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Show INSIDE Temporary buildings targeted Layton to put new restrictions on towers and manufactured structures.2 LIFESTYLE Art for his sake Davis High School teacher honored by museum. n VOL DAVIS COUNTYS COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER MARCH 9, 1996 t By JANIS CARTER Standard-Examine- r correspondent - Dorothy Dexter the wife of a Salt Lake doctor, was brutally murdered on Feb, 21, LAYTON 1930. As newspapers exploded with , v f the story, investigators followed leads to a dead-enThe murder was never solved. Now, 66 years later, students from Kevin Puzeys ninth-grad- e honors English class at Central Davis Junior High have reopened the case, gathering information from many who were involved with or remember the Moormeister murder, for a book on the case. Beginning with newspaper research, students soon found this wasnt enough so they made phone calls to former judges and lawyers who had worked on the case. One group of students toured the old Brooks Arcade Building where Dr. Frank Moormeisters office was located. On another field trip some students visited the gravesite at the old Moormeister estate location. Patricia Brown, Heather Gibby, V t t Amy Shreeve, Devin Christensen and Luke Northern were the main writers of the book, completing what the class had started. They took all of the information, added to it and compiled Moormeister Murder Mystery. Born in 1897, Dorothy Moormeister was 32 when she died and 'had been married only three years. She and Dr. Moormeister were very wealthy and he lavished her with many expensive gifts of jewelry, furs and a 1927 Cadillac that she drove regularly around the streets of Salt Lake City with gentlemen passen- BOUNTIFUL City gives chamber $500 for float The Bountiful Area Chamber of Commerce will receive $500 from the city council to help in creating a centennial float for use in this summers parades. Chamber president Susan Davis said $2,500 is being sought for the float which will appear in four area parades, including Bountifuls Handcart Days parade. Chamber executive secretary Faye Richards said the chamber has not had a float for use in parades for several years. The chamber has more than 300 members drawn primanly from the business community of Bountiful, Centerville, Farmington, North Salt Lake, West Bountiful and Woods Cross. gers. Mrs. Moormeister was rumored at having several affairs, including one with Prince Farid of Persia. She also had an affair with Charles Peter, a local mining man. This relationship was a secret to Dr. Moor- meister, according to Dorothys sister, Amelia Hugentobler. Peter was known to the doctor only as a friend who visited occasionally. Many curious events led up to the murder in which Mrs. Moormeister was hit over the head then run over by her own car several times, breaking almost every bone in her body and disfiguring it almost beyond recognition. Nearly a half an hour after the murder, Mrs. Moormeisters mangled body was found by Pay E. See Murder on page 2 ROBERT Central Davis Junior High School writers of the Moormeister Murder Mystery are (from left) Heather Gibby, Devin Christensen, Amy Shreeve, Luke Northern and Patricia Brown. The book deals with the unsolved murder of Mrs. Dorothy REGANStandanj-Examme- r Dexter Moormeister in Salt Lake City in 1930. The students, all from Mike Puzeys honors English class, did research and interviewed residents who remember the case in compiling the book. 26-pa- V Deputies to staff substations Fowl play in Davis County r $ By BRYON SAXTON and TOM BUSSELBERG i i i Standard-Examine- Davis Bureau r FARMINGTON - To reduce emergency response time and be more visible in the community, the Davis County Sheriffs Department is moving deputies from the county to the city. In this case, about six deputies into three different cities. By the end of this month Sheriff Rob Davis hopes to have substations in Fruit Heights, West Point and South Weber, cities that dont have their own police departments and contract with the county for law s ,v I t i enforcement. Fruit Heights pays $58,000 a year to the county for police services, while South Weber pays $38,950, and West Point $28,000. We want to be out there to have more visibility and more direct contact with the public, Davis said. Davis said there is not a single incident that triggered the effort, but rather a result of just wanting to get deputies where they need to be. I think this will be a welcome change, t r f DANE BUSHStandard-Examme- r in the event hosted by the Utah Jessi Johnson, of Golden, Colo., cuddles her buff tors from 13 states participated e More than 900 chickens were on Association. call duck at the American Bantam Associations poultry show at Fancy Poultry 3. on See Five-vear-o- ld dis-th- Davis County FairPark last weekend. More than 80 exhibi- play during the show. story he said. Davis said with substations response times will be reduced for deputies having to travel from west Farmington, where the sheriffs department offices are, to the cities. He said it also allows for