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Show Utah ; ( VOL. LV1II Subscription $3.50 .Year. Single Copy 10c THE AMERICAN FORK CITIZEN," Thursday, January 11, 1962 ' NUMBER 46 Cavemen Tak Padres 7645 In First League. Game , . The American Fork -Cavemen found an easy win last Friday night over the St. Francis Padres Pa-dres irthe Central Junior High "Biographical Sketch of Elder Harold -R. Lee Prominent as an educator, businessmen, public official, and ' church leader, Elder Harold B. . Lfe was appointed April 6, 1941 asa member of the Council of Twelve - Apostles of the Church ' of Jesus. Christ: of Latter-day. , Saints. He was ordained by President Heber J. Grant. .- He was a teacher and principal princi-pal In public schools in Idaho and Utah before entering private pri-vate business and later becoming becom-ing a public official. He became prominent In church circles as a regional (stage) leader and welfare worker -during the depression de-pression of 1930's. In April, 1836, the Church correlated, its various relief activities Into the enlarged Church Welfare Program, Pro-gram, and Elder- Lee became managing director on Jan. 1, 1837. He remained for '22 years in this position, until 1959. Harold Bingham. Lee was born March 28. 1899 in Clifton, Opeida County, Idaho, a son of Samuel Marlon and Louisa Emetine Em-etine Bingham Lee. One of six , children, he grew up on a farm. He married Fern Lucinda Tanner Tan-ner on Nov. 14, 1923 In the Salt Lake Temple. They have two daughters: Mrs. Ernest J. (Mau-rine) (Mau-rine) Wilkins, Provo; and Mrs. . LI Brent ' (Helen) Goates, Salt Lake City, and nine grandchildren. grandchild-ren. ' : - He was educated in the Clifton Clif-ton public schols, Oneida Stake Academy, 1912-1916, and Albion ".' state Normal College,- I9ie-n, from which he received a tea- : cher'i , certificate.- He became - principal Oft an Idaho school at 17 years of age; and after further study at University of Utah, 1922-23, went into school administration In Idaho. He be-' came principal of ' Granite School ' District in Salt. Lake City, serving 1923-28. I From 1920 to 1922, he served as a missionary in the Western States LES. Mission, most of the time as a district Dresident. He later was M-Men Instructor in Poplar Grove Ward, ,1923; in the". Sunday School superinten-dwency, superinten-dwency, : Poplar Grove Ward, , .1924; superintendent of religion .class, Pioneer Stake, 1926-28; member of the stake high council, coun-cil, 1927; stake, Sunday School superintendent, 1928; counsel or 'in' the Presidency, Oct. 27, 1929; and stake president, Oct. ; 26, 1930 to July" 18, 1937. Resigning his school position in 1928, Elder Lee became lnter-mountain' lnter-mountain' manager for "Foun- datioh Press, Inc." He was ap- pointed Dec. 1, 1932 and then won -re-election Nov. 7, 193, as a Salt Lake City Commissioner. He had organized arjd estab- ' ' lished the Pioneer Stake Bishop's Bish-op's Storehouse early In 1932-to care for the needy . and unem-' ployed of the Church; He left the city commission -at the re- quest of the ; Church's First ; Presidency,. Jan. 1, 1937 to become be-come managing director, of the . Church Welfare Program. Since his ordination, to the .: Council of Twelve Apostles, EH der Lee has served as chairman of the Church Military Affairs Committee; as any adviser to the LD.S. Primary-Oeneral - Board, Chairman of the General Gen-eral Melchlzedek Priesthood rVimmlttAo' advisor tti th pfln- eral Music Committee; -member of the Executive Committee of the Church Board of Education and of the Executive Committee Commit-tee of the Brigham Young Un- lverslt Board of "Trustees. . . . He received two honorary degrees de-grees from Utah educational institutions; the Doctor of Humanities Hu-manities In 1953 from the Utah State Agricultural College (now Utah State University) and the Doctor of .Christian Service ' from BrighSm Young University in 1955. , ' ' ... He is a member of the boards of directors of several business corporations including 251pn's First National Bank, Beneficial Life' Insurance Co., Union Pacific Pac-ific ' Railroad, and .Equitable ; Life Assurance Society. . He also Is the author of. a . book, "Youth and the. Church," a series