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Show Date Bacc to 1870s M" Records Go to Microfilm BARRY KAWA ges. Raviaw Staff Farmington Approxi- mately 2.6 million county records and documents, dating back into the 1870s when Utah Y was still a territory, are slated to be microfilmed in the next year and made accessible to the pub- , lic. . County officials recently hired a Salt Lake City firm to micro-filthe records, and documents that currently fill a basement in fhe county courthouse. Davis Michael Allphin jCounty-Cler.said the basement is not conducive. to public use of the records and the Utah State Archives want a permanent record of all county documents. Some of the public records on file at the courthouse include probate records, court proceedings, marriage licenses, property deeds and commission minutes. Other offbeat county records include commitments to mental institutions and criminal char m "'SS-n,,,- . .. V. S ' 1. '.. DAVIS COUNTY records are being re- mbved from courthouse basement to be, ' , , 'v. ..8$?$$; &SSSS8: SlaH Photo by Rodney , ,' f permanently stored on microfilm.';' ;'.' -- tsafitufr f V tY.Vi Wright V rr.ito. Mmi.rp. Ifilnlltt' The first record of a mental patient committed to the Provo hospital is dated May 6, 1886. David, a butcher, is said to have fancied himself as president of the United States and a rich man. He imagined everyone was keeping his money from him. There is a disposition to injure his family of late and he has throvJn his children about, writes the county clerk of the time. Two men of Centerville were charged with theft in District Court on Jan. 27, 1896 for steai-in- g a shirt valued at one dollar. Allphin also said hes seen one case in which a man was charged with overturning an outhouse while it was being used by an unfortunate soul. The S.S. Diversified Company of Salt Lake City has been hired by the county to,,do the microfilming at a cost of about $90,000. Allphin estmates the project will take about a year to complete with several employees of the company working daily to photograph the old documents onto film. He said most of the original documents and records such as marriage licenses willbc kept but others may be destroyed to solve the overcrowding problem in the county vaults. We will, as time goes along, destroy records because of a lack of room, said Allphin. As the county gets bigger, its not practical to keep old records nobody will ever use. If the state archives approves it first, then we. can destroy them. He said most of the material is available to the public by asking one of the clerks in the county clerk department. The clerks office has been microfilming daily records since March. Although Allphin said few people come in to look at the old documents and records, a special room with microfilm viewers will be available. 'SngJJtti (kltitti JT Wednesday, October 26, 1983 Vol. 3 No. 60 City Nearly Up Creek; Gets Help BARRY KAWA Review Staff - SHELLEY KANCITIS Review time proving this plan is not equitable. v Claude Dahl,! chairman of the 7 Hooper Water District, feels dif--. I think the county ferently. commissioners made a good, honest effort, but I see real prob- lems with the proposal. For one thing, the district has to assume J too much risk. He said it is a good plan if development is rapid, but if devel- opment stalls, the water district could have serious financial problems. Dahl said he will have the districts attorney and auditor study the new proposal. It may not even be legal for us to withdraw from the area because of our bonded indebtedness, he said. .The Weber County commission previously filed a protest on Hoopers behalf over Roys request to annex, land within the Hooper Water District. Hooper said Roys annexation plans could cause the water district to default on its water bond since Continued on Page 2A ; Correspondent ; Weber County Commissioner Roger Rawson feels optimistic that a new proposal will end a g dispute between Roy Cjty and the Hooper Water District" oyer who will provide water to unincorporated property on Roys west-e; border., is" resolved, it . If the dispute will enable Roy to eventually anyear-lon- ; m . . r nex 2,000 acres of land. "In principle, were there, said Rawson. "Hopefully we just have to work out the details.. Final resolution of the issue depends on whether the Hooper water District Board votes to aef cept the proposal. Rawson said he expects a decision within two U.' weeks. If Hooper rejects the proposal, Rawson said Hoopers only alternative is to take the dispute to ,;, court'V Roy City Manager Richard Kirkwood said he was encour-- . aged by the : I countys position. think Hooper would have a hard Staff Photo by Robert Regan SOME ASPECTS of Halloween, coming up on Monday, are more real than this photo, a local clergyman says. Some 7 Review Staff Halloween is disLAYTON couraged in some Christian con- fundamentalist churches because they feel it tends to glorify Satan, says Pastor David Heikkila of the New - Life Bible Academy. but the council will try to get;' them involved at a later date. ; County Commissioner Harry Cur- rently, the CDBG funds are dis- - ' tributed to cities and county projects that are judged on a priority basis in a COG ballot sys- - tem. The balloting process created problems last spring when Lay-to- n City protested the vote after a downtown rehabilitation project was tallied behind a Kays-vill- e City water project. Gerlachs proposal would place each years grant. in a float loan program wherer money would be loaned out at low interest and returned to fiout-Irig- Heres where modern movies have so popularized the nature" of exorcism and demon posses sion, he said. The gospel according to Hollywood on the occult has used such awesome technical effects that people begin to say, Oh, this cant be real. l Heikkila said that in