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Show teiK HOME OF GENEVA STEEL A6RICULTURE Volume 15, Number 40 Thursday October 16, 1947 PRICE FIVE CENTS l inoost : 12 SCERA ANNOUNCES OFFICERS, STAFF APPOINTMENTS Following the annual election meeting of the SCERA Board held recently it was announced that Orson Prestwich had been re-elected president and James Blake, vice president. Mr. Prestwich Prest-wich represents the Sharon-Vermont Sharon-Vermont area and Mr. Blake the Vineyard area. The Scera board re-appointed Victor C- Anderson as general manager and Clorene Lamb as secretary-treasurer and asistant manager. The folowing committee assignments as-signments were made: Board Auditor Dover Hunt Building Inspectors Sharp Gillespie Gill-espie and John Stratton Community Recreation Horace Bean and August Johnson Grounds James Blake and Orson Prestwich Orem City Relations Woodruff Jensen Alpine School District relations A. P. Warnick Trustee of Bondholders Henry D. Taylor The board approved a budget for the flood-lighting or the building. The folowing committee commit-tee was appointed to make a study with lighting experts as to the best possible way: Victor C. Anderson, Henry D. Taylor, Sharp Gillespie, John Stratton, Horace Bean and Dover Hnt. Some discussion was also had as to improvement of the marquee in front of the biulding. The board also approved the following appointments: Fred Gourdin, building and grounds custodian asisted by Stewart Sorensen; Mrs. Thirza Johnson, janitoress and in charge of confections; con-fections; Levan Asay, projectionist. projection-ist. The following " 'people have been chosen to serve on the staff for the coming season: Grant Rowley, James Norton, Merlin Christensen.Julian Frank Nelson Snow, Orland Pyne, Leon Robinson, L. T. Terry, Parlell Peterson, Thorval Rigby, Lorin Milet, W. M. Vernon, Jackjte Faulkner, Melda Hacking, Bettie Harrison, Laura Cook, Lucille Loveless, Carol Watts, Mary Watts, Evelyn Higbee, Raola Hill, Joy Hancock, Jerry Hansen, Valene Nielsen, Colleen Varley, Ardith Richards, Norma Cok Diane Dixon, Betty Nimer, Joan Pyne, Mary Jean Clark, Colleen Fielding, Yvonne Jacobsen, Shirley Shir-ley Rowland, NaDene Adams, Donna Mott, Sharee Weeks, Dodothy Gray, Virginia Hall, Colleen Bylund, Lorna Jean Maycock, Kay Camenish, Margaret Mar-garet Faulkner, June Calder, Ina Skinner, Lucille Sorensen, Donna Jean Parrish, Louise Farley, Far-ley, Marilyn Johnson, Melba Pyne- WATKINS MAKES STAND ON HOUSING, RECLAMATION, POWER ISSUES Speaking at the Rcyiblican banquet in Salt Lake City on Friday, Orem's Senator Arthur V. Watkins called for federal intervention in-tervention in the critical hous-in hous-in situation "if private enterprise" enter-prise" fails to build the homes which are needed. The building industry is on trial," the senator said- "We . haven't got housing- If the job is too big for private enterprise, why don't we bring the federal government into the picture?" In the same address Sen.' Wat-kins Wat-kins rapped high interior department de-partment and reclamation bureau bur-eau officials who put the government govern-ment perpetually into the water and power business- This, he averred, is responsible for much of the controversy over the reclamation re-clamation program. The original purpose of the Republican-created reclamation bureau, the senator said, was to provide a means of financing projects which could not be built by private capital the projects to be owned by the sponsoring people when the costs were repaid. He emphasized that the feasible feasi-ble projects of the future are so large and expensive that power revenues are necessary for repayment. re-payment. But he took the position posi-tion that this did not require the entrance of the government into the power generating and distributing dis-tributing business. He objected also to the philosophy that the government should perpetually Orvil B. Davis ORVIL B. DAVIS NAMED BISHOP OF EDGEMONT WARD At ward conference Sunday, evening, Orvil B. Davis was sustained as Bishop of Edgemont ward, replacing J. Golden Tay lor. Bishop Taylor and his first counselor, Wilford S. Gillispie were released from the