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Show OREM-CENEVA TIMES THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1951 LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS No'ice is hereby given that Orem City, a municipal corporation, corpor-ation, will receive sealed bids for the construction of a hard-surfaced hard-surfaced street on Eighth East Street beginning at a point known as Eighth South Street and running South to Seventeenth Seven-teenth South Street in Orem, Utah, a distance of approximately' approximate-ly' 5,740 feet. , That the said construction shall consist of the laying of a hard-surface for a width of twenty feet with between three and four inches of oil mulch, consisting of oil SC 3 mixed wth gravel, sealed with a coat of oil, and covered with a coat of clean, washed gravel chips, eaid process commonly known as oil mulch road mix. Said sealed bids will be received re-ceived until 10:00 o'clock am. on the 10th day of September, 1951, at Orem City Hall, at which time all bids will be op ened and publicly read aloud In Room 1 at the Orem City Hall, Orem City, Utah. Each bid to be in accordance with the plans, profiles, and specifications and other contract documents now on file with the City Recorder Orland E. Pyne at Orem City Hall, Orem, Utah, end at the office of L. V. Beck-man, Beck-man, City Engineer, at Orem aty Hall, Orem, Utah. Copies of the documents may be obtained by depositing $5.00 with the City Recorder Orland E. Pyne or L. V. Beckman, Engineer, En-gineer, for each set of contract documents so obtained. The amount of the deposit will be refunded to each bidder or intended in-tended bider who returns such set of plans and documents in good condition within five (5) days after the opening of bids. Each bid shall be made out on a bid form to be obtained from the Orem City Recorder or Orem City Engineer and shall be accompanied ac-companied by a certified or Cashier's check payable to Orem Or-em City or a satisfactory bid bond in favor of Orem City executed ex-ecuted by the bidder and a surety sur-ety company in an amount equal to 5 percent of the bid. The said checK or bond shall be given as a guarantee that the bidder will execute the contract In conformity with the Form of Contract included in the contract con-tract documents and furnish bonds as specified within five (5) days after sotification of the award of the contract to the bidder. Orem City reserves the right to reject any and all bids or waive any informalities in the bidding. No bidder may withdraw his bid for a period of thirty (30) days after the date set for the opening thereof. Orem City Corporation By J. W. Gilman, Mayor Dated this 6th day of August, 1951. Published Aug. 9, 16, 23, 30, Sept. 6, 1951. i:ov? 0FEII A SAVINGS ACCOUNT COW! AT UTAH SAVINGS And ret your FBEB lovely Sheaffer Pea or Pencil Mi 125.00 Entitle Ion to Either a Pen or Pencil If your account is opened with $50.00 or more you art entitled to a complete set. 1. Currant Dividend rat x 00 Compounded Semi-annually wO 2. Yea art Invittd to add to your tavlngs Account any amount any Hm. 3. Yew can add to or withdraw your saving account at any Km. 4. 31 yoara of continuous operation. OVIZ ONE THOUSAND TWO HUNDRED FAMILIES SAVE REGULARLY AT AND LOAN ASSOCIATION A saving Institution 172 WEST CENTER PROVO SAVL'G3 ACCOUNTS INVITED IN ANY AMOUNT SI. CO to $25,000 Mcr-her United States Saving! and Loan League. Approved Mcr:-.agee Federal Housing Administration and Veterans Ad- mirmiratlon. Male Fireflies erry the Torch For Lesser Sex WASHINGTON, D.C. The firefly season is in full swing, and welcome to millions of Americans is the gentle, lamptotlng beetle which brightens warm summer nights. East of the Rockies along a wide, populous band centered on the 40th parallel, each year brings a rare to see which arrives first the first day of June or the earliest "lightning "light-ning bugs." Millions have marveled at the firefly and Its strange, cold light. Few, however, know that those on the wing are males signaling to flightless females among the blade' of grass. Flashes by the grounded sex answer the airborne glimmers at intervals precise to the split second, sec-ond, Frederick G. Vosburgh writes in the National Geographic Magazine. Maga-zine. 1,500 Species Like lovers everywhere, Vosburgh observes, fireflies are vulnerable to jest. Shine a small flashlight from aloft in Imitation of the male beetle's signal