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Show FEBRUARY 24, 1987 A B SECTION FEBRUARY 24, 1 198.' Davis economy has Vinter blues By TOM BUSSELBERG CLEARFIELD tys economy is Davis cent growth rate, Coun- bogging down some as winter wears on, says Clearfield Job Service Manager Jack Bailey. That assessment is made in light of the traditional job drop following the holiday buying season plus the sluggish growth in positions over the past year. Some 1,150 trade sector jobs related to holiday buying were lost come January while construction employment declined by 760 as cold weather took hold. This came in addition to a year-ovgrowth rate of only 1 ,740 new jobs created in Davis, Weber and Morgan counties. Thats a 1.6 per er PHOTOS VjknMoalwff J. Howard Stahle, manager of the Davis County Clipper, was awarded the Master Editor and Publisher Award for 1986 from the Utah Press Association Stable receives 'Master Editor y commendation By GARY R. BLODGETT and spent the next 27 his newspaper publishing years Chronicle Editor SALT LAKE CITY J. Howard Stahle, owner and publisher of the Magna Times and manager of the Davis County Clipper and -Journal, has been named Master Editor and Publisher of the year for 1986 by the Utah Press Associa-- . tion. The announcement was made at the opening session of the UPAs Reflex- annual convention last Friday morning at the Marriott Hotel in Salt Lake City. Howard is the third member of the Stahle family to receive this coveted award. John Stahle Jr., owner and publisher of the Clipper, received the award in 1974. In 1985 Dean S. Stahle, publisher of the newly organized Sandy Spirit and former editor of the Clipper, was presented the same award. Howard learned the newspaper business as a youth spending many long days with his grandfather who was publisher of the (Clipper) newspaper plant just a block up the street from their home in Bountiful. The elder Mr. Stahle is a member of the Utah Newspaper Hall of Fame. After serving 27 months in the U.S. Navy, Howard completed a job printing and typesetting course and joined Typographical Union Local 115. He soon held positions with the Deseret News, Salt Lake Tribune, Idaho Statesman, Caldwell (Idaho) Tribune, and his fathers newspaper (Clipper). Howard bought his first newspaper, a small weekly in Roy (Weber County) called the Roy Sun. He changed the name to the Roy Sun- - which grew rapidly as Roy grew from a sleepy town into a bustling city. He took on printing of several other newspapers and publications. Howard also became active in the community by serving as a councilman on the Roy City Council ; president of the Chamber of Commerce, Lions Club, Kiwanis Club and Jaycees; and is an honorary lifetime volunteer fireman. Howard also served the Utah Press Association as a member of the UPA board of directors, secretary, vice president, and highlighted the service as president in 1972. He was recipient of the Disting- uished Service Award and was chosen as the Most Outstanding Man in Roy. He also served as a member of the Weber County Government Committee. But after nearly three decades of service in Roy, opportunity knocked again and he moved to Fallon, Nev., where he bought the small and later purdaily Eagle-Standa- rd chased the Hawthorne, Nev. Weekly. Nearly five years later he again sold his business and moved back to Utah where he continued to operate the struggling Magna Times which he had purchased earlier. Last year, he accepted an offer from his father to manage the Davis County Clipper and while still publishing the Magna Reflex-Journ- al Times. Howard and his wife, Bonnie, still live in West Valley City. They have nine children and 31 grandchildren. Diabetics called to eye-screeni- ng LAYTON Diabetics, a group especially at risk for severe eye damage, will receive a free eye screening Saturday'; Feb. 28 from a.m. at the Humana Hospital Professional Building, 1660 W. Antelope Drive, in a joint sponsorship of the hospital, the Utah State Department of Health, American Diabetes Association and the Society for the Prevention of Bilnd-nes9-- s. The screening is painless and takes less than one hour for completion, according to the participating opthalmologists. Dr. Michael Washburn and Dr. Robert Treft. No appointment is necessary, but recipients are asked to bring a pair of dark glasses to prevent eye annoyance following the examination. According to Barbara Reno, a health department official, treatment can save the vision of more By DONETA GATHERUM LAYTON When most people move, they load their belongings into a pickup truck, a rental truck or a truck owned by a professional mover. This was not the case for the family of Howard and Sally Rollins Adams. This family decided to move not just their belongings but their whole