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Show , X II 1 1 1 INI " f I I - 'A 2"3 feit Fourlii uUi vol. xxxm AMERICAN FORK, UTAH, FRIDAr, SEPTEMBER 7, 1945 NUMBER 27 s . -&5 - ' Destructive Fire Destroys Old Iverson Home riro nf undetermined origin .nictoiv destroyed the roof , TUlilV"' " and damaged the ceilings in the house belonging to wuu xvuuer - ii West First South Friday afternoon about 3 o'clock. I The firemen answered the call in record time as some of them were standing near the fire hall when the siren sounded the alarm. , The whole inside of the attic -0 hnrnine when the fire fight ers arrived and there being no opening into uie attic uie men hindered until one could be cut which would ' allow them to work on the blaze. The three apartment house was occupied by two families with one apartment vacant. The furniture of the occupants was all removed but some of it so carelessly that it was damaged in the moving. Mr. Miller re-InnrtMi re-InnrtMi that he had lust finished 'paying for the house last month and he aouDtea u uie $z,uuu.uu insurance would cover the approximated ap-proximated expense for repairs. Mrs. Jennie PickerinK who de cupled one apartment has moved mov-ed in with her daughter, Mrs. Kenneth Hansen at 349 East ELane. and Mrs. Loma Patterson and children have moved in with ;her mother, Mrs. Ida Lund across the street from the burned building. . Because Of restriction Mr. Miller Mill-er may not be able to make the necessary repairs for six months. MORNING FIRE Friday morning at 9 o'clock the firemen made a quick run to the home of Harold L. Huber, 335 Washington Ave., where a fire had started in a clothes closet. Using a C02 Extinguisher Extinguish-er Fireman LeRoy Griffin put 'out the flw-but -was 'himself cverxonM, by. the fumes and had to be carried from the i buUaiiigrrf 'Approximately $200.00 damage was aone to ciounng closet. The origin of the fire was not determined. District Teachers Assigned For School Year List of teachers for the Alpine School District were released at the clerk's office Wednesday. fThere are still three vacancies, one in the American Fork high school and two in the Lincoln high school. Lehl High School L. B. Adamson. Principal, jJunius Banks, Lowell R. Bennett, a. uarren, J. rernn uurney, N... Pearson,. Elden .. Harding, pean Prior, Joseph S. Robinson, prank W. Shaw, Melvin Beck-strand, Beck-strand, Alice D. Dixon, Norine pox, Grace Hepworth, Ardath L. iChatterton, Luella Moore, Mar-'garet Mar-'garet M. Thurman, Ruth W. Wilson, i I Lehl Elementary I Cecil L. Ash, Principal, Basil W. Dorton, Vernon K. Nielsen, Isabel B. Brown, Lois R. Evans, Pearl Esplln,' Marvel T. Gray, Sa K. Putnum, Helen C. Ram-y, Ram-y, Mildred A. Smith, Wlnnlfred E. Sorenson, Ruth B. Stephenson, ?Jiva V. Taylor, Ileen Sunderland, .lautha Teuscher, Ethel Wool ton, Florence J. Wright. Cedar Valley School Leaone F. Carson, Principal, wen Hartley. . Amine School Lynn S. Searle, Principal, Mar- a u Ln l ri i American Fork High School Messe M. Walker, Principal, Charles B. Walker, Assistant principal, Albert B. Allen, Luther maaings, K. J. Bird, Elmo Hansen, Han-sen, Earl Holmstead, Evan G. Nelson, Leo B: Nelson, Fred Q. Richards, J. w. Phillips, George C- Scott, Jr. Phill O. Smith, Fer-Wl Fer-Wl M. Sorenson, Alvln J. Tues-cner, Tues-cner, LaVere J. Wadley, Norman f Wlngi Helen ' E. . Fulkerson, Martraret H Runwn ' T.rnlli P Hpgan, velma Sheley, Kathryn weeks, Wanda. Winn one vacancy. va-cancy. ca I: Harrlnrton School Q- W. Larsen, Principal, Rulon Brimhall n v sonitoran P earl P. Ault, Ora Jean Chipman, ara B. Cook, Florence Dunyon, em w. Edwards, Reba K. Hards Marlam W. Hill, AnnabeU Miller, Elizabeth H.' Mortenson, Thora Mecham, Verna C. Mortensen, ce Parker,. Ruth Rasmussen, wen Richards, Edith Siddoway, "n Smoot Taylor, Alelthea S. Alpine Bishopric Reorganized -Last Sunday Orion J. Burgess was named bishop of the Alpine ward Sunday Sun-day evening, August 26, when the ward conference was held. His counselors are Lyman Moyle and Ronald Strong, with Leland Beck as ward clerk. President