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Show The Salt Lake Tribune UTAH/OBITUARIES Sunday August 30, 1998 BE Pilot Project Would Deputize Activists Battle Crime, Beer To Rescue Their Neighborhood BY MICHAEL VIGH THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE Fed up with shady characters and trash-strewnstreets, 66-year old Mary Lou Downs decided to kick the drug dealers and tran. sients out of the Salt Lake City neighborhoodshehas lived in for 40 years and clean up mess they leav b It has not been an easy task. Each morning Downs and a neighbor pick up scores of empty beer bottles and assorted food wrappers on their street at 200 West and 600 South. 1 can’t stand to live in a mess, Downssaid. “I just wasn't raised that way Added neighbor Shannon Bauer: We had to do something or we would have been drowning in garbage.” The two do their part to clean up beneath the Interstate 15 overpasses which border their neighborhood to the north and west ‘They stop under the freeway, leave their garbage and useit as an outdoortoilet,” Bauer said. Thediminutive Downs — witha noticeable limp due to a pair of artificial hips — isn't afraid to yell at the unwanted guests who often perch along her sidewalk with 40-ounce bottles of beer in hand. I tell themto move along orI juana possession. Arrests also Salt Lake City police say that gravated assault in the neighborhood located just south of 1-15's 600 South offramp. Alerting the police to trespass- although this maynot be the best plan to eliminate illegal grant drug dealers, it is the only one that has been proposed. have ranged from burglaryto ag- It becomes very depressing. I wonder why I amthe one who has to run themoff. Why should | be the oneto doit? Still, Downs and her neighbor continue to fight the good fight We both care about this neighborhood,” said Bauer, who has lived in her apartment for more than a decade. “We are not going to let them runus outof here. Bauer and Downs daily witness drug dealers selling contraband. But repeated calls to the police and a well-lighted neighborhood — courtesy of a hugebillboard — has seemed to cut down on the dealing in front of their building. theysaid. ‘The sidewalk used to be full of drug dealers, but they have moved underneath the freeway Downssaid. many tainer with the bottles. They would like 40-ounce beer bottles lost count, And no wonder banned at the two convenience Since 1996, there have been 289 arrests for trespassing. 79 for liquorpossession and 52 for pub- lic intoxication in the neighborhood, according to statistics com- piledby the Salt Lake City Police crime issue here,” said police spokesman Lt. Phil Kirk. “People are being victimized and many of transients. Ina single week, the pair some. times fills a large garbage con times she long ago We feel there is a serious ers can be dangerous. Downs has beenthreatened twice inthepast coupleof years by drug dealers or Sometimes I think ‘What's the use?’ she said. “And sometimes stores which sandwich their stree B.L. Smith of the District 2 Community Action Team persuaded the two stores to stop selling the 40s, They since have changed their policy Lucy Lewis, owner of United Market at 602 S. 300 West. said her decision to go back to selling the large bottles of beer was a matter of economics. When1 didn't sell them, | would lose the sales of other products,” she said, adding that she voluntarily stopped selling the 40-ounce brews for anentire yea A clerk at the Circle K, 615 S. 200 West. said he had “no idea why the storeis again selling the lice officers do not have the time or resources to make sweeping societal changes among Latino leaders and some Ve do not have the assets to city council members, that the deal with these complex issues, number of crimes committed by He did, however, commend Smith and Bauer for taking “own- gerated. Unreliable numbers, opponents argued, should notbe the basis of public policy Smith said. their community, their standard of living would be lowered, DeLange suggested the city’s disproportionate services fe Long-time West Valley City Councilman Leland DeLange, 64. died Saturday morning after a brief struggle with a degenerative brain disease 1983, just three years after the city incorporated, to represent the Redwood. Chesterfield and Park West Valley City has used the money raised to hire 23 new po- A retired electrical engineer. DeLange first was elec! Lake where thecity charges apartment owners for the additional police and fire protection they require. neighborhoods. He Smith