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Show Page Two - The Springville Herald - July 23, 1986 EDITORIAL Youth council needs help For several years Springville City has had an orgaized youth mayor and youth city council. It was formed to give the young people of the community an opportunity to learn the government process and as a tool for getting input into the city from students. Each year this council has grown and improved and become more involved in their duties. Members are selected through a process of their interest and applications and they serve for a year's time. This year the youth mayor, Gary Francis, is enthusiastic and wants the young people in our community to know that they can get things done through the council. He and the council are intent on getting more support from the students this year and getting more of them involved. The council is there to serve the youth and the council can, and will, propose pro-pose projects or ideas to the city council. Last year the youth took a petition to the city council and got the high school parking lot fixed. This was a problem that had been growing for years and had become a real mess. Because of the youth, it was repaired. They helped sponsor a Drug and Alcohol Awareness Day last year. Speakers were brought in and this timely subject discussed for interested parents and teens. The young people in our community are capable and intelligent. in-telligent. Their ideas need to be heard. This can be done through the youth council. Youth can do a lot to further progress pro-gress in our town and solve problems. The city council needs to work closely with the new youth council and listen to their ideas and opinions. They have just been sworn in and are enthusiastic and ready to work. The youth of Springville need to be aware of their council and what they can do for them. If they want to be heard they need to contact any member of the youth council, Mayor Gary Francis, or members, Mark Penrod, Paul Daybell, David Rowley and Clark Roundy. Carrie Measom and Heidi Groneman are the historian and recorder. The youth council is also involved in service activities. Their peers can help them with their projects. The young people in this community could accomplish a great deal through volunteer effort and service. We challenge the youth council to seek student support and do all they can to provide service opportunities for them. Industrial park head bridge repairs handled at city council meet The city council appointed Mayor . Ken Creer as head of the industrial -park last Tuesday night at the regular council meeting held at City Hall. In a surprise move after the controversy con-troversy concerning Ed Murdock and Grant Nielson, the city council named Mayor Creer executive director of the industrial park. The mayor said that he would work with present tenants of the park as a committee com-mittee to get other firms to come to the park. In other business Calvin Bird was granted a license to operate a preschool pre-school at 347 South Main. Floyd Stewart talked to the council and urged them to appoint Grant Nielson as director of the industrial park. Stewart talked to the council before it took action to appoint Mayor Creer. Monte Allman was granted a permit per-mit to install a septic tank on his property pro-perty in the west fields near 1-15. He assured the council that when the sewer becomes available in his area he will connect. Bids will be called for in September to construct the Hobble Creek bridge near 700 East street the city engineer Bob Gunnel reported to the council. He also said that construction must be completed before December 31 if the city is to get Federal Emergency Management Administration money. The bridge was taken out during the flood of three years ago. Gunnel also said that the bridge at 100 East and 100 South will have to be replaced. It was first thought that the present bridge could be jacked up, but on further investigation it (UPS 513-060) Published Weekly by Art City Publishing Co., Inc. 161 South Main Street Springville, Utah 84663 Phone 489-5651 Publisher Martin W. Conover Editor Pot Conover Managing Editor Betty Lou Bailey 'Entered as second class matter at the Post Office Springville, Utah 84663 under the Act of Congress, March 3, 1897. Subscriptions in Advance per year $12.00 Out of County Subscriptions per year $13.50 Per copy 30e. Delivered by carrier, per month $1.20 Member Utah Press Association Weekly Press Association National Newspaper Association was found that the support for the deck is the rock wall which exists on both sides of the creek at that point and is not strong enough to support the bridge or allow it to be jacked up. The council voted to accept the road and land which IPP is supposed to give to the city as part of the deal worked out to allow them to build their train yard here. Councilman Doug Strong presented a form he has worked out which employees requesting out of state travel should fill out for