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Show CHAMBER ASKS RECORD ENROLLMENT; DRIVE STARTS JAN. 20 r.v,. v :--i RtLIUATION PRICE FIVE CENTS THURSDAY, JANUARY 13, 1949 VOLUME 17, NUMBER 2 k i am m v i . m t -- i-M a " IMDUITIV 4 Membership Drive To Pit North ( Against South ' . Campaign plans designed to enroll every business and profes- sional man, fruit grower and J farmer in Orem, along with scores of individuals, in the i Orem Chamber of Commerce, I ) were laid last week at the reg- f ular meeting of the chamber. A representative group set up : 1 plans which will match the enthusiasm en-thusiasm of northenders In Or-em Or-em with the Orem southerners, and which will see the losers in the enrollment competition fete ; the winners at a dinner meeting on February 9. The membership drive has been set for January 20 to February 9, and plans provide pro-vide that every prospective member in the city will be contacted con-tacted between those dates- Heading the enrollment committee com-mittee for the "Southerners" l are Victor Anderson, Ray Hanks ; and Joe T- Smith. The "Yankee" committee heads are Horace Bean, Allen Johnson and J. George Stratton. i Members at last week's meeting meet-ing favored a high membership list with more moderate dues, over high dues and low enrollment. enroll-ment. In view of that attitude the group voted to set dues on a sliding scale, with minimum for small businesses at $15, and minimum for individuals $10. Further perfecting of organizations organiz-ations will be carried on at a chamber meeting Friday, Jan. 21 f at Bill and Iva's cafe. The meet- ing will be held at 7:30 p.m. , and will also feature as speaker K- Dr. Dean Anderson of the BYU 1 " faculty who has done extensive research on Utah Lake pollution. He will discuss that problem before the group, according to Bill Baker, chamber prexy. Chamber members at their , last meeting discussed the possibility poss-ibility of obtaining additonal curb and gutter along State Street and also of obtaining 'street lighting facilities for the 1 remainder of the distance along State. Discussion also centered on Orem's business fatality rate and what could be done by the chamber to better establish Or- ;em as a shopping center, espec- ; ially for Orem residents. One of the key projects of the year, ac- i cording to Mr. Baker, will be a better business campaign aimed ; at improving shopping facilities and servces here and in the promotion pro-motion of Orem's small businesses. Utah-Idaho Sugar Co. Sets Meetings For Growers Utah-Idaho Sugar Company has announced a series of meetings meet-ings to be held throughout Utah County beginning Wednes-' Wednes-' day, January 19th and continuing continu-ing through the remainder of the week. Sugar beet growers and prospective growers will be notified by letter from the Company Com-pany as to the exact time and location of these meetings. A representative of the gen-; gen-; eral management in Salt Lake ? City and members of the local organization will be in attend-? attend-? ance to discuss matters pertain-5 pertain-5 ing to sugar beet production in this area. Farmers who grew I sugar beets during 1948 will be j informed of additional money I they will get from . their 1948 i crop both from the Sugar Com-; Com-; pany and the Government. ; Recent development in the : processing of sugar beet seed ! has produced a type and size of seed which in field trials has proved superior in many re-. re-. spects to the segmented seed ' which has been in use the past several years- This new seed , is known as decorticated seed. Use of this seed will necessitate quite an extensive drill conversion conver-sion program which will be discussed dis-cussed in detail in these meetings. meet-ings. All interested farmers are v urged to attend these meetings and present their ideas and ; opinions on any matter on which there is question. mrmmm. vv,MJW0.J., Arr,y - ...... f . i t.r Checking lists for the annual way next Thursday are, left io right. Ray E. Hanks, Joseph T. George Stratton and Horace Bean. Mr. Hanks. Mr Smith and Mr. team for South Orem, while Mr. Stratton. Mr. Bean and Allen group. Losers in the membership drive will fete the winners at 1948 OREM BUILDING HITS W2 MILLION TO DOUBLE 1947 CONSTRUCTION; CONTINUED BUILDING BOOM SEEN "Authorized construction in Orem during 1948 nearly doubled the building authorized in 1947," Ed Wickman, Orem building inspector revealed today after completing his final reports for the year. "Building permits issued in 1948 totaled $1,571,850 as compared to $791,162 in 1947," Mr. Wickman said. The figures for 1948 bear out