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Show UnivcrEcl .iicrofil. t& Corp. 141 tfierpont Avctuo taw i ', ' ' ' "Pleasant Grove, the Moif Beautifully Situated City In Utah County' VOL LXII, No. 10 PLEASANT GROVE. UTAH 84062. THURSDAY. MARCH 10. 1966 J v Center Street Improvement Gets Started i fsl' fcvV 0 t V v. . ' DISASTER Burned out floor and ruined fire which started near floor heater at the merchandise are the results of a disastrous Pleasant Grove Lumber Co. last Thursday. Early Morning Fire Causes $25,000 Loss at PG Lumber An early Thursday morning fire caused extensive damage to the office and hardware and paint store of Pleasant Grove Lumber and Supply Co. Owner-manager Owner-manager Wilford Gurr said on Monday morning that the damage dam-age to the store and stock would exceed $25,000 of which $12,000 was covered by insur ance. At about 1:30 a.m. Officer Keith Bills of the Pleasant Grove Police Department, noticed no-ticed smoke issuing from the building. He notified the dis- patcher, who in turn called the local fire department. When the firemen jirrived, flames were racing through the office and firemen were hampered ham-pered by exploding cans of pressurized paint. However, prompt and efficient work by the firemen prevented the flames flam-es from spreading to the plan MP rSATTT V J" This week's epistle is devoted-to devoted-to a subject that has been on my mind for many days. For a better caption," I suppose it could be entitled "Hunters and the Hunted." I was tempted to sound off about it last October during the "Deer Season." However, for some reason orother it was set aside until now. y j What tempted me to expostu late last fall, was a picture that appeared on the sports page of a Utah daily paper. The illustration illus-tration showed a couple of so--. called sportsmen squatting on one knee.ovith high powered rifles in their hands. The rifles were equipped with telescopic sights.- , , - Propped up between, them was a very dead little black bear cub. It's sightless eyes were glazed over in its baby face. The victim could not have been more than six-months old., I imagine it put up quite a strong and "brave" nimrods, so well equipped to deal out sudden death. Don't "know what harm the little creature was doing in its natural home in the Utah wilds. Don't know, either, what satisfaction satis-faction the hunters got from destroying de-stroying its happy life. Perhaps it was only because' some people peo-ple delight in destroying. the end results of nature's handiwork.,. handi-work.,. Another more recent newspaper news-paper picture gave me the final urge to speak out against man's inhumanity to wild, living things. It showed two hunters, a pack of hounds and a dead mountain lion. " T '"' ; "" i-JM ing mill to the west, and the lumber stocks to the south. Pleasant Grove Fire Chief Ford West received cuts and burns on both hands from ex-" ex-" ploding paint cans.- After treatment treat-ment by a local physician, he returned to the scene and directed di-rected mopping-up activities, which lasted until about 5:30 in the morning. Mr. Gurr said that the fire evidently, started in the area of the floor furnace on the main floor of , the display room. It burned through the floor, dropping drop-ping hardware and paint cans into the basement below. The cash register, office machines ma-chines and other equipment " were either destroyed or reduced reduc-ed to. valueless junk, Mr. Gun-said. Gun-said. . Ironically enough; two large plate glass windows and two plate glass doors -in the store I EFFtf M According to the accompanying accompany-ing story, the men, following the hounds had trailed the cougar cou-gar for several miles over rough Southern Utah terrain. At last the weary and frustrated beast took refuge in the top of a juniper tree. , ; ' '. While there, and with no danger dan-ger to themselves the hunters riddled the body of the magnificent magnif-icent beast with screaming rifle bullets. And all for what? Perhaps Per-haps the "sport" of it or perhaps per-haps the paltry "bounty" made possible by a blind and foolish -governmental agency. If such paid barbarity continues, con-tinues, it won't be long until the bear and the cougar will disappear from the Utah scene. Anud then, two , of the state's magnificent animals will be lost to posterity. Reminds me of a story of a Utah hunter, who ' took r his young son on a lion hunt. Thru high powered "binoculars they' observed a beautiful male cou gar, standing on a rock across a rocky, dry canyon. ' ' In time, their hounds picked up the scent and had the snarling snarl-ing cat securely "treed." A rifle shot and the animal fell at their feet among the snarling, flesh-rending flesh-rending dogs, v With tears in his eyes, the boy turned to his father and said, '.'Wasn't he a beauty, until un-til you. killed him?" However, there is hope. Some nature, lovers are trading in s their rifles for cameras, equipped equip-ped with telephoto lenses. An artistic picture of a wild animal in its natural environ-, ment is worth much more than many tons of rotting carrion. Yf I So long 'til Thursday. ' ik On front, were not broken. The Fire Department Auxiliary Auxil-iary also answered the fire call. They served breakfast to the firemen after the fire extinguishing exting-uishing job