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Show t WEEKLY1 ' REFLEX-DAV- IS NEWS JOURNAL. JULY 21. 1977 TT 1,1 marriage, but lack of responsibility frequently means that one or both partners will be hurt. As evcryopt . know, unmarried couplet are living together in : increasing numbers. .According to the ll.S. Department of the Census, there was xn eightfold increase in the Liying-TogethArrangement (LTA) between I960 and 1970. Today LTA is a national trend. UT LOUISE Montague, who has written expensively about divorce doesnt think J.TA is'stfcb-- a good idea, writing in the April issue of Readers Digest, she says: When you demand nothing of a relationship, thats often exactly what you get. female sacrifices respect, and the diild realises his home doesnt conform to the norm. Nor is living together likely; to be well received in the business world. In one example she cites, when a. young man applied for a job the employer rejected him. because he was living with a' .woman who wax. not his wife.-Thfirm frit that his LTA smacked f .'ndecisiveness, instability and failure to accept responsibility. ing. " An LTA is particularly damaging when children are on the scene, the author asserts. What the mother and her companion view as a a marvelous, free child could see as a freaky she points embarrassment, According to her, people often enter into a Arrangement for the very reasons that they should avoid one. An unLiving-Togeth- IN HER conclusion, Montague says, "There are valid standards of judgment which come from confidence in yourself and your values. To. accept a living pattern that goes against your better judgment is to chip away at your personal freedom. life-styl- e, willingness to accept responr sibility is one compelling motivation for LTA, since it skirts the obligations of - real parent authority, the A NEED for security is another reason put down by people who live together. But as she points out, the reasonYou have ing is fallacious: no security of any kind. You stand a good chance of being , replaced by a younger version of yourself. And as for free rent, thats no security either. Security is owning the build- er PodoH around, since the male has no out. ITS A difficult situation all Earns PhB srodge THE Dredges other son Doug has completed his studies at University of Utah with two bachelor of arts degrees in business; one in business administration and one in finance. He was among the University of Utah graduates this spring. Graduation seemed ip be the ai the Charley Dredge home this year. Three of their children, Paul, Doug in-thi- and Dentzel were among graduating classes. Deputy Glenn Parker is one of the dispatchers at the Sheriffs office who help many police departments in Davis County. DISPATCHERS By ROSELYN KIRK Sgt. Tom Lenox, superviserof the Davis County Sheriffs dispatch system says, It requires a little bit of insanity to man the communications system, which monitors seven radio frequencies and dispatches calls for 11 police agencies and two fire departments in the county. IN THE communications area trouble like bananas come in bunches, Sgt. Lenox said. No sooner is the department involved in a police emergency, than. a serious fire call comes in and deputies must begin to dispatch fire equipment and ambulances. Whenever possible, two deputies are scheduled to operate the dispatch center, but sometimes one man must handle several emergencies at once, in addition to answering calls that come in over the telephone system. IF THE deputy is responding to an emergency situation and a call comes in through the radio system or over the telephone, he answers and asks, Is this an emergency? If that answer is no, the deputy says, Would you hold the phone please? He then responds to the emergency and gets back to the other call when the emergency has been resolved. Every type of telephone inquiry can come in over one of the telephone wires from, "What is the number of the courthouse? to How long do you bake a potato in this altitude? SGT. LENOX said that every day in the communications center is a pressure cooker. During the interview a call came in from a resident in Woods Cross saying that there was a fire all along the Denver and Rio Grande track from Salt Lake City into Davis County. Sparks from the track had set the dry grass on fire. The two deputies went into action and dispatched the South Davis Fire Depart- ment and the North Salt Lake Fire inDepartment. During the course of the all the to two terview, deputies responded communicators involved in putting out the fire and concluded with the mop-u- p operations. THE CONSOLE radio system has multiple channel capability, allowing the dispatchers to relay messages to most of the police departments in Davis County. In addition, the office is able to communicate statewide, has a highway patrol frequency, operates two frequencies in Davis County, monitors a frequency with the school district, and communicates with Davis County