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Show ''4 The Orem-Geneva Times is your clearing-house for news about you and your neighbors. Ta report social activities, success suc-cess stories of your friends and other items of general interest, telephone 13. Volume 15, Number 28 Aircraft view of Dean Park's northeast of Orem. Billed as Opening spectacle in the bowl left are being constructed now Lake Tribune. Mammoth Orem Stadium Blears Completion; Opener in August Orem's as-yet-unnamed sports stadium, whose situation on the foothills of Mt. Timpanogos, makes it unique in the world for offering a panoramic view, and whose size makes it the larg-'4 larg-'4 est bowl in the world (large I enough to seat 135,000 persons), will be ready for its first show during August, it was revealed Wednesday by Dean Park, owner own-er of the huge bowl. Mr. Park and his promotion manager, Ferron C. Losee of Prove Pro-ve revealed that a sports event is being lined up for the latter part of August which will be a fitting "opener" for the huge bowl and which is expected to draw patrons from all sections of the state. Mr. Park was host Wednesday Wednes-day to members of the press of Utah, and in a conducted tour of the stadium he revealed the story behind it and the plans he has for its future-Excavation future-Excavation of the huge bowl is now completed, with Mr. Park estimating that workmen have moved 400,000 yards of dirt to scoop out the bowl- From the field to the upper rim of the stadium at its highest point is 300 feet, nearly twice the height of the BYU stadium. The field is 535 feet' long and 308 feet wide. A demonstration of the stadium's stad-ium's acoustics Wednesday challenged chal-lenged the pin-drop exhibit of the Mormon Tabernacle. Normal talking at the stadium's center was clearly audible at the stad ium's rim some 150 yards distant. dist-ant. Started by Mr. Park on Dec 7, 1946, the huge enterprise was designed to make Orem the center cen-ter of the state's sports spectacles spect-acles as well as a community center for such events as church sunrise and sunset services, patriotic pat-riotic programs and pageants and local sporting events. Excavation Exca-vation continued throughout the winter months and was completed comple-ted about six weeks ago. Work in progress now comprises the installation of $10,000 worth of lighting fixtures which will flood the field and make it suitable suit-able for night Softball, baseball, football or evening shows Also in progress is the installation of . steel, concrete and timber rodeo ' ' hutes, and the placement of proximately 20,000 seats with Mi the bowl. Definite date for the stadium's stadi-um's grand opening has not yet been set, but is tentatively slated slat-ed between Aug. 20 and 30. Mr. Losee declared that several nationally na-tionally famous shows are being be-ing considered for the opener and that announcements will be forthcoming within a week or two. Meanwhile Mr- Losee is bent on finding an appropriate name for the jumbo-sized bowl. In progress now is a contest opened open-ed to the public offering a lifetime life-time admission ticket to the person per-son submitting the winning name. Over two hundred entries newly-excavated sports stadium the largest sports bowl in the is set for the latter pari of Aug a battery of cattle chutes for have already been received, according ac-cording to Losee, mostly from Salt Lake City and points outside out-side Utah Valley. Duplicate entries en-tries will be selected on the basis of which was entered first. Entries should be addressed to Mr. Losee at 690 West Center, Provo. The stadium is situated on 70 acres of Mr. Parks' property at the foot of the mountain d'rect-ly d'rect-ly north and eastward from Orem. Forty acres above the stadium are reserved for parking. park-ing. Visitors are invited to come to the stadium to enjoy the unparalleled un-paralleled view of UUh Valley from the stadium's rim and to watch progress on the bowl. Council Studies Roads, Water At Meeting i Orem City's road building program got off to a good start early today when two city trucks began plying between the Ol-sen Ol-sen gravel pit and East Center street with crushed rock. ! Arrangements were made between be-tween the city council and the county commission last week for the city to obtain gravel from the county crusher, and the hauling of gravel will continue to Orem roads as long as the crusher remains at the Olsen pit, according to Mayor J. W. Gill-man. Gill-man. Announcement was also made at Wednesday's council meeting that adequate well casing was now on hand at the Scera well to complete drilling operations for another 100 feet. The well is now down 300 feet and it is thought that adequate water sources can be tapped at the new level to supplement the city's water supply fully. Mayor Gillman reported that Mountain State Telephone and Telegraph officials had assured him that the telephone service in Orem would be revised on August 12, with the Orem switchboards taking