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Show CREED Dedicated to the truthful, accurate reporting re-porting of pertinent happenings and the fair presentation pre-sentation of controversial issues whose outcome must rest with the people. "I may not agree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." Voltaire. Ihis Is the Centennial Year. Now is the time to Lleaii-iip, f ix-up, t-aint-up! Planting Plant-ing colorful flowers, tsimuutig tiiruk, flitting thirds and houses in order results in a beautiul Community. Time is precious. ACT NOW ! HOME OF GENEVA STEEL Volume 15 Number 17 OREM, UTAH THURSDAY, MAY 1,1947 Hill Crest Ward is Formed f rom Grandview, Timp, Geneva Bishopric of New Hill Crest Ward Bishop G. Milton Jameson ' ' -" V - ; f 1 3 . i'v Jameson Named Bishop; New Ward Sixth in Sharon Stake President Henry D. Taylor presided over the first meeting meet-ing of the newly formed Hill Crest Ward of Sharon Stake, Sunday evening, April 27, in the Grandview chapel. He announced an-nounced that G. Martin,, first counselor and N. Floyd Johnson, John-son, second counselor. Norval Anderson will be ward clerk and Leland Nielson, assistant clerk. "ir Frank B. Woffinden was announced as a new member of High Council of Sharon Stake. Five other High Council members were present, Carlos Miller, Leeman Bennett, C. Rodney Kimball, Ray Hanks and Clyde Lunceford. Frank B. Woffinden was an- The new Hill Crest ward will nounced as a new member of I meet or the first time under the the High Council of Sharon Stake. Five other High Council members were present, Carlos Miller, Leeman Bennett, C. Rodney Kimball, Ray Hanks and Clyde Lunceford. During the meeting those present heard remarks by President Pres-ident Philo Edwards, Bishop of Timpanogos, Bishop Dean Buckner of Grandview, Bishop C. Wilford Larsen of Geneva and by the new bishopric and ward clerks. : The Hill Crest ward is made up of parts of three wards, Timpanogos, Geneva and Grandview. Gr-andview. Of the 515 members now in the new ward 154 were taken from Geneva, leaving 666 in that ward; 91 from Timpanogos, leaving 745; and 270 from Grandview, leaving 534. Those formerly in Geneva and Timpanogos wards who live south of 12lh south and a continuous line east to the Provo river are in the new ward. Geneva ward members living on either side of 12th south continue in that ward. The southern boundary of Hill Crest ward is 20th South. All who will be in the new ward have been contacted, informed of the change and invited to participate in ward activities. ACROSS THE EDITORS' DESK Two meetings important to the future of Orem City will be held next week: public hearings held Monday and Tuesday on the question of adopting a master plan for Orem City which would designate the location of roads and thoroughfares to be opened up in the future. These hearings will be held for the purpose of presenting the plan to the public for approval or disapproval, criticism and improvement. The plan as it is presently set up is in the form of a . -map, showing the location of roads not yet in existance. f If a projected road runs through a property, no building permits will be issued for building on that pur-' pur-' tion through which the road will run. This information will not be favorably received by some people whom this affects, but nevertheless the plan has been made to benefit Orem City as a whole. A great deal of research and work has gone into the formulating -of this plan. Its authors do not claim perfection per-fection for it, but do believe it is the best that can be made. Orem City is growing steadily. If the unfortunate results of uncontrolled growth are not prevented, the future will not regard wtih favor those who did not take the necessay action before the situation got out of hand. It is up to every conscientious citizen to support the far-seeing City Council's action in this matter. Perhaps the plan as presented is not perfect, but a plan of some sort must be adopted now before it is too late. C.E.W. First Counselor Leno B. Martin direction of the ward bishopric Sunday at 11:30 a.m-m.. the Grandview ward hall for a testimony test-imony meeting. New Bishoprics At Social Meeting Valuable