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Show Fordliam Appointed City Administrator - ? ": i f v 1 v 1 i .. J Mayor Paul T. Fordham was appointed city administrator by members of the Pleasant Grove City Council at their reg-ular meeting held last Monday night. The appointment came after at least two months of discussion and after serious consideration of the qualifica-tions of a number of applicants for the position. The position of "City Admin-istrator" is a new one, as far as Pleasant Grove City City government is concerned. It has long been felt by Council members that ever increasing numbers and complexity of city problems requires a fulltime executive and administrative officer. "The time has come when we need someone to ac-tivate and follow through on the decisions and policies of the city council," one of the coun-cilme- n explained. When contacted Tuesday ev-ening the new city administra-tor said that he considered some of his important duties would include: To coordinate the activities of all city employees in the interest of cooperation and ef-ficiency. To serve as purchasing agent for the city corporation. To pursue and augment the development of the Pleasant Grove new industrial park. To carry out the policies of the city council as a whole, and the heads of departments, in particular. To keep alert and pursue all possibilities for aid to munic-ipal problems through govern-mental and state agencies. To proceed at once on the project of laying a 16-in- cul-inary water line from Battle PAUL T. FORDHAM New City Administrator Creek Springs to the city dis-tribution system. Mr. Fordham said that he had received the approval of the city council to retain his position as mayor until the next municipal election. His future duties as mayor will consist principally of presiding at the council meetings and execu-ting official documents, he said He also said that he had relinquished the management of Cal and Paul's Ford Trac-tor Co. sales yard, to his part-ner, Calvin Mills. Mr. Fordham brings to his new office 10 years of service in city government to Pleasant Grove two years as city councilman and 8 years as a mayor. He has also served in several executive positions for the Utah State Municipal League and in appointive posi-tions for the State of Utah. "Pleasant Grove, the Most Beautifully Situated City in Utah County" VOL. LXV, No. 10 PLEASANT GROVE, UTAH 84062, THURSDAY, MARCH 6, 1969 SINGLE COPY 10c 'Lights Out' on Tuesday Caused By Sheared Pole Two juvenile boys in a re-portedly "borrowed" car caus-ed numerous Pleasant Grove area residents to light candles and other emergency lighting equipment Tuesday night at 9 p.m. Electric power was off until about 9:25 p.m. and then again from 10 until 10:10 p.m. According to Maron Oveson, Utah Power and Light Co. rep-resentative, who assisted with the electric line repairs, the two youths sheared off a util-ity pole on Locust Avenue. The pole was not only com-pletely sheared off at the base, but completely shattered at the top, breaking the lines carry-ing 12,000 volts of electricity. He also said that the car traveled a considerable dis-tance after the impact before it overturned. According to re-ports, neither of the boys was seriously hurt. r XV h !' f s 1 , ,; 3 " 1 k - --J ; V READY TO GO Looking over plans for new building ready to go are Uvida President Wayne Winters, Mayor Paid T. Ford-ham, George Davis, contractor, Development Corp. President Bill Garst, David Faux, C of C President and A. B. Gibson, Pleasant Grove Uvida representative. Building is started now and will house new industry for Pleasant Grove In near future. "Ground Breaking Monday At Pi. Grove Industrial Pork After laying dormant for many months, the old Pleasant Grove Canning Co. area "west of the tracks" in this commun-ity came alive again last Mon-day morning. Heavy equipment began leveling the ground for the construction of a new man ufacturing enterprise. The ground breaking Mon-day morning was the first phase of a cooperative effort which will culminate in a local industry which is expected to employ 30 full-tim- e workers. Housing the industry will be a cinder block wall, concrete floor building of 20,000 square feet area. Davis Construction Co., Provo are the contractors, working under a low bid of $107,000, Mayor Paul T. Ford-ham said. He added that no part of the construction cost would be paid by Pleasant Grove City taxpay-ers. The project will be finan-ced by a loan from the federal Small Business Administration, Washington, D.C. When completed at the end of the 120 contract days, the building will be leased to King Window Enterprises with head-quarters at Dunkirk, N.Y. At the Pleasant Grove plant the King Company will do rough work on window and door fram-es, which will then be shipped to a company plant at Canton, Ohio for fimshing. Ponderoso pine from the for-ests of Utah and Idaho will be used as the raw material for the frames, Mayor Fordham explained. According to official reports, the King Company has nego-tiated an eight-yea- r lease on the soon