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Show The way always opens for the determined soul, the mail or woman of faith and .&y le hy- - ti, td- - is the victorious courage virnial attitude that does the hig things in this uord' Journal Successor to Public Opinion olunuf One A WEEKLY NEWSMAGAZINE OF LOCAL AFFAIRS Number Thirty- Eight Want Power Franchise Renewed; 2000 Homes Sign Municipal Plant Contracts ikt have vho just completed a thorough canvass of the attached to the franchise petition asking for signatures ui election on the question of a renewal. About 800 families or home alls are represented on the petl-mstates the mayor, and yet HAYWARD HAS mts than a month was consumed .i getting these signers, he points HORSES AS HOBBY "It was the expressed Intention to (lly Mury Ellen Cain) of This they have failed to of the signers have ly recently registered. "Although the franchise petit2320 qualified ion contains roten of Provo city, yet as many Provo. Many to, to five signers from one family in found, and it is my estimate that these names do not exceed Ut borne units or shout 20 per mt of the total home units In Provo City", said the mayor. Majority Favors Municipal rower The mayor pointed also to the nrent survey completed by the than 2000 ttty in which more lien signed contracts for municmore ipal power, representing thin 10 per cent of the home alts using electric current in the dtp, and with 500 more users an promising contracts majority la indicated aa (Owing the peoples plant. The and load buyers are satisfied murance that the new plant will be built is given. At power company rates the trr municipal plan win net Provo city at least 175,000 to help the taxpayers here hi lid a better city and to meet Nr annual payment on the Deer Creek project, commented the uyor, as he pointed to the report from Logan where their went audit ahowed a total cash revenue of $175,000 from their nunicipal plant, and a reduction la their indebtednes yearly of approximately $50,000. over-ikdmi- an-iial- ly Foar Elections Finding different election are now pending, stated hiyor Anderson, who predicted that more would follow, although ill these proposed elections are ueless. because Provo has voted three times already for a munlcl-Pplant, and each election costa bout $2000 besides incurring inner esary expense due to 10 to IS per cent Increases in costs of material, and also loss of revenue (ram the plant. "8urh tactics are disloyal and visteful. It should be the object f every cltlsen In Provo who has uy interest In the welfare of the rammunity to get the best pos-- l plant and the best possible Nsults frem the plant now that K Is the will of the majority that (he plant be built," esmmented Four pro-foo- al (he mayor. "The demand for the franchise lection and these other pending elections is an abuse of the use ( the Initiative and referendum, eharged Mayor Anderson. After the Power company franchise expires we 'Jill be able ( refinance at not to exceed three 4 lf per cent interest T,(. So such low Interest, rates ran be obtained If we should give Power roinpiiny another fran-thisTlc amount saved In tloiie will far exceed the "null amount offered by the ftlW '"r company for nnnthi-stilted the mayor. nsp-hn- e. r UNION A11 fruit-ralw- MEETING workers stuke are requested to tlend the stake union meeting n mjay the Fourth ward at 2 p. m.. announces nvll Johnson, slake represent-tlv- e. fecial request Is made of each chairman and bishopric to with aa many wnrkess Possible aa Important nrganlz- - ffiwnt FOR show "full-papere- hones. He spends two hours each morning and evening out in the open sir with his animal friends. As he describes their Intelligence and their response to klndnesm one ran readily undentand hfs enthusiasm for bis summer hobby. While on a trip last winter, Mr. Hayward began a very worthwhile "winter hobby". He took motion pictures of Interesting and historical places. And. after bis return, he spent many pleasant evenings showing and describing the pictures to various church and civic groups. "I should like to recommend to all young people to begin some kind of a hobby, Mr. Hayward said, "even If it Is only collecting stamps. A hobby keeps one busy and builds them up for bettet; things. Ive always found that those who have hobbles are of the finest type." COUNTY FAIR PROMISES MANY FEATURES ELECTION - Labor Dav mossajros in Provo iWnstM'd attention mi tin1 ocuiiomic plight of great portions of the American tfulatioTi, with Provo conditions being pointed to in some homes ns worse than in large cities by Warwick C. Lainorcaux of Salt Iake City, candidate for the I'. S. Senate in the coming election. Mayor Mark