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Show Stores and Schools to Close For City Wide Cl M(BW Alpine n taken? flie m nr A. offers free medical for UlJ -- that show up with after Friday! clean-up W in fact, hewiuao than that he will , for the one ' that (up with the most blisters jhonest tou. 4 hnrtrlars were working; in L gt Barker's Jewelry store ck. Last week Mr. Barker couple of the cuiesi uiue . in his show window but I went by the next time was more than two. The feay there was even more, b it was every day, and if I t. i. tha wlnHnW now VOU Klfc Ul W"- " km. anything: dui raDDiw, j u Easter doesn i come 'man. the Barkers will need taore burglars of snatch the rabbit type to get na 01 me harbingers of tne : isasier ' '1Q ' . he little woman has tricked kto. hanging a , couple of of wallpaper trus spring her down to Bakers to pick U of these OE mix-masters t your paste with they're . '49 " " - it'ls time to bring "Leave week to American Fork. - H.L A ase we sec asiae wiwioui it of proclamation the week 111 18 to 23 as a sort or oe I to - the - many mooched issman. - Anyone -can -be nan of the committee for is no action necessary. Just faber when you get up next hy that it Is do nothing sea- hd "leave us be" reigns for role week. !t Hollndrake finally --gave, ing to peddle those 1948 tlon tickets at a cut rate mas finally got a brand en new issue off the press. Ian get yours up at the city- lUect-hall: Don't auote me. fcmor has It that Vern pap- he hallway at his house we left-over tickets. irman Reports I Passed In Cross Drive Merchants, schools, , churches and the general public will collaborate colla-borate .Friday to stage American Ferk's annual spring -cleanup day. Guy A- Richards, general chairman of the drive, will be on hand to sound the "shine it up" whistle at 8:00 a. m. The legions of splc and span workers are asked to assemble at the various ward chapels by the appointed hour- when the ward captains will be on hand to direct the work.: The .high school boys are requested to report to-the wards and the girls to the school, since high school will be ?. dismissed, dis-missed, to assist in ....the.drivel.iLL The city will V dispatch - two trucks to each ward to assist in disposal of the accumulated trash and workers will be on hand at the city dump to keep the refuse pushed out of the way,' ; ; ;x : individual householders can have their trash, hauled away if they do not have means of their own to remove it, but the com mittee requests that it be put in suitable containers and placed on the curb. ' When the truck calls, the family should render assist ance in loading the debris., . ."It is hoped," said the ehalr man,' "that the individuals will have their own yards raked and be on hand to help with the street cleaning." In past years some citizens worked only on their own yards.? V V '' Leslie Searle and Kenneth EL ' Hunter, co-captains of the Third ward area, requests 'that workers in that district report to the Union Pacific tracks. . From the tracks they , will work north oh Center street, First, Second, Third and Fourth North streets; and will work west on the cross streets. Leo Nelson win direct the work on Center street,- Earl Holmstead on First West, Glen Baker on Second West, Walter B. Devey on Third West and Adrain Hollndrake on Fourth West. Mr. Searle will have the trucks on hand to commence' the hauling operatlon8..iai;iiL1.;.;,--r j-OIen ; Barratt and r. Clifford Young are assisting Dr. Richards In getting the drive underway. Other ward captains are Melvln E. Dunkley for the First and Fifth wards, E. Vern Hollndrake for the Second (and " Seventh wards, Hans Laursen and Jared D. Keller for the Fourth and Sixth wards. "Ws .;'-.-," High school students who give a working demonstration of citizenship cit-izenship will be rewarded with a free theater ticket through the courtesy of John H. Miller of the Cameo Theatre. " The committee in charge of the clean-up drive Joined in asking the cooperation of the mature Claud; H.1 Pratt Named Asst." : At State School ; The Utah State Welfare Commission Com-mission met at the American Fork Training school Tuesday and named Claud H. Pratt, com mission personnel director, to the position of assistant superinten dent to succeed Jack E. Horton. Mr. Pratt is not a new-comer at the institution since he con ducted an investigation of alleg ed.mal-practlces at the institu tlon last fall and later acted as temporary administrator of the school during the illness of Dr. H. H. Ramsay, s superintendent. Hls'selectlon was hailed by local employees of the school as "wise and sound". i.