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Show and J itnv. .1 ' iatni seati rl -ill ...J MVCULTURf iNOu:Tir THURSDAY, AUGUST 17, 1950 VOLUME 18 NUMBER 34 PRICE FIVE CENTS wxtm la Stpo;' fayk licti to beiV hangt eryoif W, e fc ,&( Mid 12 ffJON PTA MEET JSET FOR ( nnd OOoVor 1 Oilin H M 1 1 Karri n t ft . D A - . -n ki-gui ai sf.ou a.m. wun the first general session at 10 a.m. in the school auditorium. Supt David Mitchell of the Al- .1 100 parent and teacher "prs school personnel, anc f-Vof the state PTA organ; ion are expected 10 auent annual PTA Region II con- f va elementary school, Ll to Mrs. Willard Yer- ;" region director, gntionjor the eonfer- em Schools Get Lift During 2 ;ummer Months Lincoln high school s resouna-l, resouna-l, hall ways are a thing of the tt as a result m. ....-r- . v.o cummer months n minus , wund-deademng wall board Ue halls The halls and the mnasium have been acoustic-as acoustic-as part of the re-decoration .Uamat the high school. I',, ventilation facilities were 0 installed in the gym. ( a, Sharon school a new stok-Vb, stok-Vb, been installed and sewer Cation made in addition to decorating. At the Union ihcol new steps have been add-i add-i at the Geneva school land-aping land-aping has gone forward duf-;, duf-;, the summer and some of the Cms have received acoustical Teatment. Lindon school has :n given a new septic tank and redecoration. I Construction of the addition it the Page school is expected t be completed by Christmas. Hie new portion of the building 'till add a kindergarten and &st grade room, kitchen and iinchroom-activity room facilities facilit-ies and additional room for offices, off-ices, storage and health room. All the improvements have been under the direction of frank Woffinden, superintedent oi building for the Alpine school iistrict Ibnald Hansen Sets Recognition 'At Ohio University I Ronald Hansen, son of Mr. ad Mrs- Leo Hansen of Edge-iont, Edge-iont, is receiving recognition !or the work he is doing in the Wd of speech pathology, ac- rarding to recent press releases Sum Ohio State university, where Hansen is doing graduate .work Hansen is working with Dr. John W. Black, director of the speech science laboratory at jOhio State university, in exper-,aents exper-,aents designed to improve plane to ground, plane to plane jand plane to ship communications. communicat-ions. ,The experiments were des cribed in the daily newspaper KUlumbus, Ohio. Hansen was graduated from Lincoln high school where he as active in FFA work, serving president of the group. He ws awarded a scholarship at USAC for his work in vocational vo-cational agronomy and follow-5 follow-5 his graduation from Utah fete was given an assistant- at Ohio State. He is work-V work-V now for his doctor's degree. Hansen, with his wife, the fmer Merle Carter, daughter Mr. and Mrs. Austin Carter. s at Columbus with their o children. SCHEDULE NNOUNCED FOR RA POOL fora pool will be open to the ic from 11:30 a.m. to 10 )n. during the rest of the sum-months, sum-months, it was announced by Victor C. Anderson, fa manager. The additional open time for Wbhc swimming is made poss-e poss-e because of the completion s week of the chldren's re-Uon re-Uon program which has ut-"d ut-"d the morning hours. Pool is closed on Sundays. .Handicraft Exhibit itatScera rriday, Saturday ui of the Scera-Commun-? handicraft program will be 4: .lted Friday and Saturday ms at, the Scera lounge, wording to Mel Briggs, direct-' direct-' 'he summer program. , ne exhibit will include sail J,Vlngs' lockets, plastic it-,':' it-,':' blrd houses, all types of ., ring apparel, kitchen de-' de-' s and novelty items made by ;"ungsters seven to 12 during ", summer program. . charge of the handicraft partment is LaMar Burnett. m Cox has assisted. pine School district will give the address of welcome and Mrs. Charles Walker, Salt Lake, pres" ident of the Utah Congress of Parents and Teachers, will deliver de-liver a special message to the delegates. At noon a luncheon will be served in the school cafeteria under the direction of Mrs. Alice Al-ice Jones.