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Show 0ttm EDUCATION r ULCktftTION 4 ? omk Nnr.li iV j 20th South I By 0. G. Semit i a week from Sunday is the" r.rfh nf July and already i 0rem residents are making plans l0 celebrate, most oi me ceie- grating won't be done until the I however, inasmuch as the 4 st'or'es are closing to observe the j holiday on Monday. , We for one are going to hie j 0ff to Orem's 'canyon picnic ! grounds to do our celebrating. 5 Nothing tastes quite so good as j lunch in the canyon. ; Musings , Now that the Democratic nom- jnating convention 4s over in I Utah county the candidates and j would-be-candidates can breath j easier. Those Democrats who i were nominated can square off ! for a battle with the Republican J candidates in the good old Am- erican way. More power to each i of them for a clean, honest campaign! 1 Around and About 1 We see that Toffee Hauzen is i going right ahead to rebuild his ; packing house--out of brick i this time. We certainly wish him luck in getting it built with- out any trouble, and keeping it : standing after it is finished-j finished-j It's good to see that Chick Swan has his Geneva Supply Co. open for business again. Chick has had a long hard row to hoe i getting his new building built f since the old one was razed by fire last January. He is an ex-: ex-: ample of the never-say-die spir- it so characteristic of Orem cit-; cit-; izens. Ed Wickmap, Orem building inspector says that construction ; is going right along steadily here and will probably set new 5 records. Over a half -million dollars dol-lars of construction has been , authorized to date and much 5 more is planned. Don't be sur- prised if Walter Winchell's pre- ; diction comes true. - 5 Orem fruit growers will be( f glad to learn that the E. C. 01--m packing shed located at ww station, closed during the '.wr, is now open again and han-i han-i dies fruit packing suppliess. ; There Oughla be a Law Yes, there ought to be a law passed requiring everyone here-: here-: abouts to take a tour through the Geneva Steel plant. Tours are being conducted now every Tuesday and everyone should take advantage of the opportunity opportun-ity to see and get n under-; under-; standing of the operation of Utah county's largest industry. ' We take trips all over the coun-; coun-; try seeing the sights and wonders wond-ers of other states but too many of us overlook the opportunity to see the inside workings of our own steel plant. That's why we say 'there ought to be a law'. , What ihey're saying "What ever happened to the Chamber of Commerce's talk of a community celebration this summer? It's nearly the first of My and no definite plans have been announced. Let's hope the summer doesn't get too far along Wore some definite action is : taken." ' "It looks like the Jaycees are s reay out to get some new equip- ment for the fire department." ! "I checked out some books from the Orem ligrary the other day and you would be surprised , a' the selection of recent fiction n the shelves. Current magaz-i magaz-i 'nes, too." Here Are Li it1'' , -ZW- Mrs. Loreen Bliss Led; mpan9s Ward nara"1 ? ,he ta by a small , 3'a f credits. TUESDAY, JUNE f J Lucille Sorensen Books, Shelves Needed at Library Says Librarian Patrons of the Orom i-itv Library have been checking out tneir books through a new librarian lib-rarian the last few wepks sinr-P Helen Mitchell, former 'ibrarian, resigned to get married. Lucille Sorensen is the new librarian and she has been on dntv innp May 22. The daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Sorensen of Orem, Lucille Luc-ille is a recent graduate of the Lincoln high school. She received re-ceived her library training at the high school library under Thomas Cordner. Miss Sorensen reports that business at the library is good. Nearly 500 Orem residents have library cards to date, and ten or more books are checked out every ev-ery day. Children from the first to the eighth grade are the most frequent fre-quent users of the library, according acc-ording to Miss Sorensen. The greatest needs of the library lib-rary at the present time are more shelves, more books and a filing cabinet," Miss Sorensen said. "We do get a few books every ev-ery once in a while as donations from patrons, but more are needed." Th'rty books have been donated in thj?. t month. The library hours, which have been set