over calls here. All telephone numbers in residences of Christeele Acres will be changed. No tolls will be charged for Provo calls. The local office will employ 16 operators op-erators on four switchboards. City Attorney H- Vern Wentz reported on the progress regarding regard-ing the removal of the Bird barn near the Todd Trailer court on 16th North street- Mr. Wentz reported conversations with Mr-Bird Mr-Bird in which they agreed to move the barn 300 feet from the highway 100 feet less than the city ordinance provides. He maintained however that the barn was constructed before the cily zoning ordinance was passed The council reported the theft from the City cemetery two revolving re-volving sprinklers which are badly needed there. Victor Christensen, caretaker, said the sprinklers were taken while in operation on Monday. mttm Orem mm, which is situated at the base of world, the stadium has room ust. The view is looking northward into the bowl. At the lower holding rodeo events. The picture is by courtesy of the Salt Orem Weil-Known Letter from Australia Shows The "stand-patters" of Orem those who are resisting the changing of the town's name to Geneva had new evidence to present this week that the name Orem was well-known in its own right. The evidence came in a letter let-ter from Australia which was addressed: Town Mayor, Orem. Utah. U.S.A. It arrived nrnmnt. ly to Mayor J. W. Gillman, and read as follows: Fairview, Bega N.S.W., Australia Dear Sin I am writing you from a very long distance and would liKe to know if you would hav published pub-lished in your local paper, my name, age and address so that I may obtain some news and historical his-torical facts of the district and surroundings from some young Americans- I am 15 years old, 5 foot 3-inches 3-inches high and my main interests inter-ests are dancing, bicycle riding and keeping goldfish. Our family consists of five children, (four boys, one girl), including two sets of twins. I am a twin to the youngest boy. Hoping you can fulfill my wishes, I am Yours Sincerely, Miss Olive Wynne Reuter P. S. I am also a keen stamp collector. County Vegetable Field Tour Set Utah county farmers and especially es-pecially produce growers were invited this week to participate in the Ninth annual tour of the vegetable crop fields of the county which is slated for Saturday, Sat-urday, Aug 9 commencing at 9 a.m. Starling point is the warehouse of the Celery Growers' Grow-ers' Coop at Amer'can Fork. Visits will be made to fields showing celery, cabbage, carrots, car-rots, lettuce, onions and potatoes, pota-toes, according to S. R. Boswell, Utah county agent. Lincoln Band to March in Salt Lake City Parade About 500 musicians from high schools in the Alpine, Provo Pro-vo and Nebo districts will march as one mass band in the parade in Salt Lake City, July 23 at 8:30 a m. and July 24 at 6 p.m. E. B. Terry, director of the Lincoln High band announces that all the bands will meet for a rehearsal Sunday, July 20 at 2 p.m. in Springville. The bus will leave the high school at 1:15 to take the Lincoln band members to Springville. It is Important Im-portant that every member of the band attend this rehearsal. Anyone unable to attend should contact Mr. Terry before Sunday. HOME OF GENEVA STEEL - Geneva Times, Thursday, July 17, 1947 Mt. Timpanogos just two miles enough for 135,000 spectators. Mount A Lake Names Thueson Manager Ivan O. Thueson, active for many years in the cooperative movement, was named manager of Mount 'A Lake Assn. in Or em this week, according to a statement by the board of direc tors. Mr- Thueson has lived most of his life in Idaho where he was associated with farmers cooperatives there. Having been for five years State Coop. Spec ialist of the department of agrr culture in the western states, Mr. Thueson Is especially qualified quali-fied for this work. "The board of directors of Mount 'A Lake Assn. feel fortunate fort-unate in securing the services of so competaul a man to manage man-age Orem's Coop," Tom Weaver, president of the board, said to day. Mr. Thueson revealed today that an expansion program is under way at Mount 'A Lake. The present garage service is being increased with an up to-date to-date paint shop, sheet metal department de-partment and an auto parts shop which is now under construction. construc-tion. Plans are under way to build a large service station in front of the present Mount 'A Lake store and garage which will operate op-erate in connection with the other two service stations now in operation. Orem Queen Attends Nephi Ute Stampede Orem's Centennal royalty participated recently in the Nephi Ne-phi Ute Stampede, according to Oscar H. Anderson, chairman of the Centennial Committee. Queen Lorna Anderson and her attendants, Carol Memmot and Jackie Faulkner, attended the opening banquet July 8, where they were given a royal reception. The Orem queen's float participated parti-cipated in the parade on July 11. Orem's float compared favorably fav-orably with other floats