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Show , 1 . ' . - PROVO(UTAH)'AIL - HERALD," " MONDAY DECEMBER 1; -1941 City Utility ' 9 L A 9 SV uepanm eiit App 4 A f ? omts Elew Distribution Superintendent Appointment of Sharp C. Gillespie Gilles-pie of Edgemont ward as distribu tion superintendent of the "Provo city electric utility was announced today hy J. " Hamilton " Calder, chairman of the board of Utilities, The appointment became effective today. .- r Mr. Gillespie has been an em ploye of the Utah Power and Light company 22 years. He has been district foreman the past " seven years and prior to that time was transmission foreman for four or five years. - : He is the third distribution sys tem chief the city' utility has had since its inception. The Initial superintendent, G. E. Gabby: of Iowa, left to accept a position in the midwest and was succeeded by Orson F. Downard who served un j til last spring. Since then Don . Giles has been temporarily in charge. - : Mr. Gillespie will be responsible for taking the electric power -from the switchboard to the consumer, being in charge of the lines, the service department and the testing-. Sixteen men will be work ing under his supervision.' "We consider this a very important import-ant position, especially in View of the ract that we are on the verge or a large expansion program,1 said Mr. Calder. . - When the Utah Power and Light company served Provo City, Mr. Gillespie was in charge of the aistmutlon system here, and help ed bunt it. He is therefore familiar famil-iar with the system and its oper ations.vMrV Calder pointed, out. A number of important distri bution system improvements are in tne ofllng, and the eventual program will bo to service the homes from the block interior. This will be more convenient and will take many poles off the street, Mr. calder stated. ' SEEKS DIVORCE . Ruth Woodhouse Joreensen fil ed suit in district court Saturday ior a divorce from Harry M. Jor gensen whom she married at Pro vo January 1. 1937. They have itwo children. She charges cruelty- am DoYou emember lWlea-? By, VVYMAN BERG Oratory, as an art devoted to wide flung gestures and a thunderous vocal delivery, finally disappeared somewhere around vthe 1920's Up to that time the memory and examples ex-amples of Clay, Webster, Douglas, Doug-las, .Bryan and other spell-binders nad a strong influence on how anypublie man addressed a crowd. Of course. we - still have Wyman Berg after dinner speakers and probably will have as long as we; have dinners but a voice that carries' as half a mile or more is no longer - considered the most vital part Of a speaker's qualifications. qualifica-tions. For nowadays newspaper and telegraphic service make it easier for people to . read about a speech than to hear it and radio waves can carry the smallest voice or the greatest message around the world in a few seconds. How often do people say, "I remember ". And most often, the things they remember are the happy or pleasant moments or acts from the past. Let us help you protect your memories with service devoted to beauty, reverence rever-ence and dignity. For any questions ques-tions which you may now have about arrangements, prices or facilities one of our attendants is always available. Visit us today. to-day. Berg Mortuary. Phone 378. (adv.) wart s s J - r A .. K SHARP C. GILLESPIE Leadership Veel Slated Jan. 26-30 The week of January 26 to SO, 1942 has been chosen as the time of the annual leadership week at Brtgham Young university ac cording to an t announcement by me president's oxrice. j Next Januarys event will be the 21st in the series of yearly institutes devoted to training of adult leaders of church and com munity groups of the inter- mountain areas. First of ithe Leadership Week programs was held in 1922 during the first year of the administration of President Presi-dent Harris at B. Y. U., and sub sequent ones have Increased In the scope of courses offered and the number of persons attending. Committee workers to direct the week's program will be : announced an-nounced later, Dr. Harris said!. A total of 2948 persons : at tended the 1940 Leadership week, and set up a new record of 105 stakes and seven missions of the L. D. S. church. These delegates came from 13 states, Canada, and Mexico. FARH BUREAU PARLEY ENDS fT- SALT LAKE CITY. Dec. 1 (UB "--Utah farmers today T were returning re-turning home after pledging their unqualified support of the nation at defense program and adopting a resolution condemning strikes in vital 'defense industries : at the twenty-fifth annual convention X1 the Utah State Farm Bureau Fed eration; " : - y ; - v; Speakers at the concluding ses sion emphasized ; the necessity of defeating Hitler. 