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Show UMVIO nui LLA II II lb., I bI I I page three Mj&gQ'Be Mequesi GwvtMted By DONETA GATHERUM y struction of dwellings at a density of 14 units per acre. Mr. Blackburn and his associate Jim Webster presented two plans to the rouncil. They said this represented compromises. The first plan was to move the back from existing home owners property lines by about 80 feet. Paiking would be internalized so that none was adjacent to existing homes. There would be 48 percent open space in the project. multi-famil- - LAYTON The Layton City council approved a rezone request made by Neil Blackburn representing Hanover Trust, for an irregularshaped five acre parcel of ground located along South Fort Lane between 100 South and 405 South and extending east nearly to White-side- s Street. THE COUNCIL had tabled the rezone request in January to allow the developers and citizens who live in single family homes surrounding the proposed rezone area time to discuss the problems and to work out a compromise. The rezone will allow the con covered parking. The open space would be increased to 53 percent. The project would have a six-fopermeter wood fence. Structures would have some brick work on the outside. ot RENNY Knowlton, spokesman for the citizens who opposed the rezone stated he didnt believe there was any compromise or any attempt at compromiee. He said the major concerns of density and design were still present. He THE SECOND plan was to cre- showed the council a proposed ate a series of style plan drawn up by one of the resiroads so the traffic pattern would dents that would change the densibe internal. Buildings aould be ty to 10 units per acre. There would units at clustered into and some be a transition from There would be interior the one end of the development to cul-de-s- single family dwellings near the existing homes. Councilman Kent Smith stated he could not reone new property in Layton to a multiple housing zone when there is so many acres already in a multiple housing zone that are not yet developed. He made a motion to deny the rezone request. Councilman Sam Trujillo supported the motion. It did not pass. COUNCILWOMAN Ann Harris made a motion to grant the reone. It passed by a vote of 3 to 2. Supporting the motion were Council-woma- n Harris, Councilman Bob Stevenson and Councilman Don Crockett. Councilmen Trujillo and Smith opposed the rezone, dmg New Manager Laytons LAYTON - I am excited about the challenging opportunity to be the first city manager in a community the size of Layton. I will have the chance to do a lot of ground work to help establish a more professional approach to city management. I see my role as one of helping the community to identify its future. I will work with people in areas of goal setting and planning, He instructed public administration classes in the graduate school of Roosevelt University in Illinois. THE POSITION of a city manager was created by the Layton City council last Thursday at the conclusion of the city council meeting. Minutes after the ordinance creating the city managerjob Layton Mayor GoKIerrG. Sail recommended the hiring of Mr Caldwell to fill the position. The council gave unanimous approval to the recommendation made by the Mayor. Mr. Caldwell is a 38 year old native of Illinois with 1 years experience in local government. At the age of 16 he graduated from high school in Park Ridge, Illinois and entered, BYU where he re- - City are mostly blue collar -- MR. CALDWELL started his in public administration as city manager in Dschesne. He came to Layton from Michigan. He was the city manager in Garden City, Mich, for four years. This city is comparable in population to Layton. It is much smaller in geographic area and is a suberb of Detroit. The people in Garden career said Cam Caldwell, newly appointed Layton City Manager. 1 workers. FOR SIX months just prior to leaving Michigan, Mr. Caldwell was the Deputy City Manager in Kalamazoo, Mich. While working at his job, he read about the openCAM CALDWELL ing for a city manager in Layton. Mr. Caldwell wanted to return to ceived an MA degree in English. Utah because he considers this his He returned to BYU to earn his home. He applied and moved back MPA degree (masters of public to Utah on the chance that he might administration). get the job. Mr. Caldwell started working for MR. CALDWELL also has a the city on Friday, Feb. 22 for a masters degree in public policy salary of $46,000 and a three year from the University of Illinois. employment agreement with sal ary increases. ALTHOUGH he was not aware of the problems in the administrative department of Layton City at the time he read the advertisement in the professional journal, Mr. Caldwell said he spent time reading local newspapers dating back several months to learn all he could about Layton and the problems he, would be facing if he were hired to the city manager position. After attending his first Layton