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Show fa : iV ' lDITI v i City Council to Reconsider Revocation of Tavern License FOOTBALL BANQUET FOR LI1IC0LII TEAM The annual Football banquet for the Lincoln High football players, their partners and guests was held this week at Park's Cafe. Paper streamers in the school colors, blue and gold, decorated and banquet tables. The place cards and programs for the dance that followed the banquet were blue felt with gold lettering. Coach Donald Dixon made the "kick-off" and introduced the master of ceremonies, Rus sell Park. Ruth Beck played an accordian solo. Talks were giv en by the four team captains, La Veil Edwards and Leo Fergu son, who have led the team this year and Ralph Willet and Lowell Low-ell Madsen, who will captain the 1948-49 team. Stan Cole, Don Allen, Vic Hansen and Dave Harding sang a quartet. ' Toasts to the team were giv en by coaches Don Dixon and Mel Briggs. A highlight of the evening was the presentation of the Durham award. Ed Durham made the presentation of the award to this year's winner, Leo Ferguson. Special guests at the banquet were former captains of the Lin coln team, Don Edwards, Stan Cole, Reed Gillespie and Richard Park. Dancing at the Federation room was enjoyed during the balance of the evening. CLUBS TO SPONSOR SAFETY FILMS Under sponsorship of Orem civic groups, a series of 26 short i safety films will be shown at jjjhe Scera theater beginning a boirfJanuary 1. .--. One film will be shown daily each week, according to the sponsors the chamber of com merce, junior chamber, 20-30 club, American Legion, and the Scera. The first film will deal with driver-pedestrian safety the second with home safety, and the third with safety in pub-, lie places. UTAHII SAYS EXFEnTEIIT III TEEN-AGE SOLDIERS IS Fi"07i;;G SUCCESSFUL CHRISTMAS STORY TO BE PUBLISHED A feature of next week's Orem-Geneva Times will be the publication of "The Christmas Seal", a story by Ethel N. Hair. The author of the story is a native of Orem and draws her characterizations and the plot of the story from this locality. The story tells of the "old maid" sister of a Danish family, and of the other members of the family who come home to the farm to spend Christmas day. TIGERS SET FOR TILT VITII PAYSOII HERE FRIDAY Coach Mel Briggs' Lincoln Ti ger hoopsters, who are nursing a perfect record with wins over Payson, Heber and Tooele in preseason pre-season games, are expected to eet their hardest test thus far Friday when they entertain Pay-son Pay-son here in a pair of games. The sophomore tilt is set for 6:45, with the varsity game scheduled for 8 p.m. The Tigers' previous win over Payson came by the narrowest of margins, 20-25, and tne fay-son fay-son club has since turned in a victory over the Provo Bulldogs The Briggs team thumped Heber, 34-27, and came up with a 38-33 victory ovei Tooele In the other two pre-season tilts. Bright spots in the Tiger lineup line-up are La Veil Edwards at Forward For-ward and Jack Ferguson at guard. These boys have stamped themselves as fixtures in the lineup. The other three spots are still wide open, according to Coach Briggs. In recent starting lineups he has had Ralph 'willet at forward, Kay Boulter at Center and Leo Ferguson at guard. However, Allen Balser Kay Baker and Ted Allen are still in the running for first string berths and may get starting start-ing assignments Friday. VOLUME 15, NUMBER Reconsideration of an earlier decision to revoke the beer license li-cense at Glenn and Joe's Tavern was promised Wednesday night by the city council at the regular meeting of the group, and Friday Fri-day was set as the time for full discussion, in private session, by council members. The decision to reconsider came after the council had read a resolution passed .by the Orem post of the American Legion which asked that the council table action on the resolution and to let the incoming council decide the matter. At the meeting held Nov. 28 the ouncil voted to revoke the license which was issued to Le- Earl Burr upon motion of Ray Gappmayer. The majority of the members felt that the Tavern was disturbing to nearby residents resi-dents and pointed out that the license was originally issued only on a tentative basis until Mr. Burr obtained a new site. Voting with Councilman Gapp mayer were Ephraim Twitchell and J. George Stratton. Council man Vern Williams was absent, Re-discussion of the question stemmed partially from the Legion Le-gion resolution and partly from Councilman Williams' absence at the previous meeting. Mr. Wil liams made the motion Wednesday Wednes-day that the previous action be rescinded but the motion had no second. Councilman Woodruff Jensen agreed, however, to second sec-ond the motion at a meeting at which a full council was present, pres-ent, Mr. Twitchell being absent at Wednesday's session. The revocation, under terms of the present decision, is to be effective Monday and unless the council rescinds the previous action, ac-tion, officers are Instructed to close its doors. At Wednesday's meeting, Mr Williams declared that he felt that discrimination was being shown against Mr. Burr and that insufficient cause was shown why the license shoud be revok ed.