was done; . Carpenters and other workmen work-men were busy Monday morning morn-ing repairing the damage and rebuilding the display shelving. Customers were being served as usual from undamaged stock on hand. - ELDER ARVEN ROBERTS Farewell Sunday night Farewell Sunday Will Honor Arven Roberts' Elder Arven Roberts will be honored with a missionary farewell fare-well testimonial, Sunday, Mar. 13, at 5:00 p.m. in the Third-Sixth Third-Sixth Ward Chapel. Bishop Carl Ringger of the Third Ward will preside and speak closing remarks re-marks of encouragement and counsel. Elder Roberts, a son of Mr. and Mrs. Earl T. Roberts, has received a call to labor in the Alaskan-Canadian LDS Mission with headquarters; at Vancouver, Vancou-ver, B.C., Canada. He will begin be-gin training at the Salt Lake City Mission Home March 21 and expects to leave for Vancouver, Van-couver, March 28. Elder Roberts is a 1965 graduate grad-uate of the Pleasant Grove High "School, where he was a member mem-ber of the football team. Since graduation, he' has been employed em-ployed and has attended Utah Trade Technical Institution in Provo. For the church, he has completed com-pleted 4 years of Seminary and has been secretary of the ward M Mens organization. He is a Star Scout. . ' Speaker at Sunday evening testimonial will be Gary Brown. Elder -Roberts' parents will speak briefly and he will re: spond., The Bob Penrod family will sing a special number. Invocation will be asked by Don Draper and Bryan D. Roberts Rob-erts will offer the 'closing 'pray- er. Prelude and postlude will be played by Lois Rawlinson! " "m " 1 1 --"ft ' i 1M . The break in the weather has permitted work to continue'on the improvement of Pleasant Grove's West Center Street. Early this week workmen of Neils Fugal's Sons Co. began excavations for the laying of an enlarged culinary water line. The new-six-incl line will connect on in front of the Bayly Plant and continue along the north side of West Center tp the Union Pacific tracks. It will then cross over and continue con-tinue on to Highway $1, where a fire hydrant will be installed. The new line will replace the one-inch supply pipe, which has been inadequate for some time, according to City Councilman Paul Adamson, chairman of the water and sewer utilities committee. com-mittee. Mr. Adamson said that the new line would provide ample water for the landscaping of the two traffic-controlled "triangles," "tri-angles," soon to be installed by the Utah State Highway Department. Depart-ment. The triangles are to.be constructed at the junction of West Center Street and Highway High-way 91. x. Mr. Adamson also mentioned -other improvements to West Center, noW completed and in the offing. Sidewalks, "curb and gutter have already been installed. in-stalled. Also, in the near future, fut-ure, the State Road Department Depart-ment will lay black top from gutter to gutter from Main Street west to Highway 91. The cost of the current pipe-enlarging pipe-enlarging project is about $7,000 Mr. Adamson said. He estimated estimat-ed the cost of the street paving and triangles to total approximately approxi-mately $20,000. . -'""' ' Zi City Plans Drive On Unlicensed Business Activity "When is a business not a business?" The answer to that question has received a definite answer "from the City Fathers of Pleasant Grove. - In their opinion, backed up by a statement from Mayor Paul T. Fordham, a business is illegitimate in Pleasant Grove City,- unless the operator of same complies with the City zoning ordinances and pays the regular prescribed ' business license. This ruling is only in fairness to operators of legitimate legiti-mate business establishments within our city Mayor Fordham emphasized. At present the City Council is directly concerned with citizens who are operating "back yard" automobile repair garages in violation of the law. These repair facilities must "shut up shop" before March 15 or legal action will be taken against the property owners of the same, Mayor Fordham said. V -1 V I STRAWBERRY DAYS Eldon v 1 ed right, explains to committee members Leon Walker, seated, and Marvin Jorgensen and Walter Reimschiissel advertising apron BROOM SALESMEN Lions members Or- Warnick, are all ready for big "Lions Club val Carter, Bruce Lundgren, George Jaynes, Broom Sale, which started last night Pro-Maron Pro-Maron Oveson, Marvin Jorgensen and Keith ceeds will be used to help landscape pool. Lions Club Starts Broom Sale Wednesday to Raise Funds for Swihiming Pool Improvement Just in time for the spring housecleaning, the Pleasant Grove Lions Club is launching the annual operation, "Clean Sweep," according tp Marvin Jorgensen, Lion's president. The club has received 20 dozen doz-en new brooms, made by the workers at Utah's Blind Center Cen-ter in Salt Lake City. "And a new broom always sweeps Errors Zero" For Geneva Works bcplained The new, program--"Errors Zero" for Geneva Steel Works was explained to over 8,000 persons per-sons assembled at the BYU Fieldhouse Monday evening by Superintendent George A. Jed-enoff, Jed-enoff, and off icials of U.S. Steel and the top Army Missile Command. Com-mand. Other advice was given by N. FJdon -Tanner of the First ' Presidency, LDS Church, and Governor Calvin' L. Rampton, who reported on Utah's economic econom-ic efforts. : ' Also