animal control as well as two fire departments, South Davis and North Salt Lake. This dispatch system allows deputies to 11 police agencies, three ambulance services, 12 wrecking services, the Department of Wildlife Resources, Parks and Recreation, and communicate with U.S. Fire Service. ing system can be rewound to the time the message was received and the channel over which it was recorded can be isolat- Office in touch with an accident before the authorities are called, but sometimes that communications system backfires. of some repute was Recently a notified of a head-o- n collision near North Salt Lake. Both Davis County and Salt Lake officers arrived on the scene to discover an abandoned car. Sgt. Lenox said the Layton Police Department also monitors CB calls in Davis County. ed. person or agency desires to hear the message replayed, he can notify the sheriffs office in writing'and he can listen to a replay of the original message. In addition to all the duties mentioned, the dispatcher must also monitor an alarm system that is connected to 12 banks and private enterprises in Davis County. Five television monitors are also located in the communications center, showing four different areas of the jail the north tank, the south tank, facility the booking desk and the back door to thp jaUThe fifth monitor is located at the front dpor of the building. Anyone wishing taoter the Sheriffs Office after hours can be admitted by the dispatcher after he views the person on the television monitor. Another mechanical device that the dispatcher has at his disposal is a National Law Enforcement Teletype Service. If a law enforcement officer picks up a suspect and wants a license check on the suspect, he calls the drivers license number into the dispatcher. The dispatcher punches the number onto the keyboard. Seconds later all the details about that person pertaining to his driving record and criminal record is projected on the screen. The dispatcher relays the message to the arresting officer. THEY ARE trained as dispatchers for six months to two years and then move onto some other phase of law enforcement work. All officers work this job as a part of their training as deputies. Some officers have a greater capacity for the job than others, Sgt. Lenox said. Deputy Collin Hepford, who has trained in the dispatch center for two years, but now works as a bailiff in the District Court, said, Its difficult to stay tensed shift. If there is a free up for an eight-hou- r minute, I lean back in my chair and relax for a few minutes. BUT SOMETIMES this moment for relaxing never comes. To date the office has logged 227 medical emergencies for which they have dispatched units to respond. Many times the calls come in over the phone and the vehicles which are to respond, are dispatched over the radio. The bulk of the telephone calls that come in are fire calls, Sgt. Lenox said. In addition to fire calls, the Sheriffs Office takes police calls and dispatches for Sunset, Clinton, Syracuse, Kaysville, Farmington, Centerville, West Bountiful, Woods Cross, North Salt Lake and all the unincorporated areas of Davis County. HE MUST learn that certain calls have priority. Sometimes in real emergency situations, all the calls and radio contact will be switched to one channel while the other dispatcher handles the other calls. "As in any service agency, the dispatcher must have the ability to retain his professionalism even when the pressure is overwhelming, Sgt. Lenox said. And the dispatchers know that Sgt. Lenox knows what hes talking about. He started with the Sheriffs Office as a dispatcher 15 years ago. Now hes back supervising in that same area. BEFORE TAKING a job with the Sheriffs Office, Sgt. Lenox had behind him 20 years in military service. Maybe thats why he likes the pressure of running the dispatch center which he calls the central nervous system of the county." y WITHIN THE last two months, the office installed a citizens band bay station, which puts dispatchers in touch with CB operators in the area. Sgt. Lenox said that CB operators can often put the Sheriffs If the dispatcher or another person needs to know what was said, the record Genealogy Seminar Set For Special interests The Special Interest Groups from Centerville, Farmington and Kaysville held a seminar on genealogy May Hat 9a.m. in the Kaysville East Stake Center. CONDUCTING the event was President Lawrence Welling of the Kaysville Fast Stake. "1 Have Opening song was Work Enough to Do with the invocation given by President Bengt Jonsson. THEME of the event Come Walk With Your Ancestors" was followed by the guest speakers, Wayne Brickey, instructor of services in genealogy who spoke on personal histories and Dwayne Ashmeade, a superintendent Ph.D. in biochemistry spoke about the use of libraries for genealogical research. After a question and answet period punch was served during a 15 minute intermission. HAROLD Johnson, director of Ogden Genealogy