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Show I VCEKLY REFLEX DAVIS NEWS JOURNAL, NORTH DAVIS LEADER. DECEMBER 25, 1980 m Davis Officials Stalled On Rebate cD FARMINGTON Davis County officials are stalled on a decision about how the county should spend a $26, 80 state health insurance rebate check enroute to county employees. if MEMBERS OF the Davis County Employees Associa- &re!e i yo Cq Coo fries tion suggested having the county pay one months insurance premiums, or recom- i ' ployees will benefit from the money, but added that the county has also paid some into the program and will have to benefit equally from the eJT S4rolll,v 'W r d i pocr op Als. O old you 3c two way affair, the commissioner said. There was some concern by the commissioners when the rebate was announced that those employees who had left Cl you f Com. Morris Swapp Wednesday said the em- L Vea T ft n fhun If Q ftr qci yo-- ?h house rny I .., My t'ea o03 . ut you if mended the money be turned directly over to the employees participating in the program. ITS toon rtT a BarS e i --v and 1 r Sarrf a Uf. (7 n,c o LC0-- )vS A T'- am - the county for other jobs would be missing out. TIS THE SEASON Jim Kelly, director of the Division of Alcohol and Drug Abuse in Davis TO BE JOLLY Bv I.aVORA WAYMENT ness, remorse and guilt, ly For many LAYTON folks the holiday season is indeed a time of peace, happiness and good will. But for countless others it is a time of sad memories, heartache and possibly worse. THE ALCOHOLIC and r families members of his-he- are among those whose suffering is magnified by the spirit" of the season. Another group who suffers the pangs of depression during the "season to be jolly" are those w ho are alone or w ho are away from friends and family. The carols, Santas, gifts and good will are haunting reminders to those without loved ones around of their TO all this is the ADDING fog which is plaguing the area this year and which could be the "last straw to someone w ho is already on a "downer, according to Jim Kelly, director of the Davis County Division of Alcohol and Drug abuse. "If alcoholism teaches us one thing it teaches us loneli- - Kel- said. "Real loneliness is when the bartender even goes home on Christmas eve to be with his family and youve got no one to spend the evening with." OR THE little woman who is waiting for her husband to come home so they can put up the Christmas tree and do the last minute shopping for the kids. Instead, she gets a phone call from the police telling her that her husband is locked up for driving under the influ- ence." The rounds of parties, the need to numb the loneliness or the guilt, and the depression some suffer, all make drinking more acceptable or at least more accessible this time of year, according to Kelly. PEOPLE TURN to alcohol at these times because they but think its a it's not, its a depressant, he said. Kelly advises the problem drinker to not be alone during the holidays. Seek others out, be where other people are, do volunteer work, etc. pick-me-u- FOR THOSE who attend parties where liquor is served they should set themselves a reasonable limit and never go beyond it. If you do, you are not controling alcohol, it is controlling you, which constitutes alcohol abuse, he said. Many people can go to the parties and enjoy themselves with no problems, he said, but the problem drinker knows who he is and needs to plan ahead' to avoid heartache and tragedy for himself and loved ones. ACCORDING TO Kelly, Davis County has ten percent of the state's population with nine percent of the states alcohol violations and 1 5 percent of the states drug violations. "We dont have the skid drinkers here, he said. "We try to get to them before they reach that stage, while they are still the DUls. row ACCORDING TO the Davis County Sheriffs Department, there were 14 DUls from Dec. 15, 1979 to Jan. 1, 1980. That compares to an average three-fou- r for a period during any other time of year, a spokesman for the department y said. Take Over Drug Task Force Will FARMINGTON Beginning Jan. I. Davis County Sheriff s Department will take over the county-wid- e drug task force, it was announced by Sheriff Brant Johnson. five-ma- n HE SAID the task force was organized two years ago with most of the communities within the county participating with either money or manpower. "But this is changing. the sheriff said. "Mayors of the cities have indicated a real tightening of city budgets and asked to withdraw from the program. Therefore, no cities will be asked to contribute." THE NEW task force w ill be comprised of four Davis County sheriff deputies and one experienced drug enforcement officer from the state. The state will also provide a vehicle and the assigned officer will work directly with the county task force officers with an office in the new county jail complex, the sheriff plained. Previously. ex- Bountiful assigned one police officer to the task force and most of the communities contributed funds. A couple of months ago. however, mayors meeting in a session of Council of Governments (COG) voted to have the county take over full operation Parking Will Be Enforced Off-Stre- et Kavsville City Mayor Gar Elison reminds citizens of the ordicity about the nance parking during the winter months. The ordinance prov ides that all cars and vehicles of any kind will not be parked on city streets between the hours of a.m. from off-stre- 5 Bv MARK D. MICKELSEN Bid hunting be- SUNSET gan Thursday in Sunset for a contractor to install a $30,000 pitched roof on the municipal building. LEAKS IN the existing roof forced the city