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R UTAH SUNDAY MORNING AUGUST 11 1957 BIRTH DAY A A 1 foject ear 01 I i i4 - - "su-- n n Lz Li WASHINGTON TERRACE It's a mighty big baby for a v ill v L J Patrol weighman discusses the Hot Sorings checking station Here a Highway As high as 1000 trucks a day have lumber load with an Oregon truck driver been checked through the station ran Pi r-- n fj 3 i i PC ON if r3 ftp" X7 — -- £ I X is 24-ho- L j semi-traile- rs j j j regis-truck- s" j quar-seeingith- at i j nt 1 i 1 j f Uibin j ! -- 4 tion ditches Because ditches have been so his auger into the soil on a farm west of Ogden to vital to the Utah economy they obtain samples for chemical analysis All of the area have been regarded with near acreverence But as Utah has urbe will WTasatch Mountains west of the "mapped" banized they have become less cording to soil composition important to the city dweller's livelihood and loomed more and more as death traps City Attorney Paul Thatcher indicated the ordinance would require all irrigation companies to cover or fence all ditches of dangerous width and depth Councilman C Austin Seager said that before he leaves office he would like to sponsor such an ordinance and the attorney's office has been "researching" it since It will probably come before the Council this year If Ogden is successful in adoptand the amount of Fait and alka- - pret the information and come ing such an ordinance smaller 3 communities such as Roy where up Willi iuuu i±— IJJJUI linity it contains reonly last Sunday a child drowned estimates management Roy Chadwiek survey party yield a canal could follow suit in chief said the Weber County quirements estimates of runoff DENVER DID IT soil survey is part of a national under different cover capability Only one similar ordinance has program that started way back in groupings soil information for of lot been 1899 and has picked up a passed by any other United conservation guides and more That wa s Soil States few steam the last municipality years In their the interpretations with a Denver in have been problems city published for maps about half of the United States soil scientists predict the response similar to those in Ogden Denver's ordinance required To make the survey the six of the soil to different uses of all ditches larger men on the team Mr Chadwiek covering thouMr Chadwiek said the Marcel Tingey Allen Stevens sands of holes his crew is dig- than two feet wide and 12 inches Gordon Crandall Vern Morten-se- n deep It went before the Colorado toclose are taken enough and Howard Stokes are twist- ging Supreme Court in 1892 and was ing thousands of holes into the gether to obtain all significant upheld An ordinance of this type ground all over the county changes of soil in the county be a great step forward in would All soil scientists they auger Often the soil changes rapidly to reduce the number effort the small holes the the 'into ground about three feet deep taking and the holes must be sunk close of drownings Undoubtedly too For instance in one it would work some hardships on samples of the soil every few together area west of Ogden the s o i lthe irrigation companies that inches all the way down The composition of the soil is changes from 30 feet of sand to would be required to cover their recorded and filed until all of a hard pan only three feet deep ditches inside cities with such an the data for the county is com- between two points only 1000 ordinance as one map feet apart Covering ditches and - canals piled and published within Ogden would go a long Every ' farmer in the surveyed NOT MUCH SALT area will be supplied a copy of way toward solving the drowning Oddly though Weber County problem Most of the victims unthe map and from it he can miles der 5 years old fall into such learn the exact composition of his farmers are only a offew salt- - streams close to their homes the from the away edge soil From the soil survey maps all lest body of water in the Unit Obviously if all swimming soil most of here the ed States obwere kinds of information can be supervised with life guards in it salt much not have does hand on the" number of drowntained For instance if a con A high alkalinity content in ings would be reduced tractor wrants to lay a water pipe But in Weber County there he can check the maps learn the f 0ll ls more oftenina cause of dis- area to this farmers tress are of cut soil he must only two pools one public type through He explained that salt is very and one commercial where all and make a fairly accurate estimate of how the job should be soluble and quickly drains away 100000 of the county's people done how much it will cost etc but alkali is much less soluble may swim with maximum safety and quickly gathers wherever Consequently people seek out PLAN USES water stands for long periods other places holes in the Weber But perhaps the most import- The six men are covering the and Ogden rivers Pine View Resant result of the survey will be vast area in the lower valley rap-th- e ervoir and isolated ponds information it supplies the idly about 40 holes a day but Neither Weber