FRONT PAGE A1 www.tooeletranscript.com TUESDAY TOOELE RANSCRIPT Tooele T baseball faces difficult week of league play See A10 BULLETIN April 10, 2007 SERVING TOOELE COUNTY SINCE 1894 VOL. 113 NO. 92 50¢ Ironworks will open Tax pros new plant in Tooele The new operation, Syracuse facing by Mark Watson STAFF WRITER Castings West Corporation, is Syracuse Castings of New York estimated to generate $2 million in announced today that it will open a new state revenue and nearly $20.9 deadline manufacturing facility in Tooele at million in new state wages over the the city’s industrial park at 58 S. 1200 next 10 years. The company plans West. The company manufacturers to employ about 20 people by year iron casting for drainage grates, end, and up to 90 individuals within crunch manhole covers and other products the next five years. It has already used in the construction industry. begun the search for qualified by Mark Watson “Building a factory in Utah is an employees, with an immediate need STAFF WRITER exciting and logical development for for inside sales representatives. In high school Sam Woodruff was Syracuse Castings. We have enjoyed Pulver credits Tooele City Mayor a state track champion. Now an steady growth with our strategy of Patrick Dunlavy, who helped secure accountant, he still calls upon the product innovation and unparalleled local and state support, for much of stamina of his high school days service,” said General Manager Mark Syracuse Castings decision to relo- each April as an avalanche of last- Pulver in a press release. cate in the area. minute income tax filings from cli- A report from the Governor’s “We are excited about being a ents comes into his office. Office of Economic Development part of this growing economic envi- “Hours are longer this time of in January indicated it had offered ronment and warm community,” year and you still have to be focused the company $585,000 in incentives Pulver said in the release. “We hope when you’re doing taxes,” said if it would locate in Utah. Also play- to become a valued corporate citi- Woodruff. “A big rush hits the first ing a major role in luring the com- zen in Tooele City.” of February, March is variable, and pany was the non-profit Economic then it really picks up again in April. Development Corporation of Utah. SEE IRONWORKS ON A5 There is an adrenaline rush coming up to the deadline, then you get the post tax-season blues.” Woodruff’s office is one of an Easter weekend roadblock estimated 20 in Tooele Valley run- ning at a full sprint these days to catches drunk drivers complete returns before the mid- night April 17 filing deadline. The By Suzanne Ashe said Sgt. Brent Rowley after the challenges they face this time of STAFF WRITER event was over. “The public was year include more complicated tax The Grantsville Police Department really receptive. We got a lot of returns and dissappointed clients lined up their squad cars, switched positive feedback. Anytime we can who end up owing money instead of on the flood lights and set up a fold- enforce driver safety and stop kids being due a refund. The IRS reports ing table and chairs Friday evening from using alcohol, it’s a good expe- that more than 12 million taxpayers at the east end of Main Street. It was rience.” nationwide file their taxes in the such an event even residents from Grantsville patrol officers, who final week before the deadline. homes lining the streets donned were joined by officers and a canine jackets and hoodies and came out to unit from the Utah Department of SEE TAXES ON A5 watch the DUI check point. Corrections and officers from the The officers stopped about five Utah Division of Wildlife Resources, cars at a time. Each driver was issued 27 citations, including one asked for their license and registra- adult DUI and one underage DUI. Main Street tion. Officers checked to make cer- They towed three cars, arrested two tain everyone in the car was wearing people on outstanding warrants, and G-ville to see their seatbelt and that everything found plenty of violations including else was in order. improper restraints, unregistered By the end of the evening, 375 vehicles, drivers with suspended improvements cars were stopped. by Karen Hunt SEE DUI ON A5 “The roadblock was successful,” STAFF WRITER Spring is here and Grantsville City photography courtesy of Matthew Hatfield, Standard Examiner is looking to spruce up Main Street. Robert Cameron Houston enters the courtroom for his sentencing hearing yesterday. Houston has already A new city initiative aims to tap pleaded guilty to murdering Tooele native Raechale Elton. Now a jury will decide the length of Houston’s grants and the town’s community prison term and whether he will serve it with or without the possibility of parole. spirit to plant more