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Show LNi MCKGt BCX 81 iki: C i L V I N in , G CORP JA 8 LhKl c ut. 8410! Sweet'nSOUR by Midge, C23, Biji and Bix there's every indication word mouth is spreading like wildfire among practiced leaners, the word isnt spreading as rapidly as wed like among the public press about the first annual World's Championship Leaning Contest A week ago, the in Payson Sept. 1. word publicly had made its way all the way to Springville. This week, however, things are leaning up. Readers of Dan Valentines 'column in the vast, circulation area of the Salt Lake Tribune learned the contest is going to be held. While of far-flu- Sweets and Sours Cherry Crop Pumping $1 Million into Payson Economy 4,500 Ton Pie -- c- Payson has an ordinance requiring each merchant to sweep the sidewalk in front of his store before 9 a.m. each business day. It isnt enforced and we dont think it should be unless the sidewalk becomes littered. But what about driveways in the downtown area and vacant lots being utilized for parking? The gravel which accumulates on sidewalks in those areas is atrocious. We know because the leather on the soles of our shoes is wearing thin. Its no fun to walk virtually barefoot on sidewalks but across driveways and have pebbles digging into the soles of your feet. We recommend something be done, Crop Expected With harvesting and marketing of a top crop of sweet cherries completed and under way as long as two more weeks for pie cherries, the Payson area is beginning to feel the pleasant one-fif- -- c- Until we moved to Payson we never realized there were so many raffle tickets offered for various projects. Talking about that subject a fund-raisi- few days ago in the office, Hal Shuler said the only time he ever won anything was a few years back when he was the winner of a turkey. Thats a pretty good prize, but he said he wasnt too thrilled about it. At that time, his father had 5,000 turkeys on his ranch. We note in the daily newspaper where Sen. Lowell Weicker of Connecticut, a member of the Watergate committee, has introduced legislation on the federal level to outlaw electronic spying. We think its a great idea, however late. However, we want to point out hes not the first to get that idea. Were not contending we were the first, but we were 10 years ahead of the distinguished senator from Connecticut. We recall distinctly. It was shortly after the late Sen. Robert Kennedys descended Bobbys Bugging Brigade in force on Las Vegas when we were hired to do some flacking (publicity) work for former Nev. Rep. Walter Baring. We conned. Walt into announcing he would introduce if he were an amendment to the Bill of Rights freedom of privacy. He guaranteeing but he forgot to introwas duce the amendment. That failure angered us. Two years later we worked for his opponent. Alas, Walter was again. -- c- suggestion to Payson antique dealer Jim Reece. Buy up all the service station gasoline price signs. Right now converwe feel theyd be great for sation pieces in the living room or the den. The way things are going, theyll be genuine antiques within a couple of A years. Looking on while Dennis Dixon, right, displays how another steer might be dressed for the Nebo Stake Day beef barbeque dinner Tuesday are committee members, left Chronicle Photo to right, McKay Christensen, Roe Wilde and G. Osmond Dunford. Nebo Stake Day Offers Banner Beef Bargain In these days of soaring beef prices its available Tuesdays Nebo Stake Day will be offering an unpar ailed bargain from 6 to 8 p.m. The annual barbeque beef dinner will be served to an entire family for just $7.50, reported stake President Philip Jones. Other prices are ridiculously low $2 for individual adults aged 12 and older and 75 cents for children aged 11 and younger. Jones and his two counselors, Wayne Bushman and Ken Shepherd, said the event has a two-fopurpose: to serve as a general stake social for both present and former members and to raise money for the stake building fund. The dinner will be followed by a Gean program which Worthington and G. Osmond Dunford promise will be first rate. The stake day dinner will be followed event the exact by another nature of which has not yet been when ld fund-raisi- ng determined--Oc- t. 2. Stake leaders are aiming at a $15,000 goal from Tuesdays dinner and the activity to be held in October. That is the amount Nebo is required to reimburse U3S general authorities for the two sites for future already chapel purchased. The meal served Tuesday will be comrespect, Jones said, with an abundance of in season vegetables, bread and cake to supplement the barbeque beef. Blanchard Dixon is chairman of the beef committee and Ray Johnson heads up a group in charge of the remainder of the menu. Other committee chairmen include Ken