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Show 90 Percent of Provo Fires Caused By Hazards Which Could De Eliminated Fire hazards 'which could be eliminated are causing 90 percent per-cent of all fires- in Provo home and factories, Fire Chief Lloyd B. Dickson declared today in a direct appeal to Provo citizens lot active participation in the current clean-up campaign as a means of reducing fire danger. In a statement to business men. City Briefs Mr. and Mrs. Melvon L. Booth have returned by plane, to their home in Pendleton, Oregon, after spending the past two weeks visiting vis-iting relatives and friends in Provo and Heber. They are former form-er Provo residents. Mrs. Josephine Christensen, of Salt Lake CUy, is visiting with her son and daughter-in-law. Mr. end Mrs. N. LaVerl Christensen, at their, home in Provo. Dr. and Mrs, Elden D. Clark will leave Saturday for a trip to Arizona. Before returning home, they plan to visit their son and daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Elden Clark, who are living in Albuquerque, New Mexico, where Mr. Clark is attending school. Mr. and Mrs. James Duncan (Cleo Copeland) are planning to leave soon to make their home in Gary, Indiana. Mrs. August Schroder has returned re-turned to her home in Vineyard after spending the past seven weeks in Whittier, Calif., where she visited her daughter, Mrs. Dan Larrabee, who has been ill. Mrs. Wesley P. Lloyd is expected expect-ed to return to her home in Provo Friday, after spending the past two weeks visiting with relatives and friends in Gunnell, Iowa and Chicago, 111. Suzanne Harris, small daughter daugh-ter of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Harris, Har-ris, is resting at home after a fall from a ladder, Wednesday. She suffered severe lacerations of the face. Wanted dependable t"lrl te work at A & W Drive Inn. Apply at A & W Drive Inn. 129 South University. Uni-versity. (adv.) Statistics BORN At Utah Valley hospital: Boy, today, to Robert A. and Ruby Mackey Garity. Boy, today, to Wayne and Mildred Gulledge Dowdle. Boy. Thursday, to Jack and LaRae Allman Davies, Wenatchee, Washington. DIVORCES ASKED W. G. Overly vs. Buelah B. Overly, mental cruelty. Married Oct. 11. 1905. Plaintiff offers $50 monthly and ''equitable property distribution-' to defendant. Thelma Davis Holliman vs. Ed- it ..n : u.. , . . i gar c. nuiiiiiian, crueiiy. luarneu i Feb. 8. 1946. Plaintiff seeks cus- today of minor child and $1001 monthly. DIVORCE GRANTED James B. Howe from Kath-erinea Kath-erinea Augustine Howe, mental cruelty. house holders and the public at large, the fire chief urged an or ganized, concerted elfort to earn inate hazards in Provo, stores hones and factories. "Current fire losses are smashing smash-ing all previous records," he said. "I can t emphasize individual re sponsibility too strongly as a means -of eliminating losses which arc so hampering our effort to achieve a normal supply of goods. equipment, and especially homes. I would like to see Provo set an example in fire safety by mak ins spring clean-up an occasion to get rid of all needless lire breeders." The chief declared that 90 per cent of all fires could be prevented pre-vented by simple, daily precau tions such as .cleaning out rub bish and correcting other obvious fire hazards. "The fire department is al ways ready with advice and sug gestkms to all citizens on the matter of fire prevention and pro tection.' Dickson asserted, "but all the advice in the world is useless unless it is enthusiastical ly followed. The fire department can rush assistance u lire DreaKs out, but only the individual can eliminate the fire hazards. Blue Cross Plon Shows Growth More than 1050 Blue Cross pa tients were admitted during the month of March to the hospitals in the intermountain area s com pared with 838 for February, announced an-nounced D. O. Wight, executive director of the Intermountain Blue Cross hospital service plan. The total Expenditure by the Blue Cross plan to pay for the hospital expenses incurred by these patients was $38,192.81. This was 79.2 per cent of the total income in-come for the Blue Cross plan during the month of March. The Thomas D. Dee Memorial hospital, Ogden, led the hospitals in the services rendered showing a total expense of $5,755.80. The Dr. Grove's LDS hospital and the Holy Cross hospital of Salt Lake City, were second and third with $5,716.42 and $3,523.50 respectively. respec-tively. The average length of stay in the hospital for each patient was seven days. DAILY HERALD Friday, April IS, 147 Naval Air Reserve To Be Formed At 7:30 p. m. Wednesday, a meeting has been called of all former naval aviation personnel Interested in forming a volunteer naval flying unit im Salt Lake City. The meeting will be held at 143 South Main street. Salt Lake, according to Lieutenant Kenneth Olson, TJSNR, who has made- arrangements.