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Show v ) .'v.i'j , ( ' ypPwtmpMM. L.rooit qi.nil.- -. ht - -i:-- ? . f y ' ;' ' ,- - ." W; : r. v'-- v' Gtneia Works, J' iV . t in Ly J SLtmm $148.(AR',000 in West Stul Plant Largest Part of Btigham Young 1nii tr sit y 'aicitj Qqiieti&uhai Qanxutufc&L VuLc H ii !, V",g WITHIN BOUNDARIES OF SHARON DISTRICT L VrnjaJ Tunpw Inducing Orem, the Biuinesg Section of the Sharon District VOL. IX, Number lYova R. F. D, XLII OK EM, Barracks For Five Hundred MONTHLY FLEDGE OF Orem City Adopts Rules and Regulations Governing and Platting $3150 GIVEN IN Employees Now Beinjj Built For Geneva Works Employees WAR SAVINGS DRIVE Sub-Divisio- ns Residents of the Orem area have pledged the sum of $3,150 per month for purchase of War Orderly Development is Purpose; Savings Stamps and Bonds, ac- to figures released by cording Subdividers Urged to Study Details Chamber of commerce president V Rulon West at the close of a two Rules and regulations covering the important matter week's campaign which was completed late Tuesday evening. of subdividing and platting of areas within Orem City Exceeding the assigned monthhave been adopted by the Zoning Commission of Orem ly quota by more than 1600, the give evidence of the spirit and approved by the City Council, according to announce- pledges of patriotism which prevails in ment of city officials made this week. this community, and the canvasU Incurred on subdivision sers who cofttacted every Orem pense are The regulations designed the Zoning Commission or home, states Mr. West, are to be to control the subdividing of land plans, Its Secretary should be consulted congratulated upon the splendid to be used for residence purposes to city officials. Much work done. TOie purpose, tocordlng to the according The pledges, coming from 445 time and expense may be saved the and rules and regulations people, range from $1.00 to $50 consultation. this by preliminary resolution approving them, Is for per month, the report shows. the orderly development of Orem Numerous Detail Information obtained for the City and to secure a coordinated The reflations housing survey which wag conproand adequate read layout now approved by the city council ducted simultaneously with the visions for traffic, light, air, re- cover haB not yet numerous details and Savings Campaign water, Bhould be Btudled carefully before been compiled, but a detailed recreation, transportation, drainage, sewage and other facili- any attempts at subdivision are port will be given In next weeks ties. made. Copies of the ordinance Issue of the Voice of Sharon. The ordinance, which la a are on file with the Orem City For campaign purposes the city lengthy one .and wmch it is pre- Recorder and with the Secretary1 was divided Into four sections, sumed will later be published In of the Zoning Commission. Later with a captain assigned to each full In this paper, provides for printed eopies for use of pro- division. Wives of chamber ot the precedure of obtaining ap- spective subdividers may become commerce members as well as other Orem women did the canproval of subdivisions, also the available. vassing. requirements for minimum standards of design, which include the layout of streets and the laying out of proposed lot arrangements and minimum size. In addition It provides for public use in service areas, public open spaces, easements for utilities, property to he dedicated to a public use, buildcomprehensive ing restrictions, City Has Not Reached Legal Debt Limit. group housing developments, Has Over $50,000 regulations with respect to preliminary plat requirements and also final plat requirements. Orem City, with au assessed uluatkm of 1,17,1,087, Procedure Outlined btill has a legal debt margin of .0,171.44, as of December In general, the procedure Is outlined that no plat or subdivi- 31, 1942, according to a city audit released this week. sion of land within Orem City The amount of debt applicable and chargeable to the shall fle filed or recommended constitutional debt limit now outstanding against Orem until it shall have been approved It Is City is $89,000. The possible debt limit under the constiby the Zoning Commission. suggested that the subdivider or tution is $139,150.44. This according to the audit, leaves his engineer meet with the Zon- a comfortable sum for emergency' be ing Commission a id obtain In- debt purposes which may formation on regulations and on .necessary as this city grows. master plan recommendations EMPLOYMENT In addition to the $S9,000 LABOR fur fhe area under consideration, which Is directly chargeable beforg the preliminary subdiviagainst the constitutional debt OFFICE OPENS AT sion plat is drawn up. limit, there are revenue bonds Issued by the city now outstandy Action Provisions are made for the ing In the amount of $25,000. OREM CITY HALL submlss'on of a preliminary plat These bonds, being based on reveto the Zoning Commission pre- nue from the water department, A