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Show OREM-GENEVA TIMES TTTTTRCTIAV CVOTPlNTOfD 1 IO-M 'M J 'tOOCATION .-..Si ..V . RCCKtftTION AGRICULTURE . INDUSTRY 4 I THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1948 VOLUME 16, NUMBER 56 PRICE FIVE CENTS :em to Defend losing Ordinance -Caving ground of the state 23S constitutionality" as the city council voted to t a suit brought against J ,tv charging that its ordin-" ordin-" which bans the sale of l on Sunday is invalid Citv councilmen voted three two to defend the present or-' or-' ce as it stands. Mayor Gill- Woodruff Jensen and E. H. Lon voted in favor ot deling de-ling the ordinance, while A. Shards and Victor Durham ted against fighting the com- Thl complaint, signed by en Shaw, operator of Leon's mm, charges that the ordin-(e ordin-(e which forbids the sale of tt on Sunday is invalid and tonstitutional and violative provisions of the state conation con-ation of the state of Utah. It Is that the city be restrained enforcing the law. Although Mr. Shaw signed t complaint, the case is being nied and financed by tne ivern Operators association of ah County, wno nave retain- 1 the Salt Lake City law firm I McCullough, Wilkinson and ivce as their attorneys'. The tavern operators believe at the supreme court decision iich held recently that ordSn-ices ordSn-ices closing grocery stores on jnday are not valid will serve I a precedent for their Sunday r complaint. They have in-tated in-tated their intention to take i case to the supreme courts necesary to get a ruling on the sse. The Orem case will serve l a precedent for Sunday beer finances throughout the state. City Attorney Hugh Vern 'entz has been instructed by city council to prepare the tj's defense of the ordinance r its hearing in the local dis-ict dis-ict court. Time for the hearing B not been set. i tursing Advisory krd Urges Revision )f Orem Health Laws Revision of Orem city health nvs was scored as a paramount tcessity if health and sanitat-li sanitat-li standards here are to be ipt at a high level, at the or-uiizational or-uiizational meeting of a city ursing advisory board held in ie city hall Tuesday night. The board which includes la Dorothy Broadhead, chair-sn; chair-sn; Mis Flo Beck, Orem public ealth nurse; Richard Brewer, Irs Edith Pederson Mrs. W. G. 'crgensen, Lyle McDonald, Mrs. Vavne Peterson and Mrs. Hen-i Hen-i Campbell, will serve as a alth service organization in Proving health conditions iroughout the city. Miss Beck informed the group tat ordinances "with teeth in tarn" were needed if they are be effective from the enforce-ent enforce-ent angle. Duties of the advisory board be to investigate present Kalth ordinances with a view j securing more adequate heal- regulations in Orem. assist-in assist-in the inspection of public "ig places, checking on reg-jjkr reg-jjkr examinations for food han-lers, han-lers, and to stnHv pff.ptivf "eans of garbage disposal and 7-se disposal. TIGERS WIN FIRST GRID GAME B Y HIGH NEXT Orem's Lincoln Tiuer Winning football team, not feel ing the least bit over-confcent after their 7-0 win over Wasatch Was-atch Academy in a ore-son srm game at Mt. Pleasant last Fri day, was getting in some 'we-mean-business' practice sessions this week in preparation f ir tneir sKirmish with BY high on the Lincoln field on September 24. Fired by Coach Clen Zimmerman Zimmer-man and his two assistants, Mel Briggs and Evan Ba i,m, tne Lincoln gridders are making every minute count in hnth skirmages and strategy classes. wo excuses for absence are being accepted at practice, and every suit is filled at every practice. As Zimmerman said to his boys Tuesday afternoon, "No spot on this team is cinched!" cinch-ed!" Fullback Ralph Willett and Tackle Lowell Madsen, co-captains of the Lincoln team, are in there pitching with the rest of the gridders to get in shape for the season coming up. The rest of the first team have not been named as yet due to the close competition among the would-be ball-luggers. Dale Reeves is making a fine showing in the tailback spot and fleet Clint Lewis is a probable for the wingback position. Darrell Makey, Eli Gordon and Lewis Edwards are jousting for the center position. Zimmerman has a fine pool of ends to choose from with Don Adams, Steve Christensen, LaMar Kalas, Merlin Mer-lin Baker, Leon Rowley, Keith Davis and Terrance Judd expected ex-pected