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Show V Index Business 2B Chruch HA Classified Economy Review. 14U-15- 2B 13B Editorial Home Living Obituaries Vol. 1 No. 12 By MARILYN KARRAS Staff Writer CENTERVILLE Initial tests which indicated the water supply for Centerville residents was possibly not up to standard was a false alarm and the Davis County Health Department has' issued a statement that the waterworks system was found to be in generally good condition. City Administrator Kenner Killpack said tests conducted on Sept. 30 at first found some contamination in water samples. He said, however, that the r city quickly found the problem was that a recently hired county employee improperly conducted the sampling. He said the results of the tests still had to be reported to citizens, along with the explanation that the samples were later found to meet standards. On Oct. 27 the department issued a letter to the City Council confirming that the water supplies are safe. The county department also said the Centerville water system is capable of supplying adequate water to the citys residents, but that constant evaluation by city officials will be required to maintain that level of performance as the city experiences expected future " ' growth. The following recommendations were ' made: A complete and map of the water system is needed. Gauges to measure well static te , Thursday, November 13, 1980 Serving 31,500 Families From Roy Through Centerville 1 B 11A-124B-10- B water levels and draw down should be bypassed and the water pumped installed at the city wells. Data from directly into the distribution system. these gauges should be retained. The connection volve from the Weber A readily available auxiliary Basin Water Conservancy District is power source should be accessible to located on the east side of the citys 1.5 million gallon reservoir at 100 S. 700 E. power the pump motors. The booster station building at the An automated system from the Weber 1.5 million gallon reservoir should be Basin line is under construction and will be operational in the spring of 1981. kept locked. The report also described the citys ' Centerville uses 500 acre feet of water system and how it works. The Weber Basin water annually. The city water system includes a survey was conducted by Delane water storage tank which holds steel McGarvey and Rand Webb of the Davis 500,000 gallons. In addition to the 1.5 County Health Department and Jay Burger of the Centerville City million gallon cement1 reservoir, the million gallon Waterworks Department. city also utilizes a cement reservoir above 100 South on The city system provides . water the mountain. within the corporate limits of CenThe water from the two wells terville City, serving a population of no treatment. Water from the receives 7,516 residents through approximately Water Conservancy Weber Basin 1,750 residential . connections and 53 receives treatment from that District commercial or other connections. system, but none from the Centerville Water for the city comes from two water system. Distribution water pressure is from city wells and from the Weber Basin Water Conservancy District. both gravity and pump. The system The Church Well, located at 200 East lines are mostly looped, except for one 200 South, is inside a line west along 400 North to the inby brick pump house. From there, the dustrial comples ending at a cement water is pumped to the citys 1.5 million plant and one line south of 400 North gallon storage tank. along frontage road east of The Holbrook Well is located at 1355 There are seven pressure reducing North Cottonwood Drive, inside an stations in the system, all of which are tested on a routine basis. The system by underground concrete pump house. appears to give adequate water Built in 1979, the well pumps water to pressures and supply throughout the the storage tank or the tank can be city, the report said. . 10-fo- ot 5. ot 12-fo- ot Fruit in Court Oyer Zone Fruit Heights citizens will meet their city administrator. The Utah Supreme Court in 1964 ruled , that such rezoning decisions are administrative in nature and not subject to a referendum vote. The citizens think the councils decision is legislative in nature because the zoning change is not part of the citys master plan. They feel they have a constitutional right to the vote, said Carol Stewart, party to the suit. A write of mandamus was filed by attorney Curtis Drake asking the court to require the Fruit Heights city recorder to hold a referendum vote on rezoning. Drake said the issue is one of allowing everyone to decide what they want. He believes the citizens have a constitutional right to the referendum vote. Mrs. Stewart said many neighbors are opposed to the site because thery dont want a business district in the area. She said she is not opposed to LAYTON An accident on Highway having a shopping center located 89 Monday claimed the life of a Salt further and down the road, near Cherry Lake man and seriously injured a Lane, but not at the proposed site. She said she moved into the area with Layton mother and daughter. Tracy L. Rollins, 41, 7414 Park Crest the idea that it would always be Court, Salt Lake City, was northljcund residential. We all moved in with that on Highway 89 when his