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Show VTJW STATE PRESS ASS P. 0, CAKS ' 132? cm; VTAH 842? ran THURSDAY, MARCH 10, 1977- - VOLUME FORTY-FIV- FORTY-SEVEN-NUMB- E Hill! MW By GARY R. BLODGETT Clearfield City officials should know within the next few days the land site for the proposed golf course and baseball diamonds - a part of the multipurpose park complex planned for this community. range, a fishing pond for children, football and soccer fields, skateboard track and horse and bike trails will be site on 300 North developed on a 35-ac- near 1000 West. -- WE HAVE three sites under consideration and should have the deal wrapped up very soon, probably within the next few days, Clearfield parks and recreation director Ross Kearl said Wednesday. SITE OF the proposed golf course and four baseball-softbadiamonds will be announced as soon as the land acquisition is settled, Kearl notll ed. Restroom facilities, picnic area and parking spaces also will be provided at the 300 North site, according to the master plan. Mr. Kearl, who is acting city manager in the absence of Gayle Sparks, said the proposed project - built on two sites cost an estimated $2,413,000 and will consist of a total of 163.5 acres. -- OF THE total amount, $1.2 million will be paid for over a period by Clearfield residents if the bond proposal for that amount is approved by majority vote March 29. - Thats when the residents of Clearfield will go to the polls to cast their ballots for or against the park sites and development Of the two recreation , complexes. Jimmie Stewart and Kenny Payne, in Davis County Sheriffs crime lab, analyze a substance under the microscope to determine if it is marijuana. STUDY CRIMES that shows the position of all objects at the scene. Deputy Stewart said investigation calls for technical into have We formation. By ROSELYN KIRK Law enforcement agencies in Davis County dont need Sherlock Holmes. They have a much more efficient and scientific method which is provided through the investigative efforts of the Davis County Sheriffs Office Crime provide physical evidence that someone has been there and place him back in that This can be environment. done with fingerprints or tool marks. Lab. THE CRIME lab - officially pair of pliers is used once, the burglar may use the IF known as the Bureau of Criminalistics, identification and investigation - is presided over by Deputies Kenny Payne and Jimmie Stewart. The lab provides identification and investigative services for all the towns in Davis County including the sheriffs office, highway patrol, department of parks and recreation and fish and game. In addition they provide same pliers Deputy Payne said investigation begins when the team photographs the scene of the crime before it is disturbed. Then they take plaster casts of tire tracks, samples of blood and hair and make a crime scene search for evidence that may provide a TEnere clue. THE TWO deputies also look for latent finger prints at the scene of the crime, make plaster casts of any footprints and a silicon cast of all marks made by a tool used to gain By ROSELYN KIRK Davis County Commissioners and Sheriff William Dub Lawrence say that administrative changes in the a cigarette butt, door knob, or hair, is placed in a plastic or paper bag, sealed or initialed, and placed in the evidence sheriffs BEFORE the evidence is removed, the location of the object is noted and measured and listed on a diagram sheet tion yet. ' PHONE 376-91- 33 Pubtlchod WMkfy by CLIPPER PUBLISHING CO. John StaMn. Jr, PuMsher Socond Clou Pootago Paid At Layton, Utah SUBSCRIPTION $4.50 Out of per year Stall Subscription SS.M thmnaii Inscription SI S.M (Payable in Advanca) office, which result- ed in a conflict over Capt. Dean Egberts rank, will not extend to a salary confronta- room. Layton THE ONLY problem, is that Jimmie said, burglars dont keep the right hours. Deputy Payne is available in the Sheriffs Office from 6 a.m. to 2 p.m., while Deputy Stewart works from 2 p.m. to 10 p.m. They are on call the rest of the time and work on alternate weekends. Normally they don't go out on accidents unless there is a fatality. Deputy Stewart told of one rape case in which investigative procedures were important. The car thought to be involved in a rape case was carefully vacuumed section by section. Hair from the head and from the pubic area SHERIFF Lawrence said the captains title, conferred on Capt. Egbert on Dec. 21, was endorsed by the county merit board. It was an honorary position recognizing Capt. Egbert as an outstanding officer. Capt. Egbert, who has served as a lieutenant since the fall of 1970, will now be responsible for three patrol units and one investigative unit. Sheriff Lawrence said the honorary rank, will not be an official rank until it is endorsed by the merit board. HE PLANS to make the rank advancement and salary increase proposal next July. was carefully collected. Investigators identified where the hair was found. THE HAIR showed that the victim had been raped in the back seat of the car and placed the criminal at the scene. A plaster cast of the footprints near the car served as additional evidence. Deputy Payne said it is next to impossible for a person to be in a room and not to leave evidence of his presence. A hair from the head, residue from the boots, or