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Show Scout leaders list new district officers Ww MnMlk lef aid October 31. 1974 W o f ' Awl Gilded shovels await their use in turning over the first dirt in ground-breaking ceremonies for the new addition to the Harold B. Lee Library at Brigham Young University. President Dallin H. Oaks (in background) tells the audience the history of BYU starts Shovels full of damp earth were turned over Tuesday at ! MEL DUKE DIAMOND REMOUNTING with Your Stones or New Stones in original mountings FREE ESTIMATES Satisfaction Guaranteed 220 So. Miin "Ovr ' Century in Sp.-ingville" Potted AND '45 gPjewelry AFRICAN VIOLETS NOW READY! Diamond Greenhouse 643 SOUTH 1400 EAST, SPRINGVILLE The Springville library addition noon by dignitaries of the LDS Church and Brigham Young University in official groundbreaking ground-breaking ceremonies for the new six-story addition to the Harold B. Lee Library. A large crowd of students and faculty members were on hand for the ceremonies on the south side of the Lee Library on a rather cool, overcast fall day. Large bulldozers loomed in the background to start work clearing the property within an hour after the ceremonies concluded. Elder Gordon B. Hinckley, member of the Council of the Twelve and BYU's Board of Trustees, presided over the ground-breaking ceremonies at which he paid tribute to the late LDS Church President Harold B. Lee after whom the library was renamed upon his death last January. "I am grateful that this ' library carries the name of President Lee a man who loved books and learning," Elder Hinckley said. "It is a filling and appropriate memorial to have this great center of learning named after him." Elder Hinckley encouraged students and faculty members to emulate the late Church president by thirsting for knowledge and devotion to serving fellow man. Attending the ceremonies were Mrs. Harold B. Lee and several members of the Lee family ir eluding Mr. and Mrs. L. Brent Goates (President Lee's daughter), Church Education Commissioner Neal A. Maxwell, BYU administrators, student body officers, library directors, and contractors for the building. After the talks, dignitaries used gilded shovels painted with RlIodqtitis (Utah) Herald libraries at BYU and how the new addition was one of the first things he sought to do as president when he arrived on campus in August 1971. the date and occasion to turn the first dirt for the library addition. Elder Hinckley then climbed aboard one of the large bulldozers and drove it with the licensed operator to dig a scope full of damp dirt where students last weekend sat on the lawn in the warm fall sunshine. Prior to Elder Hinckley's brief remarks, BYU President Dallin H. Oaks reviewed the history of the library at BYU. He pointed out that the first few years of the Brigham Young Academy, the library consisted of a small book collection kept under lock and key in the office of Principal Karl G. Maeser. With the construction of the Education Building on lower campus in 1891, a library room was included and served faculty and students for more than 30 years. BYU completed its first ( building devoted entirely to the library in 1925 when the University was 50 years old. The Heber J. Grant Library was dedicated in that year on upper campus. At that time the library collection consisted of 40,000 volumes plus about 35,000 pamphlets and bulletins. It seated 400 of the 1,350 students on campus for a 30 percent seating percentage a level never again attained. By the beginning of the Wilkinson years in the early 1950's, BYU had outgrown the Grant Library and the collection was inadequate for a rapidly growing student body. The present library building was completed and dedicated in 1962, growing from 334,000 volumes to one million volumes by 1971. The student body enrollment in- Section Two Springville man becomes member of Johnson Outboards Council i ' Don Robertson creased to 25,000 during the 1960'S. President Oaks then outlined the steps he took within 60 days after being named president in August 1971 to obtain an addition to the current library building. He detailed why it takes five years from that time to the completion day Oct. 15, 1976. With the addition of 225,000 square feet to the current 205,000 square feet in the library, the building will increase the number of study stations to 5,400 or 22 per cent of the student body. Book space will double from one to two million. TEA ACT On April 27, 1773, British Parliament passed the Tea Act allowing the sale of dutyfree duty-free British tea in the Colo-nit, Colo-nit, s. get off to a good: start with our Junior Protector life policy., Call me today. E. QEAN BRIAN J 295 S6uth. Main' 489,6177 17 .'4 " n l A f t rm slb I till luxuci Cmpmi I Otliei: llgoninftM, lllimii I INtUHNCI J JJIJM Hobble Creek district, covering Springville and Mapleton, reorganized recently with Paul Boman, Sprngville, being named district chairman for the second year. Paul Saby was named scouting executive. Other officers of-ficers are Chip Reynolds, cubbing chairman, Fred Erickson, scouting chairman, Leland Bowers, exploring chairman, Don Strong, relationship chairman, and Bruce Mendenhall, manpower resources. Several committee members also have been named to work with the chairman. Appox. 