-Mrs Ruth Vine Tyler, Murray, will speak on the PTA nation building program. At 2 p.m. departmental work i.s scheduled for all. special committees com-mittees of the PTA. .Mrs. Don Taylor, Provo, immediate im-mediate past, director of the region re-gion is helping to plan the "program. Vineyard Drops First Tilt in Division Play Vineyard ward, Orem stake's representative in the District 6 LDS church softball .tourney, was dumped from the championship champ-ionship flight Wednesday riight in first round tilts of the tournament tourn-ament held at the. Orem City park. The Vineyard ward club dropped their first game to Midway Mid-way of Wasatch stake. 3-1, in one of the best games of the first round. In other first round games Pioneer ward of Provo defeated Pleasant Grove Third-24-6; and Lehr Third defeated Provo's Park ward, 8-5. Other first round games are set ' for Thursday. The local boys Collected only two hits off the fireball Midway pitcher, whiie Ken. Wiiliams gave up seven hits. The locals also committed three errors. Vermont ward is the other local team in the district tourney. tourn-ey. Their first round game is set for 7:30 tonight (Thursday) against Wymount of Provo. I i ? Vernon Slroschein Vet Purchases Shoe Repair Shop Here Vernon Stroschein, war veteran vet-eran who spent three years, three months and 10 days in Japanese prison camps and who learned the shoe repair trade in the prisons, has purchased Jay's Shoe repair shop in the Qrem-Geneva Times building and will be open for business on Saturday. ; ' Mr. Stroschein and his wife moved to Orem one month ago from Chehalis, Wash, where he was associated in a shoe repair was stationed in the Philippines Phil-ippines when war broke out in 1940 and was captured on Bat-aan Bat-aan He escaped to Corregidor but 'was imprisoned again when that fortress fell, and was taken to Mukden, Manchuria. During his years as a prisoner of war he learned the shoe repair trade by repairing shoes for tne prisoners. Mr. Stroschein recalls that he was liberated five years ago today to-day by the Russians. Following his return to the states he was hospitalized for eight months to recover from the effects of the imprisonment and then began working at his trade at Chehalis. Mr Stroschein is anxious to establish a growing business n Orem and pledges himself to turn out guaranteed work and to keep regular shop hours. He plans to be in his shop from a.m. to 5:30 p.m six days per week. t Iff p! m " -' i t ""1 r r f : r . i : i i ; 1! 'v I I ! i : $ !' i I f ' i ,!!xf - ft I ' I I - r;1 New Building, Payroll Eihe Seen in Geneva Expansion The recently completed $125,000 Vineyard ward LDS chapel will be dedicated in special ler-vices ler-vices slated for 7:30 p.m. Sunday, accordng to Bishop Taylor Allen The dedicatory address and prayer will be given by Elder Ezra Taft Benson of the Council of the Twelve. Other speakers besides Bishop Taylor and Apostle Benson will include President Walter R. Holdaway of Orem Stake and Mrs. Delia Stone. Vineyard ward Relief Society president. Howard How-ard Anderson will direct the Vineyard ward choir and Mrs. Helen Allen wll furnish organ music. mus-ic. . ' The chapel is the second which Vineyard ward has completed in the last 11 years. In December, Decem-ber, 1939, the ward dedicated a new chapel which was sold to the government in 1942 to make room for the Geneva Steel plant. CLASSMATES MEET FOR REUNION . ' . J .Thirty-three girls of the 1941 graduating class of Provo high school held a dinner party in Salt Lake City recently- Some of the girls had not met since graduation and all enjoyed renewing re-newing old acquaintances. Norma Jackson of Edgemont and LaVera Christensen of Orem Or-em were in charge of notifying members -of the group in this area. Another reunion is planned for the near future. to include all members of the graduating class. Mr. and Mrs Earl Williams are the proud parents of a baby girl, horn Aug. 8. School District Lists Teachers For Orem Area Teacher placements- for Lincoln Lin-coln High school and the area's elementary schools were announced ann-ounced this week by D. A. Mitchell, Mit-chell, superintendent of Alpine district schools. Five new teachers have been named to teach at Lincoln High school to bring the teacher personnel per-sonnel to 37. Kent Watts and Mario Bussio, former Lincoln students, have