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Show THE AMERICAN FORK CITIZEN, Thursday, September 16, 1954 Little Scotch Immigrant Lassie Now Reaches 81st :Anmvereaty K n II ' M0U1I1IS ireenw. VOL. LI Wm 7" . Betsy Adamson Hunter A little lour year old girl woo tu born In Scotland and came to Utah In 1877 on a " aallshlp, last week passed her 81st birthday. birth-day. . She Is Betsy Adamson Hunter (Mrs. John), lenown to all her neighbors as either Aunt Betsy or Grandma. . Sept. 8, relatives and friends gathered at her home to offer their felicitations and wish her many "Happy Returns." During the evening moving pictures taken one year ago were .shown, Committee Meets To Discuss Zoning Problems - American Fork .Chamber ox Mmnm4-f. Commerce zoning committee t i'i.-w.,mP(j 4 f. met at a luncheon Friday In the. .Ow.JTin.-.nnrter.the .direction of, , Glenn C Schmidt. Zoning prob-I lems were discussed and It was j lZr::'" . work .closer with the city officials offic-ials to expand them." " LeRoy R. : Griffin," chamber secretary, was In attendance re cently at a meeting In the office of Von Robertson, . educational coordinator, Salt Lake City. - A nrtatewldeZeducatlonalprogram for the volunteer firemen association asso-ciation and the allocation - of $1500, set aside for tids purpose, were discussed The money will bedistributed uie uesw iuc uguuug uauuug. the w MjmM.imemi f "hntl in ti ' TTnttArt KTatM Canada, w Mexico andpther countries. It is useful to anyone who desires to secure lnforma- j -- ' I uon aooui accommoaauoos or reservations, and may be used by calling LeRoy B. Griffin, secretary.. . , Walton KEoulger Relates Boat Trip-To Trip-To Lion Members Walton E. Foulger was guest speaker at the meeting of the American Fork Lions Club Thursday, September 9. Mr. Foulger snowed a film of his recent re-cent boat trip down the Colorado Elver. There were forty who went In five -boats. Mr. Foulger's son, David, and Richard Preston, son of Mrs. Phyllis lind, accompanied accom-panied him. The film was pictures pic-tures of the Interesting land marks along the way Reports were heard from the flag pole and parade committees. LeRoy R. Griffin, president, and his officers praised the committee commit-tee completing the flag pole project pro-ject which culminated In the pesentaUon of .. .the jpole . to the dry at the evening program on Eteel Day. Also commended was the committee responlble ,f or erecting bleachers to convenience conveni-ence the children attending the parade from the Utah State -Training ScooL Mr. GrilCai took 'charge. T - 5 '? ' Desire is prayer; and no loss can occur from trusting God with our desires, that they may they take form In words and In deeds. .X, 1 ..' : also other movies of scenic trips taken by member! of the family. . Mrs. Hunter, a daughter of James and Isabella Motion Adamson, was bom at Port or, Scotland, Sept. 8, 1873. Her father fath-er accepted the teachings of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and In Sept. 1877, brought his family to Utah. The mother joined the church after they arrived In the west. Isabella Isa-bella Motion was the scsond wife of her husband and Betsy had several older half brothers and sisters. One of them, Mrs. Bell Wilson, who lives In California, Is 103 years old. When Betsy was 18 years old she was married to John Hunter, Dec. 2891. 1$ the Manti Temple. John was the son of Scotch converts, con-verts, Ebmo&t .and Anes Mar- Ttr at the very north end of Lase ,,.:.,, w-, Street-4nrst West) where they iM r,w-K, lttmti-tfrWMwr-fcr'ffl' ZZZuZZZlZ. c-T-Zt t Z. at their home were a show place I or:jnany.year i witfc flowers every variety and color bloom ing. from early spring to late f aU. Since the death of her husband, Sept.il2,1844,rshe has kept up the flower beds as far as she was able and still delights In giving bouQuets to 1 her i friends, Ehr takes jcare-of - herself - andher home which Is nwtfculously kept. Both Betsy and John possessed Scotch wlt,- humar and hospitality hospitali-ty and their home was the gathering gath-ering "place - nf relatives and friends and the' children In the families especially enjoyed their companyriii.