Anderson of Provo also was one of the principal speakers. INCREASE Petition, Survey Reports Show B.Y.U. Training DEATHS School Opens Monday Arthur Craven, 63, passed Registration of students for the away at bis home Wednesday at secondary training school at 204 West First South street, Brigham Young university will Provo, following Illness for the begin at 9:30 a. m., Monday, He came and a half. year past September 12, according to Act- to frovu as a lad from England. Jensen. C. Lavuir ing principal his home here, and1 estldishing Both the senior Slid tbe junior woiklng for more than 40 yean high school divisions will begin for the S m not lumber coinpuny, on this day. registration after about a vrar's employment j Larger classroom and labora- in the Frnvo Woollen mills. He tory facilities are assured stu- was a cousin of Andrew Hartley, dents this year, along with seve- well known Provo His ral additions to the faculty. The wife, Millie Craven, four sons womens in the improvements und eight grandchildren survive. for and provision gymnnsium are more suitable study room Gloria Mae Lewis, eight year expected to prove s great aid to old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. Instruction. A substantial addi- Earl Lewis, died Saturday night j tion will be made to the high at a hospital hern following a school library, according to Mr, cerebral hemorrhage, after an Jensen. 8h e is appendinilles operation. A class schedule has already survived by one sister, Erlene. a booklet been issued, along with and her parents and grandparents, explaining tile alms, regulations, Mr. snd Mrs. Ernest C. Henrich-seand program of study for 1938-3Mrs. snd hei grandmother, Supervisors of the secondary Mullissa N. Lewis. training school Include Dr. Amos N. Merrill, Professor Edgar M. the Maeser Memorial building to Jensen, William H. Boyle, and the stadium field. Golden L. Woolf; and Dr'. A. C. From a platform at the top of Lambert. Professor Woolf, princihill a stairway the leads to a pal of the high school, Is on leave lookout landing, built of masonry of absence this year. and concrete, some eight or ten feet lower. From this point the R. Y. U. Campus ramp continues as a concrete walk Made down to the stsdium straightaway ' i j I n, 9. Improvements tracks. "Though the Brigham Young has perhaps as fine a natural setting as any university In the world, and many improvements have been made, the campus Is still susceptible of further Improvement, according No. 11. 232 N. W. to Pisidcnt Franklin 8. Harris. No. 12. 255 W. 2 N. "A diamond." he added, "cannot No. 13. 48 E. 2 N, be seen at its best until It has No. 14. 272 E. Center been cut snd polished. No. 15. 655 N. Cniv. Ave. An improvement made during No. 16.483 E. 7 N. the summer Is on the north-weNo. 17. 441 N. 5 E. brow of University hill. In acNo. 18. Firth Ward Relief So- cordance with plans prepared by Laval 8. Morris, ciety Hall. 3 N. 4 E. professor of No. 19. Farrer High School. landscape architecture, men are at work under the direction of The navy is asking Congress Karl Miller, assistant superinten-- . for $200,000,000 for additional dent of buildings snd campus, warship construction next year. preparing a ramp leading from , the way this walk passes the end of the shady path on the banks of the canal, designated by the students as Lovers Lane. The traditional romantic spot will remain unchanged. On univesity st ' j speaker. The Scandinavian choir will sing Sunday evening In the 8lxth ward rhspel at their regular Sacrament meeting services. Five Elections Face City; Coleman Faces Damage Suit Power Issue Developments Indicate More Future Court Actions Provo now fact's live possible? elections on the Power issue and the Sponsors Committee, headed by Jacob Coleman, faces a possible action for damage's which may lie instituted by the city for lostA'8 incurred by their eibstrne'tionist taetie's. Tlie'se are the latent de've'lopinents on the Power Front in Pregro. Jacob ("nloinan served notice on city clerk. Wednea- day that he would invoke the referendum on the amended application of Provo city for a PWA ernnt fur 45 per rent of the rost ;f '(iiistruil Ion rf the municipal power plant. He had previously intoked the referendum on the application ilself. Then when the diy amended the application at Mr. Coleman's suggestion, In attacked the amended application .mania made by thomayor. i Thus five "elections" litiv been sought by Mr. Coleman and the Sponsors' committee, reports Mayor Anderson, and more such "elections" are expected ns each stop Is being taken toward the const met ion of the city plant "It is the usual history of the Opposition efforts nt delay and defeat", lie