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Show 467 T THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 13. A 0 i v ' A A yJ c? jy7 L1 197- 9- 32 Pages -- VOLUME FIFTY NUMBER EIGHTEEN Kassmle EDomtowmi Mare HiiolDeal iy Botunrocil 05imct(iee; City KAYSVILLE s Kays-ville- downtown could see a new look if work on a proposed study can get underway and funding obtained. IN A TWO hour meeting last week involving the city council and downtown committee of the chamber of commerce, a myriad of ideas were tossed around, centering on what could be done to revitalize the citys central business district. , And while nothing definite was proposed, there seemed to be agreement that a plan must be formulated with community backing for downtown improvement before proposed road are improvements implemented in 1982. STATE PLANS call for removing the crown from the downtown portion of Main Street and putting in four lanes instead of the Business two. present would be curtailed during the street project and that would probably make for an ideal time to institute redevelopment of business, it was agreed. Several rough proposals were presented to the group of city council members and chamber of commerce committee personnel by John Janson, a Davis County planning office staffer retained by the city. HE SAID somecommon design had to be formulated. Its (a plan) not done by just plunking down a design but is developed based on opinions from the people town). that use it A (down- marketing study would also be advisable to determine what businesses might locate in the area with a basic theme design also necessary. A planted median could be placed down the center of Main Street with traffic flow designed more to looking at the stores, he said. The states main concern is to move traffic through but we also need to let people slow down. Main Street is also State Highway 106. IN ADDITION to the median, sidewalks could be widened, a large area designated for a bus stop and street furniture installed to generate a gathering place, Mr. Janson said. We could dress it up effect with a plaza-typ- e and quite a bit of parking and planting. The state is open to suggestions. WITH A 100 foot right-of-wasome 30 feet on the east side of Main could be used for street widening to implement angle parking, y, ill he continued. It would j said. By TOM BUSSELBERG AEViBLYOPIA FARMINGTON Its time to get that youngster between 32 and 5 screened for amblyopia or lazy eye. THE DAVIS County Health Department is conducting clinics at schools throughout the county next week. The free clinics will take about 20 minutes, including five minutes for the actual screening. In addition, youngsters already enrolled in school will be checked. LAZY EYE detection needs to be picked up in the first six years of life when the CLINICS control of vision is developing, says County Nursing Director Dolleen Jewett. It comes on gradually but can be corrected if detected early enough. Some 30 youngsters of 1,400 screened last year were referred for further eye treatment, she says. Nationally, one in 45 children is found to require special treatment while that number is one in 90 in Davis County. WE FEEL were missing quite a few there are about 3,000 youngsters potential and were getting about half. We can handle all of them, Mrs. TOM SUNSET Three teenaged Sunset girls and a North Salt Lake police officer were injured Tuesday during a wild chase that ended in Salt Lake City wjien the stolen mobile home in which the girls were riding slammed into a utility pole. MINUTES earlier. North Salt Lake Police Sergeant James Erickson rolled his unmarked police car as he pursued the fleeing vehicle onto Beck Street. The three girls and police sergeant were not seriously hurt, according to police reports. All but one passenger in the mobile home were treated at area hospitals and released. HOWEVER, THE wild that began on Interchase state Highway 15 west of Bountiful and ended when the girls vehicle smashed into a utility pole at 300 West South Temple, Salt Lake City -resulted in several vehicles being damaged and others, THE KAYSVILLE REFLEX 197 B North Main St., Layton PHONE 376-913- 3 Published Weakly by 'John Stable, Jr., Publisher Second Class Postage Paid At Layton, Utah SUBSCRIPTION $4.50 per year (Psyeble In Advance) eye is Jennie Lundberg, Steve Lundberg of 1032 Public health nurse Mary a clean bill of health. - The Layton Council has LAYTON given City approval for construction of four single family dwellings . Jewett says. One problem is that if a child doesnt know he has a problem and usually uses only one eye the parents and a.m. North Davis schools include: Monday: Pioneer, 1 a.m. and p.m.; Clina.m. and Fremont, ton, a.m. and p.m.; Tuesday, Burton, a.m. and 3 p.m.; Hilltop, a.m. and 3 p.m. a.m.; Whitesides, wont notice it. 3 p.m. and Cook, 9-- ii 1- 9-- 1-- a.m. 9-- and 3 p.m.; Lincoln, a.m. and 3 p.m.; Wasatch, a.m. and 3 p.m.; Syracuse, 1 a.m. 9-- 2-- SOUTH WEBER, 1 a.m. p.m. and Crest-vie1 a.m. and p.m.; Friday: Kaysville, a.m. and 3 p.m.; Layton, a.m. and 3 p.m.; Hill Field, 1 a.m. and 3 p.m. a.m. and and Sunset, and 1- -3 SOUTH a.m. and Clearfield, 3 p.m.; Doxey, a.m. and West Point, 9-9-9-- a.m. and p.m. Wednesday: King, 1 a.m. and 3 a.m. p.m.; Vae View, vehicle. Ironically, none of the girls in the mobile home were old enough to own an opera- tors license and had very little driving experience, according to investigating officers. IT WAS THE third wild chase in northern