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Show ' - W , iTvVi'V'. - SPECIAL 1 DNS 1 Wednesday, September 2, 1987 Serving Roy and northern Davis County Volume 7 Number35 GWS me LEW HANSEN CLEARFIELD A questionpackage received at a Clear- field home was determined by Clearfield firemen and police do offi- of the Bicenten-niof the United States Constitution, the Lakeside Review is In celebration sive type device. The Clearfield bomb was an incendiary device, designed to cause a flash and subsequent fire. This one actually, I think, said Bodily, could be classified as a gasoline bomb. When asked if this device was meant to kill someone, or cause property damage, officials said it was meant to maim the recipient, or possibly set their house on cers Monday morning to be an incendiary bomb capable of causing extensive personal and property damage. The bomb was defused by an explosives disposal team from Hill Air Force Base before it could be detonated. According to Clearfield Police, fire. The bomb contained gasoline the entire case has been turned and gasoline-soake- d over to the FBI and a lead suspacking mapect has been identified as Butch terial, rigged to detonate when Branham of Oklahoma, who is the package was opened. It was a bomb, said Fireman being pursued by federal agents in connection with similar crimes Alan Joos, a very crude one. in Arizona. Clearfield officials received the Acting on a warning from her call at 10:22 a.m. and were on the sister in Indiana, who recently re- scene by 10:25. An Air Force team arrived ceived a similar package in the mail, Pam Langston, of 48 Villa shortly after city officers, folDrive, Clearfield, did not open lowed closely by the Explosive the cardboard box addressed to Ordinance Disposal group. They her, but called the emergency (EOD) have to obtain permission department dispatcher from the base commander and from the army, said Bodily. instead. As soon as she told me that When we arrived, said Clearfield Fire Chief Roger Bodily we another bomb had been mailed to found a cardboard box addressed her sister in Indiana, said Chief to Mrs. Langston, the return adBodily, I had these guys (referdress was simply ring to Air Force bomb experts) Barbara, which is apparently her sisters come up, and then we had them call the EODS. name. And, at that point we started Police said they do not know to investigate and talked to the the motive behind the bombing woman here, Pam, and she told attempt. They said a family disus that her sister had received a pute centering around a recent disimilar type package in Indiana, vorce may be involved. about a week ago, said Bodily. I think it is probably a divorce situation back east, said police The bomb delivered to the Indibenot address did spokesman Steve Hill, but then ana explode cause a wire had apparently come that is pure conjecture. - f V 11. ri ; ' ' K ' Youths ' ' V, Photos by Lew Hansen fused outside Clearfield home Monday morning by explosives experts. Clearfield Police Sgt. Bud DeRyke sorts through remains of incendiary device de- - T We will most likely turn the investigation over to the Postal Department and the Federal Bureau of Investigation, said police spokesman Steve Hill. Capt. K.L. McCuistion explained how his team defused, or disrupted the explosive device. Knowing that it came through the mail to begin with, it is relatively safe to handle as a unit, said Capt. McCuistion. If it comes through the mail, he said, it is usually not a timed item. MARGE SILVESTER ; Denial by CLEARFIELD Clearfield City Council of a conditional use permit for a group home for the mentally handicapped is being appealed, and could involve the city in its third court, case involving group homes. According to Jerry Costley, director of programs in Utah for Devcon, who is requesting the group home, a rehearing will be requested by letter. He said a deadline of Sept. 3 has been set. City Manager Wally Baird said the city has also requested a site plan which includes any improvements to the property be included with the appeal. We havent gone through anything like this, he said. Weve never had an appeal of ah appeal before. The permit had been approved earlier by the planning commission, but that decision was appealed by a resident. Victor Olsen, spokesman for the residents who live near the proposed group home at 1357 W. Lakeside Review staff State Sen. CLEARFIELD Point, is Dave Steele, be action proposing legislative taken to curtail Clearfield City from being saturated any further with group homes. Steele told the Lakeside Review that in the upcoming legislative session he intends to introduce an amendment to House Bill 72, which currently offers a provision on state protection to group homes. Steele said the broad definition of the current piece of legislation is a major factor behind Bountiful and Clearfield being saturated with group homes. According to Davis County officials a group home is often a private residence purchased by organizations for groups ranging from the mentally ill to juvenile