declares, '"lint we. are going iihond with the plans win titer we g't PWA or not. Tin o also. urn merely to liirf'niiliit" attempts Three oilier "invokings" of the j the bond buyers, lint tlnv tire ocreferendum had previously satisfied with the mill met curred, first to P'peal the Ulen signed." and Nnveen contracts which are : Costly delays dv.a to rise in the basis of ike present power pluus for the city; second, the, costs of materials mid loss in net rlecHon to obtain u renewal of ruveuuc which would the franchise for the I'tah Power available to the taxpayers alien and Light company for ten years the plant is liullt are given by inorv after Ann. 1940; and third, Mayor Anderson aa the basts for Bond I he suit which may lie brought to repeal the Amended Ordinance giving the city a longer by Cily Attorney 1. E. Brock-han- k time for repayment, and extendagainst Mr. Colemaa and the of the Sponhe Is taken up lo prior ing the due date of the bond following memlir-rat Ion work sors' committee: William KobcII. to the beginning of another year's fcaue, both of distinct advantage to the rliy. according to stale- - David l$owcy Jr., Reed Knudsen. study course. Utah countys Fair and Rodeo will he the biggest attraction of the year when it opens here nrxi week. Sept. 15, 16, and 17 In Provo. Fumed for it" fruits, vegeiables. and agricultural product generally. I'tah comity will surpass its own records when t lie wonderful exhibits now in preparation are actually seen. Kill HOUSES wll I hold tli" spotlight this year, say several of the directors. a plans are laid under Seth T. Shaw, fair manager, for one ef the finest displays of good sees In many years. hiirs Then ion. director point to the rmlcH program this year which j cells most HItemplH elsewhere for Pete Kerschcr nt Black font l here wutli 70 riders, wha will do the I'nnif- riding, hull dogging and calf roping, and Brahma hull riding (o the satisfaction of the most cxarjins rodeo fans. REPORTS j PRIMARY Italph Hayward lias been In- OIlEM: terested in horses all his life. He No. 1. Orem Barber Shop. grew up on a ranch and lived In No. 2. Sharon Meeting House a saddle. When but a small boy be re- PLEASANT GROVE: No. 1. Manilla Ward Church. solved that some day lie would No. 2. Third Ward Church. own a beautiful horse, or horses, No. 3. City Hall. like those the forest ranger and No. 4. Llndon School House. hia wife rode. No. 1. PI. View Meeting .For several years Mr. Hayward House. was a frequent visitor at the Edgemont Stables In Salt Lake PLEASANT VIEW: No. 2. Maud D. Glazier ResiCity always sd miring and riding vautiful horses, but unable to dence. own one because horses could not VINEVARl): be kept within the city limits. Vineyard Church. "About s year ago, while on a vacation, explained Mr. Hay- PROVO RENCTI: ward. I saw s beautiful Arabian Grandview Ward house. horse proudly carrying hia rider PROVO: along the rim of a hill. Aa I No. 1. 693 E. 5 8. watched him through binoculars, No. 2. Maeser School. I was determined that he should No. 3. 161 E. 5 8. be mine, hut found that he was No. 4. Hotel Roberts. an older horse than I wanted. I No. 5. 25.6 W. 2 8. then went to the County Fair and No. 6. 320 8. 5 W. bought Tny first horse. And. No. 7. 777 W. 2 8. somehow. I now find myself In No. 8. lli.li W. 6. 8. Mrs. the horse business; I have a 30 John Glrauds Residence. acre farm and hope to bnlld No. 9. 156 N. 11 W. stables soon. No. 10. Third Ward Chapel. Mr. Hayward now owns four 5 fli-s- genealogical LISTED All polling places In Utah county are listed by County Clerk C. A. Grunt this week in readiness for the first poll under the new Hah Primary law which takes The Following place Sept. 13. polls are given for reader in flt. the sponsors of the petition u i4nre a majority of the votes PUCES FOLLING I. G. Bench, r ! SEPTEMBER 9, 1938 Labor Day Messages Urge Help For Underprivileged People 800 Homes cent of Provo homes favor a renewal Only 20 f the Ptah Power & Light company franchise, according to Mayor Mark Anderson and the city commission J'111 DAY, INDEPENDENT PUBLISHED AT PBOYO; UTAH DEPENDABLE "I have visited the slum areas economic readjustments may be but a secured under our system without some violence If wo exercise tlie personal inspection of rights Provo living condition within a of American rltixeasliip with infew block of Pioneer Park and telligence and eouragr. the center of the city are a bad or Americans should never ba worse than the alum In many afraid to the truth as they apeak declared Mr. Lamnreaug see it. Wo nluiuld submit, to no cilica, during the course of hi address, form of terrorism that, would rob appreci- us of the rights granted under our