a healthy 13.5 percent! gain for the entire year. Unincorporated Davis County, however, registered drastic drops for both periods. The first quarter sales slid from $6.7 million to $3.3 million while the year total went from $25.7 to $14 million. Best hay field5 to be history The best hay KAYSVILLE field in Kaysville will soon be home to scores of people with the recent groundbreaking for a new subdivision. That comment typified sentiments from city officials with the commencement of work in Kay Lyn Manor. The subdivision is being raised around 500 S. Main on the Cliff Linford property. He was a former Kaysville mayor and he fanned the 12 acre site for nearly 40 years. Its all ajoint venture of Dee Staples and Ed Green, developers from Layton and current owner of the site, Keith Linford. You could call this a unique subdivision by the fact in a housing slowdown, weve already had several of lots, said Mr. Linford. We believe this is due to its unique location to public schools. Students of any age will walk less than a block to get to elementary, junior or senior high schoolss. The trio hopes to build 20 lots this fall with the remainder going in next year. They will range in size, according to Mr. Linford, from 8,000 to 13,000 square feet. er My accepting small checks for not performing such tasks will be a boon for the state. Ill pay a full income tax on the monies and even buy a hot tub, allowing the Davis County assessor to tack on an increase in my property tax. As our industrial smokestack economy declines, Utah needs more entrepreneurs like myself. one-sixt- January-- DEADLINES News P.M. Display Ads ....Thursday 5 P.M. Classifieds Friday 5 P.M. Thursday 5 : pre-sa- ; le Retail sales sluggish CONTINUED took advantage of early retirement preventing many layoffs, but workload reductions forced the end to 100 jobs there. Merchants experienced only a little deeper pocketbook in the FROM PAGE ONE and West Point 25. activity came primarily in construction of two new churches valued at $2.1 million; eight stores, $732,100 and two industrial buildings, valued at Reflex-Journ- al Published weekly by Clipper Publishing Co. Inc. 96 South Main, Bountiful, Utah 84010 John Stahl, Editor 544-913- 3 I Arc you receiving payments from the sale of your home? Would you like CASH today instead of payments? nationwide l Salt Lake City, Utah Bullock to get bond hearing on child sex abuse charges By GARY R. BLODGETT Amongst an uproar of protests, a Bountiful man imprisoned earlier this year for sexually abusing four children in the local areas has won an appeal for a new bond hearing from the Utah Supreme Court. who had been convicted last DecemArden Brett Bullock ber by a jury of three counts of aggravated sexual abuse of a child and three charges of sodomy upon a child during was scheduled to appear today (Tuesday) 1983 and 1984 before Second District Court Judge Rodney S. Page in Farmington. Todays hearing is to determine if Bullock should be released from prison on $40,000 bail pending the outcome of his appeal which is presently before the Utah State Supreme Court. The new hearing was allowed by the Supreme Court when a high court agreed that denial of bail majority of the have been based on abuse of could the time of the trial) (at discretion on the part of the judge. The court order which sends the case back to Second District Court for a rehearing by Judge Page states that it is for the purpose of continuing the defendant on bail as previously set by the court ($40,000) together with such restrictions and sanctions as may be appropriate. Defense attorney Craig Cook, who filed the petition for a new bond hearing, argued that Bullock was not a violent man and would not be a danger to society if he were allowed to be free while the appeal is pending before the Supreme Court. Bail was originally denied July 14 and Bullock has been serving time in the Utah State Prison while his appeal is pending before the higher court. A Supreme Court hearing could take up to a year to be heard. Bullock was first incarcerated in the Davis County Jail at the time of his arrest last December. He was sentenced to 15 years to life in the Utah State Prison and has been serving his time there since July when he was convicted of six of 14 counts of various child sex abuse charges. A letter received by the Davis County Clipper and Reflex Journal from a mother of one of the children involved in the Bullock child sex abuse case appears on Page 2. three-memb- er five-memb- er 12 MILLION PEOPLE TRIED CHIROPRACTIC LAST YEAR. Many As A o Utah Self 273 W. 500 S. Iz at Every day chiropractors give more than a million treatments to help sick people feel GOOD again. If you are experiencing a health problem that has not responded to other methods, we invite you to try gentle, natural chiropractic. We accept most insurance, and offer a preliminary spinal function test and consultation at no charge. , CLASS Call for an appointment today no obligation. Find out practic might help you. 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AT ITS BEST! js -- m HE BUY MORTGAGES While lack of precip has greatly helped the lowering of the Great Salt Lake, it has caused at least two other serious problems. U.S. Forest Service spokesman Dick Pine (no pun intended) said the dry spell has been so bad the past two months that the Wasatch Front canyons and hillsides are facing a very high fire danger and within a few days may bring on a ban of no smoking or open fires. And it couldnt happen at a worse time just before the opening of Utahs deer season, Mr. Pine noted. KAIniAYl I ?