Show If H I i I I i w i I 1 j r. r r t tI ry o t tf f f This is the small jail house which has served Davis County for the past 72 years It is being abandoned k this week when the Sheriffs Sheriff's Department and the jail ail inmates will move into their new quarters on the courthouse grounds I Dedication O Slated SatI For Fu y Jail JN T This his week the Davis Count County Commission announced the dedication and open house of oC the time Davis County Sheriffs Sheriff's office of of- fice five and jail at Farmington It will be held Wednesday Aug 7 at 5 pm p.m. and the public is urged to attend TILE TIIE I t conducted con 1 1 ducted by Commissioner G G. G Evan Taylor will feature as the keynote speaker Leonard Leonal d Blaylock FBI Special Agent in ch charge rge at nt the Salt SaIl Lake of of- fice lice Invocation will be given by Commissioner Glen W. W Flint and the dedicatory prayer pray pray- er will be given by Commission Commission Commission Commis Commis- sion Chairman Wa Wayne e M M. Winegar Brief remarks will also be given ghen by the architect architect architect archi archi- Stanl Stanley C. C Evans and the time county sheriff Kenneth Ham- Ham mon This will be followed b by a atour atour tour lour of both the old and the new jails on the courthouse grounds Were provid i n g I housing for the prisoners in other security institutions in Salt Lake and Ogden during the open In this way the public will be able to compare compare compare com com- pare the new with the old and see for the themselves selves why construction of the new facility facility facility ty was ne necessary essary Sheriff Hammon said ALSO be able to note the many security measures measures mea mea- that have been incorporated into the new jail which were we're sure is one of oC the finest in the nation he added Many minute entries in the early carb records of oC the first Davis Dav Dav- is County business meetings meetings' which were conducted by Se USe predecessors of of our county commIssioners a are r e every very interesting jn in connection on with the Uie present jail which is isto isto isto to be abandoned tJ this s week ONE item is the similarity to the Ule new jails jail's principal dedication speaker and the sheriff at the time See Sec JAIL on page 5 |