- Purpoc of the meeting is to definitely form unit from which expansion) will take place if sufficient suf-ficient interest ia aroused to warrant war-rant expansion of mea, material, and facilities. Considerable preliminary work has been accomplished and all officers and men who were formerly form-erly connected with naval aviation avia-tion ' in any capacity residing in the Salt Lake City, Ogden, Provo, Pro-vo, Logan areas are urged to attend at-tend this meeting. Lieutenant Olson Ol-son further stated. Lehi High tfcmas M7 Valedictorian LEHI Miss Betty Norberf, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lester N. . Norberg, will represent her classmates as valedictorian at the 1947 graduation exercises of Lehi high school, announces Principal Lloyd B. Adamson Ernest' Webb, son of Mrs. Alta B. Webb, will be class salutatorian at the exercises, scheduled May 22, Mr. Adamson said. Miss Norberg has been a member mem-ber of the high school orchestra and band, member of the Future Homemakcrs of America organization, organi-zation, and active in the Booster Girls' club in addition to having an outstanding scholastic record. Mr. Webb was president of the sophomore class, served as stu dent program chairman, and Is student body president this year. He played leading roles in school operas and plays and co-captained the 1948 football team. AFL Conference . Convenes In S. L. SALT LAKE CITY, April 18 (U.R) Delegates from 11 western states were gathering here today for the American Federation of Labor conference which opens tomorrow. Conference business is expected expect-ed to deal with a wide variety of current labor problems, including includ-ing legislative, compensation and organizational plans. The first arrival to the conference confer-ence was Leonard Hall, secretary-treasurer of the Idaho federation fed-eration who arrived here last night for a pre-convention con ference. AFTER 98 YEARS FRANKFORT, Me. (U.R) The Frankfort Congregational church, erected 98 years ago, has just had the first wedding in its history. Doyou suffer fJOJTHY FEMALE PAW? This great medicine la famous to relieve pain, nervous distress snd weak, cranky, 'dragged ouf feelings, feel-ings, of such days when due to female fe-male functional monthly disturbances. distur-bances. Also flfle stomachic tonic! 1)774 . PI H MALI'S KSWK. (Adv. Job Examinations Slated Saturday Candidates applying for 14 types of positions with the Utah state departments of public welfare, wel-fare, employment security, and health will begin merit examinations examin-ations at 8 a. m. Saturday in the Brimhall building on the Brig-ham Brig-ham Young university campus, according to Evan M. Croft, regional re-gional examiner -for the Utah state merit system council. Morning examinations, conducted con-ducted in rooms 360-390 Brimhall will consist of tests evaluating education and experience of applicants ap-plicants and practical written examinations. ex-aminations. Performance tests at 2 p. m. concludes the examination. MOVING SALE USED PIANOS OCABLE NELSON (Cabinet Grand) OWURLITZER (Upright) OSCHRIVER, Apollo Grand OSCHAFF BROS. OLUDWIG, Bellman Player. Players, Uprights, Spinets, Grands $125.00 and up See The New STORY AND CLARK SPINETS And The New Miracle Ronald Stuart Spinets Used Saxophones, Clarinets, Violin Bargains, New Public Address, New Small Radios and Combinations. Records Originally 79c each now 4 For $1.00 35 North Third West PROVO, UTAH . Two Utah County Sailors At Sea Eugene Finneran, radioman third class, son of Lela Finneran Finner-an of American Fork, ia serving aboard the cruiser USS Columbus Colum-bus in the China area. Earl Meyer. 20, machinist's mate third class, son ef Mrs. Dell Huff. Route 1, Springville, is serving aboard the destroyer USS Moale. He entered the naval service ser-vice Feb. 19, 1944. Chinese Riddle Fcrms Theme Of Kvranis Speaker China is a land of paradoxes confusion and an Oriental psychology psy-chology difficult for the western mind to fathom, Rev. Herman Klein, told the members of the Prove Kiwanis club in a talk at the club luncheon-meeting Thursday. Thurs-day. Rev. Klein who spent over 20 years in China as an American missionary, pointed out that confusion con-fusion arising out of the re bellion In 1910 has plagued tho country ever since. Illiteracy, poverty and lack of national unity are among the underlying causes of the nation's ills. Only 6 per cent of the Chinese people can read and write, and less than 10 per cent are adequately ade-quately nourished, he declared. He predicted that there never would be any compromise with these Chinese communists, because be-cause compromise is unknown to their ideology. Erwin Nelson was chairman of the program with President K. E. 