up to best accommodate the most people are as follows: 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. on week days and 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturdays. Satur-days. The library is closed on Sundays. Plans Completed For Lehi Roundup Four big days of entertainment entertain-ment for all lovers of the great western rodeo are planned for the thousands of visitors expected ex-pected to attend the mammoth 8th annual Lehi Roundup, June 30, July 1, 2, and 3. Four big night rodeos, featuring featur-ing five major events: bronc busting, bareback riding, bull-dogging, bull-dogging, calf roping and bull riding, will find top riders of the nation contending for the $3500 prize money plus entry fees. Two famous clowns, the world-renouned Cabrells and their death defying fire act and trick riding, cavalry drills by the championship Lehi Riding club, and the lively, hard to handle, Hutchison rodeo stock will provide fun and thrills each night in the capacious Lehi rodeo bowl. Lehi's famed miniature parade, par-ade, and stock parades will precede pre-cede each night's show, and con-cesions con-cesions and rides will entertain' the younger crowds- the Stars in the - r "Vs. Mrs. Eldon Perry Pleasant View Ward Only a few credits separate her from lop place. 24, 1948 PROVO TO FETE ENTIRE STATE ON FOURTH OF JULY For many years rrovo Has es tablished a tradition for staging the outstanding July Fourth celebration cel-ebration in Utah, both from the standpoint of quality and quantity, quan-tity, and those in charge of this year's event say it will fully up- noid that tradition. Provo's main celebration will be Monday, July 5, date of the legal observance of Independence Independ-ence Day throughout the nation The city will, however, stage a public patriotic meeting at 8 p- m. Sunday, July 4, in the Provo tabernacle, at which the Rev. Arthur W. Moulton, Salt Lake City, Episcopal bishop of Utah, will be the principal speaker. A concert by the fine Mendels sohn men's chorus is also on the Sunday evening program, to be preceded by a band concert on the tabernacle grounds beginning begin-ning at 7 p.m. All Sunday evening even-ing events are free and the pub lic is welcome. A full day of events to please a varifty of tastes is scheduled for Monday, July 5, beginning at 9:30 a.m. with a street parade and ending with a gala, top quality show in the evening at the BYU stadium. In between will be children's sports at 11 a. m. in Pioneer Park, with plenty of prizes for the kids; the Inter-mountain Inter-mountain boat races at the Provo boat harbor in the afternoon, j expected to attract the speediest) boats and finest drivers from all over the intermountain area, and! a regular industrial league base ball game between the Provo , Timps and the Brigham Peaches in the Timp ball park. The usual July 4 carnival attractions at-tractions will be available to ev-. eryone. i The evening stadium show is. to feature the awarding of a 1949 Ford automobile. The per-son per-son who wins the car must bei present to receive it. At 7:45 p.m. the crack Magna1 girls' drum and bugle dorps will stage a marching demonstration to start the stadium program, i This will be followed by six high-caliber circus and vaudeville vaude-ville acts, brought in at considerable consid-erable expense from the national : circuits for the show. The greatest great-est single-night fireworks display dis-play ever staged in Central Utah will end the show. Two experts to fire the display will travel from California for this express purpose, to insure the maximum in safety and brilliance. Officials point out that a family fam-ily can enjoy a local celebration and still come to Provo in the evening for the stadium show. ( OLD FOLKS ENJOY CANYON OUTING Nearly 150 of the older folks of Orem and Sharon stakes enjoyed a pleasant day on Saturday Sat-urday at the Old Folks outing at the MIA home in Provo canyon. can-yon. I The committee from each ward took the old folks to the canyon home and served a delicious de-licious dinner. After dinner a program was presented. Favors were given to Caroline Carol-ine Burr,. the oldest lady present pres-ent and Alonzo Hancock, the oldest gentleman. Miss Joan Chadwick, American Amer-ican Fork, will reign as queen of the roundup, with Shirley Childs, Springville, and Carol ! Barilett, Provo canyon, attend-' tj- but 4 1 Mrs. Dezzie