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Show A HOME PAPER Printed for Hone Pol By Home People A HOME Number s olume Two WHERE IS HE? CHRISTMAS ind Girl. If you know of mine rrovouu who la doing $ Jiing" out lu the big world iround os, tell the Editor ibout It Our plione la 18). fj Tbla week' atory la a much a to a widowed Provo jf but tber aa to her aona who have out In the big world and a id food, for year ago Mr. fan Chrlatenaen of 1098 Weat iter waa left a widow with a tynllr of four boya and three rkli, the oldeet of whom had Juat girted high achool. that fine Provo woman home f'oday in the "old brick but her aona and have made good, three "doctora" and four Jightera graduate of Brigham jyung unlveralty, but all it t 1 able-bgdl- and ed dtl-ain- s. atory of the oldeet aon la a of vlgoroue effort coupjed fh fl)rl J. for Dr. Chrlatenaen of Fluahlng, Blw York, la blahop today of the $een ward In New York atake, recently waa In Provo (early after aeelng the October) Ijfeelding Blahoprlc In Balt Lake y about their new chapel fbere, lot upon which the chapel la Re ' atand coating $85,000 alone. Dr. Chrlatenaen la one of the ill flhlephone moat company yaluable reaearchera and a ataff pembar of the Bell Reaearch detriment To him much credit la In the paat ten year for lm- In our telephone and In Amrelca. trip to Utah had do with the Bell torch work, for he waa here lasting varloua mineral and elr properties. In the. gluing of tary and other artldea of inufacture. He waa sent out by Ike Company to visit the laboratories of several of the country's lading universities, Including tbs B. Y. U. He took eare of the chapel contracts enroute to where his next fllfornla to be made. A graduate of B. Y. U., Carl at spent a year at the University of Wisconsin where he obtained bis master's degree. He then feught school In Provo for one jfeir and decided on his future to enter Industrial Surse work, and so qualified lmself by going to Berkley he obtained his doctor's r (e genta I !here la PUBLISHED" AT 11(0 VO, PROVO REGOMES Week by week the Utah 'alley New presenta hi thla iluaia ltema of Interest ilKHit our Home Tows Boya S A WEEKLY NEWSMAGAZINE Fifty-tw- o married, has four and la beloved both at mme and In his own ward in Few York, where he la a father to undreds of former Utahns. His 'Ife Is the former Miss Alberta lulsb, a sister of Mrs. Frank J. !arl of Provo, and a poetess In ier own right, for she has had Mny of her poems accepted In arious publications, and won the taeret News Christmas Poem ontest here a few years ago. Two other sons of Mrs. Chris-ense- n are doctors, Nephl O. hristensen being dean of the bool of engineering at the uni. 'rrslty in Ft. Collins, Colorado, nd Ralph Christensen being a ro lessor of science and teacher jf Photography at the University UTAH FRIDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1939 Provos Aqueduct Landscape Improvement Plans Get Utah County Support Mora than 80,000 people witnessed the Inauguration of "The Chrlstmu City" Into Provo Monday night, aa Mayor Hark Anderson turned on the vut display of Chrlstmu Center PLANT OF LOCAL AFFAIRS New Concrete Conduit Ready For CITr It lights, transforming street and University avenue Into a brilliance, the Joint result of Fire Chief Scott Thompson and his crew of firemen who strung the lights, and the generosity of Utah Power and Light company who furnished the current free to Provo City. Celebrating the transformation, a vut parade of floats, and bands and holiday crowds many blocks long disported themselvea along Provo's business section, presenting an outstanding spectacle of holiday brilliance. vari-color- Merchants won enthuslutic praise from the thousands of onlookers who followed the store windows for two or three hours after the parade had completed its circuit, for the entire business front waa an amaslng display of Chrlstmu goods, utUfylng the shopping instincts of every adult and the Chrlstmu dreams of every youngster. k Rat Campaign Announced ... H. V. Swenson, district agricultural Inspector, announces that free halt for the Utah county rat campaign will be distributed at Lincoln high school from 10 a. m. until 4 p. m. on Dec. 8 and at the City and County building In Provo from 10 a. m. till 4 p. m. on Dec. ad 7th. The rat Is mankind's moet destructive and dangerous - peat. Utah county must make war on the rat or lte depredations will! destroy us, declares Mr. Swen-- 1 aon In urging that all farmers and I other cltisens cooperate In thla I 1 campaign. Utah county is becoming Landscape Improvement" conscious declares George Smeath of Provo, chairman of the County-wid- e Landscape Improvement committee' which la intensive campaign in every community for an conducting beautification of their homes and roadsides, preparatory the to the Centennial in 1947 of the Coming of the Utah Pioneers. This Campaign is backed by state and church authorities as well, with Lavel S. Morris, U. S. A. C. specialist, representing the state, and Marvin O. Ashton and James M. Kirkham representing the Church beautification committee. County officials also are back of the program, with R. J, Murdock especially designated by Utah County commission to act on the Committee. Other representatives on the County committee are Glenn R. Kenner, of the Provo Junior Chamber, L