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Show Aieri can : mm vouxxxin -,) VVl'1 ' "" AMERICAN FORK, UTAH, FRIDAY, AUGUST 30, 1946 NUMBER 26 City Set For Stee 4 Day "Gefe City Moves Closer To New Sewer Construction As the second step toward the hullding ol American Fork's jewer system the mayor and council authorized Edward L. Burton company to study and advise ad-vise the city on proper financial nlanning during the coming major sewer and street projects. This action was taken at . the council meeting Monday evening. The initial step was the author! xation of the engineering for the system which was awarded to A. Z. Richards recently. An agreement was authorized by the council--permitting the Carl B. Warren Construction Co. far cross under the city water mains at the mouth of American Fork canyon with the Salt Lake aqueduct and to use city water for settling the fill over this pipe line. . The baseball team proffered to install a sprinkling system and tod the baseball diamond if the city, would, purchase, .the ..necessary ..neces-sary pipe. The council authorized authoriz-ed the pipe purchased. Councilman Searle reported that the Intake pipe line above the weir at the Cave Camp had been found in bad condition and considerable work had been done to correct the loss of water there. Following a discussion by the council of delinquent water rates it was decided that all past due accounts must be paid and necessary neces-sary action is to be taken to get iQ accounts on a current basis. The mayor and councllmen de cided they would attend the Municipal League convention at Cedar City this week-end in a body. Stanley Peters was the only councilman unable to go. Sunday School Attendance Date Set Annual 100 oer cent Sundav wiQ be observed In Alnina stales Sunday Schools t September , 8, superintendent Frank Brown announced - this week; This" Is an attempt" to tret'lOO "per "cent of the Sundav School enrollment out for one day. ( The day is also the beginning of a concerted drive by the LDS Church to raisp , thin Snnriav School enrollment to 400,000 by January l, 1947. That means 40,000 more for the whole church nd aDDroximatelv 400 for Alnlne itake. Plans haveeen made In eight wards for the campaign. cam-paign. I, . M ACTUAL TARZAN CHIMPANZEE Will be featured on Steel Day Vaudeville Program American Fork, September 2nd. Program School District Purchases Site For Building The Alpine School District has completed a deal Involving the purchase of about two-thirds of block 31 Just south of the Alpine road, between First and "Second East streets. This la hnnnrtwi on the other two sides by Second ana inira North. The sale price a reponea at $12,500. American Fork Is faced with a major Primary building program as soon as bulldine can be under taken, Thomas; Barratt, board memoer, stated. For a number of years the Primary bulldiriz nas peen overcrowded and last - w 9 year 850 pupils were schooled nere wnere only 560 should have been handled. This vear the school district Is renting two rooms in tne city nan to help relieve re-lieve the situation some. Future. Dlans will divide the students between two buildings one to be located on the new groound iust mirch&sed and the other in the present location with a later plan of constructing another an-other building south of Main street. Similar conditions of overcrowding over-crowding prevails, principally at Lincoln, where plans are also in the making ' for additional buildings. City Slogan Chosen By C. of C. Committee "American Fork; Utah's Scenic Steele Center" sent In by Maggie Mae Steele was the winning slogan slo-gan in , the Chamber of Com-mercecontest Com-mercecontest announced In July. Mrs. Steele has been awarded the $25.00 prize offered. The slogan will be used on letterheads, posters, stickers, and many other ways to advertise American Fork. There were over 50 slogans submitted. The nine Judges each selected the five they liked best and Mrs. Steele's received more votes than any other. i ' ' 7 - ; ... . J MISS LaRae Sagers Named Steel Day Queen In Whirlwind Contest Following a four weeks contest con-test Miss LaRae Sager was crowned crown-ed queen of Steel Day at the Latona Dance hall Saturday night. Miss Jenna Vee Beck and Mfes Colleen Bennett, runner-up were .named attendants., - When the votes were counted at 11 o'clock, the dance hall held the biggest crowd ever gathered there. Not able to get on the floor the gathering extended to the street. Mrs. Wilbur Ma-whlnney, Ma-whlnney, chairman of the queen committee placed the crown on the queen s head and the queen's waltz followed. Monday morning the three lucky girls with Mayor Olen L. Taylor,. .David t L. r Greenwood, general chairman of Steel Day, Q. Eastern Brown, secretary, and Mrs. Mawhlnney went to Salt Lake City where they extended to Governor Herbert B. Maw an invitation to the American Fork celebration. Following the Interview with Special Vaudeville Show Secured For Steel -Day Evening Performance Five hie vaudeville acts brought from coast to coast by the Lyric rhpntre Salt -Lake City, will be presented at the evening enter tainment lor steel uay, Monaay, September 2, Ferrill M. Sorenson, chairman of the entertainment committee announced Tuesday. Leading the troupe is Frank Bernard comedlaivandlmUator, who will act as master of ceremonies cere-monies and put on the final act. He has