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Show s Blackburn Removal Proposal Dead, Mayor Plans Suit CHERYL ARCHIBALD misdemeanors or malfeasance in office," the motion says. A feasance is violation of honor, duty, and responsibility, or an action that is illegal and tions and is without merit. After an investigation, the CENTERVILLE A petition county attorneys office concludwhich demanded the removal of ed that the petition contains no Centerville mayor, Neil Blackcriminal misconduct allegations burn, has been found without except' one, the sale of a merit and will not be considered yehicle. To that accusafurther. tion the city presented newspaCounty Attorney, Loren Marper advertisements showing tin, requested that the second juproper announcement that the dicial court in Farmington car was for sale. Copies of bids dismiss a petition from 18 Cenwere also presented. There apterville citizens requesting re- pears to be no criminal conduct moval of Blackburn from office. associated with the sale of the Grounds for the the petitions 1974 Pontiac automobile, the dismissal are that the petition is motion to dismiss reads. not in compliance with the reA city official can only be removed for high crimes and quirement of prerequisite condi Review Staff city-own- Im ready to go to court to seek an injunction to prevent wild and baseless accusations, he said. He named Robert McClain as source of most of those accusations. Ive turned the cheek long enough, its gone beyond the citizens rights to voice k ed A discretionary action taken by the mayor which is disagreeable to some citizens is not sufficient cause to take court action for re- But r Hardi- rector Randy Randall said that the debris basin was built where it was because the canyon walls were too steep to enable machinery access to the basin for cleaning. Citizens also accused the city of selling the debris basin land Citizens signing the petition moval of an elected official. Blackburns decision to named Letters of advertisement were a debris basin below the build presented to the attorney which canyon rather than at the mouth had been sent to newspapers. of the canyon as one main issue. Blackburn, in response to the They felt Blackburn was neglaccusations in the petition, said igent in his duty to protect he will be filing his own lawsuit. ' ! county commissioner old Tippets and public works Sswng) Bounti jHj to the county for less than what it could have to private home builders. Blackburn said the city had originally tried that but the highest bid per acre was $40,000. The county paid Centerville more for the land than any other -' piece of land acquired for a de!;; bris basin. Tippets said. Other allegations were that Blackburn sold city vehicles without public advertising and that long time employees had been dismissed without cause. A total, of 10 allegations were named in the recall petition. Blackburn will present refuting evidence to the petitions allegations to the signers of the petition. He said he felt that some were unaware of the petition accompanying demand for Blackburns removal and would want to have their names removed, i QiftGP vSTI3Z2D Wednesday, May 30, 1984 Vol. 4 No. 21 plaints of a noise problem in Davis County. He said there has been no change in flight patterns from the airport in the last seven years and complaints of excess noise have been few. We were unaware that was an impacted area, Miller said. We didnt expect it to be and our studies didnt show it would be. Wilson also claims many North County residents are imr pacted from the amount of noise and arrivcoming from als at Hill Air Force Base. He said he will try to arrange a meeting with base officials to BARRY KAWA Review Staff Aircraft noise for Davis County residents has always been one of those necessary evils of life with Hill Air Force Base in the north and the Salt Lake International Airport to the south. But several residents are banding together to form a citizens group protesting aircraft noise in Davis County in a project they have dubbed SUAN (stop unnecessary aircraft noise). West Kaysville residents Larry Wilson and Gibbs Smith met with Davis County' and Salt Lake Airport Authority officials last week to discuss their concerns over a reported increase in airplane traffic over the county. , take-of- fs discuss the problem. But Hill Field public relations director Lt. Col. Joseph Winsett says while they would meet with Wilson claimed departing representatives of project. SUAN, planes from Salt Lake Internathey are currently operating tional create excessive and conwithin Air Force and Federal stant noise in some Davis Aviation Agency guidelines. On the whole issue of noise County communities pt various intervals during the day. He recpollution, Hill Air Force Base ommended departing planes take has a very exacting noise abateoff at steeper angles to gain altiment program which is strictly tude faster as they fly over Davis enforced on all of the flying orCounty. ganizations operating out of the Wilson said his project SUAN base, Winsett said. group is still forming, but has Despite the denial by Salt Lake several county residents interestAirport officials on a change of ed in the continuing noise problem from the Salt Lake Airport flight patterns, several county and military aircraft stationed at residents claim to have noticed an increase in the last few Hill Air Force Base. WilI think what we are hoping is months. Bountiful resident said hes been livlard Jorgensen to generate enough interest so in the same area for 30 years that we can get some awareness ing and has noticed an annoying built up of the problem, he amount of aircraft noise that he said. And try to work with the hasnt heard before. we see can what do to