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Show THURSDAY, DECEMBER 18, 194.T OREM-GENEVA TIMES r Pictured a ihey present a check to the stake Relief Society president paying in full their assignment for the church-wide Relief Society building fund are the officers of the Pleasant View ward organization, firsi in the slake lo reach their quota. They are, left to right: Melba Cluff, work leader and chairman of the bazaar; Anna Ashton, first counselor; Edna Hansen, president; Merle Foote, secretary; Marian Ercan- brack, second counselor; and Ruby Hunn. Sharon stake Relief Society president. PI. View Ladies Reach Quota For Building Fund The Pleasant View ward Re lief Society, first in the staKe to reach 100 of their assignment for the fund to build the new general Relief Society building, presented a check for the full amount to the stake Relief Society So-ciety president, Mrs. Ruby Hunn. The ladies of Pleasant View ward recently held a very successful suc-cessful bazaar. The proceeds from the sale paid in full the building fund assignment and enough was left to send a generous gen-erous cash present to each one of the nine missionaries trom the ward. Mrs. Melba Cluff, work leader, lead-er, was chairman of the bazaar and was assisted by the ward officers of-ficers and other members of the Relief Society. The ladies in the ward donated many useful and lovely items for sale. The check for the building fund was presented to Mrs.' Hunn at a recent meeting by the ward president, Mrs. Edna Hansen. Mrs. Anna Ashton and Mrs. Marian Mar-ian Ercanbrack are counselors in the ward presidency and Mrs-Merle Mrs-Merle Foote is secretary. Orem Women's Club Entertains Husbands At Dinner Dance The Orem Women's Club members mem-bers entertained their husbands at a Christmas dinner dance at the Silver Star cafe on Tuesday evening. A musical program and a visit from Santa Claus added to the enjoyment of the evening. Mrs. L. S. Maycock welcomed the group and introduced J. Er-val Er-val Christensen as master of ceremonies. A number of special guests responded to toasts. Moroni Mor-oni Jensen sang several numbers accompanied by Mrs. James Norton Nor-ton and Mrs. Norton played piano selections. Mrs. Wallace Kendall read "The Christmas Rose." Mrs. Horace Snyder was general gen-eral chairman of the affair and her committee comprised Mrs. H- Vern Wentz, Mrs. Moroni Jensen, Jen-sen, Mrs. Lloyd Pyne, Mrs. Ted Simmons and Mrs. Antone Roh-bock. Roh-bock. ICDAY'STI?K?cD ...For BOMEMAKERS For chicken fricassees and stews. chicken pies, etc., use mature chickens which are In good supply and which are being culled from the flocks and marketed to save feeding them grain. Citutnt Fofi CnmiMn ANNOUNCING 8 & The Opening of Jf GARRUTH GROCERY I 11275 North State Orem, DECEMBER 16, 1947 r r Kh l! if It II V If H" -$ i Vi y J i f ) ) ' With A Complete New' Stock Of STAPLE GROCERIES Orem-Qeneva Society Ina Smith. Editor- Phone 13 CAMP OREM DUP HONORS PIONEER The Camp Orem DUP met last Thursday at the home of Mrs. Sam Cordner. Second vice captain, cap-tain, Mary McEwan, presided at the meeting. The meeting honored Mrs- Cordner, one of Utah's pioneers. Vera Egan read a tribute to Mrs. Cordner and concluded with the poem, "Our Noble Pioneers." The story of Mrs. Cordner's life was read by hrr daughter, Ger trude Backus. The camp present ed the honored lady with an artificial arti-ficial potted plant. The lesson, "Old Albums" was given by Jennie Thorne; a solo was sung by Lucille Anderson, accompanied by Melba Cai ier. Muriel Cordner played several piano selections while the ladies were eating lunch. Present at the meeting were 20 members of the camp and one guest, Mrs. Myric from New Mexico, a recent convert to the LDS church. Father Breaks His Keck at Circus to Save Two Children MIAMI. FLA. Charles Alzanas, 65, received a broken neck when his son, Harold. 31, and daughter, Hilda, 16, fell on him from a high wire while performing a bicycle act in the Rihgling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey circus. The son suffered a fractured spine. All were "hospitalized. While 16,000 spectators looked on, Harold lost his balance and Hilda, astride his shoulders, fell with him 33 feet to the ground. The father, watching from below, ran beneath them and cushioned their fall. Doctors said his action probably saved their lives. 