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Show Utah Press Association kt7 E. 300 So. LC, UT 8X11 cable and Iv listing inside Volume Eighty-Six SPRIXCVILLK, UTAH m - April !. HISl Price W Number Fourteen Bond election passes 3 tol lite fiftigli Nebo School District patrons voted almost three to one favoring the $8 million bond election put to the voters on Tuesday. A very light turnout showed only 16 to 17 percent of the voters bothered to go to the polls, but those who did vote an overwhelming 72 percent for the bond compared to 28 percent against it; 2,644 favoring, with 1,001 against. Unofficially, tabulations for the Springville - Mapleton area show about the same three-to-one ratio. The vote went as follows:( Grant School 110 for and 65 against; Brookside School, 146 for and 46 against; Art City School, 145 for and 41 against; Westside School, 79. for and 68 against; Mapleton School, 138 for and 61 against. The official tabulations were made Wednesday with the official report being presented at the Wednesday night Crime vafcft program set tonight Citizens are urged to remember the Neighborhood Crime Watch Program scheduled for. this evening at 7:30 in the Springville High School. It is free to the public and sponsored in, conjunction with National Private Property Week, April 19-25. There will be door prizes, demonstrations, demon-strations, films and literature on preventing neighborhood crime, and it's all free. The Springville Police Department Employees Association (SPDEA), Utah Hands Up (the State's anti-crime organization) and the Utah County Board of Realtors team up to discuss protecting your property against crime and vandalism. Topics will include: identifying and reporting suspicious behavior; proper locks and lights; information on alarms; securing homes; marking valuables; criminal rights versus yours; and neighborhood watch program. Neighborhood burglaries and thefts Kindergarten registration tomorrow Mapleton School is in the process of locating prospective kindergarten students for the 1981-82 school year. Registration for all prospective kindergarten students in the Mapleton School area will be held Friday, April 10 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Mapleton School. To be eligible to begin kindergarten, a child must have turned five years of age by October 31, 1981. Parents are requested to submit evidence of immunization and a birth certificate. Both of these are required for entrance into kindergarten in the fall. Those planning to register a kindergarten kin-dergarten age child are requested to contact the Mapleton School (489-4321) if they have not been notified of a specific time to register. I ... Be patient, new flag is coming The wind-whipped and torn American flag flying from the South Main Street flagpole since December 3 was taken down last week for cleaning and repairs. Maury and Joan Thomas of Quality Cleaners will once again perform the task as a public service. The flag will be raised again as soon as repair and cleaning are complete and as soon as the city's high rise truck is back in town. The truck is in Salt Lake being repaired to bring it up to Landfill request gets county 'nix' Plans, to purchase property next to the Payson sanitary landfill were brought to a halt because of Utah County Board of Adjustment action denying the city a conditional permit to use the property for solid waste disposal. : In discussing the matter with Springville City Council, Councilman Ed Murdock stated that even the two representatives on the board from Springville, Glen Christensen and John Patrick voted against the cities proposed use of the property. The purchase of the property has become necessary because Spanish Library circulation Gam Coombs reported to the city council that library use is up again this year at the city library. He is chairman of the library board. He indicated that 104,799 items were circulated from the facility in 1980 and that if the present rate continues this school board meeting. District officials said the passing vote had "renewed their faith in the people" of the district, that they "couldn't be happier" and that they appreciated the "vote of confidence by the people." Only one area in the district, south west Spanish Fork, showed a negative vote with the tally showing 54 for and 61 against. Even Birdseye and Thistle voted for the bond, 13-5, the first time district officials can remember them doing so. Dr. Ray Warner, director of junior high and middle schools public information in-formation officer, said the district officials ' consider the vote light, although about that generally expected ex-pected in a bond election. In the 1973 bond election, 20 percent of the registered voters showed up at the polls. were at one time literally stamped out in Springville, said Detective Norm Cole, chairman of SPDEA, but once again have become all too frequent. Only through citizen participation can crime in Springville be decreased, he said. The Neighborhood Crime Watch Program will help citizens become more aware of theft and burglaries going on around them in their own neighborhoods, Det. Cole said. This meeting is so important to the security and crime prevention in the city, said Detective Cole, that Chief Leland Bowers is encouraging all of his officers to attend. Very often after a burglary or theft has been committee here, police have nothing to go on because neighbors are not observant and there are no witnesses wit-nesses to anything suspicious, Det. Cole added. As people become nlore aware of preventive