The Ogden Standard-Examiner from Ogden, Utah • 19

1 1 1 wi Entettiftf SECTION OGDEN UTAH THURSDAY EVENING AUGUST 28 1975 IB romotion Of Bus Use Advocated Winds Hit Ogden Area Several Trees Toppled By ROBIN TIBBETS Two huge lightning-caused range fires roared out of control on Antelope Island and in the Promontory Mountains Wednesday destroying 20000 acres of grass and scrub brush in Salt Lake Davis and Box Elder 1 MAlcounties The Antelope Island blaze which blackened 16000 acres of grass and brush was fully contained at 10:15 iam today hut the fire in the mountains 30 miles southwest of Brigham City continued to burn out of control In Weber County freak storm winds up to 58 miles an hour uprooted' trees and snapped power poles like A matchs ticks about noon Wednesday knocking out elec-tricity over a broad swath that extended from the foot-to the shores of Great Salt Lake Deputy State Forester Ralph Miles of Salt Lake City said a hot spot at the south end of Antelope Island iis under surveillance by two pumpers and a Jeep posse in case predicted winds to 20 mph cause the blaze to A director of the Utah Transit Authority Wednesday urged the system to promote rider use and warned the board it does a disservice by running empty buses Gus Kesselring of Salt Lake City spoke at a meeting in Ogden Much of the discussion focused on promoting ridership requiring patrons to board buses with the exact fare and the success of no-fare bus systems in Dallas Tex and Seattle Wash Fred Montmorency of South Ogden and Morris Smith of Ogden represent the Weber County Commission on the board Mr Kesselring said taxpayers money in to run buses and very important we put people in the SO CENTS It costs 50 cents a rider to operate the bus system Mr Kesselring said we double the number of riders the cost would be only 24 care when but get the buses the director said People are far from oriented in the use of buses Mr Kesselring said adding that a sales pitch should be made for families to ride buses The directors agreed to charge no fare for senior citizens riding buses on Sept 10 Senior Citizens Day at the Utah State Fair The free rides will be extended throughout the system in Davis Salt Lake and Weber counties Rep Sam Taylor D-Salt Lake who attends most meetings suggested the no-fare privilege be extended on other days of the state fair for chil- At Promontory there are two hot spots one on southeast and another on the southwest that still are District Gets $62000 For SCARRED ANTELOPE ISLAND ravaged by brush fires that were controlled today is black from the south end almost to the north end with 16000 acres destroyed This aerial photo by Chief Photographer David Farr clearly shows the damage caused by the flames ignited Wednesday by dry lightning JOHN VAN ALFEN Throws Hat in Ring A strong advocate for industrial expansion and improved police protection today entered the Ogden City Council race John Van Alfen of 1664 21st filed for one of the two at-large seats up for election on the six-member City Council this fail A native of Ogden Mr Van Alfen is an employe of the Southern Pacific Co and a member of the Rodeo Cowboys Association NEW JOBS In filing for the City Council seat Mr Van Alfen said is imperative we bring new industry into Ogden to create new jobs and to help bring the tax levy down of the best ways the city government can help the working people and those on retirement is to encourage industrial expansion within the Mr Van Alfen said people particularly continue to pay the high taxes faced he said the best way to accomplish this without cutting back on services is to bring in new industry' to help pay for those services to achieve this we need a City Council more responsive to business development and the needs of the business Mr Van Alfen said City Council not only must encourage industrial growth but also lead out in seeking START PLANNING Mr Van Alfen also said that many areas of local government it is time to quit talking and planning and start taking some action Mr Van Alfen said he also would like to some action taken to improve our police protection have a good department and they are doing a good job with what manpower and equipment they have to work he said Mr Van Alfen is married to the former Joyce Nelson of Ogden They have nine children dren families and other groups Ogden Area Community I SUBSIDIZE FARES Action trustees broke up a rru i o- three-hour long anger- crvirp TTii'lP Le'punctuated meeting Wednesday per service miie rate Board of Education of meals Was questionable "lthout resolvm the Trustee George Sugihara'the executive interrupted Mrs Hoskins to say her report was full of legal Massey who Approximately $62000 will be received by the Ogden School District to conduct a program of youth experience and on the job training for underprivileged and non-employable students in the district Dr Lionel Drechsel director of vocational training pro grams for the district said the program has been known as the Neighborhood Youth Corps and has been operated under Community Action setup Approval thus far has been verbal Dr Drechsel said with formal approval expected immediately Dr Drechsel stressed that CAP has worked with a larger funding and has had about 450 young people employed 45 STUDENTS The smaller setup to be offered by the Ogden District will be able to handle only 45 students These will be chosen almost entirely from among seniors in the Ogden high schools Weber and Morgan districts are also included in the program Dr William Gamer superintendent said the setup has come under the direction of public schools because of a realization that its intent is largely educational DELAY COLLECTION RIVERDALE Garbage collection in the city will be on Tuesday next week It has been postponed one day due to the Labor Day holiday according to City Recorder Mrs Mary Johnston implications and reflecting upon the board and the administration He asked the report be sub wen