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Show WEEKLY REFLEX DAVIS NEWS JOURNAL JULY 3, 1980 If they werent glued the table theyd march off into the sunset, or so it would seem of the buggy and host of horses created by Walter Cook of Syracuse, who has had a lifelong love affair with READY TO MARCH horses. SYRACUSE If the gasoline crunch eventually forced Americans to abandon their cars, at least one Syracuse man probably wouldnt mind. USE ME WALTER COOK has been living in a world of horse ever sine? early childhood. And now; while he may not need a horse to catch a ride to school, hes involved in them from the selling end to decorating his and many other living rooms with their likenesses. It started as a youngster on the old family farm now co- Proposed Capital Improvement Fund Being Studied vered by Freeport Center properties, when he would often ride a horse to school, rye had a fancy for horses all my life. We lived away from school and rode to it. Bv GARY R. BLODGETT NOT CONTENT to merely usA them for personal Mr. Cook has been grading in them for years. Last month, for example, he estimates transactions up into the quarter million dollar range. ; r Davis FARMINGTON County is studying the possibility of establishing a capital improvements fund to be available should there be a substantial drop in the federal revenue sharing monies the county now receives. His sales have involved : horses from Catalina Island to Long Island and in 1951 he :bbught 6,000 horses, for example. While sales may not y include that many he still keeps his hand in them and maintains a farm, often joining in the work. COUNTY AUDITOR Lu- deen Gibbons recommended the new fund to the Davis anim-aTs- i : County Commission noting that the county faces a ten percent drop in revenue sharing this year and that Congress could scrap the entire program at any time. She said the county currently receives about S672.000 yearly from revenue sharing. "A MEMBER of the LDS Church, he has bought and sold cattle and helped oversee cattle operations for seven stakes. : In the winter he keeps a feed We feed a lot of lot going. cattle in the winter. It helps two or three farmers to give them something to do. i ., THIS MONEY is used to purchase all sorts of DC A I DIIDDCD rof 1 tXenrunder-constructio- n Freeport Center in 1944, Mr. Cook got up off the cement and walked away then and still acts vigorous as ever today. his vigor to if good, clean living, he is : AMTI PI I knll llwIJUtll (and WHILE he couldve seen more than just stars when at the he fell 3 feet from a over the farm after I left high school. Dad had another place in Bountiful, a truck farm. He married Delilah Ross at the age of 21. She died four Syracuse Octogenarian Walter Cook counts productive green thumb among his qualities, as evidenced by this flourishing rubber plant decorating his lifing room. years ago. They are parents of two sons and three daughters: Dean, of Kaysville; Verl, of Logan; Mrs. Carter; Norma Blazer, of Granger; and Glen da Bone, of Kaysville. And as any grandfather, hes proud to mentioin his 22 grandchildren and 37 SO IF theres a horse in the many horse-wago- n combina-- : tions he has created over the years. Buying the horses all over he makes the bridles and harnesses by hand for his creations that are prized in homes throughout the Intermountain region. THE son of the late .Xnios Cook, who served at K)'ne time as a county commi- HES -- ssioner. Known to people throughout Davis County, the Cooks had a farm in the Bountiful area for many years. Walter was the fourth from youngest in a family 14 children and learned the meaning of work early on. "We didn't stay after school nights to play football," he said, with too much work waiting on the family farm. HE GRADUATED from Syracuse Elementary School and attended high school at the old Syracuse High School on the Gailey Comer. That building has since been tom down. And while he didn't graduate from high school, that wasnt such a necessity then, he says, but his daughter, Betty Carter of Sunset, added, Hes got a brain. He can figure things out in a minute that would take you an hour. He can figure within ten pounds what a cow would weigh. LOOKING BACK on those early years, Mr. Cook says, Ive been pretty lucky. I took pasture, you may have gotten it, one way or the other, through the efforts of Walter Cook, the old horse trader from Syracuse. Traffic BOUNTIFUL control measures to reduce emission will have to be implemented if Davis County is to qualify for federal funding, the Wasatch Front Regional Council was told recently. COUNTY has previously participated in a vehicle emission and maintenance program. but it may become mandatory that this type of be implemented, Mr. DAVIS MICK CRANDALL, WFRC controlled measures resulting from air FEDERALLY pollution control devices on all vehicles will eventually make it possible for the Wasatch Front to meet pollution standards, said Mr. Carandall. But in the meantime, we must provide other programs of meeting air pollutant standards. He noted that this area can not meet deadlines for pollutant cleanup set by the federal government and the state has applied for an extension on the deadline for ozone and carbon monoxide. transportation staff and the public to come up with a suitable traffic ollutant control -- payers