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Show Centennial Money Requests Double Amount Available For Allocation In ProVo How : to - stretch $2400 into nearly $5000 Will be the problem confronting Provo's Centennial committee when It meets - this week to aflot the remaining city Centennial funds after the Fourth of July celebration is given Its allotment. . ? - ;;The committee gave the July 4 celebration $7500 last week from an estimated $9900 which Provo should receive as its share of county Centennial noney. This leaves about $2400 for other city activities, and Secretary Clayton Moral Instability Threatens Britain, U. S.f Says Brown A lack of moral stability caused the downfall of Germany, and is threatening Britain and the United States today, declared Hugh B. Brown, former president of the British LDS mission, before Provo Rotarlans Friday. Mr. Brown related experiences In Europe In 1939, when the German Ger-man nation was absorbing one nation after another. Weakness emanciation and immorality con tribuled to their downfall, he said, but pointed out that the idea of a super-race that banished God and the rights of other people peo-ple eventually caused Germany's downfall. Britain, he declared, has not abandoned God and adopted a super-race doctrine as Germany did, but lack of moral stability in other ways is contributing to her disintegration. "The colonies are falling away," the speaker said "and some of the leading men in England admit it ' and explain the cause as being a lack of mnral stahilitv " "There is every evidence," he continued, "that some of the causes of disintegration are also prevelent in America today. We must never become so mechanically mechan-ically and materially minded that we lose sight of the higher values Including a belief in God. he concluded. con-cluded. Visitors were Ray Tanner, Provo, Pro-vo, and Herbert Dawson and Allan Grant, Salt Lake. I. E. Brockbank was chairman of the meeting and the speaker was introduced by Maurice Harding. Hard-ing. Utah County MIA Dance Directors To Meet Thursday W. O. Robinson, field secretary of the Mutual Improvement association as-sociation general board, will spend Thursday night in Provd working with all MIA dance directors di-rectors of the various stakes in Utah county, announces Dr. Charles J. Hart of the general board. "Purpose of Professor Robinson's Robin-son's visit is to discuss with the dance directors of Utah county the dance program in connection with the great MIA Centennial dance festival to be held in Salt Lake City this summer,' Dr. Hart said. All Utah county stake MIA presidents were urged by Dr. Hart to have their stake and ward dance directors present. The group will assemble in the Smith building at BYU at 7:30 p.m. Wins Scholarship William Sorenson, student of the University of Oregon dental school at Portland, Ore. has received re-ceived a scholarship covering tuition and fees. He was one of six successful candidates out of 250 students. He is a senior and expects to graduate in July. He is president of Delta -Phi Omega, honorary dental fraternity and vice president of the Xi Psi Phi chapter His wife is the former Lenora Simmons of Spanish Fork anH i,lcvcI- r,uvu icpuneu in president of the dental auxiliary, made up of the students' wives She is also supervisor of the nursery nurs-ery at the First Christian church in Portland. Burbank produced the Shasta daisy by crossing daisies from America, England, and Japan. Takes No Lip Superior Judge George A. Dock-weiler, Dock-weiler, of Los Angeles, is pictured pic-tured in his study, where he indicated in-dicated that he would take no lip from Leo ("Lippy") Durocher over his handling of the Brooklyn Brook-lyn Dodgers manager's marital mix-up with actress Laraine Day. Judge admitted he would study Duroclicr's recent squawk for possible contempt of court action, but said it was "probably beneath notice." fjr 4 v i Jenkins has received detailed re- quests totaling $4885, with sev-j eral other sources wanting money but as yet specifying no amount.! Some paring of the requests Is apparently inevitable, and the city Centennial committee plans to meet this week for that purpose. pur-pose. Among the requests is one for $1000 from Brigbam Young university to stage a mammoth invitational track and relays meet this spring, - plus $70 to bay special badges for the Timpano os hike. 