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Show Bite rem 'j'' THURSDAY, MARCH 9, 1950 jrrR.:..n rp if 'L 1 -r k , . ; -)7 rf A 7 -iU v--i r i 't-i.'i.v' ! r j --- VOLUME 18 NUMBER 10 PRICE JIVE CENTS Minstrel Show Set i For 2-Stake Benefit At Scera March 20 The Provo Lions minstrel show will be performed at 8:15 p.m. March 20 in the Scera Theatre under the sponsorship of the MIA's of Orem and Sharon Shar-on stakes, it was announced this week by MIA officers. Staged as a benelit, me minstrel min-strel show is designed to raise the quotas of both stakes for maintenance of the Girls Hume- Tickets are available irom slake and ward MIA officers at 75 cents each. Mutual officers today stress ed the fact that if the necessary funds are not raised through tne minstrel show, each ward will have to be assessed to reach the quota. Washburn Named Head of Retail Merchants Group These happy young musicians are members of the beginners orchestra organized at Lincoln hiah school last oepiemoer. unaer me caion ui Vxiioeri t. v-nnas, inurumeiuai imuuuui hiah school, the orchestra performed several numbers at the Family Life conference held here re- Shown left to right (front row): Patsy Lunceford, Connie Smith, Arlene Rowley, Beth Dexter and Jaimee Norton., second row: vanae Howley, Paul Carroll, Gary palmer. Heea r enroo, Beverly Bev-erly Booth, and Ruth Childs: third row, Eddie Millett, Ivern Pyne, Linda Nielsen, Bunny Petty, Mary Lou Dickey, Zola Dickey, RaNae Prince and Merrill Palmer: back row: Charles Pyne, Mr rt,iWe and Sharon Beagley. Not present when the picture was taken were Carolyn Miller, Veneia Davies, Marie Varley and Trarv Anderson. Reherasals are held from 4 to 5 p.m. twice a week- All students in the Orem area who play or would like to play a string instrument are invited to join, according to Mr. Childs. 316 Per Week Play in Scera ! Recreation Program An average weekly participation particip-ation of 316 persons has been achieved in the Scera-Commun-ity recreation program for the winter months, according to leaders of the program- The pro-sram pro-sram was concluded on Monday. I The program got underway on November 1 with basketball, volleyball and tumbling as the main features, and included activities act-ivities for students in the Orem area from the 4th grade level upwards, or M Men of Orem and Sharon stakes, for Boy Scout teams of the area, and or six teams comprising the Geneva Steel company recreation league. leag-ue. The latter included teams from General Offices, Rolling Mills, Ironton, Maintenance, Open Op-en Hearth and Blast Furnace. The Scera-Community program pro-gram has been conducted under the general supervision of Victor C. Anderson, manager of Scera. with the Scera organization arranging ar-ranging for the leadreship which included Parlell Peterson, Glen Zimmerman, Mel Briggs and Evan Ev-an Baugh. The high school gym and its facilities were made available by A. P. Warnick, Lincoln Lin-coln high school principal. Marilyn Johnson Wins 1st Place at Weber Debate Meet Marilyn Johnson, Lincoln high school senior, won first place in the oration division of the Weber College High School Debating Tournament held in Ogden on Friday and Saturday. Marilyn is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Johnson. Particinatina in the orations were 197 students, representing 18 high schools- Three Lincoln students, Marilyn Johnson, Helen Hel-en Hansen and Mary Gwen Holdaway, placed in the finals-Marilyn finals-Marilyn won first place by the unanimous vote of all five of the judges. ' Barbara Carter and Genniel Larsen brought further honors to Lincoln by winning third place in the girls Class A Debating. De-bating. Frank B. Newman, instructor, in-structor, accompanied the 22 Lincoln students who participated particip-ated in the meet. A regional debate meet is scheduled for March 25. W1GKMAII PREDICTS OREM BUILDING TO HIT S2 MIW0II MARK III 1950 With the release of building permit figures for February, Ed Wiekman, Orem building inspector, in-spector, predicted that authorized authoriz-ed construction in Orem during 1950 would reach the two million mill-ion dollar mark. "The new elementary school ind the hundreds of homes being be-ing planned for this year should raise the building permit total lit least to the two million mark," he said-Construction said-Construction approved in February Feb-ruary hit a new high for the month with $109,300 in permits issued. In February. 