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Show 4 vtfmY ncws journal july 3, nran-oA- vis SYRACUSE IT mo the giwv Tin? Kiiywilk Library book drop Mantlx ready to be Hik'd with any and all library book irodcnta are done with or are at the due date. The drop in located Ixhind liive crunch evcotunlly forced Amrrkioi lo abiRdon tbclr art, at lend ont Syrecu man prubibly wouldn't mind. the library and available for ue when the library in oen. WALTER COOK has been living in a world of horse ever since early childhood. And now. while he may not need a horse to catch a ride to school, he's involved in them from the selling end to decorating his and many other living rooms Proposed Capital Improvement with their likenesses. It started as a youngster on "Vie 'old family farm now co- shered by Freeport Center Fund Being Studied properties, when he would often ride a horse to school. Tve had a fancy for horses all j : my life. We lived away from school and rode to it. j - - By GARY R. BLODGETT - NOT CONTENT to merely use them for personal transportation, Mr. Cook has been j .trading in them for years. Last month, for example, he esti-- i mates transactions up into the 'quarter million dollar range. i - FARMINGTON Davis County is studying the possibility of establishing a capital improvements fund to be available should there be a substantial drop in the federal revenue sharing monies the county now receives. ! . His sales have involved horses from Catalina Island to ; Long Island and in 1951 he bought 6,000 horses, for exam-- : pie.. While sales may not al- ways include that many als. he still keeps his hand in COUNTY AUDITOR Lu- deen Gibbons recommended the new fund to the Davis J County Commission noting that the county faces a ten percent drop in revenue sharing this year and that Congress could scrap the entire program at any time. She said the county currently receives about $672,000 yearly from revenue sharing. j;them and maintains a farm, i j often joining in the work, ; MEMBER of the LDS Church, he has bought and ;$old cattle and helped oversee .cattle operations for seven ji: A : j Jstakes. In the winter he keeps a feed We feed a lot of j lot going. battle in the winter. It helps j two or three farmers to give j jhem something to do." i I : ! ! ) j ! purchase all sorts of D CAI IILnL RIIRRFR PLANT AND WHILE he could've ;s?en more than just stars when The fell 3 1 feet from a at the over the farm after I left high school. Dad had another place in Bountiful, a truck farm. He married Delilah Ross at the age of 21. She died four rof 'Freeport Center in 1944, Mr. jCpok got up off the cement and talked away then and still acts as vigorous as ever today. 'Attributing his vigor to sigood, clean living, he is THIS MONEY is used to . . horse-wago- C 'HES THE son of the late sAhios Cook, who served at ? one time as a county commissioner. Known to people throughout Davis County, the Cooks had a farm in the Bountiful area for many years. Walter was the fourth from youngest in a family 14 children and learned the meaning of work early on. We didnt stay after school nights to play he said, with too football, much work waiting on the family farm. HE GRADUATED from Syracuse Elementary School and attended high school at the old Syracuse High School on the Gailey Comer. That building has since been tom down. And while he didnt gradu- ate from high school, that wasnt such a necessity then, he says, but his daughter, Bet- ty Carter of Sunset, added, Hes got a brain. He can figure things out in a minute that would take you an hour. He can figure within ten pounds what a cow would weigh. LOOKING BACK on those early years, Mr. Cook says, Tve been pretty lucky. I took , years ago. They are parents of two sons and three daughters: Dean, of Kaysville; Verl, of Logan; Mrs. Carter; Norma Blazer, of Granger; and Glen-- da Bone, of Kaysville. And as any grandfather, hes proud to mentioin his 22 grandchildren and 37 SO IF theres a horse in the mssnoDii Improbably best known for the n combinjtrmany ations' he has created over the years. Buying the horses all over he makes the bridles and harnesses by hand for his creations that are prized in homes throughout the Intermountain region. Syracuse Octogenarian Walter Cook counts productive reen thumb among his qualities, as evidenced by this flourishing rubber plant decorating his lifing room. BOUNTIFUL Traffic control measures to reduce emission will have to be implemented if Davis County is to qualify for federal funding, the Wasatch Front Regional Council was told recently. DAVIS COUNTY has previously participated in a vehicle emission and maintenance but it may become mandatory that this type of be implemented, Mr. MICK CRANDALL, WFRC be- cause the Wasatch Front cant reasonably meet air quality standards set by federal government by the deadline Do trees tend to grow to the right that is, does their grain lean to the right, so to speak? WE ALREADY know that imposed. He explained that it will be necessary to implement traffic control measures to fit into a state plan to control pollutants until federal standards are met. FEDERALLY controlled measures resulting from air pollution control devices on all vehicles will eventually make it possible for the Wasatch Front to