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Show (fi! L I Volume Eighty-Seven A seagull glides alcrj Wiih one dissent By a vote of four to one, the Springville City Council Tuesday night adopted a proposal to raise the speed limits five to 10 miles-per-hour on several of the city's main streets. f The proposal was introduced by Police Chief Leland Bowers, who recognized the controversy which will surround the change. "I recognize that there will be some very angry people, but my conscience says we are not facilitating the movement of traffic through town," he said.' According to a letter submitted by Bowers to the council, the following changes will be made: . -..400 East from 400 South the Highway 89" will be raised to 35 mph. - Canyon Road ran. the east city liniits to 400 South will be raised to 35 mph. - - 400 South from 1300 East to the west city limits will be raised to 35 mph. - Center Street from the east city limits to the west city limits will be raised to 35 mph. - 200 North from 1170 East to Main Street will be raised to 30 mph. - 400 North from 88 East to Main Street will be raised to 30 mph. Councilwoman Delora Bertelsen cast the only "nay" vote, saying she felt Springville's new city mark, ! City adopts Springville has a new logo, or mark as it's properly called. The city council gave its approval Tuesday night to a design submitted by Cal Jolley of Springville, which shows the front of the Springville Museum of Art half painted by a large brush, encircled en-circled by a red ring and the words "ART CITY, SPRINGVILLE, UTAH." The design was the recommendation of a selection committee, which was headed by Police Chief Leland Bowers and Museum Director Vern Swanson. It was one of about 18 designs submitted to the committee. The other designs were passed around to the council during the meeting. : The committee originally narrowed their choices to three submissions. The other two, those of Barbara Morandi and Annette Holm, both of Springville, 1 - plll . ."' ' .0 ;X if 111 t -is: , ; - J: i i ' siTt- i x. ' L . 1 ile V as?tcb u :air.$ r.esr J"; t ' those living on the affected streets needed to be consulted before the change was made. She said she felt that every mother who lives along the affected af-fected streets ought to be spoken with if necessary before the limits are raised. In his letter to the council, Bowers wrote, "Changing these speed limits has not been done lightly, it has been done with a great amount of foresight and deep consideration. The traffic engineering studies have shown that the present speed limits are being almost totally ignored. I feel that raising the speed limits is in the best interest of both the city and the citizens at large." ; Bertelsen objected earlier in the .meeUngUo Bower's apparent line of reasoning. "Just because they're breaking the limit, do we validate that by raising the limit?" The police chief cited a study conducted con-ducted state engineers which indicated the limits ought to be raised to 30 and 35 miles-per-hour, the speed at which 85 percent of sampled cars were travelling on the effected roads. Bowers said he believed the 85 percent per-cent criterion to be a valid rule to determine the proper speed limit, adding that the state engineers would designed by Cat Jolley. new symbol were recognized as runners-up and will be given $25 prizes for their efforts. Mr. Jolley will receive a $100 prize for his winning entry. The design will now be simplified slightly and printing estimates for the multi-colored mark will be sought in preparation for the symbol's use on city signs and vehicles. Also at the Tuesday council meeting, submissions for the city's industrial park water-lift building landscaping and sign were shown to the council. Various parts of three designs were accepted by the council, with the largest share of the $100 prize and first place honors going to Cal Jolley of Springville, who also designed the winning mark. Second prizes and $25 prizes were awarded to Herbert McLean and Kent Mueller. 1 ' ( ? " be willing to return to Springville for further tests to back their figures. "All I'm suggesting is that we increase the speed limits to the speed that most people are travelling," he said. Bowers' proposal received vocal support before the vote from several council members. "Some of the collector streets need to have higher limits," said Councilman Edward Murdock. Councilman Dean Allan, who it was indicated had ridden with Bowers to look over the roads, said "If (the effected ef-fected roads are) monitored by the police, we shouldn't have anything different than we do now." -'New logo In other action, the council approved a new city mark, which was chosen by a committee under the direction of! Bowers and Vern Swanson, director of the Springville Museum of Art. (see story on this page.) Bond ordinance The council also adopted an ordinance or-dinance requiring a bond or deposit of $10 per front foot for construction on city lots. According to the City Attorney Harold Mitchell, the ordinance was proposed in response to broken sidewalks and poor sewer connections left by developers in the city. The new law requires that the bond be held by the city until all inspections of the building site are completed. Flooded basements The council heard complaints from Art and Darrell Tucker of Springville, who said water from a nearby field was flooding the basements of their homes in the area of 550 N. 150 East. The suspect drainage system, it was concluded, was installed before any city ordinances existed concerning such drainage, and such systems are