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Show I TOP PLAY PROGRAM V V V y y yy x yryy yy COOP LIVING IN FINS llZl'J VOLUME 19, NUMBER 11 OREM, UTAH, THURSDAY, MARCH 15, 1951 PRICE 10 CENTS ;oih worn TO 20lh SOUTH By O G- SEMIT I The Orem Volunteer Firemen iad some real excitement Tues- lay nignt. "e viuei otuu Thompson called a defense alert the first they're had to date. It 7:15 Pm- the telePnone oper-jtors oper-jtors started to put in calls to .tie homes of the firemen to iound the alert. Most of the men Here eating supper, but true to iorm, they dashed to the fire station in record time. I First man who checked in was Weston Kofford who made It in one minute,. 15 seconds, flat. The next five men arrived at the fire station in less than xour minutes, and thirteen out of a ihle 20 men showed up with in ten minutes. In a simulated I emergency they mounted a; truck and took a run bouth toward to-ward Provo, J Now that's just a sample of what we can expect if and when t bona fide defense alert is ever founded. The boys admit there's still room for improvement, but we give them credit for being pretty much on the ball. Big Hearts i They don't advertise it and they're very modest about it, but Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Robertson Robert-son are regular contributors to the Orem Public library. Every inonth they donate a new children's child-ren's book to the library. That's an example a lot of other fine people hereabouts could follow, f Substantial was the contribution contribu-tion of the American Legion auxiliary to Orem's public library lib-rary this week. Mrs. Ray Loveless Love-less and her library committee members turned over 14 tine books of fiction some current to the library. They're available avail-able for yjur use. ' Field Day Set For Sharon Stake Trail Builders Sharon Stake Primary Trail Builder boys will hold their annual an-nual field day on Saturday, March 24 at the Lincoln playing field, it was announced this week by Leah Peterson, Primary Prim-ary board member in charge of Trail Builders. I The youngsters will attend the Saturday matinee at.Scera and will then participate in races, Jumping and kite flying. Parents of the youngsters are invited to attend. Members of the commits in charge are Ruth Millet, Florence i Unthank and Margaret Bird. 3 f ,; Shown chatting with Ab Jenkins, seated in car. famed speeder who stopped in Orem at Washburn Wash-burn Service on Wednesday are A V. Washburn, local Kaiser Frazer dealer, and Clyde Mottor. Strict K-F representative' who accompanied Je iVins on his trip to Cedar City. Looking on in ft rear are severs! businessmen and citizens ho greeted Jenkins. GILLMAN FOR GOVERNOR URGED BY UTAH COUNTY YOUNG DEMOCRATS Political talk in the State this week was the action taken by ! the Utah County Young Demo cratic club in urging Orem's Mayor J. W. Gillman to be a candidate for the governorship of Utah at the next state election. elec-tion. Meeting at the county building in Provo on Monday, the executive committee of the County Young Democrats voted to encourage Mayor Gillman to run for the state's top executive t Timp View Ward Created By Windsor Division Orem stake comprised eight wards this week with the division div-ision of Windsor ward to create fhe new Timp View ward. The division was announced at Wind-, or ward sacrament meeting by Walter R. Holdawav. Orem ' stake president. Clay Benson was named bishop of the new ward, and Milton C. Smith was named bishop of the Windsor ward to succeed LeGrand Jar-man Jar-man who has served for the past six years.. The new ward will include I territory east of State Street be- I succw, ?i iiiuaui wcuu will liuw I include the territory east of j- State Street between 12th and , 16th North streets, and west of , State street to the brow, of the ! hill between 8th North and 16th North. The two wards will share the j Windsor ward chapel and will ! stagger their meetings on Sunday Sun-day and during the week. Sac rament meeting for Timp View ward has been set for 6 p.m. and 8 p.m. for Windosr ward. Sustained as counselors to Bishop Smith of Windsor ward were Theron Whiteley and Ray Louder. Andrew Johnson and I John W. Glygare were named J ward clerks. Counselors to Bishop Bish-op