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Show Universal Microfilming Corp. 141 Picrpont Avonuo " " "T --- 1 t , - t - i r , -.3 ' 1 ; "Pleasant Grove; Me Most Beautifully Situated City In Utah County" .VOL LIX, No. 4 PLEASANT GROVE, UTArl", THURSDAY, JANUARY 24, 1963 ' PRICE 10c i. V UO'BJRTH DEFECTS 'Mothers March for Dimes' Set For Next Wednesday Night Th- annual March of Dimes 1 Drive will get underway Wednesday," Wednes-day," Jan. 30 with a "Mothers March" at 7:00 p.m., according: to Mrs. Wayne L. Hirschi, chairman chair-man of the Pleasant Grove area. Even though polio is being brought under control with the Public Asked to According to reports received by PTA Council members, the "Lights on for Education" held last Thursday at the schools thru-, out the Pleasant Grove area were very successful affair. Pros and cons on various phases, of education edu-cation and problems of taxation and money for the schools were discussed. Council members -feel that perhaps per-haps the thing that should come from these discussions is for the general public to make known their attitudes and desires to the legislatures representing them. The Review herewith gives the names and addresses of some of Battle Could be that this scribe is the only columnist or editorial writer hereabouts, who has not broken out into print relative to the squabble over more money for Utah's schools. To date, it; has been more fun just to sit on the sidelines, look and listen. AwirrHnc trt BfwriA Btattticians. Utah has fallen measurably behind be-hind her surrounding sister states in furnishing funds to maintain -and operate her schools. Members of CAPS say that our delinquency in this respect-aanounts to about $100 per year for each child enrolled en-rolled in Utah's public schools. r If this is true, there must be a reason. The question naturally arises: Why have we fallen so "disgracefully' "below states like Nevada, Colorado, Idaho, Arizona, Ari-zona, New Mexico, . Wyoming, et " . ej - .. - , " Of course'' there are several reasons. And not taking sides in the heated hassel, this writer hereby presents just a few. ;.; Families are larger in Utah almost 'one child per family lar-' ger. This means that more teachers teach-ers ' and classrooms are needed than the average of the other Mountain States. More children enter school in Utah each . year and they continue to attend for a longer period-Utah period-Utah law prescribe that youngsters young-sters must remain in school until they reach 18 or graduate from high school. Some states have compulsory education only up to the age of 16. Utah's people are not very rich. In fact, the amount of assessable property, per capita in Utah is the lowest of any of the surrounding surround-ing states. Hence less tax money for school purposes, even at com- parable tax levies. ; ; ? - ' Agricultural land in Utah bears considerable of the school tax burden. Unfortunately there isn't much of it less than 5 per cent ' of the total area. Mountains and deserts comprise most of it And worse still, Utah's taxable agricultural land is growing smaller each year. Church groups have bought and are still buying - large tracts -of the best farming land and thus removing the acre- IS 1 Salk and Sabin vaccines, funds . are now also being used to combat com-bat birth defects and crippling children's diseases. Those wishing to contribute to this worthy cause should turn on their porchlights Wednesday evening - when the "Mothers March for Dimes. rt Express Views the legislators from this area and suggests if you have anything to say regarding education and taxation, tax-ation, you "Should write to these people. State Senators , John Barnhardt, 1395 Cherry Circle, Provo; Wallace Gardner, 115 East Third North, Spanish Fork. . ' House of Representatives Ernest Dean, 165 South Third East, American Fork; Russell Hansen, 336 North 750 Bast, Orem, Or-em, Utah. ' - , Governor George D. Clyde, at the State Capitol, might also be another interested party to write. Creek iu w age from the tax rolls. Even school boards have been shortsighted in this respect For instance, the former Lincoln Jun- ior-Senior, High School occupied about 6 acres of land, including r the building site, football field, running- track, tennis courts and Softball field. Prior to building the new Oreni High School, the 1 School Board purchased 40 acres i of land. Much of it was high pro- . ducing fruit orchard. This extensive area was thus removed from the tax rolls, and ; the crops it