said. “Theyare not allow- ing it to diminish. They are fight- ligent, verycreative,” Patterson said. “He was always concerned in the county Headded that others who find similar situations in their neigh borhoods could take the same sort of initiative to create a better en of all felony drug arrests in the They claimed illegal immi- grants accounted for 51 percent vironment. ban was just a Band-Aid solution, As for Downs and Bauer, they but it did lower arrests andcalls are unsure what is going to happen to their neighborhood once of all the county's drug arrests involved suspected illegal immi- structed. grants And for two years, Salt Lake for 1 service between 1996 and We are dealing with human behavior, but we needto get to the root cause of dysfunctional be- havior,” hesaid, adding that po: with Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease or so-called “mad cow disease” soon after West Jordan Still Enduring the 600 South offramp is recons long as w ehere, we will continueto fight for this place. Downssaid. West Valley City Couneil members will accept applications for the position during the next two weeks sketchy data — is that 15 percent City politicians and police have said that undocumented immigrants, mostly from Mexico, ac- counted for 80 percent of felony drug arrests in Salt Lake City. In reality, the number represents the arrests from one patrol division in Pioneer Park. Official Fracas audits beyond those required by law would be helpful. “They wouldclear the air,” he says. Perhaps, But former Mayor Max Hogan, whom Evans suc ceeded, believes most residents are fed up with the feuding and that outsiders are shying ai fromdoing business with thecity “Those people are asking me whatis going on and ourcredibility as a city has taken a tremen- dous blow,” Hogan says. “Devel- opers havetalked to me about the instability. When a personis look ing to invest millions of dollars into a community, he wants to be sure that his investment is secure 1 can't go any place anymore without being challenged onthis Hogan says. tivationoris just totally inexperiwhich she is — in gov- ernment affairs I take great umbrageat the reflections Evans allegations cast on me as a person and as a former city.’ defends Atkinson and the$2 millioniprbieet here wereno illegal contriPils * Hogan says. “And why in the world would youever chal lenge that thing not getting done? Penny's fundraising was on her own time. She did that with the understanding and backing ofthe City Council. We had to get that Stake South. thing up and going State lawgives West Valley City leaders 30 days to appointa re. Flora Steele Brown Jay E. Banks SI. GEORGE, Ut—Florg Steeleeet 9%, died Aus ps 2), 1998,inele ge, UI comber26, 901, in Pan to John Ec Zepher Deus! ele. She maried Ef don astbrown on No 4924 in the mayor of the Hoganchose not to runfor re election after one term, and he sawKelly Atkinson — his choice to succeed him — lose to Evans. “ff I had known this would happen, I probably would havestayed in there,” Hogan says Instead, the ex-mayor has watched, with all of West Jordan. ‘| have never been against the sanctuary,’ says Evans. “What I'm concerned about is us follow- ing dueprocess andlawso that we can protect the taxpayers’ inter est in thecity Fleet Flap: Evans was not so calm during a late March bomb- shell alleging misuse of millions of dollars in thecity’s fleet fund. Not knowing that the city man ager had authorized purchase of police vehicles from the fund, fleet manager Gordon Ryan went to the mayor whenhe thoughtthe fund was $600,000 in the hole. Evans demanded an indepen- dent audit of the fund, only to be shot down by council members. Instead, they reaffirmed earlier audit findings, which indicated that the police-car purchases accountedfor the money As the furor wound down, Ryan as council meeting after council meeting turned from lawmaking filed a grievance against Penny Atkinson, saying she threatened to allegations of lawbreaking. to fire him if he did not followher Sanctuary Tiff: The most re. cent blowup centered on the new South Valley Sanctuary, a haven for abuse victims located a few blocks fromCity Hall Evanssays she received a num ber of complaints from neighbors, maintaining that city equipment workers and supplies were used illegally to finish thefacility Penny Atkinson is chairwoman of the sanctuary's board. She and sanctuary director Cathleen Bla gaywere outraged by the charges Atkinsonnotes that all city funds labor and material were autho rized by the council ‘| have