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Show urivaisAL mcriOFiLKi?' a con 141 PISRP0!TT AVS. SALT LAIC Cir UTAH , - t Vol. 33 No. 18 Thursday, May 12, 1960 PRICE TEN CENTS Rdb System Is Installed In City Manager's Office To expedite city business a new radio communication system sys-tem has been installed in the office of the Orem City Manager Man-ager which will permit direct communication between the City Hall, other city buildings, and vehicles of the various department. de-partment. The equipment provides a direct line from the city manager man-ager to the radio dispatcher in th no' ice station who can con- i i F' i J A STm punt HnnnH Him WiH'S TKwi " A-A-t m -w A t. IP LI li ' --mm- treit - (.-. .: CS 1 WAS IT A PRANK? Postmaster Clyde E. Weeks, Jr. shows charred remains of letters that were burned in a fire started in a ILS. Mail collection box located on West Fourth North. Investigation of the fire is under way by regional postal inspector. , . mm I had been dropped in the box nrc in laan Collection Dox To Be Probed Orem police and postal officials of-ficials Wednesday were looking look-ing for ' the person or persons who turned a red, white and blue mail collection box into an incinerator Monday night. The large collection box located lo-cated at 800 West and 400 North, on the early Tuesday morning mail collection, was found to contain the remains of nearly a dozen first-class letters charred by fire. Postmaster Clyde E. Weeks, Jr. said the burned letters were evidently those which were on top of others which DPW Re-Elect Lydia Hogan President A dinner meeting for the election of officers for the Business Bus-iness and Professional Worn ens Club was held at Parks Cafe Tuesday evening. Lydia Hdgan, president for the past year, was re-elected for the coming year. Ileen Storrs was elected 1st vice president; pre-sident; Wanda Scott, 2nd vice president; Mpllie Aired, recording re-cording secretary and Lynn Peterson, treasurer. Delegates were chosen to attend the BPW convention to be held In Cedar City, June 3, 4, 5. They were: Lurleen Loveless, Evelyn Terry and Dona Sumner. Alternates were: Lynn Petersen, Melba Clayton, Clay-ton, and Willie Smith. A recording by Ronald Regan Re-gan before the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce entitled entit-led "Business, Bureaus and Ballots" was presented before the group. It was the unano-mous unano-mous decision " of the ' group that every civic organization and club should hear this recording. re-cording. , , . - Mr. Regan urges everyone to perpetuate their democracy and free enterprises by dropping drop-ping their congressman a .letter .let-ter urging the passing of the Purlon and Baker Bill No. 3000 and 3001. It takes 40,000 Individual letters before a trend is considered. Mr. Regan said that "the communists are so organized in the United States that they could have 50,000 letters in congress in 48 hours passing or killing any bill they choose." - til 0 W - -M I V " s" I isY X RECEIVE ART AWARDS Displaying trophies they received in the annual Orem Women's Club Art contest held recently for junior and senior high school students are, front row, left to right: Lincoln Junior High division: divi-sion: Karen Jewkes, third place; Shauna Burgon, second se-cond ;. and Sharon Perry, first. Orem Senior high divL sion: Mike Manwaring, first; Jane Reynolds, third; and Dale Lunt second. A "Someone deliberately placed pla-ced a lighted paper, lighted matches, or possibly a 'cherry bomb inside the mail col lection box in an attempt to ignite the mail inside," Mr. Weeks said. . . "Charred "by fire were letter containing personal checks, photographs, and one money order which was almost com pletely consumed. Sgt. Clive Pulham of the Orem Police Department was investigating the mail depre dation Wednesday, and Mr. Weeks said a postal inspector will be called in on the case. Federal Offense 'Tampering with mail and mail boxes is a most serious federal offerise,'' Mr. Weeks said. :.vv He reported .that in recent weeks everything from rocks to candy , wrappers to ice cream sandwiches have been found in mail collection boxes. Someone even went to the trouble to pour a bottle of beer in one collection box. Not for Refuse "Although ' children and teen-agers are probably the worst offenders in stuffing the collection boxes with litter, an adult was recently caught in the act of placing refuse in a box," Mr. Weeks said. "Only properly prepared and stamped mail can legally be placed in collection boxes," he continued "Persons' caught placing any thing harmful to the mail in collection boxes are subject to fine and imprisonment." Drinking Water Gets Provisional Rating Based on a 1959 classifica tion, culinary water supply of Orem has been awarded a provisional