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Show I WEEKLY REFLEX-DA- NEWS JOURNAL NORTH DAVIS LEADER. AUGUST 5, 1982 VIS 2 Things Could Start Happening On Park By TOM BUSSELBERG CLEARFIELD I After several years something could start happening at Clearfields Bicentennial Park next to the library. -- - SUBJECT TO final city council approval, work could be progressing on placing sprinkler systems as well as turf by fall, says City Parks Director Ross Kearl. Footings and cement work on the outdoor stage could also be completed, as well as a way found to hold the mountain or hilly terrain above the two acre park site. d He outlined a plan to the council calling for $8,000 in engineering by the Salt Lake City firm of Forsgren, Perkins and Assoc, to plan land contour as well as three-pronge- placement of the $250-5300,0- proposed park building. THAT BROUGHT some concern from City Councilman Rulon Cummings. All we need is some lawn so somebody can have a picnic. Why couldnt we put that lawn in? That comment came after some concern about funding availability, with Councilman O. Wayne Thomock questioning what he considered as high engineering fees. He said hed talked with the Weber Basin Job Corps several years ago about constructing a terrace with the only expense material at a reduced cost. He also asked if a university group could do the engineering study-aga- in, for less cost. progress every year. People are going to be around (the area seeking recreation close to home) a lot more than they used to. He cited extensive use of the small park near the Ward Chapel near the BicenLDS tennial Park as an example of need to develop something soon. Supporting the need for engineering Mayor Neldon Hamblin reminded those attending the original desire of the coun4th-9t- h YOU CAN PUT a lot of sprinklers and concrete in for $8,000, Thomock added. Id like to see landscaping and phase the building in when we can, Mr. Cummings said, with Mr. Kearl indicating he didnt see any problem with landscaping before constructing the building that might take four-fiv- e years in coming. I DONT think Id vote for a $200,000 building this year, the next or maybe even the next, Mr. Thomock said. If the communitys going to have a cultural events center that should be included in the parks scope, Mr. Kearl said. IF WE could afford it Id say do it tomorrow, Mr. Cummings said. We need to cil was to have an rink skate- board area and some picnic grounds. I really believe to just put in some grass, the council would be IN OTHER PARK action, the council approved a $25,000 expenditure, assuming funds are available, for Steed Park baseball diamond lighting, including an electrical scoreboard. That cost is about $2,000 above original estimates, Mr. Kearl said, although he said he felt it was a good route to pursue with the city crews prepared to set up lighting poles. He noted funds were available in a related account leading to tentative council approval. J. H. Layton Home Now Historic Place By DONETA GATHERUM LAYTON - The John Henry Layton House at 683 West Gentile Street, Layton, has been named to the National Register of Historic Places. -- The program is part of a national policy to coordinate and support public and private efforts to identify, evaluate and protect our cultural and natural resources. It is maintained by the Secretary of the Interior under provisions of the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966. you, RELATIVES and friends waited to greet Melanie and her parents as they returned safely from Nebraska about 3:40 a.m. Friday. When they arrived home, they were greeted by giant "Welcome Home" signs and dozens of yellow ribbons tied to shrubbery in front of their home at 13 Crestwood Drive. Melanies father, now a resident of Tucson, and his wife took Melanie and his other children, Danny, 11; Nikki, 8; and Benji, 6; on a family picnic Saturday to celebrate her return. Melanies mother, Elise Beck, and her husband, Ray, spent Saturday with their young daughter, Raquel, 20 months. I DONT know what to do with all this continued. We all started out so he low, and now that it is over, we have come from the depths to the tops of the moun- tains." occupied after 1883 when John Henry Layton purchased the land from his father, LUELLA left her interest in the house to her son. Richard. Lottie willed her portion of the estate to other members of the family. Richard Humphries bought out the other interests in the home and he lived in it until 1973. The property was then sold to Lake-woo- d Investment. Spencer Lynn Nunley, a house painter from Salt Lake City, bought the home and several acres of land for $38,000. His plans were to redecorate the home and then resell it. E. KEITH and Sharon Slatore bought the property from the Nunleys in 1974. They have done much to maintain the historic character and beauty of the home. The house was designed by William Allen, the only architect in Davis County at the time