Libraries spoke on why you should dc your genealogy. "Every Soul is Living" was the closing song sung by Pearl Jorgenson. BISHOP Don Edward of the Kaysville East Stake High Council, gave a summary. A full course dinner consisting of roast beef and all the trimmings was served in the recreation hall. SEVERAL exhibits were on display including books and the results of different his- tories. next seminar for Special Interest Groups of all ages will be Crafts for Christmas." The date will be announced later, ek The insure that the IN ORDER communications center will operate in case of a power failure, the department maintains a diesel generator. Deputy Hepford said when the power shortage occurred on July 4, 1976, the power system from Utah Power and Light went off four times before the power supply was constant. The operator can see if the power source is constant by observing the red light outside the window. Before the dispatcher is placed at the panel for the first time, he must read the policy file to familiarize himself with the operation. Then he is placed on the firing line. He must be trained not to panic -to take things as they come, Sgt. Lenox said. to SGT. LENOX said cities dont have the service so the money to pay for Sheriffs Office takes the calls and dispatches for them. In addition. Sheriff William Dub Lawrence is working on extending the communications system so the dispatchers can communicate with fire departments in Syracuse, Sunset, South Weber and Clinton. Other equipment that dispatchers must monitor in the communications center is a dictaphone recorder which can record on 20 channels simultaneously all messages that come in over either the radio or telephone. THE MESSAGES are recorded on two one for instant replay if audio tapes necessary and the other as a permanent period. storage bank of calls over a If the dispatcher needs to listen to the telephone or radio message, along with his response, he has instant replay. Brothers Hospitalized In mishap Auto-EViotorcy- cle Two brothers from Clinton were hospitalized as a result of an automobile-motorcyclaccident last week in Ogden. e KEVIN J. Birt, 18, and his brother, Jim, 14, were riding a motorcycle Their daughter Dantzel graduated from Davis High School and received a scholarship to Weber State College. She will be attending Weber Stte this fall. anthropology..' MR. DREDGE and his wife Beth and their son Doug had Dr. Dredge wrote his thesis THE TAPES are kept for 30 days. If any THE FIVE dispatchers who work under the direction of Sgt. Lenox man the disstretches around the patch in eight-hou- r clock. After the 10 p.m. news, things start to quiet down and only one dispatcher is on at night, Sgt. Lenox said. If a real emergency happens at night, the jailer sometimes helps by answering calls if he is not busy in the jail. The officers are not trained as dispatchers on a permanent basis. It is just another area of their training as law enforcement officers, Sgt. Lenox said. THE DREDGE family traveled to Boston, Mass., where they attfgdejJ. the impressive .graduation ceremony at Harvard University for their son Paul,wf)o received 1s PJiD degree in" north on Midland Drive when struck by a car, according to the Utah Highway Patrol. They are the sons of Mr. and Mrs. Sheldon Birt, 1919 W. 2300 North, Clinton. UHP officers said the car driven by William Van Meeteren, 49, of 2718 W. 4000 South, Roy, which was traveling south on Midland and attempted to make a left hand turn onto 4000 South. Officers said the driver told them he did not see the motorcycle. THE cycle, officers said, hit the side of the car. The brothers were taken to McKay Dee Hospital by ambulance and were reported in fair to good condition, grb GENEROUS Many a mans charity is to give unto others the advice he can't use himself. -- Spotlight, San Diego. Speech Variation and Social Organization in a on and the opportunity experience of attending Pauls graduation exercises Korean Village. He will now be teaching qs a professor at both Northeastern University at Boston and at Harvard University in. Cambridge, Mass. PAUL DREDGE DR. DREDGE received his B.A. degree from Brigham Young University in Prevo in 1969 and his M.A. degree from Harvard University in former am home. y SENATOR JAKE GARN THE BILL would transfer En- the over-regulatio- n apd poor adminis- tration. Could-w- e expect less if Dtbor look over MSA?