approval by the Utah Board of Health, announces announ-ces Glen Sagers, Utah County sanitarian.. This rating means that city culinary water has met all of the requirements with the exception! ex-ception! of minor defects, which are in the process of being corrected,' Mr. Sagers repor'ed. - 'When the city calls for a survey sur-vey of the Alta Springs waters, which is now being piped, plus spring water sources in Provo Canyon as well as for full treatment of Deer Creek water," a complete classifica- cation will be awarded," the sanitarian stated. I 1 4!"', I-1 f nect the managed with any radio powered vehicle In the city. 5 Thus, the manager can con tact any police car, highway patrol, or department foremen fore-men by radio without leaving his offie. I V i; ,Mr. Farasworth says.the new system Is a great convenience and. time-saver in conducting city bus'ness. 2nd Floor pf ) City Hall Now Under Renovation The sound of hammers pounding and saws buzzing was music to the ears of City Judge E. H. Johnson and City Engineer Leonard V. Beckman this week. Work was underway under-way on the second floor of the Orem City Hall on a remodel ing project which .. will pro vide for the engineer expand ed office space, and ... for the judge a; new courtroom. J. More room .for the engineer was part of a recommendation contained in a recent study of the engineering office made by the West Coast Firm, Ebasco, Inc. for the Orem City Coun cil. The new court room, con taining a bench for the judge and customary facilities for the jury panl and officers of the court, will meet the re- commendat'ons outlined in the annual Utah Safety Council Traffic Safety Inventory for the past several years. The remodeling, estimated to cost $1200, was approved recently re-cently by the City Council on the basis of plans prepared by Mr. Beckman. NAMED TO 12th WARD BISHOPRIC BIS-HOPRIC Sustained recently as member of the bishopric of the Orem 12th Ward is Blaine Webb, second counselor to Bishop Floyd Johnson. Richard Robhins, formejrly' second counselor, was advanced to first counselor to Bishop John-soju John-soju Retiring counselor is Rul-on Rul-on , Craven, who has become a bishop of one of the BYu Campus wards. The re-or ganization of the 12th Ward bishopric was under the direc tion of the stake presidency with President Philo T. Ed wards conducting. Jaycee Wives Elect Officers Mrs. Owen Mower was elected elect-ed president of the Orem Jaycee Jay-cee Wives when they held their election banquet Monday evening in Parks Cafe. Mrs. Paul Benson was elected elect-ed to vice president, Mrs. Bob Mower, treasurer; Mrs. . Bob Colson, secretary, Mrs. Bil Porter, recorder and historian. Three one year directors were elected, Mrs. Mike Broadhead, Mrs. Dee Pyne and Mrs. Robert Ro-bert Faddis. Twelve members were present pre-sent with one guest, Mrs. La- Rae Murdock. A board meeting was held preceding the dinner and elections. At this meeting the Jaycee Wives voted to set aside funds which will be increased in-creased at a later date to contribute con-tribute to the Orem Library Improvement Fund. Mother's Day Dinner Held At Pyne's Mr. and Mrs. Rube Pyne held a Mothers' Day Dinner at their home last Sunday. Dinner was served on their patio. Sr i ,.T mm 11 11 .' ' " : Free Trash Pick-Up Service Will Be Schcduiod By City Next Week City appearance is a key to the future! Next week has been set aside as Clean-Up Paint-Up, Fix-Up Week in Orem. City officials and the Orem Chamber or Commerce are joining together to proclaLa the campaign. Cooperation of all citizens is sought to carry out the aims of the campaign: safeguarding health, prevention preven-tion of fire, beautif ication, prof motion of safety, building the ideals of good citizenship and improvement of property. To aid property owners in cleaning up their yards, the City Sanitation Department will provide free pick-up service ser-vice of all trash that can be burned (no big limbs, rocks, trees, etc.), announces City Manager O. V. Farasworth. Homes that have an acreage of one or more acres are requested re-quested to burn their own trash. The free pick-up will operate Monday thru Friday. Each quarter section of the city will be serviced on a certain cer-tain scheduled day. This schedule sche-dule is listed in the Orem City advertisement on the full page Clean-up, Fix-Up page published pub-lished elsewhere in today's paper. During the week ; the State Highway Department has also agreed to clean and grade all unsightly vacani areas adjacent adja-cent to Highway 91. City has also agreed to match the state Street Improvements for 1960 To Start Next Week, No New Special Improvement Projects Authorized Orem's 1960 street improve ment program is expected to get into high gear next week following the opening of bids by