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Show . , 1 . tembt I A&RICULTURE lDUSTV .4 1 1 home; of geneva steel Volume 15, Number 38 Thursday, September 25, 1947 PRICE FIVE CENTS gJN Lacks Power to Enforce Peace Says Watkins Here "The United Nations organizations organi-zations is powerless to prevent another war," declared Senator Arthur V. Watkins in a talk Sunday evening at Geneva Ward following his return from an inspection in-spection trip through Alaska and the Northwest. "It isn't even a first class debating society," Senator Watkins said regarding the United Nations organization. "When I went to Washington I pledged myself to support the United Nations in every way I could, but now I find it lacks the power to enforce any ruling it may make, however Just and equitable. The men who were Three-Day Pheasant Season Starts Nov. 1 The pheasant season that time of the year when Orem-Geneva Orem-Geneva farmers lock their stock in the barns and stay indoors will open Saturday, November 1, for three days, it was announced this week by the Utah Fish and Game Commission. The quail season will be the! same date with the exception of Washington county, where an extended season will be in force. Pheasants are reported to be "about normal" in the Orem area which is considered one of the finest pheasant shooting grounds in Utah Valley. Ross Leonard, fish and gamej director, explained that numerous numer-ous adjustments to the general pheasant and quail seasons will ' be necessary. Certain counties and areas within counties where bird populations are dangerously dangerous-ly low will be governed by restricted re-stricted shooting. The general pheasant limit was set at three male birds a day and possession limit at six. The quail bag, limit is 10 and 20 the possession limit. Shooting will start at 7 a- m. on each of the three days and ' close at 5:30 p. m-WThe m-WThe quail season in Washing- Tton county will be extended to 10 days in certain areas and until un-til the first of the year in other sections. The October 21 opening date for migratory waterfowl, previously previ-ously proclaimed by the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service, was approved. Closing date of the 35-day season will be November 24. Prohibition of any shot larger than No- 2 in the taking of ducks and geese was decreed. No Fall Trapping In an effort to protect Utah's dwindling fur resources, the state conservation group decided no fall trapping season would be set this year. Animals which will be protected include musk-rat, musk-rat, mink and marten. The commission also decided to set up a cooperative predator control board under the federal aid to wildlife program, with emphasis to be placed on control of predators on the western Utah deserts, where antelope are staging stag-ing a comeback- Mr- and Mrs. William T. Johnson John-son and baby son, of Hollywood, California, visited this week with friends and relatives in Provo and Orem. NEW LOS ANGELES STEEL PROCESSING RANT TO USE GENEVA RAW STEEL Construction by Columbia Steel company, a subsidiary of United States Steel, of a cold reduction re-duction mill in Los Angeles which will utilize semi-finished steel in coils from Geneva, was announced last week by J. Lester Les-ter Perry, president of Columbia. Colum-bia. The new mill will have the capacity to produce over 300, 000 tons of sheets per year- , In addition to cold reduced ' eets, the new mill will also be 'Equipped ior hat rolled sheet processing and (or sheet galvanizing galvan-izing end coatuiP. in ordr to to meet the West Coast demand for these types of products. Mr. Perry declared that raw materials for the new mill- principally prin-cipally in the form of semi-finished steel in coils, will be shipped ship-ped to a large extent from the Geneva Steel Mill. The new mill will give Southern California Californ-ia and nearby territories access instrumental in organizing the United Nations made one fatal mistake- Because of the insistence insist-ence of Russia, God was left out- Unless we actually have people willing to confess that Jesus is the Christ and people who will work for the brotherhood brother-hood of man the U. N. is powerless.". power-less.". With repentance as the tneme of his talk, the Senator declared that war clouds are gathering throughout the world- "We have ended the shooting war, but we are still fighting an ideological war. ,Two years after the conclusion con-clusion of the war we fought to end dictatorships