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Show 141 r !'! A'Mni Jt ft U r C "Pleasant Grove, ffte Mo$f 6eouHu Situated Cfy In Utah County" VOLLVIH, No. 7 PLEASANT GROVE, UTAH, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1962 f f IV jAfiuttd Chamfer of: Coii.Ei.3rce Banguei D3 Held Thursday, Febniary 22nd The Pleasant Grove Chamber Of Commerce will hold lt annual banquet next Thursday, Feb. 22 at the Lindon Ward Chanel. Tic kot are now being sold by Chamber Cham-ber of Commerce director for the event, which marks the culmina .4 . .m to i "SINO AT BANQUET" Providing the entertainment at the C of C Banquet Feb. 22 will be talented quartet. Melody, Peggy, Patsy and Debra dinger. Barbershop songfest featured them. Alpine District February 7 Is The following stems of local and public interest were gleaned from the minutes of the Arpine Board of Education meeting, held February 7. The voted leeway election returns re-turns were reviewed and the findings approved. The officers of the Alpine Education Association Associa-tion met with the Board to discuss dis-cuss the problem of improving the educational program ' of the .'district.'-. 'MY' -V - Four school buses were purchased; purch-ased; they will be used beginning with the school year 1962-63. Two of the buses will be replacements replace-ments for old buses which have been used since 1947. Two of the new buses will be used to take care of the increased student load next year. Following a visit to the Alpine School tai. Alpine, Utah by the Entertains at Dinner Mr r and Mrs. Robert Hilton entertained en-tertained at a dinner party on Friday evening for a group of close friends and neighbors. Present Pres-ent to enjoy the lovely dinner and "an evening of games and visiting . . were Bishop and Mrs.! Ben Whiting, Whit-ing, Mr. and Mrs. Don Brimley, Mr. and Mrs. Bill Gardner, Mr. and Mrs. Les Brady, Mr. and Mrs. Boyd Seely and Mr. and Mrs. Dale Seely. It's a fact son. Like gold, jokes are where you find them. And not all, of them are In the funny ' papers. . Sometimes they are on - page? one of Section B of the Sunday papers. Such was the case a fortnight ago. The story went on to sayHhat included In President Kennedy's 92 billion dollar budget was a small item of $1,201,925 allocated allocat-ed to the National Institute of Health. Nothing funny about tha.t of course, unless you read the fine print. The money was earmarked ear-marked for a speciid purpose. According to Dr., Harry Harlow Har-low of the University of Wiacon-etn, Wiacon-etn, the money will be spent on a study to determine "mother-infant "mother-infant love in monkeys." Or 'in other words, they hope . to find out by a two-year research project, "the affectionate rela-; tionship of the Infant monkey to his mother." Dr. Harlow is an expert ex-pert in the fields of primate research. re-search. "Primates,', is the zoological zool-ogical term for monkeys, apes and baboons. Ot course it might be nice to know If little Chico actually loves his mama or if he clings to her only since she is lus source of food and warmth. Dr. Harlow hopes to find out However.the expenditure seems Just a little foolish during these days when we already have three monkeys on our backs (Castro, tion of Uve past year's activiUce for the present officer of the organization. or-ganization. A highlight of the banquet Will be the announcement of the result re-sult of the election for eight, board of directors posts. Seven- I Board Meeting Summarized ' Board of Education, it was determined deter-mined that plans should be made -to start construction -of a six room elementary unit in Alpine as soon as money is available. The administrative staff has been instructed to visit six-room buildings in the area which have been constucted with the idea in mind to add to them as student population- made it necessary. The problem will be studied further before the design of the .proposed, building ,. . js decided upon. , Following a . visit to the Lin-don Lin-don Elementary School in Lin-don, Lin-don, Utah by the Board of Education Edu-cation an architect was employed employ-ed -to check the feasibility of making a four room addition at Lindon School The present Lin-don Lin-don School was built in 1901 and should be replaced. , . The Board of Education approved ap-proved a new schedule of experience exper-ience allowance for teachers en-' tering Alpine District. AU teachers who will be benefitted bene-fitted by this new schedule will automatically be advanced on the experience schedule and the salary, sal-ary, schedule. It appears that teachers who entered the district during the school year 1961-62" will beneQt from this new policy, however, the new policy will not ., be retroactive beyond the school year 1961-62. ' - ; - TJ - Mao and Khrushchev) and are spending billions every year to get "them off, '. ..,...........,..... Anyway, the' whole thing is a joke. And like the expenditures of dozens