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Show 141 he... k.i. ., 1 1 i 21..: i 1 OrocSiure, new welcome billboard Tell Layton Story to visitors jbeukd. Tourists passing through Lajton City this summer will hae the! Lajton advantage of two new sources of special information to tell them about the community as a result of Chamber of Commerce projects completed recently. An impressive 12 by 14 foot signboard at the south entrance to the city welcomes newcomers to Lajton city of progress. Backgiound for the sign, which was designed by Layton Artist Edward Savarese, and painted bjT John Iio-s, A' ( allows aiea pxogiess from cov- ered wagons of the fust pio-- I neeis to the rochet ships of today on The Cham! er was the wekome sign ov the Jun-- I of Commute, lor Chamber Mountain Sates 1 eh j hone, who furnished the poles; Utah Power ami Company,) who drilled holes in the piksj Lumber Company and land Bills Sheet Metal, who donated other matenal at cost Still to be added to the is sue h mien motion as the population of the city, and day and time of service club meetings along with the vanous club insignias Dr. H. V. Mai sell was chau-ma- n of the sign committee of the Chamber The second project, w hit h will not only make informa-- i tion available to the tourist, but will provide advance information for those planning to move to this area, is a brochure printed on green grey and blue paper. Front page of the brochure features an outline map of Utah with Lajton staired, along with a drawing of a jet aueraft and the words: LAY-TOUTAH Small town convenience with laige city opportunities, and gateway to Hill Air Force Base. The second and third pages cairy a pietuie of Layton mam street and such information as the population (7,boo); locabetween tion ( midway Salt Lake City and Ogden in North Central Utah); and other gen-eifacts which would be of interest to the many persons who write each month, saying they aie planning to tiansfer to this aiea and would like to know more about it. For instance, they will find items as these covered in the brochure: Altitude, 4.24S OL bill-boa- id N X ' " I X J" .s - W t v , c ; ' W' f t N . X"' , I ' K-v- Xxik r ff ? v - i : ( i ? s1 1 i f -- v COWBOYS FROM THROUGHOUT STATE particiDavis County Sheriffs Mounted pated in two-da- y Posse review last Friday and Saturday in Kays-vill- e. In addition to the prize money that went to top riders such as one pictured, Posse gave away 700 lb. baby beef to Donald R. Adams. Layton. ka.vsville Buildng pcimils for the month of May m thi community coveied sit homes, sevcial nmodeling jobs and sheds to be built at the Davis High Soho, fen the County Fair Building peimits weie issued to the following Dicktison Construction Co, residence and caipo't, !' S .Vo W , $7,jsn; illiain Sides, caipoit, 00 S V L , Jfl,loo, Davis County Ian Boatd, at the school; Richard Bia, addition to lesuknce. West (enter, !fs ,o; Llujd Chambulin, leinodel g.nage and residence, 217 S V U , $70; Jerry Bach, residence and caipoit, ilo S. ,oo , $7,770; Jerty Bach, lesidence and caiport, V2s S. loo VV , 7,110, Brough Home Builders, two lesidences, one fern $7,jso, the other for 7,270; Brough Home Builders, residence and gaiage, 70s K. 170 S , s, :jo. VV Will begin on Hew lighting to loui hundied children who took advantage of the lessons at Lagoon Ovei tluitv instructors h two-pag- stock of Willard Rodeo Company. In addition to regular rodeo events, Davis County Posse piesented a striking well performed drill, and the wild cow milking event kept things moving at a lupid pace. ngjed Winners announced kajsville A near lecoid crowd turned out for Satuiday The Reflex is pleased Davis County Sher- evening's final performance of the two-da- y ,e able todaj' to present lfis Mounted Posse Review at the posse grounds in Kaysville. a cu of the new tabernacle Their leward was some fast action from the cowboy, and a that the people of Kayscolorful dull by the Davis Posse. ville Ward will erect on who and earned the riders the corner of Locust and money away prize ropeis lop Heaps, Salt Lake, first; A1 first VV r, Hos-km-- o, VV gtock Horge; Doyl(j Joneg( cllnton fir8t. A1 Heaps, sec- onj. an(j Ray Gibbs, Salt Lake, third. Reining Class: Dojle Jones, fust; A1 Heaps, second; Florin Bleumel, West Jordan, third. Race: Arch PeCenterville, Gene Sanders, Bountiful, second; and Wendell Stafford, Eighth-mil- e first; terson, Lajton, third. Race: Elwood Jenkins, first; Wendell Staf- ford, second; and Ron Randall, Centerville, third Three-eight- h Mile: Arch Pe- terson, first; Wajne Walker, Centerville, second. Kids Pony Class under 12: Hoot Jones, Ogden, first; Sandy McHenery, second; Larry Waite, Syracuse, third. Kids