entered, enter-ed, according to Mr. Anderson. Secy, of Agriculture Will Speak at Aspen Grove Meet Secretary of Agriculture Clinton Clin-ton P. Anderson will be the main speaker at the Aspen Grove session of the National Association of County Officals, according to Clarence A. Grant, executive secretary of the Utah State association. Utah county will be the official offi-cial host to nearly 1000 delegates from at least 36 states at Aspen Grove. The three-day national convention begins in Salt Lake City July 21 . The Aspen Grove sessions will begin at 11 a m. George W. Morgan, vice president of the national group, will be in charge. FIRE MONDAY The Pleasant Grove fire department de-partment was called to the Edmund Ed-mund M. Cragun farm, 16th North in Orem Monday night to extinguish a fire that damaged a storage buildng and about three hundred fruit baskets. BIDS ASKED ON LINCOLN HIGHENIiRGMNT Over 4,000 square feet of floor space will be added to the Lincoln high school in the near future, according to a statement made today by C. N. Gammon, vice president of the Alpine district dist-rict school board. This announcement came just nine years after the last construction at the high school was authorized the new music rooms. GENEVA STEEL APPROACHES 4300 PAYROLL Geneva Steel continued to edge up toward its pre-coal-strike production schedule this week and present employment rates indicated that within another an-other 10 days the payroll at the plant would reach nearly 4300 persons. Paul Sullivan, public relations director for the plant, explained that 4300 was the approximate peak during the war period and marked the personnel strength when production was highest. The plant is now producing and rolling steel for its biggest single order in its history: 280,-000 280,-000 tons of steel which is being fabricated into 30 and 31 inch pipeline which will span the 1000 miles from the Persian Gulf to the Mediterranean. The steel for the pipeline order ord-er does not take the full output of the Geneva plant but requires a monthly production of 5000 to 6000 tons it is estimated- Hospital Notes At the Utah Valley hospital: Mrs. Max Andrews has a new daughter. Mrs- John S. Skinner has new son. Nita Park underwent major surgery. Carma O'Bray, major surgery. Lynn Johnson, major surgery. Jessie Chanlund, diagnostic. Rulon L. West and Arnold Long of Orem acted as official chauffeurs to visiting governors during the parade in Salt Lake City this week. Mr. West rhan- , ffeured Governor James E. Fol- , som or Aiaoama: Mr. Lone drove ior tne governor from Puerto JKico. 22 OREM YOUTHS PREPARE TO LEAVE FOR CENTEtlNIALSCOUT GAMP AT S. L. G. Twenty-two scouts and scouters from the Orem-Sharon area are busy preparing to attend the Pioneer Centennial Scout Camp, to be held at Salt Lake City next week, according to Arnold Buirningham, district Scout chairman. The camp is expected to attract the greatest gathering of male descendants of the Mormon pioneers since 1897, semi-centennial of the arrival of President Brigham Young's company on July 24, 1847. While registration was open to all boys regardless of pioneer ancestry or even religious affiliation, affili-ation, the nature of the celebration celebra-tion attracted heavy registrations registra-tions of descendants of the pioneers. pio-neers. The following scouts from the Sharon district have registered to attend the, history-making gathering: George Woffinden and Jesse Asay, senior scout of Timpanogos Timpanog-os ward's Troop 6033; Terry Prince and Charles Hanks, junior jun-ior scouts of Timpanogos ward's Troop 33; James King, Maurice Johnson, and Jimmy Boyce of Edgemont's Troop 38; Norman Eatough, Max Hill, and Ray Lee Hill of Grandview's Troop 35; Donovan Ashton, Dwayne C Lowry, Rell Reynolds, Ned Cowley, Cow-ley, Aldo Bussie of Pleasant View's Troop 36, and Ronald Hatch of Geneva ward. Scouters Harold F. Peterson, Lorin E. Millet, Theodore Ross Miller, Lloyd Cluff and Leslie Leichty will go with the boys to the encampment, The scouts and scouters are scheduled to leave for Camp Williams Saturday evening for pre-camp training before they leave for Salt Lake Monday. Unforgettable Experience "No Scout living today will ever attend another Pioneer Centennial and no boy who attends at-tends this one will ever forget that experience," said George Q. Morris, general committee chairman chair-man recently. "With this thought uppermost a comii!ttee of nearly one hundred leading scouters and scour executives have made every effort to make every day of the camp memor able." Program Outlined A 25 foot extension will be made in the north of the gymnasium gym-nasium to provide additional class rooms and storage space, said Mr. Gammon. New lavatories lavator-ies will also be constructed on the northeast corner. Bids for the proposed construction con-struction are now being received and will be opened on August 4. As soon as a satisfactory bid is received and approved, construction con-struction will get under way. Although enlargement