agencies to make the whole thing more They didnt use to fly over liveable and tone it down a little us, he said. Were partly up on bit. the mountain and its the first Lew Miller, director of the Salt time I can recall hearing that Lake Airport Authority, exnoise. It just hasnt been as nice as it used to be. pressed surprise at the com j I President Troy Andreasen and Senior Class President Dan Lewis lead Woods Gross High Schools Class of 84 in moving their tassel from the STUDENTBODY 1,1 Citys New Trash System Questioned lon plastic containers on wheels eliminating the need for trash, BOUNTIFUL Several citi- bags. City Manager Tom Hardy zens presented their reservations said that employee injuries had about the citys proposed auto- become a problem with the old matic trash collection system trucks. The trucks are old and last week at a budget hearing. need replacing. Demonstrations comparing the Most residents felt the large g old, manned, opera- garbage cans would be difficult tion with a new, automated to get to the street when there is pick-u- p method preceded the snow on the driveway, Some felt : hearing. the elderly may have trouble With1 the automated system, moving them at all. Dick Duncan, head of Bounti residents would receive 100 gal CHERYL ARCHIBALD Review Staff . side-loadin- fuls street department, said each case would be dealt with indi- vidually for those who were unable to push the cans. The automatic arm can lift d cans when set out the night before a snow storm. In the winter, he said, when there is more than two inches of snowfall, he delays his trucks until roads are cleared. The delays would allow people time to get the cans to the street in ,the morning. half-burie- Stroller Makes Convenient Home for Bee Swarm CHERYL ARCHIBALD for a royal home for their Review Staff queen. i A large J BOUNTIFUL swarm of about 70,000 bees buzzed down 800 North, Bountiful last week searching They found a perfect place, to them, in Tiffany and Chel-is- e Vandergraffs stroller. But the girls mother Vickie, who is allergic to bees and keeps a vial of anti-bee-sti- ng serum with her at all times, booted . them out. Mrs. Vandergraaff called in bee expert and hobbiest Bud Thompson,: who protected himself with a veil and gloves and shook the stroller until the swarm fell into a' box. Theyll stay there as long as , ; the queens in there, he said. Thompson is a postal employee at the Salt Lake City International Airport but he picks up bees for people in his spare time. These bees are a combination of Caucasian and Italian bees, he explained. The swarm was a little bigger than most. Thompson has taken swarms from chimneys and even off the back of a green Volkswagon. He gets about 10 calls a year and charges nothing. He just keeps the bees. While waiting with the box for a to see if the bees would If you stay, he explained, were to lift the lid right now you would probably see. the bees standing almost on their heads, fanning with their Thompson said that is how they call to let the others know where the new hiveris. The bees had left an old hive following a queen bee. V May and June are the months when bees are likely to leave a hive to make another, Thompson said. This year, the bees are two to three weeks later than usual. Thompsons name is listed with the police department and sheriffs department. Whenever a swarm picks someones personal property, like the inside of a wall, the police department can refer the troubled resident to Thompson. Lots of guys like fishing or hunting or bowling. I dont go for that, I just like the bees. So thats what I do. ' When a bee is headed right for you, just walk into the shade. As a rule, Thompson advised, the bee will not sting you in the shade. ; : V Vs V J k SWARMING BEES may be interesting but not real convenient when its in Tiffany and Chelise Vander-grafbaby stroller (above). With the help of Bud Thompson (left) the bees were safely removed. fs v "A I '& f. , , , Cost of the system was que tioned, and City Manager Tom-- ; Hardy explained that $300,00(T has been set aside for the fees would be raised b$K 50 cents a month to pay for thj e trucks;-Garbag- cans. The possibility of mechanical' failures with the automated-trucwas another-concer- n. k BujC Duncan explained that the new!; trucks have fewer electrical de-- ;' vices to break than the old-trucks. , Use Caution: To View Sun Eclipse BARRY KAWA "a'' Review Staff SALT LAKE CITY ,Af- less the than spectacular though annular eclipse visible in th southeast U.S. and parts of Mex-- I ico, Utahns will be able to see a; partial solar eclipse this morn-- ; ; ; n8- .V - ' ", The moon will eclipse about-3percent of the sun over the; Lakeside area at 9:57 a.m. Von Del Chamberlain, director of the Hansen Planetari- um. rThe shadow of the moon; will appear on the sun at 8:53 a.m., reach maximum coverage" in Utah at 9:57 and leave the " ; sun by 11 a.m., he said. : . However, planetarium officials, warn the public to not risk blindness by looking directly at the sun. "Eye damage can occur during a solar eclipse because people want to see it and will risk looking directly at the sun, . ' Chamberlain said. . ; Telescopes with special filters will be set up along State Street in Salt Lake City near the Planetarium to view the rare occurence. Other safe ways to view the eclipse are with either a 14 shade welders glass, a solar filter made of aluminized glass or a ' simple, projection pinhole camera made from a cardboard qdx. The pinhole throws the image of the eclipse into the tyick of the box where it can be' viewed safely. 8 : wings. " Photo by Robert Regar- f- . the right to symbolize completion of 12 years of schooling. For more photographs see page 4A. ; left to MDT,-report- s ? r -- V i :;1 |