-i.::... .izi: l JZL. f . W In October 1897, John was vagu u. imooiwii - w u . . .. -. X, m-a cnorcn w me oouuicra oums and during his two years absence, she not only worked to support heftelf but was Table to send nlm money to help with his expenses. This was a real test of faithfulness faithful-ness to duty and faith In the gospel An ardent. ? worker c-ln.the church, Mrs. Hunter served for Sryeart'':thev'W'Jimi mlttee, she was a counselor in the-Thini'-WttrdPrimary elation for five - years and for 12 years served as its president. She was also a visiting teacher for the Belief Society for 27 years., During the years her husband was bishop of the Third Ward, she' served faithfully, by his side," ;.' V ' During semi-pioneer times, she was always on hand to help with the sick, and she helped to make burial clothes and prepare the dead for burial when, there was no mortician available. Her comforting nature was a help. In the homes of the bereaved. - The past two- winters, Mrs, Hunter has spent in California with a younger sister, Mrs, Esther Esth-er Sabey. But-t when- spring comes she wants to come home to ner garden. She has one daughter, Mrs. Leonard G (Hazel) Ehoell, Eve grandchildren and 11 greatgrandchildren. great-grandchildren. Present at the party were Mr. and Mrs. Ehoell and Melva Jean, Mr. and Mrs. Harry 'D' Uxmz irirry Jr, Elicldcn and Iarlow; ZLr. and Mrs. Kenneth Ehoell, Connie and Leonard;. Mr. and Mrs. Freeman Wilcox, Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Wil cox, Marjorle and Larry; Mrs. Maud DeaMn, Midvale; : Mrs. Josephine Hunter, Mrs. Martha Hunter. Mrs. Jane Gordon, Mrs, 4 Aaron P. Chlpman, Mrs. Mary A. Anderson and Mrs. l.oce Varney, Provo Leads Two to One InElayofLr Provo Timps have won two of the three playoff games slated to confirm a league championship champion-ship after American Fork won the first half and Provo the second during the regular games of the Utah Industrial League. Next game will be played Friday Fri-day night at 8:15 m Provo and in American Fork should win a final game will be played Sunday Sun-day afternoon also in Provo. American Fork won the first of the five game series Friday night when Al Tate pitched a masterful 6-1 victory over Provo. Tate who has pitched ball more years than he will admit, held the Timps to six. hits and did a little batting and some ' fielding on ..the side. - rr-.-.-.. .. The Timps scored only once on Bob" Storey's home run in the first inning. The Steelers made four runs in the first, added one in the second and another in the eighth to' insure their win. : : Sunday Provo evened the score with a similar 6-1 game over the Steelers. Garth Ford, veteran Provo pitcher, set up the Provo' win Sunday at Tlmp Park pitching pitch-ing and batting In a homer and a single. Tuesday night at Rotary Park In the first Inning Dick Powers, Provo, hit a homer with the bases loaded which gave them a lead of three right off the bat. Later in the game Bob Story hit another home run which added three more counters. Job pitched. pitch-ed. The Steelers made two runs In the second and another in the eighth and that told the story. Sanders pitched for the joosers. New Security For Farmers Farm . families will lace less money problems in old age or, in case of the breadwinner 8 may.Jhave In. the past,.A, new law brings them under the Fed eral old-age and survivors lnsur- ance, usually called social se curity. -.Starting on January 1, 1955, a farm operators, .and" employees will contribute a jsmall part of their Income toward building a fund that will make such payments pay-ments as possible; a farmer fflesJeaTinrawiirAMtwochU-J Xi; 272 for Lehl High