fingerprints where the person has touched furniture or woodwork, show his presence after he has left the room. A special vacuum, with a filter, is used to collect evidence. DEPUTY PAYNE said investigators can determine if a man has been killed in one location and moved to another. Investigation will show that evidence has been transferred. Officers were warned not to disturb the scene before it can be pho- - Is No Issue, iauDS SHierilff physical evidence at the scene, such as DAVIS NEWS JOURNAL 197 B" North Main St, another THE BLOOD found on a tennis shoe in his possession also matched with that found at the scene. The two investigative techniques placed the person at the scene of the crime. Morgan County. Any collected on burglary. If we can find him with the pliers, we can connect him to the scene. Deputy Payne told of one case where the suspect had cut himself, in addition to throwing flour around during the course of the crime. Objects were dusted for fingerprints and they matched with that of the suspect. investigative services for entry. A Both Deputies Payne and Stewart had a background in law enforcement before they were appointed to staff the crime lab. Deputy Payne has been with the lab for 2'j years and Deputy Stewart for 3 years. The two are the only investigative officers for the county and must be on call 24 hours a day. Commissioner Glen Flint had argued there was no need for the captains position and had chastized the sheriff for promoting Egbert to captain without the approval of the commission. SHERIFF Lawrence maintained that he needed only the approval of the merit commission for the honorary rank. He said he would not propose an official rank advancement with the accompanying pay raise until later. No money is budgeted for the increase at the present. There is no issue. There has never been an issue, Sheriff Lawrence stated. COMMISSIONER Flint said the issue has centered around a change in the captains grade and an accompanying salary increase for Egbert. The Sheriffs office can call him a colonel as far as were concerned, but he wont get any more money, Com- missioner Flint said. Apparently this confrontation will not surface until July Says when Sheriff Lawrence says he will ask for an official rank advancement for Egbert. THE reorganization in the structure of the sheriff's office placed three of the seven departments in the sheriffs office under the supervision of Lt. Stan Tebbs and four under the supervision of Capt. Egbert. Formerly all seven departments had been administered by Egbert. In December, Lt. Tebbs assumed responsibility for civil problems, communications and administration of the jail. Both Capt. Egbert and Lt. Tebbs report directly to Chief Deputy Jan Cunningham, who is responsible to Sheriff Lawrence. SHERIFF Lawrence said that the change was necessary since it would result in more efficiency and a fairer distribution of the workload. Twenty men will be under Captain Egberts jurisdiction and he will have the lions share of the responsibility. tographed by either deputies. of the two Every crime is photographed with three cameras - one black and white, one color and one polaroid. Deputy Stewart explained that this is necessary because black and white pictures dont pick up bruises. -- IF APPROVED, the bond will be paid off over a period from funds levied by a property tax hike. To the average homeowner - with a home valued at $30,000 - the cost will be about $18 per year, $1.50 a month, explained Kearl. Owners of higher priced homes will pay proportionately more. -- FEDERAL MATCHING funds, which dont quite equal 50 per cent of the total cost for park land acquisition and development, amounts to a little over $1.1 million. A family-typ- e park which will include tennis courts, horseshoe pits, basketball and volleyball courts, archery KEARL SAID the total funding cost allows for approximately $93,000 to cover increased costs of park development which may arise during the next 18 months to two years before the park and golf course are completed. The park sites are designed by Don Collett, a golf course and recreation park consultant from Provo. HE SAID that two bills signed into law by former President Gerald Ford just before he left office will aid Clearfield in its development of a new golf course and recreational facilities. Mayor O. Ross Sanders earlier expressed concern about waiting to build a multipurpose park complex. NOW IS the time to buy land and develop a city park sufficient and suitable for all residents, he said. If we dont act now, inflation and land development on preferred park sites will lessen our chances to build a park. We have only 40 acres of parks in our city which should have more than 200 acres of developed parks and recreation facilities. The proposed park would bring our parks into perspective with our population. grb COLOR IS needed for this, but color cant be used to show to the jury because the color of red blood on the color photo might prejudice the jury. The polaroid camera is needed to provide an instantaneous reproduction of the scene. Sometimes the camera may pick up some clue that may not click when the investigator scene. surveys the THE TWO investigators develop and print all the film themselves and present photographs if needed during court cases. They also investigate any violent