Show STANDARD-EXAMINE- DAVIS J OCAL R WEDNESDAY SEPT 26 1990 CITY EDITOR: 0 625-422- EDITION dir cation to any parties who inadvertently pay property tax twice It also suggests counties at the end of the year publish in a newspaper a list of overpaid taxes by property serial number and name “Why hasn’t he been doing this all along?" said Peterson a Re- By DENNIS ROMBOY Stands staff OGDEN — The Weber County treasurer’s request for legislation on the handling of property tax overpayments has raised the ire of a county commissioner who says the treasurer should already be doing the things being written into the bill “I’m outraged” said Commissioner Lowell Peterson Peterson’s anger stems from Treasurer Kennith Dallinga’s enlisting the support of state Sen Winn Richards to Kennith Dallinga His bill provides steps for returning money Lowell Peterson Commission- er says treasurer should be doing his job publican write a bill providing steps to be taken for returning tax overpay- ments to taxpayers A draft of the bill calls for counties to send letters of notifi Dallinga a Democrat said the perception that the treasurer’s office is not trying to return over- said obviously the effort has been to return the money to taxpayers A budget cut several years ago reduced the treasurer’s ability to also a Democrat payments is wrong “We’re not just here sitting on it” he said Commissioner Stephen Dirks send letters to individuals Dallinga said He said letters are sent to lending institutions when overpayments are detected Of publishing ads in the newspaper Dallinga said “I never really considered that because of the legality of who does the money belong to” One of the difficulties in returning overpayments is determining who rightfully should receive the refund he said But Peterson who served in the Legislature before being elected to the commission said Dallinga By DON BAKER Standaid Examiner staff staff OGDEN — Weber State College business students are showing up the competition in standardized testing scores that one professor said should help dispel the school’s old image as “Harrison High” Bruce Handley chairman of the business administration department said recently released scores off two tests given last spring show Weber students ranked second among 39 participating colleges and universities in one test and above the national average in all subject areas in the other test One test on basic marketing administered by the Education Testing Service based in Princeton NJ showed Weber students had the second highest mean and second highest median scores of the schools participating in the test The competition included Loyola University the University of Illinois the University of Massachusetts and Wake Forest University In the other test also administered by Education Testing Service Weber students’ average test scores in six subject areas — accounting economics manage- ment quantitative Airport manager John Wolfe explains why the Delta 737 made an unscheduled landing in Ogden Tuesday jet lands in Ogden fills its tank passes up free TV SLC-bou- nd Bad weather forces action F TRENTELMAN By CHARLES Standard-Examine- staff r OGDEN — The days of free dishes at the ps station may be long gone but a Delta flight making an unscheduled landing y at Airport on a had chance to take a Tuesday crack at the aviation version of that fine tradition At the airport they give you a free television set when you fill up The catch of course is that you have to buy 250 gallons or Ogden-Hinckle- more of jet fuel The Delta flight seemed in a good position to pick up the freebie — it took on 1600 gallons which a person in the tower estimated might be about what it would burn to get to CLYDE MUELLERStandard-Examine- r The price of aircraft fuel is higher than car fuel these days and some stations do offer plane owners a bonus Salt Lake City John Wolfe airport manager said the landing was fairly normal procedure when a plane has to divert from Salt Lake City In this case he said Salt Lake City International Airport had a severe weather warning and hail Neither Wolfe nor the people in the tower knew how many people were on board the plane which landed at 2:32 pm and departed exactly one hour later — without the bonus TV One of the men driving the fuel truck said Delta has a contract with the fuel supplier at the airport to provide it with fuel and doesn’t qualify for the freebie One thing is certain — Delta’s credit must be good Avjet fuel was priced at the airport Tuesday at $165 a gallon come” he said Backhoe makes move on disputed tree Black walnut’s fate now up to courts think he was expecting someone like my mother or my two sisters who would have needed the ladder to get up the tree He was pretty surprised to see me’ — Mark Carlin ‘I By TIM GURRISTER Standard Examiner staff OGDEN — It was a lot like getting chased up a tree by a giant backhoe At around 10:30 am Tuesday about an hour before a court order was issued that would have made it illegal a giant backblack hoe made a move on the walnut tree a Riverdale family has been trying to save from a developer's plans for a shopping center “They were going for it" said Mark Carlin 21 son of Elizabeth Carlin who started the crusade by climbing the tree over the weekend to fend off some chain saws “I just heard the backhoe and went out and got up in the tree” He said he didn’t know who the backhoe operator was but as he walked to the tree he saw the man take the Carlins’ ladder that was against the tree and throw it into 40-fo- FARMINGTON — A New York man who was arraigned and sentenced in the Davis County Jail rather than in court because he suffers from several infectious diseases has been sent to the Utah State Prison after pleading guilty to burglary and kidnapping charges Jerome Adrian Beggsmith was sentenced Tuesday by 2nd District Judge Rodney Page to serve concurrent terms of to 15 years for kidnapping a Farmington