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Show OREM-GENEVA TIMES THURSDAY. JUNE 24, &43 SPOTLIGHTING UTAH Utah Day Ai Chicago Word has been received from the Union Pacific Railroad by Governor Herbert B. Maw and PID Commissioner Rulon S. Howells, that Utah Day at the Chicago Railroad Fair will be observed August 2. It was suggested sug-gested by railroad officials that Governor Maw be in attendance or at least designate someone to represent him there. In the meantime, the FID is making arrangements to install a Utah booth at the Fair where two young ladies from Utah's Publicity Department will oe m attendance -at air times. Facts About Utah Taxes Only one state in the entire West has fewer taxes than Utan and that is Nevada, declares State Tax Commissioner Milton T. Twitchell. A survey recently completed by Twitchell reveals that Utah levies fourteen forms of taxes; Nevada, nine; Caiifor nia, fourteen; Arizona, fifteen; Colorado and Washington, seven teen; and Idaho, twenty. The Survey also reveals that Utah does not have any tax which is not duplicated by one or more of the western states. On the other hand, there are fourteen different taxes used by other states in the West which are not in effect in Utah. Utah Scene of Fantastic Drama Although veiled by a screen of military secrecy, out near Price, Utah, the army is learning learn-ing how deep it must dig to bury military installations to make them safe from atomic bombs. Huge tunnells larger than Moffet Tunnell are being driven into sandstone, TNT by the thousands of pounds is being exploded and the whole desert test area fifty miles southeast of Price is fairly boiling with activity as drills grind and chatter chat-ter in the dry gullies and machines mach-ines designated especially for Policeman Thwarted in Attempt to Halt "Holdup" EVANS VILLE, IND. When an Evansville policeman saw a man get out of an automobile, hold his hands in the air and let another man pull something out of his pocket, he went into action. But after some hurried explanations, ex-planations, the policeman went on his way. The "holdup victim" vic-tim" said he had been eating some home-canned beets out ol a jar and got his hands all sticky. When the car stopped he got out and held his hands in the air while his companion reached around and pulled out his handkerchief. S!ar of "Oklahoma!" to Play Utah "'Show Boat" Lead Harrlman Says Cuying cf Bonds Now Is Plain CcmT.or. r"-'tin?ss Scr.se WASHINGTON, D. C Secretarj of Commerce, W. A. Harriman, today to-day asked Americans to buy Sav ings Bonds now. He declared: "To buy Savings Bonds now ii plain common sense. It is a good way to save. The bonds are a good investment and the more wa buy the more we help bring prices down." ftJMvV- ihcguse m Value or t,o 7r Swies E Savings Bond '13.13 Cm Issue Djtf to Mjtimty. z. r - - YEARS: 3 S 10 MATURITY 1 Appeal' Engel ed in . . . Aj She "Oklahoma!" Peggy Knift'l, for the part throe seasons the feminine star in "Oklahoma!" "Ok-lahoma!" has accepted th leading role in th University of Utah's summer festival pre-?n'.:i'. imi of "Show B'.at." Dr. C. Lowrll I-pcs. producer-director, announced this week. Last summer, when the University Univer-sity and the Cantennial commission commis-sion presented "Promised Valley,' another "Oklahoma!" star. Alfred Drake, played the lending ro! Miss Engel, star of stage an'1 radio, is a lyric soprano. Dr. LecF said, and has sung in "The Bartered Bart-ered Bride," "The Count of Luxembourg-." "Orpheus in the Underworld," Under-world," "Secret Marriage." "1m-presario," "1m-presario," "Maid as Mistress" and "Hose Masque." She also played the title role in the Broadway success. suc-cess. "The Brat." "Show Boat," the Jerome Kern-Oscar Kern-Oscar Hamnirrs'.esn musical, will De presented at the University of Utah stadium bowl, beginning July 14. "Show Boat" will play for 10 nights and "Midsummer Night's Dream" for four nights. Another