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Show Safety Improvements For Pedestrians Wanted By Citizens By DONETA GATHERUM Complete support from the mayor of Layton and the city council was promised to a group of citizens living in the Camelot and Vae View subdivisions. The citizens group, lead by Robert K Farrell, Lincoln Elementary School PTA safety chairman, are petitioning the Utah Department of Transportation for some safety improvements at the miersection of Camelot Street and Main Street. The appearance of Layton's Dell Adams and company was one of the most popular attractions of Pioneer Day parades in years past. area Trapper Jim He would dress in a costume depicting fur and his while animals colorful pelts gave those pack Bridger, viewing the parade a glimpse of Utah's historic past. PIONEER DAYS PAST By DONETA GATHERUM Since 1 main parade attraction w as Del Adams and his Jim Bridger entry. Mr. Adams started portraying Utah's most famous mountain man in 1935. He and members of his family were continually involved in summertime parades until Del Adams died in 1971. 847 when the pioneers first arrived in the Salt Lake valley, the celebration of Pioneer day has been an important event in every Utah community and in many towns and cities in neighboring western states. A parade, sponsored by an LDS Primary, a community group or a large city, is included in every Pioneer day celebration. FOR MANY years, one A first person account of his parade experiences is found in Del Adams autobiography. In 1935 Mayor Harmon Perry of Ogden got the idea of reliv well-know- n ing the Pioneer movement to Utah in the early days with a parade and rodeo for the week of July 24. MY FATHER, Hyrum Adams, and mother, Annie, put on old costumes and drove a team and covered wagon with plow and pioneer equipment of that early day in the first Pioneer parade in Ogden. Everyone like the idea. That was something new and everyone got into the act. Some grew Whiskers and In J453, the Logan Chamber of Commerce decided to make a movie of Cache Valley's industry, history, etc. and to include a picture of Jim Bridger. the fust white man to see the valley in 1825. some dressed in old costumes and buckskin suits. MAYOR PERRY came to Layton to visit our parade on July 4. He asked me to take part in the Pioneer Parade in Ogden, I immediately said I would depict Jim Bridger. This I did with my son, Fred, as Little Jim on a burro. Later we bought Pinto ponies, black and white, for our daughters to ride in parades. This was very colorful. THEY PHONED me and agreed to go to Logan. My brother Blaine went with me. W'e had three mules, the furs and the entire outfit. We spent a couple of days in Logan Canyon. filming different scenes. One day we went up the canyon about 20 miles to Ricks Spring. There I went up and around a ridge. W'hen coming down the side of the mountain I saw many cars parked on the road watching the filming of Jim Bridger. A California car pulled up and stopped and asked Blame who was standing there, w ho that was. He answered. Oh. that's Jim Bridger. THE LADY replied. For heaven's sake. I though he died years ago.'" dmg I Seven sisters. Josie, June. Isabel, Mary, Pauline, Annie and Beckie, rode in matched turquoise suits and hats. Expect Heavy Traffic During 24th Weekend The Utah Department of Transportation urges motorists to use extra caution when driving during the upcoming July 24th weekend. Many people will be taking advantage of weekend to take the three-daa short trip or go camping. y ROUTES TO popular vacation spots will be congested during the peak travel times beginning Thursday evening and Friday, and again on Sun- day afternoon. Motorists should plan a little extra travel time to offset time lost on roads, and longdistance travelers should take advantage of the rest areas along our highways. Law enforcement officials will be concentrating their efforts near recreation areas and especially watching for tired or intoxicated drivers. d ALTHOUGH WORK on most road construction projects on state highways will be shut down during the weekend, warning signs in the construction zones must be heeded to assure safe travel. We particularly ask motorists to be alert, slow down and make allowance for changed conditions at points where freeway lanes have ended and revert back to traffic. Following is a list of construction areas on major highways likely to be encountered by holiday traffic. Drivers should check this list against their planned routes and become aware of potential problem areas before they begin their trips. two-wa- y NORTHERN UTAH: I 80. At Echo Junction, westbound side: construction of new parapet walls on bridge; traffic res tricted to one lane: Saltair to 6000 West: concrete surfacAt 3rd ing. 7 miles: North, southbound side: bridge deck repair; traffic resAt tricted to two lanes: 6th South off ramp: bridge deck repairs; traffic restricted to one lane each for north and at "southbound traffic: 90th South: modifications to on and off ramps. Central Utah: Sevier River northerly to Mills Junction between Levan and Scipio): grading, drainage and concrete surfacing. 