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Show r7 La .Cm" tem m MRICULTURC THURSDAY, AUGUST 10, 1950 VOLUME 18, NUMBER 33 INDUt var " PRICE FIVE CENTS Public Health Law Is Vital Need, Says Health Council Immediate enactment and strict enforcement of a public I, Tujj iaW in Orem as a means of insuring high health stan- fanis in e state's fastest growing city were called for late ifT week by members of the Orem public health advisory Cuncil in a meeting held at the city hall. Budgeting by the I itv of a specific amount for public health purposes was also LJed at the meeting. The advisory council headed by Dr. Dean A. Anderson and 'Hpnrv Campbell outlined a program for establishing public health facilities wu imvuvcs irac uiui aic nut at uie pres ent time in ciicv The new neaun piugiam ki.h will be recommended to j jie Orem City council and city board of neaira icuu employment of a trained health jfficer to supervise an effective health program and enforce he health ordinance in the city. His duties would include inspection in-spection and grading of eating establishments, supervision of rasie removal, inspection of dairies, taverns, school lunchrooms, lunch-rooms, swimming pools, sanitary sanit-ary facilities in public buildings, build-ings, construction of new septic ianks. daily tests of the culinary culin-ary water, supervision of food handlers, etc. Dr. Anderson declared that. Orem has been fortunate to date in public health matters, but tot a city of this size should have a trained health officer, a health nurse program, and a sanitary inspection program. Most cities of 5000 or more people spend $1.00 per capita lor public health," he said. At the present time Orem City makes no specific levy for public health purposes and has no comprehensive public health ordinance in effect. Names Make News Names, according to the experts, make new. And by those standards your Orem-Geneva Orem-Geneva Times is a NEWS-paper. NEWS-paper. We took the trouble a week 190 to count the names in eight pages of the Orem-Gen-era Times. It carried 602 . most of them spelled proper-IT. proper-IT. They're the names of your friends and what they're doing. do-ing. Behind nearly every one ii a itory a socisl, an advancement, ad-vancement, a visit, a new job in the ward organisation or a new honor a success. Enjoy these success stories in the Orem-Geneva Times, nd have your own success lories recorded by calling 0684 Jl. Dance Revue Ready for Friday at 7 . Highlight of the year for nearly near-ly 300 Orem youngsters will be the presentation on Friday at 7 pm. of the dance revue,, "The Circus' which is the finale program of the Scera-Communiiy Scera-Communiiy recreation program dance students. The revue is set for the Lincoln Lin-coln high school athletic field. Annette Biddulph and Karen Christensen, instructors, and Fsye Loveless, accompanist, are in charge. The public is invited. invit-ed. There is no admission charge. held View Funeral Services For Crash Victim Held Tuesday Funeral services were Tuesday at the Grand ward chapel for Ella Gappmay-er Gappmay-er McTague, 43, lifelong resident resid-ent of Orem, who died early Friday when a train crashed into in-to her light truck at a grade crossing near the Geneva Steel plant. Bishop G Milton Jameson of Hill Crest ward was in charge of the services. Opening prayer pray-er was offered by Bishop C. Wil-ford Wil-ford Larsen of Geneva ward. Processional music was played by Bessie Keetch. Speakers were Lucy Poulson, Keith Larsen, John B. Stratton and Bishop Jameson. Mr. and Mrs. Chester Graff sang "Beautiful "Beau-tiful Home", and Anna Jensen sang "Lay My Head Beneath a Rose," both accompanied by Eula Norton. LaNieve Kimball sang "That Wonderful Mother of Mine", accompanied by Bes sie Keetch, and "Going Home" was sung by Monori Jensne. Dorothy Ivie offered the closing clos-ing prayer Pallbearers were Roy, Le-land, Le-land, Lewis and William Gapp-mayer, Gapp-mayer, Jerry Boss and Bob Harris. Har-ris. The grave was dedicated by Roy Gappmayer. CITY CRACKS DOWN ON UNLICENSED OREM BUSINESSES Several Orem stores are operating op-erating illegally inasmuch as as they have not paid city license lic-ense fees for 1949, according to Mayor J. W. Gillman, who revealed re-vealed at Monday's city council meeting a list of merchants who were not licensed last year and who remain unlicensed for 1950- Early this year the city council coun-cil employed an auditor to check sales records of all Orem merchants in order to establish license fees. The city licensing ordinance requires payment of 75 cents per $1000 gross sales, with a . minimum payment of $12.00. One merchant, according to