measures, crime will diminish here, he said. Principal Waldo Jacobsen reminds Springville parents of kindergarten registration Friday, April 10. All children living in Springville who will be five by October 31, 1981, need to be listed on the kindergarten rolls. This can be done by registering tomorrow at the Grant School, 145 South 400 East, from 9 a.m. till noon. Parents ' will receive information at that time telling what requirements must be met before school starts in the fall. This early registration facilitates making classroom and teacher assignments for the coming year. Every effort will be made to enroll kindergarteners in the same school as older brothers and sisters and in the one nearest their home. OSHA's standards. Raising the flag is no simple task and requires the use of the high rise truck and five men. Citizens do not realize the labor involved in-volved in keeping the flag flying. - Anonymous donors are now in the process of purchasing a new flag, made of all-weather nylon, in the hope that it will be more serviceable than the present flag. This will give the city two flags so that when one is taken down for cleaning and repair, the other can be raised in its place. Fork City has indicated that it wishes to terminate the agreement it has with Springville for use of the present landfill land-fill operation. The council found it hard to understand un-derstand why the county would deny use of the Payson property for land fill when it is next to Payson City operation and for sale at a reasonable price. City officials also voiced concern as to where the county wants cities to dump their solid waste inasmuch as Provo City was turned down with its proposal and now Springville, also. The matter was placed under advisement ad-visement and other action will be taken. on the increase year more than 109,000 will be circulated cir-culated this year. He said there are8,590 active cards in use this year which presents a 3.96 percent increase over last year. Circulation Cir-culation is up about 19 percent this year over last year. Miss Springville, Sharri Kunze, daughter ol Wayne and Paula Kunze. .Mapleton. was crowned Saturday night. She will reign over events throughout the next vear. Runners up were from left. Susan llolriaway. third runnerui: Sharri Kunze, high school senior and daughter of Wayne and Paula Kunze, Mapleton, was crowned Miss Springville for 1981 last Saturday night by retiring queen, Tanna Booth. Miss Kunze is brown eyed, - with light brown hair and is 5'4" tall. For her talent number she did a ballet dance to the theme from "Ice Castles". The new queen's attendants are Susan Smart, first attendant, daughter Visitors to the Springville Museum of Art pause to take a close look at one of the paintings in the main gallery . The response to this year's April Exhibit has been excellent, reports director Vern Swanson. "In past years up to 20,000 people have visited the gallery throughout April. We hope to restore that type of attendance atten-dance and participation with our return to the traditional, academic and representational art that founded this Museum." Those interested in group tours may make arrangements one week in advance by calling Curator of Education Sherrill Sandberg at 48!)-94:!4. The public is welcome with no admission admis-sion charge. Museum hours are: Monday 1-9; Tuesday 10-5; Wednesday 10-9: Thursday through Saturday 10-5: Sunday 2-5. Mapleton finalizes cleanup Mapleton clean up will conclude Friday and Saturday with trash being hauled by all available trucks and man power. Mapleton City, electing not to participate in the clean up this year because of a heavy committment with the water project, may be forced to haul trash away this week. A report was given by Councilman Dean Tew and Mayor Edward K. Wiscombe that trucks from the National Guard may not be available as was planned by David Nemelka, committee chairman. An accident, because of a reported blind spot in the new national trucks has caused a hold status on the -use of the trucks. Trucks now have to be driven with two drivers in each truck, it was reported. Guard manpower is not sufficient to cover both Mapleton and Springville clean up which was scheduled at the same time this year. Extra truck coverage is being sought from Mapleton residents this year. Citizens are requested to place trash in two piles, one with burnable trash and one with non-burnable items. Garbage fees for the clean up are $150 per day, plus a fee for each load. Citizens can obtain a dumping permit and the load fee will be paid by the city. of Mr. and Mrs. Merrill Jay Smart, and Shelley Czirr, second attendant, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. John Bartely Czirr. Susan played a piano solo, ."Prelude in C sharp Minor" for her X-talent, and Shelley did a gymnastic idance to "Shilo". ' -" ' ; Third runnerup was Susan Holdaway, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Glade Y. Creer; and fourth runnerup was Lisa Boyack, daughter of Gary and Margie Boyack. Drivers are requested to have trucks fully loaded with only non-burnable material being hauled to the dump. Specific information is listed in a flyer delivered to each home. Truck drivers can obtain the dump permit as arranged by David Nemelka. The council suggested that tree limbs be cut in six-foot lengths and bundled where practicable to facilitate loading. All items to be hauled must be placed in the street by 9 a.m. Saturday. Scouts, young adults and other organizations are filling assignments in helping with the