meet pollution stan- dards, said Mr. Carandall. But in the meantime, we must provide other programs of meeting air pollutant standards. He noted that this area can not meet deadlines for pollutant cleanup set by the federal government and the state has applied for an extension on the deadline for ozone and carbon monoxide. it, one way or the other, through the efforts of Walter Cook, the old horse trader from Syracuse. ultra (S Crandall emphasized. He said the WFRC would work closely with county and state elected officials, the state transportation staff and the public to come up with a suitable traffic ollutant control -- I THINK it would be better to build up a capital improve- ments fund rather than have to unload a levy on the tax at one time should these (revenue sharing! funds be cut off entirely.' she said. "We could start with one mill tax and build up a reserve and then reduce the levy later enough to maintain the fund. Surpluses can be carried over from year to year." SHE SUGGESTED that the commission begin the one-milevy for setting up the fund by adding one mill to the 1981 budget. She noted that the county is scheduled to drop a levy for jail construction and a portion of this could be ll used for capital improve- wav denied a building permit from the County Planning Office because the proposed home is to be built on an un-- : deeded road in the West Layton area. "Most roads must remain open because of right by use."-sai- d Comm. Flint, "and I don't think this decision (to grant the building permit) weakens our policy at all. The planning office would like the commission to force people to deed the roads before being allowed to build on them but our attorney tells us that we don't have that ' ments. In other commission action, it was decided that a building permit be issued for construction of a home along an existing road that is not deeded to the county. COMM. FLINT explained that the only one being hurt by the decision of not to deed the" road is the rpoperty owner be- cause he has to pay property taxes on the portion of the land that lies within the COMMISSION Chairman Glen W. Flint said the county maintains the option to widen a However, the commission stressed, the home must be road to the width deemed necessary, whether or not the road is deeded to the county. He emphasized, however, that the county would prefer that the road be deeded to avoid any possible problems in the future, "but the county does not have the power to force the issue. THE ISSUE came to light recently when Bill Corbridge rights-of-wa- 2 d in this hemisphere, which makes rivers cut mot sharply into their right bank, which makes pro- - Ms Seeding FARMINGTON A Salt Lake City man is being sought by not one, but two courts in Davis County after he failed to appear to face charges brought against him as a result of a high-spee- there is a right force chase through Davis County last month. A BENCH warrant for arrest has been issued by Second District Judge Thornley K. Swan and by the Layton Circuit Court after the defendant, Wendell C. McWhorter, failed to appear in the two courts during the past week. The suspect is charged in Layton Circuit Court of failing to appear on charges of driving under the influence of alcohol, driving on a revoked license and fleeing from a police officer when ordered to stop. HE WAS free in lieu of $1,000 bail after being stopped on Interstate Highway 15 after a chase that started in Layton and ended near the Woods Cross exit. Police reports say the chase reached speeds in excess of 90 miles per hour. A bench warrant was ordered from Second District Court on a probation violation charge resulting from a conviction of issuing a bad check ear- and buses and increase programs, grb lier this year, grb jectiles veer right and which makes ocean currents swirl to the right. Weather is affected by it. re- versed in the southern hemisphere, where things veer to the left. As for trees, this claim has never proven. Many believe the grain leans right in this hemisphere. BUT THE answer to the question above must be qualified: maybe. Study the grain in trees you cut, or see, which have been cut and see what you think. LUCKY PUP pay it. SCHOLARSHIP WHINERS '- . Cheer Up can look happy when you arent, you'll get along all,..;, v.: right. If you THESE COULD include There are direct and indirect taxation. Give me an example of indirect taxation. The dog tax, sir. How is that? The dogs does not have to -- en-su- right-of-wa- computerized street lighting to regulate control of traffic, special highway lanes forcarpool-er- s These tendencies are ' built at least 30 feet from the " y to edge of the that when the road is widened, the home will be setback far enough to meet set-- back standards. program. g r power." Know The Weather assistant director, told the council that traffic control measures will be necessary pasture, you may have gotten equip- ment from large items such as cars and road equipment to office equipment right down to typewriters." said Mrs. Gibbons. She noted that the revenue sharing funds the county currently receives amounts to about 2 mills if the county had to replace the funds through taxation. payer Winning scholarships are Patrick Rior-daLori Sanchez and Sheryl Tisler. n, |