produced and the em- -ployment it furnished were lost to the Utah -economy. A similar waste of vaJuable land for school purposes has 'been practical in , other Alpine .District areas and tlje state as a whole. " ' Also, there has been a marked increase in ' the employment of non-teaching personnel in recent years supervisors, assistants, counselors, secretaries and so on. In 1925 the tote Superintendent Dave Gourley, Joe Walton, Clerk ' of. the Board and Jense Fugal, maintenance man, ran Alpine School District. Now upwards of 20. work at . the Administration Office in American Am-erican Fork- Evidently school patrons regard these services as desirable or they would not have approved the marked increase.-The increase.-The point is, however, it takes educators out of the classrooms and adds measurably to school costs. -.' '. , And again, many Utah school districts, Alpine included, have frequently been "refunding" instead in-stead of paying off their bonds . when they became due. Alpine's bonded indebtedness ds currently around $7,000,000. The annual interest in-terest on 7 million at 3 per cent is $210,000. This amount and similar sim-ilar amounts throughout the state-would state-would raise the pay of a lot of teachers, if it could be used for ' that purpose. These are hard facts that may well keep Utah's Legislators from sleeping too soundly during the nights to come. Anybody like to change places with them until March 15, 1963? So long 'til Thursday. First and Fifth Ward Gold and Green Ball Set for Saturday The First and Fifth Ward Gold and Green Ball with a theme of "Al 'Di' La" will be held .this Saturday, Jan. 26. The event will take place In the Tlmpanogos Stake House and will start at 8 o'clock. A floor show is slated for 9:30 p.m. and Burt Murdock's orchestra orches-tra will furnish the music-Refreshments music-Refreshments will be served throughout the evening. Rodeo for '63 Shaping Up In Pi. Grove "Things are shaping up for a better than average 1963 Strawberry Straw-berry Days Rodeo." said Kenneth Ken-neth R. Gillman, rodeo chairman, Tuesday. The dates of the 3-day show, which as usual will be held in connection with the Strawberry Straw-berry Days celebration, have been set for June 20, 21, and 22. Mr. Gillman stated that he has been in constant communication with D. A. Kirby, owner of the Bar T Rodeo Company, who. now lives in Salt Lake ! City. As in past years, the Kirby show is fully approved by Rodeo Cowboy . Association of America. Mr. Gillman said that the same high-type show would be staged again this year with one new clown and a complete set of new acts. The1 popular announcer Jack Okey, will be In charge again, he reported. CHARLES KENNETH WEST Farewell this Sunday Farewell Sunday Set for Young LDS Missionary Elder Charles Kenneth West will be honored with a mission ary-farewell testimonial at 5:00 p.m. Sunday, Jan 27 in the Tim-panogos Tim-panogos Stake. House. Bishop Ben Whiting of the Grove Ward will preside and give closing remarks' of advice and counsel. v Elder West, a son of Mr. and Mrs. -Charles W. West, ha?, accepted ac-cepted a call to labor in the Hawaiian LDs .Mission- He will begin special training at the Salt Luxe City Mission Home Feb. 4 .and expects to leave for Hawaii one week later. . Elder West is a 1961 graduate of the Pleasant Grove High School and four-year Seminary program. Since graduation he has worked on the family farm and completed complet-ed a six-month tour of active military mil-itary service with the U.S. Army Reserve "at Fort Ord, California, . He also attended BYU. . Speakers at Sunday night's testimonial will be John Fugal, and Norman Miller. Elder West's "parents will give brief remarks and he will respond j Special musical numbers 'will include prelude and postlude organ or-gan music by Irwin Jensen and a vocal solo by Joyce Buchanan' .with choir accompaniment . Dale West will open with pray er and the benediction will be pronounced by Darwin Eggll. v All - ward m embers and other -friendsof the family are cordially cordial-ly invited to attend. Timponogos Stake i Relief Society to Hold Meeting Friday Timpanogos Stake Leadership meeting for the officers and class leaders of the Stake Relief So- oieties will be held Friday morning, morn-ing, Jan. j 25, beginning at 10 a.m. The program; for the opening open-ing exercises is being arranged by the Second Ward. It includes musical number by Shauna Jo Shields, ReNae Rawlinson and Kathy Powell, and a spiritual thought by Sylvia Peterson. Departmental