of our Bureauocrata, the Joke's on the taxpayers. These government bureaus exist, ex-ist, thedr employees Increase every ev-ery year and must have something some-thing to do. Hence, these piddling, piddl-ing, senseless end worthless ao tivitiea ; , Don't be surprised, that if Dr. Harlow's study reveals that little monkeys love their mamas, the end is not yet Two years from now he could reasonably be expected ex-pected to ask for another slug of tax money. This time to find out If little Chico loves his papa. This second research could be more valuable than the first. Then we would know whether Chico really feels frustrated when papa is shot into space in a ten million dollar capsule: Of course, a federal expenditure expendi-ture of one and one-quarter million mil-lion is peanuts these days. But even peanuts are subsidized. During, these times, thousands of American children are going without dental and medical care because their parents can't afford af-ford it It seems just plain stupid to spend that much money on our monkey's love life. It's a joke, son. If it weren't so darned serious. . So long til Thursday. teen names were listed on the ballot bal-lot that was voted on by Chamber Cham-ber members. These eight men will Join seven holdover directors on the board. Another feature of the banquet ban-quet will be the presentation of a life membership to a distinguished disting-uished citizen of the community. As in past years, the person receiving re-ceiving the award will not be a-ware a-ware of the honor until he recognize recog-nize his biography as it is being be-ing given. Featured speaker of the evening even-ing will be Dr. Harvey L. Taytoc, Vice President of th Brtgham Young University. President Taylor Tay-lor has served in that capacity for the past nine years. Previously Previous-ly he served as President of Gila Junior College in Arizona, Superintendent Super-intendent of Mesa, Arizona public schools, as well as holding numerous num-erous other responsible posts in the field of education. Dr. Taylor has been active in many civic organizations. or-ganizations. Currently he is a member of the executive committee com-mittee of the Utah Safety Council Coun-cil and Is a member of the State Advisory Committee on : Adult Education in American Citizenship. Citizen-ship. y . .; As a special attraction, the Clinger Sisters, Utah County's answer to the Lennon Sisters, will sing at the banquet. The four girls, daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Aaron Clinger of Orem, were the hit of last year's Barbershop Quartet songfest held at Provo. They consist of Melody, 15; Peggy 13; Patsy, 11 and Debra, 9.. 7 1 (I r : ) Si ii ELDER DAVID G. THORNTON Farewell Sunday Farewell Sunday Will Honor David G. Thornton A missionary farewell " testi-" monial honoring Elder Darrell G. Thornton, will be held Sunday evening! .Feb. 18 at 5:00p.m. bathe ba-the lindon Ward Chapel. Bishop r Leon Walker of the lindon Ward . will preside and give remarks. ' Elder Thornton has accepted a call to labor in the LDS Northern'" Nor-thern'" California Mission, with headquarteKrat'5 Buena Vista Terrace', San Francisco. He will enter the Salt Lake City Mission home Feb. 19 and expects to leave for the mission field Feb. 26. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Beldon C. Thornton and is a graduate grad-uate of the Pleasant Grove High School and Seminary. During the school year 1960-61 he attended BYU and since then has been employed. em-ployed. He is an active member of the lindon Ward. , Speakers at the Sunday evening even-ing testimonial will be Cloyd At-wood, At-wood, James Thornton and LeRoy Jacklin. Remarks will also be given by Elder Thornton and his parents. ... Rena Keetch will play prelude and postlude organ music and special musical numbers will be rendered by Patsy Rounder, Eva Millett, Kathryn Ann Rasband and Wilma Taylor. The Invocation will be given by George Rasband and Larry Thornton will pronounce the benediction. ben-ediction. Everyone Interested is cordially invited to attend. Fugcl, Peterson to Attend School . Administrators Meet Boyd Fugal. Alpine . School Board of Education member and Dan Peterson, Superintendent, will represent the Alpine School . District at the Conference of the American Association of School Administrators, starting in Atlantic At-lantic City New Jersey next week. ' The two men will leave today for Atlantic. City and will be in the conference for the next week. " 7 fx DR. HARVEY I TAYLOR Speaker at C of C Banquet PTA Anniversary Program Tonight At Grovecrest The PTA Anniversary Program Pro-gram is being held tonight at 7:30 In the auditorium of the Grovecrest School. Guest speaker speak-er wil be Reverand Fred Venable, Minister of Christ Methodist Church of Salt Lake City, who Is character and spiritual education educa-tion chairman of the Utah Congress Con-gress of Parents and Teachers. A skit by members of Ameri can Fork Council will be present ed under the direction of Mrs. Joe Mecham. - Flag ceremony will be by the Grovecrest school unit. . Light refreshments will be served ser-ved under the direction of Viola Beers, hospitality chairman. Jlj.L ELDER VIRGIL D. TURNER , . Leaves for Mission . , Virgil D. Turner Will Leave for LDS Mission Field Elder Virgil D. Turner will be honored with a missionary farewell fare-well testimonial at 7:30 pjn. in the Third-Sixth Ward Chapel on Sunday, Feb. 18. Bishop Daryl Huish of the Sixth Ward will preside pre-side and give brief remarks.