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Show SEE THE BARGAINS ADVERTISED IN TODAY'S HERALD Volume Eighty KM hlmd wm$my gives svto'il'inievve off MM worts to SpdBD7Dll mmaDseminni Roll G. Francis poses with the Cyrus B. Dallin statuette "The Signal of Peace". The famed Dallin work has been donated to the Springville Art Museum by. the Gorham Bronze Works of "Providence, Khode Island, primarily through the efforts of Mr. Francis. It is about 10 inches in height and is a copy of a life size Mosf often Larceny was the offense most often investigated hy Springville City Police Department during 1972. according to Chief Ashley Graham, who noted 288 cases were investigated. It also was top offense in 1971 when 287 cases investigated the chief reported. The Class One crime index report again lists burglary as second highest with 76 breaking or enterings being investigated. In 1971 only 57 cases were investigated. in-vestigated. Other offenses are: Criminal homicide, 0; forcible rape, 0; robbery, 1; aggravated assault, 5; auto theft, 9; other assaults 1. Total number of class one crimes investigated, 380. Vandalism again led the list of class two crimes with 130 investigated. in-vestigated. In 1971 only 96 cases were investigated. Others are: Arson, 2; forgery and counterfeiting, 3; fraud, 4; embezzlement, 1; stolen properly (buying, receiving, possessing), 3; weapons, (carrying, possessing, etc.) 3; prostitution and commercialized vice, 0: sex offenses (except forcible rape and prostitution) 6; About 25,000 babies are born yearly with heart defects; most of these can be corrected by surgery. Your Heart Association, supported by the Heart Fund, has been a major force in the development of new heart -saving techniques. Eighteen Springville-Mapleton students on UTech honor roll Fifteen students from Springville and three from Mapleton made the fall quarter honor roll of Utah Technical College at Provo, according to President Wilson W. Sorensen. Listed with their major subject sub-ject they are: SPRINGVILLE - Esther Biesinger, General Education; Mike Cook, Building Construction; Con-struction; John Dunn, Drafting Design; Eddie Fox, Electronics; Ronald Francom, Electronics; Nancy Hoyt, Business; Terry Hoyt, Business; Steven Jackson, Diesel Mechanics; Thomas investigated offense narcotic drug laws, 17; gam-bling.'O; gam-bling.'O; offenses against family and children, 1; driving under the influence, 20; liquor laws, 6; Mapleton city council studies varied agenda at latest meeting Mapleton's mayor and council were presented an analysis of the budget and expenditures of the city for the first six months of the fiscal year by city auditor Jay Smith at their latest meeting. The mayor expressed appreciation for the report and instructed each councilman to meet with their committees, and have a tentative budget ready for presentation by May 1st. Neil Whiting and Dee Potter, representing the Soil Conservation Con-servation Service, made a presentation of the Recourse Conservation and Development Program of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. They solicited the official support of the council for this program and assured the officials they would not be obligated to use the services offered, but approval was necessary before participation would be authorized. They also reported that some counties in northern Utah have been participating in this program and have received financial assistance in drainage McGarry, General Education; Kay Norwood, Business; Kenneth Roney, Building Construction; Larry Schaugaard, Drafting Design; Joseph Sumsion, Business; M. Lee Taylor, Electrical Automation; Craig Warner, Electrical Automation. MAPLETON ---Lee Ann Oakley, Business; Blaine Ogilvie, Refrigeration; Yvonne Ogilvie, Business. To make the honor roll each had to have a grade point average of at least 3.7. Straight A is 4.0. model created by Mr. Dallin in 1890 and now on view in Lincoln Park in the city of Chicago. This statuette is part of the Dallin series "Epic of The Indian", all of which the museum will soon possess. It will be on permanent display in the upstairs showcase. drunkenness, 15; disorderly conduct, 20; vagrancy, 17; all other offenses (except traffic) 312; total class two crimes, 560. projects, recreation facilities, and pipelines for water development projects. They are able to participate with other government agencies and their asuistance can range as high as 100 percent in some special projects. Councilman Wiscombe made a motion, seconded by Councilman Coun-cilman Hales, to endorse this program. The motion was passed with a unanimous vote and the recorder was instructed to prepare a letter of endorsement en-dorsement for the mayor's signature. The recorder reported that the second revenue sharing allotment allot-ment check, covering the six month period ending December 31, 1972, in the amount of $9,680, had been received. He added that the check for the first six month period of 1972 had been in the amount of $10,086. The council approved the appointment of Amy Cloward as a member of the Board of Adjustments Ad-justments to fill the vacancy created by the expired term of Dean Tew. Mrs. Cloward's term will end December 31, 1977. Nelma Rae Jensen's term on the Planning Commission also expired, it was noted. The council appointed Lynn Bjarn-son Bjarn-son to fill this vacancy and also appointed Keith Jensen, Jess Warren, and Larraine Washburn to serve as alternates to the Planning Commission for a one-year one-year term. Committee assignments were given out by the mayor with the approval of the council, as follows: Mayor Hjorth, general administration, equipment, and health; Councilman Allan, finance and public safety (includes (in-cludes fire and police departments); depart-ments); Councilman Hales, city planning; Councilman Korth, water and Sewer; Councilman Leavitl, Public