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Show 1 AGE4 PxvggT SUNDAY HERALD Citizens Group At Springville Votes To Send Grade Students To School; Fire Escapes Ready A threatened stay-away-from-school strike of 1,000 Springville elementary - students was apparently appar-ently averted today, when a citizens' citi-zens' committee decided Saturday they will advise parents to send their children to school tomorrow tomor-row morning. The committee of eight, headed by Blaine F. Thorpe as chairman, inspected the Jefferson, Lincoln and Grant elementary school and decided newly installed fire escapes would be ready for school Monday, and that other fireproof -ing work was proceeding to their satisfaction. The committee's decision was prompted by the fact that the city fire chief recommended the schools were safe for occupancy "for the time being." The committee, claiming to represent 1,600 local parents, had, threatened to call a student strike and advise parents to keep their children home until the fire safety steps had been taken. The Nebo district school board then called a one week "harvest vacation" vaca-tion" in the Springville and Ma pie ton area, meanwhile rushing rush-ing work on the fire escapes for the three buildings. The vacation ended Friday and school is scheduled sche-duled to begin Monday morning. It began last Monday in other areas of the Nebo district Mr. Thorpe said Saturday his committee would recommend that! the children enter school in the! morning, with the provision that the school board guarantee completion com-pletion of several fire preventative preventa-tive steps in addition to the fire escapes. These include, he said,! work on th school furnace rooms, covering furnace doors with as-1 bestos, patching holes in ceiling! over turnace rooms and other details de-tails as soon as materials become available. Mr. Thorpe emphasized that) Springville citizens will continue their efforts to get a new elementary elemen-tary school building for Springville. Spring-ville. This building, he said, should be in addition to the existing exist-ing ones, and not merely to replace re-place one of them. Springvile elementary students are now crowded 45 and 50 to a room, he declared. On Thursday afternoon a group of Springville citizens accompanied accom-panied by Superintendent Owen L. Barnett, George Cheever, president pres-ident of the board of education, and Bert Bowen, maintenance and construction supervisor for the school district, visited the three elementary schools in question. ques-tion. At this time, Superintendent Barnett ordered a steel cabinet brought to the Jefferson school to store paint, oil mops and other janitor's supplies which had previously pre-viously had to be kept close to the furnace room. He also stated that the large pipe in the furnace room at this school would be covered cov-ered and a wooden door nearby, which is scorched brown from heat from the pipe, will also be covered. The superintendent also ordered order-ed a door cut between two rooms on the second floor of the Grant school to provide a shorter route to the fire escape. Mapleton Peaches Get Recognition MAPLETON Mapleton as a fruit center will be advertised adver-tised throughout the country when the fancy boxes of peaches being shipped from the Joseph Carnesecca and Louis Bleggi farms reach their destination. A store in Salt Lake City has made arrangements with these two growers to purchase pur-chase boxes of peaches. 12 to a box, which when packed will sell for $1.75. The box of 12 peaches weighs 12 pounds. Peaches from the two Mapleton Ma-pleton orchards were selected se-lected after several other Idealities Id-ealities were sampled. Lehi Boosts Water Rates LEHI Lehi city water rates will be increased October 1, according ac-cording to an announcement Friday. Fri-day. The new rates will be $6 per half year or $1 per month, instead of the $4.50 rate now in effect. Outside rates will be increased to $6.50 per month. Connection fees will be $20 and $30. The increase in revenue will be used to retire existing water bonds and for improvement of the water mains throughout the city. Patrolman Speaks At Safety Meet SPANISH FORK Melvin Grant, of the Utah highway pa trol, addressed the students of the Spanish Fork high school at a safety meeting sponsored by the local Jaycees, Friday. The program was arranged under un-der the direction of the Paul Lambert, Jaycee safety chairman and Alton Dame. community safety director and also featured a motion picture on the subject of safety. The program was held at 11 a. m. and Angus Christen-sen, Christen-sen, principal assisted with the arrangements. MEN & WOMEN WORKERS WANTED We have operHngs for" day and night shift wortc for 150 women and girls and 50 men. Steady employment employ-ment at least until Xmas. Anyone interested please phone or come to our plant Intermountdin Food Co. $rfl East and 6th South '-.'