- Elder Turner, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Virgil H. Turner, has accepted a call to labor in the Spanish-American LDS Mission. He will enter the Salt Lake City Mission home on Feb. 19 and expects to leave for his field of labor one week later. He was born In Lehi and educated edu-cated locally, graduating from N PGHS and Seminary in I960., Since then he has completed a course of instruction at the Airline Air-line Personnel School, Kansas City, Missouri. He is a holder of the Duty to God Award. Speakers at the testimonial will be John Fugal and Bishop G. Albert Spencer. Remarks will also al-so be made by Elder Turner and his parents. Special music will be rendered by Jane Ollivier end Deanne Ernest David Jeppeon will offer . the invocation and Dan Turner will pronounce the benediction. AU ward members and other friends are cordially Invited. Returns from Trip Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Sutton and Mr. and .Mrs. Robert Slater and daughter Teresa Lynn have re- turned from a brief trip to Southern Sou-thern California. They drove there to visit with Dr. and Mrs. William Kirk and girls in Coronado and Mr. and Mrs. John Spotts and sons in Fullerton. They spent a day touring Disneyland. i WITH A BANG Mike Wright, Clarence Rasmusson, watch P.G. Lions Club Is Sponsoring Broom Sale; Money For Park Buy a broom from the Pleasant' Pleas-ant' Grove Lions and you will help build the public picnic area at the swimming pool site. -That's the word from Mike Wright, chairman of the Lions broom sale, which starts next Wednesday night - " "The Lions have obligated themselves to develop the picnic area expected, to cost several thousand dollars. And this is one Pre-Schoo Discussion Plans Session for, Tonight at 7:00 p.m. By popular request, one more discussion meeting on the problems prob-lems of the pre-school child has been set for Thursday, Feb. 15 at 7:30 p.m. in Room 9 at the Junior High School :. ' One of the local dentists will " discuss TentaITIeallhofthe " Pre-School Child." Everyone in-treated in-treated Is invited. . i "This is the concluding meeting meet-ing and we wish -to thank everyone every-one who has assisted in arranging arrang-ing and conducting the discussions," discus-sions," said Mrs. Boyd Walker, publicity chairman. Republicans Will Hold Mass-Meetings Mass-Meetings Monday Mass meetings, sponsored .by the Republican Pleasant Grove precinct organization will be held from 8:00 to 9:00 pjn. Monday Feb. 19, according to Harold Jacklin, precinct chairman. District Dis-trict chairmen and places of the meetings are as follows: District 1 Don Mack Dalton, at his home In Manila. District 2 Glen Shields, at his home, 1020 North First East Pleasant Grove. ' District 3 Grant Fugal, Central Cen-tral School building. District 4 Robert M. Weeks, at his home, 30 South Thirteenth East, Pleasant Grove. District 5 Kay Jacobs Junior: High School building.- District 6 Terry Chidestor,"at his home in Lindon. i " , The purpose of the meetings Is to elect district officers for the next two years, choose delegates dele-gates for the County and State Republican convention and transact tran-sact any other necessary business. busi-ness. According to state law these mass meetings must be held within with-in the boundaries of the district at 8:00 p.m. end remain in session ses-sion for one hour. All citizens are cordially invited, -Mr. Jacklin sid .. - i " MMen Play in Tourney; Two Receive Awards Two Pleasant Grove area boys were honored at the conclusion of the recent Junior M Men basketball bas-ketball tournament held at the Orem High School. Danny Smith, of the Pleasant Grove First Ward team and Jay Young of the lindon lin-don Ward team were named on the 10-man all-star squad. Danny is the eon of Mr. and Mrs. Lyman O. Smith and Jay is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Ted Young. i The Senior M Men tournament began last Monday with 16 teams entered in the Region Nine playoff. play-off. The Lindon Ward team entered en-tered the series as Tlmpanogos Stake champions. A team repre-, senting Pleasant Grove Third . Ward entered as runner-up. " . The Lindon team lost both Mon-;' day and Tuesday nights and thus. were eliminated., Monday, lindon ! was beaten by BYU 14th 47-46 ' and Tuesday they were beaten' by 10 points by Orem l'4th. 5 Pleasant Grove Third lost to r American Fork Ninth 52-48 Mon- day night However, , they won Tuesday night, beating Orem 20th by a score of 70-55. ... V" 1 chairman and while George Jaynes gets sale off with of the projects to raise the money." mon-ey." said Mr. Wright , He said the brooms will sell for f 2.00 each, with seventy cents from each broom sold to go on the picnic area. The balance of J 1.30 per broom goes to the blind people of Utah who manufacture the brooms. , The Lions plan a two-week house-to-house campaign of the area starting Wednesday. 