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At right, Maj. er, a pre-curs- or d fJsw commander named Gen. Richard Roellig and museum dignitaries cut the ribbon cially opening the new gallery. Photos by Mark Watson at Kill Air Force Base HILL AIR FORCE BASE Maj Gen. Scott G Bergren has been selected to become commander of the Air Logistics Center at Hill Air Force Base in February 2000. He will replace the present center commander, Maj Gen. Richard Roellig, who is retiring. Presently Bergren is director of maintenance. Deputy Chief of Staff for installations and Logistics, Headquarters U.S. Air Force, the Pentagon, Washington, D G Bergren entered the An Force in May of 1970. He has commanded a training wing, aircraft maintenance squadron, supply squadron and support group, served as deputy commander for maintenance of a lighter wing, and served as commander of the 82nd Trammg Wing. The general is a senior navigator and has flown more than 230 combat sorties in a fighter aircraft. Layton Wetlands Preserve adds 400 more acres LAYTON is being ever-mor- e nmi BY MARK WATSON Clipper Today Staff Writer HILL AIR FORCE BASE -On the 58th anniversary of Japan's infamous bombing of Pearl Harbor, U.S. Air Force officials opened the new Lindquist-Stewar- d Fighter Gallery at Hill Aerospace Museum. The new gallery will house 0 fighter aircraft currently parked outside the museum. About 300 people, including several military veterans, attended Tuesday's dedication. 43.900-square-fo- 15-2- Lade of $ Wetlands preservation ink tin, .1st Century arsured, thanks to the Layton Wetlands Preserve. They are completing negotiations to receive title to just a Salt over 4(X) addition i acres ah "ti; ) (shot, ti iK ' Lake. This latest acquisition is at the mouth of Kays Creek and considered cntical to protecting valuable wetlands and open area of the county. space in the BY TOM BUSSELBERG ! S Edit' r Clipper Todi Street to be named in honor of fixture WSU campus In coordination with Gearfield Gty officials, the LAYTON street that will pass by the future Davis campus of Weber State University has been What is now 1200 West from 2000 North to 2500 North.where it connects with Gearfield, will be called University Park Blvd Gearfield will also its 2000 East, as first proposed by outgoing Council member Garr Roundy. He said the name change would help promote the new university campus and new business park development. University officials have said the first buildings would probably be built within the next five years, with an eventual capacity of e about 10,000 students envisioned for the site. te 100-acr- $300 rental plus $30 cleaning. 546-858- ZJ Inside Clipper Tbday A2 A3 A7 A1 1 B1 Lifestyles From 296-550- 6 before the trenches....B2 YouthEducation B3 Church Life Television B4 B6 Sports B7 Have a delivery problem? Call at made. Reynolds said The Jenny now owned by the museum belonged to a family in California for 40 years. They restored it and flew it. and had a couple of crashes The family finally decided to sell it. This is a flier, but we won't fly it. It was dismantled and shipped here just last week. Reynolds said The Jenny, comes complete with its wooden propeller Organizers began planning the new fighter gallery m the fall of 1997 Several individuals helped collect the $1 35 million in private funds to build the facility. park and ride lot, Utah federal discretionary funds for the project. However, when asked by South Weber Mayor Henry Dickamore if funds could be transferred from another state project, he sounded gran That's pretty slim with the exception of Cherry Hill. I don't know where it (money) would come from, what it would take to move money from another planned project. You're talking a major project, not just $200,000 or $300,000. When we're talking a $16 million interchange, that's the cost of the University Avenue exchange m Provo, not something that can easily be altered, he continued. Total cost of the South Weber project is estimated at $24 million. And if discretionary funds can be obtained from Washington, D C.. they could come with a lot of monstrings, as was the case last year with some 10 our delivery hotline a.m. on Fridays POOR COPY critically .she said. ahlquist said Davis students were above national and state averages in 20 of 21 different tests averaged 4 percentage the national and state than higher points average in the complete battery of tests. W Fifth-grade- Eighth-grader- s and llth-grader- s averaged 7 percentage points higher than the national average and 4 percentage points higher than the state average in the complete battery of tests. Superintendent Darrell White said the results were exceptional considering the large number of students tested We have 59,0(1) stu nts in the dis- 1 Sec Davis," on p. AS eys. We got $45 million last year (through federal and were allowed to discretionary funds) for pull $15 million out, said Wilbur Jeffries, director of the Wasatch Front Regional Council planning organization. It will be very difficult this time, Topham reiterated. The (state transportation commission) policy has been on Olympic related projects, if there is not sufficient federal money they will not take from any scheduled project That's been the co. with other, similar projects, he said We have to keep gomg Moving a $15 million chunk from anyone's budget would not be done lightly. It would carry big ripples, Topham added. Even if the interchange is not ready, the massive transportation effort will be made to work, said John Njord, UDOT coordinator with the Salt Lake Olympic Organizing