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Show 2 Thursday, January 13, 1949 DAILY HERALD Chamber of Commerce Report Reveals Growth Of Provo ,. Provo and Utah county con- p rsafoA x tinud to trow by leaDS and lCC'CL 1CU bounds industrially, ecohomical-.. ecohomical-.. ly, culturally and in population during 1948, according to the Provo Chamber of Commerce annual an-nual report. The report, released, today by Clayton Jenkins, manager of the chamber, revealed that hundreds of new citizens have moved into the area to fill new jobs created by business and industry. Mr. Jenkins said the" report was approved at a meeting of the board of directors of chamber, held Wednesday night. New officers of-ficers for the coming yaar also were elected at the meeting, with Aura Hatch . being re-named president by acclamation. ' Max Berg was elected vice president, s u cceeding H. J. Heisch; F. J. Warnick, re-elected i ' treasurer, and Mr. Jenkins, re- " appointed manager. Time Changed The board members also voted to chance their meeting time from 2:30 p. m. to iomo a. mtilltiM fop provo and have been , , m . ' J 1 jf S I T ' .1 1 ; . -V N : , V' t ' ' a . J jr ' v I 0 AURA C. HATCH on the second and fourth Tues day of every month. "Many new businesses were tar ted and employment in the county reached a peace-time high of 24,826 one-third of the entire population," Mr. 'Jenkins said in the report. "The Geneva Steel company payroll of $22,000,000 most of which is paid in this county, was the largest in the entire state " In the report, Mr. Jenkins revealed re-vealed that building permits, valued at $3,108,479 were the highest in the city's history, ex cept for the boom year of 1943. They totaled $2,097,350 in 1947. Postal Receipts Climb Provo postal receipts for the year climbed from $154,172.06 in 1847 to $176,682.02 in 1948, and the number of telephones increased in-creased from 7637 in 1947 to 8439 by the end of 1948. "This," Mr. Jenkins said, "indicates "in-dicates the city's" substantial and continuous growth." The chamber of commerce's population survey, which uses the lowest figure of the eleven factors fac-tors including births, school enrollment, en-rollment, retail sales, building permits, postal receipts, newspaper newspa-per circulation and gas, light, water wa-ter and telephone connections, hows - the , city's population growth as follows: November 1946 25,950 July 1948 28,208. December 1948 29,000. Helps Progress 'The chamber of commerce its president, directors, and committees com-mittees are awake to the possib- . Ends Tomorrow ! H Starts SATURDAY r'immmmmmmmmmmmt i at the forefront of every move ment for the city's development and progress,? Mr. Jenkins said. " Mr.' Jenkins said the chamber's project to get a new modern hotel ho-tel for Provo, generally considered con-sidered one Of the city's greatest great-est needs, made substantial headway in 1948. The hotel site on First West and Center streets was purchased from the former owners in October for $66,733, and the hotel officers and the board of directors are working on a new plan for a combination hotel and store building to be constructed in 1949. J. Hamilton Calder, president of the hotel corporation said he was confident that this type of building can be financed successfully success-fully and construction started next year. K-F Blaat Furnace Mr. Jenkins said the Kaiser-Frazer Kaiser-Frazer blast furnace was the most important new industry to start operations in 1948. It was "blown in" May 17 and is now producing 700 to 800 tons of pig iron daily. At a banquet for Kaiser-Fra-zer executive, given last June by the chamber, E. J. Duffy, manager man-ager of operations at the plant, said there were 286 employes at that time and that the pay roll was $150,000 per month. The chamber of commerce manager pointed out that the chamber was instrumental in furthering a great number of civic ventures including the purchasing pur-chasing of a site for the Central flood control projects, road and highway development, the promotion pro-motion of various celebrations, Utah Turkey show, railroad overpass over-pass construction and numerous other projects. Arrests, Parking Violations Climb During Past Year Provo policemen during 1048 arrested 3,672 persons and issued 22,465 parking meter violation vio-lation tickets making a technical tech-nical arrest total of 25,137, according ac-cording to the annual arrest summary sum-mary released today by Police Chief E. W. Mower. , This total for last year shows an increase over the previous year's total of approximately 2,713 persons. The statistics show that 22,424 technical arrest including in-cluding parking tickets, .were made during 1947. During 1948 the ' summary statistics show that $32,722 was collected' by the police department depart-ment in court fines and for- j feitures, an increase of $3,219 over me ia7 iinai unais. ranting rant-ing fines for the year totaled $7607, the report stated. . I Other- large arrest totals for the year are: Traffic arrests, 1719; intoxication arrests, 389; and petty larceny arrests, I. 106. The report also lists the number of juveniles arrested during the year and the break down as to juveniles were arrested In 1948 and of these 181 were traffic cases, 91 for petty larceny, 54 were burglary, and 24 were for shooting in the city. The largest amount of revenue collected by the police department depart-ment last year was collected from traffic fines, the report shows. A total of $19,093 was collected for traffic fines, $6020.15 was collected col-lected for criminal fines and $7607.96 for parking meter forfeitures. for-feitures. , A comparative figure between 1P47 and 1948 traffic arrestr was also presented in the summary. A sum of 2207 traffic arrests were lifted for 1947 and 1719 for last year. Also 25 persons were arrested ar-rested for drunken