the Orem City Council Monday night. Bids to be opened open-ed will be for installation of 5,200 lineal feet of 30-foot-wide Class B. Plant Mix road surfacing, and 4,000 lineal feet of three-course oil macadam surfacing 30-feet wide. The hard surfacing, to be laid in several parts of the city, will; complete projects begun last year under Special Improvements Im-provements Districts No. E and F, according to Mayor Melbourne Mel-bourne D. Wallace. Included will be 400 South from State Street to 800 East and from Main Street to 300 West; 50 West and 100 West from 800 South to 900 South; Main Street from 1600 South to 1800 Souh; and 900 South to 1800 South; and 900 South from Main Street to 100 West, his office. Completion of these projects will conclude an extensive street and sidewalk improva- i .... - ,-;,:vr" ::'-:" ''''w ,::y:::'v:,:'::':' .x-'.X:- 81iSfiiii lif i 4iiii llllti IrtSHiS: vitewJir M?MU$ JAYCEE WIVES PICK OFFICERS Heading the Orem Jaycee Wives for the coming year, who were elected at the annual election banquet at Park's Cafe Monday night, are (seated, left to right) : Eva Benson, vice-president; and Peggy Mower, president. Standing: Annetta Mower, treasurer; Ruby Colson, secretary; and Maurine Potter, reporter, historian. equipment in sprucing . up Highway 91. Business houses are also requested re-quested 'o join in the act by washing windows, painting, and cleaning-up their exterior premises. Chairman of the Orem C. of C. City Beautification and Parks Committee is Grant Stevenson, Ste-venson, who along with his committee will join with the city and state road men to coordinate and promote the; Clean-up campaign in Orem. For yourself, your family and your city, Clean-up, Paint-Up, Paint-Up, Fix-Up. Missionaries From Japan To Speak Sunday At PBC Missi:nary, Dale Halstrom will speak at the 7:30 Sunday evening service of the Provo Bib e Church, according to the Pastor Rev. R. G. Gunderson. Reverend Halstrom has served ser-ved many years in Japan and at preier.t is on furlough. 1 The church from the beginning be-ginning has supported Rev. Halstrom's missionary ministry..! minis-try..! Kodochrome pictures will illustrate the missionary mes sage A special missionary of fering will be received. .' The public is cordially in vited. ment program inaugurated three "years ago In the city which featured the opening of Center Street from State Street to 1200 West. City Manager O.V. Farasworth Faras-worth said Wednesday finances finan-ces wiil not permit the setting up of any more special im provement projects this year since the city's share of the projects due for completion th's year will permt no new starts. 'Next year, however, we hope to be able to take care of other areas desiring special improvements," the city manager man-ager said. "In the meantime requests are being received from property pro-perty owners who desire their streets dust-oiled this sum mer." The dust-oiling, which is effective in holding down the du.t for about o.ie season, can be done on streets where pro perty owners deposit funds uLicient to cover the cost with the city, he said. , ' " 1 I.I , .. . "tTa 'M-aff Miss Annette Aiken Miss Jane Prestwidh MISS OREM RAGE BEGINS WITH 1ST TWO CANDIDATES Annual search for Miss Orem is underway. The first two candidates to enter the miss urem con.est are Annette D. Aiken and Jane Ann Prestwich. Orem Jaycees, who are sponsoring the con test, are hopeful that there will be 14 or 15 candidates for the contest this yeari The contest con-test entry deadline is May 20. The Miss Orem Pageant will be June 1 at the Orem High School, according to R. F. Colson, Col-son, Jaycee chairman. The winning Miss Orem will receive re-ceive a $50 clothing allowance, reign over Orem Flora-Festival, July 21-23, and will compete com-pete in the Miss Utah contest in June. , Tall blue-eyed Miss Aiken is an Orem High School graduate. gradu-ate. Her talent includes modeling, model-ing, dressmaking and designing. design-ing. Daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Edwin M. Aiken, she has attended at-tended evening school at BYU. While in high school she served ser-ved as cheer leader, was active in drama, and was a member of the Orem Sub-debs. Miss Pres'.wich is a hazel-eyed hazel-eyed brownette and an Oren. High School graduate. Her talent includes dancing and dramatics. While in high school she was active In drama, dra-ma, acappela choir, and tht Orem Subs-Debs. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Armeldo Prestwich. GAA Hold Banquet For New Officers The Girls' Athletic Association Associa-tion Awards Banquet was held last Tuesday evening at 7:30 p.m. at the Timpanogos Dining Din-ing Rqom in Provo. Ann Rasmussen was master of ceremonies, while Margaret Greenwood gave a toast to the seniors, a toast to the officers was followed by Gloria Strat-ton, Strat-ton, Nancy Shepherd then gave a rhymed toast to Miss Leila Ogden. . For the program, Glenda Gardner gave a reading. Miss Ogden, G.A.A. Advisor, presented pre-sented the presen'ation of awards. After the awards Miss Cgden gave a speech and remarks re-marks about the club. The new officers for 1960-61 1960-61 were as follows: President-Nancy President-Nancy Shepherd; Vice Presi- dent-Rae Swarts; Secretary- Kathleen Elder; Recording Se cretary-Hazel Guymon; Party Chairman-Sandra Ivie; Soccer Speedball Kay Prestwich; Vol ley Ball-Ann Rasmussen; Basketball-Gloria Stratton; Bad minton-Joyce Egellend; Soft ball-Ann Kallas; Tennis- and Archery Lynda Jakeman, f Jvo Church Leaders Coming To Sharon Stake Conference ScrJay Two prominent leaders of the LDS Church will address a two-day conference of the Church's Sharon Stake Saturday Sat-urday and Sunday in the Scera auditorium. The visiting officials are Bishop Bi-shop Carl W. Buehner of the Presiding Bishopric of the Church and Elder A. Lewis Elggren, a member of the Church Welfare Committee. Saturday evenings will be for leaders of the local congre gations. Sunday's general sessions, ses-sions, open to the public, will be held at 10 a. m. and 2:20 p. m. An MIA evening session ses-sion will be held at 7:30 p. m. in Orem 13th and 16'h ward chapel Saturday Schedule: First meeting S a turday night will be a welfare meeting meet-ing to be conducted at 6:30 p. m. in the Orem 13th-16th Ward chapel. The meeting will be for all stake and ward welfare wel-fare committees. General leadership meeting will follow at 8 p. m. in the same chapel. This meeting will be for the fallowing: Stake presidency, all stake and ward clerks, . high council, bishoprics, bishop-rics, quorum presidencies and clerks, group leaders and sec retaries, advisors of Senior Aaronic Priesthood quorums, and stake and ward presiden cies of Relief Society, Sunday School, MIA and Primary. Music for the general sessions ses-sions Sunday will be provided by a youth chorus, who will represent all wards in the stake. Mrs. Ruth Carruth wiil direct the chorus. ..Youth , attending the conference con-ference session Sunday are requested re-quested to be seated in the center section of the auditorium, auditor-ium, President Edwards announced. an-nounced. Stake President Philo T. Edwards, 643 South 450 East, Orem, will conduct the meetings.- " Bishop Buehner's f amily v t' " J MYSTERY PERSONALITY REVEALED -- Here's the Who's Who for last week's contest Elwood Sundberg, local mortician and prominent civic and church worker. Mr. Sundberg was1 nominated for the WW by Naomi Peterson, Pe-terson, left manager of Naomi's Beauty Shop. Winner of the contest was Lyla Vincent, right who won $7.50 for identifying Mr. Sundberg. There were 20 clues in the contest last week, but Lyla's entry showed only 19. Had her entry showed 20 she would have won $24.00. Lyla says she could kick herself because she had 20 clues located, but miscounted them when she was1 preparing pre-paring her entry. Her loss now makes the final WW contest con-test this week a total possible jackpot of $40.50. , Who's Who Contest Enters Final Week With Big $40.50 Jackpot This is the final week of the fabulouo3 Who's Who mys'ery personality contest. Since there i9 a carry-over from last week's WW contest, the total possible jackpot money for the f ina contest will be $40.50. Lyla Vincent won the last contest when she correctly identified Elwood Sundberg as the W.W. However, she received re-ceived only $7.50 since her - ' " 1 . ELDER CARL W. BUEHNER j SmoimI CounMlor, holding Bittopri Church of Uw Chrto l of Urttef-day Saint J came to America fiom his birthplace in Germany whea he was two years old. He became be-came a building contractor, then a prominent executive In the field of building materials in Salt Lake City. Elder E g Ten is a director of the famed Church Welfare Program. All conferences held in 1969 wU focus emphasis on youtli development as part of a, special spe-cial Church - wide parents and youth program launched early this year by Church President David O. McKay. ": The Mutual Improvement Association session for " the Sharon Stake conference will be held at the 13th-16th Ward at 7:30 pjn. Speaker will be Leland EL Anderson, head of the LDS seminaries in this district, with a timely topic. There wiil be two musical numbers. entry showed only 19 clues. The official count was 20. Entry boxes for the final week of the 24 week contest will be located at the following follow-ing four business houses: Utah Valley Builders, Dee Pyne Auto Sales, IGA Food Saver and Hilltop Auto Works. Okay, contestants, begin hunting and good luck on this the finale of the lucrative mystery my-stery personality contest. |