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Show TELL ME Orem-Geneva Times-Thurs., Sept. 29, 1966 CP I? ILLUMINATING THE PROBLEMS. THE PEOPLE. THE ISSUES OF OUR TIME. OREM CITY: A Retrospective Look From 1 980 Orem City, now 120 years old, celebrated celebrat-ed its Centennial in 1961, making a full century since settlers came to the Orem bench and stayed to build a community. For the first 60 years growth in population was slow. By 1919 when Orem was incorporated incor-porated as a Town, only about 1,500 souls inhabited the bench community. With farming and fruit growing the principal economic growth factors, it took another 20 years for the population to double to 2,950. THE NEXT DECADE brought growing pains to Orem. The huge Geneva Steel Co. plant was built at the west city limits in 1941, and the industrial production sparked by World War II brought thousands more people into Orem. In this same year SCERA came of age when it completed Orera's community-owned auditorium. This 10-year period of unprecidented growth saw Orem become classified as a 3rd-class city and reach a population of 8,351 in 1950. During the next decade another 10,000 souls became citizens of Orem, some of them by immigration, some as native-born. The decade between 1960 and 1970 was a time of both consolidation and growth for Orem City. Several new schools were built to handle the everburgeoning army of children, child-ren, Orem became known as the city whose population had the lowest average age of any city in Utah (19). IT WAS DURING this decade that Orem civic leaders began to recognize how far behind the population had fallen the growth of such public facilities as parks, playgrounds, civic center, library, city offices and golf courses. The Orem Junior Chamber of Commerce dramatized this need in 1965 when it made a Community Attitude Survey. This survey demonstrated that citizens were far from satisfied with the public facilities which existed ex-isted at the time. Th following year the Orem City Council conducted an advisory election on public improvements in which less than one-half of the citizens participated. The election showed that a little more than one-half of those who did vote were not in favor of the package program as it was proposed by the Council. MEANWHILE IN 1966, other governmental and commercial interests decided that Orem City offered opportunities and advantages surpassing those to be found in other areas. The Utah Trade Technical Institute bought a large tract of choice Orem ground on which to build a new campus. The Central Utah Water Conservancy District decided to locate its offices in Orem. ZCMI announced plans to build a large department store as the hub of a multi-million multi-million dollar Orem shopplmg center. The Orem-Geneva Industrial Development Corporation Cor-poration was organized to assist new industry to locate in Orem. Preliminary plans were laid for construction construc-tion of a municipal-type golf course InOrem. ALL OF THESE events took place In 1966, and every year since that time similar significant sig-nificant activities have marked the growth of the community. The Federal Census of 1970 placed Orem's population at 24,682 - a figure which sparked efforts of the Orem City Council and local State senators and legislators to seek an amendment to the State statutes which elevate municipalities with 30,000 population to second-class cities. So far, efforts in the UtahState Legislature to amend this statute have been unseccessful, and with the completion of the 1980 Federal Census this year showing a population of over 31,000 it Is expected that Orem will soon be designated a second-class city and be required to operate its own school district. dis-trict. THIS PROSPECT hardly seems as dire today to-day as it did back in 1967 when Orem's share of the optional one-half per cent sales tax totaled less than $100,000 annually. The opening of the 1300 South freeway access east to the BYU Campus concindent with the opening of the ZCMI shopping center in 1968 gave Orem a valuable commercial com-mercial shot in the arm. In the past 12 years dozens of retail and service establishments have located in the ZCMI shopping center, and today Orem's share of the sales tax money is expected to reach $500,000 by 1985. THE DIVERSIF ACTION of industry in the Orem area in the past decade has been nothing noth-ing short of phenomenal and has been another positive factor in the financial