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Show i I WEEKLY REFLEX 4 .4 DAVIS NEWS JOURNAL, DECEMBER 6, 1979 NORTH DAVIS LEADER, DECEMBER 6, 1979 d Park T Off'Th CLEARFIELD - This Steed Park will be one of the finest parks in the whole state, according to City Manager Gayle L. Starks. It is located at 300 N. and 1000 W. citys HE SAID the Weber Basin Job Corps Center had cooperated superlatively with the city in development of the park. Corpsmen have used heavy equipment to level and grade the area, also creating berms for more variety in the landscape. These corpsmen have done a fine professional under job the very efficient supervision of Harold Green and George Farrell, Journeymen Heavy Equipment Operators, Mr. Starks said. - FIFTEEN corpsmen worked on the project for more than three months, and will complete it in the spring, replacing topsoil. They include Lee Attikai, John Domain, Bill Fench, Jim Wilt, Roger Harrison Gonnie, Herbert Zahaney, Mark Debates, Derek Gutierres, Mike Wooters, Rick Baldwin, Peter Jaquith, Elsbach, Ralph Jefferson and Jim Neviels. Their work has been contributed as a community service project. Mr. Green said the corps-me- n of operated seven pieces move heavy equipment to about 20,000 cubic yards of earth. They also moved 10,000 cubic yard of topsoil, which must still be replaced. Heavy to the equipment belongs Weber Basin Job Corps Center, and Clearfield City for operaprovided the fuel tion. THE supervisors gave the corpsmen very close superthe vision, and they brought within a grades right down to fraction of an inch, the city will almanager said. They so be laying out trails We were throughout the park. in hopes that we could get the sprinkling system installed this fall, but were unable to do so. We expect that work to be completed in the spring, and will probably have the grass planted in late summer. THE CLEARFIELD sprinkling system to The drugs, he noted, were about evenly divided between marijuana, LSD (speed) and cocaine. release to their parents. Drug use in Davis County is at a critical stage, the sheriff said. Its especially heavy at this time of year. But we believe that these arrests, plus those made earlier, will do alot to slow the drug traffic, especially in and around our schools. The scene at the jail, especially among the juveniles, was at first carefree. But this atmosphere soon changed to one of screams, cussing and name-callin- g. Fewer than a dozen parents came to the Jail to gain custody of their children. Sheriff Johnson said drugs confiscated over the past five or sic months have been placed in evidence. He said he could not elaborate on the total amount but that the individual buyis made by undercover agents during this ijime would amount to about $21,000. Davis County County Attorney Rodney Page believes the conviction ratio for offenses will be very good. said he ' drug-relate- d Sheriff Johnson said funds for the countywide narcotic investigation team will expire at the end of this year but a request for funds has been made for another six months. Unemployment Myth The unemployment myth continue? as an excuse for bureaucrats spending Headlines money. ; this jnonth earlier reported unemployment slightly up at six percent. This will mean more unemployment checks, plus much gnashing of teeth by those who think the government must provide jobs for everyone. THE TRUE picture concerning unemployment is seldom explained candidly by the bureaucrats (who justify their jobs and importance by expanding the system) or politicians, who capture votes by supporting give-awa- Know The Weather THE CITY also wants to install an overhead walkway drug-relate- CONTINUED FROM FRONT y programs. six point percentage really means little. Many families today contain two, three, or more workers; thus A little hardship is felt if one is laid off temporarily. Today, many youngsters living at home work. If theyre sometimes unemployed, theres no true hardship. WHAT IS needed is a meaningful figure, discounting jobs and hard-corloafers who never work, but prefer to draw government checks, food e stamps and whatever else they can get. A six unempercent ployment figure, give or take about one percent, is probably above railroad How do trees affect the weather? TREES ABSORB an enormous amount of sunlight and heat and they send into the air an enormous amount of water. A forest will absorb far more heat from the sun than as most of the landscape estimated 95 percent. By contrast, a sandy surface will absorb about 75 percent, and snow only about 25 percent. LESS appreciated is the fact that forests send huge amounts of water into the air through evaporation from leaves. Its estimated that a single tree may move as much as 1,800 gallQns.pf water into the air in a BEAUTIFICATION of the area around Steed Pond is also planned, and city officials are working with the owner of the pond, Ed Higley,in growing season! Thus trees not only store hgat, which forms rising air currents under certain condi-; tions but they provide the moisture which often turns into clouds and later rain. WyIvISSSSSSwSv A Difference! Some women show a lot of style; some