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Show Bountiful, Vol. 2 No. 16 Contorvillo, CIorfild, Clinton, Farmington, Fruit Hoightt, Kaytvillo, Layton, Roy, South Webor, Sunjet, Syrocuta, Wt Point, Watt WEDNESDAY, Dim Roviaw Staff HTN shows only G and PG rated movies. The controversy arises because other ; channels, Home Box Office (HBO), Showtime and the Movie Channel schedule movies. Residentslof Fruit Heights need only pay the extra fee tof receive these channels if the City Council allows them to be broadcast in the city. ' Mayor Neil Noorda said he was in support of allowing tie other channels in the city but several of the council members are against it. : Debate hag continued for several months on the issue of cable and its programs in the city. r. ;In related discussion, City Attorney Gary Sargent was asked to determine if the Wasatch Community Television (WCTV) could be charged the 3 percent revenue fee that the city has levied Against OrCal, the cable company ; awarded the cable franchise in Fruit Heights. . : .' cable service at a con;WCTVjinstalled dominium complex and two trailer parks in -- Fruit Heights. The move was made legally but it sourAd WCTVs relationship with the council. The pity Council will hold its next meeting in the new year. Davis Library Board Offers Plan for Layton ' cost-effectiv- e, one-ha- lf At a special meeting of the County Library Board Friday an proposal for a new library in Layton was If ARMINGTON feasible. media collection from the main library be transferred to the new branch. With construction costs down it was estimated that the library could be built for $45 per square foot plus $100,000 for furnishings and equipment with $200,000 for the collection. The board feels that funds should go to mandated services at this time and urges the city to have patience and wait to see evidence of recovery of the economy. Not all members of the board were present. The subject has to be brought before the full commission before being presented to the Layton City. 1 of Bountiful MARCHING horses capture attention of Keith Gines and his son Adam Developers Christmas D The Bountiful RedevelopBOUNTIFUL ment Agency and Bountiful Area Chamber of Commerce are now working with three developers for a motelconvention center for the Bountiful area. V.A. (Kit) Bettilyon, redevelopment agency executive director, said the granting of industrial revenue bonds for a proposed motel by the city council earlier has been very helpful and helped to generate interest in the project by developers. He said the agency is considering several motel chains. One of the developers being considered is a Bountiful resident, Bettilyon said, who owns five motels in the United States. Bettilyon said a piece of property at 500 South and 500 West that is in both Woods Cross and in during the city's annual parade Saturday. ed irif eiresf Bountiful is being considered for the project. Haven Burningham, Bountiful Area Chamber of Commerce executive director, said that locating the motel on property in both cities would generate tax revenue for both. He said three motel firms have expressed the most interest and that representatives from all three have been in Bountiful to learn more about the project. He said the chamber has preference about which motel locates in Bountiful, but the one that can present the most favorable position, thats the one Im sure theyll (the RDA) accept. The Chamber of Commerce has been trying to attract a motel, such as the Holiday Inn or Best Western with a convention center, to the Bountiful area. 200-roo- m Christmas Bedtime Story By SHARON STEELE Part 2 Part Two: When a raging blizzard iiolotn Timmy Cromer's farmhouM, . loaving it dark and without power, the young boy worries that his father who has been stranded in town, might not make it home in time 'for Christmas. Creeping into his bed with only a flashlight for He is company, Timmy discovers a nest of mice beneath the mattress. tempted to call the cat. Then a strange series of events transforms his ' room. The room had changed, and somehow many days had slipped by between the time that Timmy dropped his flashlight and the moment when he found himself dwarfed by his very own bed. Its only three days until Christmas, the mother mouse was saying. Her bright eyes were now framed by glasses, and a crisp white apron was tied firmly around her stout middle with an enormous bow in back. Each of the three little mouselets listened intently, as their mother explained that this year the holidays would be just a little diffewire-rimm- County Approves New Merit System iromiiis SUPsumfe Dram Rviw Correspondent . has received about city-sponsor- . City has voted to withdraw from the library system. The county board said it encourage the city to stay within the board feels there is sufficient density and projected future growth Layton area to justify construction of a The main library is inadequate, the board decided. The demands on the system exceed the present resources, board has proposed to the county that a 15,000 square foot library on two could be constructed in Layton as a library