the auditor, refused permission to audit his books. - Council members on Monday noted the fact that the city could close those business establishments es-tablishments which are in violation viola-tion of the law, but voted to allow al-low one more opportunity to pay license fees before action is. taken. Individual .statements are to be prepared, and presented pres-ented to delinquent merchants by city police officers. With regard to the merchant who is delinquent with fees and who refused an audit of his books, City Attorney H. Vern Wentz advised the council that the city could file a complaint and subpoena the records if necessary. nec-essary. Councilmen expressed themselves them-selves as favoring strict enforcement enforce-ment of the licensing ordinance and said that license fees should be paid promptly by everyone in fairness to those who have already paid, and in order to maintain the integrity of the law. ' . " ' ' " ; , , ' - : 'i f .-, . r ' . v.'-' -'' ; v 1950 Orem Taxes Reduced; 19 Mill Levy Approved Properly taxes in Orem this year will be lower than thosa of 1949 as a result of action taken Monday night by the Orem City Council in reducing the city's mill levy from last) year's 19.5 to 19 mills for 1950. With a 1950 assessed valuation valu-ation of $4,230,117 the 19 mill levy is expected to raise approximately ap-proximately $89,000 for Orem City based on 98 percent collection. coll-ection. In 1919 the T9.5 mill levy would have raised $74,000 based on 100 percent collection, with the valuation then totaling tot-aling $3,809,104. Concurrent with the mill levy the council revised its 1950 budget upward $5,000 from the tentative budget set last December, Admiring some of the trophies which will be awarded on August 23 to winners in this year's ', Scera-Communily Softball leagues are, left to right, Evan Baugh. Ken Soffe and Lennie Madsen ! Mr. Baugh is league director. Soffe is manager of the Oak Hills ward team, contender for the 1 and sister, Stephine, all of Vine Services for Harding Infant Set Friday . Funeral services for James Dale Harding, three-week old son of Dale and Joyce Farn-worth Farn-worth Harding, who died Wednesday Wed-nesday of undetermined causes will be held at 10:30 a.m. Friday Fri-day at the Olpin Mortuary. Bishop Bis-hop Taylor Allen of Vineyard ward will conduct the services. Born July 19, 1950 in Provo, the Infant loaves his parenls Mr. and Mrs. Frank Carrell left lasf week" ' Tora TOmtTOrl trip to Idaho. They will visit with relatives and friends. Sharon stake title; and Madsen is coach and manager of the Vineyard ward team which has al ready sewed up the championship in Orem stake competition. TOP DISTRICT 6 SOFTBALL TEAMS SET START TOURNEY HERE WEDNESDAY Orem City and Scera will be the hosts next week to the top 16 softball teams in LDS competition throughout through-out Central Utah and portions of Colorado and Wyoming Wyom-ing in District 6 playoffs for a spot in the all-Church tournament slated for Salt Lake City one week later. Games here will be played Wednesday through Sat-uray Sat-uray with the first of four nightly games set for 6:30 p.m. The title game will be played Saturday. Vineyard ward, champions of Orem stake will represent repres-ent this area, along with Vermont ward, runnersup. Other teams who have already earned a place in the dis trict playoffs are Park and Provo 8th and Wasatch of Heber. Final games in area leagues are slated for this weekend when, champions in every area will be named. Arrangements for the tourney here were made through city officials and Victor C. Anderson, manag- r of Scera. Games will be played under the lights at the city park. Paul Hendrichsen of Provo is in general charge of the tourney. He is district 6 supervisor. OREM, PROVO HOSTS FOjR UTAH STATE RIDING CLUB COMPETITIVE MEET ' Members of the Orem and Provo riding clubs will welcome approximately 1000- horses and riders to the annual Utah State Western Riding Club Association Associat-ion competitive show to be held Friday and Saturday at the Utah- county fairgrounds. The two local clubs will serve as hosts to the affair which will be the culminating feature of district competitive shows throughout the state. Only champions from various districts-will participate in the 1 IV - 'Vt. -;r.".; V ".'"oV, 1 v" Z'i " ' ' vs. f i. . J rJ. 5 I: f, ' . .j , ' s r " I r - ; i : t ' - 1 ' J ' ,, ''4. i . ...,t , - T :&Va . ( ae show, association officials said this week, so that the Provo show should be the "cream of riding club competitive activit ies for the year." Events both days will begin at fi p.m. with a downtown par ade and grand arena entry These will be