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Show UTSH STATS F8E33 ASSX. 67 EAST 50:1 35. ? WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 6, r T s CIU, LTAI ' HU VOLUME 1982 NUMBER riFTY-TW- FORTY-FOU- Mended Telephone Bervice To Begin In County Feb. 7th By GARY R. BLODGETT Residents of the Kaysville-Laytoarea will soon be utilizing Extended Areas Service (EAS) for telephone calling, it was announced this week by Mountain Bell Telephone Co. officials. n THE CUT over date of this service will be Feb. 7 to conincide with the delivery of the new Ogden telephone P O A WORST STORM IN YEARS Davis County Commission meeting (top) was cancelled and the courthouse closed Tuesday aftSYnoon in the wake of one of the seasons worst snowstorms. Blowing snow and treacherous highways stranded motorists throughout the county regular-schedule- d directories. The service, approved by the Utah Public Service Commission, began in August 1980 with the first phase of the extended service by cutting over the new Farmington Electronic Switching System (ESS) which allowed Farmington customers to expand their local calling south to include the Salt Lake zone and Murray. NOW, PHASE II will be put into service Feb. 7. With this phase, local calling from among those customers served by switching offices in Clearfield, Kaysville, Layton, Farmington and Bountiful will be put into operation. In addi- tion, cus- Kaysville-Layto- n tomers with 544 and 546 prefixes will have local calling from Ogden on the north through the Salt Lake Zone on the south. two-wa- y By MARK D. MICKELSEN Blowing snow and icy roads Tuesday afternoon forced the closure of the Davis County Courthouse and several local business and industrial firms in the wake of one of Utahs worst winter storms. THE STORM, which hit the Wasatch Front early Tuesday morning and continued throughout the night, laid down an average of eight to ten inches of snow in many areas. Visitors to the Davis County Courthouse in Farmington found empty hallways and locked doors after county officials authorized the closure of the building at noon. Handwritten signs on the front and rear door of the courthouse said building closed because of impending snow storm. A COUNTY commission meeting scheduled for 1:30 p.m. was cancelled at the last minute, but on the second floor one of two district court offices remained open. Snow continued to fall throughout the afternoon in Farmington, leaving streets snow covered and icy. A car traveling into the city by way of mountain slipped off the road, hitting a street sign. IN NORTH Davis County, officials at Hill Air Force Base began sending employees home at 1 1 a.m., a department every half hour. The Freeport Industrial Center in Clearfield closed down operations at noon. ABOUT 12 to 15 smaller stores in the Layton Hills Mall began closing around 2 p.m., although mall officials kept the shopping center open until nine. Patient Rate Skyrockets Davis Countys two hospitals in Bountiful and Davis North Medical Center in Layton underwent patient rate increases of about 15 percent for the period 1976 to 1980, according to a report from the Utah Health Cost Management Foundation. Lake-vie- THE REPORT noted that the increased costs ranging from 13 percent at Davis North to 16 percent at Lakeview. Lakeview Hospital, which began operation in 1975, showed an average increase in patient charges per day of just over 16 percent during the five-yeperiod. At the same time, the hospitals patient load (admissions) increased nearly 30 percent per year. NORTH DAVIS, during the same five- - a rate charge increase of just under 13 percent with an annual admission increase of 10.87 year period (beginning in 1976) had percent, the report showed. In 1979, the average cost per day for patients was $293 at Davis North compared to $261 per day at Lakeview. OVERALL, THE charges are comparable hospitals in Salt Lake City and Ogden. For example, LDS Hospital in Salt Lake City had an average daily cost of $336, and McKay-De- e Hospital in Ogden measured $271 per day. However, all per-da- y hospital rates could be reflected by the amount of services rendered to each patient, longer or shorter hospital stays, or other variables, it was explained. throughout Extended e serwithout a vice charge. Resulting rate increases are still under consideration by the Public Service Commission. is expected shortly. Mountain Bell officials said. To coincide with the cutover (Feb. 7). customers with 376 prefixes will change to 544, 766 and 546 prefixes. These FOR EXAMPLE, appear in the new Ogden telephone directories which will be delivered simultaniously with the changeover. cut-ov- y Kaysville- customers will -Layton new prefix numbers will ALSO AVAILABLE at the will be the time of the new services of call forwarding, call waiting, three-wacalling and speed calling. Briefly, call forwarding will allow incoming calls to any other phones, thus providing security as well as convenience. Your unanswered telephone need never again inform the caller that your home "of business is temporarily unattended. CALL WAITING let s the customer know, while you're on the line, that another caller is waiting to complete a call. This service will allow you to put one caller on "hold" while you answer the second incoming call. Three-wacalling lets the customer add a third party to the telephone conversation. This feature allows "conference conversations with any combination of local or longdistance parties. Area Service n HOWEVER, an order containing the spread of rates" from the 1980 rate increase re- quest monthly rates for (EAS), will vary from 30 cents for Farmington and Salt Lake City customers to as much as $3.08 for Kaysville-Laytocustomers with private lines. Increases will vary according to the number of parties on the line and special services. Mountain Bells local monthly rates are determined by the number of main telephone (terminals) that can be called without long distance charges. Davis County pay the highest rate of increase because their Extended Area Service will be increased from six to nine rate group changes. DAVIS COUNTY residents