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Show ' 9 f LisJ$ UTAH Vi' s 'Vs. ' ' 467 ? , r 5 Miller one By JUDY JENSEN Managing Editor - BOUNTIFUL Marilyn Miller is being forced out of her home. She has no options she is-- being evicted. Miller is just one of dozens of tenants who have been caught in the fallout of escalating rents. As a tenant in the Westminister Park apartment complex for the past five years, Miller's rent, which has been subsidized by Davis County's Housing Authority, has been sufficient to pay the bills. Now her landlord has decided he can no longer keep the rent on hcr's, and other tenants' apartments at a level which would allow her to stay. She's out. The problem Miller and others are in her circumstance is no is that there encountering where to go. It is nearly impossible to find a apartment in Davis County which rents for $365 a month including utilities. And that's the limit imposed by the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). And it's going down. A recent survey of the Utah region administered by the Denver HUD office did nothing to improve m the situation. Effective Oct. 1, 1993, the subsidy on a one bedroom apartment in Davis County will drop to $345. "We're in an impossible situation," said Deputy Director of Davis County Housing Jan Winborg. "We have 2,400 families on a waiting list. We send out 10 applications a day and the number of available units is shrinking SLC, E SEPTEMBER 7,1993 ' Kk.,.J A. - ) J VOLUME 102 NUMBER 61 . STATE. PRESS ftSSOC 300 S FIFTY CENTS 64111 UT 41112026 2793 Z5A goyjLAKE m rental housir,y TUESDAY home nan A UTAH467 PT-S5- vie t DA VIS COUNTY 0489033859 64 1 ' ' "7 7 J 005 UT 84101- 090993 1212 - 1111,1, daily." Winborg said she currently has 741 units in the county for which tenants like Miller would qualify. "The only thing that we can do is hope that area apartment owners will be compassionate," she said. Winborg said 26 families were forced to move in July and 13 had to drop off of the program because they could not find apartments. "I've searched for two weeks since I got my eviction notice and I can't find anything,' lamented Miller who is mentally challenged. "I don't know what I'm going to do," she said. She has contacted Utah Legal Services, but no decision has been made by that office. ( There is little hope in sight for the situation to improve. Jim Coil, HUD economist in the Denver office, said the formula is established by Congress and it can't be altered. "We look at a region, calculate the lowest and highest rents and set our subsidy level at the 45th percentile." The region which includes Davis County also includes Weber and Salt Lake counties. Coil said the 1994 rates which go into effect Oct. 1, were based on the 1990 census. "I was a little surprised it would go down," he said. But added he has no choice but to lower the one bedroom subsidy. He said he believes the rates were high in the late 80s and now they are now conservative. Cheryl Olson, asst, executive director of the Housing Authority of Salt Lake County, said she believes the figures are flawed. "HUD has pretty stringent SEE EVICTED ON A-- Marilyn Miller stands outside her Westminister Park Miller is being evicted from her apartment apartment. because her landlord has raised the rent and she can't afford the increase. Miller is just one of many caught in the low income housing crunch in Davis There are currently 2,400 familes on Davis County. County Housing's waiting list for housing. There are only 741 units in the county for which low income residents would qualify. 3 t Chilly summer of '93 is 4 adults and one juvenile arrested By MARK EDDINGTON Staff Writer A routine drug LAYTON Davis narcotics set buy up by officers last week turned into a drug sting that led to the arrest of four adults, one juvenile and the seizure of several thousand dollars worth of illegal drugs. Jeremy Sullivan, 18, of Roy, was arraigned in Second District Court for the distribution of a controlled substance. Three women arrested in connection with the drug sting should be arraigned this week. A fifth juvenile, suspect, a was arrested and taken to the Moweda youth detention facility. An undercover agent with the Davis Metro Narcotics Strike in one for the record books narcotics sting Force arranged the buy with Sullivan on Tuesday, Aug. 31. Strike Force supervisor