delinquents. Steele, who said he plans to ini- - ys We could tell (by the taken by a portable unit) that the package contained a battery and wire, and something else. There was enough (evidence) there, said Capt. McCuistion, X-ra- 1 T tion and economic base. The formula would make it a fair shake between the cities, he said. Steele said Bountiful has nine group homes and Clearfield has several, while other cities in the county have yet to be impacted. The original intent of the bill was to provide protection in housing for the handicapped, but other groups have fallen under the broad definition listed in the bill, he said. However, Steele is not the only state representative aware of the 1 said. to distinguish that there was something there. With the battery, the wiring, the circuits. It was enough to call it a suspect Box Elder Detective Lynn Yates said the sheriffs department has a suspect in custody, but as of Tuesday no charges had item. The Explosive Ordinanace Disposal team then used a remote opening technique to disrupt the device and open the package. been filed. Watching as bomb sent in package addressed to her is defused are Pam Langston (left) and an unidentified relative. eale single-famil- will be located. Steele said the proposed amendment at the legislative level will be based on a formula of popula- 776-49- st We can move it around, and take to see what is inside of it, said Capt. McCuistion. now, one and a half years later, you tell me were having a busi'We haven't gone through anything like this. ness here. We've never had an appeal of an appeal Advocate for the group home Teri Fisher, a resident who is was before handiof a the parent City Manager Wally Baird capped child. I wish people would visit the group homes. Mentally retarded people dont 750 S. said he felt legislation wont take precedence over resi- deserve to be institutionalized forever. The handicapped arent dents rights, she said. passed by the state totally exResidents were also concerned scary, she said. They are loving ploits residents. (See story, beabout supervision for the clients, people. low.) Councilwoman Shirley Reed He voiced concerns about the as well as a business being operatlocation, lack of access to stores, ed out of the home. Costley told agreed. She said that when the churches, recreation facilities and the council that typing for all four first group home for the mentally public transportation, as well as of the agencys group homes had handicapped was placed in her area, she was against it. Later, afparking and zoning. You might been planned. inter learning more about the proas well maroon them on Antelope However, when the council Island for all the activity in formed him that it would consti- gram and observing the clients, Meadow Park, he said. tute a business, he agreed not to she said she changed her mind and is now in favor of the home. Judy Mower, a member of the do it Loretta Frecker, resident, Kaysville resident Jay Briscoe, neighborhood committee and a of as the to concerns voiced the told council president of the Association for type nearby resident, last week she was concerned people who would work at the Retarded Citizens of Davis Counabout parking and the danger to home, and that she considered ty, said he would like to see a the home to be a business. children with so many unfamiliar group home in Kaysville, and that the council shouldnt base its We moved from Layton bevehicles coming into the area. decision on location alone. She cited the stress involved for cause of all the businesses there, He pointed out that aging parparents because of strangers in she said. We chose the outskirts of Gearfield because of the quiet, ents with mentally handicapped the neighborhood. y I hope this political issue neighborhood. And children would not be able to tiate the amendment before he is contacted by a city council member, said he intends on taking House Bill 72 one step further by adding an amendment that will create disparity among the county as to where the homes fourth ' Body of Clearfield man found near Bay take care of them in later years, and places need to be found for them, so that they may become as independant as possible. City Attorney Larry Waggoner advised the council that to vote against the home could bring a lawsuit that would be lost by the city. He explained that the planning commission had already considered all options open to the city. He pointed out that parking at the facility was the only legal aspect of the residents appeal that the city could consider. The council agreed that parking was adequate. Waggoner said that if he was going to have to battle for the council he would need ammunition, because reasons for the action would have to be explained if the decision is appealed in court. Placement problem. Rep. Henry Dickamore, Weber, said the group homes are in the same position as the state prison was in seven or eight years ago. The homes disrupt normal living, he said. I understand (Clearfields) problem and Im sympathetic to it. In pointing to an example, Dickamore