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Show t 4 WEEKLY NEWS JOURNAL, NORTH DAVIS LEADER, OCTOBER 8, REFLEX-DA- VIS Sunset Supports SUNSET Sunset officials have endorsed a proposal from the Davis County Council of Governments to allow a representative of Hill AFB to serve as a non- By MARK D. MICKELSEN FARMINGTON must receive approval for construction of additional buildings from the COG board, the mayor said they should be included in the workings of the COG. The same proposal granting HAFB membership must be approved by all of the cities in Davis County before the action is accepted, Sant added. voting member of the COG. THE STAFF of the COG, headed by Syracuse Mayor Boyd Thurgood, made the recommendation several weeks ago due to e a relationship between the military base and the COG, Mayor Norm Sant said Thursday. The Davis COG is made up of mayors and county commissioners. Mayor Sant said the cities are able to appoint whoever or nonthey want to serve as voting members. long-tim- IF RATIFIED by those cities, a representative of the military base will serve on the member. board, as a Mayor Sant said the COG board of directors discussed the issue at a recent meeting, but there was not vote taken. non-voti- , "ex-offici- o, BY UNANIMOUS vote Thursday night, the Sunset City Council became one of the first north Davis cities to come out in support of the proposal. HILL AFB is tied into the Davis County Sewer District, the Weber Basin Water Conservancy District, and BECAUSE Want SS Answers Before Cut HAFB Being Named To Cog Certain Behavior Unacceptable - The president of the Davis County Employees Association says formal withdrawal from the federal Social Security System will be acceptable to employees only when all the advantages and disadvantages of the system are investigated. SOCIAL Security has a lot of benefits that have got to be looked at before we pull out, said DCEA president Louis Cooper in an interview Tuesday afternoon. He said the county commissions decision to apply for withdrawal from the system as early as Dec. 1982 hasnt really stirred up any feelings within the employees. BUT, COOPER said several employees within the DCEA have asked to study the pros and cons of the withdrawal request. Cooper said he has talked with a number of employees who are worried that the Social Security System is going broke. Many are worried that they wont get any of the benefits. Most are younger employees, he said. to pull out. And, as Commissioner Glen Saunders said in a talk the county commission into paying their traditional recent interview, the share for benefits. Cooper After attending three high school football games this season. I am disturbed by the poor sportsmanship displayed by many persons, including the treatment ot an animal during halftime at the Davis-Clearfiel- d game on Sept. 11. Most disturbing to me is that some do not understand that this behavior is wrong, since little was done to stop it. cheerleaders, the audience and the players. Our school is as guilty as any other and as the parent of a player, I feel that something must be said about this situation. Athletes work very hard to spend many exhausting hours perfecting their skills. It is an insult to their dedication for anyone to behave in a manner ARE under- that would discredit: the standably volatile at these athletes. For an athlete to exhibit such behavior should be inconceivable. What is even more inconceivable is that the adults who influence these i games, but there should be no excuse for poor taste or inappropriate behavior such as the disgusting, inhumane young people are offering little or no guidance, encouragement or example for appropriate behavior. Sadly, the opposite is true. TO LOSE a game is difficult, but even more difficult would be to lose without honor. To win without honor is no achievement at all. Let each of us resolve to develop good sportsmanship in ourselves and our young people. We can only profit from the effort. Bemita Hoover Davis Will Control Weber Basin Drains By MARK D. MICKELSEN The Weber Basin FARMINGTON Water Conservancy District has agreed to sign over to Davis County officials comdrains in plete control of all A-- l and the south end of the county, Com. Glen Saunders announced Tuesday. This (contract) is the result of a long, long study and were very happy, a relieved Com. Ernest Eberhard told commissioners and a small group of reporters Tuesday. A-l- -2 THE AGREEMENT, reached after years of discussion between the county and the water district, places full responsibility for maintenance and operation of the drains on Davis County officials. The Bureau of Reclamation has recommended several improvements to bring the drains up to proper operating standard. Com. Saunders said. AS A PART of the contract, the county agrees to haul any material removed from the drains to designated dump sites and will be responsible for removing a stand of Russian Olive trees near Redwood Road which are interfering with the operation of the drain. THIS IS