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Show (toy Griffin ire Experiences For nearly 40 years, Roy Griffin raced to the fire station when the call of "fire" went over the airwaves either by siren or by phone or electronic pager. He retired recently from the American Fork Volunteer Fire Department. During his time of service, he had served in every position from secretary through to captain and assistant assis-tant chief. For the last seven years he had been fire chief. Mr. Griffin recalled when he first came on to the department, depart-ment, the truck had hard rubber rub-ber tires - a far cry from the modern up-to-dates in use today. There were also only 11 men in the department in contrast to the 22 men on the current department. Mr. Griffin recalled he broke in nine rookie firemen during his tenure as fire chief. Highlights of his years of service were many, but they included moving from the old fire station to the modern station - a sentimental occasion occa-sion as the old station was torn down. Another nostalgic remembrance remem-brance was the replacement of the old fire siren with electronic electron-ic pagers that call the firemen at work, supper and even fishing. fish-ing. While he was chief, he worked to build up both manpower man-power and equipment, providing provid-ing regular training sessions and updating fire fighting equipment. Two new fire engines en-gines were bought while he was chief. Mr. Griffin operated a bakery on Main Street for many years and he chuckled as he reiminsced about running run-ning out the back door of the bakery to the back door of the fire station to go to a fire. "A lot of loaves of bread and hundreds of pastries got ruined over the years," he laughed. He assisted with the annual Christmas candy sacking for kids and was instrumental in IRS Sets Test Dates For Special Enrollment Exams Crosby E. Mecham Family Holds Reunion Mr. and Mrs. Crosby E. Mecham, sons Joe and Sam and daughter Martha returned to their home in Mena Abbul-lah, Abbul-lah, Kuwait, Arabrian Gulf Monday, July 26 after 32 days spent with Crosby's parents Mr. and Mrs. Joseph E. Mecham and the Sam Mechams in American Fork. Crosby is superintendent of maintainance for Aminoil Refinery in Kuwait, the tiny oil rich nation in Saudi Arabia. "Christmas in June and July" was the theme of a get-to-gether on the Mecham awns. Fabulous gifts from the Orient were presented to relatives rela-tives by Crosby and family for last Christmas and for the coming holiday. After a bounteous turkey dinner the evening was spent in listening to incidents, situations situa-tions and conditions of living in the "land of the Arabs". Guests included the Jack Mecham family from Layton, the Lynn Mecham family from Pleasant Grove, the Sam Mecham family and the daughters of Nina Jo Clark; Lynette, Cyndy, and Sandra from American Fork, (Nina Jo was in the hospital following surgery.) Missing from making mak-ing the family group complete were grandson Michael Hoo-ley, Hoo-ley, Hawaii and Jeff, Janeen and Janice Evans, Dexter, Oregon. Other activities included a campout at Silver Lake with horseback riding and picnics, Pageant of the Arts, Manti Pageant, a temple session in Logan, assisting in the blessing bless-ing of the tiny daughter of Michael and Karen Mecham Johnson, of PI. Grove, dinner at the Theron Webster house, dinner at the Michael Johnson home, dinner at Lynn Mecham's home in Fielding and also at L. Jack Mecham's home in Layton. The Crosby E. Mecham family stated many times how grateful they are to be Americans. Ameri-cans. Their sojourn into another an-other land has been interesting but they all agreed "there is no place like home in America and especially here in American Ameri-can Fork," where they will make their home when this assignment is completed. Recalls ( f - : a A ' A 0 , fcmwniMtfci'.tii'aV HW'., ROY GRIFFIN retires from fire dept. establishing the "assembly line" approach which is still used today to cut sacking time. A pilot, he flew Santa Claus into town on several oc-cassions oc-cassions - then portrayed the jolly holiday gent himself on occasion. His memories are not all happy ones, however, for he recalled the death of a fellow fireman in a silo fire and the finding of children burned to death in fires - the last one just shortly before his retirement. retire-ment. He wrote several columns in "the Citizen" to help make residents more aware of fire prevention measures, and was a merit badge counselor for boy scouts throughout his 40 years of being a fireman. He served as president of the Utah State Firemen Association Asso-ciation for a term and his wife, Ruth, was president of the State Ladies Auxiliary. The Griffins retired from the bakery business a few years ago and now instead of racing