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Show Or fr-' rem-peneua mm iw:. 'totlCATlON J UeCRtRTlOU D II I'll'1 I ii ii i positive Living I stressed by McConkie In Orem tonierence "Latter Day Saints A Peculiar Pecul-iar People" was the subject of fe address given by Elder Rruce R. McConkie of the First & of Seventy in the first general session of the Orem stake conference held Sunday morning in the Scera auditorium auditor-ium which was attended by 23 of the population of the stake. Elder McConkie represented repres-ented the general authorities in all sessions of the conference. He stressed clean living in his talk, and enjoined his audience ! to jive witn an eye io me iuiure 1 existence that we may all par- taije 0f the rich blessings which come from good lives, ji "This existence is what we I might call a great examination to determine which blessings I we are entitled to in the here-I here-I after," he declared. "We know I a little about our pre-existence i a ereat deal about our present existence and something of our 1 existence hereafter, thereiore, ii wp should do our utmost to make the most of our opportunit- ieshere living as God would I have us live." The invocation for the Sunday morning session was offered by Josiah P. Rudy, Orem stake Patriarch, Pat-riarch, i Music for the session was furnished by the Lincoln high school chorus, under the direction of Elvis B. Terry. M. Dover Hunt of the stake presidency conducted the morning morn-ing session, and introduced the first speaker, President Walter R. Holdaway, who spoke on the progress made by the stake since its organization one, year ago. President Holdaway was followed follow-ed by Joseph Clegg, a recently returned missionary from the Central States mission. Mrs. Winnie Graff, president "of the stake Relief Society reported on the progress made by the ladies of Orem stake in the drive for funds to build a Relief Society building in Salt Lake City. Sharee Weeks, a member of , J the Lincoln chorus, was called I upon to address the conference, I and she responded by stressing I the importance of youth adher- I ing to the .moral standards set 1 up by the church. The newly sustained bishop of Vermont ward, J. Reed Bur-I Bur-I gener, depicted three incidents in his life which strengthened his testimony. Elder McConkie gave an inspiring talk. Ray Gam mon offered the benediction. The first session of the confer ence, held Saturday night was a Priesthood leadership meeting. Elder McConkie took up most of the time in the meeting with an inspiring discussion, "Leader ship in Israel." The meeting was well attended. The second general session of the conference was held at 2 p m. on Sunday in Scera. Business of the meeting included the sus-taining sus-taining of the General Authorit ies and stake officers. Releases announced included: E. Harold Holdaway, Cleve D. McDonald and J. Reed Burgener as presidents presid-ents of the 295th quorum of Seventy; Guy Cordner as secretary sec-retary of the 2nd Quorum of El- tders; Wesley Baker as secretary t oi the 5th auorum of Eluers: John R. Naylor as a member of the stake board of education; j Vivian Pyne and Alice P. Jen- i sen as members of th stake Pri mary board. 1 btake officers sustained to nil vacated positions incliided the following: Howard Ander json and Alvin Peterson as pres idents of the 295th quorum of j Seventy; Clyde Robbins, secret- y, io. quorum of Elders; Len- .nis Gordon, secretary, 5th quorum quor-um of Elders; Merlin D. Christ-ensen, Christ-ensen, member of stake board ;m education; Fern Rowley and Velma Maag, stake Primary uoara. f speakers in Sunday afternoon's after-noon's session included David L. Rowley, George W. Sidwell, ; Adele Fielding, Glen Rowley, ?nay Louder, Verona Kirk and Ider McConkie spoke on"The ;.Means By Which Salvation Is .Possible." I The Sunday evening meeting a,s under the direction of the I1'4; with Clyde Holdaway, MMIA president, in charge. , lhe Program included songs and stories of the nations of the world, and was arranged by ,A;ta Rowley and Nina Stratton. I Mr. and Mrs. Lynn Smith pan to leave after school is out jor a trip through Texas, before be-fore going to California to make ir home. Mr. and Mrs. Bige-i1 Bige-i1 have purchased their home End the Orem Bakery, formerly former-ly operated by the Smiths. THURSDAY, APRIL 29, OREM CITY LIBRARY NEEDS REFERENCE, CHILDREN'S BOOKS, SAYS LIBRARIAN mi r-n;uii ! t r ' J ' 'II I Helen Mitchell 20th North to 20th South By 0. G. Semit It is clean-up and fire preven tion week in Orem, and it is