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Show HOPE bird foil of life on a Hal sere and dead Sings a bright message to A me. Let os mount on the past; and though skies are like lead. Rejoice in the glory to be. James Henry Darlington faume One Number A WEEKLY NEWSMAGAZINE OF LOCAL AFFAIRS Thirty-On- e Provos Water Supply Ample 1000 New Readers For Municipal Power Purposes (Editorial) Our circulation manager, Otis G. Carling, assures 1000 additional names will be added to the mail-- i of the Utah Valley News by the end of July. list ing These must all be "paid subscribers to conform to the U. S. Postal reflations, for the Utah Valley News is delivered by U. S. mail carriers right to your door and into your mail box. We commend Mr. Carling for his efforts. He is being assisted by John A. Clark of Provo. Both men are graduates of the Brigham Young university. Both men have families and hemes in this community. Both men are workers. Two threats exist for the freedom of the Press in America today, says William Allen White, that veteran newspaperman of the Missouri valley, editor of the Gazette: First the threat of control by advertisers; second, the threat from the circulation department. Our readers would not condone this paper if it listened to the propaganda of any advertiser. Some advertisers are conspicuous by their absence in this paper whether the threat be real or veiled, we are not getting advertising from them because we want to tell us Says Mayor Kecent Canyon Flood Shows Safety In Provos Present Water System CITY BRIEFS Plans for the official cornerstone dedication of the Utah Valley hospital are being com"The recent slide and flood disaster in Provo canyon pleted for the near future. John whose has been the occasion for a barage of propaganda intended O. Beeeley, outstanding to make people believe that Provo is short of water for its services In connection with the drive for funds last year, plans municipal power plant, declared Mayor Mark Anderson to have n souvenir donor's curd Thursday night at the "Power Questionaire meeting at placed at the ceremony, which will contain the names of the which G. H. Palmes, manager of the Ft. Collins municipal or more persona who con4,000 plant, was the principal speaker. tributed, making the erection of la true, according ply will be cut off completely at a 1100,000 The contrary hospital possible. to the mayor, who declarea that times, we will still have three rea a Provo haa an abundant aupply of maining water sources any two of Fred of Provo was J. Frchscr la more than lirer water, much which win operate our plant. president of the Fech-sa- r a municipal Ordinarlly7 spring water, well ceded to operate family Sunday at their electric plant, and that even if the water or water from the city reualon held In American river water were cut off or mains will be used only to sup- Fork Entertainment canyon. unusable, aa it did In thla plement the river aupply. At no and refreshments added to the recent canyon flood, yet good time, however, wUl w e be dedeer cold aprlng water wee atill pendent on n aingle water source pleasure of a day marked by the of a permanent organisation running in the mill race, and to operate onr plant. committee with genealogical good dear cold aprlng water In We have recently Installed n James C. Fechaer of Mt. Pleasant abundance waa flowing pant the new line water from the aa Ita chairman. propoaed alte of the municipal main on Twelfth North to tha Power Plant alte on Fifth North. plant h There la another line on Frank Andrews, senior statistiEngineer's Statement Fifth North near the plant site. cian wltb the federal bureau of 81gna placed up Provo canyon These lines come from separata agricultural economics with by Utah Power and Light commalna. It would ha difficult to In Salt Lake City, repany workera declaring that had a more favorable situ- ported July 1 that tha current Provo had a municipal plant tha Imagine been without ation with respect to a water crop season in Utah la one of eity would have than exists at our plant the moat favorable In the state's light .for four dayi were given an aupply alte. agriultural history. abeolute refutation by City Engineer Elmer A. Jacob. Bert Hedquist, (1, of 707 East In the flrat place, declared Mr. Second Booth, Provo, met with a Timpg to Play Dividend Jacob the city mill men during elions accident Tuesday night tba entire atorm period and since Provo Timpe .play host to kaa'la'dnout'flvn eecond feet when hg.waa knocked downn while Dividend at tha local ball park car hla and bicycle' riding of clear aprlng water (Saturday) afternoon running Robert Jensen, 17, hit tomorrow, down It, ahowlng tha plant would driven by 4. SO P. M. Provo won the tint at The city police report the aot have been dependant upon him. half and the Dividend crew ere the river water at all, which waa accident resulted from Hedqulat one game out of the top atop In into the car as both were second half exceptionally muddy. There never turning play. travelling East on First North. baa been, recent this during itorm which put the Power company plant out of bualneaa for ao long, any danger that a municipal plant would have been out an-na- al aa