bishopric after three years service. Mr. Davis served as second counselor to Bishop Taylor, Stanley P Stubbs and Merlin Johnson served ser-ved as ward clerk and assistant clerk. The new bishop has chosen Stanley Stubbs and Grant H. Elliott as counselors and Phillip S- Knight and Will Hull as ward clerg and assistant ward clerk. Mr. Stubbs has been ward clerk for the past three years. Mr. Elliott filled a mission to Hawaii and was in the U. S. Navy during dur-ing the war. Since his release, from the navy he has been a counselor in the YMMIA. Mr. Knight and Mr. Hull have both been active in priesthood work and auxiliary organizations. Bishop Davis has lived in Edgemont all his life. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. William B. Davis, is married and has a aon and a daughter. He has been in the bishopric since 1945 and has been active in MIA work for 12 years. He has served as secretary and counselor to the president of the Elders quorum and has, worked with other priesthood,' groups. i Sharon Stake president Henry D. Taylor conducted the ward conference. Philo T. Edwards and William Faulkner, members of the stake presidency spoke. Other stake officers there were John Naylor, clerk and Rodney Kimball, Clyde Lunceford, Eldon Perry, E. H. Asay, Robert J. Olsen and Frank B. Woffinden of the High Council. Remarks were made by those released from office and those newly appointed. appoin-ted. Mr- Stubbs read the list of ! ward officers and they were sus-I sus-I tained by ward members- own projects and rent water to the users. "We want projects," he said, "but we don't want T V As here. We want the projects to be owned by the people." Sen- Watkins said his contacts with private utilities indicated that they welcome power-generating reclamation projects, that they are willing to join in the program and serve as distributors distribu-tors of the power. The Utah senator sounded a warning to intermounlain states of full-potential power development develop-ment of the Columbia river and distribution over a wide area. If the power market is taken over by Columbia project, he said, it will be goodby to the central Utah and other such proposed projects in the intermountain states. The senator emphatically asserted as-serted that the 80th Republican congress had appropriated liber ally for reclamation and that the program "is on its way." He predicted that the contro versy over interest on capital investment for power genera tion would be settled by adoption adop-tion of a policy of allocating costs to such purposes as flood control, silt control and wildlife; dividing the remaining costs be tween water and power; charg ing 2 1-2 per cent interest on the power allotment, one-fifth of which would go to the recla mation fund and the remaining four-fifths into the national OCTOBER 28 LAST DAY TO REGIS!.:! FOR OREM NOVEMBER 4 ELECTION Orem citizens have only one more opportunity to establish estab-lish iheir right to vole in the imminent municipal election, i Tuesday, October 28 is the last chance for voters to register for the election scheuled for November 4. X All eligible Orem citixens are being urged to vote this, year inasmuch as the increasing growth of the city demands, representative city officials who can cope with the ever; mounting demands of public office. ; It is emphasised that no one may vote unless he has registered in his district before the election. The four registration districts in Orem aer at the homes of the following: J District No. 1 Mrs. Ethel C Lowe: North city limits to canyon drive or 8th North. District No. 2 Clarence York: Canyon Drive or 8th North to Snow Street or 4th South. District No. 3 Lugwig N. Poulson: Snow Street or 41h , South to 12th South or Curtis Street. District No. 4 Vaneese Woffinden: from I2th South or Curtis Street to South city limits. GENEVA, KAISER MAY FINANCE CARBON COUNTY SEARCH FOR ADDITIONAL GGKING GOAL DEPOSITS Negotiations between the U- S. bureau of mines and the west's two big steel makers - Geneva and Henry Kaiser - which will make possible a sear ch in the Carbon County area for new supplies of coKing coai, have been announced this week. The plan proposes