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Show f t t TT Mrs agriculture industry 1 TO j ft ! 20th North to I 20th South By 0. G. Semit AT LONG LAST ! Mayor J. W. Gillman. who was in Salt Lake City on Wednesday, Wed-nesday, reported that state road commission officials had informed in-formed him that bids to the widening of U. S. 91 through Orem were being advertised and would be opened Sept. IS. f From the diary of Ben H. Bullock, Provo mining prospector pros-pector and promoter for the state's mineral resourses. come entries recorded near the turn of the century which give an insight, not only of the condition condit-ion of Orem ?5 years ago, but of the future which Brigham Young envisioned for it. i Ben Bullock recorded that his own father, Benjamin Kil-ball Kil-ball Bullock, had said these words to him: When President Young would majke his visits among the Saints and hold meetings;, some of us brethren Jiving in Provo would be appointed app-ointed by President A. O. Smoot, (who was then president of the Utah stake) to go out on Provo Bench and meet President Young and accompany him into in-to Provo, and on different occasions, occ-asions, when ve met President Young, he would stop, get out of his carriage, straighten his legs, and then he would talk to us, telling of many things that would come in the future The Provo Bench was a vast stretch of land covered with sagebrush and not a drop of water existed exist-ed on it anywhere, but this is what President Young told us: ! "Some day all of this sage Irush will disappear, water will be taken out of Provo river In canals to water this and and this bench will become a beautiful farden spot, - here many kinds of delicious fruits and vegetables veget-ables will be grown, beautiful homes will be erected and Provo ind Pleasant Grove wi become One soid city." t : On another occasion Presid-dent Presid-dent Young stated: "Some day in earthen dam will be constructed cons-tructed in Provo canyon across the Prcvo river making a large reservo r, and water will be taken tak-en from this reservoir around the foothills of this valley into Salt Lake valley and the people of Ss!i Lake City will get much of their supply of water from; this source." j MEDALLION OF THE WEEK Joes to the Orem Riding Club who came off with honors at! me competition held last Friday Fri-day and Saturday in Spring-1 v ile. Roy Park, president of the thib. tells us that the group took several first and second Honors. The club will compete Jgain m the state meet in Salt wke City on Monday. We're wishing them well. around and about No fires in Orem for a whole onth! Believe it or not, that's Wat Fire Chief Scott Thompson Wd us Wednesday. For 31 days "ot summer weather Orem mes and property have been Wed from damage by fire. Hav you noticed the hand- 2 u nlW neon siSn on the front MacDonald's store? More and the Lincoln High corner pes on that metropolitan air. toX? 311 the real estate com-En com-En Jn Utah county. it re-ed re-ed for the Leo L. Gardner Jny of Orem to capitalize J1 ?ne name "Geneva." When J moves into the north portion ition . ?!Wly constructed add-E add-E it n6 Qrem telephone off-e off-e w.H bear the new name. il oTu laJge building Just be . the Es(iuire Mart is to ton .headcJuarters for the Fer- In? Ct dealrship in Ut- county .-Modern Farm Ser-s Ser-s : e name of the busin-t'm. busin-t'm. X Chaps the name nSn Uman and Hal John-tcc' John-tcc' Perate it. They expect ecrayrryafull line of farm mach TuesL ;nthTa Fountin left-on here lh. -V,aramie' Wyoming With? 1 Visit for 0 week fced if Son' Reed and family- ;Mrs. Burns Ormond of Bould-JJtah Bould-JJtah is visiting at the home Verge Heaps"18' Mf" 8nd THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1948 OPEN LETTER: Butler Asks Council Action on Orem Name Change TO THE CITY COUNCIL It is a customary pattern of behavior to cultivate a high form of respect between individuals, indiv-iduals, companies, communities, etc. This custom is noticeaole in all of our activities. Babiss are often named after respected respect-ed ancestors, companies are named after their incorporators, incorporat-ors, communities are named after af-ter persons, large corporations, sometimes a state of condition. In the beginning this community commun-ity was named