noted singer in the "Show Boat" cast is Kenneth Spencer, Spen-cer, stage, film and radio personal ity, who will sing the play's immortal im-mortal "01' Man River." Dr. Lees said. Spencer played the same role when "Show Boat" was presented on Broadway in 194G. . THIS 'I! THAI Eihyl Nielsen Hair t ine ads, has invited each of the governors of the eleven western states to write copy for an advertisement. ad-vertisement. Utah's Governor, Herbert B. Maw, is included as one of the copy writers to be thus honored. Copy for the twelfth ad and al-i ready run in March, was writ-( ten by G. F. Ashby, president of the purpose grind deep circular tne Union Pacific. holes yards deep into the rock. Geneva Welcomes Tourists Tourists will be welcome at In the meantime, experts from Utah's huge Geneva steel plant the Colorado School of Mines every Tuesday, the Utah Depart-test Depart-test and measure the crushing , ment of Publicity has been ad-and ad-and cracking of vertical tunnels! vised Tours through the piant ui various sies uimeu m will be conducted Tuesday from wuiisirucuuu 10 a m t0 noon throughout the hard sandstone. crews of the Morrison-Knutfson Contracting Corporation have charge of the tunnel work. summer and fall. All visitors must be at least 16 years of age and wear a head covering while Town Constable Protects Duck From Curious Boys LODl, WIS.-Susle, a duck, is under police guard. Village Constable Bill Breuning recently spotted a duck egg in an ornamental concrete basket on a bridge which spans Spring creek in the center of town. As he watched, a duck flew up. Villagers became interested and named the duck "Susie." They cheered as she produced nine more eggs. Each day larger crowds gathered at the bridge. Then the residents decided to have Constable Breuning guard the nest and shoo away curious boys who might disturb dis-turb it. The constable estimated that Susie's brood will hatch in about 27 days. Engle Knerzer, a crack rifleman, rifle-man, has promised to take over when the ducklings arrive to guard them from turtles or snakes. The estimated population of Utah for-1943 is 675,000. Governors Invited lo Write Ads;ging through the plant. Special The Union Pacific, starting a long-range industrial advertising campaign to consist of magaz- tours for large groups can also; be arranged by contacting the Training division, Industrial Relations Re-lations Department. The Geneva Steel plant is considered the most modern steel plant in the world. What's More Fun Than Spending Money Saving it, of course! There's a geniune satisfaction every time another line is added to your savings passbook, for you know that you're really getting places financially. It's a satisfaction, too, to know that you are doing your part in combatting inflation and that when prices do return to normal you'll have the ready cash to buy the things you want. Join the thousands of satisfied depositors who save with this friendly bank. You'll like our service. Toscanini Ignores Doctor's Orders; Conducts Symphony NEW YORK. Arturo Toscanini. preferring to satisfy his public rather than his worried physician, conducted a NBC symphony although al-though he had been running a temperature tem-perature of more than 100 degrees. Toscanini, who is 81, had been advised by Dr. Hubert Howe tr stay at his Riverdale home and nurse his cold. Toscanini told the doctor that he did not want to disappoint the studio and radio audience. He did not disappoint the public. Crowds streaming out afterward were ecstatic ec-static in praise of his all-Debussy program. ARE VOU PSYCHIC? Hi, Folk.,-, Do you ever have hunches? 