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Show For Prison Three Sections -- - Summer Opening Expected WEST VALLEY. A midsummer opening is expected for the youth corrections center at Decker Lake, the City Council was told here Tuesday. Some problems are plaguing construction of the maximum security facility and may delay its use beyond the anticipated July opening, but the difficulties are not severe and can be resolved with help from the city, according to Russ Van Vleet, regional administrator of the Youth Corrections Division. Van Vleet appeared before the council to report on the progress of construction and to introduce the facilitys director, Kipp Enniss. He also asked the council to help citizens adorganize a visory committee. Such a committee would provide recommendations on, for example, a name for the facility, its use by outside organizations, programs for inmates and the use of community volunteers. It would report directly to the Board of Youth corrections, Van Vleet remarked. The construction problems involve unresolved drainage and access questions, not the building itself, the administrator said. Resolving those problems would allow discussions to proceed with the city about using land adjacent to the facility for little league baseball diamonds and a fire station, possibilities suggested during last dispute over years this facility and a nearby halfway house, Van Vleet said. The $3 million facility is designed to house 30 inmates. Space is available at the site to build another cottage for 10 more inmates, but that is not foreseen at this time, he noted. The most serious offenders in the juvenile justice system will be incarcerated there, he confirmed. Van Vleet added that he has no concerns about security - extra strong security measures have been included in the building's design, he said. Inmates sentenced to the facility are expected to spend no less than six months there. The average stay probably will be about a year, Van Vleet predicted. Referring to the prolonged and sometimes bitter fight with area residents and the city over the corrections facilities, Van Vleet said the state will now try to prove the center will not be a detriment to the 28 Pages THE VOICE OF WEST VALLEY CITY UTAH USPS 656 380 t Newspaper 4905 South, Salt Lake City, Published weekly at Second class postage patd at Salt Lake City, UT 84119 Subscrip tion rate $12 00 per year POSTMASTER Send address changes to West Valley View, Box 7187, Salt Lake City, UT 84107 155 E Volume 29, Number UT 84107 Thursday, Jan. 2 All 27, 1983 Proposal Getting Opposition SALT LAKE. City officials are keeping a close watch on the status of the sales tax redistribution bill, which experienced rough going in its first committee hearing last week. While the bill was not advanced to the House of Representatives by that bodys Revenue and Taxation Committee, it isnt dead yet either, West -- After 'Drunk' Hearing Valley City Manager John Newman said Tuesday. He noted that another committee hearing is scheduled today (Thursday) on the proposal being pushed strongly by the Utah League of Cities and Towns (most prominently by Salt Lake City). Even if the committee sends the bill to the full House with a favorable recommendation, Newman and Mayor Jerry Maloney suggested the probability of its passage is not promising. Most legislative opposition centers around the proposals clause increasing sales tax by a quarter-cen- t. That isnt a popular provision to legislators who by and large seem adamantly opposed to increasing taxes, Maloney noted. Several other objections were raised in the first committee hearing. Those concerns could be alleviated, however, by altering the wording of the bill, Newman - Stiffer Penalties Are Supported By Solons SALT LAKE. State legislators are expected to unanimously support a bill requiring that persons arrested for drunken driving should have their licenses revoked for 90 days. That was an assessment made by Rep. Steve Rees of Bennion following a public hearing on the drunk driving issue attended by more than 100 citizens yesterday (Wednesday) . Those attending the hearing at the State Capitol, listened to comments by West Valley City Mayor Jerry Maloney, several prosecutors and some concerned parents. The meeting was held to discuss a package of six bills based on the drunken driving issue. Rees called support for HB 142 overwhelming, adding that he doubts there will be a single negative vote. The bill, sponsored by Rep. Duayne T. Johnson of Granger, requires revocation of a license upon arrest for DUI, but the citation would serve as a temporary y For Melodramatic Farce driving permit. The person arrested would then have 10 days to appear before a state hearing officer, who would determine if the revocation was proper. The bill also calls for stiffer fines, longer jail sentences and mandatory payments by offenders into a rehabilitation fund and also into a victim restitution fund, Rees said. Rees also said he supports the intent of bills in the package to increase taxes on beer and hard liquor to pay for rehabilitation and to give local governments more money to pay the cost of more and lengthier incarcerations of persons convicted of DUI. He said, however, that legislators are working on a compromise that lumps several of the bills together. were he said, At present, working on a plan to fund the additional needs of cities, counties and the state in a comprehensive package. By Thespians MAGNA. The opening night curtain for thespians at Cyprus high will rise at 8 oclock tonight (Thursday) for the schools production of Seven Keys to Baldpate. The George M. Cohan play is under the direction of Charles Brown, with Tami Wheeler as student director, Andy Gilbert, stage manager, and Steve Thorpe, business manager. The play will be presented again on Friday, Saturday and Monday, also at 8. The audience will be seated on three sides of the stage, allowing about 200 seats at each performance, according to the director. The melodramatic farce