- Dr. A. C. Lambert, chairman of the welfare commission; In answ er to recent criticisms hurled at me aaministrauon oi uie insu tutlon said: "Upon advise of counsel, the commission stands ready to consider any new and relevant and varlflable evidence that is presented In writing. Defi nlte action has been . taken to correct certain things, and measurable meas-urable improvements have been made on numerous problems that have been under study at the institution for a long time. The chairman stated, -"that neither the superintendent nor the commission has any intention or policy of moving numbers of employees from their present positions. The policy Is to pre serve stability in the staff and to make changes only upon the rec ommendation of the administra tor, and where the total general welfare of " the institution will be best served by such change.' The commission transacted routine business at the Training School session and gave approval for the employment of Mark Allen as consulting psychologist and oked a working agreement with the medical school at the University of Utah to obtain ad ditional professional services. present at the meeting were Dr. Lambert, Dr. P. T. : FarnS' worth, J. Parley White and Dr Ramsay. - A,:- r'v. - The total enrollment at ; the school is 1192 at present, of this number 475 have been trained and released for employment but are retained as wards of the school. Chamber of dents. Chadwicks Expand Insurance Service Chadwick's Insurance Service has enlarged Its business with the purchasing of the fire, casualty, bond, and most of the automobile automo-bile insurance from Phil D. Jensen. Jen-sen. , ' "V Mr. Jensen1 was recently advanced ad-vanced to - general agent of Beneficial Life for seven" Utah counties and had to. relinquish r Chadwick's Insurance Service, ODerated by Wayne E. and Keith Chadwickv-will biXtiftWtoi. these new policy holders in every way possible.";' :p':'-y'jV:-Vr7l' Directors Chosen citizens of the community on ' ' rican Fork's contribution ,'Friday, so that the campaign I AmmprrA Red Cross for 1949 is iust would not turn out to be Just a ..T T ' ver the t noi n worx-oui ior nign scnooi siu- I, chairman, renorted after yons were In the first of pet Industrial collections it w be portioned out on a iplta basis. pie business district $426.00 f oueciea unaer the dlrec ii Tanx l. Oalsford. The ams who worked under Mr. rd were Harry Barratt and Stewart, Joseph Cook and e Barker, Ewing Albertson ick Hunter, Clen Saunders ay Howes, Dr. Homer F. and Frank Humphries, rtct chairmen and the its collected are as follows: ' J"8- O. Dale . Burgess, Highland. :TukusLInyue, Rrst ward,..,willlam ."H. ward. .Mrs. jra,w.2&; -Third ward, f B. Devey, $3f.50; Fourth cx e. Horton, $43.30: ward, William . Laursen, olxth ward.. Mm vta t. p oo; Seventh Ward, Frank ?wooa, $775. - Wendell Strong Students Named To Represent A FHS Graduates Students to represent the Amer-can Amer-can Fork high school seniors at the commencement exercises were chosen this week. The faculty fac-ulty picked he four students with the hlehest scholastic marks and from these eight the class chose their representatives. The marks were . very close, sometimes only one point of dif ference. ' ' ''v;.:.:- " Miss Loiase Boley, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Mvron M. Boley. and Wendell Strong son of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Strong, Alpine, were the final choice. - - -..,...,.,...:...r... The other too six students were Maxlne Blnch, Florence DeMarco, Barbara Faddls, Lloyd Wright, Dell Schrclber, and LeRoy Griffin Jr. - ' , Members of the Chamber o Commerce chose Ewing . Albert-eon, Albert-eon, O. Easton Brown, James O Dillion, Harold HoHey and Lev Meredith as directors during