that each comnanv furnish $125,000 to ward the research project which will entail exploration and drilling dril-ling under the supervision of the geological survey and the bureau of mines. The project is based on the fact that there is a limit to the present known supply of suitable suit-able coking coals to serve the far west's steel industry. The project contemplates the determination deter-mination of the amount and quality of coking coals in the area north and west of Sunny-side. Sunny-side. Meanwhile the Geneva Steel company announced that the current curtailment of Utah coal production caused by a shortage of coal cars is not seriously affecting af-fecting Geneva's steel production. produc-tion. The plant for some time has not had all the coal it could fully use or would like to stockpile, but it has not been forced into any direct curtailment over previous pre-vious operations because of the present coal situation. The fact that the company owns 300 coal cars is the principal factor avoiding avoid-ing the car-storage that is plaguing plagu-ing other consumers. The No. 2 blast furnace at the plant is still not in operation having been down since the explosion ex-plosion which burned 16 workers work-ers as they were changing a defective de-fective hearth packet. It is hoped the furnace may be back into production about the end of this month. However, open hearth production produc-tion has not been seriously curtailed cur-tailed because the available coke has been fed to the other two blast furnaces and production of both of the latter considerably stepped up. Pig iron output of the two furnaces, by reason of increased production, from Doth of them, has been close to what it formerly was from the three units. Total employment at the plant is now about 4200, a slight drop from the peak reached some time ago, but still a healthy level lev-el of prduction. The open hearth department is running eight of its nine furnaces much of the time and 'all three rolling units are maintaining a good level of output. The slab and plate mills are each running three crews a total of 14 shifts per week and the structural mill is maintaining maintain-ing a schedule of two crews 10 shifts- CONGRATULATIONS Born at the Utah Valley hospital: hos-pital: A boy to Kenneth and Zina Green Ercanbrack. A girl to Merrill and Lucille Garganson Lowe- A boy to Alex W. and Sylvia Nielsen Rhodes. A girl to Willard and Ilene Ellsworth Kowallis. treasury. Watkins, in most things an extreme ex-treme conservative, warned the Republican conference of eleven western states at a luncheon here that unless the housing situation sit-uation is cleared up the Republican Republi-can party is doomed. "If you as Republicans want to stay in power, the people of the United States must have housing, hous-ing, even if it requires federal aid-" LINCOLN FACULTY AT CANYUON PARTY The Lincoln high school faculty fac-ulty enjoyed a dinner party at the MIA Canyon home in Provo canyon Tuesday evening. Lighted candles and pyracanth decorated the table. After dinner a program was presented by the new members of the faculty, Mr. and Mrs-Dale Mrs-Dale Johnson, Raymond Wendel and Albert Payne. Games were directed by Nina Booth and Harold Nielsen. Melvin Briggs acted as chairman in charge of the party and was assisted by Harold Nielsen, W. E. Losee, Edgar Booth, E. B. Terry, Frank Newman, Nina Booth, LuWana Johnson, Glenn Vernon, Erma Farley and L. B. Bennett. Fifty faculty members and partners were present. Named to Head March of Dimes Senator Ira A. Huaatns" Senator Ira A. Huggins of Ogden ,wlll serve as Utah State Chairman1 of the 1948 March of Dimes Jan.' 15-30, for his seventh year at the helm of the annual, fund-raising appeal. His appointment was announced today by Basil O'Connor, president of the National Foundation for Infantile In-fantile Paralysis. The campaign will mark the tenth anniversary of the National Foundation, set up byj President Franklin D. Roosevelt to "lead, direct and unify" the fight', against infantile paralysis. The Foundation la supported solely by the March of Dimes each January.) Senator Huggins, a native of Utah, has been active In state