at one time should these (revenue sharing) funds be cut off entirely." she said. We could start with one mill tax and build up a reserve and then reduce the levy later enough to maintain the fund. "Surpluses can be carried over from year to year." SHE SUGGESTED that the commission begin the levy for setting up the fund by adding one mill to the 19X1 budget. She noted that the county is scheduled to drop a levy for jail construction and a portion of this could be used for capital improvements. In other commission action, it was decided that a building permit be issued for construction of a home along an existing road that is not deeded to the county. one-mi- COMMISSION Chairman Glen W. Flint said the county maintains the option to widen a road to the width deemed necessary, whether or not the road is deeded to the county. He emphasized, however, that the county would prefer that the road be deeded to avoid any possible problems in the future, "but the county does not have the power to force the issue." THE ISSUE came to light recently when Bill Corbridge was denied a building permit from the County Planning Office because the proposed home is to be built on an un- deeded road in the West Layton area. "Most roads must remain open because of right b use." said Comm. Flint, "and I don't think this decision (to grant the building permit) weakens our policy at all, The planning office would like the commission to force people to deed the roads before being allowed to build on them but our attorney tells us that we don't have that power." COMM. FLINT explained that the only one being hurl by the decision of not to deed the road is the rpoperty ow ner because he has to pay property taxes on the portion of the land that lies within the rights-of-wa- However, the commission stressed, the home must be built at least 30 feet from the to enedge of the sure that when the road is widened, the home will be set back far enough to meet setback standards. right-of-wa- y ( liter Up If vnu can look happ when you aren't, you'll gel along all right. program. THESE COULD include computerized street lighting to regulate control of traffic, special highway lanes for carpool-er- s and buses and increase programs, grb g Know The Weather assistant director, told the council that traffic control measures will be necessary because the Wasatch Front cant reasonably meet air quality standards set by federal government by the deadline imposed. He explained that it will be necessary to implement traffic control measures to fit into a state plan to control pollutants until federal standards arc met. Crandall emphasized. He said the WFRC would work closely with county and state elected officials, the state equip- ment from large items such as cars and road equipment to office equipment right dow n to said Mrs. Gibtypewriters, bons. She noted that the revenue sharing funds the county currently receives amounts to about 2 mills if the county had to replace the funds through taxation. I THINK it would be better to build up a capital improvements fund rather than have to unload a levy on the tax (Mill? probably best known for the i The Kaysville Library book drop stands ready to be filled with any and all library books residents are done with or are at the due date. The drop is located behind the library and available for use when the library is open. Do trees tend to grow to the that is, does their grain right lean to the right, so to speak? WE ALREADY know that 2 Seeking Ms - FARMINGTON A Salt Lake City man is being sought by not one, but two courts in Davis County after he failed to appear to face charges brought against him as a result of a high-spee- d there is a right "force in this hemisphere, which makes rivers cut mot sharply into their right bank, which makes pro- - chase through Davis County last month. A BENCH warrant for arrest has been issued by Second District Judge Thornley K. Swan and by the Layton Circuit Court after the defendant, Wendell C. McWhorter, failed to appear in the two courts during the past week. The suspect is charged in Layton Circuit Court of failing to appear on charges of driving under the influence of alcohol, driving on a revoked license and fleeing from a police officer when ordered to stop. HE WAS free in lieu of bail after being stopped on Interstate Highway 15 after a chase that started in Layton and ended near the W'oods Cross exit. Police reports say the chase reached speeds in excess of 90 miles per hour. $ 1 ,000 A bench warrant was ordered from Second District Court on a probation violation charge resulting from a conviction of issuing a bad check earlier this year, grb jectiles veer right and which makes ocean currents swirl to the right. Weather is affected by it. These tendencies are re- versed in the southern hemisphere, where things veer to the left. As for trees, this claim has never proven. Many believe the grain leans right in this hemisphere. BUT THE answer to the question above must be qualified: maybe. Study the grain in trees you cut, or see, which have been cut and see what you think. LUCKY PUP There are direct and indirect taxation. Give me an example of Indirect taxation." The dog tax, sir. How is that? The dogs does not have to pay it. SCHOLARSHIP WINNERS Winning scholarships are Patrick Rior-daLori Sanchez and Sheryl Tisler. |