-- January-Marc- h quarter. Sales increased a scant percent to $207.5 million. Two businesses announced transfers from Weber to Davis County, however: Kremco, Inc. , is moving its oil field equipment manufacturing operations from West Ogden to the Clearfield Freeport Center. Fieldcrest Corp. a residential cabinet and church furniture manufacturer, moved from Ogden to the Freeport Center, as well. Its new 120,000 square foot facility will provide room for growth and should mean 30 additional jobs within a year, Mr. Bailey reports. one-thir- Manager Buulbrg after-- market, either, the Job Service director notes. There were fewer than one percent more jobs during second quarter 1987 than 1986. Some 935 new positions were created. d that many Only about actually resulted in additional jobs, however, with 685 construction jobs hurting any big growth prospects. Growth in manufacturing, trade and services boosted the growth somewhat. Some 201 HAFB employees OwnerPublisher Jr. ll Christmas job-seeke- rs newspaper published at Layton, Utah every Tuesday, in the interest of Davis County and colonies formed by former residents. Address all correspondence to 197 North Main, Layton, Utah 84041. Subscription rate: 25c per copy, $6.50 per year, mailed in county, $7.50 per year outside. J. Howard Stahl Tom on-ca- $771,000, Mr. Bailey says. It wasnt exactly a Weekly three-mont- 10-ye- ar e, Now Im fully aware that Dr. Kendell is facing a number crunch with the districts finances. Thats why Im willing to settle for such an inconsiderable sum. The $50,000 payment is minimal compared to the expose I wont write. The book I wont write would be a local blockbuster: Dr. Kendell wont have to answer questions about the imcompetent teacher who read a book upside down, about the lewd instructor who accosted the secretary at the water cooler and the senile teacher who gave a passing grade to unknown students (Babe Ruth, Mickey Mouse, etc.). The district can save all this embarrassment for a simple $50,000, roughly the amount spent on crayons for the fourth grade. an extremely dry summer, Mr. Alder noted. December was the second driest December on record with only 0.1 inch of precip compared to a monthly norm of 1.37 inches. September (last month) had only 0.05 precip measured at the airport, tying for fifth driest in history; and October tied for the eighth driest with 0.39 inches. So if you feel like you havent felt raindrops falling on your head for a while, its almost a h and the outlook isnt much fact better. th Bountiful saw a healthy 1 1 .6 percent gain as the countys second largest city regained the lead in sales for that quarter. Some $56.9 million in sales were recorded for the winter period, up from just under $51 million a year earlier. For the year through March 31, sales in that city registered $250.9 million, compared to $231.3 million the previous year for an 8.5 percent in this column that I, Cyclops, will accept a check from Dr. Richard Kendell for a paltry $50,000 and upon its receipt I will not write a book about my experience in the Davis County School District. During this years dry spell, only four months exceeding the normal for wetness. July was wetter than average, otherwise it was 7 earlier. Im announcing And up $400,000 from that period a year image. So all-ti- $207,527,000 el high and threatening to rise was at an even more. If you wonder where the rains went this year, the answer is simple: they never did come. Or when they did, they were in very moderate amounts. In fact, the 1986-8water year which ended at midnight last Wednesday turned out to be the sixth driest water year since modern-da- y records were first kept 30 years ago. Only 10.71 inches of precipitation was recorded at Salt Lake International Airport during the period which just ended. And thats just a little less than 70 percent of normal. Compared to the past 10 years, the percentage of normal would be even lower less than 60 percent of the decade average of 17.81 inches, according to the National Weather Service office in Salt Lake City. William J. Alder, meteorologist for the NWS, said four of the six wettest years on record occurred during the past decade with the 1981-8- 2 season being the wettest, with 25.15 inches of precip. The following water year was second wettest with 23.82 inches. The year of the big floods (1982-83- ) saw the sixth wettest water year, with the 1984-8- 5 water year being the third wettest, dumping 23.40 inches of precip on the Salt Lake Valley. But the span also saw two of the driest years on record, including 1978-7- 9 which recorded only 8.19 inches. Its been a crazy 10 years of weather for this area, said Mr. Alder. The precipitation pattern has been very erratic ranging from just over eight inches to more than 25 inches. Are we back in a dry cycle now? Of course no one knows for certain. But some weather prognosticators are saying yes at least for another year. This winter and spring are expected to be especially dry in the Intermountain Area, if prevailing weather patterns hold true. And the dry spell couldnt have come at a better time. Unusually dry weather, along with the west desert pumping station, have reduced the level In fact, gross taxable retail sales of one perrose by only two-tentthe period, reaching cent, during And thats not the only deal Ill make. President Reagans former budget director, David Stockman, ieceived more than $2 million for writing a book blasting his boss. The book is full of the politics and panderings in Washington, D.C., casting Ronald Reagan in a negative of the Great Salt Lake nearly two feet when it By GARY R. BLODGETT sales. ar pork-barr- wasnt plentiful during the past year Main By TOM BUSSEL3ERG Every news report verifies the bleak picture. ..Utah is racking up poor numbers, the economy is sluggish, the tax base is eroding and more adults are leaving than entering the state. We need to find, says the Governor, a clean industry, one capable of churning tremendous profits without impacting the environment. Well, Im doing my part. And Im making the announcement public. As a loyal Utahn, I will accept money for not performing certain tasks. If you think Im joking, let me explain: The Hollywood gossip columns reported last week that Peter Falk, that lovable but disheveled soul who stumbled his way has agreed not to star in a new 20th through Columbo, Century Fox movie. Thats right! He will not spend one single minute on the movie set and you wont see him on the screen, despite an earlier contract. In return, Fox has agreed to pay him $1.25 million for his personal sacrifice. His contract will be torn up so that Fox can hire a more marketable star, Rodney Dangerfield, to play the part. I like sacrifice. Its part of the Mormon pioneer heritage. So Im announcing right here and now that I, Cyclops, will accept the measly sum of $500,000 for not starring in the new Sylvester Stallone movie. Rambo himself can drop by my house and beg as his leading villain and, with $500,000 in hand, me to on Stallones pleadings. He can whine and he door the slam Ill can threaten, but it wont make any difference. Im a man of my word. co-st- Sales volume inches upward Self Defense SUPPLIES; 4 Mb - in 't i u j |