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Show Hi eirSra mieedls An additional $5100 Gearfield City needs to come up with for crossing bars and lights at the 200 South railroad crossing is not due to inflation they found out. A decision to spend the extra funds was delayed for two weeks while the fund for just such purposes as this making it unopen the budget. The updated safety equipment at the crossing will be built to accomodate an 80 foot road. The city has long range plans for widening 200 South. necessary to expenditure was researched. One year ago the Utah Department of transportation estimated the cost of safety equipment on that crossing to be $50,000 of which the city allocated a 10 percent match of ISLANDS TO BE REMOVED IN BUSINESS DISTRICT The Utah Department of Transportation is also participating in yet another project in Clearfield, that of removing the islands from the downtown area. They have engineers working now to redesign the $5,000. Two weeks ago the city was informed the bid had gone to $101,440 making the citys share, $10,144. Research found the reason for the doubling costs to be due to a new computerized type of crossing arms which lowers according to the speed of an train. The D and RGW will not participate in any of the cost according to Mayor Donal Townley. But it is needed before someone loses their life there. Councilman Neldon Hamblin made a motion to approve the additional monies but added we will need to open the budget sometime this fiscal year for the funds. However, later in the meeting the citys financial airector Rod Davenport explained to the council that he had placed the citys surplus funds into an unidentified up downtown area and remove the islands said City Manager Gayle Starks. The state will do all the work if the city will supply the materials, according to Starks. The citys safety committee chairman, Vera Hamblin said it will be a real benefit to the city to remove those islands. We have lots of safety problems with people on State Street, its a ieal hazard " making The state will also put in place modern steel-pol- e lights downtown at their cost. The city will pay for operating costs of the lights, Starks said. The businessmen who have talked to me about this are real enthused. Mayor Townley said AWARDED BEST OF SHOW in the Clearfield Chamber of Commerce Outdoor Art Exhibit was Genie Child, shown here with Roger Bodily, president of the Chamber. O S LEARF1ELD Volume 7 Number 23 Serving the Postage PAID Clearfield UT 84015 Permit No 2 Clearfield-Sunse- t Area July 9, 1980 Castletons opens in Layton Mall Manager named for new store Ted Thacker will manage the new Castletons when it opens in the Layton Hills Mall Friday, July 11, at noon. Conveniently located between Salt Lake and Ogden in Davis County, the new Castletons will be one of Utahs Castletons Foothill store, Operations Manager of the Olympus Hills store, and Assistant Store Manager of Castletons Valley Fair. Mr. Thacker was a student at the University of Utah and graduated from Utah Technical College at Salt Lake in Business Management. The new Castletons will be staffed by approximately sixty employees from the Layton, Ogden, and Bountiful areas. Castletons will sell the finest in fashion for the entire family and for the home. Departments in- finest specialty fashion stores geared to serve the entire Intermountain area The new store is the eighth in the local chain that has served Utah families for almost twenty-fiv- e years. The other seven stores are located in the Salt Lake, Ogden, and Orem areas. GUNN MCKAY AND HIS WIFE were welcomed to the Fourth ot July festivities by Roger Bodily, Chamber of Commerce president and Andra Yaunt, chairman of the art show. Clearfield Outdoor art exhibit Winners chosen from 250 entries Winners of the Clearfield Tenth Annual Outdoor Art Exhibit were announced here by Andra Yaunt, chairman of the event. The popular event sponsored by the Chamber of Commerce received 250 entries from throughout Northern Utah according to Mrs. Yaunt. Best of Show award went to Genie Child for her oil painting. Other winners and their categories were: Professional Water Color - first and second place, Nel Pickard; honorable mention, Sandra Ashby. Professional Oil - first pice, Genie Child; second place, Jerry Myers; honorable mention, Betty Panizer. Professional Graphics first place, DeVoe Mayhue. Amateur Oil - first place, Jana Johns; second place, Beverly McMillan; honorable mention, Jana Johns. Amateur Graphics first place, Ted McDaniels; second place, Kurt Bell; honorable mention, Ted McDaniels. Junior Oils - first place, John Huerta; second place, Ann Rowley. Junior Water Color - first and second place, Ann Rowley; Junior Graphics first place, John Huerta; second place, Dori Mohr; honorable mention, Kathy Webb. Professional Photography first place, Tom Davenport; second place and honorable mention, Phillip Crenshaw. Amateur Photography first place and second place, Henry Miller; honorable mentions, James Wilson and Michelle Chipman. Judges were Lanny Cottrell and Roger McClellan for the photography competition. Both men are well known Ogden area photography specialists. DeWitt Sorenson, area artist of renown, judged the Mr. Thacker has spent nine clude Womens Sportswear, Contemporary Wear, Dresses and Coats, productive years with Castletons, Inc., and the last two and a half as the Manager of the Castletons Olympus Hills store. His previous experience with the company includes positions as Merchandise Manager of the the Junior Gallery, Lingerie and Accessories, Womens Shoes, the Mens Shop, Mens Shoes, the Bullpen, the Childrens Department and Gifts. Hosiery, V