farm labor employment ofsenting certain Information re- are not chargeable against the fice was opened today at Orem quired. When the preliminary constitutional debt limit. City Hall under the direction of plat has been filed, the Zoning Total Assets Listed it Commission must act upon inter- Orland E. Pyne. It is sponsored audit The reveals many within thirty days either disby Orem city and will work In esting things, among which Is tne close cooperation with the United approving or approving it or not- statement Orem that showing States ing modifications which may be Employment Service at city's assets total $291,358.20 and Original drawings the total liabilities of every kind Provo. Office hours at the presacceptable. ent time are 7:30 to 5 p. m. Howmust be submitted to the Zon.ig and character are $127,050.00, Commission and all accompanyan excess of assets over lia- ever, these hours may be adjustwith ing documents as required by the bilities of $164,308.20. The assets ed at any time If seasonal labor These drawings do not Include a market value on demands make It advisable to do regulations. so. must also be approved or disall the water rights owned by the approved by the commission with- city. It will be the aim of this office in thirty days. An Interesting side-ligon tne to assist In every possible way obligations owed by the city re- with local farm labor problems. Streets InIn the matter of streets, the veals that all of the substantial Any farmer who needs help la subdivision must conform to the outstanding obligations of the vited to call at the office and make his wants known. Everymajor street plan, both as to city are for the purchase of water one In Orem who is not employed y rights and distributing systems. general alignment and Is urged to register at the office widths, and existing streets Water Department and make himself available. must be extended at the same or In connection with the water There will be no charge and It Is Is greater width, unless variation department, the report also shows hoped that both employers and approved by the Commission. The a comfortable margin of Income employees will use the service Commission Is given considerable over outgo In that division. The regularly. power to provide for street access 0 mounts to All Junior and senior high to adjoining property. All streets total and the disbursements school students are registered at must be dedicated to the city against the water fund the present time. Anyone else upon acceptance of the subdi- chargeable outside of bond retirement and who expects to have any availvision. No half streets along the interest on bonds, Is $4,912.15, able time should register Imboundary of land proposed for leaving a balance of $8,512.75 men This Includes subdivision will be accepted. on the credit side of the ledger. mediately. and women who are working on Street widths are given as follows: Feeder a regular J )b but may be able to streets, not less Water Holding Orems water supply In the spare one day a week or more. than 82 2 feet; other streets, except local service streets, not nature of stock owned In IrrigaParents are urged to encourage less than 60 feet; local service tion companies Bhows that the streets p r minor streets which city owns 6 4 S shares of water their children to report at the every morning at 7:30 a. cannot be extended In the future, stock In the Alta Ditch and Canal office m. Farmers who need help will 12 shares of the Provo not less than 60 feet; alleys, not Company, be there and will furnish transless than 20 feet. Reservoir Company stock, and portation to the Job. IF It is not In Proof shares stock the 144 Is also made for the Provision convenient to report at that time, cn and vo Ben Canal Irrigation grading of streets, rounded street In the day and asIn addition to these report later corners, street Intersection angles, Company. will be given. signment certcurves in streets, dead end streets water rights, the city owns Mayor B. M. Jolley has apain springs and rights In springs street names, etc. which supply at the present time pointed a farm labor committee Hlock Regulation the bulk rf the culinary water composed of I. J. Burr, chairman, The regulation on blocks pro- now used hv the city. The value J C. Watts, and Wesley Soulier. vides that no block shall be more of these springs is not set forth They will handle ary special than 1 200 feet In length, and If In the assets schedule of city problems that arise in connection with the operation of the local it is more than 800 feet in length property. office. the Zoning Commission may reIn connection with this schedquire one or more public cross ule. the audit recommends that Everyone available for thinwalks not less than 10 feet In while no particular value has been ning beets or picking berries Is width. placed on the water holdings. urged to report at The office at Before any considerable ex once for assignment to growers (fonllnued on Page Three) Orem City Annual Audit Shows City Finances In Good Shape Safety Margin 30-Pa- right-of-wa- $13.