of radio "talks delivered over 'Radio Station KSL. School gym in Provo by a score of 76 to 45. This was the first game for the two teams in the Region Seven basketball' league play. " ". vv-' .k;- The Cavemen took over the lead early in - the game and we're never In any danger during dur-ing the, entire remainder of the game. The score at the end of th first 'quarter was 23-11. and by the half time the. Cavemen had a 12 point lead, 37-25. - The American Fork boys Were much faster .on the floor than the Padres. Merlin Driggs was high scoring man in the contest con-test with 21 points while Soren-son Soren-son bagged 15 points for the Cavemen. , ' ' Hlglr point man for the Padres, Pa-dres, was Don Benson with 16 and. second was Denny Grant with 11. Coaching the Padres is Frank Becker and for the Cavelnen Coach Don Mcintosh. Prominent Man Takes Position In Alaska "... - Stewart Durrant , ; Stewart Durrant, executive secretary of the American Fork Chamber of Commerce, has resigned re-signed his post in American Fork to return to Palmer, Alaska, Alas-ka, ' where he has accepted the position as manager of the Matanuska Valley Farmers Cooperative Co-operative Association. He formerly for-merly worked in this position for three years from 1954' to 1957. The company is the largest of its kind In Alaska with branches . in Anchorage, Fairbanks, Fair-banks, Seward, Valdea and Ko-diak. Ko-diak. . . ; Mrs. Durrant and the family will remain in American Fork until .June when they will Join Mr. Durrant. v ' ;. Mr. Durrant has served as executive 'secretary of the American Am-erican Fork Chamber of Commerce Com-merce for the 'past four years. He has also been a special agent ag-ent for thf Beneficial Life Insurance In-surance Comanpy. He Is active in the ; LDS church, having served as bishop of the Fourth and 'Sixth Wards and on the stakehigh ; council . for four years. Classes for Junior Bowlers to 7 Start Saturday Bowling classes will ? start Saturday, anuary .1?, at 9 ajn. for all the" students from the fourth, through the ninth grades. . . Shoes,' balls, score cards and instruction will all be furnished for ten Saturdays for only $5. Bring your friends and your money and be at the Jack and Jill Bowling Lanes by ; 9 . a.m. on .Saturday : for ten big fun filled; hours of bowling. All students from. Lehl, Pleasant "Grove, or American Fork are eligible, f These classes are ' sponsored through the American Fork City Recreation Committee and the Jack and Jill Bowling Lanes. All participants will receive certificates and courtesy rate cards. Trophies will be awarded; award-ed; those bowling the highest scores from; each grade. . John Keysor, Manager of . , t Jack ' and Jill Lanes . Marvin M. Alen, Director, Direct-or, Am'. Forlc City Rec-- Rec-- reatlon. J I 4 M.I.A. Conference Program Psalm 150 sets the theme for the- MIA session of Alpine Stake Quarterly Conference to .be held Sunday evening, Jan. 14, 1962, in the High School Auditorium. A choral reading under the direction of Kathleen Durrant will be given by the following girls: Helen Dunkley, Marsha Gardner, Kathy Durrant, Shirley Shir-ley Honey, Kathy Ivlns, Kay Julian,' Ju-lian,' Carma Greenwood; acc. by JaNae Brown. Girl's. Chorus will sing "Ttfe Prayer Perfect" Julie Searle, Mary Anne Ellison, Nancy Nan-cy Box, Susan Smith. Denlse Argyle, Donna Rae Healey, Marilyn Mar-ilyn Willis, Elva . Jorgenson, Karen Sorenson, Joy Buckwal-ter, Buckwal-ter, Susan Chamberlain, Jean Hansen; accompanied by Irene Ellison, - directed 'by Helen Searle. Flute Trio, "Viennese Melody" Linda Parduhn, Jerry Ross, Maria Ross. Vocal Duet, "I Wonder When He Comes Again" Nola Stras- urg and Kathy Jonsson; accompanied accom-panied by Gerajdlne Inouye: Choral Reading, "God Loved Us So He Sent His Son" Pet-rea Pet-rea Murdock; accompanied by Joyce Allison. String Quartet. "Wlegenlied" Christine Wootton, Dorothy Johnson, TerrjT'Bell, Carol Hol-indrake. Hol-indrake. Double Mixed Quartet, "The Lord's Prayer "Larry, Rudd, Patsy Mattinson, Barbara Lind, Sheila Hansen, Connie Kitchen, Moyle Greenwood, J. L.TJreen-wood, L.TJreen-wood, Mike Robinson; accompanied accomp-anied by Joanri Smith, Vocal Trio, "Llve'Ufe in a Sweet Key" Cheryl Beck, Mar-llee Mar-llee