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Show 1 r wwm C0OCTIOI HtCRtftllOH MtlCULTUAf IMDUlTir THURSDAY, APRIL 7, 1949 VOLUME 17, NUMBER13 PRICE FIVE CENTS '; ; -saw,:- j ' f,v !""' -. if " -J Bird's eye Tiew; of construction work going forward on the Utah Power and Light company's $7 million steam.eledric plant east of Orem at the mouth of Provo canyon. Inset is the framwork of a giant warehouse beingl constructed at the site. The local unit is a part of the $60 million con. ttruciion program being carried on by Utah Power in the state. Joe Hughes of Orem is superintendent superin-tendent of construction at the job here. The plant is scheduled for completion early next year. It will produce approximately Mid April To See Completion of New Lighting District Completion "by the middle of April" of Orem's three-block long lighting district located on State Street between 9th North and 6th North was announced this week by officials of the Utah Power and Light company which is installing the lights. The new lighting system matches the one installed last year in the area of 8th South wUch xomEriged.,29 units. ,..,, The system being completed now will consist of 25 light units of the latest reflector enclosed bowl type, equally distributed along each side of State Street-The Street-The first portion of the system on the east was completed ast December, but delay was en countered on the west side in securing permission to remove : utility poles from the curb to the rear of the business buildings, j The cost of lighting the iew j white way will be borne by J property . owners on a front : footage basis under a special im-i im-i provement district created by the ! city at the request of the citizens living in the area- j Garage Razed I By Fire Here 1 A three-car garage located at 1 9th South and 9th West, owned by Ben A. Black was razed by j fire last Friday, according to j Fire Chief Scott Thompson. I The fire was started when a j small child playing near an open ; fire ignited a stick and placed it I in a kerosene barrel. J A tractor housed in the garage Was savaged with only its tires j singed, and the child escaped j uninjured. J 9 Mr. and Mrs. Ray Wigland I visited over the weekend with weir cousins, Mr. and Mrs. C. ,M. Stone. I Mr. and Mrs- Kenneth Mel-rum Mel-rum were Salt Lake City visit-Ms visit-Ms on Friday. Mrs. Medrum attended at-tended Primary conference sessions. ses-sions. Earl Walls Get Sunday Dinner ; At Geneva Dairy A delicious Sunday dinner --that's what some Mr. and i Subscriber to the Orem-Genera Orem-Genera Times gels each week ! the Geneva Dairy Com. , Pny. As a means of getting ' !v POP1 acquainted with j ? fine cuisine offered by dairy cafe every fifth uoscriber to the paper Is ..0S9a o enjoy their Sunday fcnmw at the dairy. . r"! Mr. and Mrs. f Davis were the invit- ffuMt, of the dairy. fxt Sunday Mr. and Mrs. j J; Ert Wall, Route 2. Box 5 .v. th invited guests of 5 airT- They may identify Urt TlTe cPPg this hiJT ,nd Pnting it to (i"wr waitress. 40,00 kilowatts and will consume MENDELSSOHN CHORUS RECEPTION PLANNED A reception honoring the Mendelssohn Chorus will be held at 10 p.m. Sunday night in the Joseph Smith building, it was announced today. Invited to attend the reception are Mayor May-or and Mrs. J. W. Gillman, the members of the Orem City Council and their wives, members mem-bers of the Orem Chamber of Commerce and their wives, and members of the Orem and Shar. on stake presidencies and their wives. George stratton Named Orem Chamber President J. George Stratton, veteran fruit grower and civic leader, was named president of the chamber of commerce Friday at a meeting of chamber direc tors. He will fill the unexpired term of Bill Baker, whose res ignation was accepted by the chamber membership last Fri day. Joseph T. Smith was named vice president and treasurer, and Warren G. Salmon was named second vice president. Directors include Allen Johnson, Lionel Fairbanks, Orville K. Harris, Fred Davies and Bill Baker. An additional, board member will be named to complete com-plete the organization. Mr. Baker resigned his pos ition as president last week when he felt that he was