-- -'""' ""- -"v-"-'- Mr. Gappmayer declared that he had felt for a long time that residents of the neighborhood were being done an injustice by permitting a Tavern at the site and he said that evidence had been established that violations of city ordinances with regard to the sale of beer occurred at the establishment. "An entirely new type of soldier," sol-dier," is how Lt. Col. James R. Barker, Utah State Extension specialist, describes the 17 and 18 year old boys at Ft. Knox, Kentucky, who are participating in the army's experimental military mili-tary training program there. Col. Barker, an officer in the U. S. army reserve, recently returned re-turned from a week's training at Ft. Knox, where he witnessed the exDerimental program in military training. "Approximately 1300 regular army volunteers, all 17 or 18 years old, from every section of the United States - including seven boys from Utah - have been brought together at Ft Knox in a grand experiment to see if boys can be trained with out the profanity and abuse cus tomary in army camps," Col Barker explained. "I visited and talked with the boys, and what I saw and heard was certainly a revelation to me The men were anxious to lean and happy with the training they received - and it's no won der they were when you saw how things were run at the camp. - "No one is ever allowed to bawl them out or swear at them Their mistakes are corrected by showing them the correct methods. meth-ods. If the trainees are caught swearing or using obscene lan guage, they are given extra duty but only when found guilty at a fair trial by a jury composed com-posed of fellow soldiers- "The training week consists of 44 hours plus an attendance at church or a lecture on Sun day. The boys are not forced to attend church, but 80 perent of them do so to get out of attending attend-ing the lecture. They may attend any church they desire, even off the post. It was found that a-mong a-mong the 1300 boys six percent had never been to church before in their lives," the extension of- 46 Cast Chosen For Lincoln High Play Tryouts for the Lincoln High school play were held Tuesday, under the direction of L. L. Terry. The play to be presented is "Pride and Prejudice", from i the novel by Jane Austin. The dramatization of the novel was written by Jane Kendall. j The dramatization is in three acts and is a costume play. 1 It features characterization and conversation, rather than a great deal of action on the stage. It will be ready for presentation during the latter part of January. Janu-ary. L. L- Terry will direct the play. The cast includes Sharee Weeks, Bernice Kitchen, Lyla Mae McDonald, Lyle DeLange, Glen Gray, Eugene Stubbs, Duane Davis, Kenneth Ashton, LaRee Hales, RaNae Bunnell, Emma Sratton and LuAnna Jackson. Open House Honors Mrs. Humphreys Mrs. Ellen Humphreys, who celebrated her 91st birthday an-niversary an-niversary Wednesday, will be honored at an open house on Saturday afternoon and evening Mrs. Joseph H. Clegg and Mrs Hershel Clinger are entertain ing in honor of their grandmother grandmoth-er at the Clegg home. Mrs. Humphreys was born inj Mill Creek, Utah on December iv, moo, me aaugmer oi ueorge and Elizabeth Bailey. She has been a widow for 18 years, since her husband, Thomas George Humphreys passed away. She has made her home at Salina for 71 years. Her useful life has endeared her to hundreds of friends. .She has a keen intellect and keeps well versed on world affairs by listening to the radio and reading. Her hands are seldom sel-dom idle; she crochets and knits many useful items for her loved ones. She has been a faithful member of the Relief Society for 71 years. She is the mother of 12 chll dren and has helped raise four grandchildren, Many friends and relatives feel that it is a privilege to know such a remarkable woman. They will call to greet her on Saturday at the Clegg home, where she is staying indefinitely. ficial reported. "The