a real milestone in flood control, he said. Com. Saunders noted that the Bureau of Reclamation has also agreed to sign the drainage pact When the county officially inks the final proposal. IMPLEMENTATION of the contract calls for removal of debris and waste from the existing south Davis County A- and 2 drains. The only county costs involved in the contract will come as a result of cleanup operations aimed at ridding the drains of the debris, Com. Eberhard explained. -l ITS BEEN a long, drawn out situa- he said. The commission approved the contract unanimously. tion, Kaysvile Meet Your Candidate Night Set Meet Your Candidate Night" for all candidates who are running for election in Kaysville will be held Oct. 21 at 7:30 p.m. in the American Savings and Loan Bldg.. 330 North Main. Kaysville. The meeting is sponsored by the Kaysville Republican Womens Club and is open to the public. CANDIDATES running for office in Kaysville are two candidates for mayor. Gar Elison, incumbent, and Gerald A. Purdy. Three running for the city council seats are incumbents Carol Page and Clair Snow and Steve Major, np Sunset City Council Delays Approval of Business License SUNSET rities - Sunset autho- Thursday delayed approval of a business license for the American Home Theatre Corporation due to some opposition from city council members. AMERICAN Home Theatre, the parent company of Channel One television, has applied to the city for a business license in anticipation of further expansion into north Davis County. non-cab- But when Sunset Mayor Norm Sant brought up the issue Thursday night, there appeared to be more negative, than positive response from the council. WE DONT want another cable company digging up the streets, Councilman Clayton Petersen argued. A subsidiary of the Skaggs Telecommunications Service, American Home Theatre is attempting to expand into both north Davis and Weber counties. The company specializes in first-ru- n motion pictures without commercial interruptions. BUT, IF Sunsets reaction to the license is any indication, Channel One may be in for a fight. Mayor Sant said the company will have to obtain a franchise permit before beginning operation inside the city, mdm commis- plans. "Right now they (county officials) cannot tell us there is By MARK D. MICKELSEN FARMINGTON -- - There may be more than just greens at the Davis County Golf Course next spring. THERE MAY be blues, and yellows, and reds, pinks, maybe even sunrise orange. No. Golf course workers wont be painting the fairways. But they might be adding some welcome color to those 18 holes. DAVIS GOLF Pro Pierre Hualde and representatives of the Tee-A- d Sign Company, Salt Lake City, met with county commissioners Thursday to discuss the possibility of installing brightly-colore- d fairway signs at each of the 18 holes. The signs, made of what Hualde calls indestructible materials, are a part of a plan to add some color and decor to the golf course. items. be- the signs have been used for advertisement and as directional signs in a number of Utah ski resorts. Director John Schoppe, According to Tee-A- d ground-levsigns, used in ski areas to direct skiers where to load onto the chair lift are passed over by more than 40,000 skiers each winter season. Still, the signs remain indestructible. MADE OF durable LAYTON residents are encouraged to bag or bundle the debris so it can easily be loaded into pick-u- p trucks. Plan ahead so your yard is early Saturday morning. Volunteers from civic groups, church groups and youth groups are all invited PEOPLE wishing to volun- after proposed withdrawal from the system is accepted, money will be transferred from Social Security into an alternate pension plan, he said. WE WOULD have done our groundwork before. Asked about current HOWEVER, IN a joint meeting between the two orga- nizations earlier this year. Cooper said few employees showed up for the gathering. He said a representative from the sheriffs office tried a couple of times to get people "up" for the meetings, but there was minimal response. We just wanted to see what the feeling was among the employees, Cooper said. em- ployee support of the Social Security System, Cooper said I DONT think it (feeling) was represented. The companys fee for advertisers: $1,000 per hole. THERES NO product on the market that even comes close to this one, Mr. Schoppe said, explaining about the durability of the signs. Under the proposed contract, Tee-Ad- s provides the sign and the sign post. It is the golf courses responsibility to dig a hole for the post. MR. HUALDE said existing signs at the course require continual repair and repainting. If all 18 markers can be leased out as advertising space, there is no cost to the county. Mr. Schoppe said his company asks advertisers throughout the county if they want to advertise on the markers. THE RESPONSE, he said, has been overwhelming. He also said replacement of the signs is no problem. WE WILL provide the first two signs free of charge that are due to theft. In addition, he said