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Show DAVIS NEWS JOURNAL, FEBRUARY 10, 19 WEEKLY REFLEX v'msanism Smses News by VERNA WILDEN Carver, Ruth Larsen, Flora Neibaur, Mrs. Earl and Mrs. Hammon. The next meeting will be Feb. 24 at the home of Luella Carver. Congratulations go to Anthony and Josephine Matner in the birth of a new daughter bom on Jan. 26. Mr. and Mrs. Tom Myers of Seattle, Wash, have a new daughter which is their third girl. Mrs. Myers is the former Lily Workman. The little girl is the eleventh grandchild of 825-352- 3 The Sandridge Camp of the DUP met recently at the home of Kathryn Brady for a Norma meeting. Captain Earl conducted the activities. Firm in the The lesson, was given by Denise Faith, Hammon. This is an au- Drucilla Dorris Hendricks, an early of tobiography pioneer. Present at the meeting were Mrs. Brady, Mr. and Mrs. Lindsey Workman. Mr. and Mrs. Glen Carver Lucy Smith, Murial Martin, Luella Medical Lima Dance Officers Elected t h Moore looks at a copy of her new book w hich w as nt ten for beginning readers. The book, Park," written Fun in the by Beth S. Moore of Kaysville has been Hawkes by published Publishing Co. It was illustrated by Adell Palmer. MRS. MOORE has at taught E.M. grade Whitesides School in Layton for 18 years. She has written this book to aid the beginning reader. The book will be first available March 1st from Mrs. Moore and in the book stores. It will be listed in the Davis County School District Requisition Book for 1977-7- MOORE has also written a bilingual preprimer, illustrated by Joan Parrish of Layton, that will be published by the Utah Board of Education this spring. MRS. by M. SGT. JOHN MAHONY Somebody told me that there is a six to nine month waiting list to join the Air Force. THAT IS the single biggest misunderstanding people have about joining the Air Force, according to recruiting officials here. The truth is, Mike Sergeant says Staff Herbert, Operations NCO for the largest recruiting detachment in the Air Force, the Air Force has openings for many, many types of jobs and jobs that the Air Force needs filled. Keep in mind that if the specific job an applicant seeks is several months downstream because of no openings or a heavy demand for that type of work by other applicants, then, yes, he may have to wait. Applicants with an open mind, willing to explore other Air Force jobs, usually find what they want, Sergeant Herbert Mark Michie FOR EXAMPLE, a young person enlisting today for, say, radio-televisio- broadcast n training, might not be called to active duty before this fall. And this morning I was talking with a young man who enlisted in November for radar repair training. He told me he would not be leaving for basic training until March. The number of people in the Air Force is set by Congress, Sergeant Herbert continued. "As personnel are discharged, jobs become open for new people. The Air Force job bank,' as we call it, has some 400 different types of jobs. Incidentally, a typical air base is sometimes referred to as a miniature city because of the many various occupational skills employed there. headquarters, U.S. Air Force, that controls the number of openings in each job, in each career field. Then, through recruiters, job openings are made known to applicants. The Air Force goes IT IS Most Taxpayers Have Tax Break Coing This Year Most taxpayers have at least one tax break coming, the Internal Revenue Service said. CALLED the General Tax Credit, this tax benefit amounts to $35 per dependent two per cent of the first $9,000 of taxable income, whichever is greater. In addi- or tion, the credit applies no matter how much the taxpayer earns, or whether a long Form 1040, or short Form 1040A is used to file, according to the IRS. The General Tax Credit is an extension of last years Per- sonal Exemption Credit but the amounts have been increased from the exemption of last year, the IRS said. The new credit does not affect the $750 exemption allowed for each dependent when figuring taxable income. ) the widest choice of jobs, jobs that he is best qualified for, every day. The misconception ed. i through great effort to insure that each applicant is given concluded. arises from some applicants enlist for specific jobs where the openings are limit- : THE IRS stressed that in' jtructions in the tax packages tor both the Form 1040 and he 1040 A contain complete instructions on how tb claim the credit and other changes in the tax law. The tax forms themselves indicate how to compute the credit and where to enter it on the return. 