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Show 3 TOM W V'.',. -in I VOLUME 18 NUMBER 25 THURSDAY, JUNE 22, 1950 PRICE FIVE CENTS THOUSANDS GA THER FOR OREM CELEBRA HON ;zm Tops County in Bate of -essed Valuation Gain I Orem's assessed valuation for 1950 kept pace with its Bky-ocketing Bky-ocketing population increase by gaining $387,875 in assess-d assess-d property value during the past year to bring the city's Ltal assessed valuation to 3,852,010. The figure represented j increase of 12.1 percent for the year. Included are valua-ion valua-ion assessments on real tfbtate, improvements, livetock and 'ther personal properties. ! Building and building improvements accounted for $56,770 'if the Orem increase, wnicn maae me city easily the county's r,.. nwiurin? residence com-1 - L.mitv Provo's total during c ,-ear for building and build- vg improvements was ?o,uju ' , than half the Orem figure f Utah county's assessed valu-linn valu-linn climbed $2,314,300 to each $73,038,949, while Provo imnoH from sid,oeu,oo m H4.n7S.678. I The figures were released by Austin Cope, Utah county lessor, late last week. i'wohn school district was the ai-vv " ... , : 4nviro unit in vhnva my majui ia.in"& , rfrnD in assessed vaiuauon, The drop was explained in the r',ine of the Kaiser-Frazer niant at Ironton. total makes it second to Provo in Utah county. Springville, with a new valuat-ion valuat-ion of $2,930,945, is third; Am-Fork Am-Fork is fourth. Assessed valuation of the Alpine Al-pine school district moved up $1,573,8.-5 to a total of $29,806,- Sil The increase renects xne in creased valuation of Geneva Steel company and the general jrowth of the sorth end of the county. i Total real estate assessed val nation in the county jumped to $13,714,736 which is $93,862 ever last year's figure. Improvements Improve-ments in the county brought assessed as-sessed valuation for tnis cate- eorv iro $1,007,206 above the 1949 figure of $31,215,657. I Other comparative figures for the entire countv are: Livestock, 1949, $1,239,226; 1950, $1,151.- 347; other personal property 1949, $24,650,892; 1950, $25,-562,003. $25,-562,003. i Cities Listed Total assessed valuation of Utah county cities, with the 1950 figure first, is as follows: i Lehi, $1,369,569, $1,301,426; Alpine, $216,593, $213,602; Am erican Fork, $2,644,146, $2,-442,177; $2,-442,177; Pleasant Grove, . $1.- 379,548, $1,266,786; Lindon, 5404,553, $360,280; Springville, S2.920.845, $2,860,129; Maple-ton, Maple-ton, $841,335, $741,361; Spanish Span-ish Fork, $2,507,805, $2,351,-525; $2,351,-525; Salem, $276,009, $263,614; Payson, $1,827,392, $1,699,551; Santaquin, $287,021, $280,052; Gaiola, $218,884, $204,650; Goshen, Go-shen, $175,927, $170,495; Benjamin, Ben-jamin, $617,706, $599,133. WE SCHOOL BOARD BUDGET SET AT NEW HIGH I A budget of $1,413,064 was approved this week by the Al-Pme Al-Pme school board for the next school year, according to Elijah Chipman, clerk of the board This amount exceeds by $6,035 lhe budget approved for the fiscal year just ending. According to Mr. Chipman, jhe Alpine school district will nave Jn addition to the operat-budget operat-budget an estimated $511, remaining from the building d bond issue of $1,450,000, floated in 1948 at the end of this month. He estimated that the "'Strict would spend "the great-;fr great-;fr Pa" of this amount during '"e year 1950-51 on its current . ouUding program, i Dunng the fiscal school year !ch ends this June 30, the dis-,,c.tns, dis-,,c.tns, operating budget was ; '.407,029, and it spent an es-5ated es-5ated $550,000 on its building program from the building fund Spnd issue. NOVEL AT REM LIBRARY rem!!1! ?ther ther," a much-Laur much-Laur v Popular novel by i j Hobson, has been re-r re-r rl at th Orm Public lib-John' lib-John' according to Mrs. E. H. ;Jnnson, librarian. berijfS,1Hobson also wrote the JJtner "Gentleman's Agree- Scera-Community Class Ready for Music Leaders A class for ward choristers and organists to be given as part of the Scera-Community