Paul Rapp said the officer paid Sullivan, who was acting as a in the purchase of a quarter ounce of marijuana. A surveillance team tailed Sullivan, following the suspect to Stonehenge Apartments in Layton. Agents stopped and arrested the Roy man on 1300 N. 200 West as he was driving back to deliver the marijuana to the agent. After securing a search warrant, narcotics officers went back to Stonehenge. We went back at 1 1 p.m...She (the woman living in the apartment) was having a party when we went in. Officers recovered methamphetamines and a user quantity amount of marijuana and arrested the tenant and a Ogden woman. Agents also searched a juvenile, finding 5 hits of LSD and some of the buy money the officer had originally given to Sullivan. Then agents began answering the phones. People were calling to see if she had their supply in yet and asking if they could pick it up, Rapp said. We invited them to come over, but they must have seen the police cars because none of them showed up. But agents did succeed in SEE STING ON A-- 3 By MARK EDDINGTON Staff Writer SALT LAKE CITY June, July and August may be history, but the months comprising this year's meteorological summer have been a calendar event the likes of which present day Utahns may never see again. That's the opinion of National Weather Service meteorologist Bill This summer was the Alder. coldest on record. The average temperature was 68.7 degrees, surpassing the previous record of 69.5 set in 1928. Summer temperatures normally average 74.1 degrees. I doubt that we'll ever see another summer like this. It is basically a very rare event even rarer than a blue moon, Alder said. This summer's record cold was fueled by a shiftless storm track NSL car wash taken to the cleaners by mutant money that stayed over the state instead of shifting northward. We only had high pressure over the state for brief intervals, Alder added. Then another cold front would come through and it would get cold again...We just had a very active summer with westerly flows that should have shifted the storm track clear up into southern Canada, and it just didn't happen this year. Temperatures in August were also subpar. The average for the month was 72.5, 3.1 degrees below But August was a average. veritable heat wave compared with July, when temperatures averaged 69.9, a full eight degrees below normal and 3.9 degrees below the previous record set in 1938. Normally there are 23 days in July with 90 plus temperatures, but there were only seven this year. The previous record of was July 1986. Summer temperatures this year also failed to climb over the century mark for the first time in years. 1 1 SEE WEATHER ON A-- dipper OEOTOY MEWS Decreased sales to teens applauded. page A2 ABANDONED VEHICLES cause problems at complexes. page A3 TOBACCO: SPORTS- lin - By MARK EDDINGTON Staff Writer LAKE NORTH SALT Mutant money is showing up at area car washes, and owners of the businesses are being taken to the cleaners. The money, spliced together $1 and $5 bills, has been used at a one North Salt Lake car wash twice in the past two weeks. By splicing the bills together, $6 can be used to to get $10, said Sgt. Paul Arnold. Some automatic coin changers lake the altered bills and give change for $5. But Arnold said many times the bills don't work. North Salt Lake and federal agents with the Secret Service are investigating the case. From what I understand there have been hundreds of these bills used in Utah, from North Salt Lake to St. George, Arnold said. The bills have also shown up in several surrounding states. North Salt Lake officers are asking residents to call police if they see anyone loitering around automatic change machines. OPINION : I HOME NOT DIME A DOZEN ANYMORE, Cyclops, and letters to the Editor. page A5 lll coin-operat- ed when they painted the stripes for handicapped parking at Was there a mlx-u- p These handicapped stalls located just outside the Bountiful High School? school's gymnasium appear to be in a no parking zone that is reserved for fire trucks and other emergency vehicles. LIFE SHENANDOAH PERFORMANCE scheduled at the Fair. page C2 AREA WEDDINGS page C3 ll11 n11 CHURCH LOCAL MISSIONARIES, Times & Seasons releases radio spots. CLASSIFIEDS- page - DAVIS COUNTY'S BEST consumer marketplace. WEATHER page B4 Mostly sunny and mild on Tuesday. HI: 90 LO: 59 n 3 |