1949, no permits were issued and in February, 1948, $43,200 in per mits were issued. New Exam Slated For Orem Postmaster A new examination will be conducted to name candidates for the position of Orem postmaster, post-master, it was announced last week by postal authorities, following fol-lowing a decision to withhold an appointment on the basis of the exam conducted several months ago. Reed Hacking, present postal clerk, was the only one of four candidates who passed the previous pre-vious exam and postal authorities author-ities may refrain from naming a permanent postmaster until at least three eligible candidates are available. Acting Postmaster Leo Broad- head will continue as potsmaster until the exam is conducted and the permanent apponitment is made. Those who took the previous pre-vious exam may take the one planned for the future. No date for the exam has been set. Verd Washburn, manager of Washburn Service in Orem, was named chairman of the Orem Or-em Chamber of Commerce Retail Re-tail Merchants association at a meeting of the chamber direct ors on Monday- Mr. wasnouiu, whose business is the city's old est from the standpoint of single ownership, will name his own it tee members and will undertake a program here aimed aim-ed at cooperating with all of the city's retail merchants for business improvement and pro motion- ThP chamber directors also appointed Mark E. Kartchner Jr., chamber president, to head the Civic Betterment commit-, tee. First project for that committee, com-mittee, according to Mr. Kartchner, Kart-chner, will be the procurement of benches at each of Orem's 16 bus stops. The benches are needed, he pointed out, for safety saf-ety and for the convenience of Orem people. Bill Baker and Lynn Bull- oc kwere named by the directors direct-ors to head up the chamber's Housing committee. Tigers Skid1 Lose Three Straight Lincoln high school's Tiger hoopsters, who two weeks ago were knocking on the door to a berth in the state tournament, skidded sharply in their final three games and ended their season in third place behind E-Y H S. and American Fork. Coach Baugh's Tigers were the only club to upset the Champion Cham-pion "Y" High aggregation, and at the mid-season mark luuked like the league's best runner-up prospect. In the key game of prospect- In the key game of the second half the locals went down before American Fork, then slumped to lose to Lehi and Pleasant Grove-Final Grove-Final standings give the Tigers Tig-ers three wins and five losses. Mrs- Arnold Burningham entertained a group of boys and pirls on Fridav afternoon at a nartv for her son, Kimball on his 11th birthday. Games and refreshments were enjoyed by 18 guests. A surprise birthday party honoring Ardell Hale was held on Saturday at the home of Mrs-SimDson Mrs-SimDson Day. Games and re freshments were enjoyed by 24 friends. The refreshment table was highlighted with favors of Easter baskets. Mrs- Darrell Stanley enter tained at a birthday party for her daughter, Afton, who cele brated her birthday on Wednes' day- A pink and white cake with four pink candles formed the centerpiece and spring birds marked the places or the guests, who were Patsy Strausburg, Michael Prestwich, Jan Hawk- ins.Diane Hills, Joe Jensen and Timmy Stanley. O Mrs. Merle Foote had a quilting party on Thursday afternoon af-ternoon at her home. Tasty refreshments re-freshments were served by the hostess. The following' women completed a beautiful quilt: Ida Cowley, Grace McEwan, Coz-e'te Coz-e'te Ailred, Ivy Perry, Ida Er-eanbrack, Er-eanbrack, Zella Colvin, Ina Lewis, Louise Trotter and Melba Cluff. sort cabin. Barbara Stewart was honored hon-ored on her birthday with Party given by her parents Mr jjnd Mrs. Raymond Stewart, at T vp Haven. A large crowd of young people enjoyed an even- ,. s i winter sports and a de- "cious supper cooked at the re- American Legion, Auxiliary. Plan