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Show Volume 7. Serving Roy and northern Davis County Number 34 , Wednesday, August 26, 19871 Article Mews briefs prompts dispute Davis PTA to tax repeal ROY A newsletter mailed to 8,000 Roy homes last week not only made residents better informed about the city but also stirred up some political controversy. The letter, regularly mailed to Roy residents every other month, contained an article featuring City Councilman LaVar Smith. The council seats held by Smith and two other council members, Kathleen Browning and Willard Cragun, are up for election this fall. Smith has filed as a candidate for the seat he was appointed to two years ago when Wayne Kim-bethen a councilman, made a successful bid for the mayors r, chair. After Kimber was elected Smith was named by the council to fill ihe vacancy. Because Smith is a candidate in this years election, Councilman Jim Thomas said the publicity given Smith in the newsletter was in poor taste. In the past few months articles in the newsletter featured Cragun and Kimber. The items for the newsletter are chosen by Kimber, according to Roy City Manager Richard KirkThomas said he felt featuring an incumbent so close to campaign time was comparable to congressmen taking advantage of the postal privileges. And I dont support anything like that, he said. Another Roy resident who didnt like the focus given Smith was Brent Saxton, the only who had declared candidacy for any of the City Council seats as of Tuesday morning. Saxton called the newsletter story quite inappropriate. He said he felt the city should have featured a council member who is not running for non-incumb- He said Roy taxpayers paid $200 for the newsletter page and said he felt it was campaign-oriente- Im looking forward to the of coverage, said Sax- He said he will bring the matter to the City Councils attention at its next meeting Tuesday. He will request that he be givea the same type of coverage in the next newsletter due out in late October. He said if the letter was not intended as a campaign move, Smith showed poor judgement in allowing it to run at this time. But Smith said not only was the article but he had not given it the slightest thought (politically) when he was interviewed for the article. He said when the article was published neither he nor the other councilmen up for had officially announced their candidacy and said he doubted if many Roy residents would even know he is a candidate. If it had crossed my mind I would not have allowed it to happen, he said. non-politic- al am really taken back, very dismayed, that someone would think it was politically motivated." Kimber, who selected Smith as the subject of the article, said po- litical interests were the furthest things from my mind, when he chose Smith for the city I He said Smith seemed approbate as a focus for the story nee the newsletter also dealt ith Roys redevelopment agency ir which Smith acts as secretary. Thomas said he feels there lould be a separation between ie councils interests and those ho decide what runs in the At next Tuesdays council meeting, he said, he will propose a two-ma- n committee to review Staff photo by Robert Regan ar- ticles before they are published in the newsletter. Kimber said he did not yet know which councilman would be featured in the next Roy phone device for the deaf that was ' recently installed and now operational at the department. dispatchers from the Davis County Sheriffs watch Jane Anglin demonstrate the new tele- Department With intensity, Device for deaf installed ROBERT REGAN Lakeside Review staff FARMINGTON ton. organizing-earl- of being a force to be reckoned with come January and plans to lobby ' against a tax repeal proposal. Edrice Christensen, the Davis districts regional PTA president, told the board of education last PTA week that 819 Davis-are- a volunteers, responsible for more than 160,000 volunteer hours, are organizing their group early in hopes of having their concerns heard by the State Legislature. Shauna Nakaya, assistant PTA director in charge of legislative affairs, said this coming year the PTA plans on being more .involved with the legislative process than in years past. Nakaya, who referred to the Davis PTA group as watchdogs, said The PTA is involved with the Legislature because were interested in education and the welfare of education. Nakaya said she believes the PTA was a major force in the defeat of last years compulsory school-ag- e bill, sponsored by Rep. Elder. Rob Bishop, Bishops bill proposed the maximum required age to attend high school be lowered from 18 to 16. However, this year the PTA will address a much bigger challenge: the consideration of a tax repeal. This year the PTA plans on opposing the tax repeal proposal now being petitioned across Utah for a November vote. If approved, the repeal would allow a general election vote to decide whether to lower the states sales, gasoline, income and cigarette tax. According to Davis school officials, if the general vote favors the repeal the Davis district could stand to lose more than $4 million from its already lean budR-B- wood. same type The Davis FARMINGTON School District PTA is this year in hopes LYNDIA GRAHAM Lakeside Review correspondent d. lobby-agains- t The greatest fear for the deaf is not being able to communicate with police in an emergency situation. With a recent purchase by the Davis County Sheriffs Department, their fears can be put to rest. The department now has a telephone device for the deaf playing with the phone. In his demonstration of the unit, Jerry Westberg, speaking through signing interpreter Jane Anglin, said there are 150 deaf residents in Davis County who have their own TDD and that maybe another 200 deaf do not yet have the device. He said when they are in an emergency situation they must rely on someone else to communicate their needs and that (TDD) installed and operational in its dispatch center that will d allow the to communicate with them in emergency and business situations. I dont know if well get a lot of calls or not, said Kenneth R. Payne, communications supervisor. He