house. After several months of preparation, the official house move was completed on Wednesday, Feb. 18. Why would anyone want to move a house? Sally reponds to this.question by saying it is difficult to see a family home just knocked down and moving the home is a good business venture. We decided to take the risk involved. It will cost $40,000 to complete the project and the end result will be a home valued at more than $80,000 sitting on a full acre of ground, Sally claims. The house moving story goes back several months when Howard and Sally Adams decided to sell their home and property located on the comer of Antelope Drive and Hill Field Road. The location was more suited to a commercial development than it was to a home. The property sold and plans are and a underway for a Circle-small strip shopping mall on the site. Sally had a special feeling about the home. It was well-kewith many good features and as time passed, she decided she would rather live in it than in another house. Previously, Sally had restored an older home in the Avenues of Salt Lake. One day she called the owners of the comer-lo- t property and said, I want to take the house. Sally was somewhat surK pt prised when the owners 12, 13 and 14. Salt Lake Tribune Home and Garden Show, Salt Palace, Feb. 8 and March of the Harris Adams property. There are only three house movers in Utah and all are located in the Provo area. Sally chose Valgaard-se- n Movers because of their competitive price and their experience. The house movers assured the Adams family they had the experience needed to successfully move 26-2- 1 . transportation-communication-publi- c April, recovery should be utilities sector. The districts unemployment saw a dramatic increase as might be expected. Davis County posted a half a percent increase, up 5.3 percent. Weber Countys joblessness rose even more sharply, with underway. The increase in joblessness puts the district and state nearly at the same level as national totals, he adds. Some 6.6 percent of statewide workers were out of work. h Thats only percent low one-tent- A breakdown of where people were working includes: 22,380 in government, or slightly under 30 percent of the total workforce; 10,620 were working in the trade sector; 6,310 were in manufacturing and 3,150 in construction. Some, 1,480 found employment in transportation-communicatio- n the and public utilities area while 1,070 were in finance, real estate and insurance. Services provided employment for 7,120 while mining listed 70 workers. ; The trip was only about h of a mile, but that still was sufficient to back ud traffic and require plenty of logistics and patience on the part of those involved. one-sixt- the home without any disaster. In fact, the Valgaardsen Movers had just completed moving a brick home much larger than the Adams one which is 1700 square feet with 1100 square feet downstairs and 600 square feet upstairs. With the help of Howards father, Harris Adams, preparations were made for the big move. Footings were poured by Howards cousin, Adams Love and fill dirt was placed on top of the d soil where the home will sit. The movers hoped the earth would remain frozen but this wasnt the case and the heavy home had to be inched carefully off Antelope Drive and over the footings. Eventually, a basement 9'2 feet high will be placed over the footings and when the cement is cured, the home will be lowered onto the new support system. The basement walls will be 12 inches thick because the home has k walls. The basement will be custom fit to the exact size of the . home. clay-base- two-bric- . The headline should probably read local boys do good. Four of the top five finishers in Mondays Presidents Day race attended local high schools before going on to run well at the University of Utah. Reid Neumann won the five mile race in 26:35. Although a fair time in road racing circles, the cold weather left Reid with a mediocre time for him. The U. of U. grad and assistant cross country coach has a 10K best of under 30 minutes. The second place finisher was Bruce Gardner, formerly of Murray High and also of the U. Raymond Jones was third, Brian Fuller, fourth; and Chad Jones fifth. All the top five have run for the U. The Jones brothers 5-- 6 the 1 three-count- er than the nations 6.7 percent rate, the lowest nationally in about seven years. For Davis County, 83,830 were in the labor force while 4,460 were out of jobs. Sally estimates the entire project will take two to three months. Howards grandmother, Ruth Adams, has a special interest in the house moving project. This was her family home. Ruth is the oldest member of the Jesse and Chloe Layton Harris family. She was six months old when her family moved into this new house 77 years ago. The Harris home was conveniently