oornmumy Ac on counsel was present County Commissioner Keith Jensen and Mr Sugihara then promptly ergagea a heated debate each telling the other to shut up Mrs Hoskins and Mr Havas left the session when Charlean Sattiewhite another trustee said move that Mrs Hoskins be Washington Terrace Mayor Ronald Stephens said as a trustee he would like to know if Mrs Hoskins was to be fired senger carried on uary has dropped to 221 and he questioned wre should continue to subsidize empty Dallas doubled its ridership in four days with no fare charged and downtown business was boosted without a fare Rep Taylor said Marvin Tanner president of Amalgamated Transit Union Division 832 encouraged free rides for senior citizens and noted Congress passed a bill allocating $64 million for bus systems that do not charge riders But William Oswald authority secretary and attorney said although the bill had passed Congress had not appropriated the $64 million an amount President Ford would probably veto Mr Tanner noted the system is short buses now but that 15 new vehicles will go into operation this fall and an additional 211 will be in service next year ASKED DIRECTORS The union official also asked the directors to require collection cf exact fare from persons boarding buses This practice Mr Tanner said is in effect in a number of cities saves time for drivers who do not make change and enhances the safety of a moving bus Mr Montmorency asked a committee be named by Chairman Harrison Brothers to study the exact fare proposal the svstem in Further Probe of WSC ou of control Forecasters indicated Mr Miles may have cause for concern as northwesterly winds up to 15 miles an hour are predicted late today Skies will be fair through Friday with cooler temperatures in the middle 80s toward the end of the period 20 MILES Located about 20 miles southeast cf the Golden Spike National Historic Site the Promontory fire charred 3500 acres of grassland On the island fire scorched a quarter-mile-long strip of Antelope Island State Park before it was halted by a gravel road There was no structural damage A buffalo herd and cattle owned by the Anschutz Livestock Co were not threatened Mr Miles said Fire fighters made one drop of retardant from the air on the island to save ranch build mgs near the south end Both of the big fires during the night after sending towers of brownish smoke into the sky during the afternoon Wednesday Winds of storm intensity that struck North Davis and Weber counties were clocked at 575 mph at Hill Air Force Base at 12:20 pm and at the Municipal Airport Traffic Control Tower at 5175 mph a few minutes later TOP OF HILL In the vicinity of Harrison extending east and west over a half-mile span the wind appeared to be tomadic in nature kicking up clouds of dust and lifting the water part way from a swimming pool in South Ogden whirlwinds off to the were reported by City Parks Director Clair Bennett who said he watched the freak wind from the top of the hill near Weber State College The blast lasted about five minutes but in that time uprooted or splintered 15 trees in Ogden at least one in Terrace and broke power poles all over the county Two poles and 12 spans of primary wire were knocked down at Great Salt Lake Minerals Chemical Corp and primary lines were downed in the 1400 block on 21st in Ogden Lynn Foley district manager of Utah Power Light Co said the wind tripped lines out of the Lincoln substation knocking out power on 33rd and in shopping centers on 36th for short periods Lines feeding McKay-Dee Hospital and Hill Air Force Base were tripped and both were without power for cr four he said to pour from Promontory eceivea To Purchase heelchairs The go ahead on pur- chasing 50 new wheelchairs and investigating the installation of an electric generator was given Tuesday by the Weber Memorial Hospital board of trustees The board authorized hospital administrator George Goodell to purchase 50 new wheelchairs at a cost of $6699 OLDER MODELS Mr Goodell said that many of the wheelchairs presently being used at the hospital are 10 to 12 years old and no longer giving the patients the support they need Board president George VanLeeuwen said the hospital is in need of a secondary power system Mr Goodell said an electric generator had been located at the Tooele Army Depot and has been reserved for the hospital He said if the hospital can get thiSv generator it will save the hospital about $15000 Mr Goodell said a Salt Lake City firm has given the hospital an estimate of $22000 to purchase and install a new generator He said it will cost about $8000 to wire in the surplus generator This doesn't include the cost to build a house to contain the generator he said Commissioner Keith Jensen said he questioned whether the hospital could afford these expenditures OBTAIN MONEY these expenditures mean more money the county has to come up with? I would hate to be a part of approving something we have the money said Commissioner Jensen Mr Goodell said the funds for the wheelchairs will come from the depreciation fund and that the generator will be a capital expense He said no direct money will come from the county for these SMOKE CONTINUES get Wi Hospital Board Learns IV Mrs Dean said the matter ould be under the jurisdiction of the personnel committee with an appeal procedure involving director some of Mrs allegations involve Director Massey said he had previously warned Mrs Hoskins to cease a number of practices that she was opposed by a number of workers and that a federal audit of Head Start had been completed with a report due in possibly two weeks He said he had written Mrs Hoskins asking that she meet with hi to discuss the problems Mayor Larsen insisted that trustees had the right to hear both sides of the Head Start dispute Mrs Dean said a written report from regional offices in Denver Colo will be circulated among board members ping Mr Nelson now a police officer in Phoenix Ariz also released