driving in 1947 and an increase cf two was listed for. the final figures in 1948. One new offense was listed on the 1948 report which did not appear on the '47 summary. In 1948, 10 cases of labor disputes and disorders were reported and Investigated and none were listed for the preceeding year. Goal; Proclamation Issued lit Opening Of Local Polio Drive "Brother Can You Spare A Dime" win be the benevolent slogan of the March of Dimes polio fund drive, slated to begin in Provo tomorrow and continue to the end of the month but if this city meets its goal of $8000 the dime will have to be replaced re-placed by a quarter. Deaths Willard C. Bishop Funeral services for Willard Claude Bishop, 25, of Provo will be held Saturday at 2 p.m. at Val ley mortuary. Mr. Bishop died Wednesday morning in a Bait Lake City hos pita I after a long illness. He was born in Provo Aug. 29, 1923, a son of Willard A. and Vera Salisbury Bishop. When a young boy he moved with his j ment by a corps of specialists and parents to Salt Lake City and then to Ogden. He received his schooling in Ogden and then in Parma, Ida., and Nyssa, Ore. He was a graduate of the Boise business bus-iness university in Idaho. Mr. Bishop was in the United States army, serving in the European Eur-opean theater of operations, during dur-ing World War II. For the past two years he has livedjn Provo City Chairman Seth Billings pointed out today that the $8000 goal was set with the aim of bringing Provo's annual polio donation up comparable to other large cities of the state, whereas in past year he declared it has been well below. Last year, he st id, Utah county contributed an average of 134 cents per person, per-son, compared to 26 cents for Salt Lake and Ogden and 39 cents for Carbon county. Meanwhile, Mayor George E. Collard issued his official procla mation signalizing the .opening of the drive tomorrow, and urging urg-ing wholehearted support of the citizenry, "Polio cases cripple, but they cripple the pocketbook too," the mayor said. "Average t r e a t m e h t post amounts to $2500 a case. To escape the crippling effects of this disease, highly skilled treat And Another Housewife Bifes the Dust nurses is frequently necessary for months and years." "By contributing to the March of Dimes", Mayor Collard explained, ex-plained, "citizens maintain a valuable form of community health insurance, that cares for any polio sufferer, no matter what his age, race, creed, color, or financial status." "In the history of the Utah chapter," and worked in the First Security, added Mayor Collard, "aid has bank. never been denied to any suf Hollywood is seven m lies northwest of the business section sec-tion of Los Angeles. ferer from polio." He married Francis Cummines. De,c. 37, 1942, in Boise, Ida., and is a member of the LDS church. Survivors include his widow, one son Michael (Bill), his parents. par-ents. Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Bishop, Nyssa, Ore. and Marjery Bishop, Mrs. Eleanor Biahop Orem, also one brother, Donald F. Bishop, now serving as an LDS missionary mission-ary in the Northwest mission; three sisters, Mrs. Eileen Patterson Patter-son and Mrs. Francelle Maylin of Nyssa, Ore. and Marjory Bishop, now attending BYU. friends may can at valley named said the contralto was mortuary Friday from 8 until 8-operated on for removal of a cyst Operation Saves Voice of Singer NEW YORK, Jan. 13 (UR) Marian Anderson, negro singer, faced the loss of her voice and possibly her life last summer but was saved by a delicate operation, oper-ation, it was disclosed today. A prominent New York physician phys-ician who asked that he be un- p. m. and Saturday until time of services. Rev. W. B. Collett of the First Church of the Nazar- ene, Salt Lake City, will officiate Interment will be Ida. from the esophagus. He said the operation, performed per-formed by three doctors at Jewish Jew-ish hospital, Brooklyn, was a in Caldwell, complete success and that he ex-tpected ex-tpected no future complications German Spa Legalizes Gambling NOW PLAYING Open 1:15 '. Last Show 9:40 1 t TYRONE JL V XI Eli leaches TIERMEY GENE1 3 1 Jumm y all buf ... wti nm. 2ND BIG HIT PAW HDrtS - JOAN m ADDED Disney Cartoon, Passing Parade Novelty & News Guilty Verdict Given In Right-Of-Way Complaint Ben Lingenfelter, &alt Lake City, today was found guilty by Provo City Court Judge William Dean Loose and was fined $15 for charges of failing to yield the right of way. Lingenfelter appeared in city court Wednesday for tr al on the charge and judgement in the case was delayed until today by Judge Loose while he took the case under advisement. Charles J. Muhlestein, 24, 681 F. 8th N., was also found guilty Wednesday in Provo city court for failure to yield the right of way and was fined $15 by the court. He had previously pleaded not guilty to the charge on Dec. 29. j Ben Barnes pleaded guilty to! an unlawful parking charge and was fined $11.50 by the, court Wednesday. Forfeitures in city court Wednesday Wed-nesday included: Richard William Wil-liam Erwin, 18, 781 N. fale Ave., stop sign, $15; David Estrada, 32, Ogden, speeding, $35; William J. Banks, 25, Payson, stop sign $7.50; Gam Baum, - no license plates, $5. Former Provo Man Called by Death Don C. Gee, formerly of Provo now a resident of Salt Lake Citv. died suddenly at Compton, Calif. Tuesday. Mr. Gee and his wife were visiting a daughter and son in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Lynn Smith, ai me time or Mr. Gee's death. Funeral services will be held Saturday at 10 a. m. at Larkin mortuary in Salt Lake City. Interment In-terment will be in Provo city burial park Saturday at 12:30 p. m. Survivors include the widow and family; five sisters, Mrs: J. R. Hodson and Mrs. Pearl Carter of Provo;, Mrs. Hyrum Smith, Mrs. Elvon L. 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