post exchange, where it is customary on army posts to see boys gorging themselves with beer, has an entirely dif ferent atmosphere here. I was surprised to see everything clean and wholesome. The boys were shined and proud, and all were either eating ice cream or drink ing soft drinks, because no beer is allowed. "The chaplain weilds a great er influence in this expenmen-tal expenmen-tal setup than on any regular army post I have been at. He is the first to interview the boy and he is the boys spiritual and moral advisor in fact instead of just in theory',' Col. Baker said I consider the greatest thing this type of traning has done has been the change in attitude toward morals. The entire ipro- gram is built around the pre mise that to be a good soldier one must have good morals, besides be-sides being efficent in the use of weapons. (The use of the bayon et and dirty fighting are not taught.) The fact that only three cases of venereal disease have developed during the past six months and two of these came with the boys attests to the fine moral training the boys are receiving. "Of the 44 hours' training each week, four hours are given to subjects such as English, al gebra, literature, dancing, wood Homecoming - Tribute to by Clyde E. Weeks, Jr. It was a cold winter night at the small railroad station. Several Sev-eral people were huddled about the waiting room. It was very quiet. Everyone in the room was listening for -the whistle and chug of the engine which would herald the arrival of the train bringing their soldier home. It had been a long time nearly five years since Verlyn had enlisted to help fight the war that had threatened the peace and security of all that he had loved. And now he was coming home. Letters. How well they had bridged the gap of his absence. But they had stopped suddenly, too many months ago. "When this is all over I'll be coming home to stay," he had written. How truly he wrote HOME OF1 GENEVA STEEL THURSDAY, Verlyn C, Marrott . Or.EM SGLER'S CODY ARRIVES CGL'I The body of Private First 'Class Verlyn C. Marrott, Orem soldier killed July 29, 1944, during the invasion of France, was met Tuesday night at the Union depot by his family, friends fri-ends and members of Orem's American Legion Post 72. Graveside military services were scheduled for today at Commander Ralph Schenck and members of the Orem legion post. Church rites were conduct- ed by Bishop Frank T. Gardner. Mr. Marrott was born Feb- 19, 1925, in Orem, son of Clarence O. and Gladys Peck Marrott. His father died May 24, 1937, In Orem, and his mother now resides res-ides at 294 West Third South. Provo. Mr. Marrott was educated Uv the Lindon school and Pleasant Grove high school and worked for Freyn Engineering company during construction of Geneva steel plant from March, 1942, un til he entered the service in Aug ust, 1943. He trained at Camp Adair1 near Corvallis, Ore. In May 1943, he went overseas, and ir England prepared for "D" day It was during the invasion of France when he was fighting in the hedgerows in the vicinity of LeFourchet, that he was hit by shrapnel from enemy mortar fire, the injures proving fatal. He was a member of the rifle squad of the first platoon, company com-pany G of the 9th infantry. Mr. Marrott held the sharp-shooting sharp-shooting marksmanship medals, and his mother has received his purple heart with three stars. Surviving besides his mother are one brother and four sinters Jesse Marrott, Mrs. George (Elda) Zubeck and Mrs. Myron (Reva) Davis, all of Provo, Mrs. Alva (Ruth) Durfey. Salt Lake City, and , Miss Phyliss Marrott Provo; also his grandfather, A M. Peck of Orem. GLADIOLI SOCIETY PLANS MEETING The Wasatch Gladioli Society will hold their regular monthly mating Friday evening, Dec 12 at 7:30 in the Art room of the Provo Public Library. The annual bulb auction, staged stag-ed each year by the soclt-i to help finance flower shows, will be held. Bulbs are donated by members and sold at auction to work, etc. There is a 'great var iety of subjects taught and each soldier is allowed to choose the course he prefers to take; hi may take more than four hour if he chooses to spend extra time in the evenings. Competent civi lian instructors have been em ployed to conduct these classes.' those words. The shriek of a train whistle broke the silence of the waiting room and the long-awaited train was soon rolling into the yard. Like one person the group went to meet their soldier who had come home- The train finally stopped and ten blue-capped men, comrades in arms, stood waiting at the door of the car in