Pony Class over 12: Craig Burkmshaw, first; Don- aid Wharram, second; and Sue Foss, third. Novice Cutting: Roger Adams, Layton, first; LeGrand Hess, Farmington, second; A1 Heaps, third Open Cutting: Hector Flint, Kaysville, first. kids Pony Race under Quarter-mil- e Ekstrom, Kajsville, firt; Billy fields, Lajton, second, and Carter Cook, Lajton, third Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the tiling you have to do when it has to be done, whether you like it or not. Huxley 47 iears Fifth Streets opposite the wwaftii FIRST WEEK WINNERS IN THE REFLEX-JOURNsubscription contest were Craig Tice, 633 East 1st North, left, and William Cook, Fruit boys and gnis registered Heights. Twenty-on- e for the contest which began a week ago. Youngsters earn points for each years subscription they sell, which will be spent on prizes at the end of the contest. AL v luminescence through the jeais, but with the increase in lmpor-i- s tance of the elements of speed, heat, space and light intensity in modem aircraft, the an craft and missile industry has been moved to further and faster development Layton City issues 22 home permits Prwded and reviewed. Repro senting Lajton were Mr. W hite- - g Cairnen Burnham, secietary; commission, Frank Adams, Chamber of Commerce and Amencan Le-- i gion, Eail Tucker, Lions Club; erdon Spurlock, Kiwanis; William Vincent, Jr. Chamber of Commeice; Ned Nalder, city 'councilman; Dr. H V. Maisell, city councilman; Don Weaver, i hail man of Lajton Planning Commission; Dr Robeit Bit-- j group; and nei, piofessional W. Hal Thorpe, Rotary Club. This is the LAYTON CITIZENS HIGHWAY COMMIT-- i TEE RESOL U T I O N PER-- , TAIMNG TO THE LOCATION OF INTERSTATE HIGHWAY 17 THROUGH THE CITY: the Meekly Reflex, was of VVIIFREAS- The citizens of Buildings. The number one Layton ( lty thiough the Civic, part: groups, church groups, planning commission and Lav- ton City Council duly appoint- ed a special committee to btudy the location of the Interstate Ilignway system as pertains sides; mng New building in Lay-- oday, home and garage, $9,658: Layton City dunng the past twoLoien O. Kay Construction, 906 montlis totaled $300,767, accord' Eaot Elm, home and garage, ing to Fred A. Bradshaw, city $14,000, and David S. Galley, building inspector. Permits were 2854 East Oak Place, home and issued by Mr. Bradshaw for 22 garage, $15,383, homes, four remodeling projects The business building permit on homes and businesses, one was issued to Hines and Comnew business building and six pany for a $20,000 warehouse pemits for garages, patio or other on West Gentile Stiect at the buildings. site of the Denver and Rio GranHome permits were as follow de station for Apnl and May: Remodeling permits issued inSprinter Construction Company, dued. Don Taylor, 1350 North 17 homes, 613 Julie Duve, Mam, remodel duve in, $1,560, Cecil Baiton, 758 Adams, remod$12 000, 572 Julie Drive. $12,100, 557 Julie Drive, $11,080 552 Julie el home, $3 000, Boyd Monson, Duve, $11,088, 630 Julie Drive, 149 South Foit Lane, remodel 646 Julie Drive, $12,705, home, $3 640, and John Paik, $12,100 GJ6 Julie Drive, $11,550 1015 West Gentile, remodel home, 672 684 Jul $3,760 Drive $11,500 le Other permits included- M. G. le Drlve SI2.705, 387 Noith Col417 CoIonldl Freeman, 248 Glen, patio, $420, omjl$12100' Alex D. Peresich, 589 Wasatch $12 100, 183 Ju ie Drive, $12,100, ,671 Julie Duve, $12,100 , 655 Jul-- j Drive, accessory building; $964, Don Lee Iiosenkdde, 576 Daley, 2,J4 Aircraft (e Dl JVC $u b45 juile Drlve $12,100, garage, $1,000, Jim Crawford, t0 1467 Scott Circle, garage, $2,625, and 629 Ju,lu Dnve11,530 W Ihis (ommitteej Morgan, RED Box 37, John C. Imel, 1447 Marilyn, ac- pct.tioncd the State Road Com- - 1onie $j ooo, Lynn Bodily, Sy-- , cessory building, $480, and VV. V. on several occasions rdcuse $8 712, Road, home, Biesinger, 772 Valeria, garage, bet,seen January 12th and Zulon Whitesides, 178 South Mel-- $1,127. Apnl 27th for an audience to Mayor Wayne Wmegar read a letter from the city council lequesting that the State Road This Committee Commission consider the recWHEREAS after careful consideration has ommendation of the special and concluded that an alternate Lajton road committee route to the west of the pro- that if and when the decision posed route is feasible and on the road location is made, would alleviate the undespable Lajton City be consulted as to structure and utility location of the damage to Lajton and would he 'i16 CP which time the nicue in keeping with the pub- - easement. Mr. Whitesides then Committee hshed criteria of Inteistate presented the resolution. lequested Ogden opposed Route A and pioposed that Route C be