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Show I Plan Pollution Vhide Inspection Myirs pps By LUCINDA M. SCHUFT Staff Writer Davis County mayors are FARMINGTON still unhappy with the proposed inspection and maintenance program planned to lower pollution levels from vehicles in the county. In a special Davis County Council of Governments meeting held last week to discuss the proposed I and M program with the Davis County Health Department, the mayors spoke out against the plan, saying it would be just another tax for county residents. In a previous COG meeting, the mayors had - gone on record opposing I and M, and Mayor Grant H. Secrist of West Bountiful reminded those in attendance Wednesday of that action. Secrist told the mayors the vote taken had been definitely against I and M and was not hinged on certain stipulations as had been presumed by the county health department. measures to control the pollution must be taken in order to maintain certain federal funds. The given during the special meeting did not sway the mayors stand. vehicle inspections is that the county is not tackling the heart of the air pollution problem in the county. The mayors said the major contributor to air pollution in Davis County is industry and the primary concern should be to control the industrial sources. The health department is trying to implement the I and M program in Davis County because of a mandate from the federal government which require it. Davis County is listed as a area for ozone, and according to federal laws The validity of the materials presented by health department officials was questioned by the mayors in attendance. They were asked to provide the source of facts on which the material was based. The mayors primary concern with the Mayor Donal Townley of Clearfield said, It seems were trying to put our finger over the hole rather than turning off the hose. Generally, the mayors said then did not feel that Davis County would lose enough of the federal monies to really be concerned with the loss of the funds could amount to $9 million in Davis County. Presentations by the health department threat. Secrist suggested approaching the problem through a voluntary I and M program promoted with lots of publicity in local media. The mayors also felt a program like that would be futile unless controlled through a to the vehicle statewide program similar safety inspections. Concerns were voiced over not being able to control emissions from vehicles not from Davis County which pass through. The health departments figures show that if controls were enforced in Davis County they would affect 80 percent of the daily traffic in the county. Index Business Classified Economy Review Home Lining 2B TB - 2H IB Obituaries IB Sports Caqtarvilla, Claorfiald, Clinton, Farmington, Fruit Haights, Vol. 1 Hill AFB, FrJ ILsuro - 7B 61! Kaysville, Layton, Roy, South Wabar, Sunset, Syracuse, West Point Serving 3 1,500 Families From Roy Through Centerville No. 33 9B Wednesday, April 8, 1981 ZoonDinig) cu By MARILYN L. KARRAS Staff Writer '.LAYTON The City Council has denied a request to rezone nearly one acre of property on the east side of Fort Lane to accommodate a commercial development, citing past council decisions which have established Fort Lane as a dividing line between commercial and residential areas. The decision was made Thursday following a public hearing in which a number of residents of the area east of Fort Lane and two professional city planners voiced opposition to allowing more commercial development in what is primarily a residential area. Three city councilmen approved the denial, after the resignation of Councilman Randy Harris. Councilman Lynn Wood was absent during the hearing and did not vote. Councilmen A. Kent Randall, Golden Sill and John Baker voted for the motion. Dean Layton requested the rezoning of the property, located on the southeast corner of Elm Street and Fort Lane, for a professional building. Layton said the building would be a good buffer between the residential areas east of Fort Lane and the street and the commercial areas now existing on the west side. Haven J. Barlow said he and other residents of the area objected to the proposal because he said they fear it Sunset Interviews Applicants for Vacant Council Post - i SUNSET Persons interested in serving on the Sunset City Council were interviewed last week by the current council members. A council seat was vacated last month when Councilman Bruce Watkins resigned in order to move out of the area. The council interviewed the applicants during the regular city council ' meeting Thursday and will make the ' selection of an appointee at the next meeting. The applicants included one woman and five men. Each under went questioning from the council members and Mayor Norm Sant. The person selected will finish out the unexpired term which ends this year. All of the applicants indicated that they would be interested in running for the position in this years election. The persons interviewed included Tom Lightfoot, a Hill Air Force Base employee who has resided in Sunset for years, Kaye Browning, an insurance man and former Davis County Treasurer, Larry Ashdown, a customer engineer for IBM and Davis County native, Cliff Spendlove, member of the 24 Farr Says Not Guilty To Charge - FARMINGTON A Ogden man accused of sexually abusing a Syracuse girl pleaded not guilty Tuesday in 2nd District Court in Farmington. Scott F. Farr, 3829 Knollwood Drive, is charged with a third degree felony in the alleged abuse of the girl on Feb. 1 in the Syracuse LDS Ward Chapel while church was in session. Farr allegedly took the girl to a room near the hallway of the chapel and abused her, according to the charges against him. In testimony from the girl given in 4th Circuit Court in Clearfield during the preliminary hearing she told the court Farr lifted her upside down to his shoulders and then sat her on his lap and put his hand under her dress. Judge Douglas L. Cornaby of 2nd District Court set the trial date for June 1R at 9 a.m. Sunset set a precedent for future commercial development on the east side. He said new homes have been built recently in the area and residents did not want it slowly to become a commercial neighborhood. Barlow was accompanied by two professional city planners, Ken Millard . and Gene Carr of Salt Lake City planning firms, who both told the council the area on the east side of Fort Lane is better suited to residential use than commercial. They recommended that the corner being considered be used for multiple family units, which would be more compatible with the existing neighborhood. Carr said the city presently has adequate commercial property with several vacant buildings available for commercial uses, ,v- Kathy Hunt' said 'she thought the proposal was a lovely idea. She said she and others own homes along Fort Lane which are used as rentals because people dont want to buy homes along Fort Lane. She said the property along Fort Lane should go into commercial zones because property owners can't sell the property as building lots for homes. That is the investors risk, he said. Councilman Baker made the motion to deny the request, stating