not city property or liability. Retaining Wall Kurt Williams, owner of an apartment apart-ment complex at 210 E. 300 South, petitioned the council to allow him to build a retaining wall in front of the property in the 12-inch area next to the sidewalk which is city-owned. Concern was expressed by Murdock that the wall would become a legal liability and might be the cause of a law suit, should someone have an accident because of it. Williams has already built a large portion of the two-foot wall from railroad ties spiked together. He asked the council, in the interest of beautification and not pulling up the work already done, if he could build the wall. With the conditions that the wall may be removed at any time in the future, the council allowed the request. Murdock dissented on the vote and Bertelsen abstained. Tax dropped Acting on the advice of Mitchell, the council voted to drop the city franchise tax on equipment owned by Mountain Bell Telephone. The company won a suit against such a tax in Salt Lake City earlier. City telephone taxes now will be assessed to the company only on the basis of telephone service and not the equipment. The council decided to investigate the causes of the city pool's deterioration. Murdock said some of the large sheets of metal siding are buckled or coming loose from the building. Some questions were raised about the correctness of the four-year-old building's engineering. Other action of the council was as follows: - Councilman Max Knight expressed appreciation to the council for their love and support of him during the time after his wife's recent passing. - Business licenses were granted to David Stewart to operate a bookstore at 278 S. Main St. and K. B. Taylor to operate a fabric store at 945 N. Main St. ) V Wet and grey weather failed to stop the Springville High dependence Day ' School Band from making their appearance in the In- Qte fit Cw3 lp By Franklin Nielsen Blaming irresponsible farmers for their plight, a large group of citizens banded together expecting action by city fathers. At Tuesday's Mapleton Council meeting. One citizen said he spent 164 hours cleaning drain ditches with a back hoe last year and hauled in excess soil to raise the level of his field three feet, but the water is now standing like a lake over his property. Many reported flooded basements while others pleaded for relief from having to wade through stagnant water to tend their animals. Another citizen said he had a pump in his basement with a capacity to pump 35 gallons per minute. The inflow of water recently exceeded pump capacity and filled his basement. With the help of pumping trucks, 80,000 gallons of water was pumped from his basement one night and another 80,000 gallons was pumped the following morning. Clyde Larsen, chairman of Mapleton Drainage Committee, established in August 1980, furnished a report to the council listing seven recommendations that should be used to help solve water drainage problems. The report called for establishment of a permanent drainage committee consisting of representatives from Mapleton Irrigation Company, Mapleton City, East Bench Canal Company and a citizen representative selected by these three entities. Water damage has been wide spread Fireworks rising out of Provo's Kiwanis Park burst next largest in the to BYU's Kimball tower. The display was one of the Uteres A8io0ltW Price: 30f Banner design by Rodd C. Wagner EDS 08 If 1? nl 0li13ii" and serious this year, the Larsen report indicated. The damage would have been much worse, however, without the cooperation between the city and the Mapleton Irrigation Company in the spring and fall of 1981 in cleaning drainage ditches, the report continued. There is a definite correlation between bet-ween the winter snow pack in the mountains and the level of the water table in the Mapleton Basin. The report listed water level readings in several test wells showing this correlation. It may be more practical to practice water application restraint in the wet Valfek announces strong 4fh quarter Record sales of $9.6 million -- up 31 percent from last year were logged by Valtek for its fourth quarter ended April 30, 1982, President L. Bates reported last week. The Springville-based automatic control valve manufacturer also reported incoming orders of $7. 1 million for the best quarter of the year, and the highest operating income and earnings before taxes posted since the fourth quarter of fiscal 1978 - a figure that '" I ?j' ' prr M H A f I I Number Twenty-Seven and Crai C'cssover parade Monday morning in Provo. years than it is to design a drainage system large enough to. drain the land adequately during these years. The most desirable treatments are those that can be implemented with the least cost for the benefit achieved, the report concluded. The council thanked Larsen for the committee's report and said that it is the best report submitted to date. Following departure of the citizens, council voted to furnish a representative represen-tative for committee recommended by the Larsen report but did not make an appointment nor any other committment com-mittment at this time. allowed the company to record net earnings of $175,173 (or $.08 per share), after expending a $1 million settlement of lawsuits that have engaged the company for the past five years. Net sales for the fiscal year stood at $25.9 million, a 23 percent hike from last year's $21 million, giving the firm an unbroken record of sales growth since its founding 16 years ago. Incoming orders of $25.2 million, vs. $22.9 million Continued on Page 8 country, V |