six-inc- head-quarte- re of water. In the second place, added Mr. Jacob, the location of the Provo eliminates all unclpal plant haxards from canyon storms, from cither water shortage or transmission damage, for Provo'a plant will be In Provo city. Furthermore the new plant will not be an isolated plant, for It will be two complete units, interconnected In the plant, either one of which will be of sufficient capacity to take care of tha entire city load. Dependable power will he guaranteed by Provo's new declared Mr. municipal plant, Jacob. Power Company Taxes Only $3,319 To Provo City Statements being made by Utah Power and Light company workers who are canvassing the city for signers agreeing to continue taking power and light from the comcompany for the next ten years drew fire at the city mission meeting Tuesday. Direct contact by Commissioner Jesse Haws with these Mayor's statements as made by Power company canvasers showed "Many cities have only one claims being made that because 810,000 taxes are being paid major source of aupply, end therefore ere obliged to install yearly in Provo by the Power company the citizens ought to cooling ponds or cooling towers, be wise enough to keep the company operating here. Stab-me- at and use the water over and over. Thla will not be necessary with our plant, said Mayor Anderaon. Mr. Hava Imnied lately (ought facta from Almo B. Simmons, city treasurer, as to what Utah Power and Light company actually does pay Provo city in taxes, and Mr. Simmons estimated it at about "The signs placed In the canono third of that amount, and about half that total if school and yon by the Power company are combined. On the other hand the city paya about 118,000 Intended to mislead the people city are the Power company, or six tlmea more than they receive to and destroy confidence in the a year In taxes. municipal plant. The Commission asked Mr. 81mmons to get the facts exactly, "We will have four sourcea of here they are as reported by him to the commission. and ster supply: Taxes Received From The Utah Power and Light Com1. River water, Year-193- 7 1. Spring water, pany For Their Utility in Provo City For The The Utah County Treasurers office shows the following h City piped water (Two Unas lead to plant). facts: Well water or underground 94.76 $ Metropolitan Water District voter, (Shallow wells and ar1650.86 3 Utah County tesian wella). $ 1068.00 Utah State water-coolin- g "By Installing facilities we can operate several $ 2466.07 Provo City Schools municipal power plants on our 8 3319.89 PROVO CITY available supply of water and no vati-- r will be lost to Irrigation. "When Deer Creek Project la Total Received for Utah Power and Lights Utility $ 8598.89 finished, Provo will ne able io in 1937 operate Ita electric plant with Note: vater drawn wholly from the Provo City Received From The Utah Power and Light flty mains. The Deer Creek 83319.70 Only! vater will be exchanged for Company For Taxes For The Year 1937 Bridal Veil, Upper Falla 82466.07 Provo City Schools and South Fork waters. It will not I necessary to depend on river Schools and Provo City Combined-Tot- al $5785.77(1937) vater. But It must be borne In Received of Provo The $3319.70 City mind that Provo already own The City of Provo Paid' for Street Lights $16,789.37 enough river water to operate everal electric plant of suffi(1937). Add Lights for Library. Fire Hall, ami City and cient capacity to serve Provo. of mere than 81500.00 per year! Only on rare occasion will tat County Building Almo B. Simmons upply Im Interrupted. Provo City Treasurer. Aneumiiig that the river aup-six-inc- that the people the truth. This papfer is not catering to any Advertiser, and merely to obtain patronage. We are the stock holders of this paper are a unit on the only avowed policy we have ever announced "A Peoples Paper. We are not for or against any public question. We are merely presenting facts as we find them for our readers to consider for themselves. As to the possible threat from our circulation department, seconding to the Gazettes editor, it is not that newspapers play up sex crimes, or amplify the details of murder. The sin lies deeper than that, he says, for newsmen fail to expand and elaborate good news. He cites the example in his own Gazette when he had to find the news of the Scandinavian Neutrality pact on page seven, when a story of a lovelorn lady who shot her man to death was played up on page one. To our readers, old and new, we want to assure them of our confirmed opinion that circulation can be built permanently in Provo on the basis of expanding and elaborating on good news. We are going forward in our program of telling facts aa facts, and eliminating propaganda for any interest or group. The interest of all the people is our objective. What the people need and want is our only source of control. If you want a paper which will at least try to tell the truth, regardless of whose interests it affects, then you have not subscribed in vain. home-owne- WRITERS ROUNDUP (By Mary Ellen Cain) FRIDAY, JULY 22, 1938 INDEPENDENT PUBLISHED AT PROVO, UTAH DEPENDABLE d, POWER SURVEY SOUGHT BY BOTH Stakes To Join In Pioneer Program Utah-Sharo- n SIDES July 24th Celebration