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Show I TOM urn ftCCREATtON THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1949 VOLUME 17, NUMBER 7 PRIOC FIVE CENTS MtlCUUTuDI INDUSTRY, 1 ! ' " ' ' " " Miss Norma Wagstaff. daughter of Mr. and Mrs. D. W. Wagstaff, was crowned queen of.lhe Sweetheart Ball of the Vermont ward, held at the Sharon hall on Feb. 7. The outstanding mi-formal mi-formal social was attended by more that 150 and had as its theme Lavender Blue which was carried out in the decorating scheme. Arranging the lovely affair were the Junior Girls and Senior Scouts, with their advisors, Mrs. Herbert Stratton and Oliver Johnson. From left to right the group above includes Wanda Pace, attendant, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Pace; Ila Mae Allen, attendant, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Owen Allen; Patricia La-Mond, La-Mond, attendant, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Elliot Newell; Janice Stratton, crown bearer, daughter daught-er of Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Sxraiion; Lorus Johnson, crowning the queen, son of Mr. and Mrs. tiMar Johnson; Queen Norma; Geralee Swan, attendant, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Swan; and Mrs. Herbert Stratton. Photo by Wendell Locke MAYOR GETS ACKI107LEDGEI.',EIIT OF FIEF Sllln 'EIIT SENT BY OREM TO ADOPTED CITY OF KOLYMDROS, GREECE Doubts of many Orem people that the relief shipment collected here over a year ago. and sent to Orem's 'adopted' city of Kolyndros, Greece, would never reach its destination intact were dispelled this week with the receipt here of a letter dated December 30, 1948 from the mayor of Kolyndros thanking the people of Orem for their generosity. The belated letter of acknoledgement was accompanied by a letter from the Greek War Relief Association which handled hand-led the shipment from New York, telling of the difficulties involved in finally delivering the shipment to Kolyridros. The letters, both received by Mayor J. W. Gillman, follow: Letter from Greek War Relief Group Dear Mayor Gillman: We received today the enclosed enclos-ed translation of a letter to you from the Mayor of Kolyndros. The reason y'iy this aknow- ledgement reaches you a year aftr vour collection will, I be lieve, be a very revealing story of the many problems in relief operations in destroyed Greece-I Greece-I hope you will give this story to your community for it is very important that the generous people of Orem who sacrificed to make a contribution to Greece, realize that thenr con tribution brought encourage-and encourage-and help to people who have suffered greatly. The supplies from Orem reached us on January 19 and were shipped to Greece early in February, arriving there the first of March. We had ordered shipment direct to Salonica which would have greatly expedited ex-pedited delivery to Kolyndros. Unfortunately harbor conditions at Balonica necessitated delivery at Piraeus. It took an additional three weeks to unload and clear the supplies through customs and then there was the delay of arranging ar-ranging transhipment to Salonica. Salon-ica. In the United States this comparitively short run would at most be a two day operation but in Greece it may take from a week to two weeks because of Poor road conditions and be cause the communist guerrilla activities close the roads frequently. fre-quently. The supplies finally reached Salonica in May and by this time the spring offensive of the communist groups had isolated the Kolyndros area and no transport was permitted on the roads. The supplies and our welfare worker reached Kolyndros in July and the distribution was niade at a time when the community com-munity was desperately in need assistance. An acknowledgement acknowledge-ment should have gone to you then but our representative did not under stand that we wanted reply to go directely from the Mayor to you. Shortly after the distribution Kolyndros was a-gain a-gain isolated and hence the long letter yUr receipt of thU I have gone into considerable etail in this letter because I want you to undrstand the aitu- ation fully. I know that the gen- I Letter from Mayor of Kolyndros Dear Mayor, On behalf of the people of my community I wish to express to you and through you to the peo- of Oren rur deepest grati tude and appreciation for your.visited at the home of Mr. and generosity and your great donation don-ation of clothing, foodstuffs and shoes that have been sent to our community. Your donation came to us at a moment when we were so much in need of it. Through the years of occupation we suffered very much and now that all the world enjoys peace and tranquility tran-quility we still have to protect our lives and property from communist guerillas who wish to devastate whatever they find on their way. Through the assistance and guidance of the Services of the Salonica Office of Greek War Relief Association, we made an equitable and just distribution of the clothing and foodstuffs that were sent to us- Our Community includes 'a-bout 'a-bout 5,500 