Mr. Wickman's prediction predic-tion earlier in the year that Orem building would tally . somewhere between one million and a . half and two million dollars. Nineteen forty-eight's peak month in building came in July when the $411,000 permit was issued for the new Geneva elementary ele-mentary school. March was the peak month in 1947, with $791,162 worth of construction approved. Total consruction authorized in Orem during 1948 by the following: January - $13,500, commercial; $47,200, residential; residen-tial; $2,750, coops, barns, garages; gar-ages; total: $63,450. February -$3,500, commercial; $37,200, residential; $2,500, coops, barns, garages; total: $43,200. March -$49,550, commercial; $74,600, residential; $7,650, coops, barns, garages; total: $131,800. April - $74,000, commeicial; $90,100, residential; $8,800, coops, barns, garages; total: $173,700. May - $55,600 com- Rct. Darrold E. Ostler, son of Mr. and Mrs- Robert Ostler of Route no. 1 has completed his basic training with the 23rd-Infantry 23rd-Infantry Regiment at Fort Lewis, Le-wis, Washington. Ret- Ostler was assigned to the 23rd. Infantry Infan-try from the reception center where he entered the military srvice. Ret. Ostler was employed by Geneva Steel Co. prior to . his entry into the military service- He attended school at Lincoln High School. Marilyn Christensen has returned re-turned frrm a trip to New York and Washington, D.C., where she was the guest of Jeanine Watkins. The storm delayed her bus for three days in Omaha. , ' mrm-r ". Orem Chamber of Commerce membership drive which gets under mercial; $106,300 residential; $11,500, coops, barns, garages; total: $173,400- June - $27,200, residential; $4,000 coops barns, garages; total $159,100- July -$411,000 commercial; $63,100, residential; $6,000, coops, barns, garages; total: $480,100. August - $2,500, commercial; $74,500, residential; $3,500, coops, barns, garages; total: $80,500- September Septem-ber - no commercial; $90,100, residential; $5,850, coops, barns, garages; total: $95,950. October - $100,000, commercial; $19,000 residential; $10,150, coops, barns, garages; total: $129,150. November - $1,000, commercial; $30,250, residential; $3,100, coops, barns, garages; total: $34,350- December - $1,200, commercial; $5,000, residential; $950, coops, barns, garages; total: to-tal: $7,150. The total commercial construction con-struction authorized in 1948 was $740,550. Residential construction con-struction totaled $764,550, and construction of coops, barns, and garages totaled $66,750. As to prospects for building in 1949 Mr. Wickman said he had high hopes- "Several subdivisions sub-divisions have been approved for construction here and many more are in the process of be- ing cleared," he said Much de- pends upon the easing of credit restrictions." Perhaps the largest of the FHA-approved subdivisions in Orem is the Blake Palfreyman project located West on 8th South Street. Grading on the roads in the subdivision was begun before the recent fieavy snowfalls. ' "H - . ft I . Smith. Victor C. Anderson, J. Anderson head up the enrollment Johnson head the North Orem a dinner meeting on February 9. 20th North to 20th South By O. G. Semit I love the sport of skiing. The dash down snowy hill; It gives zest to one's beh.j, A body and soul thrill. Of course, your humble observer ob-server Speaks speculatively. And just as a spectator-He spectator-He -never tried to ski. Around and About First off this week we'd like to put in a good word for the city street department for their excellent work in keeping Orem's Or-em's streets cleaned of snow during dur-ing this unusual "wather. Don't think it's a small thing to keep Orem's sixty-odd miles of streets passable with so much snow falling every day or so. We think the street department deserves a bit of recognition in doing a tough job well-Old-timers hereabouts Seel right at home with all this deep snow. The stories they tell a-bout a-bout snow that covered fences and outbuildings are made almost al-most believable by the recent storms. Orem's third drug store will be open within a month, according accord-ing to latest reports from Or-ville Or-ville Harris, Orem pharmacist who is readying the building south of the post office for opening open-ing by February first. Geneva Pharmacy will be the name of the new drug store. Correspondence At this point you'd expect to read a letter we have received from a reader, wouldn't you-We're you-We're sorry but we don't have one this week. However, we would like to invite letters from readers. If there's something you don't like or something you do like, let us hear about it-Good