work will follow the opening exercise. Harvey E. Smith Sworn in as Board Member Harvey E. Smith, Fleomnt Crove businessman, was sworn in as a member of Alpine District Dis-trict Board of Education at the annual organization meeting hold last week, Mr. Smith was elected to the position at the general election last November. Other members, sworn m at the same meeting, were Dr. Phil Shumway, Orem and ' Frank Greenwood, American Fork. Murray Rawson, Orem, was reelected re-elected president; Mr. Greenwood, vice president and Elijah Chip-man Chip-man was reappointed clerk-treasurer for another two years. The board members also named Leon Frazlcr as attorney for the district and the accounting firm of Dodge-Smith and Company as auditor for two years. Weather Warmer, Trend Seems to be On Upward Swing Don't look now, but it . was, warmer in Pleasant Grove last week than it was ,the week before. be-fore. All of 4 degrees warmer; ' As the man said, "every little bit helps." Alsb on the positive side, we had measurable moisture. Nobody got snowed in however; but when all the white stuff was melted, the total amount of water would be enough to drink. Snowfall in the"' eastern watersheds water-sheds was much deeper than in Utah Valley. But ' snow depth there 4b still .far below normal, according to the reports of the water surveyors. "Not much change, except that temperatures could get a little colder," said the weatherman ear-' ear-' ly Tuesday morning. Statistics for the week ending -January 21, 1963. . Date High Low Pre. January 15 .z 32 " 15 bce January 16 31 16 0.02 January 17 34 24 Uace January 18 " 31 12 O.ir January 19 14 -8 0.01 January 20 24 -4 0.00 January 21 30 2 0.00 , Summary Highest for the week 34 degrees on Jan. 17, Lowest Low-est minus 8 degrees on Jan. 19. " Precipitation for the week 0.14 of an inch. Total since Jan. 1, 0.17 of an inch. Sun rises and sets locally, at 8:20 ajn. and 5:25 p.m. 'Communication' Conference Held Saturday, Jan. 19 A- Provo High conference on Communication betweenParents and Youth was held last Saturday, Satur-day, Jan. 19. Groups of ten discussed dis-cussed problems of unity in the home, lack of communication and understanding between children and their parents. - After a lunch and program, the afternoon session was a discussion dis-cussion of solutions to problems that were determined in the morning morn-ing session. ; : Participating in the conference from the Pleasant Grove High School were the following- students stu-dents and their parents: . Fred Keetch, Jr and . Fred Keetch Sr.; Karen Christiansen and T. Val Christiansen; Jack Boren and J- B. Boren; Susan Boren and Lloyd Boren; Janeen Lisbon and Glendon Liston; Jane Newman and , Clarence J- Newman; New-man; John Bezzant and Eugene Bezzant; Joel Car ling and Benner J. Carling; Elaine Jorgensen and Max Jorgensen; Caroline Adams and Floyd H. Adams. , Course for Gun Safety Instructors To Start Feb. 6 A . training course for sportsmen, sports-men, who would like to qualify for gun safety and survival train-ing train-ing teaching, will begin Wednes- day, Feb. 6 at 7:30 p.m. accord-j ing to Art Henderson, local Fish and Game officer. The classes will be taught byt Lee-Robinson, Safety Survival of- fleer of the State Fish and Game Department. Meetings will be held consecutively until-March at the .Sportsmens Headquarters, basement of DTR Co., American Fork. Anyone interested, who is 21 -years of age or older, is cordially invited to take the course, Mr. -Henderson said." DIGNITARIES Present for the first showing of the new Ire truck were Mayor Paul T-'Fordham, T-'Fordham, Commissioners David Greenwood, Marion Hinckley, and Sterling Jones; Leo P. Harvey, Chairman Alpine ConservaUc. District, New Fire Truck Pleasant Grove Through the cooperation of Pleasant Grove City" and the Utah Department of Forestry and Fire Control,' the local area now has available a new piece of fire- Older Folks Party, Homecoming Set for Saturday, February 9 The traditional homecoming and party . honoring theu former and present Senior Citizens of Juvenile Problems Discussed at Meeting Monday "The Juvenile Judge should be responsible to some one," said Utah Representative Ernest Dean Monday night in the Pleasant Grove City Hall. Mr. Dean was in attendance at a meeting of Mayors, Chiefs of Police and police pol-ice ' officers of the North Utah County area. Also attending, in response to the invitation of Pleasant Grove's Mayor Paul T. Fordham, were Lamont Gunderson, chairman