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Show I T" TT '"11 0 i I..-- WEEKLY REFLEX DAVIS NEWS JOURNAL, DECEMBER 6, ....... ..... i r 1979 ; citys It City and t?i I 5: V, " : V PPl'LJ ' 4 ' 43 rSf i . fiw g. variety under ,5 - jxwj -- ; L2 j said he" drug-relate- d Sheriff Johnson said funds for the countywide narcotic investigation team will expire at the end of this year but. a request for funds has been made for anothe r six months. Unemployment jobs for everyone. THE TRUE picture concerning unemployment is seldom explained candidly by the bureaucrats (who justify their jobs and importance by six point percentage really means little. Many families today contain tv.ro, three, or more workers; t hus little hardship is felt if one is laid off temporarily. Tr jday, many youngsters livi ng at A expanding the system) or politicians, who capture votes home work. If theyre sometimes unemployed, there's no true hardship. give-awa- y programs. IHIr P imi the intervening years. I have written stories about people with ideas, dreams, accomplishments. I haws written articles about people who have tx;en thieves, liars and murderers. asked why I became a newspaper reporter, I would answer that I love getting to know people and telling their stories. HERE I am again, writing stories about people in Davis County, something that I did for many years as a reporter for the Deseret News. It has been exciting and rewarding to see some of those who were "newst contacts in previous times. My work for the Davis News Journal and The Weekly Reflex and occasionally for the Davis County Clipper will be to tell the stqries of persons living in the north end of the county. Necessarily, many of the articles will deal with what is happening in government, but I hope to also relate information about individuals. A PAMPHLET called Only in a Free . Society," published by the American Newspaper Publishers Association Foundation a few years ago stated the follow- ing: i Thq newspapers potential as a cons- tructiVe force in its community is limitless, so long ?s the people are both Iree to dream and free to try to make their dreams come true. The newspaper can educate, arouse, challenge and inform. It can stir the hopes and aspirations of the people. It can be both the teacher of change and the catalyst that makes a about. change-com- remember the incredible thrill of my first byline. It was a long time- ago -the summer of 1947. My third child, a son, was a year old. Now he is the Chief Recruiter of the Utah Army National Guard and lives with his family in Kays-villI CAN : There have, been thousands of . TRAGEDY IS nof: a stranger to reporters, and there h ave been many tragic incidents to wcitii about. Perhaps the most difficult, assignment of my life came on an August day f in 1959, when it became my unhappy t ask to tell of the death of my eldest son.; Roger, in a firefighting accident om Forest Service land in the mountains east of Layton.' He was the oldest of our seven children. My husband, Don, ancl I still have three other sons and three daughters, all adults now. Roger died swi ftly when he was struck on the side of his head by a whirling helicopter pro peller, as the aircraft hovered on a slope . He had run in close to pick up some flight jackets brought to the. scene for firefighters, who had fought the stub born askbrush blaze throughout the nigh't. He was not quite 18 years old. College w as only weeks away. SPECIAL bonu ses came: to me occasionally in the f orm of trips to accompany Utah Air, Force Association members in deli ering food and clothing or to the Navajos i' n Project Navajo, going in militar y planes to various destinations for diff erent purposes. One trip wa: j made aboard a dubbed "Old Shaky, Globemaster, which flew to Alaska to bring back Air Reservists wh o had been doing summer repair work at an air base near Fair; banks. jtum trip, the plane made an unscheduler J stop at Great Falls in the middle of the night for refueling, and ON THE rr - - Mr. Green said the corps-me- n operated seven pieces of heavy equipment to move about 20,000 cubic yards of earth. They also moved 10,000 cubic yard of topsoil, which must still be replaced. Heavy THE CLEARFIELD nn f-- . . City Council has awarded the con- tract for installation of the . Know The John Edman Construction Co., Ogden, has been awarded a contract for installation of tennis courts for $54,690. The Davis School District will develop part of the park near the new Harold Holt Elementary School in a manner that will complement the remainder of the park, Mr. Starks explained. Weather THE CITY also wants to install an overhead walkway A forest will absorb far ; more heat from the sun than as most of the landscape estimated 95 percent. By contrast, a sandy surface will, absorb about 75 percent, and snow only about 25 percent. LESS appreciated is the jobs and loafers who never work, but prefer to draw government checks, food stamps and whatever else ing they can get. A six unempercent ployment figure, give or take about one percent, is probably in two-thir- S;WSKStS:?SSBfi:5S55i A Difference! Some women show a Jot of style; some styles show a lot of women. i j to recall. to the bottom of a to experience reservoir constructed newly the eerie