surprising what has been accom plished in the way of cleaning up the city already. There is still time left for cleanup drives by those who have not yet got their sun tan. MEDALLION OF THE WEEK I goes io Fred S. Davies, genial president of the chamber of com merce, who is buying a new flag to replace the worn one now flying from the flagpole at the city hall. It is one thing io rec ognize a need, but quite another thing to provide for it. Fred has done just that, and deserves congratulations. AROUND AND ABOUT With high school graduation just three short weeks away- Lincoln seniors are busy making mak-ing plans for the summer. Some of the girls have their futures already taken care of and are sporting .the..r.ings . to. .prove it. But some of the boys are a bit worried that their immediate immed-iate futures will be taken care of by a less glamorous custodian custod-ian Uncle Sam. Orville Harris reports that he finally has made arrangements to purchase the property on the corner just south of the city hall. He plans to build a drug store and office space as soon as he can get occupancy of the house on the property. It won't be long before Orem residents will be 'taken to the cleaners', in royal fashion. A new cleaning shop opened here this week. Modern Cleaners. Marine Cleaners has been established estab-lished here now for about two years, and a new, as yet un named cleaning plant is under construction. Our good neighbor on the corner, cor-ner, 60 years old, was asked if he didn't think eight to 14 rough and tumble boys (his, ours, and other neighbors' boys) playing baseball on his lawn eight hours regularly every day alL summer wasn't entirely too hard on his grass lawn. He scratched his head, looked over his specs, and said: "Well, that many boys are liable to wear the grass tolerably thin in a place or two, but here's how I figure it: that dirt will grow plenty good grass after we play plumb out of boys." The British are building their homes out of new material called call-ed "plimber", the name of which is derived by eliding the words "plastic timber," which is what it is. Meanwhile, most homes in this country are being built nowadays of a new material called grumber. Grumber, an elision of the words "green lumber," achieves some novel effects in doors and windows that won't open if they are closed and won't close if they are open. Another remarkable re-markable inovation is the dwu-print, dwu-print, or housing blueprint for dwarfs, for whom most of the present-day residences seem to be going up. The shining new achievement, however, is the financing plan known as mortruptcy, which combines the principal feature.; of the mortage with the principal princi-pal features of bankruptcy. American inventive gen'us marches mar-ches cn! VOX POP The following letter was received re-ceived this week and should be of interest to everyone: Dear Mr. Semit: Since you have invited inquiries inqui-ries and suggestions in your column col-umn I would like to have you 1948 By Clyde E. Weeks. Jr. Almost every city and town of any size has a library, and Orem city is no exception. Although Al-though it has been financed and maintained by the city only since the first of the year, the Orem city public library has been in operation since early in 1947, thanks to the generous contributions of private individuals individ-uals and clubs. Located in the basement of the city hall, the Orem library is open every week day from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. and on Saturdays from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. Miss Helen Mitchell, a charming charm-ing and personable girl, is the Orem librarian. She has been on the job since last summer and since that time has served lib-racy lib-racy patrons well in suggesting books to read and assisting in the search for reference material. mater-ial. Miss Mitchell is well qualified qual-ified in library work and is thoroughly thor-oughly familiar with the Dewev- Decimal System whereby books are classified according to subject sub-ject and content. Although the Orem library is stocked with some books to antiquated an-tiquated to be of utility there are a great many books, both fiction and non-fiction, which are up-to-date and valuable for present-day reading. In recent months books from lists of best sellers have been donated bv friends of the library. According to Miss Mitchell the most urgent need of the lib rary at present is the addition of some new books for children and some late encyclopedias and reference books for high school