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Show The Orem-Geneva Times is your clearing-house for news about you and your neighbors. To. report social activities, success suc-cess stories of your friends and other items of general interest, telephone 13. Volume 15, Number 27 To Sell it in Orem Tell It In the Orem-Geneva Times HOME OF GEN3VA STEEL, Orem-Geneva Times, Thursday. July 10, 1947 PRICE FIVE CENTS t 4 1 tl ' . These are two of the views which will greet the eyes of thousands of hikers early Saturday as ihey trek up the slopes of Ml. Timp-anogos Timp-anogos in the largest annual community hike in America- Upper photo shows the east slope of the mountain where the trail winds past fields of flowers and dozens of waterfalls. Below are two hikers pausing to view the mountain panorama. 36TI1 ANNUAL ThMPANOGOS HIKE TO ATTRACT HUNDREDS OF PARTICIPANTS Hundreds of BYU graduates and mountain climbing enthusi- j asts are set for the traditional Timp hike Saturday, 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. The pre-hike program will begin be-gin Friday night at Aspen Grove when a genuine "wild west" theme will be injected into the program by a group of Southwestern South-western Indians. War dances in full regalia will make up part of the program, followed by a unique fire lighting ceremonies by the Indians. The native dancing danc-ing troupe, under the direction of Karl Young, professor of English at BYU, has boen endorsed en-dorsed as an official Utah centennial cen-tennial group by the centennial commission. Among the distinguished guests who will witness the spectacle is E- L. Roberts, originator orig-inator of the "Timp Hike." A special tribute to the veteran vet-eran BYU coach will be a part of the program, and he, with other special-guests will receive "timp sticks." Music for the occasion will include accordion selections by Ruth Beck, Pleasant Grove and community singing led by Dr. John R. Halliday, acting dean of the college of fine arts. Led by Tony Whitecloud, accomplished ac-complished Indian ceremonial dancer, the troup of Indians will present eight dances in native costume, including the "Buffalo" "Eagle," "Shield." "Corn," "Hoop," "Devil" and "War" dances. Colored slides of Mount Timpanogos Tim-panogos and scenes from previous pre-vious hikes will be shown by Statewide Centennial Events Current: The Centennial Exposition Ex-position State Fair Grounds "100 Years of American Painting" at Exposition. July 13 Helen Traubel. Metropolitan Me-tropolitan Opera Star in concert with Tabernacle choir. Salt Lake City. July 1318: National Governors' Govern-ors' Conference, Salt Lake City. July 14-19 Days of '47 Rodeo, Ro-deo, Expostion Grounds-July Grounds-July 14: Start SUP trek from .Hauvoo to Salt Lake City. July 15-19: Blackhawk Encampment, En-campment, Wasatch County Fair, Heber City. July 18-24 Pioneer Days, Gene Auiry rodeo, Ogden-July Ogden-July 18-19 San Juan County Centennial celebration, at Monticello, Dr. D. Elden Beck, professor of zoology and entomology and a well known photographer. Buses will operate from 5th North and University Avenue providing transportation for participants par-ticipants in the hike. Buses will leave Friday at 4 p.m. and 6 p.m. and Saturday at 3 a m. Buses will return at 10:30 p m. Friday night, Saturday noon and at 5 p.m. Saturday Tickets are on sale at the BYU athletic department Reclamation Bureau Magazine Features Utah Centennial Utah's Centennial dominates the July 1947 issue of the Reclamation Re-clamation Era, nationally circulated circu-lated official magazine of the Bureau of Reclamation- Both front and back covers are devoted to Utah's celebration celebra-tion and an article, "Utah's Centennial" Cen-tennial" is illustrated by photographic photo-graphic reproductions of J. B-Fairbanks' B-Fairbanks' murals depicting the first irrigation and the advent of the pioneers in Salt Lake valley. val-ley. Calleen Robinson, centennial queen, is featured on the front cover turning a valve on the in take structure of the Jordan Narrows siphon. She is described describ-ed as "a true descendant of the original Mormon pioneers, who first practiced irrigation in the state a centuty ago, being the granddaughter of a Provo River project farmer." Another