although he expressed is ation for the many excellent const it ut km. However, no mat characterizing this beautiful ter what our constitution guarancity. tees the price of liberty is eternal The second plight of these vlgllenre and will be. always umlcrprlvlegcd citizens formed commented Mayor Anderson. the basis for both major addresses Power and the comuictita made by aever-u- l (Vulraliaed Also Tlireatous other speakers, with more than As to the second great prob300 people In the audience. lem, that of economic and poliG. T. Harrison acted a chairman. with member of the muni- tical centralisation of power, the cipality and school board on the mayor urged that this problem ba aland and represciitatlveg from dealt with "swiftly and effectlaltor organizations seated beside ively" before our economic abunso concentrated dance become them. George M. Cole, representwill be more that readjustments Motion the Picture ing Operator W. r. Lallraclii to than all of us. painful union, Lloyd Crawford, the carThe Jhlrd great national probMr. LaBrache, manager of tlie penter union, William Zobell, Provo Sears, Roebuck store, re- the Steel Plant Workers union, lem facing America la that ot our voluminous propports a 10 per cent Increase In Arthur D. Coleman, the Utah evaluating lta real worth, accordat aganda emand to at State, Municipal County, employes payrolls all Rears stores in I'tah during ploye union, and Blaine Ras- ing to Mayor Anderson. and Political Trickery the past yesr, the figures being mussen, the contractor It seem now to he a smart laborers confirmed by s report compiled general construction for the 52nd. anniversary which union, each gave brief speeches. political trick to brand leaders as will be celebrated in the Provo Mayor Mark Anderson was the dictators, klanamen, or commustore from Sept. 16 Iff Oct. 1. first apeaker wha is. addition, to nist. ,Ws must atop . to , tblnk Utah's payrolls during 1917 by hia words of welcome to Provo through thfa kind of propaganda the Sears, Roebuck compnny to its rtly, apoke forcefully on three as it ia one of the price wa pay employes reached the sum of major problems which affect for free speech sad a free press, $314,668, being the third con- America today In every city, town, aided by Improved communication There ia no question 1. facilities. secutive year for substantial In- and hamlet of the country: creases. Unemployment; 2. Growth and but that tbe rights of free speech Additional employes will be en- Centralization of economic and and free press are grossly abused gaged during (he coming anni- political power; S. The Propa- by some. We must, however,possess Intelligence and dlacrlaversary sale, states Mr. LaBrache. ganda menace. (nation in making onr own deUnemployment cisions aa to what la right and Threatens Democracy SHOULD HIGH SCHOOL the what la wrong. Hired propaganUnemployment la anil greatest problem of the country, dists are at work everywhere. Wa declared the mayor. At the same must ba able to recognize politiGIVE VOCATIONAL religions time It la the greatest threat to cal, economic, and the existence of democratic propaganda for what It la worth, commented tbe mayor. TRAINING? government. "Government ha for the past Lemoreaux Mrranea five years attempted to solve this Collective Bargaining (By T. W. Dyehen. coordinator, situation by Mr. Lamoreanxs address stressponsoring needed Provo city chnola) public work project to employ sed the importance of collective NOTE: This Is another brief thoae who are able to work, on a bargaining and the struggle rearticle liy Mr. Dyrlwn on a ques- wage which will them and quired to have its justice and. keep tion alniut which every parent Is their famlliea from starvation, legality recognised by tbe nation. concerned. What In do think we are all of tbe gem-rallThe railroad brotherhood, be opinion for I he lHst education and train- that the unemployment problem pointed out, were the pioneers order own child in I ing of your permanent, but tbe solution so and forerunners in this field o( llial he or nlie mar fit Into far devised la only temporary, abor, and the Wagner net la a or roinnierrlal life today and must aooner or later break legislative result of long years In worrying an many ia rents an down. of untiring straggle by organised In tlie problem of their own social "I say this in no spirit of labor to make employers recog-Iz- e come. In the to yearn sernrlly criticism because I am unable to the legality of collective barMr. Dyehen promises a Mrlcn of offer a He condemned the permanent solution, or a gaining. short talks about thin Import- better temporary plan or handlfcig yellow dog contract. ant matter. the problem