'and air that he stands for" and urged the agri culturists to spread Americanism as a means to that end. fffeGehlReoliHol inlchina f;. S it- LABOR SURVEY IS UNDiWAY The Utah department of employ ment security started a survey of Utah Labor -.conditions today .by sending 120,000 questionnaires to Utah workers. The survey is in tended to aid in obtaining 25,000 men and women to work in de fense projects without dislocating present industrial setups. - Director Ray R. Adams of the department said that one of the main sources of labor supply for the projects will be Utah workers defense areas but whom he hope win return, une survey was en-i dorsed by the heads of the state FAL, CIO and Railway Brotherhood?, Brother-hood?, who urged their members to cooperate. fl T : 1 . m ... L I f tZ1-, Increases Voted School Teachers Simpson To Speak At American Fork i AMERICAN FORK Herbert Simpson, executive secretary of the Utah State Traffic Safety department, de-partment, will be the speaker to night at the adult Aaronic priest hood meeting in the First ward chapel, commencing at 7:30 o'clock. Judge Abe W. Turner of Provo will address the class next Monday Mon-day night, Dec. -8 on the subject of "Americanism." Teachers of the Provo City school district will have some much-needed '.'extra" Christmas spending money this ; year, for a $40 increase in salary for the year has been voted each teacher by the board of education. The board allowed more money in its teacher budget than the teachers' contracts called for, and hence decided to appropriate the forty bucks each to the teachers in view of the increased costs of living, Dr. J. C. Moffitt, superintendent super-intendent of schools, said. A similar Increase has been voted by the Nebo school board to the teachers in that district. In the Honan campaign on the China front, a Japanese flame thrower employs scorching heat to drive defenders from an enemy position. This was done, a Japanese censor explains, "to entice the reluctant enemy to come out of their nest hands up." FAR EAST (Continued from Page One) Metal Prices NEW YORK, Dec. 1 ftLE Today's To-day's custom smelters prices for delivered metals (cents per lb ) : Copper: Electrolytic 12; export f.a.s. N. Y. 11.25; casting f.o.b. refinery re-finery 12; lake", delivered 11.25. Tin: Spot straits 52n. Lead: New York 5.85; East St. Louis 5.70. Zinc: New York 8.64; East St. Louis 8.25. DRILL, SET TONIGHT PLEASANT GROVE The ringing ring-ing of the fire siren each Monday Mon-day at 8 p. m. will summon volunteers vol-unteers in the firemen's division of the civilian defense to meeting in the civic building. Fire Chief Josiah Kemp, i instructor, in-structor, states that cooperation of the citizens in refraining from calling the station when the siren is rung will be appreciated. BRITAIN (Continued from Page One) and local defense units for instant in-stant action in the Singapore and Malay areas. Dispatch of reinforcements to Burma, facing any Japanese threat to Thailand and adjacent to Jananese-occupied Indo-China. , Arrival at Olongapo naval base, west of Manila, of 360 U. S. Marines evacuated from Shanghai is "now a war station 'following an emergency war cabinet meeting meet-ing at Canberra, where Premier John Curtin said that 'everything possible" had been done to guard against aggression and that war or peace was up to Japan. British dispatches reported that troops at Hongkong had taken up war positions. British and Dutch ships were ordered away:' from the Shangai zone to avoid the possibility of seizure by Japan. American airmen, who resigned from the United States army and navy, where reported ready for action in a volunteer corps to guard the Burma - road supply route, against which Japan has renewed bombing attacks. Buttons on sleeves of midshipmen's midship-men's dress jacket are said to date to Lord Nelson who wanted to discourage sailors wiping noses on sleeves. back from Rostov and holding before Moscow. In Libya, the British Reported that 'half the Italian "battering ram" divisions' tanks had been destroyed in the trap which still was "holding back all efforts of the Axis mechanized