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Show 2 Wednesday, April 231947 City Studies Cultivation Of Unused Portions Of Airport A study of the Provo airport area not occupied by runways or airport facilities is being made by the city commission with the idea that these areas may be cultivated, according to Mayor Mark Anderson. Agricultural experts are being consulted and it is expected a plan for improvement and cultivation culti-vation of extensive areas within the airport will be ready soon, the mayor said. Farming of these areas will largely rid the airport of the weed menace and greatly improve im-prove the appearance of the grounds and provide crops of considerable value, the com mission believes. Discussing the proposed plan. Mayor Anderson said in a statement state-ment today: ' "The City commission will soon decide whether the lands within the airport dike are to be leased to farmers or cultivated and cropped crop-ped by the city itself. In either event the farming operations must be conducted in such a way that flying- will in no way be interfered inter-fered with. Livestock must not be pastured within the airport at any time because they constitute a serious hazard to planes. "The entire airport area was fenced in 1943 to keep livestock) from getting on the runways. This fence location will be revised tome inclosing a smaller area than originally fenced. The principal prin-cipal fence will eventually be located on or near the dike. with few interior fences. "Any surplus land outside the dike that the city has acquired will be disposed of either by sale or lease. The city will retain title to and supervision over all the land that the City has acquired . within the dike. But there will be about 350 acres of reclaimed re-claimed land within the dike that will be planted to crops. "Now that this land is protected igainst flooding and the water If i',ti' rf.Ui.iirrTilr iiiimmi MR. RALPH MILLER Announces MIDGET CAR RACING In Provo Watch" for Opening Announcement CAR ON DISPLAY AT ANDERSON'S 241 West Center See what the 37 East 8th South, Springville say about our service ! I . DAILY HERALD level has been lowered several feet by deep moat and pumps, alfalfa and other cultivated crops can be grown. A soil survey of several years ago shows the soil to be rather poor but draining is expected to greatly improve the soil by removal of minerals injurious in-jurious to crops. The city should realize an income from this reclaimed re-claimed ground sufficient to pay for pumping and all other main tenance costs including interest on the city's part of the airport investment. "It is expected that the city will pay a fair price for the land based on values prevailing prior to the construction of the airport. But we must make sure that we are paying the rightful claimants in each case, and that the city is not paying excessive prices for any of this lake land." Vocational Meet Slated Thursday Sponsored by the Provo Kl-wania Kl-wania club, the second annual vocational vo-cational conference will be held at the Provo high school, Thursday Thurs-day under the direction of Principal Prin-cipal K. E. Weight. The conference will get under way with a general assembly in the auditorium at 9 a.m. at which the general plan of the conference confer-ence will be explained. Following Follow-ing this will be a series of class room discussions with 28 vocational voca-tional fields represented. Speakers Speak-ers well versed in each of these vocations . will speak to each group and answer questions presented pre-sented by the students interested in the trades or professions. W' Tho Kiwnnlq rlnh ha aecured vocational counselors to direct each class room discussion and speakers acquainted with each vocation by actual experience, will be present. Children playing with matches started 23,500 fires in the United States during 1945. issues of Phone Spr. 385 FOR. Jaycees to Crown Cleanup King, Queen Saturday Provo school children who wish to participate in the clean-up King and Queen contest were reminded re-minded today that the final week of the annual Jaycee clean-up campaign is coming to a close and all work necessary to qualify for the contest must be completed. by Saturday . Cards listing the clean-up projects pro-jects of each child must be signed by his block captain or by one of the