but be designed for future to accommodate the functions of the library when the commission and board Cyftbodt Hill said that while the district $41,000 each Some stateFARMINGTON year from the county to run the ments made in a press release by program, about $10,000 of this amount has been used for adthe Layton Chamber of Commerce and by Layton City officials about ministration and personnel costs. Also, the district has been furadminisfunding for school-boar- d school facilities that had nishing recreation tered city programs were misleading, Davis County not been costing the cities anything. School District officials said. Hill said it was mutually agreed The school district offices were with the county commission about besieged by phone calls after reago that we were goports appeared in the news media two months that the school board had made a ing to get out of the recreation decision to withdraw funds from program and they were going to recreation prog- take it back. Hill said the school district had rams when in fact the programs are funded by the Davis County no commitment with the cities. The districts commitment was Commission and only administered ! with the county. school Jim Hill, the district, by said school board Welling education of during physical supervisor and health for the district, said. meeting Dec. 1 that the cities have City and Chamber officials had been hiring their own personnel to criticized the school district for the work in the programs and then sending the district the bills action last week. In a letter to Superintendent Lawrence Welling, thereby creating questions of liaHersh Ipaktchian, president of the bility and also costing the district an estimated $10,000 in personnel Layton Chamber of Commerce, time. said Monday the chambers main Board member Bruce Parry concern is that school facilities said, Weve taken a lot of blame funded by taxpayers be effectively utilized by taxpayers at a for the demise of a program for which we shouldnt be responsminimum cost. he ible. Board member Sheryl Allen It is hardly said, if city gymnasiums must be added that the recreational progblock rams should be run by the county used when only away (a school gymnasium) stands and that district funds are limited. Our major concern is education," empty a majority of the time. Ipaktchian said that while he she said. County Commissioner Ernest realizes the programs are not funded by the school district we are Eberhard said Glenda Higby, who interested in the county and school has been in charge of various girls district getting together and work- athletic programs, has been aping together to allow citizens use pointed to study the situation. He said the county will finish up of facilities built by taxpayer dollars. Its ironic that while taxes its commitment for the girls volwill be raised in the county next leyball and basketball program, but he admitted that much of the year, the services are being cut. to contact funding for the county programs He asked Supt. Welling him to discuss the matter and will be out and the cities will have warned that if the superintendent to take over. We dont feel justified in runwas unwilling to discuss it, the Chamber will continue and ning a recreation program when broaden its campaign through the every city has a recreation prognews media and, if necessary, ram and a recreation director, he through possible court action. He said. He said that money to support also said support by the business community for high school athlet- the programs in the past has been taken out of the general fund. But ics will be curbed. Hill told the Lakeside Review this year the county is facing a 33 that a mutual decision had been percent cutback in federal funds reached with the Davis County and will fall about $300,000 short. So we either have to make up for Commission for the county to take back administration of the recrea- it or cut funds. He said the program for the most tion program. Hill said the district began ad- part is up in the air right now until ministering the program eight the county makes a final decisioni years ago when they (the county what to do about the situation. ; commission) came to us and asked Hill that a working agus to administer it and they would reementadmitted with City had gone Layton provide money from the (county) out of force. He said that Laytofi recreation department. worked out an arrangement But the program has continued to had with school officials at Layton counthe while from funding grow schools. ty has not increased, causing the He said any working agreed board to analyze Why are we in ment will have to be worked out the recreation program anyway? with the district in the future. Hill said. By RON KNOWLTON UTarnh 9 1QS9I Mogplnitf 9, 1981 KeeireoiiTOin) IFyimd FRUIT HEIGjHTS A citywide referendum i will be held next year to decide whether R- rated movies Will be allowed over the cable TV system in Fruit Heights. The City CqUncil decided last week to approve only Home Theatre Network (HTN) in the city and to led the citizens decide if they want other programming at a referendum set for Jds