th election held last week. The directors di-rectors will will meet Wednesday night and perfect their organiza tion for the ensuing year. , Hold-over directors are Roy Hampshire, John H. Miller, Keith Nielsen, W. - L, . Faddls, : Orson Slack, Tom Evans, Owen Hum' phries, Winiam-Young, tOwen Tibbetts and Frank Upright. - ' . .The club wu launch'a member ship drive and a sales promotion campaign in the near future with Leo Meredith and Harold Holley chairman of the respective com' mittees. . , Sum. Seated: Ldward W. Burgess, Albert B. Allen, clerk. - Standing Delbert Chlpman, Phil D. Jensen. Members Asked to Support Church Welfare Plan Edward W. Burgess, member of the Alpine stake high council, and a foriner bishop of the Alpine ward, was unanimously un-animously sustained as president of the Alpine stake at the afternoon session of quarterly conference held Sunday, Mr. Burgess succeeds President Jesse M. Walker who with' his counselors received an honorable release from the First Presidency Presi-dency of the church. . . i Mr. Burgess chose as his counselors Delbert Chipmari, who has served as second counselor to President Walker, and Phil D. Jensen, a member of the stake high council. Elder Joseph Fielding Smith, of - the" Council of Twelve, took charge of the change of ' , officers. Elder Marlon Q. Bomney, one of the assistants as-sistants to the, twelve, was also In attendance. The conference opened Saturday Satur-day evening with a Priesthood leadership meeting. The first general session was held at 10 a. m. Sunday, and at 7 :30 in the evening the MIA conducted the meeting. : - At the morning session Elder Romnejr, after explaining that the church now had - enough canneries to supply all needs of Stanford Dahi: Heads v; Jaycee iCIub The Junior Chamber of Commerce Com-merce elected a slate of officers Thursday night to serve for the coming year.' Stanford Dahl was elected president of the club by acclamation on "March 17. . ' i Marvin? Tevscher, was elected, vice president w- the. Thursday night balloting; Kenneth E. Hunter. Davis Stewart and Will-ard Will-ard Devltt were elected directors; Irvln Chlpman received the nod for tailtwlster. G. Easton Brown, retiring president, moved over to the office of state director for the local chamber. The Jaycees voted vot-ed to place Mr. Brown's name In nomination for vice president on the state ticket for the Junior Chamber of .Commerce. ' The holdover directors for the local organization are J. Ralph Blnnem, Glen C. Barratt and James A. Damlco. . r Installation ceremonies for the new officers will be held at the Silver Star on April 2L Committees reported to the club on the progress of the drive to raise funds to send the high school band to Colorado Springs in June. Dr. Guy A. Richards reported on the current clean-up drive, and some of the difficulties encountered in getting the drive j underway. '; Fire' Station To Be Enlarged and Remodeled Councilman Jared D. Kellar was authorized by the city council coun-cil Monday night to entertain bids for tho remodeling of the fire station. When the remode ling is completed, the city plans to construct an addition to , the fire station to accommodate an other fire engine. - - Deloss Dlckerson was appoint ed custodian of the cemetery by the touncil.:The council instruc ted the clerk to contact the V. P, railroad regarding repairs to railroad rail-road crossings within the city. : KDA Annual Play Set For Friday night i- Vf' tvv ,:.r,.: . W ' " " - . Leads la Peanata India is th world's Urgrtt pro-uctr pro-uctr of petnuts: , - -. ? 