from Clearfield south to include Bountiful will be able to call Davis County customers as far south as to include Kaysville and Layton. Farmington and Bountiful residents e will be able to call within the county and south to include Murray, but will not be able to call Ogden without a long distance charge it was explained. toll-fre- , ' y SPEED CALLING lets the customer reach frequently called numbers by dialingjust one or two digits. This service is available in packages of 8, 30, or 38 local or numbers of your choice. long-distan- Service charges vary according to the services rendered, officials explained. Based on toBASED ON tariffs, Davis Countys days High-way-1- Hospital Rates Increase But Stay Competitive; increased FOR THE first time, it will provide countywide calling MOUNTAIN BELL officials estimate the cost of the EAS and ESS project will exceed $8,750,000. Construction is progressing on schedule. During initial meetings with the Utah Public Service Commission (PSC). Davis County residents told the three-memb- board that they "feel they have been the bridesmaid of the Mountain Bell Telephone Co. long enough. AT THAT time, a surevey showed that Farmington residents could call only to North Salt Lake on the south and n Kaysville-Laytoarea without a toll charge and Kaysville-Laytocustomers could call e only a few miles to neighboring cities to the north and south. Meanwhile, Davis County customers argued that Weber and Salt Lake County customers could call thousands of numbers throughout their respective counties without a toll charge. n toll-fre- Falcons Lose - AMERICAN FORK ter sparkling with a 6-- 1 Af- pre- season record, Clearfield High has now dropped three straight prep basketball duels. THE LATEST loss came from American Fork last Saturday night in American Fork. The Cavemen posted a slim 72-- 7 victory over the Falcons. Lane Riggs led the Clearfield team in scoring with 16 points while Kyle Moosmann checked in with 14 and Mike Rhodes added 13 more for the Falcons. 1 Library Auditoriums Are Closed By TOM BUSSELBERG IN ADDITION, 291: hours are being trimmed from the FARMINGTON Mon- day night auditorium programs will become a thing of the past, at least for now, at the Davis County libraries, thanks to an austere budget that was approved by the library board Monday. THE BUDGET, just a shade under $800,000 at $799,620, was given the tentative by the board during a special Monday morning session. It was far short of the original $861,000 requested before Layton withdrew from the system. In a move that Library Director Jeanne Layton said would save conservatively $5,000 a year, the auditoriums in the north and south branch libraries will be closed to all five-memb- activities, library and nonlibrary, meaning Monday night films and lecture programs will be discontinued and use of those facilities for various meetings curtailed. Story hours will continue she schedule for employees at the main branch, she explained in a telephone interview, although much of that will be absorbed in not filling a pager's slot at south branch and by consolidating some clerical duties at headquarters. Some readers will probably notice discontinuation of the McNaughton book collection that featured paperback editions of current best sellers." They will be replaced, at an anticipated $15,000 a year savings, by library purchase of recent books. THERE WILL have to be some discontinuation of some Ms public service activities, Layton said adding, I dont think theyll have to worry about the loss of reference service although it might not be as extensive or as personalized, at least in the main (Farming-ton- ) library. We hope we dont have to do anything too drastic in that area because we believe that is one of ou. most fun damental services. The budget figure is arrived at by upping the mill levy from the previously approved 1.9 mills to 2.0 mills. Before thats finalized a public hearing will be scheduled within two weeks, she said. The change was necessitated when the Layton City Council opted to quit the county system effective Jan. and the county commission sent a near year's end letter indicating it couldnt guarantee a one mill construction levy this fall. IN ADDITION to monies to be generated from the expected mill levy increase, Ms. Layton said current 1982 operations will be aided by some carry-ove- r monies that add more than $100,000 to the pot. They include funds from other county agencies and fees collected by the library for fines, copying machine and council on aging rental fees. Bookmobile service will see no changes in routes, Ms. Layton noted, indicating about 52 percent of north county stops will be in Layton with 1 that city asked to pay $13,820 to the county library system. They will turn that over to the state library board that operates the north bookmobile while the county will continue its operation in the south. Total bookmobile service cost is set at just under $63,000. MEANWHILE, patrons from Layton visiting the libraries (especially north branch) will be asked to pay a $5 a person or $10 per family yearly library card fee, the same as has been assessed Kaysville residents for several years. That policy was adopted to cover costs incurred in serving residnets whose taxes dont support the county system. Layton residents owning property in the county outside Layton or Kaysville can receive service without the fee. Because of an anticipated workload increase to cover paperwork connected with the Layton withdrawal, staff at north branch won't be affected, at least for now. FURTHER new explaining the budget, Ms. Layton said the book purchase budget was trimmed from $110,000 to $81,000 due to Layton's dropping out. Only $5,500 of that is allocated for the bookmobile she added. The 1981 budget was $757,000 and much of the increase is due to salary raises. DAVIS NEWS JOURNAL 197 B North Main St., Layton, Utah 84041 Phone 451-295- 1 Published Weekly by CUPPER PUBLISHING CO. JOHN STAHLE, JR. PUBLISHER Second Class Postage Paid at Layton, Utah SUBSCRIPTION $4.50 per year Out Of State $5.50 per year Overseas Subscription $15.00 Payable In Advance |