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Show etieta 'mi fScltlOM J1 HCCREATlGN riiiwiim i ii I 1 .rtr i mm Item I fttaiCUlTUHi .1 INDUSTRY Examining foreign correspondence received by Mrs. Raymond Gilligan, center, are Miss Sally Ralph, left. Lincoln fcigh school English teacher, am Mrs. Ray S. Hanks, vice president of the Orem' Women's tlufc and publicity chairman fe the Crew district Mrs. Gilligan is chairman ot international consendec let the Qttm Wem's eWb and iom she Tmfanogos rifsa District of Federated vomm'i dubs. 20th North to 20th South y O. G. Sea Remember the old song "tte Best Thin in Life Are Free"? It may be true, but we think you'll agree that it costs money to keep one of the most import, ant "best" things in life, WW you have it: your good health. This week Christmas seal were mailed to residents of Orem and Utah county those little tals that help in the all important fight against tuberculosis, one of man's most dread diseases. When you buy Christmas seals you art helping to protect yourself your-self and your loved ties from tuberculosis. Vost Holiday By now most of ua are wondering won-dering how we eve? U so much at the heavy table on Thanksgiving. Thanks-giving. Many are already wondering won-dering why we ate 9 much. At any rate the majority us were fortunate enough to enjoy a good meal. While we are wearing off the affects oi overeating over-eating it might be well to spend a few minutes Counting up the things we are thankful for. Here are few of the things for which O. C. Semi is think- ful: 1. For Uinf i tne choicest city tn the worldV-Orem. 2. For having fhe opportunity to rear a family in peace and 4 relative comfort For" the privilege of Worshiping Worship-ing as I please in the church of my choice. 4. For good fteighbors tnd kind friends each a separat reason lor hting thankful and grateful. 5. tot ttia eDDortunity of do ing my kit to help a growing community develop and prosper. 8. Tor having enlightened Mhools anfl conscientious teachers teach-ers available where rny children can ieam end grow. 7. for breathing clean, free air, unclouded ty the poisons of war or conflict. 8. Fof the elizatioji that my work, whether it e on a farm, factory, shop, store, or anywhere else, is equal in productiveness and dignity to that of ainy jnan anywhre. New Businesses ings located north of the telephone tele-phone office will be empty no longer. The former Geneva Real Estate building on the extreme north is being readied to house a coffee shop, ;nd the building adjoining is being prepared to accomodate a new auction center cen-ter a branch of a Salt Lake City auction house which plans to sell everything from jewelry to furniture and appliances. The Salt Lake City auction gallery is drawing crowds from all over the state, and the owners hope the Orem gallery will be equaL VOLUME 17, NUMBER 46 - 1 iSii l"! ::::!.. Si:. fJlSl1 ' VWW , CORRESPONDENCE FOR WORLD PEACE IS OREM WOMEN'S CLUB PROGRAM - The promotion of peace nd world understanding through international in-ternational correspondence and the sending of gift packages to the needy is one of the year-round year-round projects of the Orem Wo- Bill L. Bakor Bill Baker td Seek Election Toll. S. Senate Bill Baker, Orem builder and former chamber of commerce president, this week formally announced an-nounced that he will seek the Republican nomination for U. S. senator at the next election. The announcement came following follow-ing a meeting Wednesday in Provo at which was formed a ."Baker for Senator" committee. I Jack Craghead of Provo was named secretary of the group. The group dedicated itself to "retire from public office to i private life" the present incum- !tnt. Mr. Baker, in accepting the support of the group, said that "there is no visible dividing line between Socialism and Communism" Comm-unism" and that he was "unalterably "unal-terably opposed to both." He declared that government spend ing and taxation must be drasu .ically reduced