recreation re-creation program, was announced announc-ed this week by officers of the program, and bishops of wards in Orem and Sharon stakes were urged to provide someone from each ward to attend the course in order to insure competent com-petent music directors. The course is free and will be conducted by Elvis B. Terry, vocal music director of Lincoln High school and a member of the music committee of the general gen-eral board of YMMIA. Classes will be held each Thursday at 8 p.m. at the Lincoln high vocal room. Mr. Terry pointed out that there is a tendency to overwork people in the wards who can direct di-rect music. The course is designed design-ed to train young talented people peo-ple to help out in ward music activities. Those interested in singing in small groups, such as a male quartet, ladies trio , or sextets should contact Mr. Terry for rehearsal re-hearsal appointments. Program requests are continually con-tinually being made and groups are needed to fill them, according accord-ing to Mr. Terry. His phone is 0741 Rl. VSMStBStl I"-'" il;'l Scolt Wilkinson Geneva Ward Sets Missionary Fete A farewell testmonial for Scott Wilkinson, son of Mr. and and Mrs- Lawrence Wilkinson, will be held at 6 p.m. Sunday in the Timpanogos ward recreation re-creation hall, according to Bishop Bish-op C Wilford Larsen of the Geneva ward which is sending the missionary. Elder Wilkinson will serve in 'he Australian LDS Mission. The program for the testimonial testim-onial will include vocal solos by Inga Smith and Lovena Rowley, talks by Edward C. Beck and Ira Page remarks by the missionary, miss-ionary, his parents and Bishop Lasen- Chester Graff will give the invocation. vt. "i , .. ir' j C ,.v'-K .' , Ml ; 1 - 1 , f c. .iiij l'(:.n. -v ;' , Parade, Kodeo Acclaimed, KidsDay Slated Friday Mean looking critters, aren't they.. Those hard to get along with brahma bulls, we mean. Looking Look-ing over the situation prior to the three big rodeos sloled for tonight, Friday and Saturday nights, are Swanney Kirby, rodeo promoter left, and Clifton T. Pyne, president of the Orem Riding Club. The riding club has prepared 5.000 seats to handle the crowds on the three nights at the rodeo grounds.. Local Scouts Leave For Valley Forge Six local boys, Val Hebert-son, Hebert-son, Charles Car, LeRoy Holda-way. Holda-way. Jerry Kindred, Allen Richins and Ed Hill, left today. Thursday, by bus to attend the rational Scout Jamboree at Valley Forge, June 30 to July 7. They were accompanied by-Ray by-Ray Pully, Robert Webb and Harold Gardiner, Scout leaders. Members of the Orem Cham-bt Cham-bt r of Commerce were on hand to see the boys leave and presented pres-ented them with souvenir book-iels book-iels to present to anyone interested inter-ested in this community. On their way to Valley Forge the Scouts will visit Omaha, Chicago, Niagra Falls, Rochest er and Palmyra, New York. They will wturn by way of Washington D. C, Kansas City, and Denver. Thousands of spectators from all over Utah count v linprl Orem's State Street late today, Thursday, to witness the colorful street parade first event in the festive three-day community rodeo days celebration slated to continue through Saturday nijjht. Starting at 8th North and proceeding to the city hall, the parade of queens, floats, bands and riding clubs was headed by a uniformed color guard from Orem's American Legion rost 72. Funeral Services for Harriet P. Varley Held Today Funeral services for Mrs-Harriet Mrs-Harriet Parkin Varley, 83, are being held today, Thursday, in the Vermont-Orem First ward chapel, with Bishop Donald G. Wilcox of the' Orem First ward in charge. Mrs. Varley died Tuesday at the home of her son, Lowell P. Varley, of causes incident to age- She was born April 15, 1867, in Bountiful, a daughter of William J. and Elizabeth Foulds Parkin. She received her education edu-cation in Bountiful schools. She married William Varley in the Logan LDS Temple, Oct. 16, 1886. They lived in Salt Lake City until 1894, when they moved to