inhabitants. In order that the clothing be given mainly main-ly to families that most needed it, we established a committee composed of the priest, the teacher, a welfare Service man, a prominent citizen and myself. I cannot really import to you the feeling of joy and happiness that was given to the people of my community and to the cnild-ren cnild-ren because of your esteemed generosity. May God keep you always healthy and prospering as you deserve it, when your prosperity prosper-ity is interrupted by such high and noble sentiments- Again, I wish to thank you and the people of Orem and es pecially those that took so many pains to gather these eoods and to wish you once more all happiness in the world and a joyous and prosperous New Year. With deep appreciation and gratitude. I remain, The President of the town of Kolyndros Vasil Kompselides erous and understanding people of your community will appreciate apprec-iate the difficulties that beset this shipment and rejoice, as we do, that it reached its destination destin-ation and fulfilled its purpose. Cinoorelv VOUTS. I w nroo vanthakv. Executive Vice President Greek War Re-' lief Association. I It" ih Mrs. Thomas J. Weaver returned home this week after spending six weeks in Grand Junction, Colorado, with her mother, Mrs. E- C. Rider. Mrs-Weaver Mrs-Weaver was taken ill with a light case of pneumonia and thought it best to return home- Sharon Stake Relief Soc iety union meeting will be held on Sunday at 2 p.m. in the Pleasant View church. There will be no classes for the choristers, chor-isters, o r g a ni s ts, secretaries, isters, organists, work and business, bus-iness, secretaries and magazine agents. Mrs. Jim Twitchell is visiting vis-iting with her daughter, Mrs. Clifton Larsen. Mrs. Twitchell is from Richfield, Utah, and is planning on visiting here for three weeks. Several, out-of-town guess Mrs. Ted Sorenson after the funeral of Mrs- Sorenson's f a th- er, Alma Peck. Among them were Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Ken- dall Victor Wood and Elroy Lindsey, all of Salt Lake City; Mrs- Myres, Bingham; Mrs. Kendall, Copperton; Mrs. Dru-cella Dru-cella Thomas and son Reece, Park City and Mrs. Lola Geff-erson, Geff-erson, Spanish Fork. Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Green spent the weekend , in Murray visiting with their son and his family, Mr. and Mrs- Clayton Green. Bill Baker, Warren Salmon Sal-mon and Tom Malone of the Orem Chamber of Commerce spent last Thursday . in Salt Lake City where they conferred with legislators regarding the proposed bill which would restrict re-strict drug store sales on Sundays. Sun-days. They talked with Senator B- M. Jolley, Senator McShane and with Governor J. Bracken Lee. CITIZENS COMMITTEE SUPPORT Oil ZOIIIIIG A citizens committee of Orem residents this week was canvassing can-vassing State Street to secure backing for a proposal which would re-zone the street to limit lim-it business establishments to four areas along the highway. The group declared that they would present their proposal to the chamber of commerce at the meeting of that group Friday Fri-day and ask that group to back the project. The proposal provides that limited t0 the areas between the city limits and 16th South; between 10th South and 7th South; between 2nd South and 1st North; and between 6th North; and 9th North. In a bill of particulars prepared pre-pared by the group it Is provided provid-ed that as soon as these areas were 80 percent built up' the city government would be em- powered to add necessary front- age to accomodate expansion. City Spends $2500 on Snow Removal in Six Weeks "Over $2,500 has been spent clearing Orem roads of snow and ice during the past six weeks," announced Mayor J. W. Gillman at Wednesday night's meeting of the Orem City Council. Mayor Gillman read a partially complete itemization itemizat-ion of expenses incurred by the city for the operation of city-owned road equipment and the hiring of private equipment equip-ment needed to clear the unusually heavy snow from the streets. The mayor said that although the cost of snow removing re-moving was considerably more than anticipated earlier in the year, it was reasonable in view of Orem's sixty-odd miles of roads. " Rulon West appeared before the council on behalf of a group of Orem businessmen, asking consideration in the cost of licensing lic-ensing amusement devices. Following Fol-lowing a discussion by the council, coun-cil, a motion was passed setting the license on each amusemnt device at $25.00. Leonard Walker, Kenneth Gillman and Mr. Swenson of the,Lindon Town Board met with the council to discuss the Lindon school fire and the upkeep up-keep of the road owned jointly by Orem and Lindon on the city boundary line. Mr. Walker told the council that the State statutes stat-utes make school districts responsible res-ponsible for their own fire protection, pro-tection, and that inasmuch as the janitor at the Lindon school called the Orem fire department for aid in combating the school fire, the Alpine School District should be