Utah in the last few weeks. Others resulted in death and serious injury, police noted. Tuesdays harrowing chase mobile began when the home was taken without permission by the girls from Sunset about 11 a.m. Police from five agencies were involved in the pursuit after the vehicle was spotted near ot Bountiful. POLICE SAID the mobile home was driven erratically, of but not at a high-rat- e speed, while on the interstate, but picked up speed and was an extreme hazard as it sped up Victory Boulevard past the Capitol Building, down Main Street and into were reportedly released from a Salt Lake hospital shortly after the accident. The trio wtas treated at the scene by Salt Lake City paramedics. SERGEANT Erickson said he noticed the mobile home near southbound on Bountiful and began pursuit of the vehicle which had been reported stolen from Sunset. He was joined in the chase by Officer Steven Harder of North Salt Lake at about 2600 South, Bountiful. 2-- 1 9-- p.m. even pulled along side the mobile home and signaled the girls to pull over. Nothing we did would slow those kids down, said one officer. It seemed like the farther they went and the closer they got to Salt Lake City the more daring they became. OFFICERS SAID the fleeing vehicle was traveling at a very high rate of speed along Beck Street, and particularity down Main Street traffic of the into the mid-day DURING THE pursuit Officer Harder south on had his vehicle forced off the highway when the fleeing vehicle made a sharp turn from the left hand lane in front of him. A few minutes later, Sergeant Erickson lost control of his car as he attempted to follow the mobile home onto the Beck Street Exit. His auto rolled three times, receiving extensive damage. OFFICERS IN pursuit of the fleeing vehicle said they used red lights, sirens and city. Cars were reported forced off the road along Beck Street and the fleeing mobile home struck several cars, some of them parked, as it neared North Temple in Salt Lake City. AFTER BLOWING a tire upon impact with the monument on Main Street, the vehicle reportedly continued at a fast speed west on North Temple until the driver lost control and the chase ended with the mobile home smashing into the utility pole. Salt Lake City. The vehicle reportedly struck the Brigham Young Monument base, went airborne and blew a tire. The mobile home continued, however, to 300 West on South Temple where the driver attempted to make a left turn. point, the young driver lost control and the vehicle slammed headon into a utility pole, according to Salt Lake City police, who investigated. All but one of the injured A THIS For the November election for city officials in Kaysville, the Progressive Party chairman has resigned and the party secretary has moved away leaving the party without both a chairman and secretary. IN ORDER for candidates to be nominated on the ballot for the falls city election the city is asking for a volunteer ' THE UNITS will be built On Thursday the clinic will 1 :30 be held at: Morgan, 10-1- 9-- ' v Lsfi including a large road grader, being forced off the road to avoid being hit by the fleeing Davis County Housing Authority, by-th- e HdS18 fflflff By GARY R. BLODGETT Getting checked for lazy daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Arlington Way in Bouniful. Meredith gives the to act as chairman and set up the Progressive Party convention so they can nominate candidates to run for the positions that are expiring. This must be done prior to Oct. 8, 1979. Anyone wishing to act as chairman for the Progressive Party should contact the city recorder, Mrs. Josephine Leavitt, 376-423- 4, possible, np as soon as it adjacent to the existing Antelope Apartments near North Layton Jr. High School. Approval had been 28-un- previously denied but it swung in the authoritys favor last week with a three-tw- o council vote. The homes will house large families and contain three and four bedrooms and will be built on land owned by the authority on the east end of the complex, Executive Director Rosemary Davis said. IN ADDITION, a lot in the Dawn subdivision is being purchased for $12,800 that will allow for purchase of a housing lot and construction of a road connecting the housing complex to 2200 North, she That gives another flow for traffic and is mainly for the fire department and we felt that would open up Antelope Apartments to be more of a part of the area. four units will be part of ten large family dwellings ,,-T- he to be constructed in the county with part of $2.5 million in federal funding. A senior it citizens complex is planned for Bountiful, as well. WE ARE hoping to be under construction probably by spring on the new units and are waiting on rehabilitation funding word by the Mrs. end of the month, Davis said. The hoped-fo- r $200,000 funding would allow for substantial rehabilitation of the present complex including construction of gabled roofs and landscaping. Voting against the proposal were councilmen Lynn Wood and Rawly Harris. Councilman Harris spoke very much against it and said that many people objected to the new units and the extra traffic that Fruit Heights City Council Reviews Greenhouse Issue By NORMA PREECE Joseph Abram of 1006 east Green Road met with the Fruit Heights City Council to for a discuss plans greenhouse on five acres of property zoned agricultural A-l and a wholesale and retail sales operation in connection with the planned greenhouse. THE ZONING ordinance was reviewed and a determination