damage to the signs due to manufacturing will be taken care of by the company. ON THE next two signs, Tee-Ad- s agrees to split the cost with the golf course. The replacement of over five signs will have to be taken care of entirely by the course, he said. I THINK this is a fairly new concept in this area, Mr. Hualde told commissioners. Though supportive of the proposal, the commission delayed a decision on the matter pending an evaluation by the county attorney. Library Board Asks Layton To Reconsider should contact Mr. entitles the person to use the sanitary land fill free of charge from the city offices, dmg IF, IN years, there are "solid indications that the system will either survive or fail, Cooper said county employees will be ready to implement an alternate plan. By Jan. 1, 1984, one month HE SAID since he took over as DCEA president, four or five people have approached him urging withdrawal from the system. The Davis County Sheriffs Office has come out in support of withdrawal and is urging DCEA members to do the same, he said. D teer their assistance or wanting more information about the living in Layton e, TEE-Acustom-mad- e HAS proposed color-fas-t, markers for each of 18 Davis County Golf Course holes. Mr. Schoppe said the fee per sign is $300, but said the idea of the proposal is to convince area advertisers to buy ad space on each of the hole markers. and encouraged to help with this community project that is being organized by the Layton City Improvement Association under the direction of Michael Wilder. can secure a dump card that HE SAID the DCEA and the county commission have discussed problems within the Social Security System. Both organizations have agreed that the system is in trouble. Its a good idea, Cooper said, that we look into it. no employee has approached him in favor of the system. el clean and the material is yard. out." Advertising Signs Now Clog Golf Courses? Saturday, Oct. 10 is the day for Layton residents to set out their leaves, clippings and Wilder at 376-5- 1 14. People with pick up trucks are encouraged to assist those living nearby who do not have trucks in cleaning up their benefit to getting a break-eve- n Will Scheduled ANYONE d THOSE ARE the concerns we have, Cooper said, re- - Clean-u- p p newly-electe- withdraw from the system is not certain at this point the DCEA will try and Layton City clean-u- over to sioners. garding alternate pension two-thir- one-sp- does not necessarily carry IF DAVIS County does WITHDRAWAL will be accepted only if a majority of the employees vote gathered into THE PROBLEM, Cooper says, is that the acting commissions decision to cooperate Therefore, if a new commission comes up against serious budget problems or faces other financial difficulties, the pension funding could be cut. even if the county pulls out. clean-u- p salary into an alternate pension plan with financial support from the commission. when they are retired and need the benefits. It probably wouldnt hurt them to get out, he said, and they may still receive minimum benefits depending on their tenure in the system. em- Volunteer work crews will gin picking up at 10 a.m. employees to contribute a proportional amount of their Cooper says the younger workers "figure the system will not be viable at the end" ployees, he explained, will still other year said. The scheme would allow AND WHILE older employees seem less concerned, THE OLDER employees, those with sufficient quarters to collect benefits, have not voiced as much concern over the proposed withdrawal, he added. Many of the older with- drawal will be 100 percent. Those who vote against withdrawal and lose will also have to bail out of the system. Mr. Cooper said many of the employees he has talked with say they have a gut feeling that the system is going bankrupt. receive minimum benefits EMOTIONS I I CONTINUED FROM FRONT said found most people hes heard from support a regional concept, contrary to what hed previously thought. Mr. Arbuckle said he would stress the regional concept in Centerville, noting the council has discussed the possibility of a library but with no definite AND COM. Saunders hes plans outlined. two dilemas, Mr. Whitesides said. If the city stays out of the county system, its residents will be assessed $10 a family or $5 a person for a library card LAYTON HAS to face each year along with possible pressure to provide an interim facility until a permanent lib rary can be built or readied. If other communities withdraw, it would mean inadequate library service for everyone with the county forced to cut its services, he added. IN THE meantime, county library officials are faced with preparing two budgets of about $800,000 each. One will not in- clude the near $130,000 property taxes Layton residents would contribute if they return to the system, the other has them part of the system. Laytons Mayor Lewis G. Shields has said he wanted the "door left open for such a possibility. Planning Time Okayed For West Point By TOM BUSSELBERG FARMINGTON West Point