of its design. It is one of a very limited number of houses designed by William Allen that has not been dramatically altered. It is of pattern book design, one that may have been used by Allen in the Joseph Adams house in East Layton and in the George W. Layton home in West Layton. BECAUSE THE home has received few alterations it stands as a well preserved exand as a ample of the style preferred by Allen a of prominthe to suited well lifestyle home ent farmer. The condition of the interior is noteworin Utah in thy. It is one of a few older houses is which the original woodwork completely intact. The technique of wood graining, a resemble process whereby pine is painted to wood. a higher quality you, Melanie. Were coming to get Mrs. Beck told her daughter. I love joy, THE JOHN H. Layton farmstead was first deaths. continued from page 1. MEANWHILE, ELISES parents, Mr. and Mrs. Porter, and Rays parents, Jim and Charlotte Beck, Kaysville, waited patiently for their first glimpse of Melanie. "We certainly want to thank everyone for theirprayers in Melanies behalf, Mr. Beck said. It just goes to prove once more how strong prayers can be. We had turned this problem strictly over to the Lord, and a lot of,people were fasting and praying. THIS IS an official list of historic properties recognized by the federal government as worth of preservation for their significance in American history, architecture, archeology, engineering and culture. Christopher Layton. The family originally occupied a two room adobe house that stood in the location of the present summer kitchen. The two story brick house that is now listed on the national register was built in the late 1890s. It was occupied as early as January of 1898. In that year Frankie Josephine Layton Dickson, the 12th child of John Henry and Hannah Maria Layton was born in the house. John Henry and Hannah Layton were among the first settlers in West Layton. John Henry was the son of Christopher Layton and his fifth wife, Isabella Golightly. He was born in 1855, the eighth of 31 sons born to Christopher Layton through his ten marriages. HANNAH WAS the daughter of Edward Phillips, one of the first settlers in Kaysville. John Henry made a living through farming. He raised barley, hay, sugar beets, cattle, sheep and hogs. He was active in the business affairs in Layton. He participated in the organization of the First National Bank, the Ellison Ranching Company, the Layton Sugar Company, the Farmers Union, the Davis and Weber Canal Company and the Kays Creek Irrigation Company. THE LAYTON farmstead was not only a local center of farm activities but it was also a guest house for those Layton relatives who traveled from Arizona to Utah to be married in the Salt Lake LDS Temple. John Henry died in 1920. Hannah Layton continued to live on the farmstead until her death in 1939. The estate passed from Hannah to her children. The house and land immediately surrounding it was willed to Lottie Jane Layton and Luella Layton Humphries. They lived in the home until their Home been going around in a daze all Mrs. Porter added. Everyone was I had week, praying, and our prayers have been answered. My mother (Mrs. Charles Kip-peis 82 years old, and when she heard Melanie was all right, she just kept saying, Im so happy. Im so happy! COMMUNITY SUPPORT has been almost unbelievable. A steady stream of has poured into the Beck home, along with small gifts and flowers for Melanie. One gift came from another little girl named Melanie, who didnt sign her last name. Welcome home, Melanie," the other Melanie wrote. M is for Melanie which is a nice name. E is for extra. Because you are extra nice. L is for luck which will last all your life. A is for anything that you can do. N is for nice and you are very much of that. I is for impossible but you can do most anything. E is for ending and this is the end of my card but not the end of our friendship. Melanie. NOBODY COULD have said it any better. But Police Chief Larkins also complimented Melanie. She was on the ball, and she knew what she was doing, he said. THE WHOLE city is asked to join in the celebration of Melanies return on Saturday, August 7. Mayor Gerald Purdy was to sign a proclamation Tuesday evening, declaring Melanie Larsen-Beci- c Day in connection with Kaysville Crazy Days. Melanie and her family have been invited to ride on the fire engine during the noon parade, which begins at Barnes Bank and proceeds north along Main Street to the city park. A Fun Run at 9 a.m. will precede the parade, with the city hall as the starting point. ONE OF the highlights of the day will be the presentation to Melanie of love messages. Notes to Melanie may be placed in a box at the city hall from anyone who wants to write one - children, adults, business people and neighbors, said Mrs. Sandy Butterfield, executive secretary of the Kaysville Chamber of Commerce, which is cosponsoring the celebration with Kaysville City. We are also hoping