Sponsored By Sons, Daughters of Utah Pioneers A Power Users' survey la under way by a double corps of workers in Provo, following an announcement of a coming franchise elec- No church services will be held in Utah or Sharon stakes Sunday night in order to allow the people in Provo and Orem tion. miscom and surrounding wards to attend the special services to be Flrat the Provo city sion prepared the following let- held in the Utah stake Tabernacle commencing at 6:30 p. m. ter which ie being mailed to all July 24, the program being sponsored by the Sons and eltlaens In Provo, but before It Daughters of the Utah Pioneers, all 12 camps cooperating could get Into the mail the Utah in the event. Power and Light workers began Both President T. N. Taylor of to appear from door to door wltb the Utah stake, and President A. cards asking for signatures to V. Watkins of the Sharon stake another proposal. have requested that all wards In these two stakes postpone their CITY'S LETTER usual 8unday evening services Provo, Utah, and Join In the Pioneer service at the tabernacle. Dear Patron: Citizens generally are invited Detailed plane and specifications are now being prepared to attend these services, anfor Provo'a Municipal Electric nounces Mrs. Roy Passey, general Plant and we expect that actual chairman, and president of the construction will begin about D. U. P. and she urges that every person should honor the occasion September 1. John Nnveen and Company by hla of her presence that evening at the tabernacle. A special that la financing our plant band concert will precede the determaking a final aurvey to mine the number of "consumers progran(, the band starling and the approximate amount or play at 8:80 at tha Tabernacle electrical energy used In Provo park. All pioneers of Utah prior to City. will call One of your neighbors POWER COMPANY CARDS: at your home within a few days to secure Information desired by Signatures are being asked for the bond buyer. from door to door by workers of forme for the Utah Power and Light We are encloeing your examination and hope that company, to the following proyou will feel free to provide at posal: leant a monthly statement showAssuming that the 10 year ing the number of Kilowatt franchise advocated by a group hours used and a signed state- of Provo citizens la granted the ment that you are wining to con- UUh Power aad Light Company, nect with the municipal system we plan to continue taking seras coon as the plant la in oper- vice from the Power Company so ation. Your statement will be long as rates are as low or treated aa confidential. lowar than can be obtained from Respectfully you re. any other local source. Mark Anderaon Mayor, 1870 will ha given a Beat of honor on the stand, and all native-bor- a daughters of Pioneers will bo given a reserved seat at toe treat of the tabernacle. An unusually excellent program haa been prepared aeeordlag to Mrs. Emma T. Jonae, program chairman, who la being assisted by Nellie Olsen, Minnie Ferrer, and Ivy Mortenaen. Mrs. Passey, Walter Taylor, and J. M. Jensen make np fbo general committee. Mr. ITlor ie president of the Bone of the Utah Pioneers. Ed. M. Rowe la chairman of tha publicity committee. Dwight Billing, Annie T. Fot-lanKate Browa, and Tom AIlo-ma- n are the decoration com- mlttec. d, Vineyard to Celebrate Pioneer Day Saturday Everything la in' rendition fog the big Pioneer celebration to he held Saturday. Commltteee beta worked hard to make thla celebration tha heat ever hold hre Every child In the ward la expected to participate In the parade at 10:80. A fine program has bean arranged and dinner win be sold. Sports and a ball game win he held in the afternon and n planner dance will take place at night. World Focuses Attention On Utah As Engineers Gather From All Countries To Study Water Conservation Problems Those who think that there are no unielflih people left In the world today 'should have had the privilege of attending the Writers' Roundup, which was held In Provo last Monday and Tuesday. From the opening to the dosing sessions there prevailed an atand mosphere of cooperation helpfulness. The writers who had ''arrived" Water Conservation and Flood Control were happy to advise other about In Utah Studied by World Engineers markets, agenta. taboos, and requirements; poets read their beauToday and Saturday will conclude the five day sessions tiful poems and gave encourageannual convention of the American of the sixty-eight- h ment to others who are trying. Earnest Haycox. story wrltei Society of Civil Engineers at Salt Lake City which began for Colliers, who waa a guest under the auspices of the Utah section in a study speaker, was Just one of the Tuesday of water, with E. A. Jacob, Provo city of conservation and talks informal Hla group. ready answer proved that he Is engineer acting as chairman of the section. not only a successful writer, but More than 15,000 englneelh . poaal needs In Western states as a very human and understanding given by Dans E. Kepner, hyperson. And hla plea for tolert draulic and January engineer of ance especially in writers will Denver, Colo. urely bear fruit In the creative Provo ie making a special study writing of those who are