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Show Lean-up paint-up BEAUTIFY Make Our City Beady for' the Centennial A eric 1111 IP 1 mm imm CLEAN-UP PAINT-UP BEAUTIFY . for the Centennial : Make Our City Beady L. XXXXV AMERICAN L FORK, UTAH, FRIDAY, APRIL 4, 1947 NUMBERS Imerican Fork Will Enter Safety r rive Starting April 7 e signed to combat the mount-toll mount-toll of highway accidents i-ough a statewide campaign of ficational publicity, the Utah jtite Press Association Highway fety drive will be launched dur- the week of April 7, according statement iasued by Roy A. onian, Manager of the News-er News-er Association. f he safety campaign, adopted the publishers at their annual nvention in Salt Lake City last nuary, will be patterned after nilar drives conducted by news-pers news-pers in Pennsylvania, New Jer-y, Jer-y, Florida and other eastern utes where remarkable results sre obtained. Material for the campaign, In eparation since Its approval in Lnuary, is now in tne nanas or au Iwspaper publishers. It has been epared through the cooperation the. National Conservation Bur- La and the Utah Safety Council. Scheduled to run for thirteen leeks, the campaign is timed for mpletion early in July, just prior the climax of the. centennial ogram, and will be in full swing i the first rush of the thousands Centennial visitors expected is year will arrive in Utah. Every newspaper in Utah is exacted ex-acted to participate in the cam- feign, wnicn win inciuaer a series sponsored advertisements pre- fe'red by recognized safety experts iamatically presenting common Buses of highway casualties and leir remedy; a series of articles ritten by state and national of- cals and safety experts; actual hotographs of Utah accidents, i-amatically displaying the results improper or illegal highway radices ; safety tips, and editorial nd news features. Advertisements, articles and all hformation are based on actual Utah statistics for 1946 gathered nd prepared by the Utah Safety ouncil and State Highway Patrol. Sponsored by the Utah State ress Association and its mem- Vers and cooperating newspapers Is a public service, the Highway Wety Campaign nas the full en-' en-' mment of the Highway Safety juncil and the Governor's Safety mmittee along with the many operating and contributing or-, or-, mizations. Crop i Plantings Expected To Be Larger In 1947 aster Pageant eady For Presentation optimistic about the season's prospects In most areas, farmers intend to plant a slightly larger crop acreage in 1947 thon during the past 2 years, the Department of Agriculture's annual "farm intentions" report shows. Acre age now planned for principal crops may approach 358 million acres, about 2.3 million, acres more than last year's and 7.4 million acres below the wartime peak of 1944. Shifts between crops are due largely to the near-record acreage acre-age of winter wheat sown last fall, which Is still doing well, and to the demand for oil crops flaxseed and soybeans. These tend to limit the acreage available avail-able for sorghums, corn, oats, and some others. Sugar beets, beans, and peas are replacing potatoes in many competing areas. Feed grains will be grown on 4.4 mil lion acres less than in 1946, but this drop is largely offset by the intended increase in. winter wheat acreage. Intended acreages of oilseeds show a big increase over last year. Soybeans grown alone are expected to increase 6 per cent and flaxseed 70 per cent, although al-though acreages of both crops are below goals. But peanuts grown alone may fall off 2.6 per cent. Planted acreages intended for 1947 include: Corn, 87,599,000; all spring wheat, 19,280,000; oats, 46,620,000; barley, 11,714,000; flaxseed, 4,488,000; rice, 1,619,000; sorghums, 13,109,000; potatoes, 2,310,000; dry edible beans, 1,-880,000; 1,-880,000; soybeans harvested, 12,-213,000; 12,-213,000; peanuts, 3347,000; sugar beets, 993,000 acres. Am. Fork To Be Hosts At Annual Meet Thirty-eighth annual meeting of the Salt Lake Presbyterial society so-ciety will be held in American Fork Tuesday, April 8, at the Presbyterian Community church. with the ladles of the local church as hostesses. At the morning session at 10 a. m. Mrs. Wirt C. Barber, Ameri Sunday evening at 6 d. 