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Show I t I. f.ZZH. STATS FP.5SS UTAH 407 CAST 300 SO. salt lax: c ci'iY, u:a:i r r a uu V idew ,rf . ,& I 0 sv 4a.K;v'- u r - lUjCl IWGS Mr. By GARY R. BLCDGLTT Twelve new mayors sume of them new to politics, some of them veteran pol naans -- will Davis County a ne.v look beginning this year give government BOUNTIFUL, Sunset, North Salt Lake, South Weber and Fruit Heights will see former city councilmen take the mayor's seat, while lay-toClinton, West Point and Syracuse will all have incum bent mayors installed for r another term four-yea- gj- Ksmm(c frAjfcXfavA- j3. -- 0v ,azG. The whole place was lit up orange because the living room and kitchen were going up in flames, said Stephen Colelia, one of the two airmen who are credited with saving the lives of three tiny children hr j Vjj were living in caught fire Wednesday night Also taking part m the daring rescue was Paul F. Trotier o V THE airmen were alerted to the fire when 14 year old Barbara Jackson pounded on the door and said that the trailer where she was babysitting was on fire, and that the children were still inside Not even stopping for shoes, the two men ran across the street and into the burning trailer THE SMOKE was so thick that all I could think of was Dick Van Dykes fire warning and dropped to the floor," said Paul Trotier. "We crawled through the living room towards the back because that where we figured rhe bedrooms would be, then we heard a child is crying and crawled faster We found the first child on a bed looking at us, the four year old was in the bathroom crying and Steve gave him a shove towaids the back door We didnt know then that there were any more childien ts- '- - , rh ' u i crawl back the way we had come because the fire was so intense so we headed towards n the back emergency door When we got nearly to the door, we saw the third child and grabbed it and ran It was all so confusing we didnt have time to think what to do, we just did what we did by instinct THE MEN took the children back to their trailer and wrapped them in blankets until the paramedics had a chance to check them over Clearfield Fire Chief Elmo Hodson said that If the young airmen hadnt risked their lives to get those children out of the trailer, the children wouldnt be alive today. That leaves seven of the iXv.v.Vv. flames and already a total loss They fought the blaze for more than 15 minutes before it could be brought under control Metal window and door frames were completely window e w.tli yui ti.e of the next door was stained and warped from the heat The mobile home was completely gutted trailer TRAILER owner Jack Krusell said that the damage was $9300 and was covered by insurance, but the personal effects of Mrs Liz Velasquez and all the childrens Christmas were gone and that she did not have personal effects insurance He had arranged for her and the children to live in another of his rental trailers, because "She has nothing and no place to go The children, ages 1, 2 and 4 years were in good condition after their narrow escape. Neither of the airmen were injured, but Steve Colelia in a lot of smoke and reported to sick call Thursday morning to be checked over THE FIRE department, which arrived within five minutes of the call, found the trailer completely engulfed in THE FIRE apparently ri8 4 if 5 ut S By GARY R. BLODGETT Layton City Councilman Robert Austad is hopping mad about the city council meetings being held recently IVE complained before about the process of calling these special meet ings, but nothing has been done about it, said Councilman Austad The mayor just keeps calling meetings and never lPts anyone else but the council members know what is being done Councilman Austad said the council met three times in special meetings last week with not one of the meetings held on the regularly scheduled date and time, nor was there public notice of any of the meetings "YES, IM hopping mad about the whole thing, Austad said. "We (mayor and city councilmen) are elected to represent the city but holding special meetings without public notice is not the proper way to do anything He said the meetings held last week dealt with employees salaries and the noise problems concerning the city. The latter refers to jet noise from planes taking off at Hill Air Force Base. REGARDING the meeting held to hear complaints from employees about their salaries, Councilman Austad said the public was misled about the salary increases approved by the council earlier this month "Not all of the employees received salary increases as the public was led to believe, said Councilman Austad one with Four employees 17 years service with the city were not granted salary increases with the other employees HE SAID 25 to 30 employees attended the special session of the council last week The council agreed to have the employees go through their department heads (sujtervisors) to iron out their problems If this is not satisfactory, the employees were to take their grievances to a committee of the council with the entire council being the last body to hear the complaints, man Austad The two voung men are as- i L ti signed i.j toe Jodin i Fighter Wing at Hill Air Force Base since last Apri. and have lived in ClearfieU since July. L STEPHEN Colelia and his wife Janice are from Exeter, New Hampshire where they both graduated from Exeter High School. Stephen is the son of Salvatore and Nora E wu y L said Council- HE SAID that Councilman Kent Randall and Lynn Wood, along with Mayor Lewis B Shields, would be the grievance committee for the