affairs af-fairs (or years and has served In the state's upper chamber continuously continu-ously since his election in 1930. He has been a National Labor Commissioner Commis-sioner in the state and is a member of the Jackson Democratic League, the Ogden Kiwanis Club and the American Legion. Mr. O'Connor, announcing that Senator Huggins had accepted the state chairmanship, revealed that, since 1943 Infantile paralysis has taken a tragic toll, with more than 72,000 Americans having been stricken. "Thousands," he warned, "continue "con-tinue to face a long fight for recovery. recov-ery. This summer, fortunately, we had a 'breathing spell' as polio lncl-j dence nationally did not approach the awful total of 1946. "The cost of the 1946 epidemic alone will run to some $30,000,000, without taking Into account the large sums necessary to care for those stricken this summer. We de not know what 1918 may bring, but we must be prepared." Tri-Stake Convention ! For Primary Workers Held Saturday Sharon stake was host to Primary Pri-mary workers from Orem and Timpanogos stakes at a tri-stake convention held last Saturday in the Timpanogos chapel- Leone P. Crowley, Hermana F. Lyon and Mary B. Firmage represented represen-ted the general Primary board at the meetings. Stake board members met in the forenoon. Luncheon was served ser-ved by Orem stake with the Vermont Ver-mont ward Relief Society ladies in charge. Muscial numbers by Mrs- Rita Hadlock and her son and a musical skit, enacted by Hazel Liston, Flossie Asay, Rhea Adams and Eva Miller were enjoyed en-joyed during the luncheon period. At 1:30 all ward and stake officers and teachers met in a general session. Windsor ward and Pleasant Grove ward had the highest attendance, with all but one primary worker present- The stake class leaders were in charge of departmental work during the last hour of the meeting. meet-ing. The general board visitors met with the executives. Projects completed in Primary classes during the summer were on display during the convention. conven-tion. Presidents of the three stakes in attendance are Mrs. Louise C. Nielsen, Timpanogos stake; Mrs. Lois T. Johnson, Orem stake; and Mrs- Melba P. Pyne, Sharon stake. CAMP OREM DUP The Camp Orem DUP hold their October meeting at the home of Mrs- Keziah Pyne. Captain Adell Fielding presided at the meeting and Mrs. Luc ille Anderson was in charge of the program. Mrs- Nettie Brown, assistant county historian spoke on the importance of life histories his-tories and on the memorial fund. Mrs. Clarissa Carroll was honored hon-ored at the meeting and was presented with a corsage of wood fibre roses. She told the story of her own life, and Mrs-Anderson Mrs-Anderson also spoke of her.Ke-ziah her.Ke-ziah Pyne read from the diary written by her great grandmother, grand-mother, Clarissa Wilhelm. The lesson "The Burning of the Nauvoo Temple" was given by class leader LaVell Peterson. Mrs. Katie Mitchell, from camp 8 in Provo was a guest at the meeting and told of the trek from Nauvoo this summer. Refreshments Re-freshments were served by A-dell A-dell Fielding, Lucille Anderson an Keziah Pyne. There were 40 present at the meeting; three of Mrs. Carroll's daughters were present. The next meeting will honor another pioneer, Mrs. Martha Rudy and will be held at the home" of her daughter, Mrs. L. II. Young. Dale Brown has been visiting here from Arizona with Mr. and Mrs. Arnold Burningham and with his parents in Salt Lake City. Mr. and Mrs. John I- Rostad of Couer d'Alone, Idaho visited at the Alvin Higbee home this week. O- WouM You A Fit to be hog-tied over fashion's "new look" was "Miss Chicago" Joan Hiatt when she learned of plans by Paris corsetiers to lace women in tiny corseU that produce bulging hips and bosom by pinching pinch-ing in the waist To show that extreme bulges are "piggish," she wrapped a whale-bone corset around a 350-pound sow at stockyards. Said the sow, "On me it looks good." But Formfit Company of New York and Chicago, nation's leading corset manufacturer, refuses to hop the so-called new look bandwagon, insisting that American women should retain the "natural look." Gillm For Orem J. George Stratton