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Show pm'' V WEEKLY REFLEX DAVIS' NEWS JOURNAL, DECEMBER 13. 1979 NORTH DAVIS LEADER. DECEMBER 13, 1979 Mil! By WANDA LUND flOW LONG do you have to have a white elephant? demanded Mrs. Marie I dont know Marshall. - CLEARFIELD City councilmen Tuesday night again considered the issue of whether to continue operating the municipal swim pool after a city resident complained of continuing costs to maintain it. The pool is closed during December for renovation anyone who uses the pool ex- cept the kids at the high school." I am sure the council has been agonizing over it, res- ponded Mayor Donal W. Townley. It is losing $35,000 to $50,000 a year. Of course, work. J we lose money on the parks too. "WHEN I was mayor, we tried to give the pool away, interjected City Manager Gayle Starks. The school district wouldnt take it. There was about $60,000 owing on it. The pool has gone downhill for the past seven years because there hasnt been money to keep it up.. This reason for the expenditures to bring it up (to par). It has come up 300 or 400 percent recently. We are cleaning up the facility, adding new tile in the showers, and there is a lot going on to bring it up to first class condition. WE ARE attempting to make it attractive and clean ' is-t- and make it sparkle, mm lion Due Kg he Candy Contest - here. The Clearfield Recreation Department is sponsor- ing a Christmas candy making contest, open to Clearfield residents of all ages, who are invited to bring a few morsels of the goodies to the recreation department will become the new registration date. program could cause some misunderstanding for those whose registration expires in TO AVOID confusion the county assessor suggests the in due registrations December be renewed at this time. December. IF registrations are not renewed in December and the taxpayer waits until January to register his vehicle, he will be subject to two years taxes instead of one. This is due to the fact that even though his registration expires in December, he is actually paying taxes for the calendar year 1979. In essence, he has had the benefit of a delayed payment. For those who purchased a vehicle in December of 1978, through the staggered regis- The commission and asses- sor offered this explanation regarding the staggered registration. The lien date has not be changed from January 1. This date is actually the Commission office in Far- -' mington will accept applications for registration for 1980 beginning on Dec. 17, 1979. This will permit fleet owners of vehicles with registrations expiring Jan. 31, 1980 and those people going out of state for extended vacations to relicense their cars andor recreational vehicles before Jan. 1, 1980. SI said, "and expand the programs which we are doing. We have even talked impossible to pin down exact costs at this time. Mr. Starks said he had an additional request from the contractor for $2,750 to refinish the ceiling on the inside of the pool, so that amount was included in the $14,750 authorized by the council. about putting in whirlpools. The was discussion prompted by a proposal to reopen the budget to provide funds to renovate the pool and repair the boiler which heats it. The council eventually passed a motion proposed by Councilman Gerald Heaton to reopen the budget and add $14,750 to the $33,000 already for budgeted The" CLEARFIELD sweetest time of the year is The staggered registration .n nA the . COUNCILMEN also heard a report from Police Officer Bud DeRyke regarding activities in the lobby of the swim pool. He suggested either selling the pool to the Davis School District after it pool improvements. is upgraded or asking them to build their own facility and closing down the pool. Mr. Starks said the pool is .HUGH WHEELOCK, city engineer, had written to the council on Nov. 28, mentioning that in addition to the work to be done under the bid submitted by Bouchard Construction and Engineering for $46,500 that another $12,000 be appropriated for repairs to the boiler and some ional work. used extensively that public use is growing substantially close to a 400 percent increase in the past six months. addit- SHERMAN Scoffield, the public works director, said a long range plan for the pool has been developed which is great. I think it can be put back on a paying basis, he said. at the Clearfield Municipal Swim Pool. ENTRIES ARE to be submitted Monday and Tuesday, Dec. 17 and 18. Each entry must be accompanied by the recipe and the entrants name and address must be included. Entrants will receive a copy of each recipe submitted, and prizes will be awarded to the winners, wwl citys Mr. Wheelock noted that a plumber had reported to him the boiler can be repaired but that he could not estimate the cost until inthat sulation could be removed so it could be inspected. COUNCILMEN COUNCILMAN Neldon E. Hamblin said he would like to hear a report from C. Ross Kearl, Parks and Recreation agreed that it would be better to reopen the budget if additional funds are required later, since it is for Red Cross swimming classes and Department supervisor, to clarify costs of remodeling and statistics about use of the pool, as well as the amount of projected income. I really feel like recreation is there for the citizens, and we have to upgrade it so they will use it, he said. 1 dont know whether you will get the pool to a pay operation, but Ross has it closer than ever before. I think the swimming pool is a benefit to the city, even though we dont have the total complex that Roy (city) does. The work that Ross has done in conjunction with the Community School is going to make this area a recreation complex. THE recreation and parks committee has done a lot of work on that. They are tax dollars, and that is one of the things the recreation committee has tried to do is tie it A Class C beer license was granted to Mr. Monroe, and council members want to be sure that he is selling the proper proportion of food