Provo Bench because be-cause it was pioneered by Provo people. Late? the name was changed to Orem out of respect for Mr. Orem who built a railroad rail-road through the community. This type of naming can be traced through 11 oi.r activities. activit-ies. Due to the fact that the west is changing from a frontier area to an industrialized area a new type of thinking is developing. Everyone is thinking in terms of industry and is banding every effort to take advantage of this industrial progress. Orem jg unknown in the industrial in-dustrial world. (1) It does not appear on any industrial map. (2) It is not mentioned in any of the industrial literature. (3) Roard signs directing traffic to the Geneva Steel plant are marked, this way to Geneva, Utah, (4) The Denver and Rio Grande railroad maintains a depot known as Geneva and is so designated in all railroad literature. lit-erature. (5) All mail is addressed address-ed to the Geneva Stel Company, Geneva, Utah. Therefore, Oirm is unknown to business and in dustry. There is not a great deal of honor in having this cornmun-' ity named after Mr. Orem who built a railroad which went ruto receivership and finally leffJ thousands of people hold ng worthless stocks and b inds. This community could raap many advantages by changing its name to Geneva. (1) It would receive millions of dollars worth cf free advertising because it would be published in every newspaper and magazine in the country. (2) Just as a matter of comomn business decency we owe our respect to the Geneva Steel Company. It was they who caused this community to change from a village to a growing grow-ing city. Remove Geneva Steel and this community will sink back into the village of yesterday. yester-day. It is keeping with customs of the past to honor those to whom honor is due. We o.ve i.r very existence to Geneva The least we can do to show respect and appreciation is to name the community in its hon or. (3) If we were Geneva it would increase the flow of mail through our post office. This would stimulate the possibility of getting a ltrge post office and evsjilyally a federal building. build-ing. Also, we would soon have a city carrier system of -nail delivery. de-livery. (4) A large post office or federal building, together with a city carrier system would stimulate a greater desire to live here. The larger the population popu-lation the greater the city revenue. rev-enue. The city needs revenue! in the worst way to finance much needed improvements, a better water system, sewer extensions, ex-tensions, sidewalks, curb and gutter, better streets, and all of the other things. What others say: Senator A-V. A-V. Watkins writes: "I wish you every success in this project. I am sorry I am not at hohme to give you my personal help. I am sure you are on the right track, so do not be easily discouraged." dis-couraged." In another letter he writes, "The change of name would not in the slightest degree i affect the bonds or any out Continued on Back Page Mayor J. W. Gillman will leave Ffiday or Springfield, Mass., where he will attend the annual meeting of the National Farm Credit administration. The mayor is a director for the administration ad-ministration and represents the four wester states. The conference confer-ence will last four days. He plans to return Sept. 11. ... - U v' ' ... - . ' .. ! ; .-Pr;l ... ' : I V- ) s J " a- -; n f V 1 til VJ -rSf 'Courteous and efficient" might the personnel at Orem's telephone exchange. Shown busily are (left to right) Fern Fisher, and Donna Ostler, operators; and Registration of Lincoln Students Nearly Completed With registration of. all students stud-ents who attended Lincoln high school last year completed, full-time full-time classes are scheduled to begin on Tuesday, September 7 at 9 a.m. New students who did not have an opportunity to register reg-ister and choose their schedule of classes in the spring will be registered on Tuesday from 1 to 3 p.m. Letters were sent out last week to Lincoln students who registered in the spring, notifying notify-ing of their schedule for this year. It is necessary for students stud-ents to bring this letter with them on Tuesday as the teachers will make up their class rolls from these The letter stated that only part time classes would be conducted on Tuesday, but full-time classes will begin on that day. Buses will run on the iii'-al schedules and routes. On Wednesday, Sept. 8, the student fees will be collected and activity cards and lockers will be issued. 