'm. the tlpine stake MIA will present a Imdown pageant at the Amphl-jcan Fork, will give the address of heatre at the State Tralnine welcome and Mrs. Malcolm Ichool. If weather prevents an Gwaaltney, Salt Lake City, will totdoor appearance the pageant make the response. The session hi De given in the tabernacle, win De aevoiea largely wj reports. Three choruses, one of ladies! Miss Margaret Thompson, Mount bices, one of male voices andV'Pleasant, will speak on the Pro- fixed chorus, directed by Mrs.! motion conference to be held in enneth McDonald and George San Francisco. Jarland, will furnish the music! At the 11:55 meeting Miss Mar-fnd Mar-fnd there will be two scenes de- garet Shannon, San Francisco pctine the events at th tnmh Cal.. executive secretary or tne Christ. Miss Jenna Vee Beck general director. A trumpet et will be given by Fred Hous- n and Richard Mercer, and ere will be a chorus of all Bee ive and Junior Girls of the take ards will have charge of park- Pg and seating at the amphi- fieatre. board of foreign missions, will address the ladies in a joint session ses-sion with the Presbytery. Dr. Crossby. Ross, Salt Lake City, will be the principal speaker speak-er at the 1:30 meeting, when George Garland, American Fork, Scouts of the Second and Third' will give musical numbers. Miss ions Play Host bH.S. Basketball Team American Fork high .school lasketball team, coaches and principal were the euests of the Iions club Thursday of last week t their regular dinner meeting. Coach Eddie Kimball, of the righam Young University was ie guest sneaker. He reported pe basketball work done in the ervice by himself, and Coach verly, and emphasized the .value f athletics to boys. Ane-guests were Principal Jesse Shannon will also speak in the afternoon. Mrs. W. D. Buzza, Salt Lake City, is the presiding officer and Mrs. R. W. Clark will be at the organ for the musical part ol the. meetings. In the evening Dr. Robert Steele, Moderator of the Presbytery will preside at a fellowship dinner held with the ladies. American Fork member will have charge of the dinner and Miss Shannon will deliver the after-dinner 'speech. Threo Allotments I i PICTURED after she was turned over to federal authorities In Philadelphia Philadel-phia to face charge that the had drawn allotments as the wife of two soldiers and a tailor is Beatrice Carodonna, 30, of Ntw Bedford, Mass. (International Soundphofo) Millers Wife Dies Following Extended Illness . Mrs. Ruth Wynn Parduhn, 53, wife of Ernest W. Parduhn, died at her home here Tuesday at 1 p. m. after a lingering illness. Holy Rosary will be recited in the Anderson and Sons Mortuary Saturday evening at 8 p. m. Monday Mon-day morning Requiem Mass will be held In the Cathedral of the Madelaine, Salt Lake City and Interment will take place in Mount Calvary cemetery; She was born April 27, 1893, at Crescent, Salt Lake county, a daughter of James and Mary Wynn. She married Mr. Parduhn Aug. 24, 1918, and the couple resided re-sided in Pleasant Grove until 1931 when they moved to American Ameri-can Fork. She was a prominent member of the Provo Catholic church and Alter society and the American Legion Post 49 Ladies Auxiliary. She is survived by her husband and the following brothers and sisters: William and Thomas Wynn, Sandy; Mrs. John Lowe, Hooper, Weber county; Mrs. Kate Taylor, Holladay, and Mrs. TH. Parduhn, American Fork. Poultry Producers Enjoy Annual Dinner Camera Club Elects Officers American Fork Camera club elected Bill Thornton president at a meeting held at the home of Bill Brew Wednesday evening. G. Watson Eataugh was elected secretarv-treasurer. and the Wfllkpr Tr. t Moien rvm nroeram committee is comnpsea Pverly, and team members Bob of J. E. Gorman, S. R. Ritfc and timick, Kent Durrant, Junior Bill Brew. Sail, Leland Hampton, Leon . Regular meeting night was Hartshorn, Billy Hoglund, Roland changed to the second and fourth Madsen, Elmo Murdock and .Paul Peters. I The next meeting of the Lions Will be their annual Fathers and Sons banauet Anril 10. Monday of each month. April 14 meeting will be held in the rear of Thornton's Drug store. All persons Interested are welcome wel-come to join. '"'Annual "dnhr,ihu'slneMmelt,-ing "dnhr,ihu'slneMmelt,-ing and election of the American Fork local of the Utah Poultry Producers association was held in the basement of the tabernacle Friday evening. Easter decorations featured the dinner table at which 208 were seated. Alma Hansen, president of the local, was in charge with Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Spafford as general chairmen of the dinner. Following the dinner a floor show of dancing and music by a cast of 20 from Salt Lake City was much enjoyed. Election was quickly disposed of, the entire slate of officers being be-ing retained by acclamation. For the next year Mr. Hansen will continue to head the organization organiza-tion with Wilbur Harding, vice ?iresldent;' Earl H. Barratt, secre-ary-treasurer; W. R. Halllday, John Mills, Knord Beck, Dazel Pulley and Hayden Hollndrake, board of directors. W-'Tlir f-..