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Show I sJ ,? k- - t T - r-- ' J i i 6 1 Ht( I s S3 3 ' - ! 'I - 1 7 17 flljKSM. VMOi n 3- voiwe fm uvv&cnrcflTV'ttvt ZSPiFi Owose Tax - t farmingion If tl Ikms ttftjfliy kimi w ptaci Muate.wt. by uiautxf, M ? t I 4 base i Id rw tots, Til IT MIMMRlre rrfAawrd by the w uij 4 as it l'l arrd THE DISTRICT face the los of 12.75 indlton m impact aid funds because they have been given to districts where ome students parents live and or work on federal installations. su,h as Hill Air force Base. Ihey have been given in lieu of r opens laves the base doesn't pay to help finance district opera- - i I F tHMIC. $ SPACIOUS GYM By TOM Bl .SSU.BKRG CLEARFIELD Those who have watched the addition oTNorth Davis Jr. High School rise from (he dusi over the past will have a lf chance to tour the facility Thursday at 7:30 p.m. TOURS WILL be provided in conjunction with the PTA following a program set to begin at 6:30 p.m. and expected to include remarks from school board members and school district officials. The SI. 35 million facility was designed by Hodson and Chamberlin architects and constructed by Ben Lomond Construction, both of Ogden. It includes a large new gymnasium that will double as an auditorium and can seat upwards of 2.000. including 1.000 on bleachers taken from the old Clearfield High School gymnasium when that facility was enlarged. says Principal Dick Egan. A NEW kitchen and storage area, covering 3500 square feet, provide more than double the space for food preparation, he says, including capability to expand lunch lines and provide up to four different types of cuisine during an average day. The addition of hamburger-typ- e meals has significantly raised the number of students eating hot lunch. Complementing the new d kitchen is a cafeteria, housed in the old much-enlarge- girls' gym. The enlarged cafeteria has made it possible to feed students during two shifts instead of three, in spite of the addition of about 150 students to the hot lunch program. Mr. Egan says. THE FORMER cafeteria will be converted to the art de partment during the summer while that space will be changed to traditional classrooms. In explaining construction activity Dr. John S. White, assistant Superinten- dent over buildings and grounds says economies have been used wherever possible. The cafeteria will retain the stage area for possible use and old shower rooms and auxiliary gym facilities in the old gym are being utilized after adaptation. In addition, some auxiliary rooms used in the old gymnasium complex are being retained with minimal adaptation for use by teacher aides shower area in the locker rooms allowing an incapacitated student to remain in his wheelchair, for instance. THE SCHOOL has an enrollment of about 1.000 and we're continuing to grow." Mr. Egan says. With present space he feels the school could accommodate a couple hundred more students. Projec WHILE THE addition was stimulated by (Federal) Title IX. it certainly was needed. Mr. Egan says. We feel lucky and excited" with the new facilities, he adds. Title IX requires equal facilities for boys and' girls and coeducational activities wherever possible. Many activities, such as volleyball. are conducted coed while other sports, such as football, will remain segregated or for boys only. Original plans had called for the building. It was north Davis County's first junior high school, opening in 1939. PRINCIPALS have included educators. some G. Harold Holt was the' flrst well-know- n principal, followed by Horton Miller. Emil Whitesides. Joseph Cook. Mjrk Argyle. Thomas Mackey. Lawrence Cook and Mr. Egan. W hilc the area covered by North Davis has dwindled over the years, students still come from a wide area including much of Clearfield and all of West Point. Clinton and South Weber. By GARY R. BLODGETT FARMINGTON Davis County officials are still looking for a way out of their financial crunch created when a scheduled bid opening failed to turn up a single bidder. .BUT THE county commission didn't seem surprised. They had been advised by fiscal experts that the money market had been depleted and with extremely high interest rates it would be unlikely if any let alone qualified bids bids were received at last week's commission meeting. The bid opening was an attempt by the county to sell about 1.9 million in tax anticipation notes (bonds) which will be needed to finance the countys operations for the next nine months. SALT LAKE City was able to sell nearly $27 million in tax anticipation notes the previous week but that was before the fiscal well ran dry. Centerville, likewise, is finding it difficult, if not impossible. to sell about $600,000 in for general obligation bonds any interest rate. BUT THE two bonding proposals are different in that the county, by law, can not sell its tax anticipation notes for more than 8 percent interest. Centerville can sell its bonds for any rate the market will bear, but even though the ,. 