7 miles: traffic. (half-wa- two-wa- y y SOUTHERN UTAH: Paragonah northerly to juncconcrete surtion with trafy miles: facing. fic on one side of interstate. SR-2- 1 two-wa- Day To Be Held July 25th The annual Syracuse for the Little Buckaroo Rodeo" is necessary and a small entree fee required. The rodeo entree's will include youth up to 14 years of age. This will be the highlight of the darly evening's entertainment and will start at 6.30 p.m. From 2 p.m. on the activities will be exciting and great, and many to choose from. Much interest is shown in the handicrafts displayed following the judging that is similar to the county and state fair shows. Winners will receive blue ribbons and different awards. Mrs. Eddessa Anderson and pected happened, it WHEN THE freeway interchange is completed and the sidewalk to Lincoln Elementary School is installed, there will be no bus transportation for these children w ho live in the Camelot and Vae View subdivisions. The traffic in this area has increased store was markedly since the opened and traffic is projected to increase even more once the interchange is completed. IN 01 MR matters, Layton City Council annexed nine acres of property located at 12(X) W. and l(XX) S. into the city. The ground is being used as a riding and show facility for horses. Mr. Medlock. the property owner, will have 80 stalls for horses that will be sold like condominiums. Riding and show facilities are also included in the horse facility. A hearing w as set for Aug. 20 at 7 3(1 p m to consider a rezone request lor a PR UD on 30.8 acres of ground located south of Oakhills Drive at 1220 East. THE CITY agreed to abandon claim to a narrow strip of property boaidering two lots in the Marshall Heights subdivision The city originally received the property as an access to a holding pond that might someday be developed into a small paik. Another access route to the pond is available to the city. The council felt it would be best to deed the property in Marshall Heights to the adjacent property owners THE CITY council approved an alternazone proposed by the city entive gineer and public works director. The zone will require a 4'A foot parking strip, city ownership of property one foot behind the sidewalk and a 50 foot asphalt road or minor streets only. Bids have been received for the lighting of a ball diamond in the Chapel St. Park. It was hoped that the lights could be installed for under $13,000. Increased costs for breakers and light fixtures has made the projected cost low for the project. I he city council recommended that Richaid Hunt, parks and recreational director, look at some possibilities of getting help from Hill AFB and other sources for labor before the council approves a bid for the project. 4 4 THE NUMBER of heavy trucks using the off and on ramps to service the freeport center are an especially pressing concern of the residents of Camelot and Vae View. The safety committee secured all the names of families living within of the Camelot-MaiStreet intersection on the petition requesting a walkway and-o- r a traffic light. safety-minde- one-fourt- h n MAYOR LEWIS G. Shields noted the department of transportation had planned a walkway similar to the one requested by the citizens but had abandoned the plan because of the cost and the fact that children might not use it once it was built. Mr. Farrell said he believed a walkway could be designed in such a fashion as to make it so the children would have to use it because they could not get to the surface of the road. He said the cost was cheap in comparison to the loss of a life or the cur-cu- THE COUNCIL approved the expenditure of $26,700 for the replacement and pump for the city well repair of a deep-welocated on Hill Field Road. The contract was awarded to Nickerson Pump Co. of Salt Lake City. It will take four or five days to get the well back into operation reared over backwards with me landing square on top of me. We landed on a bump in the road and I suffered four broken ribs in my back. The saddle horn broke two ribs in front. There I was. stretched out in the middle of the road, and the mule ran back to the barn. MY SON Mark and his wife. Sarah, had been watching the fracas and came to help me to the house and called the ambulance. In 30 minutes I was in the Dee Hospital in Ogden, sickerthan Jim Bridger had ever been before. I sold the mules to Ed e of Ogden and built a stagecoach. I named it the Adam's Express. It was pulled by two Welsh ponies, and it is just as much fun and a lot safer for an old man. Jar-din- Mrs. Kathy Palmer are in charge of this part of the days activities. THE COMPLETE program of the day is as follows: a.m. articles for arts and crafts booths at old Founders Park should