on the federal I level, and the most serious development dev-elopment of the 81st Congress jwas its lack of recognition of i those facts, himself in office. He said that the United States j could not effectively help European Europ-ean nations until such time as they eliminate trade, social and sectional barriers which now exist- He said that the veto power accorded members of the United Nations must be eliminated before be-fore that organization uwld function successfully. Baker campaigned for the GOP senatorial nomination ag- ' ainst Senator Watkins during the last election. He is a veteran of World War I and has spent 20 ! years in the field of general construction con-struction work. He was employed employ-ed as chief inspector during the construction of Geneva Steel and has since been in the construction construc-tion and real estate business In SlilIilM r men's Club, gccodin to Mrs. Raymond Gilligan, chairman of the club's international torres pondenca eommittee and chairman chair-man of the same committee for the Timpanogos First district of the Federated Women's clubs. "ThU is not just another cluV program. It ic an attempt to build good international relations, relat-ions, which is so essential if we art to mantain peace and to preserve democracy for the peojtV f the world," Sara A-Whitehurst, A-Whitehurst, chairman of the Council of International clubs, has said, occording to Mrs. Gill-1 igan. She points out that these letters are to ordinary civilians what ambassadors are to governments. gov-ernments. She has lists of correspondents corres-pondents from Holland, Philippine Philip-pine Islands, Mexico, Denmark, Australia, Argentina, England, Germany, Chile, France, Brazil, Austria, Finland, Wales and Greece. All names released by the federation for corrspondence have been checked by U. S. ambassadors. am-bassadors. She also has lists of needy in the following countries: Holland Denmark, Wales, Austria, England, Eng-land, Germany, Italy, Japan, Finland, Greece and France. . Anyone interested in writing to someone in another land may secure names from Mrs. Gilligan at No. 26 Christeele Acres, Rt. 2, Bo 519, Orem, phone 0525 J2. Mrs. Gilligan suggests the use of Air Letters which may be purchased at any postoffice for 10 cents and may be sent to any country. Each member of the Orem Women's club has been given the name of a correspondent. The project has now been enlarged to include various classes at the Lincoln high school and several grade schools. Mrs. Gilligan re-centy re-centy met with the faculty of the high school to explain the plan and it was well received by many of the teachers. Miss Sally Ralph was named as high school faculty chairman to supply interested students and teachers with names of inter national correspondents. She was also given letters, magazines, magaz-ines, which will be used to promote pro-mote interest among the stud ents and an awareness of what these people from all over the world are doing, ' their habits, and their everyday life. Frank Newman of the World Government class; Robert Dow-dle, Dow-dle, a teacher of World History, J. Erval Christensen, head of the type department, Johjji Freckle-ton, Freckle-ton, English and journalism instructor, in-structor, and Miss Ralph of the English department, were en- tVmcinotiV ahnnf thp nlnn anrl can see many benefits of the I'project in teaching real life, today's to-day's happenings. G. E. Sandgren, 6th grade teacher at pencer and Fenton Prince, principal of the grade school will also cooperate in ! getting pen pals for the nine, 10, 11 and 12 year old pupils. The Orem Women's club this week sent a gift package of THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1949 GENEVA STEEL HIKES PRODUCTION AS STRUCTURAL LULL PLANS RE-OPENING Funeral Services for James L. Marrott Held Monday Funeral services for James L. Marrott, 63, Orem dairyman and farmer, were conducted on Monday at the Windsor ward J chapel wrtth Milton Smith oi the ' Windsor