which Verlyn had traveled. The door opened and a soldier wearing the black arm band of mourning announced announc-ed in a quiet voice that the body of Private First Class Veryn C. Marrott lay in a nearby coffin draped with the colors of his country. Strong arms lifted the coffin from the train and bore it through the ranks of an American Amer-ican Legion color guard to a DECEMBER 11, 1947 'Handel's "Messiah"' To Be Presented At Scera Dec. 21 The Ninth annual presentation1 of Handel's "Messiah" will be given Sunday, Dec. 21 at 8:15 in the Scera auditorium. The production pro-duction is under the direction of Elvis B. Terry, Lincoln high school music director and will feature choruses from the high school and from Orem and Sharon Shar-on stakes, musical groups and soloists. : Truly in keeping with the real spirit of Christmas, the Messiah Mes-siah is unquestionably one of the greatest works of its kind. The presentation of the oratorio requires re-quires about two and one half hours time, yet it was composed in the short span of 24 days, from August 22 to Sept. 14, 1741. . Morini Jensen and Kathryn Christianson will sing the solo parts of the performance. Groups participating in the production are Delores Robbins, Fay Rowley, Row-ley, Sally Hawkins, Birdene Terry, Ter-ry, Nedra Nuttall and Joan Loveless; Love-less; Shirley Rowland, Colleen Knight, Marie Madsen, Helen Swan, Lila Mae McDonald, Eve lyn Newell, Jane Patten and Em ma Stratton; LuAnna Jackson, Irene Hansen, Rhea Lowry, Lou ise Olsen, Peggy Spencer, ReNae Bunnell, Virginia Broadhead and Ardith Richards; Jerry Hansen LaVena Rowley, Sharee Weeks and Sherrie Drage; EarL Carter, Keith Salisbury, Burdell Bunnell, Bun-nell, Eugene Stubbs and Grant Newell. Accompanists for the performance perform-ance are Utahna Walker, Max-ine Max-ine Varley, Loye Allred, Kay Beatty, Ruth Moss and Genlel Larson. Players Guild to Present Melodrama Mrs. Celestia J. Taylor of Pleasant View will carry the lead part In the Players Guild presentation of "Double Door," which is scheduled for production produc-tion Thursday, Friday and Sat urday, December 18-20, at College Col-lege HaU. i The play is the first presenta tion of season for the Guild, members of which comprise for mer BYU dramatic art stu dents. . Other leads include Jenna Vee Beck of American Fork, Chris Sanders and Curt Curtis of Provo, and Monta Anderson, formerly of Orem. Tickets are available at the BYU ticket office between 3 and 5 p.m. on Dec. 17-20. The play is a mystery melo drama and played several years on Broadway. Orem Jaycee Wives Preparing Baskets For Christmas Several committee meetings have been held during the week by groups of the Orem Jaycee Wives organization, who are busily preparing to aid Santa Claus and direct him to the homes of any needy or lonesome lone-some people in Orem. Those in charge of the project pro-ject have requested that anyone who can donate articles to help fill the baskets should leave their donations at the home of Mrs. Max Pederson of Mrs. Lowell Low-ell Bigelow, before December 22. All the Jaycee Wives will meet on December 22 and 23 to assemble the baskets of food and gifts that Santa is to deliver. the highest bidder at the meeting. meet-ing. A discussion on bulbs will give hints on the care of bulbs and their storage. All members of the society and others inter; ested are invited, to attend the meeting. a Soldier waiting hearse. The soldier had come home. Family and townspeople had gathered this night to extend a silent 'welcome home' to this hero who had given his all defending de-fending the freedom that he loved lov-ed so much. All over America similar homecomings are taking place. Sons and brothers and fathers coming home in order to find their last resting places on free soil. Verlyn C. Marrott is one of these. Who knows what thoughts passed through his mind when he was fighting in the hedgerows hedge-rows of France. When the shrapnel shrap-nel was flying thick and fast he must have doubted that he would ever return to home and family, but after many months he has. Yes, the soldier has come home. rT li A juuiitii approves Hears Tix Orem lo Adupt Greek City; Relief Drive Planned The "adoption" of a Greek city of the approximate size of Orem was projected this week by Orem civic leaders in an effort to relieve re-lieve the suffering of the war-stricken war-stricken people in that city. Patterned after the now-famous project in which Dunkirk N. Y. adopted Dunkerque, France, the Orem plan involves sending food, clothing, small farm implements and other badly bad-ly needed