liable for any expenses expens-es connected with fighting the fire. Mayor Gillman told the Lindon Lin-don representatives that all the maintenance work on the road owned jointly by Orem and Lindon Lin-don had been done by Orem's road department during the last three years. He said that the road needed graveling to keep it passable and suggested that an agreement be reached between be-tween Orem and Lindon concerning con-cerning the graveling and maintaining main-taining of the road. The Lindon Town Board members agreed that work was needed ori the road and suggested that Orem and Lindon divide the responsibility respon-sibility in connection with the road. Councilman E. H. Johnson presented bids he had obtained from several automobile companies com-panies on the purchase of a new U""1 ''n the police de- partment, replacing an older model. Cnnnnilmnn .Tnhncnn nnH Councilman Vic Durham were authorizezd to investigate the bids further. Jaycee Campaign Takes to Air on KOVO Saturday "Build Orem"! will be the theme of a radio broadcast over KOVO at 5 p.m. Saturday on which outstanning Orem person alities will discuss the better business campaign currently be ing conducted by the Orem Junior Jun-ior Chamber of Commerce, ac cording to Don Swan, chairman of the campaign. Bill Baker, Orem Chamber of Commerce president; Vic Dur ham, Orem City Councilman;; Victor C. Anderson, Alpine School Board member; and Mr, Swan will participate in the program. Residents of the Orem-Gen-eva area are invited to listen to this program which vitally concerns con-cerns them. SEEKS PROGRAM It shows that the plan would cut the present available business busi-ness frontage by 70 percent, thus concentrating all new busi ness nouses. The statement indicates that such an arrangement would make possible the securing of capital for investment in new homes adjacent to the shopping districts. It is now impossible, according to the prepared statement, state-ment, to interest outside capital in financing either business or homes in Orem. The statement indicates that property owners outside the proposed business area would not suffer because increased growth of the city would increased in-creased growth of the city would increase the value of their land as residential . property. pro-perty. The proposal provides that the zoning matter should be made the issue in a referendum vote. 20th North to 20th South By O. G. Semit Do you recognize the investment invest-ment you have in your home? Do you appreciate the conveniences conven-iences you have, i.e. city water, sewer, roads, protection, garbage, gar-bage, etc. It is true that you are unusually well off- Yet all these cost money. Who pays for them? You and I, along with the merchants of the city foot the bill, with the merchants mer-chants paying the greater portion. por-tion. It is therefore to your and my benefit to see that the merchant mer-chant continues to operate his business, or we might be left alone with the burden of paying for these conveniences and services. ser-vices. Let us all patronize the Orem merchants. Every time we get a new business in our community it helps you and me by sharing part of our tax load. We are all pioneers in the building of this city, and we must cooperate in making Orem a city. If we do not Orem will become a suburb of a city and the problems of another city will be ours as well as those we have now. Let us all realize our problems, prob-lems, and cooperate. Let us be come indignant when they say we are "Provo Bench." Let us make this the largest city in Utah County. "You can get in Orem" "Ask your Orem merchant." Let those be your shopping watthwords. MAIL BAG Dear Mr- Semit: Who's kidding who. anyway? Would Bill Baker be willing to pay the extra tax load (his share of course) to fulfill his dream child? (Moving the State capitol to Orem). We're short of hous ing now. Where would all the politicians live? While Bill and I are dream ing why not go a little farther? Wouldn't it be swell of we could forget our petty pealous- ies and thought of personal gain long enough to get together and do this area some good? It is a foreeone conclusion that no manufacturing plants can locate here until adequate housing is provided. What do we do to help the situation? We boost the price of land to a price, that if we had the best of progress we might reach that valuation by 1970. If Orem land owners would get together the available facilities fac-ilities and build 1000 homes each year for the coming five years we would take up a little slack in the much-needed home facilities. facil-ities. This would increase the tax income to the city so that our officials might have some hope, of accomplishing some of the things needed in a fast growing grow-ing community. ' If we try to get city facilities faster than our growtn we are putting the cart before the horse and retarding our growth with high taxes. This building 'program Is no dream! There is lots of land, plenty of labor if we kept it in Orem, and it would actually take very little Orem capital. If we haven't enough faith in our