Birthday Dinner Plans have been completed by the Orem American Legion Post 72. and the Legion Auxil !ary for their annual birtnday dinner to be held on March 17 at 8 D.m. Rawlins S- Hughes of Span ih Fork, district commander will be the guest speaker at the dinner party. Reservations may be made by calling Mrs. Max Eroadhead at 048 R5 or it-Evans it-Evans at 0674 Rl- rnmmittee membcrs met on Tuesday evening at the Veterans Veter-ans Memorial Home to make plans for the affair. Present were Grace Hansen, Jennie C rdner. Barbara Broadhead, Pearl Martindale, Betty Gill-man, Gill-man, R. E. Evans and LaMar Peacock. Heading the list for residential resident-ial construction were 16 permits per-mits issued for new homes to Levi Nelson and Stienman for the construction of $5,000 homes in the Geneva Terrace subdivision subdiv-ision west on 4th North Street joining Geneva Heights. Other permits went to Lewis Liston, 284 E. 4th South, $8,500; Lewis D. Wilkins, 178 W. 4th S , $7,000; Daniel Rieske, 455 S- Main, $13,000; Milton Johnson, John-son, 283 N. 8th East, $6,000; Ted Simmons, 235 N- 8th Jfiast, $6,000; Ted Simmons, 785 East 2nd N., $6,000. Four permits were issued for the remodeling and additions to homes: L. A. Hill, enlargement of basement at 288 West. 8lh N., $1,000; San Hoover, 623 East 16th S., room and garage attached attach-ed to home, $1,500; V. A. Mason, 345 E- 16th S-, remodel, $500 and Lester O. Stewart, 193 N-12th N-12th W. addition, $1,800- Funeral Services for Former Utahn Held Tuesday Funeral services for Erna Miner Brown Massoth, 48, former form-er resident of Orem and Provo, were conducted on Tuesday at the Berg Mortuary chapel with Bishop Dean Buckner of the Grand View ward in charge. Mrs. Massoth died last week in Long Beach, California after a lingering illness. Speakers at the service were Mrs- Rhoda P. CWdester and Frank B- Woffinden. Prayers were offered by Glenn Buckner and Ralph Meldrum. Musical numbers included "Sunset" sung bv Mrs. Lucy Poulson and Mrs. Winnie Graff; "In the Garden of Tomorrow" sung by LaNieve Kimball; "O My Father' sung bv Anna J. Harris; and "Beauti ful Home" sung by the Grand View Relief Society chorus Burial was in the Provo cemetery. Mrs- Massoth was born Oct ober 26, 1901 in Fairview, Utah a daughter of George Delaze and Grace Brown Miner- Her mother died when she was three years old. She received her early school im at the Spencer school Council Guards City Funds As Orem Costs Increase Operating on a limited budget, Orem City is making a herculean effort to stretch every dollar as far as it will go in meeting the demands of maintenance and expansion. This fact was evidenced at Monday night's Orem City Council meeting when Mayor J.'W, Gillman and the councilmen discussed dis-cussed problems of growth with property owners. Mayor Gillman stated that the city road department will be definitely handicapped this year inasmuch as Orem's share of B and C road money has been cut by 28 percent along with other cities in the state. An additional hardship is felt because Orem's allotment is apportioned on the 1940 of in Seven permits Orem. She was married to Fred Brown October 25. 1919. He died in May, 1926- In 1932 she married Frank Massoth. He died in 1944. She was a member of the LDS church. She leaves a son and four daughters, Fred Brown; Mrs-Melva Mrs-Melva Birrell, Mrs- Lavern Peebles, Mrs- Marie Dressier and Mrs. Frances Bauer, all of Long Beach, Califonia; five brothers and three sisters, Mrs. School Lunch Prices Reduced During March Parents were reminded this week that the price for school lunches at the Lincoln lunch room have been reduced for the month of March as part of a nation wide experiment to determine deter-mine what bearing the price has on the number of students who participate in the school lunch program- Mary R. Cnmenish, Alpine District supervisor of school lunches, announced that during March the school lunch price will be lowered from 20 to 15 cents for high school students and from 15 to 10 cents for grade school children, The Lincoln Lin-coln lunch room is one of six in the state participating in the experiment and is the only one in Alpine District where the price has been lowered. Regular Regul-ar prices will be charged again after the one month period. 