10th, 11th and 12th grad students! will pay $7 activity fee and $2 deposit; 9th graders will pay $5 activity fee and $2 deposit; and 7th and 8th grade students will pay $2.50 activity fee and $1.50 deposit. A faculty meeting was he'd on Wednesday and the A'pine Schoal District work shop is being be-ing conducted during the remainder re-mainder of the week. Watkins Lauds Orem Curb, Gutter Project "The widening f U. S- 91 through Orem and the installation installat-ion of curb and gutter will mean a great deal to the development devel-opment of the busines9 district and Orem City as a whole." Senator Arthur V. Watkins declared de-clared today in an interview at his home. "Future years will prove this to be a very wise move on the part of the highway high-way property owners and the State Road Commission," he said. Senator Watkins while in Washington was an important factor in influencins the Bur eau of Public ftoais to give! preference to a road improve-! ment program in Orem and Utah county before any alternate alter-nate highway is built. MEET MR. JIGGS . . . This is Mr. Jlggs, a baby orangutan recently flown from New York to Denver. He will make his new home at the Cheyenne mountain too in Colorado Colo-rado Springs. The diminutive simian, worth $3,500, poses with Stewardess Betty Haigwood of United Air Line. , - ! t 4 I VOLUME 16, well describe these young Orem - service representative; Marie Mrs. Elma Hall, chief operator. OREM TELEPHONE OFFICE LOOKS TOWARD EXPANSION IN 2ND YEAR OF OPERATION By Clyde E. Weeks. Jr. "Number, Please?" "Thank you, here is your party" these are Uie phases used most often by the twelve telephone operators while they are on duty at the Orem office of the Mountain Moun-tain States Telephone and Telegraph Tele-graph company. Since the inauguration inaug-uration of local telephone service serv-ice in Orem a little over a year ago, they have demonstrated that courtesy and efficiency pay big dividends in serving patrons. pat-rons. While most of their time is occupied in the routine duties of connecting parties and giving the correct time, occasionally a fire all comes through and at least one operator suspends regular operations for long enough time to notify membefs of the volunteer fire department depart-ment of the emergency. Staffed almost entirely by Orem residents, the local telephone tele-phone office is said to render a more personal and interested service to telephone subscribers than might otherwise be possible. poss-ible. The personnel of the office includes the following: Mrs. Elma Hall, chief operator; Fern Fisher, in charge of the business busin-ess office; and Betty Adams, Norma Babcock, Donna Christ-ensen, Christ-ensen, Afton Finch, Mary Lou Gurr, Xenna Johnson, Mrs. Zoe Louder, Donna Ostler, Deon Patten, Joan Pyne, Marie Rohbock Roh-bock and Mrs Nila Broderick, telephone operators. Just a little over a year ago local telephone service was made available to Orem residents resid-ents for the first time. Previous to the installment of the four-position four-position switchboard and establishment estab-lishment of the business office in Orem, a call made from one party in Orem to another party in Orem had to be routed through the Provo switchboard. The new Orem branch exchange! however, did away with this circuitous procedurt and enabled calls to be made within the city through the local operator. oper-ator. Developed to reliev con- gestiorl in handling calls in the Provo office while at the same time improving the service in Orem, the $50,000 local office has also enabled the telphone company to reduce the number of subscribers per line through extensive outside cable installations. install-ations. Expansion of Facilities Evidence of the continual trowlh and expansion made by the telephone company in Orem since the opening of the local office is the fact that the telephones tele-phones between the northern limits of Orem City and 16th South Street being served by the new office a year ago have been increased by 301 new connections con-nections to date, making a total of 928 