1 I Kappa' Delta Alpha, dramatic club of the senior high school will present "Nine t Girls,. : mystery drama bjr "wnfrtttt rPettit Friday, Fri-day, night In the school auditor? .iBmluiPwrtaJii at 8:15. The play consisting- of a prologue and "two acts will be presented by., ah, entirely .female cast of which Miss Beth Ovard of the school faculty is the director. direc-tor. Miss Janice Chlpman is student stu-dent director. : The funds derived will be used In purchasing much needed stage equipment. Last year's net proceeds pro-ceeds of the annual K. D. A. play were used in purchasing a new couch - which is -being used-the first time for this production. The students are asking for support sup-port of the townspeople in their project. -Every K. D. A. member is assist ing in preparing the production for .presentation. Committees are: publicity, Colleen Howarth, Beverly Bowers, Elden Haag and Charles Orr; ticxets, Joan Kar-ren Kar-ren and Richard Devey; pro grams, Lou Jeanne Bowen and Ruth - - Wagstaf f : - staging and lights, Thomas Meranda, Calvin Monson and John van Waeoner: properties, Betty Nelson and Kaye noimsteacL. .. ... Louise Boley - - OalloD ! Milk " One dairyman found that it took from ?40 to 350 iqulrtg to "take" gallon of milk from his cows. Flood Control In Am. Fork Dist Nearly Completed Flood control work along Amer ican Fork creek, which is being done under the direction of the U. S. Corps of Army Engineers, was completed north of the city today. A few more days will be needed to complete the work south of the city, according to representatives of the engineers. The work was completed with only hours to spare as the run' off now exceeds the amount of water that can be turned out in the irrigation canals. The cold late spring has increased the pos sibillty of floods since there Is Istlll considerable snow in the low ranees. The contract for the work was for $20,615.00 and the construc tion is being done by the contracting con-tracting firm of Germer, Abbott, and Waldron'of Tremonton. B. E. Stanley, field inspector, repre sented tne corps oi Engineers on the project.. The project consists con-sists of five miles of channel clearing dlktagrancl -snagging trees from congested areas. . F.:.W. McGregor chief of Lthe Salt Lake Field office of - the Sacramento district division of the . corps. ofenglneers, was in American Fork Saturday ins pec t-lne t-lne the nrolect - and conferring with city officials and Walter A. Devey, chairman of the commit tee cn flood control. : The channel clearing and dik ing project north of the city is of unestlmatable value in tne protection It will elve to the Rid ing club rodeo grounds and prop-4 ertles In the city to tne souin-west souin-west of this location. The diking through the state training school area will protect the farms and city dwellings on the southeast side of the creek. :;. Below Second South street a major improvement was accomplished accom-plished In the clearingof the rubbish and heavy brush that congested the channel in that area. "?- "- - rCUi -The Flood Control -committee with Mr. Devey as chairman has rendered considerable service , to the city in assisting in the. flood control work,Roy Okey. Clyde Wagstaff, Glen Chadwlck, Leslie Searle, Marlon II. Chrtstensen and Owen Dr Chrlstensen, secretary, secre-tary, were the other committeemen. committee-men. ' i thermometer" Going Up lrlBandlM Initial efforts of :th Junior Chamber of Commerce to raise sufficient funds to send the high school band to Colorado Springs to the JayCees-National conven tlon In June, netted $500 the first week , The amount was solicited from the residential areas. The business district will be canvassed this week by Richard H. Rogers and. his committee, who hope to match the amount raised last. week. The goal has been set at $1800 which could be raised if "each adult would contribute a dollar,1 according to O. Easton Brown, president of the chamber group. Several individuals have given ten dollars to the fund while others have turned the sollclters down cold," Mr. Brown said. : When the state Junior Cham ber of Commerce' selected the high school band to represent Utah at their June convention at the Colorado city, the local organization or-ganization immediately under took the task of raising sufficient funds to make the trip possible for the band members, Richard Hunter, chairman of the ' transportation committee, has arranged an attractive dls play in the show window at Thornton Drug depicting the Timpanogos to Pike's Peak tour with a barometer to indicate the amount of funds raised. Davis Stewart, a color .captain, leads all individual campaigners among the JayCees with a dis tribution of over fifty "I gave a buck or More'' buttons 'Other color captains are: Don Parduhn, Irvirt' Chlpmanf Ken Hunter, William