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Show Universal Microfilming Box 2608 Salt Lake City, Utah 64101 I I I if i X 1 1 ULi IV -tbtesmi0 ft Aj a -ih "J i nij , J) 'I ui)i Boosting Americon Fork Hub of North Utah County THURSDAY. JAN. 21, 1971 NUMBER 48 WILLIAM M. PIERCE W.M. (Bill) Pierce llamed Materia! Manager at Bacchus W.M. (Bill) Pierce of American Ameri-can Fork has been named to the new position of Material Manager Mana-ger at the Bacchus Works of Hercules Her-cules Incorporated, it was announced an-nounced recently by Bacchus Works Manager Paul K. Hawk. Mr. Pierce, Purcnasing manager mana-ger at Bacchus since 1966, will be in charge of Purchasing, Property, Pro-perty, Stores and the Data Systems Sys-tems Analysis. He joined the Hercules at Bacchus Bac-chus in 1961 as a senior buyer, later becoming supervisor in the Polaris Department and superintendent super-intendent of Purchasing Support before becoming manager of Purchasing Pur-chasing four years ago. The Bacchus Works currently is involved in production of solid propellant rocket motors for the Navy's new Poseidon fleet ballistics bal-listics missile. Poseidon is sch eduled to replace Polaris .tout 31 of 41 fleet ballistic submarines. PTA Founders Day Program To Feature Past, Present, Future The annual Founder's Day meeting of the American Fork Council of Parents and Teachers will be held Thursday, Feb. 11, at the American Fork High School auditorium. Theme of the meeting meet-ing will be "PTA , Past, Present Pres-ent and Future." '" - - Each of the local PTA units will be cooperating in presentation presen-tation of the outstanding event, under the chairmanship cf the general committee, Mrs. Reid Burgess, Council president; Mrs. Ronald Smith, program chairman; chair-man; Mrs. Wendell Hansen, Cultural Cul-tural Arts chairman; and Mrs. Alden Adams, Adult and School education chairman. Committees Commit-tees from each of the loci PTA' s will also assist with the presentation pres-entation of the program. The program will be centered on the three areas, Past, Present Pres-ent and Future, with Mrs. Smith directing a brief review of accomplishments ac-complishments of the PTA and honoring past presidents of the American Fork Council The segment on the present will include a cultural arts contest in each of the schools of Alpine Al-pine and American Fork, themed to "What AmericaMeanstoMe." Poetry, essay and art entries will be Judged from each school, with winners from the junior and senior high school to receive cash awards for their top entries, along with certificates of appreciation appre-ciation from the PTA. Top ? V- 3 FOUNDER'S DAY PLANNED FOR THURSDAY, FEB 11. Serving as members of tlie general Founder's Day Committee are Mrs. Reid Burgess, seated, left, president of the American Fork Council of Parents and Teachers. Other committee members include Mrs. Alden Affims, Mrs. Wendell Hansen, and Mrs. Ronald Smith, who will present segments cf the theme, "PTA, Past, Present and Future." All local units will assist with presentation of this annual Founder's Day event. Shade Tree Com. Holds January Planning Meeting The AmericanForkShadeTree Commission held a meeting on Monday evening, January 18, in the American Fork City Hall. Alma Madsen, recently elected president of the group conducted conduct-ed the meeting. A.B. Allen offered of-fered the prayer. The purpose of the meeting was to meet early to visit Rotary Park and look at the trees in the park that need to be removed. re-moved. It was also suggested by the group that Councilman Rod Turner, Tur-ner, in charge of the commission publish a series of articles with helpful hints on early spring pruning for certain trees, fertilizing, ferti-lizing, etc. The assignment was given to .',B. Allen who will keep the public Informed on these hints as well as plans and purposes pur-poses of the Shade Tree Commission. Com-mission. Members of the Shade Tree Commission include: Alma Mad-sen, Mad-sen, Rod Turner, A.B. Allen, Doug Mayne, Darrel Rhodes, Beverly Rhodes, Jean Gordon and Tom Laursen. entries will be presented at the Founders Day program. Art winners win-ners will be displayed in the entry hall. Elementary school entries will be posted in the various elementary ele-mentary schools, with selected entries to be published In the American-Fork Citizen, according accord-ing to committee members. Mrs. Hansen will direct this phase of the program. The "future""" will