to be available build-ing, with a five-yea-r option for renewal. Local city and Chamber of Commerce officials have coop-erated with the UVIDA organ-ization to attract new business and indutsrial enterprises to Pleasant Grove. Motivating or-ganization for the new enter-prise was the Pleasant Grove City Business Developmtnt Cor-poration, which arranged the financing. The new building will be so located, that existing ware-house facilities which were not torn down, may be utilized. Craig Smith Is Named as C of C Secretary The regular monthly meeting of the Pleasant Grove Cham-ber of Commerce was held on Tuesday morning at 7 a.m. The meeting was conducted by Da-vid Faux, new president. First item of business was naming a new secretary by the new president, and getting the approval of the board. Craig Smith was named to this office. The following committee as-signments were also made by President Faux: Strawberry Parade, O. Lee Swenson, Jack Pace, Ted Jon-es and John Y. Swenson. (Continued on page 6) --v Fire Destroys Coops, Turkeys Wednesday Morning at 5 a.m. At 5:00 a.m. Wednesday mor-ning, the Pleasant Grove Fire Department responded to a call at a turkey ranch, south of Reams Food Store, between here and American Fork. When the firemen arrived the Ameri-can Fork Fire Department was already on the job, battl-ing the flamos. According to Pleasant Grove Fire Chief Fred Keetch, 3 rows of coops, containing 8,000 tur-key poults were completely de stroyed, as well as tractors, trucks, and other farm equip-ment. The coops and adjacent farm land were formerly owned by Keith Jacobs of Pleasant Grove The present owner is the Span-ish Fork Mill and Elevator Co. The fire loss was extensive and had not been fully estima-ted Wednesday morning. Mr. Keetch said that the probable cause of the fire was mal-function of the coop heating equipment. S ' J ; k :' -- . , ) 1 v S - PERFORM Having parts in school play "Life with Father" are Alden Barrett, Dar-ry- n Price, Sharleen Pitts, Alan Ingersoll, Bruce Hullinger, Deborah Fugal, Jon Cliris-teso- n and Julie Turner. Play is under the di-rection of David Larson, drama instructor. "Life With Father" Will Be Staged by PI. Grove High The Drama Department of Pleasant Grove High School is presenting the delightful com-edy "Life with Father" by Rus-sell Crouse and Howard Lind-say. The play will be presented to the public on March 6 and 7 at 7:30 p.m. Price is 75 cents for adults and 25 cents for chil-dren. Directed by David Larsen, in structor and Kathy Jo Chris-teso-as student director, the play has a rather large cast including Julie Turner, Darryn Price, Alden Barrett, Deborah Fugal, Sharleen Pitts, Alan In-gersoll, Brace Hullinger,' Jon Christeson, Judy Shepherd, Becky Mills, Terree Hullinger, Tom Wilson, Ed Darrell, Rolan Johnson, Karela Shoell and Ra- - chelle Card. The play takes place in New York in the 1880's. It is an ad-apted version of Clarence Day's loveable novel about his own childhood in New York. His father, Clarence Sr., and his mother Vinnie were extreme opposites in personality, which fact causes the action to flow along eventfully and humor-ously. Battle Creek Trust the "Long, Black Rob-ers- " to mess tilings up. Last week, by a majority decision, the United States Supreme Court struck another blow law and order and re-spect for constituted authority. By vote of seven to one, the august body ruled that it is all right for public school stu-dents to voice dissent within the school by silent symbolic demonstrations, such as wear-ing armbands. Speaking for the majority, Justice Abe Fortas said that, "school officials may not pro-hibit silent, passive expressions of opinion unaccompanied by disorder or disturbance." The high court decision grew out of an incident in Des Moines Iowa, where a group of high School students wore black arm bands to school protesting the U.S. participation in the Viet-nam War. The school principal said that they couldn't; a Des Moines court said that they couldn't; but the Supreme Court said that they could. While his Supreme Court col-leagues sat motionless, staring at the ceiling. Justice Hugo Black spent 20 minutes lash-ing the court for their "arm-band decision." Said he, "I have always had the idea that the schools were to educate the children and not the children to educate the teachers." Well sir, being a high school principal from away back, with more years of experience than I like to count, I can only say, "Amen" to Justice Black's re-monstrance. Once the armbands are given legal stamp of approval as im-plements of protest, it won't be long before slogans of dissent will be printed on the arm-bands. It's easy to imagine such things as "No More Home-work," "Longer Lunch Hours" and "Dodge the Draft," or even "Legalize Pot." High school kids are very inventive. Most fortunately, student ri-ots of dissent have not reach-ed the high school level as yet. However, given a boost and a clear track ahead by the recent Supreme Court decision, who knows what will happen or when? Also it's only a short step between passive and silent