picture of the queen in her royal regalia adortis the masthead page. The back cover shows "This Is the Place' monument mon-ument The magazine editors point out that the "Salt Lake Aque duct which will convey Deer Creek storage water to the lands of Salt Lake Valley as well as provide a domestic water supply lor the people in that area is nearing completion of 100 years ,'fter irrigation was practiced in the same valley." The article appraises the significance sig-nificance of Utah's first irrigation irriga-tion and estimates the results, commenting: "The State of Utah now is a cmmonwealth of some 600.000 persons who enjoy living condi tions comparable to the finest of present-day civilization "Not without the greatest sac-i sac-i if ices, toil and bitter disappoin" ments was Utah's progiess made possible. Yet, by the turn of the century, more than 1 000 miles of hand-hewn canals had been dug and most of the lands irrigated irri-gated in Utah today were under the ditch." The U. S. Navy has declared surplus more than $30,000,000 worth of critical building materials mater-ials for the national housing program . APFOillTEIiTS IN OREM STAKE M. I. A. ANNOUNCED BY FBESIDENT KOLDAWAY . : The reorganization of the Orem Stake M.I.A. was made nearly complete this week with the announcement by President Presi-dent Walter R. Holdaway of new appointments. Clyde A. Holdaway was named superintendent of the Y.M.M.I.A. with Reed G. Gillespie, manual supervisor, and LaVoir Merrill, activity supervisor. Parlell Peterson was named M Men supervisor; Harold Niel-son, Niel-son, senior Scout commissioner; and Dr. Nelson Snow, Special Interest leader. Norma Hales is the new Y.M. M. LA. president, with Phyllis Hancock, Manual counselor; Lena Le-na Y. Clegg, activity counselor; and Emma Kirk, secretary-treasurer. Zella H. Blake is the music director and Eula Norton is the and Leah Rowley are the stake dance directors, Nina Stratton is the speech director, Clark Johnson is drama director, direct-or, and Mr. and Mrs. Edward Pyne are Era directors. Spray Gun Available For Painting Barns, Outbuildings Raymond Wendel, agriculture teacher at Lincoln high school, announced this week that the school district spray gun will be available to Orem residents for use in connection with the Centennial Cen-tennial beautification program. The spray is designed to spray paint on barns and outbuildings out-buildings and enables painting jobs to be - completed at a remarkably re-markably reasonable cost-Anyone cost-Anyone wishing to use the spray gun may contact Mr. Wen-del Wen-del at the I. J. Burr residence-There residence-There will be a small charge for use of the instrument. The beautification committee of the Orem Centennial is anx-ous anx-ous that full use of the spray gun be made, according to Eph- raim Twitchell, charman. Use of the gun will brighten up the community, he said. Local Group Seeks Victory Highway by New, Unique Method Construction of a new eight-lane eight-lane "Victory Highway" stretching stretch-ing from coast to coast was be ing sought locally this week by a group of Utahns, including Provo and Orem residents. through a petition to the Con gress of the United States. Plans of the group provide for the obtaining of over one million signatures, with each signer contributing a small amount to cover expenses of developing the program. Local sponsors of the plan include in-clude Dr. L. D- Wallick, Clarence Clar-ence Ashton, George Muhle-stein, Muhle-stein, Stanley Roberts, G. T. Harrison, W. T. Hatch and Earl Foote- The petition proposes that a highway be constructed without the issue of interest bearing bonds or the. levying of taxes-and taxes-and is being sponsored by the "Sound Money Foundation" a non-profit corporation established estab-lished recently. Incorporators include W. E. DeWitt, president; Dr. W. H. Pyott, vice president; Waldo Parry, secretary; George Startup, Earl Foote. L. J. Bradford Brad-ford and Herbert O- Bell, directors-Members of the corporation hope to get 22,000 signers in each of the 48 states- The petition appeals to Congress Con-gress to authorize the issuance of US notes to be paid into circulation cir-culation for value received in the building 'of the highway. The notes will be issued against bonds