Vineyard. Mr. Varley died Oct. 27, 1919. Mrs. Varley moved from the farm in Vineyard Vine-yard in 1942 to reside with her son in Orem. An active member of the LDS church, Mrs. Varley worked in the MIA and Relief Society for many years. She also worked as a practical nurse. She leaves one son, Lowell P. Varley, Orem; seven daughters,-Mrs. daughters,-Mrs. B. H. (Irene) Wright, American Am-erican Fork; Mrs. A. P. (Florence) (Flor-ence) Duke and Mrs. H. E. (Zip-porah) (Zip-porah) Prestwich, Provo; Mrs. Sarah Hooley, Orem; Mrs. R. W. (Ethyl) Robinson, Sacramento; Mrs. E. O. (Vanza) Ash, Salt Lake City; and Mrs. R. C (Beul-ah) (Beul-ah) Gillman, Lindon; 50 grandchildren, grand-children, 51 great grandchildren and six great great grandchildren; grandchild-ren; a brother and a sister, Mrs. Harry Dean, Rexburg, Idaho and Geoge E. Parkin, Bountiful; four half brothers and four half sisters, Neal, Roland, Lincoln Lin-coln and Clifford Parkin, Mrs-Joe Mrs-Joe Heaps, Mrs. Rilla Wright and Mrs. Emma Hollwinkle, Salt Lake City, and Mrs. Will Hart, Bountiful. I f''H:'$:.?M:i:-?K''S i -!: v.---'' '-I 'I' ; v -A---'I I M X i L. -ri At-. J ' i . I t Mr. and Mrs. Reed Hacking and daughter Christine left last week for a vacation trip to Canada Can-ada where they will visit with Mr. Hacking's parents and other oth-er relatives and friends. BROTHER, CAN YOU SPARE THREE MINUTES? These chest X-Ray exams which are available in Orem this weekend and part of next week are paid for in advance; ad-vance; nearly two-score of civic club hostesses are taking tak-ing turns assisting in the record keeping and mechanics of the job; and Paul Patrick, personable technician, is adjusting his hours to suit the convenience of Orem Alfwe need from you is three minutes of your time! It takes just about that to take the picture and make the record. ... , , . .i A n Those in charge worked hard to insure that Orem would have the X-Ray portable laboratory here, and it is important now that complete coverage is obtained, and that every person over 15 is examined. It's as important as vaccinations or innoculations. Hours Friday and Saturday are 9 to 12 noon, and from 4 to 8 p.m. May we have three minutes of your time this weekend? Slips don't countl But at a rcdeo they can be mighty important, and sometimes can result in serious injury. Rs;'- Hawkins, center, of the Orem Riding Club, assists visiting cowboys check the chute door mechanism so that it will be in proper working order for the rodeos. Testimonial Honors Reed Stolworthy Elder Reed Stolworthy was honored Sunday evening at a farwell testimonial in the Sharon Shar-on ward chapel. Sharon and Beverly ward members met together to-gether for the testimonial. Elder Stolworthy entered the LDS mission home in Salt Lake USED CARS COST LESS IN 1950 Used car buyers are paying an average of $157 less for automobiles than they did a .year ago, a computation made by the State Tax Commission shows. In a report of the Commiss ion on the motor vehicle sales nnH taY it wae nninlpd nilt City on Monday and will leave ( )hat when tnp saleg Ux was flrst Wednesday, June 28 for the; . . individual sales of eastern Mates Mission. lie is me mntnp hir..0 in Ma.. nf 184S. , . w y zon of Mr. and Mrs. C J Stolworthy. Stol-worthy. Speakes were Bishop Stanley Finch, Carlos J. Stolworthy, Viola Stolworthy and Bishop William M. Vernon. A rrsponse was made by the missionary. Prayers were offered by J. Clayton Watts and Quinn Hatch. Genniel Larsen played a piano solo and accompanied Donna Stolworthy for a musical reading. th? average sales tax collected was $12.02, or an average value of $601, while in May of this year the average collection was $8.83, or an average of $444. In the one year period from May 10, 1949 to May 10, 1950, 20.563 persons, who purchased motor vehicles from individuals, not dealers, paid a total of $210, 065.83 in sales tax. On May 10, 1949, only 20 sales tax returns were made with a total value of $244.71, while on Mav 10, 1950, 153 taxpayers tax-payers paid out $1,085. 