stability of the community. When U. S. Steel Corporation back In 1970 decided to spend $200 million in modernizing moderniz-ing the Columbia-Geneva Steel plantatOrem, this announcement triggered a chain reaction which resulted in the location of no less that 20 satilite fabricating, assembly and manufacturing plants in the five Orem industrial in-dustrial parks. Meanwhile, also in 1970, Orem's 9-hole golf course was expanded to 18 holes, and the city's new civic center and library was dedicated. In 1971 the Orem city manager announced that paving had been completed on every city street, and street lighting had been installed in over one-half of the city. IN 1972 the city began development of two of the five municipal park sites which had been purchased in 1967. Nineteen seventy-four saw the completion .of the first phase of the Utah Trade Technical Institute Insti-tute campus in Orem. Orem citizens approved a bond election in 1975 to finance construction of a culinary' water purification plant at the mouth of the canyon and to drill two new wells. The following year, SCERA completed work on a $200,000 indoor swimming pool and park development, resulting in the finest indoor-outdoor swimmingpool and recreational complex in the state. The Orem city limits were expanded in 1977 to include the Vineyard and Lakeview areas west to Utah Lake. The incorporation, included the Columbia-Geneva Steel plant, LOVE THAT. 0 r, t' ' A Love Those Savings Certificates! You'll love the way your money grows faster ... at premium interest rates . . . with full bank safety. In short, you'll love Savings Certificate?! For a really attractive return on your dollars, the worry-free way, consider Savings Certificates . . . insured by a Federal 4 11 m m M Mil H . ImaaimvmI all K3 fM,MMCil ?U IISli uc rlpjf L JSIATIOJSIAJJ 1 fl f-9MnH I Whrt is the inscription on the frmou6 liberty bell N VHlLHPELv'HlH 7 "PROCLPIM LIBERTY THROUGHOUT RUTHS RU-THS LAND UNTO ALL "WE INHABITANTS THEREOF" HOW DD THE WORD " BEDLAM ORiGlNPiTE? i.iiEi BEDLAM" l5 CORRUPTION OF BETHl-EMEMTHe NAME OF A LONDON STRUCTURE THAT WAS CONVERTED INTO ALUNRTlC HOSPITAL.' INMATES VIE RE POORLW TREATED., .HENCE "8EPURM" SIONlFItj HNVSCENS Or WILD CONFUSION f IS TWECE 6UCK ft FRUIT ftS THE "ADPMS RPPLE"? VES ,THE ADAM'S APPLE ISAM RCTURL FRUIT.... BUT IT 16 NOT AN APPLE... .BUT A VARIETY OF LIME! HOW LONG DID IT TftK TO BUILD THE GREAT PYRAMID OF EGYPT? According toherodotus, CHEOPS EMPLOYED 100,000 MEN FOR 10 YEARS TO CONSTRUCT THIS PYRAMID... WHICH COVERS A SPACE OF 13 ACRES... REACHING A HEIGHT OF 48Q FEET ! property and other industrial land In the area. THE YEAR OF 1978 Is remembered for the efforts of several hundred Utah County citizens cit-izens to form a metropolitan-type of government, govern-ment, combining the principal cities of the county under one administration. Opposed by a majority of Orem citizens, the effort was defeated by a vote of 85,947 to 23,682. In 1979 television station ORMTV was established in Orem. It's first broadcast featured the successful landing on the moon of five U. S. astronauts. Orem came into itsown politically in 1979 with the election of its two-term mayor as governor of the State of Utah. This same election saw five Orem men and one woman elected to offices in Utah County government. Nineteen seventy-nine also saw an Orem man named to the Council of Twelve Apostles of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. THUS, TODAY in 1980, Orem City has come of age economically, industrially, socially, so-cially, educationally, culturally, politically and religiously. The image Orem presents to the world is one of energy, imagination and progress. Its public buildings and facilities are well-planned well-planned and executed. Its churches are in constant use, Its schools provide superior educational opportunities. oppor-tunities. Its businesses are healthy competitors, com-petitors, and its factories are geared to the demands of the present and the goals of the future. OREM'S PEOPLE have built a community to which America can point with pride as an outstanding example of men working together to-gether for a common good, and ready for whatever the 21st Century may bring. STRICTLY BUSINESS by McFeattari (BrTSY betts) " 'The king is in his counting house counting out his money." L ft j.. J u M n o n n fete - .V 0 q Ready Mixed Concrete Driveways Sidewalks Q Fondations Patio W tSHED SAND and GRAVEL U Cement Color Rebar 0 Wall Ties U 0 SxPa"s," Jomts , O Sonotube i.n. 