Committee. We vmII impact traffic regardless It (most disruption) will happen " during the morning commute, unpact commuters However, he noted that in discussions with Hill Air Force Base officials on the possibility that LI S Highway 89 would have to be closed for several-hou- r periods, then reaction was, so what Conditions would be better if the interchange is complete, but he added that it will not be built to accommodate Olympic traffic, but normal traffic flows. Part of the project delay results from canal work which is being done across the r Canal Davis-Webe- Sec "Lack, on p. A5 1st decade a transition from pioneer days Editor's note: As we enter the final days of the 20th century, The Clipper hi be naming a renew of the significant Dans County events that made this area a hat it is today. In ear h of the next 10 issues, ue mil profile one decade, highlighting the people and eents that shaped Davis County 's raged m Washington as the calendar turned from 189 to 1900. A special committee was empaneled by the House on Dec. 5. 1899. to decide the issue. Six weeks later it made its rec- ommendation to exclude Roberts Following three davs of intense debate 1900. the House voted in 244-5for exclusion, with 3n abstenmid-Janua- 0 tions. BY ROLF D. KOECHER dipper Executor Editor But Davis County's attention m the first decade of the 20th century soon turned to other things There were cities to build, roads to am struct and kvads of new technology to introduce. As the century dawned, the Davis County Gipper was only eight years old. and it had only been two years since it was taken over bv John Stahle from founder and publisher Lamom Call Stahle w as the grandfather of the As the 20th century dawned in H Business in Department of Transportation officials told a group of city officials, business leaders and others meeting in South Weber Tuesday afternoon. Clint Topham, deputy director for UDOT, said his agency will continue trying to secure additional See "This Week" on p. A5 Viewpoint a sitfsiiu future. For the Community Center, refundable deposits range from $50 to $100. For more information rail Davis People On the Street the end of the month, time for the 2002 Olympics. South Weber is set to be one of two major area staging points for buses that will carry thousands of people to competition at Snowbasin Ski Resort. In the meantime, some money left over from a Cherry Hill Interchange bid will be tapped at a maximum of $33 million to move ahead with ir hampers 2002 Olympics staging area that could jeopardize the project's completion PnHi bowery rental fees to be hiked in Layton LAYTON Its going to cost more to reserve a bowery in one of Laytons parks rent space at the city's Community Center. After more than 10 years, the city council agreed to the following rate hikes for four-hoincrements, which are double for nonresidents, with the cleaning fee refundable: Vae View, $25 rental, $5 additional per hour. $25 cleaning. Ellison, Phase II Commons, Andy Adams, Chapel. Oak Forest, $35 rental. $8 each additional hour, $50 cleaning. Commons Phase I. $75, $20 per hour, and $ 100 cleaning. For large organizations of 500 or more, the fee is now Retired Lieutenant General Marc Reynolds said that the fracas at Pearl Harbor was a significant day in history. It was a good newsbad news day. It gave military aviation a big jump start, he said Reynolds, representing the Air Force Heritage Foundation of Utah and Hill Aerospace Museum, told about one aircraft which already is situated in the new gallery the SR 71 Jennv, manufactured from 1916 to 1919 for World War I. It was a technical marvel of its day. There were 3,300 Jennmes change. is received by Igs ttji SOUTH WEBER There is still no guarantee on funding for the proposed new South Weber interUnless word offi- research and development for the district. reviewed the SAT results with members of the board. She said she was extremely pleased with the students' performance It's a great time to be on the job. I'm elated W e always thinks of kids first We want to look at ourselves Davis County, it also marked the transition from pioneer days to the county's modem history. Lftah had just come through the bruising battles of the 1870s and 1880s over the question of polygamy that saw many of the LDS Church's key leaders put m jail and the church nearly included formidable foes coupled with an array of poly gamy opponents nationwide. With the issuance of the church's Manifesto of 1890 renouncing polygamy, things rapidly began to change. The widespread opposition to Utah's statehood and therefore its self rule began to melt away Six years later. Utah achieved the state- - ) Clipper's current publisher. Gail impoverished. Opposition had CENTERVUJLirS Main Street circa 1908. Photo courtesy Centerville Ci tv hood that it had so zealously sought last vestiges of that battle over for decades polygamy involved Centerville resiComing just four years before the dent Brigham H Roberts who. as an turn of the century . statehood and its LDS general authontv and polv ganust. total change of the political landscape had been elected to the I! S 1 louse of was still a new concept m the minds of Representatives Davis County residents. One of the The battle ov er his fitness to sen e 'i Stahle Call, meanwhile, concentrated on printing, plumbing and several additional enterprises In 1903, he built a new store m Bountiful, running his printing and plumbing enterprises in back, while operating a jewelry and stationery store m front Later, he added a drug store, and by 1905 See "First Decade," p. AS |