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Show Hebo District board names Hjorth president January 18, 1973 8 -by Frank G. Wouldn't you just know it! We go into orbit over the clear blue skies and crisp air of recent good (yes we had some) winter weather, and what happens? Muck, guck, snow, slush, fog, and you name it, that's what ! So this week we'll try another kind of psychology on Old Man Winter and write about the nice slick roads and fog-bound cities of Central Utah. Then, maybe another reversal will take place and we'll get a change of weather, or even a break, if that's possible! ! As of right now, if somebody told us Springville has only one single and solitary elementary school, we would have to agree. Also, if a report should filter into our office about an epidemic of broken arms in this city, particularly, right ones, we would have to accept that too as the profound and unshakable truth. As evidence, may we point to the one single and solitary column of school news from the Westside School in this week's Herald? We have phoned, cajoled, almost wept with the agony of frustration, and pleaded again and again, but to no avail. The other schools of this city, IF INDEED THEY DO EXIST, turn an indifferent ear and stony heart to our requests for reports on their activities. Either they don't want to have anything known about what goes on in their areas or nothing is, in fact, happening there. Will somebody tell us which, please? While we're on the subject, we do appreciate the material we get from SOME of our schools, particularly par-ticularly the high school and junior high, but we're very greedy. We want more, much, much more! And we'd like something from the Middle School, that is, if there really is one! Attention, all you Springville area husbands, have you begun making plans to take your sweet little wife to the governor's inaugural ball as of yet? The big affair will be held at the Salt Palace Exhibition Hall in Salt Lake City as of January 26th and will cost only a paltry $100 per couple! It will feature three separate bandstands, these playing Latin, soft rock, and traditional dancing music. An international cuisine has been planned with serving being done by hostesses garbed in the costumes of the country whose food they serve. Now that we've told you, husbands start digging up that hundred bucks and you wives get in there and nag! r .-- Heard of a high school dance at Park City that must have been some bash! According to the description by the school reporter in their newspaper, it featured an uninvited and inebriated Santa Claus, a lousy band whose members fought with each other during each number, a too slick floor, falling and fallen decorations, and a lopsided Christmas tree. Also on the list were : foot tapping boys, sleeping boys, boring boys, and starving boys, finger twisting girls, nervous girls, apprehensive girls, dressed up girls, and girls in 'grubbies'. And, the report adds, amid all this "gayety" there were some people actually enjoying en-joying themselves! We were talking of our governor a paragraph or-so or-so ago in connection with his upcoming inaugural ball, and another bit of information related to him occurs to us. In a recent speech to the legislature, he recommended removal of the large circle at the top of the ballot used in our elections. This means that, in order to vote a straight ticket, instead of one "x" at the top, the voter would have to read down the list and place a mark by each candidate. It still gives us a chance for a straight party vote but, the governor states, might mean the necessity for more pondering as we consider each candidate rather than the party in one "lump". We think the idea sounds good, how about you? Genealogy group plans meeting Temple View Chapter of the Utah Genealogical Assn. will hold their January meeting Friday at 7:30 p.m. in the Provo Public Library. Helen Eastmond will be the guest speaker. While you were looking for a job, we just gave you a raise We just raised your starting salary in today's Army to $307.20 a month. And the best thing about it is you might not have to spend it. That's because we provide you with meals, housing, medical and dental care, commissary and post exchange privileges, and 30 days paid vacation every year. You also get your choice of over 300 good jobs. What other offer on this page offers you all that? For more information call your local Army Representative at: SSG. PAUL NOLAND Provo 374-5011 Ext. 7295 Today's Army wants to join you. Springville, ' King Mrs. Eastmond will speak on the equipment and facilities avilable at the Provo Public Library. She is employed at the library and has a degree in library science from BYU where she also studied genealogy. Mrs. Irvin Bassett, president, announces a special help session at 7 p.m. Anyone with genealogical questions or problems are invited. Utah 84663 Elder Robyn D. Hardy who is returning home this week from New York City where he has served the past two years in the Eastern States Mission. Part of this time he has served as District Leader, lie plans to continue with his education. Elder Hardy will be welcomed home by the 6th Ward the second week in February. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Dale Hardy. Farewell services for Susan Garrett will be held Sunday, January 21, at 4:00 p.m. in the Springville 9th LDS Ward. She will enter the mission home February-3rd, to begin preparation for service in the Guatemala El Salvador LDS Mission. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Fabian Garrett of this city. Weather report There has been quite a change in the weather conditions over the Inlermountain area during the past week. A rising trend in temperature, which has persisted per-sisted throughout much of the week, changed the character of the precipitation from snow to either rain and snow mixed, or in some cases light rain. Short periods of freezing rain were reported from a few localities in the northern' part of the state. The accumulated amounts of moisture were generally light to moderate. The largest amount reported for the week was .61 inches at Corinne followed by .43 inches at Blanding. Snow cover still persists in most sections of the state but the depth is considerably con-siderably less in most areas than it was a week ago. Average temperatures for the week continued well below normal ranging from 8 to 20 degrees below for the period. Temperatures this past weekend, however, were generally only 2 to 8 degrees below normal. The warmer temperatures and melting snow were a relief to most farmers and ranchers who are now able to begin catching up on operations which have been delayed by the extreme cold and deep snow of the last 4 to 6 weeks. The melting snow has caused some difficulties from mud in feed lots and barnyards, but like most problems we face in life this too will pass. We have discussed some of the important features of December 1972 weather on previous broadcasts but most of the reporting stations in the state have now sent in their December reports and the extreme nature of the weather can now be emphasized. Two stations out of more than 150, which have reported so far, recorded minimums of 40 degrees below zero or colder. The coldest was Woodruff -42 degrees, followed by our Benchmark Station in Cache Valley with 40 below. Sixteen stations reported minimum temperatures of 30 degrees below zero or colder. Only 15 stations failed to drop below zero during the month. The highest extreme minimum temperature reported for the month was at Bullfrog Basin which reported an extreme minimum temperature of 14 degrees above zero. The next highest was 13 degrees above wmmmmm Section Two Fire damages wall at canyon home A fire, thought to be of electrical elec-trical origin, caused some damages at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Thomas in Hobble Creek Canyon Wednesday. Wed-nesday. Firemen were on the scene within a very short time and succeeded in confining the blaze to the wall of one room. The alarm sounded about 4:25 p.m. and firemen made the trip up the canyon within a sur-' sur-' prisingly short time despite the fog and bad weather. Mrs. Thomas expressed sincere appreciation for their efforts. The home is located about three miles up the left-hand fork of the ranvon. BYU gets large money donation Brigham Young University has received contribution of approximately $40,000 from American Micro-systems, Inc., of Santa Clara, Calif., and Pocatello, Idaho, according to Donald T. Nelson, director of Church Education Development. The contribution, unrestricted as to use, is in the form of shares of American Micro-systems common stock. Mr. Howard S. Bobb, chairman chair-man of the board of the firm, said the stock was being contributed con-tributed "in recognition of the valuable contributions of BYU to the scientific community. . . ." and is to be used to "further its many programs." Mr. Nelson, commenting on the gift, said: "This generous contribution by American Micro-systems is deeply appreciated. ap-preciated. We're most grateful to Mr. Bobb and his organization." zero at Saint George. The mass of cold air which moved into the state shortly after the first of the year, started 1973 off with much below normal temperatures, but these did not come near the , extremes of December. Hi max 53 on 13th, Lo min 2 on 8th and avg. temp 17 above. Precip .11 on the 9th, .05 on the 10th .07 on the 11th and .22 on the 12th. I Reg. ' 39c SA.E.20, 30 or 40 Height! 