forces to break through-to their main lines west of Tobruk. Bitter Fighting-Bitter Fighting-Bitter fighting was reported in progress on the Tobruk-Ed Duda-Sidi Duda-Sidi Rezegh front, where the main forces have been engaged. The Germans admittedly broke into tne British positions in the Sidi Rezegh sector on Sunday and Ed Duda changed hands several sev-eral times. The outcome in this sector still was in the balance, but it was now apparent that the Axis had strong tank forces . to the west of Tobruk in addition to those caught in the British trap. The Germans and Italians also still were holding strong points i thjp Egyptian frontier far behind the main battle front but the British had sent two columns about 250 miles across the desert des-ert and one of them was operating on the coast of the Gulf of Sidra, seeking to break up the enemy's " rear lines. On the eastern front, the Red army counteroffensive in the Ukraine was reported pushing the Germans back toward Mariupol after having driven. them out of Rostov and recaptured a score of villages. Neither Berlin nor Mos cow gave exact positions in this sector, but the Germans acknow ledged that "superior" Russian forces had made it necessary for mem to withdraw from. Rostov, the gateway to the Caucasus oil area. The possibility France would lend military aid to the Axis in the Mediterranean area, was re newed when Marshal Henri Philippe Petain went to occupied territory to confer with Reich- Marshal Herman Goering. It was believed he might also have seen Hitler. me uermans want to use French African bases and hope cnac me frencn fleet can be employed em-ployed indirectly for convoy service ser-vice to Africa, in return for econ omic and political concessions to Vichy. P'e CARTONS OF CAMELS ) TX SMOKERS ON MV ' THE ,ELS ARE ALWAYS . j CAMEL GIFT . . l this cHRisrms J v ( GAY WD. I vt. -'f . 1 1 colorful! ijl ' 7 at your : r ' , ' VW"' j'iJ2 r-3-- 1 . .. . v a i C25Kr AT YOUR DCALETSNOW TbeCamlcarton of M iwckaKM of Wt lo the nor el Camel "hoo" containing 4 flat fifties. Both handaomely wrappedready wrap-pedready to rtre. Eitherway jron ghrm 30$ Camel America Ameri-ca farorita dgs rettaw Utt I I hi L JTU UUUUUL3 , . , - v... ... ,.,-:.,;:!. , it : THE SMOKE OF SLOWER-BURNING CAMELS CONTAINS LESS NICOTINE than the average of the 4 other largest -selling cigarettes tested less than any of them according ' ' to independent scientific tests of the smoke itself! -THE CIGARETTE OF COSTLIER TOBACCOS CLUB SEEKS MEMBERS Memberships are now available in the Spanish Fork flying club, according to Albert T. Clark, secretary. sec-retary. Five persons interested in aviation avia-tion will be taken into the club, which has a new airplane and operates on a share-the-expense basis. Persons interested are invited to contact Clark at Spanish Fork. I TOO LATE FOR I CLASSIFICATION ! FOR SALE MISCELLANEOUS CHILDREN'S Furniture. 369 North 7th West. d7 TWO wood frame spike tooth harrows, priced for immediate clearance. Mr. Nelson. Sears,'' Roebuck. d3 GIRLS brown snow suit size 16, half price, in good condition. 281 North ISt West. Phone 933. d2 FOR RENT FURNISHED OR unfurnished 4 room modern house. 142 North 9 West. d7 FOR RENT UNFURNISHED SMALL modern home. ' Riverside Drive. Phone 09J1 or R. F.'D: 1; Box 359. - d3 FOB SALE CARS TRUCKS 1930 MODEL A Ford coupe, good condition, heater. 357 South 6th East. d3 Flight Student's Death Is Probed ST. GEORGE, Utah, Dec. 1 U.B State and federal authorities today to-day completed an investigation of Saturday's crash of a training plane near the St. George airport air-port that killed Gerald Shumwav. 20, Blanding, CAA student pilot. snumway took off on a solo flight and apparently froze the controls. The plane crashed into a gully. Shumway died several hours later. He was the first CAA student stu-dent pilot in Utah to be killed while training. Birthdavs Tuesday, Dec. 2 E, , LA VON MENLOVE MRS. WILLIAM J. SNOW EARL J. GLADE DR. J. E. HARRISON PRESTON G. PETERSON A. R. S HELTON LAWRENCE GRAHAM (Continued from Page One) first and second assistants, re- rectors, Lucy Blueth, specuveiy. PAGE' THREE Here City Court Sid Anderson forfeited $10 bail bond and Mark J. Scott $5 in Provo city court Monday on speeding speed-ing charges. Bryant Jolley forfeited for-feited $5 for failing to file an accident report, and William E. Ingram forfeited $2.50 on a charge of running a red light. -COURT OF HONOR The Utah