styles show a lot of women. Clad in pajamas and robe, this young woman suspect is led into Davis County Jail following drug raid. e roundup began about 6 a.m. Wednesday. Coun-'tywid- the intervening years. I have written were to be asked why I became a newspaper reporter, I would answer that I love getting to know people and telling their stories. stories about people with ideas, dreams, accomplishments. I have written articles about people who have been thieves, liars and murderers. HERE I am again, writing stories about people in Davis County, something that I did for many years as a reporter for the Deseret News. It has been exciting and rewarding to see some of those who were news contacts in previous times. My work for the Davis News Journal and The Weekly Reflex and occasionally for the Davis County Clipper will be to tell the stories of persons living in the north end o( the county. Necessarily, many of the articles will deal with what is happening in government, but I hope to also relate information about individuals. IS not a stranger to there have been many and reporters, tragic incidents to write about. Perhaps the most difficult assignment of my life PAMPHLET called Only in a Free Society, published by the American Newspaper Publishers Association Foundation few years ago stated the following: : The newspapers potential as a constructive force in its community is limitless, so long ?s the people are both free to dream and free to try to make their dreamjs come true. The newspaper can educate, arouse, challenge and inform. It can stfr the hopes and aspirations of the people. It can be both the teacher of change and the catalyst that makes a change come about. A remember the incredible thrill of time- ago -tmy first byline. It was a long he summer of 1947. My third child, a son, was a year old. Now he is the Chief Recruiter of the Utah Army National 1 CAN Guard knd lives with his family in Kays-vill- e. : There have been thousands of TRAGEDY came on an August day in 1959, when it became my unhappy task to tell of the death of my eldest son, Roger, in a firefighting accident on Forest Service land in the mountains east of Layton.' He was the oldest of our seven children. My husband, Don, and I still have three other sons and three daughters, all adults now. Roger died swiftly when he was struck on the side of his head by a whirling helicopter propeller, as the aircraft hovered on a slope. He had run in close to pick up some flight jackets brought to the scene for firefighters, who had fought the stubborn oakbrush blaze 18 throughout the night. He was not quite years old. College was only weeks away. SPECIAL bonuses came to me occasionally in the form of trips to accompany Utah Air Force Association members in delivering food and clothing or to the Navajos in Project Navajo, desvarious to in military planes going tinations for different purposes. One trip was made aboard a Globemaster, dubbed Old Shaky, which flew to Alaska to bring back Air Reservists who had been doing summer repair work at an air base near Fairbanks. Ponders County Library Events return trip, the plane made an unscheduled stop at Great Falls in the middle of the night for refueling, and ON THE news media, the airplanes crew and reservists waited for hours for a tanker to bring 9,000 gallons of gasoline so the flight could continue. While in Alaska, I had seen a moose ambling along through the tundra as we flew to a gunnery range in a military helicopter, admired Alaskas wildflowers and marveled at the size of cabbages that grew in a garden plot on a Fairbanks street. They were all experiences I would never have had if I had not been a reporter. NOT ALL the news is exciting. There have been hundreds of dull meetings to attend, when it was almost impossible to stay awake. I remember dozing in a Davis County Commission meeting one warm afternoon, when I was suddenly nudged Wake by the Commissioner C.E. Moss. he whispered. Youre up, Wanda! snoring so loud that you're interfering with the meeting! He was exaggerating, of course. I know I dont snore that loud. I have climbed a mountain to get photographs of airplanes dropping loads of fire retardant on a forest fire, been trapped by fire on Antelope Island with my car wheels stuck in the sand, threatened by a company official when I reported safety violations that nearly caused the death of a worker and been called to the scene of an automobile or aircraft accident more times than I care to recall. I HAVE back-to-bac- k OJETnnHRS TO ran: ibdddtoddc The Davis County Library controversy has uncovered a number : making improvements. The city owns abomjfwtKV thirds of the water rights in the pond. Family boweries and a large bowery are to be and work on the tennis courts will begin in the spring. Three baseball fields, to allow play by six teams, are to be built at the park, wwl cons-tucte- UP EARLY WANDA LUND experiences and countless bylines during tracks at about 600 North to provide safe access to the park from Barlow Street to the park, he noted. Citizen and organizational support will be solicited in a project suggested by Mrs. Clara Ashby. Families, civic