OCR Text |
Show The Orem-Geneva Times is your clear-' ing-house for news about you and your neighbors. Tq report social activities, success suc-cess stories of your friends and other items of general interest, telephone 13. .Volume 11 No. Thousands Gather for Orem's Centennial Festival; Parade Adjudged Best in History Celebrants from all over Orem Wednesday and Thursday in the two main days of this city's three-day Centennial Festival, highlights of which were the largest and most colorful parades ever seen here. The Wednesday morning and Thursday evening par- ades included floats, bands, riding rid-ing exhibitions and color which surpassed anything ever before attempted in Orem. The festival opened Tuesday afternoon with a reception for Orem's Centennial royalty, Queen Lorna Anderson and her attendants, Carol Memmott and Jackie Faulkner, at the Scera theatre. Orem's pioneers were also honored at the affair which was sponsored by the combined women's clubs of the commun-ity. commun-ity. Other Tuesday activity was the sports card which sw Henry Hen-ry Jones, veteran Orem grapp-ler, grapp-ler, win over Hy Sharman of Salt Lake City. Over 50 Entries Leading off the more than 50 entries in Wednsday's parade was the American Legion color guard, followed by Orem's Gold Star Mothers. Following came the American Legion Auxiliary, flanked by the Lincoln high school band, in their colorful blue and gold uniforms. Next came a procession of native Indians In-dians from Whiterocks, Utah, dressed in their tribal regalia. Brigham Young and his scouts followed by an ox team were next in order, followed by a procession pro-cession of hand carts. These were followed by a float from Vineyard ward on which old-fashioned old-fashioned dancing was in progress. pro-gress. The Windsor, ward float was next with a log cabin and a well shown. The saving of the pioneer crops by the seagulls was depicted depict-ed on the Camp Crawl View DUP float. This was followed by a horse-drawn cart and two horses and buggies from Edge-mont Edge-mont ward shown going to church. Next came the Orem Stake Sunday School float showing show-ing the first Sunday School and then the Sharon SUka Sunday School float showing a 1947 Sun-1 day School. The Lehi band came next, dressed in colorful purple ant, white uniforms, "followed by DUP ,iadies in a surrey drawn by a make-believe team of hors-1 es. Next came a J 907 Interna-i tional automobile with Oscar II. ' Anderson, chairman of the Orem-Geneva Centennial Festival, riding with the driver. J A horse and buggy from Glen ,' and Joe's tavern came next fol- j lowed by the Lake View ward, float featuring pioneer educa-' tion. Next was Sharon ward's; float showing Orem's Crop: ; children and flowers. The next! float from Geneva ward depict- j ed the evolution of the fruit in-; dustry in Orem. This was followed fol-lowed by the float sponsored by . the Orem Jaycees and the Orem Chamber , of Commerce showing a beautiful painting of the Gen . eva Steel plant and the slogm: Orem City, Home of Geneva Steel. Next came the Orem Centen- nial Queen float decorated beau- old folks committee in each tifully with white and orchid, j ward will arrange for transpor-and transpor-and Queen Lorna Anderson t'ation. Dinner will be served at dressed in a regal white go un j noon and a program will be pre-with pre-with her ctteodants dressed in 'sented during the afternoon. gold. "'' Dressed in red and white um forms, the American iord Dana gave a demonstration while ' marching. This was followed by the Utah State Centennial Queen ' Colleen Robinson and her attendants at-tendants dressed in old fashioned fashion-ed gowns riding in the State Centennial automobile. t The Timpanogos ward Sweetheart Sweet-heart float was next followed , bv the Utah county Centennial! Queen Nadine Mitchell and her attendants riding in an open car. This was followed by Juab county float with its queen nd attendant. Then came a beautiful beauti-ful Nephi blue' and silver float vith its queen and attendants. Next came the Pleasant Grove float with the Strawberry Queen and her attendants, followed fol-lowed by the Pleasant Grove ban 1 dressed in blue and white and the Pleasant Grove R'ding Clu') dressed in fancy blue shir s . The beehive motif was carried out on the float entered by the combined women's clubs of Or-' em with a large gold beehive and small children dressed as'of bees . (Continued on Page 6) 28 the state and elsewhere packed PLEASANT VIE? TO PRESENT CONCERT A musical concert featuring outstanding Utah radio artists and Utah's second Wurlitzer organ or-gan will be presented at the Pleasant View Ward Chapel at 8 p.m. Thursday, Friday and Saturday evenings, according to the committee in charge. -- The concerts are being presented pre-sented in an effort to raise funds to go toward the purchase of the new $4000 organ. Harry Clarke, Seldon