Citizens Mr. Stratton is a native of Orem, his parents having pioneered pio-neered the area as early as 1880. He has been a member of the city council for the past eight years, having served as chairman chair-man of the department of parks and cemetery, and during his present term as chairman of the water department. He was educated in Orem public schools and attended BYU and Utah university- He has eight children, five of whom have families and reside in Or em- He has been keenly interested inter-ested in Orem's water problems and has been outspoken in ask ing for an aggressive program of water development- He is a past president of the Orem Chamber r,t Commerce and is chairman of the finance drive of the Vermont ward building committee. Philo T. Edwards, Citizens party candidate for four-year councilman, is a prominent Or em fruit grower and buyer. He has been active in church activ ities, having been Timpanogos ward Sunday School superintendent, superin-tendent, president of the Seventy's Seven-ty's quorum and at the present time counselor in the Sharon stake presidency. He has a family fam-ily of 13 children. Ephraim Twitchell, who seeks re-election as two-year councilman, coun-cilman, now heads the city parks and cemetery committee. He is a former bishop of Sharon ward, and is an employe of the Utah Oil Refining company and a progressive fruit farmer. J. Eldon Swenson, candidate for two-year councilman, has been a dairy farmer of Orem for the past 20 years. He is a member of theBig Bench Canal board, has been in the Windsor Wind-sor ward bishopric for 12 years and is a member of the Orem stake high council. Rulon L. West, candidate for two-year councilman) wa3 born in Lindon where he lived until 1933. In 1938 he was appointed Orem City marshal and served in that capacityfor five years. He is a member of the board of directors of the chamber of com- Rcther Ba A Pig? an, Stratton nominated Mayor Candidate Mayor J. W. Glllman and councilman J. George Stratton were lined up as candidates for mayor of Orem for the coming term of office this week following follow-ing nominating conventions of the Peoples and Citizens parties. The two were named to head the Peoples and Citizens parties, respectively. The Peoples party named Vern Williams as a candidate for 4-year councilman to run against st Philo T. Edwards of the Citizens Cit-izens group. Two-year council-men council-men nominated include E. H. Johnson, Victor Durham and Avalon Richards for the Peoples group, and Ephraim Twitchel, Rulon West and Eldon Swenson for the Citizens. Orland E. Pyne was nomin ated for city recorder by both parlies Lurleen Loveless was nomin ated for treasurer to oppose the Citizens party candidate, the in cumbent Ada Skinner. merce and is immediate past president of the Junior chamber. He is a state director of the Jaycees. At a meeting of the party committee on Monday the group outlined a party platform which put the group in favor of both immediate and long-range plans for the improvement of the water wa-ter situation. The immediate plans call for the construction of a million-gallon reservoir at the head of Alta Falls and the construction of an 18-inch main from the resvoir to mid-Orem. The long-range plan provides for the eventual acquisition of the entire Alta stream though exchange of city-owned Deer Creek water, and the renovation and enlargement of the city water distribution system. With regard to public health and safety the party favors addition ad-dition of traffic and law enforcement en-forcement officers, the immediately immedi-ately completion and operation of the city fire department and the installation of fire plugs throughout the city. The group also favors the relocation of the city garbage dump. On the question of parks and recreation the group went on record in favor of a continued program with the establishment of playgrounds at several places plac-es within the city. The statement of the group on taxation was that it was difficult to reduce taxes in a growing community. They pledged themselves them-selves to exercise thrift and good business judgment in the use of city funds. Timpanogos MIA Plans Harvest Dance