-431.9- SUBSCRIPTION $2.00 Per Year in Advance UTAH, MAY 21. 1942 RUMORS ON GENEVA DECLARE Deer Creek Project Goes Forward Without Priorities To Limited Extent UNTRUE FLAIIT OFFICIALS To Relieve Housing Shortage Construction Well Under Way, Committments Heavy Entire Lumber and Hardware Supplies Of Many Central Utah Dealers Purchased Ahead of U, S. Freezing Order Something in the nature of a mild bomb shell was thrown Into local business circles last Sunday with a dispatch from Washington stating that the War Production Board had announced the policy of cancelling all defense Duchesne Tunnel, Kamas Canal and Salt Lake Aqueduct Now Under Construction j Deer Creek Project has not been declared a defense project tip to the present time, hut that doesn't mean that activities on that important project are suspended by any to H. O. Larson, district engineer in steel means, according plants, and particularly Building of the first battery of five barracks with a plants which would not be In pro- charge of the project, with offices at Provo. capacity of 100 melt each is being forced on the Geneva duction early in 1943. Work continues bn the Du- District of Salt Lake and the of the Local representatives chesne Tunnel. Works construction companies because of the critical Columbia Nine thousand Provo River Water Users AssociaSteel Company and the feet out of the tunnel has been tion. consisting cf W. D. Beer, construction companies working housing shortage in Utah County it was learned today. bored, leaving about 6,000 feet Salt Lake City Engineer and Five of these barracks, which are frame structures, on the Geneva plant stated that yet to be excavated. The bid on Engineer for the Metropolitan to If any plans had been made are planned and now under construction on the Geneva cancel first half of the tunnel was Water District, E. A. Jacob, secrethe the Geneva Works, they $725,000 the Utah tary for the Provo Association, approximately Works site near Utah Lake. They are being built to house had not been Informed. On the single men who come here from to work on the other sections project. They will be temporary substitutes for better housing which It is expected will be built when the interests by private plant comes Into operation and its employes become permanent. Lumber Purchase Revealed The magnitude of the Geneva Works project is being forcibly brought to the attention of local business houses in central Utah through purchases recently made of materials for the plant.. Reports come from Price, Utah, and other central Utah points as far south as Richfield and Delta, that representatives of the Geneva Works contractors have purchased all the lumber and building materials in stock In a,' the lumber ards in these various loeali-tiIt was understood that all lumber which dealers in Utah County were willing to sell, has burn purchased by representatives of the extractors at tne plant. Those purchases were made a fow hours before the lumber freezing order of May 13 went Into effect In addition it is reported that the entire output of several saw mills located In central Utah has been contracted for. Eating Facilities With the building of fhe temporary barracks on the plant site. It Is understood that plans are also going forward to furnish facilities for feeding the workers It Is anticipated that plans for a kitchen and dining room to provide for 2,000 meals at a time are going forward. Traffic Plans It is estimated that approximately 1500 workers are now employed at the plant, and that number is being Increased daily Travelers who have occasion to use the Vineyard highway between Provo and Pleasant Grove find It almost Impassable at shift changing times. Highway engineers, it is understood, are busy making plans to have additional feeder highways for the plant constructed well in advance of the peak employment which It Is expected will come some time in October or Novembe" of this year. The policy announced by Columbia Steel officials and contracting companies who have the preliminary contracts that they would employ so far as possible Utah county people seems to have been carried out faithfully Judging by the number of local people who may be observed among the employees entering the plant e: . each day. In the meantime plans for con Gratitude Is much more than a verbal expression of thanks. Action expresses more gratitude than speech. Mary Baker Eddy. Voice of Sharon Goes Forth Again Copies of the Voice of Sharon are being gent again this week to those young men and women from the Sharon Stake and Orem area who are serving In the armed force of the United States. I jvk of time, space, and press facilities made it impossible for ward new items to le included In last week' edition, although reporter were on the job and had their column prepared in time for under ordinary publiiation cir uintance. contrary, they were deeidely of