School drenrIf hehas been averagingTkf." "inrrpajs of 12; a.nd'287 for $150 a month income, his family win get $120 & month. If ft farmer farm-er who has been earning about $250 -month-reaches the age of-gg-jt Is totoresttag" to3 note $132X3 .jmmizz: Jcho&l3 - tomet-in Januaryr) -Besides monthly payments for more"Etadentican -be expected survivors, , iney wiu receive j lump-sum oem paymeui, u Insured person ranging from $90 to $255.00. Farm workers- are covered un- derttie-iiewJawJfJthey-eam-AS much as $100 from the ( same farmer in the same year. Farm operators earning $400 or more in a year are Included. For employees, em-ployees, the employer contributes 2 percent -at. .total :-msn .paid and he withholds 2 percent of tbi "worker's pay. This I'pcrcent Is sent to the Director of Internal Revenue; '" m"",1"" Amount paid by self-employed fanners is 3 percent, which he himself pays to Director of Internal In-ternal Revenue when he pays his income tax, early in the spring. Since coverage doesnt start until un-til ! 1955, such farmers will not pay into Social Security until early In 1956. Further Information about new farm coverage under Social Security Se-curity Is available from . the nearest social security office. Ia I luvv hue uiutc u uj wn iuuwu Building, 149 North 1st "West Social security cards, which are necessary for all covered agricultural agricul-tural workers, are also available there. , Fourteen Frcni Am. Fork Draw Elk Pcrntirs Fourteen from American Fork were among the lucky hunters who drew out en the 1B54 elk permits. . There were : 14.3 r r- nuts Issued throughout the tt-le. ine lonunaie ones mciuaca Owen Dean, Ruth Ballard, Will-. ianf Boren, Cyril Draney, 0. Easton Brown, Dr. James E. Chad wick. Grant Myers, Glen B. Greenwood, Fern Runolf son, William A. Wyler, William Laur - sen. Floyd Myers, Wilson C. Rhone and J. D. Wadley. P eases District Student Numbers Now Near Ten Thousand An evert 8,626 students registered reg-istered for school classes In the Alpine District -during the first week of school. This indicates that 530 more students enrolled this year than for, the same period per-iod in 1953. A breakdown shows an additional 349 elementary students, 133 Junior high .school students, and f 41 senior high school students! Totals Indicate at present 5,743 elementary students stu-dents are enrolled, 1,842 Junior high students and 1.511 senior high-Students, j In the elementary Schools of the district, . registration indicates indi-cates the following: Alpine, 137 students; an increase in-crease of 25. ? Cedar Valley, 5j! students; same as last year. Central Pleasant Grove, 893 students; an Increase of 20. ' Forbes, Ameriekn Frk, 616; an Increase of 35 Harrington, American Fork, 527; a decrease oi 13. Lehi Elementary, 833; an increase in-crease of 1. Lindon, 351; a decrease of -55. New boundaries have been formed In the Orem area, and so it is difficult to compare registrations for t each school; however, In the area there is an increase of 281 elementary students. stu-dents. Junior high school populations have shown a hkff trend, Amer-ican Amer-ican Fork -Junior- High has an enrollment of 447, an Increase of 4R- Ihl Junior T.lcK n nTDll- of s28 increase of 25; t iit inntnr Ttiirh n .rnu- ment of 837, an increase of 54; and Pleasant Grove Junior -High, an enrollment of 363,- and ln- crcase 0f g Senior highs have remained about the same as last year, except ex-cept In the case of Lincoln High, with an Increase of 55 students, making a total student body of 617 students. Other schools show an enrollment of 383 for American Ameri-can Fork High School, a decrease Pleasant Grove' High School, decrease of 1. However, In compiling the fig- m aU schools. rrindrdefw effect ft more equitable distribution of students In the Orem area, it has become necessary to change the boun dary lines ftndztransferriome students from the Lindon, Char-on, Char-on, and