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Show OROPR DIVISION u ux'.m u of sal; L.v.ii- cm; unii suu !.:A::si'jVi - SPECIAL' Carrier Rout Pretort IJ $ Pottooe BULK RATt PAID fnnH COLLECTIONS. No. 4 KaywIHe, Utah 64037 otamau fTTl einiex Davis Ccuiwi route Pieicrt u 5 Pojtoge UUdATEPAIO PemtMno & LU Early retirement to strip district of key personnel By DONETA GATHERUM FARMINGTON Early retirement. How will it affect the Davis County School System? This question is not easy to answer. District Public Information spokesperson Bonnie Doyle says the District has only a vague idea about the number that will take advantage of the retirement incentives offered when House Bill 142 passed earlier this year. We know some of the losses will be painful. We will be losing a superintendent (Lawrence ' , ' , , , ' , v , for curriculum (John S. White). Whenever you lose people of this caliber, it has a profound effect upon the system, Ms. Doyle concluded. The district estimates there are 256 professional employees eligible for the early retirement including four high school principals, three junior high principals, 16 elementary school principals and 15 central office professionals. At the Board of Education meeting last Tuesday evening, Supt. Welling noted there will be some Well- ' ; , , v , ' ' ' " s s ,v,V ' r - V i WV ' ' ' t' y j4.L Continued on page two ing) and assistant superintendent School chief being sought If all goes as planned the Davis County Board of Education could appoint a new superintendent of schools at FARMINGTON their May 5 meeting. The search started last month when Supt. Lawrence Welling, who has held the position for 7'2 years, announced he would take advantage of the early retirement offered by House Bill 142. Deadline for applications was Friday, April 18. An initial screening committee to read through all applications and narrow the field down has been set up. Members represent pa rents, professional educators and the business-civic-government- al communities. Members are Edrice Christensen, Robert Garff, Sandra Kimmel, Arnold Lund, Melvin Miles and Thurgood. The Board of Education and Supt. Welling will conduct an additional screening. They will narrow the candidates down to the three or five best choices. Board of Education members will personally interview the finalists and be prepared to appoint a new superintendent May 5. The Board has scheduled special meetings for April 22, 25, 29, 30 and May 2nd to give sufficient time to make the selection. Mayor Gerald Purdy, consults case book with Judge Lloyd Bishop. Itll be one of the last times for the retiring Kaysville justice of the peace, lowering his gavel on a 16 12 year career. De-Lo- re Judge Bishop lowers gavel after years of service 16-pl- us By Ive tried to be fair yet when there TOM BUSSELBERG Editor Reflex-Journ- al KAYSVILLE Lloyd Bishop is retiring again. By TOM BUSSELBERG If youre a CLEARFIELD teacher or work for county or city h government, you make up of Davis Countys labor one-tent- force. Some 53,000 workers make their livings within the county while nearly 20,000 others go elsewhere, Clearfield Job Service figures indi- cate. More than 5,000 of those 53,000 workers are employed by the county, Davis School District or one of 15 cities. Just under 30 percent are employed at HAFB. That confirms its status as the countys largest employer although dependence on it appears to be lessening as more business and industry develops. h of those working in the county find themselves in the trades sector while nearly as many, One-fift- 7,400, work in services. Manufacturing is playing an in- creasingly important role with some 6,500 employed in that area for about 12 percent of the workforce. Nearly 3,700 have better economic times when building is booming since their endeavors center on er U.S. Government. Add to that the fact that hes worked in the automobile selling business, worked for the old sugar factory and got married 62 years ago and you get just a glimpse of the construction. While about 72,000 from Davis County are working, nearly 4,000 or about the population of West Point or West Bountiful, are out of work. Job Service Manager Jack Bailey says unemployment insurance claims are up "substantially over this period a year ago. The countys jobless rate stands at 4.5 percent. While thats enviable compared to the states 6.9 percent figure it does show an increase. Only Box Elder and Dag- gett counties boast lower levels while Cache is tied with Davis. The states jobless count reflects the fourth straight month of rising unemployment. That translates to a rise in the number nearly of out of work Utahns over the past year. At the same time, only 6,000 new jobs were created statewide for a one percent increase. The states jobless figure was tied with the national level. At one time Utah boasted a figure two percent lower. It seems likely Utahs economic condition may get slightly worse before it gets better, Mr. Bailey says. The state should hopefully see its job situation improve beginning about one-fift- h mid-yea- r. 100-15- The Kaysville native is stepping down from the justice of the peace post hes held for the last 16'2 years. Hes worked long enough for several agencies to be considered a multi-careman: 23 years for the LDS Church and 16 years for the Countys joblessness still below average man. A reception will be held in his honor Saturday at the Kaysville Municipal Center, 23 E. Center, 9 p.mt Starting with his latest career, Judge Bishop says, No one comes in whos happy. You have to take the facts and make a judgment based on those facts. Youve got to be consistent and be fair or youll get into trouble. 