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Show Less Than 1956, But Still A Gruesome Story PROVO. UTAH COUNTY, UTAH v Utah County '57 Traffic Toll Brings Death to 78 Persons THURSDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1957 City Studies Nine Improvement Bids Rich Experience Touring Iranians Bring Problems to Provo Agriculturist 12 a 11 Provo City has taken under consideration nine bids for construction of sewer and water lines in Special Improvement District No. 64. ft Lowest bid of $6,809 was submitted by Floyd Cook Jr., Orem, and highest, $11,373 by Enoch Smith & Sons. national pastime of the Iranians is walking. They would think nothUnderstanding what 12 Iranians ing of walking five miles at a time. are saying when you have only two While Mr. Boswell would take a foreign interpreters, and at the taxi to the airport upon departsame time directing a tour of the from a cty, the students might United States, is quite a bit for ing walk to the airport a distance of one man to handle. This was the three or four miles. 1 A O J u T v. uit recenta jto Iranian people have dark former Utah County agent whrf black curly hair and somewas leader of a group of extension eyes, what dark skin. This is in direct workers from Iran on a tour of the contrast to Mr. Boswell who is U. S. which lasted five months. blond and has a light complexion. There was only one member of He said that his friends from Iran the group who could understand termed him "the Iranian Blond." English. For this reason a system As of the tour, the group had to be devised whereby the visitedparta farm in students and those with whom they Missouri andpenitentiary were surprised to see came in contact could communi- the working in the fields cate ideas. Instructors, who were with prisoners little supervision from the college teachers or extension work- guards. One of the members asked ers would speak to an interpreter, a guard how the men were conwho would then speak through ear- trolled and how they were kept phones to all 12 students. After from escaping. They were told members had had a period to that a roll was kept of the men "digest what they had heard," they and that it was called four times would then tell the interpreter what a day to make sure that all they had learned. He would relay prisoners were accounted for. this back to the leader, Mr. Sense of Humor who relayed it on to a stenographer to make up the report. This Later that evening while travelwas the way progress of the stuing home on the bus, Mr. Boswell dents was judged. heard laughing and clapping of hands by the visitors. With the List New Skills The students, from the Ministry help of the interpreters, he learned of Agriculture of the Government that the joke being enjoyed by of Iran came to the U. S. for the men was upon him. It seemed the purpose of receiving training that the men were laughing at the so that they .could return home fact that the prisoners who they and teach their people "to help had just visited were only checked themselves." Some of the things upon four times a day, while they students reported that they had themselves were sometimes checklearned from instructors were: ed upon by their leader as many How to raise crops in rows, how as 20 times a day when the roll to save sugar beet pulp, the rais was called everytime passengers ing of many new varieties of left the bus. The students went to their first fruts and vegetables, better livemovie in this country and stock production and the fact open-ai- r also how to play baseball learned hard. work that Americans very a at They also enjoyed outing. the people In the country, resorts. at swimming are used to working from about Several of the students made 8:30 to 11:30 and then taking over here with whom they friends siestas until about 2 p.m. made plans to correspond upon Mr. Boswell said that the students with whom he associated returning home and some of them expressed a desire, io return from Iran- - werej"masters of cour- have to U. S. to attend school. the tesy." He spent 123 days in hotels with them and he said that their hospitality is very strong. When he AUSSIES BATTLE BLAZES would go to their rooms, the person would present him with a gift SYDNEY, Australia (UP) Hunof some kind, such as an apple, dreds of residents in remote rural orange or dish of nuts before talk- areas of New South Wales spent ing business. This was an Iranian Christmas Day fighting bushfires custom which was always followed which have burned out more than and the men were always prepared two million acres of pastureland. for visitors. For this courtesy they Firefighting crews burned fireexpected the same in return from breaks 40 miles long in attempts their hosts and it became a usual to save the threatened towns of Roto, Mathanga and Euabalong procedure. Great Walkers during a heat wave with temper- to Mr. Boswell, the atures as high as 113 degrees. According By JOAN GEYER Christmas was painful this ear for 18 families from which a member was violently