council several weeks ago to reconsider planned expenditures for the city's federal revenue sharing ' : money. Thursday night the council unanimously agreed to replace the now Hat roof with a hipped Nov. to March I. This is to facilitate snow removal on the streets. TRAILERS, house trailers, junk cars and the like cannot be parked on the city streets at any time and violators will be issued tickets and fined, np roof. Mayor Norm Sant noting that the city has gotten by with few improvements to the city building in its This building is going to have to last us." he told the council. THE CITY reviewed a plan for funding and voted to use incoming federal revenue sharing money for the renovation. Mayor Sant warned the council that the city s re- venues are currently not equaling its expenditures. He suggested that the council not of the task force and to increase the county mill levy, if necessary, to fund the program. SHERIFF JOHNSON said he did not know at this time just how the task force will op- erate but emphasized that special attention will be given to high schools and an attempt to identify and apprehend those pushing drugs. He said he did not know what the cost of operating the task force would be, but estimated the cost of operation at about $25 .000 per man. five-ma- n grb Dear COUNTY Auditor Ludeen Gibbons told the commission at a meeting two weeks ago that there are problems with either way the county decides to spend the money. She said in order to be fair to the new and old employees, a lot of research would have to be done. Com. Swapp Wednesday said the people who are paying into the insurance program should benefit most. He noted there are those who have not been paying anything. I Clinton youth deac- cused of three felony crimes in connection w ith the death of a neighbor girl last Aug. 5 was scheduled in Second District Court, Farmington, today (Wednesday). THE YOUTHFUL defendant. John P. Miller Jr., is ex- pected to enter pleas to charges of criminal homicide (murder), kidnapping and for- cible sexual abuse before Second District Judge Thorn- - use any of the city's existing capital improvements money for the project, noting that a proportion of the funds are available, but should be held for emergency use. The mayor and council asked that bids be taken on both an asphalt and metal sloped roof. An estimate from the mayor on the costs turned up $30,000 for the asphalt unit and $25,000 for the metal roof. Another leak was found in the existing roof last week, prompting the city council to fio 3 rl 1 A J ' r k .0 WHEN THE insurance refund check comes back to the county, County Atty. Rodney Page has said the money must be placed in the general fund. Thereafter, money can be allocated for the employees. Com. Swapp said as soon as the three commissioners can meet and discuss the issue, some decision will be made, mdm sc'n' J J9 ,L S L' ct OvN rr j And hov$. L-- 'v fU - y Wo.nl Aro I'o.rv', in Wr' a'd. I 0 If. ej 3rd yr-- . '($ le SckaoC y LOVt H c 1 -- ' ..oil cn n.-.e-i, Ho.-- in dowries, . S3'. Ward ; Elema Wk cxno Fui .n jviir1 V UH my 5arfc H'Jnor - .: vvanf . q LOT o.n vv:Mf A tvj I- - 1 iOuri-o- I I j- V0U h o, i Ana (V c I lo'E And O.'.o : : tv;7. 0. v U V. 0. I Tl.O Syracuse Mayor To Head Council Clarification Problems On Book Selection A propFARMINGTON osed expansion in the Davis County Library's book selection policy is not an issue of First Amendment rights as was reported in last weeks newspaper, a library board member says. FARMINGTON Syracuse Mayor Boyd Thurgood has been named the new chair-ma- n of the Davis County Council of Governments, replacing County Com. Ernest Eberhard. CITY LEADERS throughout the county voted last week to abolish a COG rule allowing only county commissioners to hold the powerful chairmanship position. The COG leaders represent Davis County municipalities on local government matters. Thurgood will be the first city official ever to hold the COG chairmanship position. He is currently finishing his seventh year as mayor of Syracuse. He served two terms as a city councilman prior to becoming mayor. MAYOR MAYOR THURGOOD is employed at Hill AFB as a division chief over quality control. He and his family reside in Syracuse, mdm ley K. Swan. The youth is accused of killing by strangulation Anne Hoskisson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Hoskisson of Clinton. The girl's body was found in an abandoned building just a few blocks from her home. MILLER WAS arrested the following morning and charged with criminal homicide and kidnapping. He was later charged with sexual abuse of the little girl. The defendant was bound overo Second District Court move on the project as quickly You cant fix as possible. these flat roofs," Mayor Sant I dont know anyone said. that can. ITH THE final vote unani-mouthe mayor said the pitched roof will not only allow the storm water to run off more easily, but there will be some storage space inside the roof W Of The Cities SHARON SHUMWAY Smith of Layton, who made the proposal that would prohibit lending books which "exploit oi consist of descriptions or depictions of illicit or sexual immoraltity" to those under 18, for example, said such an issue is "clearly not an issue of it's First Amendment rights just a matter of enforcement. "It's that plain and simple. The Supreme Court ruled that obscenity and pornography are not protected under First Amendment rights. Each communify can set standards considered appropriate to their area. LAST WEEKS article , left out the word "Not" in speaking of First Amendment rights. We regret any inconvenience caused by the