dis-sent and the active, violent variety. Squads of armed pol-icemen or national guardsmen haven't invaded high school campuses yet. We all hope and pray that thev will never have to. If such action ever becomes necessary, the blame must rest, not on the children; but upon those who loosen the reins of reasonable restraint. So long 'til Tlw"-uy- . Fordham Named Advisory Council By Gov. Rampton Mayor Paul T. Fordham of Pleasant Grove has been ap-pointed by Governor Calvin L. Rampton to serve on a state advisory council, designed to advise the governor regarding the role of state government with regard to all state govern-ment activities as they affect local governments. Mayor Fordham, along with a committee composed of local elected officials, has been on page 6) City Court Has About Normal Feb: Calendar Activity in the Pleasant Grove City Court for February was about average according to the report of City Judge Keith Anderson. A total of 27 cases were heard and $550 was collected in fines and forfeit-ures. As has become traditional, the major portion of the time was spent disposing of cases dealing with violations of the motor vehicle traffic code. 21 cases were in this category, distributed as follows: Speeding 6, failure to stop for school bus 3, no drivers license on person 3, driving under the influence of alcohol 2, failure to signal 1, driving too fast for conditions 1, no drivers license 1, no state inspection 1, reck-less driving 1, illegal exhibi-tion of speed 1, with the total traffic being 21. There were 6 non-traff- cas-es, with the breakdown as fol-lows: Battery 2, illegal posses-sion of beer 2, trespassing 1, and petty theft 1. Of all hte cases handled, 7 were dismissed, one change of venue and one juvenile was sent to the Juvenile Court. According to the report of Police Chief Mike Ferre, PI. Grove's policemen were busy during February, making ar-rests, issuing citations and war-nings and responding to calls for assistance and investiga-tion. The tabulation is as fol-lows: Contacts to police from citi-zens 180; citations and warn-ings issued, 40; accidents in-vestigated, 15, totaling $1,950 property; juvenile referred by police to juvenile court, 11; loose animal complaints, 7; burglary reported, investiga-tion continuing, 1; vandalism reported, totaling $450; thefts reported totaling $355. CiS'y Cijm! Meeting EileSd Monday With everyone present ex-cept Councilman Jesse K. Thorne, Mayor Paul T. Ford-ham and members of the PI. Grove City Council met in reg-ular session last Monday night at city hall. It was an impor-tant meeting, especially rela-tive to the future administra-tion of city affairs. As the final item of business, the council discussed at length and reviewed applications for the new city position of "city administrator." After due con-sideration the position was to Paul T. Fordham, effective March 1, 1969 at a salary of $575 per month. Mayor Fordham will not re-sign his position as mayor, but will continue in that office, ac-cording to a report from the ciy offices. Richard Christensen, repre-senting the Burrows-Smit- h Bon-ding Firm, discussed the issue of $140,000 water and sewer bonds, authorized some time ago. The council voted to pro-ceed with the issuing of the bonds. The Council also discussed the use of a part of the bond money for a larger water line in Battle Creek Canyon. The Council authorized May-or Fordham to sign an agree-ment for the installation of a water line from Locust Avenue to the new Grant Loader resi-dence. Councilman Jay Harmer pre-sented a letter to be sent to Garland Clark, granting per-mission for a building permit requested previously. The coun-cil approved. The Mayor was authorized to sign a permit, granting permis-sion to the Pleasant Grove Ir-rigation Co. to pipe the ditch on 300 East and 600 South. Bids were opened for the ren-tal of city-owne- d pasture land adjacent to the old Cannery property. The bid was awarded to Robert Hilton, as highest bidder. Councilman Marvin Green recommended the purchase of several portable traffic barri-cades for emergency use in clo-sing certain city street areas. The request was taken under advisement. Chief of Police Mike Ferre presented a tabulated report of the police department activities for 1968. The repor was accept-ed with thanks and ordered fil-ed. Councilman Harmer advised that several "prefab" homes were being constructed in the city and asked for city policy regarding same. Councilman Marvin Green reported that the homes were of sound construc-tion and well within the city building codes. Council mem-bers voted that no limitation should be placed on such homes at this time. Councilman Harmer present-ed plans for the construction of four new baseball diamonds on the property between the Veterans Swimming Pool and the high school football field. Cost was estimated at $7,000 with the city's share being $2,000. The balance of the cost would be assumed by Alpine District and the city recreation department. The council agreed to make funds available for the project in the 1969-7- 0 bud-get. |