ushered into death oh the highways during 1957. The 18 dead, as statistics go, are less than the 25 lulled last year in Utah County; the 22 in 1955; or the 29 in 1954. Most of the deaths occurred through an act of carelessness, recklessness or outright violation on the part of someone. By SHARON KAYE HARRIS L 1- TJe-iirc-JI M "-"- M Bos-wel- l, 4-- H County Tops Year7s Quota In Bond Sales Sterling E. Price, Utah County savings bonds chairman, has received word that local residents purchased $97,594 in series E and H savings bonds during November, bringing the county to 100 per cent of its 1957 sales goal. County Chairman Price announced that during November, Sanpete and Utah Counties became the fourth and fifth counties to exceed their 1957 sales (Others are Wasatch, goals. Kane and Uintah). State-wid- e purchases for November were $1,618,002, up from last year for the second consecutive month, according to Mr. Frederick P. Champ, State Savings Bonds Chairman. "Official sales figures indicate that bond purchases in October and November exceeded purchases during the same two months of 1956. This could well indicate that Utahns are ready and willing to express their faith in America in taese precarious times by becoming shareholders in our great nation by saving Statessaid.savings Champ with United bonds," Mr. One of several recent statements recommending increased bond purchases as a way to help finance our missile and satellite program and avoid inflationary oorrowing, came from members of the Utah Cattlemen's Association at their recent convention in Salt Lake City, Mr. Champ noted. resolution, unanimously adopted, stated that "with the advent of 'Sputnik and the de termination of the American people to move forward with our missile program with utmost speed," it was recommended tuat "we show our fellow Amer icans and those who would men- - The Steel Union Heads Called To Conference SCENE FROM 'BLITHE SPIRIT Carol Lynn Wright, left, as Ruth Condomine, and Charles Whitman, right, as her husband, Charles, stare unbelieving as Sally Thome, center, the medium, Madam Arcati, prepares for a seance in "The Blithe Spirit," the BYU Arena Theatre production which opens tonight. J '. j - r 1i 1 - y i4 , , t 2 ' t '' i In April, a Springville boy, five, scampered across U. S. 91 at the underpass. Only he did not quite get across. His broken body was carried Presidents of local unions in along on the bumper of a motor plants organized under the basic vehicle. steel division of the United It was still spring, when a Salt of America, CIO-AFLake woman, 62, died after anto confera have been called back ence in Washington, D. C, with other car made a left turn in David J. McDonald, international front of the car in which she was a man, 35, president of the union, according riding, and when young car in of lost control his Spanish to W. A. Biggs, president of GeFork Canyon. 2701. The conference neva Local Dies on May Day has been called for Jan. 6. On merry May Day, an aged Mr. Biggs said he believed the a in conference is for a discussion of Springville man, hit bynevercarsaw last Payson January, general problems in the industry, midnight. including those raised by current On May 20, a New York woman, layoffs in the steel industry. Wage 60, drove almost across the connegotiations under the rrational tinent to keep a date she did not United Steelworkers contract are know she had with death. A Calinot to be opened until 1959. fornia car was on the wrong side Included in the call from this of the U. S. 91 in Payson. area will be the presidents of the In June, a Salt Laker, 21, died locals at Geneva, Ironton and below Soldier Summit as brakes Consolidated Western, and the gave way on his loaded coal presidents of the clerical unions in- truck. It careened over an emvolved. Also invited will be the bankment taking out 10 guard presidents of the local at the iron rails. ore mining facilities near Cedar On July 17, a toddler, 19 City. months, was playing in the family Steel-worke- Noel Coward's hit play, "Blithe Curtain will be at 8:15 p. m. run Dec. 26, 27, and 28, and Dec. 30 Spirit," will open a this evening in Brigham Young and 31 of next week. A special New Year's Eve party University's ArenaTheatre in the lower campus Education Building. consisting of supper, theatre and dancing is being planned for Arena Theatre goers Dec. 31, the final night of the presentation, "The Blithe Spirit," according to Dr. Lael Woodbury, assistant professor of speech at Brigham Young University. The play is a comedy farce about Charles Condomine who invites a medium to his home to The Industrial Commission of teach him the mysteries of the the State of Utah has filed suit in occult. The medium brings back Fourth District Court against Charles' first wife, much to his John W. Pulley & Sons, Inc., second wife's chagrin, his first charging the defendant failed to wife's delight, and Charles' diss tress. keep employes covered by In order to facilitate the ghostly compensation Insurance, despite warning