Jesse M. Walker presided at the conference. Also present were Leo o. Mrputh and Delbert Chipman, counse lors m me stake presidency, uueri a. Alien, staKe clerk, and 11 members of the High Council. Retiring officers are Edward W. Burgess, Earl M. Devey, John Whitby and William Healey. The new bishop has been a member of the Alpine stake high council for several years and Is recognized as one of the outstanding out-standing speakers in the stake. Ronald Strong is a counselor In the ward YMMIA and Leland Beck Is superintendent of the Sunday School so further reorganization reor-ganization will take place in the ward. Bishop Edward Burgess, brother broth-er to the new bishop, was su- 1928, after serving four years as counselor to the previous bishop. Mr. Devey has served as counselor counse-lor since the same day and Mr. Whitby almost as long. Mr. Healey has served as ward clerk since June, 1929. Sunday School Attendance Urged Sept. 9tS Members of the Alpine Stake are asked to be in attendance at Sunday School September 9, in .observance of "100 Per Cent Sunday." it is announced by the stake superintendence Thisday In thaleral Superin tendency : f or aU Church members to be at Sun day School, and Lehl stake -has been asked to join the. other stakes of the church In cooperat ing to make this day a success. Regular Sunday School serv ices will be held in each ward, commencing at 10:30 a. m. Mem bers are Invited to attend In their respective wards, and help make the anticipated hundred per cent attendance a reality. A cordial invitation is extended extend-ed to those who are not church members to attend Sunday School. Join your friends Sunday, go to Sunday School, and see what the Sunday Schools of our stake are accomplishing. Telephone Co. Honors Elwyn Wride September 1 was the 30th an niversary of Elwyh Wride's service serv-ice with the Mountain States Telephone company and to mark the occasion Mr. Wride was guest of honor at a dinner given by the company Tuesday evening at Griff's Cafe. With Robert B. Lelshman, local lo-cal manager as master of ceremonies cere-monies Mr. Wride was presented with the Thirty Year pin and also 30 rosebuds. The -dinner was attended by 12 men with whom Mr. Wride has personally worked during" his time with the telephone company. Present were T. A. Boyden, Art Brown, Arch Clyde, Joe Jensen, Sam Jones, Sam Kelly, Isreal Muh-lestein, Muh-lestein, and Ross Ripple, ail from Provo, Reed Garff, Mr. Lelshman and Mr. Wride of American Fork. Alpine Stake Seminary Opens Here Mon. Slmiltaneously with the open ing of the high school the Alpine stake Seminary will begin registration regis-tration Monday morning; Classes Class-es will be offered In Old and New Testament and in LDS church history, E. Ray Gardner, principal, princi-pal, reported. Raymond T. Bailey Bai-ley will assist Mr. Gardner as Instructor. In-structor. As larger classes are coming from the grade schools the enrollment Is expected to be Increased over previous years. High School Football Schedule Arranged Football schedules for Region 3 have been .drawn up and will get underway September 28 and close November 9, Louis A. Bates, Payson, regional chairman, chair-man, announced last week.Nlne schools will participate. All schools in the region are expected to have strong teams and guesses on the champs are already being advanced. American Fork will play the following games: October 5, Provo high at Provo; October 12, Lincoln at American Fork; October Oc-tober 19, Pleasant Grove at P. O.; October 26, SpringriUe at Amer ican Fork; ... ovember 2, Lehl at American Fork; November 9, B Y high at Provo. Teen Agers Finish Summer Program Here Climaxing an outstanding summer sum-mer program 70 Second ward boys and girls between the ages of 12 and 19 spent Tuesday in Salt Lake City. This was the reward given by the Bishopric for participation in church activities ac-tivities during the summer. The group was first taken to the Church Welfare center and shown over the plant. The huge grain elevators and the clothing factory proved to be the most interesting sections. At noon they were taken to the tabernacle where they heard Alexander Schrelner give a recital re-cital and where they had their pictures taken surrounding the great organ. Because they were not able to keep up with the boys in church attendance, - the . giru . 