'Are you psychic? Have you pow ers beyond tne live senses , powers hat see things before; they happen. Most of us have and hate to admit it because, someone will think we are screwy. , When the phone rings do you automatically say, hello, John and he says, how did you' know it was I? You don't believe be-lieve in palmistry, or mental telepathy, tel-epathy, but vou admit grudging ly that certain people have second sec-ond sight. You believe in prophets, proph-ets, but you say we don't have prophets upon the earth any more we're too wicked, or some thing. Yet you know if you'd played your hunches many times, things would be different, perhaps better. So you've kicked kick-ed yourself for not playing hunches. hun-ches. It just goes to show that as yet we haven't divorced the hidden hid-den talent some people have for knowing things are going to happen, long before they do. Universities are spending money and time in research to find why some people possess mese hidden talents. They have proved prov-ed there is such a thing- The higher the IQ a student has, the more psychic he is supposed to be. I don't agree with all this I'm verv Dsvchic at times. I had a friend in Salt Lake City who knew when people were coming to visit her. She d say to her husband, "Fred, the Hairs are coming to dinner today. Better go to the grocery store before you go to work." Fred knew from past experience that when There are 1,500 fishing lakes in the Uintah Primitive area in the Uintah Mountains of Utah. FOR SALE Blue overstuffed chair and bed divan, and washer. First class condition. Phone 1359J 655 W. 4 North Provo, Utah 1 Closing Out Sale j I Mowers, Hay Rakes jj I PRICES I S REDUCED j W. F. WISCOMBE j PHONE 023-J1 i! PROVO. UTAH the Mrs, waxed psychic, she wuulJ be t'ead right. It nevei had failed, any time, any place. I've seen it happen in her home u -zeiib of times. One Sunday when we were there to ainner, she .said, "We won't set down to dinner for a while Chuck and his family will be here from Idaho, so I've set extra places." Fred .'aid, "Look here, honey, th is psychic business has gone far enough. We're all hungry, and you know Chuck always writes or1 phones he just doesn't does-n't breeze in unannounced." "We'll wait," she said, and went out on the front porch wait. In less than an hour, Chuck and his wife and family of five came to a halt with all the noise of the ancient model T.' "I'll be d ," said Fred as he helped his eldest son and family out of the car. "Why didn't you write and say you all were coming?" "Well dad,"said Chuck, "we wanted to see if we could fool Mother's psychic powers." I've known others just as good and I wouldn't say they were endowed with super intelligence. intell-igence. Naturally there are some who scoff. They are unbelievers. Yet they will quote: "if I'd just played my hunches...." Suppose we admit such a pow er, we say what good is a psychic psy-chic power? As well ask what good is electricity. For centuries centur-ies the only use of psychic phenomena phen-omena has been the awe of superstition. sup-erstition. But lightning was long HILL Ul Vaneese Woffinden 055 J-Rl Conrad Harward left Monday for the LDS mission home in Salt Lake City. He will go from there to the Eastern States mission. mis-sion. His brother, Dar is laboring labor-ing in the Japanese mission in Hawaii. They are the sons of Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Harw irwad. en, Jr. left Frank Woffinden, Jr. left on Wednesday for Los Angeles, California, where he will be employed by the North American Americ-an Airways. He visited Grand canyon and other scenic spots on the way. Mr. and Mrs. Jack Sumner had a cottage meeting at their Chiropractor and Naturopathic Naturopath-ic Physician. DR. E. MANSFIELD X-Ray Laboratory Fluoro-Fcope Fluoro-Fcope Colon Irrigation Hemovitometer Service. 