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Show Sheriff promotes captains to chief deputy positions has lost 14 people last year across the board because of budget cuts. That means fewer people, all doing , -more work. .- Sheriff Jones also pointed out that the new jail complex will re- -quire hiring some 60 new employees. The normal personnel count at the department is 43, At present, that number is down to only 34. The plan for the new jail calls for .. . " about 101 employees. Right now., the department is analyzing each station and how it will be manned to . achieve the most efficient opera- tion. ; . Sheriff Jones also believes 4hat, filling the new positions may be difficult. While there are lots of applications, ap-plications, after testing, background . searches, and psychological testing, : ' only one in about five is suitable for 4 the Davis County Sheriffs Depart- . mcnt. Sheriff Jones attributes much of the department's success to their screening and standards. " By CHERIE HUBER Davis County Sheriff Harry V. Jones has announced a reorganization reorganiza-tion of the sheriffs department. The sheriff will remain the overall administrator ad-ministrator of the department and under the, new organization, two other members of the department will serve as chief deputies. "The sheriffs department is a complex system including justice services, investigations, dispatch, emergency services and corrections. correc-tions. It is so complex and there are so many demands that one man can't keep track of it all," said Sheriff Jones, who was chief deputy for eight years, himself. Rather than bring in a new chief deputy from Outside the organization, organiza-tion, he decided to promote two men from within the organization to the chief deputy positions. Under the new organization plan, one chief deputy will be over all operations while the other chief deputy will be over administrative services. Under the new plan, K. D. Simpson Simp-son will be operations chief deputy. He will be directly responsible for all medical and emergency operations opera-tions and the coordination of all volunteer organizations including search and rescue; mounted posse and reserves. As operations chief deputy he will be continually matching mat-ching resource with the changing needs in the county so . that the department can provide the most service to the county fcr the least expense. - The new administrative chief deputy is Bud E. Cox. His duties will include keeping track of the resources of the department and the expenditures. He will also maintain the department budget and handle administrative services. Through the change, the administrative ad-ministrative department has been discontinued as a division and all the operations and personnel will come under the administrative chief deputy. "There are now three line divisions divi-sions in the sheriffs department. The first is emergency services and enforcement which covers everything every-thing of an emergency nature, communications, paramedics, patrol, search and rescue and mounted posse. The second division will cover justice services and all civil procedures pro-cedures including court and warrants war-rants and detective work. The third division will be the jail and corrections. Each division will be under a captain. Lt. Colin Hart has been promoted to captain over the emergency services and enforcement en-forcement division. He will take that post after he returns from the FBI National academy in Quantico, Va., where he graduates in June. Due ttfthe construction of the justice complex over, the next 18 months to two years, one captain, J. R. Hunt, has been assigned to the protection as justice complex officer. offi-cer. He is assigned -exclusively to that detail on a full time commitment. commit-ment. Two lieutenants will also be promoted, one to the justice branch and one to emergency services to fill vacancies created bye promotions. promo-tions. The promotions will occur in the next two weeks. Sheriff Jones said he feels the more corporate organization pattern of the sheriffs department will save, dollars. They will now be able to shift people and responsibilities to cover areas as needed. "Tiie bucks are drying up," Sheriff Jones said. The department Outbreak of measles avoided . B v JAMS STUART FARMINGTON-During the re-cent re-cent out-break of measles in Utah, there has only been one confirmed, case in Davis County. Health Officials Offi-cials conducted two weeks of inten- " sive interrogatic is. Every individual in-dividual exposed to the measles had to be tracked down and contacted. ; According to Dixie Peck of the Davis County Health Department, "The first measles case was reported in Emery County and was , determined to have been brought in by a Californian." Since then, there I have been 23 confirmed cases in 1 Emery County, 49 in Carbon, 24 in . Salt Lake, four in Utah County and ' one each in Tooele, Weber and' Davis. Measles is an acute contagious viral disease marked by an eruption of distinct red circular spots. It begins with a fever, runny nose, sore throat and eyes and a cough. After, three to four days a rash begins to spread over; the body, After another three days, the rash and symptoms begin to subside. ; High risk individuals are children over 12 months who have not been vaccinated and people who received vaccinations before 1970. Im- munization levels for preschool ' ; children have been low in the past ' few years. In an effort to stem this and future, outbreaks, it is important for people to be immunized. Those who were vaccinated prior to 1970 v should consider a repeat shot |