to have our city fathers and the police department represented in the parade, Mrs. Butterfield said. We want to invite everyone to decorate their cars or bicycles or floats and help us celebrate Melanies return to us. IN KEEPING with that spirit of celebration, more than 100 of Melanies relatives gathered at her home Saturday afternoon for their early Thanksgiving. They sat at tables set up on the front lawn, and each family brought food along. It was very informal, Jim Beck said. While we were there, some little boys and girls came along and wanted to talk to Melanie. ON SUNDAY, the giving of thanks was a part of the testimonial meeting at the Kaysville 15th Ward of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-da- y Saints, where both Ray and Elise Beck spoke of their gratitude for their daughters return. Meanwhile, a car reportedly used in the abduction was found in Omaha, Neb., Sunday, containing an article of childrens clothing that could have belonged to Melanie, FIB Agent Terry Knowles reported. well-wishe- The two-stor- brick house y, occupied by John Henry Layton in the 1 890s the books as is a now on National Historic Sight. THE TWO story red brick house has a stone foundation. Two main gable roof sections intersect at right angles, their intersection being capped with a pyramid roof section which breaks up the regularity of the and reinforces the asymmetry of the facade. The northwest comer of the'pyramid roof section has been opened to form a second story porch. The face of the east half of the facade has beveled edges, the whole section having been treated as one large three part bay. A one story porch runs from the west wall of the bay across the west half of the facade. A ONE STORY gable roof section intersects the rear of the building, opening at the west edge to form a small porch and terminating at the edge of the sleeping porch on the east side. It has always housed the kitchen. The sleeping porch is a one story hip roof extension which was added to the southeast comer of the building in about 1918. The facade consists of a system of wood ornamentation and patterns reminiscent of Queen Anne design. The gable of the east half of the facade has a curving frieze which has a sunburst design in the point of the gable and a smaller section of the same ornament is at the flaing terminal ends. sun-fur- st EACH WINDOW grouping has a transom. All of the windows are the double hung single sash type with the exception of two windows on the kitchen extension which have two over two lights. While the windows are not directly centered over one another on the east and west walls, there is a sense of balance in their arrangement. The interior of the John H. Layton house, like the exterior, has received few major alterations. The east half consists of a parlor, and a library which may originally have been used as a bedroom and a sleeping porch. Above these rooms are two bed- rooms. THE WEST half of the house consists of a large fifteen by twenty foot dining room over which the master bedroom is located. A rs -- The well preserved home still has the original woodwork around the fireplace. door in the southeast comer of the dining rooms opens into the kitchen extension. There is a pantry, complete with built-icabinets, off the east side of the kitchen. The exterior walls of the house are eighteen inches wide. They are brick with adobe liners. Interior walls are sixteen inches thick. THE ORIGINAL bannister is still intact. Doors still have the original brass knobs on the first floor and porcelain knobs on the second floor. An impressive mantle in the wood with parlor is made of tile and a mirror. green n fine-quali- ty Several of the outbuildings tie directly to the activities of the house. The summer kitchen, directly behind the kitchen extension, is one open space which originally housed a coal range stove, a half ton flour bin, a cream separator and a hand operated washing machine. TO THE rear of the summer kitchen is a small stone building of random rubble with a gable roof and a brick infill. The building may have been a wellhouse but it is now referred to as a cellar. The granary is one of the original outbuildings. The structure has drop siding on the exterior and the interior walls are constructed of two by fours laid one on top of the other. THE REMAINING outbuilding, a large bam, appears to have been built in at least two sections. The southeast corner is built of logs that contrast with the vertical board construction of the rest of the barn. The central section has a gambrel roof and is flanked by a shed roof extension on both the east and west sides. The east wing is divided into stalls for livestock. The west wing was used as a storage place for farm implements and straw. The central section was filled to capacity with straw that was hauled in through the large openings high up on each end wall. Part of the pulley system that was used to haul hay is still intact, dmg |