jaycees in order for the con testant to be eligible to march in the big parade which will begin Saturday at 8:30 a. m. at Pioneer park and proceed up Center street to the Paramount theater where the free show will be held. The Jaycee committeemen also warned the students that they must fill in the stub at the bottom bot-tom of their contest card correctly, correct-ly, listing their name and address, and drop one of the stubs in 9 box af the theatre Saturday morning while retaining the other. The King and Queen will be crowned at the conclusion of the free show, and the winners awarded prizes. Among the prizes the King and Queen will receive will be a complete new outfit of clothes donated by a local merchant, mer-chant, a new bicycle each and a trip to Salt Lake City as guest of the Provo junior chamber of commerce. Other prizes will be awarded participants. Orem Garden Club Holds Flower Sale OREM, April 23 "Plant Auction Auc-tion Night," sponsored by the Orem Garden Club, will be held at Edgemont chapel at 7:30 Thursday evening, according to Mrs. Clarence York, publicity chairman. Antone Rohbock will be the speaker and anyone interested in flower gardening and beautifying their home surroundings is invited. in-vited. To insure a large crowd and increased membership, Mrs. Irene Turscanski will give six painted daisy .plants to the person bringing bring-ing the most new members. An auctioneer will sell plants brought by club members from their own gardens. Limerick Contest Closes April 30 The Centennial beautification limerick contest will end April 30, according to Glenn R. Ken- ner, city . Centennial chairman. More than 100 entries have been submitted, indicating wide interest in the contest, Mr. Ken- ner said. Judging .will be done May 1 when winners of first, second and i third places will be announced. Prizes of $5, $3 and 2 will be ; awarded. Block captains throughout the city are busy contacting home owners, urging spring clean-up, painting, and beautification activities. activ-ities. Removal of old buildings land fences, cleaning of vacant : lots, and planting flowers and shrubs are projects being en- icouraged, according to Max Berg. I clean-up chairman. Teacher Wages Still Undecided Because complete plans were not available for study on the new Provo high athletic field development, de-velopment, the Provo school district board of education did not meet Tuesday night as scheduled. Superintendent J. C. Moffitt said today. The matter of teachers' salaries will be taken Up by the board "very soon," he said, although nothing further has been done yet. The board must act on them soon if contracts are to be mailed out on schedule. Deaths Infant Guajardo PITTSBURGH. Calif. Trinidad Trini-dad Ernesto Guajardo, 2-months-old son of J. M. and Ruth Mitchell Guajardo, died Apr. 13 in the Pittsburg Community hospital. The infant, whose parents have lived in Pittsburg a year, leaves a sister, Ruth Jo and his grandparents, grand-parents, Mr. and Mrs. Trinidad Guajardo, Mexico City, and Mr. and Mrs. William H. Mitchell. Provo. Funeral services were held under un-der direction of Finley Pearce of the LDS church. City Briefs ; Mr. and Mrs. William R. Green and Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Sumner have returned from a trip to Reno, Nevada. They were met by Mr. and Mrs. Bob Evans, of San Francisco, daughter and son-in-law of Mr. and Mrs. Green. Bert Giles, Fireman 2c. U. S. Navy, has been visiting in Provo with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Alton Giles. The young man has just returned from an 8 month cruise in the Pacific. He expects ito leave in May for a cruise to Point Barrow. Alaska, on the ship USS Union 106. His home port is Bremerton, Washington. He was in Provo for two weeks. Arch Chamberlin, of Ely, Nevada Nev-ada has been visiting in Provo and Salt Lake City with relatives and friends. Mr. and Mrs. James Dnncan (Cleo Coplen) will leave at the end of this week for Gary, Indiana, In-diana, where they will make their home. Mrs. Duncan has been laboratory technician at Utah Valley hospital, Mr. Duncan, son of Mr. and Mrs. Edwin W. Duncan, Dun-can, of Provo. has been associated with Geneva Steel. Deloyal W. Bills, seaman first class, son of Mrs. LeRoy Bills, 210 North Fourth West, is on leave from the aircraft carrier, USS Boxer. Seaman