deaths in Davis County for State Medical Examiner Serge Moore. If a person is found dead, the police are first notified. Dr. Moore determines whether an investigation is necessary. IF THE investigators are called in, they make the dea after termination conference with the doctor as to the cause of death. Deputy Payne said that nine years ago, when he was first hired by the Sheriffs Office, there was no crime lab. Each deputy just carried a fin- gerprint kit with him. NOW THE deputies report their findings to Sgt. Leo Monks. Fingerprinting has become a more refined process. After the object containing the prints is dusted, the print is compared against that of the suspect, using a machine called a comparator. The machine provides a split image comparison on a lighted screen. Deputies look at arches, whirls and loops and ridges on each print to determine whether it corresponds with that of the suspect. BEFORE the crime lab had this facility, fingerprints were compared with a magnifying glass and the comparison took much longer, Deputy Payne said. He attended a class taught by the FBI on fingerprint identifies- - Emergency Services Set April 1 For Mental Health By ROSELYN KIRK hour emergency crisis response service for mental problems will be available to Davis County residents on April 1 as a result of the proposal approved by Davis County Twenty-fou- r which will activate a pager manned by a mental health staff member. OFTEN THEY are summoned to court and are sworn to testify as to who took THE commission also approved purchase of five pagers at the total cost of $1,650, with each pager costing $330. Telephone service for the system, which will run into both centers, will cost about $100 a month, Dr. Williams estimated. The eight mental health personnel who will man the system will be paid $20 per week day and $25 on a weekend for being available period. during a DR. WILLIAMS told the commissioners that the cost for the program has already been included in the $750,000 mental health budget, mostly financed through a federal government grant. Commissioners were reluctant at first in signing the request for the equipment and salaries needed to man the program. Commissioner C.E. Moss commented, The mental health program is mushrooming awfully fast. DR. WILLIAMS said the commissioners could expect to see the program grow until the two year phase-iprogram is completed. We may be moving too fast for the commission, but were moving too slowly for the public, he said. He said the todians of the evidence room. staff has been manning the calls with no extra pay, but are not available on a crisis basis at the present Commissioners on Tuesday. DR. RUSSELL Williams, of Mental Health, said that emergency aid will director be available to county residents who call one of two one for the north numbers end of the county and one for the south. The calls will come in over emergency room switchboards in the two hospitals. It will be relayed through a communications system, tion. Both deputies have taken correspondence classes comparing all aspects of fingerprinting. After fingerprints are identified as belonging to the suspect, deputies must sometimes appear in court to further explain the identifying process to the jury. Sometimes they make prints showing the 8 by 11 com- n parison of fingerprints. developed and printed pictures showing evidence in all aspects of the case. investigators are also cus- They are responsible for placing all evidence in a secure area. Deputy Payne pointed to a ski parka on his desk which he was about to identify and place in the evidence room. The parka was involved in a burglary case, he said, rk mental health time. He said the crisis response system, with mental health personnel available on an basis, is necessary. The time of a crisis is the time for a change in the callers behavior. The counselor may be able to save a life." on-ca- ll AT PRESENT the mental health division is averaging at least one call a day, even though the crisis service has not begun. Dr. Williams said. He anticipates that the number of calls will increase to 22 calls a day after the service is initiated. He said this estimate is based on statistics available from both Salt Lake and Weber Counties, which provide the service to residents in those counties. A contract, signed by the county at the lime the federal grant was approved, calls for the emergency system. It would be a breach of contract not to provide the service, Dr. Williams said. COMMISSIONERS ques- tioned whether the money poured into the mental health program was necessary, pointing out that the service had not been available in previous years. The problem has always been there," Dr. Williams said. "Now were solving it in a more effective way by treating the mentally ill person in the home and community rather than sending him to a mental hospital. He said research has provided new techniques to deal with mental health problems. THE in commission, approving the costs for the additional professional staff, the beeper units, and the fees for the lines, asked that Dr. Williams staff report monthly the calls that were handled through the crisis response system. The crisis response service is one segment of the twelve mental health services that will be provided to the combasis munity on an over the two-yeperiod. g |