for the fire station he and his wife are doing temple work at the Provo LDS Temple, planning plan-ning snowmobiling and other recreational activities and visits with their children and grandchildren. The Internal Revenue Service Ser-vice announced recently that the 1976 Special Enrollment Examination is scheduled for September 27 and 28, 1976. The examination will be given at the IRS District Office, 465 South 4th East, Salt Lake City, Utah. The examination is given each year to persons who are neither CPA's nor attorneys to qualify them to represent clients before the Internal Revenue Service. To qualify for the examination, examina-tion, applicants must submit Form 2587, Application for the 1976 Special Enrollment Examination, Exa-mination, to the Director, Audit Au-dit Division, Internal Revenue Service, Washington, D.C. 20224, no later than August 15, 1976. No extensions to file will be granted beyond that date, the IRS said. The application must be accompanied ac-companied by a recent photo of the applicant, which will be sed for identification purposes pur-poses only, and a check for the $25 examination fee, made payable to the Internal Revenue Reven-ue Service. The fee is not refundable, but, a $25 credit may be granted to apply on ' the next year's application fee as provided in the instructions on the back of Form 2587. Anyone needing an application applica-tion Form 2587 or more information infor-mation about the examination should contact the Salt Lake City District IRS office. Salt Lake City residents may telephone tele-phone 524-4060, and other Utah residents may call toll free 1-800-662-5370. 4-H Creative Cooks Report The five girls and one boy in the Creative Cooks 4-H Club have had a busy July. They entered cookies they made in the Community Fair and donated don-ated cookies for the Tea, and they decorated their bikes and rode in the Steel Days Parade, throwing candy to the small children. On July 22, the Creative Crea-tive Cooks prepared a luncheon lun-cheon for their mothers and served it on a picnic table in the garden of their leader, Al-ta Al-ta Bailey. A skit was presented present-ed and a number of 4-H songs were sung. Lori Henderson, Darryl Biggs, Jennifer Jeffs, Chris and Gina Neves, and Gina Hollindrake are the Creative Crea-tive Cooks. c Nrr:,, ;.: 1 1 . II hti II r "One man's junk," said a wise man, "is another man's treasure." The wisdom of is statement is evident in the popularity of garage sales, rummage sales and the ultimate ulti-mate of them all - the swap meet! Garage sales are the easiest to manage and probably started start-ed out when some unsuspecting unsuspect-ing person was moving and didn't want to take along all the odds and ends that somehow some-how accumulate in a garage. The advice now, is sell it. Even the moving companies give you brochures detailing the fine points of masterminding mastermind-ing a garage sale. Garage sales are so popular, in fact, that if you have something to sell and don't have a garage, you borrow one for the occasion. I swear it is a fact! My sweet Aunt Marie, who couldn't say "no" to a friend, recently had an accumulation accu-mulation of furniture and bricabrac in front of her garage gar-age when I stopped by to pick her up. She explained the collection col-lection belonged to a neighbor who didn't have a garage. And in two days, it was cleaned up slick as a whistle. Rummage sales are popular with church and civic groups, especially ladies clubs. You can depend on the ladies being so interested in each other's rummage that they really don't need to attract any other buyers. In fact, some of the ladies get so carried away at being in the presence of all those precious pieces of rummage, rum-mage, they want to keep it a private sale. But, the ultimate kind of sale nowadays is the swap meet. These have become so popular that you now need a reservation to sell at some of the more progressive "swaps." These affairs are held out of doors, usually at a drive in theater or on the parking lot of a supermarket. The drive-in theater locale is favored, because the promoters can keep track of who goes in (for pay), who goes out (with the goods), and who is a seller and who is a buyer. a j BYRON "BAZE" CROOKSTON Byron (Baze) Crookston To Observe 90th Birthday A quiet family gathering this Friday, July 30, will mark the 90th birthday of Byron Crookston Crook-ston of American Fork who has lived on the same block all of those 90 years. "Baze" is well known throughout the community as the barber and as a friend. A son of Thomas and Elizabeth Eliza-beth Crystal Crookston, he hired out at the age of seven to drive a horse around a sweep for 25 cents per day. He next herded sheep in the fields, later herding on the desert for six winters. In 1906 