4. Elected New p Farm Director Co-O- Elected to the Board of Directors of the Davis Farm during their annual board meeting on Jan. 29 Co-o- Valen - Teen Dance will be February 11 at St. Rose of Lima Church, Layton. New officers have been elected in the Davis County American Association of Medical Assistants. MARGARITA Baker of Layton will serve as president for the 1977 year. Other officers are Joyce Dresher, vice president from Bountiful; Oda Dammeier, Bountiful, secretary and Vickie Moss, Woods Cross as treasurer. Dr. David R. Warden of Kaysville is the new advisor. MUSIC will be Crossfire from 2 p.m. Dress is l, couples only $3.50. Tickets available Ages: semi-forma- 13-1- at St. Rose Rectory, call 9 for information. Receives Citation THE FIRST meeting will be held Wednesday, Feb. 16 at the Clearfield Clinic at 8 p.m. The meetings will be held the third Wednesday of each Completes Training month. Dr. David R. Warden, will be the featured speaker at the Feb. 16 meeting. ALL PERSONS in the Airman Corinne p were Blain Taylor who was and Mark L. Michie became a new direc- Sweat, THE AIRMAN who studied the Air Force mission, organization and customs and received special instruction is in human relations, remaining at Lackland for specialized training in the security police field. Airman Sweat is a 1975 graduate of Layton High Check Tan Return School Taxpayers should doublecheck their tax returns before filing since errors can slow processing and delay any refund that might be due, the Internal Revenue Service SOME OF the most common taxpayer mistakes on tax returns, according to' the IRS, include arithmetic errors, use of the wron tax table or schedules, and failure to sign the return or to attach all necessary documents. The IRS also urged use the peel-of- f label that comes with the tax package on their returns in order to avoid possible social security number errors. TAXPAYERS can also save time and speed up processing by mailing their returns in the encoded, velope found in their tax packages, according to the to Tex., the airman studied the Air Force mission, organiza- tion and customs and received special instruction in human relations. Airman Russell will now receive specialized training in the munitions and weapons maintenance field. tion at Hill AFB that will save the Air Force $122,500. WHEN THE electron tube burned out in a scan converter tube assembly many parts were discarded. Mr. Reid showed how the parts could when the contracbe tor rebuilt the assembly. Mr. Reid is a supervisory contract negotiator in the Directorate of Procurement and Production at Hill AFB. HE AND his wife have five Twenty-fou- r Jerry Thatcher Jerry Thatcher, director of Utah Division, American Sportsman Club was the guest speaker at the Layton Rotary Club meeting Wednesday noon at the Chateau Center. MR. THATCHER explained the program and some of the problems they encounter as well as the future outdoor recreation for the area. He is a graduate of Davis High School and a former Kaysville resident. CLYDE DR. Marx, president, twenty-on- e presided and members and guests attended, dg Hill Field Has Largest Utah Payroll and civilian personnel earned Hill AFB military $263,781,255 in 1976. IT WAS the largest in Utah last year. payroll Records show that the civilian workforce was paid $218,171,561 while military received $45,609,694. CIVILIANS paid $33,740,184 federal taxes and military paid $4,810,281. The civilian workforce paid $7,738,693 in Utah slate taxes. in A TOTAL of $14,756,942 was deducted from the civilians for federal retirement and $107,263 in Social Security. personnel had deducted for Social MILITARY $1,945,144 Security. Completes AF Basic Martin A. Simonson of West Point has been cited at Hill Air Force Base for designing a device to support a Minuteman missile motor during maintenance and test- ing. MR. SIMONSON is an industrial engineer technician at the Utah air base. He and his wife, Patt have three children. Fir The worlds first sounds will be evaluated this year and could benefit Utah telephone customers, according to Mountain Bell engineer George Hatch. THE SYSTEM is being developed by Bell Laboratories for AT&T. During the evaluation, a cable of hair-thi- n glass fibers, known as lightguides, will run under the streets of Chicago carrying voices, data and video signals on pulses of The Circuit Court Bill, which was introduced to the Utah Senate and is now in committee, has received varying support from Davis County state and county officials. THE BILL, which would produce sweeping changes in the state court system, eliminating city courts, was sponsored by State Senator Haven Barlow from Layton. The bill is currently being reviewed by the Judiciary Committee. Senator Barlow is a member of that committee as are Senators Richard Howe and Dean Jeffs, also sponsors of the bills. The Justice Courts bill, which would make other changes in justice court law, also is supported by Senator Barlow. BOUNTIFUL CITY Judge Mark Johnson told the Bountiful City Council that each bill can stand alone and that the adoption of the Circuit Court Bill does not mean that the Justice Courts Bill must be adopted also. The bill does not have unanimous support in Davis County since the Utah State Justice of the Peace Association opposes it. A position paper, written by Joseph Jones, president of