and you may get an answer from a female in her bower. Or, from the grass, flash an answer to an aerial spark at the proper ladylike interval, and down comes the male to your mating beacon and perhaps a few of his rivals too. Science knows more than 1,500 species of the firefly-family Lampy-ridae Lampy-ridae each with its own system of signals. The common firefly of the eastern United States fashes at intervals in-tervals of about six seconds, usually usual-ly on a short, rising flight Codes of some other kinds suggest series of dots and dashes. England knows the glowworm, as the female and larva are called, but its flying males are virtually firelcss. The same is true of northern north-ern Europe and our own far West. There are firelcss species east of the Rockies as well as those that flash. "Fire beetles" that sustain their light for minutes at a time serve as lamps and party jewels in the American Tropics. The Japanese Japan-ese collect fireflies to brighten night festivities. Sparking In Unison Rhythmic flashing of firefly legions has been reported by observers ob-servers in southeast Asia for two centuries. What lr- 'sible cheerleader cheer-leader they follow remains their own secret, Vosbtir h comments Scientists give this explanation as to why our own firefl.es sometimes flash in unison over a half-acre area: A male gets a res- e from a female, and other n. j near by wink back, taking their cue from her or from the male who found her first. Their lights together are enough to stimulate another female several yards away. Males near her then answer with one accord, a third female responds, and the chain reaction is on.. Firefly light, scientists calculate, has a usual strength of one 400th candlepower. Cold light of this kind can be produced in the laboratory lab-oratory by oxidation of certain chemical substances, but only at a cost that bars it from practical use. A FINELINE SHEAFFER FEU Or FEIICIL Or Both Atomic Probers foiling India's Monazife Sends WASHINGTON, D.C. - "A place where the goddess of prosperity dwells" may soon become a true description de-scription of Travancore, the region of India whose name means Just that. For a hundred miles along the Arabian Sea, Travancore's beach sands are rich in monazite, a source of potentially fissionable thorium for atomic energy. This mineral is so greatly in demand in the United Unit-ed States that attempts were made in Congress to require shipments of monazite as part payment, for the recently approved $190,000,000 wheat loan to India. Travancore is situated at the southern tip of India's Malabar Coast and is a favorite vacation land. Shut off from the rest of the Indian peninsula by a chain of mountainous Jungles, the Western Ghats, the State is crisscrossed by dozens of rivers, lakes and canals and has many good natural harbors. har-bors. Trade Started Early The ancient Phoenicians were probably the first traders to come to Travancore. They were followed by merchantmen of Greece and Rome. In modern times traders from Portugal, the Netherlands and England competed for the copra, teakwood and coir(rope produced in this fertile region." Under the Rep blic of India's 1949 Constitution, Travancore is now merged with Cochin, a smaller state to the north. The 39-year old Maharaja Maha-raja of Travancore. Bala Rama Varma, Is titular ruler of the combined com-bined area, which has more than nine million inhabitants. Deposits of monazite were discovered dis-covered near the town of Colachel about 1907 and an extracting plant was established. At that time Brazil was the world's only large-scale exporter ex-porter of the mineral. The beach sands and dunes were worked at Colachel by a sluicing operation similar to the washing of gold. Grains of monazite were then separated electromagnetically from the associated zircon and ilmenite. The product was shipped to Hamburg and until 1934 Travancore's Travan-core's monazite, representing 75 per cent of the world's supply, was controlled con-trolled by Germans. Originally, the thorium extracted from monazite was used in the manufacture man-ufacture of incandescent gas mantles. man-tles. After World War I, the decline in gas lighting fixtures brought a halt to monazite mining. Another mineral, ilmenite, which Is present also In the Travancore sands, was found to be valuable in paint manufacture, manu-facture, and production switched to ilmenite. Atom Researchers Want Monazite The U.S. Atomic