to see action, Guards are also plentiful with Byron Stubbs- Mark Jensen. Jen-sen. Grant Holdaway, Boyd Ivie, LeOre Griffiths, Bill Greene and James Penrod in the running. run-ning. Tackle candidates include Lowell Madsen, Ronnie Heeg, Grant Newell, Leslie Booth, Lee Davis and Garth Wilkinson. The list of formidable-looking backs includes Gene Taylor, Far-ren Far-ren Hardy, Don Bradshaw, Floyd Farley, Mako Hideshima, Gilbert Christensen, Klmneth Ashton. Kay Christensen. Rich ard Peterson and Oliver Johnson. John-son. Strategy for the Tigers' game with B. Y. High will include a play known as "z-21" and another an-other called "z-22." Asked just what these two plays involved, Zimmerman replied, "We'll be glad to demonstrate both plays for you next week during the game." I J i - ' S. r , , : ' f ! V 4 - ; ; - , i J it I ' I f 1 A y 0 .. .., Tahiti in ' 'r , t n it i r n i v i I ' Mi I - j I (j (r $175,000 Water Bond Issue Gels Mass Sleeting, Council OR Orem taxpayers, in November's general election, will vote ; on a proposal that Orem City finance the construction of a j through general obligation bonds in the amount of $175,000, Hannah C. Nielsen Dies at Spring City - Mrs Hannah C Nielsen. 87, died , Wednesday, night at her home in Spring City. Funeral services will be conducted in apring city on aaiurciay at , reservoir and installation and renovation of city water lines Mrs- Nielsen was born in Den- u vvas BIceu lucsuaJ a niJcv.mi urccuug ui uic v-n. wun-mark wun-mark on March 21, 1861. Shecil. ' ' , was converted to the LDS Tuesday s council meeting was called to evaluate the church and came to America sentiment of those who discussed the bond issue at Monday's with her uncle and grandparents j mass meeting at the Lincoln high school auditorium. The in 1878. She lived in Spanish1 council voted to place the proposal on the ballot, and in-Fork in-Fork until 1880, when she mar-j gtructed City Attorney Hugh ,Vern Wentz to prepare for pub- rinH Wane Milcn at Qriincf i j A 1 wAfinA ai4-irn City. She has made Spring City her home since their marriage-Mr. marriage-Mr. Nielsen died seven years ago. Mrs. Nielsen has been at the home of her daughter, Mrs. June Clark of Orem most of the time during the past two years-Mrs. years-Mrs. Nielsen was a devout member of the LDS church and was especially active in the Relief Re-lief Society. She was the mother of eight children, four of whom have preceded her in death. She leaves one daughter, Mrs- June Clark of Orem; three sons, Alfred Al-fred Nielsen of Spring City, Emil K- Nielsen of Provo and Linden J. Nielsen of Salt Lake City; ten grandchildren and seven great grandchildren. Champions, are these members of the Timpan-ogos Timpan-ogos boys team who won the Softball title in Scera's Junior Boys' league. The boys are, (left lo right, front row) John Lewis, catcher; Mel Booth, first base; Tommy Verbantx, pitcher; and Ray Gilligan. left field. Back row: Wayne Edwards, Ed-wards, second base; Sterling Rigby, shortstop; Bill Cox, third base; and Jack Cox, right field.' Absent when the picture was taken were Dale Miller, center field; Neil Roberts, outfield; Ted Miller, -coach; -and Bob Workman, assistant coach. The Timpanogos team went through the season undefeated. In post-league games against an all-star team the boys lied one game at 5-5; and won the other, 13-9. GENEVA STEEL PAYROLL AT 6,000; PAYS 20 MILLION ANNUALLY 111 WAGES Jfork Starts On Curb, Gutter Project Actual work got under way Wednesday on Orem's curb and ter project by workers of the smith and Young company of Kfi non City- Their bid of W0-60 was lowest and they we awarded the contract just nys ago. Excavation work was under-J under-J Wednesday at 8th South ja State Street on the east side the h.ghway. The curb and uer project comprises approx-y approx-y two and one-half miles I the area of the Lincoln high g ng on U. S. 91 and an add-two add-two and one-half miles pssing on U. S. 91. : Senator Arthiy V. Watkins fcJin u" 0rem this week fol- lon ! 