given thousands of hours of vaUEN SATIN not Public Works Director Greg Wal- city computers. Atkinson later re scinded Walkenhorst’s repri mand. Ryaninsists Atkinson support- edhis litera suits, which includehis novel Threads of Honor andhis Spirit of Unionseries. He says sheevenpraisedhimin an in house newsletter Give Peace a Chance? At in West Jordan's tit-for-tat bat. council orders to change figures in his budget report to the council, His first grievance was turned down on a technicality. An appeal was found lacking by Dahlgren and subsequently dismissed I never had a chanceto ques tion any of the individuals who were present’ when Atkinsonal legedly threatened his job, Ryan says Normally, employee grievances are confidential. But Ryan now wants a public hearing, with wit nesses, before the City Council The council seems to be indi cating they want a private ses sion,” Ryan says. “If theyareonly willing to talk privately behind closed doors, wewill gever get to Latinos as criminals and illegal Park last year. Later, about 75 police and federal agents raided the Mexican store, La Diana, forcing 82 customers and employees to the floor and handcuffing them. Theofficers found no narcotics. Nearly every week, Latino activists say, Mexican-Americans are pulled over and questioned because they are Latino. There are even more examples nationally. In Katy, Texas near Houston, police detained more than a dozen Mexican-American citizens because they “looked like illegal immigrants. In the Phoenix suburb of Chan- dler, police sought out “ Mexican- looking” people who were detained and searched without probable cause. One man was held, police said, because he had a strong body odor common to illegal aliens.” Kirk said civil-rights safe- guards areinplace. But local Latino leaders are concernedabout Police Chief Ruben Ortega’s apparent unwilling- nessto listen to their criticisms. In a meeting with Ortega last week, Latinos say they were told that unless they agreed with the program, they would notsit on a proposed oversight committee that would deal with discrimination complaints. He told us that those who are in agreement with himget a seat at the table, those who oppose himwon't,” said Lee Martinez, a table are those who have con- OBITUARIES kenhorst, was reprimandedby Atkinson for allowing Ryanto write his LDS-oriented spy novels on this point, a truce seems unlikely to support the sanctuary andits goals. along with therest of the Activists argue that many Salt Lake City police already target immigrants. Police officers abducted two Latinos from Pioneer cerns, not yes men.” is that illegal-immigrant spreading whenhis supervisor maybe even save somelives. ing to pay to get a few ‘drug dealers offtthe street. say, Center, 2850 W. 3835 Patterson says the city plans a police motorcade During the council session, Evans quietly enduredablistering paradeof critics. She then voted “I’ve pon- {ered this quite seriously and I do not knowif she [Evans] has a moenced says of the bulk of the sanctuary fund raising and work was performed @ Continued from B-1 andthat,” Atkinson we ought to do it Latinos are asking city council leaders what price they are will- Salt Lake City Latino activist. ‘The people who need to be at the noon Wednesday at the Granger the bottomoftheissue. Word of Ryan's grievance w Hogan, who was mayor when “lf this is a way to help curtail the drug trafficking For Kirk and somecity council members, exact numbers do not matter. What is important, they Funeral services will be held at because I want the recognition but because | have been given so much andI want to give back to her work for the sanctuary said City Council Chairman Bryce Jolley. He leaves behind his wife, Jo- placementor the governorcanfill the vacancy those in need,” Whether it's 80 percent or 10 percent we need to get a handle Anne, and fourchildren about thecitizenry DeLange attended a July 30 problemof undocumented immi grants andtheillegal-drug trade ing for their neighborhood ° ee:é wasre-elected to a fourth termin lice officers, said City Manager John Patterson. “He was a great man, veryintel- er Mary Callaghan and Sheriff ron Kennard | recently used erroneous statistics to illustrate the county. The correct Salt Lake County estimate for the first six months of 1998 — based on 40-ouncebeerbottles Smith knows that the voluntary council meeting, but becameill 1995. Salt Lake County Commission- If Mary Lou and Shannon did not takeinterest and ownershipin aSp6 BY REBECCA WALSH illegal immigrants is being