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Show 18 More Officers On Oct. 1 - UTAH PRESS ASSOCIATION A67 east 3rd south SALT LAKE CITY, UT PIII Chief Is Seeking Eearly Police Force Buildup WEST VALLEY. If the budget permits, West Valley Police Chief David C. Campbell hopes to have at least 18 more officers on the force here by Oct. Of BIRTH FIRST RIDE A West Valley City made its parade debut in the Days of '47 affair Thursday with float In . . . combining themes of "Pioneers of the "Birth of a City." 80 s" 1. Beefing up the force on Oct 1 would be two months ahead of schedule, Campbell acknowledged, but would vastly improve the departments ability to deal with duties at peak times City officials had planned on expanding the citys police force to 63 officers on Jan 1 Campbell said his force is undermanned at present, particularly since a number of officers have not yet received certification Right now we can keep up with calls, but were extremely busy," said Campbell, noting that the shortage of officers is most pressing during peak situations, such as Friday and Days Of '47 Parade West Valley City Float Accorded Honors SALT LAKE. Honors were awarded here Thursday to the West Valley City float in the Days of 47 parade. The citys initial parade entry cap- Tooele Army Depot followed West Valley, while American Fork and Murray City received merit awards. West Valleys float, along with those of other municipalities represented in the nearly three-hou- r parade, came near the end of the procession involving 163 entries The float was comprised of three flowers at the front, with a rainbow extending to the rear, ending in a pot of gold at the feet of a large stork. Birth of a City" marked the front of the float, while Pioneers of the 80s was printed on the side. As street barkers told the crowd every other block, the flowers represented the communities of Hunter, Redwood and Granger The stork depicted the birth of the new city, a gold mine produced by modern pioneers A large crowd endured steadily climbing temperatures to watch the parade march down Main Street and 900 South. The heat provided some discomfort for three children - Christin Hancock, Kirk Fisher, Terra Hancock stood in the center of the float's tured what amounted to second place in the running for the Governors Award, which is given to floats from state, county and city governments or chambers of commerce. Orems Chamber of Commerce won the Governors Award, with West Valley Citys float taking what officials termed first place. The McIntosh - Personnel Director Is Hired WEST VALLEY. A man was arrested and booked into county jail last week for forgery after he fried to cash a stolen check at Holladay Bank, 3912 W. 3500 South. The man was attempting to cash a check made out to him on an account which had been closed for nearly two months. The owner of the account told police a purse containing blank checks had been stolen from her two months ago. An employe activated a silent alarm to get police to the scene. The suspect had cashed two similar checks totalling $270 the day previous to his arrest, police said Not only is medicine now capable of replacing organs in the human body, reconnecting severed arms and legs, opening the cranium to perform on su- the brain and installing polyethylene joints valves where the and originals have but its about to offer parents a choice in the gender of their baby. The basic options will be the usual two - male or female. When filling out the chart, the prospec -- pre-nat- V. -- - police assistance are most numerous Four officers are assigned to the cover shift in addition to the regular e tion programs With more manpower, officers will have more time to stop at schools and throw a ball around with the kids and to stop and check out the back parts of buildings and do real general rather than constantly responding to calls, he said Neighborhood coverage will continue to be a strong focus of police attention, he added City officials will have to determine whether the budget can support the early addition of officers before approving the request. Campbell noted patrol," THE VOICE OF WEST VALLEY CITY UTAH chairman Janice Fisher In spite of the float being damaged it was struck by another vehicle on the way home, after the parade when Rings, Cameras Taken In Burglary At House WEST VALLEY. Articles valued at more than $400 were stolen during a burglary reported last week at 3716 USPS W. 3965 South. Sandra Jensen told Oiiicer Fred Mattfield that a $200 camera, another box camera, a $50 locket, a $50 white gold ring with a pearl and a $100 silver ring with two small rubies were missing. 