their department head. This will then be forwarded to the council for approval. ap-proval. Councilman Knight reported on the Ironton Hill lighting project and said that part of it has been turned on. Police report During the past week five runaways were reported to the police station. Most of those eventually even-tually returned home. Two DUI arrests were made this week. Roy Sorrells was stopped after his vehicle was observed weaving weav-ing back and forth. He failed three sobriety tests and was arrested. Also found in his. car was drug paraphernalia. parapher-nalia. Of the three passengers in his car, one juvenile girl was also arrested ar-rested and later released to the care of her family. Reed Nielson was driving under the influence when he was picked up for driving erradically. He was arrested ar-rested after it was determined that he was driving while under the influence. in-fluence. He had been driving without a valid driver's license. Candidate stops in Springville Attorney Dale Gardiner, who is running for Congress against Republican Howard Nielson, visited Springville Monday and talked with citizens about his background and reasons for running in this important impor-tant race. Gardiner, who is a two-term mayor of Riverton, grew up in that community on a farm and feels that he has the same values and interests as his opponent. He said, "He is just someone trying to help." He said that he feels there has been a deterioration in our standard of living and he wants to "do something rather than nothing." He supports Democratic trade principles prin-ciples and feels that we should treat trade partners as they treat us. He would support legislative incentives to keep investment capital at home. "Today most families are forced to have both spouses work," he said, "or one spouse has a part-time job to make ends meet. Utah County is hurting. We need to get our economy in order so that we can provide things for our children that they need." He went on to say that we need to get our federal finance house in order. We are spending 150 billion on interest every year. That is more than we spent on education, health or social programs. "We need to decide what we can pay for instead of paying interest." Dale Gardiner Public hearings in Waplcton Two public hearings were set for 7 p.m. August 5 in Mapleton. One is for a zone change request in the northwest nor-thwest section of the city from two and one half acre lots to one third acre lots. The area is between 1000 North and 1500 North at 700 West and was estimated to involve 45 to 50 lots. Officially the request is to change the zone from the A2 zone to an RA2 zone. A second public hearing will be held to consider deleting 1900 East Street north of 400 North. The hearing hear-ing will also include redesigning all the streets in the area from 400 North to 2000 North. PfOfeCt yourself! If you plan to harvest and transport firewood or other forest products from state, federal or private lands you must have "Proof-of-Ownership" in your possession. Dave Schen, spokesman for the Utah Division of State Lands and Forestry, says the requirement is part of the 1983 Forest Products Transportation Act which also applies ap-plies to other forms of native vegetation vegeta-tion such as cacti, flora, and shrubs not commonly thought of as forest products. "Proof-of-Ownership" is defined as possession of a contract, permit, bill-of-sale, cash register receipt, or letter from a private landowner which includes the following: date of sale, legal or other description of sale area, product and quantity purchased, pur-chased, species and purchaser's name and address. Schen says that if you purchase from the State, B.L.M., or U.S. Forest Service, you will receive the required permit along with information informa-tion on how to get to the sale area. However, if you purchase from a private landowner, documentation bearing the landowner's signature is required. If you buy from a retail firewood lot, you must request a dated sales receipt showing the name of the outlet and the product purchased. State and federal officers will be checking for permits throughout the summer and fall. If you have questions, ques-tions, call your local office of the State Division of State Lands & Forestry, Bureau of Land Management, Manage-ment, or the U.S. Forest Service. When swallows fly high it is an indication in-dication of good weather. The birds feed on gnats and flies, which are found farther from the ground when warm air rises. The rising air is generally a sign of good weather. Paper money in the U.S. in the size we know it was first issued in July, .1929. Dedication Dear Editor: Many years ago, I participated as an umpire in the junior baseball program pro-gram as an unpaid volunteer. I worked in this program for sixteen six-teen years, several of which were under the supervision of our current mayor, Kenneth 'Doc' Creer. On several occasions when Springville Spr-ingville was hosting a tournament