- Phone 2420 Vineyard Man Named To School Board LEHI Clare'nce N. Gammon of Vineyard has been appointed member of the Alpine school district dis-trict board to succeed Jesse Sum-sion Sum-sion who recently resigned. Mr. Gammon will act as board rrtem-ber rrtem-ber for the unexpired term, or until January 1, 1949. Rheumatic Fever Foundation To Map Activities The Rheumatic Fever Founda tion of Utah county will meet at 7 p.m. Monday in the basement of the city library to map preliminary pre-liminary plans for an active season sea-son of benefit entertainments and preliminary plans for an active season of benefit entertainments and other activities, officers announced an-nounced Saturday. Incorporated several months ago to combat rheumatic fever in Utah county, estimated to "have 2.000 persons either present or past victims of the disease, the foundation has the support of several leading civic organizations organiza-tions in addition to local medical circles. Pledges of support have been received from the local Veterans of Foreign Wars post and the Provo junior chamber of commerce, com-merce, with Alfred Carter, Ivan Farnsworth and Marter Johnson already named as a committee from the V. F. W. Ray Murdock. Jaycee president, has promised a committee from his organization soon to work with the foundation. T. R. Brown, Provo, is foundation founda-tion president. Art Gallery Visited By Noted Guests SPRINGVILLE The Spring yille high school art gallery is visited almost weekly throughout the summer by noted persons from faraway places as well as those from over the state, according accord-ing to Mrs. Mae Huntington. Among the most noted as well as interesting of the summer was J. W. Young of Chicago. 111., who in company with W. W. Ritter, head of the school of law at the University of Utah, visited the gallery recently. A prominent art dealer and one of the noted art critics of the country. Mr. Young was amazed to find such an art collection in a town the size of Springville. He marveled at the number of well-known artists whose work, in represented in the collection at the Springville high school art gallery and was very much interested in-terested in the origin of the project pro-ject and how it is carried on. Spanish Fork Calls Meeting SPANISH FORK A public meeting will be held for all citi zens of Spanish Fork Monday at 8 p. m. at the junior high school auditorium. Every citizen of the community is invited to attend. Several important problems con fronting the citizens will be dis cussed, and plans will be made for the celebrations to be held in 1947 in connection with the ob servance of the Utah Centennial Official Emblem Gunshot Wound Suffered By Thistle Boy, 14 SPANISH FORK Reed Ob erhansley, 14. year old son of Bert 'and Hattie Bowen Ober-hansley Ober-hansley of Thistle is improving at his home following an accident acci-dent in which he was injured by a .22 caliber bullet. Reed was hunting on the Lassen ranch near Birdseye with three other boys, his younger brother. Calvin Lasson and Junior Gardner. Gard-ner. The boys killed a rabbit and Reed put down his gun to get the rabbit out of some rocks when the gun accidentally discharged. The bullet tore through the fingers of his left hand and lodged lodg-ed in his body near the groin. He was taken to the local hospital but because of the extreme swelling swel-ling it was deemed inadvisable to remove the bullet: He is being cared for by the family physician at his home. I Local Demand For (Workers Increases (" Trends in labor demand in reflation re-flation to supply in various skilled j as well as unskilled workers, change with almost unbelieve-!able unbelieve-!able speed, H. F. Tucker, manager man-ager of the United States employment em-ployment service in Provo, said Saturday. The demand by non-1 non-1 seasonal employers has increased greatly. I It is not an uncommon thing (for this office to receive an order or-der for from 50 to 100 workers High School At Spanish Fork Names Officers SPANISH FORK Class officers of-ficers of the Spanish Fork high school for 1946-47 have been elected during the past week as follows: Seniors Bruce Brockbank, president: Delores Adamson, secretary; sec-retary; Larry Taylor, Marlene McKell. and Allen Creer, representatives. Juniors Junior Farley, presi dent; Margaret Cope, secretary; Elayne Hansen. Ray Huff and Keith Hone, representatives. Sophomores