speaking was representatives represen-tatives of labor. In his opening remarks, Mr Jedenoff said: "This is probably the largest gathering of steel industry employees em-ployees everbeld in our country coun-try west of the Mississippi River. Riv-er. And there would be a lot more of u? here, tonight," but somebody has to. run the mill. "We have met to rededicate ourselves to a great, competitive competi-tive crusade. Our goal is to , insure for ourselves and our families a dynamic, prosperous , steel industry in Utah in the decades de-cades ahead. We are hero to understand this purpose better, and to unite in attaining it. - -"Tonight, my friends and fel- The Mayor states that property pro-perty owners, in the vicinity of adjacent' to these illegitimate activities are raising strong objection to the growing practice. prac-tice. 'We intend to enforce the law for their protection" he concluded. Johnson, seat . other features an outstanding J A yr ;:) clean," Mr. Jorgensen said. Members of the club began a canvas -of the homes in the Pleasant Grove area, offering the brooms for sale, beginning Wednesday, night. The sales campaign will continue until March 12. The purpose of the project is two-fold, Mr. Jorgensen said. First,, to assist in a financial at low employees, the steel indus- try of our state stands still at the crossroads. Of the two paths before us, one is easy, slow and wide, a long coast downward. We know this path because we have walked walk-ed it here before. We are determined de-termined not to walk it again. For . it leads to the Ironton ' Plant and rusty obsolescence ''The other choice before us is a harder way, long and uphill, up-hill, by a narrow path that demands de-mands mind and muscle every moment to climb. But at the end is a goal we must achieve. "With great pride, I can report re-port tonight that the steel makers mak-ers of Utah unmistakably have set their faces toward the tougher tough-er of the two ways. By recent performance, they have committed com-mitted themselves head-on to this responsibility. , "In so doing, they also- set the stage for this meeting tonight to-night and an important reason -for our assembling herev This will be the announcement shortly short-ly of a permanent, new concept at Geneva, first of its kind ever installed in the steel industry, to enable every employee to share his responsibility for, and contribute to, our larger common com-mon cause, unofficially known as, "Operation Bootstraps Geneva." "Participation by everyone will be basic to success, because be-cause the job of every employee is important to the maximum output of our organization. And each of us must contribute his Meeting I .4.- to be used to promote Strawberry Days. Big rodeo, carnival, parades, queen contest, and will. make. this years program, one, Mr. jonnson stated. way, the blind workers at the Center. And second, to raise funds in order to complete the recreation shelter at Pleasant Grove's Memorial Swimming Pool The brooms cost the club members $1.60 each, and they will be sold for $2.00. The support sup-port of the public is sincerely solicited. Monday share. That is why we asked all of you to come out tonight, "Our many customers and . friends from state, county and local government, community, civic and business endeavor, -newspapers, television and radio, ra-dio, plus many others, have joined us tonight because their understanding of our purpose, and continued support, also will be important to our final success..' suc-cess..' : . '.'We want them to know the size of the challenge to which we are committed. "We want them to know also the caliber of those who are taking it on. "And we want them to know they can back us up with confidence." con-fidence." J. D. McCall, U.S. Steel vice president, said: "Undoubtedly most of you know about the serious competitive com-petitive struggle being waged by Geneva Works today against a massive assault on West (Continued on page 6) Annual Spring Range , Ride Set for Mar. 19-20 The annual Spring Range Ride has been set for Saturday "" and Sunday, March 19-20, according ac-cording to Art Henderson, local Conservation Officer of the Utah Ut-ah State Fish and Game De-partnment. De-partnment. The purpose of - the ride is to study range conditions and also to observe and tabulate the number of deer on the Wasatch Front foothills. Riders will meet at 9 a.m. March 19 at the old Orem Park across from Lees Sand arid Gravel plant. The Saturday ride will extend north to Battle Creek canyon. March 20 riders will, assemble assem-ble at Grove Creek Dam at 9 a.m. and ride from there to Heisselts Hollow. All riding clubs and sports-mens sports-mens groups are invited to bring their lunch and join the rides, Mr. Henderson said. For further information, those -interested may contact Mrv Henderson or Forest Ranger John R. (Bob) Glenn. Homecoming Sunday Will Honor Elder Grant Richards Homecoming" services will be held Sunday evening, March 13 at 7:00 pim. in the Manila Ward Church for Grant L. Richards, Rich-ards, who Jhas just returned from the North Central States Mission. Conducting the meeting meet-ing will be Bishop David' HarT vey. i ' ; Special musical numbers will be presented by the Manila Ward Choir and Heidi Richards, sister of Grant He is the son of Mrs. Grant Richards |