exag- ership” in their community Long-Time West Valley City Councilman Leland DeLange Dies at Age 64 THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE them are undocumented immigrants. Our job as law enforcementis to address that problem. If someone has a better idea we would like to hearit. But for us to do nothing would be irresponsible There is concern, however. Leah Hogsten The Salt Lake Tribune Mary Lou Downs,left, and Shannon Bauerdaily gather refuse left by transients near their Salt Lake City homes on 600 South. The fat glass bottles of domes- beer known as “40s” sell for und About two years ago, Officer understaffed Salt Lake INS pes eehc end up back on the onit,” @ Continued from B-1 caine distribution and 15 for mar- will call the police,’ she said, add- ing that she has calledofficers so Police Officers Department. There also have been 37 arrests for cocaine possession, 36 for co- criminals are committing ae Due to jail overcrowding and tles. Just last week, Evans walked out of a closed City Council session after council members informed the mayor that she had been accusedof examining cityfi- nancefiles without authorization. For her part, Evans promises to continue her campaign against any wrongdoing. Shesays she con- tinues to receive informationthat the city staff ‘ran amok” the past fouryears. Sheclaims, for example, to have information that a high-ranking city official ignored complaints of flooding in base- ments of new homes dueto shod- dycity inspections All the infighting is takinga toll on rank-and-file city employee: “The morale is so bad," says Assistant Briggs. City Recorder Melanie “I love to work here but eachday I wonder what fire do we put out today.” Second-term City Councilman Brian Pitts says peace between Evansand her critics could go far towardrestoring that morale and winning back the confidence of Hora was the thitd of in. Delta, Ul. Sh \ glee), chicien raised oO |aceyriaaeet erator of Henry's Lake ot Banik, 81, passed away pea itera ingering finess yedoa byfoving bom September28, 1946, invefamily home in Sal Lake Cay jon of John Elmer and Emma. Me Sin Banks LDS Chuich serving in man was the lunges! person of that gle Scout award a! the age igh School and graduated fan with a degteein Poll Atfom hecte fict Atomney where Ne sary 6years unt he udge in ihetnd Judicial Dis srCalvin L. Rampton, feats unihis relement on eptember 2 1s known throughout the criminal \sice sysiem a8 being “rn but Married RuthBlack Larsen on March 10, 1949, Uh He is survived by his wile four children, al JoAnn) Shelley, itichoo Butoh‘andCarolyn (Thomas) Hamblet naa f Saif LakeCity sister, MarvaBanks Linnae,15 grandchicren Preceded in death b) ms Whooroners Mex ond Wie ondson,6 Will be. Neld Tuesday , 1998,ei ‘ihe Buon si WardChapot South where friends may call prior to service, Interment Salt ery 5 lease make coniibulions to Cn al ¢ Society, 941 East 3300 sou SaltLakeCity, ichBat N 8/34 OBITUARY INFORMATION Obituaries are charged for atthe rate of $4.00 per Jing for insetionin both Tnibune and Deseret News (Insetionin one paper would be $2.85 per line Ita picture is used, here is an adaltionol $5.00 charge plus spaced used. 1 LDS Chu jora It sunvived by her daughter Mertiyn and har husband Howard Morison. Jerold and his vite Tony W. Brown,and her son Donald Browns 49 grandchidren, 54 greatgra grandehicren and six great great-grandc he was preceded in death byherhusband, gon are her fast son J, Haldon and son-in-law Thomas agwn neral sence wil be held Tuesday, Sep lembert 1998 al 11am. ot Wing Moray, 18 s! Main, in Loh UE Fends may call Ms evening 7109 bin. and Tuesday mo ing prey to sone informer! wil Bene Lon Cemeiy under the directionof Spilsbury & Beare Mortuary, St. George, UT 673-2 William Hyrum Cooper er an *Bill” Cooper, of Sandy,UT, ei nm oe la Grande, OR, died at home a Weak jesdlay, August 26, 1998, at he a Biosbom in La Granda,OR, on Al 26 fe-long er Gf he Church Of JesusChisotat Sants Dutng Wer iTserved a¢a supply affcat outo carne Stoneman, CA taking supplies fo aimed forces overseas and turing wih the Wounded tg theUniled Sites, ilmamied Vera Ward on Getobat8, 1942, in Union, OR ana leer sola or over 40 yearsBil ranched on ih Grande Ronde Valley. I was dui is time that he served as a Soil obs valfon Commitaeman Acaughier, \Soligen, preceded him in death 1968. Survivors include his wife, 801 wyn} Cooper le, SC; algo included are,16 dren ck and idonna Cantrell D acid AN Ro Bioee THONCA Solecesane ne news oside sencewillbe helcialthe cameler, in