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Show 1 UTAH STATS PSC3 AS2X. 46? EAST 200 SO. vLT LATE CITY, UTAH CUll section Lancers Win Consolation A D H Societies, Church, Obituaries C 25C 250 Food Coupons Begin This Week That Offer You Savings On National Brands, Plus Helpful Recipes. SAVE 250 c County Taxes Near Average L1 NUMBER FORTY-EIGIf- T VOLUME Voice Of Davis County SEVENTY-SEVE- (usps 30 1492-600- WEDNESDAY, MARCH 9, 1983 pages Bid Deadline Nears For New Elementary By DONETA GATHERUM AND TOM BUSSELBERG LAYTON If final touches can be worked out, bids for the new Layton Elementary School should be announced THE CITY will negotiate separately for possible sale of land adjoining the city fire station, La Donna Mesa subdivision in northeast Layton near the Weber Basin Water Conservancy District as well as Verdeland Park. Councilman Dave Pratt THE CITY has reportedly been seeking the Verdeland indi- cated he felt neither the city or Park property for 29 years but the council said there are no immediate plans for its use while the district also wouldn't need the La Donna Mesa property for some time, as well. school district should rush into any land swaps or agreements other thhn for Layton Elementary, noting he wanted to take a long time studying issues. Tuesday. THATs the hope of the Davis School District Asst. Supt. John S. White who says a final meeting between the board of education and Layton City Council representatives was planned for this week. And while it could be tight, Dr. White sounded optimistic the new school could be ready for students by August, 1984. The proposed plan is the same format vised in construe- tidiT ot the recently-dedicate- Layton A night was held on Feb. 10 at Layton Elementary. Girls made newspaper fashions with their parents and had a movie with refreshments. It was a huge success. parent-daught- d Columbia Elementary in Kaysville. AS AGREED TO, the school PARENT son night will be March 10 at 7 p.m. The boys and their parents will enjoy an evening at a carnival. They will Elm. News ners were Katie Iverson. be able to participate in many fun activities and have root beer floats for refreshments. Megan Ellis, Mary Ellen Dibble, Lana Lowry, Hilda Bravo. Tash Blocker. In the music category, Emma Dibble was the winner. The Reflections Contest were recently completed. Winners in the art category were Shanna Judd , Emma Dibble, Mary Ellen Dibble, Sarah Sickler, Jamie Stevenson and Julie Reynolds. THE LITERATURE ACCORDING to- - Diane Ellis, chairman for the event, there were over 190 art entries and 26 literature, all of which were very well done. win board would take the Gentile frontage and switch with the city and LDS Church on REFINISHING ROSSIGNOL SKIS acreage, moving the from the east end to westerly position. The LDS Church have their two acres Many good skiers turn to Rossignol when they need equipment, and Doug Ray is among the Freeport Center crew that services thousands of skis from the Western States, as he applies three coats of base color, silk screen printing and name n coats of varnish. topped by school a more would on the southwest corner of the 0 West acreage between Gentile, and that land would adjoin Laytons pieces that surrounds the present softball diamond. Part of the citys y piece would serve as on the east leading to Gentile. 300-40- five-seve- right-of-wa- Hmpiti! Wmvss Fee LAYTON - Humana Hospital Davis North has waived the $ 5 basic emergency room fee for senior citizens during the winter and spring months to assist those elderly residents on fixed incomes. -- 1 ASSOCIATE director William Rees said the program was launched due to concern that the increase in Medicare deductibles will force many senior citizens ages 65 and older to bypass emergency room care. The timing of the fee waiver, he said, will ease the cost burden on a population segment normally hit hardest during the winter months. He cited Medicare deductibles as increasing 27 percent in 1982 and combined hike of 44 percent in a 17 THE SCHOOLS hardtop area and big toy would be located to the east of new school, percent in 1983, a period. MR. REES said the waiver does not affect the billings for or prescripany physician fees, laboratory work, tions ordered by the doctor. The trial program will be operated through the month of June at which time officials will decide whether to continue the program in the summer months. The price decrease is the second such decrease at the Layton hospital. The basic fee was set at $ 5 per visit for all cut of more than 50 percent, on Aug. 1. patients--- a 1 Retired Employees Elect - The Layton LAYTON Chapter of the National Association of Retired Federal Employees (NARFE) held a scheduled election of officers on Feb. 14 with the following results: Mayor Lewis G. Shields, president; Kenneth Neff, 1st vice president; Grant Flint, 2nd vice president; Maeser Rushton, treasurer; Bess Jensen, secretary (incumbent). DAVIS NEWS JOURNAL 197 B' North Main St. Layton, Utah 84081 Phone (USPS 1492-600- Published Weekly tv CLIPPER PUBLISHING CO. John Stahle, Jr. Publisher Seoond Class Postage Pend at Layton Utah SUBSCRIPTION s4 .50 per year Out f State s5.50 per year Overseas Subscription 15.00 Payable in Advance Postmaster. Send changes of address to: North Main St. 197 Layton Utah 84041 THE NOMINATION committee was chaired by Wayne Fisher who conducted the voting. An installation banquet and program will be held at the Valley View Golf Course and