to the amount of beer that is be- ing consumed on premises. MR. MONROE said he had previously operated the business with a partner, but that he is now sole owner and would like a chance to prove himself with the city. Councilmen authorized Mr. Starks to find out whether other federal monies applied for by the city for two bridges on 800 North would be jeopardized if state low income housing monies of $3,523 are not released to the county. The city had applied for $800,000 in federal funds from Housing and Urban together. Development monies to apply to the $1,200,000 cost of replacing the bridges. answer his request. THEY ALSO authorized immediate expenditure of $2,000 to upgrade street signs so work can begin during the Mr. Starks assured Mr. Hamblin that he would get complete information to IN OTHER action, council-me- n agreed to hear a report from Steve Monroe, operator of Capone's Lounge and Pizza Parlor on 1700 South Street near the Freeport Center, on Feb. 12. Chief of Police Daren Green told the council there had been some changes since the beer license was first granted to Mr. Monroe. slow time of the year on the project. Mr. Scoffield said signposts and new signs would cost $43.50 a unit. He noted they should be placed on 120 corners in the city. Additional monies due date for the personal property taxes on vehicles, however, as a means of simplifying the assessing and collecting of such taxes, they are paid during the month the registration expires. In practice then, the taxes are due in January but paid when the tration program, the taxes are not paid until December 1979, however if taxes are not paid at that time and are paid in January, the two years taxes are due, one tax for 1979 and one for 1980 as January taxpayer vehicle. registers his ALSO, THE Davis County assessor and the State Tax County Needs Transitional r - Two nursing homes are willing to work with us, one in Bountiful and one in Clearfield but they want a written FARMINGTON Davis County is in need of a transitional care facility. AT LEAST thats the . guarantee that the people wont yell, scream or run opinion of county mental health officials who say needs away. Its very difficult for us , of people requiring such a to guarantee that, he said. service arent being met ONE NURSING home was anywhere in the county. tried but after a couple of would cost it But months had to be vacated. to build such arent set up "Nursing-home-s a facility and Mental Health Dr. Williams for that, $180,000-$200,00- 0 Director Russell Williams arent such funds available. He made those comments in a report to the mental health advisory council last week. explained. We need a facility but we dont have any money at all for construction. One recommendation is to put a wing on the alcohol and drug facility in Layton. We do have land and already have a kitchen and other facilities. said there PATIENTS needing transi- ' i ;l tional care must either be care treated in areas designed for in and out treatment or must be housed in a hospital. "Usually we have to put them in the hospital and transitional care is about half as expensive. Weve tried to identify a.' facility but nursing homes and hospitals are the only way COLL. GORDON THORUP ' , BRUNSWICK AIR BATTLE HE ADDED that the county could lease property oyer a period but said he didnt know what official reaction would be to the idea ten-ye- By GARY R. BLODGETT although other areas have followed such a program, he said, adding that possibly the state could participate, tb we can meet needs. BOUNTIFUL The launching of the U.S. Eighth Air Forces greatest daylight attack over Europe on Jan. 11, 1944, attracted the biggest force of German fighters yet engaged in the defense of the Reich. Legal Defender FARMINGTON - The legal defender for criminal digent cases has been misdemeanors, a summary report noted. An estimated 175 cases will be handled during the year, an increase of 59 percent over 1976 when 110 cases were aired. inre- tained by the Davis County Commission. LOREN D. Martin, of Bountiful, will continue to provide legal services during 1980. The contract, was set at $30,000, up by seven percent from $27,000 for the current fiscal year ending Dec. 31. The caseload during 1979 IN THIS day of inflation one bright note annanrat in the summary. The average case cost has dropped from $218 in 1976, when the present program was initiated to $.155. Overall cost for the service has risen 12.5 percent, however, tb included 67 percent felony or serious cases and 33 percent Moratorium Lifted On Clinton Building - A six month CLINTON building moratorium in Clinton that expired as of Wednesday has been lifted by the city council. IN11TH-HOU- Tuesday R night action, the group voted, four-onto discontinue the e, building ban imposed last summer because of fears the supply present water wouldnt be ample to meet needs of this g north Davis city. City Manager Damon Edwards said that while city It was one of the greatest air battles of World War II the bombing of Brunswick, Germany, and the leader was Col. Louis Gordon Thorup of Bountiful, depicted in this London News drawing (Jan. 22, 1944) seated in the cockpit of the council members are still concerned about sufficient water, they felt the economic situation would pre-em- continued building at as hectic a pace as in past years. In addition, the council wanted to give commercial interests a chance to build in the city. HE SAID a convenience - store and paint store have considered locating in the city. The city of about 6,000 is almost devoid of any commercial interests with only a handful of businesses serving the area, tb AND LEADING that entire flight of more than 700 American Flying Fortresses was Lt. Col. (Ret. Col.) Louis Gordon Thorup, who now resides at 2295 Carolyn Way, Bountiful. It was only one of some 31 missions that the now retired colonel commanded from his "home base in England over enemy targets, primarily in Germany. the one over BrunsBUT IT was the