telephones now being served by the Orem office. Mr. Bickmore revealed this week that near-capacity has been reached on the Orem switchboard switch-board at the present time, and that new telephone connections were being made only where the needs of public health, welfare wel-fare or safety must be served. Orders for new services are -ill be'n? taki, and a backlog of 104 orders has accumulated NUMBER 54 women who comprise part of engaged in serving subscribers Rohbock. Af ion Finch, Zoe Louder to date, Mr. Bickmore said. Mr Bickmore did, however, hold out the hope that orders for new servcies might be filled in the not-too-distant future. "Work has been engineered and equipment ordered for add ing two positions to the present four-position switchboard, thus increasing its capacity by 50 percent," said Mr: Bickmore. "This means that the twitch-board twitch-board potential will be increased by about 465 connections," he said. "This will be enough to take care of the present backlog back-log of orders and new orders coming in from time to time. Mr. Bickmore also revealed that work would begin around October 1 to place additional aerial cable in Orem. Funeral For Charles A. Rawlings Held .Monday Funeral services for Charles Alma Rawlings, 64, were conducted con-ducted on Monday at the Berg Mortuary by Ray Gammon of the Vineyard ward bishopric. Mr. Rawlings died Friday at the Utah Valley hospital. Speakers at the service were Lowell Varley, Joy O. Clegg, Rex Blake and George Larsen. The invocation was offered by E. Carlyle Bunker. Musical numbers included "One fleeting Hour", sung by a ladies trio comprising Jenet Sundbloom, Jean Clegg and June Allen; "Face to Face" and "Going Home", sung by Howard Anderson Ander-son and "That Silver Haired Daddy of Mine.", sung by Janet Sundbloom and Jean Clegg, accompanied ac-companied by Grace Gammon. Closing pfayer was offered by James Blake and the grave in the Provo City cemetery was eddicated by Harvey Olsen, a nephew. Mr. Rawlings was born in Pleasant Grove on September 29, 1884, the son of William and Elizabeth Hooley Rawlings. The famify moved to Vineyard when he was a child. He married Jennie May Johnson John-son in Salt Lake City on Nov. 17, 1904 and they made their home in Vineyard until 1906 when they moved to Eureka. In Eureka Mr. Rawlings was employed at the Iron Blossom and Tintic Standard mines and the Hefferman and Thompson general merchandise stores until un-til J910, when they returned to Vineyard- Mr. Rawlings was engaged in farming until he retired re-tired in 1944. He was a member of the LD3 church. He leaves his wife, two sons and six daughters, Alma C. Rawlings, Provo; George W. Rawlings, Vineyard; Mrs. Ver- ena Snelson, Lake Shore; Mrs. Erma Mayne and Mrs. Faye Robidoux, Gypsum, Colorado; Mrs. Fern Hills, Orem; Mrs. Elva Goodwin, Lehi and Mrs-Eva Mrs-Eva Oster, Provo; seven brothers, broth-ers, George, Alonzo and Jessie Rawlings, Bingham; Joseph Rawlings, Draper; Seth Rawlings, Rawl-ings, Vineyard; Lee Rawlings, Orem; Royal Rawlings, Lake Shore; one sister, Mrs. Harriet Boulder, American Fork; 18 grandchildren and four great grandchildren. Home Owners on 91 Must Connect To Sewer: Council Those State Street residents who are not hooked on to the sewer are getting the squeeze this week by the city council, which body has dusted off an ordinance which makes connecting connect-ing mandatory for homes within 500 feet of the sewer line. Councilmen are urging that the sewer connections be made during the next few weeks before be-fore the curb and gutter project proj-ect and the highway paving are fairly begun. Connecting to the sewer line after those two projects proj-ects are completed will be much more expensive councilmen explained. ex-plained. The law provides that those within 500 feet of the line are required to connect, but during the past few years the law has not been enforced because of pipe shortages. Pipe is available availa-ble now and the law will be enforced, according to officials. Cost for sewer connecting is installation costs. Applications for sewer connections con-nections may be made at the city offices. Peach Crop Good Pickers Needed Orem and north Utah county coun-ty peach growers were making a call this week for pickers as the area's heavy crop became said