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Show & WEEKLY REFLEX DAVIS NEWS JOURNAL, MARCH 29. 1979 Cable Company Still Pushing For July Start Layton City Council To Make Decision On Cable Television ' The Ogden lawyer asked By TOM BUSSELBERG - The LAYTON what Wasatch Community TV of Utah, now a division of Telecommunications International, Denver, Colo., had done in 13 years, since obtaining the Layton franchise March 14, 1966. SPEAKING FOR WCTV was Hal Oiler of Danials and Associates, of Denver, an affiliated company. We sent a report in Nov. 1978 to each city (where the company We holds franchises). outlined our system, cost per Layton City Council may decide next week whether to allow two cable TV franchises or revert to a single provider of cable service. IT TABLED a decision during its last council meeting, March 15, as to whether Wasatch Community TV, holders of a franchise in the city for 13 years, should continue as the sole franchise or allow Arden Coombs, an Ogden attorney previously associated with other cable operations, to continue his efforts at forming a service. Mr. Coombs previously ap- and mile overhead un- derground and total mileage in each city, when the service would start, etc. We recently met with Clearfield, Sunset and Bountiful and said we were on schedule and also informed them that TCI is now a participant in WCTV. We were very surprised when the council gave them (Coombs) an okay (for a franchise). We had no word from the council and thought theyd be delighted with our progress," he said. Id like to suggest on behalf of WCTV that you cancel or rescind or table action until you check the finances and backings of peared before the council requesting the right to put together a cable TV system. The council gave its nod of approval and at the last meeting he made a progress report. TWO WEEKS ago (March 1) you told me to go ahead, Mr. Coombs said. "1 went to work. I need the franchise. There is a contract with UP&L and Mountain Bell. Were not negotiating, we are done. DJOTOKS TO TOE EMTOB Says Should Halt Paramedic Units Should the county's paramedic program be dis- department? Was it because each city in the county has adequate police protection was and the county dwindling? And why are the paramedics writing tickets in the cities? The county commission will do well to listen to the COG (the mayors) of the cities. If the mayors have discussed this with their council members and feel they have an insight on how much taxation their city can handle and still have enough left for a loaf of bread and a gallon of milk, then why shouldnt the mayors have a voice in continued? I SAY yes. Many of us are getting very weary of tax here, tax there, tax everywhere. I believe in the saving of lives, dont misunderstand me, but wow, the price tag for county paramedics. I feel to congratulate the Davis County Fire Department for their excellent ambulance service to our community. If more elaborate equipment is needed why isn't it given to our present ambulance service? That is something that should WHY DID the deciding whether this ex- travagant expenditure is put on the ballot or not? I DO NOT agree with Gary Blodgett. I say whatever you sheriffs feel it so necessary to take this from the fire do commissioners kill it! Harriet Stephens department both companies, and their representation, etc. MR. OILER said plans call for construction to start by May 15 with completion tentatively set for prior to year's end. In responding for the city council was Councilman John Baker, who said, I think one reason the council took action (allowing Mr. Coombs to enter the picture), was because one, we werent aware of the repercussions on another franchise by a new one and two, this council has favored always highly competition and free en- terprise. We had no intentions of thwarting your progress or profits. IT IS possible that we acted somewhat hastily and also without enough information available, he continued. We werent fully aware of the background of the other individual (Mr. Coombs) and are familiar with you. I think we ought to investigate how to go. "The thing were looking at Mr. is free enterprise, Coombs said. What harm is there to two franchises? If we cant perform, and they build by May, just we lose. HE CONTINUED, Theyve got a grand design yet they about (WCTV) worry someone getting a small part. Were not worried about Davis County, were worried about Layton, maybe then Davis County. I'm not going to be a man of many promises, I'm going to do it. I've got a contract and talked to the city attorney (Bruce and got Barton) preliminaries done. This is no slow job, Im not going to give excuses. If they (WCTV) get done first, then it's my tough luck. The ordinance (between the city and Coombs) says if I . don't have it done in a year. Im done. Wasatch Community TV has had 13 years and I've had one," he said. Im not cutting out a grand design. I'll do the engineering and get the FCC approval, etc. and Id like your okay. 7 1 THINK we owe it to the other cable TV company (Mr. Coombs operation) to look at it, Mayor Lewis G. Shields said. Noting that two systems in the city might cause both to fail, or have difficulties in providing any service, such as is happening in Price, was i i, Councilman Robert Austad who said, -- We need one system here. We dont want to get halfway into it and then cant continue. Then the citizens suffer. I would ask the two companies to put their, acts together in toto and demonstrate their