two statements relative to the incident presently under investigation by the Utah Attorney General GAVE AGENT One was a statement he gave to an agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation July 31 in Phoenix concerning a telephone tap and bugging of a dormitory room in 1973 The other was his report of Nov 27 3973 which claims William Carver chief of campus security directed supervised and instigated the wiretapping and bugging Chief Carver has denied allegations in statements given attorney office investigators He said the incident was only a training exercise and that Mr Nelson was primarily involved Attorney Richards said he reported the incident to Gov Calvin Rampton who in turn asked Raymond Jackson commissioner of public safety to handle the matter This led to approval of six months for Mr Nelson although he had left the by the Weber State College president and Institutional Council SAID EARLIER College President Joseph Bishop said earlier the payment of $600 was made to avoid a court suit Mr Nelson through his attorney Mr Richards threatened legal action after his position was placed in jeopardy following his refusal to cooperate in the bugging as a member of the college security force Mr Nelson in his statement to the FBI said there is no indication that Dr Bishop ordered or knew of any of the wiretapping incidences future of the Head Start program in Weber County Charges and counter charges flew after alleged irregularities in the fiscal matters of the preschool program were presented Mrs Shannon Hoskins Head Start director presented the board with a report on alleged fiscal inefficiencies ancji irregularities of the Community Action administration PROPER PROCEDURE Mrs Mary Dean trustee! chairman first refused to recognize Mrs Hoskins She said the director should go through proper grievance procedures as set out in federal guidelines Eut Mrs attorney David Bert Havas said he had reviewed the guidelines and what his client was talking about had nothing to do with personnel grievances but administrative and policy matters board cannot avoid hearing the Mr Havas asserted Harrisvilie Mayor Richard Larsen had asked the board to hear Mrs Hoskins James Gillespie also said she should be allowed to speak and Mrs Dean then granted permission Mrs Hoskins began a detailed report alleging that bills had not been paid on time purchase orders were not properly processed and accounting of the reimbursement from the Utah offices Dort Exclude Me From Close oor Talks Jenkins Complains ROY -Hospital has learned that the projected budget for 1976 will include a loss of at 1 a $123126 Board Chairman George VanLeeuwen said the proposed budget of $22 million include a cost of living raise or an adjustment in the wage schedule requested by the merit council The Weber Memorial board of trustees A key figure in an alleged wiretapping incident at Weber State College and his attorney said today they are unable to understand why there has not been a more thorough investigation David Nelson former campus security officer and Richard Richards Ogden attorney said they feel both state and federal laws may have been broken was just wondering why I involved if it was county Commissioner Jenkins reiterated that extent it was county i Chairman Storey replied I Commissioner Jenkins repeated asking we going to have a three man commission or a two man Commissioner Jensen said the discussion a matter from some time ago relating to poor communications with the legal defenders that needed Commissioner Jensen also said he had seen two in Commissioner office with the door but left Asked by Commissioner Jenkins when this was Commissioner Jensen said time last Commissioner Jenkins said he recall any such meeting but was no business being Commissioner Jensen ended the exchange by suggesting wire the office doors open and leave them that Hospital administrator George Goodell said that if the County Commission gives an 8 per cent cost of living raise as it did last year the hospital deficit could be increased to $345000 Mrs Winn Richards chairman of the finance committee said the major increases in the 1976 budget are in salaries and wages insurance and retirement funds RAISE RATES To meet the projected $123000 deficit revenues will have to be increased she said we have to do something to raise room rates or we are going to be in the poor so to said Mrs Richards Mr Goodell said that a $2 per day room rate increase would be needed to cover this deficit He said the hospital is anticipating an increase in its malpractice insurance employes medical insurance coverage and in social security The retirement benefit cost will be 1210 per cent of the salaries he said Comparatively the hospital is expecting to show a $3000 profit this year and had a profit of $77610 in 1974 In 1373 the hospital lost about $6000 Mr VanLeeuwen said if the hospital is forced to make its pay step schedule the same as the the deficit will be increased by $35000 this morning Weber County Commissioner hours with George Alexander Bruce Jenkins today voiced ai kind of resent strong objection to being ex-j Commissioner Jenkins said eluded from a closed door i you were discussing county session 'between the other two business should have been commissioners Wednesday jthere If it county Commissioner Keith Jensen said the discussion involved an issue with the legal defenders contract dating back you came on the commission been in your position have wanted to be left Commissioner Jensen told Commissioner Jenkins never taken the position of wanting to be left out of matters involving county Commissioner Jenkins replied BROUGHT UP ISSUE Commissioner Jenkins brought the issue up at the close of today's commission meeting stating always thought we had a three member commission and like to be cut in on He said he had noticed Commissioner Jensen and Chairman Boyd Storey in the office with the door shut for about lVz Mountains a -ft.