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Show Index Centerville C'eorheld Clinton, East Layton Farmington, Fruit Heights, Kaysville, Loyton, Roy, South Weber, Sunset, Syracuse, West Point Vol. 1 No. 3 Serving 29,000 Families From Roy Through Centerville Thursday, September 11, 1980 Flint Gives U p County Post; Knowlton Wins termed above average for a primary By NANCY LYNN KRZTON Staff Writer FARMINGTON Glen W. Flint, an veteran of the Davis County Commission,, has been narrowly defeated by challenger Glen E. Saunders in his bid for the Republican nomination to another two-yecounty commission term. Saunders, a Clinton resident, beat Flint by just 320 votes, receiving 6,343 to - . ar Flints ' January. Saunders said he had felt the race against Flint would be close, noting that a strong telephone campaign during the last day probably put me over, the hump. Asked what he thought was the main reason for Flints defeat, Saunders the replied, The key issue was feeling of the people that he maybe wasnt as responsive as he once was. Hes been a good commissioner, Saunders added. Hes done a good job over the years. The Democratic candidate for Flints commission seat, Jim Kirkham of Sunset, withdrew last week because of a conflict with his job at the Clearfield 6,023. B. Gerlach of Bountiful clin- Harry P out-polli- SUE WIDDISON reads a statement reflecting attitudes of many at the parents protest of school bus cutbacks in Weber County. The meeting was mington, 2,229 to 1,599. Nearly 31 percent of Davis Countys registered voters turned out to vote, a showing County Clerk Rodney Walker held in a corner of North Park in Roy. She was the spokesman for the group. Ask Mr iy; Founds lUadkiimg Job Corps Center. The county Democratic Central Committee is expected to appoint another candidate at a picnic Saturday to face Saunders in Far- 4 Ilftif M ... ched the Republican nomination for Commissioner Morris Swapps four-yea- r post over Howard Wiscombe of Bountiful by a slim margin, 6,290 to 5,977. Swapp did not receive enough support in the Republican county convention to run again. - E. Ute Knowlton of Kaysville won the Republican primary race for State Representative District 54 seat, J. Leon Sorenson of election. Saunders victory means the Davis County Commission will have not one, but two, new faces when it convenes in November. A parents group Tuesday night asked Weber School Board members to survey hazardous areas where busing cutbacks have forced some elementary school children to walk, and the board invited the parents to find the necessary $323,000 in the school districts budget. More than 100 parents appeared at the board, room in Ogden for the discussion that included jibes from both . , sides of the table. Sue Widdison, speaking Jfor the parents, read a statement demanding that the board declare s hazardous those roads where children walk to school that are narrow or crooked or near railroad tracks, that are in heavy fog areas or experience bad winter road conditions, and that have narrow shoulders or a speed limit in excess of 55 mph. We would like to challenge the medical knowledge of the board, she said, regarding childrens levels of responsibility as they travel on roads without sidewalks and with narrow shoulders. As part of a $731,000 budget cutback, the board stopped paying for the busing of elementary school students who live between one and ll2 miles from schools. The state pays to bus students who live farther than U2 miles. Mrs. Widdison and others at the meeting complained that buses which are not full are running past students who should be allowed to ride them to school. Board Member Gary Crompton said the state charges the local district is ineligible students, those who live closer than IV2 miles, ride on the buses. Thats what the board was doing, he said, with the $323,000 last year. He said buses carrying elementary school students in the district are run 8f percent full; the figure is 91 percent for secondary students. Mrs. Widdison said the parents want more busing and plan to hire an attorney if the board fails to act. She also said the group would pay taxes under protest in an attrempt to hold up funds for the district and, as a last resort, keep their children out of school, which also would cost the district some state funds. How many days (of withholding children from school) does it take, she asked, to pay for buses in areas the parents believe are hazardous? ,. DAVIS COUNTY COMMISSIONER Glen W. Flint, left, and opponent Glen E. Saunders shake hands at the Davis County Courthouse after Saunders beat Flint in the race for the Republican nomination. Incumbents Wjn 2 School- Board Races ' - North Davis FARMINGTON County voters narrowed down two school board seat races in Tuesdays primary election, giving both incumbents the chance to try for another term. School board president Lucile C. Reading of Centerville and Frank G. Brian of Kaysville will run against each other for Mrs. Readings Precinct 3 seat in November. Parry of Syracuse will compete against incumbent Bruce Bruce G. Watkins of Sunset for the Precinct 5 seat. Mrs. Reading trounced the other two candidates for the Precinct 3 seat in the primary election, receiving 3,380, or 68 percent, of the votes. Brian got 1,141 votes, and Kenneth H. Franck of East Layton came in third with 413. The precinct covers East Layton, Fruit Farmington, Kaysville, Centerville, part of Layton, West Bountiful, and South Weber. Watkins, appointed to the school board to fill the remainder of a term, fared slightly worse than opponent Bruce G. Parry of Syracuse, who Heights, received 935 votes. Watkins got 919 votes, only 16 fewer than Parry. Byron Hellewell of Syracuse came in third with 358 votes, and Vernon R. Borgeson got 306 votes. The Precinct, 5 seat covers Sunset, Clinton, West Point and part of Gearfield. in bach race The top two earned the chance to appear on the Nov. 4 general election ballot In the state primary races, Davis County voters chose David L. Wilkinson vote-gette- rs over incumbent Attorney General Robert B. Hansen as the Republican nominee for attorney general. Wilkinson received 6,662 votes, or 52 percent. to Hansen's 6 039 Ogden Mayor A. Stephen Dirks outpolled Dan Berman among