closed-i- n feeling of being surrounded by concrete except for a small I HAVE descended opening to the sky. I have wept with family members when I have gone to the homes of accident victims to collect obituary information, as reporters were required to do in bygone cons-tucte- and work on the tennis courts will begin in the Clad in pajamas and robe, this young woman suspect is. led into Davis County Jail following drug raid. Coun- tywide roundup began about 6 a.m. Wednesday. have come home smudged and smelling of smoke after visiting the scene of a blaze. years. I WRITING of childrens activities in schools has been rewarding. Kids say what they think, which is certainly refreshing, and I have never had to persuade any of them to allow me to pho- -' tograph them. They love it, and I love doing it. Telling the story of returning prisoners of war who had been confined in the Hanoi Hilton brought both joy and sorrow -happiness in seeing some families reunited and sorrow that other rela- reporter. reported safety violations that nearly caused the death of a worker and been called to the scene of an automobile or aircraft accident more times than I care Family boweries and a large bowery are to be spring. Three back-to-bac- k baseball fields, to allow play by six teams, are to be built at the park, wwl Ponders County Library Events news media, the airplanes crew and reservists waited for hours for a tanker to bring 9,000 gallons of gasoline so the flight could continue. While in Alaska, I had seen a moose ambling along through the tundra as we flew to a gunnery range in a military helicopter, admired Alaska's wildflowers and marveled at the size of cabbages that grew in a garden plot on a Fairbanks street. They were all experiences I would never have had if I had not been a NOT ALL the news is exciting. There have been hundreds of dull meetings to attend, when it was almost impossible to stay awake. I remember dozing in a Davis County Commission meeting one warm afternoon, when I was suddenly nudged by the Commissioner C.E. Moss. "Wake he whispered. Youre up, Wanda! snoring so loud that you're interfering He was exaggerating, with the meeting! of course. I know I dont snore that loud. I have climbed a mountain to get photographs of airplanes dropping loads of fire retardant on a forest fire, been trapped by fire on Antelope Island with my car wheels stuck in the sand, threatened by a company official when I in the pond. UP EARLY tionships had been fractured by the separation, or perhaps before. i - sad ones - stories heroism birth, death - stories and cowardice - greed, generosity HAPPY STORIES of love, of stories about the lives and activities of people just like you have come from my typewriter. Looking back over the years, I can truthfully say I have tried to educate, arouse, challenge and inform in telling people about people. I accepted an early retirement from the Deseret News in July of 1976. Printers' ink was apparently stiil flowing in my veins, however, and I went to work as a writer at McKay-De- e Hospital Center 19 months ago, writing stories about people in various departments at the hospital for news releases and the institutions magazine, The Scanner. WHEN I quit a few weeks ago to accept my present job as a reporter, my former boss, Mrs. Eleanor Moler, said, Well, Wanda, youre going back to your first love newspapering. She was right. Im ready to write stories about you and the people you know. I can be reached at Clearfield, - The Davis County Library controversy has uncovered a number of issues and unleashed a lot of rhetoric but has failed to satisfactorily answer many provocative questions. FOR INSTANCE: What is the responsibility of a public library system? Who, and by what authority, determines a community's standard of decency? What is a happy medium pertaining to freedom of choice?Which is the more dangerous to the American democratic tradition, a little smut or a little tyranny? Is sex more immoral than the hatching and nurturing of unfounded, malicious, scurrilous rumor? And there is one additional that should be posed: Why Jeanne Layton? question JEANNE : LAYTON, by herself, has never chosen a book for the Davis County Library. Jeanne Layton, by hersplf, has never spent a dime of the taxpayers money. Jeanne Layton, though she reads thousands of books, had never read, if even the heard of, book Americana". Jeanne Layton as a supervisory employee of the library board, followed only the dictates of the policies they outlined. Until Comm. Morris Swapp came along with his brand of Jeanne Laytqn was acknowledged as a moral, talented, dedicated professional in her chosen calling. SO AGAIN: Why Jeanne Layton? Which returns us to Comm. Swann After he was elected , ,, makingXmprqvcsnieji.Xi The city owns about of the water rights Thus trees not only store heat, which forms rising air currents under certain conditions but they provide the moisture which often turns into clouds and later rain. . of the BEAUTIFICATION area around Steed Pond is . also planned,, and city are working with thqv owner.' of the pond, Ed Higley much as 1, 800 gallons of water into the air in a growing season! hard-cor- e about 600 North to provide safe access to the park from Barlow Street to the park, he . noted. Citizen and organizational support will be solicited in a project suggested by Mrs. Clara Ashby. Families, civic groups and other organizations will be asked to cooperate in a beautification project by contributing and planting trees and shrubs of different varieties. fact that forests send huge amounts of water into the air through evaporation from leaves. Its estimated that a .single tree may'' move as WHAT IS needed is a meaningful figure, discount- ' above railroad tracks at How do trees affect the weather? TREES ABSORB an enormous amount of sunlight and and they send into the heat air an enormous amount of water. Lw experiences and counties.1 ; bylines during If I; were to be job the very efficient WANDA LUND By WANDA LUND . have supervision of Harold Green and George Farrell, Journeymen Heavy Equipment Operators, Mr. Starks said. ' jf County Sheriff Johnson said drugs confiscated over the past five or sic months have been placed in evidence. He said he could not elaborate on the total amount but that the individual buys made by undercover agents during this time would amount to about $21,000. : munity service project, in the landscape. THE supervisors gave the corpsmen very close supervision, and they brought the grades right down to within a fraction of an inch, the city almanager said. "They will so be laying out trails throughout the park. We were in hopes that we could get the sprinkling system installed this fall, but were unable to do so. We expect that work to be completed in the spring, and will probably have the grass planted in late summer. sprinkling system to Controlled Irrigation Company, Ogden. The firm bid $68,491. Attorney Rodney Page believes the conviction ratio for offenses will be very good. children. supporting creating berms for more i 'fjk'f ' Drug use in Davis County is at a critical stage, the sheriff said. Its especially heavy at this time of year. But we believe; that these arrests, plus those made earlier, will do alot to slow the drug traffic, especially in and around our schools. , Fewer than a dozen parents came to the Davis County Jail to gain custody of their 1 '.'afisti--- The drugs, he noted, were about evenly divided between marijuana, LSD ('speed) and ' cocaine. . The scene at the jail, especially among the juveniles, was at first carefree. But this atmosphere soon changed to one of screams, cussing and by Jt ElsbacH, Ralph Jefferson and Jim Neviels. Their work has been contributed as a com- drug-relate- release to their parents! The unemployment myth continues as an excuse for bureaucrats spending money. ; Headlines earlier this month reported unemployment slightly up at six percent. This will mean more unemployment checks, plus much gnashing of teeth by those who think the government must provide with the city in development of the park. Corpsmen have used heavy equipment to level and grade the area, also Center, and Clearfield City provided the fuel for operation. Marijuana, LSD, cocaine and other hard drugs along with a lot d of were confiscated from two homes. paraphanalia Market value of drugs was placed at several thousand dollars. FROM FRONT name-callin- " , ife& RESULTS OF RAID CONTINUED r done a fine professional 4ffk xC fcs-d- r .jr ?;?& 1000 W. "These corpsmen - .ist, Tvyf fiv ' s-W- tv: (' L. Job Corps Center had cooperated superlatively ' ''- Gayle HE SAID the Weber Basin a vTJ :w ts corpsmen worked on the project for more than three months, and will complete it in the spring, replacing topsoil. They include Lee Attikai, John Domain, Bill Fench, Jim Wilt, Roger Jaquith, Harrison Gonnie, Herbert Zahaney, Mark Debates, Derek Gutierres, Mike Wooters, Rick Baldwin, Peter Starks. It is located at 300 N. M 1 Manager to the equipment belongs 'Job Basin Corps Weber FIFTEEN be one of the finest parks in the whole state, according to fcT'r'SvKvi 4 3 - This Steed Park will CLEARFIELD r- - "Aw Fddti TDi rirf f t r- NORTH DAVIS LEADER 1 ) "P. C ir.i rn-- to office, he packed the library board with minions of his own persuasion. So, if he didnt like the policies which had been followed previously, he obviously had all the power necessary to change them. However, for some elusive reason, for Comm. Swapp that wasnt enough. WHICH BEGS another question: What is the motive behind Mr. Swapps vendetta gainst Jeanne Layton? And that brings us into the murky marshland of conjecture. Perhaps he just believes vindictiveness is next to Godliness. Or, perhaps he saw an easy victim a woman, a woman who was single, a "mere librarian -a- - gainst whom he could count an easy coup, flex his new found muscle, get his likeness and his bombast in the newspapers and on television, enhance his political image. THEN THERE are those unfortunate bully-type- s who kick dogs, scare children, victimize defenseless women to get their kicks" just as other unfortunates get theirs by reading obscene books. They, of course, deserve our compassion, our pity, our prayers. And to correct a misconception, the damage suit filed in the case is not against Davis County. The taxpayers are not liable for any of the $300,000 dollars. Swapp and his henchfolk may be. IN THE meantime, back to the question only Comm. Swapp can answer: Why Jeanne Layton? lone P. Sandall, Kavsville j |