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Peace-loving- supporting com munisL Peaceful co-existence non-resistance non-resistance to communist policy and moves towards world conquest. con-quest. People Communists (People's China, etc.) People's Democracy Communist Commu-nist slave state. Democratic or Progressive-terms Progressive-terms used by the Reds to describe de-scribe persons, organizations, or policies which further communist aims. Aggression any firm action to prevent or defeat communist expansion. ex-pansion. Colonialism possessing territory ter-ritory that the Reds wanL Colonya non-Communist territory ter-ritory associated with the Western West-ern Powers. Anti-colonialism the Communists' Commu-nists' program for gaining control con-trol of territories presently associated as-sociated with the free world. Oppressed peoples those living liv-ing in countries the Red wish to seize. Liberation the Communist takeover of a free country. Fascist State any country which takes firm action against Communist infiltration, espionage, espion-age, and subversion. Militarism creation of non-Communist non-Communist armed strength or alliance. Discriminationa smear term used against people or actions which interfere with Communist plans and objectives. Disrupter or Stool Pigeon an anti-Communist worker or union man. Traitor a general term for anti-Communists. Fascist an anti-CommunisL Nazi or Hitlerite an active anti-Communist. Warmonger anyone strongly opposed to giving in to Red demands. de-mands. Anti-Fascist a Red or one who fights against anti-Communists. McCarthyism any action to expose Communist espionage and subversion within our borders. Inquisition any governmental or judicial inquiry into, or investigation in-vestigation of, Red infiltration or subversion in non-Communist states. Religious right anyone who opposes Communism on religious grounds. Bircher--a Communist term used to attack members of the John Birch Society, or to attack anyone actively opposing Red aims. Anti-Semitism a smear term used by Communists against those who effectively oppose and expose ex-pose them. This technique is an old and proven method of discrediting, dis-crediting, isolating, and destroying destroy-ing their opponents. Hate literature any book, booklet, or publication which identifies iden-tifies and exposes Communists and Red strategy and tactics. A current smear term used widely by Reds to discredit anti-Com -munist publications. Understanding the game of Red semantics becomes apparent when one examines current demands de-mands to "ban hate literature and "introduce anti-hate legislation." legis-lation." This is nothing but a crafty maneuver to censor or outlaw anti-Communist literature and activity. Does anything clear up now? Next Week: Civil Rites 'BACK TO SCHOOL' AND FLOWER SHOW AT WESTMORE SCHOOL Thursday, September 29 marks the annual Flower Show and Back to School Night at Westmore Elementary School. There will be a meeting at 7:30 in the auditorium with introductions in-troductions of the Westmore faculty and PTA Officers and Room Mothers. Immediately following the meeting, parents will meet with their children's teachers and observe ob-serve the lovely flower displays arranged by the children outside each classroom. Refreshments in the lunchroom will conclude the evening. Orem - Geneva Times HAROLD B. SUMNER Editor and Publisher Published every Thursday at Orem, Utah. Office and plant located at 546 South State Street. Mailing address; P. O. Box 65, Orem, Utah 84057. Subscription price: $3.50 per year. Second-class postage paid at Orem, Utah. Tom Berg DOING THE IMPOSSIBLE These days, when planes skip across oceans in a few hours, and a man could have breakfast in Los Angeles, lunch in New York and dinner in Paris, it's hard to realize that such undertakings as a transatlantic cable were monumental mon-umental achievements a century cen-tury ago. On July 13, 1866, a steamship steam-ship made the fifth try at joining the United States with the Old World by cable. It took some 2400 miles of cable, paid out from the steamship at about 125 miles a day as it crawled across the Atlantic. People had said the feat was. impossible ... and it had taken 12 years to accomplish. The achievements of science sci-ence change. What was difficult dif-ficult yesterday is taken for granted today. 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