In Europe and the Far East we find that we have a greater, more powerful power-ful one than we had in the beginning be-ginning Russia. "Unless Providence is with us we may find Russia occupying all of Europe before long. In our relations with Russia and other nations it is becoming increasingly in-creasingly obvious that although we won the war on the battlefield, battle-field, we have lost it in the field ox diplomacy. "Governments are only for the use or manKina, not for the domination dom-ination of mankind," declared the Senator. "A dictatorship has been established in Russia every bit as unjust and deadly as Germany's, however," he said. "Communism is infiltrating throughout Europe, and Communists Com-munists are gaining key positions posi-tions in France, Italy, and surrounding sur-rounding countries, waiting for the right time to take over governments." gov-ernments." "Never in the history of the world has so much wickedness existed in the world as today," declared Senator Watkins. "With men in high places getting inspiration in-spiration from a bottle instead of from God no wonder the world is in the turmoil it is today." to-day." "Truth will prevail," the Senator Sen-ator said. "Although we are living in troublous times the power of truth is -touching the hearts of many men in important import-ant positions. The only way to save mankind is through repentance." repent-ance." PLANS DEVELOPING ON OREM ARMORY Progress on the National Guard Armory to be built in Orem was announced today by Mayor J. W. Gillman. The Mayor met Wednesday with Mr. Lewis, architect for all armories in Utah, who told him that Adjutant General J. Wallace West intended to meet in the near future with the Orem City Council and Orem's American Legion Post 72 to discuss the size and specifications specifica-tions of the building. Inasmuch as federal funds have been made available, it is expected thai definite action on the Orem Armory will be taken in the near future. RELIEF SOCIETY UNION MEETING Union meeting for Sharon Stake Relief Society workers will be held Sunday, September 28, at 2 p. m. in the Timpanogos Ward Chapel. to a largely increased supply of important steel products manufactured manu-factured in that same area. ! It is expected that the new mill will employ about 1500 men and will cover 150 to 200 acres-Mr. acres-Mr. Perry predicted that the new mill would be completed by the end of 1949, provided no unforeseen delays occur. News of the new Los Angeles plant was received here as an indication that the operation of Geneva is being established as permanent and long rarsyd. The ;ie-.v irurkci t'.so -Insures that Ctncva cr.i continue to produce z, icp ctcr.rlty. Although ingot capacity at the big mill here was cut for a time because of one blast furnace being be-ing temporarily out of operation, most production units are still at near-capacity. The No. 2 Wast furnace was down for 10 days following the blast which burned 16 men during the changing chang-ing of a hearth jacket. LINCOLN ELECTS CLASS OFFICERS Elections for class officers were recently completed at Lincoln Lin-coln High School, acording to Richard Hebertson, student body president. Results are announced as follows: Twelfth Grade President, yle DeLange, vice-president, Lyla DeLange; secretary, JoAnn Loveless. Eleventh Grade President, Leon Rowley; vice - president, Lowell Madsen; . secretary, Joan Hebertson. Tenth Grade President; Ger-aldine Ger-aldine Searle; vice-president, Gene Taylor; secretary, Peggy Grade President, Gene Madsen; vice-president, Louise Reynolds; secretary, Leone Reynolds- - . " Eighth Grade President, Ray Gilligan; vice-president, Carole Holdaway; secretary, Merlene Wright. . Seventh Grade President, Jo-lene Jo-lene Fat ley; vice-president, Val Hebertson; secretary, Colleen Fairbanks- LINCOLN CROSSING TO, HAVE SAFETY ' GUARD ON DUTY .. "As a positive safety measure in preventing accidents at the hazardous intersection of btate street and Lincoln road, a city employee will be designated and deputized to act as traffic patrolman pa-trolman at the high school crossing cross-ing during hours when children are crossing the highway," Mayor May-or J- W- Gillman declared today-This today-This action has been taken at the suggestion of Harry Wright, engineer from the State Highway High-way Commission, who spoke at a Junior Chamber of Commerce meeting Wednesday night. Mf. Wright stated that the best solution solu-tion for solving traffic problems in similar situations