01.. the group furnished the picnic lunch which 1 was eaten on the lawn north of the Deseret Gym. At this time members of the presiding presid-ing bishopric of the church made short "after dinner" speeches. In the afternoon they were guests of the presiding bishopric at the Wasatch Plunge. ' Going to Salt Lake with the boys and girls were Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Sweeten who had charge of the two months church services in which the young people appeared, appear-ed, Bishop Olin H. Ririe, Counsellor Counsel-lor A. Elijah Chipman, Mrs. R. A. Clayton, Mrs. Joseph B. Mulliner and Mrs. Joseph Ellsworth. The following members of the group had 100 per cent attend ance at church during the three months and s took part in the services, Mary Lou Devey, Joan Hicks, Marie Miller, Nadlne Mon- son, Edith and Nancy Moss, Mer- lyn Johnson and Preston Taylor. The following-missed- but one service, Jewell Chipman, Joy Green, Colleen Nicholes, Helen Relmschiissel, Ruth Wagstaff, Duane Beck, Calvin Monson, Leon Storrs, Lehman Wall, Kay Walton, and Evan Wride. During Dur-ing the summer 111 boys and girls participated. The program was suggested in the spring by Mr. Sweeten who volunteered to teach a junior choir and be responsible for the Sunday evening programs. The success may be Judged by the increased attendance during four summer months. May In creased 59 per cent over 1944, June, 96 per cent; July, -48 per cent, and August, 119 per cent. Holman Family Holds Reunion Descendants of John G. Hol man, pioneer settler of Pleasant Grove, held a family reunion at Mutual Dell in American Fork canyon August 26. Members of the family totaling 130 were present from Idaho, Nevada, Montana, Arizona and Utah. Tne aiternoon was spent wnn a program, games, and dinner. Election of officers was held, with Ray Holman of Provo being voted vot-ed in as president. J. W. Gill-man Gill-man of Orem, and Apple ton Harmon Har-mon of Provo, will act as counselors counse-lors to the president and Mrs. Ray Holman was chosen secretary. secre-tary. Mrs. Jennie Johnson, Pleasant Grove, was retained as historian and genealogist, . Retiring officers are Mr. and Mrs. Willard Holman of Ameri can Fork and Harvey Holman of Provo. -vSri Visitors At Timp Cave Monday Breaks All Records Since an unlimited amount of gasoline has been made available avail-able to everyone,! there have been more visitors at Timpano-gas Timpano-gas Cave than during any corresponding cor-responding period since this area became a National Monument. Monu-ment. On Labor Day 81$ peoplee were taken through thej eaves. This Is an aUtime record of visitors for one day. During the first three days of September 1657 people went through the caves. Raneer Walker J .reports that about twenty-five per cent of the visitors were from out of the state. He also reports that the cave will be open to the public every day from S a. in. to 5 p. nu until the snow makes the trail impassable. ..( 51 Funeral Conducted Here Forfi William-Sldnner Funeral services) for William Skinner, 52, husband of Marcelle Hawkins Skinner, were held In the Anderson and : Sons Mortu ary Thursday, August 30, at 2 p. m. with Stewart A. Durrant, bishop of the Fourth LDS ward In charge. The Invocation was offered by Daniel H. Jorgensen and Rulon Nicholes, accompanied by Miss Irene Shelley, sang as an open ing number "Sometime Well Understand". Eli Hawkins, Garland, the first speaker, discussed the reality of God and the firm belief in Him evidenced by both the founders of New England and of Utah, and closed by saying "We should have pnly one fear ia life, ourselves. our-selves. If we can caqner self we have done a good joD. " ' Dr. William Crosby Ross, Salt Lake City, used - the- Bible - to prove eternal life as taught by Christ and the apostles. Bishop