Benson of the Timp View ! ward are Merrill Findley and ' Dexter L. Wilberg. Carl Louder and Verl Jacobs were named : ward clerks. I Officiating with. President Holdaway at the meeting were ; E. Carlyle Bunker and M. Dover ' Hunt of the stake presidency and the following members of the stake high council: J. Eldon Swenson, Stanley B. Harris, E. Lavon Morrill, Grover C. Miller, Thorval E. Rigby, Marvin V. Stratton, Joel H. Parry, Raymond Ray-mond Harding and Charles Rob-bins. Rob-bins. i 4 if PACconrdmg to Ernest Dean of American Fork, former state leg islator and club president, the group agreed that it was Utah County's turn to send a governor gover-nor to the state capitol, and unanimously un-animously voted to urge Mayor Gillman's candidacy. A committee appointed by Mr. Dean to contact Mayor Gillman regarding his availability, availa-bility, reported that he expressed express-ed himself as gratified by the confidence which the members of the club placed in him, but that he declined comment on their booming him for governor Described by the Young Democrat's Dem-ocrat's as a man "eminently qualified for the governorship through his vast background of public administration," Mayor Gulman is a nationally recog nized expert on water develop ment and on farm credit matters He is now serving his third term as mayor of Orem, and has been president of the Utah Mun icipal League. At his home today, Mayor Gillman declined comment on I efforts being made to get his name on the guberanatorial bal-ot bal-ot to succeed Governor Lee in 1952. He declared that there was enough work to be done in Orem without worrying, about CITY WATER GETS TOP RATING ' Orem's culinary water supply was given a clean bill of health this week by Lynn W. Thatcher, director, division of public health heal-th engineering and sanitation, who reported that' an analysis of water taken recently from six areas in the city indicates that ' the water being delivered to the distribution system was free from, contamination . and safe to drink at the time the samples were taken. i Samples taken at the home of V&l Killpack, 564 Emery; Paul Oliver, 16th South and 8lh East Leiha Gurr, 4ih East and 8ih South; Mt. View Trailer Court; Earl Jacobs, 12th West and 15th North; and Esquire's Top Hill Mart, 17th South and State; by Glen Core and Clyde Edwards were free from sediment, turbidity tur-bidity and odor. Mr. and Mrs. Lynn Smith iCarma Lee Whiteley) have a ;cn, born March 12 at the American Am-erican Fork hospital. The elated grandparents are Mr. and Mrs. Theron Whiteley. i 1 . f. r C , -v i 1 1 These Lincoln high, school hoopslers made histo ry this year by winning a berth in the stale tournament, but Lincoln must wait at least another year fcr a slate title. The locals lost their first round game to Moab on Wednesday, 39-55. Then came back Thursday to win over Richfield. The group includes, left to right front row. Cap t. Floyd Farley, Bill Cox. Jimmy Pyne, Carl Rowley, Mako Hideshima and Lloyd Orvin. Back row, LaRel Goulding, Ray Gilliga'n, Tom Ver-bsnatz, Ver-bsnatz, Kay Holdawsy, Richard Peterson and Co -eh Evan Baugh. 49-41. They will Sprngville Friday at 2:30 p. m. OREM FAMILY LIFE TO EE HELD HERE "Security Through the Home" will be the theme of the fourth annual family life conference for the Orem area of the Alpine school district set for March 22 and 23. The conference will comprise two meetings, one to be held Thursday, March 22 with the place and principal speaker yet to be announced. Lincoln high school students will participate in a panel discussion at this session. The second session will be conducted at the Lincoln high school auditorium and will feat ure Mrs. Cleo Wright, Another e i win? t of 15 children, and William E. Berrett of BYU as the speakers. Each session will commence at 8 p.m. Topics developed by the speakers and discussed by stu dents, faculty members and pat rons in panel discussions will be "Today's Children for Tomorrow's To-morrow's World," and "When 15 and 50 disagree. Mrs. Wright will speak to the subject "There is no Substitute for Family Life," and Mr. Berr- Washburn K. F. Service Observes 30l!i Anniversary In Orem This is the eighth in a series of features which is do-signed do-signed to acquaint Orem people with the business and industrial establishments which are paying Orem's taxes and which are providing Orem's payrolls. The series will feature members of the Orem Chamber of Commerce-boosters Commerce-boosters for the devlopment of Utah's fastest growing city. Center of attraction in Orem Wednesday was the appearance appear-ance of Ab Jenkins, former mayor of Salt Lake City and nationally-known racing expert, at Washburn KF Service,. 