Lands, buildings, parks, recreation, and civil defense; and Councilman Wiscombe, streets and roads. liili SPR1NGVTLLE. UTAH 84663 mmmm - larceny In the non-criminal class, police investigated or rendered service in 3,849 cases. Animal control led the list with 1,158 complaints investigated. Other investigations in the non-criminal class were for: Suspicion, 328; traffic offenses, 41; traffic accidents, 127; property damage, 28; personal injury, 2 fatal, 46 non-investigated, non-investigated, 16 under $50, 28 private property; non-traffic accidents - 6 personal injury, 1 property damage, no fatals; police service - 459 aid to persons or agencies, 148 escorts and shuttles, 118 lost and found, 1,158 animal control, 112 attempt to locate, 47 other; police emergency - 7 first aid rendered, 12 transportation of ill or injured, in-jured, 8 other; health and safety 6, health hazzards, 32 safety hazards 1 deceased homo sapiens, 129 family and neighborhood neigh-borhood trouble, 65 character reference. Smiling broadly as they display the plaque denoting the Springville High School chapter of the National Forensics League as the outstanding out-standing unit in the western United States are Pat Condie, chapter president, and Talene Osborne, debate manager. Flanking them are, left, albert Odom, assistant secretary for NFL. JANUARY 25, 1973 Through the efforts of Rell G. Francis, vice president of the Springville Museum of Art, the statuette "The Signal of Peace" by (jyrus B. Dallin is being donated to the gallery, it was reported today. Making the gift is the Gorham Bronze Works of Providence, Rhode Island. Mr. Francis recently received a letter from the Gorham Company Com-pany in reply to one he had written asking for their aid in connection with the proposed creation of a Cyrus E. Dallin Memorial Fund to be used in completing a currently in progress biography of the renowned sculptor. In it, the company informed him that in lieu of a contribution, they are donating to the museum a statuette, about 10 inches in height of the Dallin work "The Signal of Peace". This is one of four famed works of Mr. Dallin, in a series which he calls the "Epic of The Indian". These include "The Signal of Peace", "Medicine Man", "The Protest", and "The Appeal to The Great Spirit". The museum will soon possess the complete series and already has two others. Mr. Dallin, in Paris to study, observed the Buffalo Bill Wild West Show encamped in the Bois de Boulogne and was inspired to create a life size equestrian statue modeled on Philip, the son of Kicked Bear. It symbolized the red man's first meeting with the white man. With an attitude of dignified greeting, it faithfully detailed the war bonnet, moccasins, moc-casins, and decorated spear pointing upward. He entered this work in the Paris Salon of 1890, the greatest of all Paris art "'exhibits, and won an honorable mention. Shipping the plaster model to America, he had it cast in bronze, an expensive gamble for a struggling young sculptor, and exhibited it at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1891. After winning the first class medal, the statue vas purchased by Judge Lambert Tree for the city of Chicago and erected in Lincoln Park in 1894. This statue is the first in Dallin's series "Epic of The Indian" and serves to dramitize the fate of a dying race. With the others now in the museum, it will be permanently displayed in the upstairs showcase. It is estimated by the Gorham Company to be worth about one thousand dollars. Exposure of even a short duration sounds of 100 to 125 decibels can ca 'se temporary deafness, wan ; the Helton Crusade for Hearing Conservation. Con-servation. The first gun accident on record in the Pacific Northwest occurred when a member of the Lewis and Clark expedition shot himself in the derriere when his gun accidentally discharged. ' ' J. feo:m ui Price A capacity crowd, crammed into the council room at the Springville Civic Center, listens intently as a speaker airs an opinion on the re-zoning re-zoning question concerning the proposed new Mall rezoning issue tabled by commission pending study The Springville Planning Commission has tabled a request for rezoning pending further study of the city's comprehensive plan. The decision came following a public hearing Thursday night at which a standing-room-only crowd appeared. About 160 . people filled the council chambers at the Civic Center. The planning commission called for the public hearing following a request to rezone the area between 300 and 400 East, south of 400 South to approximately ap-proximately 550 South, from R-3 to SC-1. R-3 allows for construction con-struction of homes, apartment houses, professional services and some businesses. SC-1 would allow a shopping center in the area; and a mini-mall mini-mall is proposed. Proponents Speak Monte Allman, broker, and Clark Palfreyman, associate, representing United Realty as agents for Strand Companies, a California investment firm, were invited to present their plans first. Mr. Palfreyman stated Springville is grossly "un-derstored" "un-derstored" and that the suggested location would be a "natural" since 400 South is the second busiest street in town, next to Main Street. The proponents cited sales lax and property tax revenues; Best in Western U.S. High forensics honor awarded to Springville High chapter Springville High School chapter of the National Forensics League has received the distincitive honor of being named the outstanding NFL chapter in the Western division of the United States. Springville is one of only 25 chapters in the nation to receive the honor, and the only one in the Western Division. who flew here from Itipon, Wisconsin, to make the presentation, and their coach, Merrill Hay Carter, right. Mr. Carter also received the distinctive honor of being named a diamond key coach, a title awarded to coaches