the opinion that If any order Buoh as had been mentioned In the Washington dispatch were actually issued it would not in any way affect the Geneva WkrlCB. Other observers called to mind that probably a million dollars has already been spent locally in purchasing right of way and In construction, engineering and preliminary planning which has already taken place at the site, and that It this defense plant moves according to pattern In other sections where defense Industries have been built, that It Is not unlikely that more than $100,000,-00of committments for materials and machinery have already been made. Not only that, but probably the manufacture of the equipment to go into the plant has been under way for some time on a rather large scale. Dispatches from Congressman J W. Robinson and Senator Abe Murdock, who are in Washington stated that they had been informed by the Defense Plant Corporation and W..r Production Board officials ttiat there was no intention whatever to delay or stop the building of the Geneva Works plant, hut on the contrary, the plans were to push It more, rapidly to completion. struction of 500 beehive coke ovens, to cost one million dollars, at the coal mines of the Columbia Steel Corporation at Columbia ar going forward and above work will get under way soon, acSteel cording to the Columbia officials. The ovens which are being built to supply coke for the new blast furnace now being installed at the Ironton works of the company by the Bates and Rogers Company of Chicago are capable of turning six tons oi coat into three tons of coke per coke charge, It is reported. Once the new blast furnace at Ironton Is completed. It will be capable of producing 1100 tons of pig Iron daily and will doume the present production of thq plant, according to officials. It Is also expected that the number of men employed will be doubled with the addition of this new blast furnace, expected to go into operation early In 1943. 0 More Sugar to Be Allowed For Fruit Canning Assurance of a new liberal sugar allowance for the canning m fruits given to housewives throughout the nation thiB week Leon by Price Administrator Henderson in an announcement that under a new regulation, home canners will be entitled to Pleasant View Aaronlc Priestone pound of sugar for every hood members wlll meet this four quarts of canned fruit, and afternoon and evening at Bishop an additional pound of sugar for Lynn home, canyon Taylors each member of the family to which Is located on Timp Creek ana make Jams, Jellies, preserves above the girls M. I. A. home, for fruit butters. a social given In commemoration To Waste of the restoration of the Aaronlc was made, Priesthood. The liberalization Games and a proPrice Administrator Leon Hend- gram will be followed by a barba-cu- e erson said, . to conserve fruit supper. All Aaronlc priestwhich might otherwise be wasted hood members are Invited. was Barbecue Planned For PI. View Boys i Ireent and to supplement commercially canned supplies, thereby reducing the burden on transportation facilities. The much smaller allotment for Jams and preserves was deliberately figured, O P A said, to encourage home canning instead of preserving, because the amount of sugar required per can of fruit Is less In canning than In Jam making or preserving. Application for home canning supplies may be made upon special forms obtainable from local ration boards at times ana places to be announced later. Applicants must give the names of all consumers on whose behalf applications are filed, the numbers of their ration books, the numher of quarts of fruit packed last year, the amount of fruit now In their possession and th. number of quarts they Intend t can. Child Health Discussed at Luncheon Meeting Construction Company being the contractor. Bids were received on the second half of the tunnel but were considered unsatisfactory by the Bureau of Reclamation. In tue absence of priorities for this division of the project, no new bids have been called for. Norman I. Fadel, who has a mile of the Weber Division Canal beginning at the point where the canal dumps into Provo River thence North, is going ahead under his contract. He is excavating the big cut to the edge of the canal bench to the Provo water shed, Is building the outlet basin of the Provo River, a highway bridge, and concreting the part of the canal which comes over the bench. The bid on this contract was approximately $97,000. The contract should be finished this fall. A force account crew under the direction of L. R. Dunkley of the Bureau engineering staff, with Claude J. Sherry a field superintendent, Is working on the anal from the Weber River to the section of the Fadel contract y Additional has been secured for the canal underpass culverts have been remodeled, right-of-wa- and work Is now heing planned the underpass for Beaver Creek where it crosses the Kamas Canal. This work will continue throughout the summer. Engineering groups are working on a