1 4 .tfMhrtit, Id i"mm tMftttf Ike U)l Id r IimB iaJ Kxk mi (ires hd k4t(v aJ l!ri txidii-!- , A r-- rim MJ r ( k '! Mfh pUM,J Wftk 116 Nhik4, ftd we SJ wiih giidikff V iGmlfiV it liiMtnural Uf duttifung hf MWRIVTI MiJNT tm M sJ. till he. Jem toner's recni AS jHuNrre. pftipdMJ K.iuiuraiit Jim, Vfly Jdn NJgfi uglUk-- k even bmic Hul he aJJcd. "lh. (wctluJc wiling pn 1 1 84 lunjiftg, Ik e it Id iM ikef ping 874 funding!, lie aitc njf J i C"Kn ui Denier Ll week where he outproblem be- lined the diirifi'v fore a review commiion. And former Supl. Beincll Ungley ha agreed l lepre-vethe di'ltKl in heating next week in Washington. nt The district plans to absorb "B student money loss, or fund given for those student whose parenis work on base but live The "A" money loss, for those whose parents live and work on base, would have to be made up through a mill levy mcrese. DC. THE DISTRICT has re- 7 SI.8 million this year. But proposals by President Caner would virtually eliminate additional funding, meaning the district would be caught several million dollars short. Several meetings have been called with community leaders from a w ide range of organiza- - bonds are municipal "AA" bonds the best a lending institution can receive there is still very little concern during these inflationary times, it was explained. COUNTY commissioners have expressed not only concern, but anger as well, because. they say. we have tried to be conservative in our spending and live within the (CONTINUED ON PAGE 2) "Ml CAN Hen IMk,1 Ik M riiffciuiifHh,rMi.i won psrf4I d if t4 o pr t hr gvt rate 4 idiSi'f on e m m rirlr-!id- 4 f ,nc wrere to he ip kd puNflhi ding IM drM nkuK hove hrf nude some adm. 4e ntrane tut rel log rehff tmmtrduie pre pe reliiig, he ( wt IrM ffUifJ pro !f ms, 'WM do we do he the halaree 4 iht year lo make oureles vent si read (or nesi that's whal we'ie 1C year lofluM i0h a ddifftg mill - MA BLI.L is also suing Sail Lake City for alleged franchise tax violations and litigation on the Bountiful and Farmington cases probably will not be heard until the Salt Lake City case is resolved, according to THE FIRST iprubkm iht year! we hope la do iwrek lo solid immediately, The 2oJ and 3rd we need lo ksA ai and ON PAGE 2) Now Ma Bell wants the money hack $16,954 from Bountiful and S7.205 from as reimburseFarmington ment for 1979. BOUNTIFUL adopted a one percent tax on gross receipts for telephone serx ice in July 1965 while Farmington imposed a four percent franchise tax in July I977.grb Bountiful City Attorney THE KAYSVILLE District Court allege the cities PHONE Laxne B. Forbes. 1 he two suits filed in Second franchise tax ordinances adopted several years ago constitute a burden on the telephone company compared to license fees as assessed on other businesses." THE FRANCHISE tax is collected by the telephone company from customers and turns the funds over to the cities. REFLEX 197 "B" North Main St., Layton 376-913- 3 Published Weekly by CUPPfflPUPISHINGCfl. John Stahle Jr., Publisher Second Class Postage Paid At Layton, Utah SUBSCRIPTION $4.50 per year of Stale Sufetcnption S5 SO Overaeas &Racnptnn $13.00 Out (Payable In Advance) weather and supply delays slowed completion to some areas. Mr. Egan says. POLICY CHANGE Concerning 1 -- YEAR-OLD BABY PICTURE Our Photographer Will No Longer take Baby Photos, but we will ac cept good quality color or black and white photos of your child. -Journal Weekly Reflex Davis News Thank You BOUNTIFUL Davis County homebuilders face a dismal 1980. but if they can get through the year the remainder of the decade should be just fantastic. THAT WAS the advice given the newly organized Davis County Homebuilders Association at a recent meeting in the s Drug. Representatives of local lending institutions and the state and national homebuilders associations painted a dismal picture of the present but a bright picture of the future for those who can survive the next year to 18 months. PAUL NEUENSCHWANDER, vice president of mortgage for United Savings and Loan Association, said there are a lot of questions and very little good news on the economic market today. It's difficult making some sense out of all this nonsense, he said. But if some drastic changes aren't made soon, you could see some lending and banking institutions going bankrupt within the next six Ser-vu- balanced federal budget. "The federal government is spending some $600 biilion this year and ten percent is or $60 billion of that amount payback of