stake Boy ScouL district dis-trict will hold a court of honor Sunday night at the Third ward chapel, announces Orvil A. Watts, chairman of advancement. A feature of the evening will be awarding of three eagle badges to Gail Lewis, Glen R. Brown and Mack Swain, all of troop 43, Third ward. Elmo Cofrran, . assistant, pro fessor of geography at the B..T. U. . was. sustained 4 member i of the stake high council to succeed Mr, Woolf. ;,;;,";. pr. A. . Smith , Pond, assistant pofgssor .of economics, was sustained sus-tained as president of .the. Young Men's Mutual Improvement association asso-ciation of , the stake, succeeding Bishop Bailif . Mr, Pond was for- merly first' counselor. Dr. Loren C Bryner, assistant professor of chemistry at the B. ..Y. U. was sustained as his first, and Claude Snow, Provo high teacher as sec ond counselor. . Releases were ; also granted to the following members of stake boards ' who - resigned, some . of them to accept new assignments In other fields: Thomas C. Peteis son, Wayne Mclntire, Helen Hot- brook, and Myrtle Tolboe, from the Sunday school board; . Edna B. Culmsee, Olive Winterton, Flora McKell, and Phyllis Van Wagenen,' from the Young Women's Mutual improvement" association. Clyde P, Crockett, Sam Sorenson, Ivan R, Young, Lynn Norris, and George A. Brown, from the Young Men's Mutual Improvement association; Fern Morgan, Edna Crockett, Fulvia Dixon and Lenore Kay, from the Primary board J. J. Sutherland, W.V. Oldroyd, C. Lynn, Hayward and Cecil Bargeron, stake home missionaries; Anna P. Redd, Bernice Pond, and Elizabeth Eliza-beth Sardoni, Relief society. Members at the conference from the Seventh, Eighth and Ninth wards were asked to stand, in turn, as the name of their bishop was presented to tnera to be sus tained. The vote was unanimous in each case. Principal speaker at .the , two Sunday sessions and the priest hood meeting Saturday night was Elder Joseph F. Merrill of the Council of the Twelve, whose re marks at each of the sessions were closely followed by those present.. President C. E. Rowan, Jr. con ducted the conference . sessions and presented theNiames of the new bishops to the congregation. He also made a report of condi tions in the stake. His counselors, President Andrew Jensen and President Reuben D. Law, ad dressed the afternoon session. Other speakers'were Bishop Lloyd, Bishop Robertson, Superin tendent Woolf, Dr. Pond, Mr.! Nicholes and two returned mis sionaries: Bessie Johnson from the First ward who labored In North Carolina and Don' W. ; Conover i from the Hawaiian mission. Bishop Bailif was excused, having been called to Logan, due to the critical criti-cal illness of his father. Elder Merrill, discussing the appointment of Dr. Lloyd to be the bishop said the First Presidency Presi-dency and Council of the Twelve, in passing on the recommendation recommenda-tion by the stake officials, felt- to acquiesce, and release him from the general board position, because be-cause they considered that his designation as bishop "would be a help to Brother Lloyd and therefore a help to the university." univer-sity." Touching on the steel plant expansion ex-pansion announcement. Elder Merrill Mer-rill warned that a "boom" of the proportions expected here would bring many problems from 'the standpoint of the church, but he felt that they could be solved because be-cause "any problem can be solved if the Lord is on the side of the solver." Outstanding music was furn ished at the two sessions by the mixed chorus from the B. Y. U. Dr. Franklin Madsen and Dr. Florence JeDDerson Madsen, di- accom- panisL . , The selections at the morning meeting wers: "High on the fountain Top; . choir and congregation antbemj "With One United Voice Let Ujsi Aloud Rejoice,", Re-joice,", Evan Stephens; soloists:' Nathele King, Nan Chjipman, Mar-Jorie Mar-Jorie Robbins, Dorthea Rasmus-seiv. Rasmus-seiv. Guy iVan Alstyne, George Cannon, Ross Newell, David Hill: anthem, "How Beautiful . Upon the; Mountain,' ,.Stalner; anthem. "urant usifeace," isvan Steph ens; soloists: Alene Peterson, lone Christensen, Guy Vkn Alstyne, koss 14 e well, Noia ) Woodland, man unipman, Florence Rogers, ana Benuce Dastrup.! ! ' Afternoon session,; "Praise to the Man," B. Y. U.; chorus and congregation; anuiera, .Like as the Heart Desireth ' the Water Brooks," Novello, the chorus Peace I Leave With You," Rob erts, B. Y. U. women's chorus anthem, "A Voice in the