been named to the faculty, along with Wes Barry, Bar-ry, David C. Jones and Shirley R. Loveless. Watts will teach history and English, Bussio will teach agriculture and farm shop work, Barry will handle instrumental instru-mental music and mathematics, Jones is assigned to history and English, and Loveless will teach agriculture. The school program will get under way Sept. 5 when will be conducted a teachers' institute and workshop for all faculty members of the district at Lehi. General sessions of the institute instit-ute will be held for elementary teachers at the Geneva school oh Sept. 6. Classwork will begin be-gin for elementary students on Thursday, Sept 7, and high school classwork will begin on Friday, Sept. 8. Named on the' Lincoln High faculty, in addition to the new teachers, are the following: A. P. Warnick, principal; L. B. Bennett, assistant principal; Evan Baugh, basketball and mathematics, Mary Lou Baxter, English; Edgar Booth, industrial arts; Mel Briggs, track and science; Frank Buffo- business; LaMar C. Burnett, art; Gilbert Childs, chorus and instrumental music; J. Erval Christensen, type; Thomas Cordner, library; Boyd C. Davis, social science and eugenics; Robert Dowdle, history and English; John M. Freckleton, English and Journalism; Jour-nalism; Quinn A. Hatch, English Eng-lish and history. Marjorie Holdaway, foods; Harold Knudsen, math, and science; sci-ence; Hilda Knudsen, clothing; Ralph B. Ladle, English and history: LeRoy Loveridge, math; John S. Lewis, biology and boys counselor; Florence Muhl-estein, Muhl-estein, physical ed.; Frank Newman, New-man, speech and government; Parlell Peterson, physical ed.; Sally Jeanne Ralph, English and girls counselor. Iva Reynolds, history and English: Eng-lish: Thorval Rigby. geography; toda T. Stone, industrial arts; Carl Swenson. chemistry; Elvis SEAGULL GIRLS ENJOY CANYON HIKE Seagull girls of Lincoln ward and their leader, Anna Millet, enjoyed a hike in Provo canyon recently. They spent the morning morn-ing exploring Bridal Veil and Upper Falls. Later in the day they gathered gather-ed at the home of Mrs. Agnes Pace for a tasty lunch prepared by the girls. Mrs Pace told of her childhood experiences and the organization of the first LDS Primary. She displayed handicraft handi-craft items made during her lifetime. Girls present were Karen Terry, Lorna Gordon, Linda Benson, Kathryu Wallace, Anita An-ita Dickerson, Glenda Richards and Gwen Robbins. -Anna Loui-Judd, w,ho ifr spending the summer in ' St. George, spent the weekend in Orem. OREM FIRST WARD No meetings will be held in the ward on Sunday due . to stake conference. Ward members are invited to attend the ward reunion on August 25. The children will be entertained from 3 to 5 p.m. at the city park. Games, music and refreshments will be enjoyed. en-joyed. In the evening the adults will gather at the chapel for an evening of fun, eats and dancing. danc-ing. The theme of the party will be "Hi. Neighbor " Baptismal services are sched uled for August 27. Parents of children eligible for baptism are asked to get in touch with the bishopric. On Sept. 1 the schedule for ward meetings will be changed. Sunday School will begin at 9,30 a m. and sacrament meet mg at 5:30 p. m. ry, speech and English; Elroy R. West, math; J. Leslie Wright, science; Glenn Zimmerman, football and health. Geneva elementary school teacher placements were as follows: fol-lows: T. C Hebertson, principal; princi-pal; Emily A- Pederson, Lois W. Johnson, Beth Brown, Janet Clegg Sundblom, Enid M. Heat-on, Heat-on, Mayme M. Wells, Reva W. Ahman, Emma Ann Bigelow, Josepnine W. Wentz, Fern F. Dennis, Grant H. Elliott, Kenneth Ken-neth R. Whitwood. Elda B. Jackson, Jack-son, Willard Ray Luce, Barbara Ebenstein, Reed Moss and Fred Adams. Lindon School: Elwood Baxter, Bax-ter, principal; Mariam J. Humphries, Hum-phries, Slyvia T Peterson, Mary S. Chapman, Thelma Martell, Norma J. Hales, G. Dale Burgess, Bur-gess, Robert J- Emal, and Ford M. Paulson. Sharon: Ivan Perry, principal; princi-pal; Sadie Ogden, Nelda Crow-ther, Crow-ther, Ina C. Page and Donald G. Wilcox. Page: Marvin M. Allen, principal; prin-cipal; Evelyn K. Paxman, Florence Flor-ence P. Rigby, Myrtle