E. Brock-banof the Utah stake, Mrs. Orvsl Watts of the Utah stake relief Society, and an official of every city in Utah county, as well as many civic and church organizations. Bessie J. Kirkham of Provo is secretary. Accomplishments to date show a vast improvement in various Utah county communities, reports Mr. Smeath, including Provo where the work haa been directed mainly by the Junior Chamber. Springville also has been doing effective work under their Chamber of Commerce, reports J. Vaur Waters, whose efforts have been productive of the establishment of a soiling ordinance, and the laying of sidewalks, and grading of streets to destroy weeds. assignIn Spanish Fork 18 projects were outlined ment made of each project to some civic . organisation. James A. Anderson reports that this work is also producing 5000 feet of concrete pipe already constructed under federal aid for the laying: of Provo's Hera old and leaky wooden and iron pipe line serving the city now. The uneven new aqueduct to replace the fringe shown at top of each pipe is the copper expansion safety device which seals and locks each pipe with its preceding one as they are laid along the canyon route. Each pipe weighs about a ton and a half, and the entire aqueduct when completed will cost about a quarter of a million dollars, of which the city will provide but $75,000. The line will be about two and a half miles long, and will carry sufficient water for a population ' . b . results. At Payson Mrs. Nell Ilavitt and E. A. Houser report cooperation by the City council with the Committee in bringing new activity, and the Stake authorities also are assisting:. A Cemetery project there is under way, as well as a 30-ye- ar of 50,000 people. project Mr. Smeath, after reviewing various activities throughout the County, outlines the following objectives for 1940, urging that all communities get behind these projects and cooperate wtih the Central committee to secure results: aide-wal- Mayor Outlines W. P. A. City Purchases Power Company Lines k STATE-WID- E Projects Needed in Provo LANDSCAPE IMPROVEMENT GOALS FOR 1940 To eliminate all unsightly fences by complete reor by repair of existing fences. (Suitreconstruction moval, able designs for ornamental fences may be obtained from the Million Dollars Value Placed on Provo Improvements; associated Landscape Architects of Utah.) Plenty of Work in Sight to Keep Unemployment Down 2. To make presentable or tear down ail dilapidated n structures barns or other buildings. All unused, Provo has benefited by more than a million dollars by should be removed from the landscape. Buildings serving WPA projects estimates Mayor Mark Anderson, and plenty (Continued on Page Two) more projects are needed here to keep every available man on WPA at work all winter and until late Spring he believes. Massed into the City Commission rooms Monday after- noon Mime 50 to 60 representatives of WPA and the Worker's Alliance sought an understanding with the mayor and city Deal Consumates Weeks of Negotiations; Standby Service Offered Provo by Company 1. run-dow- Consumating weeks of negotiation between Provo city and Utah Power and Light company, a deal was made this week by which the City pays the Power company $160,000 for its distribution system in Provo, and the Power company buys at market prices all new materials and equipment from the City which it does not now require. Further details of the agreement will be available, explains Mayor Mark Farm Bureau Cunvention Anderson when the contract la completed, in all lta particulars. The entire contract will be published. , As a basic understanding In the tentative agreement la the taking The over hr the city of the entire city Growth power load' on April 1, but with Franklin P.T.A. When JOHN G. NKIHARDT, American poet, literary critic, and THEME FOR FIRST public speaker, appears at the Provo tubcrnaule Monday night PUBLIC FORUM MEET for subject "Freedom he will be accompanied by ilia son. Inwill be discussed who la a pianlat. Mr. Neihardt formally at the P.T.A. study is the last lecturer to appear be-fProvo's Million Dollar Lake the Power company agreeing to group hour, which will be held at the holidays on the Brigham Project" will be the theme of the San Motao, Cal. upply current to the city as the g:oo p. m. Friday, in the Franklin Young unlveralty Community con- first meeting of the newly reMiss Helen Christensen, the ther B. Y. U. graduate of the need may arise, until such time as school farulty room. All parenir cert association. organised Public Forum which will gather at the Provo Library fatherless children of 83 the new plant is thoroughly tested interested In the development of auditorium December 7, at 8 p. m. ears ago, la now employed In a and ready to carry on uninter- - tle,r children are invited, ' Of What Value Will Such a Ik New York department store rupted service. will be dismean will made tr now a recent election to the the Prior saving Project be to Provo stenographer. Another sister, cussed pro and con, with nppor-- 1 Ira. Eva Van Orman la also a City had offered the Power com. the city, and though the Power Sabbath School, 9:45 ldent of New York. The third pany $200,000 for Its distribu- - company lines must be completely tunltjr for every shade of opinion new revamped and liter Uvea at home with herltlon