the various area directors said that Springville could not host a tournament tourna-ment successfully with unpaid umpires, um-pires, then after having very successful suc-cessful tournaments, they came and City will get what tfaey Dear Editor: In response to Mayor Creer's letter, let-ter, I would like to give my total support sup-port to Council members Knight, Roundy, and Strong. I do not know Mr. Nielson, or Mr. Murdock personally, per-sonally, so this is not a letter for or against either of them. I support good business practices, and putting the Industrial Park Directorship into a volunteer status is anything but sound. We will get exactly what we pay for. If we want Citizen unhappy with city Dear Editor: I recently moved to Springville and unfortunately my first experience ex-perience with Springville City was much less than satisfactory. Two weeks after moving in, I returned home to find that my electricity elec-tricity had been turned off. I called the dispatcher who could find no reason why it had been turned off so he turned it back on. The following day I again returned home to find the power turned off. This was about 5 p.m. I immediately called the city and amidst much handwringing was told that nothing could be 'done about it until the next day. I next called the dispatcher who took my name and phone number and shortly called me back with the information in-formation that I would have to contact con-tact some woman at home who worked for the city. She wasn't home Candidot e upset over reassignment Citizens of Springville: I would like to state that on Thursday, Thurs-day, July 10, 1986, 1 was informed by the sheriff that I had been demoted from the position of detective and !was being reassigned to a weekend patrol position. ! It was my opinion even from the beginning when I filed as a candidate can-didate for the position of sheriff that I would be protected from this type of harassment as a candidate. I believe I have a right to participate in the political system without fear of reprisal. I feel that possibly my rights as a candidate and as a county employee have been unjustly violated. I am deeply concerned that my opponent would lower himself to this level to Reassignment lacked consideration Dear Editor: Integrity, thoughtfulness, careful consideration, wisdom - those are the qualities we look for in a public official, and that appear to be lacking lack-ing in Sheriff Dave Bateman's convenient con-venient "reassignment" of Scott Carter, who finds himself in the unenviable position of being both under the supervision of Bateman, as well as his political opponent. Mr. Carter works for the Utah County Sheriff's Office. He was in the Detective Division until recently, recent-ly, when Bateman assigned him to weekend patrol duties. That action just coincidentally hampers Mr. Carter's campaigning activities at a very critical time in the campaign. Surely there was no great urgency about Carter's reassignment. Cer Photo Valuable Coupon Wednesday 10 off Enlargements Valuable Coupon" Saturday Discs 2.99 CSV COMMENT PAGE more vital fhon pay apologized, and said they wished that alT tournaments under their supervision were handled as well. This points to the fact that dedication dedica-tion to what One is engaged in is much more important than whether he is paid for what he is doing. I for one think it important that we let a very dedicated and qualified individual in-dividual such as Mr. Grant Neilson serve as a replacement for Mr. Klauk, who did this for many years and certainly hot for financial gain. I also thought your sarcastic editorial of July 16, 1986, was in very a good director, pay a good salary, if we want an even better director, let's go find an experienced professional profes-sional that will command and earn an even better salary. Mayor Creer, when you say getting a volunteer director is "too good to be true", it certainly is just that. I would also say that I am in total support Of using volunteers, but only in the proper areas. We have an reaped the benefits of the many volunteer hours here in Springville, especially over the last 4 years. so I left a message with her husband to have her call me. A couple of hours passed and I again called and found her at home. Again, there was much handwringing and I was told that they had no choice but to turn off my power because a man from the Department of Housing and Urban Ur-ban Development, from which I am purchasing my home, had requested it (interpretation: when big brother snaps his fingers, we roll over and play dead). By this time I was getting quite angry because I had never received any warning that my power was going go-ing to be cut off. The woman finally agreed to turn my power back on. This was about 7:30 p.m. Finally, after about three or four more calls to and from the police dispatcher, the power was turned on at about 10:30 p.m. - after I had gone to bed. attempt to manipulate and control the outcome of the sheriff's race this