City council meeting, Mr. Caldwell stated he was impressed with the presentations made by the developers and the citizen groups and the way the discussions moved forward. HIS PHILOSOPHY of city government is that he is working for the city council to impliment the desires and policies of the council that should reflect the feelings of the electorate. His top priorities will be in the areas of planning, development and orderly growth. Mr. Caldwell's outside interests include sports especially golf and LDS Church-relate- d activities, dmg Layton Arts Calendar - The officers of the Layton Arts Council have LAYTON made some changes in the calendar of events for the 1984-8season. The revised schedule is as folloas: March 24 Sopranos in recital featuring Jeanne Day and Diana Halliday with Kathy Skidmore at the piano. It will be in the Layton lletilage Museum starting at 7:30 p.m. Admission is free. 5 APRIL 14, J.S. Bach Tricentennial Concert in the Oukhills LDS Chapel at 7:30 p.m. Admission is free. May 5, Davis County Composers Concert in the Lay ton Heritage Museum at 7:30 p.m. Everyone is invited to attend and heat the original works of talented local musicians. here is nochaige. I MAY 19, Outstanding High School Seniors in Recital at the Layton Heritage Museum at 7:30 p.m. A $200 scholarship will be presented to the student with the most pioiruse. I here is no charge. A reception for the students will follow the program. in the Layton High Little Show Stoppers June Theatre at 7:30 p.m. Cost will be $2 for adults, $1 for children 12 and under or $7 per family. The best of Broadway and light opera will be on the program. 13-1- THE LAYTON Arts Council is in need of people who want to help by performing on these programs or by belonging to the Arts Council and helping in the organization production and publicity of their events. People living in the Layton area who have onginal musical numbers and who might like to perform their works on the May 5th concert are invited to contact Kathy Skidmoie at soon. 546-442- Park Fees Tabled - LAYTON Thursday evening, the Layton City council once again tabled making a decision on a proposed revised park impact fees ordinance. At the request of Parks and Recreation Director, Richard Hunt, the council agreed to bring the matter before the council on April 4 for a definite decision. ACCORDING to Mr. Hunt, the city council first considered changing the park fee ordinance about two years ago. Research was done and proposals were made but no action was taken. Four months ago, the council again asked Mr. Hunt to do some studies and to come up with recommendations. A park impact fee is assessed to all new residential developments within the city on a per unit basis. Currently, the fee in Layton is $200 per unit. Mr. Hunt's proposal would increase this to $400 per unit. Under the new plan, consideration would be given to a developer who donated appropriate land for park development or who included recreational facilities within the development. THE IMPACT fee money is used for the purchase, developof parks. It doesn't pay for labor or operation ment and costs. Some of the money could be used to finance a new swimming pool for Layton. Councilwoman Ann Harris made the motion to table action on the ordinance until the council could study all impact fees now being assessed on building lots. She amended the motion to set up-kee- April Aldem Burton Remembers go to the store. It was horse and By NORMA PREECE Alden Burton, a life-tim- e buggy days. His mother would drive the buggy with the team of horses, and take the three children. His two older sisters and him. ALDEN remembers well one problem they faced. The kinds had the meanest geese he ever saw. In order to get past, his one sister would take the horse whip to control the ganders, the other sister opened the gate so they could drive through. Harvey King was the father of Attorney William H. King res- ident of Kaysville and Fruit Heights, recalls the many changes transportation and its buildings and system, since he was a youngster, along with the many other changes in both communities. in the school MR. BURTON drove the school bus for 33 years for the Davis County School District. When he attended the first grade it was in a one room red brick school house on Mutton Hollow Road located near 243 E. on Mutton Hollow Road. There was no inside plumbing. His uncle Dick Perkins drove the school wagon with his team of horses and took the children back and forth to school. HE REMEMBERS the teacher rode the Bamberger Train and his father would go down each day and meet her as she arrived at the Mutton Hollow track crossing and take her to school. At the end of the school day, he would take her back to meet the train to return home. It was quite some distance from the tracks to the school building. When he went to the second grade he attended Kaysville Elementary School and it never had inside plumbing. Samuel Rush-fort- h was the