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Show t o vX spoor s copy Stephenson noted as top businessman II Keith Stephenson, a resident of Clearfield since 1948, was named OUTSTANDING BUSINESSMAN OF CLEARFIELD. Mr. Stephenson was born in Preston, Idaho. He was one of eleven children. He was raised on a farm in Lava Hot Springs and received his in education Idaho Schools, graduating form Lava Hot Springs High School, where he served as Student Body President. After high school, he joined the Marine Corps and served for two years in the South Pacific during World War II. Mr. Stephenson is married to the former June Mason, also from Lava Hot Springs. They moved to Clearfield in 1948 and are the parents of four children a daughter Sharon, two sons, Donn and Brent, who manage Steves Marine and Mark who is serving an LDS Mission in Belgium. They have nine grandchildren. attended night classes at Weber State College and started building homes throughout the area. He has built over two hundred homes in Clearfield. He later built Mr. Stephenson Steves Builders Supply and Sports Store (Now Steves Marine). He has been in the boat business for 25 years. He is an active member of the Chamber of Commerce and has served a three year term on the Board of Directors and was president of that group during the year 1969. He has directed the Clearfield Days Celebration sponsored Queen candidates and sponsored several floats for Clearfield Days. Mr. Stephenson was responsible for building the bowery at Fisher Park, using his own construction crew for the labor. He was also responsible for building the Clearfield Stake Camp. He is Past Pres ident of the Clearfield Lions Club and Past President of the Ogden Gun Club. avid sportsman, he loves boating, hunting and fis hing, and has recently taken up the g ame of golf. An He has always been active in the LDS Church organizations holding various positions such as Elders Quorum President, First Councilor in the Bishopric and is presently serving as Clearfield Stake High Councilman. Melvin Wood selected as 'Outstanding Citizen' Two Clearfield men were honored at the annual Clearfield Chamber of Commerce Dinner meeting held Tuesday night. Melvin G. Wood, a lifetime native of the city was named OUTSTANDING OF CITIZEN CLEARFIELD. Mr. Wood was born in Clearfield, February 19, 1897. He was raised on a 200 acre farm where the Clearfield North Stake Center now stands. As a boy he helped on the farm with his father and learned to do all that is done on a farm, feeding and tending the animals and planting and caring for crops. was educated in his early years and Clearfield Syracuse Elementary Schools and was one of the first students to attend Davis High He in School. At that time the population of Clearfield was 476 with one grocery store in the area. His father was Superintendent of the East Canyon Dam. He piped Spring Water one and one half miles to his home, and was the first to have running water in his house. Before this the family hauled water from Weber Canyon in barrels for culintary use. At age nineteen he served a 27 month mission for the LDS Church in the State of Texas. On October 24, 1923 he married LaVora Smith. They raised a family of six daughters. They are : Mrs. Mack (Maurine) Wilhelmson; Mrs. Reed (Allene) Whitesides; Mrs. Marvin (Norma Jean) Mumford; Mrs. Gail (Beverly) Stevenson; Mrs. Stanley (Mary Ellen) Smoot and Mrs. Val (Ruth Ann) Christensen. He has 37 grandchildren and 56 greatgrandchildren. After LaVoras death he married Opal B. Cahoon on September 4, 1963. Mr. Wood was associated with the Smith Canning Company in Clearfield and held the following for 6 years; positions: First field-mawarehouse foreman for 20 years, superintendent for 11 years and sales manager for Smith Sales for two n years. Melvin Wood was the second Mayor of Clearfield, a position he held for six years, from 1948 to 1953. During his reign, Clearfield City bought and developed two city parks, installed sidewalks, curbs and gutters in the city, enlarged the main water system into the city, built the Municipal Swimming Pool, streets and buildings were numbered, a junior high school and two elementary schools were built, the U.S. Naval Supply Depot was located here and new street? opened up and land was bought for future streets and projects. Mr. Wood built and owned the Norge Cleaning and Pressing building on 200 and also the South Street, which he op mated for nine years. a, Active in the LDS churci l he held the following positions: President of Young Mens-- . Mutual Association for seven years , scoutmaster for three years, senior Scout Master for two years, Councilor in Sunday School Presidency for nine years, Councilor in Bishopric For two years, Bishop for all of Clearfi eld for ten years, High Councilman i or ten years, Patriarch of Clearfield Stake for 17 years, various other pos itions during the past 60 years. He was also a charter memb er of the Kiwanis Club, a former mei nber of the Clearfield Chamber of Commerce and one of the first directoi rs of the Weber Basin Water Project. U S LEARFIELD v r Vol. 9 No. 1 Sixteen Bocal teenagers to compete in beauty pageant 15 candidates to compete April 3rd for Miss Clearfield title TAMM JASKOWSKI KELLIE McENTIRE ( ipOf JEANNINE TEAKE KORRIE THORPE STEPHANIE AMES KATHY HORSPOOL U? 84j Permit No I b 2 March 19, 1980 Serving the Clearfield - Sunse area 5 Postoge PAID Sunset Junior offers classes variety of classes are being offered by Sunset Junior High School Community School 1610 North 250 A West in Sunset. Roller skating is scheduled every at Sunset Elementary Sichool, 2014 North 2050 West in Sunset. The fee for skating is $1. Skating i s held from 3 to 6 p.m. Classes offered on Tuesday, March 25, are as follows: Fat Mans Basketball, Disco, Jazz Dancing, Womens Slim and Trim, and a class dealing with the proper use of over the counter drugs. These classes begin at 7 p.m. and the fee is $8. On Thursday, March 27, classes in painting, fishing and fly tying, landscaping and type are being offered. These classes begin at 7 p.m. and the fee ranges from $8 to $12. Three sessions of gymnastics are scheduled to begin on Saturday, March 29. Registration will be in the cafeteria (east side of building) between 8 and 9 a.m. Classes begin this same morning as follows: 9 to 9:50, 4th, 5th, 6th, and 7th grades; 10 to 10:50, Preschool through 3rd grade; 11 to 11:50 Overflow. The fee for gymnastics is $8. All classes except roller skating are held at Sunset Jr. High School. Tuesday and Thursday classes register in the office (westside) at the same time the class is scheduled to begin. For more information call Mel Roberts, Monday 773-065- Hess receives promotion Clearfield resident Joselp M. Hess has been promoted to the rank of colonel in the Air Force Reserves. The Hill Air Force Base chief of the Morale, Welfare and Recreaction Division received his eagles from Brig. Gen. S.T. Ayers, Mobilization Assistant to the Air Force Logisitics Commander, and his wife Audrey Air Feb. 9 at the Sacramento Logistics Center, McClellan Air Force Base, Calif., during an AFLC Reserve Mobilization Augmentee Conference. North Davis Junior High Student, made a big the science world with his project. DAVE CRAMERS, Pond property. Edwin Higley, owner of the property located at 650 N. 1000 W., is requesting the rezoning. An original request which was presented to the planning commission ai the March 5 meeting, asked for a rezoning from was refused. to present R-- P-- F However, the planning commission recommended to the city council a as to R-- l or R-zone change of P-zones are these contigous to the F in Oameirs creates interesting project When Dave Cramers father expressed the wish that a stronger casting material would be invented to use in his sculptoring, Dave knew he had found a project for the science fair. After several weeks of casting and testing, he achieved his objective which was to develop the optimum formula for increasing the strength of a casting material. This experiment won the Grand Award at North Davis Junior High Schools 1980 Science Fair March 13. It was the first time a seventh grade student had ever taken that award at North Davis. 13 year-ol- d The scientific-minde- d is the son of Don and Helen Cramer, 1639 E. 750 S., Clearfield. Mr. Cramer, a former teacher in the sculpturing department at the University of Utah is presently employed by Hill Air Force Base as an Employee Development Specialist. He still enjoys sculpting as a hobby. Mrs. Cramer, also a former teacher, is now employed as a financial counselor for Federal Employees Credit Union. The Cramers were previously residents of the South Salt Lake area where Dave attended school in the Granite school district. Dave is more challenged here (the Davis County School District) than he was in Granite Mrs. Cramer The schools here are much said. smaller. The teachers seem more interested in the students as people than as students per se. Dave titled his science project Strengthening Casting