features Kyle Johns in the lead role of William Magee. Other parts will be played by Chase Hood, Lisa Quinn, Parell Lockman, Glenda Knight, Lorina Tester, Ted Davis, Jill Drown, Theron Read, Lee Vance, Paul Parker, Jeff Olsen and Allan Kenner. Understudies are Jennifer Vance and Stephanie Brown. Tickets are $2.50 in advance or at the door. It is a good play, good fun for all enand with a clever double-twiding. We invite everyone to come out and enjoy it, the director said. st If you fail to receive your Green Sheet on Thursday morning, please call the Cyprus high drama student Kyle Johnson wields pistol to encourage Glenda Knight and Lorina Tester to comply with demands during rehearsal for "Seven Keys To Baldpate." Circulation THREAT . . , Ahead lay the freeway spanning the desert country through those beauty spots of California - past Whiskey Petes casino, Baker, Barstow . . . At 55 MPH you can drive an eternity up one hill, down the other side, up another . . . In His infinite wisdom, God intended that motorists should pass through at maximum posthis kitty-littsible speed, we philosophized. er predictably. before Department, 10:30 stand blast a.m. -- embarrassed the Court Ad- ministrators office, which oversees the circuit court system, and prompted the push to include West Valley in the larger system. He said the JP court, with one judge, handles about 20,000 cases a year, while the average annual caseload for a circuit court judge is 10,000. In my opinion, were making the circuit court look bad and the Court Administrators office doesnt like it, Newman said. City Finance Director Russ Sanderson estimated the circuit court system would cost the city in revenue from fines. No action is expected until early February on a package of bills dealing with drunken driving. The package includes bills increasing the tax on beer and liquor, legislation assembled in large part by Maloney. in . . At Meeting Today - Hercules Ordinance Is Before Planners WEST VALLEY. The most recent version of an ordinance governing residential construction within the overpressure zone around Hercules will be considered today (Thursday) by the City Planning Commission. met with Staff members developers Tuesday to review wording of the ordinance, which has been in the developmental stage for several months. The basic concept of the newest proposal seemed to satisy most property owners around the plant ( and Lighted Sign Helping PTA Say 'Thanks' GRANGER. PTA officers at Rolling Meadows elementary have given a new twist to this weeks teacher appreciation observ ance. The group rented an Illuminated sign which was placed on a busy street in the area where it could be seen by both pedestrians and motorists. A new message was displayed each day, with Tuesdays reading Mr. Bateman we love you. Other messages offered thanks and greetings to teachers. Gale Bateman is principal at the school. Darlene Burns is PTA president. Investment Seminar On Library Agenda GRANGER. members) when it was discussed informally on Jan. 13. At that time, a report by Dr. Larry Reavely, a private consultant hired by one developer, indicated that homes built to earthquake specifications and containing a special glazed window would withstand blast waves without breakdowns in the event an accident occurred at the explosives plant. After Tuesdays session, however, a staff member expressed concern that Dr. Reavelys written report lacked specific data corroborating those assertions. And, he added, while pressures exerted by earthquakes and a blast at Hercules may be similar, they are different enough that it may not be possible to apply the building code for earthquake zones to the over- pressure zone. The overpressure zone refers to areas around Hercules where a previous report said damage could be expected if a blast occurred. Commission members will consider the matter at their 9 a.m. meeting. Other items on todays agenda include: - Setting conditions on the operation of Doug Jacksons meat cutting business at 2545 Chatham Road; An ordinance provision dealing with residential facilities for handicapped persons; - Rules of policy and procedure governing the commissions premeetings; - Definition of story of a building; and - The powers of the staff zoning administrator in relation to the Board of Adjustment. - -- investment An Commission several Planning seminar will be conducted on Feb. 3 at Granger Library. Thomas Wilding, an account executive for a major broker, will discuss converting taxable income into earnings, new tax laws and individual retirement accounts at the p.m. sessions. tax-favor- 7-- 9 Conditional use applications before the board include requests for: Approval of Woodledge park, 5220 W. 4310 South (submitted by West Valley City); An apartment complex on 10.7 acres at 3800 So. 2200 West (Holmes and Perry, Inc.); An auto repair service on 2.4 acres at 1808 W. 3500 South (Crawford Auto Repair) ; and - An auto service center and retail sales outlet at 1808 W. 3500 South (Ferril Davis). Four decisions are expected on rezoning applications. They involve applications for: - Commercial (C-l- ) zoning, by Connie Millecam, to bring a preschool into conformity with sign restrictions at 3424 So. 3600 West; Commercial ) zoning, by Peggy Matthews, for a lounge at 2126 So. 3200 West; R-zoning, by Tom Pearce, for an office in an existing residence at 7135 W. 3500 South; R-zoning, by Holmes and Perry, for an apartment complex on 14 acres at 2800 W. 4600 South. - - - Six Calls, Buyer! -- n calls and the had a first person that saw it bought it I half-a-doze- ! Bill Peterson, 4759 So. 4620 West, relating what happened when he used a Green Sheet classified ad to find USED Toro Snow Thrower, good con- dition. snow a buyer for a removal unit. Like most users of classifieds in Utahs most widely circulated weekly newspapers, the Kearns man found his dont want was a do and he want to someone else pocketed the cash. 2 to place your ad. Dial - 262-668- - (C-3- - - A here's a point Its bad enough to drive from Murray