backing, programming, etc. and put it on the table. MR. COOMBS has been in- volved in cable television operations in Brigham City and Spanish Fork in the past, among others, while WCTV has systems serving Ogden, Salt Lake City and Provo. A principal, interest is held in that firm by State Senator Haven Barlow, Kaysville Cleanup According to Kaysville City Mayor, Kaysville Spring Cleanup has been set for r'Aprii. TRUCKS WILL canvass the west side of Main Street beginning Monday, April 9 and the east side of Main Street beginning on Monday April 16th. Citizens are reminded to have their spring cleanup out early as once the trucks have covered an area they will not return. THE KAYSVILLE City Council urges everyone to cleanup their yards and vacant lots this spring, as the city is going to enforce their ordinance this year, and citations will be issued to those who do not conform to the or dinance. np By TOM BUSSELBERG - If all goes CLEARFIELD as planned, some Clearfield residents should be watching cable television by July, the Clearfield City Council was told Tuesday night. FROM OFFICIALS Wasatch Community Television, holders of a cable TV franchise for. Clearfield and five other Davis County cities, said a timetable announced late last year is still in the offing if everything goes as scheduled. Hal Oiler, of Denver, a partner in the cable firm, and George Lee, Utah-Idah- o manager for Telecommunicat- ions, Inc., actual operators of WCTV, gave a progress report and fielded questions from the council about cable possibilities for the city. LEE MR. said all preliminary work is done and pole contracts in the mail to UP&L and Mountain Bell. "In the last few months and weeks we've had the full engineering and plans completed, and where we want the lines and amplifiers decided. As soon as pole applications are done we will get with the utilities and redo the same route as in our preliminary engineering and determine what space is needed on each pole and then the utility the makes necessary on rearrangements the poles." explained that utilities must agree to place cable lines on their already-existin- g lines and that requires walkouts" where the entire city is canvassed to determine potential customers and where lines are needed. About eight months are needed for the preliminaries. He New Book Selections At Library The Kaysville City Library is featuring the following new books in the library. OVERLOAD, BY Arthur Hailey; The Coup, by John Updike; The Return, by Evelyn Anthony; Who Goes There? the Search for InLife ' in the telligent Universe,' by Edward Edel-soNo Bed of Roses, (a biography) by Joan Fontaine. jVComplete Stories of the Great Ballets, by George Balanchine; "Zoo Babies, 7( J by Donna K. Grosvenor. - THE TIMETABLE you were given late last year is one we should be able to meet," he said, as long as the utilities meet it and theyve been very cooperative. We should be able to. , have cable in very shortly.". Mr. Lee said WCTV isnt . only looking at serving Davis , County but continuing operations in Ogden and Salt Lake City, where the system is expanding, and in Provo. While , anothec source, has, applied for a franchise in several ciWe are A REMINDER: ties yiere are no problems, he, having a used library Jb0ok)'1 told Councilman Gerald Hea sale on April lid (8 tlie 'Gth,' ton (see related story on Lay- - , from 12 p.m. to 5 p.m. This is ton cable TV). hi the city hall foyer. These:'" are mostly children's books. BECAUSE OF the advent np of the earth station satellite, the FCC said about two years . ago programs could be taken off that source, (instead of bringing them in by overland franchises with Clearfield, Sunset, Layton, Kaysville, Bountiful and North Salt of towers and microwaves) and since that time, a lot of small operators have now gone out and started vending ville officials and notified Farmington authorities of interest there. It also has relay involving construction and trying to obtain contracts. It doesnt make any sense to issue more than one permit, Mr. Lee said. Normally cities dont give two that would be permits asinine. The Layton City Council is presently considering possibilities for two franchises, including one from WCTV, for that city. POSSIBILITIES might exist for exchange of information between cities through an eventual countywide system, Mr. Oiler said. It is designed so all Davis County cities can be inter-tieTheyll have equal service and the ability to exchange information if they want. WCTV currently has Lake, has met with Center- authorization to serve unincorporated county areas adjoining cities with franchises. CITY MANAGER Gayle - CLEARFIELD After an hour and 40 minutes of hearing pros and cons concerning a rezoning request, the Clearfield City Council put the matter to rest with a nay vote. IN QUESTION was a request to rezone property at Nos. 86, 10, 12, 87, 11 and 85 Villa Drive from R-residential allowing duplexes, to opening the door to a variety of potential commercial developments. 