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Show Juveniles Figure In Over Half Of Police Arrests Provo police made a total of 180 arrests during August, 97 of which were for traffic and 83 criminal, in addition to issuing 16 warning tickets for which no arrests ar-rests were made. These figures were released Saturday by Chief of Police E. W. Mower in a monthly report of police department activities. Pointing out that a substantial part of Provo's crime is juvenile, the report revealed that 46 of the 83 criminal arrests were juveniles juve-niles for various petty offenses. Of the balance. intoxication headed the list, followed by petty larceny. A variety of nearly 25 offenses were included in the total arrests, ranging from drunken drunk-en driving to minor traffic violations, vio-lations, and including a wide range of criminal offenses. During August, 485 complaint calls were received by the local office, 368 of which required answering and investigation. Activities of a nightwatchman who patrols business houses from 10 p. m. to 6 a., m. revealed that eight businessmen during the month went home at least once each without locking their establishments es-tablishments for the night Preventative patrolling occupied occu-pied 1.496 hours of the force's time during the month, with 19 hours in accident investigation, 28 hours in court, 216 on parking meters, 132 on complaint investigation. investi-gation. 69 special duty, eight escorting.' four at fixed post and 496 office and radio work included in-cluded in the August activities. Legion Leaders Look Over New Charfer City News Briefs Mr. and Mrs. Homer F. Stephens Steph-ens (Beth Bird) have left for Portland, Ore., where Mr. Stephens' Steph-ens' will enter dental college. Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Broaddus are leaving for Roseburg, Ore., where'they will make their home. Mr. Broaddus' work will take him to Klamath Falls, Ore. The couple moved here several years ago from Roseburg. Mrs. Rhoda C. Nelson of Salt Lake City, has been spending the past few days in Provo with her brother and sister-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Ramsey. Mr. and Mrs. Erven Mills, Mr. and Mrs. Dee Mills of Ogden, Mr. and Mrs. C. N. Wakefield and Mrs. ! were in Provo to attend the wed-! ding reception honoring Mr. and Mrs. Oelbert Mills (Lois Young). SUNDAY HERALD 1 PAGE ,3 relatives, and friends in Provo! and Salt Lake the past week. Check Artist Lands in Jail Third South. Provo. and Arnold Dean Powell, Lehl. Max R. Brown forfeited $5 for driving from a two-week vacation trip to V , .! Y, T c- , , , southern California. They visited' Provo and passing fraudulent , Monroe Redd Jr., Salt Lake City. Mr. and Mrs. O. A. Anderson 'av .J IT -I 1 . . J L. C. Solomon, about 35, Provo, was in the Utah county jail to on two charges, embenle- S. S. Innis. in Long Beach, Whittier, and Los 'check for $31.11 on a local store Angeles, and in Santa Marie, Appearing in city court on both spent two days with Mr. and Mrs. charges, his preliminary hearing W. E. Sears, former Provoans. At' on the chock charge was con-Burbank con-Burbank they met their daughter, jtinued until September 16 and a Nan, who flew from San Fran- hearing on the embezzlement cisco where she is employed by charge was set for the same date, the government. ! His- bail is $1,000 cash or $2,000 : : : property . He is accused of em-Mr. em-Mr. and Mrs. II. A. Nelson, and bezzling money from Mr. Innis Mr. and Mrs. Merlin Nelson, alllwhlle acting as an agent for the of Rupert. Idaho, returned to Hatter in purchase of surplus war Idaho Friday after visiting a week in Provo with Mr. Nelson s mother, moth-er, Mrs. L. L. Nelson. Leaders of the Dean Mendenhall post 51 of the American Legion look over the po?t charter char-ter which was officially presented to them during their Charter night and officer installation installa-tion ceremonies held last night at the country club. .eft to right: Preston B. Hoopes, chairman of the entertainment committee: A. Sherman Christenson, state first vice commander and former post commander; A. Rex Dunford. post adjutant, and Robert S. Mooreficld, post commander. Statistics BORN Girl, to John and Lucille McAllister Mc-Allister Weenig. Saturday morning, morn-ing, Ogden hospital. Girl, to M. H. and Virginia Holder Drake, Saturday morning, Denver. LICENSED TO WED Fred Bowen, 29, American Fork and Delia Mae Healey, 22, Alpine. Willard E. Stott, 25, Payson and Evelyn R. Partridge, 21, Pay-sdh. Pay-sdh. Blaine R. Thorn, .19, Spring-vjlle Spring-vjlle and Shirley Johnson, 20, Springville. DIVORCF. ASKF.D Oscar W. Brock vs. Vera M. Smith Brock, desertion. DIVORCES GRANTED Elmo L. Dockstader from Leila Cook Dockstader. mental cruelty. Father given custodv of minor child. Merrit J. Larson from Ruby Miller Larson, menjal cruelty. Maiden name of defendant restored. re-stored. Roland Frank Thayer from Marian Lucille Rushton Thayer, mental cruelty. Maiden name of defendant restored. -Anita Van Wagonen-Bone from Eugene Ray Bone, mental cruelty. Plaintiff granted $25 monthly. DECREE VACATED On request of both parties, the divorce decree granted "July 29 to Mildred Peters Hardman and Guy Edward Hardman has been vacated and set aside. DIVORCES ASKED Margaret Kathleen Noel Rhodes vs. William Oliver Rhodes, mental cruelty. Married May 23. 