council. Mayor Shields, however, takes a different view of the special meetings WE HAVE to have these executive meetings meet- - ings in addition to regularly mayor said "Meetings held last week were to (1) hear a report from City Judge Douglas Cornaby about the new judicial court system which becomes effective July 1, (2) to hear a report of the noise problems created by jet aircraft taking off from Hill Air Force Base, and (3) to discuss complaints by employees concerning the recent salary program THE MAYOR emphasized no council decisions were made at the meetings and that the meetings were held only after reasonable notice had been given to the council members "According to legal advice that I get, it is not necessary to give ten days notice (as Councilman Austad charges) but only that reasonable notice of the meeting be given We have adhered to this in each instance, said Mayor Shields that absolutely HE ADDED that will continue to have these executive sessions whenever necessary but that the meetings will be open to the public and the press and that there will be no official council action taken on any matters 1 munities Trotier from and is Walter W Bountifuls former mavor, Morris F. Swapp, has left of fire af'er 16 years, the last 12 as mayor Chicago Heights, 'he son By GARY R. BLODGETT Sunset and Clinton may be nearing an agreement for better control of storm drainage problems between the two cities CLINTON Mayor Gary Bush said city officials of the two communities have been discussing a proposed master storm drainage system which would include construction of holding ponds and upgrading of the dram pipes progress being made between the two cities, said Mayor Bush This is a program that should have been started several years ago HE PRAISED the efforts and cooperation of mayor-elec- t Norm Sant of Sunset to get the storm drainage program underway and paid tribute to the County Commission for its part in aiding in. the cost of the pioposed project Davis County has levied a tax during the past year, the revenues of which will be used to support storm two-mi- ll programs drainage throughout the county STORM RUNOFF has been a major problem to Clinton for several years because of the flow of drainage water west from Syracuse into Clinton, it was explained This project will include four holding ponds m Clinton tin is HI of p'dlmas and Eva D B r Pa i. nas He lit) tile rtJOUitl AUitiisHip H.fh School and is one of 13 children THE TWO young men met training at Lackland Air Force Base, San Antonio Tex , went through tech school together at Wichita Palis, Tex and received their in basic first assignment together at Hill. Fach is 20 years old ma Davis MEANWHILE, County hopes to put this project and three other storm drainage projects up for bid all of which next month will be financed m part by the special two mill county storm drain tax levy The other three proposed projects include Snow Creek and Holmes Creek in Layton, and the 400 North 200 West culvert project in Bountiful ITS COST estimates four tentatively approved projects are being gathered by the county storm drainage committee, according to County Commissioner Glen W Flint night parking law to avoid receiving citations. THE parking regulation is in effect from Nov. I to March 1 every year The ordinance provides that off-stre- A similar rt cv in isel a iu Fdiifii.gton as mayors John Nicholas and LeGrande Gregory, respectively, also have retired from public office after serving more than a decade North Salt Lakes new mayor, Robert Palmquist, is getting his first look at the citys top spot, but hes an experienced politician having Mi served on the city council MAYOR NEIL K Noorda was sworn into office as mayor of Fruit Heights in early December to replace former mayor, Lon Christensen, who was transferred to Iran Noorda was previously a city councilman Rex Bouchard of South Weber will be installed mavor of that city on Jan 10 The former uty councilman will succeed John Combe who decided not to seek office again CLINTON Mayor Gary Bush was the only mayor to be elected unopposed Hell serve a second four year term mayor were Laytons Lewis G Shields, who defeated city councilman Robert Austad, Loy F Blake of West Point, and Boyd Thurgood of Syracuse FORMER mayors, O Ross of Clearfield and Donald F DeWitt of East Layton were upset in the final Sanders election They will be replaced by Donald Townley in CFar'ip'd and H Veer Forces in East Layton In West Bountiful, longtime political rival and former mayor. Arch Widdison, was unseated in the primary election and will be succeeded H Secrist, a newcomer to politics OTHER newcomers that gamed mayoralty posts were Gar T Elison who will take over as mavor in Kavsville after defeating councilman Gerald Punfv, and in Woods Cross, Lawrence W Urry will be the new mavor after beating a veteran councilman for the post In Kavswlle, incumbent m 'yor, Glen Cundall, did not seek and in Woods Cross, Mayor LeRoy Parkin did not run FARMINGTON mayor, Gordon Van Fleet is new head of government in Farmington succeeding longtime mavor, LeGiande Gregory Mr Van Fleet, who was s vorn into office Thursday, probably is the countys eldest mayor Centerville mayor, Golden Allen, is a veteran politician, but it must have been a major upset when the write-i- n candidate was declared the winner in an election which was so close that a recount of votes had to be taken He will succeed Stanley Green who did not seek L MOST OF the newly elected mayors were sworn into off.ee MrmJny as g ' cr ' t nv state law However, Monday also being declared a