parof sewage disposal and ths gartakers of his enthusiasm. bage problem, he reporta, ana Mrs. Ethel Romlg Fuller, poetmodern Incinerator practice what ry editor of the Oregonian, came may hold for this city In solving a to be gnest Portland from Its present problem, speaker at the Roundup. She, Saturday's .program will take too, left the group richer than the verengineers over the Davie Her she had found them. county watershed to Inspect the satile poems were a delight to flood control measures taken all In them she depicts a mounthere and then to Ogden and kitchen tain scene or a simple Pine View irrigation dams. More feeland with ability equal duty than 81.000.000 damage was ing. In 1932 in Davla county, done were young In the group there and In 1933 the present vast students, who are Just starting and erosion control measflood men and on life's highways; out were ures started, with five out women of middle age, who have of six flood canyons now being learned much from tha pares of completely under control. The ('experience; a few who have sixth is ueurlng completion. reached old age in years, but are The Water conservation theme interested all at still young heart, started Ike convention last TuesIn writing for some, it Is hut an day, with Mr. Jacob In the chair, outlet or a means of expressing I and presented Utahs possibilities it others for what they feel; ill water development, showing business or a profession. what had been accomplished from Each of that group has a mesUtah's Underground Water law of sage for the world, but how to 1935. and the knowledge gained tell it in an entertaining, as well through snow surveying and as a profitable manner is the mountain hydgrology and how It problem. Is used in water conservation. Out of this Intellecutal feast The L. I). 8. rliurcli security will come articles, short, nnd short short stories, novels and program in relation to water waa presented by Dr. poems. Into all of these will be woven something of the brotherJohn A. Wldtsoe, and numerous oilier speakers presented subjects hood, understanding nnd tolerallied to the great problem In ance, which was the keynote o( the Writers' Roundup. ject of sewage and garbage dU - Utah of water conservation. MURDOCK FOR TWO-YEA- R FILES TERM R. J. Murdock, irrigatlonlat, and reclamation worker, secretary of the Provo Reservoir Water-ueer- e' association, and manager of the Provo Reaervolr Company, the parent water company of thla area, haa filed hie papers and announces hla candidacy for the two year term on the Democratic ticket as Utah county commissioner. Aa bishop of the Provq la Fourth ward, Mr. Murdock beat known among church people, although he is aleo chairman of the regional bishop's storehouse at Orem, for the three local stake of Utah, Sharon, aad Too busy a man to Tlmpanogos. talk much, ha believes all others should conform to the rules, and has a reputation at ehurch for geniality, kindliness, and humor, but withal an exactness and attention to details which haa distinguished his ward among all Utah stake wards. Aa a business executive Mr, Murdock started his labors by being a thorough preparation, graduate of the Brigham Young university In the commercial department. Since then he has folof his lowed In the footsteps father, Joseph R. Murdock whose g devotion to water conservation and Irrigation needs of this region has earned the gratitude of thousands In Utah. Mr. Murdock haa the same objective: to bring new land under cultivation in this productive valley. Homes for the people has always been a vital consideration io him, one activity showing his regard for this phase of life. For many years he haa served as a director of the Provo Building and Loan association, and at life-lon- Tragedy at Windsor . V Takes Life of Little Joan Marrott ... i Instant death' overtook Jittle Joan Marrott, hardly two years ef age, Wednesday morning when a four ton truck backed up on her, the hind wheel crashing her without the driver knowing she was In the way, as he hacked ont from the milk house at the Marrott farm about one half mile west of the highway In the Windsor ward. Just previously the driver, Daa La its bee, of American Fork, had picked up the little brother standing near, and stood him over against the milk house, bnt he did not see Joan. Evidently aa he climbed Into hla track tha child came out from her hiding place, and the tragic accident happened. The screams of aa elder slater warned Mr. Larrabee of the accident, and he stopped but life waa gone. Town Marshall J. D. Bishop attached no blame to Mr. Larrabeo and gave him the reputation of being a careful driver. 8lx other children remain with tlie grief stricken family of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Acel Marrott, Melba, Verna, Thomas, Weldon, Vera and Joseph. Funeral arrangements are being made for Friday at S p. m. In the Windsor ward chapel. of ths present is company. Asked as to his policy in seeking election as county commissioner Mr. Murdock replied: "Most people know that the mas who talks too much, and promises everything before election, never even hopes to fill the half of It. All 1 hope to do Is my bit la riving Utah county a businesslike administration. nt |