0 Mr, and Mrs- Bill Baker entertained a group of friends at their home on Friday evening-Pinochle evening-Pinochle was the diversion and an attractive luncheon was served ser-ved by the hostess. The high score prize went to Edith Davis census of 2900 people rather than the present population of over 10.000 people- At the present pres-ent time Orem has 65 miles of roads which must be maintained main-tained by the city. Currently the city road department de-partment is engaged in a costly repair project in subdivisions where roads had been nard surfaced without a gravel base, The hard surfacing is being removed re-moved nnd a gravel base laid at considerable expense- Ask Street Opening Elon Smith, LeEarl Burr and George Brewer appeared before the council seeking infomation as to what the city would do toward opening 150 South St. between 4th and 8th West inasmuch in-asmuch as they, the abutting property owners, were willing to give the necessary land to open a 50-foot road. Mayor Gillman said inasmuch is the street would be opened to gain frontage for the sale of lots and building house, it would come under the category of a subdivision. The street must have a four-inch gravel base under hard surfacing and a four- inch water line before the city will accept and maintain trie street, he stated. Utah County Horticultural Group Names Off icers Howard Ferguson of Provo succeeded John W. Gillman of Orem as president of the Utah County Horticultural Society this week following elections oi new officers for 1950. Mr. GUI- man was recently elected pres ident of the state horticultural arouD- ' Julian Hansen ot urem was eleced vice president, and Joel C Barlow was elected sec retary. At the election meeting Hans C. Hess of Denver and A. JNick- olsen of Washington, D. C- dis cussed the national peach marketing mar-keting agreement. The peach agreement was slated to be discussed dis-cussed in the state capitol on Wednesday. Julian Hansen was named chairman of negotiations. Precautions Urged Kite Fliers March winds, boys and kites spell plenty of fun and possible disaster too unless the rules of safety are followed, according to S- D- Packard, southern div ision superintendent for Utah Power and Light company. "Kite flying is great recreation," recreat-ion," said Mr. Packard, "but it can be plenty dangerous- For the sake of your own safety and the safety of others observe these rules." 1. Fly kites away from electric elect-ric wires and poles. 2. Don't use metal or wire in any form on kites. 3. Use only dry cotton string. Never flv vour kite with wet string. Water is one of the best conductors of electricity. 4- Don't climb poles to recover recov-er kites. Never try to release entangled kites by throwing stones at them. 5. Never run across streets to get kite into the air. 6- Report kites caught in wires and poles to your nearest power company office. for earaees. barns, coops: Rud olph Luker, 944 S. State, garage, S500; A., A. Newell, 557 North 4th W-, garage $700; Howard Egan, 95 E. 4th N. $1,000; Toffee Tof-fee Hauzen, 205 S. State, garage, $700; Vernal Pulley, 693 N- 8th E-, garage and temporary living quarters, $1,500; Darrell E- Ostler, Ost-ler, 1683 N- 4th. W., garage and temoprary living quarters, $1,- 500; and Kenmth Ercanbrack, 445 E. 2nd N., machine shed. $600, making a total of $6,500 in this division. During the past month, commercial com-mercial building authorization amounted to $1,500 for the two permits issued, one going to Allen Al-len M. Johnson for a $1,000 addition ad-dition to the Utah Valley. Builders Build-ers Supply on North State St. and the other for $500 to Orville K. Harris for remodeling the Geneva Pharmacy at State and Center. were granted T . p.4Wtfl ou r.nkp C tv: ana lamar reacocK ana ine Mrs- Hazel Pyne, Orem; Mrs Myrle Shields, Murray; Neldon P. Miner, Salt Lake City; Ivan C. Miner, Long Beach, Calif-; Ferron Miner, Del Monte. Calif ; Leo Miner, Baldwin Park, Cal; and Darwin Miner, Lehi; her father and stepmother, Mrs. Lillie E. Miner, Salt Lake City; and six grandchildren. DREM SEVENTIES STAGE