trees, hang flowers and banners from utility poles and beautify the “gateway” to Grantsville. With $10,000 allocated from Grantsville City Council, the Sentencing trial begins Grantsville Tree Commission and Beautification Committee is apply- ing for a grant through the Utah for Raechale Elton’s killer Main Street program worth up to $10,000 more. They’re also utilizing Prosecution provides gruesome details of murder; the resources around them. Dozens of members from seven different defense argues teen was tormented since childhood committees are volunteering their time. The chair over all seven com- By Suzanne Ashe Deputy Davis County Attorney William mittees, Darsi Fouillade, estimates STAFF WRITER McGuire described a terrible storm that she’s already spent 100 hours to photography / Troy Boman A 17-year-old boy and admitted violent pounded Davis County on the night of the beautify her community, and the Tooele County Emergency Management Public Information Officer Wade sex-offender spent two weeks thinking about murder, but it was just a prelude for what other volunteers have donated Mathews answers questions inside the new Joint Information Center on Monday. his next victim. He picked her out. He knew was to come, he said. He implored the jury countless additional hours. Scenes from a training exercise are projected on a screen behind him. her movements. And on one stormy night 14 to recommend a sentence of life without the “Grantsville has a great commu- months ago he made his move. possibility of parole. He held a Tooele High nity spirit, and this is a great way to He said right up until the end he didn’t School graduation picture of the victim. enhance that and the outside beauty New facility will be info hub know if he was going to go through with it. If In the photo, Elton wore a white cap and of Grantsville,” said Fouillade. someone else had showed up, he would have gown. University of Utah landscape aborted his plan. But nobody came. Defense attorney Dee Smith countered architecture student Laurie Hurst in times of emergency When it was all over, 22-year-old Tooele by holding up a picture of Houston as a boy. will help the effort by writing her by Mark Watson media. Technology at the center native Raechale Elton, a college student with He described Houston as a boy who had thesis on designing a master plan for also allows for tracking informa- a promising career working with troubled problems from the womb, who was born downtown Grantsville. Grantsville STAFF WRITER with one ear canal missing, who struggled Information spreads quick- tion presented by the media in youth, was left naked, violated, mutilated High School students involved in with even remedial kindergarten, who wit- ly through television and the an attempt to squelch misinfor- and dead. Future Farmers of America will nessed his father threaten his mother with Internet, but that can be a prob- mation. And Robert Cameron Houston became a make brackets to hang flower boxes a knife. Smith said Houston suffered from lem when a major disaster strikes Because Tooele County is murderer — a charge he pleaded guilty to along Main Street. Another group of an undiagnosed mental disorder, obsessive and rumors and false reports go home to the Deseret Chemical last month. Grantsville FFA students is growing compulsive disorder (OCD), and was sexu- flying about. A new joint infor- Depot, where mustard blister This week a jury in the 2nd District Court flowers in the school greenhouse ally molested by a family friend and exposed mation center in Tooele aims to agent will be destroyed through in Bountiful will decide Houston’s sentence. and will plant them in the boxes to porn at a young age. Smith said the defen- address that problem by coordi- 2013, a congressional mandate Yesterday, the four-men, eight-women jury purchased with some of the money dant was ruled by thoughts and impulses nating and disseminating infor- requires the county to oper- listened to opening arguments and seven provided by the city council. he couldn’t control and that the system had mation to media outlets even ate a joint information center, state-witness testimonies. The jury will have Councilman Wayne Butler said failed the boy. during the worst emergencies. according to Wade Mathews, to decide whether the defendant deserves life the city is still determining who will The defense asked the jury to return a The center, which opened yes- public information officer for in prison without the possibility of parole, or water the flowers. sentence of 20 years to life, arguing that terday at 27 S. Main in Tooele, is Tooele County Emergency a sentence of 20 years to life with the pos- The plan includes placing banners life in prison would leave Houston’s mental a place where government lead- Management.