custodian at the time and he was fond of children and treated them .with kindness. Those who remember Mr. Rushforth can testify of his respect for children. MR. BURTON can well remember the day the Armistice was signed during World War II. They were returning from school in the wagon and were about at 570 North Main, (where the Max Rigby home is located now) when a car came by with people cheering and honking the horns. Someone fired a gun and it frightened the horses and they started to run away. Mr. Perkins went through the barrow pit and to the fence to get them under control. It scared the children but no one was hurt. Mr. Burton was born Oct. 19, ,191 in Kaysville, in a home on the Ernest R. Behling estate. He was one of five children born to Heber A. and Annie Butcher Burton. He had two older sisters who were twins, Emma Anderson, now living in Uintah and LaVern Bingham of Ogden. There was a younger brother, Ivan, who was killed in 1 ALDEN BURTON World War II. He was a glider pilot. The younger sister Helen Bass resides in South Ogden. WHEN HE was eight years old, the family moved to Fruit Heights, at that time was Kaysville and their home was the same home Alden resides in at the present time at 49 N. Mountain Road. It was built by his grandfather William Butcher. It has very thick walls and very stur0 years old dy and is perhaps now. The bricks in the home were taken from the Ward Brick Yard in Fruit Heights. His grandfather did business with the Barnes Banking Co. when it first opened in 1892. Before that, when one needed money to purch90-10- ase additional land or property, they had to borrow money from different individual and would pay up to 12 percent interest to the person. TO GET to school they all had to walk from Fruit Heights to Kaysville Elementary for seven years, before they were provided with bus service. Horace Steed was the first bus driver. T he roads were all dirt. While at school one day, the teacher pointed out an airplane. It was so high and small it looked like a hawk. It was their first experience of seeing an airplane. ONE TIME as a youngster, he climbed high in the cherry tree and then couldnt get down. His mother had to go locate his father who was working out on the farm to get him out of the tree. While living in the home on the Behling Estate, they had to travel south on a lane past the Harvey King home to get to the street (now called Crestwood Road) in order to High School. In 1933 and 1934 he ran the Lee Jost Cherry Orchard. His father died the spring of 1935. Alden took over the care of the farm and was head of the family assisting his mother. There were 3 5 A acres. Both of his grandfathers, Robert L. Burton and William Butcher were fruit farmers. HIS FATHER bought his first truck in 1918, it had hard rubber tires and this was an unique item as he could then travel 12 to 15 miles an hour. It provided faster transwhom the King Clarion Hills subdivision was named for. The Kings portation to and from Salt Lake were wonderful neighbors, but the City, to haul the hogs and also the geese objected to them trespas- fruit to market. It took an hour each way. Before, it took two full sing, as one might say. He recalls there was a lot of days by team and wagon and one bootlegging in the area. It kept the would have to stay all night. During the Depression, which city Marshall, Joe Burnett busy. few like to remember, which a was for an very Bootlegging easy way few to make good money. As chil- occurred in 1934, they hauled dren they remembered many of the peaches to Salt Lake for the stores stories that circulated about town. for 35 cents a half bushel. That was also a year that there was a THE TERRIBLE floods in Davis drought. The fields where grain County, especially in the Farming-to- n had been raised were used for baseand Centerville area in the ball diamonds, all summer long. 1920s were well remembered by HIS FATHER and he raised the him and others. It was so bad the highway from here to Salt Lake Gleason Alberta Peach on their farm in addition to cherries. City was closed for a long time. Dr. Sumner Gleason was the He remembers the ice pond, first to discover the piece named south Thornfield of Road, straight at that time south of King's Lane. for him. He found a week tree There was an ice house built above growing in his nursery that had the wash and the men working come up from a pit. That is how the would cut the huge chunks of ice famous Gleason Alberta Peach and drop the blocks through the top began. of the ice house and they would fall ALDEN HAS 700 cherry trees into the wagons parked in the and harvest 50 tons of cherries wash, as a means of leading them. most years. Fruit Heights was incorporated Everyone needed ice in those days for their ice boxes, as there was no as a city in 1939. He was a member, electrical refrigeration. ol the original town board and served for 18 years in that position. HE ALSO remembers one family In order to have the power and gas