big mission wick on that cold, foggy morning in early January that is foremost in Col. Thorups mind. I served a lot of missions and had many close calls with death, but I guess the Brunswick Mission will always be considered the key mission during my tour of inconduty, he said. It was so big that its almost ceivable." - THE LONDON News at the time listed the number of planes in the raid at about 700. But Col. Thorup says it could have been closer, to 1,000. he admitted I dont even know the exact number, this week, some 36 years later. But I know that is was simply awesome." FLYING AT 22,000 feet, his formation had to make a n over its target of Brunswick. During the en- each plane carried four rockets. He explained that the lasted about l2 hours. mission THEY (ENEMY fighters) were on top of us every second. We took a terrible beating, losing some 60 aircraft with scores of others badly damaged. home with his aircraft shot Colonel Thorup limped nearly to pieces. I COUNTED about 200 holes in the plane, then I stopped counting," he said wryly. That was quite a mission and whoever survived were mighty fortunate. Official Air Force statements later determined that at least 152 German fighters had been shot down and ;scores of others badly crippled. that the mission was and that their suspicions that the enemy had a new, and improved fighter aircraft were COLONEL THORUP recalls very sOccessful true. - one the most devastating of with several obstacles that almost caused of He noted that the raid - the war met its failure. BECAUSE OF weather conditions several planes, as many as 60 turned back, leaving us to take the brunt of the attack. I lost 10 planes in battle from my formation of headwinds coming off the 60. We hit 100 raid and we had enemy fighters all over us," he recalled. Colonel Thorup said his plane was badly damaged several times and that several of his crew members were killed and injured. Colonel Thorup was never wounded. mile-per-ho- double-ru- tire attack they engaged enemy fighters from every including the Messerschmitt 110s and the 210-"destroyers. Colonel Thorup says he cant recall the details of the flight this many years later, but the London News quotes the commander extensively: I HAD a lot of close calls, with the rudder shot out from under me and numerous narrow escapes, he said. Crew members on several occasions were wounded and killed next to me." He noted that the average life of a bomber crewman at that stage of the war was five missions. "ONE FORTRESS to the right and above me was hit and its inboard motor was in flames. Behind and above me I could see a German airman parachuting from his crippled aircraft. In the distance we saw a line of more than 20 They got around to one side of us and then they turned headon into our formation and let go a broadside of rockets that seemed to burst into a great line of red and yellow fire. crash THE COMMANDER was shot down once but several times he had to landing in the North Sea nurse his aircraft back to its home base in direction - s. t, MOST OF the first salvo missed, but they let loose with another salvo of two rockets apiece, indicating that - - east-centr- England. It was in June 1943 that Col. Thorups plane was badly damaged by enemy fighters and was forced to ditch" in the North Sea, not far from England. WE WENT down in waves," he said. "It was cold, misty and generally miserable. We were able to get the crew out into rafts and floated for about 10 hours before being rescued by a convoy of Flying Fortress (bottom right). Thorup was commander of the e attack for which his 9th Bomber Group received the Presidential Citation and Colonel Thorup personally received the Silver Star. B-1- to complete the project would be included in next fiscal years budget beginning in July. 7 Colonel 700-plan- British ships en route to an attack mission off the Dutch Coast. THREE OF my crew members were wounded, but in pretty good shape. The commander of the ship asked if we wanted to continue with them on their attack mission but I told them that we had enough fighting for one day and would prefer returning immediately to England, which we were." Col. Thorup said there was always a lot of tension and apprehension before each mission. WEATHER conditions, generally, were very poor and because of previous raids we knew that each time we took off the odds were such that some of us would not return. We adopted a fatalistic feeling, he said. Early in the war, he noted, English Spitfires were used as escorts but that their range was no farther than half way across the channel and then they had to return. - 0 and 8 fighters LATER, he said, American escorted the all the way to the target and return. What a thrill it was to know that we had some air support against those pesky German fighters." Colonel Thorups 9th Bomber Group received the Presidential Citation for its raid on Brunswick. He received the Silver Star as leader of that formation. THE HIGHLY decorated commander also received the Distinguished Service Cross, Medal of Honor, Air Medal and three Oak Clusters, Bronze Star, and several distinguished service awards from leaders of foreign countries. After serving as executive officer, commander and chief of staff during the war, Col. Thorup later graduated from the U.S. Air War College and became Strategic Air Command (SAC) wing commander in Okinawa and the U.S. HE SERVED several years in the Pentagon and retired from Hill AFB in September 1967. He was affiliated with the first testing of the Atomic Bomb from an aircraft in the Marshall Islands. The bombardier," he said was formerly my crew bombardier and I recommended him for the test. COL, THORUP received his masters degree from the University of Utah after retirement and served as a rehabilitation counselor for the Utah State Board of Education before retiring in January 1978. A native of Salt Lake City, he and his wife, Doryse, have two children, Gordon Jr. 29, and Kerry, 18, both of Bountiful. |