8th North and State Street. Jenkins stopped at the Orem Kaiser-Frazer Kaiser-Frazer dealer for a short time Wednesday morning together with Clyde Mottor, district representative. The pair were on their way to Cedar City where Jenkins, who is now working in safety activities, was scheduled to give a talk Wednesday night. Although not connected with the Kaiser Frazer company, Jenkins, a Kaiser owner, had asked the regioml K-F distrib utor in Salt Lake City for a highway demonstration of the Henry J, newest of the K-F cars. The trip to Cedar City provided the opportunity for he road test of the Henry J and Jenkins stopped at Orem en-route en-route where he was greeted by Verd Washburn and a number of other local residents who took time out to chat with the famed speeder. 30th Anniversary The event was a real occasion for Washburn K-F Service which is celebrating its 30th anniversary an-niversary as Orem's oldest business. bus-iness. It was on December 2, 1921 when A. V. Washburn opened op-ened his first garage in the building presently occupied by Orem Auto-Electric Co. Two years later he moved to his present location at 8th North and State Street where he operated oper-ated a service station and garage. gar-age. In 1934 Washburn built the building now occupied by Park's Billiards where he operated until un-til 1942 when he moved to the rear of his present building in CONFERENCE MARCH 22,' 23 ett will discuss "Faith Enough for a Lifetime. I , , . . The conference is sponsored , , . .. t 4V, 1 oy me local nn unus iui , Orem area of the Alpine school district as a portion of their ad- ult education program. Arrange-' ments are under the direction of Mrs. Allan D. Johnson, Lincoln hiPh crhnnl! Mrs. Jess Ashton. Page; Mrs. Don Swan, Geneva; Mrs Rav I. Carter. Sharon. Mrs ! Jack Cameron, Spencer; and Mrs. Ed Spalding, Union. Assist jng in the planning are L,eo Hansen, director of the adult education program for Alpine district; Mrs. Ellen W. Brown, supervisor of the program; Mrs. Willard Yergensen, director of Region Two for the Utah Congress Con-gress of Parents and Teachers, and Mrs. Henry Campbell, president pres-ident of the Alpine PTA council. Members of the special committees com-mittees include adult education chairmen for the local units including in-cluding Mrs. Crissie Hales, Mrs. LaVoir Merrell, Mrs. Howard Ferguson, Mrs. Fern Rowley and Mrs. Mildred Jacobsen. The public is invited to participate parti-cipate in the conference. which a cafe was operating. In April, 1948, Washburn Service secured the local Kaiser Frazer franchise and took over the entire building for sales and service. Enthusiastic about Orem's future, fu-ture, Washburn plans to continue con-tinue his activities to build Orem. Or-em. A former city councilman, he believes that public offn.als, businessmen and citizens should work together for the common good. Sons are Veterans Assisting him in the operation of the automobile dealership, Wa:hburn has his two sons, Al-vin Al-vin and Paul. Alvin is a veteran veter-an of 42 months in the army during which time he attended reveral service schools. Paul a navy veteran of 18 months service. Following his discharge he served two years in the East-iri East-iri Canadian LDS mission. Washburn K-F Service has the local dealership for Inter-natimal Inter-natimal Cub tractors, and is official of-ficial inspection station No. 505. Y- 1 V.' Orem Immunization Clinics Slated Per Next Week . Immunization clinics for the ....... Orem-Geneva area will be held in the local schools beginning j "onday and continuing Friday, it wn announced tuday , bV lhe local defense and health ft'P cno"' . .... councils. tlale ueparimeni sparimeni ot neaun, 8nd lhe local medical profession. sponsoring groups. T. r.l.nl ,V.;l ...! .J..U are invited to attend the clinics ! at which school children will be immunised. A small service chargewillbe mad. for each ' lhot f , .,v,..t . .1.