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Show Central Utah News Briefs Mr. and Mrs. Erie V. Boorman and ' two ions, Vsnn and Craig! hava Just returned to their home in Provo following a three-month tay in Pittsburgh, Pa. The Boor-mans, Boor-mans, went to Pennsylvania on a business and pleasure trip. Mrs. Boorman is the former Blrdid Boyer. Set. Boyd G. Bowles, son Of Mr. and Mrs. George Bowles, Provo, arrived here Friday from Cheyenne. Chey-enne. -Wye, for the holiday sea son. Sgt. Bowles is stationed at Fort Francis E. Warren near Cheyenne, where he is a typewriting type-writing instructor. He will be home for two weeks. ' Mr and Mrs. Clarence Beesley of Salt Lake City are in Provo to spend the Christmas holidays. hile here Mr. and Mrs. Beesley will be guests at the home of their daughter ' and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Jones and son. Jimmy. Following their stay k Provo Mr. and Mrs. Beesley will leave for Cedar City to make their home. Mr. Beesley will manage man-age the new federal housing branch there. Mrs. Sadye 'Lewis left for Salt Lake City Saturday to spend the holiday -with her daughter and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Lew Sorenson. She wil be gone for several days. Pfe. Marion D. Bliss arrived in Provo Thursday morning to spend he holiday vacation with his parents. par-ents. Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Bliss, in Orem. Marlon has been attending at-tending service training school for . airplane and engine', mechanics me-chanics with ihe ' air force at Shepherd, , Field .near Wichita ' Falls, . Tex. Other guests at the Clarence Bliss home for the holidays holi-days are Mr. and Mrs. Max Edwards Ed-wards (Renee Bliss), and daughter daugh-ter Clair, of Oragerton, Utah. Mr. and Mrs. Boyd H. Pulley, San Jose, CaU are in Provo now for the holiday season, visiting at the home of Mrs. Pulley's parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. Monroe Paxman. Mrs. Pulley will be remembered in Provo as the former Beth Fax-man. Fax-man. Dr. and Mrs. Austin E, Larsen and sons, Nicky and Reed, of Kaysville, Utah, and Mr., and Mrs. Paul Larsen of Logan will visit with their parents, Mr.' and Mrs. Ariel Larsen, in Orem this week. They arrived this week and will spend the Christmas and New Year's holidays at the elder Larsen's home. ''''.. .-' a t .. Dr. and Mrs. W.'N. Johannessen of Washington, D. C, are visiting in Provo during the holiday vacation vaca-tion with their daughter and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth D. Phillips. Mrs. Phillips is the former for-mer Jensine Johanhessen. Dr. and Mrs. Johannessen arrived here early this week and plan to be her until the middle of January, when they will leave to visit friends and relatives in Salt Lake City and Idaho Falls. , . . . . - Mis JuanlU Stone is leaving today for San Diego where she !HL Z.Ult durin h holiday! with Elder Melvin C Clark, who is serving in the Spanish-American LDS mission. They will visit In Tijuana, Mex and other points during the holidays. ... . Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Celeman have as holiday visitors Dr. and Mrs. Sherman S. Coleman and on Michael from Chicago. Mr. and Mrs. Donald Bandley and children of San Jose, Cal., are Christmas guests in Provo at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Bandley. They plan to leave Tuesday for Pasadena to attend the Rose parade on New Year's day. BVJZ02!? "toEA PEADS BOYS TOWN. Neb. (U.R) The idea Father Flanagan had in 1917 to start a home for homeless boys has snread far. Nnt v.. il. . ""J me original Boys Town prospered uu wwa out oxiiciais at ....muuuii upon mere are "boystowns" or similar homes the 88 in 'More Blessed to Give Than to Receive' Sharon Students Save Pennies, Tricycle to Tot Stricken by By DOROTHY CAMPBELL OREM Boys and girls of Mrs. Ina Page's third and fourth grade at Sharon ele-mentary ele-mentary school learned the true meaning of Christmas "It is more blessed to give than to receive" Friday as they visited little Lyla Fae Willoughby at her home on Fourth North and Second East to present her with a tricycle they purchased with pennies saved during the past three months, Lyla Fae is the 4Vi-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William L. Willoughby who was stricken with polio last August. She has been confined to the polio wards at Salt Lake City hospitals since that time and returned to her home Thursday to spend