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Show ven?s of Past Year Mow Become History As events of 1959 become history and the new year begins, be-gins, it is interesting to go over the happenings of the past twelve months as recorded on the pages of the Springville Herald. Here possibly is the most complete history of events as they transpired, week by week, that may be found anywhere. In the city are the records of business transacted. Churches Church-es keep detailed records of membership and functions and the schools of their own particular par-ticular activities. On the pages of the Springville Herald are the happenings in city, church and school plus other items which may concern a few or all citizens in general. To bring to its readers a more complete story of events Z they happened the Springville Spring-ville Herald used a total of 784 pictures during the past year Of this number 111 were nictures of babies who had Cached their first birthday There was also a total of 31 ; Pictures of departing mission-' mission-' E used in connection with , a notice of their farewell pro- ' 'Treport on Springville's at- taining national recognition in a widely circulated magazine and the publicity which resulted re-sulted from the story, was one of the interesting bits of news recorded in 1959. Stories of tragedies claimed space on the pages of the Springville Herald during the year with the death, resulting from a gun accident of John Gustin, bringing sorrow to all who knew him. Services for Wilford Mower, Wyoming high school coach and teacher, who list his life in a car accident, were held in Springville, thus becoming a part of the city's history of the year. City's Birthday Springville noted its 109th birthday in 1959. There were 154 graduated from the senior high school and over 200 from the junior high. The Springville Herald carried car-ried stories of the steel strike and the resultant hardships to townspeople. Recorded on the pages of the newspaper during the year, were the deaths or over sixty Springville people and in addition addi-tion quite a number of former residents and relatives of townspeople. The Springville Herald noted that at least four citizens were accorded high honors. W. W. Clyde was re-elected president of the National Parks Council, Boy Scouts of America; Helen Spafford was re-elected president presi-dent of the Cowbelles; Mrs. Mary Whiting was named Mother Mo-ther of the Year from this district and Frank Robertson, president of the Western Writers Writ-ers of America, was made honorary president of the League Lea-gue of Utah Writers. Oldest Twin During the year, the story of the 96th birthday of Mrs. Emily Crandall, one of the nations na-tions oldest twins, was published. publish-ed. Her twin sister, Mrs. Emily Cranmer passed away after her 95th birthday. The Herald noted also that several couples had reached record marriage milestones with Mr. and Mrs. George Harrison Har-rison celebrating their 70th wedding date as possibly the longest married couple. At least three people, prominent pro-minent in business activity in Springville, including G. B Bonspur, former superintendent at the Powder Plant; Mrs. Mattie Crandall owner and manager of Crandall's Store and Keneth Condie, rural mail carrier, announced their retirement. retire-ment. The governor, George Dewey Clyde, made at least two official offi-cial visits to Springville during dur-ing the year; over a dozen Indian In-dian children were taken into Springville and Mapleton homes; hom-es; the world middle-weight boxing champion, Gene Fullmer, Full-mer, was greeted by a record crowd when he spoke at a Sunday night meeting here; five Springville girls took part in the LDS church pageant at Palmyra, N.Y. New School The Sage Creek elementary grade school was opened in the fall of 1959; the Art Exhibit attracted its usual large number num-ber of visitors; the school board contributed $150 to the Springville art movement. Springville set the budget for the year at $681,805, the highest in the history of the city based on a 26-mill levy which was also reported as the highest tax levy. Roy ' Rogers, famous movie star, personally greeted a little opringville boy, Kelly Averett, I (Continued on Page 2, Col. 3) |