2, C-- 3, About 50 people jammed the council chambers, most of them apparently opposed to the request brought by Curt Landes for conversion of property at 11 and 10 Villa to use as a .retail store and professional office. HE TOLD the council a pe- tition had been circulated among adjacent property owners Showing all in favor of the change but one person who couldnt be contacted.! But a second petition surfaced u later opposing the move, with o. many of the same people signing. Rumors that homes would be condemned, torn down or replaced by businesses were low-lyin- removed from other munications setups such as those manned by utilities, two or three sites south of late-eveni- television Scared show, Straight"? What was your reaction? studio could be located AFTER VIEWING the show and talking with a few prominent people about the show, I have formed a few very strong impressions about this rehabilitation program for young offenders. Likewise, I have a few other "gripes" that I would like to get off my chest at this time. IT WOULD BE the greatest thing in the world," he said. "Weve got to stop kidding ourselves and realize that we, too, have youngsters who start out in teenage life as petty offenders and end up as lifers state prison. "Weve tried a variety of rehabilitation programs, but none has been anywhere near as successful as that program at Rahway. Id like to see a similar program in Utah, one that will have a lot of impact. in very impressed with the TV show which dealt with a rehabilitation program for young criminal offenders who live near Rahway Prison in New Jersey. FIRST, And I I WAS was pleased to hear that Utah prison authorities will investigate a similar program for local juvenile authorities. Associate Warden Kenneth V. Shulsen said prison offficials will join with representatives of the juvenile courts, correctional institutions. Youth Detention Center and others to look at this program. FRANK BINDHAMMER, a former in- mate of Rahway Prison who served 16 years of a life sentence for murder, was to have met with officials Tuesday at Hotel Utah to discuss the program and explain how it would affect local offenders. Mr. Bindhammer is a of the program who has been promoting the program used by Rahway Prison. FOR THOSE who did not see the TV documentary, it depicts a program used in New Jersey where juveniles were locked up for several hours in maximum security with murderers, rapists, armed robbers and other "life termers." The project is designed to provide such a shock that juvenile offenders who are far down the road to becoming adult criminals just like those inmates who conduct the program - that they IVE HAD TO sentence many young offenders to prison and it breaks my heart because I know what happens to them when they get there. Utah State Prison is not much different than Rahway. If we can come up with a program like Raheven if scare tactics are needed ways for it to be effective Im all for it." Comm. Ernest Eberhard, who was involved in a rehab program at Utah State Prison as a representative of the LDS Church, also spoke out strongly in favor of such a program. I CANT SAY that I appreciate the crude, foul language used by the inmates in Rahways program, but if that's what it takes to be effective then Im all for it," he said. "I'd like to see Davis County involved in this type of a program for our youngsters -- all of our young people, not just those in trouble. I think it could be very effective and we need an effective rehabilitron program of some sort." DETECTIVE DIANNA Stevens of the Bountiful Police Department, who works with local juvenile offenders, also was praiseworthy of the program used at Rahway. NOW, BRIEFLY, here are a few things I dont agree with. I dont agree that Bountiful City Council did the right thing in two of its major decisions last week. SOME CITIES want either automated service to relay percent salary increase for city employees effective July 1 and another two percent increase on Jan. 1, 1980. In this case, I side with Major Elmer W. Barlow and Councilman Paul Allen that pay raises are deserving and should be but not on a percentage of the given employees salary. an ordinance which would change (increase) the culinary water rates of mobile homeowners. Although I do agree with the mayor's philosophy that the rate increase is unfair. I feel that the mayor was elected and sworn into office to carry out his duties to the fullest." Refusing to sign the ordinance is not carrying out his sworn duties. employees need the salary increase even more than those earning $20,000 or more annually, and there are several in this category. My mathematics show me that "seven percent of nothing is nothing." This maybe a little but you get the LOWER-PAI- D bowling alleys going formation of industrial and all we want to do is an office and maybe a sales area. children, limited access, and garbage supposedly created by businesses. put in small IN OTHER action, the-"'- ; council approved rezoning of property at 221 West 800 North, 789 North 250 West, 780 :: North 250 West and 790 North 'T 250 West from R-residential AREAS NORTH and south are already zoned commercial of the proposed change and the change would bring contiguous development, he added. City Planner Albert Cole recommended a zoning change and said that con- d forms with the recently-approvemaster plan. A C-- 3 self-servic- R-- 3, Finally, a lot has been said about and against Comm. Morris F. Swapp for his views about a controversial book, - "Americana." RESPECT Comm. Swapp, who has been an outstanding public leader in Bountiful and Davis County for 16 years, for his stand on the book which he says is filthy and obscene." . Right or wrong, he has the right to his I - - ' opinion. r :r; fourplexes. A previous attempt to 'l rezone that property to allowing heavy fourplex con- centration, was denied by the ': With council. council approval, a fourplex is ,v acre planned for a one-haparcel at about 200 West 800 North, presently vacant for a small home that v will be demolished. R-- 