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Show F Tuesday, mayors from several North Davis County cities met with county and water resource personhel to discuss one solution for water problems which the cities thought was going along as planned until recently. Mayor Boyd Thurgood of Syracuse told those in attendance Tuesday that the cities of Clearfield, Syracuse, Clinton and West Point had been looking at the proposed extention of the project Layton Canal as a to carry irrigation water as well as help with flood water control for the North Davis cities. As far as the mayors knew, things were going very well, he said. In the background over the last several months, negative attitudes toward the d canal project started By LUCINDA M. SCHUFT Staff Writer Cities in North FARMINGTON Davis County continually face problems with water. If they arent worrying about where to get more water for their residents theyre finding ways to dispose of excess water in the citys storm drainage systems. Clinton placed a moratorium on building because the citys storm drainage systems in some areas couldnt handle more growth. Recently the city has also been faced with a suit over flooding caused by the drainage system. Other cities in North Davis county face similar problems and all are trying to work out a solution. dual-purpo- once-approve- liuiini filtering in, and Thurgood told those in attendance there was even talk of killing the project. Tuesdays meeting had been called so all of those involved could discuss the canal project and understand where it stood at this time. Keith Jensen, manager of Weber Basin Water Conservancy District, said the canal project has been approved with the money waiting for construction to commence for nearly two years. He said the former county commissioners had given their approval to the project, but because of the change in commissioners this year the plans could be changed. The former commissioners signed an agreement. The new commissioners may not go with it, Jensen said. He C(2iira(oil explained that elected officials are not responsible for commitments made by former elected officials and could deny the project entirely. Funding for the project as previously approved allowed the county to borrow funds through the state Bureau of Water, Power and Resources and the water district. Jensen said that Weber Basin as sponsoring agency had put the project out for bid and everything was ready to go except for the complications surfacing on the commission canal could not finance or make feasible the costs involved. The agreement between the county and water district calls for a dual system for both irrigation and flood control. The county was to pay construction costs and the district would take care of maintenance and operation after the canal was completed. Mayor Norm Sant of Sunset reminded those in attendance the canal had originally been planned to help with storm water runoff for the cities. He said the county had assessed two mills at one time which he understood to be part of the canal project being designed to bring relief for the countys flood control problems. I assume we the mayors of North Davis County thought this was still level. If the commissioners back out the project will be dead, Jensen said. The joint effort of the county with the water district was necessary because of financial reasons, Jensen explained. He said the irrigation aspects of the going through, he said. Max Elliot of the county engineers office outlined the countys current stand on the Layton Canal issue. He presented to the mayors in attendance Tuesday, results of a study recently conducted by county engineers on the project, which in initial findings shows some negative aspects clouding the feasibility of the project on the whole. Harold Wilcox, a Syracuse resident, told the group he remembers a time when the county engineering department was in strong support of the canal extention. Mayor Thurgood asked Elliot who had asked for the of the canal project at this time. Elliot answered the commissioners Continued onPage3A Index Business Church Classified Economy Review Centerville, Cleortield. Clinton, tost loyton, Formlngton. Fruit Heights, Vol. 1 Hill AFB, Kaysville, Editorial. 10A 13B 2B 5A Home 1 12B Liing Obituaries Layton, Boy, South Weber, Sunset, Syracuse, West Point Serving 31,500 Families From Roy Through Centerville No. 23 IB 2B Thursday, January 29, 1981 WoM 1 12B 12A 4B 8B School Sports Cini iySysir' ROY The Roy City Council will hold a special meeting Friday to con- sider an inducement BEING DUMPED in Clinton City has caused some concerns being raised by Chief LeRoy Webb of the Clmtomi Crocks Down Odd If youre looking for a CLINTON place to dispose of your unwanted trash items youd better think twice before heading to the areas surrounding Clinton City. Police Chief LeRoy Webb said a number of people every year go down to Clinton and dump their garbage in some of the more remote areas of the city. He said the city is trying to crack down on the offenders, which he said are not Clinton residents, and will prosecute those who are caught. Last week Daniel A. Perkins, 18, 2837 E. 2300 N., Layton, learned a lesson when garbage he discarded along 2300 N. In Clinton held information which led to his identification and