-A-s - lung aSlhere is no evidence of administration of MESA Interior,- - bothing could be gained by a trahsjer: In fact, bureaucratic havoc could result. THE AIRMAN studied the Air Force mission, organization and customs and received special instruction in human relations. Completion of this training earned the individual credits towards an associate in applied science degree through the Community College of the Air Force. Airman King now goes to Federal changed or eliminated. been under fire for would mine and quarry health and safety programs in the nation, and the Safety Division of the Utah Industrial Commissipn has done an excellent job; the States safety record speaks for itself. As long as a locally administered program is functioning effectively, there is absolutely no reason to have its authority usurped by the Feds. I will introduce an amendment to the legislation which will allow states who desire and are qualified, to administer the Federal mine safety program. legislation which are less than wise and should be Department of the Interior to the Department of Labor. There is no justification for this administrative shuffle; in fact, past experience shows it would be an unwise move'. The Labor Department has been roundly criticized, and often justly so, for its Ochandling of QSHA--th- e cupational Safety and Health Administration. It has long S. 717 eliminate mine safety programs and replace them with a Federal program. Utah has one of six Human Resources Committee reported the Federal Mine Safety and Health Act of 1977. This bill will be calendared for full debate and final action within the next few weeks and , there are some sections of the Aline' forcement and Safety Air National Guard Airman Robert L. King, son of Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd G. King of 1437 N. 350 W Layton, has graduated at Lackland AFB, Texas from Air Force basic training. ANOTHER objectionable the Senate - Completes Training Ati provision of t Chanute 4FB, Illinois for specialized training in the aircraft equipment maintenance field. HE IS a 1976 graduate of Layton High School. which are regulations unnecessarily restrictive for one type of mining and not strict enough for another. THE ACT also proposes to combine all I FEAR the end result would be an overall reduction mining-co- al, metal and nonmetallic-und- er a single regulatory umbrella. The differences between coal and non-comining are so broad as to almost defy this proposed consolidation. . health and safety throughout the mining in- of al Tnis broad dustry. Mine health and safety is, of course, essential. There are, undoubtedly, improvements which should be made. However, S.717 does little to promote health and safety, and could adversely affect it. attempted re- coverage would severely strict individual flexibility necessary to deal with present unique health and safety problems. It would result in Ylhie QBOacHt returning Dantzel missed the graduation as she accompanied friends on a vacation trip to Europe, np 17 7 jjfae MESA--th- e family before fojjGGtis 7 Partis On May 16, well-know- tfanqy Tite of Twin Falls, Idaho and they are the parents of three children, Elizabeth, David and Margaret. He and his family will be residing in Arlington, Va. 1971. He is married to the at Harvard, which is a most to thrilljng experience andthe-toknow Paul has excelled to in his education career. n Paul is through this area. They also spent time visiting with him and his Bmi Era QtraAiutoinffioMes Fuel economy may be the automotive order of these times but convenience features still attract the new car customer, says the Automotive Information Council. THE companies can be counted on to produce their share of devices in the upcoming 1978 model year that add to driving pleasure. Some of these luxuries eventually turn out to be motoring aids that pay off in a variety of ways - safety, fuel economy, saving's. items. Some 78 owners will be able to push an instrument panel button and see a number that tells them how many miles they can travel on the fuel thats left in the tank. Under 50 miles, the numbers will start appearing automatically and decrease as the fuel is consumed. The electronic device will even adjust for highway and city driving. FEATURE that could be more important as a safety addition than a convenience item is a heated side view mirror. It gets its warmth A Automatic speed controls are one example- comfort and convenience - Steady speed does make the car more fuel efficient and in this day of the 55 mph limit, a driver doesnt have to take his eyes off the road to check the speedometer. IN THE coming months there will be announcements of the usual galaxy of fresh from the same electrical source as the rear window defroster and even includes an outside temperature gauge. Strictly convenience is a button on the driver's built-i- n sun visor to open the garage door electrically. A minimal amount of wiring will be necessary on the garage door motor. In essence, it gives the owner a second frequency. The control that comes with the unit can be stored in the glove compartment. MOST companies are offering electronic controls under the hood that provide more precise timing of fuel flow into the carburetor, firing of the engine and more. The computer in automobiles has been a little slow in arriving but theres a lot coming up in the next few years. In the words of Charles H. Norwood, marketing plans manager for Lincoln-MercurDivision of Ford Motor Company: y THE ERA of the black box is here. |