made that the zone allows a greenhouse operation as a use by right in an agricultural zone and sales of products grown in that operation would not require a business license. Sales of any items or products purchased for resale would require a change of zoning to commercial and a business license. Howard Kent of Ivory and Company, developers of Creek View Subdivision met with the council and presented problems of surface drainage waters from outside the subdivision that are potential problems for the subdivision in the future. One area concerns water entering an abandoned irrigation ditich on the south boundary of the subdivision from U.S. 89 ad also at times irrigation water in the ditch for which there is no apparent need. AN EASEMENT has been provided in the lot plans for the drainage but the ditch to the west presents problems along the State Highway The other area of concern is water from the adjoining Somerset Place Condominiums which drains onto the Ivory and Company property. Councilman LaMar Green moved that Fruit Heights City recommend to the Somerset Place Management Committee that they hire an engineer to study the problem and design a drainage system to would be created by new families, Mrs. Davis said. OUR ARGUMENT was that four more units would not be a deterrent to traffic or overload the area. There would be a total of 32 units and other developments in Layton have 48 units and are e. She added that the area to be utilized for the new units is presently unlighted and unsupervised, lending to possible problems adding that the authority feels very committed to improving conditions through rehabilitation at the complex. IN RELATED matters she said land was still being sought for the other six single family units in Bountiful or the unincorporated South Davis area with anyone feeling they have an adequate site urged to contact the authority in Farmington. Negotiations are still continuing for placement of the senior citizens complex in Bountiful, tb who will make determination regarding liability and if court action is necessary. The group was advised to go ahead with litigation plans in order not to lose the right to do so since suit against a municipality must be entered within 30 days of the loss. He said the city is seeking several grants, including one for about $500,000 ,and he supported having initial market survey work done by M r. Janson with consultants in for more called specialized activities, tb Bernell Wrigley as superintendent effective Dec. 31, 1979. He has resigned for personal reasons. IT CONTINUED, In accepting the resignation, the ' board unanimously expresses appreciation for his long and dedicated service of 21 years in the district. The statement added that while no plans had been formulated for appointment of a new board superintendent, the would begin a thorough search for the best qualified person - to replace Mr. Wrigley so that the high educational standards of Davis County might 18-1- submitted to the citys liability insurance carrier torn up. of Estimated payment. THE GROUP was asked to submit claims which will be GAR Elison a need to cooperate in redevelopment. Almost all the new buildings need sprinkling systems and we cant provide adequate pressure because the pipes are too small and the hydrants cant be used because theyre too close to the buildings. If we work with redevelopment we have to work with businesses at the same time the street is MAYOR emphasized Education has most regretf- engineering the request for damage swimming pool, he added. ully accepted the resignation study of drainage problems costs for the necessary drainage systems as proposed totaled nearly $181,000. The citizens from 760 East Street in Kaysville who sustained water damage in the severe thunderstorms of 9 met with the August council regarding possible Fruit Heights liability for the damage. City attorney Gary Sargent explained the inability of the council to make any commitment concerning tizens center could be proposed along with a Will Design THE COUNCIL reviewed a east town without interference. In addition, a senior ci- Superintendent passed unanimously. of U.S. 89. another segment could pass through the down- Davis School adequately collect the runoff and dispose of it without it being a problem to the future owners of adjoining lots in the Creek View subdivision; and Fruit Heights City will have a study made of the drainage problems from the highway. The motion was seconded by Councilman Mark Michie and preliminary allow an aisle for traffic to pass through the area at a slow rate of speed while be maintained. - FARMINGTON Davis Countys superintendent of schools has resigned effective Dec. 31. BERNELL WRIGLEY, of Bountiful, who has served in the top school post since June 30, 1966, made that announcement through School Board President Lucile Reading Tuesday morning in a principals meeting. He will be 66 next month. In a prepared statement from the district it said, Davis County Board The of THE BOARD plans to name a successor by Jan. 1, 1980 with no interim superintendent contemplated at this time, the statement continued. Mr. Wrigley has served as an educator throughout his career, joining the district as an assistant superintendent in 1958 and filling that capacity until his present appointment Prior to that, he served as Cassia County (Burley area) Idaho superintendent for nine years, as an assistant superintendent, principal-teache- r and teacher there. He is a Burley native. |