be presented by Mrs. Adams, who will introduce intro-duce a panel of experts, comprised com-prised of Dr. Dan E. Peterson, superintendent of Alpine School District; Don C. Overly, super-, visor of High Schools of Alpine-District, Alpine-District, and Con Brady, prin., of High Schools of Alpine District, Dis-trict, and Con Brady, principal of American Fork High School. Subject discussed by the pane! will be "The Seven Period Day-How Day-How It Will Affect the Student,' Musical selections for the evening will be provided by a chorus of Third Graders from Alpine and American Fork Elementary Ele-mentary Schools, numbers by the Junior Patriots, of American Fork Junior High School, and the American Fork High School A-capella A-capella choir. Everybody knows how to express ex-press a complaint, but few can utter a graceful compliment. It's a matter of practice. r Xl I it if rU W W 'TV ' J U -! 1 YOUTH COUNCILCompleting arrangements for the Special Alpine Stake Youth meeting to be held in connection with stake conference are, from left, Stake Yo?th Council members, seated, Mary Jo Barratt, Jan Smith, Irene Chadwick, LaNan Pulley, Jan Turner. Standing, Gaylon Veater, Jane Taylor, John Lambert, Roylen Griffin, Ray Coddington, Loraine Adamson, Doug Wilson, Ray Maxwell, Lynn Kleinman Michael Taylor. 4 ilder Lhrm D. Bonis fo Attend Alpine Stake Conference Sessions President Leland F. Priday announced this week that Elder Marion D. Hanks, an Assistant to the Council of Twelve of the LDS Church, will speak at the Alpine Stake Conference Saturday and Sunday, January 23 and 24, in American Fork. Elder Hanks' is a nationally-known nationally-known speaker and youth leader who served as a member of President Pres-ident Eisenhower's Youth Fitness Committee. A former member of the First Council of Seventy, he was appointed to his present Church position in 1928 and now supervises missionary work in the eastern United States. In recent re-cent years he has toured overseas over-seas military installations where Mormons are stationed. - The Conference session will be held Sunday at 10 a.m. in the Tabernacle. Stake President Leland Le-land F. Priday, says visitors are welcome. Leadership meeting will be held Saturday night at 7:00 p.m. The theme will be "The New Teacher Development Program Will Improve Gospel Instruction." Instruc-tion." Those to be in attendance are: Stake Presidency, High Council, Executive Secritary and" Steel Days Committee to Meet Jan. 26 The next regular Steel Day Committee meeting will be held at the American Fork City Hall Tuesday, January 26, at 6:30p.m. The one-hour meeting will be conducted by general chairman of the 1971 Steel Days Celebration, Councilman William M. Pierce. J V-finnM.Hiii.il --ieCrJi - If . ' ''- 7- - - Aim T- T ,.-. ' .... . : V 0V 5f 1 ELDER MARION D. HANKS Clerks, Bishoprics, Executive Secretaries and Ward Clerks, Melchlzedek Priesthood Quorum Presidencies, Unit Leaders, Group Leaders, and Secretaries, Stake Auxiliary Superintenden-cies, Superintenden-cies, Presidencies and Board Members, Ward Aaronic Priesthood Priest-hood General Secretaries - Youth and Adult, All other members of Ward Councils, Ward Directors of Teacher Development, Ward Primary and MIA Inservice Leaders, Ward Sunday School Teacher Trainers, Ward Relief Society Educational Counselor. Music for the conference will A "record crowd" attended the annual winter "Old Folks" party held last Saturday, January 16, In the basement of the Stake Tabernacle. Tab-ernacle. Ms. Martha Hayward, Mrs. Martha Chadwick, Mrs. Elizabeth Eliza-beth Gillespie and Lot Robinson -all over 90 years in age - were honored and presented with a lovely planter. Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Halliday were honored as having hav-ing been married the longest. They have been married 65 years, Mrs. Chipman said. They also received a planter. Over 300 persons including persons 60 years of age and over, widows and widowers in the community, com-munity, and church leaders attended at-tended the enjoyable social. A delicious dinner of roast beef, plum pudding, and "all the trimmings" was served. Mrs. Fay Chipman, co-chairman of the social along with Daniel Limb, said an additional 150 dinners were sent out to persons who were unable tor attend because of illness ill-ness or other reasons. Following the dinner, a lovely love-ly program was enjoyed. Leland F. Priday, Alpine Stake president presi-dent paid