HiHcrest schools to other schools. It is the Xeelhig of the superintendent and the super visors that the best possible edu cation: for, the. chili -should be considered, and this can be made possible In a smaller class where the, child ..Is given rapreatten tion and a more effective edu cational program. . Police Chief Mercer Thanks -.City,. State Officers After totaling up all the hazards- and problems encountered though the Steel Day celebra- tioa chief of Police Jed Mercer feels we came out mighty lucky About aU th serious troubles accounted for was the six da maged automobiles left too close to the Union Pacific Railroad while the people rushed to the concession section, A slow mov ing freight train Jammed some bumpers and fencsrs. Chief I'srcer wishes to publicly, public-ly, thaci the local National Guard rr.rmbco and the Utah (who ar;.::..:M ia handling the t crowds ci taffic. The city hired 0rJy cr.a extra pt&ce officer to help with Uie J -b. However, the local lorce woricr-d throuKn trie clock In most instances to hon- 1 die the situation. I like work; it fascinates me, I can sit and look at it for , hours. I love to keep it by me. and the idea of felting rid of it nearly breaks my heart. on Wot o'yjniuyoek& City to Sign New Street Lighting Contract American Fork City officials Monday evening authorized the signing of the regular three year contract for street lighting and other community power service with the ytah Power flight Company. The present contract expires in October. Principal item In the contract is the city street lighting system entailing the hundred odd Main Street and State Highway lighting light-ing whichmounts to about one-third one-third of the 400 lights. Cost for the entire city illumination sys tem is $560.00 per month. City buildings costs are under $50.00 per month with the city baseball and park lighting running aproximately $150.00 per month for-the four summer months. Water pumping costs at the Kelly pasture ran some one hundred dollars per month dur ing the one and one-half month operation. The pumping plant at the Star Flour Mills site is expected to run slightly more than this figure for the months it Is In operation. The total power service, bill for the entire city operation will reach over $10,000 per year. Citizens of the, Robinson area, 5th East and 2nd North, discuss ed sewer . extension costs with city officials at Quite some length. Connection fees and monthly costs were delved Into and a rate will be set up to cover cov-er this and future , extensions after a definite pattern is set up by the cltyr - - Councilman Uoyd . Tregaskis was named American Fork City representative on the City-County City-County health board for Utah CountyAEach cityla.,:.'Utah County will be represented on the board. - , - A unanimous " vote was carried car-ried to purchase ten shares of American Fork irrigation 'Co. water stock at a price of $90 per share, In the past the city has paia up to ssa per snare zor mis stock. The council members, and Mayor -Scott- all expressed their appreciation Tor the splendldJob executed by the 1954 Steel Day Committee and authorized a letter let-ter be sent to the committee commending ICrmembersT tor thefclineiwork City. Attorney- Grant Ivbuufcad drafted- the necessaryrlonn: f or filing on the Star Mil well which the council approved and authorized auth-orized filed with the state engineers engi-neers office,-: 7-- r The regular run of bills were checked-and approved. ; American Fork Man - Named to Hi-Land Dairy According to ftn announcement ffcy - IQ-Land Dairy "Mr:1 Stewart Adamson of 447 No. 1st; East, Ahlerican Fork has been named' to a position in their organization. organiza-tion. He will , be In charge of route '( sales for Hl-Land Ice cream in the Utah County area. Previous to coming to Ill-Land, Mr, Adamson had considerable experience in the distribution of food products to .the grocery