- ' follows: Geneva Monday, March 19, C6, April 2 and 23. 9:00 a.m. Spencer and Lincoln high School Tuesday, March , 20. 27. April 3, and 24, 8:30 a.m. (Held at Lincoln high school.) Sharon Wednesday, March 21, 28, April 4 and 25, 9:00 a.m. Page Thursday. March 22, 9, April 5 and 26. 9:00 aim. Union Friday, March 23, 30, April 6 and 27. 9:00 a.m. Mr. and Mrs. Lorin Ander sen are the parents of a new ion. Martin Walker is the proud reat grandfather. Mr. and Mrs. Hal Crane of Ogden spent Sunday and Monday visiting with Mrs. Edna Doe. Mrs. Anna Anderson and Rev. Clifford Graves of Monti-cello, Monti-cello, Utah, were married today, Thursday at the Community Church in Provo. Elder Delmar Davis is home after spending 30 months in the Netherlands where he labored as a LDS missionary. Mr. and Mrs. Don C. Liston entertained at a birthday dinner on Friday evening. Guests in-..uded in-..uded Mr. and Mrs. Dick Burr, Ileen and Jay Burr. An enjoyable enjoy-able evening was spent visiting and watching television. Miles Duane Roundy, Jr.. on of Mr. and Mrs. Miles D. Roundy Roun-dy of Hill Crest Ward, who will be honored at a farewell testimonial testi-monial Sunday at 5:30 p.m. prior lo his departure for the West Central States LDS mission. l , i ' : I :- C x-w x-w I w ! Water fcr 40,000 Assured s For Orem by !ov; Pert Orem City this week completed negotiations which have been, underway for several months to acquire rights to bring the city's subscription of water in the Deer Creek reservoir down the Salt Lake aqueduct to a point near the Orem reservoir reser-voir from which it can be put into the city's culinary water system, thus insuring adequate water to supply a cUy of 40,000 people. At Monday night's city council meeting the Orem Metropolitan Metro-politan Water board met with the council and inked a five-year five-year agreement under which Orem's 2,000-acre foot subscription subscrip-tion in the Deer Creek project will be delivered to Orem - I EGG HUNT SET MARCH 24 FOR KIDDIES Children between two and eight vears of age who gather ' at the Orem City park on Easier Saturday, March 24, will participate parti-cipate in an old-fashioned taster tast-er Egg Hunt to be sponsored by the Orem Chamber of Commerce. Commer-ce. The hunt is set for 3:30 p.m. and approximately 2000J gaily colored eggs will be hidden in the park area. The youngsters will hunt for !he eggs in three age group in order to give every child the opportunity to find eggs. Prises for special eggs will be given. Age groups will include two tnd three-year olds, four to six year olds, and seven and eight year olds. Vern Siroschein, Neff Smart and Lionel Fsirbanks are in charge of arrangements for the chamber. Annual UcU Easier Cantata Sin tpH Mnrrh 95 The 11th annual presentation of the Easter cantata "Resurr ection Morning" will be given at u "r """& " V "a auditorium, according to . ' Terry, head of the voc- 2 UlCnd,ep"tme, "j. LlnCln nigh school who will direck the performance. Approximately 250 students at Lincoln will sing in the cantata, can-tata, Mr. Terry said. Composer of the cantata la B. Cecil Gates of Salt Lake City and the lyrics were written by Iva R. Alldredge, formerly of Provo and now residing in Salt Lake City. The script wat written writ-ten by Myrl Wentz. Colored pictures pic-tures will be shown aling with the production to more clearly depict the .life of Christ. The public is invited. Weeks Journalism Award Slated At Lincoln High The third annual Clyde E. Weeks Jr. Journalism contest for Lincoln high school student! will be held this month to dis- of the council, hag named corn-cover corn-cover Lincoln's most promising mittees to carry the message of journalist, is was announced home safety to the homes, this week by John M. Freckle- schools and churches here, ton, journalism teacher at the National statistics show that Orem high school. The contest, accidents are the leading cause which has been held for the past of death among children from two years is designed to pro- one through 14 years of age. mote and encourage the study of Home accidents kill 33,000 per-journalism per-journalism and its related sub- sons each year and injure