County nor the farmers in planning uses of their Mr Chadwiek said they will have ogden City school districts owns to hustle to complete the big job a circle swimming pool Ogden land — The soil scientists also inter- - by the date set: Jan 1 1958 Og- much in locating a county street address but' they can and probably will hejp hundreds of farmers make thousands of dollars The maps when published about next January will show the results of a comprehensive "soil survey" of all of Weber County from the Wasatch front west to Great Salt Lake Six men are now busily conducting the! survey armed with augers and portable soil testing kits They have already survacres of Weber eyed 30000 and have 103000 land County acres to go TAKE READINGS Instead of recording a distance between two points the Soil Conservation Service is taking readings on the texture of soil depth of the top soil permeabilityi of Thus if an emergency develops in Roy police units in that area can be alerted by a telephone call to the Hot Springs station which then broadcasts the alarm over its network moving patrol cars to aped j i 1 romisin rospecss mber i j t 1 '? This information comes from just issued by the ' Intermountain Forest and Range Experiment Station in Ogden 40" '- -0 4 5? j J V ELECTRICALLY OPERATED SCALE indicators are carefully read by Weighman Don Facer while a loaded dump truck waits for the "clear" signal outside Most trucks check out okav But some do not and fines are levied Statewide last year revenue from all stations netted Utah three-quarter- s of a million dollars 1 1 j URGENT PROBLEM A more urgent problem in water safety is Pine View Reservoir It alone has claimed two and summer perhaps three lives thissome conThere appears to be fusion about who is responsible right now for public recreation on and around the huge body ef water Forest Service inspects and registers all boats befora they are allowed on the water and the Forest Service was responsible for all recreation before the Bureau of Reclamation started construction work there as part of the Weber Basin project And officials said the Forest Service will be responsible after the project is complete But Forest Service spokesmen aren't sure they are responsible i for recreational activities while The working on the dam Bureau officials say that a new contract is being drawn up for supervision of the recreation' when the project is complete Also they assume that the est Service is now responsible for it under the old agreement I in force before the work started All officials however agree j that1 patrolling the entire line y of the reservoir would be l next to impossible If people want I to go swimming badly enough j theycan get to the ivater However there are4 beaches along the shore where people congregate for swimming though most of them are aware swimming there is not authorized ' It appears that the jurisdiction over Pine View recreation should be clarified and the popular beach areas at least' posted with ) the public of the ' signs warning danger of swimming there Incidentally the Bureau off cials said the entire resen'oir will be circled with a high fence when the reconstruction project is complete except- for desig- nated recreational areas j t ar t require enthusiastic public acceptance and support before they could succeed City county and school officials are generally responsive to the will of the public If swimming facilities are nornow adequate it is probably because they have not been considered important f nough for the expenditures involved by the public It would hardly ' be fair to blame the officials 1 a publication r yet-Bot- I j Entitled "Industrial Opportuni- ties in the Headwaters TimberDevelopment Unit" the publication deals with an analysis of the timber resource in the headwaters of the Bear Green and Snake River drainages The report is the result of a two-yestudy by S Blair Hutchison and John H Wikstrom U S Forest Service economists The Headwaters Unit is approximately the size of Pennsylvania and the forest land there occupies an area about the size of New Jersey the report says The area contains about 49 million acres of commercial forf est "No accurate tally of the timber volume is available but the present sawtimber inventory is in the neighborhood of 24 billion board feet" the report said The report says the declining supplies of timber on the West Coast are forcing the western lumber industry to look elsewhere for timber i 1 j - long-rang- j Western Wyoming Idaho and Northern 'Utah have an untapped tim- ber resource capable of sup- porting 4000 new workers in the near future and even! more lateri f and prob- s pools Perhaps it is not unreasonable to expect that such pools could be used for school county and city organized programs as well as being open ot the public At least three pools are in some stage of planning for Weber County at the moment A private firm is negotiating with Ogden City for the right to construct a pool on a city park and operate it for proiit tor 20 years The recently released Ogden e program calls for City of one more construction the And the Bureau large city