and college students. The lib rary's limited number of child ren's books are very old and have been read and re-read Dy most of the children who get books from the library," Miss Mitchell says. The library's new est encyclopedia is. an 1896 edit ion of the Encyclopedia Brittan-ica. Brittan-ica. At the present time approximately approx-imately ten books are checked out of the library every day by the more than 200 owners of library cards. This amounts to over 300 books checked out every ev-ery month. Regular fines are charged for late and over-due books and no difficulty is ever encountered in collecting the charges. When Orem city took over operation of the library on Jan. 1, 1948 all the members of the library board were released with a vote of thanks. It is expected ex-pected that a new board will be l appointed in the near future to assist in the operation of the library and securing new books. Orem residents are encouraged encourag-ed to take advantage of the Orem City Public library, whether it be to check out a book, look up a magazine article art-icle or to spend a quiet hour of mediation or study. Librarian Helen Mitchell is anxious to assist as-sist you in any way. Lincoln Junior High Elects Officers Ronald Hatch, son of Mr. and Mrs. Albert Hatch, was elected president of the Junior high school student body in final ele ctions held at Lincoln Wednes day morning. Helen Hansen, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. George H. Hansen, was elected vice-president; and Shirley Miller, daughter of Louis J. Miller, was named secretary. sec-retary. The newly elected president served as vice president of the junior high student body last year and . was president of his seventh grade class. The new officers will assume their offices at the beginning of the school year next September print the following queslion. With the hot summer weather coming on, the many miles of Orem roads which are as yet un-oiled un-oiled or unpaved are going to be terribly dusty as they are every year. Only a housewife can know just how difficult it is to keep a home clean with the constant con-stant clouds of dust settling on her house. It would seem io me io be a very worthwhile expenditure expen-diture of money for the city to buy a road sprinkler io keep lhe roads damp. Why isn't this done? Yours truly, Mrs. Elenora Smith VOLUME 16, NUMBER 37 COUNCIL DISCUSSES POSSIBILITY OF COUNTY HOSPITAL CONSTRUCTION IN OREM Prospects for building a county hospital ia Orem, changes in certain water rates, participation in a pollution survey of Utah Lake, licensing of heating installation operators in Orem and licensing of real estate operators making sales in rrom worp siihiwts discussed at a meetinsr of the Orem City Council held in the city Choral Festival Set For Junior Highs Choruses and bands from 15 junior high schools of Alpine, Provo, Nebo and Juab school districts will participate in the Region 3 Junior High Band and Chorus festival which is set for Tuesday, May 4, at Scera. The festival will begin at 10 a.m. Fifteen choruses will perform during the morning section from 10 to 12. Fourteen bands are scheduled to march and play during the afternoon. The Lincoln Lin-coln junior high band will perform per-form at 2 p.m. Dale Johnson is director. The festival is not competitive. competi-tive. Judges will give constructive construc-tive criticism to the bands but the schools will not be rated. ' Mr. Johnson is director of the event, and the public is invited. Park's Market Hit By Fire Wednesday Fire losses totaling nearly $4,000 plagued Orem residents this week, Fire Chief Scott Thompson announced today. The most serious damage waf done to Richard Park's" Super Market at 8th North and State street at 4:30 a.m. Wednesday. The fire, which had apparently started from a bonfire in the rear of the building destroyed two refrigeration units valued at $90 each, and approximately 500 cases of merchandise. Although Al-though the interior of the building build-ing was damaged somewhat by smoke, the property loss was restricted re-stricted in the main to the rear of the building. Chief Thompson estimated the damage at $3,500. The building was covered by $20,000 insur ance. Damage from the fire was also al-so done to Jim Sumner's house and garage in the amount of $300. Paint on the buildings was scorched and siding charred. char-red. A grass fire in Beverly Place was put out by the fire depart ment at 8 p.m. Tuesday night. The fire department was also called to put out a blaze at Dean Gillman's place at 11:20 