T. Cochrane. Coch-rane. Evelyn M. Thompson, and John M. Nicol Spencer: Fenton J- Prince, principal; Lucille R. Preston, LuDeane W. Janson, Grace Guy-mon, Guy-mon, Helen T. Wentz, Bethel W. Allred, Jean R. Briggs, Keith D. Horton, Reed Moss. Union School: Earl A. Beck, principal; Nelda Rasmussen, Marie G. Bennett, Lois N. Jen sen. Merle Christiansen, James B. Terry, vocal music; L. L. Ter- K. Williams. The A.R,T,S, 4-H club of Pleasant View held a meeting at the home of Carma Obray on Tuesday. The girls worked on iheir sewing project, which is to be completed by next week when the final meeting of the season will be held. Light refreshments re-freshments were served by the hostess to Carol Gleason, Betty Clark and their leader, Earlene Foote. Dairy Queen Opens New Store Here Iienson to Speak At Orem Stake Conference Sunday Elder Ezra Taft Benson of the Council of the Twelve will represent the LDS general authorities at the Orem stake quarterly conference set for Saturday and Sunday, President Presid-ent Walter R. Holdaway announced ann-ounced today. Priesthood leadership meeiti ing will be held at 8 p.m. Saturday Sat-urday in the Sharon seminary. At 9 a m Sunday Elder Benson will meet in the seminary building build-ing with the stake presidency, high councilmen. bishoprics and stake mission presidency. The first general session is slated for 10 a.m. in the Scera auditorium and the concluding general session will be held in the auditorium at 2 p.m. MuvSic for the sessions will be furnished furnish-ed by the Orem stake Relief Society chorus. Stake members are invited to the dedication of the Vineyard ward chapel at 7:30 p.m. where Elder Benson will give the dedicatory ded-icatory address. t A new Dairy Queen store, located lo-cated at 1st North and State, was formally opened this week, according to S. J. Thayne, proprietor. Store hours for the new home of "the cone with the curl 'on top" are from T0"a.mTTd 11 p.m. Expansion of Dairy Queen has been rapid. Three years ago, there were only 21 Dairy Queen stores. Today there are 800 locally-owned stores in 619 cities of 42 states. Kirk A Journey, Executive Secretary of the Dairy Queen National Trade Association Inc., announced recently re-cently that an additional 400 stores will be opened this year in the United States, the Phill-ipines, Phill-ipines, Central and South America. Amer-ica. Dairy Queen is a fresh-frozen, whole milk and sweet cream food. Its nutritional value comes from the non fat solids containing contain-ing the protein, lactose, minerals miner-als and riboflavin found in fresh, fluid milk. Founders of Dairy. Queen pioneered the current sanitary methods of manufacture and distribution of the product. This method utilizes a patented freezer which freezes and dispenses dis-penses Dairy Queen in one operation oper-ation while holding the temper ature constant. Because of this method, Dairy Queen is fresh-frozen fresh-frozen only seconds before it is served. Dairy Queen will be available in cones, as well as various ilav ored sundaes, malts and shakes. Quarts and pints in take-home cartons can also be purchased. Boat Regatta Set Monday at Scera Pool A brat regatta which will feature the performances of ov er 200 model sailing craft Is on the docket for the Scera pool at 9:30 a.m. Monday, The regatta is the final activity activ-ity of the Scera-Community handicraft program under the fdirection - of LaMar Burnett, as sisted by Bill Cox. and will see the boats sailed and judged Makers of the boats are the two to three hundred youngsters, seven to 12, who have attended handicraft classes during the summer Judging will be done in three classes. Youngsters seven and eight will compete, nine and 10 year olds will compete, and youngsters 11 and 12. Mel Briggs, director of the summer program, reports that there will be no bus seivice Monday- Youngsters with boats will dress for swimming and will be able to swim following the regatta. Regular pool prices will be in effect. The public is invited to enjoy the regatta. Also slated for completion this week is the Scera- Com munity swim program which has been conducted during the summer months. Under the dir ection of Joyce Wood the swim ming tests rave been conducted all week