tribute to the "older people" in the community and said they are a "wonderful strength" to the younger generation. gener-ation. The impact of these people peo-ple and of their descendants has reached out throughout the world," President Priday said. A response was given by Elijah Eli-jah Chipman. Mr. Chipman expressed ex-pressed application of the group to the "Old Folks" Committee for the effort they put forth in making the annual winter social such a large success. It was noted that next year will be the 100th uiniversary of the social which originated in Ameri Four Old Folks Honored Sat c Vrf be provided by the combined ward choir of the Sixth, Eighth, and Thirteenth Wards. Under the direction of ELmo Hansen, W. D. Talbot, and"Charles R. Fadely with Thelma Priday as accom-pianist. accom-pianist. Fresident Priday urges all stake members to be in attendance at-tendance to hear one of the great leaders of the church. Plan to set together as a family and enjoy the spirit of this conference. Closed circuit T. V. will be provided pro-vided in the basement rooms. Sacr'initnt meetings will be held In all wards th3 night of stake conference. Elder Marion D. Hanks to Hold Special Meeting With Youth Council The Alpine Stake Youth Council Coun-cil is making plans for the special meeting to be held for all youth 14 to 20 years, following the conference con-ference general session on Sunday. Sun-day. Elder Marion D. Hanks an Assistant As-sistant to the Quorum of the Twelve apostles has requested that all people ages 14 to 20 of the Alpine Stake meet with him in a Special meeting on Sunday, Sun-day, January 24, at 12:00 aoon, can Fork and spread throughout the state. Many favorite songs were sung by the Timp Chorale of Pleasant Grove under the direction of Leslie Les-lie Rees. Mrs. Rees served as accompanied withSt anEMns master-of-ceremonies. Three groups of three songs each were sung by the group. Numbers included "Hi Niegh-bor," Niegh-bor," "Let Me Call You Sweetheart," Sweet-heart," "Somewhere My Love," "Hello Dolly" "If You were the only girl in the world," "A Pretty Pret-ty Girl is like a Melody," "Consider "Con-sider Yourself' "Battle Hymn of Republic" and "This is Our Song." Fon Cook, Cedar Fort, gave a whist 11 solo, Nancy Ekins sang 'A -.n , s ! liTO x effect .dp- ta-t'1 " 1 r..ni iirt-tfru , tnn'iiAiTim, .-j , - j r: , r - -trit '-i i A 4ri.n-t.'r-i-- rn.Mini -"-- HONORED cmZENS-Mrs. Martha Hayward, 95; Mrs. Martha Chadwick, 94; Mrs. Elisabeth Gillespie, 91; and Lot Robinson, 91; 1. to r., were honored at th American Fork "Old Folks" winter social last Saturday. NEEL3 OF PUSINESSMEN of community will be discussed at special meeting to be held at Ahpine Country Club Tuesday, Feb. 2. Sponsoring the event are from left, Wendeii Lambert, president of the American Fork Rotary Club; Mayor Kal Savage, and Chamber of Commerce secretary Thomas J. Griffith. Parking, beautification of downtown business district and shopper convenience conven-ience are cited as major needs. Dr. Wm. T. Black To Attend Calif Conference William T. Black, M.D., A-merican A-merican Fork Clinic, American Fork, will attend a Conference on Family Practice January 18-23 at the University of California, IrvineCollege of Medicine, Newport Beach, California. Especially designed for family physicians, the medical refresher refresh-er course is held annually to bring the doctors up-to-date on the most recent Innovations In diag-osis diag-osis and patient care. The coursework covers all medical specialities and is conducted by faculty from UC Irvine's departments depart-ments of medicine, surgery, pediatrics, ped-iatrics, obstetrics and gynecol-, ogy, psychiatry and physical' medicine. Notice to Senior Citizens A special lecture from a professor pro-fessor at Utah State University will address Senior Citizens on some of the principal problems on Thursday, January 21, (today) at LOO o'clock p.m.. While this is a rather late notice, it is hoped that a good representation will turn out to hear him. Beginning today also picture shows at the Senior Citizen Center will begin at 2: JO p.m. instead of 2:00 o'clock. The later time will continue through the spring months. immediately following the Morning Morn-ing session of the conference. This will be a choice opportunity oppor-tunity to reeeiva counsel from one of the Great Leaders of the Church who is vitally interested in the youth of the Church. President LelandF. Priday and