has been the posting of a uniformed officer offi-cer with authority to act during difficult times of the day. Mayor Gillman also announced that a permanent Orem Safety Council, patterned after statewide state-wide uniform civic safety organizations, organ-izations, will be formed in the near future to probe problems of safety in Orem- A part-time secretary will be appointed on the council. Election in Progress For Timp Soil Conservation Group Ballotting was in progress Wednesday, tonightyand Friday by landowners of tne Timpanogos Timpano-gos Soil Conservation District which includes Orem, Provo, Lake View, Vineyard, Spring-ville Spring-ville and Mapleton, for three supervisors su-pervisors for the district. Elections were conducted on Wednesday at Mapleton, were in progress at the office of S. R. Boswell, county agent, today, and are set for the Vineyard Ward Chapel Friday at 8 p. m. Candidates for the Board of Supervisors, who will act with Karl Alleman, Springville; and John Gillman, Orem; who have been appointed members of the board, are Frank- Carnesseca, Cornell Mandenhall and Joseph Wiscomb, of Mapleton; George Cropper, Clyde Holdaway and Dean A. Johnson, of Orem: and G. M. Hinckley, Kenneth B. Ol-sen Ol-sen and J. Earl Stubbs, of Provo. Nurses Association Meeting in Orem Members of the Utah State Nurses' Association, District No. 3, met at the Silver Star Cafe in Orem, Tuesday evening. President Pres-ident Carol B. Raile presided during the business meeting and election of officers was heid- Newly elected officers are Cynthis Curtis, vice - president, and Mrs- Ingar Gatenby and Mrs- Laura Nelson, directors-Miss directors-Miss Olga Falls reported on the American Nurses Association meeting she attended recently in Chicago. Nurses were urged to attend their state convention to be held in Salt Lake City, October Octo-ber 24 and 25- Thirty-one nurses nurs-es from Utah and Wasatch counties coun-ties attended the meeting. Officers for the coming year include Carol B. Raile, president; Cynthia Curtis, vice president; Olga Falls, secretary; Shirley Norton, treasurer; Josephine , Wightman, corresponding secre- j tary, and Mrs. Zoe Manning, Mrs. Minnie Walton, Mrs. Hilda Oaks, Mrs. Ingar Gatenby, Mrs. Laura Nelson and Mrs. Leona Curtis, directors. i ' Thorit C. Hebertson, who was recently promoted to lieuten-, ant colonel and who will shortly short-ly return to his horn at Vineyard- He is now on terminal leave after approximately 25 years of duty. LINCOLN ALUMNI TO MEET MONDAY A meeting of all Lincoln High School graduates who are attending at-tending college this year, and especially those who are entering enter-ing the BYU, will be held Monday, Mon-day, September 29, at 8 p. m. at the high school, Principal A- P. Warnick announced- Items of ipecial interest to college students stud-ents will be discussed at the meeting, according to Mr- War-nick- 5000 STUDENTS EXFECTED AS BYU PREPARES FOR BIGGEST YEAR Students from all parts of the continent began to arrive in Provo this week in preparation for the opening of the seventy-third academic year at Brigham Young University. Orientation and testing procedures for new freshmen and sophomores are scheduled for Friday and Saturday under direction ot Ur. Wesley f. Lloyd, dean of students, and the university Counseling Service, Ser-vice, headed by Prof. Antone K. Romney. Actual registration registra-tion will take place Monday for graduate, senior, junior, and sophomore students previously pre-viously registered in the colleges col-leges of BYU, and on Tuesday Tues-day for the new students who will register through the Counseling Service. mnsei ng service. f resident nowara a- mcuon- aid, beginning his third year at ' DR. HUMPHERYS Young Dentist To Establish Home, Practice in Orem Dr. Roy W. Humpherys, formerly form-erly of Logan, has established his home in Orem and will practice prac-tice dentistry here, it was revealed re-vealed last week. Dr. Humpherys Humph-erys is the son of Prof. L. R-Humpherys R-Humpherys of the agriculture education faculty of the Utah State Agricultural college- Dr. Humpherys served, 18 months in the armed forces-He forces-He studied at Washington and Jefferson university, at Sacramento Sacra-mento college, received his B. S. degree at USAC and received his DD3 degree at the University Univer-sity of Southern California. Mrs. Humpherys is the former Betty Lowe of Franklin, Idaho. The Humpherys will live at Christeele Acres. lmii m Mi i LT. COL HEBERTSON TO