Robinson, Carolyn Burgess; accompanied, by Margaret Vance. , Organ Solo, vciair deLune" Bill Kirkpatrick. - . , ! ' Vocal Solo"; "Beside Still" Wat-' ers"-James Peterson; accompanied accom-panied by Ann Francom. Girls' Chorus, "King of Glory", Glo-ry", conducted by Joan Healey Kathy Adamson,.; Sharyn Burgess, Bonnie Chamberlain, Connie Chamberlain," Mary Ellen El-len Forbes, Elaine Anderson,' Faye Anderson, TyraAshby, Joyce Bateman, Ruth Batman, Cheryl Beck, Lynda Beck, Meri-lee Meri-lee Beck, Brenda Bennett, Ja-nae Ja-nae Blackburn, Carolyn Burgess, Bur-gess, Tamer a Healey, Betty Jean Ingram, Juanita Jackson, Connie Con-nie McDaniel, Glenda McDan-iel, McDan-iel, Sharon Patterson, Merilee Robinson, Raola Smith, . Brenda Bren-da Strong, Elsa Watklns, Anna Whitby,' Pamela Young, ""Edna Thompson; accompanied by MargaretmVance. ' Without punishment, sin would multiply. . . - . . Mary Baker Eddy 1. 11. J in ii 1 urn mm ill M 1 Hi" Hi id iiiiiuliiini . ijjj i ? ' Jlot .. "For all who have the will arid ability to learn" reads the poster commeno-rating President Lincoln signing the "Land-Grant College Act" In 1862. Viewing the poster In the foreground of Utah State University Old Main tower are Drs. Beckstrand, Richfield; Broadbent, Provo; andt Hunsaker, Logan, District Extension Directors. They will be featured as the Union Pacific Agricultural Improve" ment Car tours Utah County on Wednesday, January 17 at .Spanish Fork, and Thursday, January 18 at American Fork, dramatizing 100 years of progress in agriculture and home economics.. The public Is invited to the 1:30 pjn. meeting each day, according . to Clair R, Acord, Utah ' County Agent.-' . OderfkoOd E. Minorities at ipine First Council Meeting for 1962 Held Monday Members of the American Fork City Council met Monday evening, Jan. 8, for the Initial meeting 01 me year iwi. au members were present. Newell Stevens and Julius Hog gard, of .the Utah Power and Light Company, were present at the meeting regarding the term lnatlon of the fifty year fran chise with the city. This issue was taken under advisement as to its renewal by a motion of the council. A group insurance plan was discussed and basically approved concerning the City employees. Mr. Ralph Tippling was ap proved by the council vote to attend the Civil Defense school at Camp Williams this year.. A vote carried to furnish expenses for the schooling. . The usual rental of city owned irrigation water was approved and the American Fork Irrigation Irriga-tion Co. granted i use thereof again this year. 1 The bills of the month were approved for payment. Junior .and Senior Basketball Tournaments The standings of the Junior M Men basketball League which finished play last week. The Ninth Ward was the first place winner with-' the First and Tenth Wards coming in second and third place respectively. The Sixth took 4th place, 5th fifth place; 4th, 6th place; High land, 7th place; Alpine, 8th place; Second, 9th place; Eighth, 10th place; Seventh, 11th place, and the Third took last place. The league has been under the direction of Farrell Sorenson, Soren-son, who announces that the tournament between these teams will begin Thursday, Jan. 11. The Senior league will wind up their league play on Thursday, Jan. 11, and the tournament will start on the 18th. .These are fine games and the public is invited to -attend. . Many persons have the idea that one cannot be in business find lead an upright life, whereas where-as the truth is that no one succeeds suc-ceeds in business to any great extent,, who misleads or misrepresents. mis-represents. - . John Wanamaker ' ' " ' '' : " .Annual 'Old Folks Party' on January 20 The anual "Old Folks Patrv" will be held Saturday, Jan. 20. hat pi me American rorx senior High school at 510 N. 0th E. A free picture show at the Coral Theater will open t.he day's activities at 10 a!m. Transportation will be furnished furnish-ed for all who need it, from the shbw house to. the school. Dinner will be served at 12:30 p.m. and will be followed by a program and dancing.1 Steven R. Murdock is the General Chairman and Ruby Conder is the Chair-Lady for this party. Bantam. Basketball News Bantam Basketball was off with a bang at the American Fork