Durrant paid tribute to the deceased de-ceased for his fine philosophy of life and the way he had lived7. Between speakers Mrs. Delbert Chipman and Kenneth Robin son, accompanied by Miss Shel ley, sang "Jesus Lover of My Sour and as a closing number James Nash Grant, accompanied by his mother, sang The Lord's Prayer." Mrs. Knord Beck played play-ed the prelude and postlude. The benediction was pronounc ed bv JoseDh H. Storrs. Services at' the cemetery were conducted by Dr. Ross. Pallbearers were J. W. Phillips, Alvin E. Monson, Ernest Cook, Leo Bowen, Fay Chadwick and Wilbur Harding. The many lovely floral tributes were cared for by the members of the Bonnie Bon-nie Brier club. ' John Moyle Family Reunion Saturday John Rowe Moyle and his wife Phllllpa Beer Moyle, 1856 handcart hand-cart pioneers, were honored by 100 of their descendants at a Moyle family reunion held Jn Alpine Saturday, September 1. " At" the meeting" held "-'"lh the chapel the invocation was offered offer-ed by Bishop Frank Moyle Armstrong Arm-strong of Salt Lake City; James H. Moyle, former United States senator, gave a history of the first handcart company and its trek to Utah. Minutes of the first Moyle reunion, held in 1879, were read by Cora Moyle Whitby. Lyman Moyle read a sketch of the life of his father, Joseph E. Moyle and Miss Gertrude Moyle gave a sketch of. her mother, Margaret Campbell Moyle. Vi-late Vi-late Moyle Vlncenet gave an in teresting family incident and remarks were made by John Al ma Blnns. Eight members of the family past 70 years of age were paid special tribute and Janice Chip-man Chip-man gave piano selections. Cimmlttees on business matters were formed and the' benediction benedic-tion was pronounced by Myron R: Moyle. Supper was served among the trees on the church grounds. During the day out of town people peo-ple paid a visit to the Daughters of the Pioneers relic hall, where many of them attended church and school in earlier days. District Teachers Institute In Canyon Saturday Alpine School District teachers' institute will be held at Mutual Dell in American Fork canyon tomorrow, Sept 8. A general session will convene at 10:00 a. m. Speakers will be State Superintendent Sup-erintendent E. Allen Bateman, whose subject will be The Pres ent Task of the Public Schools, National and State Viewpoints,' and President Howard 8. Mc Donald, Brigham Young Univer slty, who will discuss The Peace-Time Challenge to the Teacher." Group singing will be lead by K. J. Bird and Rulon Brimhall of the American Fork schools, Greetings and introductions will be by Superintendent David R. Mitchell and Mrs. Ardath Chat-terton Chat-terton of the Lehl high school will give a reading. The invocation invo-cation will be offered by Junius A. West, board member from Pleasant Orove. Luncheon, in charge of the Alpine Teachers Association, will be served from 12 noon to 1:30 p. m. From 1:30 to ' 2:30 the Teachers Association will hold a Newman, president, conducting. Games and recreational activi ties will follow for the remainder of the afternoon. 4th Ward YMMIA Names Officers Young Men's Mutual Improvement Improve-ment Association of the Fourth ward was reorganized Sunday evening. Lowell Bennett was selected as president with Fred Richards and David C. Klelnman as counselors and Howard Chiis- tensen, secretary. Mr. Bennett, who has been a member of the ward for about twa years, la on the Lehl school staff; Mr. Richards Is replacing Don Overly. as"tasketball-Coach of the American Fork high school; Mr. Klelnman who mov ed here recently has been active in other wards, and Mr. Chris-tensen Chris-tensen recently received his honorable hon-orable discharge from the serv ice after serving in the Pacific. Outgoing officers were Bert Chris tensen, .president, Tom Reese and Thomas Hansen, counselors and Harold Anderson, secretary. . Daughters Of Utah Pioneers Meetings Following three months vacation vaca-tion Daughters of Utah Pioneers will hold the first meetings, of the season Thursday afternoon, September 13, at 2 p. m. in all the camps. Adams Camp