that Friday and Saturday the fruit would reach top quality qual-ity for shipment and that heavy picking would be needed all next week to rush peaches to market. urowers described the jrop as good, with quality going slightly better than normal. The price on car lots is still uncertain uncer-tain but is expected to strengh-en strengh-en at as high as last year. Some growers estimated $2 to $2.75 as the carlot price. Estimates indicate that the county will export between 300 and 400 cars of peaches this year The pear harvest,- whicfa oc curs almost simultaneuos with peaches, will reach its peak a-bout a-bout next Wednesday. The pear crop is described as "light" by growers . Pickers are asked to get in con tact with Harry Butler at the of fice of the Orem Chamber of Commerce. He will place those who want work. He reports that there are packing and checking check-ing jobs also available now. Growers advise that "ripes" will be available for sale in or chards all next week- Senator Watkins To Address Orem Chamber Saturday Senator A. V. Watkins, Orem's United States senator, will be the speaker at a meeting of the Orem Chamber of Commerce on Saturday , evening at Twin Pines, it was announced today by Harry Butler, chamber manager. man-ager. Chamber members are in vited to bring their wjv for the special meeting. Senator Watkins, in Orem for a few days before going on Sen ate business to Oregnn, has a- greed ,io speak to the group on non-political problems which lace the local area as well as,J. E. Wilkinson, Rex Olsen, the nation. He will also be ready to answer questions regarding' en, Ned Cowley, Burnell Cord-his Cord-his woffc i Washington. ner, Ted Bunnell, Bob Curtis The meeting is set for 8 p.m. and Robert Farrer. ! v - 1 .. i ' ' m ; 5 ' ... (S Aloha, from Hawaii! While visilina with her brother in Orem. Miss Mae Cooper taught her which was presneted last Saturday afternoon at the children's i matinee and Monday evening at the Scera theatre. Shown (left to right) are: Miss Cooper, and the Orem girls dressed in Hawaiian costume, Barbara Seal, Colleen Cooper. DeAnn Cooper, Elaine Cooper and Sharon Cooper. Miss Cooper expects to return in the near future to Hawaii where she is employed as a secretary. PRICE FIVE CENTS Mass Meeting Set to Decide Fate of Reservoir Project Half Days Only At Lincoln Next Week A. P. Warnick, principal of Lincoln high school, announced today that high- school classes would be held on half-day schedules sched-ules on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday of next week. Ralher than report at th scheduled hour of 8:30 8 -n. 'he students will report at 1:30. The shift is to enable students to aid in local fruit orchards during dur-ing the critical harvest season. Mr. Warnick said that buses will run on schedules which will enable them to arrive at school in lime for the 1:30 classes. Elementary schools will follow fol-low their regular schedules. Lincoln Gridders Begin Practice A big football season is in the I making at Lincoln high school this year if the skill and stam ina of the first team matches the enthusiasm of the 50-odd I prospective players who 'turned I out at the first practice on Wed nesday night, according to Mel Briggs and Glen Zimmerman, Lincoln grid coaches. With a toueh nractice sched - ule ahead for the team hopefuls, Dean park that he spend $10,-the $10,-the Tigers should make a good 000 on the Alta Ditch in ex-showing ex-showing at their first pre-season change for $7,000 worth of wa-game wa-game to played on the night of i ter from that source which September 17 in Murray. ) would be used to landscape and September 23 will see the beautify the Timp Bowl. The Lincoln gridders. along with the council rejected the proposal seven other region teams, par-but 531(5 that Mr. Park could ticipating in a footballl festival purchase water at commercial at the BYU stadium. A drawing! rates from the city. Mr. Park will eliminate all but two teams told the council that he would who will play the last pre-seas- sel1 the bowl to the city to be on game that night. used for a recreation area and Regular league games' will I civic center if the sentiment of begin on September 24 with Lincoln playing BY high on the Tigers' home floor. The remainder remain-der of the season is scheduled