Energy Commission Commis-sion in 1946 listed thorium as a potential source of fissionable material, ma-terial, although its usefulness at that time was said to be limited to research. In April, 1946, India placed an embargo on the export of monazite sands, and the Indian Atomic Energy En-ergy Commission, created in 1948, later authorized the construction of a factory for production of thorium at the town of Alwaye. Monazite has been found In the Urals, Siberia, Finland, the United States, Brazil, Colombia, New South Wales and Quebec. Small quantities have been taken from North Carolina Caro-lina and Florida. O The children and grand children of Mrs. Ivern Fyne met at North Park for a picnic supper. sup-per. Those present besides Mrs. Pyne were Mr. and Mrs. Sam Pyne and children, Mr. and Mrs. Orland Pyne and children, Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Bellows and children, Mr. and Mrs. James Jensen and family, Mr. and Hrs. Carl Rowley and family and Mrs. Martha Cutler and children of Phoenix, Arixona. D9BD HOLIDAY on ICEI GREAT CIRCUS! Grand NEW MIDWAY! More Exhibits Than Ever! MINING EXHIBITS) INDUSTRIAL EXHIBITS) MISS UTAH CONTEST) SALT IAKS SHARON Conducted by Roseltha Vernon Sharon residents arc invited to cal 0757-J1 with persona items and oth r new. The Orem stake presidency have called a special ward conference con-ference for next Sunday, Sept. 9. All ward members are urged to be present as important matters mat-ters will be discussed. The infant son of Mr. and Mrs. Dougas Hawkins was blessed by his grandfather, Roland Harding, Hard-ing, at fast meeting at given the name Roland Jerrerie, Aaron Dickey was ordained an Elder Sunday by his father, Aian uicney. Aaron is nome on i furlough and will soon return to ! his base in Alaska. . Sunday evening services were under the direction of the ward genealogical committee , with Mr. and Mrs. Robert Lawrence directing the program. Participating Partici-pating were Mrs. Sadie Elder, Mrs. Myrtle Rowley, Mrs. Evelyn Eve-lyn Lawrence, Elon Smith, Garth Wilkinson and Mr. and Mrs. Reed Rowley. Raymond Harding of the stake high council coun-cil was present. The opening MIA social will be held Sept. 11. A good pro gram has been arranged and games and refreshments will be enjoyed. Officers for the coming year are Joy Hadlock, president. Joy Hancock and Gene Mitchell, counselors. Garth Wilkinson, superintendent; Francis Simpson and Wayne Gabbitas, counselors. School days often mean lunch-box lunch-box packing days. Sandwiches, of course, are the mainstay of the lunch-box, and be cause mothers are interested in nutrition as well as economy, econ-omy, I would like to suggest a few tasty fillings: fill-ings: Cream cheese with crumbled orisTi bacon or Marie Kiefer chopped olives. Liverwurst mixed with chopped hard cooked eggs. Chopped chicken and walnuts, moistened with mayonnaise. This year chicken will be more plentiful than in previous years, so for a treat you can provide sliced chicken sandwiches or chicken salad for several members of the family at a minimum cost. If the man of the house carries bis lunch, he'll enjoy these selections, too. Crisp carrot sticks, whole tomatoes toma-toes or fresh fruit add interesting texture contrast to the lunch-box. They'll stay crisp if you wrap them separately in waxed paper. It's wise to avoid monotony in the lunch-box. Vary the sandwich fillings frequently and also the fruits and cookies so that the children chil-dren as well as the men in the family will look forward to lunch-time. lunch-time. Youngsters need a good appetizing ap-petizing lunch to give them the necessary energy for study and play. Mothers can speed lunch-box packing by arranging a lunch-box "corner" in the kitchen, with a shelf reserved for paper napkins, cups and waxed paper. Keep the bread board, slicing knife and cookie jar nearby. Use small wide-mouthed jars with screw tops for fruit sauces, salads and "spillable" foods. Sandwiches should be wrapped individually in waxed paper and placed on edge in the lunch-box to prevent crushing. If you would like to have an Autumn "Harvest of Good Recipes" free, write to me at National Association Asso-ciation of Retail Grocers, 360 N. Michigan Ave., Chicago 1, Illinois. Put $1000 of 4-Way Life Protection in Force for Lft me ifcow you Vo- ttt V-. V r t , - '. r " V - 7 4 IcUo MutuJ Ben'' Anocii ,n potcy wdl mvt yw o ALL youi . (unify at wonrrfu! Mving. Stanley J. Finch PHONE 0863 Rl RFD 1 BOX 331 OREM Scientist Studies Region of First Landing in America WASHINGTON, D.C.