articles just as soon as they can be gathered and shipped. ship-ped. Mayor J. W. Gillman has named nam-ed Mrs. Charles Merrill, instigator instiga-tor of the plan, as chairman of an executive committee which includes Mrs. Max Pederson Mrs. James Norton and Mrs. Henry A. Campbell. A general committee will consist con-sist of four representatives from each civic and church organization organiza-tion in Orem. First of these groups to announce its represen- ;u cegu;i o:i i:evi sheet lighting FlOject ci o:.ei.i Work is under way on a nevl 29-unit street lighting system at the intersection of State street and Lincoln street which will increase the street illumination of the area 275 percent, Utah Power and Light company, of ficials announced this week. The new units, which will replace re-place the present sodium vapor lamps with the latest reflector enclosing bowl type, will be located lo-cated from the highway east on Lincoln street to the Timpanogos chapel, east on Scera street and north and south from Lincoln street on highway 91. Although Orem city has contracted con-tracted the power company to furnish electric service and maintenance main-tenance for the new line, the initial in-itial cost of installing the system will be met by Utah Power and Light company. The cost of operation of the system will be divided two ways with fifty per cent being paid by owners in the vicinity and the remainder being paid by the city. It has been pointed out that installation in-stallation of the new systen, which will include 4,000-lumen lamps for streets and 1 0,000-1 u-mens u-mens for the highway is not only a step forward in city moderni zation but may help to reduce traffic hazards in this area. Corn Hybrid Gains Favor Here Minhybrid 301. That is neither a telephone number nor an address, ad-dress, but is a variety of corn that is gaining favor in Utah because be-cause of its earlier maturity in the season and its total dry weight in silage, compared to other corn varieties. Gives $25,CC0 to I CHICAGO Sam Briskin, left, board chairman cf the Revers Camera company, here presents $26,000 check to Roy Topper. Chicago Chi-cago newspaperman, for the Damon Runyon Cancer Fund, at the premiereahowin g of the new 16mm Revere motion picture aound projector. pro-jector. Two of Briskin's employes and a brother-in-law were stricken with the dread disease in the last three years, prompting Briskin'a support to the national search for a cure for cancer. Walter Winchell ' in a nationwide radio broadcast, said Briskin'a gift is the largest ginele individual eontribution to the fund. Employes, educators and the press attending the showing were told the new Revere aound projector tills long fe t need by schools, clubs and industrial organizations for a projector within budget range. "KWkTVRl PRICE FIVE CENTS )AO - Road" Petition . tatives was the Orem which named Dick Jaycees, Barnett, Charles Swan, William Sturde- vant and Robert Young. The Jaycees announced this week that they would collect all goods donated under the planj to a central shipping point in Orem. Funds to pay freight on goods shipped as part of the plan to New York City will be received from a benefit performance to be staged at the Scera theatre, according to Victor C. Anderson, manager. All proceeds of one performance will be donated to this fund. Orem clubs were busy today selecting their representatives on the general committee which is scheduled to meet tonight to map definite plans for the drive. Orem is believed to be the first city west of the Mississippi to "adopt a European city and to send aid to that city in the form of food, clothing and tools. M-Men Compete In Basketball Games The M-Men Basketball teams from Vermont and Windsor were victorious in games played' in the Orem stake league last week, and Pleasant View and Lake View downed their oppon-j ents in the Sharon stake games. Vermont scored 39 points against agai-nst Geneva's 29. High scorers in the game were Larson, with 17 points and Bob Calder, with 13, for Vermont pnd Beckman, with 11 points, Delmar Davis and Leo Hatch, six points each, for the Geneva team. In the Wind sor - Vineyard game, Louder scored 14 points and Ernie Baker, Bak-er, 9 points for Windsor, to pile up a score of 33-25. Dale Harding scored 10 points and John Pino, 6 for the Vineyard team. In the Sharon stake games, Pleasant View defeated Edge-mont, Edge-mont, 36-33. High scorers In the game were Davis, with 9 points and Brown, with 8 points for Pleasant View; and Adams, with 14 points and Conder, with 7 points for Edgemont. Lake View was victorious