7-- New J.P. appointed KAYSVILLE Douglas B. Rogers, a resident of Kaysville for the past eight years, has been appointed Justice of the Peace of Kaysville effective May 1 . Mr. Rogers is a retired employee of ZCMI with 32 years of service. His assignment prior to his retirement in February, 1986 was vice president of stores. He also has served as vice president and general merchandise manager. Mr. Rogers says he is happy to accept this new position with the city and is anxious to serve the community. are extenuating circumstances you have to make exceptions. In those 17 years hes heard ab0 out 18,000 cases. Thats only a month, as he puts it. Most were traffic-relate- d although there were a few marriages thrown in. He didnt follow the movie and version of a JP marrying couples in the middle of the night, though, he emphasizes. He remembers Kaysville when it was quite a bit smaller but is quick to add, there were some advantages and some disadvantages back then. As a student at the old Kaysville TV-creat- ed Elementary By GARY R. BLODGETT How can you sit in the FARMINGTON confines of a county jail and still be breaking a state law? Easy. Just pull out a cigarette and light it up. Even a county jail inmate can break the law, according to an amendment to a state law approved by the recent session of Utah Legislature that requires no smoking in public buildings. But we are trying to do the best we can with the facilities we have available, said Capt. K. D. Simpson, communications officer for the Davis County Sheriffs Department. Wed like to find a solution to this sticky problem, but it isnt easy - not when you dont have the physical facilities to abide by the new law. He explained it this way: Davis County Jail is structured for about 102 inmates but on the day of the interview the jails population was 123 which rquired and even placing mattresses on the floor. This means that we dont have any spare space for inmates to smoke. We cant just let them go outside for a smoke, and we dont have a cell block that could be designated for smoking or for placement of prisoners not wanting to smoke, he said. Our cell blocks are designated for certain purposes, such as women's facilities, drunk tanks, isolation, etc., and we just dont have or an area desigthe facilities for nated for smoking." Thus, smoking in jail is a serious problem. But it would be a more serious problem to put a complete stop to smoking in a jail cell block," said Capt. Simpson. These inmates are under a lot of tension and the some level increases the desire to smoke - double-b- unking non-smoke- rs 400-doz- en for one and all. (Photo by Ernie Shannon) Magna and Castlegate Emery County area) coal mining team for two seasons. He played both second and third base and played some practice games with the old Ogden Gutters minor league team. He played ball later when living in Rigby, Idaho for four years but threw his arm out so hasnt played actively since. He still gets enjoy- ment from watching the game, though, taking his grandson who is serving an LDS Mission in the New York area to see some action last fall. Mets-Yanke- Mr. Bishop married Vilda Thur- CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO high-stre- - ss times to start smoking when you had never smoked before. He noted that inmates would probably rebel at attempts to restrict smoking. After all, they have the habit and it would be almost inhumane to restrict smoking all together for some of these inmates who are locked up for months, even up to one year, he said. For employees of the Sheriff s Department, its a different story. Employees can go outside for a smoke, or they may go to a small area behind the communications center where smoking is permitted. The rest of the building is the visitors center, it was explained. Were trying to be creative with the facilities that we have, he added. Inmates that have problems when inhaling smoke or who strongly desire to be free of smoke can be confined to the observation block next to the booking area, if space is available. Capt. Simpson said there have not been any serious problems with the no smoking law thus far, probably because we are doing everything possible to make it right for smokers and alike. He noted that 60 to 70 percent of the inmates in the jail at any one time are smokers and with the high stress and lack of activity, smoking probably increases. The no smoking" amendment is one of seven to be added to the Utah Indoor Clean Air Act to prohibit smoking in public buildings includes the Davis County Jail. Will the new state law be enforced? Probably not beyond what is feasible and non-smoki- non-smoke- rs reasonable, es good, a Bountiful gal he met while attending Davis, and six days later was on his way to serve an LDS Jail officials trying to solve no smoking problem of inmates -- Saturday morning mayve been windy, but not too much for the hundreds of youngsters who converged for Kaysvilles annual Easter Egg Hunt. Sponsored and put eggs were strategically planted to heighten the fun together by the Jaycees, School he was the youngest ever to get a slot on the baseball team, as a 5th grader. Elementary schools went to the 8th grade then and as an 8th grader he coached the schools team. They generally had a teacher do it but that was the only year they won, he recalls of his coaching career. All the grade schools used to play one another in the county for the championship. I used to catch as a kid, the avid baseball player and fan says. He played baseball all four years at Davis High and also put some time in on the basketball floor. Im the only living player of that 1921 Davis team, he notes, although a few are left from his 1922 graduating year team, he adds. He was drafted to play ball for industrial teams in the old semi-pr- o according to Davis County Health Department officials. Plans are underway for construction of a new Davis County Jail and Public Safety complex. Im sure that the new facility will be designed with the new law in mind," said Capt. Simpson. |