656-38- 0 Continuing the Valley View News Second class postage paid 55 E 4905 South, Salt Lake City, UT 84107 at Salt Lake City. UT 84119 Subscription rate, Si 2 50 per year Published weekly at Thursday, July For Neighboring Districts 31, 1980 Volume 26, Number All 30 departments - 262 6682 - WEST VALLEY. Two new w;ater tanks will soon be serving the Granger-Hunter and Kearns Improvement districts. The Granger-Hunte- r tank, located at 4400 So. 6000 West, is scheduled to be completed within a month, according to Bill Flanders, project engineer. The tank, which will have a three million gallon capacity, has been under construction since early spring Cost of the project is $490,000. The Kearns tank, at 5800 So. 7100 West, has a two million gallon cap-aci- t and was built for $330,000. The Kearns reservoir is completed and is currently undergoing testing. The facility should be turned over to the water district within two weeks, Flanders said. It will serve an area between the elevations of 4840 and 4990 feet in an area which runs mainly north and south, west of 5600 West, in the neighborhood of 5600 South. The Granger-Hunte- r reservoir will serve people living between the elevations of 4380 and 4470 feet. The area runs mainly east and west in the neighborhood of 4000 South and on either side of 6000 West. Both water districts own several reservoirs in the area to serve different water pressure zones, according to Harold Link Sr., engineer. Both reservoirs will possibly open new areas to construction by increasing the amount of water available in the serviced areas. Both tanks have been built partially underground and will be covered with dirt, reducing their visibility. tank atcr for the Granger-Hunte- r will come from wells and the Salt Lake County Water conservancy District. Water for the Kearns reservoir will come almost exclusively from the conservancy district Both water reservoirs were designed by Templeton, Linke and Associates and should be in full service to the w ater districts by September. Dog Found Quickly! We had a call first thing Thursday morning and the dog was returned. Mighty happy to have it back - and very happy with the Green Sheet! Dick Knuteson of Murray relating his use of a classified ad in Utah's LOST - female Shepherd type dog. Choke chain and rabies tag No. 443. Young girl's best friend. most widely circulated weekly newspapers. The search for the lost dog obviously proved successful. Classifieds in the four Green Sheet newspapers reach more than 50,000 homes every Thursday morning Thats a potential reader audience in excess of 210.000 people! The ads are surrounded by news and pictures about you and your neighbors - and they're w to place your ad. Save Dial $1 by paying before it runs. Ask us mid-valle- y -- ell-rea- 2 how. here's a point must admit its accomplishing some remarkable things. credentials. Training) Campbell said The West Valley chief discounted allegations made by County Sheriff N D (Pete) Hayward that nearly 30 percent of city residents seeking police assistance request help from the county rather than the West Valley force. Haywards claims cannot be documented, Campbell said, adding that the County Sheriff's statements were not a matter of real conce-- n We have required some assistance in instances when were extremely busy, but weve had officers called for incidents outside our city limits, too, he said. 1 know we need more officers General patrol needs to be beefed up But there arent any real problems," the chief maintained The manpower shortage is most are evident when cover shifts needed, particularly on Friday and Saturday nights, when calls for number of policemen covering beats during the rest of the week, he said Campbell hopes to add three or four officers to the detective division, where fne presently assigned there "can t keep up with all the work." he said In addition to bolstering the detee-tidnision. West Valley's police chief would like to place an officer in Granger high in coordination with the Granite School District and to obtain an officer for the juvenile counseling program A grant application is being prepared to obtain funds for a juvenile officer, he pointed out Once the squad reaches full force, Campbell said, he intends to concentrate on implementing crime preven- New Water Tanks Are Nearly Ready previous year in business with specialization in personnel and industrial relations, his resume says. McIntosh also attended Fresno State and Taft College in California Following receipt of his master's degree, the new West Valley personnel director taught at Utah Technical College in Provo and was district executive in Salt Lake for Boy Scouts of America. Prior to his work w ith Bountiful, he was a staff employment manager at the University of Utah. McIntosh and his The wife are the parents of two. No matter what your reaction may be to medical science, you city officials plan to enter it in next months County Fair parade in Murray. following completion of repairs Standard course of the route, according to float For Forgery While Cashing Stolen Check PHOTO AT RIGHT worn out Not only was the natural temperature warm enough, but a mistake in preparation caused the cars heater to operate during the Man Nabbed At Bank WEST VALLEY. Hiring about 20 more policemen to bolster the West Valley City force w ill be the first major duty