not receiving proper cooperation from chamber members and off icers. The resignation was acc epted Friday after study and discusion by the chamber membership mem-bership at the city hall last Friday. Fri-day. Mr. Baker was voted an expression of thanks for his work as president. Shelved by the membership at Friday's meeting was one of the projects which Mr. Baker helped to initiate and develop: that of asking a referendum vote on the rezoning of State street. Another of the projects of the Baker regime the changing of Orem's name to Geneva, will be carrid on by the present group-Mr. group-Mr. Stratton announced that the next meeting of the cham ber will be held at the Silver Star on Friday, April 15. It will be a noon meeting. Mr. and Mrs. Junius Og- den have moved to Salt Lake CTitv to be near the temple so they can do genealogical work. OREM CHAMBER DIRECTORS PREPARE STATEMENT nirotnra nf the Orpm. Chamber of Commerce Wednesday confirmed action taken at a membership meeting last Friday in accepting the resignation of statement of policy of the new prepared by the group: "The chamber will continue to function as newly orgamz ed and its aims shall be to sponsor and cooperate with other organizations in all worth-while community projects that may be proposed for the good of the community. The chamber, cham-ber, furthermore, will cooperate with the mayor and city council in all civic improvements in which the mayor or city council wish help." 23 tons of coal per hour. Grant Young Named Orem Jaycee Prexy Grant Young, active Orem civic worker and volunteer fire man, was elected president of the Orem Junior Chamber of Commerce at its annual election meeting held Wednesday night at Twin Pines. Other officers elected el-ected include the following: Weston Kofford, first vice president; pres-ident; Earl Peterson, second vice president; Ted Simmons, treasurer; and Dick Park, Howard How-ard Jacobsen and Lovell Kill- pack, directors. " - . Henry Campbell, retiring Jaycee Jay-cee president, will serve as state director. The club secretary will be appointed by the board of directors dir-ectors at the suggestion of the new president. Russell Park, Glen Healy and Lloyd Pyne are holdover directors. Other business of the meeting meet-ing included the making of plans to complete the Jaycee house numbering and city directory dir-ectory project during the next week. The group also voted to sponsor a baseball team in Orem this year. Installation of new officers will take place the first week in May. A group of friends and relatives re-latives gathered at the home of Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Kocher-hans Kocher-hans on Friday evening to cele brate Mr. Kocherhans' birthday- Dinner was served to Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Park, Judy Stone, Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Louder and daughters, Mr. and Mrs. Glen Kocherhans of Pleasant Grove and family, LaVar, Chester and Marjorie Kocherhans. Kocher-hans. Little Dorena Bascon. daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Sterling Ster-ling Bascom, underwent an operation op-eration to remove a growth from her chin at the Utah Val ley hospital. She is reported to be recovering rapidly. About 35 members of the Vermont choir and their partners part-ners enioved a party following choir practice on Friday even- ine at the home of John B. Stratton. Recordings were made by Kenneth Cook of the sing ing and visiting and played back to the group. Games were played under the direction of Elaine Wilson and refreshments were served. OF FOLICY tsaicer as president, in a directors the following was Lincoln Students To Represent Region At State Speech Meet A number of Lincoln high students were chosen to represent repres-ent Region Three at the State Speech meet to be held at the University of Utah on April 15 and 16 after winning top honors on Wednesday at the Region Speech meet at the Provo high school. Students from the 11 schools in the region participated participat-ed in Wednesday's meet. Raquel Bennett and Baroara Carter won first place in the debates de-bates and will be one of three teams from the region to go