followed at 7:50 p.m. by the contest activities- Competition will be held for calf roping, steer wrangling, broom polo and potato and barr el relays. There also will be horse rac ine for a quarter-mile, three- eighths mile, and half mile distances. dis-tances. Horses and riders will be judged in the men's pleasure class., stock class, and other reg ular stock show divisions. Winners in the two-day Provo show will qualify for the interstate inter-state contests at Murray early in September. Ella G. McTague. inset who was killed at 7:22 a.m. Friday when her truck was struck ' "Peeding DenTeTand Rio Grand, railroad streamliner at the crossmg located Jwo nules Stat. Street on 8th South in Orem Th. twisted wreck.,, of he truck shown abor.. was "own an t. .. .. . ' vsi, w demolished by the impact. cwncxei. ..gnu Pv pheJo cour,My Sah Lak. Tribune Paul Ellertson Home On Furlough Paul L. Ellertson, son of Mr-and Mr-and Mrs. Paul H. Ellertson of Orem, is home on a 45-day fur lough following his graduation from the air force radio technical technic-al school at Scott Field, Illinois. Paul was promoted to a corporal following his graduation. Corp. Ellertson enlisted in the Timpanogos Ward Plans Carnival, Barbeque Aug. 18 Friday. August 18, is the date that has been set for the Timp-anogos Timp-anogos ward Carnival and Barbeque. Bar-beque. Many entertaining features feat-ures have been planned for the affair by the ward officers and the entire community is invited invit-ed to participate. A delicious barbeque dinner will be served at 6. There will be a fish pond and pony rides for the youngsters, fortune tell- yard. and four grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Ivan Farnworth making a total of $175,892. In recommending approval of the mill levy and budget Mayor J. W. Gillman stated, "I believe this levy is adequate for the needs of the city. It seems like the right hing to do when the city takes a step up in valuation valua-tion that we as city officials should give the taxpayer the advantage of the Increase by a reduction of taxes." 1950 Budget Higher The approved budget for 1950 is $15,881.38 higher than last year's. A breakdown of the levy in of Orem and Mr. and Mrs. Rol- i the revisfd budget for this year State Fair Slated To Open Sept. 15 The 1950 Utah state fair will open its gates at noon Friday, Sept. 15, according to J. A. Theobald, secretary - manager. All exhibits of the fair will be in place on the opening hour, and the afternoon will be set aside to show Utah's city officials offic-ials the finest that their state produces. The opening day has been set aside as Utah Municipal League day, and all members of the league are to be honored guests. Opening ceremonies will be con ducted by the officers of the league. The world premier showing of the 1951 version of Holiday On Ice will be held at the fair-grunds fair-grunds on the opening night This show will feature $250,000 in new costumes and stage props and will be an entirely new program. pro-gram. Arrangements have been made by the company to conduct con-duct dress rehearsals in Salt Lake Cty prior to the opening date. The entire cast will arrive in Salt Lake a week ahead of the opening date. One thousand of the best reserved re-served seats have been taken by the Utah Municipal League for Us guests at this premier showing. show-ing. Arraneements have also mg and numerous booths- Re- Deen made to have members of freshments will be sold and the ,tne Utah State Chamber of Corn-Relief Corn-Relief Society will sponsor a merce executives as guests of and Harding of Vineyard. Friends and relatives may call at the mortuary Thursday evening and Friday morning prior to the services- Burial will b: in the Provo cemetery, booth featuring school clothing. Officers of the MIA will present pres-ent a prize to the largest family in attendance. Tickets will be given with each purchase at the booths and a drawing for prizes held during the evening. All activities will take place at the ward hall, 8th South and 4 East. Booths will open at 4 p m. for those who wish to shop before dinner. Committee members are mak ing, every effort to mane me affair a social and financial suc cess. Proceeds win De paia on the stake welfare farm. this production during a matinee matin-ee performance during the state fair engagement. Mrs Mary Cluff has returned return-ed home after a month's visit in Los Angeles, Calif- Mayor McKellip Sends Greetings From Northwest Emery McKellip, former mayor ma-yor of Orem and now a resident of Wenatchee, Wash., sent his greetings to Orem friends this week through Ed Long, who vis ited with Mr. McKellip at his home recently. The former