'Five hundred dollars is re quested for an industrial exhibit, planned to display the products and processes of Utah county industries, in-dustries, including the Geneva Steel company, Pacific States Cast Iron Pipe company. Repub lic Creosoting company, General Drygoods company, Provo Foun dry and Machine company and others. Plans call for either the erection of a temporary building, or staging the exhibit in some gymnasium or auditorium. The local Sons and Daughters of Utah Pioneers have asked for $2000, to be spent as follows: $500 for an open house celebration commemorating the founding of Provo on March 12, featuring a display of pioneer relics and appropriate ap-propriate program: $750 to sponsor spon-sor a July 24 celebration, and $750 "to sponsor the state Centennial opera Blossom Time," or the state symphony." From Provo high school comes a request for funds, without stating a specific amount, to produce "Blossom Time" here on Mar. 4 and sponsor the state symphony on Mar. 17. The Provo Women's' Council has asked for $175, of which $100 would be used to defray expenses of their women's chorus in a campaign to acquaint the people with music of Utah composers, songs with Utah themes, and songs popular with the pioneers. The council also requested $75 to stage a flower show. The Timpanogos Garden club seeks $500. to be used in development develop-ment of the memorial rose garden gar-den at North park and staging a flower show. The city Centennial beautifica-tion beautifica-tion committee has formulated a plan calling for expenditure of $670, as follows: Advertising, $100. residential beautifying contest con-test $105, beautification posters and signs, $50; beautification matinee for children, $40; Cen-! tennial Queen for a Day contest.! $150; beautification essay contest in junior and senior high schools.) $75; Boy Scout vacant lot ject, $50; city beautification ward prizes, $100 Officials pointed out that sev eral of the requests overlap, a matter which will be straightened straight-ened at a later date. -. - Among sources requesting funds but' not specifying an amount are the Provo Lions club horse show association and the Timpanogos Golf association. as-sociation. Another unspecified unspeci-fied request Is for money to print a Centennial booklet, listing Provo's history, accomplishments ac-complishments and advantages, advan-tages, to be distributed to Centennial visitors. 9 Chicken Pox Cases Reported In Utah County Twelve cases of communicable diseases were reported to the state department of health from points in Utah county other than Provo, and eight cases from Feb. 3, according to state health Utah county reports outside of Provo listed seven cases of chicken pox, one of measles, two ?f mun2P and two of scarlet eluded: chicken pJx, two; gonorrhea, gon-orrhea, one; and pneumonia, one. From the entire state, physicians phy-sicians and local health officers reported a total of 359 resident cases of communicable diseases during the past week as pared with 385 cases for the pre-; Boy, to Reed and Beth Wilk- vious week and 1,333 cases for.inson Garlick, Saturday. the same week last year. Boy, to Frank C. and Carolyn me large numoer of communi-1 cable disease cases reported for the same week last year was due to an influenza outbreak. During . the past week, there were only twelve cases of influenza report-i ed for the entire state and all si j those cases have been reported ! from Davis county. Glove-Fitting Slip Covers AT BARGAIN PRICES if ordered during Jan. or Feb. Ask us for full details. D. T. R. Co. You Can Be Sure of The Best In Parts and Service By Calling ART'S RADIO SERYJCE 46 West 1st North Thone OffS-M Installation and Repairs of Auto Radios a specialty Principal Speaker f. rf ( & jt ;-.. :' howard s. Mcdonald Women's Council Sets Citizenship Session Monday Howard S. McDonald, president of Brigham Young university, will be principal speaker at the annual American citizenship day session of the Women's Council Monday at 1:30 p.m. at the women's clubhouse, Third North and University avenue. President McDonald will speak on "American Citizenship and Youth Conservation." Specially honored at the open session will be Utah county's Centennial queen, Miss Nadine Mitchell of Provo and her two attendants. Miss Glenda Hunger and Miss Beverly Powell of Lehl. Members of the home arts section sec-tion of the council, Mrs. Don Ferguson, chairman, will be hostesses at the event. Mrs. Frank Rooney, chairman of American citizenship, and Mrs. Ralph Craven, Cra-ven, chairman of youth conservation, conserva-tion, are co-chairmen. Music will be furnished by Mrs. Nola Nilsson and the Provo high school chorus directed by Ernest Paxman. The public is invited. City Briefs Mrs. Leila Anderson, Logan, is visiting in Provo with her son, David W. Swenson. She will re- pro-jmain here several days Mr. and Mrs. Orin Romney are in California for a few days. They are expected to return to Provo Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. Kendall Rasmus-son Rasmus-son of Logan are visiting friends and relatives in Provo. Mrs. Norman C. Wilder was in Salt Lake City this week to the executive board meeting of the women's golf association at the Ft. Douglas club house. Under consideration were plans for the exhibition matches for the Centennial Cen-tennial sports. Mr. and Mrs. Donald Smith of Los Angeles are visitors in Orem this week with Mrs. Jake Smith and Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Poulson and family. They came to attend at-tend the funeral of Mr. Smith. Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Mower returned re-turned Friday from a 10-day vacation va-cation in California and Mexico. They were joined in Los Angeles by Mrs. Mower's brother and sister-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Jack K. Littlefield who accompanied !fm on tncre three-day tr,P to Statistics LICENSED TO WED William Henry Nelson, legal age, Provo and Merna Alice Jackson, Jack-son, legal age, Lehi. BORN At Utah Valley hospital. Girl, to Gordon E. and Betty A. com-iosboin Johnson. Saturday Vazentin Saunders, Saturday. Boy, to W. Richard and Shir ley Hair Crowther, Friday. Boy, to Shelby R. and Barbara Hope Adams. Friday. '. The golden snow often seen in Glacier park is made of small, I yellow insect bodies. : - What Ever YOUR RADIO Needs 'Man Bites Dog' Scoop Fades So Does Scribe'sjJig Moment By THEBON IL LUKE - This is the story of th most disappointed reporter in the business today. All 5 throughout our so-called so-called newspaper . career we have heard about the classic example of what really was news- the old bromide about the man biting the dog. ' When we sauntered into the Provo police station Saturday we were, therefore, somewhat taken aback when an officer said casually, "Well, we've got your story. A man bit a dog." We did a double-take, nearly swallowed our gum, and recovered enough to reach trembling for pencil and notebook. - This, we thought, was it. This was the story that would mark the peak of our career. . This would make the wire service from coast to coast, and we would become known in journalism classes from BYU to Timbuctoo as the Spanish Fork Liyestock Association Reelects Board Members, Hears Talk SPANISH FORK Elmer Swenson was reelected for a three-year term and Hans L. Larsen and Jones Williams were reelected for terms of one year on the advisory board of the Spanish Fork Livestock association associa-tion at the annual meeting of the organization Fr iday. Holdover members of the board Non-Sectarian Scout Troop Organized Here A non-sectarian Boy Scout troop, for boys who are not affiliated with troops sponsored spon-sored by Provo's various religious re-ligious organizations, has been formed with nine charter char-ter members under sponsorship sponsor-ship of Ute post 2162, Veterans Vet-erans of Foreign Wars, according ac-cording to Arthur D. Coleman, Cole-man, post commander. Charter members include Neil Ford, Merrill Barney, Bob Ford, Richard Smith, Jim Estes, Robin Thurber, Alma Burr, Max J. Carrick and Victor Seybold, who is senior patrol leader. Scoutmaster Scout-master is Jack Lewis and troop committeemen include Verl G. Dixon, chairman; De-mar De-mar Teuscher, J. William Jaussi, Edward Bentley and Mr. Coleman. Membership in the troop is open to any boy between the ages of 12 and 18, Mr. Coleman Cole-man said. The troop will meet for the present in the Veteran's Vet-eran's Service center 287 East First North. Kiwanians Plan Party for Boys The Provo Kiwanis club is planning a big Boy Scout funfest party at the high school gymnasium, gym-nasium, Wednesday evening under un-der the direction of the boys and crirla' committee. Invitations have gone out to Boy Scouts and boys of scout age to be the guests of the club for the occasion. Don M. Innes is chairman of the committee, assisted by Rulon W. Dnman. scout executive: Charles W. Bruner, Dr. L. E. McKell and D. R. Norton. Firmage's Tlie glamour and grace of patent . . . pus tlie finer quality of frehJa Fashion Slio! Youm for leauty . . and longer wear. reporter who finally found a man that bit a dog. But it was not to be, which takes us back to the first ' sentence of this little epistle. ,. It happened this way. Melba Hone, .who doubles as stenographer and radio operator at the Provo police -station, received a routine report re-port about a dog supposed to have bitten a little girl. Gdlng to the radio to broadcast it to the patrol cars, she got the cart before the horse, or the girlibefove the dog, but any t way she said, into the, some- . what startled ears of police- , men in the cars, "A little girt just bit a dog." That's what the lady said. She denies it, but that's our. story.. ; . .- . The slip of the tongue was " hastily corrected over the airwaves, and' with it went , our only chance for fame and greatness. y But at that, it's probably as close as any reporter re-porter ever came to the story. - are Daniel A. Gull and William C. Creer. Reorganization of the advisory board will be effected in the near future. The association voted to contribute con-tribute $350 to the Utah State Junior Livestock Show to be held here May 13-17. Speakers at the meeting were John E. Booth, president of the Utah Livestock Shows; Merlin Clark, field manager of the Stockmans Review; Assistant Forest Supervisor A. L. Taylor and Forest Ranger Merrill Niel- son. Subjects concerning the Ira provement of quality in range cattle, better range management practices and