which are to constitute a covenant between the United States treasury and the states for construction of the highway within the states. Obligatons of the states would be deemed fulfilled ful-filled and the bonds cancelled when the highway was completed. complet-ed. The US notes issued would be retired from circulation through a toll charge of one dollar, payable pay-able every six months, for use of the highway by passenger cars and trucks. The petition declares that the method of supplying money, to be backed up by' a national highway (asset) instead of by interest-bearing mortgages, (debt) would be a sound and just way of providing capital for the project. Glen E. Thompson, Salt Lake City, was elected commander of Utah depart nent, Veterans of Foreign Wars, at the final session ses-sion of the 14th annual encampment encamp-ment Sunday in Provo high school auditoiium. FUNERAL HELD AT . SHARON WARD FOR LUTIE H, LUNCEFORD Funeral services for Lutie Hales Lunceford, 58, who died July 3 were conducted Monday in the Sharon ward chapei. Bishop Arch Pulham of Vermont Ver-mont ward was in charge of the services. Curtis Gordon and his daughter, Comorah sang a duet and Mr. Gordon sang a solo. Mrs. Clara Sidwell, B- M. Jolley, Philo Edwards and Bishop Pulham Pul-ham spoke. Mrs. Muriel Olsen sang "That Wonderful Mother of Mine" and closing prayer was offered by O. H. Anderson. The grave in the Provo City cemetery ceme-tery was dedicated by Clyde Lunceford. Mrs. Lunceford was born In Eureka. Sept. 20, 1889, the daughter of Charles and Eliza McKinney Hales. The family moved to Mercur when she was a small child and later moved to Magna. She had lived in Orem for 27 years. She was a member mem-ber of the LDS church and was active in the Relief Society. She leaves her husband, four sons, Kenneth C., Gerald A-, Wayne J and Donald M- Lunceford Lunce-ford and one daughter, Donna June Lunceford, all of Orem; one brother. Glen Hales, Provo; two sisters, Miss LaVern Hales, Santa Barbara, Calif., ami Mrs. iuby Gurgett, Provo. FUNERAL FOR GRACE II WASHBURN HELD WEDNESDAY Mrs- Grace Marrott Washburn, Wash-burn, 50, died in a Salt Lake hospital Sunday, July 6, following follow-ing a short illness. Funeral services were conduc-tedted conduc-tedted Wednesday in the Sharon ward chapel under the direction of Bishop Arch Pulham. Speakers Speak-ers for the service were O. H. Anderson, J. P. Madsen, J. A. Washburn and Bishop Pulham. Musical numbers were furnished furnish-ed by E- B. Terry, a duet, Mel-ba Mel-ba Calder and Nine Stratton; and a sextette. The grave in the Orem City cemetery was dedicated dedi-cated by Robert Marrott. Mrs. Washburn was born Aug. 31, 1896 in Pleasant Grove- the daughter of William and Effie Bullock Marrott. She graduated from the Pleasant Grove High ! school and attend the BYU in Provo. She taught school in Duchesne for three years. She and A. V- Washburn were married June 13. 1918 in the Salt Lake LDS Temple. They lived in Duchesne until 1921, when they moved to Orem. Mrs. Washburn has been active in church organizations and has served as president of the Primary Pri-mary and the Relief Society in the Sharon ward. She leaves her husband, two sons, Alvin and Paul D-; two daughters, Gloria and Betty Jean, all of Orem; four brothers broth-ers and ssters, Mrs. Deane Paulson Paul-son and Robert Marrott, Pleasant Pleas-ant Grove, Mrs. Emily Keetch, Ephraim and Mrs- Margaret Wright, Tooele. Dusting Advised For Alfalfa Seed Crop Farmers who are planning to use the second crop alfalfa for seed should plan on dusting the growth to control Lygus bugs in the pre-bloom stage, according accord-ing to an announcement made today by S- R. Boswell, Utah county agent. The dosage recommended is 20 pounds of 10 percent DDT dust per acre. Alfalfa seed growers who are dusting their alfalfa seed crop during the period of bioom, are jeopardizing both the welfare of their seed crops and the survival surviv-al of honey bee and wild bee polinization, Boswell said. The use of DDT last year in the control of Lygus bugs resulted re-sulted in a big increase in alfalfa al-falfa seed production. A little burning can be a dangerous dan-gerous thing. The National Safety Saf-ety Council says sunburn not only is uncomfortable but it can be