said dispatchers answer between two and three dead air calls a shift but believes they are from children hearing-impaire- d. The TDD, costing $497, consists of a telephone modem, keyboard and tape printer in a single compact unit with a battery backup and is compatible with all other TDDs-Thunit purchased by the sheriffs department is the second in the county. e Committee selection causes dissent School board member claims north Davis needs representation on panel of the county has no representa- BRYON SAXTON Lakeside Review staff FARMINGTON The Davis Board of Education has approved the new career ladder committee, though one board member opposes the committee selection because of what he says is an imbalance of representation. School board member Bob Thurgood objected to the approvcareer ladder al of a committee because he said there is no representation from the north end of the county. Thurgood, who was by a 1 margin last week, said he is concerned that the north end out-vot- ed 3-- The school district does go beyond Kaysville, he said. Kendell,-idefending the selection of the committee members, told the board the district must select only five Davis educators not contingent on their geographic location. If there is a concern, I would be happy to come back and appoint a replacement person from further north end, the north Kendell said. However, other school officials were not so understanding of Thurgoods concern. Beth Beck, who recently assumed the duties as Davis Educa tion on the committee. The committee, which consists !of both educators and administrators, is responsible for imple- menting the Davis School Districts $2 million career ladder program for the 1987-8- 8 year. But Thurgood, who represents the area north of Layton, believes the committee needs equal representation. Why do you have two representatives from (Morgan Elementary) the same school, and not any from the north? Thurgood asked district Superintendent-RicharKendell. tion Association president, said the committees expertise on the issue is more important than geographic-region representation. Davis District PTA representative Edrice Christensen echoed Becks sentiments, adding most of these people on the committee know the plan. Seven of the 10 committee members served on last years committee. But Thurgood continued to oppose the measure and reminded the board that as much money as there is being 'spent on career ladder, we need representation from the whole county. See CAREER, page 2A Roy man in good shape after pit bull attack BRYON SAXTON Lakeside Review staff A Roy man is back on ROY duty after he was attacked by a pit bull terrier recently. Ogden Police Officer Willard F. Cragun of Roy was treated and released from McKay-De- e Hospital last week for four puncture wounds he received on his upper left thigh after he was attacked by a pit bull at an Ogden residence. Cragun said the incident cured when he was called to the address of 2336 Quincy to check Cragun, who is the son of Roy City Councilman Willard Cragun, said when he arrived at the scene he discovered the man alleged thfe terrier had attacked one of his Cragun said he was fortunate there will observe the dog for 10 the animal was at the end of his days and make a decision on chain when he attacked, which whether or not the animal should prevented the dog from locking be destroyed. down on his leg before Cragun According to one official at the broke free. pups. Ogden Animal Shelter the quarHowever, before the Ogden offiTheyve got a serious problem antine period for the dog will be with those dogs and theyre going cer could conduct any type of inup today. vestigation the pit bull to have to do something about He said shelter officials then inblindsided him and sunk four it, Cragun said. tend to see whether they can have A dog like that will cut a little teeth, with 1,800 pounds of presthe dog destroyed because of othkid his into sure, thigh. up. incidents er the animal has been attack he after the said Cragun I was walking between the two cited the owner for in. involved via having homes when the dog attacked me cious dog and ordered the dog Cragun, who missed a couple of out a disturbance of a man from the side, Cragun said. It be taken by Ogden City Animal days work over the injury, estimated the dogs age between 2 to threatening to shoot a neighbors, never growled or barked, giving Control for observation. 3 years. no forewarning of its attack. He said animal control officials dog. 4 Mayor concerned about airplane noise One FARMINGTON concern about increased mayors help is often delayed. He said, as a general rule, 2 percent of the population is hearing-impaire- get. overhead noise has prompted the Davis Council of Governments to request Salt Lake International Airport officials visit them and explain the whys and whats of aviation patterns over the county: Centerville Mayor Dean Argyle told the group of mayors and other officials last week that he is concerned about the increased number of flights being directed over the southern part of the county. If I sit out on my patio on any given night, I can count 18 to 20 planes flying over heading east across the Wasatch Front, he i said. . . intenHe said the flights are tionally routed over Davis Count ty instead of the traditional and more direct route over Salt Lake County. This pattern has changed in recent months, Argyle said. The planes proceed north across Bountiful and Centerville to alleviate pressure from other flights coming in, he said. Doug Hattery of the Wasatch Front Regional Council told, the group that when planes fly over cities they must be at the 12,000-forange. The planes must alsQ clearhave at least a 2,000-foWhen ance over mountains. those planes fly over, they are pretty high up there," he said. ot ot . On the agenda Classes will begin for all Davis County students Monday, Aug. 31. Classes for Weber County students began today. Contact schools for starting and dismissal times. . t ? Best quote 'I promise not to go when it doesn't work Davis Board of Education member Raymond Briscoe telling the board his feelings on the school drill team policy. ir ( j J |