situated on a comer of the Harris farm. Jesse was a farmer by trade and he also was employed by the Railway Mail Service when had a route from Salt Lake City to Butte, Mont. Ruth and six other children, Dorothy, Annebelle, Bryan, Gloria, Bonnie Jean and Connie, all grew up in this house that was built by the famous Kaysville architect William Allen. House moving isnt new to Ruth Harris Adams. In 1942 she and her husband, Clyde Adams, along with their three children, Jean, Harris and Neil, moved the home where Ruth now lives from Clearfield to Layton. The Naval supply Depot was built partially on property belonging to Clyde Adams and so he had to move elsewhere. Ruth Adams acted nervous the day her childhood home was moved. She was recalling her unusual experiences of 1942. Clyde got Dell Hodson of West Weber to bring his equipment and the house was moved along the old Main Street in Clearfield to what is now Antelope Drive. We planned to put it on a foundation we had dug over on Church Street but there were some problems so Clyde pulled off the road east of the Will Adams house (144 East). He climbed up the light pole and hooked the house up to electricity, Ruth explains. Property was purchased from Dick Adams. It took some time to get everything ready to move the house to its permanent location at 320 E. 2000 North. The Adams family lived in their home parked just off the road without culinary water for several weeks. Former high school runners star in Presidents Day race within the past year. Diabetics especially susceptible to retinopathy include Type One (insulin dependent) who have had diabetes 10 years or more and Type Two (pill controlled) who have had the disease for a long time without seeing an eye physician. Its a true tragedy that many Utahns are facing blindness due to a lack of information, says Reno. With the success rate of modem laser surgery, eye problems can be effectively treated-b- ut they must be caught in time. 5-- said O.K. The next step was to find a way to move the home up Antelope Drive a short distance to a new, more suitable spot on the west end than 60 percent of the 47,000 diabetics in Utah. Diabetics, she says, are especially at risk for retinopathy, a condition which results in severe visual loss and often permanent blindness. Retinopathy can be diagnosed through a simple procedure which is strongly suggested for those diabetics who have not seen a qualified eye professional Pruning apples and peaches, Horticultural Farm, 1817 North Main, Farmington, Thursday, Feb. 26, 6 p.m. $1 per person. Pruning grapes, Horticulture Farm, 1817 North Main, Farming-ton- , Tuesday, March 3 p.m. $1 per person. in a 1 .6 percent increase pushing it up to 7.7 percent. Morgan County took the cake when its rate roee to 7.9 percent. That means ,810 more were out y of work in the area in January than in December. Some 2730 were jobless now versus the same period a year ago, with a total of 10,830 out of work. More of the same is predicted for February, Mr. Bailey says, but as weather warms up in March and Family moves: house and all Garden events set These garden shows and classes are scheduled within the next month: Ogden Home and Garden Show, Dee Events Center, Ogden, March considerably below average for the last few years, Mr. Bailey notes. In addition to construction and trade sectors, manufacturing saw a continued decline as 60 positions were lost. ) Other areas showed some promise, however, with small gains. Government posted a 240 job expansion while services grew by 220. Some 80 workers were added REID NEUMANN ...Men's Winner l attended Davis High and Fuller ran for Viewmont. The womens race wasnt as close as the mens version. Colleen Hoffman won easily in 32:08. Colleen is a former St. George Marathon winner and Utah Grand Prix Champion. The cold weather over the weekend and at race time kept par ticipation down below 150. the sponsors, the Bountiful Area Chamber of Commerce and Benchmark Regional Hospital, were disappointed at the low turnout but pleased at the races organizational success. Road races take months of planning to result in about 45 minutes of hysteria, said race director Richard Nance, but we had plenty of asture volunteers and everything went smoothly. The sponsors are already planning for the eighth edition of the race to be held next February. Winners include: Male overall, Reid Neumann, 26:35; Bruce Gardner, 26:54; Raymond Jones, 26:59. 14 and under, Jeremy Call, 33:43; Kasey Cullimore, 35:18; Phillip Tate, 43:34. Ryan Anderson, 29:02; Chris Wall, 29:43; Brent Brian Fuller, Parker, 32:38. 27:04; Chad Jones, 27:14; Todd Thompson, 30:19. 15-1- 9, 20-2- Men Dale Bohm, 31:17; Raymond Mondragon, 34:28; John 25-2- 9, Continued on next page COLLEEN HOFFMAN ...Women's winner I |