N. Heaps and Lowell Hicks of radio ra-dio fame will be presented, together to-gether with J. J. Keeler and the Pleasant View Ward Choir. The concert will be broadcast over radio station KOVO Thursday Thurs-day and Saturday from 8:45 to 9 p m. OISTBICT JUDGES NAME W. S. OUNFORD Provo's William Stanley Dun-ford Dun-ford was elected president for the coming year of the district judges of Utah at the semi-annual meeting of the Utah State District Judges association in Salt Lake City Friday. The new president shares the Fourth district bench, which comprises Utah, and Wasatch counties and the Uintah basin region, with Judge Joseph E. Nelson of Spanish Fork. Second District Judge Charles G. Cowley of Ogden was named vice president and Third District Dist-rict Judge Roald A. Hogenson of Salt Lake was elected secretary secre-tary at the state judiciary convention. con-vention. Orem Chamber Will Lhzuzs Name Change At Monday Meeting Main business of the Orem Chamber of Commerce at their regular meeting Monday at 12:30 p.m. will be laying of plans to obtain a name change tor Orem to Geneva, according to Harry Butler, secretary of the chamber. cham-ber. The meeting is set for the Twin Pines cafe. Mayor J. -V. Gillman has been invited to speak to ihi group Si d other city officials are expected ex-pected to be prsent, Lionel Fairbanki, president ox the -chomLer, will be in charge. OLD FOLKS OUTING The old folks of the Orem and Sharon siakes will be ent-, ent-, ertained at Vivian Park in Provo canyon Saturday, June 21. The oisnford E'ec-le, who opened today one of Orem's finest mer- caniile establishments, Utah Hardware end Implement com- psny. Mr. Steele is ine uuuaer the Stefle Equipment build. I ing which houses the new busi-, busi-, nciS. 1! I I rem - BIDS OPENED ON OREM FI3E STATION As the 'first step in the construction con-struction of a fire . station in Orem bids on said construction were opened at 10 a.m.- Monday Mon-day morning in the Orem City hall, according to Orland E. Pyne, City Recorder. The city has purchased the facing brick to match that on the city hall, and bids submitted submit-ted did not include this brick. The bids were opened in the following order: Christianson Construction Co.; $8,410. Bond posted. Prothero and Boardman, $7,363, no bond potted; Frank P.. WofXinden, $'1,889.97. Bond posted. A special meeting of t'"e Orem City Council will be called in the near future to determine with which company the construction con-struction will be ordered. SCOUT CAMPORALL SET FOR JUNE 20 The west field of the Brig-ham Brig-ham Young , university will be the scene of the big council "camporali" at which Boy Scouts from all parts of the Utah national parks are expected to participate June 20 and 21, according ac-cording to Floyd Loveridge, assistant as-sistant council executive. The "camporali" will be in ihe nature of a preparatory training crap for the state pioneer Cen tennial scout camp next week in Salt Lake City, it v,Tas reported. All events will be competitive. Entrance in the "camporali" will be by patrols, with each pa trol consisting of not less than five or more than nine scouts. Each unit must participate in at least six of the 10 competitive events scheduled, including tee loiiowmg: (1) Patrol organiza tions. (2) tent pitching, (3) knife and hatchet demonstiations, (4) pre building, (5) cooking project (6) camp exhibit of items made from materials gather at the camp site, (7) camp sanitation j and appearance, (8) uniforms i and bandages, (9) compass prob lem and (10) first aid project. Mr. Loveridge said the cv.rc.v wul open officially Friuny at 3 p.m. and will close Saturday a 2 p.m. All scouts will camp overnight over-night at the stadium. Mrs. Roseltha Vernon announces announ-ces that it has become necessary to change the date of the Sharon Shar-on ward Relief Society canyon party from June 20 to June 27. The party will be held at Canyon Can-yon Glen at 3 p.m. on the afternoon after-noon of June 27. Mrs. Lillian Barton and son Michael arrived Wednesday from Boise, Idaho to visit for two weeks with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Poulson. Utah Hardware Opens Attractive Store in Orem Orem's newest business establishment estab-lishment is the Utah Hardware and Implement company which opened today at 670 North State street in the Steele Equipment building. ' The business is being manag- j ed by Stanford Steele of Orem, j who was owner and operator of i the Steele Equipment company. The new company includes the original firm and has added approximately ap-proximately $21,000 worth of stock which includes standard lines of tools and household i equipment. Mr. Steele reports that he has obtained the agencies agen-cies for the following lines of merchandise and is displaying them: Sherwin Williams paint, I Wearever aluminum, Stanley tools and Winchester and Rem-ington Rem-ington arms. The recently completed building-has 4,000 square feet of i floor space and is considered to be a $60,000 property. Mr. Steele is a former American Ameri-can Fork residefit. He was grad-; uated from the American Fork High school and Brigham Young ' university. 