paintings. Sorenson is retired from Hill Air Force Base as Chief of Graphics. He is presently writing and illustrating a book. Final approval given for Sunset City budget The Sunset City Council gave final approval to the 1980-8- 1 budget last week. The $832,974 budget includes an 11 percent raise for city employees and a sizable increase in the water and sewer budget. Although there was no tax increase, the new increases will be covered mainly by raising the rates charged residents for those services. The previous years budget was $724,806. NEW CASTLETONS STORE located in the new Layton Hills Mall, is one of eight stores now serving Utah. Second in a series By LaVora Wayment operated by the late Jacob Layton family. Around the year 1905 things really began to happen in Clearfield. Editors note: This is the second installation in the History of Clearfield series. The Bamberger Electric Railroad arrived in Clearfield that year offering To drive around modern day Clearfield with its green yards, thriving business district and lush pastures one can hardly imagine what the daily passenger service between Salt Lake City and Ogden. It opened up a whole Sandridge area must have looked like prior to 1870. That was the year the Utah new world of travel to area residents. Central Railroad came through the area. That same year the first school was built in Gearfield. Children in the district The deep dry sand, whipped nightly by the east wind from Weber Canyon, was had previously attended school in Syracuse under the capable tutelage of Miss a place where nothing but cactus and lizards could survive. Minnie Christensen, She is credited with the naming of Clearfield. Two brave pioneers Richard and Emiley Hamblin settled in this forsaken A one room building erected in 1890 had served for all kinds of gatherings; area and started the changes that eventually saw Clearfield become one of the educational, social, business, political and religious. The building was used for Davis in most beautiful and thriving communities County. and later became part of the North Davis High School. many years The Hamblins brought with them two sons. They eventually had 10 children, The first Clearfield school which later became Pioneer has been used since nine of whom grew to maturity. that day except during the year 1923 when, following a blaze that gutted the Shortly after the Hamblins settled in Clearfield the Hyrum Laytons arrived. Early in the 1880s David Egbert settled on the piece of land later owned and school, children were forced to use the Clearfield Ward while awaiting the schools rebuilding Two years later, in 1907, several important occurances were recorded The well-keorganization of the first Clearfield Ward occurred at the meeting with 265 people in attendance. Many of which were probably visitors. The same year the first general store was built and operated by James Warren. Another business, the Clearfield Canning Company, came into being that year and industry had begun in Clearfield. Clearfield Canning was built by Hyrum Steward and several associates for the purpose of canning tomatoes which grew as profusely in Clearfield as the many berry crops did. The firm is now known as Woods Cross Canning. James Warren was the owner of the General Store which was later taken over by the Clearfield Mercantile Company. The first U.S. Post Office in Clearfield was established in a corner of that building about 1910 with Herbert E. Smith as Postmaster. Another early business was the Excelsior Fruit and Produce Company which supplied the country round about with the superior fruits and vegetables that were now being grown so abundantly in Clearfield. Later this firm was taken over by the Clearfield Lumber Company. One of the interesting characters of those early times was James G. Wood Born in Bountiful in 1853, he was educated in his fathers private school. Early in life Wood learned responsibility and industry. His father taught him as a boy how to look after the land and care for the things that grew upon it. His love for the beauty in life was evidenced in the meticulous care he took of his property. In manhood he married Susan Stoddard, filled a mission for his church then returned to marry Alice Corbndge in Dec. of 1974. He worked in neighboring states for several years before returning to Bountiful, to settle down to the hard working but rewarding life of a farmer. Soon he began to dream of the possibilities of obtaining a larger tract of land on the Sandridge. He borrowed a dollar from a neighbor, boarded a train and came to this area. When he returned home a few days later, he had arranged to sell his Bountiful farm and had also arranged to purchase a large tract of land in what is now Clearfield. He moved his families here in May 1890. That year he raised some 3,600 bushels of dry farm wheat. In the manner in which he was raised, Wood also began to beautify his surroundings. He planted some 200 poplar trees as well as .other plants and improved his property by building fences and etc. In 1892 he built a brick house for his families at what is now approximately 1000 W. and 300 No. and in 1896 he built another home on the corner nearby. Though culinary water was hard for this industrious fellow to come by he managed by hauling water from Syracuse until finally in 1896 he noticed that some neighboring land owned by John Traugott held a lot of water. Wood made a to take care of the water thus supplying his own need and that of his WOODS CROSS CANNING still is use in Clearfield today was originally Clearfield Canning Co. which began in 1 90S. The only other business in the bargain neighbor. city at that time was the General Store. |