federal deficits." ASKED ABOUT the economic future. Mr. Neuenschwander said, There is no way of measuring future inflation, either in severity or length of time. But he did forecast a bright future for liomebuiiders. THERES GOING to be a loosening Of money and possibly a slow decline in interest rates, he said. But this is not going to happen overnight. Its going to be tough, real tough, for the next year or more after which the housing industry should be tremendous. Meanwhile, he noted, there will have to' be a change in lending procedures, a couple of which might be the Canadian Rollova method by which loans are reer negotiated every five years according to or further im.current interest rates plementation of the graduated payment mortgage system. months." HE EXPLAINED that Americans today are suffering a runaway inflation as a result of 20 years of deficit federal spending. Only once in the past 20 years has there been a HE CAUTIONED homebuilders that the a loosely used term for abundance of federal funds, is a thing of the past. Youre going to have to make it on your days of s, own, without much federal aid." he plained. ex- HE SAID current interest rates have just about brought local homebuilding to a standstill and it's going to be that way for a while. Wally Jacobson, state representative to the National Homebuilders Association, praised the local homebuilders association for their unity and goals for providing a better service. YOU MUST have a strong organizahe said. This will be the most crucial year that you've ever seen but you can, and will, survive. He stressed the importance of association members standing up to be counted" when it comes to cities, county and state agencies acting on matters pertinent to homebuilders. tion, an active organization. DONT LET any of these entities do something without your input," he said. Be represented at all meetings where anything remotely connected with homebuilding is being discussed." Arthur Gregerson, president of the Davis County Homebuilders Association, spoke out against increasing controls being put on homebuilders by local entities. SOME CITIES are attempting to straddle us with hillside ordinances that are too restrictive, with unfair impact fees, and with other outrageous ordinances. We can't sit back and let them get away with these things. We've got to fight back, even if it means hiring a good attorney to defend us. A Fritz Becker a former East German who "jumped the wall to freedom several years ago. and is presently executive vice president of the Utah Homebuilders Association told the more than 50 general contractors, e ii wiiuldn'l hae an aIut until the I'm I 82 shs4 year started in Nov. 1978. by the following October. But bad By GARY R. BLODGETT pos-ih!- kvy inreack AnJ d a vrecd kewav cktIMi pas-e-J completion of the addition MANY AREAS have been designed to meet more than one need, such as the new stage that will also serve as a wrestling area while also including the latest in lighting equipment. Mr. Egan says. The addition was built with the handicapped in mind, he notes, including an entrance ramp and special handicapped Id sJ the d laves three fmane (CONDMUEO MounFARMINGTON tain Bell Telephone Company has filed suit in Second District Court here seeking reimbursement of franchise taxes to Bountiful ami Farmington. i Nim imi p Mountain Bell Files Tax Suit ceived steadily less in impact aiJ. with S2.8 milium obtained during the 1976-7year. $2.7 million the following year. S2.4 in 1978-7- 9 and an estimated Wanted A Way Out Of Financial $$$ Crunch and others as needed'. Dr. White says. tions call for growth to about 1.150 in several years. Serving not only as a daytime junior high. Mr. Egan says many community education classes and activities use A. iMuwt off-bas- A huge gymnasium, Ian enough to accommodate two different activities at once, is now in use at North Davis Junior High in Clearfield. 4 if-iu- LdaCaindQ Tocwlal agreed onaflinkMiUt that a Bud kvy BMta wdl be nrsessafy federal M Aufusl funding is s ru other loads guaranteed the disinst by the federal government-latCould go Uft hi nuds. or 121 lor a Vu ww home, i Ilt 1 suppliers, realtors and others associated with home-buildin- WHATS GOOD for the homebuilders is good for America. Ownership of homes is the driving incentive of all families. We can't let them down. "We have got to get over this attitude. We must rise up and fight even if a radical change is necessary to survive. If we don't succeed as homebuilders, our children and grandchildren will he the losers. no-wi- n' HE TOLD the group that people will rebel w hen they have had enough, right up to here (motioning to his neck), but unfortunately they haven't reached that point |