PARTY Over thirty Seventies and their wives attended the Orem stake Seventies party held Friday Fri-day night in the Windsor ward recreation hall. Kent Fielding was in charge of games; J. L. Mangum, re- Ilene Wasden was honored at a shower at the home of Beatrice Pyne. Pauline Patten and Beth Moon supervised the games- Beth Fautin made lovely pins that were given as prizes. Refreshments were served by Dora Mae Fenelli, Lillian Thur-ber, Thur-ber, Beth Fautin and Beatrice Pyne. Others present were Al-verda Al-verda Carson, Arvella DeLange, Lucille Steele, Louise Adams, Sern Rowley, Vivian Pyne, Emma Em-ma Burr. Melba Lunceford. Martha Pyne, Alice Jensen, June Jensen, Leah Rowley, Mary Rowley, Thelma Benson, Mildred Rohbock and Brenda Wasden. Noted Cellist to Appear with Local Symphony Orchestra The Dvorak cello concerto will be the highlight of the fifth concert of the season with the brilliant cellist, Bernard Greenhouse, Green-house, as soloist, Mr. Greenhouse, who recently returned from a European tour will make his first appearance in Utah with the Intermountain Symphony orchestra, under the baton of conductor Allen Jen sen, who returns to the podium after Francis Aranyi's guest ap pearance on the last concert. The Dvorak cello concerto :s famous the world over for its beautiful melodies and exciting dramatic effects. Few concertos written for any instrument can equal this concerto for what all music lovers want to enjoy concerto performances. in consolation award to Mr. and Mrs. Frank Holm. Present were Mr. and Mrs. Lamar Peacock Mr- and Mrs. Frank Holm, Mr- and Mrs. Drexel Davis and the host and hostess- 9 Mrs. Helen Wentz, Mrs Hazel Latimer and Mrs- Myrtle Price served a lovely luncheon on Saturday to a group of for mer high school friends and teachers from Springville high school. A pleasant afternoon was spent at the Price home with tne group recalling oid memories mem-ories and playing games. Present were Cleo P. Heavener, Cather ine D. Wills, Nellie W. Condie Zina 1 C Condie, Alice Davis Emma D. Gardiner, Mae B. Hun tington, Bess II- Lewis, Ada Smith, Alzada Willmot, Ethc M- Weight, Floss S- Phillips: Ferol R. Weight, Elma H. Wag ner and Jessie B. Arrowsmith Mrs. J. Alvin Higbee entertained en-tertained a group of boys and girls Friday evening in honor of her son, Vernon, who was celebrating cele-brating his 12th birthday, r.omoc nnrl rpfreshments were enjoyed by the 26 friends pres- iresnmenis; ana v.. ent. rirogram. Community Recreation Program to Be Discussed Wednesday night Orem's community recreation program will be the subject of discussion at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday in the Seminary building when representatives of the sponsoring sponsor-ing agents Alpine School District, Orem City and Scera meet together with representatives of civic clubs and church groups, according to Victor C. Anderson, program director. i The American Legion, Lions, Jaycees, 20-30, Orem Chamber of Commerce, Orem Women's club, and all nther clubs in the city are urged to send a representat ive to the meeting. Also invited are the stake MIA activity act-ivity directors or Orem and Sharon stakes. A member mem-ber of each stake presidency and ward bishopric is also urged to attend. "We would like the recreation program to represent the wishes of the majority of the people of the community," commun-ity," Mr. Anderson said today. "In order to do this it is important to have the above people present." Orem Stake MIA Speech Festival Set for May 7 The first annual Orem Stake SDeech-Arts Festival will be held on May 7 in the Scera aud-itorium. aud-itorium. Clyde E. Weeks Jr., Orem stake MIA speech director, direct-or, announced todaj . The festi val will feature extemporanous sneeches. nanel discussions, de bates, etc- by members of each MIA in the stake, ana Wnl highlight high-light speech activities of the year, he said. As a special attraction it is anticipated that a demonstration of one of the leading makes of church organs will be given by noted musicians with an eye towards to-wards making a decision on which organ to purchase for use of Orem and Sharon stakes in the Scera auditorium. Assignments