'Helping Mr. Wnght on the sales committee are Clarence Raemussen and Jess Monson. Should anyone be missed on the house-to-house drive, a broom will be delivered after a call to any member of the committee, said Mr. Wright Harvey Attends Soil Conservation NbTtional Conclave Leo P. Harvey recently returned return-ed from Philadelphia, Pa., where he attended the National . Convention Con-vention of Soil Conservation Districts. Dis-tricts. The conclave convened February 4 through 9. Mr. Harvey represented the state as chairman of the Utah Association of Soil Conservation Districts and served on the im-.- portant resolutions committee. . . . The purpose of the convention . was to hear reports of standing committees, act on 'resolutions and make recommendations regarding re-garding future projects and impending im-pending legislation. Mr. Harvey said that the dele; gations from the Western States were almost unanimously, opposed oppos-ed to the proposed "Wilderness Bill," where large areas would be kept in their natural state. Tliey recommended further Congressional Con-gressional study.. The convention went on record favoring more federal money for conservation planning, Mr. Har- ; vey said. At present Utah has filed 30 applications for watershed water-shed Improvements, six are cur- ' raitly under construction and four more have been approved for planning. On Sunday evening, February 4 the delegates assembled for a: religious service, with the theme, "The Stream of Life the Water' That Sustains You." While Mr.' Harvey was In the East, he was re-elected a member of the board of directors of the Provo River Water Users Association. XrXSXXX- X:h RODEO HEADS Heading the Strawberry Days Rodeo this year will be Gordon Taylor, Kenneth R. Gillman, Vera Ahman, Ray Vlklund, Hora.,.Gillman, Arnold Green, Dean Peterson. .Vfern Goode, also on committee, was absent whn picture was taken."' Strawberry Days Rodeo Will Have D. A. Kirby as Producer ' Pleasant Grove's Strawberry ;iayS rodeos will , be staged on the evenings of Thursday, Friday ' and Saturday, . June 21 through 23, according to Kenneth Rt Gill- . many general chairman. i The DjA. 'Kirby rodeo company, com-pany, formerly of Phoenix, Ariz- ; ona and nowof Sajt Lake' City, will furnish the stock and stage tho show. Mr. Glllmah said Mr. Kirby has a background of 18 ; years . experience in producing ready to start the Lions Broom a bang. Money goes for park area. Dale Carter to Head Local Sportsmen Bob Slttre, recently elected as president of the pleasant Grove Sportsmen Association, has moved mov-ed to Wyoming. The Sportsmen met last Saturday and chose Dale Carter to replace Mr. Slttre as president . . Chosen as vice president was Reed Orton and Jay Newman was made a board member. He has been an alternate board member. mem-ber. ' Mr. Newman was also appointed appoint-ed treasurer. He assumes the position pos-ition from Bruoe Fugul, vfao has. been acting as both secretary and treasurer. Mr. Fugal will still hold the office of secretary. A general membership meeting of the Pleasant Grove Sportsmen will be held Friday, Feb. 23 at 7:30 pjn. in the Pleasant Grove Junior High. Mike Wright, local forest ran- -ger, will show some film on local forest conservation projects being be-ing performed. Little League Plans Meeting for Next Wednesday Evening A Little League "planning meeting" has been set for Wednesday, Wed-nesday, Feb. 21 at 7:00 p.m. in the basement room of the city hall, according to Glen Newman, local baseball enthusiast .' Plans for the forth-coming baseball season will be discussed. All those interested, - including parents of Little Leaguers, are invited to attend, Mr. Newman said. -' i I - ' Visits Here Miss Joette Buchanan, who lived here! with her parents," Mr and Mrs! Robert Buchanan for several years, visited here on Sunday Sun-day and Monday with her grandparents, grand-parents, Mr. and Mrs. Lester Duty Du-ty and at the school with old friends. Joette is living In Payson now and she returned there on Tuesday. I i t t successful rodeo shows. He is R.C.A. approved. Assisting Mr. Gillman in staging stag-ing the 1962 rodeos are the following fol-lowing officials; -. ;, - - Gordon Taylor, ticket sales; Vernon Ahman, secretary-treas- ," urer; Ray Vlklund, concessions; ' Horace Gillman and Arnold Green rodeo grounds; Dean Peterson, rodeo queen contest; Vern Goode, programs and Gerald Klemm and Clifford Hales, advertising. r- |