of the Lincoln high school has been under consideration for a long time .shortages of materials and high prices have resulted in a delay. Now that condtions are being eased somewhat the new construction is being undertaken. undertak-en. Gov. Maw Sets Farm Safety Week Gov. Maw by proclamation, calls upon the citizens of the Slate of Utah to observe Farm Safety Week "as a spearhead to a year-round program and requests re-quests all persons and organizations organiza-tions concerned with agriculture and farm life to cooperate in the observance of this fourth annual farm safety week." Ned H. Dearborn, president ( of the National Safety Council, states that "the farm has the greatest work accident toll. Re-1 cords indicate tkat 25 farm resi-j dents per 100,000 died in farm accidents in 1946. Records also show that an occupational accident acci-dent happens every year one one out of every 20 farms in the nation- It is estimated that the total to-tal time lost through larm acci dents tn a typical year costs the time need to produce the entire annual wheat crop of the United States. Agriculture has more accidental ac-cidental work deaths than any other major industry. Farm fire losses alone total $90,000,000 annually. These figures need no analysis. They only explain in cold dollars and sacrificed lives, a part of the results of one year's carelessness on the American farm. How long will it be before tragedy will become a personal matter with you and yours? The educational and recrea tional program announced by the committee is elaborate and impressive. It includes marching march-ing in the Scout section of the first parade on July 23, and participation with the Red Cross and peace officers in the Centennial Cen-tennial parade on July 24; participation part-icipation in the unveiling ceremonies cere-monies at "This is the Place" monument; attendance at the Centennial Pageant Drama "The Promised Valley" in the University Univer-sity of Utah Stadium; the Centennial Cen-tennial Exposition at the State Fair grounds and a special organ or-gan recital for boys and leaders lead-ers only, in the famed Mormon Tabernacle. One entire day will be devoted devot-ed to an educational and recreational recrea-tional tour of the valley of the Great Salt Lake with a visit to the world's largest open-cut copper cop-per mine, a swim in the lake, a visit to the State Capitol with county exhibits and the Daughters Daught-ers of the Pioneers museum. Pioneer History Stressed Pioneer history and expenen- ces will be stressed at a great campfire featuring pioneer and Indian stories, by contrast with the pioneers; Donner; Gold Rush; Pony Express, handcart and overland stage trail which runs through the camp and at a sunrise service at the point where Orson Pratt and Erastus Snow, Pioneer Scouts, had their first view of the Salt Lake vaL ley. National Leaders to A Menu National, regional, and local Scout officers and leaders of the YMMIA, and other officers of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints are on the official of-ficial camp roster and will be in attendance. To In the City Council Voiec Sunday Closing fo: Grocery Stores co:.::.:ittee ii:.:ed to EFuHT o:i OIZllMIAIiCE Fred Davies, James G. Strat-ton Strat-ton and Mayor J. W. Gillman were named last week to a Orem Chamber of Commerce committee commit-tee to determine the procedure and the feasibility of changing Orem's name to Geneva, it was announced by Lionel Fairbanks, chamber president. Mr. Davies will act as chairman of the committee. com-mittee. The three will establish the legal steps required to change the name of a municipality and wll report to the chamber on the possibilities of going ahead with the name change program. Coming up for discussion at Monday's regular meeting will be the problem of obtaining banking service at Orem. The Orem chamber and other local civic groups have approved the establishment here of a branch of the First Security corporation corpora-tion and have written letters in behalf of that organization to the U. S. comptroller. Status of the bank will be discussed dis-cussed and action urged at Monday's Mon-day's meeting set for 12:30 n.m. at Twin Pines cafe, according to Marry Butler, chamber secretary. secre-tary. Lionel Fairbanks, president, presi-dent, will be in charge of the meeting. Orem to Have Natural Gas by Spring of '48 Orem will have natural gas available for use in less than a year, accordine to a statement made today . by J. D. Roberts, vice president of the Mountain Fuel Supply company. "By the late spring of 1948" a complete gas system will be completed in Orem, said Mr. Roberts. Purchase orders for the necessary pipe have been signed and the first delivery 's expected expect-ed during November and December De-cember of this year. The project which will bring natural gas to Utah county is being be-ing speeded by buying steel plate at the Geneva Steel plant, shipping it back to Milwaukee, Wis., for prefabrication into pipe, and then returning it to