23,003 Kew Homes In Newark Sub-Standard, Survey Shows NEWARK, N. J. Mayor Vincent Vin-cent J. Murphy disclosed that a housing study of the city of Newark showed 28,250 units of the city's 118,-550 118,-550 housing units are sub-standard. The local survey, made at the request re-quest of Senator Wagner (Dem., N. Y.) who sent questionnaires to all large communities asking statistics statis-tics on housing needs, listed the substandard sub-standard units as those that would not rent for more than $30 a month. The mayor said he was certain private enterprise could not provide pro-vide housing at rentals within means for families in sub-standard nreas "either in the near or foreseeable future." Utah! n M n n Temple Marriage Unites Couple Mr. and Mrs. Edward Camen-ish Camen-ish announce the marriage of their daughter Wyla to Robert Ro-bert H. Rollins of Lovell, Wyoming. Wy-oming. The marriage to be solemnized solem-nized in the Salt Lake Temple on December 18. After a honeymoon honey-moon in Lovell the couple will make their home in Provo where they will continue their studies at the B. Y. U. Burning Passenger Plane Lands Safely, All Unhurt GALLUP, N. M. - A burning American Airlines passenger plane landed safely here, after catching fire in mid-air. None of the 21 passengers pas-sengers and crew of 4 aboard were injured. Fire and smoke belched from the fuselage of the DC-6 as it braked to a landing. The Gallup fire department depart-ment extinguished the blaze within 15 minutes alter the plane reached the airport. Capt. Evan W. Chatficld, piloting the plane from San Francisco to ! Tulsa, said his passengers "behaved wonderfully. They were calm all the way down." - Seaborne Guerillas Invade Greek Island Near Athens ATHENS. A band of 100 guerillas guer-illas made a seaborne invasion of the northern part of the island of Evvoia, only 80 miles north of Athens, Ath-ens, attacked the village of Exero-horion Exero-horion and killed 5 civilians. Ten other residents were wounded in the attack, said the ministry of public order. The guerillas apparently appar-ently came from the vicinity of Mount Orthrys, on the mainland. Thirty persons were abducted from Exerohorion but later were released. ''SmmMt&ss for a A winter countryside with a church . spire dominating the scene reflects a peacefulness that symbolizes the kind of Christmas Day we hope you enjoy this year. Geneva Supply Co. Renee Gay Weds Harold Edwards A ceremony in the Salt Lake Temple, today, Thursday, solemnized solem-nized the marriage of Renee Gay and Harold Edwards. The bride is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Del Gay; Mr. Edwards is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Phil Edwards. Ed-wards. Several parties honored the bride-elect before her marriage. Her mother entertained at a personal per-sonal shower. Mrs. Philip Ed wards, Sue Finlayson, Coralee Scott and Norma Leonard won prizes in a series of games. Mrs. Laurel Gibson was hostess host-ess at a party honoring her niece. Many lovely gifts were presented present-ed to the bride-elect. Ending games and refreshments at the party were Mrs. Reed Brown, Mrs. June Brown, Mrs. Washburn, Wash-burn, Mrs. Ellen Davenport, Mrs. Arthella Powell, Beverly Powell, Pow-ell, Jean Henry, Mrs. Inez Gay, the hostess and the honored guest. Varieties Club Entertained Mrs. Melpha Healey was ost-ess ost-ess to' the members of the Varieties Varie-ties Club. The ladies worked on their sewing as they chatted. During the meeting, Mrs. Eva Pratt was named to represent the club as a member of the Greek War Relief committee. I Plans were made for a Christmas party to be held Saturday evening even-ing at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Pyne. Lunch was served by the hostess host-ess to Mrs. Katie Mitchell, Mrs. Ida Carter, Mrs. Leola Sackett, Mrs. Helen Carter, Mrs. Fern Twitchell, Mrs. Letha Burgner, Mrs. Francis Brown, Mrs. Dona Pyne, Mrs. Joan Newell, Mrs. Mildred Jacobsen, Mrs- LaVell Peterson, Mrs. Eva Pratt and Mrs. Shirley Park. Stake Officers at Christmas Party A Christmas party at the Lincoln Lin-coln high school was enjoyed Saturday Sat-urday evening by the Sharon Stake Sunday School officers and board members and their partners. The committee in charge of arrangements comprised compris-ed Orland E. Pyne, Ruby Nicol and Roma Vineyard. Arnold Burningham acted as master of ceremonies during tho program. Christmas songs were led by Ruby Nicol and remarks were made by Superintendent John M. Nicol. Other program numbers included a vocal solo by Melba Pyne; a musical reading read-ing by Olive Burningham; a vocal vo-cal trio by Ilene Olsen, Margaret Nicol and Ila McKinnon; and a comic saxaphone solo by Donna Jean Peterson, accompanied by Gay Peterson. Games were directed by Mrs. Bessie Meiling. Refreshments Refresh-ments and dancing were enjoyed during the remainder of the evening. eve-ning. To,' VERMONT 1PRIMAHY ; TEACHERS MEET The officers ai.d teachers of the