it-Good honest criticism never hurt anyone. What does Orem need in the way of improvements, and what is more important, how can these improvements be brought about? We'd like to hear from you! Tiger Hoopsters Open League Play Friday at Lehi Lincoln high school's Tiger hodpsters were ready this week to put their two cents worth into in-to the already muddled Alpine division title chase, and prepared prepar-ed to tackle a surprising Lehi I aggregation Friday at Lehi. The Tigers were Idle last1 weekend while the other' four clubs of the division opened the season's and registered a pair of upsets which had the whole state talking. The Pioneers from Lehi turned back the touted I Vikings of Pleasant Grove, while a determined American Fork team took a bitter struggle ! from the state champion BHS club in an overtime tilt. ; The two upsets incline dope-sters dope-sters to regard those four teams as unusually strong this year and are predicting the title chase to be a tossup among them, meanwhile they are rele; gating the Tiger hoopsters from Orem as doormat material, even; before the season gets well under un-der way. i The Tigers have an inexperienced inexper-ienced team and turned in only three victories in nine starts in preseason competition, buti Coach Evan Baugh believes that his youngsters have come along fast during the past two weeks and may have some upsets to score themselves before the season seas-on is over. In preseason clashes the Tigers Tig-ers lost to South Summitt, Wasatch Was-atch high, Payso.n Richfield and Tooele. They won over Richfield, Rich-field, Salina and Grantsville. Coach Baugh has only Ralph Willctt and Lewis Edwards back from last year's club, and has built his attack around these two men and a tall transfer ath lete from Milford, Saun Bohn. Newcomers who have developed devel-oped fast and who look like regulars reg-ulars are young Steve Christensen Christen-sen and Clarence Judd. Likely starters Friday are Willet and ! Christensen at forwards, Bohn at center; and Edwards and Judd at guards. Giving Judd a real -battle for his guard position is Dale Reeves, another sturdy youngster who likes to play. COLD, HEAVY SNOWS THREATEN DAMAGE TO OREM FRUIT TREES, SAYS BOSVELL "Although recent heavy snowfalls and cold weather are presenting serious problems to farmers in the Orem-Geneva area, widespread damage to fruit trees and other crops is not yet apparent," S. R. Bos-well, Bos-well, Utah County Agent, reported re-ported today. "The unusual weather conditions are worrying worry-ing the fruit men considerably," Kenneth I. Perry To Leave For French Mission Kenneth L. Perry, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ivan Perry, will be honored at a farewell testimonial testimon-ial on Sunday evening, January 23 at 7 p.m. in the Pleasant View ward chapel, prior to his departure for the French Mission. Miss-ion. Elder Perry will enter the mission home in Salt Lake City on January 24 and will sail from New York on February 17 on the S. S American for Switzerland, Switzer-land, where he will begin his missionary work. Principal speaker at the testimonial test-imonial will be Stella H. Oaks and remarks will be made by the missionary, his parents, Bishop Bliss Allred and Stake President Henry D. Taylor. Musical Mu-sical numbers will be given by Rachel Calder, Margaret Busslo, Diantha and Stanford Ekins, Audrey Jones and the ward choir. Prayers will be offered by Rulon W. Cluff and Dalian Clark. Elder Perry has served as organist or-ganist and soloist with the Pleasant Plea-sant View ward choir for three years. He is a graduate of the BY high school and the Uintah seminary. He has been attending attend-ing the Brigham Young University Univer-sity here he is affiliated with the Inter-collegate Knights and the Mask Club- Polio Drive Set In Proclamation "Help fight polio" forms the plea of a proclamation signed by Mayor J. W. Gillman today, signaling the opening of the 1949 March of Dimes Campaign, January 14 to 31. "Polio cases cripple the pock-etbook, pock-etbook, too," Mayor Gillman said. "Average treatment cost amounts to $2500 a case. To escape es-cape the crippling effects of this disease, highly skilled treatment treat-ment by a corps of specialists and nurses is frequently necessary necess-ary for months and years " "By contributing to the March of Dimes," Mayor Gillman explained, ex-plained, "citizens maintain a valuaDle form of community health insurance, that cares for any polio sufferer, no matter what his age, race, creed, color, or financial status. In the history hist-ory of the Utah Chapter, aid has never been denied to any sufferer