2T15028 ONLY A FEW & FREE DRAWING! Ifi8 FREE GIFTS! ' a ;jl 'Vi. liB ' For Mom K igj&Z iT'T-" Furnace Filters For Dad X Windshield Cleaner Rust-Naught Paint Reg.to l fV l&Sr tt j Wearwell Motor Oil Booster f mJ Lirht Bulb S-P.Hr Quality House Broom roni ! Wostom Auto Jr 126 S. ! After swearing in newly elected members of the board of education Hugh Hjorth was elected president of the school board by members present. Clyde Swenson of Spanish Fork was elected vice president of the board. Krrol J. Smith was also appointed ap-pointed clerk of the board to serve a two year term. Voting on all of the officers was unanimous. In other matters of business all bids for sale of the Jefferson School were rejected by the board and the superintendent was given the authority to negotiate the sale of the Jefferson Jef-ferson school. Outdoor Site A discussion was held on the new acquisition of the Hobble Creek outdoor education site concerning the direction the board wished to take concerning the site, in as much as the site has now been purchased. The site is located on 40 acres up left-hand left-hand fork of Hobble Creek Canyon. On a motion by Dr. Vernon Tipton it was decided to turn the matter over to Roy Richards Silver as architect to work closely with the outdoor education committed to develop long range plans for the site. Patio Cover Superintendent Reidhead presented some cost estimates for covering the patios of the three district high schools and using them for media centers CHICAGO A $1,000 scholarship awarded by General Motors lo Judy Ewer, Ogden, Utah, will help bring u college degree a little closer. The award was given in recognition of Judy's work in the 4-H Sufety Program. Shown above offering his congratulations is Thomas A. Murphy, Vice Chairman of General Gen-eral Motors, while Miss America 1973, Terry Anne Meeuwsen, looks on approvingly. One of the eight scholarship winners in the nationwide safety competition, Judy also received an expense-paid trip to the 4-H Congress in Chicago from GM. OF THE MANY ITEMS ON DA SttirGGi, 11 U f U iv1, i) mill i iiiiiiiiiiiiiiimm -im'',V- T llM m I New Bishopric in the Mapleton Third Ward sustained Sunday evening are bottom row Ned Poulson, First counselor; Grady Edenfield, Bishop; Ted Livingston, second counselor; Ferrin Grazier, assistant ward clerk; Noel but the board decided to table the action for the time being. The board was informed that Zions First National Bank at the districts request will change to the state division of data processing payroll system in February. This will not change in any way the present system for receiving checks, but just represents a change for DHI to the state for accounting services. ser-vices. The next meeting of the board of Education will be held January 22 in the district office. SALE DURING OUR GRAND OPENING! (en . i! Associate jf1 Smith, ward clerk; Robert Fowler, executive secretary. Missing is Howard Nichols, finincial clerk and Quinten Lowe, assistant clerk who were not available for picture. Bishop Edenfield Eden-field replaces Norman Graves as bishop. Traffic accident total for 72 near half of 71 record for Springville Traffic accidents in Springville last year were down by nearly half from the previous year, according to police reports. Two persons were killed during the period and 67 people were injured. Property damage on reportable accidents came to $54,885. According to a map of the city in Sgt. J.D. Dalton's office where all poiice-investigated traffic accidents are pinpointed, only 156 auto mishaps occurred last year. In 1971 a total of 309 traffic accidents took place. Like 1971, traffic accidents in 1972 occurred mainly on heavily traveled thoroughfares and major intersections. A total of 217 property damage and 27 personal injury, plus the two fatalities, accidents were 1 investigated. in-vestigated. The highest concentration of accidents occurred along main St. where a total of 49 were recorded. Twenty-one of those were personal injury accidents. Fifteen of the 49 were at the intersection of 400 S. and Main St. Six of the 15 were personal injuries. In 1971 only seven accidents occurred at this intersection, in-tersection, considered to be the busiest in the city. Most Accidents Fourth South St. (a freeway access and main route leading to Hobble Creek Canyon) showed the second largest number of accidents along a single thoroughfare with a total of 36 Store nliiin Siuwihcauiiin recorded, 13, of which were personal injury. However, most of the accidents along this street were between Main and 1300 East. Only one accident occurred oc-curred on the freeway access between Main St. and 1-15. Center St., also considered to be a highly traveled street, showed only 1 1 accidents, all of which were personal injury. Four accidents on the corner of 200 S. and Main St. were recorded. There were six at the Center St. and Main St. intersection; in-tersection; three at 400 E. and Center; three at 800 E. and Center; three 800 E. and Brookside Drive; all of which were personal injury accidents. One fatality occurred when a train hit a pickup truck on the railroad tracks at 200 S. and 400 W.; one pedestrian fatality at about 200 E. and Center; and one fatality in the county in Hobble Creek Canyon near Balsam According to Police Chief Ashley Graham, most of the accidents occurred from normal driver error, slick roads and traffic pressure. Generally the accident rate is highest on a corner where stopsigns or semaphores exist. This is partly due to -rear-end collisions. there were 156 traffic accidents in Springville last year. Property damage occurred in 127 cases. Personal injury occurred oc-curred in 27 cases; under $50 damage in 16 cases; private property damage in 28 cases. II II AAtAMH ft M T yuuw ths family rroM ANO CATALOG OWN COOTR |