of. the. SUUWelfara-Oominisslon, , Commission members Ward Hol-brook Hol-brook and Lorraine Cook and John Fair Larsen, head of children's child-ren's services.. The meeting was called to express ex-press dissatisfaction with the Juvenile Court in dealing with the juvenile delinquency problem in Utah County. " In his opening remarks, Mayor Fordham stressed the growing disrespect of the young delinquents delin-quents for the law and the officers offic-ers who try to enforce it j Police Chief Glen Newman, also al-so of Pleasant Grove, recited a series of instances where juveniles juven-iles had been arrested for theft or vandalism and to his knowledge, knowl-edge, no fines had been imposed nor restitution required by the court. ToQy Ferkovich, Lehi Police Chief said that he seldom received a report from the judge relative to the disposition of the juvenile cases. Boyd Adams, Police Chief from American Fork complained of the laxity of the court in not having a probation officer . on duty at the detention home around the clock, when juveniles are taken in. . . , .. Mr. Larsen, head of children's services for the Welfare Commission, Com-mission, said that 80 Juveniles were referred to the court each day in Utah. "We need more judges and more probation officers," of-ficers," he said, He also stated that all juveniles juven-iles could hot be given equal treatment by the court. Some respond re-spond to severe controls and some do not he explained- He said that his office would investigate the reported cases of delay, and laxity. lax-ity. Welfare chairman Gunderson asked for the opportunity to follow fol-low through on all the complaints of the" Mayors and law enforcement enforce-ment officers. "It is not only our desire, but our duty to investigate investi-gate and theni if necessary, correct cor-rect the situation," he said. Ihorit Hebertson Speaks to PL Grove, Am. Legion Auxiliary Sylvia Peterson and Sadie Beck were hostesses to the members of the American Legion Auxiliary last Friday afternoon at Mrs. Peterson's home. Thorit Hebertson Hebert-son of Orem spoke on legislative proceedings and the situation Jta the Utah schools. Mrs. Norma Bronson, president conducted the meeting and introduced intro-duced the speaker. ' The ladies pledged allegiance to the flag and observed a minute min-ute of silence to honor the service men who have been killed in de--fense of their country. ' " 1 for Grass Fires Procured by City Through Public Law 566 fighting equipment The new engine en-gine was secured through the pro-" visions of Public Law 566, under the Small Watersheds Act Each contributing agency paid 50 per the Pleasant Grove area has been set 'or Saturday, Feb. 9, according accord-ing to Eldon Johnson, Timpano- -gos Stake committee chairman. All residents of the area and former residents, who are 60 years of age or older, are cordially cord-ially invited, Mr Johnson said. Area residents who have eligible friends or relatives, who live elsewhere, else-where, are urged to notify them and assist them to attend, he explained. ex-plained. Events will get underway with a 10 a.m. free picture show at the Grove Theatre, through the courtesy of Keith Miller, theatre manager. . Guests will assemble; at the high school beginning at 12 noon for visiting and. a social period. The f amous dinner will be served-" at 12:30 p.m. in the school lunch room. j, Following the dinner, top flight entertainers from BYU will furnish furn-ish a variety program of outstanding out-standing numbers. Dancing and another social hour will be enjoyed from 2:30 . to 3:00 p.m. in the girls gym. ' At 3:30 homemade ice cream and cake will be served in the lunchroom as a final gesture of old-fashioned hospitality. - "It is through the courtesy and generosity of the Pleasant Grove area citizens and businessmen that this day to honor Senior Citizens is made possible. "So, when you are contacted, in the near future, for your donation, do-nation, we would appreciate your continued and loyal support," said Mr. Johnson, speaking for the entire committee. Lindon Building Permits Total Nearly Va Million Building permits issued In Lindon Lin-don during 1962 totaled nearly a quarter million dollars. Largest permit was for $132,000, addition and remodeling of the LDS Ward building. ' . . John C Swenson Was issued a permit for a cafe; $1,200; Ronald Pace and Marion Manwell, Western Wes-tern Store, $5,000; Ivan Walker, gas pump, $1,000; Bill Lewis, fruit stand, $650; Dick's Fruit and Produce, .packing house