app-jects app-jects by high school students, roximately 5,000,000. Fails, fire It is sponored by Clyde E. and burns are the most serious Weeks Jr., Orem newspaper of home accidents, with poison, man. suffocation and use of firearms The contest Is open to all reg- Adding to the home accid t ularly enrolled Lincoln high toll. school students taking courses Local householders are beiuj in Journalism or who are con- urged to inventory, during tributors or staff members of Home Safety Week, the potent- the Livewire, senior high news publication. An award known as the Clyde E. Weeks Jr.. Journalism Medal will be given again this year, together with a cash award to he student writing the best feature article between 300 and 500 words in length on a sub ject related to the social, cultur- al, or economic progress of Or- em City. Suggested subjects for articles are: "Civic Improvement Improve-ment in Orem During the Past Decade," "The Growth and Development De-velopment of Orem's Recreation Program," and "Contributions of Orem Churches to Community Commun-ity Life." Entries must be submitted In 'he prinicapl's office on or before be-fore March 31 for judging. Faculty Fac-ulty members at Lincoln will narrow entries down to the five best and the final selection will b made by the Department of Journalism at the BYU. Articles must be signed with I a pen name and must be accom panied by an envelope containing contain-ing the real name of the writer and his pen name. through the aqueduct. Under the terms of the agreement the Orem Metropolitan Water board which includes Luzell Robbing, chairman; Philo T. Edwards, secretary and comptroller; and Gilbert Richardson, treasurer; will have full jurisdiction over the Deer Creek water and the water brought down the aqueduct aque-duct will be sold to Orem CiW which will in turn meter it out through the culinary water system. sys-tem. Due to the pressing need for bolstering the city's water supply sup-ply during the early Spring months city officials are determined deter-mined to complete the installation installat-ion of the turnout as soon as-possible. as-possible. Cost for using the aqueduct will range from $1000 to $10,-000 $10,-000 per year, depending on the amount of water taken by Orem City. Following the completion of the negotiations a motion was parsed jointly by the council and the Metropolitan ter board to give Mayor J. W. Gillman Gill-man a vote of thanks fo his efforts in bringing about the agreement. It was felt by all those present that the agreement agree-ment would possible never have been culminated without the efforts ef-forts of Mayor Gillman. New Dump Opened The council vpted to advetr, tiz'e the opening of the new tri-" city garbage dump in Vineyard for use by Orem citizens. Dumping Dump-ing will be done under the supervision sup-ervision of the city and a minimum min-imum fee will be set at a later date. The council also voted to pay American Fork City the a-mount a-mount of $3,857 its equity in the trazcavator previously purchased pur-chased jointly by the two cities for use at the dump. Remove Home Hazards Urges Orem Safety Council Members of the Orem Safety Council this week laid plans to remind Orem householders that the home is one of the most dangerous places in the land, in preparation for the observance observ-ance of Utah Safety Week, Mar. 18-25. Albert C. Martin, chairman ,al hazards in the home. The lighting and clearing of stairways, stair-ways, repairing of ladders and steps, inspection of flues and furnaces, cleaning of attics, keeping matches away from children these are the steps locals are being asked to take in observance of the week. Slogan Slo-gan for the week is "Safety is Everybody sJob." Committee members are Mrs. Richard D. Park, Mrs. Lloyd Petty, Boyd Davis and Mrs. William A. Cox. WARDS PLAN BALL "A Little Bit of Heaven" will be the theme of the Windsor-Timp Windsor-Timp View ward Gold and Green ball scheduled for Tuesday, Tues-day, March 20. A queen and attendants att-endants will be named at the tall. The hall will be decorated for the occasion. A floorshow will be presented and refreshments served. Arrangements are under the direction of Hazel Purcell, YWMIA president, and Merrill Findley, YMMIA superintend-lent. |