system. A complete yet The bihle lessons continue on life to be beard. and wilh the project and experiences of the children of itself fully explained by Mayor other in Provo. One son, the' system, according to Mayor An- - tha present deal seems a Mark Anderson, City Engineer E. la also at home and in derson, would coat In the neigh- - factory one from the City's point Israel. , ! Importance 11 o'clock Walter Anderson, A. Jacob, and Sermon. The deal of view, he adds. uslness here. borhood of $300,000. for the of Knowing God and HI? project superintendent word, the remaining days of 1939. (VC. according lo an announcement made by John Down of Welcome. e The second talk over radio Provo a ho ha been chosen Sunday station secretary fur the font in, of tlie Forum i veiling, on I lie "Ten Command nieiii partially by special re finest. Would management has to I. E. If we utnplfled. aecording Ibis be a Better World would Teach and Practice the Ten Brock hank, who was named temConiniiindnicnla?" porary rliairmun at tne Sunday Coiliplelbin of Hie nr meeting. Itri'HT Kl. HTTP. It' gaulrallnn' requires a board of f!v VOVI'M TO ITIIHT 1VEHT directors lo he nainvd. one each from th II. Y. I'., the professional Another business has moved to group, the business group, labor First Wes? street, the Hurst rnd women', nrgHniZHtlnns. Electric having movrd Its shop Attorney G orge S. Ilalllf ha and supply store to Hie Rnyden been assigned the tusk of drawing declaration of policy This street is fast up a Hotel block. When Bohumir Kryl and his 50 piece symphony orchestra appear in the Provo s real coinpi lijor of which will also lie presented and tabernacle, it will be at the unusual hour cf 11 :35 a. m. All Brigham Young univerUniversity Avenue ns a business .passed upon at this first session liter. Tth. admitted with their cards. bn of Provo. sity students and Community concert patrons will Halh, aatis-oonge- ee-ctiiiv- Saturday of the Utah County Farm bureau, who this week completes all arrangements for the Annual Utah County Convention in Provo to be held December 2nd- or Seventh Day Adventist le - Here Zone engineer for five counties centered at Provo, and with W. H, Callahan, manager of the County Welfare Taxes, interest rates, canning crops contracts, and program, aa to what projects are other vital matters forced Utah farmers to gather en masse under way or yet available In or- at the Utah State Farm Bureau convention in Salt Lake City der to supply work for needy men. Novemlxsr 28, 29, 30, declares LeGrande Jarman, secretary J. R. Edwards waa spokesman for with K. G. LAKE PROJECT - people cannot and will not go hungry and cold. Work must be found was the consensus of opinions expressed. Mr. Heath expressed the willingness and readiness of the WPA to accept proJiTts, and showed an Inipnt.lence with some towns and cities whleh had refused In sponsor any work programs, lesvlng their unemployed to shift In otliei community protects. Most of the unemployed today uri; found In the north end of the county, he Fork observed, with American havii g 70 men, and Lelil 47 who ar nil I of work. Mr. Hen Mi praised such as Kniif:iiin which hud the work of lining their ditches with cement thus saving valuable water leakage, and making permanent such improvements. He also had much pruiso for rravos projects, which bud bean pushed strongly at every (Continued on Page Three) Delegates have been appointed and the vital matters of policy discussed at various local meetings throughout tha County prior to the Saturday convention, Mr. Jarman explains, Two years of fight have gone on with the State Tax commission, which fight la not yet over, comments Mr. Jarman, who says: It will likely take some time yet to beat down the power of the machine that has been developing for about 10 years, but the leaders of Utah county agriculture tire going to stay to a finish". valuations Although assessed lisvo been lowered about 12 per cent, on I'Uih county farms, helps to shift the weight of tlie Increased levy applied by the mte general fnnd and school funds, vet the big fight on tax our fight against taxation by dictators". Federal Land bank loans era threatening n Jump In Interest rates from 3 per cent to 5 par rent and higher, and the Fans bureau la going Into action against thla threat also, adds Mr. Jarman. Twice have the farmers fought thla dictatorship before, and we're prepared to do It again'' he any. Canning crops contracts mean more money to the farmer when the contracts are equitable, assert Mr. Jarman, aa ha points ont the dissatisfaction in last year's local bean contract. He urge grower to lend strong delega-wliic- h lion to the Convention to work for better prices on these coa- tracts. Convention headquarters will 1111 to come, says Mr. lie at the City A County building, levies Jurinnn. with Canning crops discussion We have one concession from and Home and Community sec-tiI he Governor: be has requested both at 10 a. m. and tha that the State Tax commission general session at 8 p. m. Five will be elected meet the Farm Bureau official committeemen In December. We expect the during the morning meeting, and barking of all County official, as election of president, will and secretary-treasurwell a farmers of Salt Lake, Cache and Box Elde.r counties In be accomplished In the afternoon. ! 1 un er |