Orton, ticket sales; Lester Robbins, ticket takers and door sales, and McKay Christensen, publicity. plete in every Junior High Sign-U- p Registration at Payson Junior High School will be held Aug. 27, the first day of school The fees are as follows: 5 Eighth plus laboratory grade--$5.2- fees. Ninth grade $13,25 plus laboratory fees. Laboratory fees include home economics, $2 per year; industrial arts, $2 per year; art, $2 per year, andinstument rental $10 per year. a good reason why the Genola Jottings column is not in this issue. Jane Tilton, our correspondent out there called us with a pretty good excuse for not getting anything to us. And we admit its a terrific excuse, but its probably the best news as far as Jane is concerned that she could send us. She and her husband, Lynn, became the parents of a new baby daughter, born in Payson Hospital last Saturday at 6:25 Named Jessica Nan, she tipped p.m. the scales at 8 pounds, 14 ounces. Mother and infant are doing just great and the father is estatic. The new arrival now evens up the odds a little to make it three boys and two girls. Jane isnt too busy, but if theres no Genola column next week either we wont holler too to the Tiltons, loudly. Congratulations therein. -- c- rehearsal Oliver Watching gives one the feeling of sitting in a London theater. Norman Lister, who portrays Fagin, and Lynn Frost, The Artful Dodger, have the colorful English dialect right down to the last joyful juggling cockneyism. One would almost think they were old Londoners thema of selves. This secret language of the costermongers originated in the early part of the 19th century and was designed to confuse the police as well as the public in general When the Artful Dodger calls Oliver his China Plate you will be somewhat baffled unless youre in the know. Hes using the Cockney ming Slang. Rhy- In Rhyming Slang, China Plate means, simply. . .mate. Plates of meet. . .feet Cain and Abel . .table The Artful Dodger. . .lodger Trouble and Strife. . .wife Apples and Pears. . .stairs Rosie Lee. . .tea Tit for Tat. . .hat, and so on. Sometimes even the last word is dropped, so that a true Cockey might Hi, me old China, I'm goin say, up the apples to get me titfer and 'ave a cuppa rosie. We wouldnt want to clue you in on the whole production of Oliver but were looking forward to seeing it first hand when the Payson Community Theater stages the musical later this month. not If you dont plan to see curious about Cockney. -- m- Co. Repeated Chronicle calls to that office for economic information brought an absolute zero response. The Payson source said picking the 800,000 pounds of sweet cherries in the orchards cost about $40,000. They were sold for between 15 and 25 cents a pound for some $175,000. But fruitgrowers had other costs before they laugh all the way to the bank. The tariff for boxes, freight and packing will range between three and six cents a pound. And, on top of all those there is another bill fruitgrowers must pay regardless of whether their orchards produce a crop. That is the incidentals of annual orchard maintenance. Pie cherries rapidly are outstripping sweets as a major cash crop in the Payson area which in itself rapidly is becoming the major fruit growing center in Utah. The local spokesman predicted 9 million pounds of pies will be harvested and packed in the area when the last cherry is accounted for this year. With a picking cost of three cents a pound, that pours $270,000 into the regions economy. This is an overall view of some of the activity currently under way at Payson Fruitgrowers fruit processing plant during the height of the sour cherry season. The plant may continue three shifts a day, six days a week for as long as two more Chronicle Photo weeks to process the area bumper pie cherry crop. day-to-d- ay Processing costs are seven-eig- During the sweet cherry season women at the packing plant found little time for rest as they sorted one of the areas best crops in recent years before they were packed and shipped for consumption fresh in the eastern market. (AdMuir-Robe- ditional photographs cents a pound, including five pounds of sugar dumped on top of every 25 pounds of cherries to make certain the fruit maintains its color. Growers are expected to net 10 to 12 cents a pound which adds up to some $1 million. Gross sales of pie cherries are estimated at between $2.5 million and $3 million. After the processor deducts his costs, he is expected to have between $800,000 and $1 million left to sweeten the local economy. The fruit industry obviously is great for the Payson area when Jack Frost smiles rather than frowns on it as he did last year. At the expense of infuriating environmentalists, in view of the economic importance perhaps Payson area residents would be wise to build as many