Davis County voters in their quest for the U.S. Senate Democratic nomination. Dirks got 2,033 votes to Bermans 1,475. Dirks lost district-widhowever. e, Weber County Commissioner Doug Hunt lost the Democratic nomination for the post of lieutenant governor to Moroni L. Jensen in Davis County with Jensen receiving 1,947 votes to Hunts 1,503. In the American Party race for the Senate seat currently held by Republican Sen. Jake Gam, George M. Batchelor beat Larry Topham by a vote of 50 to 36. Voters Pick Johnson Republican voters in the Roy area of behind Ogden Mayor A. Stephen Dirks Weber County picked Harold R. in his losing bid against Dan Berman Johnson of Hooper as their nominee for for the Democratic Party nomination the State Legislative District 8 seat, for the U.S. Senate seat now held by defeating Randall L, Garner of Republican Jake Gam. Dirks lost by a harrow margin, Riverdale, in the primary election Tuesday. receiving 28,659 votes statewide or 49.65 The district includes parts of Roy, percent of the vote, to Bermans 29,057 Riverdale, Hooper and Kanesville. votes, 50.34 percent. In Weber County, Dirks got 9,700 Johnson, who received 429 votes, will face incumbent State Rep. Roger votes to Bermans 2,992. Rawson, a Democrat. Garner got 331 County Democrats followed the rest of the state in soundly defeating Weber votes. race for the Weber County Commissioner Douglas Hunt in In the four-wa- y County School Board seat from his bid for the Utah lieutenant governor Precinct 4, incumbent Shirley S. Carver position, however. of Hooper was the second top vote-gettMoroni Jensen defeated Hunt with with 792, while challenger Ted L. 33,346 votes, 58.66 percent of the vote Parke netted 904 votes. statewide, to Hunts 23,497 votes, which equals 41.33 percent. Losers in that race were Dee L. In Weber County, Hunt also lost big. Schenk of Taylor with 295 votes and kith 4,659 votes to Jensen's 7,802. Janet A. Tueller of Roy with 224. Jensen will face Republican Davis Weber County voters stood firmly Monson in November. er IV WEBER COUNTY parents marched in front of Kanesville Elementary, drawing interest to their concerns abourt children having to walk in unsafe areas. The safety of Emotions ran high through much of the presentation. At one point, Crompton asked Mrs. Widdison to repeat something from a letter she had read. She responded, Where were you? At the beginning of her presentation, Mrs. Widdison noted that no board member had attended a meeting Monday at Roys North Park bowery. Chairs were set up there to represent each missing board member. Shirley Carver, a board member, called that a cheap political trick against me and said she had not been invited. She and Mrs. Widdison sparred for several minutes. Janet Tueller, who is running against Mrs. Carver for the school board seat, said at the Monday meeting that parents need to make their voices Reviewing The News One local lending agent has painted a dismal picture of the homebuilding business and has bad news too for people seeking mortgage loans. Robert Bush, loan officer for American Savings and Loan, said interest fates are likely to rise. He also said some builders have been looking for other lines of work. A Lakeside Review writer talked to Bush about prospects for the home industry. The report is in our Business Review on page 8A. Also in the business section, on page 9A, is a summary of several economy-relate- d items, including the mortgage rate, money market certificate rates and the consumer price index. We will update the information regularly for Lakeside Review readers. 1 Ol children walking to school and dissatisfaction with a busing limit were the issues parents were discussing, heard and propose solutions transportation problem. to the County commission candidate Brad Dee, whose child was injured in an accident two years Your committee has to ago, said, force the school board to determine the problem areas. He also said, I applaud what you are doing here. Ive found that when a group applies pressure, sometimes action is taken." Parents discussed whether to keep children out of school as some had done Monday in the Kanesville area but decided against the idea after obauto-pedestri- jections were raised. Parents at Kanesville picketed the school Monday. At Tuesdays meeting Pat Welch, a parent from Washington Terrace, said the board had asked for advice from a large parents group before determining what to cut from the budget. She said 200 people from throughout the district metr to decide how to spend the money that was available. The parents formulated a hit list that covered athletics, supplies and school lunches and suggested looking at a four-da- y attendance week. Where were all the picketing Mrs. Welch asked, when mothers, people were needed to canvass the neighborhoods for votes for a leeway tax that failed last year. Continued on Page 3A Council Will Urge Lower Speed Limit ROY The City Council Tuesday lights and signs at the intersection with agreed to ask the Utah Department of the state agency. Transportation to set a 35 mph speed They said it would be technically limit along 1900 West, a state highway, wrong to put flashers where there is a to slow traffic through the intersections permanent signal light, Kirkwood told of 4400 South, 4800 South and 5000 South Peterson. Flashers would only divert to make it safer for school children to the attention of motorists. He said the state had indicated it felt cross 190Q West. the city now has the optimum Larry Peterson, representing a group situation at the crossing. of concerned parents who live on the Kirkwood also said the city's policy in east side of 1900 West and whose the past has been to not place crossing elementary school age children cross guards at intersections where there is a the highway to attend school, also traffic light. He said a study by the city police asked the council to install warning signs north of the 4400 South in- department indicated an average of 204 tersection. children use the crossing at 4400 South City Manager Richard Kirkwood saic each day and it takes each child about the city had discussed Petersons 12.9 seconds to cross the highway. The previous requests for flashing warning light allows 20 seconds. |