Ted Money, president; Arlene Aitkin, secretary; secre-tary; Shirley Adamson. Teddy Hanks and Rex Pinegar, representatives. repre-sentatives. Student body officers Howard Francis, president; Sherrone Robertson Rob-ertson secretary; Paul Brockbank, Mary Otteson and Richard Jones, council members. The first student function was a get-acquainted-party held in the high school gymnasium, Friday Fri-day evening. Sept. 13 . ANNOUNCING.. THE OPENING OF an-dC WAR SURPLUS STORE -At 348 WEST CENTER ST., PROVO IN CONNECTION WITH WASATCH FURNACE & APPLIANCE CO. WE WILL CARRY XLL TYPES OF WAR SURPLUS MERCHANDISE '- NOW IN STOCK - White Navy Blankets Gray Army Blankets Comforters Rubber Lace Boots Knee Rubber Boots Waist length Fleece Lined Jackets Sheepskin Lined Knee Length Coats 6-Piece Arctic Army Ski Suits Blanked Lined Flyer's Trousers Camping Kits Wrenches Sponges Steel Wool Washable Furnace Filters Some Items Are Short And Will Be Limited One To A Customer from one employer, a condition .unheard of a few months ago. What makes this demand even imore attractive is the fact that they are for steady local employment employ-ment where formerly much of I the danmd was for jobs outside the area served by this office some even out of the state. : "However, this does not mean that the demand for workers outside out-side the state or area has decreased, de-creased, but only that we have more local offers of work," Mr. Tucker said. Mr. Tucker said that in checking check-ing over the orders in the office Friday there was a local demand for 300 male workers in addition to numerous openings for women. Most of the demand for female workers is in fields such as clerical, sales, and service. Above is a reproduction of the official of-ficial Utah centennial emblem, with the front at top and the back at the bottom of the illustration. illus-tration. Utah Centennial To Have Emblem Utah will have an official emblem for the Utah centennial in 1947, David R. Trevithick, public relations director, announces. an-nounces. The emblem will be used on souvenir coins, medals, trophies, or for any other purposes pur-poses for which it is adaptable. The emblem was created by Avard Fairbanks, noted artist and sculptor, and a native of Utah. He is well known throughout through-out the art centers of the world, and has recently been retained by the art department of the Michigan university, at Ann Arbor. Ar-bor. Michigan. The emblem was designed for the centennial commission com-mission while Mr. Fairbanks was vacationing in his native state this summer. There is great strength and depth of feeling in the simple, coin-like design. The front, pictured pic-tured at top above, depicts in a prayerful pose, a pioneer of 1847, viewing the unending trek of the pioneers. In the panel below is the pioneer mother, with children chil-dren who participated in the grand adventure. The feeling which inspired and pioneers and their descendants today Is told in the simple inscription: "Our Heritage: Gained by Brawn and Toil; Guided by Faith and Vision and Courage." Copyright for the emblem has been applied for by the Centennial Centen-nial Commission. Special permission permis-sion will be required for its use. Reynolds Bid Low For River Bridge SALT LAKE CITY. Sept 14 Oj.R) The Utah State Road commission com-mission today announced that F. T RtvnnHi of T J vton has sub mitted the low bid of $102,509 for construction oi a new concrete spanning the Green river in southeastern Utah. Commission officers also announced an-nounced that Floyd S. Whiting. Salt Lake City firm, submitted a low bid of $153,503 for new surfacing sur-facing on 12.2 miles of the new Castle-Modena highway. Ail of the common Illinois grasses and legumes are suitable for silage. City Planning Fund Used Up For This Year Provo city's 1946 planning budget bud-get is now exhausted. County Planning Director Dale Despain has informed the city commission. The commission appropriated $1,000 at the beginning of the year for planning expenses. Mr. Despain lists principal accomplishments accom-plishments of the planning department de-partment for the city during the year to include work on zoning, streets and recreation. Revision of the zoning ordinance, ordi-nance, started in 1945, was completed, com-pleted, incorporating several provisions pro-visions claimed by the planning board and director as beneficial to the future growth of the city and in the current general live-ableness. live-ableness. Preliminary road studies stu-dies have been made by the plan ning department for expansion both in the northeast and northwest north-west parts of the city. Recreational Recrea-tional