year. The timing of these circumstances cir-cumstances certainly lends credence to the fact that it is politically motivated, having only six weeks left to the primary election. elec-tion. I had certainly hoped for simple fairness in being able to present myself to the voters of Utah County. I believe very strongly that with my experience, education and past successes, suc-cesses, I do have something to offer the community as sheriff of Utah County. I believe the sheriffs office desperately needs change. The sheriff's administrators out of fear of my idea's for change are attempting at-tempting to restrict my campaign of Carter tainly it could have waited until September, after the Primary Election Elec-tion which effectively decides the race. It certainly appears that the excuse given by Bateman is but a thin disguise for his apparent motive - raw political advantage. Will the County Commission's investigation in-vestigation prove us wrong? If not, a great deal of support for Bateman will evaporate. The Utah County Sheriff, of all officials of-ficials holding the public trust, should be most anxious to avoid even the appearance of wrongdoing. ' Richard D. Bradford Glen J. Ellis James Brady Eileen Jemison Jonathan Pritchard D. David Lambert ons Valuable Coupon -- Thursday First roll regular price Second roll M.00 off Valuable Coupon" Monday Jumbo Prints Same price as standard size Coup ART CITY PHARMACY Inside Dove's Happy Service 110 South Main 489-6837 Springville 1 Summer Hours: Mon-Fri 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Saturday 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. poor taste. If your paper has something to say, say it, and don't try to hide it with words some readers might misinterpret. Just because Mayor Creer is af-filiiated af-filiiated with a different political party than ex-Mayor Haymond, does not make him a villian and ex-Mayor Haymond a hero. The majority of the people who chose to vote elected Mr. Creer, and I am tired to death of your continual sniping at him. Sincerely and respectfully, James K. Weight pey for Mayor Creer, on one more issue, I would ask you to give us a break. You ran one of the most negative and' misleading campaigns I have ever had the misfortune to witness, last year, and it worked for you. I would now ask you to stop campaigning, cam-paigning, stop the innuendos and ac cusations and get down to the business of this city that you and the councilmen and woman have been elected to run. Barry Allensworth services Now, I admit that I should have been more jrompt in getting the, electricity put in my name but never should anyone's power be shut off. without some sort of advance warn-: ing from the city. Furthermore, city employees need to learn that they: are supposed to be public servants. The only person in this whole mess! who seemed to understand that was the police dispatcher who seemed to be doing what she could to help. The rest, in typical bureaucratic fashion, seemed only to be able to think of why what I wanted couldn't be done and why they couldn't be of help. Finally, if Springville City is truly interested in serving its citizens, there ought to be a way for people to sign up for electricity either after regular business hours or through the mail. Steve Woodall activities. They seem to be deliberately involving themselves in questionable activities and are unsatisfied un-satisfied in simply campaigning for their man. I plan to submit a letter to the Utah County Commissioners, to urge them to conduct an immediate inquiry into the circumstances of this change to determine if any impropriety im-propriety has occurred. It is certainly certain-ly important to my campaign that I be able to seek the office of sheriff without suffering any intimidation from my opponent. In responding to my opponents reasons for demotion. I would state that the sheriff's expended budget this coming week with my assignment assign-ment in the patrol division is the same as it was last week when I was assigned to the detective division. In other words, I have not taken a cut in pay and no other employee has been layed off. The loigic for the demotion does not save the taxpayers money. I can also state that there are two detectives still in the investigative division with less departmental seniority than I have with the department. As for the other mentioned departmental depart-mental changes, I can state that another officer, Rick Thompson was also reassigned to the weekend patrol schedule. Officer Thompson has been an area campaign manager for my election bid. His transfer has hindered my campaign effort also. I should state officer Thompson's transfer was involuntary. The third officer was moved to fill officer Thompson's vacant position. As to the fourth charge, the officer himself can't explain it. Scott W. Carter Candidate, Utah County Sheriff Just clip and bring in with your film! Valuable Coupon Friday Prints 22 each ---Valuable Coupon Tuesday Prints 15 each |