man Aug 31 and zero to Five years on the burglary conviction The arraignment plea and sentencing all came in one brief hearing Tuesday afternoon that was held in the jail because court officials had been warned Beggsmith has a number of severe infectious diseases including some that could be transmitted through contact with his blood Authorities refused to specify the dis1 business analysis finance and marketing — were all 2 to 13 percentage points above national norms He said the scores reflect favorably on Weber's school of business and economics “They prove to us that we’re doing what we hope to be doing that w'e really do have an excellent system of delivery” He said the scores should also improve what has traditionally been a lowly local reputation for the school that used to be nicknamed “Harrison High” A 1967 Weber graduate Handley said some people still remember when it was a junior college prior to 1963 and how high school kids used to go there only if they couldn’t go to a “real college” “Some people still remember that and don’t realize how far w$’ve to responding Dallinga Peterson’s comments said the commissioners are just trying to take the “heat” off themselves in See PAY on 2B kidnapping By WENDY OGATA r la-- Sickly man guilty of Business students score high Standard-Examine- should be doing the things listed in the bill without it becoming state “If he'd been doing his job there wouldn’t be any funds” said Commission Chairman William Bailey also a Republican The overpayment account has risen some $600000 the past seven years At the end of 1989 the total reached $881258 a ditch “I think he was expecting someone like my mother or my two sisters who would have needed the ladder to get up the tree He was pretty surprised to sec me" A television news team happened to be on the scene at the time which may have added to the drama “He (the backhoe operator) just said he was following orders and that he had to take the tree down I lust said ’Not until I sec some kind of M v ot 4 ' 'it x ' ft v ‘4 m V i ' - ff ve ' ' ' - $ y ' l- -- ps V 1 iT i - N 1 ROBERT Mark Carlin son of Elizabeth Carlin watches over the signed paper’ and he just kind of stopped the backhoe and left” Representatives of Bid D Construction Ogden general contractor for the project and Hermes Associates Salt Lake City the development company planning a shopping center next door to the Carlins’ were unavailable for comment this morning Steve Bailey the Oeden lawver retained Wal-Ma- rt 40-fo- ot - POPEStandard-Examine- r black walnut tree to the tune of $7000 by the Carlins to said Dave Coats the Hermes vice president shepherding the project and his lawyer “were not happy campers" by noon Tuesday in Ogden's 2nd District Court By then Judge David E Roth had issued a temporary restraining order on behalf of the tree A hearing was set for this morning before 2nd District Judge Stanton M save-that-tr- Wal-ma- rt Taylor to determine whether the temporary restraining order should expire or be made a more permanent injunction blocking the developers from downing the tree Mark Carlin was at his post again this morning watching the tree from his mother's home and at one point dashed away from a telephone interview when he heard a circular saw start up outside But Big D workers were busy at another part of the shopping center site Bailey said he's amazed at how determined Hermes is to take down the tree even though "they haven't demonstrated to me why that tree can't stay where it is It wouldn't surprise me that it wouldn't be easier for these guys to just cut that tree down and risk the wrath of the judges” Which would end what is apparently becoming a story threatening to lake root nationally Mark Carlin said his mother has been contacted by representatives of the Fox television network out of Chicago about an appearance on its “A Current Affair” magazine show eases Beggsmith’s arraignment was originally scheduled for Sept 19 but the hearing was postponed until Tuesday because the New York man turned up at court last week shouting and bleeding profusely from the nose He was initially charged with kidnapping Kenneth Thompson from his home in Farmington during an auto burglary Beggsmith also was charged with burglarizing an electrical store and a shoe store He pleaded guilty to kidnape felony and ping a one of the burglary charges The second burglary case was dismissed second-degre- third-degr- ee 20-month-- old Ogden boy drowns irr tub By PAT BEAN Standard Examiner staff OGDEN — Efforts to revive a toddler who was found face down in a bath tub failed and the boy was pronounced dead at St Benedict’s Hospital Tuesday evening The victim was Willie Vaughn III An autopsy was to be conduct- ed on the boy today and police are investigating the death listed as an apparent drowning Lt Richard Peterson said this morning According to police the boy’s mother Debra McClure 132 Doxcy 31 of was running water to bathe her son and his sister when the door bell rang about 7:45 pm Peterson said the mother told investigators she went to answer the door and was there about three minutes when her daughter came and said: “Willie is laying face down in the tub” McClure told police she ran to the bathroom and pulled the child from the water but could not revive him She then woke a friend Darryl Jones who was in the house and the man attempt- ed to resuscitate the boy while McClure ran to a neighbor's house to phone for help According to the police report paramedics were on the scene within 10 minutes "Although the investigation is continuing as it always does in cases like this the death appears to have been an accidental drowning” Peterson said “We see a lot of these kinds of things it can happen so quickly” He said police measurements showed the McClure bath tub had about 9h inches of water in it at the time of the accident 2 I 9 rfiwfi'rrf iif ndliwiif nfinurf arlirf rf rut irf idl 09 Wi urir |