pool has tentative of Reclamation plans to construct a pool at one of the recreational areas near Pine View Reservoir None of them is definite covering ditches and building new swimming pools j propriate locations The Weber County Sheriff's j Office now uses its own radio I equipment and operates on a dif ferent frequency to avoid overcrowding the airwaves But whenever possible its monitoring equipment "listens in" on the ground its water table level the Highway Patrol station and when the situation calls for it the sheriff too can roll into action to preserve the peace or save a life As a clincher the Highway Patrol monitors the Weber County sheriff's calls reacting to any given set of circumstances with corresponding instructions to affected police units COMMUNICATIONS is one phase of the work carried an arrangement that afIt's on 24 hours 'a day at the Hot Springs checking staI fords the best possible police protion north of Ogden Weighman Paul Williams relays tection with the least possible a message to a patrol car in between other assignments delay three-quarter- ably one million dollars None of the government agencies could stand that expense alnn It misht not be imoossible for the school districts the county and all municipalities to cooperate in construction of the 10 length if at least 103000 ACRES TO GO The SCS's maps wouldn't help Certainly Weber Ccnmty d turns A NEW TWIST — Soil Scientist Howard Stokes Pool people are not served by enough supervised swimming facilities Recreation experts differ in their estimates of the number of pools that should be spotted throughout the county County' Recreation Director Elmo Brady said he would like to see at least r six or eight They would serve a double purpose First they would attract youngsters away from remote unsupervised swimming holes that they often don't even tell their parents about Second thousands of youngsters would learn to swim in school city and i county programs LEARN RESPECT he taught In re-Thpv water and they would know spectc how to swim if ever caught in an emergency The hitch here of course is money It costs over $100000 and often as much as $200000 to construct a public swimming pool For adequate swimming facilities in Weber County it would cost generally considered the greatest of all hazards and a great many narpnfe havp rnntpnripd "there V oughta be a law" to control them As a matter of fact the city V attorney's office is now doing the research necessary to draft just such an ordinance for Ogden If adopted by City Council it would set a precedent in Utah And if upheld by the State Su-i preme Court it would signal a major change in the public and ei official attitude towards irriga i' te - ! too easily contaminated by swimmers to be safe There are hidden ponds and ¥ favorite "swimmin" holes" spotted A through the county AH offer ? drowning hazards WHAT CAN BE DONE j i Weber County has more han its share of drowning traps What ' can be done to prevent more of these watery deaths? I1 Open ditches and canals are 0 den City work Clearfield Roy South Ogden Brigham City Sunset and the Box Elder County sheriff's office all operate on the same radio wave radio-equipp- rnntimiP City owns one at Lorjn Farr The county does not have X gram is completed Washington Terrace will have a modern well planned city of 1282 attractive homes making it the largest com- northern part of the state Using the same frequency for broadcasting as several communities in Davis Weber and Box Elder counties the Highway Patrol is always ready to assist other agencies in law enforcement 1 i e? SSarSeSliiifhU linwdH t I rt : Weber County like most of the rest of the United States has been mapped ANOTHER CAPACITY Personnel at Hot Springs serve and remapped over the years in another capacity besides po- but never as the Soil Conlicing the trucking industry on servation Service is now dothe highways They operate a radio dispatching center for the ing the job out-of-sta- i children and more often than not they flow uncovered Pine View Reservoir is a big enticing body of water where ' ' Co munity in the county outside (Editor's Note This is the series by final of a two-pastaff reporter Bob Crompton on the problem of drownings in Weber County where streams and the Pine View Reservoir have claimed six lives already this year) Besides its natural waterways much of Weber County is criss- crossed with irrigation ditches that carry water to farms Some ' I "When the reconstruction pro- these 105 received "overload" citations and resulting fines amounted to $5920 The State Tax Commission netted $20385 from the checking station for the issuance of 2661 permits to truckers Trucks using diesel fuel must buy permits and pay a special fuel tax The state sold 891 of these the first three months this year and took in $8910 These special fuel permits insure the state receiving fuel tax from truckers who might otherwise cross the state on diesel fuel purchased outside state limits in large quantities Truckers who regularly use Utah highways find it more economical to purchase Utah plates than to obtain permits During the first quarter