00. Dinner guests at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel E-Bench E-Bench on Sunday were Bishop and Mrs. Paul Procter from Provo, Mr. and Mrs. Louis Proctor Proc-tor 'and son, Allen from Salt T olro r"Wtr Mr enrl Mn Mnrrpll Reinties from' Linton. Indiana ' ??st week. They came to attend QnH Rvrnn fllaflo QnH T.arrV Crowler from Malad, Idaho. I Cllv- Mr. and Mrs. Lynn Palmer and family visited here with Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Palmer ' the MIA conference in Salt Lake Mr. and Mrs. Wallace Mr. and Mrs. Clay Benson Jones of Overton, Nevada are , and three children of Provfli visiting this week at the home have moved into the Barker W. of Mr- and Mrs. Clarence Bliss. Shurtz apartment. Testimonial Set Sunday for Garn Swenson Farwell testimonial for Garn J. Swenson, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. Eldon Swenson, will be conducted con-ducted Sunday in the Windsor ward chapel at 8 p-m. Elder Swenson will leave in the near future for the Swedish LDS mission. He is now attending attend-ing the mission school in Salt Lake City. - Speakers at the testimonial will include Arvel Harris, close friend of the missionary who re cently returned from the Ura-guay Ura-guay Mission; Bishop LeGrand Jarman of Windsor ward; and the father of the missionary. SHARON STAKE MIA SLATES OUTING An outing for officers and teachers of the Sharon stake MIA will be held at 7:30 p.m. Saturday at the Girls' Canyon home, accordng to Lurleen Loveless, YWMIA presdent. A good program is scheduled together to-gether with a dance and games. LINDON WARD SS SLATES SQUARE DANCE The Lindon ward Sunday School is sponsoring a st uare dance as a building fund bene fit at 8:30 p.m. Saturday night, according to Paul Pack, super intendent. All ward members snd friends are urged to attend the event. EDGEMONT LITERARY CLUB TO MEET FRIDAY The Ladies Literary Club of Edgemont will meet Friday at the home of Mrs. J. Will Knignt, club officers announced today. Mrs. Robert Elliot will give the program entitled 'News from Palestine'. Mr. and Mrs. Milton Thackeray Thack-eray and children were here from Salt Lake City on Sunday to visit with the David Eagars-Mr. Eagars-Mr. Thackeray returned recently recent-ly from attending the Columbia University. L Jesse W. Aay Mission Farwell j For Jesse Asay Set Sunday Jesse W. Asay, son of Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Asay, will be honored honor-ed Sunday at a farewell -testimonial prior to his departure for the Spanish-American LDS mission. The testimonial will be in connection with the Timpanogos Timp-anogos ward Sacrament meeting at 7:30 p.m. in the ward chapel with Bishop Ray Hanks in charge. char-ge. . Speakers will be DeLance Squire and Alice Watts. Instrumental Instru-mental music will be furnished by Dale Johnson, Rella Griffiths Griff-iths and Clara Anderson. Vocal music will be by Danny Roberts, Rob-erts, Cliff Pyne, Dexter Wil-berg, Wil-berg, Rex Kofford and Elaine Kinney. Elder Asav is a graduate of Linco'n high school and of Sharon seminary. He is an Eagle Scout and has been a student at BYU for the past two years-Recently years-Recently he has biwn serving as a stake missionary. He entered the mission home on June 19. RATES DROP ON LICENSE PLATES JULY 1 Bargain rates on automobile license plates start July 1st, when half rates go into effect, stated Patrick Healy Jr., chair-mon chair-mon of the Utah State Tax Commission. . The reduced rale applies to both passenger cars and trucks and affects only the price of the registration. All other charges transfers of titles, lost plates and lost titles and registrations require the regular fees. Sales tax, of course, is not affected af-fected and remains at a full two percent of the price paid for the vehicle. Celebration Schedule FRIDAY 3 p.m. Games, races and stunts for the children staged stag-ed at the Orem City park under the direction of I'ar-lell I'ar-lell Peterson and Evan Baugh. Prizes galore including six pairs of waist overall's donated by Macdonald's Clothing. 