groups and other organizations will be asked to cooperate in a beautification project by contributing and planting trees and shrubs of different varieties. h, Wanda Cm T Her Fiirsfl Lov By WANDA LUND Con- trolled Irrigation Company, Ogden. The firm bid $68,491. John Edman Construction Co., Ogden, has been awarded a contract for installation of tennis courts for $54,690. The Davis School District will develop part of the park near the new Harold Holt Elementary School in a manner that will complement the remainder of the park, Mr. Starks explained. Marijuana, LSD, cocaine and other hard drugs along with a lot d of were confiscated from two homes. paraphanalia Market value of drugs was placed at several thousand dollars. RESULTS OF RAID City Council has awarded the contract for installation of the descended to the bottom of a newly constructed reservoir to experience the eerie closed-i- n feeling of being surrounded by concrete except for a small opening to the sky. I have wept with family members when I have gone to the homes of accident victims to collect obituary information, as reporters were required to do in bygone years. have come home smudged and smelling of smoke after visiting the scene of a blaze. I WRITING of childrens activities in schools has been rewarding. Kids say what they think, which is certainly refreshing, and I have never had to per- suade any of them to allow me to photograph them. They love it, and I love doing it. Telling the story of returning prisoners of war who had been confined in the Hanoi Hilton brought both joy and sorrow happiness in seeing some families reunited and sorrow that other relationships had been fractured by the separation, or perhaps before. HAPPY STORIES of love, birth, death and cowardice sad ones stories - stories of heroism - greed, generosity -s- about the lives and activities of people just like you have come from my tories typewriter. Looking back over the years, I can truthfully say I have tried to educate, arouse, challenge and inform in telling people about people. I accepted an early retirement from the Deseret News in July of 1976. Printers ink was apparently still flowing in my veins, however, and I went to work as a writer at McKay-De- e Hospital Center 19 months ago, writing stories about people in various departments at the hospital for news releases and the institutions magazine, The Scanner. WHEN I quit a few weeks ago to accept my present job as a reporter, my former boss, Mrs. Eleanor Moler, said, Well, Wanda, youre going back to your first love newspapering. She was right. Im ready to write stories about you and the people you know. I can be reached at Clearfield, of issues and unleashed a lot of rhetoric but has failed to satisfactorily answer many provocative questions. FOR INSTANCE: What is the responsibility of a public library system? Who, and by what authority, determines a communitys standard of decency? What is a happy medium pertaining to freedom of choice? Which is the more dangerous to the American democratic tradition, a little smut or a little tyranny? Is sex more immoral than the hatching and nurturing of unfounded, malicious, scurrilous rumor? And there is one additional question that should be posed: Why Jeanne Layton? JEANNE LAYTON, u, herself, has never chosen a book for the Davis County Library. Jeanne Layton, by herself, has never spent a dime of the taxpayers' money. Jeanne Layton, though she reads thousands of books, had never read, if even heard the of, book Americana". Jeanne Layton as a supervisory employee of the library board, followed only the dictates of the policies they outlined. Until Comm. Morris Swapp came along with his brand of Jeanne Layton was acknowledged as a moral, talented, dedicated professional in her chosen calling. SO AGAIN: Why Jeanne Layton? Which returns us to Comm. Swann Aftpr he was elected to office, he packed the library board with minions of his own persuasion. So, if he didn't like the policies which had been followed previously, he obviously had all the power necessary to change them. However, for some elusive reason, for Comm. Swapp that wasnt enough. WHICH BEGS another question: What is the motive behind Mr. Swapps vendetta gainst Jeanne Layton? And that brings us into the murky marshland of conjecture. Perhaps he just believes vindictiveness is next to Godliness. Or, perhaps he saw an easy victim a woman, a woman who was single, a mere librarian against whom he could count an easy coup, flex his new found muscle, get his likeness and his bombast in the newspapers and on television, enhance his political image. THEN THERE are those unfortunate bully-type- s who kick dogs, scare children, victimize defenseless women to get their "kicks just as other unfortunates get theirs by reading obscene books. They, of course, deserve our compassion, our pity, our prayers. And to correct a misconception, the damage suit filed in the case is not Davis County. The against taxpayers are not liable for any of the $300,000 dollars. Swapp and his henchfolk may be. IN THE meantime, back to the question only Comm. Swapp can answer: Why Jeanne Layton? lone P. Sandall, |