used in Weber County which would place the road closer to that R, erdale was against cut- d does not wm- cation ( omnnssion relocate the loim ih the piaitice, and j()post(j interstate highway ting their community in half, the com- '"route and asked that the road stay concept of by pas-m- g arjn(, a northwesterly to the west side of the town as menial cuter of cities andifrom the Kajsville city limits much as possible. Roy and Sunand would impair lto cross Gentile Street approxi- set requested that the highway the eAhitiC values of the com-- 1 he on government land east of the if possible. Bamberger Cleai field requested that the interchange be placed as far of the (m,lfcrcial Zone, thus Gordon A,t,nue and or moVide south of the city as possible in , mating inepaiable damage tow'ntUjn evidtme to lhe Clty of order that it does not interfere vuth the m" of the vhp economic growth Lajton venfymg that engi- commercial area by not piovid- Po1 development . neermK gurvejS f guth a route Supply Depot lllg u,r the exten'lon of Wa- - have been completed and the ,ed- A that an n:?uth TPn'e to ,l?u,kett ,wlth results of the survey and whe- Bighwaj Pi between Gen- - ther or not lhe route is feasible, terchange be placed near the ,L; .. ,i I I, , r v, ctroot. Road and Highway PI. bjiacu--anofficials State Road nounced that any faither recommendation regaidmg the in- 12 Hefleis The big story for the May 12, 1912, issue of Kaysvilles Progress Shown in Evolution of Church storjv covering almost the entire front page, read in geneially road to the Box klder County line, Inteistate Highway so noith "eher Canyon will low geneially the route of the M eber River to a connection with the noith-sout- h freeway south of the Ogden Municipal An port near Roy FR-- "or neuj tabernacle, Davis Posse rodeo and Airport towel. .v 1 ton , - , , in the new opera houMi. (Three photographs were printed. The first was the old KaysWeekly Reflex ville Meetinghouse as it appeared before remodeling. Within its walls all the presidents of the Mormon Church have spoken with the exception of the Prophet Joseph Smith. In early days school was held in the basement and manv of the hoys and girls who have gone out into the world were educated therein. The next picture was the new ward tabernacle and the third, the opera house ) In the construction of the new tabonorh, buff pitted burls mudr ni tin Kaijsiille yards, with cutstone trimming and column, udl be used. The building is intended to inert all icqimenunts of a general a rub! if hall, with ample stating capacity for 800 people. The old tabernacle is pait of the present Kay.sville Wards at Center and Second West. The arucle continued, No one can say how long it might have been before a new structure would have been provided hut for the destruction of tne ward opera house by fire on the night of January 13, 1910. At once, when ccmfrontel with the fact that the disastrous fire had wiped out the onlv place of amusement in town, leading men of the wait! who were called into council with the Bishopric, decided that the meeting house should at once be converted into a place of ment and used for all purposes until a suitable place of worship could he provided. The walk of remodeling the meetinghouse into an a muse merit hall i egmrid a year and a half for completion, and the cost was clou to $10,000. in it prunrt form, the building has a spacious dancing floor, better and larger than the opera house boasted, a stage equipped mth the best scenery anpaiUd fiom the east, a gallery seating 150 people and space on the main floor for close to 600 William Blood and John R. Barnes, two early settlers, v ere chatting over old times the other night and from them it was learned that excavation for the old meetinghouse basement was made as early as 1855, and that fall Mr. Blood and the late M illiam B. Smith went to Morgan City to get lime with which the foun- idation was to be laid, for at that earlv dav, the immense deposits of limestone near Salt Lake had not been developed. In the fall of 1856 the veteran Charles D. Evans opt nr d school in the basement, which bv that time had been walled up and covered rudely with straw. Under the direction of Bishop Christopher Lajton, the walls were reared, and the meetinghouse completed in 18C2 or shortly therealter. The walls were built of adobes, made principally bv the late Geo. Colemere, who aBo assisted in laving up the massive walls. The rough lumber used in the construction was native red pine cut from the mountains eat of Kavsville, and sawed in the old Ban's canjon saw- mill, owned st that time by Joseph Egbert. - - ' ), - nii-vi- 1 ' I n , o Ago amuse-lcl,nmunitic- discuss y cPaI ticipated