Utah State Justice of the Peace Association, is supported by the fourteen Justices of the Peace in Davis County. BOTH ROBERT Matheson, Justice of the Peace in Woods Cross, and Justice of the Peace John Stewart, Justice of the Precinct Court in Davis County, voiced their opposition to the bill and said they are in agreement with the position paper. Justice Stewart expressed his disapproval to the Davis County Commissioners in late November, prior to the opening of the 1977 legislature. The Circuit Court Bill, which was prepared by a joint committee of the Judicial Council and the members of the Legislature and experts from the National Center for State Courts, calls for city courts to become state courts, thus providing an increase in jurisdiction. THESE COURTS would be administby the state and would become courts of record, abolishing the de novo appeal. At present there are three city courts in Davis County. One at Bountiful with Judge Mark Johnson presiding, one at Layton with Judge Douglas y presiding and one at Clearfield with Judge Cornell Jensen presiding. If the bill was passed, these city courts would continue to preside in the same cities with the same judges and the courts would have county-wid- e jurisdiction. Davis County would become one circuit. THE HAIR-thi- n size of the fiber lightguides makes possible cables that are much smaller and lighter than copper cables, and that could make better use of available underground passageways. The basic material of the lightguides is silica, the most common form of which is sand-o- ne of the earths most abundant materials. Because of the abundance of this raw material, lightguide cables may, in the future, cost less to manufacture than copper cables of equivalent capacity. light. IF SUCCESSFUL, these cables will replace expensive copper wire which is now in common usage. Testing will INSTALLATION of the lightwave system is expected to begin shortly. A single diameter cable, half-inc- h begin by If the system proves economic and reliable, it may be used in areas which have containing 24 lightguides, will be installed under the streets of Chicago, connecting a heavy communication needs and where there is a great demand for space under the streets, Hatch said. miles. mid-yea- mm nmGJMi ered and financed com- munication system using beams of light to transmit 60 by ROSELYN KIRK lightguides n -- LIGHT FOR SOUND tor. A PRESIDENT will be elected at their next board meeting to be held on Feb. 14. They were unable to elect a president the night of their annual meeting due to some members of the board not in ' attendance. Ira J. Egbert is presently serving in the position as president. Other officers are vice Forest Barker, president; LaVar Godfrey, secretary; and David Stewart, director, np hair-thi- arranged in two ribbons enclosed in a specially designed cable, may someday replace copper wire to carry telephone customers voices in Utah. Tests on the new system are scheduled to begin this year. THE AIRMAN attended Layton High School. Layton Rotary Meeting H. Reid of Sunset has received $1,225 for a sugges- children. DURING THE six weeks training at Lackland AFB, Speaker At Paul re-us- Airman David N. Russell, whose mother is Mrs. Frances C. Russell of 167 Cushing Way, Layton, has been assigned to Lowry AFB, Colo., after completing Air Force basic training. Is Guest Paul Reid Gets Cash Award said. IRS. D. whose mother is Mrs. Lillian G. Austin of 225 Engstrom Way, Layton, Utah, has graduated at Lackland AFB, Tex., from Air Force basic training. Double immediate who Is Planned Health Allied Field in the area are invited to attend the meetings, np No Waiting For Air Force Jobs parents. Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Elwell observed their wedding anniversary recently and spent some time together with a dinner out. Sympathy is extended to Elkain Call, Earl Beesley and Darlene Cobaugh, all of Sunset, in the death of their mother, Eliza Beesley who died recently. St. Rose Of Assistants AUTHOR have two new grandsons bom recently to Ron and Debbie Allan of Granger and A1 and Jackie Bos of Salt Lake City. Mr. and Mrs. Dean Carver of Salt Lake City are the grand-- 1 r. modern office building with Bell offices in Chicago, a distance of approximately l2 "The installation will help the Bell system further evaluate the potential of this new technology under actual operating conditions-anoth- er step toward assuring that such systems will be economical and reliable, Hatch said. IN THE Chicago system, a single pair of lightguides in the cable will be able to carry 576 simultaneous conversations or an equivalent mix of voice and various types of data signals. Amplifiers such as those used on copper cables will not be needed to boost signals along the route. The planned system evaluation should be completed next year. Ultimately, lightwave communications systems may be used throughout the nations telecommunications network for both local and long distance communications to provide a full range of Bell System services. 