Christmas with her mother and father and sisters Gay, 12, Nancy, 2, and brother. Brent, 9, who is a fourth grade student of Mrs. Page. Christmas Surprise Students of the two grades became interested in helping Brent's little sister and decided de-cided upon the penny saving project as a special Christmas Christ-mas surprise. The trike was selected because doctors advised ad-vised it as an aid in asisting Lyla Fae in regaining the use of her legs, both of whish are now in ful length casts. It was hard to say who was .happiest as the youngsters young-sters trooped through the snow to the Willoughby home Friday bearing Christmas Christ-mas cards made by each member of the classes and many small gifts and the greatly prized trike to present pre-sent to the tune of a special song written by the boys and girls for the occasion, the wonderful surprise to a dear little girl. The gifts and card were opened and the trike tried for size while the students stu-dents watched Lyla Fae walk with the aid of crutches and try a few rounds of the room on the shining new tricycle. Lyla Fae will return to the hospital after Christmas to learn to walk without the aid Give Polio of the crutches. d . As the children returned to their classroom plans for additional ad-ditional surprises were already al-ready being planned and a very special feeling of inner warmth and happiness was being experienced by the kids who saved candy pennies for Lyla Fae and especially by a-wonderful a-wonderful teacher and leader who instilled in hearts of her students the true joy and spirit of Christmas giving them one of the richest experiences ex-periences of a lifetime. Principal Melvin Beck-strand Beck-strand said he felt the project was the most outstanding ever undertaken by classes at the school. Health Board Reports Year's Efforts; Recommends Hiring Of Veterinarian-Inspector Provo's city board of health has, requested that a veterinarian be employed by the city to super vise all meat inspections, both before be-fore the animals are killed and after. Salary for the veterinarian would amount to $100 per month and the board recommends it be naid out of the city budget. Dr. CM. Smith, city physician, said following a meeting held. Thursday. Thurs-day. ' Consideration of the 1950 bud get for the health department was heard at the meeting which also featured several reports. J. H. Kirk, city health inspector reported re-ported that a condition exists at Second South and Sixth West where stagnant water is a hazard to school children attending tne Franklin school. The water, corn- ins from two artesian wells, might be carried away by the sewer system, sys-tem, according to Mr. Kirk's recommendation. An order was prepared which would request that a rabbitry operated op-erated on East Center street be removed from the area on or before be-fore April. 1950. The area is rated as an "A" residential district. Dr. Smith said, thus outlawing harboring har-boring of livestock. ? Rat Ordinance Discussed Provo's newest ordinance de signed to eliminate the rodent nuisance, was considered by the group. Dr. Smith said that the board plans to ask for services of a man from the state public health service to work out procedures involved in the ordinance. Dr. Smith pointed out that services from the health department would be free of charge as far as Provo city is concerned. Several surveys have been conducted con-ducted during the year under direction di-rection of the board of health. These include a complete water survey conducted in cooperation with state and local health agencies. agen-cies. Another survey disclosed that oriental ringworm of the scalp has been practically, eliminated elim-inated in Provo during the past two years. Health officers and nurses have battled the disease in local schools where more than 40 cases have been reported during the past two or three years, Mr. Smith said. Other surveys include those of milk sources, public eating eat-ing places and meat packing establishments. es-tablishments. During the past year more than .son rht X.rava were tnade at Utah Valley hospital in the fight against tuoercuiosis, ut. anrnn reported, as well as 2,351 chest examinations made by the portable port-able X-ray unit. JUST PEEKING SEATTLE, Wash. (U.R) Police received a complaint that peeping tomi were around the home of John Cartwright. Two patrolmen Investigated. "Just some neighbors neigh-bors trying to get a peek at Cart-wright's Cart-wright's television set," they reported. Statistics BORN At Utah Valley hospital: Girl, Friday, to Russell and Afton Louise Leatham Johnson. .Boy, Friday, to Arlin and Joan King Dalton. Girl, Friday, to Glen and Irva North Roberts. MARRIAGE LICENSES Jack Richard Berry, 22, Provo, and Kathleen Wainwright, 19, Spanish Fork. Burdell M. Bunnell, 19, Provo, and Gloria Olsen, 15, Provo. Lewis Vernon Bowman, 17, Provo, and Hazel Ferre, 18, Provo. R. O. Christensen, legal age, Goshen, and Mary Katherine Peart, 16, Eureka. 