'S, recent triP t 0" " . and Mrs. Watkins arrived Washing from their home in fratk Senator and Mrs-Wm Mrs-Wm WCre on lhe reception nd M Ce meet Governor li an vL3- Earl Wa"en, Repub-opon Repub-opon Ce-Presidential candidate. nis. arrival in Ogden today. Sheriff Probes Arson Possibility In Orem Fire Blackened timbers and scar-, red concrete blocks were al! , that remained tnis weeK of one of Orem's finest packing plants -the Orem Peachgrowers-E. O-Muir O-Muir building following the $75,000 fire which leveled the structure late Friday night in one of Orem's most disasterous blazes. The fire, which occurred at 11:45 Friday night, completely destroyed the packing plant and razed three loaded refrigerator railroad cars owned by the A-merican A-merican Refrigerator Co- and a train caboose of the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad. The fire was discovered by Alvin Christensen, one of the packers on shift, who turned in the alarm which brought the Orem volunteer fire department depart-ment out in full force and two engines and firemen from he Provo fire department. The blaze spread so quickly that Mrs. Ruth Millet, a secretary for the peachgrowers association, associat-ion, one of the 12 employees working at the time the fire broke out suffered second degree de-gree burns in escaping from the building. Probable cause of the fire, according to O-ertt Fire Chief Scott Thompson, was motor; trouble on the peach defuzzing machine, but the possibility of arson was being investigated by Sheriff Theron S- Hall who was called into the case early this week by the joint owneis of the building. Losses of fruit as a result of the fire included 2100 bushels of peaches which had been load-l ed on the three burned railroad Orem Soldier Gets Wings Pvt. James R. MacDonald, son of Cleve MacDonald of Orem Or-em has successfully completed the rigid five weeks Basic Airborne Air-borne course at the Infantry School. Fort Benning, Georgia, and has been awarded the official offic-ial United States Army Para chute wings- His air indoctrination includ ed a glider flight to acquaint him with modern glider warfare- Practical instruction in ground assembly, parachute rigging rig-ging and maintenance, and load ing and lashing of Airborne carge vital skills in all Airborne Air-borne units were included in his period of training. During his training he made five parachute jumps from Ar my cargo aircraft at an altitude of 1000 feet and achieved ine high score necesary to pass the "Paratroop" physical fitness test. Republican Women Fete Mrs. Warren Republican women legislators were hostesses at a tea honoring honor-ing Mrs. Earl Warren- wife of nominee, held this afternoon in the Crystal Room of the New-house New-house Hotel in Salt Lake City. Mrs. J. D- Pyne of Orem, Mrs-A Mrs-A Sherman Christenson of Provo Mrs. Forsberg of Salt Lake city and Mrs. Fay Williams of Morgan Mor-gan county served at the tea- cars and 1,000 bushels of peaches which were stacked on the loading platform. Owners of the packing plant "Geneva Steel Company's employment em-ployment figures now stand at 6,000, making Geneva the largest larg-est employer in the state of Utah, it was revealed Wednes day by Dr. Walther Mathesius, Mayor J. W. Gillman's estimate of the costs, as presented I to tne mass meeting lvionaay, was $141,000, but the council voted to increase the bond issue to the higher figure in order to complete the installation of feeder lines needed, throughout r the city. It was shown during the mass meeting and agreed by citizens citi-zens present that neither the construction of a reservoir a- lone, nor the installation of feeder feed-er lines alone, would solve the city's water problem. Both of the projects are necessary, it was pointed out. Bids Opened on Orem's State Street Widening Project Bids were opened Wednesday at the office of the state road commisison on the long-awaited project which calls for the widening wid-ening of U- S- 91 through Orem between Pleasant Grove and Provo. Low bidder on the job was Strong and Co. of Springville. whose figure was $356,957. Engineer's En-gineer's estimate on the job was $339,833. The construction project will include widening the highway for 12 feet on each side wltn a bituminous mix for approximately approxim-ately seven miles. Principal items it-ems of material called for in the notice to bidders includes 36,- REGISTRATION HITS 1,000 AT LINCOLN Registration at Lincoln high school is the largest ever this year,, Principal A. P. Warnlsk said today. Last Friday the total tot-al registration was 983 and new registrations this week will probably pro-bably tally over T,000, he said-Mr- Warnick reported that on the whole attendance has been rianova Ktopl f!nmranv oresid-i good. IW-VM " 1 " - I A 11. 