to do so; and ask- movements of Elvira, who is vising injunction from continuing in ible only to Charles, a false wall will be used and a different seat business until they do so. ing arrangement is planned, according to Harold I. Hansen, chairman ace us that we ourselves 'back of Dr. the department of speech and the attack' through the purchase dramatic arts, will direct "The of U. S. Savings Bonds to the end Blithe Spirit." All new costumes have been that we may, in whatever degree we can, express our individual prepared for this presentation unbelief that America can and will, der the direction of Dorothy Whit tr rough united effort, meet and taker. The stage design is by overcome this potential threat to Charles Henson, the sound under the direction of Legrant DeBry. our security." ht Commission Files Suit Against Utah County Firm rs driveway. THAIS TO ELECT MINISTER few minutes later her dead was discovered. body BANGKOK (UP) The newly A Provoan, following her death, elected National Assembly met to- was charged with driving during day in preparation for electing Lt. revocation (his license had preGen. Thanom Kittikachorn, the viously been suspended for drunkminister of defense, as Thailand's en driving.) Charges were disnext prime minister. missed for lack of evidence. The ruling National Socialist One-CFatality Party met Wednesday and seOn Sept. 29, a Payson man, 22, lected Thanom to lead the new died on U. S. 6 near Goshen, government. His name was put when his car ran off the road and forward by Field Marshal Sarit rolled. Thanarta who led a recent coup The one-cout of control fad'etat that topped premier Pibul tality is rising nationally, often Songgram. with young people at the wheel; due to fatigue from a long drive, Fruit handling and fishing are or a split second of inattention. the major industries of Port ClinIn October, schools were in sesOhio. ton, sion with bright leaves turning. work-man- i A ar Dr.-Woodbur- ar I FIRST SECURITY the Bank for E v e r b o d y I IPEIN1 V" rainstorm. L, 'Blithe Spirit' Opens This Evening in Arena Theatre five-nig- The year's worst accident, which orphaned several small children occurred July 27 when a speeding car hit a utilities pole in Payson and three people were killed. Death Begins Death began his traffic shift Jan. 25, when a car backed into foggy U. S. 91 in Orem, involving nine cars in a grinding crash, and killing a high school boy, 14. On Jan. 31, a boy, eight, joyously racing down hill on a sled, crashed into a car on the highway below. Death took a month off in February, to pounce in March upon an American Fork man, 61, as he tried to cross busy intersection U. S. 91 and No. 68 in a heavy x $p "lt" 1 . J x 3 firm's -- 4, with money you received thio Christmas v ?-- : , . u. ; - i--h r- - 1 A -- The most practical time to open a savings account is when you have extra money, like now. J , - - - ' - 1 z 1 w vm w ww v-i $ DANK INTEREST viiR " , . tu,t - 4sr UffS--- Open your account tomorrowl We'll help you make It grow adding good bank interest. t " tiJZh) rlkri , -- I gm.mf " . , i im y m of Utah, N.A. M Security Bank f lho, N.A. First Security Bonk Insurance Mwwbfi Ftovral Deposit WORLD'S SECOND TALLEST STRUCTURE - Out-stretchi- ng the Eiffel Tower, which it strongly resembles, the new Tokyo TV Tower, shown in an artist's sketch, will be the second tailest structure in the world when it is completed in December, 1958. It wil Irise 1,082 feet in the air. (UP Telephoto). Rrst Sary Bank pf RockSprinff Corporation BANK FROM PROVO HOURS: YOUR CAR SERVICE University at 1st North 2 Drive - In Windows University at 1st North Mon. Tues. Wed. Thurs 9:30 a.m . to 3 p.m. FRIDAYS 9:30 am. to 8 p.m. CLOSED SATURDAYS I V?3 Y$ One boy, 12, did not return on Monday to Spanish Fork school. He was killed when he turned his bike in front of a car on U. S. 91 on the Salem hill. Death added to his traffic harvest on Oct. 17, when a man, 29, veered onto the wrong side of the highway west of Col ton. December On Grove 10, great-grandfath- er a Pleasant drove into a crash, in which onto the Orem Dugway rending head-o- n he lost his life. Faces Trial Driver of the other car became first Utah County driver to be charged with negligent traffic homicide under new Utah law. An expert witness, a professor of chemistry, testified at the preliminary hearing that, in his opin ion, tests of the driver's blood indicated enough alcohol to cause intoxication. The driver is now awaiting trial in district court. On Dec. 16 just nine days be fore Christmas, a Salt Laker, 68, went to get a Christmas tree for his family. The fragrant green boughs were still dangling from the wreckage, when officers pulled his dead body out of wreckage following collision with a truck. It was not a bad year for fa talities as statistics go. But for the 18 families, it wa a very bad year indeed. iL To-- ! Consolidate YOUR DEBTS Have Just 1 place to pay see the Money Man with Friendly Finance Plan Quick Convenient Confidential rtiendlufutanC JJ plan i. |