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Show HOME OF GENEVA STEEL ftcaicuLTune THURSDAY, MARCH 18, 1948 VOLUME 16, NUMBER 32 PRICE FIVE CENTS Education HtCkiATtOH all imwii nfni V , ,,1 MNOUSHY OC "M 5 MT- TIMMNOOOJ OEtR. .CREEK. ! . Orem enjoyed a field day Telegram published the sketch above along with stories of the city's phenomenal growth, and the wire services provided the nation with stories ab out "Geneva's Baby." . According to Harry Butler, secretary of the Orem chamber of commerce, the response to the publicity has been immediate and heart warming. Narly three dozen letters, one from as far as Maine, have come to his office since the stories. Orem was described as Utah's fifth city, the slate's fastest growing city and as the city which one day may become second only to Salt Lake City for size. It pointed out that from a population of 2913 in 1940. the city has grown to approximately 10,000. The assessed valuation has risen from $694,810 in 1940 to $2,771,243 in 1947. Building permits totaled $663,000 in 1946 and $791,000 in 1947. ' 20th North to 20th South By 0. G. Semit "More homes in Orem!" is the cry going up from prospective prospect-ive residents these days. Eeal estate men and chamber of commerce com-merce officials say that inquiries are coming in every day from people wanting to rent a home or apartment, or buy a reasonably reason-ably priced home in Orem. Only On-ly this week some officials of the Geneva Steel plant made inquiries in-quiries concerning the rental of homes in Orem. The unhapy situation is that rental units and low priced homes just aren't of sufficent quantity to meet demands. Let's hope that everything possible will be done to provide the housing hous-ing facilities needed by Orem's increasing population. Orem's growth will be limited only by a lack of housing. Vox Pop Last week we invited views from readers on the question, "Should Orem have a liquor store? Why?" Several replies are printed here without comment: com-ment: "Dear Mr. Semit "Last week you asked for opinions opin-ions from readers on the proposed pro-posed liquor store in Orem. As far as I am concerned if enough people in Orem sufficent to justify jus-tify the establishment of a liquor liq-uor store want to have a liquor store here, then arrangements should be made to open one. I believe in 'live and let live'. Personally, I don't indulge in liquor, but if my neighbor does that's his business. If a person EDGEMONT - PLEASANT VIEW GROUP ASKS COUNTY TO CHANGE ZONING Citizens of Edgemcnt and Pleasant View, comprising the Civic Improvement association of the area, last week voted to ask the Utah county commission to modify the present county zoning ordinance so that it will facilitate residential development. develop-ment. Approximately 150 persons per-sons attended the meeting at the Edgemont ward chapel. G. E. Noren, president of the group, was in charge. In an enthusiastic discussion the group went on record as favoring fav-oring the following: 1. Modification of the present pres-ent zoning ordinance to tignten control on fur-bearing animal farms, dairy farms, and other things which might hamper the residential growth in the area. 2. Construction of paved in publicity last week when the wants to get a quart of whiskey he will go where it is sold. If it is sold in Orem he will spend his money here instead of Provo or Pleasant Grove. If enough people want it, then I say let's have a liquor store here.' (signed) Thomas R. Jensen "Dear Mr. Semit, "You'll never build atown, much less a city until you get a liquor store, shows on Sunday and a few other things that help a city grow. Let's hava liquor store. One in each end of town, if necessary. (signed) M. F. Yates" "Dear Mr. Semit, "Inasmuch as you have solicited solic-ited comments from your readers, read-ers, I would like to submit the following comment: An outstanding out-standing citizen made the remark re-mark the other day that he moved mov-ed to Orem with the understanding understand-ing that Orem was a good home town to raise a family, but that the way the City Fathers are now moving to make Orem a wide-open city, catering to taverns, tav-erns, beer halls, immoral amusements, amuse-ments, and NOW A LIQUOR STORE,, he felt that he had been misled in coming to Orem. Citizens of Orem! Are you in favor of this present move, as is stated by some, to 'modernize' our fair and beautiful section with these unwholesome and unhomelike conditions? Rise up and express yourselves! (signed) C. Lucius Laudie" "Dear Mr. Semit, "Orem is going to the dogs fast enough without having a liquor store speed, up the process. pro-cess. . (signed) E. L. Around and About We attended the dress rehearsal rehear-sal of the Orem stake minstrel show Wednesday night. From our vantage point it seems this sidewalks, including one running from the Provo city limits along the highway to Gillespie hill. 3. Better maintenance of the highway and the by-roads which come under county jurisdiction. 