to the state meet. Four Lincoln students will be among the five from the region who will con-: duct the competitive mock legislature legis-lature at the state meet. They ar Kenneh Ashton, Lee List, Don Selman and Bob Workman. Work-man. Donna Stoworthy and Kaye Beatty will two of the three orators or-ators to represent the region. GenaV Steele was chosen as aL ternate for the orations. Loreen Olsen and Beth Lunceford will participate in the extemporaneous extemporan-eous speaking. Lincoln Alumni Day Scheduled Friday Former students of the Lincoln Lin-coln high school will participate in the activities of the first Alumni Day to be held at the school since before the war on Friday afternoon. Luncheon will be served in the school lunchroom at ,12:30. At 1 p.m. a business and reorganization reor-ganization meeting will be held under the direction of Gordon Hansen, the last elected president. presid-ent. . An assembly program will be presented at 2 p.m., with Frank Jex in charge of the Alumni part of the program and Lucille Pearson and Beatrice Yeoman of the Lincoln Tigerette club in charge of numbers presented by the school. At p m. Alumni members will visit former teachers and classrooms. Cimaxing the day's activities will be the Alumni Dance to be held in the gymn at 9 p.m. The theme of the dance will be "Through the Years." A floor-show floor-show will feature Ronald Heeg singing the theme song and oth er numbers. The Stardusters will furnish music for dancing. Orem Jaycee Wives Elect New Officers Mrs. Richard Park was elect ed president of the Orem Jaycee Wives at their annual election meeting held Wednesday night- Mrs. Rulon West was elected first vice president; Mrs- Ted Voelker, second vice president; Mrs. Ted Simmons, secretary; Mrs. Don Swan, treasurer; Mrs. Neal Bunnell, reporter; and Mrs. Ted Sorensan, historian. Mrs- Charles Swan, Mrs. Max Pederson and Mrs- Russell Park were elected to the board of directors. Holdover directors are Mrs- Grant Young, Mrs-Henry Mrs-Henry Campbell, Mrs. Dick Burr and Mrs. Howard Hall. New Officers Named At Meeting of Orem Women's Club Members of the Orem Women's Wom-en's club met on Wednesday in the little theatre at the Lincoln high school. Election of officers for the coming year were held. Mrs. Haroce Snyder was named nam-ed club president; Mrs- Ray Hanks, vice president; Mrs. NeL don Marshall, secretary; Mrs. Joseph T. Smith, treasurer and Mrs. Parlell Peterson, corresponding corres-ponding secretary. Mrs. William A. Cox presided at the meting and Mrs- Harold Knudsen and Mrs. Elwood Sund-berg Sund-berg were hostesses. Mrs. Verdun Ver-dun Watts, who was in charge of the musical program, introduced intro-duced Mrs- Arnold Skinner. Mrs. Skinner played two accordian selections. Mrs. Parlell Peterson read the litany. Mrs. Wesley Rob ertson directed the presentation of a one-act play, "Advertising for a Husband." Club members in the cast were Mrs. Ronald Adams, Mrs. Wallace Kendall, Mrs. Jack Cameron, Mrs. Ray Stewart and Mrs. Boyd Asay. Mrs. Frank Madsen and Mrs. Herman Richard were guests at the club meting. Forty members mem-bers were present. Mrs. Lamar Burnett's mother, moth-er, Mrs. Orpha Vest, of Morgan, is visiting at the Burnett home. Mendelssohn Chorus Returns After ' Successful Tour Members of the Mendelssohn chorus and their wives returned early Sunday from a 3,000-mile concert tour to Dallas, Texas, where they participated in the Golden Jubilee of the Federated Music clubs. During the ten-day trip the sang in nine concerts, in Cedar City, St. George, Kan-ab, Kan-ab, Flagstaff, Arizona; Albuquerque Albu-querque and Carlsbad, New Mexico, and three concerts in Dallas. Highlight of the tour was the official concert in Dallas on Tuesday' evening, March 29- High praise was given the chor. us, its director, E. B- Terry, Mrs. Eula Norton, accompanist, and Miss Peggy Lee Whiting, charming soloist who made the tour with the chorus. Eighty-six persons made the trip, 47 chorus members and wives. They traveled by bus and gave the first concert of the tour in Cedar City. The Master Singers entertained thb group following the concert in Cedar City. In St. George, Elvis and