city to take a little risk how can we expect outsiders to come here and do it for us? Only large profits induce them to do so and the high prices of land bowls them over before they start. Anyway, why let outsiders make the profits to take away? Let's get together and keep it in Orem Chadwick Mr. and Mrs. Samuel E. Bench have their grandchildren, Blair and Newell Bench, visiting visit-ing with them from Ogden-Blair Ogden-Blair and Newell are the sons of Mr. and Mrs. Marian Bench of Ogden. buy at iio:.:e FilOGRAM LAUGHED BY JAYGEES Orem Jaycees this week began be-gan their community program aimed at making Orem city the shopping headquarters for Orem residents. In a long-term and far-reaching project of promotion, pro-motion, the Jaycees hope to tiot only encourage local pcop.e to shop at home, but to embark upon up-on a business improvement program pro-gram among local merchants which will provide Orem shoppers shop-pers with improved stocks of merchandise at prices which are competitive with outside merchants. mer-chants. Improvements of merchandising mer-chandising facilities and services ser-vices will also be encouraged- First in a series of cooperative coopera-tive advertisements appears in the Orem-Geneva Times today. Planned for the near future are a series of Saturday Bargain Day events aimed at convincing Orem people that they can save time and money by shopping at home. The campaign includes ..he use of radio time and the sponsoring spon-soring of contest work in schools. Prize essays on the benefits ben-efits derived by shopping at home will be published and their writers given attractive prizes. Heading the Jaycee committee com-mittee in the campaign is Don Swan. SI s 1 V- : i I k i l I Lila Mae McDonald, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lyle McDonald, McDon-ald, who is among 41 students at BYU named as outstanding personalities at elections held by the students in connection with the Banyan, student year book. She will be featured as dent in the annual. Mies Mc Donald is a graduate of Lin coin high school. OREM GETS $6500 C & B ROAD FOIiDS Orem City will share in the $1,500,000 in road funds alloca ted cities and counties of Utah to the extent of $6568, it was announced by the Utah State Road Commission this week. The funds, which are known as 'B and C road money' are ear marked for the improvement of roads and streets within the city designated by the orem City Council. Mayor J. W. Gillman declared today that Inasmuch as the ap portionment of funds is made on the basis of the 1940 Census, Orem will not receive its fair share. If the apportionment were made on the basis of Orem's present population the amount would exceed $20,000, Mayor Gillman said. The mayor, who is past president pres-ident and now a member of the board of directors of the Utah Municipal League, revealed that the league is sponsoring a bill in the legislature which would abolish the department of Pub licity and Industrial Development Develop-ment and add its operating budget bud-get to the B and C road fund, thus adding nearly one million dollars to that now apportioned cities and counties. This bill has already been passed by the Senate and will come up for consideration by the House in the near future. Mrs- Angus Mitchell was honored at a family dinner Sunday Sun-day to celebrate her birthday anniversary. During the day many friends and relatives vis ited at the Mitchell home. Million Plan Started Here by Utah Power & Light Orem Chamber Sets Regular j Meeting Noon Friday Rgular meeting of the Orem Chamber of Commerce, will be held at Park's Cafe on Friday, at 12:15 noon, according to Bill Baker, president- Mr. Baker declared that he expected one of the year's largest larg-est meetings, as special invitations invitat-ions had gone to all the new members of the chamber. The membership numbers nearly 150, he declared. Final reports on the membership member-ship drive will be made, a discussion dis-cussion of flood possibilities will be held, George Lunceford will speak on his reasons for not changing the name of Orem to Geneva, and a proposal will be made to the chamber regarding regard-ing the re-zoning of State Street. Mr. Baker also announced that committee assignments will be made at the meeting. Heading up the committees will be the i following: General Welfare and Emergency: Emer-gency: Orville K. Harris, chairman, chair-man, Don Swan and Homer McEwan; Publicity: Ray E-Hanks, E-Hanks, chairman, M- Neff Smart and Sam Levin; Public Affairs (In charge of the Orem name-change name-change project): M. E. Kartch-ner, Kartch-ner, chairman, M. Neff Smart and Ray Park; Utilities: Toffee Hauzen, chairman, Wilbur Hardy Har-dy and Horace Bean; Housing, O- H. Anderson, chairman, Leo Gardner and Elwood Sundberg; Indusrial and Employment: A-K- Bullock and Lloyd Pyne; Agricultural: James Clark, chairman, Franklin Stratton and L- H. Storrs. Rheumatic Fever Drive Leaders Named in Orem T.l-s. L. B Bennett, prominent promin-ent Orem woman, has been named nam-ed chairman of the local Rheumatic Rheu-matic Fever Foundation