The meeting will convene in the First ward Relief Society rooms. Program and - refreshments refresh-ments will fUl the time with Mrs. S. F. Grant, Mrs. Charl Anderson, Ander-son, Mrs. Jane Howes, Mrs. Rose Varney, Mrs. Moral D. Steele and Mrs. Jennie Cunningham acting as hostesses. American Fork Camp Executive officers of the camp will act as hostesses and the meeting will be held on the lawn at the Second ward church. Musical numbers are being prepared pre-pared by Mrs. Ray Monson and the lesson and a history will be given. Mountainville Camp Mountainville Camp will meet in the Relic Hall. A program is being arranged by the executive officers. Engagement Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Waggoner of Corte Madera.. Cal., have announced an-nounced the engagement of their daughter, Lorraine, to Seaman Sea-man First Class. DeVerl Garllck, son of Mr. and Mrs. Gastln Gar-lick Gar-lick of American Fork. The announcement an-nouncement was made at a dinner din-ner September 1, at the home of the parents of the bride-elect. In attendance from Utah were Mr: and Mrs. Garllck and son Junior and Mr. and Mrs. Ben Garllck and daughter Bonnie 6f Salt Lake City. The wedding date -will await the return of Seaman Garllck who has been given an overseas assignment after being stationed In Vallejo, Calif. Mr. and Mrs. Garllck -returned home Wednesday evening. Initial Steel Day Celebration Proves Very COMMITTEE THANKS PUBLIC The general committee and especially the parade committee commit-tee wishes to extend a word of thanks to the public and business busi-ness concerns for their cooperation co-operation in "making the opening Steel Day celebration, the success It was. Committees. Election To Follow Thru On Party Lines Again With less than twenty citizens responding to a call to discuss taking city selection of officers out1 of "polities it-wa'decided Wednesday evening that the usual election of officials would be followed thru on political lines. There had been some agitation here to elect city officials thru non political tickets or by Jointly naming a citizens ticket but the result of the Wednesday meeting decided the matter and this election elec-tion at least will be carried thru on the regular political party system.- - ' , ; -r-It Is now the duty of the Republican Re-publican and Democratic committees com-mittees to call the regular primaries pri-maries and have nominees selected se-lected to run on the two tickets. It is time to begin to select candidates. aV v. To Open Season Here Alexander Schrelner, Salt Lake tabernacle organist, and Richard P. Condle, assistant tabernacle chorister, will be the featured artists on the Latona Lyceum course in the Alpine Stake tabernacle the last week in September. To make this movement of bringing outstanding local, state and national talent to American Fork a success, members of the Association are now selling season sea-son tickets. Mrs. Adair Bromley, Mrs. Ray Monson, Mrs. Norven Brown and Mrs. Glen Boley have charge of the committees in the four sections of town and may be contacted by all, -interested persons. Girls Entertain Mothers Teen age girls of the First ward and their MIA leaders entertained en-tertained their mothers at a Tea Friday evening from 6 to 0 p. m. at the ward house. The hall and serving table were attractive at-tractive with roses, glads ajid asters. -The musical program presented present-ed Bety Robinson in a piano solo, Mary. Ann Wanlass, a vocal solo, Marilyn Vacher, a violin solo, Mrs. Owen Humphries and Miriam Mir-iam Humphries in a piano duet, and a girls chorus with Lou Jean Bowen, Jackie Carter, Lois Humphries, Hum-phries, Colleen Moss and Connie Robinson taking part. Miss Mamie McAllister had charge of Invitations and the program, Mrs. Glenn A. Wright, refreshments; decorating and serving, Mrs. Glen B. Greenwood with Doris Ault, Helen Gardner, Gladys Grant and Marlam Humphries Hum-phries assisting with the serving. Complimenting her nephew, Harold S. Peterson S 1c. Provo, Mrs. Warren V. Clark entertained entertain-ed at dinner Tuesday