Bills was graduated gradu-ated from Provo high school prior to entering the navy in June 1946. He took recruit training at San Diego and attended storekeepers store-keepers school at Bainbridge, Md. Statistics LICENSED TO WED Max LaMar Leigh, 17. Ogden and Carol June Nielson, 16, Ogden. Og-den. Melvin Kenneth Hodson, 22, Provo and Betty Jean Loghy, 17, Orem. BORN At Utah Valley hospital: Girl, Tuesday, to Earl H. and Colleen Page Hamilton. Girl, Tuesday, to Cheslie A. and Bertha Hooks Ramsey. Boy, Tuesday, to Francisco and Madge Nelson Pino. Boy, today, to Jack V Georgette Fretz Peterson. Bov. todav. to Stanley and and Ardith King Udall. Boy, today, to Franklin D. and Alice Adams LeFevre. Girl. Tuesday, to Stanley Dale and Ruth Collins Trunkey, at LDS hospital. Salt Lake City. The babe is the first grandchild of Mr. and Mrs. James K. irunicey oi Provo. Bank to Install Teller Machines Installation of the latest teller's machines will be completed at the Farmers and Merchants bank to go into operation on May 1, it was announced today by Alex Hed-quist. Hed-quist. president of the institution. The new system aoes away with the need of pass books in making deposits for checking accounts ac-counts and saves considerable time for the customers as well as the banking personnel. Checking depositors will fill in and present deposit slips, just as oeiore, dui they won't have to wait for recording re-cording deposits in passbooks iwith pen and ink as at present. The teller registers and receipts the deposits by machine and gives the depositor a printed receipt which is an exact transcription of the record on bank's books. The printed deposit receipts are as ronriDlete and as accurate in every respect for the customer's records as the cancelled checks are for withdrawals. Similar machines have been installed by the leading banks in the larger cities of the nation and have proved popular with ' bank tellers as well as the public everywhere. Francis L. LeFevre Francis Lee LeFevre, twin infant in-fant son of Franklin D. and Alice Lucille Adams LeFevre, 375 South Eighth West, died at birth at the Utah Valley hospital Tuesday Tues-day night. Surviving besides the parents are his twin brother, Franklin D. LeFevere, and three grandparents, grand-parents, Harry Adams, Sigour-ney. Sigour-ney. Iowa, and Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Os-car LeFevre, Tropic. Graveside services will be at the Provo city cemetery at 11 a. m Thursday. Friends may call at the Berg mortuary prior to that time. "Pufiilism" comes from the Lat i in "pugil," which means fighting iwith clenched fists. Every Afternoon rCxrapting Saturday) and Sunday Sunday Herald Published Sunday Morning Published bv the Herald Corporation, Corpora-tion, 50 South First West Street. Provo. Utah. Entered as second class matter at the pos toff ice In Provo, Utah, under the act of March 3. 1879 Subscription terms by carrier in Utah county. SI 00 the month, $6 00 for six months. In advance. $12 00 the year in advance; by mail anywhere in the United States or Its possessions. posses-sions. $1.00 the month; $6 00 for six months; $13 00 tie year la advance. 2 Orem Men Held In California On Burglary Charges Two Orem men are being held by Long Beach, Calif., police charged with several counts of burglary, local officers revealed today. One of them, Duane Pirrie. 21, would have fulfilled his probation proba-tion on a forgery sentence from the Fourth district court by Apr. 28, but apparently is now guilty of probation violation. The other. Ralph Carter. 21. also becomes guilty of parole violation. He was paroled last summer from the state prison where he was serving a term for second degree burglary. burg-lary. An Orem juvenile youth, since returned to his home, was also apprehended with Carter- and ! Pirrie, of fibers said, but was cleared of the charges and released re-leased by California police. Hearing Set For May 16 In Statutory Case Jerry Wyler, 26, Payson, was arraigned in city court today on carnal knowledge charges involving involv-ing k 17-year-old Provo giri and preliminary hearing was set for May 16 by Judge Dean Loose. Wyler. whose trial on charges of contributing to the delinquency of the same 17-year-old girl has been set for May 6 by the Third District juvenile court, is at present pre-sent being held in the Utah county coun-ty jail in lieu of payment of a $1000 cash or $2000 property bond on the carnal knowledge complaint com-plaint and a $200 cash or $400 property bond on the juvenile court complaint. Dell Peterson, Filth North and Ninth West. Provo. changed his plea from "not guilty" to guilty on charges of petty larceny and was sentenced to 30 days in the county jail and fined $25. The jail sentence was suspended for six months probation. In court Tuesday afternoon, totfUa1 COCA . ,1 I Between innings . . . Hj have a Coke I. Flexible Coil Construction. 