he determined to enter Barber College and left for Salt Lake City with nearly one dollar in his pocket. The following six months were full of trials and hardships, including includ-ing a severe case of typhoid fever ... his second. Then in 1907 he set up his own shop in American Fork and continued in his work for 70 years. For many years he worked side by side with his late wife, Alice, who had a beauty shop in the same building. "Baze" has always had several hobbies. Prospecting has been of great interest, making pictures of ore, polishing polish-ing wood for lamp bases, etc. He has traveled widely with . his wife and together they enjoyed en-joyed life. He is still vigorous and active. His recipe for longevity is: keep happily busy, physically and mentally fit. " ' of' la i veties The truth is that most of the sellers are also buyers and if a seller peddles a dozen glass topped fruit jars, he has probably purchased at least an army issue muffin pan (36 count) and a couple of crocheted crochet-ed hot pads. There is something about the atmosphere of the swap meet that makes you feel that everything on the market place is worth buying and if you don't buy immediately, that strange person standing next to you, change purse at the ready, is trying to buy this treasure before you do. One lady of my acquaintance acquain-tance goes to the swap meet every Sunday morning. The "meet" has to be called off on account of rain or snow before she gives up. She has this syndrome where she buys , deplicates of things, like six medicine cabinets and four transistor radios and three sets of glasses. Of course, she bought a neat chandelier for her entry way and a couple of dozen pair of shoes, too, which I look upon as practical in the extreme. But, the garage sales are booming and the swap meets are the new "in" things to attend, proving that your junk becomes my treasure - at least long enough for me to buy it and get it home, when it becomes junk again and I look at it, pack it up and plan to take it back to the swap meet next week, where somebody else will be touched by the magic of the moment and look upon it as treasure! Am. Fork Cadet At Advanced Camp Cadet Larry K. McCulIough of American Fork is preparing for a future leadership role in the U.S. Army. He is an Army ROTC cadet at Brigham Young University and is one of about 1,100 cadets from 49 colleges col-leges and universities attending attend-ing the 1976 Army ROTC Advanced Ad-vanced Camp at Fort Lewis, Washington. During the six-week training camp, he will receive training on subjects such as: squad and platoon tactics, leadership reaction, rappelling, rifle marksmanship, armor, artillery artil-lery and infantry techniques and orienteering. v , 4 'y If you don't have a retirement plan where you work or if you're self employed, the Mountain View Bank can provide you with a federally approved retirement program with special tax benefits that can help you right now. Whatever money you deposit into your account will be deductible from your income taxes and will immediately begin earning interest. No tax will be assessed on the deposits or earnings until you retire and then probably at a lower rate than you're paying now. The Mountain View Bank has two different plans to choose from IRA for employees and Keogh for the self-employed. All your deposits and earnings are insured to $40,000 by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. Give yourself a fund for retirement and a tax break right now. Start up a federally insured retirement program at the Mountain View Bank. Qualifying amounts subject to current IRS regulations. New Films rom United Way The United Way of Utah County, as part of its new public awareness program, announced recently that it has a series of short films which are being made available throughout the county for the public's use. Sister of Am. Fork Residents Dies, Funeral Thursday Rae Greenwood Smith, 76, of Salt Lake City, died July 26, 1976 at a Salt Lake hospital of cancer. She was born January 30, 1900, in American Fork to William Wil-liam J. and Sophia Johnston Greenwood. She married Alfred B. Smith June 1, 1922, in Salt Lake LDS Temple. She was active in Relief Society, Salt Lake Monument Park 15th Ward, and Daughters of Utah Pioneers, North Yale-crest Yale-crest Camp. Mrs. Smith is survived by her husband, children: Alan G., La Habra, Calif.; Alfred E., Mrs. Robert S. (Joyce) Halander, Mrs. Otto A. (Carol) Berndt, all of Salt Lake City; 18 grandchildren, three great grandchildren; brother and sisters, Mercer J. Greenwood, Mabei Christensen, Ella Chris-tensen, Chris-tensen, Lillian Beck, Miriam Peterson, all of American Fork and Leah Morgan of Provo. Funeral services will be held Thursday (today) at noon at Monument Park 15th