downright hazardous- ttim reto to WORK; FliGQUGTiOH ASSURED AT GENEVA With the reopening of the Horse canyon , aid Columbia coal mines Tuesday the big Geneva Ge-neva Steel plant prepared to buld up production again after a week of widely curtailed activity. acti-vity. The large flow of coal which the reopening insures to Geneva will enable the plant to speed up to capacity production. The plate mill which was idle for a week is one more operating operat-ing under an increased schedule-One schedule-One more battery of coke ovens has been put back into operation, opera-tion, making three out of four now producing coke. Another open hearth, making a total of five, is now turning out steel. Another open hearth will be charged in the immediate future. fut-ure. The structural mill, which operated op-erated during last week's plate mill shutdown, although idle this week, will begin operation next week. With back orders at Geneva mounting every day it is expected ex-pected that the plant will build back up to capacity or near capacity within two months if an adequate supply of coal is maintained. Two Orem Floats In Provo Parade Among the outstanding floats in the Provo July 4th parade were the two from Orem, the queen's float and the one representing repre-senting the women's clubs of Qrem- Th committee in charge the float built by the women's clubs wish to express their their thanks to all who assisted-Special assisted-Special thanks goes to the members mem-bers of the various clubs who helped assemble the float and costume the children, to the children and to J. D. Pyne, Lawrence Palmer, Carl Farley, Mr. and Mrs. Weston Farley, William A. Cox, Lawrence May-cock May-cock and Daniel Rieske. This float was judged best in its TdTvisi'on in the Orem parade and one of the nine winners in the I-rovo parade as the best depicting de-picting the spirit of Utah. Dr. and Mrs- George E- Harris Har-ris and family of Ogden visited with friends and relatives during dur-ing the July 4th weekend. Brig. Whipple, 83-year-old uncle of Mrs. August Nelson, is visting this month with friends and relatives in Orem and Provo- Mr. Whipple came to Utah from Mesa, Arizona to attend the Centennial celebration in Salt Lake City. Mr. and Mrs- David Mitchell left this week on vacation. They had plane reservations out of Salt Lake City, but did not tell where they planned to go. Mrs- V. Emil Hansen is visiting visit-ing in Palo Alto, Calif., with her daughter and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs- Arthur Watkins. A LOVELY 'PROMISED VALLEY' HEROINE Jet MacDonald, Broadway stage star and singer, who plays the role of a Mormon bride in the Utah Centennial commission's spectacular, new $150,000 musical drama, "Promised Valley,' to be staffed at the University of Utah stadium bowl July 21 through Aug. 8. She plays opposite Alfred Drake, iter of the noted musical. "Oklahoma! "Promised Valley" boasts seven other top Broadway personalities. POST 72 ELECTS SGHENCX CHIEF Ralph Schenck was elected commander of Orem's American Legion Post 72 at the annual election banquet held in the Sharon chapel Wednesday night. Other officers elected include: in-clude: Le Earl Burr. 1st vice commander; Glade Gillman, 2nd vice commander: Harry Butler, adjutant. Leo Broadhead, finance fin-ance officer; George Rohbock, chaplain; Ray Loveless, historian; histor-ian; Gerald Buckley, service officer; of-ficer; Norris Peterson, sergeant-at-arms; Fred Sielding, athletic officer; and Julian Hansen, child welfare- SCERA RECREATION IS 1107 UKDERVAY Special classes in life-saving and swimmng were announced this week by Victor C. Anderson, Ander-son, Scera manager. Any boy or girl, man or woman interested in enrolling in these classes should see Virl Taylor, life. guard at the Scera pool. The classes will be organized the middle of July. The Utah county chapter of the American Red Cross has of fered to provide an expert in structor for these classes which will be given free. Children may yet enroll for dancing classes, according to Mr. Anderson. Due to the rush season in the fruit, there are many boys and girls between the age of 6 and 13 who have not had opportunity to enroll for the free dancing classes offered by the Summer Recreation Program. There is still