from polio." Need for funds to fight the disease is imperative, according to information received by the Mayor, from Frank S- Emery, State Representative for Utah and Nevada. Funds of local chapters, as well as the National Nation-al Eoidcmic Aid Fund, have been totally exhausted by the near-record number of cases treated during 1948. "Ten times as many cases were treated by the chapters in Utah during 1948, as during 1947, and if it had not been for grants from the National rlind, Utah patients could not have been cared for," Mr. Emery said. "Because of the high incidence incid-ence of the disease in Utah, the Utah Chapter has received more from the National Fund during the last four years, than it contributed." con-tributed." "If the fight against polio is to continue,'' Mayor Gillman said, "Citizens of Orem must assist wholeheartedly in the 1949 March of Dimes Campaign and contribute generously." Leon Rowley, guard, and Don Adams, forward, are others who are making bids for regular spots. Mr. Boswell said. The county agent stated that it would be impossible to tell if trees were damaged until after the January Janu-ary thaw. "If the general warm-up comes slowly fruit tree damage will be negligible," Mr. Boswell Bos-well said, "but if the thaw comes quickly many trees will probably be killed. Mr. Boswell reported that new-born calves and pigs were freezing to death in the below-zero below-zero weather. Livestock is feeling feel-ing the effects of the snow and cold weather severly with farmers farm-ers having to supplement their feeding with hay. Annual Orem Riding Club Ball Set For January 26 The annual Orem Riding club ball will be held January 26 at the Apollo Hall, officers ot the club announced today. Music will be furnished by Carter's orchestra. Two hundred dollars in prizes will be given away at the dance. Merchants of Orem and Provo have donated the merchandise to be given away. In charge of arrangements for the ball are Ray Hawkins, club president, Henry Willianmson, Luzell Robbins and Jesse Smith. Proceeds from the ball will go towards the construction of seats at the arena at the city park for use in next summer's celebration. cele-bration. Club officers said that the dance is not being held in Orem Because a large enough hall to hold it in is not available in Orem. Or-em. Tickets to the ball may be obtained ob-tained from Orem Riding club members and Orem business establishments. es-tablishments. Tickets are $1 00 per couple. COUNCIL COMMENDS CITY EMPLOYEES FOR VORG IN HEAVY SNOW EMERGENCY "In the last three days we have seen an outstanding example ex-ample of the loyalty and endurance endur-ance of Orem City employees," declared Mayor J. W. Gillman at a meeting of the city council held at the city hall Wednesday night. Mayor Gillman was referring re-ferring to the long hours put in by employees in the city water department and street department depart-ment in clearing the snow from city streets and working on frozen water lines througnout the city during the recent emergency. emer-gency. Mayor Gillman paid special Funeral Held Wednesday For Erastus S. Anderson Bishop Milton Jameson of Hill Crest ward conducted funeral fun-eral services on Wednesday for Erastus Snow Anderson, 80, who died at his home In Carter-j vllle cf a heart ailment. Speakers at the service were Bishop F. C. Nielson, President Robert D. Young and Bishop Osroe Anderson. Opening prayer pray-er was offered by Peter Nielson. Nola Nielsen sang "Oh My Father," accompanied by Lucille Simmons- Closing remarks were made by Bishop Jameson and the benediction was offered by Leno B. Martin. Burial was in the Springville cemetery. C- O. Claudm, a son- a hose drier from Max's Rein Re-in law, dedicated the grave. The'pair shop for $200 and from pallbearers were Lionel Fair- ciegg Welding for $415. The banks, Mark Collins, Verge Col-! council accepted the bid of lins, George Dixon, Albert ' Max's Repair shop, the drier to Clark and Byron Williams. Mr. Anderson was born Jan. 29, 1868 at Spring City, a son of James C. and Karon Jensen Anderson. An-derson. The family moved to Payson and he received his ed He later mved ucation there, to Koosharcm He married Mary Jane Norton Nor-ton at Koosharem on June 15, 1887- They were remarriea in the Manti LDS Temple in 1888. In 1897 they moved to Anna-bella Anna-bella and in 1916 to Marysvale where Mr. Anderson was engaged engag-ed in ranching and raising cattle. cat-tle. He and his three brcthrs, operating as Anderson Bros., became be-came leading cattlemen of south- icrn uian. From 1908 to 1916, he served as county commissioner of Piute County. He served