Armory at 9 a.m., Saturday, Satur-day, when te, ,Utahns of League Number 1 defeated-the Rams in a closely fought game by a score of 20 to 18. At the half, the Rams held a 1 point lead at 13 to 12. The game see-sawed back and forth until the; very end. Coaches Tom Bailey of the Rams and Wendell Hansen of the Utahns had their teams up for the game. Birk of the Rams was high for the game with 14 points and Wilson of the Ut ahns lead his team with 7 points. The other league 1 game was between Coach Doug Maynes Celtics and Vern Clark's Alps, with the Alps coming from behind be-hind to win 28 to 25. J. D. In-oye In-oye of the Alps was high man for the game with 16 points, and . Greenwood of the Celtics next with JU polntSTThchalf-tlme polntSTThchalf-tlme score was 15 to 13 in favor of the Celtics. ' The second game of the day saw' the Cadets coached by Owen Ow-en Dean down the Bees coached coach-ed by Loyal Iverson by a score of 23 to 14. Harward of the Cadets Ca-dets was high for the , game with 9 points, followed by Strong of the Cadets with 7 points, all scored in the second half. Strong looked, good on the boards, taking many rebounds. The game started slow, with the half score 5 to 5.- The last game of the day saw the Pistons -hand the Hawks a first half deficit that they could not overcome. The Pistons led 11-2 in the first quarter and' 22-6 at the half, Bobby Eccles of the Pistons had 20 of the 22 . points, scored in the first half, with Bolle'y scoring the other 2 points. Gurney of the Hawks came through the second half,' scoring the last 10 points for the Hawks, and was high for the Hawks with 14 points. Eccles Ec-cles of the pistons was high for the game with 22 points. The final score Was 35 to 26. TEAM STANDINGS League 1 r W L Utahns 1 0 Alps . , . 1 0 Rams ' 0 1 Celtics ' 0 1 League 2 , W Cadets . 1 0 Pistons . -1.1 Bees 0 1 Hawks 0 1 1 HIGH SCORERS Eccles Pistons 22 Inoye Alps . 16 Gurney Hawks ' . 14 Birk Rams " 14 Greenwood Celtics. ; : 11 Marward Cadets . , ' 9 Jensen Celtics . , 1 8 Strong Cadets , . 7 Wilson Utahns . . 7 Buck Utahns 6 Pace Alps . 6 Nelson Pistons 6 When you rise in the inornlng, from a resolution to make the day arhappy one to a fellow-creature. fellow-creature. - Lee to liSioiresGnt (ChurcDn Stake Conference Two Local Girls Named in Wool Contest Finals Mary Jo Mulllner and Karen Eggett, from American Fork took honors in the ,"Make-It-Yourself-WlthrWool contest held at the Forbes School last Thursday Thurs-day night. "lary Jo and Sharon Price, LeRi. were selected for top honors hon-ors in' the senior division, ages 17-21 years, while Karen Eggett was named from the sub-deb division (13 through 15). The sub-deb division competes only on the district, level. ; Jeanlne Fox and LaRae Gurney Gur-ney both of Lehl won honors In the Junior division (14 through 17 years). The four girls from the Junior and senior divisions will compete with other district finalists In the state contest to beheld Jan. 12, at the Hotel Utah. in Salt Lake City. The national contest con-test will also be held this year at the Hotel Utah in Salt Lake. There were 22 entries In the district contest and according to Mrs. Steven M. Chipman, American Ameri-can Fork, district contest chairman, chair-man, the quality of workman-shlp workman-shlp was outstanding. . The contest committee ex pressed appreciation to the sew- ng instructors In the Lehl, American Fork and Pleasant Grove high schools for the as- astance given. " - Mrs. D. Ray Chipman,; was narrator, Mrs. ' George Carson played appropriate music during the modeling and further enter tainment was nrovlded bv Mrs. E. Vernon Holindrake, whokgave readings."