1943. Plaintiff seeks restoration of maiden name. Walter Andrew Hansen vs. Vera Sorenson Hansen, mental cruelty. Married June 6, 1945. Elear.or Davis Lloyd vs. William Wil-liam A. Lloyd, intoxication. Married Mar-ried July 15, 1930. Plaintiff seeks restoration of maiden name. American Legion Charter Presented to Young Vets For the first time since the days , Dunford. adjutant: William Dun-following Dun-following World War I. ap Amer-ifo,. finance officer; Dallas ican Legion charter w as present-! Y T chaplain: Tom Pardo-. ed to a Provo group last night. when Kingsley Clawson. state L- historian, and Clyde Weeks, gion commander handed to Bob,sergeant-at-arms. Moorefield the Charter for the After th charter rframnnirt newly-organized Dean Menden-Uie colors were retired and the. nail posi oi ine nmci n.cu ajc- .... . gjon r post members and their partners Moorefield. Mendenhall post j enjoyed an evening of dancing, commander, accepted the charter Porcupines Seem Td Like It Here There's something about rrovo which porcupines seem to like. This somewhat dubious fact is now bMng studied by the city's boosters, in an attempt to determine whether its a compliment or otherwise but the' fact remains that the prickly little gentlemen come which was presented by a group, to town quite often. J. R. Coffin of St. Anthonv. Only the females of the mosquito mos-quito family suck blood. Mr. and Mrs. James E. Foltz and Mrs. Lila Coffman of Kil-gore, Kil-gore, Texas, are visiting Mr. and Mrs. Keith Hebertson. Mrs. Heb- ertson. who has been in Texas fori a few days the past two months has returned : : : home. The visitors are leaving! Mr. and Mm. R. Hnlaling of for Oregon and will be accom- j Helper are visitors in rrovo to- panied on the trip by Mr. Hebert- day. son. : : : : : : j Mrs. Mabel Sizemore's friends Mrs. Edna C. Harr and son Lee, j will be pleased to learn that she of Alhambra, Calif., have been is now established at Taylor's in visiting Mrs. Harr's mother. Mrs. a beautiful new Millinery De-Mary De-Mary C. Cluff of Pleasant Viewjpartment. Adv. property Nearly $100 was added to city coffers Friday and Saturday by traffic violation fines and for- Mr. and Mrs. F. Dale Tronkey.,"f"UICi- 'nciuaing. -iniora u moved to Salt Lake last week, and 'Christensen. American Fork, and r nUnnin. to make fhir h.m8 Rae Wells, Rt. 1. BOX 30. there while Mr. Trunkey attends the University of Utah. appeared to plead not guilty on stop sign charge and his trial was set for September 19. Evan Guy Nelson pleaded guilty to operating op-erating a taxicab without a license lic-ense and was fined $10, suspended suspend-ed il he gets a license by Monday. Provo, $15 each for speeding;! Maurinc LaFrance, no driver's! license, $15. and the following $15 ci:ch for running stop signs: Mrs. Ida..".V'.S,tlng fnends h?re for: Thomas K. Yeonfan, 473 East ELECTRIC SERVICE For expert motor and appliance ap-pliance repair. See. CHAPMAN ELECTRIC SERVICE 160 East 2nd South Satisfaction guaranteed C0AI KZABT NOW! For Immediate Delivery and Installation On F.H.A. Terms IFifcUAGgS APPLIANCE DEPT. Lamar May cock. Mgr. PHONE 28 on behalf of the new post at pre sentation ceremonies held last night at the golf country club as charter member of the World War II post looked on. The colorful and formal ceremony cere-mony was opened by the advan cing of the colors by a color j guard composed of Marine. Army) and Navy recruiters, all on ac-j tive duty, and post sergeant at arms Clyde Weeks. ; Feature of the ceremony was! the dramatized narrative of the: history of the American Legion composed of E. N. Ostler. Mau- rine Williams, Maree Rohbock.i Carol Stubbs and Kathryn Chris- tenson, directed by Phyllis Arm-; strong. This dramatization featured fea-tured songs of World War 1 andi II and was narrated by A. Sherman Sher-man Christenson. j Also honored at the charter, ceremony were Mr. and Mrs.' Harvey Mendenhall. parents of, Dean Mendenhall, after whom thej post was named. Dean was thri first of the Provo boys to die in action, being killed in a low level bombing attack on Japanese) destroyers in the Aleutians. State Commander Clawson. in presenting thr charter to Commander Com-mander Moorfield. congratulated the local post members on the; way they had gone ahead to or-! ganize a post of their own, and stated that he was proud to pre-; sent the charter to them. He was; answered by Commander Monro- ' field, and state vice-commander Sherman Christenson. who was the first commander of the local; post. After presentation of thr char-, ter. Fred Adamson. district com-, mander. installed the local of-' ficers. Bob Moorfield was in-! stalled commander: Vic Brim-, hall, vice-commander; A Rex One was found dead only a day or so ago on second west just off Center street, and another one. also deceased, was discovered a few days prior to that bark of store buildings just below Fourth West. About a year ago Provo police received an emergency call from alarmed city folk and killed one in the vicinity of First West and First North. The two most recent visits appeared to have ended in more or less natural demises, with no apparent violence as the cause of death. May be they figure Provo is a nice, peaceful place in which to die. I . j I"" "" ANOTHER FAMOUS NAME AT FIRMAGE'S AT THE END OF THE DAY lift mm m bum - m. JV 4ll SLa Eaie your feet into smooth comfort! The Roberfjon Shoe is built to satisfy... in fit and quality. 6.59 coC lYvft wr.O 0C f ' r NATIONALLY ADVIRTISED iFirmage's (Jood Things Come To Those Who Wait! Yes, those smart Van Heusrn Shirts, Pajamas and Ties are coming: your way. Maybe sooner than you think! We may not have them every time you a?k. but more and more keep coming, po if we're out next time you ask, keep trying, will you? 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