prosecution. Perkins was given a $100 fine in Circuit court, Webb said, and had $50 of it suspended if the mess he created was cleaned up within the week. Upon inspection of the illegal dumping location the day after Perkins time limit had expired Webb discovered the judges order had not been followed. As he said, This just cost him $50 and kicked through the remaining trash pile, the Clinton police chief discovered money, well pennies, also thrown out with the trash. Webb said that a major dumping problem during the hunting seasons was the discarding of animal carcasses and hides. He said in one area along 1500 West enough animal hides and carcasses, mostly deer, were dumped in a farmers ditch to cause problems. He said the excess trash will stop or slow irrigation water for the fields. While driving along some of the country roads W ebb pointed out various favorite spots garbage ditchers like to use. One spot along 2300 North he pointed one-wee- k Clinton Police Department. Above, ahe inspects garbage which cost a Layton man $100 in fines last week. out was a common dumping area which is cleaned up every few days by the farmer who owns the property. A little farther down the same road he sighted the remains of a dog house dumped in the canal running under the road at one point. He said that was put in the canal a while ago. He would like people to know that anyone caught dumping trash in Clinton - will be prosecuted. He admitted, however, that the catching of the criminals is the hardest part. We dont have the time to watch because of a lack of personnel, he said. Therefore the Clinton police cannot offer surveillance for the affected areas and have to rely on other ways of identification. , Civilian Employee On Base Will Keep Job: No Handicap do his job. So when Kemp was placed on He said Perkins was caught through information found in the trash bags which were dumped. Webb said several forms of identification were discovered which led the police to a man in Layton who had sold a pickup truck, complete with a load of garbage, to Perkins. Webb said he asked Perkins why he had dumped the trash in Clinton and said Perkins replied that the Davis County dump was closed when he went to empty the truck so he just drove on down to Ginton. Webb said the city has also discovered abandoned cars left on the sparsely traveled roads in the city. He said several of them have been wrecked vehicles jusUeft out there. square feet. Snarr said his company was prompted by the present economic conditions to request help from the city in the form of industrial revenue bonds. He said he would ask the maximum, $10 million, in bonds. Were not sure that this type financing will be needed, but we want to be able to go ahead, Snarr said. City Attorney Roger Dutson said the inducement resolution would be certain required to spell out between the developer agreements and the city. Snarr requested the Friday meeting because, he said, his company is working under certain time restraints in purchasing property for the 190,000 ByJIMSAWDEY Staff Writer Joseph Kemp didnt think he was handicapped. He didn't agree with a base physicians decision that he was handicapped and no longer qualified to Dumpm He said the total commercial would be about area of the development resolution, possibly offering financial support in the form of industrial revenue bonds, to developers proposing to build a very large commercial development in the city. Jim Snarr of Snarr Development Company of Salt Lake City met with the council in a closed meeting following regular City Council meeting Tuesday. The closed meeting was to discuss for the acquisition of property the said Snarr project development. would include a grocery store and other tenants familiar to most of us." Snarr would not reveal the proposed location of the commercial development but said it may be within a possible redevelopment area of the GARBAGE city. in- voluntary sick leave and told that if the handicap staffing specialist assigned to him couldnt find him another job on base within 60 days he would be terminated, he didnt think that was fair. He didnt think it was fair that he was put on involuntary sick leave because for one thing there is no such thing as involuntary sick leave for civilian employees on base. He didnt think it was fair he was disqualified after his personal deterphysician examined him and mined he was qualified for the job. And when he protested to the Merit Systems Protection Board and the board agreed with him, Kemp felt a little better knowing that someone cared about him. So he went back to work Wednesday all smiles, after frowning for the past year, wondering what was going to happen to him. In October 1979, Kemp failed a hearing test that was part of his annual drivers test he is required to take for his job. He drives specialized loading equipment as an aircraft freight loader. He was told by Dr. G.C. Manchester, a base physician, that he could no longer do his job. The military has specific regulations disqualifying military personnel from operating equipment of that nature if they have a development. Several areas in the city were discussed as prime targets" for redevelopment when the agency was formed. One which has attracted attention of several developers is an area on the east side of 1900 West