cleanup. Neighborhood mayor-citizen meetings are continuing. The meeting for the northwest neighborhood has been changed from April 22 to April 29. Meeting for the southwest neighborhood neigh-borhood will be held as planned on April 14. Persons in the southeast and northeast nor-theast neighborhoods who missed their 'meetings may attend either of the two remaining meetings. AH meetings are scheduled to be held in the city building at 7:30 p.m. both dates, with discussion of upcoming city budget and other citizen concerns to be discussed. Susan Smart, first attendant: Shelley liovaik. fourth runnerup. U Receiving the honor of "Miss Leadership" was Kelly Brereton. She was chosen by a vote from all of the contestants. Saturday's pageant, in spite of many problems with the sound system at the high school, was a fine production. The auditorium was filled to capacity, and the emcees, Miss Utah, Jean Bullard and Ken Sekaquattewa, did an out-, standing job. City Council acts on myriad of business Routine matters were discussed at the regular city council meeting held at city hall Tuesday evening. All members of the council were present. A business license was granted to Alan Reed for operation of the Sage Inn and Motel. Mr. Reed indicated he had a purchase agreement with Tom Biesinger. and planned to upgrade the operation. He said plans are underway to install a patio on the east side of the cafe to be used in the summer for parties and banquets. A business license was also granted to Kevin and David Waters to operate an electronic game arcade at 274 South Main in the building formerly occupied by Basket and Bows. It will be named the Springville Family Fun Center. All bids were tabled for the purchase of a new truck for the. street department. depart-ment. All bids came in at a higher price than the city can afford to pay and negotiations are underway to reduce the price the city can afford to purchase the truck. The council voted to allow the fire department to modify the front of the fire station to provide display of the old LeFrance fire engine which has been Police docket Bicycles were reported stolen last week from Selby Marshall, 177 E. 800 So. a silver J.C. Penney model; Wayne Rigby, 654 E. 700 So., blue Eagle II; Mike Wilson, 1775 W. 1600 No., Mapleton, blue dirt bike; and Chris Carter, 861 E. 1150 So., maroon 10-speed. 10-speed. A tricycle with the' name "Gus" scratched on the forks was turned into the police department. Other thefts reported were one at A & W, petty theft of root beer mugs; Springville Garage, 155 So. Main, six tires valued at $240; food stamps valued at $100 from Lorraine Smith, 95 So., 100 E.; and bricks from Calvin Wright, 658 E. 100 N. Two shoplifting incidents were also reported. One was at 7-Eleven where a customer reportedly ' stole food, and another at Christensen's Department Store where a coat and levi blue jeans were apparently taken. Cirr. second attendant: and Lisa Mrs. Carolyn Richins, pageant chairman, and her committee representing the Springville Chamber of Commerce, want to thank Springville City, Mapleton City, and all the sponsors spon-sors and businessmen who contributed money and gifts for the pageant.' A special thanks to the many peopie, from the terrific stage crew, to the hostesses in the dressing rooms, who gave of their time to help with the production and make it such a success! restored. The present birck porch will be removed and glassed in to allow a display area for the engine. This work will be done at the expense of the volunteer firemen and not at the city's expense. The council also voted to fill the vacancy on the fire department caused by the resignation of David Johnson. The council instructed the city attorney at-torney to file an appeal against the Utah County Boundary Commission in the courts protesting the commission's action against the city concerning the proposed freeway annexation. The council will, however, meet with Provo City and Spanish Fork City to see if the dispute can be resolved without court action. The filing is to protect the city's rights in that any protest to the boundary commission's ruling must be filed within a certain time. It was pointed out that the city could stop the court action at any time should an agreement be worked out. It is also the intention of the council to work only with the Springville Em-' Em-' ployees Association as a bargaining agent at contract time. Any other city employees organization is invited to submit in writing their proposals to the wage committee for its consideration, but the council will bargain in person with the Springville City Employees Association only. Council members indicated that money will be in short supply again this year as budget setting time draws near. The council voted to approve a plan submitted by Springville Stake for the formation of a park on the ground owned by Hugh Gardner behind the Berg Mortuary. The city will enter into a rent free use agreement with Mr. Gardner on the property and the church will install a sprinkling system, a back stop for softball use, and plant lawn on the property. The city will provide water and mow the lawn in the summer with its equipment. Ray Klauck indicated that two new industries are about ready to start construction in the industrial park should interest rates come down in the immediate future. Councilman Delora Bertelson expressed ex-pressed her thanks to the Chamber of Commerce for the fine job it did on the Miss Springville Pageant and the council voted to give the project to the Chamber for another year. i .1 |