than the one now Mr. Lamereaux advocated the In the past thq, main function being commented cooperation and unity of the A. followed, of the high schools of tlie nation Mayor Anderson. F. of L. and the C. I. O. factions was lo prepare the student for The problem of unemploy- and emphasized the fact that their entrance Into rollege. Because ment Is not only to keep men emgoali and objectives must be the of inrreiiaed enrollments, external ployed but to keep them pro- name. leader the are rendition forcing ducing things that we all need. of the nation to modify and ex- In other words, we mnxt keep up Welch Reunion pand the curricula to offer many the production and exchange of tin nation of the youth of the useful goods among all classes of The Pontypool branch annual type ot training that will enable people or serious suffering rereunion of South Wales confertl'im to take their places in 1n sults. serial and ivoanmle world. "No inti tier what form of ence. G. B. was held at Wildwood "Statist Irel Sum- government we profess to Provo canyon on Labor Tin 1933-3- 4 have, resort, mary of Education." Issued by the no mutter to what extremes we Day. with President George G. V. S. office of Education, shows vo in trying to regulate all human Jones conducting the program. that of tin total number starting ailivllv we will fail If we do not Profcsor Ed. M. Rowe of the H. Y. U. spoke of his travels in 1933 only in the 5i It grade in keep tliu funner prod tiring and the Ilowllns and MyrthyV distHigh the wheels of 31.1,', gnnliiulfd from Industry turning. School. Twenty-threper cent of Any form or govern t tluil rict, referring also to the late Evan Arthur and their, experienthe liifli -- cltool graduate pimi red would forget any great proportion ce in the Wplsh Conference. fuller" National Indnslriiil edu- of Its population rnnmit profess Other speakers were Elder cational leaders now thick that to In n ileinocrnry anil will not he I hi schools should Hcriindiiry survive us u democracy for nny RnIIIsoii of Preston, Idaho; Elder Boh Booth of Spanish Pork; Elder more and more considerate about gn-ti- l of I line. thh, g roup of student" who do not "While justice does not always Thomas Biggs Sr. of Salt Lake and Elder Albert Biggs of or rntinnt go lo college since they prevail tinder our system, I lir- -, City; of the I eve Hint tills failure Orem. votist It til e a majority la in most A reading by Miss Muriel Jones "indents who enter high m him!. liiattiiicMs dm to oiif own inertia educafur vorutlniri! need trip and not to our govern inentul form. and community staging conducted tion w.i revngnizwd hv the Feder- If Thomas R. Biggs of Castle money rules It la because we by al government when In 1917 It let It rule. Anil I lielieve Gate, was followed by games led tlml act the Ratlih-llugh- e Willium Griffiths. passed weressary social, political ami by which provldm federal funds to Tlie event was concluded by vocational or In the preparation of teachers the group singing the two national foster and promote education throughout the country. In provided upon tli condition anthem of America and Wales, "The Federal money appropri- that it in matched by an equa the bitter being ated In this art for the purpose amount expended for th same j of Secretary Ellen Olsen reports rnnirnitiitg with the atntea purpose by the rtiiti, the local either la tin payment of salaries community or both." 125 people present. in large populated centers foa-tur- fi 'tajhaal y C. T. Kelgley, Allen D. Johnson, Alex Hcdquiat, George W. Fllz-roand John U. Beealcy. y, City Engineer Explains An explanation of the recently amended application for PWA aid againat which the latent referendum lias been invoked, wan made by City Engineer Elmer A. Jacob, as follow: First, under PWA. contract or a bids are higher because of added costs which always attach to PWA project. This is usiinll.v 15 per cent iidditinniil. Second. increased' eosts of iniiterlal anil lnlmr have oeeurred since the nrlgiitnl project was planned. This should really It" assessed against the Power coin-pu- n v as tie del-iIs entirely due to Their error Is. Third, uddilioiitil eit will lie incurred under the new I'WA more exlend'-plans to provide "white w'ty" th.in was at first planned, and other incidental which must always lie provided for lit such a program. In no easi' however, can the t Imnlr exceed the originally authorized annumt of $150,000, nor does that mean Hint $150,000 d, will he Issued. under P.W.A. the city will he saved from $350,0(111 to $4no,00o and not one dollar more bonds will lie issued than the plant can be built for uflder the most careful supervision, he added. 1 e ini-ii- I i .'si |