fires as they can if a killing frost threatens the fruit industry next Flour Blast Hurts 3 Payson Youths in Abandoned Mill Payson youngsters were injured, one seriously, Saturday afternoon when flour exploded in the abandoned mill near Memorial Park. A fourth teenager in the mill at the time of the explosion was not hurt. John Fixel son of Dennis and Donna Fixel, suffered first, second and third-degrburns on his face, hands and arms as well as possible eye injuries. He was treated at Payson Hospital and transferred to a Salt Lake City hospital His brother, Jay, 10, and Ronnie Anderson, 10, son of Mr. and Mrs. Three ee by Karen Hair womens softball game Aug. 17 will precede the annual Salem Day festivities highlighting as it has in the past a free pancake breakfast in the communitys park from 7 to 9 a. m. Aug. 18. Under the sponsorship of the Salem Lions club, the gratis chow wiU be just the beginning of a day-loprogram designed to provide a variety of entertainment for youngsters of all ages. A Durrant Takes Vice Chair Of Leaning Committee Due to the press of personal business leaning on him, chairman Roy Leon Andreason has been unable to complete formation of his steering committee for the first annual Worlds Championship Leaning Contest Sept. 1 in Paysons picturesque Memorial Park. But I have been able to lean into Anone notiable accomplishment, dreason boasted. Ive been able to recruit James Durrant Jr. to serve as vice chairman of the steering committee. Durrant, contacted by The Chronicle, confirmed he had accepted the responsibility. Im terribly busy trying to lean the Payson High School footbaU team into shape, Durrant said. However, I promise to devote what little free time I have to this cause which Im convinced will bring international fame to Payson and the nearby communities which send me fierce football players every year. "Everyone is aware of my modest nature so no one will think Im bragging. Nevertheless, I believe in my tenure as coach at PHS Ive helped turn out some of the meanest leaners in Utah, maybe in the entire nation. Andreason, meanwhile, reminded all international contestants to make certain they get the necessary shots and apply for passports right away. Time is getting ar short, you know. Andreason also reminded local con- - testants this strictly is amateur competition. Anyone suspected of ever having leaned professionally will be required to prove his amateur status. This is a pure athletic evenl We dont want anyone participating for such an honor as a world's championship who, in fact, may be a professional It would be like having Minnesota Fats enter an amateur pool contest, Andreason said. Meanwhile, the alert Chronicle staff has learned irom an unimpeachable source potential steering committee members are leaning in the direction of sponsoring a Calcutta the night before the contest. That would have to be cleared by local law enforcement officers before hand, to be sure. We want to make it perfectly clear to Atty. Gen. Vernon Romney, said contest originator and chiyf sponsor Calvin Reece, proprietor of C. Reece & Sons, when told of the results of the newspapers investigation, "there will be no pari - mutuelbetting permitted. The last thing I want to lean on is an attorneys office door to spring me after Romney has had a restraining order served before the fact to make certain there is no betting on pari-mutu- el leaning contestants. Entry blanks, incidentally, now are available at C. Reece & Sons. There is no charge. Registration Slate Announced for Payson High School Registration for high school students are either new to the Payson area or did not register last spring will be held Aug. 14 from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Students must come to the high school to obtain a class schedule and pay fees. General fees are $25.75. This includes $9 for general activity (studentbody), $14.25 for textbook rental and laboratory fees, $1.50 for locker ana towel fees, and $1 for class fees. Returning students wiU register acwho cording to the following schedule: Seniors Wednesday, Aug. 15; Juniors Thursday, Aug. 16, and Sophomores Friday, Aug. 17. The school will be open from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. all three days. Students desiring a class change must appear Tuesday, Aug. 14, and contact Albert Payne. No class changes will be made after this date. Payson Chronicle Photo on page 2.) Pancake Breakfast, Pageant to Highlight Salem Day Aug. 18 Leaning a little as they go over suggested rules for the first annual World's Championship Leaning Contest in Payson Sept. 1 are, left to right, steering committee chairman Roy Leon Andreason, originator and chief sponsor Calvin Reece, and Gean Chronicle Photo Worthington, a potential steering committee member. rts ht