L. L. Terry met many friends they had known when they attended Dixie College. Several carloads of their friends came from their home town, Enterprise, to hear the concert. After a concert and a brief visit in Kanab, the buses traveled trav-eled between banks of snow through the Kiabab forest, over the mountains and desert to the Colorado River. A . concert was given in Flagstaff and mem bers of the LDS church the Fed. erated church and the Women's club entertained the chorus and their wives- The first person the travelers saw in Albuquerque was Russell Russ-ell Hansen, son of Mr. and Mrs-Emil Mrs-Emil Hansen of Orem, who is serving on an LDS mission. The members of the Albuquerque branch of the LDS church spon sored the concert. The group thoroughly" enjoyed enjoy-ed a tour of the Carlsbad Caverns. Cav-erns. The chorus quartet, comprising com-prising Don Griffith, Stan Cole, Karl Tucker and Jack Kelley sang an impromptu concert to a large group at the elevator portal. The concert at Carlsbad was under the auspices of the LDS missionaries and was held in the First Presbyterian Church. In each city the chorus visited, visit-ed, the most enthusiastic members mem-bers of the audience were the Mormon missionaries who were thrilled to see people from Utah and who knew that the concerts con-certs would help open new doors to them. Every concert on the tour was given to a packed house and every courtesy and hospitality was offered to the travelers. Geneva Theatre To Open Friday Preparations are now com pleted for the spring opening of Orem's Geneva Drive-in Theatre scheduled for Friday, Veigh Cummings, manager, announced today. The huge outdoor out-door screen has been freshly painted and the sound equip, ment has been installed on the posts throughout the spectator area, he said. "While The Clouds Roi. By," a technicolor musical starring Van Johnson and June Aliyson, will be the initial 1949 showing of the theatre Friday, according accord-ing to Mr. Cummings. A score of other top motion pictures of the year are scheduled to be shown at the Geneva Theatre during the coming weeks. The theatre opens at 6:45 p.m. and the first show starts at 7:30 p m. The last show starts at 9:45 p.m. Unique feature of the theatre is the complete fountain and booths located in full view of the picture screen so that patrons pa-trons may enjoy light snacks while seeing the show. An improvement program for the theatre will get under way shortly, according to the management. man-agement. The area fronting the theatre will be landscaped and beautified. Mr. and Mrs. L. Carroll spent the past week as the guests of Mr- and Mrs. Clifton Pyne. Mr- and Mrs. Milton Tha-ckery Tha-ckery and children of Bountiful Bounti-ful were Sunday visitors at the home of Mrs. Elizabeth Haseell and Mr. and Mrs. David Eager Council Olieh's New Curb, Gutter Project X V V. Fay Lunceford Testimonial Set for Fay Lunceford A farewell testimonial for Fay Lunceford, daughter of Mrs. Vernett Lunceford, will be held at 7:30 p.m. Sunday in the Timpanogos ward chapel. Miss Lunceford will leave shortly for the Eastern States LDS mission. Participating on the program will be J. H. Lunceford, Boyd C. Davis, Mrs. LaNae Williams, Philo T Edwards, Mrs. Lunceford, Lunce-ford, the missionary, E. B. Terry, Ter-ry, L. B. Bennett, Marie Madsen and Robert Madsen. A graduate of Lincoln high school and the Sharon seminary, Miss Lunceford has been attending attend-ing the BYU. Hi-Low Store Plans Opening of Package Liquor Agency Here Completing final preparations for its opening next week s is Orem's new Hi-Low Store to be located In the building formerly for-merly occupied by Wasatch Ap-piance Ap-piance at 8th North and State. The store, hich will handle sundries sun-dries and drug items, will also contain a package liquor agency in the rear. The liquor franchise is held by Earl Oss, Provo businessman. bus-inessman. Managing the store will be Charles Brailsford, who recent ly moved with his family to Orem. Mr. Brailsford was born in Springville, but has resided n several parts of the county. He has a varied merchandising background, having spent 15 years with J. C Penney Com pany. He