-,.rv:;".' Splendid flecord Made at' Dist. Speech Meet In the Alpine District Arts and Speech meet conducted at the Lincoln high school Friday places were mads by 22 of the 27 American Fork; students that entered. en-tered. This is. ft wry high average. aver-age. Entrants from BY high school, Provo high school and Payson also competed. In the dramatic speech department de-partment with Fern S. Taylor, coach, 12 students entered. In the retold story Richard Mercer, JoAnn Knight and Betty Jean Gerber placed superior and La-Rae La-Rae Gardner placed excellent. " Mary Lou Devey placed ex cellent in humorous reading, and Eva Young, Fern Jones and Ger-aldlne Ger-aldlne Penrod received ratings of good. Dramatic speech contest ants were Maxine Smith, excellent; excel-lent; LaRae Gardner, good; Edward Ed-ward Bunker and Beverly Bowers. In the department of For- enslcs with Luther Giddlngs as coach there were three sections. In the panel discussion Richard Selbel tied for first place with the contestant from Lincoln, and JoAnn Nielsen placed fourth. In Extemporaneous speaking Luther Giddlngs Jr. and Calvin Giddlngs, both of American Fork, tied for first place and Russell Mickelsen took fifth place. Luth er Giddlngs Jr. and Jed Pritchett, American Fork debating team, tied with Robert Allred and Robert Morton, from Lehl for first place". These teams were undefeated in the meet. Russell Mickelsen and Calvin Giddlngs took third place in debating and Junior Garllck and Norman S Wing took seventh place. All the winning students will go to the state meet which will be held at the University of Utah April 18 and 19. Lincoln high school was reported re-ported to be the perfect host. The visitors were given the keys to the school and teachers and students cooperated In making the day a pleasant one. Plans are for the meet to come to American Fork la 1948. Alpine Motor To Have House Warming STATEWIDE CENTENNIAL EVENTS April 5 "Blossom Time" at Fillmore. AprU 5 "Angel Street" at Ferron. April 5 "But Not Goodbye at Logan. April 11 "Dear Ruth; at Falrvlew. April II "Blossom Time" at Mantl. pril 11 "But Not Goodbye" at NephL April 12 "Dear Ruth" at Ephralm. April 12 "Blossom Time" at Mt. Pleasant. April 12 "ButNot Goodbye" at Delta. April 12 "Angel Street" at Vernal. April 13 Sacred Cantata at Temple Grounds, St. George, with Queen and Attendants present. Through April Art Exhibit at Springvllle. Art Exhibit, Weber county schools at Ogden. Free .Centennial Stamps At Citizen Office Formal opening . of one of American Fork's newest and most modern business buildings will be held Saturday, April 12th, when the Alpine Motor company, Ford automobile dealers, will open their doors for inspection and an all day reception at their new address, 190 East Main. The new one-story structure covers 8500 square feet with ample am-ple additional storage space for used cars and farm machinery. The modernistic show room all glass and oval shape has an unique uni-que lighting system. " The repair shop boasts' the most modern repair re-pair equipment available at the present time. The roof rests on reinforced concrete columns with steel bolstering trusses and is equipped with automatic heat. The building was designed by the owners and erected by the Ohran Construction company. It was opened for business late In the fall. At the formal opening the mayors of American Fork, Lehl and Pleasant Grove, along with outstanding businessmen" and company officials, will be present, Manager Harold Holley reported. Ski Center Location Still In Doubt WVM W"tl When you write your friends out of the state - let them know that Utah ia celebrating its centennial year- To assist everyone in this self-appointed publicity taark,- "the Utah Centennial Commission has had printed one million poster stamps which should be used within with-in the next month. The stamps will be distributed locally to the public through this newspaper. To obtain the stamps, merely call at the American Fork Citizen office at American Fork. The stamps contain the official Utah Centennial emblem, as designed de-signed by Avard Fairbanks, noted Utah artist. It is entitled "Vision". They should be placed on the lower left hand corner of all envelopes being mailed out of the state. They are NOT to ke used in place of regular U. S. postage. .. The stamps will be Issued in the quantity of one sheet (30 stamps) to "an applicant, and to prevent loss and wastage will not be issued to children. They will be distributed distrib-uted locally as long as the supply lasts. Those who cannot come to the office for them, or fail to get them before the local supply is exhausted may obtain a sheet of stamps by writing Karl F. Weller, Assistant Business Manager, Utah Centennial, Centenn-ial, Box 329, Salt