ward bishopric in charge. Mr. Marrott died Thursday after a long illness. He was born in Orem Dec. 18, 1885, the son of Arthur and Selena Stradling Marrott, and has resided in Orem during his entire lifetime. Mr. Marrott was an active LDS church worker, having served ser-ved in the bishopric of Windsor ward for several years and serving ser-ving on two missions for the church in Texas. He was a high priest. He was married on Mar. 7, 1917 to Hazel Daw in the Salt Lake temple. Besides his wife Mr. Marrott leaves two children, Vera L. Marrott, Orem and Mrs. Eva Millett, Lindon; three grandchildren grand-children and the following sisters sis-ters and brothers: William A. Marrott, Provo; Mrs. Harriet Backus and Ascil J. Marrott, Orem; Mrs. Clara Hooley, Lindon; Lin-don; Mrs. Mary Haws, Vernal; Mrs. Elsie Simmons, La Point; Mrs. Velma Hanson, Seattle; and Mrs. Verveen Judd of Bur-ley, Bur-ley, Idaho. (Speakers at the funeral were A. H. Lowe and Stanley B. Harris, Har-ris, both of whom were essociat-ed essociat-ed with Mr. Marrott in ward activities. Mrs. Doris Johnson of Lindon sang a solo, Wilma and Nadine Hales sang two numbers and a quartet composed of Dexter Dex-ter Wilberg, Herbert Stratton, Clifton Pyne and Rex Kofford, sang. The grave at the Orem cem etery was dedicated by Elwood Baxter. Heavy Christmas Buying Seen Here As Economy Improves With the economy of the Orem-Geneva area slowly returning to normal following the end of the strike at the Geneva Gen-eva Steel plant, local citizens and merchants were looking look-ing forward to an enjoyable and profitable Christmas season-Although season-Although most Geneva employees em-ployees have been called back to their jobs by now, and have received re-ceived at least one paycheck, local merchants report that spending 'is still careful. Back payments of rent, taxes, installment install-ment accounts and mortgages have taken a considerable chunck out of the anticipated luxury business'. With bank loans at a high level lev-el and installment buying made easy by most stores, business is expected to gain momentum from now until Christmas. Stores in the Qrem-Geneva area are well stocked with gifts, toys and decorations which are in many cases lower in price and higher in quality than any Christmas season since the war. Fruit Men Must Spray Late to Sfte Be Allies Utah county fruit growers were warned this week that they must keep poison sprays off trees while they are in the blossom bloss-om stage or run the risk of destroying des-troying .their allies in the fruit growing business- t h e honey bee. County commissioner Burton Burt-on T. Adams declared, after reading the report of the county bee inspectors, that extermination extermina-tion of bees and other pollen-bearing pollen-bearing insects is imminent unless un-less spraying is postponed until after the blossoming season. Mr. Adams pointed out that beekeepers and fruitgrowers must cooperate in order to facilitate facil-itate the successful continuation in the county of both industries. There is a possibility, accord- ig to the bee inspector's report, that county assistance will be sought by beekeepers for feeding feed-ing to the bee inspector's report, spring months. children's school supplies, color. ed Dicture books. Dencils of all . types, notebooks, paper and nuzzle to Korea. There is a ereat need in southern Korea for school supplies. Included in the shipment were new and used candles as there is little electric- ity in Korea. I The structural mill at the Geneva Gen-eva Steel plant,, closed down for the past severa months due to insufficient orders, will be the scene of activity soon. Dr. Walther Mathesius, president pres-ident of Geneva, announced this week that operations in the struc tural mill would be resumed on a limited basis one turn per day, five days per week on Dec. 5. Approximately 85 men are needed to itan the structural mill. Most will be transferred from other departments" where they were assigned when the