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Show c , vr-- ..V,v tT''' t rfc M ,p- lfi.. di tettoD 3Mni 'tu'K'ii ?3raxjDi tnra s?t Li2!iaV:m (ZtDflt) tnrinssj gre-as- p GSttm csaiosi2 Vol. 4 No. 16 Wednesday, April 25, 1984 Library Stalemate Hurts, County Told Longtime Clearfield Judge Dies . BARRY KAWA CLEARFIELD Popular 4th Circuit Court Judge Cornell McKay Jensen, on the Clearfield bench since 1963, died Saturday after suffering a heart attack at his home. Review Staff n FARMINGTON Students in suffer the most as long as the city remains out of the county library system, a concerned citizen told the Davis County Commission last week. According to Layton resident Nathaniel C. Johnson, school libraries are not adequately stocked with publications and trade magazines to assist up. Layton students in their studies. It afLayton City initially withdrew from fects the school system because if you the system, he said. Legally, they have a science fair, the libraries are not should make overtures to the adequate, Johnson said. And most of the school kids go to the library for adSaunders said the county uses revenue vanced material. Johnson blamed the county for the sharing monies to replace county equipcurrent stalemate between the county ment, thus offsetting a possible mill and Layton City in getting the city back levy increase to county residents. He into the system and a library built in said the county had put off conthe city. He said negotiations must be a sideration of a library in Layton until y street and the county should the growth rate in Davis County make an overture back to the city. As reached the 10 percent level of the far as the county is concerned, theyre 1970s. The county is expecting a 4 percent growth rate in 1984. doing nothing, he said. Lay-to- - Jensen, 52, suffered the heart attack Saturday afternoon as he worked in his basement at his Clearfield residence. Efforts first by his neighbors, and later Davis County paramedics to.save him were unsuccessful and he was pronounced dead at Humana Hospital Davis North in Layton, according to the Davis County sheriffs department. Jensen received praise from both his colleagues and the Clearfield community where he resided for the past 20 years. His death came exactly one week after his appointment to the prestigious Utah Judicial Council, as the representative of the Utah Circuit Court Judges. - two-wa- Association. I just couldn't think higher of a man than 1 did of Judge Jensen," said Clearfield Mayor Neldon E. Hamblin.' There were many areas in which he was an asset; both as a member of our community as a very outstanding citizen and in his own right as a judge." He was a very dedicated man," said Judge Phillip Browning of Roy, a close friend of Jensen. He was compassionate, a student of the law, and every person who came before him he was concerned with. It wasnt a matter of punishment, it was a what can we do to help this individual in the future. Sewer Guaranteed , SHELLEY KANCITIS Review Correspondent ROY Construction of a major sewer system in west Roy was guaranteed last Thursday when Roy City officials signed an agreement with the Utah Wastewater Pollution Control Committee giving the city a low interest $902,000 loan. Photo by Lyndia Graham Jensen was bom and raised in Preston, Idaho. He graduated from Preston High School in 1950 and later graduated from the University of Utah in 1961 with a juris doctor degree. . GETTING A HUG from cartoon character is Charliy Robertson, daughter of Becky and Ray Robertson of Clearfield who got a chance to meet some of her favorite characters at Layton Hills Mall last weekend. He was appointed aS the Clearfield city judge in June, 1963, and served in . Trash Plant that capacity until the inception of the state circuit court systeip in July, 1978. Jensen has been a state circuit court judge since 1978. kawa Barry Review Staff ' He was past chairman of the Davis County Alcoholic Rehabilitation Council from 1972-7- 3 and a member of the council at the time of his death. He served as chairman of the comprehen-- . sive mental health program for Davis He was active in County from 1976-7Kiwanis and many other community and religious organizations. 7. Commission Chairman Glen E. Saunders said recent negotiations with Lay-to- n Councilman Bob Stevenson appeared promising until the Layton Library Board quashed their compromise plans. Saunders, who sits on the Davis County Library Board, noted Layton City withdrew from the system when the county decided not to build a library there until the economy picked After two years FARMINGTON in the planning stage, a resourse recovery plant to bum Davis County garbage will be built with contracts signed next month promised Robert Palmquist, chairman of the Davis Solid Waste Management Board. Palmquist told the Davis County Council of Governments last week al- though a few cities have rejected a con. Funeral services will be held today at tract for the project, other cities are 10 a.m. at the Clearfield 7th LDS Ward anxiously waiting to