RETIRE AFTER 25 YEARS III ARMY Thotit C. Hebertson, prominent promin-ent Vineyard citizen and a veteran vet-eran of 25 years in the U. S-Army, S-Army, has been promoted from the rank of major to lieutenant colonel. He is at home from Ft-Lewis, Ft-Lewis, Washington, on terminal leave, prior to his retirement from active duty. Lieutenant Colonel Hebertson began his military affiliation during World War I and was discharged dis-charged in February, 1919- He enlisted in the National Guard in 1923 and was commander of Provo's Battery F of the 145th Field Artillery for many years. He was called to active duty in March, 1941, and served through Wbrld War II. Lt- Col- Hebertson has three sons, Keith, Wayne M. and Leon, who received lieutenant commissions commis-sions during World War II- Leon will soon be discharged and will return home from duty in Japan- BOY SCOUT COURT OF REVIEWS SET OCT. 1 Boy Scouts from nearly every troop in Orem and Sharon stakes are expected to gather at the Lincoln High Seminary building on October 1 at 8 p. m. for the first Court of Reviews of the autumn season, according to Scott Peterson, the advancement chairman for the district All Scoutmasters, Scouters and Scouts are urged ot be present- Last year 7 percent of the gain of the American people was in their holdings of U- S. Savings Sav-ings Bonds. In the first half of this year, 17 percent of the gain was in saving bond holdings. the head of the institution, fore cast "one of the greatest years" in its history for 1947-'48, both in numbers of students and in breadth of educational offering. A new enrollment record of approximately 5000 students is envisioned by university officials, offi-cials, including 2227 freshmen and iunior college transfers whose entrance applications have aDnr0ved. Previous rr .. , . . , , registration record for the au- tnmn nnartpr was 4300. spt one year ago. President McDonald reported the appointment of more than 50 new members to the university univer-sity staff, including 36 of professorial pro-fessorial or instructor ranks, to meet the needs of the anticipated anticipat-ed larger enrollment. Also provided in an expansion of the physical plant at the university are 12 new buildings and two campus dormitories, the president reported Largest of these is the North Classroom Building on the upper campus, which contains 25 offices for faculty and 20 rlassrooms. Other major additions are a dining hall, music practice building, build-ing, woodwork shop, 'press building, build-ing, heating plant, and warehouse ware-house and storage buildings. Total housing capacity of university-operated dormitories and residence halls Ms now 1000, the dean of students reported, as compared with 400 a year ago-The ago-The remaining students win be aided by the student housing office of-fice to find quarters in Provo, Orem, and other nearby areas. First religious services of the year will be held Sunday, with Sunday School at 11 a. m. and sacrament meeting at 7 p. m-Separate m-Separate meetings will also be held by students living in Vvy-mount Vvy-mount Village. The religious activities will be under supervision supervis-ion of Dr. Sidney B. Sperry, the newly appointed director of the division of religion. Students who register Monday or Tuesday must appear in a designated alphabetic order, the dean of students emphasized. Registration books will be issued is-sued both days from the registrar's regis-trar's office in the following schedule: 8 to 9 a. m., A-C; 9 to 10, D-G; 10 to 11, H-K; 11 to 11:30, L-N; 1:20 to 2:15 p. m., O R; 2:15 to 3, S and T; 3 to 4, U-Z. Ciass instruction in all departments depart-ments will begin October 1- Orem Ships 428 Cars Fruit To Lead Slate in Production TIGERS THU.V.P SPANISH FOr.X, 27-B; AMERICAN HQ HERE FRIDAY AT 3 P.f.1. 'Lads and Dads' Night At B.Y.U.-Montana B.Y.U.