also has operated sev. eral businesses of his own. Always active in civic affairs wherever he has lived, Mr Brailsford has been president of three different Junior Chambers Chamb-ers of Commerce. The Brailsfords have two boys, 7 and 11, who attend Sharon Shar-on school. "We would really like to settle set-tle don in Orem for good," Mr. Brailsford remarked today. "I plan to be active in civic affairs and to try to contribute something some-thing to the community. He expressed the determination determinat-ion to operate the new liquor agency on a dignified business basis at all times and to serve his patrons well. The Brailsfords are members of the LDS church. Mr. and Mrs. Max Franson and small son, of Wells, Nevada, Nev-ada, and Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Adams and children, of Sahara Village, visited at the Leslie Adams home this past week. President and Mrs. J. R. Price, Roanok, Va-, and Bishop George F. Price, Phoenix, Arizona, Ar-izona, were conference visitors at the home of their brother, Frank Price. President Price presides over the Central Atlantic At-lantic States Mission. OREM, SHARON STAKES PLAN APRIL FROLIC All MIA members of Orem and Sharon stakes are invited to attend the "April Frolic" on Tuesday evening, April 12 in the Joseph Smith building. This is to be the last dance of the season sponsored by the MIA of the two stakes. A good orchestra will furnish music for dancing. Orem was practically assured today of curb-to-curb pav ing of State Street from 9th North to. 13th South before winter as a result of the Citv Council's unanimous action Wednesday night in authorizing the publication in today's Orem-Geneva Times of a notice of intention to install curb and gutter between the two The action came as a result council from the State Road irom euro to curD ail portions Vineyard Chapel Site Dedicated Saturday Ground breaking ceremonies for the $110,000 Vineyard ward chapel were held on Saturday. E. Carlyle Bunker dedicated the chapel site. S- II- Blake, work coordinator, coordinat-or, was in charge of the program. pro-gram. Joy O. Clegg led community commun-ity singing. Speakers were Bishop Bis-hop J. Taylor Allen, who also lifted the first shovelful of dirt; President Walter Holdaway of Orem stake; Lewis Sandstrom. chapel architict; Glen Christen- sen, contractor and Thorit C Hebertson of the ward building committee. An enthusiastic crowd partic ipated in the day's activities. The oldest and youngest ward members present were 89-year-old Thomas Wells and the six-week-old daughter of Mr .and Mrs. E. Carlyle Bunker. The MIA sold refreshments and the Relief Society ladies conducted a cake and pie sale. Hearing Fends On Fred Fielding's Postoffice Job Formal hearing was pending this week on the re-instatement of Fred Fielding, Orem disabl. ed war veteran who was discharged dis-charged last Thursday as sub clerk in the Orem postoffice Mr. Fielding, who lost a leg as a result of stepping on a land mine during overseas duty, was discharged on the grounds that he was not physically able to perform his duties. He immediately immed-iately filed an appeal with the district civil service commission in Denver, which appeal will result in the hearing. The appeal was filed through William t . X- McConnell, national service of ficer of the Disabled American Veterans. Lyle McDonald, Orem postmaster, post-master, declared that the letter of discharge was written in ac cordance with civil service procedure pro-cedure on the recommendation of postal inspectors. In Salt Lake City, Clark N. Stohl, U. S. civil service commission com-mission said he had not been informed in-formed of the case officially, but that if an appeal had been filed it would be handlea fie same as similar cases brought to the commission's attention. A complete Investigation, including includ-ing thorough medical examination examinat-ion of the complaining employee would be made and a hearing held before a final decision would be made. Mr. Fielding has been employed em-ployed at the postoffice since March, 1947. Prior to his army service he was a construction worker. In the army he was a sergeant in the 105th Combat