areas have been designed in Provo canyon to provide added facilities for picnicing and camping. Springville To Celebrate 96th Birthday At Wednesday Fete SPRINGVILLE The ninety-sixth ninety-sixth anniversary of the settlement settle-ment of Springville will be celebrated cele-brated with a pioneer program Lehi Brick Plant Gets Five Bids p.m., at th A total of five bids was received re-ceived for the Lehi silica brick plant, two of them from the same company, it was learned Saturday Satur-day when addititonal details of the bidding were made available by regional WAA officials. Top bid of $375,000 came from the General Refractories company com-pany of Philadelphia. Second highest bid. for an outright purchase pur-chase of $225,000, was submitted by Gladding-McBean company, the firm that operated the plant for the government during the war. This company placed an alternate bid offering to pay $100,000 down, $120,000 more over a five-year-period and further fur-ther payment based on net sales over a five-vear period not to exceed $100,000. I Third high bidder was the Utah; Fire Clav comoany of oalt iaKe City with $210,000. This was the only local firm to submit a bid. The only other bidder was Shen-tandoah Shen-tandoah Brick and Tile company of Winchester. Va., which offered $120,000. WAA officials Saturday gave I no indication as to when the final ! award will be made in, Washington, Washing-ton, D. C. Wednesday, at 3 Relic hall. The program is sponsored by the Daughters of Utah Pioneers of Springville and Mapleton and will include an address by Mayor Glen W. Sumsion as well as tributes trib-utes to the first settlers and their descendants, musical numbers and readings. Mrs. Florence Boyer. president of the Springville-Mapleton organization or-ganization will be in charge of the anniversary program, assisted by officers of each D.U.P. camp. Those who desire are asked to bring their basket lunches and. join in a social after the program. Salt Lake Child Dies of Polio SALT LAKE CITY. Sept. 14 (U.E) Eight-year-old Rosemary Campbell, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Camnbell of Salt Tjk City, today had become Utah's inira ponomyemis victim of 1846. She succumbed last night in Salt Lake hospital after an illness ill-ness of three days. KANTEEN TO REOPEN The Provo high school Teen ; Canteen will reopen Monday for the rest of the school year with ! all boys and girls from 15 to 20 I invited to drop in. The canteen 'will be open Monday. Wednesday and Thursday nights for the remainder re-mainder of the winter from 6:30 Ito 10 p. m. Delbert Tregeagle and Stan Gunn are the canteen super visors. TlTi-a rl COAl KcADT NOW I For Immediate Delivery and Installation On F.H.A. Terms APPLIANCE DEPT. Lamar Maycock, Mgr. PHONE 28 Council Organized To Study Road Plan . A seven - man neighborhood council has been organized in the Pleasant View area to work toward an a"reptable road plan in light of possible future developments de-velopments in ftp region. The council includes Clarence Ashton, Ed Stein. George Ashby.! Bliss Allred. George Johnson. Stanley Roberts and Antony Gleason. The council met re-; cently and decided to study the matter of working out a road development plan, and to take advantage of facilities offered by the county planning office. The general area represented by the council lies east of the Provo canyon road and south of the Rock canyon road. y mm kewsQ 2 Vets just opened a shop in Provo We specialize in Motor Tune-up and Automotive Electrical work. Come in and let us fix those little things in your motor that make such a big difference in its performance. We also carry a supply of 'accessories, plugs, windshield wipers, and radiator cleaners. Also, we do brake lining, located 95 West Center, formerly the Railway Express office. 5 WEST CENTER Deposit For The Future The Squirrel depends upon its natural instinct to provide for the future. Man can learn a lesson from this nimble little animal. Thinking ahead electrically NOW will prove a wise deposit when necessity arises. Malone Electric Co. Certified Industrial A Domestic Wiring Specialized Commercial Refrigeration PHONE 71 m n, JEj Hi ICj ID Jl M m There will be more time for leisure in this modern, electrical way of life. Just flick the switch on this electric range to get 'accurate heat and temperature control. Everything right at your fingertips roomy refrigerator, capacious deep freeze unit, automatic dish washer and drier, hot water heater your obedient servants. Make your plans NOW for your all-electric kitchen r am fl J Tune in KOVO each Friday at 10:30 a. for Gertrude Wiseman's Home Serrfce Program V 9 -'A |