addition, $1,000; Wells Stake Farm, storage, stor-age, $4,000. Permits for new residences went to LaVern A. Rhoades, $10,000; Maurice Fryer, $13,000; Magnus Hansen, $12,000; Lee Hansen, $12,000; and Roy Shep-pard, Shep-pard, $12,200. , For remodeling and additions to homes, Robert Fotheringham, $600; .Preston Atwood, $1,500; Theo Aston, $2,000; Francis Lee, $7,500 ; House Trailer, Paul Ek-ins, Ek-ins, $3,000; Patio, Don Gurney, $370. :' ' .. Garages.carports and storage; Tyler Rogers, $3,400; D. H. Fowlke, $700; Dennis Smith, $300 Verland Hooley, $1,400 f Paul Swenson, $2,000; Howard Walker, Walk-er, $300; Earl Thompson, $750; boat house, Don Gurney, $500; house trailer, Paul Ekins, $3,000. Chicken houses, Terry Chides-ter, Chides-ter, $1,000; JVar Gillman, $400; Lowell Gillman, $360; Ranch Brown, $1,500; Truman McBride, $150. Barns and sheds, Reed Walker, $350; David Nielson, $1,400; David" Nielson, $500; Ralph' Wiggington, $150; Clyde Higginson, $300; Vernon Clark, $300. Sign boards, Rue Clegg, $150; Columbian Motel, $200 " 7 A Li is Paul L. Sjoblom. State Forester; Jesse K. Thorne, aty Councilman; Ford West, Fire Chief; Mike Wright, Forest Ranger; and Rex Maanes, Fire Staff Officer. Uinta Forest The new truck will be used mainly for grass fires. cent of the $4,500 cost, according to City Councilman Jesse K. Thorne, chairman of public safe- Mr. Thorne stated that the new ' Dodge fire truck was purchased from the Hinckley-Dodge Agency, Salt Lake City, who were the lowest bidders. Fire Chief Ford West said that the truck is equipped with 4-wheel 4-wheel drive for use in the control of grass and debris fires in rough terrain. It has a 200-gallon tank and an auxiliary motor and can be operated by one or two men. It is also equipped with radio for two-way communication. While primarily purchased for grass and brush fires in the local forestry district, it may also be used to control grass and other small fires within the populated areas. The forestry district to be served serv-ed extends from the North Orem aty limits to the Alpine highway. high-way. Mr. Thorne also stated that' the new truck would be a considerable consider-able saving on larger and more expensive city fire-fighting equipment equip-ment both in manpower and expense ex-pense of operation. 1 Henry D.. Taylor , Speaks at Manila Welfare Banquet Elder Henry D. Taylor, assistant assist-ant to the Council of the Twelve and chairman of the LDS Welfare Committee explained the welfare program of the Mormon Church to ward members and friends attending at-tending the - Manila Ward Banquet Ban-quet on Wednesday evening- According to Bishop Elliot C. Howe, 'the banquet was given to start the 1963 drive for welfare funds and to educate ward members mem-bers as to how the welfare program pro-gram functions. All ward members ioined in to make the banquet a particularly particul-arly successful event. ine nnance cexmpnuee oi uie Manila ward were in charge of contacting -ward jn embers for contributions to the welfare fund and selling tickets to the banquet. Utah Valley Opera Slates Tryouts tor Singers and Dancers The Utah Valley Opera announ ces tryouts for their Summer opera op-era to be held June 5 and 8 of this year. Tryouts for the leads and chorus will be held at 8 p.m. on Jan. 28 and 29. Tryouts for the dancers, will be held Jan-31 Jan-31 at 8 p.m. All tryouts will be at the Wasatch ' School, Provo, 1080 North 10th East Season memberships are being sold at the present time. Family memberships are $10.00 and en- title the family members to reserved re-served seats for each musical and opera of the season.. Single memberships mem-berships are $5.00. Those wishing to purchase tiCf kets may contact Mrs. Boyd Fugal, Fu-gal, Ida Mae Christiansen, Verna Ekins, Margaret Holdaway, or Patricia Seeley. ' Coming attractions for thffsea-son thffsea-son are ''La Traviata'" at the Provo High School, March 13-16; Utah yalley Symphony,- Joseph Smith Building, May 1; "Pa jama Game" at the Provo High School on June 5 to 8 and '"South Pacific" Pac-ific" on' July 24-27." Visits Brother Here Miss Lois LeBaron visited here over last weekend with her brother broth-er and family, Mr. and Mrs. E. Dale LeBaron on her way to her home in Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada. Can-ada. Miss LeBaron just completed complet-ed an LDS mission of H,4 years in the Southern California States Mission Field. After a visit at home, she will return here to attend at-tend school at the Brlgham Young University. r. |