75 East Center Street Provo, Utah Phone 1093 Res. Phone 1171 C. Sept. 30 ACCORDIAN LESSONS Private instruction on piano accordian, also dealer in Excelsior Excel-sior accordians. Studios in Springville, Phone 31; Provo, Phone 1017 W; and American rork. Phone 149 R. Student model accordians furnished free of charge. J 10-17 regarded as supernatural. I think we stand iji a comparable position of opening up another avenue of human knowledge. And until we do we will just wonder what made us dream, a dream so real that later it came to pass, or a hunch we played that turned out super-duper. super-duper. So if you have a hunch, or psychic powers, don't just disregard them but encourage them perhaps in time you'll be glad to know you inherited a new avenue of human knowledge. home on Sunday evening Virginia Oliphant was 'host, to the Beehive girls and r. Scouts at a fireside chat at y home Sunday evening. h Sam Hoover was taken to s Veterans hospital in, Salt TT City. His condition is tJz lo be improving slowly, a Elaine Johnson, daughter , Mr. and Mrs. Lynn !' suffered a compound fracture !i The Sunday School facultv meeting is being held this month at the home of Mr. and Mr-Myron Mr-Myron Thomas. Alter the studv period the officers and teacher will enjoy a social evening The meeting is scheduled for' g 30 tonight, Thursday. Those from the ward who participated in the singing and dancing at the MIA festival on Friday and Saturday were Shir ley Rowland, Rulene Doman Nita Donjan, Helen Woffinden' Sherman Harward, Arthur Wof finden, Max Hill and David Martin, Jr. There are six and one-half billion tons of salt in the waters wat-ers of Great Salt Lake. The total population of Da. gett County,. Utah is 564 (I940 census). FOR SALE Baled Hay. $25.00 baled in field. $30.00 delivered in Provo Dave Shuler, Payson, Utah Phone 117-J ALTERATIONS! I tailor men's suits over for women. Expert men and women's wo-men's alterations, make dresses, formnls, trousseaus, children's clothing. Men's shirts and slacks See or call Mrs- Cuyler, 447 N-2nd N-2nd West, Provo. Phone 2276R Tf rovo Farmers and Merchants Con!; THAT FRIEKDLY HOtfE-OOT BANK ZltaA For the Best in Fine Monuments, see II. KIRKWOOD, representative U. S. MARBLE AND GRANITE CO Of Utah Let us loan you one of our catalogues, the largest printed, to select your memorial. Western Representative H. Kirkwood Box 32. Rt. 1 Orem. Utah ATTENTION Why take a chance on Inferior Building Material? WHEN YOU BUILD USE BLOCKS And Be Sure They are A Quality Product Central Utah Block Co. 720 S. University Ave. Provo Utah Phone 1924 M EXPERT Wall Papering. Painting Wall Cleaning H. KIRKWOOD Phone 253-W. Box 32. Rt. 1 Orem. Utah Utah County Mattress Factory COMPLETE MATTRESS and BATT SERVICE Only Factory In Utah County We are not represented by an transient mattress workers, b will call for and deliver wit out extra charge. . JUST PHONE 345 Or drop us a card 661 Wasl 2nd North STOCKMEN and FARMERS If you want more money for your dead or useless horses, cows, hogs or sheep; and for hides, pelts and wool, call UTAH HIDE AND TALLOW CO. PHONE COLLECT LEHI 216 W Lehi. Utah QUICK SERVICE Geo. W. Price .s:a! Maybe we don't understand women either, but we do understand under-stand cars. In fact, we could take anything on four wheels apart and put it together blindfolded. If your limousine Js behaving queerly our first rate mechanics can give it a thorough going over and have it humming like a sewing machine in jig time. f IF YA ASK ME, MEN SHOULD BE GLAD THAT THEY 0ONT r itKinrneTikin instipki WOMEN UNflPaTANn UAMrM . ,w T , ANO THEY OONT LIKE 4EMf PROVO (LJTED s:vz:e 470 WEST FIRST KC3TH 'PHONE 666 PAYOR HITE" gap M I B. L. TIPPETS Phone 0662-Rl OSCAR H. ANDERSON Phone 087-R2 Where is the Real Estate Capitol Cap-itol of Orem? Orem Real Esiaie, of course. More and more people are making Orem Real Esiaie their headquarters for Insurance, Insur-ance, Bonding and Real Esiaie. Whether buying or selling, see Orem Real Esiaie first imnirw WHERE IS THE MAPLE -SUGAR CAPITOL OF AMERICA? ANSWER n b m u1 8th ANNUAL mi June 3d July 2, 2, 3 LEHI, UTAH NIGHT RODEOS PARADED CONCESSIONS 5 Major Events Bronc Busting - Bulldogging - Bull Riding Bareback Riding Calf Roping SPECIALTY ACTS $3500 Prize Money PLUS ENTRY FEES HUTCHISON RODEO STOCK Adults $1.50 Children .75 UTAH |