instructions were given by President Taylor to the men who are taking over new positions in the church at a social meeting at the home of President Philo Edwards Sunday Sun-day evening following meeting. A pleasant evening was spent and refreshments were served to the new Bishoprics of Hill Crest and Timpanogos wards, the retiring Bishopric of Timpanogos, Timp-anogos, and the Stake Presi-n Presi-n front of me? . . . Is there a opric of Timpanogos, and the Stake Presidency and their wives. Thanks Expressed To Relief Society Appreciation is expressed by those in charge of serving the Orem Lions Club banquet last week to all the ladies who helped. help-ed. The dinner was prepared and served by Relief Society ladies rfom Timpanogos and Geneva Ge-neva wards. 2nd Counselor & . .-Ac N. Floyd Johnson Ward Clerk Norval Anderson Maren Jensen Leaves For Denmark Mon. Mrs. Maren Jensen After an absence of over forty years from her native Denmark, Mrs. Maren Jensen, widow of Jens C. Jensen, will leave Orem Monday for a four months visit to her homeland. Mrs. Jensen will go by train to New York City, and she will embark a-board a-board the liner Gripsholm May 9. She will travel with a group of LDS missionaries from Utah. While in Denmark Mrs. Jensen will visit her one brother and five sisters still living. Mrs- Jensen was born in Ran-ders, Ran-ders, Denmark, in 1876. She joined the LDS church in 1903 and came to the United States in 1904. She married Jens C. Jensen in the Salt Lake temple June 29, 1904. Mrs. Jensen has four children: Mrs. Anna Harris, Provo; and James, Woodruff, and Moroni Jensen, all of Orem. While in Denmark Mrs. Jensen Jen-sen will also visit her grand-nephew, Gunnar Christensen, who was the missionary companion of Duane Madsen of Vineyard, who filled a Danish mission-Mrs. mission-Mrs. Jensen has been trying to secure passage for Gunnar Christensen Chri-stensen and his family to come to the United States. Patience is not passive: on the contrary it is active; it is concentrated strength. I f ' H I i S'ii uri it ... t , ; . . ; . t -J y v i J it, mmmmm GARBAGE DISPOSAL YARD TO BE OPEN DAYS WEEKLY A new policy concerning gar bage disposal in Orem wer into effect today, according to Mayor J. W. Gillman. The city garbage disposal yard will be open three days each week, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday Satur-day from 1 p. m. until sundown. Serious unsanitary conditions have resulted from the dispo sal of fruit trees, dead animals, spoiled fruit, etc., in the past. The disposal of such items will not be permitted in the future. During the announced hours a man will be on duty to super vise the unloading of garbage and to determine what may be properly disposed of at the yard. This new plan does not affect af-fect the arrangements business houses and sub-divisions have had in the past- Asst. Ward Clerk it t, -F r w Leland Nielson Mrs. Clarence Downs left Wednesday for Kansas City, Missouri where she will visit with her daughter, Kathleen, who is attending the Kansas City Conservatory of Music. Mrs. Downs will attend a special spe-cial musical event, Sunday May 4, with Kathleen as featured fea-tured soloist. TWENTY-THIRTY TO ORGANIZE CLUB IN OREM In keeping with the ever-increasing growth of the community commun-ity a 20-30 club, sponsored by the Provo club, is being organized organiz-ed in Orem and will soon be chartered, according to Harold Thatcher, district governor for he Central Intermountain district dis-trict of 20-30. The Orem club is being formed form-ed from a nucleus of men living in Orem who belong to the Provo Pro-vo 20-30 club. These men include in-clude Weston Taylor, George Tucker, Maurice Miller, Kenneth Ken-neth Brereton, Bliss McEwan, and Max Andrews. Members of this prospective club assisted in the recent cancer can-cer drive, and contemplate many other worthwhile civic projects. Men between the ages of 20 and 35 interested in 'community betterment are invited t join. L. B. Bennett Becomes Timpanogos Ward Bishop A new Bishopric was announced announ-ced at the Timpanogos Ward conference held last Sunday evening. President Henry D. Taylor was in charge of the meeting. Leeman B. Bennett has been chosen to