engineers. He is married and has one child- He receives $69 per month pension for his 50 percent disability. Mr. and Mrs. Lowell Chris, tensen were in Salt Lake City on Friday on business. They also visited with Lee Chrlsten-sen Chrlsten-sen of Richfield, a cousin, who is recovering from a heart operation at the LDS hospital. NEWS OF DEATH ' RECEIVED HERE Word has been received here of the death of Edward McEwan, father of Homer McEwan and Mrs- John E. Exceil of Orem. Mr. McEwan spent most of last winter here and recently returned re-turned to Panguitch. Mr. and Mrs. Homer McEwan and fam ily and Mr, and Mrs. Exceil attended at-tended funeral services in Pan-quitch Pan-quitch on Monday. Mrs. Gwen Bench's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Sorenson, of Manti visited at the Bench home last week. Mr. Sorenson is the engineer eng-ineer at the Manti Temple. $28,000 Here portions now installed. of a letter received bv tha Commission offering to pave of Orem's State Street where curb and gutter exists, in connection con-nection with the widening to four lanes of U.S. 91 which is now underway. The letter pointed point-ed out that engineering must be done immediately if the city intended to install additional curb and gutter, and that supplementary sup-plementary contract provisions would have to be made with Strong and Company for the additional ad-ditional paving. 85 Percent in Favor The decision of the council to go ahead with the curb and gutter gut-ter project hinged on a petition presented Wednesday night in-itiatd in-itiatd by interested property ownrs requesting the council to construct the additional curb and gutter. Orville K. Harris and Fr-d S. Davies presented the petition carrying signatures of over 5 percent of the property owners involved asking for the impiove-ment. impiove-ment. Also present was Sam Cord-ner Cord-ner who presented a petition signed by five property owners own-ers asking the council to exclude their section from the curb and gutter inasmuch as the signers felt they "were not yet ready to have curb and gutter installed install-ed in front of their property t this time." The new project, to be built at an estimated cost of $28,000, will begin at Third North and continue through the center of the city to Third South on both sides of the street. The cost per front foot will be $2.40. Property Proper-ty owners will be charged on a , front footage basis. Theatre Passes Offered to Orem Residents Beginning this week and continuing con-tinuing every week, the Geneva Drive-in Theatre, in cooperation cooperat-ion with the Orem-Geneva Times, will give complimentary admissions to the theatre to 30 residents of the Orem-Geneva area. Hereafter the names of the lucky persons will appear on the back page adjacent to the weekly ad of the Geneva Theatre. The-atre. The following persons will be admitted during the next week to the Geneva Theatre free: N. A. Snow, F. S. Davies, J. P. Rudy, Clyde Olsen, Lionel Fairbanks, Fair-banks, J. Alvin Higbee, Lloyd Pyne, William I. Burr, C. G. Gaddis, Verl Kofford, C L. Laudie, Merlin C. Christensen, Ray Anderson, George Rohbock, A. L. Simpkins, R. A. Brewer, A. A. Richards, Harold Pyne, A. H. Lowe, Ivan Olsen, Weston J- Smith, L. A. Hills, Herbert Stratton, Victor Durham, Ethel Rohbock, C. M. Fielding, Raymond Ray-mond Peterson, Clayton Watts, Clarence Downs, F. M. Young, T. F. Wentz and John W. De. Lange. The persons named may clip thia article and present it at the box office along with any means of personal identification. Mrs. Myrtle Price had her brothers and sister at her home on Tuesday. They are Mr. P. W. Pierce, Salt Lake City; Mr. Hugn Pierce, Roseville, Califor. nia; Mrs. Martha Mehr, Logan and Mr. J. M- Pierce. Sorini?- viUe. Mrs. Gertrude Weaver has returned from a visit with her mother in Grand Junction, Col orado. Joleen Rich of Morgan was the week-end guest of the Frank Prices. She is engaged to Charles Price. Mrs- Edmund Spalding and children, Idele, Connie and William, have returned after ft visit with relatives in Long Beach, California. Mr. Spalding met them in California and they returned home together after a visit in San Diego. |