a.m. Tuesday morning. Approx imately $200 damage was done to sheds and a straw stack According to Chief Thompson the Provo fire department was called to the Park fire and the Pleasant Grove department to the Gillman fire. Both depart ments arrived too late to be of any aid at either fire. The chief stressed the fact that only the Orem fire department should be called to fires in Orem, unless un-less the fire is of such proportions propor-tions as to require the assistance of additional fire departments, in which event the Fire Chief will summon aid. Val Jean Howells has returned return-ed to his home in Los Angeles after visiting in Utah for a week. He visited with his wife, who underwent an operation in an Ogden hospital and was the house guest of his sister, Mrs. Frank Carrell in Orem. New Dumper Cuts Bruising 25 WMfft-f -, iff 75V V AM -j i ; (f M'-vi U -Li ft fi ff p- U ri rWICHof 'WASH- Bruising of apples during packing is being AnnT. r " 25 y- 8 1eW niachine, beinK introdueW at the Cowiche of lolrfpH fiMlPaCklng0USe h(;,', for,auto"iatically dumping stacks f u-'d boxes and lnc'easnf Pack out 300 to 500 boxes per day Food Machinery corporation built the new stack dumper hall Saturday night Councilmen Woodruff Jensen and Philo T. Edwards proposed that persons residing outside the Orem city limits being serviced with city water be charged double the existing rates, and in the event a water shortage should develop these persons should be the first to be cut off from water. A motion was made to this effect and it was passed by the council. Mayor Gillman reported that it was possible that Federal funds might be obtained for the construction in Orem of a coun ty non-profit operating hospital. It was recommended that the council should investigate the matter further, inasmuch as a hospital in Orem is a decided necessity. Members of the coun cil felt' that Orem civic clubs should be asked to assist the council in the investigation. It was suggested by the council that six to eight people from the Lions, Chamber of Commerce and Ladies clubs be appointed for this purpose. The council received applications appli-cations from the Mountain Fuel Supply company asking permission permis-sion to make additional extensions exten-sions to gas lines in Orem. Permission Per-mission was granted by the council. cou-ncil. A letter was read by Mayor Gillman regarding the proposed survey of Utah lake pollution. He revealed that Utah county is allocating $5,000 toward the survey, which is 50 percent of the anticipated cost of the sur vey. It is anticipated that the cities of the county will pay the remaining 50 percent of the cost pro-rated on their population. The council went on record as favoring Orem's participation in the program as such a survey will, no doubt, aid in the solution solu-tion of the city's future sewage disposal problems. Orland . Pyne, city clerk, was instructed to notify the Utah county planning plan-ning commission of Orem's willingness will-ingness to cooperate in the program. pro-gram. A.M. Stevens of the Wasatch' Furnace and Appliance company and Mr. King of the tylt. Fuel Supply company appeared before be-fore the council, and requested the council to enact an ordinance ordin-ance to protect them on the installation in-stallation of heating appliances in the city, including the licensing licens-ing of heating installation operators. oper-ators. The council told them the matter would be investigated in the near future. Bill Baker, Orem realtor, appeared ap-peared and asked that all persons per-sons making real estate sales in Orem be licensed by Orem City. The council took the matter under un-der advisement. A baby girl was born on Wednesday Wed-nesday morning to Clyde and Delphia Frandsen Holdaway at the Utah Valley hospital. The new baby has three older brothers. broth-ers. is ' U P & L to Spend 23,000,000 In Orem Area By End of '51 V 4 ' j . Frank B. Newman NEWMAN ELECTED IITAU PnilNTY I u inn uuvm 1 1 DEMOCRAT CHIEF Front n Nowrnnn. Lincoln . ..- dl. , . . . 