'He is a member of j the Orem Junior Chamber of Commerce and of the Chamber i of Commerce. The Steeles reside j at Beverly Place. - HOME OF GENEVA STEEL Orem, Utah, Thursday, June 19, 1947 .4 A t mm m Orem City, Home of Geneva Steel, was Ike message of the above float which vied for honors among the fifty-odd entries in Orem's biggest parade and festival on Wednesday and today. The float above was sponsored by the Chamber of Commerce and the Orem Jaycees- It depicts in huge pictures on the float pie Geneva Steel plant with its backdrop of Mi. Timpanogos. SCESA SWJK POOL SET FOR MONDAY OPENING Scera's Roselawn Swimming pool will be opened for the summer sum-mer season next Monday, June 23, it was announced Wednesday Wednes-day by Victor Anderson, Seera director. In making the- announcement, Mr. Anderson revealed that Virl Taylor had been secured to act as We guard and director of trie (pool for the season. Mr. Taylor as had special training during his career in the navy for lifeguard life-guard work and holds a life saving sav-ing diploma from the American Red Cross; -He was graduated from BYU early this nomth. I.Ir. Taylor will be assisted in the life guard work b Stewart Sorensen, who is also an experienced experi-enced life guard. The .pool will open Monday i 1 .t.,1-.. 1 de of swlnutviin.3 hours will bej pubiishct m next .week's Orem Geneva Times. Mr. Anderson reports that ihe pool has been repainted and re novated during the past two weeks and that it is in excellent condition to take care of the largest crowds jn its history. Tj.e wet, cool weather of the past month hax delayed the opening op-ening this year. Timpanogos Ward Bishopric To Be Honored Sunday A special meeting honoring the retiring bishporic of 'Timpanogos 'Timp-anogos ward will be held Sunday, Sun-day, June 22 at 5 p.m. Members of the Sharon Stake presidency and J. Clayton Watts, formerly of the stake presidency, will speak, and a response will be given by the retiring bishopric. Bishop L. B. Bennett will pre sent a token of appreciation to each of the honored men. Special music will be under the direc tion of Elaine Loveless. Statewide Centennial Events Current: The Utah Centennial Exposition, Stale Fair Grounds, Salt Lake. Gil-bert-Sullivan Comic Opera, Exposition Theater. Salt Lake, June 20-21 NCAA Track and Field Meet, Ute Stadium," Stad-ium," Salt Lake City, June 22 Tabernacle Choir Concert, with Lenard Warren, War-ren, Metropolitan Opera Baritone, guest soloist, 'une 25-28 Lehi Roundup, Lehi, Utah. June 25-29 National Horse Show with Jerry Colonna, Exposition. June 26-28 Centennial Celebration, Cele-bration, Milford. June 26-28 Centennial Celebration, Cele-bration, Tooele. June 23 Opening National Clay Court Championships, Salt Lake. VC1..' k .t IS. ' V r I is r" Orem Stake Primary Officers Named Orem Stake President Walter Holdaway announced this week i that the organization of the stake primary board has been completed. Lois T. Johnson, president, will have Bernice Rawlings and Verona Kirk as counselors. Other members of the board are Donna Kitchen, teacher trainer, Nora Harding, Historian, Rita Hadlock, organist organ-ist Bertha Kirk, chorister, group leaders, Edith Duke, Trekkers, Arretta Blake, Blazers, Alta Rowley, Guides, .. Phyllis Johnson, John-son, Seagulls, Jane , Elsmore, ! Bluebirds, Helen Carter, Larks, Hilda Stone and Marvel Smith, Zions boys and girls and Nora Harding, beginners. Win. G. Kocherhans Named to Vermont Ward Bishopric President Walter Holdaway announced Sunday that William Kocherhans has been chosen as second counselor to Bishop Arch Pulham of Vermont ward, replacing Fay Fielding. Mr. Fielding has served in the Bishopric Bish-opric for over two years, ever since the organization of the ward. He is moving to Lcming-lon Lcming-lon in Millard county. Mr. Kocherhans has served as the group leader of the High Priests Quorum for the past two years. He has taught the Gospel Doctrine class in Sunday School and has been a member of the ward welfare committee. His experience as a builder will be an added asset to the ward in their building program. ANNUAL TIMP HIKE SET FOB JOLY 12 The traditional Timp hike has been set for July 12, according to chairman Dr. C. J. "Chic' Hart, head of the physical education edu-cation and athletics department at Brigham Young university. This year will mark the 36th annual climb to the summit of 12,008 foot Mount Timpanogos. On the evening before the hike at 8 p.m. a special program will be presented at Aspe Grove. Among other features authentic Indian dances will be demonstrated. Again, as