his counselors, Reid C. Burgess and Alvln M. Fulkerson, urge the youth of the stake to avail them selves of this opportunity and plan to attend. two folk numbers, "Try to Remember" Rem-ember" and "Soldier, Soldier, Won't You Remember Me," and a quartet composed ofMr.. Ekins, Winslow Chrlstensen, Dee Olpln and Robert Shoell, sang "Ghost Riders in the Sky." Mr. Limb was master of ceremonies cere-monies for the social with Mrs. Chipman presenting the awards. Bishop Wendell Lambert gave the opening prayer and Bishop J. R. Jolley, the closing prayer. Milton Brown was in charge of the sound system and provided musk during the dinner hour. Mrs. Chipman and Mr. Limb expressed their appreciation to committee members who have spent many hours in preparing for the social and on the day of the eveat. , M A - fe-X- . ... .2 Business Development Group Sets Community Meet Feb. 2 The American Fork Rotary Club will host a community business bus-iness development meeting at Alpine Al-pine Country Club Tuesday, Feb. 2. The objective of the meeting will be to acquaint local businessmen business-men with the need for improvement improve-ment of the local business district dis-trict to make the area more attractive at-tractive and convenient for shoppers. shop-pers. Keynote speaker will be Mllo B a u f m a n , environmental specialist from Brigham Young University. Mr. Baufman will meet with Mayor NealSavage and members of the business committee com-mittee on Jan. 25 to finalize for the later meeting. D RECORD VAULT SMASHED in weekend burglary at American Fork High School. Some $85 in small change was taken by burglars bur-glars who crawled through this small hole punched in cinder block wall next to metal safe door. Thieves broke outside glass door to gain entry to building, smashed inside office door, but failed to open metal safe door. Note dial which had been broken from metal door. Door was jammed shut in safe cracking try. Burglary at Am. Fork High School Nets Vandals $85 Burglars failed in an attempt to open the metal door of a records re-cords vault at American Fork High School sometime Friday night, but obtained some $85 in small change after punching a hole in the cinder block wall adjacent to the door. According to Police Chief Boyd E. Adams, entry to the building was gained by breaking glass on an outside door, with the glass office door also shattered and opened. Failing in an attempt to enter the walk in vault through Each of the 175 local business firms will b3 Invited to participate par-ticipate in the meeting, according accord-ing to Mayor Savage. The Rotary Ro-tary Club and the American Fork Chamber of Commerce are making mak-ing special contacts with each business to extend an invitation for the Feb 2 meeting. Parking, beautification, improvement im-provement of the appearance of all business firms and customer convenience will be stressed to make shopping in American Fork more inviting to the shopper. All businessmen are urged to make plans to attend this vital meeting. , the heavy metal door, the Intruders In-truders broke off the safe dial, then punched a 19 by 11 inch hole through the left side of the wall and climed into the vault. The vault door was jammed and extent of damages had not been determined by school officials. Merrill Beck, custodian, cus-todian, discovered the burglary about ja.m. Saturday morning. The walk-in safe at Pleasant Grove High School was also broken into the same night. Both schools were the only schools in the district hosting basketball games Friday night. School offi cials emphasize that such funds are immediately banked, with, school policy requiring only enough change to operate on be kept in the schools overnight. The vaults in the schools are built for record storage, officials said, and are not designed to function as safes for money or other valuables. The vaults were planned for protection of records In the event of a fire, etc. and district policy on keeping additional funds oa hand In the schools are strictly enforced. Money collected earlier that night at the basketball game and dance had already been banked, according accord-ing to Chief Adams. Some men are like the stump the old farmer had in the field-too field-too hard to uproot, too knotty to split, and too wet and soggy to burn. The neighbors asked him what he did about it. "Well, now boys," he answered, ' If you won't tell the secret, I'll tell you. I jes' plowed around it." i t |