cross section alignment of the Salt Lake aqu duct, both in Salt Lake county and jp Provo on Canyon. A group of force account workers are boring a short tunnel 400 to 500 feet in Provo Canyon near Wicks Service Station. This is under direction of Robert Jennings, Bureau Engineer, Progress is also being made In s, transclearing up fer of waters, and other s matters connected with plans for active construction which it Is hoped will be resumed on a larger scale when the project is made a defense project and priorities given. In the meantime, a committee appointed as a result of the Joint meeting of the Salt Lake City Commission," Metropolitan Water right-of-way- mlsecl-laneou- and Hampton secretary of Water District preparing data executive Metropolitan of Salt Lake. I and a brief to be filed with the War Production Board along with Army recommendations and resolutions of various intrested municipalities la support of an application for priorities for the Deer Creek Project. No attempt is being made by project sponsors to secure priorities at the present time for anything other than for the enlargeDiverment of the Weber-Kama- s sion "'ana! and the Salt Lake aqueduct. It was pointed out at the meeting of the Joint groups that every indication was that more water Instead of less would be required as the defense program In Utah a month Scarcely developed. passes without additional project being planned fur this area, all depending to a large extent upon the water supplies which mut be available through the Deer Creek Troject. Godbe, the High Priests To Meet Sunday The regular High Priests meet- ing will be held next Sunday at 1:15 p. m., In the community auditorium, it is announced by August J. Johnson, president of the Sharon Stake High Priests Quorum. Wilfnrd Poulson. professor of psychology at the Brigham Young university, will speak on "Early Events In Church History. Study of the early history of the L.D S. Church has been a life time hobby of Professor Poulson and with the wealth of material he has to draw from, his talk according to President Johnson, should be most Interesting and Informative. A full attendance Is desired.' Cicero calls gratitude the mother of virtues, the most capital of all duties, and use the words grateful and good as synonymous terms. Inseparable united In the same character. Bate. Sharon Stake Relief Society presidents met In luncheon meeting with Dr. Beebe, director of the Division of Maternal and Child Health, of the State Health Department, Thursday at the Orem City Hall. A report on the progress of the Whereas, (he wearing of (he memorial poppy is s Child Health conferences held j! regularly each month was given I a fitting and effective way of keeping Fright the jj and Dr. Beebe discussed Importmemory of those young men who gave their lives in jj ant phases of the Maternal and America's service in the World War, and jj Child program In relation to the defense program. The meeting was arranged by jj Whereas, men of Provo sened gallantly in that 1 Mrs. Loy F. Doss, Public Health I war, some being called upon to sacrifice their lives in Nurse. II Roll of Honor Saturday Is Poppy Day In Provo y ii II that service, and M hereas, the present national emergency re- the same of unselfish patriotism display- quires type ed by the men and symbolized by their memorial flower, and jj jj II jj il whose names have not yet been (Additional n.,mes of boys serv- obtained. Also, names of some M Iiereas, the women of the American ing In the armed forces of the of the parents were not available ii Legion H United States to be added to last and the boys names were publish- jj Auxiliary will distribute veteran made memorial pop- - j week's list.) ed alone. ij 1 the on flies throughout 23, city May Saturday, Pvt Don F. Cordner, Army, Should there he corrections to son of Mr and Mrs. Jess Cordner. the list already published, or any Now therefore, Saturday, May 23, is hereby I of Tlmpanogos, stationed at Fort additions to be made the Voice of ii Alaska. would Sharon staff proclaimed to he Poppy Day in the City of Provo, 0 Greely, appreciate Ralph Howai 1 Egan. Navy. having the information sent In ;i and all citizens are urged to observe the day bv Ennas Flannigan, Navy, son of The list of service min and wo- ii wearing the memorial poppy of the American H Mrs. John Gordon. Edgomont. men, together with their parents Legion Auxiliary in honor of the men who died jj Wade Davi. Army, fostpr son names, and last known addresses, cf Mr. and Mr jj Stanley Davis. is bing kept for a permanent ij for America in the war of 1917 and 1918. Grand View. record, so cooperation Is requestThese names were Inadvertented In keeping the record up ,n I f . MAURICE HARPING, New selectees or volunly omitted in the list published date. Ma or of Provo City, Utah. last week, and it is entirely teers Into the service are Mhle that there are sMll persons to send In their names and post from the Sharon and Orem area of service. A |