3:30 p.m. Huck Finn fishing in the slream north of the city hall. For kids. 4 :30 p.m. Greased pig contest for kids at city park. 4 :30 p.m. Softball game. Vineyard vs Jeffs and Jones. City ball park. 8:30 p.m. Top notch cowboys compete for $.r00 in prizes at second performance of championship rodeo. SATURDAY 3 p.m. Raseball game at city ball diamond. Orem city baseball team vs Springman's ball team of Salt Lake City. 5.30 p.m. Line-up at 8h South of floats, bands, entries en-tries for parade. 6 p.m. Final performance of city celebration parade proceeding from 8th South to Orem city hall. 7 p.m. Barbeque at city park served by Vermont ward workers. 8:30 p.m. Last performance of rodeo at rodeo grounds. Next in line was the car in which Mayor J. W. Gill-man Gill-man and city officials rode, followed by the Lincoln high school band under the direction of Gilbert Childs. Leading the gaily bedecked Iloals was the Orem City float currying Orem's queen, Carole Swan, and her attendants. Colleen Coll-een Ferguson and Peggy Spencer-Next in line was the float entered en-tered by Greater Utah Valley, Inc., bearing Joanne Hinand, Miss Utah for 1949. Lois Peterson Peter-son of Lehi. the Orem rodeo queen and her attendants, Ann Story of Cedar Fort, and Gloria Carter of Provo, colorfully dressed and smartly mounted on majestic steeds, preceeded the Orem Riding Club which was joined in the parade by eight other riding clubs from Utah county cities. Continuing in the procession were a number of Impressive floats entered by church groups civic clubs, and businesses. Also Al-so marching were bands from outside the city including the American Fork and Pleasant Grove bands. Magna Drum and Bugle corps, and the Footprlnt-ers Footprlnt-ers from Provo. Barbeque Serysd Following the paade spectators spectat-ors enjoyed barbequed steaks at the city park which were served by workers of Vemont ward. At 8:30 p.m. the initial performance of the D, A. Kerby championship rodeo was staged at the rodeo grounds with professional pro-fessional cowboys competing for a purse of $500. Heading up the celebration committee are Carl Lauder, general gen-eral chairman, and E. E. Twit-chell, Twit-chell, co-chairman. Clifton T, Pyne, president of the Orem Riding club, is in charge of the rodeo performances. Also serving on the committee are Don Swan of the Jaycees, Mrs. Max Pedersen of the Orem Women's club, Evan Baugh and Parlull Peterson .rcpresetning the Scera-Community recreation pogram; and Mrs. Betty Gillman of the American Legion auxiliary auxil-iary and Orem Garden club. FRIDAY EVENTS On Friday the celebration events ev-ents will get under way again at 3 p.m. when games and stunts for children will be staged at the city park under the direction of Mi?. Peterson and Mr. Baugh. All children under 15 are eligible elig-ible to take part. Huck Finn fishing will draw the youngsters to the stream running north of the city hall at 3:30 p.m., and at 4:30 p.m. the kids will chase after a greased pig at the city park. Also at 4:30 p.m. the Vineyard Vine-yard ward softball team will play an exhibition game with the Jeffs and Jones team. Milt Waycasy will take the mound for Vineyard. The second rodeo performance will be held at 8:30 p.m. Continues Saturday At 3 p.m. Saturday the celebration cele-bration will continue with a game at the city park between the Orem Baseball team and Springman's of Salt Lake City. The final parade performance will line up at 5:30 p. m. on Saturday at the lot east of the Lincoln high school. The parade will start at 6 p.m. and proceed to the city hall. Barbeque will again be served at the city park following the parade and the final performance of the rodeo will be held at 8:30 p.m. At all performances of the rodeo the rodeo queen and her attendants will lead the grand entry and the Orem Riding club will present a mounted square dance under the direction of Monte Bigler and Phil Payne. Each night cowbo,. dontestants will vie for $500 in prizes. |