2 Deep Layers of Upholstery. 3o Simmons Prebuilt -Border. PLUS THESE QUALITY FEATURES French Edge Cord Handles Flat Button Tufts 8 Ventilators Orem Revamps Planning, ( Zoning Setup OREM Reorganization of Orem's planning and zoning personnel per-sonnel was announced today by Mayor J. W. Gillman, with a separate sep-arate commission for each function func-tion where before there has been only a zoning board. The new step was taken on the advice of City Attorney Vern Wentz, who told the city council one zoning commission could not legally carry on both functions, Mayor Gillman said. The new nlannincr rnmmiinn r- r - . . consists of Frank B. Woffinden, chairman; Edwin Wickman and Harry Butler, all of whom served on the old zoning board, plus Murvel Walker, Kent Fielding, City Councilman Roy Gappmeyer.i and city engineer, yet to be an-! nounced. The new zoning groups remain unchanged from the former board and includes D. Orlo Allen, George Wells, Mr. Wollinden, Mr. Wickman. Mr. Butler, Councilman Council-man Gappmeyer and Hugo Price. Mayor Gillman alfo announced a new board of adjustment for the city, including Orson Prest-wich, Prest-wich, Vern Wewfz, Dr. Dean A. Anderson, C. Ray Gillman and Orland E. Pyne. Of this group, Dr. Anderson and Mr. Gillman are new members. The rest are holdovers hold-overs from the old adjustment board. The board of adjustment is the group that considers appeals from citizens who feel they have a reason to go contrary to city building and zoning laws in certain cer-tain particulars. Albert Mitchell, RFD 1, Box A-27. Orem. entered a plea of guilty to charges of trespassing and was sentenced to 20 days in the county jail and fined $25. The jail sentence sen-tence was suspended and Mitchell was placed on six months probation. proba-tion. He was charged with window win-dow peeking at a Brigham Young university girl's dormitory. Mdar taorlty of Tao Coca-Cola Caatoeay ky - COLA BOTTLING COMPANJ Salt Lake City. Utah Orem Schedules Hearings On Master Road Plan May 5-6 OREM Public hearings of the utmost importance to every Orem citizen the consideration of a master ro3d plan for the entire community were announced today to-day for May 5 and 6 in the Sharon ward chapel by Mayor J. W. Gillman. They wiil begin at 8 p.m. each night. The road plan, designed to take care of future needs and growth of Orem, has been drafted after months of study. It is subject to adjustment at the will of the people, peo-ple, but city officials feel that some master plan is necessary to provide for an orderly growth of the city and eliminate haphazard expansion. The importance of a wide pub- Manley to Speak To Kiwanis Club B. P. Manley Salt Lake City, executive director of the Utah Coal Operators association, will; be the speaker at the weekly Ki-k Ki-k a n i s club luncheon-meeting Thursday noon. He will speak to the club on the 'importance of coal, first as one of the leading industries in-dustries of the state, and second, its importance in the steel industry indus-try and other fields which depend on the coal by-products. J. W. Randall of the State Bank of Provo will be chairman of the meeting. fnoy life more... ft-L. uttompion more with an ERCOUPE: $sJ5. iff? rlI&" v I t f yjp i.r. "n.uit? T.ii , ' H"h Certified Spinproof by the V. S. Civil Atronauiict Administration The return of Deepsleep is welcome news to many of our customers. Before the war, this popular innerspring, mattress was known from coast to coast as the finest Simmons value in its price class. We want you to judge Deepsleep's many points of comfort and quality but don't delay, because our supply is limited. Oeepseep Box Spring to match $39.50 Thh tpftrxiid combination assures many years of comrortabe seep. 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