stores. The dairy management in making this announcement, stated that sales in this area have Increased very rapidly. This new territory for Ice cream was set up solely to handle Ill-Land Ice cream in ths section. Mr. Adamson Is married to Maxlne Nelson of Pleasant Grove and they have three children. Fhil D. Jensen Wins lienors at Dist Insurance Meet Mr, and Mrs. Phil D. Jensen have Just returned from attending attend-ing a Beneficial Life Insurance Company convention - ..held" at Glcnwood' Eprinss, Colorado;'.: . Mr. Jensen was one of the fea-tued fea-tued speakers the first day of the contention 'and had cliccn as his title. "My Philosophy of 1- ins". lie received a $25 bond for arias written at least one application-a week for a 400 week period. per-iod. Mr. 1 Jensen 13 the general ;&srr.t lor Beneficial life in Ctn-tral Ctn-tral Utah. Only 979 voters cast ballots In American Fork In the run-off election on Tuesday, tabulations of all four districts disclosed yesterday. yes-terday. Of these 532 were Republicans Re-publicans and 447 were Democrats. Demo-crats. F. Rulon Nicholes lead the American Am-erican Fork district with 4G3 - -it 4 Nicholes P. Rulon Nicholes High Point Man In Run Oft County dec tion. votes and Ernest Dean ran sec ond witn a 3Q7 total. , American Fork people - had considerable interest in the bal Ernest II. Dean Now Candidate To State Senate. , ; , - ELPLCLICAN Msr".?" : See- :.trffSf. . -.. . t i ' "Tor State Senator . -CLEOa, LUKE . . - 2 - 75 113 C5 - -JOIINCON," VAL E. ; -.1,.-.-...- 74 - 41 L3 - 13 - S13 THORN, GRANT C - -1 -X3 7t - C3 .:.S:3 -For 4. Commissioner, S-Tear ': ;- GRIFFIN, LeROY R. - 0 18 -3 - 13. NICHOLE3, P. RULON 135 H 1 z , - - ' ... . - -For CoontylaerL-f ; j r 7 -r - ciiAPPLE, RALnt 57 Zi 37 13 1. , , . ... , ,. TAYLOR, RAYMOND 79 3 3 73 1.3 For County Attorney f . , ! ' ' ' ' r ANDRUS, R. IL ; L 5 S3 51 t3 HOWARD, rJACIICON B - C3 C3 . . .73 C2 " . 3 For County Asscsr -a ' i WUQEDZ IL .- r 43 ' it .23 .. .1.7. OLEEN, CLAREr:C2 L.J, 1 ' 81 1 73 3, I t For County Earveycr ' " -.. LATIMER, TIIOMA3 It, JR.' J- 62; , 47 1 PRICE HUGO -i: . 67 71 71 7 . . 1 j DEMOCRAT '.. " ; " Cl;t. - C!rt' tLl I For Representative la Congress ' BOSONS, E2VA r2CI. C3 67 : ; LAMOREAUX. WARWICK C. J ,3713 a 'I For State Senate r ADAMS, EURTOIT II : . 3 O C3 "' DEAN, ERISOT IL : Z 103 ll 13 . , z :i GROW, STEWART L "3 13 13 : : TEPPETTS, A. L .--13 3 1 For Co. Cc3isiL:-.,tr 4-Tesr EINCHA1.I. CLLVZ; L. LUND ELL, FRA ll C. For Co. Ccr-.l '.: r, 2 j GRESr!7COD, DAVID I .PETET v: It f re n.r loting since three of our leading citizens were in the race. Nicholes Nich-oles and LeRoy R. Griffin were candidates for Utah County Commissioner Co-mmissioner posts on the Republican Repub-lican ticket and David L. Greenwood was the' Democratic contestant for the same position. Other North Utah County can didates were Burton H. Adams. leasant Grove, state . senate. and Virgil .H. Peterson, Ltlu, for county commissioner.' - A tabulation of all votes in the David L. Greenwood Now Utea County Commissioner Candidate, Candi-date, - - counvy gave mcnoies tuuca. Griffin ft total of 1B70; Greenwood Green-wood 2734, and Peterson 2" 13. Burton H. Adams has ft total cf 3806 And Ernest H; Dean 2SS1. . This , means Nicholes will fca the Republican candidate and Greenwood the Democratic candidate can-didate for county commissioners in the November election. - Burton H. Adams Pleasant Grove' and Ernest U. Dean Am, candidates for the state senata Below Is the complete tabulations, tabula-tions, of -Anaerlcaa . Fork's rat 3 bv district and by titit 4 POOD FRODUCT3 . prccti on the West Coast are being advertised ad-vertised : nationally Fruit arJl vegetable products not ec!-,t federal aid are providing their own crop support by advert'..,r; programs that have been successful. suc-cessful. Pattern set for ether their own inltlitive. El-i. TT. I 1 ' 2 72 :5 n 117 ri |