participate. He said Contracts for cities to commit their Chapel, 300 N. 231 E., Clearfield. Viewheld was at Lindquist refuse to the plant will be signed at a ing Tuesday Mortuary. Interment will he in the meeting of the Davis Solid Waste board Preston Cemetery, Preston, Idaho. to be held in the middle of May. Roy also accepted Whitaker Construction Companys low bid of $1,044,292 to build the system. Tentative plans are e to begin construction in and the end it October. of by complete The sewer lines will extend from 6000 mid-Jun- South to approximately 4800 South where they will hook in with North Davis Sewer District lines. Originally the plan was to run the lines to 4600 South but escalating costs forced the city to reduce the scope of the project. It just means that, it will take a little longer to complete our plans, said Roy City Manager Richard Kirkwood who said he is delighted that the project is finally becoming a reality. Because of the farsightedness of the city council, were ahead of the urban planning power curve instead of being in a position of trying to catch up, said Kirkwood. Be Reality, COG Told Will After the contracts are signed, the project will be sized and built on the tonnage contracted to the plant. We .can go as low as a plant and it will be very efficient but we can go as high as 500 tons if enough cities want to go in, Palmquist said. ay Layton, Bountiful and Centerville city councils have declined to take their citys refuse to the. proposed $54 million plant proposed to be built in east Clearfield. City councils approving intent to sign contracts include North Salt Lake, West Bountiful, Woods Cross, Fruit Heights, Kaysville, South Weber, Farmington, Clinton, Sunset and Syracuse. Clearfield has not considered the contract and West Point tabled action on the item. Approval for the unincorporated area of the county has been given by the Davis County Commission. According to Palmquist, Roy City is interested in the project also and other cities have inquired about participating but have asked to remain unnamed. A large amount of tonnage for the facility is necessary to produce steam and electricity for sale to Hill Air Force Base and Utah Power & Light. Proponents of the plant say it would extend the life of the two landfills in Bountiful and Layton. Palmquist said Davis County will waste-to-ener- hold public hearings soon on the sale of industrial revenue bonds to finance the construction phase. It looks like were going to go, he said. The plant also received final approval on the site plan in a 2 vote last week of the Clearfield Planning Commission. The action alloys the city to issue a Incino building permit to Systems Inc., the builders of the project, once construction plans are approved by the Clearfield Planning Department. A citizens group opposed to the plant has promised to appeal the planning commissions decision to the city coun3-- Katy-Seghe- rs cil. Major Changes In Works for Layton Main Street street from its current 150 feet to about 74 feet. LAYTON Mrs. Harris said that the street Major changes e for downtown Layton are in the will still be a roadway works following years of study, with turn lanes but will be much planning meetings, applications safer. for grants and hopes for a renewThe road will be rebuilt on the al and revitalization for the west side, leaving a strip of Main Street area of the city. 60 to 80 feet about property " Downtown rehabilitation will wide on the east side. That propoccur in three steps, according to erty will be declared surplus Ann Harris, Layton City Council property by the state, according member and downtown business to Mrs. Harris, and will be sold owner. She has been working back to the property owners with .committees for the. past Main Street busiLaytons along several years to try to get federal ness strip; funds to aid in the upgrading of That strip will be sectioned off the downtown area. . Those steps will include the from the road by curb and gutter narrowing and improvement of and will be. developed into a Main Street, the replacement off parking plaza to increase th water main and parking facilities in the downa the rehabilitation of many of the town area. A downtown merchants association will attend 'to existing buildings. the maintenance and upkeep of A $233,000 Community Develthe parking area. opment Block Grant will aid in' Mrs. Harris said that Layton is and state the rehabilitation the the only city in the state that will be putting $722,000 into imstill has median strips. Those provements of State Road 91. will be removed, making it poshas Street Main on work The sible to facilitate turn lanes for will eventualand already begun Continued on Page 2A ly lead to the narrowing of that LYNDIA GRAHAM Review Correspondent i four-lan- . . gong J ooooo DRAWING OF LAYTON Main . , Street development plan shows location of parking areas and landscaping in the proposal which has been studied by the city for years. Grant money is making the plan possible. 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