error, tb Clinton Youth Hearing A FARMINGTON layed arraignment for a 'Or-- a s, area. According to Mayor Sant, the federal revenue sharing will pay for the project as it comes in. The House of Repre desto stand trial as an adult because pite his young age of the seriousness of the crimes and because juvenile authorities felt he would get better rehabilitation if convicted of the charges. THE CRIMINAL homicide charge is a capital offense and is punishable by the death sentence or up to life in prison. The other two charges are e felonies and carry lesser sentences. Arraingment was postponed until Wednesday at 3:30 p.m. By MARK D. MICKELSEN It is hard to imagine Main Street in Bountiful without Christmas lights and scurrying yuletide shoppers and flickering neon business signs. Its even harder to picture a decaying row of deserted buildings where business once thrived. UNFORTUNATELY, the picture is becoming increasingly common. The results of the 1980 Census show a staggering loss of residents in metropolitan cities and small towns throughout the country. Mayors in cities all over the country have accused the Census Bureau of miscalculating statistics on the population. Some have threatened suit against the bureau. A PROFESSOR of sociology, and an ex- pert on population demographics at the U. of U., claims that there is only a minute chance that the Census Bureau's figures are incorrect. Dr. Laurie McCutcheon said, in a recent lecture at the university, that a new "American ethic has taken the country by surprise. Largely due to the invention of the car in the early 20th Century, and the subsequent invention of highways to drive them on, Americans have been fascinated with getting away from it all." so to speak. In addition. early government programs set up to assist families in buying their first homes have encouraged the sprawl of once people into the suburbs. third-degre- upon request of the dants attorney, grb defen- sentatives has passed a renewof the revenue sharing bill, al but the final vote will be decided in the Senate. THERE ISNT a lot of funding around," he said, noting that the citys future plans to build a new fire station facility will depend largely upon the availability of bonds and, or loans. Sunset has been trying to get funding for the station for the last six months. Mayor Sant said Thursday. The effort has been unsucessful. WHILE admittedly the suburbs are a nice place to live and raise a family, this urban sprawl is causing problems in the city. According to Prof. McCutcheon, as the cities decline in populafion their fiscal capabilities dwindle. People still shop and spend money in the cities, but the money isn't sufficient to pay for some other services. like fire protection. In short, people in the suburbs are not paying their fair share to use the cities. adults Historically, white, middle-clas- s have been the first to vacate the cities for the suburbs. W'hat results is a higher population of poor and aged people, as well as an influx of minority groups. WHAT WE now see happening to larger cities, like Chicago and Salt Lake City, will someday inch its way into less populated communities, like Bountiful and Kaysville. When this happens, businesses, and jobs as well, begin leaving the city. The increasingly poor populations left require outside funding to survive. And as the cities become older and older, with no sign of re- - novation, city officials must provide additional maintenance services and that costs money. WHAT CITY officials throughout the country are worrying about now is what effect the dwindling population figures will have on their allotment of federal revenue sharing money. In addition, the erosion of the city s tax base is heightened as business and job revenues begin to disappear. And according to Dr. McCutcheon. the Census Bureaus figures for 1980 "are not far off from the realities of the situation." TWO IMPORTANT facts emerge from all this. First, the bigger the suburbs are, the more the city has to spend on services to support them. And secondly, the bigger the city center populations, the less suburban people have to pay. The statistics supporting this move from the city into the suburbs are backed up by people throughout the country. In a recent survey. 80 percent of the people questioned said they would rather live next to a city, rather than directly inside. About ten percent said they would live in the inner city. And the remaining ten percent voted for residency in some rural area. BUT HOW can we get people to start moving back into the city? That is a difficult question. Some sociologists claim that increasing gasoline prices may force suburban dwellers back into the city for economic reasons, but the data is shaky. Its interesting to examine the migration statistics of the Third World countries and compare this to the situation in the United States. IN THE underdeveloped countries, peo- ple are moving from their farming communities into the cities. U there are more farmers available than the cities demand. Therefore, the men lake on relatively unimportant jobs, like selling water or fruit to visitors, and continue to stagnate with little hope of a good job. y, ONE EXAMPLE is Mexico City. Its population is growing at ten percent per year. With already ten million residents in its inner city, Mexico City is expected to double its population in only seven years. In the United States, the advent of the suburban shopping center encourages residents to shop, conveniently, near their homes. If this "American ethic continues, there is actually little hope for the survival of our cities. |