4. Traffic patrol in the school area. 5. That the present ordinance requiring that not less than an acre of land in unincorporated areas can be sold for a building lot modified to read ont-ialf acre. Members of the group declared declar-ed that inasmuch as the area is a choice one for residential growth, Jhere should be additional addi-tional restrictions on so-called nuisances. Regular inspections should be made to control the cleanliness of the already-existing dairy and fur farms of the area, it was suggested. Salt Lake Tribune and Salt Lake FIRE PREVENTION WEEK PLANNED HERE A special Fire Prevention Week sponsored by the Orem Safety council will be conducted conduct-ed in Orem in the near future in an efort to combat the epidemic epid-emic of fires which has swept the city during the last 2V months, according to Dixon Larsen, chairman of the council. coun-cil. The fire prevention week will in reality be a drive to impress im-press upon the citizens the need of exercising every effort to prevent pre-vent fires. The drive will be carried car-ried on through the schools, churches, theatres, businesses, women's organizations and civic civ-ic clubs. The week will culminate culmin-ate in a public meeting at which Mayor J. W. Gallman, Fire Chief Thompson and other officials of-ficials will speak. Basketball Trophy To Be Awarded The annual Basketball Banquet Ban-quet on Friday night at Parks Cafe will honor the members of the Lincoln High teams. The highlight of the evening will be the awarding of the Park trophy for the most outstanding basketball basket-ball player of the season. Don Dixon will act as master of ceremonies and members of both the varsity and the sophomore sopho-more teams will be honored. Floyd Millet will be the speaker and a film of the BYU-Utah games will be shown. show will be quite a novelty and ought to be well attended. It is set for Friday flight at the Lincoln high school auditorium. Orem's police department received re-ceived a valuable addition this week with the arrival of a new 1948 Plymouth sedan to be used as a police car. Orem residents should receive the kind of protection pro-tection never before possible with only one police car. Preparations on the actual site of the new Orem Dairy Products Pro-ducts Co. were under way this week. Surveying and leveling of land was hampered by wet weather, but the project is developing de-veloping nicely. An estimated $100,000 will be spent in the building and equipment. A giant milk bottle will front the building build-ing and we presume a few standard stan-dard size bottles will be kept in stock. , Readers are reminded that any and all suggestions for this column or for Orem city will be aired in this space. Let this be a clearing house for readers' suggestions. National Freedom Train Sets Provo Stop Next Thursday The Freedom Train, carrying 127 of the nation's priceless historical his-torical documents including the Bill of Rights, Magna Charta, Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation, Procla-mation, Jefferson's rough uraft of the Declaration of Independence, Independ-ence, Women's Rights, Freedom of the Press, and the Star Spangled Banner, as well as the famous Iwo Jima flag, will stop in Provo on its nation-wide tour on Thursday, March 25. The seven-car Freedom Train, carrying documents showing the foundations and growth of American Am-erican liberty, is, in essence, the spearhead of the American Heritage Foundation's program which seeks to create an awareness aware-ness among U. S. citizens of their priceless heritage. The public may board the train, free of charge, between 10 a.m. and 10 p.m. between Center Street and Second South at the Second West street corner. Since many of the documents aboard the train are irreplaceable, irreplace-able, elaborate security measures have been taken to insure their safekeeping. A basic, precautionary precaution-ary feature is