Elementary School gained approval as the 12th school to initiate planning time for teachers Tuesday night. AT THE same time, a request that was to have been heard from Muir Elementary in Bountiful was withdrawn by petitioners, pending further study. The planning time .concept was first introduced into the district about five years ago. It means students often a are released early one afternoon to allow teachers unbroken Monday period of several hours for preparation time. Students then start school earlier and leave somewhat later, the other days, to make up for that lost time and to conform wjth the 27'i hour attendance requirement set by state law. AT W EST Point, about 70 percent of the parents gave approval to the proposal through a survey while 100 percent of the teachers were in favor, one teacher told the board of education. Principal Arlo W. Hinckley, although noting favor with the plan said, Im very concerned about the percentage of parents 71 percent. Im a little nervoting for it vous, he added, although voicing support partly based on teacher enthusiasm for the without busing (with no problems). The others it presents quite a few problems. " Its not without its drawbacks," he said of the program, indicating a problem in places coordinating bus use and maximizFor teachers, it proing use of drivers. vides an opportunity for effective planning." plan. WE HAVE to make sure we make good he said, noting another survey of parents feelings will be conducted before the start of school next fall. Speaking for the Davis Education Assoc, was David King who said, "Weve had no complaints from teachers. We think its very positive. We have talked of 70 percent (parental support) as being the necessary requirement. It would seem to be in line (at West Point). use of the time, BUT ASST. Supt. Gayle Stevenson said the program doesnt come without its problems. "There are a few problems related to busing. Five schools are on planning time BUT PTA State said shed heard Repres. Dell Jean Cook about parental concern that teachers are abusing the planning time. Among adjustments to meet attendance requirements at West Point will be shortening of the lunch period from 55 to 45 minutes and lengthening the end of school by five minutes, to 3:30 p.m., Mr. Hinckley explained. IN OTHER business, Supt. Lawrence Welling related a school foods report pre- pared by Supervisor Maxine Reeves indicating student participation 71 percent or an eight percent drop comes from elementary grades while junior high has slipped more than five percentage points, to 67. Senior high dropped from 45 to 38 percent, explainable largely. Dr. Welling felt, because of the open campus concept at the six high schools. Prices were increased for all grade levels by 10 cents at the start of the school year, for those paying full price, with senior high students paying 90 cents, junior high 80 cents and elementary, 70 cents. IN A REPORT outlining teacher assignments, Mr. Stevenson said all but four of the districts 1,700-plu- s teachers have bachelors degrees, with those four certified before that was required and well qualified to teach. More than 400 hold masters degrees and 17 have doctorates. The "typical teacher holds a bachelor's plus 30 or 40 hours of additional college credit. "Our teachers are very well prepared. We certainly feel good about the professional staff in their preparation," he added, noting an average salary for that typical" teacher would be around $20,000, although he hastened to add "that doesnt mean there are a lot in the year bracket. Davis OKs Constable Aid FARMINGTON The Davis County Commission has agreed to hire a deputy to assist County Constable Carolyn Burbidge. THE COMMISSION accepted the application of R. Allen Petersen, Bountiful, following a request by Mrs. Bur bidge for additional help in the constables office. According to Com. Chair- man Ernest Eberhard, Mr. Petersen currently works for the Centerville Police and will be working for the county constables office during his off hours. PETERSEN WILL act as a deputy to the constable, the Val Verda area near Bountiful. Eberhard said. In other county business, commissioners approved a contract with Ralph L. Wadsworth Construction for the installation of a signal light at 3100 S. and Orchard Drive in THE CONTRACT is for $39,000. Com. Chairman Eberhard said the signal will not be installed until construction along 3100 S. is completed. UNDERWOOD Construct- ion workers have contracted with the county for curb, gutter and some sidewalk construction along 3100 South. County officials are hopeful that a majority of the project can be completed before winter, mdm Home vegetable gardens add np Seventy-seve- n percent of American households tend some type of garden plants. Though each individual area is small, it adds up. For instance, the average home vegetable garden is only around 600 square feet, yet the total area devoted to n vegetables is comparable to that used in California for its commercial vegetable industry. home-grow- |