Ward Chapel, 13th South and Wasatch Drive. At a card party, a girl noted for her caustic remarks was complaining about a sore on her lip. "Perhaps," suggested her partner, "you cut it on your tongue!" Glowering father: "And what's the reason for you coming com-ing in at five o'clock in the morning?" Son: "Breakfast." "I didn't come to be told I'm burning the candle at both ends," said the patient to his doctor. "I came for more wax." ei t t m 5 r I . r I ..V , V " "fi i ' ' "S'' 4( -,.:;! Available Each film tells a different story about the United Way and its services to people. The United Way recently launched a major communications program to inform the citizens of Utah County as to what the United Way is and what new developments have taken place as far as agencies services, ser-vices, fiscal control, agency needs, and campaign changes. Each film is 8 to 12 minutes in leng.h, in full color and stars a known actor. The films include: "America" (8 minutes) a film designed to show that Americans have always helped themselves and that United Way is a unique American Ameri-can creation. "Great Moments" (8 minutes) min-utes) narrated by Pat Sum-merall, Sum-merall, made by the National Football League to show that helping people has its great moments, too. "Is Someone There" (12 minutes) starring Jack Lemon shows the real story of how a family tries to help their aging parents. "Little Boy Lost" (12 minutes) min-utes) starring David Jansen depicts the job of a couple who adopt a little boy. "Turning Point" (12 minutes) min-utes) starring Cliff Robertson relates the story of a father whose wife dies and his difficulty diffi-culty in rearing the children alone. "One Day in Our Lives" (12 minutes) narrated by Charlton Heston shows the story of four families and how they face life's everyday difficulties. Any group desiring to show one of these films should contact con-tact the United Way office, 374-2588. SPARE TIME BUSINESS Own your own profitable vending business. $200 to $800 monthly earnings Ksslble In your spare time (day or eve.). NO SELLING. If selected, you will servicing company established EXCLUSIVE locations.. OUR COMPANY 19 A SUPPLIER OF NABISCO SNACK ITEMS. REQUIREMENTS: $1,000 to $5,000 CASH INVESTMENT, (secured by machines and merchandise) good character, dependable auto, and 6 to 9 spare hours weekly. Income starts Immediately! We supply product, machines, locations, expansion financing, buy back option, and professional guidance. 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Signed, Dolly Dear Dolly: I often think about people who say the straight and narrow nar-row way is the hardest ... to do right is so difficult . . . when in my opinion it is a thousand times easier to do the right thing and not have to suffer the consequences than it is to rebel and do the wrong thing. Just look at any religious or moral laws, look at the rewards and the consequences and see if the straight and narrow way is the most difficult. Signed, One Who Has Learned Dear One: The difficult part is often deciding what is the straight and narrow and what is the opposite. Dear Dolly: I've been a widow for ten years. I didn't want to bring problems into the lives of my mm 207 EaM Main Stmt American Forii, Utah The action bank in American Fork. THURSDAY, JULY 29. 1976 two children who seemed to resent any idea of marriage to anyone other than their father (he died in an automobile accident). acci-dent). My children are now grown and I feel I have fulfilled my obligation to them. I have met this wonderful man that seems to fill all my needs and we are to be married in the fall. However, my eighteen year old daughter, who has been away at college, came home from school for the summer and her presence has complicated everything. My son, now sixteen, six-teen, tells me my fiance has more than a father-daughter interest in my daughter and that I'd better "kiss him off." Do you think my son is right or just using this to keep me from marrying again? Signed, Worried Dear Worried: I suggest you discuss your problem with your fiance and get his point of view. After all, you are marrying him to be his partner. There is no such thing as fulfilling an obligation to your children, that obligation is always there, if not by precept, then example, but you should not allow children to dictate the terms of your life. Since this wonderful man is fulfilling all your needs, find out if you also fill all of his. Don't judge him on the word of your son. Observe Ob-serve conditions and test your son's accusations and your fiance's answers. What happened hap-pened to woman's intuition? Dear Reader: Have a problem? Share an opinion? Write to: "Dear Dolly," Dol-ly," P. O. Box 500, American Fork, Utah 84003 or in care of this paper. t 9 |