Lake City 8, Ut., and enclose a self -stamped, self-addressed self-addressed envelope. City Cleanup Campaign To Be Concluded On Arbor Day Scout Camporeer et For End of April Dr. Pollard To Discuss Vegetable Crops Program for the proposed vegetable vege-table crops school to be held in American Fork the evening of Wednesday, April 9, has been received by local officials and will be presented in cooperation with the Utah Extension service, Experimental Station, State Department De-partment of Agriculture, U. S. Department of Agriculture, and the Utah Celery Cooperative. Possibilities of different kinds of vegetable crops will be- discussed dis-cussed by pr. L. H. Pollard, Experiment Ex-periment Station; Insects of Celery will be treated by Howard Dorst, U, S. Bureau of Etomology, and Diseases of Celery by Dr. E, L. Waldee, Experiment Station. April 25 and 28 have been set for the dates of the Alpine stake Scout camporee, Chairman Hen ry Chlpman announced Wednes day. Place of the meet has not been decided. Contests among the patrols will be the principal features. Tent pitching contest will be Judged by the district council, undress ing relay will be Judged by Sec ond ward scouters, Scout pace relay to be Judged by the district: First Aid will be Judged by Third ward scouters; height and distance dist-ance Judging, by district; fire by flint and steel.. Judged by the Third ward scouters; water boll lng by Highland scouters, . and pancake cooking by Alpine scouters. All scouters in the stake, all troop committeemen. Institution al representatives, every scout, and all men interested in the scouting movement are invited to attend. Watch for further announcements.'-i-,n:--..... Inter-City Seryice Club Dinner Proves Success Over one hundred service club members and their partners participated par-ticipated in the inter-city civic clubs annual party held .In the Third- ward recreation hall Wednesday Wed-nesday evening. The"gala affair was sponsored and directed by Rotary and the Lions and Jay cees were the guest clubs. One feature of the event was the honoring of the ' American Fori High School basketball team and school officials. Every member of the great tournament team; together with Principal and Mrs. Jesse M. Walker, Coach es and Mrs. Don Overly and Mrs. Leo Nelson, were present. Mayor Glen L.- Taylor, -paid tribute to the basketball boys for their splendid showing in the state tournament and Principal Walker and Coach Overly re s ponded with short talks.-' The meeting was in charge of David Greenwood, president of Rotary, and George Jones acted as master of ceremonies. OrvU Gunther gave a splendid talk on the value of service clubs to the community, the nation and the world. He touched on the great freedoms (Freedom of Speech, Fr-edom of Press, Freedom Free-dom of Religious Worship and Freedom of Assembly) and reminded re-minded the group that these cherished privileges were all four enjoyed In America alone. No other people of the worlJ can en-Joy en-Joy all of these freedoms as we do and for that reason we should cherish and preserve them at all cost, he declared. Mr. Gunther expressed a desire that our service clubs develope and expand to the point where they will become a dominating world force for freedom and happiness hap-piness of all the people. Included In the musical pro gram were: Flute duet by Misses Joann Knight, and Geraldlne Penrod, accompanied by Joan Already a great amount 'of ' ' . enthusiasm has been developed in American Fork for the annual city spring cleanup campaign which Is to be brought to, a conclusion on Monday evening, AprU 14th. The district prizes of $73.00 and $25.00 are interest-, lng the various ward groups and already the spring weather has Imbued the individual : homeowner home-owner with the urge to get his v lot and buildings in tune with the Y season. The final street cleanup wU be made by organized teams, on Arbor Day, AprU 14th. The Centennial Beautiflcation committee Is directing the work and the following teams wUl op- -erate In the seven wards of the city. . .jrrr Wilson Cunningham Is chairman chair-man of the First ward committee and block captains are Ray E. Shelley, Floyd Privett. Sherman Robinson, Art Dye, Glen M. Rob-' lnaon and Parley-J.-Bennlon.