Baby siteis will lie piov.ded for the uisti uctoi s who lend their time to teach swimming but if jour child has not regis-jB(,tered, contact bhu ley Gaulner, Phone 3,J J, Dorothy Weathers, Phone 67t J or Martha Lawrence, Phone Oi07 R3 The fee for the season will be fifty cents Your child must have been ten years old before the last day of August The lessons will be held once a week on Fnday at ten am Theie will be a chaige of 20c per child, with their own suit and Etatysuilie makes Plans RODEO AND HORSE SHOW event at attracted some rough riding men for the included Vi PJ Ron Cow Milking: Bountiful, Randall, Don Hudson, Wilson place; Lane, Ogden, second. (alf Roping: K E. Motes, Nephi. fust, Florin Bluemel, ott Jorcion, second; Marlow ClarCioppei, Deseret, third, ence Moon, Evanston, WyoGaiy Jensen, ming, fouith: Pe-- t Millville, fifth, and Larry sixth. Moigan, ion, Bull Dogging: Raymond Smith, Lehi. fust; Duke Jones, kajsville second; Boyd Kavsville, third; Gary Ma- kicy, Ogden, fourth; A. K. Idaho, fifth; and Mjron joi- -, Adams, Nevada, sixth. Eare Back Elding: Jack Had- lock, Libei ty, f,rt; Darrell Storey, Liberty, second; Marv third; Lehi, Pulhan, fouith place, Sam W inn, Nephi, ,, Richaid Smith, Lehi; Bob Idaho; Kenny Wollsten- bulme, Oakley; and Buddy! Jlughes, Idaho. Saddle Bronc: Bill Lewis, first, Raymond Smith, Lehi, and Chuck Johnson, Idaho, split second and third; and Vernal Carter, Morgan, fourth. Bull Riding: Iinb kirkham, Lehi, first; Roy Turner, Lehi, second; Gary Cooper, Lehi, and urtis Jones, East Lay tun, split third and fourth. mners of the Saturday aft-- i noon horse show weie. Ladies Fleasuie Class: Ruby Tht mas, Salt Lake, first; Cath-cnn- e Nalder, Lajton, second, Be h Waite, Syracuse, third. Cla-- s At Men's Fleauie nght-of-wa- thiee For cockpit Burns longer Ogden of the Weber Intensive studies have been conducted during the past nine months as a basis for the proposed routings. Porter, I rquhart, McCreary and O linen, San Irancisco, prepared the final report for the commission. The proposed loute will follow U.S PI to Lajton. It then wuu'd pioceed east of Lajton business disuict along the line of the old Bambeigei Railroad to the junction Wll tate Road M. It then Koes west of the Ogden Mum-pa- ) June 19 1 DAVIS HISTORICAL SKETCH Y high-spee- d Red Cioss swimming Caine Buichei, Fiuit Heights for the children on June 19 at Lagoon Registry slips will be the Rtu ( ross safety in-- j have been sent to the schools, sti uetor Instiuctois will swan eveiy Monday and Ihutsday at one pm weather pei mntmg Any woman ROCKET AGE or young gn interested in teaching youngsters is uiged to call any one of the committee & ..7$ cvivsville Lav ton Citizens weie given the opportunity May 29 at the Mount Junior High School in Ogden to present testimony for or against routing new interstate highway through northern Davis County and county. Intormal meetings have already been held in Layton and Ogden to the proposal. begin Application of electrolummes-succence n the manufaetme of a jet attack plane will result feet; weather, generally tem- in a high efficiency increase m perate four distinct seasons; cockpit insti uction illumination F.lectroluminscence was discov- annual rainfall, 17 02 inches; and trade area, .0 square miles, ered by a French scientist in 1)36 It is the charging of panels 14,700 persons. The pages further list the of glass, ceramic or other maso that a suffusion of light types of businesses, housing, tenal resuts zoning, sanitation, living faciBurning time of some 200 1U- lities, civic oigamzations, utibulbs in cockpits of modern watt lities, churches, taxes, trans- aircraft ranges from 25 to 300 market and labor that portation hours. Burning time for electro-- 1 can be found in Lajton City luminescence is 8 000 hours d and Davis County. It is The product developed in the throughout with photo- Navy jet attack plane application graphs of homes, churches, etc. neither glass nor ceramic, but a e A street map of the sheet plastic only 50 lOOOths of an city is also included, along with inch thick a bit of the communitys Electnc companies have been the system of electro--1 Vv Special committee urges alternate at public hearing Lajton will illus-tiate- CTvUOT routm Red Cross swim program al 7. 2, 1959 For Kaysvillc during May Tri-Sta- V' LUTON, UTAH. TUESDAY, JUNE 10c 1 6 building permits issued Light . 1 that ( pie-cnte- s, ' - ... teistate j the (ommittee for definite in formation and assuiance that dcpic---ca structuie would he used through the City was h.hwaj location should be made to the Commission by June lb They also asked Layton City to prepare a map with the crys pioposed route drawn upon it. |