be drop off; p.m. judging of arts and crafts; 2 p.m. flag raising ceremony, all food and game booths open: 3 p.m. dad and child pitcher pour, obstacle course, adult water balloon toss, sack races, 1 1 adult frisbee and baseball throw; 2:30, Utah Olde Time Fiddlers. Three-fou- r WE PARADED in Layton. Logan, Coalville. Ogden, Salt Lake City, Provo. Brigham City and Evanston, Wyo. This was an annual affair for Jim Bridger until 1958. "After the parades were over in Salt Lake City. I Pinto bought a mule. I proceeded to break the mule to ride. Then the unexthree-year-ol- d Syracuse Founders Founders Day will be July 25 with a full afternoon and evening of events that will take place at the Syracuse Park (east of Syracuse Elementary School). AFTER STID31NG the situation for many weeks. Mr. Farrell and the other citizens of Camelot and Vae View subdivisions are requesting the department of transportation to install a pedestrian walkway across the freeway on and off ramps and across the freeway that is now under construction on Antelope Drive and According to the safety report prepared by Mr. Farrell, 360 children attending Lincoln Elementary and North Layton Jr. High School could use this proposed walkway. chance of serious injuries to childien COUNCILMAN I vnn Wood said he believed a walkway of this nature should be covered. Mayor Shields concluded the discussion by promising he would contact the department of transportation and secuie an appointment with them Hopefully some positive action can be taken before school starts. p.m.. Candy hunt, relay races etc.; 3:15, p.m. pantomime artist; softball games; 4 p.m. mag- ician show volleyball, horseshoes, badminton and croquet; 6 p.m., 6:30-8:3Little Buckaroo Rodeo; firewords at dark, vsb IN MY role as Jim Bridger dressed in a buckskin jacket and pants made by Moroni and 1 Amy Timbimboo of the Washakie Reservation where I grazed my sheep. I carried an old muzzle loading rifle and had a string of mules loaded with furs of w bears, skunks and foxes. I had trapped and shot all of them. I would get up early in the morning on the parade days and gel ready to truck my mules. Sometimes parade life was dangerous with youngsters tossing firecrakers under my mules. s, HAE told me that I personified the great American spirit as the Jim Bridger of the 20th Century and that I help to keep alive the great heritage for the youth of America. PEOPLE By TOM BLSSELBERG ClearCLEARFIELD field's city attorney is ex- pected to offer an opinion this week indicating whether plan- ning commission action approving conditional use for an alcohol recov ery center w as done legally. THE MATTER came before the city council in their July 14 session, with more than two hours of comment received both pro and con on the new alcohol recovery center (ARC) opened about two weeks ago at 860 South State. out a public hearing." he said in a telephone interview. 33 F. HAD no input at all I wasn't aware (of the center plans) until an article appeared in the paper. I appealed the decision of the planning commission. There's no provision in this particular ordinance (stipulating residents) should be contacted. It disturbs me the planning commission is using a rooming or boarding house provision to permit the alcohol recovery center to be established." he added. the ARC is concerned. don't want it next to me I don't think anyone else AS FAR as Concerned the center was allowed under the conditional use provision of a boarding house" was Victor Smith, w ho lives just south of the facility. "My primary concern is a matter of a zoning ordinance apparently approved legally that allows the planning board to make a decision that permits on a conditional use basis w ith- - ordinance) but nothing lists ARC." AMONG THOSE supporting the center were Dr. Russell 3A i a m s . county mental health alcohol director, and Jim Kelly. ARC Center director. Mr Smith said he had not discussed the issue with Dr 33illiams but said. "Mr. Kelly assured me it wasn't anything (ARC) that would be detrimental to the area." BUT MR. Smith emphasized he was "attacking the ordinance" rather than the center or where it might be placed. I does." People should be made aware of what ordinances contain and recourse they have to provisions they disagree with. Mr Smith said. There's a half a page of things allowed on conditional use (in the zoning City Manager Gayle Starks said in a telephone interview that apparently more people are in favor (of the center)" with many thinking it was a half-wahouse for criminals." It is located across from North Davis Jr. High School and that had raised some y THE CENTER will he used for those voluntarily seeking treatment with many working at regular ohs during the day Clients will be county residents. The center has been in operation about two weeks T he city council could act on the matter during its next regular session. 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