'Bob' Bullock In charge. Mr. Bullock and LeRoy J. Olsen, club secretary, were named delegates to the Kiwanis International convention con-vention in Chicago, Juno 2s-July 3. Two alternates will be named at the next meeting. Plana for the second annual vocational clinic for the Provo high school students on April 24, were announced by K. E. Weight The club will send a representative representa-tive delegation to the SpriagviUe Kiwanis art dinner, tonight, headed head-ed by J. W. Christensen, Jr. Guests were William Earl Stowell, John Clarke, principal of BY high; Erwin G. Strong, Rev. Edwin F. Irwin, Clug Vacher and two high school students, officers of the new key club, sponsored by the Kiwaniana at the high school. ' New members of the club are Verl Dixon, John Quist. William Smith and J. Earl Lewis, city commissioner. Sharon Eagle Scouts to Meet A meeting of Eagle scouts of Sharon district will be held at the home of Cliff Fielding in Orem Saturday at 4:30 p. m., according to Lortn E. Millet, secretary. All Eagles are requested to attend at-tend and bring all available merit badge pamphlets to help form a library for use of scouts in the district. City Officials Of 4 Counties Await Provo Confab Monday Justification of the Utah muni cipal league's program during the last legislature, and how cities can best utilize their gains won; from that session, are expected to be major topics of speakers at a regional league conference in Provo Monday. City officials from Utah. Tooele, Wasatch and Juab counties are expected to attend. at-tend. The conference is the first of several planned throughout the state by the league. It will be held in the north court room of the city and county building, with sessions begining at 10 a. m. and continuing until late afternoon. B. H. Stringham, Vernal, Utah municipal league president, will be the principal speaker at a noon luncheon at Keeley's for all delegates. The principal treat ment of the league's gains at the last legislature, their justification and how they may best be used is expected to come from him. The convention will be held In cooperation with the state board of vocational education, in-service public training division. The conclave will open at 10 a. m. wun a cuscussion on city sewer systems by Lynn Thatcher,) state sanitary engineer, and Newell New-ell W. Pickett, chief sanitarian for the state board of health. At 11 a. m. the municipal em ployes' retirement act will bei discussed by A. Pratt Kesler, assistant as-sistant city attorney for Salt Lake City. Afternoon sessions will open at 1:30 p. m. with the following discussions: dis-cussions: New B and C road fund act, John G. Davis, administrator of the road funds; 2rl5ip. m., new city, town and county liquor control fund act, Gerald Irvine, legal consultant for the municipal munici-pal league; 3 p. m., construction and maintenance of municipal waterworks systems, Carl Painter, secretary-treasurer of the American Amer-ican Society of Civil Engineers; 3:45 p. m., federal and state aid airport acts, Joseph Bergin, state CAA director. ielps earnest mxdkiff ams rancnr CMTMS ttfJUK tji RUUTU Sold Everywhere M 50 GLADIOLUS BULBS $1.00 Prepaid A true ratab.w collection of giant flowered arletiac Y.ung. vigor-cm vigor-cm sulks 3f) that will brighten ? garden this svaua.r. Satisfaction Satis-faction guarantees. WESTWARD HO NURSERY onovm e. .cam. Is Here! Heat your water this summer the copl way. Why suffer the intense heat of a coal range during the hot summer months. Replace that old range boiler with a new up-to-date gas or electric water heater, and enjoy a cool house when summery heat arrives. ar-rives. 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Men's Courtleigh Broadcloth PAJAMAS 4? A fine quality hroadclotl; j'ajamn in pin stripe or fancy wide slripcil Men's Campus SWEATERS Kelly Green - Royal Blue Men's sweaters in Provo High green B.Y.U. Blue. Also in white. 100 'h wool Sizes 36 to -16. 3 1 ::..: . 4 s Men's Courtleigh Sport SHIRTS Courtleigh shirts in washable rayon broadcloth, 2 way.Coliar! . rw - v Men'sVCampus TEE SHIRTS 1.49 to 1.98 Fancy or solid color knit tee shirts for spring and summer. White sciwy shirt 98c 6 |