in the past, the fire lighting ceremony will be car ried out, and those who finish the long hike will be inducted into the exclusive "Summit club" and will be presented the official badge of honor. Everyone Every-one participating in the hike will be given the highly prized "1 imp" sticks. The Gospel Doctrine class of th? Vermont ward Sunday School held a party at Canyon Glen last week. Supper was enjoyed en-joyed around the campfire. Those present joined a group from one of the Provo wards who were enjoying a canyon outing and played baseball and volley ball. The U. S. Navy's production-line production-line procedure for settlement of terminal leave claims averages 20,000 payments a day. """ft OREM WOMAN SEEKS $30-000 Thirty thousand dollars was asked of the State Bank of Provo Pro-vo and its former cashier, Alva Nelson, in a suit filed this week by Mrs. J. Lorana Allen of Orem. Or-em. Mrs. Nelson charged that their actions caused her to be unjustly arrested on a felony complaint with resultant damage to her reputation, business atfairs, and h'-aith. Because of the Ueged,unwar-rantcd Ueged,unwar-rantcd and unlawful acts of the defendants, Mrs, Allen chargec ihat on Sept. 4, 1945, she was arrested on a charge of issuing a fictitious check for $110.12 to the Orem Cash store. She pleaded innocent to the charge and on Feb. 11, 1946, it was dismissed from the district court on a motion of District Attorney George Ballif, on tne grounds i'f lack of evidence. The plaintiff alleges that the check in question along with "several others" Jailed in payment pay-ment because the bank, without her knowledge and consent had depleted her checking accoun by transferring money and crediting cre-diting it to a promissory note, whU-h the bank held against her. The plaintiff charged that the bank, unlawfully and wnhout no"Jfieation to her, transferred S200 from her Twin Pinej cafe business checking account and credited it against the note. As a lesult, she said, enccks written against tne account were reci-ed reci-ed when presented for payment. The plaintiff charges that :h? transfers were made in August of 1945 and that under the terms of the promissory note, she did not have to pay anything on it until the entire amount became due Nov. 16, 1945. She charges that the words "month" and "$20 per month" were written on the note after it was issued and without her knowledge or consent. Because of her arrest, Mrs, Allen charges she suffered great humiliation, that her credit cred-it rating was seriously damag-'d, that her reputation in the community com-munity suffered until she was shunned by her friends and family, and that it affected her health until she suffered a nervous ner-vous breakdown. She also rhar-gud rhar-gud ihat because of the affair, s.'.p as unable to obtain cwlit to the extent that she was forced forc-ed out of business. The plaintiff seeks $23,000 general damages, $500 punitive damages and $250 attorney's fees. -OST 72 TO HOLD 1NKDAL ELECTION The Orem Post 72 of the Am erican Legion will hold its annu al election banquet Wednesday at 8 p.m. in the Sharon ward meeting house, according to Ad-judtant Ad-judtant Jerry Buckley. Elaborate plans have been made and all legionnaires are urged to be present. Reservations Reserva-tions must be made by June 21 through Julian Hansen, Glade Gillman or Jerry Buckley. r - A 4V To In the Geneva Starts Work On Its Record Order: Pipe for Arabian Oil SPRAY EXPERT ADVISES ON JUNE PROGRAM The unusually cool and wet weather of the past weeks has vpset the apple and pear spray program. At present everything is in the grower's favor. If the sprays are applied thoroughly and at the right time from now on excellent control of codling moths and orchard mites can be had, according to Clarence D. Ashton. assistant county agent. Following are the conditions which determine the spray program pro-gram for the next few weeks: Only part of the over wintering winter-ing codling moth larvae had emerged as moth when the cool and stormy weather set in- The ones not out before will come out during the next week or so and will lay eggs on fruit and leaves. Since practically all egg ' laid toy the earlier moth have hatched or become lifeless by now, little or no worm activity will begin until about June 25. Growers using a lead-oil- spreader spray program should apply a spray soon and another by June 25. Growers who have applied a DDT spray within the past two weeks should apply another an-other by June 25. ; In any case moth flight, egg deposit, and beginning of worm activity should be watched for carefully. " , tt tne weather becomes un-ihe un-ihe spray ; than a little late, should be applied a few days earlier. If more "storms ailcr" cool weather occurs within the next two weeks, sprays can be de layed a few days. ' Better be a little early with though. . IKSTRuGTOR unak jus. DALE JOHNSON