1300 boys and 450 adult leaders are registered in the cubbing scouting and exploring ex-ploring programs in the district. All courts of honor will be held on a unit basis and there will be no district courts of honor according ac-cording to Mr. Bowman. Theft of purse is reported Vicki Salisbury, 305 E. 700 So., reported the theft of her purse containing $190 in cash, a checkbook, check-book, drivers license and miscellaneous papers, to the Springville Police. The theft apparently occured Saturday night when the car was parked in front of a store in Springville at about 200 South Main. Investigation of the matter is continuing. The design for Illinois' 1976 Bicentennial year license plates was selected from proposals submitted by students throughout the state. Ten-year-old Kelley Jordan of Normal, Illinois, submitted the winning design in red, white, and blue, with lateral red stripes, 13 blue stars in two arcs above and below the plate number, and 1776 above and 1976 below the number. She received a $1,000 scholarship grant. .Don Robertson, ; Robertson's Marine, 97 S. Main '-St., Springville, has been named to Johnson Outboards' 1975 Marketing Leadership Council, it was announced by Tom Kalbfus, director of marketing for the leading outboard firm. "The Council is composed of 21 Johnson dealers from through the U. S.," Kalbfus explaines, "selected not only for their sales performance, but also for their marketing knowledge and experience." ex-perience." "For years, Johnson has cultivated the 'two-way street' relationship between itself and its dealers," he noted, "and we consider the Marketing Leadership Countil as a major result of this philosophy." Concert Tuesday The Brigham Young University Philharmonic Orchestra Or-chestra will present a concert on Friday, Nov. 8, at 8 p.m. in the de Jong Concert Hall. Under the direction of Dr. Ralph Laycock, coordinator of instrumental organizations in the BYU Music Department, the Orchestra has toured extensively ex-tensively and won national acclaim as one of the finest university orchestras in the country. RIGHT BEHIND THE TRUCK... To bring you friendly greetings from your new community, along with useful gifts and information. informa-tion. MARY KNfTTLE 489.7097 Atom igsawx-' .mm ii 1 1 iii.wui, v v m V A 1 If Iff C I . 4 " 1 I 1 1 A United Way victory banner was hoisted at Geneva this week as employees of the steel mill completed a successful fund drive with a total of $86,799 donated to the Utah County United Way Fund for 1975. Raising the symbolic victory banner at the plant were some of the principals in the drive. They are, left to right, Clyde Asay of Provo, co-chairman representing represen-ting Local 2701 in the Rolling Mills Division where the average contribution was over $22 and the total was over $23,000. Center is G. W. Land use issues to be discussed at junior high meet November 2 Undecided about the Land Use Act? Hear State Senator Robert F. Clyde at the Springville Jr. High, November 2, 1974 at 7:30 p.m. Senator Robert F. Clyde has an empressive background in government, beginning with a political science degree from B.Y.U. and fourteen years experience ex-perience in the Utah Legislature. He has served six years in the House of Representatives and eight years in the Utah Senate . during which he has been involved in-volved in many committees as well as holding leadership positions. He now represents Wasatch, Summit, Morgan, Duschene, Uintah, and Daggett Counties. Senator Clyde is a life-long resident of Heber Valley and has ' made his livelihood as a rancher-farmer. He believes that morality among leaders is the first step to good government and his own extensive church service is evidence that he is a man of integrity. At the present he is president of the Heber, Utah East Stake of the L. D. S. church. His wife is the former Lynette Madsen of Springville, and they are the parents of seven children. The project will apply newly-developed newly-developed scientific instrumentation in-strumentation in a unique acoustical survey of these and other undisturbed marine wreckage sites. Another element of the project calls for retrieval of important artifacts for Bicentennial display. dotet Nov. 7 (NqA time: 2 Pm- SHS Athletic Field f 40lvt&':-OF THE . i r?0$?'S ZERO TEAM -5! I, o W m s".sr. Schaumburg, drive chairman, who headed the large group of union and management people who conducted the drive in the plant Right is Don Turner of American Fork who represented Local 3736, Production and Technical, in the Metallurgical, Chemical and Inspection Division, which had 100 per cent participation. These men are representative of the leadership that carried out a successful effort for United Way. Robert F. Clyde Grant PTA sets members drive Grant School PTA will hold its membership drive Nov: 4 through Nov. 8, announces PTA membership chairman, Mrs. Clark Palfreyman. Envelopes will be sent home with the students Monday, Nov. 4. Tickets for a Disney Movie to be shown at the school will be given each family joining the PTA. k ft r. 5TV ' J Opportunity Each golden sunrise ushers in new opportunities for those who retain faith in themselves and keep their chins up. No one ever saw a rooster crow with its head down, but always in the air; nor can one gain the right outlook on life with his head held low. Courage to start and willingness to keep everlastingly at it are the requisites for success. Meet the sunrise with confidence and fill every golden minute of the day with right thinking and worthwhile wor-thwhile endeavor, and there will be joy for you in each golden sunset. It's easier to be satisfied than dissatisfied and much healthier. It is as easy, and much pleasanter, to find elements of satisfaction instead of dissatsifaction in the daily run of events. 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