1. .- . , 1 An assemDiy lur mgn scuuui students was held in the Scera Mendelssohn Chorus Brilliant in Onener at. Srern By Clyde E. Weeks Jr. ! 500, tons of plant mix, 512,000 Every seat was filled at the gallons of bituminous surfacing, Scera theatre Wednesday night and 51,000 tons of crushed rock when th MonHflssnhn Phnnic or gravel. rne bid is subject to recnecK by the commission staff. The project is expected to start this year, is the bid is accepted. ent- before members of the Ogden Og-den Rotary club- The company's annual payroll pay-roll now amounts to approximately approxim-ately $20,000,000, most of which is income that Utah did not enjoy en-joy until a few years ago. Dr. Mathesius said. He pointed out that while Geneva continues to produce steel at a high rate, a major construction program for the conversion of the plate mill into a combination plate and high speed strip mill is going forward at a good rate of speed- He said that the conversion program would be completed, probably around the end of the year and that then Geneva will be equipped equip-ped to roll light gauge steel sheets in the form of hot rolled coils in addition to the plates and structural shapes which are presently being rolled in the plate and structural mills- The new product will be shipped to Columbia Steel company's new cold reduction mill in Pittsburg-California Pittsburg-California for further processing process-ing into cold rolled sheets and tin plate, to supply a substantial substant-ial portion of the heavy demands de-mands for these products in the western states. Geneva Steel, last month shipped over 75,000 net tons of finished steel made up of approximately approx-imately 55,000 net tons of plates and 20,000 net tons of structural structur-al shapes and billets- Dr. Mathesius Math-esius said that production of steel ingots and pig iron had ap proached rated capacity during the months . which have been free from coal mining stoppages and other disturbances. Dr. Mathesius charged that "all too frequently state and local taxing authorities still are tending to look upon new and larger industries primarily as handy sources from which to collect disproportionally heavy direct taxes." He said that such an altitude stands in strange contrast to the encouraging pronouncements pro-nouncements by which the executive ex-ecutive and legislative branches of Utah's government have invited in-vited industry into the state. theatre on Monday at which the new teachers and student body officers were introduced. The school lunch program at the high school got off to a good start, according to Mr-Warnick. Mr-Warnick. Over 550 students are participating in the program. In answer to a question regarding re-garding the use of the new addition add-ition to the high school Mr- Var-nick Var-nick said that the added facilities are being used very profitably, including the new chemistry laboratory and what will be a chemistry lecture room- For the time being the lecture room is being used for art classes- featuring coloratura s o p r a no Peggy Lee Whiting as guest artist, ar-tist, presented the first of its series of benefit concerts slated to raise funds to defray expens es of the trip to Dallas, Texas, next March where the group will represent Utah at the Tex as Golden Jubilee. The program got off to a good start with the chorus sensitive interpretations of "P i 1 g i m' s Chorus", "The Blind Plowman" and "Pilgrim's Song " Miss Whiting completely cap tivated the audience with her first song, "Adele Laugrnng Song" from The Bat- The song lent itself charmingly as a vehicle ve-hicle for her unusual technique. The sharp, delicate trills and the clarity of expression showed show-ed the pert songstress off to good advantage. Miss Whiting and chorus director dir-ector Elvis B. Terry in the duet "Thine Alone", were well re ceived by the audience and en cored with the familiar "Because "Be-cause You're You". Following the intermission the chorus sang "M o r n i n g Hymn," "Keep in the Middle of the Road" and " Let the Rest of the World Go By." The latter featured John Pullen in an ef fective whistling part. The chor us encored with "The Animals Are Comin'." Miss Whiting's vitruosity as a soloist was again demonstrat ed ' in" "Seranade"; " three num bers sung in French and Ger man, and three arias from op eras. She encored with " A Lit tle China Figure." Towards