Vermont ward Primary met at the Os:ar Anderson . home Tuesday evening. The lesson was given by La Vail Peterson. A short program included a duet by Elvira Ford and Helen .Carter; a story by Frances Brown jnd a solo by Virginia Fairbanks. Gifts were exchanged by the ladies and refreshments were served. Those present were Max-ine Max-ine Ellis, Ruth Caley, Mildred Jacobs, Leola Sackett, LaVell Peterson, Letha Burgner, lxra Bascom, Virginia Fairbanks, Nb da King, Katie Mitchell, Shirley Park, LaVera Christensen, Beu-lah Beu-lah Phillips, Ora Guyman, Ruby ! Harris. Maxine Kitchen. Frances 'Brown, Phyllis Boren, Ann Fin- ley and Flora Dunn. La Noal Carrell arrived home last week to spend the Christmas Christ-mas holidays in Orem. He has been employed by Western in San Francisco and expects to be assigned to a new job after the holidays. 1 T f vasz y Free Parking For All Our Customers TAKE ADVANTAGE OF TAYLOR'S MAMMOTH PARKING LOT AND AVOID THE WORRY OF PARKING METERS! USE OUR CONVENIENT 1ST NORTH ENTRANCE AND BRING YOUR FAVORITE SHOPPING CENTER RIGHT TO YOUR FRONT DOOR! i Open Sat., Mon., & Tues. Nights 'Til GS0 Do GaDo WE'RE STAYING OPEN 'SPECIALLY FOR YOU SANTAS WHO WORK ALL DAY! THERE'S STILL PLENTY OF GIFTS LEFT FOR EVERYONE, SO MAKE A DATE SHOP LATE! DON'T FORGET SANTA IN PERSON SATURDAY AT 2:00 P. M. GIFT SHOP GREETING CARDS The History of I EDITOR'S NOTE: Thlt k ttw foortk of a writs f tight artirleg a the hiftorr ! tilt meUJ mining induitrr in Uuh.) News of the discovery of gold In " California in 1847 spread like wildfire wild-fire and a world-wide gold rush wag soon on. From across the plains, across the swamps and around Cape Horn came men seeking seek-ing gold. It became one of the great gold rushes of all history. Some stayed in California to search for the yellow metal while others fanned out to other parts of western west-ern United States, to blaze the trail to new discoveries and new empires Just as man emerged from the stone a;e with the discovery and development of metals, Utah emerged from the realm of a limited lim-ited agricultural area with the discover? dis-cover? and development of its minerals. min-erals. This was the beginning of Industrial progress in Utah. An old iron bell which now rests in the museum at Cedar City is mute testimony of the first discovery discov-ery of metals in Utah. Iron was discovered by a company of breth-ern breth-ern headed by Parley P. Pratt, exploring the area surrounding Cedar City in 1849-50 at the request re-quest of Brighara Young. When Head-Save Your Feet! our mitiifiaiim m m it AT Mining in Utah President Young received news of the discovery, he encouraged Mr. Pratt in a letter to do all he could to develop the claims for the welfare wel-fare of the people. One of the first recovery furnaces fur-naces built was that of Isaac Grundy, who in cooperation with others, built a crude plant at Minersville in 1859. This was near the old Lincoln mine which was discovered in 1852. Like all frontiers fron-tiers some trouble was experienced with the Indians and metals were needed for the production oi bullets. bul-lets. "According to accounts," one writer recorded, "something in the lead made it too bard for that purpose, pur-pose, and that 'something' was later found to be silver." In 1854, the territorial legislature legisla-ture offered a reward of $1,000 for the first discovery of coal near Salt Lake City. The first vein of coal was discovered near the little town of Wales in Sanpete County in 1854. The next discovery was near Coalville, Utah, in 1859. Id 1869 Coalville became a thriving coal producing area and since 1885 Carbon County has been the chief center for the production of coal (The fifth article in this series will appear soon in these columns.) Mr. Christenson Honored at Family Gathering A. H. Christenson was honored honor-ed at a family gathering on his birthday anniversary Saturday. Thirty-four members of his immediate im-mediate family 'and other relatives rela-tives enjoyed dinner at Park's Cafe in Orem and a program and musical entertainment at the family home during the evening. All of Mr. Christenson's chil dren were present with the exception ex-ception of one son, who is in Washington, D. C. Eleven grandchildren grand-children were present; two-grandsons two-grandsons are in the service and one granddaughter was unable to attend. Representatives from thA fnmilipa nf siv nf Mr. Chris- ' tenson's brothers and sisters came from Gunnison, Cedar City Salt Lake City and other parts oi tne state. LADIES LOUNGE ELEVATOR 1 OREM FOR ALL THE GIFTS YOU NEED ALL YOU NEED IS TAYLOR'S w u w u tjjWtHii-luwto (Ui iGtl&i&iana PRICED RIGHT |