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Show X Tuesday, April 6, 1948 DAILY HERALD O'Brien Named Successor To AOEIIett SALT LAKE CITY, April 8 (U.R) Edward T, O'Brien of Salt Lake City, former resident of Provo, failed to gain senate approval during the special session of the legislature on his appointment as ' director of the state, department of veterans, affairs. But he held the office today. Gov. Herbert B. Maw announced an-nounced he has named O'Brien to fill the unexpired term of A. O. Illett, who also failed to gain senate approval but had been serving under an interim ap pointment. Ellet formerly lived in Spanish Fork. He is a , former state senator from Utah county. The senate considered the appointment ap-pointment of O'Brien but adjourned ad-journed without acting upon it. The appointment will have to be considered again by the senate when it convenes In January next year. O'Brien had been serving as assistant director. Three-Cornered X Con tinned from Page One) convention candidat e s were pledged to one of the three presidential presi-dential aspirants. The state will send 27 delegates- to the Philadelphia Phila-delphia convention in June. Four years ago Dewey ran away with 17 delegates and swept on to the Republican nomination. Stassen got four and . MacArthur three. MacArthur's backers estimated that he should win at least 18 delegates in todays balloting and perhaps all 27. Stassen predicted he would pick up at least 14. Some of Dewey's backers at Albany Al-bany acknowledged that Mac-Arthur Mac-Arthur had the inside track and said the New York governor was running for second place. TO BUYERS-EACH BUYER PAY $3750.00 OWN A DUPLEX OREM, UTAH THREE ROOMS AND BATH ROOM, LAND 80 FEET BY 335 FEET FOR SOLE SEE VILLARD L. SQVMRDS AGENCY 39W.SECCXD.N. PROVO. UTAH. City Buys Land To Improve Bad Intersection Purchase of the Muhlestein corner at Eighth North and Sev enth East to widen the curve at that intersection was announced today by Streets Commissioner Eldon W. Payne, who said plans to improve this corner will be carried out this summer. Purchase of a tract for $1200 which will allow the road to curve in about 30 feet from the right angle turn now necessary, has been okeyed by the city com mission. Land has already been purchased. Commissioner Payne said." to widen the curve -from Seventh East to Eighth North at the Smeath corner, and will be included In the same program of improvement. The bridge across the canal at that point will be widened, and a gradual S-curve obtained for the two intersec tions. The corner has long been a sore spot for traffic congestion and the widening at both places is expected to help matters consid erably. It. will make readily accessible turn down Eighth North from Seventh East for the heavy BYU upper campus traffic, Parks Commissioner J. Earl Lewis also announced recent pur chase of a 150 by 300-foot tract on the south end of Harmon park for $2800. It will enlarge the park and make possible two soft-ball soft-ball diamonds instead of the pres ent one. Young Democrats Of Orem Elect OREM Young Democrats of Orem, meeting at the Orem city hall on Monday night for the pur pose of organization of the city unit, named Robert Olsen as president: pres-ident: -Mrs. Norris Peterson, vice president;- Mrs. Eddie Durham, secretary; and Eddie Durham, treasurer. Plans were mapped by the 60 members attending the Monday night meeting to carry on an ed ucatlonal program with several prominent Democratic speakers slated to appear on the coming programs. Officers of the Utah county or ganization, including Harold Han sen, president, Mrs. Emily Miner, vice . president; Mrs. wuanlta Thornton, secretary; and Fred Roylance, treasurer, were speak ers at the Orem meet. Other speakers included C. L. Spaugy of Orem, precinct chair man, who gave the keynote ad dress, and Jay Kallas, Orem, county . representative on the county committee for the Young Democrats. Plans are being advanced for another meeting of the group on April 19 when candidates for state offices will be the speak ers. WRONG THING TO DO LEWISTON, Pa. (U.R) Donald Wolfe, 20, fell out of a automo bile when he opened the door to throw away a cigarette. He was treated for minor injuries. Today's Market Quotations Produce Market NEW YORK, April 6 (IMP Produce: Potatoes steady; Idaho Russets (100 lbs.) 7:00. Dressed poultry irregular; broilers 68-69; fowls 45-54; Long Island Ducks 30-32; chickens 65-67. Live poultry steady; broilers 38-45; fowls 30-46; ducks 40; old roosters 20-28. Cheese steady; single daisies 44-60. Butter 1,027,073 lbs.; market irregular; higher than 92 score 85-85 92 score 84. Eggs 35,765 cases; market steady. Grain Quotations CHICAGO, April 6 (U.R) Gcpin futures slipped back slightly on fry Afternoon (Excepting Saturday) ana Sunday Sunday Herald Published Sunday Morning Published by me Herald Corporation. Corpora-tion. SO South First West Street. Provo. Utah. Entered aa second class matter at the postoffiee in Provo. Utah, under the act of March S, 1879 Subscription terms by carrier in Utah county. $1.00 the month. $6.00 for six months. In advance. $12.00 the year in advance, by mail- anywhere ta the United State or Its possessions. posses-sions. $1.00 the month. $8.00 for six months: $13.00 the year la) advance. the board of trade today in dull trading. Wheat was off to 1 cent a bushel, corn was off IV4 to 1 cents a