take over the duties of Bishop. He will be assisted by J. Alvin Higbee, 1st counselor, counse-lor, Reed Hackling, 2nd counselor, coun-selor, Donald Edwards, ward clerk and L. Wells Duke, assistant assis-tant clerk. A vote of thanks was given to the outgoing bishopric. Bishop Philo Edwards was chosen as a counselor to President Taylor when the Sharon Stake was reorganized re-organized at the recent stake CENTENNIAL QUEEN TO BE CHOSEN ON MAY 8 AT SCERA Orem's Centennial Queen will be chosen on the stage of the Scera theater at 9:30 p m. next Thursday evening, according accord-ing to Oscar H. Anderson, chairman chair-man of Orem's Centennial Committee. Com-mittee. The names of several candidates candi-dates have been received so far and many more are expected. expect-ed. All bishops of wards and Star Athletes To Compete In Junior College, High School Events at BYU Sat'day The 1947 Utah interscholastic relay meet and junior college col-lege conference meet will be held in the B. Y. U. stadium Saturday afternoon at 1 :30 p.m. The first events on the program will be the junior college col-lege shotput and the high school interscholastic relays. These interscholastic relays" will provide some exciting moments for the spectators. A 220, 440, 880 and mile relay offers opportunities op-portunities for the high school athletes to break some records. re-cords. The record in Class B is 8:27.5 and the Class A record is 8:26.6. Other relays which will be run off duirng the afternoon in the high school division include the 440 relay, mile relay, sprint relays, re-lays, medley, national high school medley, 880, and the shuttle relay, in which both A and B schools take part. To Shoot at Records The records the boys will try to better, include: 440 relay 45 6, Payson (B) and N4 5.7, Granite (A) Mile rlay 3:38.6, Springville (B) and 3:37.4, Provo. Sprint relays 1:11.4, American Amer-ican Fork and Cedar City . ..(B) and 1:09.5. Ogden (A). Medley 3:51.7, Tooele (B) and 3:49.4 Ogden and South (A). High school medley 3:41.1, American Fork (B) and 3:37.2. Box Elder (A). 880 relay 1:36.5, Payson (B) and 1:34.1, Ogden (A). Shuttle relay 44 4. South Cache (Open). BAC Favored Reorganized Timpanogos Bishop I First Counselor 1 I J?" " : ; f Leeman B. Bennett conference. J. Alvin Kigbee and Frank B. Woffinden were his counselors. Mr. Woffinden is a new member of the High Council Coun-cil of the stake. Orland Pyne served as ward clerk. Each man in the new bishopric bishop-ric and those released from the bishopric spoke briefly to the large gathering of ward members mem-bers and former ward members now in the Geneva ward. Clyde E. Weeks and his uncle and aunt. Bishop and Mrs. C. Wilford Larsen left Thursday afternoon to visit Mr. Week's father who is ill at Fort Lyon, Colorado. They expect to be back Monday night. officers of clubs and civic groups are urged to submit their candidates to be queen if they have not already done so. Qualifications for candidates are set forth as follows: candidates candi-dates must be from seventeen to twenty-five years old inclusive inclu-sive as of May 1; must reside in the Orem-Sharon area; must be sponsored by a group of at least five friends or by any ward, organized club, or civic organization. Applications giving name, age, sponsoring group will be received by Oscar H. Anderson or at the Scera theatre. In the junior college conference confer-ence BAC is favored to take honors after last week's exhibition. exhibi-tion. The Broncos are defending champions and should have clear sailing through the meet. Three winners from BAC in last week's meet are expected to break a few records. Elden Fullmer, BAC track star ran the 100 yard dash in 10.1, just one tenth of a second off the conference mark. If he can repeat last week's performance Rodney Brown will break the conference 880 mark. Brown ran the half-mile last week in 2:03.3 and the conference con-ference record is 2:03.5. The Bronc's 880 yard relay team is also a possible record breaker. At the B. Y. U. relays last week the BAC crew came within 3-10 of a second off the conference mark of 1:32.4, held by Weber college. All in all Saturday's meet promises some excitement and a few broken records. The