committee, com-mittee, it was announced this week. Named on the committee with her were Mrs. Nelson Snow and Mrs. Horace Snyder- The group announced today that they would name representatives repres-entatives to work on the drive from every civic and social club in Orem and the drive would continue through February. Mrs- Bennett explained that Utah county's death rate from Rheumatic fever is unusually high and that Utah leads the nation in this disease. She said that 90 percent of all heart ailments ail-ments of children result from rheumatic fever. Aim of the Utah County Foundation is to construct here a convalescent home for rheumatic rheu-matic fever sufferers. Until a home is established, according to officers, no federal aid for the disease will be available. Mrs. Bennett explained that none of the money collected in the drive will leave Utah County Coun-ty and that no prson working in the drive is salaried or paid in any way. Mrs. George W. Wor-then Wor-then is chairman of the cuunty drive. Statistics show that 2500 Utah Ut-ah County people have had or now have an attack of rheumatic rheumat-ic fever- Those who are not contacted through clubs for a centribut-from centribut-from very civic and social club ectly to Mrs. Bennett at Christ-eele Christ-eele Acres. Mrs. Anna Kunze of Portland, Port-land, Oregon, is visiting at the home of her daughter and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Don Ivie and family. O The Orem Stake Relief Society union meeting will be held at 2 o clock Sunday in the Timpanogos ward chapel. It is requested that all visiting teach ers be present. The speaker will be the talented Mrs. Irons from the BYU. A Ed Stubbe, who broke both his legs several weeks ago, went to Salt Lake City last for a check-up with a bone specialist. spec-ialist. The X-ray showed that an operation was necessary. Formal announcement of first construction work on the $7 million mil-lion steam generating plant of the Utah Power and Light co. at the mouth of Provo canyon came today in Orem when company com-pany officials feted Orem, Pleasant Pleas-ant Grove American Fork and Lehi city officials, chamber of commerce representatives, and members of the press. The huge electric generating plant will be completed by April Ap-ril 1, 1950 and will produce approximately ap-proximately 40.000 Kilowatts. It will consume 23 tons of coal per hour, making it the largest consumer of Carbon County coal, with the exception of Geneva Gen-eva Steel. R- H. Ashworth, vice president presid-ent of the company, declared that the local unit was only one in a program which in the area will cost 360 million. He said that the company looked for an enormous industrial expansion here and that electric power would be available for that ex pansion. Jo Hughes, superintendent of construction, who has his home and his office in Orem, declared declar-ed that peak employment during dur-ing the construction of the plant would be about 350. To operate the plant will require about 23 new regular employees. The plant will be built alongside along-side the present steam generating generat-ing plant near Olmstead. Concrete Con-crete work is already under way. Delivery of the huge turbo generator is scheduled for Nov- ber. If it arrives on schedule the plant-will be ready for operation op-eration early next year. The plant has sufficient capacity to provide the electricity needs of a population of forty to fifty thousand. It will feed into the Utah Power's Pow-er's huge interconnected system. sy-stem. Mayor J. W. Gillman welcomed welcom-ed the group to Orem and spoke highly of the company's service to the area and of the key men in the organization. In charge of the meeting was Orson Slack, divisional representative repres-entative of the company. Approximately Ap-proximately 40 men were present. pres-ent. Ray Larsen, son of Mr. and Mrs. Clifton Larsen had his tonsils removed on Saturday. nay is at home now and is on his way to a speedy recovery. Mrs. Ares Gammell spent the weekend in Salt Lake City visiting with her daughter, Mrs. Frank Erickson. Sunday Dinner At Geneva Dairy For Paper Readers Some.. Mr. and Mrs. Sub- tcribar to the Orem-Genera Timet will be guests of the Geneva Dairy company each Sunday for a delicious Sunday Sun-day meal, it was announced this week, following an arrangement ar-rangement worked out by Owen Allen, manager of the catering department of the company and the Orem-Geneva Times. Soma Orem resident whose name is on the circulation list will sea his name in this corner cor-ner of the paper each week, and will need only lo identify himself at the Geneva Dairy company on the following Sunday in order to qualify for a dinner for himself and his wife or partner. No drawing will be Held in connection with the free meals. Every fifth name on the paper's mailing list will be chosen for the opportunity to enjoy the hospitality of the Geneva Dairy company and become acquainted with their fine foods. This Sunday, Mr. and Mrs. S. T. Lamb. Route 2. Eox 319. Orem. will be dinaer guests of the Geneva Dairy company. i i |