legal holiday, some mayors took the oath on Tuesday while still others will not officially take office until they are sworn in at the citys first regular city council meeting All of the mayors will now represent their communities on the Davis County Council of Governments (COG) earing Agreement drainage r On H5 Li MEANWHILE, the 400 North 200 West project in Bountiful has run into a temporary snag as Bountiful City officials attempt to gam easement rights to property involved m the project Bountiful City Engineer Jack Balling said three of the four property owners involved have signed easement rights-of-wabut the fourth resident has not yet signed HOWEVER, engineering of the Bountiful project has been completed and work is exacted to begin soon, he said Davis County will pay only half the cost of construction done on the Bountiful project because the state will pay the other half since the culvert and storm drainage system is roads under state-owne- IN THE d future, commis sioners said, the county will hire a person to act as a negotiator for obtaining rights-o- f way for all proposed storm drainage projects of which the county is to be involved Flint said Commissioner the county has the cooperation of each city involved in the four proposed projects and that all four projects are nearly ready for construction of the He said $500,000 collected last ear was not spent and an additional $500,000 is expected to be collected through the tax levy this year, making a total of about $1 million to be funded by the county for storm drainage projects COMMISSIONER Flint explained that funding was held up this year because mayors through the Council of Governments (COG) were still debating a resolution which would set up storm drainage procedures and of methods determining priority projects Funding of the four proposed projects will cost only about $500,000, thus leaving a similar amount of money to be used on other pnority projects, the commissioner explained fteniglit Parking Mayor Glen W. Cundall of Kaysville is asking residents to strictly observe the over- com is one of NessGoielld and six children Paul three Bountiful, Far- it will mington and Sunset be the first change of scenery among the mayors in a decade or more StOiTal Im excited about the scheduled council meetings but these executive sessions are not closed to the public nor are they held behind locked doors, the Van FOR AT least si&jf tr-o-k irinn ' started in the television set Miss Jackson told the airmen that The TV sparked and then the curtains caught fire and the whole thing rtarted to go up real fast 16 Davis County communities with mayors that will be newcomers to politics Three children were saved from this mobile home w, u h was gutted by flames last weekend in Clearfield. Two Hill Air Force Base airmen ran to the scene, crawled into the inferno, and rescued the youngsters Baby sitter, neaily overcome with smok ran next door to call for help AFTEnr.lATIl OF FIRE tJ rr o r i Ilf O v ..'.yXt Li LI 1 I -- 5 C"3 J PO KJ all cars or vehicles of any kind shall be off the city streets between the hours of 2 a m and 5am to facilitate snow removal DURING THE period of 1 to Dec 15 there were 104 tickets issued to offenders of the ordinance np Dec Layton Poises Cracking Emm On Youth Smoking Layton police will begin cracking down on youths who are in possession of or smoking tobacco illegally WE DONT intend to go out and round up juvenile offenders of the tobacco law but we do intend to make arrests as the situations arise, said Chief LaMar Chard He explained that new legislation has now made it possible to treat illegal possession of tobacco and curfew violations the same as traffic tickets be cited and pay a fine just like a tratfic offender THE CHIEF explained that juveniles caught smoking or in possession of tobacco can be cited and be fined for the offense much the same as a HE NOTED, however, that when a juvenile appears to pay a fine, he must be accompanied by a parent or have a parents statement "This same procedure will be followed and the $10 fine imposed no matter how manv times a youth is charged with person getting ticket a speeding We dont have to run them through the courts as we did before when smoking was treated like a burglary, said the chief Now a vouth can $100 Park Fee a program Following adopted by some other Davis County communities, Clinton city has voted to impose a $100 "park development fee to be assessed to each new unit of residential construction CITY Manager Larry Smith said the new park fee will be assessed along with other development fees already required by Clinton and new home builder, will be required to pay the fee at the time they obtain a permit for new construction He noted that the new park development fee, along with other assessments, will mean that new home builders in the city will be paying about $1,300 in fees for each new home HOWEVER, HE explained, other communities charge a park development fee as a means of collecting money for purchase of new pain sites and development of recreation parks Otherwise, developers could come into the city and develop large subdivisions without providing any assistance for these people to share in the cost of parks and recreation, he said, grb an illegal possession oi smoking charge, said Chief Chard HE SAID that youths and parents are being alerted of the change in enforcement of the tobacco law through the schools grb THE WEEKLY REFLEX 197 "B North Mein St. Layton Phone 376-913- 3 Published Weekly by CLIPPER PUBLISHING CO. 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