as follows: October 1, Lincoln at Spanish Fork; October 6, Lincoln at American Fork; October Oct-ober i5, Lehi at Lincoln; October Octob-er 22, Lincoln at Payson; October Oct-ober 29, Pleasant Grove at Lincoln. Lin-coln. Besides Ralph Willett and Lowell Madsen, co-carjtains of, the Lincoln grid team, the loU mainder in tne vicinity oi tne lowing prospective players turn-' Lincoln school crossing, was as-ed as-ed out at the initial practice on'sured Monday when the Orem Wednesday night: Lewis Ed- City council awarded the con-wards, con-wards, Clint Lewis, Farren Har- tfact for the installation to the dy, Don Adams, Silven Christ- Smith and Young company of ensen, Gene Taylor, James Pen- Salt Lake City, rod, Don Bradshaw, LeUre The Salt Lake contractors Griffiths, Dale Reeves, Garth submitted the low bid of $38-Wilkinson, $38-Wilkinson, Lamar Kallas, Boyd 920 60 for the job. Ivie, Byron Stubbs, Richard The project is a companion Peterson, Eli Gourdin, Lee Dav- job to the state road commiss-is, commiss-is, Leon Rowley, Grant Holda- ion's proposed project of widen-way, widen-way, Leslie Booth, Oliver John-iin u- S. 91 from Pleasant . . . n rru i j a son, Kay Chnstensen, urant Newell, Bill Gunn, Ken Alton, Ronald Haig, Keith Davis, Gilbert Gil-bert Cook, Maho Hideshima, Terrance Judd, Darrell Mahay, Mark Jensen, Floyd Farley, Bob Workman, Leland Jackson, Jerry Peters, Robert Josie, Lee Towes, Aldo Bussio, DeVon j Adams, J. McEwan, Floyd Cluff, Ellsworth Carrell, Lynn Kitch- A- little nieces the Hawaiian dance, m The future of Orem's proposed water program, which includes the construction of a two million mill-ion gallon reservoir and the renovation ren-ovation of the city distribution system, will be determined by the people of Orem at a mass meeting, it was decided Monday by the Orem City council. The mass meeting has been set for Monday, September 13 at 8 p.m. at the Lincoln high school auditorium. Councilmen said Monday that the sentiment expressed by the people at the mass meeting would determine whether or not the bond issue would be placed on the November ballot ' Mayor J. W. Gillman said that the people should be informed as to the exact status of the city's finances, including the outstanding debts, etc. before the city embarks on the huge water program. If sentiment is favorable following the reports on all phases of the project, then the bond election will be Included with the November general election ballot. At the mass meeting will be City Engineer Leonard Beckman who has prepared preliminary specifications and plans for the new project, wuo will describe the proposed water system- The need for additional water in Orem will also be explained. At Monday's meeting the ! council also heard a proposal by tne community favored such a move. He said he would sell the bowl at cost. Bids Let On Curb and Gutter Curb and gutter for a distance of five miles in Orem, comprising compris-ing about two and one-half miles in the vicinity of the can- yon road crossing and the re- Uluve w novo, me Mate roaa commission has agreed to surface sur-face the highway from curb to curb where curb exists. The contractors are expected to begin work, within the next 10 days and estimate that they can lay approximately 500 feet per day when well under way. Steel Day Set Monday at A. F. Final plans were being laid this week for American Fork's annual Steel Day celebration, slated next Monday. Sept 6, which will feature this year morning and evening parades, an art exhibit, a flower show in the basement of the Alpine stake tabernacle and a rodeo. The rodeo will initiate the new rodeo grounds which have be'en under construction by the American Fork Riding club. Mrs. J. W. Mower is chairman of the entry committee for the Steel Day flower show. Orson Slack is general chairman chair-man of the celebration. LINCOLN BAND TO PLAY AT STEEL DAY The Lincoln high school senior band will participate in the Steel Day celebration at American Americ-an Fork, it was announced to day by Elvis B. Terry, head of tIle music department at the SCV,00 Rehearsals will be held at 7:30 p.m. on Friday and Saturday Satur-day nights in the high school music room to prepare for the event. All senior band members are encouraged to be in attendance attend-ance at both rehearsals. |