Mr. Dale Johnson, a graduate this month of the Brigham. Young university, has been named nam-ed as an instructor in music at Lincoln high school, according to school officials. Mr. Johnson has lived several years in Richmond, Utah, where he was active in music circles. He served in the U. S. Army during the war, sixteen months of which time he served overseas. over-seas. After a period of combat in Europe he acted as drum major ma-jor with an army band. In Linz, Australia, he studied music and took special instruction on the oboe with the oboe and English hornist of the Berlin Philhar monic. Mr. Johnson is especially interested int-erested in starting young people of approximately the 4th, 5th, and 6th grades on violin and other stringed instruments. Parents Par-ents of children in this age group who are interested in starting their children on these instru- ments should contact Mr. Johnson John-son or E. B. Terry at the Lincoln Lin-coln high school. Rehearsals for summer orchestral work will be held on Tuesday and Thursday Thurs-day evenings from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. All students who Ipay violin, viola, cello or bass violin are invited to attend the rehearsals. re-hearsals. Better be dead sure than sure dead! Sell it in Orem Tell It Orem-Geneva Times Price, 5 cents STEEL SHIPMENT TO ARABIA WILL BE GREATEST IN HISTORY Geneva Steel's plate mill and furnaces will begin work in the near future on the local com pany's biggest order in history, 280,000 tons of: pipeline plate ed to complete the pipeline to be constructed in Saudi Ara- abia. The contract provides for the production by the Geneva plant of slightly over one-half of the total steel which will be required requir-ed to complete the pipepline which is to span the 1,000 miles between the Persian Gulf, where the pipe will be unloaded, to the Mediterranean. The shipment of the total of 1,000,000 tons of steel pipe is being billed as the largest siAgle ocean shipping job in world history. hist-ory. Whether or not Geneva will be given the contract to furnish the balance of the 1,000,000 tons of steel for the project has not been announced. The portion of the line rolled at Geneva will be fabricated into 30 and 31 inch pipe by the Consolidated Steel corp. of Maywood, Calif., and all the entire shipment will be loaded from Long Beach, Calif. The shipment will require the services of 30 to 50 ships for two years. Each round trip will cover 25,000 miles and take 120 days. At the peak of the operation, opera-tion, an Ithmian line freighter will leave Long Beach every five days, shipping officials report. re-port. 11 Geneva Steel officials report 4tedf 4iusao ; srde wiH.-.-ot. comprise the .entire output of the plate mill here- They declare de-clare that the mill has never been pressed to capacity production produc-tion because of the limit placed on it by the open "hearth department. depart-ment. It is expected that monthly production rolled will be in the neighborhood of 5000 to 6000 tons per week. The steel consignment to Arabia Ar-abia will be the first of a series of shipments of goods and material ma-terial whose aggregate will be sufficient to create a new industrial in-dustrial kingdom there, according accord-ing to E. C. Austin, purchasing and traffic manager of the Arabian-American Oil Co., which holds the petroleum concession in King Ibn Sud's domain. Austin declared that the cost of the pipe alone would run "well over half a billion dollars." dol-lars." Patten Funeral Services Held At Pleasant View v Funeral services for Ellen M. Tatlen were held Friday, June 13. in the Pleasant View ward chapel, with Bishop Allred ia charge. Mrs. Patten, the wife of Leland Stanford Patten, died at their home Tuesday, June 10. 1 Prayer was offered by George-Muhlestein George-Muhlestein following a double trio, "Hold Thoy My Hand.", Moroni Jensen sang "The Lord's: prayer," accompanied bv Cnrni Memmott. A tribute to Mrs. Pat- - ten was given by Mrs. Edna' Hansen. "The End of a Perfect Day" was sung by Gladys Tip-petts Tip-petts and Robert Downs. Speakers for the service were George Stanley, Karl Patten and Clarence ' Ashton. Harold Peterson sang "That Wonderful Mother of Mine" and the double trio sang "Peace, I Leave With You." Benediction was offered by A. Ray Ekins. Burial was in the Provo City burial park, with Horace Bean dedicating the grave. tj OFFICERS NAMED Members of the Orem Stake " ol 1 folks committee were ap-pi ap-pi inted this week. President Walter Holdaway announced that James T. Blake, chairman of the committee will be assisted assist-ed by Carson Crandall and Ariel Liirsen and Mrs. Joy Crandall v ill serve as secretary. Mr. and Mrs. Alma Palmer and family of Blanding, Utah, visited at the home ofcMr. and . Mrs. Lawrence Palmer Sunday. The pedestrian may be wrong but he doesn't deserve a death sentence. |