the end of the program pro-gram the anthemesque "Sanct-us" "Sanct-us" from St. Cecelia Mass by Gounod,' arranged by Byron Jensen, was sung by the chorus and Miss Whiting. Highlight of the evening was Eliza R. Snow's "O My Father arranged by Leland Perry, sung by the chorus with solo parts by Miss Whiting and Mr. Terry. The solemn majesty of the number num-ber touched every listener. "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" sung by the chorus was the concluding number on the program. Moroni Jensen ren dered an effective solo part. ihree encores followed. GENEVA HE A LEST ATE Conscience is merely our own judgement of the right or wrong of our actions, and so can never be a safe guide unless enlight- said that the building was only ened by the word of God. partly covered by insurance. Tyron Edwards Einer Oslland, Lee R. Taylor, and Homer McEwen (left lo right) shown standing in front of the offices of the Geneva Real Estate Co.. formerly Leo L. Gardner Co.. which opened for business this week at its location just north of the Orem telephone office on State Sleet The company is specializing special-izing in Orem properly and a full line of insurance. Mr. Gardner, broker, and Mr. Levin, insurance, were not present when this picture was taken. Plans of the city council provide pro-vide that the project will be divided di-vided into several parts so that if it becomes possible to do so, a portion of the costs may be covered by revenue bonds in order to reduce the general obligation ob-ligation bond total. At Monday's mass meeting Mayor Gillman outlined Orem's financial status, showing that the city owes $182,000 in general gen-eral obligation bonds. He said that the legal limit for the city is a general bond debt of $384, 000. He said that plans provide that new bonds would not mature mat-ure until 1968. He also pointed out that Orem is now embarked upon special improvements for lighting, for curb and gutter installation, in-stallation, and for sewer installation. in-stallation. A recent general obligation ob-ligation bond project calls for $43,000 to lay sewer and water lines under State Street prior to the paving project being readied by the state road commission. com-mission. He said that the water program would probobjy njec-essitate njec-essitate the levying of the maximum max-imum city levy, about 24 mills. With regard to the need for the water project the mayor pointed out that without a reservoir res-ervoir it is impossible to maintain main-tain adequate pressure throughout through-out city lines during peak loads and that the city cannot utilize all the water it owns because present storage basins fill quickly quick-ly and are drained off rapidly. He pointed out that inadequate inade-quate sized ciiy lines hamper the delivery of water to many areas of the city and that should water wa-ter connections continue to be added to the system at the present pres-ent rate a cirsis would develop probably next year. The city has title to ample water for a city of 25,000, the mayor sad. The construction of the proposed two million gallon gal-lon reservoir immediately above the city cemetery would go a long way toward the utilization of all the city's water. As broken down by City En-gneer En-gneer Leonard Beckman, the costs of the project include $70,000 for the steel reservoir; a 15-inch flow line from the reservoir res-ervoir to the head of the city mains, $16,625; a new 12-inch main for 72,000 feet, $32,000; chlorination plant. $10,000; feeder lines in Provo Canyon to utilize Or em-owned water, $2700; road to reservoir, $2000; and miscellaneous, including en? ineering costs, $6000. Modernization Modern-ization of the network of city mains would be above the cost estimate of $141,125 which was described. r At the conclusion of the discussion dis-cussion Monday it was moved by Bill Baker and seconded by- Fred Davies that the council be given a vote of approval on the project by the group. There were no dissenting votes. Mr. Beckman said after the meeting that materials required for the project are super-fcarce and that it would be impossible, under present markets, to complete com-plete the project in less than a year. Every good gift and every perfect per-fect gift is from above and cometh down from the Father of ligbts. with whom is no variableness, vari-ableness, neither shadow of turning. James 1:17 (4 .-J,:-k., |