-Montana Game It's "Lads and Dads Day" at Brigham Young University Stadium Sta-dium Friday night, when the Cougars of the "Y" tackle the strong Montana State Bobcats in an intersectional game. The Cougars are smarting under un-der a 13-14 defeat they suffered at the hands of the Bobcats last year, and although out-weighed in Friday's tilt, they will be given giv-en an even chance to handle the invaders. Ferron Lossee, manager of athletics, has announced that as an inducement for fathers to bring their sons to enji the game, arrangements have been made to admit both father and son for the price of one paid admission ad-mission plus tax for the boy. The offer is for general admission or reserved seats. The game is set for 8 p. m. under the lights. Senator Watkins Has Busy Slate During "Vacation" Period Senator A- V. Watkins, uent on sounding out the problems of Utah constituents, shuttled north and south through the state this week, with speaking engagements in American Fork, Ogden, Logan, Brigham, Sanpete San-pete county and Richfield, and before the Rotary Club in Provo on Friday- The senator is maintaining an office at 341 Federal Building in Salt Lake City until he leaves for Denver early in October to conduct hearings for the joint congressional "cost of living" sub-committee. Hearings are set for Denver on October 4; for Salt Lake City on October 9 to 11; and in Los Angeles, San Francisco and other West Coast cities later. Senator Watkins is chairman of the joint committee and will conduct all the hearings- Late in October the senator will go to Phoenix for a meeting meet-ing of the National Reclamation As. ociation, and early in November Novem-ber he will conduct hearings among the Navajo Indians in Ar-zona- Senator Watkins is chairman of the Senate Indian and Indian Affairs Committee and will probe the possibilities of getting the Indians "on their own." The senator plans to return to Washington about mid - November. Novem-ber. B. M. Jolley Is Named to Important Legislative Group B. M. Jolley, former Mayor of Orem and present state senator from the local district, has received re-ceived an appointment to the revenue, taxation and finance committee of the State Legislative Legisla-tive Council, it was revealed this week. The appointment came from Wendell N- Mabey, speaker of the House and chairman of the council. 'i "I am very pleased with this appointment," Senator Jolley said today. "Being very much interested in going into the next session of Congress prepared, I feel fortunate in gaining this opportunity to go into an intricate intri-cate study of the labor, welfare and school bills. "The committee will begin work in the near future," declared de-clared Senator Jolley. "It will study legislation for presentation in the next session of Congress and try to iron out some of the difficulties involved in state legislation." leg-islation." The group with which Mr. Jolley Jol-ley will work is one of the 12 subcommittees named to aid the council in its work before the next Legislature. The legislative council was set up by the last State Legislature, with an appropriation appro-priation of $40,000, to study problems that will confront the Legislature at the next session, in order that the latter may deal with them more efficiently during dur-ing the session. The fighting Lincoln Tigers, winners over Spanish Fork last Friday in the region's opening "football festival," will have their backs to the wall Friday when they play for the home folks at the local gridiron against a heavier, more powerful American Amer-ican Fork team- The game is set for 3 p- m- Two key men, Leo Ferguson and Kay Baker, came out of the Spanish Fork tilt with pamful injuries and will not see action against the Cavemen on Friday, according to Coach Don Dixon. Ferguson, blocking back and co-captain co-captain of the team, received a bruised hip in the game and has not been suited all week. Baker, billed as the team's best passer, also was bunged up It. last week's tilt and will not play. Clinton Lewis will pro ,dbly get the call to start at Baker's halfback spot, and Theron Hardy will probably play at fullLsck for Ferguson. The locals will be banking for victory Friday on the explosive tactics of Leon Hatch and Ralph Willets, clever backs who made things miserable for Spanish Fork in the opener last week. This "Blanchard Davis" com-bination, com-bination, behind some flossy blocking, scored four touchdowns touch-downs in the first half to mark themselves as a pair of the classiest class-iest backs in the league- But they will miss the blocking of Ferguson and the passing arm of Baker in Friday's tilt against American Fork. In other region games last week Pleasant Grove thumped the Payson Lions, 31-0; Lehi de feated a fighting B-Y.H S. team, 12-7, and the strong Springville aggregation triumphed over the American Fork eleven, 14-0. Brooks Hero in Game With Peaches; Playoff on Tap Lee Brooks, faculty member at Lincoln High and peppery outfielder for the Provo Timps, turned hero Sifnday and almost single-handed turned back a determined de-termined Bingham baseball club and to set the stage for championship