over Grand View with a score of 28-15. Sheiwin Johnson scored 12 points for Lake View and Max Brown was' responsible for 7 of the Grand View scores. Next week's schedule inclu des two games in each league On Wednesday, Dec. 17, at 7 p. m. Vermont will meet Windsor; at 8 p.m., Sharon vs. Geneva; Vineyard, bye. On Saturday, at 7 p.m. Lake View vs. Timp; at 8 p.m., Grand View vs. Kdge- mont; Pleasant View, bye. In a recent circular published by the Utah State Extension Ser vice, Glen T. Baird, extension agronomist, reports that, based upon plantings of the Utah Ex periment Station and individual farmers, Minhybrid has been found to mature 10 day to two weeks earlier than U. S. 52, Runycn Ccnccr fund iii: City Council members Wednesday Wed-nesday approved a $116,983.23 budget for 1948, heard a seven-man seven-man delegation ask for the improvement im-provement of the Sixteenth South road, debated over the letter of resignation of Justice of the Peace E. H. Johnson and set Friday as the date to reconsider recon-sider earlier action to revoke the beer license of Glenn and Joe's Tavern. The meeting was set as a public pub-lic hearing on the tentative budget, bud-get, but there was none at the meeting to discuss or criticize the council's budget plans which call for a 20.97 mill levy. Judge Johnson, whose term of office as city justice of the peace expires with the present city council, presented a letter of resignation to the council, declaring de-claring Dec. 15 as the effective date. The council felt that it would be difficult to name a judge jud-ge for the short interim period and tabled Judge Johnson's resignation res-ignation demand until another suitable man could be found. City Attorney Hugh Vern Wentz pointed out that it was a lc;:d requirement to have a Jud;e on the bench all the time. A delegation led by Raymond Elliott of residents of the Tart Sixteenth South area presented to the council a petition over 13 names asking improvement ci the Sixteenth South road e'-t of U.S. 91. They declared t!:it the road was. a disgrace and almost al-most impassible. Council", said that the present road was narrow that little could be dao toward permanent improvement until the road was widened, tut that gravel would be hauled ia to make it passabledurin? tl.e winter months. Signers of the petition were N. Floyd Johnson, Wesley N. Robertson, G. Milton Jameson, Owen Pierce, W. E. Perkins, Lamar Perkins, WiKcn H. x'A Harrison Snow, Kenneth V. L';t-sen, L';t-sen, Laird Eillings, Harold 31 Hayes, Raymond Elliott, J-nes D. Harward, Stanley R. Elliott, LaVar H. Davis, Kenneth E. Hayes, Jesse De St Jeor, EUa McTague, L. G. Cunningham, Van H. Swenson, R. E. Murano, William R. Nielson, J. A. Harward, Har-ward, Paul Oliver, Mark Sheeley and Thomas R. Harward. At Wednesday's meeting the council set wages for volunteer firemen at $1 per call, plus $1 for each hour for fighting fire. The group also asked City Attorney Wentz to beg'j proceedings pro-ceedings which will ccr J:3ia approximately three-quart s cf an acre of land on Fourth Soutik street which will permit tie opening op-ening of a road between Center street and fourth South street at Fourth East street. which is no highway but a corn variety that has been popular in the beehive state. This earlier maturity date is especially important im-portant in areas where the growing grow-ing season is so short that U. S. 52 does not mature. "In addition, Minhybrid 301 has an advantage in that it does not grow so tall and hence produces pro-duces less green weight to handle, han-dle, but total dry weight produced produc-ed is equal or nearly equu . to that of U. S. 52," the agronomist stated. "Seed supplies of U. S. 5z are becoming increasingly harder to obtain, and it is likely that this hybrid will become extinct very soon. Indications are that both the supply and price cf Minhybrid Min-hybrid 301 will be favorable ta the farmer in the future since it is being produced in this aea." O. G. TIMES PRINTS LETTERS TO SANTA Through the cooperation of Santa Claus the Orem Geneva Times prints herewith a letter received this week by the jojly old gentleman from one ot his friends in Orem: To Santa, North Pole Dear Santa Claus, My name is Grant. I've been a good boy Please bring me . 1. Wheel barrow 2. Electric train 3. Elephant 4. Crayons and bocs 5. House slippers 6. Saw. Tell all your helpers hello. Grant Schultz Santa Claus has arranged for all letters sent to him in care of the Orem Geneva Times to be published in the Christmas issue of the paper. Letters nrt be be received by December 13. |