-Archeology and ethnology of the region where Columbus made his first landing on the mainland of the Americas in 1502 has been studied intensively during the past six months by a joint Smithsonian Institution National Nation-al Georgraphic Society expedition led by Dr. Matthew W. Stirling, director di-rector of the Bureau of American Ethnology. The country concerned is northwestern north-western Panama and contains the drainage system of three rivers between be-tween the Canal Zone and Costa Rica. Largely because it is a land of dense rain forests and is quite difficult of access, the region has remained almost unknown to anthropologists; an-thropologists; little has been written writ-ten of its people since Columbus' original description. By and large, Dr. Stirling, who was accompanied by Mrs. Stirling, was able to confirm the observations observa-tions of Columbus, although the great navigator may have exag gerated a trifle when he wrote of Indians wearing plentiful gold ornaments. orna-ments. Stirling found none of these. The Spaniards were impressed by the fact that these Indians did not live in fairly large settlements, as did those with whom they had been in contact before in the West Indies, but in isolated huts In the forest. Dr. Stirling did not find any village sites but plenty of single house sites, which were excavated. From the Atlantic coast the country coun-try is extremely difficult to enter. There are no harbors. The rivers empty into the sea between beaches beach-es and high, rocky cliffs. Small banana boats anchor a mile off shore and natives bring out their produce through the surf in dugout canoes. It is possible to enter on foot over high mountain trails from the Pacific side much the safest and easiest way. At the mouths of each of the three rivers virited, the Rio Salud, Rio Indio, and Rio Code' del Norte, there are small Negro settlements. The Indian . inhabitants are encountered en-countered fc.t i miles up these streams, sd pr.-etically all their contact with civilization is across the mountains. KELSCH'S COMPLETE SHOE FOOT SERVICE AT BOOTERIE 158 WEST CENTER TELEPHONE 707 Provo, Utah Tailoring CUYLER'S SHOP 447 North 2nd West, Ptoto Phone 2276 R Guaranteed Satisfaction Expert advice in Styling. Alterations Remodeling Men's, ladies suits and coals made to order. Ladies smtri suits out of men's. Dresses, formala and trousseaus. M15 ILjfrmUL: ISIife lX) l3fe No sir, you don't have to worry about shortage short-age of farm hands when you put electricity to work. A bey can do several men's work, with low-cost low-cost electricity's help. Farm residential rates on our interconnected system are the same as in the city 24 below the national average. w ' " . .i.v . . . State Fair Exhibit Shows Methods to Conserve Soil Profitable control of damaging damag-ing soil and water losses comprise com-prise exhibits occupying 135 feet of frontage, secured from the U. S. Department of Agriculture Agric-ulture for the Utah State Fair, Salt Lake City, September 15 to 23. J. A. Theobald is secretary-manager. secretary-manager. Loss of productive soil, as pointed out in the exhibit, concerns con-cerns everyone. A model of a magnified section of topsoil most injured by erosion shows that this layer contains in greatest abundance the elements need ed by plants to make a good growth. Eroded land, deficient in minerals and other elements, may produce deficient crops which in turn affect the live stock which live on the crops, and in some cases the people who eat food raised on that land. First step is to "know your land" and its weak spots, which is covered in the exhibit with a special motion picture in sound color. With such knowledge as a start, conversation measures are applied to promote better farming methods which save time, labcr. machinery, fuel and fertiLzers. Basic facts and methods meth-ods of land and water conservation conserva-tion are set forth by enlarged photographs and attractive color col-or displays. Conservation problems often require community or area-wide action for solution. The Soil Conservation District provides an organization for such action. Despite all such efforts, only eleven percent of the soil subject sub-ject to erosion is now protected- Also included in this group is a watershed exhibit. Models and animated features in this exhibit show that a