cham-pionship playoffs next Sunday between the same clubs. The two teams will meet at the Timp park at 2:30 p. m- in the first of a five-game series. Brooks singled and scored in the first inning, then when the Timps were hanging on the ropes in th,e eighth, cracked out a single to drive in Mahlon Ras-muson Ras-muson for the winning run to win, 5-4. Then to complete his day's chores, he ran half way across the field to gather in Earl Owens' long drive in Brigham's half of the ninth to retire the side. Controversy has raged regarding regard-ing the winner of the second half of the State League, but moguls report today that the Brigham Peaches have won the second half title and are entitled to the playoff with the Timps which starts Sunday. t 3 B. M. JOLLEY Orem retained its title of the richest fruit-growing area in the state's bfcrgest fruitgrowing fruit-growing county this year as it completed shipment this week of 428 carloads of peaches, peach-es, pears and prunes. The fruit yield is better than the bumper crop of 1946, according accord-ing to figures released by the Utah County Agricultural Bureau today. The peach crop showed a substantial sub-stantial gain over last year with 315, cars being shipped, 32 more than in 1946- Of this number, 220 were shipped from Orem by the following firms: Orem Peach Growers, 139; Timpanogos Marketing Mar-keting Association, 70, and the Strattqn Fruit Growers, 11. Prunes have also shown an increase in production. Last year only 27 cars were shipped from Utah County as compared with 53 cars this year. Of this number, 36 cars have been shipped to date from Orem 22 from O. H. Muir, 13 from i'im-panogos i'im-panogos Marketing Association, and one from Stratton Fruit Growers. The cherry crop fell off somewhat some-what this year with 109 cars being shipped this year from Utah County as compared with 141 shipped last year. Eighty-eight Eighty-eight cars were shipped by O. H-Muir H-Muir of Orem- Eighty-five cars of pears were shipped from Utah County this year as compared to 67 shipped last year. Sixty-seven cars of pears were shipped from Orem, Although apples have eben on the market for several weeks, th apple crop this year is expected expect-ed to be a poor one. As yet no figures are available on shipment ship-ment of apples. Shipments of fruit from Orem indicate a record year without counting the large volume of fruit sold locally. . Fontana Uses Utah Iron, Ccal The Kaiser Co-, Inc., steel plant at Fontana, Calif., now is obtaining more than half its rron ore from Utah and expects to continue purchasing large quantities quan-tities of iron ore here for several years at least, A- B. Ordway, Oakland, Calif., vice president and general manager, said Tuesday Tues-day in Salt Lake City. Mr- Ordway said his company now is developing the Eagle Mountain mine 50 miles east of Indio, Calif., but will continue to need Utah iron ore for blending blend-ing purposes. Plenty of cal mined by the coiripi.ny near Sunnysidf, Utfh, is available for shipping to the Fontana plant, he said, but it is difficult to obtain enough coal cars- Because of a large stockpile stock-pile built up earlier the company com-pany has not had to curtail operations oper-ations as yet, he said. Mrs. A. V. Watkins Guest At Vertiya Club Meeting I Mrs. Frampton Collins was assisted as-sisted as hostess by Mrs- Antone Rohbock when she entertained the Vertiya Club at the Carl Far ley home last week. Mrs- A. V. Watkins was a guest at the meet ing and told many interestinc things about living in Washington, Washing-ton, D. C-, and about her recent trip to Alaska. Other guests present were Mrs- Thomas Reese, Mrs. Stanley Farley, Mrs. Jack Reynolds, Mrs- H- Vern Wentz, Mrs. Elwood Sundberg and Mrs. Carl Farley. The entertaining rooms were decorated with colorful fall flowers. A tasty lunch was served to the guests and club members. Among those prusent were Mesdames Charles ltoh-bock, ltoh-bock, Dean Johnson. Josenh Rowley, Marvin Meldrum, Harold Har-old Maag, David Rowley, Jr., Reed Hacking, Lawrence Palm er, Fenton Prince, Arnold Burn- mgham, James Palmer, James Jensen, Dean A. Anderson Tn fouison, Moroni Jensen, Woodruff Wood-ruff Jensen and the co-hostesses- The $45,000,000,000 worth of IT. S. Savingc Bonds now held by individuals returns over $1 -250,000,000 in annual interest to these citizens. Papering In Closet Walls ot a clothes closet can b papered but all ccks and break. In the plaste should be filled before it is attempted. I |