in Kaysville who had a dog po- lines to their city , each resident had wered tread mill to run their to pay a fee to have the lines washing machine. brought in. He has seen pioneer It was rare to own a car, but the times in both Kaysville and Fruit family doctor, Dr. Ruthledge own- Heights. ed one that was referred to as SiALDEN married the former lent Six Stevens. Why it was Nora Adams of Layton and they named that, Alden does not know. are the parents of three children. Another car he remembers was Jay and' Kaye were twins. Kaye among the first, was one owned by Mifflin and the other daughter Adam Beesley. It was a two pasSharlene Smith both live in Layton senger with bucket seats and with- and Jay resides in Fruit Heights. out a top. He was only five years There are 15 grandchildren. old but he does remember well and They have spent much time reso did everyone else, especially the modeling the family home in addischool children when the dentist tion to their continued hard work came to school to check their teeth. and long hours during the summer He would arrive with his foot pedmonths and especially at harvest dle drill which the children were time. He has rendered much sernot so fond of. vice to the Fruit Heights area durMR. BURTON attended Davis ing his life, np 8 4 p as the time when the matter would agai be considered. NEIL Blackburn, Kent Norton and other developers in the audience reminded the council that a committee to study and make recommendations on the park impact fee ordinance had been formed by council action six months ago. The committee had never met. Mr. Hunt said he had gathered information about park impact fees from the cities in Utah that have these fees. He did not call a meeting of the committee because he didn't know who the committee members were. The council and the developers said they would decide who had been appointed to the committee and let Mr. Hunt know. BEFORE THE April 4 council meeting, Mr. Hunt will meet with the committee members and iron out the problems with the proposed ordinance, dmg Commencement Dates By TOM BUSSELBERG FARMINGTON - Believe it or not, some day this snow and fog will disappear and the lazy, warm days of summer will really be just around the corner. WHETHER that scenario develops or not, graduation day indeed w'ill come for the Class of 1985 in Davis County 's six high schools. Heres the schedule of commencement and vesper exercises there (all on June 2) and for Mountain High, Young Mothers and Monte Vista: High vesper services will be held June 2 at 2 p.m. in the school auditorium with Board Vice Pres. Bruce Parry and Asst. Supt. John S. White participating. Graduation will take place Wednesday, June 5 at 8 p.m. in the Bountiful Regional Center. Board Pres. Sheryl Allen will be the speaker while Board Clerk Roger Glines will present diplomas. -- CLEARFIELD Highs vesper services will take place in the school auditorium at 7:30 p.m. Mrs. Allen and former Clearfield High Principal Grant Steed, now secondary curricalum supervisor for the district, will participate. Graduation will take place Wednesday. June 5 at 7:30 p.m., also in the school auditorium. Board Member Dee Forbes will address the group while Supt. Lawrence Welling will confer the diplomas. -- Davis Highs vesper services will be held at 5 p.m. in the school auditorium. Mr. Glines and Steven Whitesides, a central office supervisor, will be in attendance. As is traditional, graduation will be held at Weber States Brow ning Fine Arts auditorium on Thursday, June 6, at 7 p.m. Board member Ray Briscoe and Dr. White will participate. -- LAYTON HIGH'S Sunday service will be held at 2 p.m. in the auditorium with Dr. Briscoe and central office official Dallas Workman in attandance. Graduation exercises are slated for Wednesday, June 5 at 7 p.m., also in the auditorium. Mr. Parry and Mr. Whitesides will be in attendance. -- Viewmont Highs vesper service will be held Sunday at 2 p.m. in the auditorium with new Board Member Henry Heath and Supt. Welling attending. Graduation will be Wednesday, June 5 at 5 p.m. in the Regional Center with Gayle Stevenson, assistant superintendent, addressing the graduates and Dr. Workman presenting diplomas. -- WOODS CROSS vesper services will be held that evening at 6:30 p.m. in the auditorium with Board Member Dee Forbes and Mr. Stevenson attending. Graduation exercises w ill take place in the auditorium as well with Mr. Heath addressing the group and Mr. Steed offering the diplomas. -- Mountain High will hold no vesper service but will conduct its graduation exercises Monday. June 3 at 6 p.m. in the school auditorium. Mr. Heath will be in attendance. -- YOUNG Mothers will hold only a graduation ceremony, with that slated for the district auditorium Tuesday, June 4 at 7:30 p.m. Mr. Forbes will be in attendance. -- Monte Vista will holds its graduation exercises Wednesday, May 29 at 7 p.m. in the school cafeteria. Mrs. Allen will be in attendance. -- J i i |