mayor declared that he is pleased to read press reportr of Orem's rapid growth and that he is keenly interested in everything that happens here. Mr. McKellip was a prom-inen prom-inen fruit grower and businessman business-man here He owned the prop erty where now is situated Beverly Place. Emery street is named for him. A member of the town board when Orem became incorporaU ed as a city in 1919, Mr. McKellip Mc-Kellip was elected mayor in the 1920 s. He reports that the fruit situation in the Northwest is similar to that of Utah county. There are few peaches in that area, although a good rrop of apples is expected. Mr. and Mrs. Long, along with their daughter and Mrs. Long's mother, Maggie Hundley, visited in Washington with the McKellips and then visited in British Columbia with Dr. Paul Bramwell, also a well-known Orem man. They traveled down the coast to San Francisco and Los Angeles before returning home. compared with the 1949 levy shows the following. Contingent fund, 2.90 mills as compared to last year's figure of 3.10 mills; Public Safety. 2.15 mills as compared to 2 last year; debt service, 3.30 mills as com pared to 3 mills last year; city hall, 60 mills, the same as last year; memorial fund, .50 mills, the same as last year; cemetery, .80 mills as compared to .89 last year; parks, .65 as compare! to .70 mills; roads and walks, 5.00 mills, the same as last year which represents the maximum cities are permitted to levy for roads and walks; fire department, depart-ment, 2.10 mills as compared to last year's levy of 2.70 mills and the guaranteed fund, 1.00 mill, the same as last year. Adliona r.rrave While no levy is made for the water and sewer departments revenues in both department total $64,300. The water department depart-ment collects approximately $50 000 for water service, $1500 for merchandise, and $8,000 for new connections -a total of j $57,500. The sewer department gets about $4500 lor connection! and $2800 for service charge with a total of $7300 of which amount $3,000 is applied on debt service. The $15,000 increase in city expenditures this year over lsst year is attributed largely to the fact that the fact that the city police department now employs four men as compared to three last year Also, work in the city offices has Increased considerably, consider-ably, thus necessitating additional addit-ional clerical help. Mrs. Allie Stay of Lynn-wood, Lynn-wood, Calif visited this week with her sister, Mrs. Ellen Humphreys Hum-phreys at the Joseph Clegg home. Mr. and Mrs. Hans Thom as Sorensen (Betty Foster) are makine their home in Order- air force one year ago and has I ville following a honeymoon in been stationed at the school Yellowstone Park. They were since that time. He is to be stat-ijnarried August 1 in the Logan ioned in Alaska. ' LDS Temple- ATTEMPT TO BURN OREM RODEO GROUNDS FOILED BY ALERT FIRE DEPARTMENT Fir. Chief Scott Thompson today described as "a clear case of arson" and "an attempt to burn down the rodeo arena and grandstand" the fire which partially destroyed a shed located on th. north side of the arena on Sunday night. The blaze was seen and reported at 8:30 p m- by Lu Anna Smith, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Weston Smith, First North and First Eest streets. Prompt arrival of the fire truck and fire fighters prevented th. fire from reaching the arena proper and thus touching off the whole structure. Miss Smith said that she saw two men in white shirts run-ning run-ning from the scene of the fir. and leaTe hurriedly in a car without lights. Investiaation bv the police and fire departments rerealed that a quantity of excelsior evidently saturated with oil had been left in a corner of th. shed. The rodeo arena in its location on the city park has for some time been th. object of controversy regarding its removal. re-moval. Residents of the area have objected to th. arena as an offensive, property devaluating structure. Members of th. Orem Riding Club which bulit and uses the arena have declared de-clared that it meets a recreational need of th. city. I : v "Z- yf i ;.'... i - v.- - . tu Helping to make sour cherries a bit sweeter are these comely misses. Mary Lou Whiiely, left, and Rosalyn Stark, who found pleasant employment this summer at Orem's Pleaaant Grove cannery. According to plant superintendent Tho mas A. Jacob, about two hundred tons of cherries, were processed this year half of the total packed in a normal year. Next on the docket at the plant are lorn aloe which are mad. into paste for sal. to soup com-. pan:s throughout the country. A good nop of tomatoes this year will Insure a full scf.i.a at th. plant shortly. , |