come to Utah from the Hotel El Cortez, Las Vegas, Nev. The show is featuring Cheta, the chimpanzee which appears In all the Tarzan pictures. - The second act will be the Alberta Brothers with acrobatic num-hors num-hors and taD dancing. Francis Dainty and company will present the third act which is bicycle and unicycle riding on a high wire. Bud Hughes and his trained dog Pal will put on Overheated Fat To get the best use from fat In cooking as well as save it for use again, heed the "no smoking" rule. When tat Is overheated and reaches the smoking point, it starts to break down chemically. To prevent fat from smoking, keep the heat low when melting fat for sauce or pan-frying. Cook meat at moderate moder-ate temperature which Is best for the protein as well as the fat r i A. LaRAE SAQER, STEEL DAY the governor the group attended a press conference, went to the Hotel Utah for lunch and made a radio appearance at KUTA. The radio performance was trascnb ed and win be broadcast from KUTA at 5:15 Saturday after noon. Tuesday the girls went to Ge neva Steel Plant where they met Walter Ma thesius, president . of the company, and had a press conference with Provo newsmen. Mrs. Wilbur Mawhlnney desires to express her appreciation for the generous and untiring support sup-port of the queen committee. To Mrs. 8. Dwight Packard, Rotary Arms; Mrs. Owen Lynch and Mrs. Frank' C. Greenwood, Jaycee rwrfes,-MTS.-onn'H. aimer aoq Mrs. FJwyn Wrid, Xady Lions; W. R. Hallidar and Leo G. Meredith, Lions, Nlles Wing and L. Dean Bennett, Junior Chamber, Cham-ber, she is especially grateful as well as all the club women who assisted with the selling of votes. the fourth act. The entire show will be accompanied by a six-piece six-piece orchestra. Following the show the drawing will take place for the Chevrolet car and the evening will be climaxed with a grand display of fireworks. ' The affair will take place at the high school stadium which has been put in excellent shape. Assisting Mr. Sorenson with the entertainment features are C. A. Grant and Steve Murdock. Concessions . Concessions for. Steel Day willi be running Friday and Saturday nights and all day Monday. Band R.;bers This is your bir day. Practice will be held at the Harrington Friday (tonight) at 7 p. m. sharp. AU members come out. ' Game Befugea Minnesota now baa . more than 1,750,000 acres dedicated as refuges and public shooting grounds. Pennsylvania Penn-sylvania has been acquiring such lands since 1915 and now has mora than 1,000.000 acres. Since 1903. Michigan has been using game funds and a special license fee for this purpose and the state now has 3,750,000 acres of such lands. ' V-' i QUEEN Utah Voters To Weigh Amendments Eight proposals for amendment amend-ment of the state constitution will be confronting Utah voters when they go to the polls, for the November 5th election. Five of the proposals were adopted by the recent special session of the legislature. The 1945 Legislature approved proposals to increase county attorney's at-torney's terms from two to four years, enable the state to tax federal lands, and enable the state to tax federal property in the state. New Proposals Listed The five new proposals are 1. A proposal that the state set a statewide property tax and with other funds available supply 75 percent of a $3000 per class room unit minimum program. 2. A proposal that the Legis-4 lature be given the power to determine the location of the Utah State Hospital, State Train ing School, Industrial School and other institutions not speci fically located by the constltu tion. This power is requested for the purpose of determining whether or not the state should acquire the army's abandoned Bushnell Hospital as a site for a state Institutional center. . 3. A proposal that all income and corporation franchise tax es be used to finance this mini mum program. 4. , A proposal that salaries of state elective officials may be increased or decreased at the will of the legislature without requiring an incumbent's " term of office to be completed. 5. A proposal that salaries of supreme court and district Judges, Judg-es, as increased by the 1945 legislature, be made effective Jan. 1, 1947, through elimination, of !5Qn5Ututipnal.prohibitionsVi,i4 In connection with Bushnell the lawmakers approved creation of a six-man legislative committee commit-tee to make a complete investigation investi-gation of all factors Involved In the Bushnell proposal and to sub-. mit Its report to the next legislature. legis-lature. The committee was granted $10,000 with the limitation limita-tion that it not be used unless the people approve the constitutional constitu-tional amendment empowering the legislature to re-locate the institutions. This legislation was contained in Senate Blll-1 which requires gubernatorial signature before becoming effective. - -. Ancient Baxera, -The boxers of ancient Greece probably fought windmill fashion rather than hitting out straight from the shoulder. Jokes of the time referred to broken ears, not noses, and earguards were worn. The rules of boxing, however, did not differ greatly from those of the modern ring. Events of the Day " 6:00 A. M. Salute at Daybreak. . . ; , ' 10:00 A. M. Mammoth Parade. 12:00 Noon Kids Races and Games Prizes. City Park 1 :00 P. M. Baseball Game City Ball Park, i Fun oh the Greased Pole. Ride the Greased , , "... 