ht to the city; and county no 'sponsoring-thprojects with ' ' Holly- wood, the good guy religious figure armed with a cross and holy e .payback required.' ; , r s V':; ::v X -- 4 Cr " ' ' , 1 I T . disbanded.. (been TT.Lrti era various the TdJLlL; 1 ; clrafor t riat litfA) a lack of Forbush admits the city does not know where funds will come from to pay the amount and said city officials will ask the Weber Basin directors board on Nov. 4 for a possible reduction because circumof the mudslide-relate- d water seldom wins and the mov- clude multiple identities with ie often ends with a gloomy out- occasional lapses into different look on the future for all voices, violent and behavior and occasional involved. That is a myth I would like to dispel because of feats of superhuman strength not the cases I would label as genu- attributed to adrenalin. ine. They did not have that HolWhen the power of authority evil of kind of triumph lywood given to a Christian was exerto them. cised, there was an immediate According.to Heikkla one case change in the boys behavior and that happened in the Kaysville-Layto- n outlook, he said. area a few years ago inHeikkila said the misconcepvolved a young man who was of only Catholic Priests betion heavily into drugs and alcohol. to exorcise is strictly allowed ing habit a made man This young of parties with friends that in- Hollywood. volved drugs and alcohol and ; Heikkila said hes heard from eventually led into setting up a reliable sources that Satanic pentragram of candles on the churches exist in Utah and a few floor. He would stand in the people in the county do practice middle and call up on the spiri- the occult. He said that in the tual forces by name from some past few months hes gotten a of the the books hed read on the few calls on strange things haphistory of witchcraft and the oc- pening at peoples homes like cult. figures walking through curtains. A pentragram is a pattern long used as a symbol of Heikkila said there are a lot of Satan. Heikkila said the man be- Christian laymen and clergy gan to show classic signs of de- around like him who have had mon possession, which he said encounters with the occult and are mentioned in the eighth demon possession. He said livoccult ing in constant fear chapter of Luke in the Bible. According to Heikkila, symp- is unhealthy and makes some toms of demon, possession in people afraid of the dark. ve five-poi- nt of-th- e ,, Index In- -. 4 I ' rk r 6C,7C Classified.... 6D, 7D 4A Editorial Home Living IB, 2B D -- PC i . . 4 9J The City Council instructed Forbush and Maxwell to prepare a proposal with facts and figures and bring it back to the council for consideration. The council also considered cleaning out Rudd Creek. Both the Davis and Roy football teams won at least a share of their respective region championships in School...,.,.... ..1C.2C Sports..! 1D-4- if we cant get them to reduce the costs, he said. There was nothing we could have done to prevent it. It wasnt caused by us. Weber Basin assistant manager Ivan Flint said the September board members policy change allows a city to lease over its usuage at a price of $175 per acre foot or contract for the amount at $99 per acre foot. Flint said before the change, Farmington would have been contracted to purchase the overusuage amount each year whether the city needed it or not. However, Forbush is not sure the new policy is fair because of the high price of the water. We dont want to buy it either way. The price is too high, he said. Flint said the new policy will take board action to change but that Farmington officials will be allowed to present their case in the November meeting. Region Champs Business. Fcrmxriy cttiv chess to Csvla County School District have ( oc- ' ect.- Past other .projects. sev- cult kind and was willing to talk on this taboo, yet popular subj- ? CDBG. funds were awarded Roy high schools. Heikkila said he has. had eral close encounters of an : nance . Heikkila, a Layton resident, is pastor of the Calvary Chapel Church in Ogden. He also is the director of the New Life Bible Academy, a traveling interdenominational Bible class serving Davis, Layton, Clearfield and B. Gerlach made the proposal in an August COG meeting. years ago. stances. We will see servative, LAYTON Davis County of--, ficials will seek the support of the state in implementing a proposal to place next years federal Community Development Block: Grant funds into a loan program for county-wid- e projects. Representatives of the Davis County Council of Governments .and the county, commission will jmeet with the director of the iUtah Department of Community and Economic Development on Nov. 3at 1:30 p.m. in the icommHsion chambers of the county Courthouse. ,! Sunset Mayor and COG Chairman Norm Sant told the COG representatives last week that they need to get moving on the program now; to have it ready fqr next spring when, funds become available. He said attempts to get the Wasatch Front Regional Council to act as a sponsor have been Unsuccessful he claims, V, BARRY KAWA tram demons exist outside the imagination, FARMINGTON If not for a recent Weber Basin Water Conservancy District rule change allowing a city to lease more than its yearly allotment of water, Farmington City would be up Rudd Creek without a paddle. The May mudslide down Rudd Creek wiped out one of the citys sources of water and forced an overusuage of the yearly 501 acre feet of Weber Basin water alloted to the city. City Manager Max Forbush told the City Council last week that Farmington is currently about 200 acres in excess of their year-- ; ly contract with Weber Basin. At a lease price of $175 per acre foot, this amounts to about $30,000 through the month of: October. The city pays about $55 an acre foot on the existing contract that was negotiated 0 X) last fames played 1C , |