facing the citys new personnel director. Jack McIntosh, a Bountiful resident formerly employed by the City of Bountiful, was formally appointed Tuesday to head the personnel department in West Valley City. Obtaining qualified employes for the new city in its difficult infant stage will be one of McIntoshs initial duties. Already, he has been involved in action initiating the search for about 20 more policemen to increase the size of the department to about 63. For the past five years, McIntosh has been assistant city manager, personnel director and a purchasing agent for Bountiful. He received a masters degree in public administration from Brigham Young University in 1968, after obtaining a bachelors degree there the tures flowers, but not so much as the drivers of the vehicle, David Fisher and Tom Larson. and Saturday nights Adding 18 certified officers would resolve the difficulties, providing more than adequate coverage while allowing uncertified officers to obtain their POST i Police Officers WATER TANK . . . Workmen prepare concrete forms atop a new water tank being constructed for In the near 4400 Improvement District Granger-Hunte- r So. 6000 West. by Jim Cornwell tive mother and father will simply make an x in the appropriate square. Once he has that decision, the reproductive physiologist (thats the medical expert w'ho interprets the parents orders) will see that the X chromosome ( for girls) or the Y chromosome (for boys) is dominant. Though making such a choice is still a scientific step or two away, knowing in advance the baby s sex is already possible. The procedure is expensive and a trifle risky. But some people just cant bear that period of anticipation, so a test known as amniocentesis is given the mother and, . presto - they have the answ-era trifle now, its Right exciting to think there will be no question at all within a few years. Parents, in announcing the impending arrival, will simply tell their friends, ! -- Weve ordered a boy. But this is causing some people to reflect on the potential harm. Too many parents are expected to choose a son. Dont ask us why. Our son is a fine young man and were pleased about him. But were equally happy wdth his two sisters. We wouldnt even consider pre- arranging the sex of a newborn child; both boys and girls are fine with us. But many people dont share that sentiment and its feared the imbalance nature has always programmed into the birth rate could switch to a male dominance if parents have a choice. thinkers peer into the crystal ball and say that could lead to a shortage of females. And that, they fear, could mean more homosexuality and female promiscuity. Far-sighte- d However its safe to assume those protests will be ignored just as Henry Ford wouldve been if hed warned, Dont get too hung upon those cars - theyll kill thousands of people eery year! d -- It wouldn't have mattered - people would still have wanted cars and theyll still want to choose the ex of their newborn. But whatll it be like when science predictably advances further down this path and makes it possible for parents to make other choices? The checklist could be voluminous. Thcred be color of hair and eyes. And whether the hair is curly or straight. Size of ears, nose and mouth. Length of body; legs and arms. Its possible science could someday set the dials to produce children who are witty or somber; make a mental giant or just a B student; give em a boxers reflexes or a mathematicianss mind. Perhaps they could be preprogrammed to favor contact sports or have the strategic brain of a master chessman. Maybe the greatest golf swing ever known could be built into the babys advance order. Hopefully, some parents who aren't all that excited about a male heir would choose an operatic soprano, a leading lady, a fashion model or a cover girl. The way things have changed, it really wont matter if they decide to have their daughter be a bricklayer, a truck-drive- r or a wrestler. Those occupations are no longer sacred to males anyway. Some wiser parents would no doubt decide not to hae Junior be an Einstein type, even theugh we need a few. The life of a genius isn't always a bed of roses. You cant help but wonder if the same drives that govern people now might not be reflected among to offmorrow 's spring Is it not possible the father who always wanted to be a carpenter but was forced by circumstance to become a salesman will ? order a son with a hammer-and-nailsmind- Might not a mother who dreamed of being a ballerina but instead became a stenographer order a daughter with feet designed for dancing on tiptoes? And if that happened, is it remotely possible that sooner or later the balance that is now maintained by sheer happenstance would, in a futuristic because world, be perpetuated people have always thought the grass was greener on the other side of the fence? of If so, might it all still be the plan that master designer upstairs who completes his manipulations, sighs and says, What fools these mortals be! J |