the all-steel welded weld-ed construction of the entire train, and the heavy steel sheath ing of the three exhibit ars specially constructed for the train tour. A fire-extinguishing system employing carbon-dioxide was custombuilt and installed in the exhibit cars. This system is entirely en-tirely automatic and is activated by,means of a temperature-pressure device. ' One chief pharmacist mate corps were picked for the special and 27 members of the Marine detail guarding the document-laden document-laden "Freedom Train on its 33,100 mile exhibition journey. Only three stops are made In Utah: Salt Lake City, Ogden and Provo. School Board to Determine Sites For New Schools Members of the Alpine district school board will meet in special spec-ial session next Wednesday to name specific locations for one and probably two new stuool buildings in the district, according accord-ing to Dave R. Mitchell, district superintendent. Members of the board of education edu-cation yesterday traveled to Salt County where they visited new schools under construction in the Granite and Jordan school district. dis-trict. Approval of the $1,450,000 bond issue by the taxpayers of the district empowers the board to expend that amount on new buildings and repairs. Costs will determine the amount of building build-ing which can be done now. Orem and American Fork have already been designated as the areas "most in need of new building facilities." The district is also badly in need of bus garages, according to Superintendent Mitchell. Oldest Members Feted At Relief Society Anniversary Party Twelve ladies of Orem stake who have long records of service ser-vice in the Relief Society were honored at the Anniversary par ty held on Wednesday at Scera. President Winnie Graff was In charge of the meeting. Mrs. Agnes Bellows read the histories of the honored ladies and presented each one with a gift. Mrs. Emma Stratton was honored at the meeting since it was at her home that the first Relief Society in Orem was organized. Others who were honored are Martha Rudy, Mary Jensen and Agne3 Pace, Vermont Ver-mont ward; Susie Madsen and Lena Gammon, Vineyard; Polly Karris and Emily Aston, Windsor. Wind-sor. Emily Murdock Biggs. Geneva; Gen-eva; Lovisa Mansum, Clarissa Carroll and Eleanor Bishop, Sharon. . CORRECTION A recent issue of the Orem-Geneva Orem-Geneva Times, in a story which described the forum meeting for the curb and gutter project, listed Bill Kofford as one of those "in no hurry" to obtain curb and gutter in the state's program to install it The statement was an injustice injus-tice to Mr. Kofford and resulted from mistaken identity. He is firmly behind any sound pro-ram pro-ram for the installation of curb and gutter along the highway, and the paper apologizes for any embarrassment the mistake has caused him. OREM CITY AWARDS CONTRACT ON SCERA PUMP HOUSE Taylor and Carter Construction Construc-tion Co. was awarded the contract con-tract to build the Scera pump house at a special meeting of the Orem City Council held last Thursday in the City Hall. Sealed Seal-ed bids were opened Thursday and Taylor and Carter submitted submit-ted a low bid of $742.40 excluding exclud-ing the excavation and backfill. Christiansen Construction Co. submitted a high bid of $792.60 excluding the excavation and backfill. Construction of the pump house must be completed on or before April 15. Mayor J. W. Gillman reported to the council that he and Councilman Coun-cilman Woodruff Jensen attended attend-ed the Alta Ditch Co. stockholders' stockhold-ers' meeting at Provo Wednesday Wednes-day at the bringing of Lost Creole spring water down through the Alta was discussed. Orland E. Pyne. city recorder, gave the financial report for January and February with public safety, roads, water and fire departments being listed. The council passed a motion to instruct the Utah Power and Light company to ipstall a street light on the corner of 9th South and Lincoln Street in Christeele Acres. The subject of water rates was discussed by the council. Mayor Gillman suggested that the water department bring recommendations recommenda-tions to the next meeting as to what the minimum charge should be and the amount of, water to be allowed for the minimum min-imum charge. Chamber Directors Set Friday Meet Directors of the Orem Chamber Cham-ber of Commerce will meet on Friday at noon to discuss prob lems which will come before the regular chamber meeting on