FORMER president John A. Baker heads a committee to oversee the installation banquet and program. Members and guests should contact Mr. which will also be the monthly meeting. All members and their partners and guests are encouraged to be in gress on recommending all fu- ture Federal employees be placed on Social Security rolls. REP. KNOWLTON (R) a bridge contractor, has been a representative in the House of the Utah Legislature since 1967. He resides in Layton with his wife Joy. They have six children. Mr. Knowlton has a brother, Ute Knowlton, who is also a representative in the House of Representatives. He is a physician in Kaysville. the city ball diamond, for example. He said a 21 room school is planned to replace the plus school that is to be demolished. -- wanted to complete some or Wayne Baker at for reservaFisher tions. It is most important that confirmation of reservations 544-298- 9 544-476- 7 be made by March 14. Heartless Scrooge Steals Wheelchair - A man who has needed a wheelchair since LAYTON he lost his legs at nine months of age is now without it. THANKS TO the antics of an unknown robber, the wheelchair was removed from outside a back door in the Laytona Drive area Sunday evening while the man and his family visited from Salt Lake City. The family cant replace it, says Bonnie Lee of Layton, noting the wheelchair is worth more than $800. Adding the neighborhood was searched in vain, she said the man has placed the wheelchair outside for 25 years, with no problem. other transactions, as well, involving possibly trading for land at the Verdeland Park elementary site near the city hall and adjoining Lincoln Elementary property. Some city councilmen felt the trade shouldnt be allowed unless some of the acreage at Verdeland was also involved but as it stands now, the Layton Elementary issue will be handled separately and further negotiations planned for other property transfers. IN DISCUSSION during Thursdays Layton City Coun- cil meeting, it was indicated a joint useage of land space would continue as in the past but would be formally be signed by the city, church and school district. Council members approved sending a letter to the school district aff'ning satisfaction with the proposi , authorizing the district to go ahead, with plans for the new school. Its anticipated the council will APPARENTLY, those days are over. Anyone having information is asked to contact Herbert Dale Sr. or Bonnie give its final okay to the changes in its March 17 Lee at meeting. 544-447- 9. BSSiaMBi km. L sys- tems coordination so that wont interfere with games on now-all-b- 16 attendance. Rep. Franklin Knowlton has been invited to speak about the legislative process and the recent success of NARFE assisting in defeating a senate joint resolution to the U.S. Con- and arrange sprinkling PLANS WERE moving forward for the new school, comseaplete with the ted in concrete trade when city officials raised concerns they restaurant on Wednesday, March while lockable gates will be installed to control traffic flow. "We agreed to sit down with the Layton Park Department to plan it jointly so we could work it out well in the summer to get more offstreet parking FIRST HOSPITAL VISIT - LAYTON Della Goodman Tarter arrived at the hospital due to a physicians advice and an evening dream--an- d two days later she left Humana Hospital Davis North as the hospitals oldest recorded patient. ON JAN. 27 of this year, Della turned 100 years of age. She had spent a liftime generally free of medical problems. When I raised my family in Virginia, she recalls, most of the births occurred away from hospitals. Other than a broken hip I havent had hospitalization until now. SHE WAS, however, very familiar with hospitals, having worked for 46 years as an assistant dietician at a Virginia medical facility. She wasn't afraid of them but she had avoided hospitalization by a long life of hard Although she worked in hospitals for nearly half her life, Della Tarter is recovering from her first stay as a patient at Humana Hospital Davis North following successful cateract removal surgery. Her daughter, Alice Biddle, is with her. work and my refraining from alcohol and tobacco. act surgery could restore much of her sight. AS SHE entered her 90's, however, she began losing her AND SO Della entered Humana Hospital Davis North last month for a surgical operation. Everything went smoothly except the hos- sight in one eye. She asked the advice of a physician who recommended that she live with the problem due to her advanced age. She accepted advice, that pital computer which was programmed to denote only one or two-dig- it ages. said her daughter Alice Biddle, Layton, until she turned 100 years old and had a dream. In the dream Della en- visioned that she opened her eyes and could see clearly for long distances and with everything as bright as the sun. She figured the dream was a personal message: Consult a physician about regaining her eyesight. On the advice of Dr. Davis W'arden she was examined by Layton opthalmo-logiDr. Michael Washburn. He told her that simple catar- st So the computer listed Della at 99 years of age. DELLA DIDNT have to age," said one bemused hospital staff member. "The computer did it for her. Della was bom Jan. 27, 1883 in Allegheny County, North Carolina, but her family soon moved to a farm in Marion, Virginia, a homestead now housing Dellas other lie about her re daughter, Mary Jane. She moved to Utah 12 years ago. |