Fort Lane has historically been considered a would Commission, life long Sunset resident, and Linda Jernigan, a tax examiner for the Internal Revenue buffer between commercial and Service. In other business approval was given residential areas. He said there is no for the planned development of a need for additional commercial zoning condominium housing area to be in the area and said other uses for the located near Commonwealth Square. property would be more compatible. The council gave their approval on the project subject to satisfaction that the city dues have money in escrow on the lot improvements in that area and verification that the storm drainage in the area was adequate. The council also approved the purchase of a new postage meter for the city offices. Despite the cold winter weather, the Mayor Norm Sant requested and first annual Davis County Invitational received permission from the council to Track Meet came off last weekend as a continue with the investigation of big success. possibly merging with three other All six Davis County high schools took North Davis County cities. part with both girls and boys events. Sant said that no commitments had The Clearfield boys and Davis girls been made on the merger idea and at were the big winners, but all schools this time the mayors were only in- turned in some stellar performances. For detailed results and pictures, vestigating the feasibility of such an turn to page 4B. arrangement. City Planning Jerry Eves, a Reviewing The News . BAILIFF TED ELLISSON (left) and Sgt. Stan Tebbs (right) of the Davis County Sheriffs Department escort John P. Miller Jr., 16, from the Davis County Jail to 2nd District Court in Farmington where he received a sentence of life in prison for the first degree murder and forcible sexual abuse of a Miller Pleads Guilty in Clinton Case; Life Sentence Imposed - FARMINGTON John P. Miller Jr. pleaded guilty last week to charges of murder and forcible sexual abuse in the Clinton girl. Aug. 5 death of a In a sentencing hearing held after a brief recess, 2nd District Court Judge Douglas L. Cornaby sentenced Miller to life in prison on the first degree murder charge and to a concurrent term of five years on the forcible sexual abuse Muilis Hmpnftoirs Futmjire ROY Caught in a financial squeeze complicated by additional funding cutbacks on the state level, Weber County commissioners are trying to decide the future of the Weber County Hospital. The county budgeted a $275,000 subsidy for the operation of the hospital for this year, based on funding levels from the state which recently were reduced. The loss in revenues to the hospital, which would have to be subsidized by the county, could amount to more than $700,000 for the remainder of this year, officials said. County commissioners and the advisory hospital board met Thursday to discuss the options available for minimizing the effects of the revenue losses. The hospital is licensed as a chronic care facility which involves a higher level of care for patients .than a nursing home. According to a recent assessment of the types of patients at the hospital, it was determined the majority of the nature rather patients are long-ter- - than chronically ill. Hospital Administrator Kenneth Bradshaw said the facility had more chronically ill patients in the early 1960s when the hospital first received the designation. The ratio at that time was about half and half he told the board. Over the last 10 to 12 years we have essentially become a nursing home, Bradshaw said. This is a key factor in the hospitals funding difficulties. The state, in a retroactive decision which reduces reimbursement on different care levels for patients, went into effect Feb. 1 and is based on the actual type of care given- the patients. More funding is available to the patients which require the most hand-o- n care even though all of the reimbursement amounts have been reduced. Bradshaw said the cuts currently amount to a 40 percent reduction in ' the amount of hands-on-car- e . which can be provided at the - Clinton girl. facility. He said there would not necessarily be a reduction in the quality of care given patients but a cut in the time needed to give the care. Bradshaw proposed that the hospital realign its role to maximize the areas which can generate revenue and move away from areas which are consuming funds like a rat hole. The commissioners have been working on a cooperative agreement with McKay-De- e Hospital over the past few months to expand certain areas of the Weber County Hospital. Dan Heiner of McKay-De- e Hospital said his hospital's position is to see the county facility remain a chronic care facility and McKay-De- e would be interested in helping to develop auxiliary services to head in that direction again. The options available to the county at this time are to either convert entirely to a long term care or nursing home type facility or to move back to the chronic care status. Both of those options will cost money which has not been designated by the commissioners. To convert to a nursing home a number of changes would be needed to satisfy codes and could cost around $800,000. Another possibility which has been endorsed by the McKay-De- e suggestion is to build up the revenue producing areas such as the pharand macy, care, laboratory work. Reductions in state funding at this time have included the loss of $6 per day for care of the patients needing skilled nursing care. This could be reduced even further as of July 1. , out-patie- x-r- Bradshaw explained that with a recent adjustment from the state the losses appear to be around $400,000 to $500,000 for this year, instead of the previously projected $700,000. He explained that prior to this the reimbursement levels for the care provided were already below what the actual cost was. charge. Miller had previously pleaded not guilty to the charges and was scheduled for trial starting last Wednesday. Plea bargaining by the defense and prosecuting attorneys in the case led to the not guilty pleas being withdrawn in a court appearance held instead of a trial. Miller had agreed to waive his right to a trial, and in exchange the Davis County Attorneys office agreed not to seek the death sentence. During questioning on the stand. to killing Anne Hoskisson on Aug. 5, 1980. He told how he had picked the girl up in front of her Clinton home with the intent of satisfying his sexual urges. He told the court he had taken the girl to an abandoned farmhouse in order to do this. He said once he had gotten to the farmhouse he became scared, changed his mind and started to take the girl home. He saw the girls father when leaving the house and returned to the farmhouse. When he returned to the house the girl started making noise and in order to quiet her. Miller said, he put his hands around her throat. The more noise she made the harder he squeezed until she was dead. Following that, he said he sexually abused her. Miller admitted to the court that he knew what he was doing at the time. Davis County Attorney Rodney Page recommended to the judge that Miller take part in the sexual offenders program at the Utah State Prison as part of his sentence Miller admitted |