Tuesday, March 23. Fire Chief Scott Thompson and . County Planner Dale Despain will be present to advise the directors regarding the fire and zoning problems here. Agenda for chamber of commerce com-merce members includes the following problems, according to Harry Butler, chamber secretary: sec-retary: housing and its related problems including water, sewage sew-age and fire prevention; zoning; paving of roads; an annual celebration. cele-bration. Funeral For Franklin Brickey Held Tuesday Funeral services were held on Tuesday for Franklin McKin-ley McKin-ley Brickey, 62, who died last Thursday at his home in Grand View. Bishop A. Dean Buckner conducted con-ducted the funeral in the Grand View ward chapel. Processional and recessional music was played play-ed by Martha Kelsey. Prayer was offered by John Nicol. A ladies chorus sang two numbers and Mr. and Mrs. John Khuni sang "Teach Me to Pray." C. H. Davies and M. E. Kartchner were the speakers and Bishop Buckner Buck-ner read the poem, "There are no Dead," which had been requested re-quested by the family. Mrs. Kate Carter sang "Going Home," accompanied ac-companied by Violet Brethwuite. Closing prayer was offered by Edwin Carter and the dedicatory dedica-tory prayer at the Provo city cemetery was given by Von Huf-ford. Huf-ford. Mr. Brickey was born in Pal-acade. Pal-acade. Neb. on Nov. 22, 1894, a son of William T. and Clara Moore Brickey. He came to Utah at the age of nine. He received his education in Provo schools and followed the occupation of plasterer. He was a member of the Congregational church. He was married to Arvelda Ilitthings in Springville on June 15, 1915. He leaves his widow and his father; five sons, Eldon M. b.ick-ey b.ick-ey of Gardena, California; William Wil-liam F. and Donald L. Brickey of Los Angeles; Jack C. and Le-Roy Le-Roy Brickey of Provo; three daughters, Mrs. Florence Millet and Mrs. Thelma Monk of Provo; Pro-vo; Mrs. Maurine Anderson of Orem; also the following brothers bro-thers and sisters, T E. Brickey of Los Angeles; Homer Bri"key of Oakland; Paul Brickey of Provo; Ralph Brickey, Portland; Mrs. Alice Woods, Hines, Calif.; Mrs. Lilliam Rich, Walh Walla, Wash.; Mrs. Clara Brown and Mrs. Naomi Burns, Port Angeles, Wash.; Mrs. Ruth Russell Seattle; Seat-tle; and 19 grandchildren. Geneva Steel to Build Power Plant Near Cedar City Geneva, Utah, March 18 Plans for the construction of a new power plant at an approximate approxi-mate cost of $400,000 to provide for the electric power requirements require-ments of U. S. Steel's Columbia Iron Mining Company's operat ions near Cedar City, Utah, was announced today by company officials. Geneva Steel Company's Com-pany's Geneva and Ironton Pla nts obtain iron ore from these mining operations. MOUNT A' LAKE ELECTS DIRECTORS The annual meeting of the Mount A' Lake association was held last Thursday night at the Timpanogos ward chapel. Thirty- one members of the association were present. Dr. Francis Kirkham spoke on the cooperative movement. "Don't let anything stop cooper ation," declared Dr. Kirkham. "There is no hope for us, the common people, except in the cooperative movement." Tom Weaver. Mount A' Lake president, gave a report on the operation of the association dur ing the Dast vear after which he presented the financial state ment. Mr. Weaver revealed the fact that 42 members have invested more than the original $10.00 membership fee in the association. associa-tion. He encouraged further investment in-vestment by members and projected pro-jected the possibilities of having a Co-op credit union, hospital, and hospital association. "There is no way Mount A' Lake can fail if its members support it, and there is no way it can succeed suc-ceed if its members do notsup-port notsup-port it. Co-ops to me are a way of life, not just a money-making scheme." Elections for 5 three-year directors dir-ectors were held under the direction dir-ection of Laurence Palmer. Robert Rob-ert R. Benson, Moroni Jensen, Thoir.as Cordner, C. II. Poulson, and Raymond Harding were elected el-ected to the three-year poLts, and Elliot Sagey, T. Earl Foote and Rodney C. Kimball were named alternates. Paul Harmon, a BYU student working for his master's degree, presented a very interesting resume res-ume of a thesis he is writing on cooperatives in general and Mount A' Lake in particular. In getting background material for his thesis, Mr. Harmon personally personal-ly interviewed 15 of Mount