vehicle crossed in mind. We wouldnt have moved into a the center line and collided head-o- n commercial area, she said. with a southbound vehicle driven by In March, she said, many people Anita Watson Cook, 32, of 2536 E.. 2500 attended a publftlhearing to discuss the N., Layton, the Utah Highway Patrol rezoning issue. They were violently said. opposed to rezoning . . . especially after Mrs. Cook and her daughter ' paying so much for the land, she said. Elizabeth, 6, were taken to Davis North They felt then, as they do now, that, Medical Center where Elizabeth the site is too big to be sustained as a remained hospitalized and was listed in business site, she said. The $3.5 million serious condition with multiple injuries. ' project would house a Mrs. Cook was transferred Tuesday supermarket and 10 other smaller afternoon to St. Benedicts Hospital in businesses, she said. She said its not just four or five Ogden where she underwent surgery and was listed Wednesday in critical families opposed the location. Its the condition with multiple fractures.. , builk of people in the city. We know we city officials in 2nd District Court Tuesday to find out if a referendum vote on rezoning will take place. : A group of residents want a referendum vote because they disagree with the Council's decision to rezone about eight acres of land for commercial use. The land is on 400 North and U.S. 89. The City Council earlier, this year denied residents request for the vote because the rezoning decision is adnot ministrative in nature legislative, said T.J. Burns, assistant Two Injured, One Dead in Layton Crash 45,000-square-fo- ot By LUCINDA M. SCHUFT Staff Writer The car industry in Northern Utah seems to be reflecting the national trend toward buying American-mad- e automobiles. Several local representatives say the new American-mad- e small cars appear to be popular and after a month on the market are selling quite well. Earlier this year the American automobile industry appeared to be on rocky ground with three of the major producers reporting difficult financial situations which showed losses in the millions of dollars. Much of the blame was placed on the foreign automobile market in the United States. It appeared that the major American manufacturers could not compete with the foreign trade. Local representatives from both Ford and Chrysler dealerships which are American-mad- p marketing the new snall cars for 1981 Jsay the new cars School Sports IB 1 have community support because 250 people signed a petition for the referendum when only 98 signatures were needed, she said. "The majority of people west of the highway are opposed to commercialism. We know we have support because, even though things are tight, people are giving us money to pay for a lawyer, she said. ' Burns however, said the city needs a broader tax base. He said a commercial sales tax base was the councils solution. So the council supported the development at the proposed site, he said. He said building permits have dropped off to almost nothing. Permits were a source of city revenue. Another proposal for a broader tax base, Burns said, is a utility tax. The News Two Region 1 schools, Roy and Bonneville, will meet in the state championship game on Friday at noon. The game will be played on the University of Utah Campus in Rice Stadium. Not only is this the first time in the final game for both teams, it is also the first two Weber County Schools will be playing for the title. Neither team is a clear favorite and no one is picking it that way. Most feel the game will be decided in overtime. For a look at the matchups and a background look at the final game, turn to page 4B. did not receive enough of the cars. We had to hold some so we could show dealerships which are selling them. Cutrubus added that he feels the K Chryslers new K car, said the main reason the American automobile in- car will definitely help Chrysler. He dustry seems to be hurt by the foreign said, I think Chrysler will be very auto trade is that there are many more strong by the second or third quarter of American car dealers than foreign next year. ones. , He said the K car is not only imHe said that makes the foreign trade proving Chryslers financial situation appear much more secure than but is also helping the company's American trade because the market image. I think that its giving more share is not divided in so many pieces. traffic and more credence that But Cutrubus said the American Chrysler is meeting the market public is starting to accept the idea of demand. small car. the American-mad- e He said it is also helpful that Sales have been a little slow because Americans are starting to buy of the uncertainty of the economy, he American when looking for a small car. said. The new Chrysler K car seems to Survey conducted recently by Ford be having a positive effect, however, on Motor Company on buyers of the new the market situation. The cars we got Ford World car in the Salt Lake Area initially sold out. The (K) car is very reflected the same trend toward may be turning the market around. Homer Cutrubus, owner of three local ' CONSTRUCTION is. nearing completion on the $1.2 million project that will replace the guardrails on from 5600 South in Roy to just north of Kaysville near