an opportunity to enroll this coming week- Please note the time and place- Students may report to the most convenient center. The classes meet on Monday Mon-day of each week at: Edgemont Ward Amusement Hall at 11:00 a.m. Grandview Ward Amusement Hall at 2 p.m. Timpanogos Ward Amusement Hall at 3:30 p-m- - Sharon Ward Amusement Hall at 5 p.m. Parents are also invited to bring their little kiddies (4 to 11) to the play centers. The Timpanogos Ward Chapel grounds Tuesday and Thuisday at 2 p.m., Orem Cty Park Wednesday Wed-nesday 2 to 4 p.m. At these play centers trained leaders wll be ready to help the boys and girls in various types of games and play activities. Plans for the trip to be awar ded qualifying youths from Ge neva ward advanced nicely at the Youth leadership meeting held Tuesday evening. The trip will include Bryce canyon, Zi-on's Zi-on's canyon, Cedar Breaks and other points of interest in southern south-ern Utah. Committees were chosen cho-sen at this meeting to be in charge of food, camping, transportation trans-portation and recreation. y1 Estimates ou$i or. Orem Curb, (Suite? CHERRY GROP OVER PEAK; PRICES BELOW LAST YEAR Orem cherry-growers described describ-ed the season's crop as "fair to good" this week as the height of the picking season was reached and the Pleasant Grove Canning company at Orem began working work-ing full tilt on sour cherries. The canning company had 30 men on the payroll early this week but expected to be working at capacity with 65 employes by next Monday. T. A. Jacob, superintendent of the plant said that indications were that the crop of sour cherries cher-ries would be about 75 percent of last year's average crop, with the price at eight cents as compared with 10 and one-half cents for last year. At the Pleasant Grove can. nery the packing of sweet cherries cher-ries was over the peak, with packers indicating that the price on sweet cherries would be about 18 to 20 cents per pound, slightly better than last year-The year-The crop is estimated as slightly slight-ly over one-half of last year's average crop. Most of the cherries cher-ries in the Orem area are shipped ship-ped on consignment . Raspberry picking in Orem was at its peak this week, according ac-cording to growers. Only a few growers were having trouble finding pickers. The crop was rated "not , so good" as last year's but the going price was in the neighborhood of $2.50 per case. Apricot picking is expected to start in about seven to 10 days, with a crop estimated as larger than in 1946, but with the price nearly 25 percent low er. Cooperation Asked By City Council On Fire Costs Mayor J. W. Gillman and city councilmen on Wednesday appealed ap-pealed to Orem residents to use thought and judgment in fire prevention here and in the calling call-ing of the Provo fire department in quelling blazes. Mayor Gillman pointed out that it costs the city $136 to have the Provo department respond re-spond to an Orem blaze, regardless regard-less of whether or not they fight fire. He said that a grass and rubbish fire during the past week was easily controlled long before the fire department ar rived. Records show that Orem paid approximately $3300 to Provo last year for fire fighting service serv-ice which amount is nearly half the anticipated cost of the proposed pro-posed fire house in Orem. . The council pointed out that Orem residents are entitled to prolcction by the Provo fire de-1 ncsday evening- Excising con-pa con-pa rt men t and that if substantial e3;-, ball samci p. v. J fos t races property damage is imminent or if it threatens, the fire department depart-ment should be called without hesitation, but that by the use of sound judgment in preventing prevent-ing fires and getting prompt local lo-cal aid on small fires both the ciiy and property owners can be saved large fire losses Lincoln FFA Sets Meeting Saturday at 6:30 Future Farms of America of Lincoln high school will hold a summer meeting on Saturday at 8:30 -p m- t the Lincoln ag room, it was announced this w jek by Dean Larsen, president of the local FFA. Raymond Wendel, new ag supervisor at Lincoln, will be present at the meeting. Eefresh-ments Eefresh-ments will be served and fath ers of FFA members are invited to attend. Plans for entries in