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Show ... . , ! v fi 1 - "? i, J jL. - j. t 1 Thorn Company is low bidder Thorn Construction Company of this city was the apparent low bidder for construction of the Brigham Young University Diagonal (Orem-Provo) with a bid of $328,392. The firm's bid was 10 percent per-cent less than the state highway high-way engineer's estimate . Specifications call for construction con-struction from 1300 South State in Orera to the brow of the bench just west of the Provo River Construction is to begin soon and is to be completed this season. Another contract bid will be called for at a later date which will take the diagonal from the brow of the hill to a connection with University Avenue in Provo Pro-vo in the vicinity of the BYU football stadium. Completion of the entire project pro-ject is scheduled for late 1969. A.fu;r Corning Glass Works' Board Chairman, Amory Houghton, Jr., announced that Signetics Corporation would expand their Orem, Utah operation opera-tion to twice its capacity, he exclaimed, " . . the real story here is the people." Utah's uni- HOMECOMING SET President and Mrs. Hal L. Taylor and family, have returned from Holbrook, Arizona, where Mr. Taylor has presided over the Southwest Indian Mission for the LDS Church for the past three years. They will be welcomed liome in the Twelfth Ward Sunday evening sacrament services beginning at 7 p.m. The Taylors will reside in Provo and Mr. Taylor will sera as coordinator in the church seminary program. Front row, left to right, Patricia, Mrs. Taylor, Susan, President Taylor, Sandra; back row, Donovan, David, Steven (now on mision in South America), and Barbara. (Springville Herald file photograph) que labor force is one of the many major advantages frequently fre-quently advertised by the Industrial In-dustrial Promotion Board. Origin of the diamond industry indus-try is lost in time. It is be lievcd that by 1000 BC the Chinese Chi-nese were obtaining the hard gems from northern Borneo. Traditionally, the first westerners western-ers to see the stones were the soldiers of Alexander the Great. |