spring. m- It seems to us business owners in the downtown area who have decorated planters in front of their stores with colorful flowers--w- e congratulate each one who has are defeating their purpose if they do not keep the planters policed of the litter which accumulates th Muir-Rober- Theres -- sensation of a more than $1 million shot in the arm of the local economy. One knowledgeable local observer told The Chronicle that is a horseback estimate of the amount of money the crop will produce to be spent and respent in this area. But, he stressed, it probably amounts to only about of the total value of this years bumper cherry crop. Since the figures are not precise, the expert interviewed by the newspaper declined to be identified. But the figures are representative certainly more accurate than those provided by the Salt ts Lake City headquarters of Edged in Included on that program are a bake sale, pie eating contest, fish pond and other games for children, bicycle race and boat rides on picturesque Salem Pond throughout the day. All of those activities will follow a program under the direction of Mrs. Florence Sperry, Mrs. Fern Linton and Bert Beebe and produced by Salems Anderson, at midweek were in fairly good condition at reported Payson Hospital where they are being treated for second and burns. Another Fixell boy, Dennis, was not hurt, the hospital John G. third-degr- ee reported. Police patrolman Steven Johnson, who investigated the incident, said the quartet evidently climbed up a rope and forced their way into the mill by prying away winthe covering over a boarded-u- p dow. They carried, Johnson said, traffic caution flares which bum with a small flame. The boys were using them for illumination as a person might use a candle. Somehow, Johnson continued, one of the boys jarred a large bin, releasing a cloud of explosive flour dust. When the dust reached one of the flares, it ignited. After the blast, young Dennis climbed back out of the window, slid down the rope and summoned aid from a neighbor who took all four to the hospital Fortunately, the injuries werent more serious than they were, Johnson said, as he repeated a frequently expressed warning to all youngsters in the area to steer clear of the mill There was no apparent damage to the building. senior citizens. Mr. and Mrs. Roen Griffiths are responsible for a miniature parade which is scheduled at 2 p.m. The parade theme is Circus Memories. A tradition of Salem Days is a pageant and this year is no exception. Mrs. Dorothy Jensen, director, has been rehearsing children for two weeks who will appear in the pageant. Lions club members promise there will be plenty of food, games and other activities to please just about everyone and urge former residents as well as citizens of nearby cities to spend all or part of Salem Day in Salem. 'Yards'ContestSet ByPaysonChamber Paul Andrus, president of Payson Chamber of Commerce, announces the chamber again this year will sponsor a Yards Award Contest to be directed by the Payson beautification committee. Three awards of $25 will be given and winners will be announced on Labor Day. Homeowners are urged to beautify their yards in preparation for the Pay-so- n Golden Onion Days homecoming celebration. SundayConference Scheduled for Santaquin-Tinti- c Santaquin-Tint- ic stake quarterly conference is scheduled at the stake center in Santaquin Saturday and Sunday. Stake President Max E. Nelson said the Saturday night and early Sunday sessions are leadership morning meetings open by invitation only. The general session will begin at 10 a.m. Sunday. All stake members are invited and are also welcome. Nelson said. A television monitoring system will be functioning to make it possible for aU to be comfortably seated and able to see and hear the proceedings. Tem.-Preci- p. Table The daily temperature range and precipitation during the week ended Monday as measured by A.Z. Robbins and Bob Phelps, respectively, include: wishing their yards to be contact Mrs. Verdene Page may judged or Mrs. Helen Hansen at at Those 465-35- Legion Tourney Tournament Cottonwood favorite punched across a run in the top of the fourth extra inning Tuesday night to nudge an upstart Payson team 2 in the second round of the state American Legion baseball tournament in Salt Lake City. R H E The line score: 3 2 Cottonwood 000 110 000 1 10 465-325- 2. The contest is an incentive to residents to improve their surroundings, and especially, for the community to put its best foot forward for home- - , coming. 2 3 2 200 000 000 0 Payson Housley, Norquist (6) and Pendley. Jensen and Durrant. July precipitation: .66 inches. July average: 1.01 inches. Aug. precipitation to date: .58 inches. Aug. average: 1.29 inches. 19.43 inches. Water year to date: Water year average: 14.68 inches. |