Material with After with his dentist, Dr. Sulfates and Carbonates. consulting Park in, as to types of compounds to use in his experiment, be began testin g on Jan. 29. Dave tested six of each compound, after c astir g and testing six bars of pure c asting material by fracturing individual bars on a tester designed to determine exact weight at which each bar broke. After several weeks of exduring which young perimenting, Dave exhibited endurance and beyond his years, he concluded that the optimum formula bars were 14 a percent stronger. Dave will compete with other junior high school science fair winners at Weber State College in April. A versatile young man, Dave began playing the accordian at age 6. During the summers of 1977 and 1978 Dave won trophies for playing accordian solos in Los Angeles, Calif. Dave belongs to the Jr. Catholic Youth organization at Hill Air Force Base. Besides regular meetings, the group has social events such as rollei skating, dances, etc. They also get involved in community projects such as visiting the aged in nursing homes in the area. lie is a n.cr.iuer uf Youth of the Altar at the Catholic Services at the Base. bars Although Dave has always expressed a desire to work in the Space Program when he is older, he admits to a second career choice he has recently been considering, Marine Biology, an interest that was kindled when the family was anticipating a job transfer to Okinawa. An avid reader, Dave said I read all kinds of stuff. Mrs. Cramer stated that Dave learned to love reading at a very early age. He has enough books to begin a lending library of his own, she said. Dave lists as hobbies: Baseball, soccer, swimming, roller skating, skateboarding and drawing. News Briefs Defensive drivers course set An eight-hou- r Defensive Driving Course will begin in Clearfield on April 2 at Clearfield High School at 6:30 p.m. Purpose of the cou rse is to learn the evasive actions necessary to avoid a traffic acci dent. For further information and enrollment, call Luke Blak eley, Ogden Driver License Division, or the Utah Registration fee is $12. Safeiy Council, 479-529- 533-585- Banker, Councilman appointed A Sunset banker and City Councilman was appointed to serve the uni expired term of H. Jay Stephens on the Davis County Board of Edu cation. Du ring an emergency board meeting last Thursday, Bruce Watkin s was appointed to serve the term which expires at the end of the y ear. He was selected from among 16 applicants for the post. Mr. Wa tkins will represent Precinct 5, the area north and west of Layton. Man ager of the Sunset Branch of Clearfield State Bank, Mr. Vatkins has lived in Sunset since 1965. He graduated from the Colorado i School of Banking, Boulder, Colo, and the Pacific Coast Sichooi o f Banking in Seattle. IDogi owners given reminder Davi.s County dog owners are reminded to license their dogs before Monday, March 31 to avoid late fines and-o- r citations. A license moy be obtained by applying to their local city offices, Davis County Animal control or the Davis County Courthouse. Bountiful, S unset and Clinton residents must apply at their city office. Cost of li censes are: male or female, $10, spayed female or ineutered mal e $5. Certificate of alteration and current rabies vaccination in formation must be furnished. After March 31 a ilicense is an additional $5. Public hearing set for April 8th A public hearing has been set for April 8 at 7:30 p.m. for consideration of a rezoning proposal for the Steed dent in question. At the last city council meeting, Dallas Buckway, repr esented Mr. R-Higley in stating that a zone of 2 would be acceptable. Plan s for the 4.8 property acres include condom iniums. A spokesman for a group of citizens protesting the condos being built there presented the planning ct wnmission with a petition containing names of many of those opposing tlie plans. Bruce Baird, along with his w ife Joan, state that reasons for the op 'position include lack of room for adequate parking and driving areas. Site plans show one of the buildings to be less than 30 ft. from Railroad tracks, they said. Mrs. Baird, who stated she favors the city purchasing or trading for the land thinks steps could be taken to make it a safer place for the children who are drawn to it and still retain the primitive atmosphere of that area. The pond is connected in a dog-le- g fashion to the Steed Park property which is now being developed by the city. The Master Plan for the city calls for a park in that area, Mrs. Baird said. I |