Lamb Hill Crest Ward A few long term subscriptions would put her in the lead. CLIFFORD E. YCUNG TO PRESIDE AT SHARON STAKE CONFERENCE SUNDAY Clifford E. Young Wallace Party Sets Utah Convention July 10 The Progressive Party of Utah will hold its founding convent ion in Salt Lake City Saturday, July 10, at the Syrian Hall, 1185 Richards St. The enthusiastic response of Wallace suppoiters from' all over the state indicate a history making convention for Utah, according to officers-Numerous officers-Numerous organizations, delegates, dele-gates, and persons interested in the new party are drawing up resolutions to be presented at the meeting. "These resolut- COUNCIL ADVERTISES INTENTIONS ON $60,000 CURB AND GUTTER PROJECT, ASKS FOR BIDS ON U.S. 91 PIPELINES Business conducted at last Friday's special meeting of the! Qrenv City Council besides hear-f ing the delegation protesting ; Sunday beer sales in Orem, included in-cluded a decision to call for bids on the installation of sewer sew-er and water lines under Highway High-way 91, passing of a motion to send notices of intention to property pro-perty owners whose land fronts areas where curb and gutter projects are proposed, and a decision de-cision to cooperate with the Orem Or-em Veterans Council in securing secur-ing a war memorial. Paul Innis, State Road Commission Com-mission engineer, met with the council to disccuss the widening of Highway 91 through Orem. Innis told the council the state would widen the road to 102 feet, to conform with the widths wid-ths contemplated in the proposed propos-ed curb and gutter project. He said he was certain the road commission would be responsible respons-ible for the ditches crossing the highway. The ditches paralleling parallel-ing the highway did not seem too much of a problem since most of them are back of the proposed curb and gutter location. locat-ion. Innis suggested that the city push under the highway rather than break it for the pipe crossings. James G. Stratton and Dean Park, members of the curb and gutter committee were present and were asked to take their xtitions around again and get 100 of the property owners to sign if possible through the districts designated for hard surfacing sur-facing and curb and gutter. Orem-Geneva Times Subscription Race Mr. Leonard Madsen (Santa) Vineyard Ward Leading Orem Stake. Will be hard to beat. PRICE FIVE CENTS Clifford D- Young, assistant to the Council of the Twelve, wil represent the General Authorities Auth-orities at the Sharon stake quarterly quar-terly conference set for Saturday Satur-day night and Sunday, President Henry D. Taylor anounced this week. Priesthood leadership meet ing will be held at 8 p.m. Saturday Sat-urday in the seminary building All stake and ward priesthood leaders and advisors are ex pected to atend this meeting. The first general session of the conference will be held at 10 a.m. Sunday morning in the Scera auditorium. The second general session of the conference wil be held at 2:30 p.m. Stake and general authorities au-thorities will be sustained at this sesion. The music will be furnished furn-ished by the Primary children. A roll call of all stake officers wil be taken at the afternoon session also. The Sharon stake Sunday School organization, under the direction of John M. Nicol will have charge of the program at 7:30 p.m. Sunday evening in the auditorium. ions," stated Gordon Hoxsie. chairman of the Utah Wallace for President Committee, "will be the basis for the Progressive Party platform for the November Novem-ber elections. A speaker of national remit- ation will visit Utah for this occasion and will address the convention at a special public meeting the night of July 10. The council passed a motion q adyctlise a notice ,of. intention intent-ion on the $60,000 curb and gut ter 'project, and also to advertise for bids on the construction of sewer and water pipe lines under un-der the highway before the street is widened and oiled. The notice to contractors and notice of intention are published elsewhere else-where in this isue of the Orem-Geneva Orem-Geneva Times. Julian Hansen, Ralph Schcn-ck, Schcn-ck, Jay and Clyde Kallas of the Orem Vettorans Council asked the city council to cooperate with the county commission in the purchase of Virginia Man in Orem to be used as a war memorial and civic building. The county memorial fund has been