Ellison, Leo Wootton, Dean Bateman, Dee Hunter and Leonard Kelly. - - - Jesse - Spaf ford To Head ... Poultry Group; Jesse Spafford was elected president of the American Fork, local of the Utah Poultry Pro-; wards, under ducers at a business meeting and social held Thursday night in the Alpine stake tabernacle. Elected to head the organization for the coming year along with Mr. Spaf ford were Melvln Frandson, vice president; : Hayden Hollndrake, secretary-treasurer; Elmer Chip- man, W. R. Halllday, R. D. Connelly, Con-nelly, Elden J. Miller, and George Blnch, directors. ' i Clyde C. Edmunds, general man ager of the Utah Poultry 'Producers 'Pro-ducers and Hyrum Blackhurst, manager of the feed department, Program numbers incraa- ed banjo solos by Karl -Bennett, solos, Dean Deveraux; humorous readings, Niels Fugal, accoraian numbers, LsJlae Robinson,,, and vocal solo, Ann Miller. the welfare plan, went into the philosophy of the plan, which he said the Latter-day Saints must live before they will be able to live the United Order. -We can never build the New Jerusalem the speaker said, until we are a self-sustaining, self-reliant people. peo-ple. ;- . .: : , He advised against taking up with world philosophies of relief where half fhA nennto llva rm tfe labors of the other half, and' strongly urged members of ther-church ther-church to support their own fam ilies, saying that Christ taushfc the lesson of caring for ones par ents when he was on the cross. In closing he plead for faith that keeps the commandments of God without question. ', ' Elder Smith,' who followed. spoke much along the same line, mentioning the Pilgrim fathers and the Pioneers as groups who were self supporting. He . said that taxes had Increased 803 per cent in the last 29 years and that the more people who were taken off nrrvlnctton t.h mnr the worker would have to pay. The shaker then"', turned- to the great debt CIvrLt r "1 for mankind and ? dlscu-.J the atonement, it importance in the cycle of - salvation and mania responsibilities in obtaining eternal eter-nal life, Following the sustaining of the new stake presidency, mem- released and the following were sustained John Pulley, Myron R. Moyle, Clare B. Chrlstensen, Frank G. Shelley, Glen L. Taylor, Fred Bowen and Francis B. AbeL Five other councilmen will be named later. - i . : Others releases were Dr. Homer F. Royle from the stake mission, ami tin II7411(nM D Tw.M.l mil son as stake organist. Elder Smith called on all the retiring officers as wen as the new members of the stake presi dency for brief remarks. Those who spoke were President Walker, Counselor Leo G. Meredith, President Pres-ident Burgess, Counselors Delbert Chlpman and Phil D. Jensen, and high councilmen Ludwlg M. Larson, Lar-son, Clyde P. Crooks ton, and James W. PhUlips. . ,1 juaer nomney in ws remaru . said that the calibre of a man . is expressed in the manner In which .. he accents a . release. . whether he puts himself "on the shelf. '.of -finds activity in other positions, and said that a su staining vote meant more than an uplifted hand. - ; t , In closing remarks Elder Smith said : that aiiKtalnintr fimtii nnt. only willingness to let a man do the job -but giving mm allpossi-r not a democracy but more of a republic, where one contrary vote might outweigh 99 and call for reconsideration, although such a negative Vote, he said, should be given with good reason. . , ; Music for the two sessions was furnished ' by . members of the First, Second, Fourth and Sixth we oirection or A Phil D. Jensen,: with. Miss' Joy Greene at the organ console and , Mrs. Raymond T-Bailey at the piano. Selections were "Joseph Smith's First Prayer," "The King of Glory "Battle Hymn of the Republic,- " "Make the World Brighter," "Crusader's Hymn," and "Qod of Our Fathers" Prayers were-offered by Clyde P. Crookston, Bishop Stewart A. Durrant, Ludwlg M. Larson, and Frank-'or'Shelley."'';"'"---'':'"'--";:--"--"' At the morning session there were in attendance 1202, or 23 ft per cent of the stake population, the largest attendance dyrlns the time that Albert ,B. ' Allen, stake clerk, has been keeping records. In the afternoon only 616 or 11 per cent were present |