a control program for cattle lice and grubs was out lined. The association authorized the advisory board to purchase a spray machine to spray cattle for lice and grubs. This machine will cost around $1500 and will be used by all the members of the association. An educational meeting was held Saturday evening for members mem-bers of the association. Discussions Discus-sions on grading of bulls and cows, range tour, improvement of valley pastures and reseeding was led by County Agent S. R. Boswell. Others who led in the discussions discus-sions were Dean Ward, assistant county agent; Marden Broadbent, extension service, and Ranger Merrill Nielson. Reports on different dif-ferent projects outlined a year ago were given by Blain Swenson, bull grading; Garland Swenson, grading grad-ing of purebred cows; Lice and grub control, Lois' J. White; range tour, Jones Williams; improvement im-provement valley pastures, Grant Larsen; Bangs control, Nathan Hales and eradication of feeds and use of Weedone, Daniel A. Gull. The local association Is the largest cattle association in Utah. It has T65 members all of whom are cattle permittees on the Uinta National Forest. The number of cattle grazed by these permittees is approximately 5200 head. The association cooperates with the Forest Service in salting and hearding and in practicing good range management to improve the forage production on the National Forest range. President Daniel A. Gull presided pre-sided over both meetings. The mooting were well attended by most of the association members. Knife And Fork Club To Hear Famous Humorist i "V .- ... r-f Ed Harding, famous humorist, will address - the Timpanogos Knife and Fork club at its dinner meeting Monday night at the Joseph Jos-eph Smith building. Mr. Harding is known as' a cheerful exponent of rose-hued glasses in spite of the headaches ana neartacnes of the world collectively col-lectively and individually, ac-cordins ac-cordins to Dr. J. C. Mnffitt th club's president. mat . v.iud oiucers nave been look ing for an ideal "escape" speaker IOr several month nnH ontilnn a hilarious evening with the ro- mnu gemieman irom wortn Carolina, Car-olina, Dr. Moffitt said. GIVE HER A " LOVELY NEW NWSsI GOWN Y'S Pretty flattering new gowns that any Valentine will love you for. Make your selection early. SUNDAY. HERALD Sunday, February 9, 1947 School Board Pays $60,250 In Out-Of-Courr Settlement For Bulk Of School Site Land Out-of-court settlements totaling total-ing $60,220 for the bulk of the land sought in the Provo school board high school site condemnation condemna-tion suit were announced Saturday, Satur-day, by Maurice Harding, school board attorney. The school board settled with the three largest interests in the case, - the Pyne and Whittaker families and the Schofield Auto company, for a total of ,$5620 more than the court recently awarded them. Its 'purpose was two-fold, Mr Harding said. A probable fight to the state su-1 preme court would have costj practically the difference, he said, and the land would have been tied up during a lengthy legal battle. The settlements with the Pyne, Whittaker and Schofield Scho-field Auto interests, compared with the court award and the amount originally asked In the condemnation suit by the defendants, follows: Pyne In terests, $23,000 out-of-court settlement, $21,200 awarded by the court, $40,400 asked; Schofield Auto, $17,250 out-of-court settlement, $15,890 awarded by the court, $27,-280 $27,-280 asked; Whittaker interests, inter-ests, $20,000 out-of-court settlement, set-tlement, $17,540 awarded by the court. $35,500 asked. This leaves only a few acres of the 23 acre tract still to be settled Just in time for Valentine NEW SHIPMENT JANET WALKER SLIPS This is the slip that made Janet Walker famous strong seams, never rip construction. con-struction. Tailored to perfection. Lovely Satin Finish JANET WALKER A tailored slip in silk finished crepe, truly a slip made to give with pride, exclusive ex-clusive at Firmage's. 0Jr5ags and purchased, now held by the-; Jacobsen and Olson interests. They court recently awarded $6500 toT the Olsons and $3800 to the Ja-cobsens. Ja-cobsens. t The matter was thrown Intor litigation again after recent jury awards, when .all defendants de- manded a new trial. The hearing, on the new trial motion was slated slat-ed to come up Friday, but was postponed for , two weeks at the request of counsel in an effort to effect out-of-court settlements. The land which the schoof board seeks for a new high school is on the west side of University avenue, between 10th and 12th North. ; Women Veterans : To Meet Tuesday All women of Utah county who served in the armed forces during dur-ing the war are invited to meet Tuesday at 7:30 p. m. at the vct-j erans service center, 287 East First North street to discuss plans for organizing an American Legion Le-gion post for women. Temporary co-chairmen for the move are Arlene Dyer and Lois Thorn. PS |