accumulating for several years and to date approximately approximate-ly $100,000 has been raised. Orem's share of this amount may be around $20,000, according accord-ing to the veterans representatives. representat-ives. Mayor J. W. Gillman sooted that Orem had levied Vz mill for 1946 and 1947 for a war memorial. This levy raised $21-00 $21-00 which has already been spent for other purposes. The council indicated that if and when the Veterans Council was in a position to make use of the money raised by the levy, the city would endeavor to make the money available. H. V. Wentz, city attorney, stated that the law would require re-quire the city to have some control con-trol over the building if city money was put into it. Mrs. Harold Baker Geneva Ward Could win if her friends support sup-port her before June 30. crucial week at HAND IN TIMES subscription race What a race! First one candidate cand-idate forges ahead, then another. The credits are breathlessly close among the first five leaders, lead-ers, Mrs. Perry, Mrs. Baker, Mrs. Lamb, Mrs. Bliss and Mr. Madsen. Mrs. Pyne, Mrs. Niel-son, Niel-son, Mrs. Newell and Mrs. Carter Car-ter are only a step behind and it is possible for any of them to take the lead before credits drop next Wednesday. Intense excitement prevails as each worker realizes a fine new Chevrolet and possibly the 500 Warrpri rs SnVdr.ing t was met with steadfast opposition by Council-grasp. Council-grasp. Each contestant is striv-!" A- A- towards and Victor Durham Councilman E. II. ing with might and main during Johnson asked for the wet-k to study the problem in more this last lap of the big vote per iod, determined to be ahead at the end. Only six more days remain until un-til credits take a nose dive of nearly 50. The big credits on subscriptions end Wednesday at midnight. After the drop it will be doubly hard tor a contestant io attain the lead. It is during the next six days that friends of he candidates and. numbers of the Wards must put their favorite over the top. Long term subscriptions help the most. If you subscribe for 10 years, you will have done everything possible to help yourljcen Canteen Set lavonte and your ward win. At the same time, you will have saved yourself $16.00. In addition addit-ion to reducing the price of a 10 year subscription $10.00, we give you two years free! Suppose you have subscribed for one or more years, pay the difference between that amount and $20.00 and "go the limit" for your candidate and your ward! "Second payments" count BIG credits and will, no doubt, play an important part in boosting boost-ing the credit totals of the con-cstants con-cstants and the wards this next ix days. Contrary to reports, there wil be no extra credits given later in the campaign. CANDIDATES: Wednesday night will lell the story to a large extent as to who is io win the fine new Chevrolet and other big prizes! It is only on-ly fair to point out to you and your friends the necessity of getting in every subscription subscript-ion possible gefore the votes drop at midnight Wednesday. The success you meet with this week means virtually winning or losing an automobile. automo-bile. It will be difficult to catch up with the leaders if you fall short this week. Hours are precious between now and Wednesday night. Work as you have never worked wor-ked before The one who sees the most people is going to get the most subscriptions. Do big things NOW1 No on has the car won and no one is hopelessly beaten. Show that you are game and have courage and fight to WIN Lack of determination and fortitude will leave you trailing trail-ing in the dust, an "also ran". Mrs. Ethel Pyne Vermont Ward Does not aspire to the car but it anxious to win for her ward. .VOLUME 1G, NUMBER 41 IRe-vote Set Friday n a j c j On Sunday Sale Of Beer in Orem's Sunday closing law for the sale of beer, revoked by the city council two weeks &go and the object of a mass meeting last Friday, will be in the limelight again Friday at the regular meeting of the city council when the council will vote on a motion by Councilman I'hilo T. Edwards to restore the Sunday closing law. The motion was made by Mr. Edwards at last week's meeting, but was tabled for a week of study. By agreement the vote will be the first order or-der of business. The motion made last Friday and seconded by Councilman Council-man Woodruff Jensen followed a