structural mill was shut down last June. One of four divisions of the rolling mill department of the steel plant, the structural mill rolls I-beams, angle and channel iron required in the construction of buildings, ships and other structures. Stake Seventies Set Minstrel Show Next Thursday Here Thursday, Dec. 1 has been set as ttie date for the hilarious minstrel min-strel and variety show being sponsored by the Orem stake 295th Quorum of Seventy as a missionary benefit. The show is set for 8 p.m. Marcel Young is chairman of arrangements; Glen Rowley is first president of the quorum. The mistrel show is being produced by the Pleasant Grove and American Fork quorums. Curtis . Gordon Funeral Services Conducted Monday Funeral services were con ducted Monday at the Sharon ward chapel for Curtis Gordon, Gor-don, 55, Orem farmer and well-known well-known fruit grower who died Friday after a long illness. Active in LDS church activities activ-ities here Mr. Gordon served from 1945 to 1948 as a member of the Vermont ward bishopric, and has served as Sunday School superintendent. He was a high priest. Mr. Gordon was born Dec. 29, 189, in Orem, a son of John H. and Mary Boultin Gordon. He married Minnie Crandall in the Salt Lake Temple on Jan. 24, 1917. Mr. Gordon leaves his wife, seven daughters: Mrs. Lynn (Al-ta) (Al-ta) Jolley, Mapleton; Mrs. r'ord (Susie) Jepperson, Mrs. Russell (Maxine) Kitchen Mrs. Leo (Genevieve) Ford, Mrs. Olehard (Elizabeth) Hawkins, Mrs. Rob ert (Cumorah) Holdaway and Dixie Gordon, all of Orem: onei. nnj t a. t eV 2 CZtL?'G"!ln! emmett, Idaho, and Robert uordon, Lake Shore; three sis. ters, Mrs. Minnie Nowell, Los Angeles; Mrs. Rod Williams, Portola, Cal.; Mrs. Hannah Baum of Provo; and 20 grandchildren. .Speakers at the funeral Monday Mon-day were President Walter R. tjny. - . . . - i m T . siaKe Koy "uw Ui iormer urem 5 at 11 am resident, J. Allen Bellows, Arch J Team captains for Seventh Puham and B.shop Reed Burg-1 and Eighth grade groups on nCe t, . Saturday afternoons are Team 1, , SPfdal ITUS1C was Presented 'Clifford Ferguson; Team 2, Bill 7 7Vr Terry' sololst; bonP ' Faulkner; Team 1, Everett Maet Christensen, musical read-1 Watts; Team 4, Mont Ford; ing; Rueben Pyne, soloist, and, Team 5, Jack Cox; and Team 6, a quartet comprising Clifton T. , Norman Rowlev. Pyne, DeLos Pyne, Ethel Pvne and Melba Calder. Burial was at the Orem cemetery. cem-etery. Willard Gerber and Ilia Mae cook are spending the Thanksgiving vacation in Shelley, Shell-ey, Idaho with friends and relat-ives.- Marion D. Bliss, son of Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Bliss, will leave Saturday to continue his studies at the school of Airplane Air-plane Engineering at Wichita Faals, Kansas, after visiting here with his parents and other relatives relat-ives and friends. He has finished finish-ed his basic training at Lock-land Lock-land air base in Texas. Others enjoying the Thanksgiving holidays hol-idays at the Bliss home are Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Bliss and baby of Salt Lake City and Mr. and Mrs- Max Edwards and daughter .of Price. Mrs. Allan D. Johnson re- turned recently from a two. .week visited with relatives in ! Omaha, NefcnutfVK) 0 1 K Harold B. Lee OREM CHAMBER SETS REPORT MEETING FOR TUESDAY NIGHT The Orem Chamber of Commerce Com-merce will hold its first meeting meet-ing in several weeks at 7 p.m. Tuesday night at Twin Pines cafe, J. George Stratton, chamber chamb-er president, announced today. Business of the meeting will include in-clude the presentation of the annual reports of both the cham. ber president and secretary. The financial report will also be giv en, and an open discussion on projects for the coming year will be conducted. A nominating committee will be appointed Tuesday night to select 12 candidates for posts on the board of directors to fill vacancies created by the retirement retire-ment of Orville Harris, Lionel Fairbanks and A. A. Richards, "At a later meeting