A' Lake membership. Walter Hogan, acting manager of the association, gave a report on the operation of Mount A' Lake since he has been working there. The meeting concluded with the announcement by C. Wilford Larsen, J. L. Mower, Tom Weaver, Weav-er, Chester Graff, and C. H. Poulson that they would Invest an additional $50.00 apiece In the association. Orem's honorary ciliien. Ml. Timpanogos, a it looked last while lha lc was breaking up. The photo was tak en by a Deserei 24 FIRES IN OREM SINCE JANUARY 1 KEEP VOLUNTEER FIREMEN BUSY; FIRE LOSSES APPROACH $100,000 MARK The most disastcrous streak of fires in the history of Orem has plagued the newly organized Orem Fire Department Depart-ment almost from the very day it opened for business. With the toll of fires continually mounting since the first day of the year, beginning with a fire doing $22.00 damage, ranging in Orem's history on March house doinlg $65,000 damage, a fire-bug is at large in the city. , "As far as a fire-bug is concerned, Orem residents can rest at ease," Fire Chief Scott Thompson declared today. "The cause of every fire but two has been determined," said the Chief. "Causes for the fires at the Miller Distributing Co. and Toffee Hauzen's packing house have not yet been Headed by Chief Thompson, the Orem fire department is staffed by members of the Orem Jaycees who have volunteered for rintv nt nnv linw nf fho rlnv nr nipht. About 20 Javppps are active in the department and consistently answer fire calls, ac cording to Chief Thompson. In 1947 there were only 21 fires for the entire year, and in the first two months of 1947 there was only 1 fire. If the present rate of fires in Orem continues during the remainder of 1948, the fire department will chalk up 120 fire calls, and the damage will approach the half-million dollar mark. Calls answered by the fire department since January 1 number 25, according to records of the department. These include the following: Jan. 2 Jan. 5 Jan. 9 Jan. 10 Jan. 13 Jan. 15 Jan. 29 10:50 a.m. 11:20 a.m. 7:40 a.m. 4:15 p.m. 1:55 p.m. 6:00 p.m. 12:20 p.m. 4:40 p.m. 1:15 p.m. 12:30 p.m. 4:30 p.m. 8:00 p.m. Rube Pyne L. A. Peterson Wallace King Kenner Clayton Reed Clegg Beverly Place Sam Kitchen Miller Distributing Co.; Miller Distributing Co. George Sidwell Maude Park Maude Park Milt Johnson Joe Hancock Edward Lovell Dan Newell Henry Soulier Orem Cash Store Franklin Stratton Weston Cordner Edward Lowell Bill's Service Clyde Bliss Arthur L. Sheppard Toffee Hauzen Feb. Feb. Feb. Feb. Feb. Feb. 10 Feb. 11 Feb. 13 Feb. 13 Feb. 14 Feb. 19 Feb. 20 Mar. 6 Mar. 8 Mar. 10 Mar. 12 Mar. 12 Mar. 14 10:35 3:25 3:00 3:55 2:20 a.m. p.m. p.m. p.m, p.m. 3:45 a.m. 4:30 a.m. 3:30 p.m. 7:40 p.m. 4:35 p.m. 2:00 a.m. 7:00 a.m. 4:00 a.m. Pleasant View Ward To Be Divided President rfenry D. Taylor of Sharon stake will preside at Ihc meeting to be held in Pleasant View ward on Sunday evening at 7 p.m. and will announce details de-tails of the division of the ward. New appointments to the bishopric bishop-ric will also be announced. President Taylor stated that the dividing line would probably run from north to south. The west half of the ward will remain re-main in Pleasant View ward and the east half will be organized into a new ward. A name for the new wardtjias not been chosen. It has been requested re-quested by the stake presidency that ward members bring name suggestions to the meeting. y , 4 fcV- on January 2 at Rube Pyne'3 to the most destructive fire 11 at Toffee Hauzen'a packing Orem citizens are wondering if definitely established." loss $ 22.00 no damage v 200.00 125.0& no dan ge false alarm 5.00 12,135.00 return call orchard loss 2500.00 -bon fire 250.00 no damage 353.00 grass fire grass fire 150.00 2660.00 150.00 no damage 2,000.00 50.00 resuscitator 65,000.00 Total Damage $85,600.00 Watkins to Have A. F. Office; Names Wooton Secretary Announcement was made today to-day by Sen. A. V. Watkins that he had appointed O. DeVere Wootton, a former American Fork mayor and prominent Utah lawyer, as a part-time member of his secretarial staff. Mr. Wootton has been in Washington for a month getting acquainted with the work of the Washington office and procedures pro-cedures of the various departments depart-ments of governments. He will maintain his office in American Fork and will act on a part-time basis in taking care of the Utah activities of the senator'! office. s week as a backdrop to Utah Lata News cameraman. |