large proportion of the water available comes from moustain watersheds, which can be protected by careful grazing and forest cutting, thus insuring 1 a continuing supply of clear water. Visitors will be able to secure copies of available bulletim of the department and get suggestions suggest-ions as to further sources. Phone for 1-visit loan. Writt or phone for loan by mail. Come in. Get cash in persoil ii EMPLOYED WOKEN Married or ilngle yon can got cash her promptly. Use our Special Lunch Hour Service! Phono first and get the loan in on visit Get it your way and fast Loans $25 to $1000- FINANCE CO.eJ 2nd FI., Knight Block 13 EAST CENTER STREET Provo, Utah Phone: 621 T. H. Ceput, YES MANoger leans tmr 300 mdi by Personal Industrial Loaa Corp. loom nada ta rtsidents of all nrrraidinf ton "SUV- A ir ul 1 f - . " $ ,1 ,r 1 - r MOUSE WITH TWO TALES. . . Prince All Khan (2nd from lefti sports black eye for Doris Duke and ex-hubby (right). Reporters say be cast too many looks at a married woman. lie says he M sparring with a trainer. Mrs- Martha Cutler and children returned to their home in Phoenix after visiting with relatives and friends in Orem. Crippled War Vet Hopes For Wheel Chair Vacation LONG BEACH, Calif. A crippled war veteran from Tennessee, here for a checkup, Intends to prove to the people that "paraplegics can't be counted out until they are dead." The 30-year-old veteran served in the infantry for almost five years without receiving a wound and was injured in a tractor accident on a farm in Tennessee. He once hitchhiked hitch-hiked from his home in Monterrey, Tenn., to Venice, California, where he now lives. The trip was so easy he did it three times, in fact. He intends to cross the country after his checkup, rolling his wheel chair "just to show people that we are not helpless." Reading Daviess Donated To Milwaukee Vets Home MILWAUKEE, Wis.- - To help speed the recovry of tubercular comrades, the Army and Navy Union has donated to the sold.er's home here four devices to let them read without moving. Operating on a magic lantern principle, they project book pages on the ceiling above the patient's head. The only physical movement needed is the pressing of a button that automatically turns the pages of the book the patient is reading. The devices are intended for patients pa-tients encased in iron lungs. IT'S HERE! IT'S its the McCormick FARQALL SUPER C it's superior J ways! It's a revelation in easy hand- Get the feel of LTVE pow-ling pow-ling power to spare perfor- f SUPER-EASY driving. , , , . of BALANCED weight and mance - fuel metenng econ- us for a demon- omy. It's FIRST IN THE stration See for yoursaH FIELD. Has best BALANCE why the new Farmall Super between power and weight C is your best value In a for 2-row, 2-plow "get up and plow tractor. It's built stronr go." Solves your power prob- er to work years and years lems, for years and years. longer. . More Power! More Pep! . More Pull! ASK US FOR A DEMONSTRATION cm 615 East State Road Phone 342 American; Fork 241 West Center Phone 343 Provo t 4 Utah U. Expects Heavy Fall Quarter Enrollment University of Utah instruct-pnal instruct-pnal staffs are perparing fc. another heavy enrollment Fatt quarter, despite the draft and Korean conflict Many of the high school students stu-dents who will register as freshmen fresh-men Sept. 22 will be preparinr themselves either for the military milit-ary or for essential civilian skills, it was pointed out by Dr A. Ray Olpin, university presl ident. The university offers training courses in three military branches air, naval and military milit-ary science. Two new training sequences were added this year to the Air Science curriculum, including one of basic preparation prepara-tion to a career as pilot in the Air Force. New students or those who were not registered spring or full summer quarter should file credentials and applications immediately, im-mediately, said Registrar Joseph A Norton. Registration permits are sent to applicants whose credentials are satisfactory and who can be reached by mail before registration regist-ration day. Permits not mailed are available at the registrar's office in the Park Building. Final dates for taking entrance en-trance tests are Sent. 15. ensin- ; eer aptitude; Sept. 17, entrance esis ior iresnmen entering tail quarter; Sept. 18, chemistry placement test, and Sept. 19, modern language and biology placement tests HEW! IT'S SUPER! i ; s i |