deputies to get to know better the trouble spots in their areas. Theyll be able to identify more with the community, he said. City officials are rolling out the welcome mats for the deputies. We felt possibly having ambulance and paramedics here, might save the life of some are our people, said West Point Mayor Howard Stoddard. Stoddard said to provide space for the patrol units the city is renovating an old gas station and beauty salon west of the city offices at a cost of $2,000. He said the property has been owned by the city for i r page sometime. He said an interrogation room is also being built to reduce the number of trips deputies will need to See STATIONS on page 2 GOP cant treat animal preservation as beastly issue condors are coming! The condors are rhe Board up your windows. Get the ildren and pets inside. Arm yourselves. If you listen to Utahs Republican delegation, a proposal to reintrod-- e the California condor to Northern Arizo-i- s akin to a mad government scientific n periment. You know, the kind made popu-i1950s science fiction movies where a gi- -t tarantula ends up destroying Las Vegas. Only here the destruction would be to the ions economic potential. This Chicken Little approach to the issue ly clouds what is trying to be accomplished d doesnt even address the benefits of such program to the region. Rep. Jim Hansen and Sen. Orrin Hatch Con-ission- al i f 2050 CENTS CITY UMmrs Murder they wrote, but didnt solve Junior high class puts together book about 1930 killing 15, NO. leased in the Vermillion ClifTs Wilderness in restricArizona, which already has land-us- e tions. Some Southern Utah officials are questioning the validity of environmental studies by the Peregrine Fund supporting the remtroduc-tioBut this has nothing to do with land use. The mentality that all species- - and efforts are somehow going to hinder economic development flies in the face of evidence that suggests the contrary. Tourism is fast becoming the principle activity supporting the economy of Southern admitting the party misinterpreted public sentiment on environmental legislation. They now say the party will take a more moderate stand on environmental issues and deal with basis. them on a case-by-ca- CLINTON County gives OK for walking path City officials have been given approval by the Davis County Commission to create a $165,000 walking, bike and equestrian path on a storm drainage easement. The city requested to use vacant land at 2050 North, between 2000 to 3000 West in Clinton. The trails, to be 20 feet wide and nearly a mile long, are planned to run down the north and south sides of the storm drain channel. The project is expected to be in place sometime next year. Clinton City Manager Dennis Cluff said the city is in the process of trying to get a state enhancement grant from the Utah Department of Transportation to help pay for developing the trail. Its good for both of us. We use a piece of land that would otherwise be weeds, Cluff said of the agreement. KAYSVILLE Water line bid goes for $405,600 The city council awarded the contract for the Crest Homes water line replacement project to Bouchard Construction at a cost of about $405,600. Areas affected by the replacement of the culinary water lines include Fairfield Road from 200 North to 600 North; 500 North from Fairfield to 400 East; and 150, 200, 250, 300, 350 and 400 East streets between Crestwood and 500 North. SUNSET Pay survey adopted by council It will cost the city about $30,000 to bring the pay of its employees in line with similar cities, a survey says. The city council Tuesday adopted a survey authored by Councilman Arley Wallace regarding parity in pay for city workers. The survey found that the city has not paid its employees at rates comparable to other cities. The proposed increases in salaries will come from departmental monies, and will not affect the city budget. The plan was presented to city employees Friday. n. habitat-preservati- and some Kanab officials worry the reintroduction of up to nine of the birds would bring restrictions to Southern i crippling land-us- e ' Utah. They have succeeded in delaying the program while the public hearing process is extended. There are no specific issues being as to how the condors will somehow land use in Utah. The birds will be 4" re- - Utah communities. Moab seems to be doing a lot better now than it ever did as a uranium mining commu- nity. Many national Republican leaders are now 4 Lets hope our GOP leaders follow the Best bets trend. doubts a large coastal scavenger bird can actually survive in the Colorado Plateau. But if it does make it. Ill be the first to book a room in Kanab and spend a week I have my condor-w- atching. Andy Howell is assistant managing editor Daand a vis County for the Standard-Examinmember of the newspitpers editorial btkird. He 1 wechdaxi. can be reached at 776-495- A summary of weekend entertainment activities in Davis County. "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat" is being staged at the Pages Lane Theater, 292 E. Pages Lane, Centerville, at 7:30 p.m. Saturday. 7 |