will be made in the near future to each ward mutual for participants in the speech festival. . : " t 4 r' I i Ethel Mott PRIMARY WORKERS REPORT ON RESULTS OF "PENNY APPEAL" Primary officers of Sharon slake turned over $781-59 to the Primary children's hospital this week following a very success ful "Penny Appeal" drive, ac cording to Mrs- Lucille Farns worth, stake Primary secretary Officers and teachers of the Pri mary visited the home in their wards during the drive and ex press appreciation to all who contributed. Ethel Mott Farewell Testimonial Slated ROBERT DOWNS TO EING ON JAMES MELTON SHOW Robert Downs, son of Mr. and Mrs Clarence Downs of Orem, will sing on James Melton's "Harvest of Stars" show on Sunday. Sun-day. March 12 at 3:30 (MST) over the NBC network. The show will be broadcast from Topeka Kansas. Robert Is studying at the Kansas City Conservatory of Music. Kansas City, Missouri- A farewell testimonial for E.hel Mott, uaughter of Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Mott of Oak Hills ward, will be held at 5 p.m. Sunday in the Pleasant View ward chapel, according to Bishop Bish-op John A. Naylor- A native of LaJara. Colorado, Miss Mott graduated from high school there. She moved to Utah during the war and has lived with her parents in Pleasant View since they moved there from Colorado two years ago. She attended the University, of Utah and the BYU for a time. Speakers at the testimonial will be President Henry D. Taylor, Wayne Reid and' VaLois Bangarter. Musical numbers will be furnished by Maxine Muhlestein, LaRae Muhlestein, Viva Brown, Carol Ellertson .nd Nila Brown. Prayers will be offered of-fered by Garn Phillips and Kenneth Mott- ' Opening Approved The council moved to accept one and one-half rods of ground from Neils Jacobsen a his share on the opening of 2nd North from State Street to the North Union canal just below 4th East Street. Initially Mr. Jacobsen had planned to give two rods, for his share of the road, but consequent negotiations in which he sold some land adjoining ad-joining the proposed road for a drive-in theatre site necessitated reduction in the amount he could give. Auction Law Reviewed Mayor Gillman told the coun cil that he had be contacted by several local businessmen regarding re-garding the conditions under which an auction could operate in Orem City. He read a letter addressed to Orem's Auction City located at 670 North State outlining the licensing requirements. require-ments. The license fee is $50.00 per month or $5.00 per day for the auctioneer, and a minimum of $12.00 and an additional 75 cents per thousand on gross sales for the business. The council coun-cil approved the letter and it was given to a patrolman for delivery. Sewer Difficulties Reporting on his findings regarding re-garding the laying of a sewer line to the new elementary school to be located at 12th South and Main Street, City Engineer En-gineer Leonard Beckman said that there is not enough fall to connect the sewer at 10th South and that the closest practicable way would cost approximately $12,000. At 'this point Mayor liUiman telephoned Victor C-Anderson, C-Anderson, Orem school board member, and through him invited in-vited members of the board, Supt. David Mitchell and Build-fng Build-fng Superintendent Frank Woffinden Woff-inden to meet with the city council next Monday night to discuss the matter. O Miss Elaine Anderberg was crowned queen of the Lincoln-Timpanogos Lincoln-Timpanogos ward Gold and Green Mall on Wednesday even ing. Her attendants were Joan Stubbs and Evelyn Higbee Offering Approved The council approved an offer for the sale of $75,000 in general oligalion bonds to the state finance fin-ance commission. The funds thus derived are to be used to complete the waterworks expansion expan-sion program- UTAH COUNTY PEAR GROWERS TO MEET MARCH 13 The Farm Bureau pear growers grow-ers committee of Utah County would like all pear growers of the county to meet with them at the Orem city hall on Monday, Mon-day, March 13 from 7 to 8 p.m., according to Howard B, Ferguson, Fer-guson, chairman. The purpose of the meeting is to study problems of pear growing, sales and marketing. |