DEC. Cyiri)tfy Irtainnied Issue to Get Vote , Wood Crou Serving 44,026 Families From Roy Through Bountiful i Cable TV ' Bountiful, ed rent. Sh-dont wake your father. You realize that since he lost his leg to that dreadful hungry cat, he has not been himself. Its hard for him to get about, yet he wants desperately to be gathering our Christmas as in years past. The more he frets, the more difficult it becomes. He is so afraid that Christmas will pass our family by. We must somehow do something to lighten his h, spirits. The first little mouse, being the bravest of the three, led the way through a tangle of debris. Timmy held his breath as the tiny creatures groped their way through the stretched out coils of his slinky. Dwarfed by it, himself, he now understood what it might mean should the sharp edges spring together on the tender tail or foot of a tiny mouse. The slinky tunnel ended just on the edge of d the bed, where the donkey sat nibbling at fringes of bedspread. How forlorn the little burro seemed. Timmy couldnt remember the last time he had played with old Nevertheless, the mousekins were delight-ed- . Somehow it didnt matter to them that the creature was half blind, or that tiny puffs n of fluff sprouted from several spots behind his ears. The first mouse caught hold of a bedraggled ribbon beneath the donkeys chin and invited him to follow. Now the second mouse must lead the way. Being more timid than the first, he walked with his head down. He hadnt taken many steps before he ran right into the sticky web of an enormous grape-lik- e spider. The inky spider rolled back his lips in a ghoulish smile to reveal two glistening white fangs. Timmy felt a lump rise in his throat, as the spider crept along the strand of web. Closer and closer he came to the tiny mouse. one-eye- One-Ey- Luckily the pantry is still plan to bake all his favorite foods I well-stocke- d. crumb e pudding, nachos with cheese, and cake. But, Mousekins, getting the gifts will have to be up to you. The three little mice hopped up and down with excitement, their tiny toenails rattling on the wooden floorboards, as they ventured out into the enormous world beneath the bed. And how vast it was! For although the bed had grown, along with almost everything underneath it, neither they, nor the boy, Timmy, who watched secretly from his station behind the post, had changed from their original size. In fact, Timmy appeared to have actually been shrunken. All sorts of perils awaited the tiny trio, as they crept forth to rummage for Christmas treasures. tunnel-of-fudg- e. -- moth-eate- Nut WmIc Strong Monks and others week on their way across the country. 5A Scan policy-makin- Unfold. Index March for Peace marched through Davis County last the ordinance was unclear. She said the new law was not expressly retroactive and should not apply to present county librarians so as not to adversely impact any existing county personnel. Other citizens supported Ms. Layton at the hearing. Besides the librarian, the director of buildings and grounds maintenance and the golf course professionals were exempted. Several positions were taken from the exemption list. The community action director was removed because that position is no longer a county position, Miles said. The director of environmental health is a division director and Mel Miles daid. is allowed a merit listing, he said. Ms. Layton told the commission Miles said that the exempted posduring the public hearing that ition holders still have an appeals there are dangers to a free society route through the district court. that come from placing the public The new setup is quite common to library system in the area of direct other counties, he said. Other changes were also made in political patronage. She said that the state legislation the new ordinance, including allowing the change was amended changing the name and purpose of in the last days of the legislature, the merit council. The new title is the Career Service Council. The without publicity and without debate, to remove county librarians council will act as a judicial board g rather than a from the merit protection. board. She suggested that one point of Miles said. A new merit FARMINGTON system ordinance was accepted by the Davis County Commission last week following a public hearing in the commission chambers that attracted about 20 citizens opposed to the action, including County Librarian Jeanne Layton. The ordinance was changed as required by a new Utah regulation. The ordinance outlines personnel procedures for the county. Ms. Layton protested the ordinance because it places her position as county librarian out of the merit system. The intention of the new document is to remove all department heads from the merit system, County Personnel Director Business Church Classified Home Living .UoftTuptwS 'sfluRSw 1B-4- Obituaries School B IOC .... 4D, 5D NO NUCLEAR ARMS . Sports 6A, 10A ... 4D 7C-8- C ID 4D, 6D Layton Rebuilds Skating Meet The Lancers girl Basketball team finds Bountiful Hosts the itself in a building id year. Pacific Sectional ChampionSkating ID this week. ships Wi I. t r |