meet will be free to the public. J. Alvin Higbee ' Asst. Ward Clerk f r 4 L. Wells Duke I f7. si n I I! f t ' ' i J ' J Public Hearings To Be Held On Master Road Plan For Future Development of Orem - A most important hearing will be held May 5 and 6 at 8 p.m. in the Sharon Ward Chapel relative to the adoption of a master plan by Orem City to regulate the physical development develop-ment of the city, according to Frank B. Woffinden, chairman chair-man of the Orem City Planning Commission. New High Council Member In Sharbn Frank B. Woffinden President Henry D. Taylor announced last Sunday that Frank B. Woffinden has been chosen as a new member of the High council of Sharon stake. Mr. Woffinden has recently been released as counselor to Bishop Edwards of Timpanogos ward, He lives in the new Hill Crest ward." ' ' - i""","":,v.,. Years of service in various church capacities have qualified Mr. Woffinden for this position. While living in Pioche, Nevada, he and Mrs. Woffinden helped in the organization of a branch of the LDS church which later became a ward. He served as counselor to the first Bishop of that ward. In Cedar City, Utah, he acted as chorister of the 1st ward and was president of a quorum of Elders. Since returning to Orem he has been president of the Sha- Bishopric 2nd Counselor V Reed Hacking Ward Clerk fan J Donald Edwara A great deal of research and investigation has characterized the formation of the master plan which is to be presented for public approval. Every citizen cit-izen is urged to attend this meeting where decisions will be made that will vitally affect property owners of Orem City. The purpose of this meeting is to give everyone a chance te discuss the plan and to offer improvements. The Planning Commission, headed by Frank B. Woffinden, includes Ed Wickman, Harry Butler, Merval Walker, Kent Fielding, Roy Gappmayer, and the city engineer. The Zoning Commission, as distinguished from the Planning Plann-ing Commission, includes D. Arlo Allen, George , Wells, Frank B. Woffinden, Harry Butler, Ed Wickman, Roy Gappmayer, Gapp-mayer, and the city engineer. The adjustment board includes includ-es Orson Prestwitch, Vera Wentz, Orland Pyne, Dr. Dean Anderson, and Ray Gillman. ron stake missionaries for one year and president of one of the quorums of Seventy. He has taken an active part in ward and stake activities and is admired by all who have been associated with him. ..LIBRARY NOTES Good news for Orem children is the announcement that six brand-new children's books have been received by the Orem Library. The books are the gifts of the O F Club of Orem for which we extend our , gratitude and appreciation. The books are really fine reading for children, most of them classics of child lore. They are all wonderfully illustrated illus-trated and should be very enjoyable en-joyable to the younger generation. genera-tion. The new books include: Vn cle Remus by Joel Chandler Harris; Whitefoot The Wood Mouse by Thornton Burgess; Winnie The Pooh by A. A., Milne; Mil-ne; Uncle Wiggly's Fortune by Howard R. Garis; Rainbow's End by Berta and Elmer Hader; and Little Black Sambo by Helen Bannerman and Frank Ver Beck. Coincident with the receipt of these lovely children's books this week was the receipt of a S?0 00 check from the Orem Women's Club to be used for the purchase of new books for the Library. With this kind of support from the community the Library will continue to grow and prosper in its ability to educate and recreate the men. women and children of our fair city. Statewide Centennial Events May 1 lo 4 Art Exhibit No. 3 at Orem May 1 to 7 Art Exhibit 1 and 2 at Logan. May 1 Special Pioneer Program, Salt Lake Tabernacle:. Ta-bernacle:. May 1 Lighting of Brig-ham Brig-ham Young Monument, May 9 "But Not Goodbye" at Tooele. May 2 "Blossom Time" at Roosevelt. May 2 "Peg O" My Heart" at Mr. Pleasant. - May 2 "Angel Street" at Duchesne. May 3 - "Blossom Time" at Duchesne. May 3 "But Not Goodbye" at Fillmore. May 3 "Angel Street" at Evanslon. Wyoming. May S Opening of "Message "Mes-sage of the Ages" pageant at ' Salt Lake Tabernacle. To show Monday through Friday until June 6. Tickets may be obtained free thru L. D. S. Bishops. |