Wilderness," Wilder-ness," Scott, soloist, Alene Peter son. Bishop Robertson, an insurance man, was born in Springville and has been priminent in community ana cnurcn activities. He was bishop of tre Spring ville Fourth ward eight years and later served in the Kolob stake presidency. He served his first L. D. S. mission in Japan from 1921 to 192, being mission presi dent during the latter part of the term. He served as a Utah, county commissioner four years, after which he went to -Ithe Hawaiian islands to re-open the L. D. S Japanese mission. He returned to Provo in 1940. Bishop Bailif, assistant profes sor or sociology at B. Y. U., was born in Logan in 1902? He has always been prominent in church. activities, especially in the M, I A. and as a seminary teacher. He was graduated from the Kicks Junior college at Rexburg in 1923 and received his degree from Brigham Young university in 1925. He taught school a year at Rexburg Rex-burg before going to New Zealand where he was president of the Maori agricultural college, a church school, for four years. Re turning in-iy 30, he taught semi nary at Midway, Ida., six years. After that he studied at University Univer-sity of Southern California for two years and Joined the B. Y. U. faculty three years ago. tie was president of the Adams ward Y. M. M. L A. at Los Angeles An-geles and is now superintendent of the Provo stake Y, M. M. L A. He has also held .many other- po sitions in tne cnurch. Bishop Lloyd, dean of men and professor of philosophy of educa tion at B. Y. U., was born in Ogden. in 1904. He received his bachelor's degree and his master's degree in sociology at B. Y. U. and his Ph. D. degree at University Univers-ity of Chicago in 1937. Always prominent in church activities, ac-tivities, he is now a member of the Y. M. M. L A. general board and in the past has been a stake Y. M. M. I. . A. superintendent, ward superintendent in two wards, and a member of the Utah stake Sunday school superin tendency. tend-ency. At B. Y. U. he is chairman of the department "of : church organization or-ganization and administration. 4 . : Christinas Sales Set ilew Deconfs . BY UNITED : PRESS , et f Christmas shoppers reflecting ; ! the "temper ; of the - times" at crowded gift counters across the i nation are boosting holiday sales ; to the highest level in history. , , . Merchants from coast to coast reported in a United Press survey sur-vey that sales volume averaged 20 per cent above the peak for 1929 and 35 per cent higher than last year. The comparison with 1929 did not show all the increase because retail prices still lag 12.5 per cent . behind the 1929 level. -. - , A record industrial payroll and booming farm prices, reflecting heavy defense spending were regarded re-garded as major causes. for the -buying spree. Fears expressed by some purchasers . over shrinking supplies of consumers' goods also appeared to be an important factor. ; New York, merchants suggested "the temper of the times" as another an-other factor reflecting a belief" that 1941 may offer the 'last chance Christmas" for many years. " Some cities reported fears of shortages coupled with new fed-r era! taxes on luxury goods had -shifted the emphasis from luxury items to refrigerators, radios, metal equipment and househpld goods expected to feel the priority pinch. . ; The survey indicated, however. Jewelry, furs and other luxury commodity sales were holding near the 1940 level despite new taxes. ' Merchants reported fears of . shortages had touched off Christ mas shopping earlier .this year. Washington with its population up 200,000 from last year ex-, pected Christmas sales to total $60,000,000, an Increase of 30 ner cent over 1940. The No. 1 boom. town of the west coast was -San ' Diego. Calif., where merchants reported that shopping beran earlier and more money was being spent on better quality goods. salt Lake City reported Christ mas buying up 21 per cent for ' Utah. Anns,, To mm s COLD MISERY ZONE GIvt Ytar Hmi Csld tfca yjj Air tht Famous 2-Drop Way I Here's the all-out attack , on t M . - t m a snuiiy scuiiy miseries 01 neaa 4 colds. And it's scorine victorv after victory over blockades in cold clogged noses, too." Just follow directions, put. 2 drops in each nostril of Pene- -tro Nose Drops . . . one two and it's gone . . . gone right ' straight to nasal membranes t. that simply must have aid for . comfort. 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