bushel, and oats were off from m to 2 cents a bushel. Soybeans were up 6 to 7 cents but lard was down 10 to 25 points. Volume 'of sales -were off and the market showed mixed reac tions most of the day with prices changing within narrow ranges. Markets at a Glance NEW YORK, April 6 U.R) Stocks today - advanced to a new high in the general average since Jan. 8 with volume rising. Industrials took the lead but rails improved fractionally in their average which was at a new high since Aug. 30, 1946. Utilities firmed slightly. Oils took the lead again in point of gain, and some were very active. Superior Oil of California shot up 8 points on a single sale. Socony Vacuum featured in vol ume and equaled its high. Other actives in the group were Pure Oil, Sinclair Oil, Sunray, and Warren Petroleum which made new tops or equaled their old ones. Mission Corp. touched 60 off lVt and then recovered most of the loss. Rails had several features, notably Nickel Plate issues. The common ran up, 3 points to a new high, while the -preferred gained more than 3. Union Pacific ran up 2 points to equal its 1948 top. Haven't had an engine breakdown since I started using 'RPM' back in 1940' says contractor J. R. Armstrong of Oakland. Qy Performance like this is another reason why Westerners prefer RPM Motoril 2 to 1 over any other single brand. v "RPM's" compounds stop carbon and lacquer troubles RPM" clings to hot spots that most oils leave bare RPM" ends bearing corrosion and crankcase foaming RPM" is compounded to prevent internal engine rust and rust is the cause of 80 of motor wear f according to independent survey We'll take better care of your car Commission Disposes of City Business Provo's city commission dealt with a variety of subjects today, including: ! ? 1, Approved zoning regulations necessary to enlarging the Provo power ' plant building, after no one appeared In opposition at a public hearing on the. matter. 2. Gave permission to use city scraping equipment to level baseball base-ball diamonds at the'Farrer junior jun-ior high school and the new high school site on north University. for use in city recreation leagues! . 3. Agreed to sit as a board of equalization for possible corrections correc-tions and objections to assessments assess-ments on special improvement sewer district 32, recently completed. com-pleted. The board will sit in this capacity from 10:30 to 11:30 a. m Apr. 13, 14 and 15. Records of assessments as-sessments in the district will be open to public inspection on these days from 9 a. m. to 5 p. m. in the city recorder's office. 4. Agreed with a recommendation recommenda-tion from the city recreation board to refuse granting a beer license in the boat harbor area. J. . Moffitt of the recreation group addressed a letter to the group advising against it for two reasons: Broken bottles in the area would assertedly be a hazard, and it might allegedly contribute to intoxication of boaters and others using the region's facilities. In city commission meeting Monday night, commissioners heard a protest from local truckers, truck-ers, who claimed "outside" truckers truck-ers were doing business within Provo and paying ho city license. Mayor George E. Collard told them new licensing regulations would be ready about the middle of April to more equitably distribute dis-tribute charges for the city in general. Elmer Madsen, city manager of the boat harbor area, told the commission Monday night that Utah lake is now within 5 inches of compromise point, equaling its high point of last year reached on Apr. 29. County Weed (Continued From Pare One) in preparing their machines for the new method. Mr. Clark said the program of tax reduction on the land In the weed program has been abandoned aban-doned by the county commission ers. At the request of the celery growers, a program has been agreed upon for roads and fences to be sprayed, which are ad jacent to fields, which farmers have treated for noxious weed control. The new weed known as dwarf mustard which has invaded the dry farms of Cedar Valley can be controlled with the ' new chemical, the weed control chairman chair-man said. He added that white top in grain can be controlled during the growing season by the application of 2, 4-D. Hearings Set For Defendants Preliminary hearings were set in city court today on two failure fail-ure to provide charges, and each defendant was released until the hearings on his own recognizance. Francis C. Lee, about 30, Pleasant Pleas-ant Grove, will be heard May 11, and the hearing for? Marl W. Snelson, abuot ; 40, Palmyra, was set for May 12. . if In city court Monday, the following fol-lowing actions were taken; Mark K. Boyle, Salt Lake City, changed plea of not guilty to guilty on an old charge of funning a stop sign, fined $15; Douglas Payne, 265 West Third North, found guilty on a charge of speeding after a trial, fined $15; Horace Dell Gillespie, 1069 East Fifth South, speeding, forfeited $25: Verdell D. Black, 1027 West Center, Cen-ter, stop sign; : forfeited $15; E. Alton Ellertson, no address given, forfeited $15; Melburn Ford, no address given, expired driver's license, - forfeited $7.50; Don Hutchison, Pleasant Grove, no driver's license, forfeited $15; James W. Rayl, Rt. 2, box 276, Provo, running red light, $15; forfeited; R. D. Tobias and H. L. Smalley, no addresses given, disturbing dis-turbing the peace by fighting, each pleaded guilty