4, designation would allow for about 133 different types of commercial development from a printing shop to dance halls, carpentry shop, plumbing store and small dustries, Mr. Cole said. , lf in- I DONT think theres any question but that sometime down the pike that ground will be commercial, Mayor Donal Townley said, The question is when. It may be ten or 15 years. The Main Street area in all probability will be commercial and it has some advantages economir cally and shouldn't be a major disadvantage. At any rate, the council decided not to move in that direction, at least for now. Major complaints voiced Ground has been long-awaite- d annex to Hospital Center. ex-ce- pt i 11 THE COUNCIL, also set a public hearing to consider rezoning 1000 South State to about 800 South State from 2 to PA, or professional-administrativThe hearing will take place April 24 at 7:30 p.m. Buildings allowed in such a zone include medical clinics, dentists, real estate offices, churches and schools. The zoning designation is intended as a buffer between commercial zones, Mr. Cole said, tb u -- R-- Jr. therapeutic pool. The annex e will also provide films and storage for business office records. on-sit- An elevator system 1980, vacated space in the Dee Hospital will be used to house expanded outpatient services. pa- tients will benefit most directly from the annex, which will give them new facilities, including a con- necting the McKay and the Dee hospitals on the upper levels is part of the project, as is expansion of the clinical laboratory and a new air system for the operating rooms. THE STRUCTURE was designed by Luther Hill of Dallas, Tex. That firm will supervise the construction, using local contractors ami We do custom engraving on plaques, cups, Tankards, bowls, jewelry and many other items. INTERS TROPHIES me 501 West 600 N Layton labor. When the annex is complet- 600 , N. Main 11 ed and occupied in March DUTCH DOY CARPET I WHA1, THEN, is the good of the Sunshine Law which is supposed to make it illegal to hold closed or "secret" meetings? If its worth talking about council-men- , do it in open council meeting. LIKEWISE, GODFATHER Pizza Restaurant in the Colonial Square Shopping Center should be praised for its recent v 2, permitting duplexes, to allowing a limited number of comprehensive responsibilities. One Layton city official recently announced publicly that "it was alright to hold a secret meeting as long as no decision was made." ALSO, I FEEL that the city council was e error in approving one station a Class A" permit to sell beer, but denied a similar request to another station on the basis, of all things, that the latter did not sell enough grocery items along with the beer. Im not in favor of every service station in town selling beer, either, but I think the criteria for basing an approval or denial of a beer license should be more than what the city council is basing its present decisions. action. This restaurant was granted a permit beer, but the council approval was given over the protest of several persons who live in the area. in to areas AT THE same time, I believe some county and state officials are overstepping their boundaries of authority and point. in against rezoning were increased traffic, creating for potential dangers Tve heard everything from McKay-De- e THE DELAY of Mayor Barlow to sign - however. Mr. Landes said. unfounded, OGDEN THAT TAKES a lot of character, and Godfather Restaurant personnel need to be praised for their action. Other complaints that I have include: FIRST, I TAKE issue with the majority of council members that voted a seven Clearfield will have access in its own channel, free of charge, Mr. Oiler added. Equipment, such as TV cameras, would have to be purchased by the city, within the city or utilized by located Clearfield though elsewhere, he added. broken for the $2.54 million EVEN AFTER being granted the permit, which would definitely increase the income for Godfather Restaurant, owners and managers of the restaurant gave the permit back to the city. If we cant sell beer with approval of the neighbors in the area, we dont want the permit. We wont sell beer. that may need to find new ways of Mr. Oiler communication, said. mean we wouldnt establish a billing office in Clearfield. REHABILITATION How many of you saw the recent - may become a dinosaur, we Clearfield are under consideration. That doesnt A ' :- Ground Broken For McKay-De- e Hospital Project In Ogden I I think it's a super program, much more effective than any program we have to offer," she said. I agree. WE HAVE used them systems) to say certain roads are closed or when meetings will be held, etc., and especially with the energy crunch, particularly in large cities where the car located in Clearfield, but Mr. Lee said since an earth station head end facility must g area, be placed in a Council Denies Rezoning On Villa Drive; Clearfield Some Things Agree With, And A Few Others Dont (juveniles) change their lives in such a way as to go straight." IN REALITY, more than 90 percent of the juveniles who attend Rahway Prison's program do go straight. I asked Second District Judge Duffy Palmer for his opinions of such a program in Utah. ser-vic- Starks asked if a possible headquarters site had been I By GARY R. BLODGETT messages while others want live camera facilities such as those able to transmit city council meetings, Mr. Lee said. But the majority of city councils dont want to get on camera. 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