stormy public protest ueuui. j-uayor j. v. unimaii, wno voicea opposition to ine earlier action of the council in revoking the ordinance, does not vote except in the case of a tie. A strong demonstration of public indignation at the action of the council in revoking the Sunday beer closing ordimmcc was niiHiu hi me cny nan m- day night when nearly 200 fill HU.t.llS IJlIUIljC'U II1U M.j)! and front yard of the building in mass protest. Inasmuch as the council's chambers were too small to accomodate ac-comodate such a large crowd the council was asked to come to the steps of the city hall to For Grand Opening On Tuesday Night Following months of work heard from some members of and planning, Orem's Teen Can- he croWo but calmer treat-teen treat-teen will hold its grand open-mont vvas advised by others, ing at 7 p.m. Tuesday night in the Lincoln high school gym- The crowd, realizing that nasium. Marta Black, president i nothing was being aconiplished of the canteen announced today Offering a variety of recreational recreat-ional activities such as table tennis, - badminton, - miniature bowling, all kinds of table li-imes, dancing, etc., the Teen Canteen is expected to attract a largo group of teen-agers from the Orem area. beer sales and that the operation Officers of the canteen in- of beer parlors, especially on elude the following: Marta Sunday, was demoralizing to Black, president; Grant Holda- young people who have expressway, express-way, vice president; and Coll- ed their desire to have them een Rice and Jerry Peters, coun-' closed. s,'1Iors' Bishop C. W. Larsen asked in Although the canteen will be connection with the Burr Tav-opened Tav-opened initially at the Lincoln ern what legal acfion would be gymn, it will be moved to a nocesary to have it closed alto-room alto-room in the new wing of the gether. Mayor J. W, Gill'mr, high school soon to be complet-j informed him that a forml ed- ' 1 complaint containing specific Membership .rards, available references to persons, dates and at the door, will cost $1.00 per actual violations of the stand-year, stand-year, entitling the holder to ards of decency would have to use of the canteen facilities be filed with the Orem City from 7 p.m. to 10:30 p.m. on judge. When such complaint Tuesdays, Thursdays and Satur-' 6hould be filed the city at-days, at-days, when the Teen Canteen torney has been instructed to will be open. A charge or 10 t0ke immediate action, the May. cents per evening will be made 0r stated for non-members. . Winiam Vernon and E E Teen Canteen advisors in- Twitchen said that the group elude Victor C Anderson Par- wanted u work wUh lhe CQUIV lell Peterson and Stanley Gunn. cil Bnd not ,nst jt A1 fhat NEW USED CAR SALES LOT IN OREM Announcement was made this week by Claude Robbins, operator of "Claude's Best Cars" used car sales lot in Utah county, that he will open an es tablishment on the vacant cor- ncr inrncuiaieiy poum oi f am s cafe on the corner of State canyon road. reports that he street and the Mr. Robbins -4;. Mrd. Blanche Nielson Windsor Ward Coming up fast in the race may surprise everyone. MBICULTUOI ' INDUSTRY "VJ Orem hcar tllfi protests David Eager,' spokesman for the dt,lcgation appcaicd or a ban on Sunday beer sale Or-(genrral christian principals. on Councilman Richards, who introduced in-troduced the motion to revoke the Sunday beer closing ordinance, ordin-ance, was asked to answer questions ques-tions of the crowd. Defending his action, Richards stated that he believed that if the law were taken to the Supreme Court it would be found unconstitutional. unconstitution-al. Angry memberr of the crowd shouted that he was voting his own convictions and not tho of the majority of the pcopl. - Cries of "impeachment" were' by the mass demonstration, chose 11 representatives of the grou.) to meet with the council in its chambers to discuss ..the matter. M. Dover Hunt told the coun. cil that the majority of the pco- pie were against the Sunday they felt the majority of Orem ciizens did not want b-er sold on Sunday. Mrs. Charles I. Moon declared that tke high standards of ha community had been lowered and Orem is not now consider- nrl ace hinlilv n n attA rnna in u:i will buy and sell used cars on j the lot and have a - man on the site at all times. j Mrs. Delta Newell Sharon Ward Doing splendid work, expects to make real headway this week. i tl |