Church Street. The barriers are nicknamed Jerrey Barriers from the state where they were first used, Mew Jersey Barriers' Replacing Guardrails By JIM SAWDEY Staff Writer The Jersey Barrier has come to Utah and is spreading like wildfire across the nation. District One Utah DOT construction engineer Biao Chang said Monday that a $1.2 million project to set concrete barriers along Interstate 15 from Roy to Kaysville is within a few days of completion. He said a community parking lot and an interchange system is also in the works. pre-ca- st The barriers will replace guardrails that have lined the freeway since it was constructed. The barriers are sloped at the bottom to catch the tire of an it back vehical and into the flow of traffic, Chang said. ct Guardrails, he said, collapse and bring the vehicle to a sudden stop, causing more damage to the vehicle and the barrier, he said. The guardrails will bring a vehicle to a sudden stop by sagging and creating a pocket. The vehicle will stop because of the collapse, he said. The collapse can cause more damage to the car and rail than a barrier. Other rails have been completely eliminated, he said. A U.S. Department of Transportation survey found that when cars ran off certain slopes at a certain height and grade less damage and injury was caused than when the same car ran into a guardrail. So the rails have been eliminated and the slopes have been graded in some areas, he said. That is especially true on freeway The Jersey Barrier got its name from a pilot project in the New Jersey. They proved so successful that they are being installed all across the nation, Chang said. The $1.2 million project began in May under the direction of the Z.P. Smith Inc., a construction company. A contract for another project that will extend the barriers from 5600 South in Roy to 3100 South in Ogden was awarded to J.D. McNiel, who came in at a low bid of $750,000. The project will begin this fall or early spring, Chang said, depending on the weather. on State Syracuse ramps. The exchange on 5600 South in Road 108 is in its intercnange final designing stages, Roy is an example of the sloped grades, Chang said. The project will go out to he said. bid this winter. The interchange will He explained that although the service the Davis North Medical Center concrete barriers are more expensive and Freeport Center area. It will also to produce than guardrails, they are provide better access to Antelope Island. The project will begin next year almost free of maintenance. Guardrails, he said, are expensive to and is expected to take two construction maintain. A seasons to complete. el I mg Briskly office, said the survey in this area showed buyers of the recently introduced Ford Escort had considered other cars before purchasing the Ford product and a major part of their decision had been based on the fact the Ford car was American. Out of 100 buyers surveyed so far, he said, it appears we are going to penetrate the foreign buyer market. He said, There seems to be a trend for buying American and were trying to give good reasons to bu American. The study also reflected that people of all ages are buying the Ford Escort. Unger said those kind of cars used to be young peoples cars, but the market appears to be changing. He said the Ford Escort has been specifically designed for what it is, a high mileage small car. It has a new engine that is designed wanting to buy American. positive. He said the kickoff of the new car Richard T. Unger, assistant district with the emission controls in it. Older introduction was hurt because dealers salesnanager in the Salt Lake District modelk weren't made this way. He said the emission controls were just made to fit so the cars would pass government regulations. Its the first complete car that were satisfied that weve produced, he said, and the acceptance of the car is very, very good. Both the K car and the Escort World Car, were preceded by a huge introductory effort, and local dealers said they feel this helped the area sales. Larry Nye, a salesmen at Cutrubus Motors in Layton, said the advertising created more traffic. He said 80 percent of the people coming in are looking for a K car. He also said the K car is helping eliminate negative feelings toward the Chrysler company. Richard W. Poole, general sales manager at Layton Ford, said the introductory advertising also helped the sales of the new Ford Escort. I've just got a couple left. ,He said the dealership sold all that were delivered except the remaining few. He said the main problem he will be facing is that of availability. He said it seems Any time they introduce a new car they always underestimate how they're going to do with it. Sales nationally for both of the new cars reflect the trend of American inacceptance. During the troductory period on Chryslers K Car, 10,217 were sold nationally. That figure does not include cars which were sold and not delivered. Car sales can only reflect actual deliveries, Nye exy plained. Ford reported 7,500 of the new Escorts sold on opening day of the introductory period. Poole said Ford had set out to prove that America could produce a world car that could compete on the international market. He said he feels it is a solid approach qnd that the acceptance is good. |