0dO?l in (QHranm! Arthur Christean, Deputy State Court Administrator, feels the more urbanized areas will establish courts in a central locale with a permanent clerks office, while larger geographic areas in outlying areas may stay with the Justice Courts. Judge Johnson presented Bountiful city with statistics that showed while a reduction in receipts from the city court would total $44,545, total expenditures assumed by the state would total $43,751, resulting in a loss to Bountiful City of $794. DAVIS COUNTY is one of the smallest areas landwise in the state so Judge Johnson said the Circuit Court system would operate well here. The Justice of Peace position paper says those courts are more convenient since they are located in the municipality. Mr. Christean said since most Justice Courts are part-timare located in homes of offices of the justices, the citizen has difficulty finding the justice. Under the new system, he would go to the central circuit court location where the court is staffed all day with a clerical staff. THE CENTRAL argument against the Circuit Court Bill voiced by the Justices of the Peace is that it is too expensive. They say that cities will lose fees and fines and clerical services costs will rise since circuit court judges will not perform clerical HE SAID Bountiful city has an increased need for a bigger court since the court is revenue-wis- e seven or eight times as large as it was seven years ago. He said fifty percent of the business done in the Bountiful Court is now state business. Mr. Christean argues that 25 states have gone to Circuit Court reforms and argues the reform will provide the highest quality of justice for the least cost. Cor-nab- UNDER THE proposed Circuit Court plan, one judge relieves another with a larger trial load, symbolically riding circuit to listen to cases in other parts of the precinct where there is an overload. The Utah Constitution provides for the Supreme Court, District Courts and Justice of the Peace Courts, but city courts and juvenile courts are established by the legislature. For this reason, any sweep ing judicial reform, involving city courts must be changed by the legislature. THE POSITION paper written by Justice Jones and supported by other Davis County Justices of the Peace, says the Circuit Court Bill would remove the judicial function from the local government since cities would not have exclusive jurisdiction over municipal laws and ordinances. Judge Mark Johnson said the Justice of the Peace Courts wouldnt change under the Circuit Court Bill. If small towns want to stay under the present Justice of the Peace system, they may. But they still have the option to have their cases heard in the Circuit Court if the bill passes. JUSTICES OF the Peace, opposing the bill say the proposal will result in less, not more, accessibility of judicial service to the public, since night time operated Justice of the Peace Courts are replaced by day time circuit courts. services. Mr. Christean said the reform will result in a net increase of the tax burden of $400,000 to $500,000 in costs to the state, but better judicial services will be provided. This cost would add sixth-tentof one percent to the biennial budget. He said that while some cities will lose money, others will gain. IN THE long term, the bill will help cities since it will improve facilities in many, he said. Bountiful City Council drafted a resolution of support for the bill, but Woods Cross, Centerville and West Bountiful City Councils have come out in opposition to the proposal. The Davis County Bar Association came out in support of the bill last Friday. h THE STATE will pick up the tab for the judges' salaries and pay for court facilities and recording system. The city will pay for the court personnel. IF PASSED, the bill would become operational in Jan. 1978. The three city court judges would serve until the next election and then would be elected by the electors in their circuit. Justices of the Peace argue that a peoples court, where one can be judged by one of his peers, is the best form of justice. They say its extravagant for the public to pay for skills in misdemeanor cases and minor claims, which dont need the expertise of lawyer judges to solve. THEY SAY they would support a measure for city courts which would standardize salaries, make city courts of record, allow them jurisdiction over Class A misdemeanor and civil matter up to $5,000 and call for the removal of trial de novo. But their position paper, supported by Davis County Justices of the Peace, says they do not support the circuit court concept. Justices Matheson of Woods Cross and Stewart of the County Precinct Court, did not wish to be quoted, saying they stood by the Justice of the Peace position paper. JUDGE CORNELL Jensen of Clearfield said he did not see the financial cost as a problem in the Circuit Court Bill. |