Union, OR On Fiday, Sepit fim: with Bishop Tom Morin of|‘Selon Ward ot ciating. Larkin hae Gardens, Sandy, UT, and Dale Profit Mortuary ofLo Grande, OR are faking care of Thiieu of aenge the farnily would ‘oppreciate that donations be made to the organkzation “of choice” CHUM: "So long, my love,fora little while”, chum 18/30 N 8/30 For obituaryinfomation,the numbetto calli residents. Several months ago, he says he apologized to Evans for problems he might have caused her and pledged to work with her. I thought that resolved some 6F for anyone calling outside the SL area,inthe slate of Uioh, our follfree numberis 1-800-662-9186 pel Logan, Dich later dlvorcedater 43 years of mariage but remained g J00d friends until her lived mos! ofher adult eas In SaltLake Taganpros ther. Most of foving devotion AunlfotyGnd WilowCrook Coury many years. shelikedto with les Association win homixed doubles 9) resaoor avid brcign, pave: in later year she tarely missed a we Meek Pinochle with her dear friends, ao ey Cone panions al the Senior Citizen Cenk Sheis survived by wo. voy Koren Cope- land of Sait Lake City, Ulah and Neal G. C {Gnd of rearek Maryan: four ni hand at gran jandson, Affin W. Copeland-Phillips, four Brothers Harold, Meloy, Ewood and Ch mt “in the heavens above The angels, whispering to oneanother, a ne ami! hot burning fensofove, None$0 devotional as that of Honoring therequest of the deceased there willbe no pi fal service. Cremation and VoomonlsonicsCorea oat by Larkin Sunsel an Mausoleum and Cemetery at 2350 East 1300 south,Sail Lake City, Ut NB, “Otilla "Rilly" Liston Cowles. 4ocala,Ukpa a Uston Cowes 4998,in Richfield, U!Uiahnse SH ee saved as Rel # Society President and as a counselor. She also servedin many ofher colings, She was a member of the She. is sunived bychileren, leon and Beth CowlesPortond, lla Michelangelo,Ri field; Mawean:Show,Miscolarie; Coeoh ord Glen ston, WiEmma LouandlWells Weng,Peeabu WA Alvi Contos, Newel and Doro Richi25 grandchik noea dren; eight es footgrareienlgren: two stealgral grandchiren husband; son, Orvil comston bros and sisters en oe fe hek fee. romper, iopeat inthe Etcalontest Waid Chapel fiends call at ine Ward ChaTuesday 14,41. to 2:30 p.m. Bua wlDe in @ Escalante Comelery Funeral Directors, Neal §,Magieby& Sons Mortuay, Richfield, N 8/30 information, please call 37-2934 See Next Page UTAH DEATHS issues but sincethat meeting, she has not madeany attemptto in clude me,” Extra copies of this news paperare available, For LaRueS. Copeland on Augus LaRue S. Copel eae 171898ing Sottoke iy hoseltom contol cationsfollowing a massives Wros Dore oh FaOUGHY25.1920 10 Alex M. and Angela Luthy Smith of Logan, Utah, She wasthelast of six chiidren and Spent her says Pitts. “The coun- cil wantstoget on withbusine: Pitts calls Evans a natural leader, who wouldfind smoother sail- ing by dealing directly with council members administrators. and city | personally find her to be one of the most intelligent andtalent ed people I know,” hesays. “She could do wonderful things for the city if she would learn to work within the system anduse there sources available to her, namely the council and staff. Compiled byJulie DeHerrera TheSalt Lake Tribunenotes the fol lowing deaths by name, age, date of death, residence and mortuary han dling thefuneral arrangements. COWLES, Orilla L., 94, Aug. 28, Exca lante, Magleby Mortuary, Richfield, DEKK| Gerben H., 78, Aug. 23, Brook: lyn, NY O'Donnell & Sons Mortu: ary, Sult Lake City DeLANGE, LelandL,, 63, Aug. 29, West alley City, M Do gal M ortuary, West jordan, FULLMER,Bertha T., 89, Aug. 27, Delta, Nickle Mortuary, Delta NER, Clarence W., 98. Aug. 29, Salt e City, Larkin Mortuary, Salt wake City GOODMAN, ElaineO., 82, Aug. 24, Salt Lake City, Wasatch Lawn Mortuary, Salt LakeCity HAIR, Alice, 70, Aug. 28, Kamas, Sund berg-Olpin Mortuary, Orem HANSEN, Kenneth, 71, Aug. 25, Bureka, Memorial Estates Mortuary, Murray IRSIK, Robert B., 34, Aug. 28 Colo,, Russon Brothers Mortuary Bountiful JOHNSON, Stella L.. 93, Aug. 28, Salt LakeCity, Russon Brothers Mortuary, Bountiful MATKIN, Edward, 43, Aug. 27, Roose: velt, Hullinger-Olpin Mortuary, Roose. vel MORRILL,Doris F., 72, Aug. 29, Vernal, ‘Thompson's Vernal Mortuary, Vernal. REYNOLDS, David W., 85, Aug. 25, Bountiful uandgulat Mortuary, Bounti SMITH, Margaret R.,84, Aug. 26, Denver, Colo., Neil O'Donnell & Sons Mortuary alt Lake City NSEN, Jack, 71, Aug. 28, Mesquite pilibury and Beard’ Mortuary wirWOOD,Kenneth R. 84, Aug. 29, Holden, Valle y View Mortuary, West Valley City ' |