Utah, thus obviating the necessity neces-sity of waiting "until the spring of 1951" to obtain pipe in the usual manner , Statewide Centennial Events Current: Centennial Exposition. Exposi-tion. Slate Fair Grounds, Salt Lake. Current: "100 Years of American Amer-ican Painting" at Exposition. Exposi-tion. Salt Lake. July 19-24: Pioneer Days Rodeo Ro-deo at Ogden. July 20: Tabernacle Choir in "the Restoration" Salt Lake City. July 2U Boy Scout Campfire . Program, Fori Douglas. Ul. July 21-Aug. 3: "Promised Valley" with Alfred Drake at Via Stadium. July 22: Plaque Dedication. Sugar House. July 22i End of SUP trek irora JMauvoo io Salt Lake. July 22-24: Centennial Celebration Cele-bration at Spanish Fork. July 23j Centennial Parade, Salt Lake; Pioneer Parade, Ogden. July 24: Dedication Henefer Road, State Monument Park. "This is the Place" Monument, Salt Lake; Sunrise Sun-rise Services, Boy Scouts, 6:30 at Scout camp, Fort Douglas; Centennial service, sunrise, Lindsay Gardens; Auto Races. Exposition Grounds; Horse Pulling, Exposition Grounds; Pioneer Day Parade, Ogden; Gene Auiry Rodeo, Ogden; Centennial Parade, Salt Lake City; Release of Official U.S. Centennial Stamp, Salt Lake; Reception and dinner for original or-iginal pioneers, Hotel Utah; Senior Scout Sunrise Service, Donner Hill. July 25-29: Draft Horse show. Exposition, State Fair Grounds. Se'J it In Oren TeU It Orem - Geneva Times PRICE FIVE CENT3 era Council Votes Three To Two on Issue; Ordinance Possible Orem's grocery store Sunday-closing Sunday-closing controversy, which has smoldered here for the past three months, came to an issue at the city council meeting on Wednesday when the council voted, three to two, in favor of seeking the closure of grocery stores here on Sunday. A motion by Councilman Roy Gappmayer to secure compliance compli-ance among Orem's grocery stores with their own rpcmlatinnc regarding Sunday closing "by common consent if possible but by city ordinance if necessary" was approved bv Councilman J G. Stratton and James E. Twitchell. Negative voters were Vern Williams and Woodruff Jensen. Council rules of order provide that the mayor vote only in case of a tie . The issue was brought to a head when Clyde Robbins and Rex Mendenhall, representing several other Orem ernrers av. ed the council to bring to an is sue tne long-debated question. Those in favor of enforcing Sunday closing here indicated that elsewhere in the state statutes stat-utes such as those suggested by the county retail grocers association asso-ciation are being enforced with reasonable success- Councilmen who voted a. gainst the closing, pointed out that such legislation was not within the province of the coun cil. They wanted the grocers to reacn an agreement among themselves regarding the problem. prob-lem. Councilmen Gappmayer, Stratton, Stra-tton, and Twitchell will meet with Orem grocers who are remaining re-maining open on Sunday and seek their agreement to close on Sunday in compliance with regulations reg-ulations of the county association associa-tion of retail grocers. It was carefully pointed out that an ordinance, if necessary would not affect the sale of Orem fruit on roadside stands. Provo grocers have long sought the closure of Orem grocery gro-cery stores on Sunday and the Provo chamber of commerce has asked repeatedly that the stores be closed in fairness to Provo merchants. Orem Public Library Faces Closing Sept. 1 New problems confronted the Orem City Public Library this week with the announcement by Clyde E. Weeks, chairman cf the Library board, that t':e monthly donation which tzs paid the salary of the Lbrarian' for the past several months, would be discontinued September Septem-ber 1. "x "The anonymous doner who has maintained the Orem library li-brary by his financial support, has contributed nearly $500 to pay the librarian's wages," said Mr. Weeks. In an appearance before the Orem City Council Wednesday night Mr. Weeks explained the situation and asked for essisl-ance essisl-ance in keeping the library ta operaton. Inasmuch as no money mon-ey was set aside in this year's budget for the library it appears ap-pears that the city cannot legally leg-ally appropriate money to maintain main-tain the library until January, 1948. "Some way must be found to keep the library in operation after September 1," said llr. Weeks. "The library is giving a valuable service to Orem residents, resi-dents, especially the children, and it would be unfortunate to close the doors now after beng open again. The City Council expressed its willingness to support the library financially if it was found that it is actually being used by the public, but this cannot can-not be done legally until the next budget session. Mr. and Mrs. Charles F.ctbins and daughter. Bettv ha V TO. turned from a triD throuch Bryce and Zion's canyons. Mrs. Ellen Bellows left Sun. day for a three-week trip. he will visit in Denver with fcer brother, Gilbert Pulsipher and then plans to go on to see frienia in West Virginia. |