-" v ;yy''-? The Judges were Ora Vance, Provo; Genevieve Schmidt, West Jordan and Ellen Brown, Ameri can Fork. ; ,',(: The contest for district seven which embraces the - areas of Lehi, Cedar Fort, American Fork and Pleasant Grove, was under the general direction of the district dis-trict officers,; Mrs. J. J. Jacobs, Lehi, ; president ; ' 1 Mrs. Ralph Chipman, American Fork, vice president; Mrs. Marion Christen-sen, Christen-sen, secretary-treasurer. Notice to Dog Owners in City Limits of A. F. .v- It has been brought to our attention during the past year of dogs destroying property by killing sheep, chickens, etc.; also of dogs which have been a nuisance, nuis-ance, by tipping over garbage cans and littering peoples yards with trash. Chasing cars and children on bicycles ahcTbitlng or causing serious injury to some. -;.". '':' , Many complaints have been brought to our attention of female fe-male dogs ', running at large while In heat, and dogs disturbing disturb-ing the peace by barking, howling howl-ing and yelping, All of which is unlawful, , . We are authorized to enter the premises of, any, one keeping such fierce, dangerous or mls-chevlous mls-chevlous animals, and have them Impounded or shot. . All dogs must wear a collar and tag and be on a leash from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. each day. Licenses for 1962 are now due and payable at American-Fork City Hall or at my residence 249 West 1st North. We ask .your, cooperation In this matter in order to help make a cleaner and more peaceful peace-ful city in which to live. - Oscar. H. Hall, - v Pound Keeper SPECIAL: NOTICE. All members of the Phlladea Study Group' are are advised of the meeting . to be held Thursday, Jan. 1L This is guest night. ' y-.v ;The meeting will be held in the upstairs conference room of the American Fork City Hall. J. N. Washburn will be guest speaker. His subject will be the Book .of Mormon. : Time will be 8 p.m, 1 , Elder Harold B. Lee, a member mem-ber of the Council of Twelve Apostles and Elder William T. Lawrence, a member of the General Welfare. Committee of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints will be the featured speakers Saturday and Sunday, - January 13, and 14. during a. quarterly conference of the Church's Alpine Stake. ELDER HAROLD B. LEE - . Mmbr, Council ! Twlv Apirit Church of JMtttOwM . ofLorlor-4oyS3inta. ' Conducting the, conference will be Stajce President Phil Dunn Jensen, 154 N. Grant Ave., American. Fork. Sunday's general sessions, to which the public is Invited, will be held at 10 am. and 2:30 pm, at the American Fork High School. , . , Elder Lee is a former educator, educa-tor, businesman and public official of-ficial who was managing director.-of the world-wide Church Welfare program "from its-be" ginning In 1937 until 1959. He holds honorary degrees from two universities, and is a di- . rector of four prominent banking, bank-ing, Insurance and railroad corr porations. ' ' Elder Lawrence Is a director oflhe Church Welfare Plan. Saturday ' evening,V special leadership ' and welfare meetings meet-ings will be held in Pleasant Grove in connection with " the Timpanogos Stake-. Conference. Thees meetings will be held in the Timpanogos Stake Tabernacle. Taber-nacle. - - - Steel Workers' Present Gifts To Children The joy of giving to the children of Utah State Training School by the United States Steel Workers Work-ers of America, Geneva Local 2701, would be hard to compute In dollars and cents. More difficult dif-ficult would be the task of plac- lng a monetary value upon the satisfaction and pleasure union members receive when a cash. contribution of $609 was presented pre-sented to the school, plus a tele vision, two Shetland ponies and other mlscellaneouslglfts. Ail this was made possible through funds raised from a variety show sponsored by the union local and held at the American Fork High .School late in December. . It was a hilarious evening of fun that saw donkey basketball. pie eating contests and. races at their best. .. , Local 2701 provided the riders for the animals. The show was produced by Stan Edwards. Dr. V. F. Houston acceptea me gifts from . Bill Biggs, Ferris Warren and Marvin warren. state representative, who were representing the union and presenting pre-senting the .gifts. Dr. Houston expressed appreciation apprec-iation on behalf of the school. D. U. P. NQTICE' The monthly meeting of the Beehive Camp of the Daughters of Utah Pioneers will, be held Thursday, January 18 -at 2 pm. """'"" 1,111 " 11 """"-"i ';:"'r' ' It will be in the Relic Han. The histories of N, A. and, ' Elizabeth Larson will be read by Thelma Larson Green.- A Pioneer Pio-neer lesson will also be given. The meetlne is being nlanned by Thelma Green and Nan Ferguson, u i4 I i i -I- u If |