All the witches and goblins of the Hallowe'n season will be in evidence at the Harvest dance planned by the Timpanogos Timp-anogos ward MIA. The dance will be held Monday evening, October 27 in the ward hall; regular mutual classes will not be held that night- " The ward activity directors, Elwood Sundberg and Eva Lar-scn Lar-scn are in charge of arrangements. arrange-ments. They plan a lively hoe-down, hoe-down, with dances that will be enjoyed by the oldsters as well as the younger ward members. A floor show will be featured during the evening and refreshments refresh-ments will be served. The dance is a budget affair and all ward members are invited to come in costume. LINCOLN PTA The annual membership drive of the Lincoln PTA is now under un-der way, with Mrs. Ralph Peters Pe-ters in charge. The object of the drive is to contact all parents who are interested in the school problems. Membership entitles parents to attend all monthly meetings and other educational functions sponsored by the organization. or-ganization. - STUDENTS TO SEE EDUCATIONAL FILMS Students at Lincoln High school enjoyed the motion picture pic-ture "Young Thomas Edison" Wednesday afternoon. This was the first picture in the series of full-length educational films to be presented once a month un der the sponsorship of the student stu-dent council. J. W. Gillman People Mayor Gillman is a long-time resident of Orem and the city's second mayor. He is a successful fruit grower and is president of the Provo Water Users association. associa-tion. He was recently elected president of the Utah Municipal Munici-pal league and is closely identified ident-ified with the state's watw reclamation re-clamation and conservation problems. pro-blems. Mr. Williams is a present council coun-cil member. He is an active church memoer, a successful farmer and an employe of the Geneva Steel plant. Mr. Johnson, now serving serv-ing as city judge, is active in civic affairs, at present being Orem Lions club president- Mr. Durham, operator of Lincoln Ser vice and owner of Chief Timpanogos Timp-anogos Motel, is an "active member mem-ber f the Orem Chamber of Commerce. He is responsible for establishing the Durham Award for athletic excellence at Lincoln high school. Mr. Richards is owner own-er of Twin Pines cafe and is well known in Orem. Mrs. Loveless is at present Y. W. M. I. A- president of Timpanogos Timp-anogos ward. The Republican Wont?ns club of Orem will meet Wednes day, Oct. 22, at 2:30 p.m. at Virginia Manor. Mrs. George Worthen, Utah county Republican Repub-lican officer, will speak on the "Republican Outlook." Y lc Jim Weaver, son of Mr. and Mrs. Tom Weaver of Orem, who has been spending a ten day leave with his parents, left Wed nesday to return to duty at Hunters Hun-ters Point, San Francisco-His Francisco-His brother Stanley, accompanied accompan-ied him. Stanley will return home by bus on Monday. GRANDVIEW WARD The Grandview ward bazaar and banquet held in the amusement amuse-ment hail last week was very successful. Ward members enjoyed en-joyed a delicious dinner and purchased pur-chased many useful items ui hte sale- 'Enough money was taken in to pay for the ward's share of the Sharon stake welfare farm. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Clyde entertained at a family dinner honoring their daughter, Mrs. Keith Johnson on her birthday anniversary. Dinner was served to Mr. and Mrs- Johnson and their daughter, Lorna, Clifford Clyde and the host and hostess- ' SHARON LDS GIRLS COMMITTEE TO MEET A meeting of the Sharon Stake LDS Girls committee and advisors will be held Thursday, October 23 at the home of Mrs. Hilda Conder at Olmstead. OREM RELIEF SOCIETY UNION MEETING Mrs. Winnie Graff, president of the Orem Stake Relief Society Soci-ety announces that Union meeting meet-ing will be held Sunday, October Octo-ber 19 at 2 p.m. in the Timpanogos Timpano-gos ward chapel. SHARON SUNDAY SCHOOL UNION MEETING John Nicol, Sharon Stake Sunday School superintendent announces that Union meeting will be held Sunday, October 19 in Lake View ward. The stake board will meet at 2 p. m. and at 2:30 all stake and ward officers and teachers will meet. |