the Utah Slate Fair and for the summer program will be discussed at the meeting. Mr. and Mrs. Clarence York and family spent last Saturday at the Grandaddy Lakes. They were eccompanied by Mr. and Mrs. A. C Miller of Copperton, Mrs Jane Rice of Bingham and Ray McCordy of Lark Mr. and Mrs- LeGrande Fowk- les and two children have re - turned from a 10-day trip through Yellowstone National Park. Council Prepares for Action to Secure State Roa'd Aid Leonard Beckman, Orem city engineer, will begin studies im mediately to establish cost esti mates on a curb and gutter pro gram for the entire length of State Street in Orem. The city council directed Mr. Beckman to make the estimate so that property owners along the highway high-way could accurately establish costs prior to discussions of a special improvement district. The council also charged J.Ir- Beckman with checking eleva tions of the city sewer line oa State Street so that adequate system improvement be made before State Street highway improvements im-provements begin. The state has announced its intention of spending $220,000 during 1948 in widening U. S-91 S-91 through Orem, and the state road commission has agreed to lay an oil mulch from curb to curb in Orem if the city or property pro-perty owners will complete a curb and gutter program prior to the highway work. Most of the council members expressed themselves Wednesday Wednes-day in favor of the curb and gutter project, but wanted cost estimates before taking any official of-ficial action. IL was pointed out that owners of property abutting abut-ting the highway would be required re-quired to cover the major portions por-tions of the cost. The council asked City Attorney Attor-ney II. Vern Wentz to check the legal aspects of the petition by W. K. Todd to force removal of a barn adjacent to his trailer park on 16th North. Mr- Todd presented evidence to the council coun-cil Wednesday that the barn had been constructed in violation viola-tion to the city's zoning ordinances ordin-ances and asked that the city take legal action in obtaining its removal-Approved removal-Approved by the council Wednesday Wed-nesday was a plat for the Lowell White subdivision between 19th and 20th Noun on Fourth west. Permission was granted by the council for the Provo American Am-erican Legion to hold a summer outing during August at "Orem's "Or-em's Canyon Glen-" In discussing discus-sing the request of the Provo Legion, Mayor J. W. Gillman pointed out that Orem City owned 27 acres of fine property in Provo Canon. much of whicn was already developed as a recreation re-creation area and which has excellent ex-cellent pouililities of becoming one of the finest in the entire canyon. He declared that the area had never been officially named. The property was formerly form-erly the Heiseldt place about two miles up the canyon from Olmsteaa. Jamboree Held by Aaro?.ic Pric:tkced The Sharon siai;? Aaronic rricslhood member? !.lrt a Jam-; Jam-; Wtd- boree at the BU s' kept all the feilows busy -until time to light the bonjue ar.l begin be-gin roasting wdnks. Rodney Kimball was in el arge of general arrangements and was assisted by Horace Snyder, Floyd Johnson and Crarles King- Robert Olstn was In) charge of the program; Ed Dur ham prepared the bonf.rc. and ilay Hanks and Huck Snow made sure there would be plem ty of food. Mr. and Mrs. Ernel William-, son of Lake View , have returned return-ed from a pleasant vacation in Huntington Canyon. They were accompanied by members of their family, Clyde, Harold and Grace Williamson, Mr. and Mrs-LaVon Mrs-LaVon Harward of Orem and Mr. and Mrs. Otie Hamilton of. Springville. Mrs- J. W. Frame and two sons, Milton and John of Los Angeles. Calif., visited during the July 4th weekend at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Ervin Bunnell. Mrs. Frame will be remembered re-membered by many as Nell Creer, teacher at the Lincoln High school. She will visit with friends and relatives in Utah during July and will be joined by Dr. Frame the latter part of the month. A. H. Christensen has return ed from a fairly successful week of fishing at Fox Lake. rpi-H. j the trip with h's nrru: 7. 1 r- rhn MAff S- . iicij. nuiu t.;or 3, LJ Phillip and Sherman f 1 sevzr J other fellows from I vo. |