the chamber membership will elect three 3 - year directors. Accoramg to the two sons, Kenneth Carroll of by-laws the new president will Vernal and Paul W. Carroll, Or-be Or-be elected by the board of dir. em; two brothers, Charles W. ectors on the .2nd Tuesday in Carroll of Palo Alto, Calif, and December. i Edward Carrol Orderville; sev- Mrs. E. H. Johnson, chamber, en sisters, Mrs. Jane Heaton, secretary, urges that members Mrs. Ella Bolander and Mrs. planning to attend the meeting j Amy Stark, Orderville; Mrs. make reservations with her, Emma Higbee and Mrs. Julia by Monday afternoon. Twelve Teams Busy In Recreation League Hoop Play Team captains were named for 12 basketball aggregations competing in the Scera-Com-munity recreation program underway un-derway in the Lincoln high gym, according to Mel Briggs and Glen Zimmerman, directors of the Saturday program. In Mr. Zimmerman's Fifth and Sixth grade progran the six team rantains arp Rav RHwarrfa. 1. Tnm n;H o. n..i r . j.. worthy, 5; and Bert Johnson, 6. In first round games played last Saturday Team 1 defeated Team 2, 18-2; Team 3 defeated Team 4, 6-5; and Team 6 defeated Team 5, 32-20. Ray Edwards LaarK wiiKinson were high scorers. Schedule for Saturday, wov. 28 is Team 1 vs Team 6 at 9 a m.; Team 2 vs. Team 3 at 10 a m ." and Team 4 vs Team Last Saturday Team 6 defeat ed Team 1, 16-1 lj Team 2 defeated de-feated Team 3, 18-12; and Team 5 defeated Team 4, 17-11. The schedule for Saturdar. Nov. 26 'is team 5 vs. Team 2 at 3:15 d. m.; Team 3 vs. Team 6 at 4,15; and Team 1 vs. Team 4 at 5:15. I I i Nyra Colvin, left, and Donna Ashton, Lincoln high school students, stud-ents, who are tnreula to Chicago where they will attend the nat ional convention of 4-H club worker and leaders. The two girl won national recognition in 4-H PRICE FIVE CENTS HAROLD B. LEE TO SPE4K AT SHARON CONFERENCE Elder Harold B. Lee of the Council of Twelve will be the guest speaker representing the LDS general church authorities author-ities at the Sharon stake quarterly conference set for Sunday, Sun-day, according to, Henry D. Taylor, stake president. Elder Lee will be accompanied by William T. Lawrence of the general gen-eral welfare committee. , Two films "The Welfare Plan in Action" and "The Lord's Way" will be shown at a special welfare meeting to 1 1 be held at 7,30 p.m. Saturday in George F. Carroll Dies at 77 After Long Illness George F, Carroll, 77, Orem resident since 1914 and prominent promin-ent fruit grower and farmer and former waterworks superintendent superintend-ent here, died Monday afternoon after-noon at the Utah Valley hospital following a lingering illness. Funeral services will be conducted con-ducted Friday at 2 p.m. in the Sharon ward chapel under the direction of Bishop Stanley Finch. mii ii k ,r J"' 1872, at Heber the son of Charles nff- f i .. i a.. Ai i nuu .V..lll UIICO VB11UU. T 111, IJ 1 a boy he moved with the family to Orderville, Utah, where they participated in the United Ord- He married Clariss Terry in the St. George Temple on Feb. 3. 1892 and served on an LDS wis- sion in the southern states 1894. 95. He moved to Provo and soon thereafter to Orem in 1914, where the family has resided since. Besides his wife, , he leaves five daughters: Mrs. Arthur t Utah Pioneers and the problems (Vivian) Sumsion and Mrs. Ray they faced in the new land-(Barbara) land-(Barbara) Clark, both of Spring-! present were Mr. and Mrs. vine; Mrs. J. u. (Viola) McMUl- ian, Salt Lake City; Mrs. C. T. (Kowa) Pyne, Orem; and Mrs 1 Ivan (Cora) Dimmick, Midvale; Chamberlain, Cedar City; Mrs. Amelia Heaton, Hurricane; and Mrs. Lavina Heaton, Heber; 16 grand children and seven great grandchildren. . Bishop and Mrs. John Nay-lor Nay-lor celebrated their 16th wedding wed-ding anniversary on Friday. They attended a session at the temple and were honored at a dinner party by Mr. and Mrs. Max Snow, Mr. and Mrs. James Clark and Mr. and Mrs. David Mackay. The celebration was also al-so in honor of