this year $11035 was spent by truckers for plates j Drowning is not an uncommon way to die in Weber of them cut through residential of gram got under way 270 homes had been completed 48 of them on an experimental basis 23 by individual owners and the remaining 71 by the Clarmont Con- struction By BOB CROMPTON 'areas with heavy populations - out-of-sta- te ' f ' v Trucking n two-third- Security iJ Electrically operated scales are licensed likely will be caughl these davs spend just a few min for the project uning financing up with indicators inside utes some afternoon at the State" hooked Renewal program Urban the der Highways take a beating from IftrfltPrl nn Renewal proBefore Urban the Highway Patrol's "port of entry iha ctafinn whirh K laws compentrucks sate for this so that truckers who are not subject to Utah taxes still pay for their share of the state road wear During the first quarter of this year more than 78000 trucks were checked at Hot Springs Of -' i j 17 MORE —is to weigh trucks Northbound sneak across the state by using By DICK LINDSLEY 17 contracts are still they all must an occasional back road because to Another If vou think the highways are °r southbound The Ogden Combe completed t sl°Pnot is or th overloaded he trucks properly a iJ J Bank is arrangmercial liUl iic station at Hot Springs You will the west side of the highway Once the truck has been soon change your mind signal lights ahead of the weighed In a single period tell him to drive on the trucker 1000 check station may through to or wait depending upon the trucks Some will be loaded to circumstances will A few some empty capacity If traffic becomes too heavy be overloaded and fined accord- will trucks Still others obviously traveling with- purchase ingly out loads are sometimes waved license plates or permits on This checking routine goes through without stopping Though most trucks are within day after day after day while small pick-j the law those that are not show truckst ranging from up frequently enough to bring ups to mammoth roll considerable revenue into state 75000 over pounds grossing an endless in coffers Last year all checking and night day stations in the state netted $777- stream over Utah's highways of the 449 in revenue from fines Keeping close track the Utah State Highway ' tration fees and permits issued This year during the first Patrol performs a watchdog role ter and the Hot Springs station alone drivers trucking has taken in S40600 Lt Gridley concerns obey Utah road laws The Utah Hot Springs station said To help better police the high-poiis the northernmost checkings of the eight permanent fa- -' ways and especially the byw-aycilities throughout the state and the state operates two portable is the busiest as well according checking stations These outtits to Lt: Jack Gridley supervisor include a scale unit on a fully equipped truck and a lighting EIGHT MONTHS proplant to illuminate checking The station has been in cedures at night all of which isabout eight months has six accompanied by a Highway Pamen assigned to it and watches trni rar truck movements in the northern WILL BL part of the state from a natural One portable unit operates at vantage point at Hot Springs SO the north end of the state The where highways 89 91 and other functions southward They South merge at Hot The basic job Springs— are in operation 24 hours a day locations field constantly opera-- ! changing the station handles tions and communications as well And the trucker who may try to lU County Since 1940 water has claimed 49 lives in the Ogden area' an average of 34 a year Six lives have been snuffed 'J out this year the last one only a week ago today s of the fatalities are youngsters under About 5 years of age V$ Since then 354 homes have been completed and occupied and another 139 have been located on new foundations and are in the process of being remodeled On June 7 1956 M Morrin and Son signed the first contract for 30 homes to be relocated and rebuilt at a cost of $320000 Since that time 16 contracts have been completed and the 17th is well under way each of them averaging 30 homes A AA I1 &i V gram i il jJSS£ I P-4- CLOSE INSPECTION and warnings are given frequently to drivers going through a i fcJ yj Li Li I baby Meaning the Washington Terrace Urban Renewal project — one of the very first in the land — which reached its first birthday on Aug 8 Just a year ago the home of Mr and Mrs Robert C Snoddy was moved from 6 Victory Rd to 472 W 4800 South St It was the first in the nation to be relocated under the new renewal pro- v © U kJ p ri But then again it's no average 1 o t i 5 1 n u i : i- j -I ! - i i HERE WE ARE— Howard btoKes leit ana iMarcci ungey son scientists iur iue Weber County Soil Conservation Service inspect a soil survey map The SCS is currently mapping 100000 acres of county land Regardless of what measures are taken to reduce the drowning rate in Weber County there will never be complete safety As long as water gathers there will be the possibility a child or perhaps an adult will somehow high the fence ho v- careful the supervision or how thorough t h - safeguards |