2:00 P. M. Horse Shoe Pitching contest City Park. 3:00 to 5:00 P. M. Special Horse Racing program at :-r:iCUyJBaU.Parlc - 5:00 P. M. Concession Time for all. T4" 6:00 P. M.Evening Parade. 8:00 P. M. Vaudeville at High' School Campus. . v New Chevrolet Drawing, ". .. " - Fireworks. : " ; '-- 9:30 Pr M.-Latona-Dance Frolic Line-of-March For Parade Announced Steel Day IP: 00 a. m. parade will line up at the Owl Inn, on the east end of Main Street and march to the Latona Dance Hall where they will disband. : - The evening march will begin at the Latona, march to the Owl Inn and disband. ; : f ; The parade will be lead by a mounted Veteran carrying the American flag and with a color guard of vets. American Legion in charge. The American Fork high school band and the queen's float will make up the first sec tion. , The second section - will be composed of commercial floats with most of the business houses making entries. Section - three will k be church . entries, , section four, clubs of the town, and sec tion five, comics. In the morning parade there will be two other bands inter sperslng the sections, besides the Magna Drum and Bugle corps. A fourth band will appear In the evening parade. Riding, clubs . from American Fork, Lehl and Pleasant, Grove will Join In the parade and will also be placed between sections. , '-.llorie Racing ? Nine Racing events are ached uled for the horse races between 3 and 5 o'clock in the afternoon. Five saddle races, one novelty, one novelty relay, a boys pony race, and a Shetland pony race will make up the events. The best horses in the district have been signed up. The race track is in excellent shape and the fence has been completed by members of the Riding club who have -this feature fea-ture in charge. Oregon Trailer Burns nere American Fork Firemen were called out at 2:45 Tuesday when a transient trailer at the turn of the road west of town caught on fire. The flames were first noticed W t truer which' waifoUowing. The truck driver speeded up and notified the owner who tried to put out the flames with an extinguisher. ex-tinguisher. Failing, the department depart-ment was called. The contents of, the - .trailer. considerable clothing and household house-hold goods, were completely destroyed. The .' owner, whose name or destination was ' not learned, was moving from one part of the country to another and the trailer contained all his worldly goods, firemen reported. It was surmised, that the. tire was caused from a cigarette thrown from the car. ATTENTION ' ALL FLOAT BUILDERS Plenty of paper is now avail able should you need any. Greenwood Green-wood Motor company has Just received a shipment. v O. Easton Brown ' -Sect'y. Steel Day Com. American Fork and .her., six thousand people are ready and waiting for Steel Day which Is to be staged here on Monday, September Sep-tember 2nd. This day proved to be the greatest one-day celebra-. tion in the state last year when Is-wiuu Inaugurated , .and ..this., year the community has gone all out to make it even better than before . ' - 1 Two parades, baseball, horse racing, vaudeville show, dances, concessions, chlldrens sports, etc. and the awarding of a brand new Chevrolet car to some lucky per son have been crowded Into a full day's program of fun. . The committees In charge of the various features' have every minute detail worked out and the ten thousand visitors expect-ed expect-ed will, be royally entertained from daylight Monday morning to the wee hours of Tuesday, David Greenwood, general chairman, chair-man, announced yesterday. Legion Auxiliary Installs ; New Officers With the ceremony conducted by Mrs. George E. Oraff. past district president, officers of the American Legion Auxiliary, unit 49. for 1948-47 were Installed at a meeting held In the Legion Hall Tuesday evening. - Mrs. E. J. Moss was Installed as president, Vice .pxesUients are Mrs. Hayden Hollndrake and Mrs. George 8. Hunter. , Mrs. Jack Iverson la secretary, Mrs. Graff. treasurer; Mrs. Floyd Beale, his torian; Mrs. Lloyd A." Bennett, chaplain, and Mrs. Earl Fergu son, sergeant-at-arms. Mrs. Hans Laursen, past presi dent presided with Mrs. C. D. Strang, vice president, in charge. Reports for the past year were given by Mrs.- Hunter, treasurer, and Mrs. Moss, historian. The next meeting of the Aux iliary will be held Sept. 11. : Noted for Fercelala Nanking, China, 'was first noted for Its production of. tapestries, and was later famous for Dorcelain. In the past century it employed up to 75,000 , workers in the making of cheap paper fans, quantities of which were imnorted Into the Unit. ed States. Best known of its ruin is that of the Porcelain Paeoda. b. MWMM&$fr.Mi rose ... one above the other to a height of 260 feet Some 150 porcelain bells were suspended from the balconies. ' Asphalt Compounds Asphalt compounds are .the oldest old-est and most efficient waterproofing and weatherpooflng agents yet discovered dis-covered by man. They kept Noah'a Ark afloat- and until this day have sustained the hanging garden of Babylon the eighth wonder of the world. , , Warning! TO PERSONS USING FIRE ARMS Attention is called to the city ordinance prohibiting -shooting of fire arms - within the city limits. Any person found using 22 rifles or other guns within the limits of American Fork City will have1 their guns confiscated. T. J. Turner, City Marshal. 'Aft-1 T" |