evening. Seaman Peterson Is home on furlough from New York. Covers were laid for Mrs." Peterson and two children, Dr. and Mrs. Hughf W. Peterson, Mr. and Mrs. Grant Peterson and son, of Provo; Mrs. Dan W. Clark and son of American Ameri-can Fork. Frank D. Strong, Mrs. George Rasmussen a"rid 'Miss Beverly Clark, hostess. the host and ... Successful American Fprk was the center of attraction ; for north Utah county on Labor Day, when the initial Steel Day celebration was Inaugurated. From 10:00 a. m. imtll midnight some form of entertainment en-tertainment was In progress, except ex-cept for the period when sudden heavy rains washed out the horse races. Four blocks of Main Street were packed with cars as people from the surrounding towns Joined, in witnessing the march of the parade which consisted or nearly 100 miniature floats, bicycles, bi-cycles, tricycles, and comics. Following the second appearance appear-ance In the evening prizes were awarded The Style Shop for the best business house entry, with a special award to Taylor Drug Store; Rotary club, for the best civic club float; Fourth ward,' Junior 8unday School, for the best church float and a special award to the Second ward Sunday Sun-day School in the same section; Mr. and Mrs. L. J. Wadley for the bJndhnduair, special award going to Mr. and Mrs. J. Stanley Peters. J. C. Penney company received the award for the most original float. Donna Andreason for the best decorated bicycle, Nina Lelshman and, Carolyn Bromley . for the best patriotic costumes, Paul Burton .and Bruce Brown for the best decorated tricycle and Rexlne Cunningham for the best doll buggyr3 - -1" - Lehman and Glenda Wall were . Judged the best comic characters ' and the award for the most outstanding out-standing pet went to Nadlne . Monson and Nada Oliphant The High School band in their colorful color-ful uniforms livened the march with their usual high class per- f ormanca and the entry, of 50 horses belonging to the American Ameri-can Fork . Riding club added much to the attractiveness of " the.parade.i;if I'Syfrofrx? norsrilscea ': ' After eight preliminary, races had been run rain stopped the racing but the eight winners were given $10.00 as prizes. Wln- fners were Gus Oscarson, Ted Nielsen, Sterling Burch, Stan- ford Healey and Elliott Smith, some of the men winning more than one race. Steel Exhibit Technicolor sound films telling tell-ing the "Story of Steel" featured the Steel exhibit which was held all day hi the Legion Hall under the direction of A. P. Hoelscher, of the Geneva Steel company. r The exhibit Included, everything from samples of Iron ore through the stages of ' manufacturing process to the finished articles. Search For Talent Contest Louren Lamph, who - recently returned to make his home In American Fork, won first place in the search for talent contest with the solo "Deep River'. Second Sec-ond place went to Mary Brown, a five year old from Provo, and third to Barbara and Bruce Greenland, children of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Greenland of Highland. High-land. The grand ball, baseball game, childrens foot races, and the various other features' of the celebration rounded out a. big holiday here for townspeople and visitors and was declared a great program as American Fork's annual steel day celebration. celebra-tion. Dr. G. S. Richards Injured By Horse Marring the otherwise Joyful celebration of Steel Day was the accident of Dr. G. S. Richards following the morning parade. As the parade was dissembling on First East street Dr. Richard's horse became frightened and reared backwards, throwing the doctor to the road. Luckily the horse regained its bearing before its full weight was released. Dr. Richards was removed to the hospital and after, examination was -reported to have no broken bones, or serious ser-ious injuries. Though suffering from severe bruises he is reported report-ed to be improving. Notice Mrs. Eskelson's Art class begins be-gins Saturday, September 8, at 3 p. m. upstairs in the City Hall. Paid adv. s. -I t I . i "V . . . 1 ' : 1 ri I |