for distinguished service in NFL. Universal Microf liming Box -2608 - . . Salt Lake Cfty, Utah 84103' USE - IN FOR I.V shopping mall. After lengthy discussion the matter was tabled by the City Planning Commission pending further study. A final decision will be announced at a later date. employment, and increased and varied merchandise as favorable reasons for the shopping center. They said about 8,000 cars per day passed the site, that it would physically accommodate a shopping center, and that they could find no other area in the central business district for a feasible, economic location for ihe center. Plan 8-Acre Complex About eight acres would be involved, in the total overall complex, which would cost an estimated $2 million, they added. ad-ded. The center would include a grocery store, drug store, variety store and specialty shops. Mr. Allman explained the backers feel a market is available here and they are w illing to "put up a lot of money to prove it." In a brochure prepared by the Strand Co., it is noted the center could be expected to draw business from the county area between Springville and Goshen. This is an estimated. 30,682-person 30,682-person "trading area," based on figures of the 1970 census. Part of this is based on an estimate of an approximate 2,477 households in the Springville area and 2,006 households in the Spanish Fork area. Albert Odom, assistant secretary for NFL, flew here from Ripon, Wis., especially to make the presentation. He presented a hand-engraved plaque stating "national award, excellence in speech, 1968-1972, presented by the National Forensics League to Springville High School." Talene Osborne, debate manager, and Pat Condie, NFL chapter president, accepted the plaque on behalf of Springville chapter. Merrill Ray Carter, NFL coach at Springville High, also had the distinctive honor of recently being named a Diamond Key Coach. The coveted title is awarded to coaches for distinguished service ser-vice in NFL. He received an engraved plaque and a pin. The award is given on a point basis with 2,000 points necessary for the honor, and Mr. Carter had an accumulated total of 3,056 points. The coach receives one point for every 10 points earned by student members. That chapter guided by the winning coach also must be a member of NFL for a minimum of five years. NFL was organized in 1925 to develop leadership in youth forensics and debate. Members are continually involved in speaking and service projects. Springville chapter has been first in the district in enrollment for the past three years and the largest chapter in the Western division for the past two years. The tendency of government at all levels to suppress, or to over-manage, the news is a serious threat to the whole American way of life. The press needs public support in this fight because it is the public's fight. CLASSIFIED ADS THE HERALD QUICK RESULTS Number Four Opposition Reports Roy Johnson of the Chamber of Commerce Retail Merchants Committee presented Jack Allen as spokesman for the opposition, including a majority of the downtown merchants and residents bordering the proposed center. They presented petitions containing approximately 200 signatures opposing the zone change. Mr. Allen stressed the people want and need more variety in business, that they want new. businesses to locate in Springville, but not in the proposed location for a number of reasons. Devaluation of property occurs oc-curs in residences bordering this type of complex, he said. Increased In-creased traffic, late shopping hours, and genet al problems usually are related to an area like this, he said, pointing out the traffic hazards involved because of the close proximity of three schools and two churches. Cities Orem Example Team attraction of centralized downtown shopping would increase in-crease tax revenue and jobs i:i Springville. He cited Orem as an example of spot shopping areas and the increase of shopping there since centralized shopping areas were constructed. Virtually all of Springville's downtown businesses have upgraded and new businesses have increased to the point that there are now no vacancies, he added. Mr. Allen pointed out that Springville's comprehensive plan calls for shopping areas at least 15 blocks from the central area and that they should be developed outward from the main body of the city in an organized manner. Cities Other Needs He stated that Springville now has over 50,000 square feet of food store space and four existing drugstores. He said that according to the comprehensive plan the city needs more clothing stores, automobile and large equipment businesses. Mr. Allen further cited the case of Brookside Market, also located on 400 South, which was turned down in its efforts to enlarge its store. At the time its request was refused, city council felt that primary shopping power should be kept within the central business district. Ollie Allen, Utah County businessman also voiced his opposition to the rezoning. He said that empty buildings on Main Street are not conducive to a good image and that building emphasis should be placed in the Main Street area. Main Street 'Draw backs' Pat Monney, local businessman, pointed out the drawbacks to shopping on Main Street. Lack of parking is the biggest drawback, he main-taned. main-taned. He said there have been approximately ap-proximately 100 meter hookups per year since the 1970 census, that the population is increasing, and that the problems people meet while trying to shop on Main Street should be met. Planning Commission chairman Blaine P. Clyde, then dismissed Ihe crowd and the commission retired lo a closed session. A new date of Feb. 15 was set to discuss findings from the study of Springville's Comprehensive Plan. The planning commission indicated thai they will reach a decision at their next meeting scheduled for February. 15. II |