from about 5300 South to about 5500 South east to the old Bamberger Railroad lines. Other existing commercial areas on 5600 South and 5700 South also were discussed. Asked if there might be property condemnation involved in the development, Mayor Joseph Dawson said it could be a possibility; we dont know now. But he said that would not be a part of the discussion at Fridays meeting. The location of the proposed development will be discussed Friday. The meeting, to begin at 5 p.m., will be open to the public. The Snarr proposal is the first real step toward redevelopment of Roys central business district, the primary goal of the city since establishment of the Roy Redevelopment Agency last summer. , The agency, comprised of City Council members, is awaiting results of a market survey commissioned by the agency in September. A California firm is expected to report those results in two weeks. Two weeks ago the redevelopment agency approved a request from Dutson to fund a preliminary evaluation of the property on the east of 1900 West from Riverdale Road south to include offices of the Lakeside Review. Dutson said at that time the agency had some interest , in obtaining the property. hearing impediment. The regulation, however, does not apply to civilian employees. Also, Kemps physician examined him and determined that Kemp was in fact able to do the job. In a letter Kemps physician wrote on his behalf, Women go into business for themthe doctor, said Kemp does not have a selves for personal and economic marked hearing loss bilaterally, more reasons and they seem to be achieving d specifically in the frequencies above success in a formerly 1,000 cycles. The letter went on to say business world. Mr. Kemp is able to perform work at A Lakeside Review reporter talked the present time with no great with several businesswomen in the disability and it is my understanding lakeside community about their that he is adequately able to perform challenges, goals and philosophies. the duties required in his job assignRead her report on page IB of todays ment. Lakeside Review. Continued on Page 2A Reviewing The News male-dominate- PrlndpaS Reifiring: Wanted Army Career Sill said he felt safer being on the tank destroyer squadron than he would LAYTON Friday will be the final the bulletin board and pictures are have felt being inside the tanks. I never wanted to kill another man, day of Golden C. Sills career in convenient in desk drawers. he said. Once we came One such memento is a snapshot of though, education, a career that has lasted nearly 30 years, even though it was not German Field Marshal Hermann across a German in a foxhole, and we the occupation he really wanted. Goering after his capture in Austria in couldnt get him to come out by I really wanted a career in the May of 1945. shooting around him, so we left him. I was a captain and company Later one of my sergeants said he was Army, Sill said last week. "But I dont have any regrets about what Ive done commander of the only combat troops just a scared teen-age- r I never knew when our family started to come in the area when they captured him, what happened to him because the along, I thought it was best to stay Sill recalled. His unit provided Germans started an attack, but 1 was closer to home. protectin for the Nazi general until glad I hadnt shot him. Sill and his wife had 10 children, the he was flown out to formally surrender He said his unit was patrolling the first bom in 1946 after Sill had been to Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower. Rhine River near Strasbourg, Austria, Sill served as commander of a tank during the Battle of the Bulge. serving in the Army for five years. He When the order came to pull back, earned a teaching degree at the destroyer reconnaisance unit in Italy,. University of Utah and started teaching Germany, and Austria during the war the civilians in the villages would ask if in Salt Lake City before he entered the and said his job, locating enemy forces there would be some more Allies to ahead of U.S. infantry units, was a lot protect them when we left, he military. Souvenirs of his activities during like pheasant hunting. recalled. We couldnt tell them there World War II are much in evidence at We flushed them out, and the foot wouldn't be. When we came back to Sill's office at Hilltop Elementary soldiers would take over," he said. those villages after the Germans there By MARILYN L. KARRAS Staff Writer School where he has been 11 principal for years. Newspaper clippings hang on was nothing left. Sill spent more than 27 years on reserve and active military duty before retiring in 1969 as a lieutenant colonel. He served active duty in the Korean War, but was not recalled when he later requested to return to active service. He began teaching at Clinton Elementary School in 1948, transferring to Sunset Elementary and then to Whitesides Elementary in Layton. He began working as principal at the Verdeland School, which is no longer in operation, and has been principal at Hilltop for 11 years. A man of varied interests, he is serving a third term on the City Council in Layton. He also was Layton's mayor for two years and owns and operates a farm, just up the street from the home where he grew up in Layton. Continued on Page 2A ) GOLDEN C. SILL ; |