---- Elmer Chlpman will be chairman chair-man of the Second ward and block captains appointed are Elijah Chlpman, J. S. Cook, Glen MaxwelL-George Scott, Norman B. Wing, Dr. James S. Chad wick, Steven Murdock, J. Stanley Peters, Pet-ers, Ronald Bate, SI BelL Elwyn . Wride, W. R, Halllday, Richard Tattersall, and Wilson Ritchie. Chairman Leo-- Nelson -of - the Third wwd Wbe assisted " by " block captains Richard W. Hansen, Han-sen, Ernest Parker, Kenneth Mc- -. -Donald, Owen Lynch, Eldon Mill er, Charles Chamberlain, Bill Ellison, Earl Holmstead, Eldon Roberts, L. C. Lassen, George F. Shelley, Ray Lee, Lennis E. AbeL R. L. Ashby, Clyde Nelson, Roy Griffin and Alden Gray, f , f Only woman on the entire committee is Miss Mary Pulley, chairman of . the Fourth' ward committee. Her block captains . are Jared Kellar, Mark Codding -ton, John Howes, Wayne, Robin- , son, Delbert Chlpman, .. Noel Knight and Knord Beck. . Gilbert Batchelor wUl act as chairman of the Fifth ward with : Wayne Chadwick E- Ray Gard- ner. Jack Iverson, R. G. Gardner, Rulon Nlcholes, Garth ReedVT. J. Turner and G. P. Armstrong as block captains. ' ' v; Chairman of the Sixth ward is Melvin W. Grant and block captains cap-tains are Ernest Parduhn, Leo Bowen, Bert Christ risen, Francis B. AbeL Herman Parduhn, Glenn S. Wright, Ray Ellison, Clyde Makln, Wilbur Hardy, Glen Chad- wick, WendeU P. Hansen and L. R.Pett . This year It is hoped the public pub-lic will do a perfect Job of placing our city in the best possible condition con-dition for the Centennial visitors who are expected by the thousands thous-ands this summer. The city and surrcounding areas - should be made to look as beautiful as possible. Do not dump rubbish at any points that will 'detract from the county's beauty. - GHdihg-m will be the subject of H. V Swen-I JE? Jj: Ski enthusiasts of Utah county will meet at the Vivian Park! chalet Saturday morning at 8 a.; m. to inspect the Provo canyon; south fork area for a proposed, Central Utah Ski run. All in-! terested persons are invited to1 Join the group. Get in touch with Dr. w. a Homer or Marion; W. Robinson and take your lunch.; It has been reported that the Payson ar&i is out of the running run-ning and the selection will be between be-tween the American Fork Forest lake area and the one in Provo canyon. Monday evening a meeting will be held In the Provo city Recreational Rec-reational office, when the select tion will be made. Ice Chadwlck and two numbers by Mrs. Phil Edwards, accompanied accom-panied by Miss Carol -Clark. Dancing followed the banquet. ' D-T-R Sale Proves Successful Event subject son, State Department of Agriculture, Agri-culture, and an open forum on celery, potatoes, cabbage, carrots, car-rots, lettuce, onions, and , other vegetable crops will be led by Dr. E. Milton Anderson, Extension service. E. Vernon Holindrake will report on the vegetable growers' trip to Arizona, Mexico and California. Serving of refreshments will: Dixon-Taylor-Russell company conclude the evening. The school : closed their 25th anniversary sale will be held in the new Alpine ' Monday evening in their seven stake seminary building. All stores with the drawing of Iden-vegetable Iden-vegetable crop growers, Young1 tical prizes in each. In American Farmers arid Future' Farmers,: fork the drawing was done fit and any one Interested are in-130 by W. R. Halllday, president vited to attend. of the Lions club. . The lovely Beauty-Rest mat- RIDINO CLl'B I tress was won by Mrs. "Vern Americah Fork Riding club' Morse. Harold Goode -received will meet Monday night at the the set of aluminum ware, L. C. Scout Camp north of town at Lassen, the bedspread; Mrs. J. E. 7:30. Special business will be Bennett, the rug, and W. R. Cur-transacted Cur-transacted and a welnle roast! tis, the five piece luncheon set. will folio wv . AU members come1 All winners are residents of out. American Fork. Mother Dies Here Following Lingering Illness Lucille Bufflngton Baxter, 43, wife of William F. Baxter, died at her-homeL Saturday of carcinoma following a lingering Illness. Funeral Fun-eral services were conducted Tuesday at 2 p. m. at 574 East' 1st South In Salt Lake City with Walter B. Devey, bishop of $he American Fork LDS Third ward Chris Thompson, the first speaker, spoke of the deceased as a wonderful mother, one whom her step-chUdren caUed mother, also mentioned the family as good neighbors. Mr. Devey spoke as a neighbor and of the comfort of religion in times of sorrow. The daughter of Edwin C. and Emma Brown Bufflngton, she was born July 3, 1903, in Cripple Creek, Colo. The family resided In Salt Lake City until approximately approx-imately nine months ago when they moved to American Fork. Mrs. Baxter was an active Red Cross worker. , Surviving are her husband, a sort Charles McComb by a former marriage, Salt Lake City; three step-children, Mrs. Hollls (Grace) Calton, Harold Baxter, Salt Lake City; Mrs. Virgil (Lois) Taylor, Lehi; her stepmother, Mrs. Al-berna Al-berna Bufflngton, Grand Junction, Junc-tion, Colo.; two brothers, Al Bufflngton, Buf-flngton, Long Beach, Calif., and Byron Buffmgtoh7SeattIe,"WasTir |