and each fined $25; Robert Turner, Provo, driving without license plates, forfeited $15; Vern Don Wilson, expired driver's license, forfeited $7.50; George Wallis Sudbury, Salt Lake City, stop sign, pleaded guilty and fined $15. LDS Conference (Continued from face One) clared, "are being inveigled into debt so heavy that they will never be able to pay it off completely. com-pletely. And in case of sudden emergency like sickness or accident, acci-dent, they will leave their families fam-ilies saddled with this debt." If the United States follows the pattern "set in the rest of the world and borne out by history," the high churchman continued, "we will soon hear the cry for more money. The printing presses will be set . in motion, - and the Ex-Provoan Dies Of Crash Hurts A former, Provo resident died t 7:30 a. m. today In Tooele hospital of injuries suffered In an accident Saturday. He was Harry A. Lunceford, 46, Stockton, Utah, who was hurt Saturday near Tooele in a railroad rail-road crossing crash involving the railroad signal maintenance car he was operating, and a wrecker truck driven by Joseph A. Johnson, John-son, Tooele. Johnson escaped with minor injuries. Mr. Luncef ord was employed by the Union Pacific Paci-fic railroad. Mr. Luhceford was born Mar. 2, 1902, a son of Wilford and Teenie Johnson Luncef ord, both of whom survive hi i and are now residing in Prove- He married Velma Edwards in -September, 1926, in Provo. The marriage was later solemnized in the Salt Lake LDS temple. He is survived by his widow and two daughters, Iva Mae and Anne Lee Lunceford, all of Stockton; his -parents in Provo, Pro-vo, and the following brothers and sisters, Orval and Clarence Lunceford, both of Springville; Horace Lunceford and Mrs. W. W. (Leora) Knuteson, both of Provo; Mrs. W. W. (Erma) Griffith, and Mrs. T. O. (Lillle) Griffith, both of Los Angeles, Calif Funeral arrangements are pending. CARD OF THANKS We wish to express our heartfelt heart-felt thanks to our many kind friends and relatives for the sympathy they expressed during our sadness caused by the recent illness and death of our beloved daughter and sister, Beth Muhlestein. Muhle-stein. For the mnay acts of kindness, kind-ness, words of consolation, flowers flow-ers and thoughtful services rendered, ren-dered, we are deeply grateful. Mrs.' Enoch Mul lestein and Family. vicious spiral of inflation will be well underway. President Clark urged the church membership to work with diligence, and to instill in their children the need of hard work and frugality. City Beautif .cation Poster Contest Deadline Friday Provo's beautification poster contest in connection with clean up, paint-up week, April 11-19. will end Friday, Bob Wolsey, general gen-eral chairman for the Jaycees, announced an-nounced today. Schools cooperating In the poster contest include Provo high, Dixon and Farrer junior highs and the art departments at BY high and junior high A committee of judges will select se-lect poster winners on both high school and Junior high school levels, Mr. Wolsey- said. Cash prizes of $5 and $2.50 for first and second places in both divisions will 'be awarded winning entries by the ;Prvo Jaycees, sponsors of the clean-up campaign. Fosters will be placed in business house windows throughout the cam paign. - Mr. Wolsey reminds students throughout Provo city schools that entries for the annual "king and queen for a day" contest must be submitted before April 16. Contestants are urged to fill In applications and place them in the boxes provided at each school. This year's clean-top king and queen will be picked April 24, at the Paramount theater. Youth to Take Over Positions Provo kids will take over the town on Saturday, Apr. 24, with school children serving in the posts "of mayor, chief of police, fire chief and other city jobs. City Recreation Director Jessie Schofield presented the plan for the city commission's approval today, as part of national boy Isaacson, Casto To Speak at ; Provo Conference A Provo LDS stake quarterly conference, devoted, to Aaronic priesthood work will be held Saturday Sat-urday night and Sunday, it was announced today by President -Charles E. Rowan, Jr. Representing Represent-ing the general authorities will be Bishop .Thorpe B. Isaacson of the presiding bishopric and Fen-no Fen-no B. Casto, member of the general gen-eral church welfare committee.' General sessions for the public will be held Sunday at 10 a. m. and at 4 p. m. The 4 o'clock Sunday Sun-day session Is a new departure ior ine rovo stake, au ooysoi the Aaronic priesthood and LDS girls are especially urged to attend at-tend the sessions of this conference. confer-ence. Other sessions will be a welfare session Saturday at 6:30 p. m. for the stake presidency and bishops, followed by a session at 7:10 p. m-for m-for the' complete welfare ware and stake committee. A priesthood priest-hood leadership meeting will be. held at 8 p. m. in the Fifth-Eighth Fifth-Eighth ward chapel. Dr. Franklin S. Harris, president presi-dent of the USAC at Logan, resident resi-dent of Provo for 24 years while serving as president of the BYU, will be the speaker at the Thursday Thurs-day noon luncheon-meeting of the Provo Kiwanis club. Dr. Harris will speak on the topic, Criis in World Affairs." Walter S. Hedquist is chairman of the meeting. and girl week Apr. 24 to May 1. 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