as director of the State bank of Piute and was a life member of the Sevier County fair board. He was an active membei of the LDS church and served for several years as the bishop of the Marysvale ward. He married Amanda . Richins on Nov. 20, 1945 in PrOvo and they have made their home here since that time. He leaves his widow, a son and four daughters, Elvin Anderson, An-derson, Provo; Mrs. Flo Smith, Springville; Mrs- Bertha Burt, Bountiful; Mrs- Ruby- Claudin, Provo; Mrs- Dora Fairbanks, San Bernardino, California; 30 grandchildren; 21 great grand children; two brothers and two sisters, Sweening Anderson, Sacramento, Sac-ramento, 'Cal-; Carlos C. Anderson Ander-son and Mrs- Ellen Williams, Orem; Mrs. Dianthi Bagley, Murray; a half-brother and a half sister, Josephine Jensen and Orson Anderson of Kooshar- em. He was preceded in death by a son and a daughter. i "mean that prospects for irrigat- SCIIOOL NURSE TO SPEAK ion water, and consequently AT PTA SPENCER MEETING culinary water, are very prom-Flo prom-Flo Beck. School nurSP. Will icino f Mum- r.illmnti discuss the Foundation for bet - ter Health and Physical Fitness at the meeting of the Spencer PTA on Wednesday, January 19 at 7:30. The meeting will be held in the Lincoln high school music room. Musical numbers will be furnished fur-nished by students of the fifth and sixth grades, under the dir - ection of W. M. Vernon. Parents are urged to come talk over any doubtedly realize increased cap-health cap-health problems with the nurse- acity. tribute to Martell Keetch, Leo Broadhead, Howard Jacobsen and Wilford Pierce who worked as much as 36 hours straight, stopping only for meals, in snow and often freezing temperatures to make the streets passable and to thaw out frozen water lines with the city's newly acquired special equipment. "In what has been described as the htaviest snow-fall in 36 years city employees have responded res-ponded wholeheartedly to the task at hand and done a difficult diffi-cult job well," Mayor Gillman said. The mayor and city council passed a resolution expressing appreciation to the city employees employ-ees for their unusual cooperation cooperat-ion during the emergency. Mayor Gillman reported to the council that notices of assessment ass-essment had gone out to Orem residents with property abutting abutt-ing the curb and gutter. Proper ty owners have until the end of the month to pay the full a- mount of the assessment with no interest charge. The city council received the annual report of Fire Cnief Scott Thompson outlining the activities of the Orem Fire Department De-partment durnig the past year and recommendations to improve im-prove the department. Included among recommendations " for needed equipment was a fire hose drier for for the fire stat ion. Bids were received by the rrimrtl fnr till pnnefriipliritt nf be built according to specificat- ions of Chief Thompson. Mayor Gillman read to the council a letter written by him to be sent to the fire department depart-ment personnel expressing the ?atitudc Orem citizens for me unsemsn cuiuiiuuwuns oi time and energy expended by the department in fire prot-ion prot-ion during the past year. Received by the council was a letter from Roy Simmons and J. W. Pace of the State Liquor Control Commission regarding city enforcement of the state liquor law. The council moved to acknowledge the letter nd accept the responsibility of lo cal enforcement. Mayor Gillman read a letter from the Utah County Commiss- regarding the dividing of el- ection districts in Orem. The letter let-ter pointed out that under the law an election district should not contain more than 300 reg- istered voters. At the present time all four of Ofcm's dis- tricts exceed the maximum by three or four times. The council coun-cil voted to call in all party precinct pre-cinct chairmen and registration agents as the first step in complying com-plying with the commission's request re-quest to reorganize the districts. Heavy Snowfall Means Plenty of Water, Says Mayor Prospects of what the ex- tremely heavy snowfall will mean to Orem and Utah as a whole were sounded today by J. W. Gillman, Orem Mayor and widely recognized water authority, auth-ority, when he predicted that all the reservoirs in the state would fill this year, including Utah Lake. "The heavy snows," he said, 1 assurance that Orem residents would benefit by the snow in the increased water supply this summer. For several years past Orem residents have been curtailed somewhat in their use of water. Last year the city brought in the Scera well which supple- jmented Orem's and which will water supply this year un- |