said the Carousel home Clearfield received several years ago was scheduled for Kaysville, but they were able to react quick enough to it. People need to realize that people (in their community) make their homes available to the state. rese Sometimes a ident of the community runs into financial problems, or an older person wants to move from a large home to an apartment or condo, he said. The state then val- buys the home at fair market long-tim- I ue. Dickamore said the state in trying to save tax dollars then locates the group home in a more inexpensive area. This has one city manager asking for justice. ; Clearfield City Manager Wally Baird said he believes the group homes are located in Clearfield City because costs are prohibitive in other areas, such as Far- Centerville mington, and Kaysville. And because of it, Baird said he expects to see more group homes locate in the Clearfield area. Im sure there will be others coming down the road," he said. Baird said the most recent group home, proposed by Devcon, a private enterprise, is presently under review by the Clearfield City Council. Baird said Clearfield is opposing the Devcon home because the c r Yates said the suspect is being held in the county jail on unrelated charges. Yates said an investigation on the incident is continuing in an attempt to determine a motive. County Attorney Jon Bunder-sowho declined to release the suspects name until additional information has been made available, said he anticipates filing charges against the individual sometime this week in the 1st Circuit Court of Brigham City. At the present time we are focusing on the one suspect, n, specialist Marilyn Boun of the Utah State Social Services, Division of Services to the Handicapped, who was contacted after the meeting said, We dont like to take anyone to See HOMES, page 2A Senator to take action on group home 'saturation' BRYON SAXTON in grades through ninth are invited to participate in this Constitutional commemoration. The office is located at 2146 N. Main in Layton. Call the paper at for more information. 5 CLEARFIELD The body of a Clearfield man, who has been reported missing since May 28, was found in the southwest corner of Willard Bay with a bullet wound in the head. Clearfield Police Lt. Steve Hill said the body of Ray Jenkins, 23, 120 S. State, of Clearfield, was discovered last week by Box Elder County deputies in the south-wecorner of Willard Bay, near the Weber CountyBox Elder County border. Hill said Jenkins apparently went fishing in May and never returned. He was found at the Willard Bay recreation area in some cattails by Box Elder deputies, Hill ecisioi Lakeside Review correspondent al inviting all young readers to submit short essays on what the Constitution means to them. The newspaper will publish the essays in the Sept. 16 Lakeside Review. Essays should be neatly handwritten or typed on a single standard-siz- e sheet of paper and submitted to the newspaper office by no later than noon on Sept. ire rou : Constitutional essays loose during the shipping process. The first bomb was an explo- Lakeside Review correspondent able Youths can write council is not satisfied with the administration the private industry has established for operating not because of site its home Bun-ders- on said. Bangerter wants education reform SALT LAKE CITY Gov' Norman Bangerter is promoting cooperation in hopes of generating education reform. In a recently released Education Commission of the States report, Collaboration: Teamwork to Get Things Done, education reform was recognized as being on the top of the national agenda. And the governor is taking the ; message to task. The report, chaired by Bangerter, says Two important levers for improving schools incentives (which can inspire individuals and bureaucracies to mak$ improvements) and collaborations (which can ensure that changes are based on multiple perspectives and carried through) appear to be underused. I have strongly advocated publicprivate partnerships to help our public schools, he said. The increase in school volunteers is an example of how much collaborative relationships can help. selection. Baird said he is doubtful the Devcon home will go into litigation such as the first state home did, because a site location between the two parties decided upon. The city manager said only a clarification on how the home will be serviced is delaying the final approval from the council. If approved, the Devcon home will be located at 1357 W. 750 S., straight west of the Freeport Cenhas-bee- ; ter. Clearfields other group home is located at 700 S. 1700 E. where no serious incidents have been reported, Baird said. The one home, that has been here awhile, has had a good track record, he said. v r On the agenda The Layton City Council will hold a public hearing on city zoning ordinances on Thursday, Sept. 3, 7 p.m. at the Layton City offices. The public is encouraged to attend. Best quote 'It's nice to have him home Michael Winger on his son Nathan coming home after his liver transplant operation. |