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Show 2 Sat.aaiy 1 I at Edge-of-your-se- grants tax cut I X f K X. j t: Commission gives stunts m County . ho(cr LAHLSIOt; 1907 v't vA 'rvj rfK I? an $87,000 abatement Bountiful hospital V By BOYON SAXTON FARMINGTON , - i.. Tor Ihe ..tcconJ umc in io week the : Dam County CommuMon has . 2sRJA rcluetanily granted a large tax abatement. , Thu one it an $87,000 lax abaiement given lo Lakcvtew . , , . . ; Hospital in Ikninnful. LaM week ihe Smith Toisl & Drug Store plant in Laion re ccivcJ an S8J.000 abaiement. Deputy clerk fawn Jensen said the abatement ftr the hospital, owned by Hospital Corpora-- . non of Utah, was given after the State Tax Commission approved a request to lower the company's property evaluation from $16 million to $9 million. "They have been remodeling that place. How can it be going down?" asked County Commiv sioner Dan McConkie, who along with Commissioner Carol K. Page later approved the re-- : quest. In a related matter, on Wednesday the commission approved $10.5 million worth of tax anticipation notes. The notes, approved annually, will see county revenues through while property tax payments arrive over the next six months. Larry Denham, public finance manage for Zions Dank, said the notes the county secured this year are more than in years past in response to county growth. Denham said due to the county's excellent bond rating, it will receive a 3.83 percent interest rate on the notes, which equates to the county paying $223,125 in interest. McConkie said the process to secure the notes went like clockwork, and he believes the action is in the best interest of county residents. Deputy Clerk Auditor LaMar Holt said last year's tax anticipation notes totaled $8 million. x, (fight) Joey Lynch. IS. coutdnt Quite stay upnght during his landovg while trying to skate along the top of some tenches Layton Commons Park on Monday afternoon. (Above) Sean Canine. 13. attempts a skating trick. The goal s to glide along the edge of the bench and then land without fanmg. Cani- -e and three friends spent the day practicing. .. chooses local hero LAYTON - Longtime resident Harris Adams was picked by Miss Layton Rachelle Harmon as Laytons Community He- ro. The Community Hero is the basis for the theme for this years Miss Utah Pageant. In todays world, too many heroes are unrecognized, so pageant organization officials said they wanted to focus on honoring these people. The criteria for a Community Hero included someone who, ? - 4L. I v ' v ' JLS I j , r , , f r - Jt tiuscmoon ISmvmolMrwm Utahns look back on Watergate scandal Once a Nixon man, Utah senator now delves Into ThaAaocim0PrM When the Watergate burglars were through Democratic in June 1972, Bob public-relatioBennett was a executive, fresh off a stint in the Nixon Transportation Department He was young and naive, in his words, to the darkest deeds of the president's men. Now on the silver anniversary of the break-iBennett is a Utah senator, decades removed from the infamy and newly ensconced on the Senate panel investigating possible campaign corruption by a Democratic White House. Talk about turnabout. Bennett will have you know that he's a little sick of Watergate anniversaries, which happen to dovetail with his Senate campaigns. But as the nation recalls the most tumultuous event in American politics, a handful of Utahns who occupied the hot seat or the periphery of the scandal are forced to look back as well: Wayne Owens, then a freshman Democratic congressman. He served on the House Judiciary Committee and voted to impeach Nixon. Salt Lake City ad man Desmond J. Barker Jr. became a communications assistant to the president in July 1971 and still was in the White House employ when the break-i- n occurred 1 1 months later. He never was connected to any It's unbelievable to me that Bob Bennett has waltzed through this thing," Colson say's. I ics got the answers to a lot of unanswered questions." Bennett alsn set up corporations to funnel donations to the Nixon campaign from dairy groups seeking higher price Bennett contends he never sosupports. I than to groups going licited nor received checks, but simply eswas at the time. tablished the committees for the funds Eventually, authorities came calling on a practice legal at that time. he all knew offered who Bennett, up Bennett knew about schemes to break and Hunt's fellow about Hunt, an into the offices of a Democratic presidenG. trickster Gordon Liddy. dirty tial candidate and a Nevada newspaper When he bought the Robert R. Mullen publisher, but did not go to police befirm in 1971, Ben& Co. public-relatiocause the plots never were carried out. execuan Hunt as account nett acquired Bennett's Watergate past was rehashed tive, along with the company's status as a when he made his successful first bid for cover for CIA operatives. Not long after the Senate in 1992. His opponent, ironitaking over the firm, he got a call from was Owens. cally, Colson asking if the president could borWhen Owens ran again for the Senate row Hunt as a consultant. ' against Bennett 1 8 years after his first Bennett, a saunch Nixonite, agreed. He remembers the call clearly. It was a failed bid, voters w ere more irate about the 87 bad checks he had written on the Colson said, I year before the break-iHouse bank than they were jarred by dont think (Hunts) work for us will inBennett's past. terfere with his work over there because tour of duty During Barkers he can do it mainly at night and on weekwith Nixon, he was a ends. liaison. He returned to his firm in Four days after the burglary, Bennett Lake after agreeing to serve as a conSalt it was because clear Hunt fired he says, the administration. sultant to Waabout the he knew me to something In the 1972 campaign, Strachan was tergate break-ithe liaison between Haldeman and the Others have said the same about BenCommittee to the President nett. In a depiction at the end of his book (CREEP). Blind Ambition, former presidential Sirica severed Strachans trial from counselor and convicted conspirator John those who were indicted with him after Dean sits in prison talking with fellow inmate Colson about why anyone wanted agreeing that a prosecution promise of to bug the Democratic National Commitimmunity had been broken, and charges were later dismissed. tee in the first place. There arc thing? I would have done differently if I had Imown then what I blow now. I confess to being nahc. " -- Bob Bennett Utah senator Democratic corruption allegations n, Miss Layton , UNDINC IS THE HARO PART: wrongdoing and returned to Utah in 1973 unsinged by the heat. Park City lawyer Gordon Strachan got scorched but survived. As staff assistant to H.R. Haldcman, Strachan was indicted by the Watergate grand jury along with Haldcman, domestic adviser John Ehrlichman, Atty. Gen. John Mitchell, special White House counsel Chuck Colson, Justice Department assistant secretary Robert Mardian and Nixon campaign lawyer Kenneth Parkinson. Strachan, then 30, moved to Utah barely a month after the Watergate hearings began and was living in Holladay when the indictment was handed up. In March 1975, cover-u- p charges were dismissed against him by Judge John Sirica, and within two years Strachan was licensed to practice law in his new state. Then there was Bennett, described in various Watergate tomes as a subterranean character who surfaced at odd times, who was connected to Howard Hughes, E. Howard Hunt, the CIA and might even have been Deep Throat. Bennett insists he was neither spook nor throat and certainly not a crook. There are things I would have done differently if I had known then what I know now. I confess to being naive, he said last week. Looking back, I probably would have been more assertive about ex-sp- y, n. domestic-communicatio- n. Re-ele- ct over many years, has had significant impact on the community. Adams has worked on preserving historical buildings in the area; he has been a member of the Historic Preservation Com- mission, museum board of directors, the city council, and many other organizations in the Layton area. Hes also given several tours along Main Street and talks about historic Layton, as well as donating personal land for a baseball diamond at a nearby church. At 6:30 p.m. on Monday,-Ad-am- Join us Mil CFIFfT SAVE 07 mm 11innFK UP TO 750 PtUS ZERO Down. ZERO Payment. ZERO Interest, on all models for 90 days from purchase. 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