1 ...1 it ii.nl Dflanfa ' Jllgll allium luuvaa. gbivuvv teacher and veteran political1 worker, was elected Utah coun-' ty chairman of the Democratic party at its organizing convent-1 ion held in the Provo high sch ool Saturday evening. Newman defeated Ray E. Shelley of American Fork by a vote of 142 to 88. Following the vote Mr. Newman was elected by acclamation. A teacher at Lincoln high for 22 years, Mr. Newman has been active in organizing and directing forensic activities in in state high school competition. A resident of Pleasant Grove, the new county chairman is a former mayor of that city. He has also been a member of the Pleasant, Grove city council. For 12 years Mr. Newman was Democratic Dem-ocratic chairman of the Pleasant Grove precinct. He has been a member of the county central committee, and was a delegate to the national Democratic convention con-vention in 1932. Wasatch Furnace and Appliance Opens In Orem Saturday Orem will see the opening on Saturday of the Wasatch Furnace Fur-nace and Appliance Company's 4th store, officials of the company com-pany announced today. The new store will be located at 8th North Nor-th and State Street in Orem and will be managed by Dale Hamilton Ham-ilton of Provo. The opening of the new gas furnace and appliance store comes simultaneously with the extension of natural gas lines in Orem to private residences by the Mountain Fuel Supply Co. The Wasatch Furnace and Appliance Ap-pliance Company's Orem store will handle nationally advertised advertis-ed gas equipment including Lennox furnaces, Magic Chef and Roper ranges, . Servel gas refrigerators, Roberts-Gordon gas burners and Evan Flow gas floor furnaces. At the present time approximately approx-imately 75 homes in Orem have been connected to the gas lines and about half of the mains have been laid. The gas will not be turned into the lines until all services have been completed and meters installed. Improvements Seen For Three Miles Of Orem Streets At least 3Vi miles of Orem city streets will be improvd in the near future, it was revealed Saturday night by Mayor J. W. Gillman. The street improvements improve-ments will be made possible by Class B and C road funds which Orem Cty will receive this year. The proposed street improvements, improve-ments, as outlined by L. V. Beckman, city engineer, include the following: Eighth East, from 12th to 16th north, 3000 feet; Fourth East, from Center to Fourth South, 1200 feet; Eighth North, west from State street one mile; Second East, between Eighth and 12th north, 2600 feet; Eighth East, from Eighth to 12th south, 675 feet; 10th South, a half mile between State and Main streets. PRICE FIVE CENTS Expenditure of $23,000,000 in the vicinity of Orem ia anticipated during the next three years by the Utah Power and Light Company, it was revealed Tuesday by George M. Gadsby, president and general manager of the company. Mr. Gadsby, speaking before the Orem chamber of com-merce, com-merce, declared that the Orem area, upon completion of new generating units, would be the largest single power generating gener-ating center in the entire region. Approximately one-third of the company's entire output will originate here, he said. Noted Columnist to Speak Here Sunday Vivian Meik, noted columnist column-ist and radio commentator, will be the speaker at the meeting in the Scera auditorium at 7:30 Sunday evening. The meeting is one of a series being sponsored sponsor-ed by the presidencies of Orem and Sharon stakes. Mr. Meik will speak on his travels throughout the world and will tell of his conversion to the LDS church. County Valuation Expected to Top 75 Million for M8 assessed valuation of all taxable property for 1948 in Utah county coun-ty should surpass last year's total which was slightly less than $75,000,000 by "between $2,000,000 and $3,000,000," J. Austin Cope, Jr., Spanish Fork, Utah county assessor, said Satur day. Increases are due to the con- struction of new buildings.new '""Vf v Z T busing inrmmi in-nt.i'ei made by Warren Salmon, , ... and automobiles throughout the country, he said. New construction construc-tion will account for much of the increase, h pointed out. Valuation of three of the largest larg-est industrial plants in the country, Geneva Steel Co., Columbia Co-lumbia Steel Co., Iornton and the Pacific States Cast Iron Pipe Co:, also at Ironton, will be approximately the same as last year, he said. Geneva Steel Co. had an as sessed valuation of $20,347,746 last year compared with $20,- 241,754 for 1948, he said. The comparatively small difference in the two assessments is explained by the fact that the inventory in 1948 was tigured at 40 per cent of the cost, while in 1937 it was based on 50 per cent of the cost Change in figuring inventories was put into effect by the 1947 legislature. Geneva Steel Co. paid $645,-430.50 $645,-430.50 in school, county and state taxes last year. Columbia Steel Co. at Iron- ton has an assessed valuation of $18,885,928 in 1948 compdred with $1,870,335 last year. The company paid $58,765.93 in tax es based on a 31.42 mill