Mrs. Naylor's birthday. Zenda Rowley left Saturday morning by air for Fort Worth. Texas, to visit with her son, Leon, for a few days. Leon had hoped to come home for a few and'days before being transferred to n's new base but was unable to s0 LINCOLN STUDENTS Will CHICAGO TRIP FOR 4-H CLUB ACTIVITIES National honors came this week to Nyra Colvin, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Tracy Colvin, aad Donna Ash ton, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Orvil S. Ashton. for their outstanding records in competitive 4-H club activities- Both girls are students at Lin- coin high school and are enroute to Chicago to attend the nation- al 4-H club convention slated Nov. 27 to Dec. 1 Nyra won her chance for the V J club work during the put year, i , ' '4 v , jl rv i i I i the Lincoln high school auditorium. auditor-ium. The films highlight the activities of the LDS church welfare wel-fare plan. All ward and stake leaders are expected to attend the welfare meeting, and everyone every-one else interested is invited. The first general session of the Sharon conference will be held at 10 a.m. Sunday. A record attendance is expected. Priesthood leadership meeting will be held at 2:30 p.m. in the Sharon seminary building. The final session of the con- i4U e eii t-i. u wic h?ii;ia. opcviui ijiuaii; iur me occasion will feature the Lin- win high school chorus under 1ha rfirfoHn nt v -n ni c, i OliarOll OtaKe Study GrOUp Hears n TT , Ueorge Xiansen U Members of the Sharon stake presidency and high council and their partners held a study group meeting at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Carlos Miller on Sunday. Professor George Hansen spoke to the group about the Henry D. Taylor, Mr. and Mrs. William Faulkner, Mr. and Mrs. Philo T. Edwards, Mr. and Mrs. P. W. Madsen, Mr. and Mrs. Bailey Lindstrom, and Miss Lindstrom, Mr. and Mrs. Dean Anderson, Mr. and Mrs. Ray Hanks. Mr. and Mrs. Robert OL. sen, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Woffin-den. Woffin-den. Mr. and Mrs. George Ashby, Mr. and Mrs. Paul Taylor, Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Asay, Mrs. Herman Her-man Richards and the host and hostess. WATKINS SETS LEGISLATIVE CLINIC IN OREM DEC. 2 Senator Arthur V. Watkins will hold a 'Legislative Clinic at 2 p.m. December 2 at the Orem City Hall to discuss first hand with his fellow townspeople towns-people their fruit marketing problems as well as post office and federal building needs here. Officials of clubs and organizations, organiz-ations, as well as private citiaens are invited to attend the clinic and present their problems to Senator Watkins. Mrs. Helen Muhlesteln is spending Thanksgiving in Salt Lake City with friends. Mr. and Mrs. Ben Black and family have moved to Drag-gerton. Drag-gerton. They have rented their home here and plan to return next summer. 10-day all expense paid trip to Chkag0 and the convention for outstanding work in safety She succeeded Jn getting a coasting hm dMed ,or chiJdren of her community, assisted in a rat control program campaign, saw that weeds blocking vision on a hiehwav were removed, cam- paigned for stop signs at danger, 0us intersections, and made 15 survevs of farms and homes for accident and fire hazards. She also prepared radio scripts on safety and gave demonstrations of safety measures at the state fair. Miss Ashton won her honors in the Better Methods program. By making a survey or doing the family wash, Donna improv ed the method to the extent of saving about eight eight-hour days per year. In sewing she learned to lay out a pattern, cut and assemble her material in the minimum amount of time. She gave a prize-winning demonstration demonstra-tion "Safe Use of Eectricity in the Home" five times before 347 pople. In Chicago the two teen-agers will attend dances, banquets. tours of the city and convention sessions. They will stay at the Photo courtesy Lincoln Livewir. ' Stevens hotel. iy successful. Orem. He is 54. |