'SUITS FILED Eliza Startin vs. Charles A. Madsen for collection of $8300. Madsen is named in the suit as administrator of the estate of James ; Madsen. The plaintiff claims the amount was due her from the deceased. Dean Udel vs. Melvin R. Johnson, John-son, demanding .that the defendant defend-ant honor a previous court judgment judg-ment in the plaintiff's favor in the amount of $568.60. SUNDAY HERALD SundayDecember 25, 1949 3 Provo Dentist -Named Chairman Of Fund Campaign Dr. DaCosta Clark, Provo, has been appointed by Northwestern university to serve as a group chairman in a drive to raise $175,-000 $175,-000 among alumni for the university's uni-versity's dental school by 1951, according to a notice from the school. The funds will be used to purchase pur-chase new clinical equipment for the school, which is recognized as one of the outstanding dental schools in the nation. The fund drive for the denial school is part of the Centennial campaign announced by the university uni-versity in October to secure $8,- 250,000 for new buildings and equipment, teaching and research on both the Evanston and Chicago campuses. Special Interest Class Holds Party PAYSON-Payson's special in terest class of the First LDS ward MIA held a Christmas party. this week in the ward chapel. A program pro-gram and games were climaxed by a tasty luncheon served to 45. White elephant gift exchange brought merriment, and carol singing was a part of the fun. Hosts were Mr. and Mrs. Earl Haskell, LaVar Davis and partner, LMr. and Mrs. Albert Bowen, Mr. and Mrs. J. D. uarner. In a brief business session the group voted on subject matter for the coming months of discus- Legion Post Finishes Yule Aid Program Dean Mendenhall American Legion Leg-ion Post 13 has completed its 31st annua Christmas welfare program pro-gram whereby groceries, clothing and other items are sent to needy veterans and their families. The welfare program was directed di-rected this year by the Legion auxiliary according to Mrs. Orval Singleton, president, who with her many assistants distributed over 500 pieces of clothing to needy children, prepared 26 packages pack-ages for veterans in the State hospital hos-pital and distributed packages to children in the Industrial school at American Fork. Also in connection with the pro gram, groceries have been distributed dis-tributed to families of veterans In Provo. . .. e auxiliary considers this service a patriotic duty and they perform it mpst willingly, according ac-cording to Harry Butler, post commander. American Legion1 and Legion auxiliary will hold their annual Christmas party for Legionnalrs and their partners Wednesday, Dec. 28, at 7:30 p. m. in the new Legion home. Among activities ' planned for the party are . a buffet v dinner, prcgi.m uid dancing, according to Harry Butler, post commander. sion, choosing "Man and Our Re ligion." Mrs. Rulon Widdieson is class leader. f . ml I We Thank You... g t For Your Patronage j ! AND WISH YOU w I A IS I Very Merry Xmas p AND A If ! I Very Happy New Year jj I NORM'S I I CLOTHES FOR FATHER AND SON I 182 West Center Provo, Utah J Euisfmas II rs I AND THE NEW YEAR W take this opportunity to express our gincere appreciation to all the fine people who, through their generous patronage, have made 1949 a very successful year. To all those whose good will we strive to deserve, ' w extend an open invitation to call on us whenever we may be of service. RALPH'S RADIO & APPLIANCE COJ 65 North University Ave. j Phone 618 Provo, Utah HOME OF GUARANTEED SERVICE I To you our patrons and neighbors we wish all of the good cheer and friendly spirit of the' coming Yuletide season. . May the New Year be one of success in all of your endeavors as well as a year of health and happiness for you and yours. And along with our sincerest wishes for the well-being well-being of our friends-we offer a prayer that the future be one of prosperity and enduring peace. EARS 18ZWest Center Provo Phone 3400- ..A |