levy. Pacific States Cast Iron Pipe Co. is assessed at $653,926 in 1947. Vivian Park Set for May 1 Opening A completely remodeled Viv ian Park will greet Orem and Utah county residents when they flock to the canyon recreation recre-ation spot after its opening Saturday Sat-urday under new management. The summer resort, which has attracted people from miles a-round a-round for years was purchased this winter by Mr. and Mrs.' J. J. Morrow of Orem. Following months of work remodeling the place, the Morrows now feel that everything is ready to be inspected. in-spected. Vivian Park, located in Provo canyon, will offc free picnic grounds', a cafe, store, cabins, dancing, trailer space and completely com-pletely modern apartments by day or week. The Morrows invite their friends and former patrons of Vivian Park to inspect the new facilities and take advantage of the free picnic grounds. Meekness excludes revenge, irritability, morbid sensitive - ness, but not self-defense, or a quiet and steady maintenance of right Theophylact INOUSTKV J Taking , for his subject "A New Look for Orem," Mr. Gadsby Gads-by declared that Orem can become be-come one of Utah's principal cities. He pointed out that east for h!is ern capital is interested in the area and has great faith in the future of Utah Valley. He said that the city must build to a plan and set up a construction budget which will put first things first. He stressed the im portance of water in building a community and emphasized the need also for Central Utah to ob tain water from the Green River under the Central Utah Project program. He said that an augmented aug-mented water supply was Utah' greatest need. Orem, Mr. Gadsby pointed out is ideally situated to profit from the steel industry, meanwhile enjoying all the advantage of a clean, desirable home community. commun-ity. He contrasted Orem with steel cities of the cast, many of which are strictly undesirable as places in which to live and rear families. Steel is a basic in-dustry, in-dustry, he pointed out, and the world's appetite for steel probably prob-ably will not be satiated for a decade or more. In charge of the dinner meet- l .1 n-l.t t i r V "Iv." -tl rJ" f1 . hl-,r.r 4U K.iniM mittee; and Bill Baker, chairman chair-man of the real estate commit-tee. commit-tee. Mr. Salmon reported that the petition asking for house to house mail delivery In the business section of Orem received receiv-ed 100 per cent support and that it was being dispatched to the postmaster general. He reported report-ed that the new fire ordinance made it difficult for business houses to dispose of trash which in the past has been burned regularly. reg-ularly. Mr. Baker declared that existing ex-isting city ordinances made it extremely difficult for sub-div-iders to profitably develop building sites for new homes in Orem. He suggested that a program pro-gram to modify certain ordinances ordin-ances be presented to the city council. APRIL BUILDING PERMITS SET NEW RECORD IN OREM Orem building permits hit a new high during April with construction con-struction authorized in the amount am-ount of $167,000 to date, Ed Wickman, Orem building insp-ector insp-ector revealed today. This ex-ceeds ex-ceeds by $35,800 the amount authorized during March, and brings permits issued to date in 1948 to $342,600. Comparative figures from last year show that building permits totaling $114,-000 $114,-000 were issued in April of '47, and permits totaling $148,009 were issued in .March, 1947. Commercial construction au. thorized in April totaled $89,800 including permits issued to the following: Implement Service Co., $20,000; Mount A Lake, $900; W. H. Kofford, $4500; Grant Ekins, $12,000; Timp Market, Mar-ket, $900; W. H. Kofford, $500; Utah Valley Builders Supply, $10,000; Tom Kitchen, $9000; and James Little, $2000, Permits issued for residential residen-tial construction totaling over $90,000 include the following. William Chadwick, $5000; Roy C. Holt, $2000; Wayne Barthol-emew, Barthol-emew, $6500; James G. Stratton, $4000; Lorna M. Watkins, $7000; Lena Adams, $1500; Vere West-wood, West-wood, $7000; Virginia Peart, $2500; Elvin L. Hancock, $500; Sterling F. Patten, $7000; Mrs. Oliver Phoenix, $6000; N. C. Fillmore, $5000; Lincoln Hanks, $4500; C. L. Spaugy, $6000; Walter D. Snow, $3000; Robert C. Hall, $6000; L. E. Mills, $4,-000; $4,-000; Martha Coombes, $600; and Perry Liston, $8500. Mr- Wickman predicts that ' one and one-half to two million dollars worth of construction will be authorized in Orem dur. ing 1948. .1 : f |