to Las Vegas at we complained to Bette, 55, but this next stretch is ridiculous at that speed ! , One legislator didnt like the provision earmarking funds from the extra quarter-cen- t for public safety purposes. Another representative objected to the attachment of the exto the states share tra quarter-cen- t of the sales tax, contending that formula would put a burden each year on the legislature, the manager noted. And, Maloney added, one Senator summed up what seems to be the feeling at the State Capitol when he said that sales tax belongs to the state and that other entities - local governments and school districts should keep their hands off of it. Sales tax redistribution is not the only legislation which has not progressed as city officials had hoped. The State and Local Affairs Committee sent to the House two bills altering the annexation process. West Valley opposes both bills, Newman said. The first would give an individual the right to protest an annexation to the Boundary Commission. Currently, that right is restricted to government entities. The second would increase the number of signatures required on an annexation petition from 50.1 to 67 percent of the property owners in the area considered for annexation. Newman said he was surprised the bills advanced, but added that the lobbying effort against them was weak. The House Judiciary Committee also advanced a bill which would require West Valley to join the circuit court system. Originally, West Valley supported the bill. The city altered its position when wording changes reduced the number of judges the city would receive from three to two and reduced the amount of money the city would receive from fines, Newman said. Also, no assurance was given that West Valleys current Justice of the Peace, L. Bruce Larsen, would become a member of the circuit court, it was noted earlier. Newman contended the efficient operation of the city JP court had City Planning Commission will review report by that homes built to certain standards could withHercules overpressure zone. BLAST ZONES . Dr. Larry Reavely remarked. - Opening Eyed V 262 6682 Hearings On Sales Tax long-standin- g Bette reacted departments by Jim Cornwell Gripe, gripe, gripe. Just a minute, Ill get out the violin and play some sad music. "Dear, do you read lips? we asked, shaping our mouth into a raucous Bronx cheer. All this conversation had taken place only minutes after wed left the infamous Vegas and we werent prestrip pared for what happened. - Cruising- - at our customary 55, we were passed in rapid succession by 17 automobiles bearing California license plates, four semi-trucka fleet of motorcycles, a helmeted rider on a bicycle and then a little old lady astride an oversize tricycle. I Migosh, Bette laughed, almost got out of the car - I thought youd stopped. Being lapped by so many vehicles is a challenge to any American and even the fear of being pulled over by a s, red-blood- patrolman didnt keep us from kicking the cruise control up to 60. Well show them! we scowled. Show them? How could we? They were passing so fast they didnt have time to watch demonstrations. Obviously, wed have to do better. The car groaned a trifle when we boosted it to 65. Little wonder - it was built after Richard Nixon deemed we could no longer travel at respectable speeds on our -- was a pace highways. Sixty-fiv- e it had never been called upon to maintain. And so we were introduced to freeway driving ala Southern California, 1983. The year of the massive crackdown on speeding in the state from which Nixon cometh but where his memory is not hallowed. we Sooner or later, predicted, a patrolman is going to show up along here and therell be wholesale arrests. It was sooner, not later. We gazed in shock through our rear view mirror at the unmarked car containing a uniformed member of the California Highway Patrol. Our speed was 65, just like a few loiterers ahead of us. For pity sakes, we said, miserably. Those werent the exact words, but blasphemy in print is frowned upon. We awaited the inevitable red light, but he suddenly swung around us and zoomed down the inside lane at very nearly the speed of sound. A couple miles down the road we passed the patrolman, engaged in earnest conversation with the driver of a Mercedes. It had California plates, of course. Now it was obvious about the if you go through speed limit radar so fast you dont register, theyll come after you. Our lesson in California - freeway driving wasnt complete til we hit rush-hou- r traffic in a major population area. Leapin lizards! Its and three lanes wide at 65 MPH. With some going faster, weaving through nonexistent openings between cars. Wed seen it before, but had forgotten. You cant bite your nails - you dont dare take your hands from the wheel. You cant slow down or change lanes to get to an exit. Youre locked into a moving chain of cars sweeping around curves, twisting, turning in a mad, high-spee- d procession, And theres still another lesson about metropolitan areas. The system is that half of the drivers live in the city and work in the suburbs. The other half live in the suburbs and work in the city. So both going to work and returning g home they drive on this raceway with great skill and, evidently, considerable dis bumper-to-bumpe- r, door-to-do- mind-bogglin- dain for the risk. Little wonder you so frequently read about 25 or more cars being involved in the same accident. You havent any idea whats happening up ahead and even if you knew, it wouldnt matter. Where are the patrolmen? Probably sitting at some vantage point out of the traffic pattern, praying all the drivers do their thing at the right time. Eventually traffic thins enough that you can find the exit you seek and you leave the freeway, nerves jangling, eyes wide in sheer shock. At the first quietlooking street, you pull to the curb and park. Your pledge is heartfelt and sincere: Til never complain again about 55 miles an hour, Lord. Give me back those Utah freeways and Ill be forever grateful! |