with achievement a wards in swimming going to a fine percentage of the youngst ers for progress In swimming Celebrating the third anniversary ann-iversary of the opening of the Orem telephone office, Donna Mae Sandstrom, one of the first crew of operators presented a large birthday cake to chief operator op-erator Mrs. Elma Hall and the girls. The cake was decorated with a miniature telephone and three candles. Reed Christensen from Richfield Rich-field visited at the home of his aunt, Blanche Christensen on Saturday. He is a member of the Richfield Riding Club and rode in the parade in Provo on Saturday. PRIMARY GIRLS SOFTBALL TEAM STAGES PARTY Following their softball game on Tuesday evening, members of the Lincoln ward Primary girls ball team surprised their leaders, Anna Millet and Donna Chase at a party The girls defeated Timpanog os. 34-22, to become league champions. The group met at the Elvis Terry home and enjoyed games and refreshments, team members mem-bers present were Janice Edwards, Ed-wards, Linda Benson, Kathryn Wallace, Sherrle Booth, Glenda Richards, Karen Terry. Maxine Duke, Anita Dickerson, Marilyn Wallace, Mary Jane Duke. Gwen Robbins and Maurine Duke. Establishing of steel fabricating plants in Central Utah even automobile and aircraft factories waa predicted for the area this week upon the heels of (the announcement Tuesday that Orem's Geneva Steel plant would expand its facilities to produce hot rolled sheets an expansion estimated es-timated ito cost atiproximately $25,000,000. Dr. Wnlther Mathesius, president of Geneva steel, ann ounced Tuesday that the plant would proceed with the in stallation of additional facilities to make possible the pro duction of 100,000 tons of hot rolled sheets annually. He said that the program embraced the erection of a new building at Geneva and that the operat ion was planned for readiness by mid summer of 1951. The new facilities, he said, would provide jobs for 50 new employees. em-ployees. He said that the ex pansion was being made in view of the growing need of sheets for defense and commercial use. "It shall be our earnest en deavor to do our best to make additional quantities of hot rolled roll-ed sheets available at the earliest earli-est possible time for defense or other projects in the west. Geneva Gen-eva Steel is anxious to do its purt toward satisfying the present pres-ent demand for steel. Experts have estimated that western users of rolled sheets spend at least $3,000,000 annually ann-ually on freight in order to procure pro-cure steel from the Chicago area. The thickness of the sheets contemplated makes them useable use-able for such things as tanks, furnaces, truck bodies and pipe products. The new process will probably not, at present, in crease the over-all output of the plant as the rolling mills are now using the entire open hearth tonnage plus about 4000 tons shipped In monthly from the west coast. Columbia Steel, another subsidiary sub-sidiary of U. S. Steel, at Pittsburg. Pitts-burg. Calif , announced simultaneously simult-aneously its plan to increase its production capacity. New facilities facil-ities there will enable that plant to increase its production of both tin mill products and sheets. These additions will increase the working force at the plant by some 800 employes. - - . i J George Stratlon STRATTOIJ TO HEAD UTAH COUNTY CIVILIAN DEFENSE J. George Stratton, former Orem City councilman, was named coordinator of Utah county's civilian defense pro1 gram last week by the county commission, acording to Burton H. Adams, commission chairman. chair-man. A prominent fruit farmer and active civic leader, Mr Stratton has been twice presid ent of the Orem Chamber of Commerce. Duties of the newly-named coordinator will be to work with the county commission In selecting heads of the several divisions of civilian defense Including In-cluding medical, health, policing, polic-ing, fire, relief and housing Plans call for each city in Utah county to organize a local civilian defense group to work in conjunction with the county set up. Representatives from Utah county communities are slated to meet with Mr. Stratton and the county commission on Aug. 31 to discuss the civilian defense de-fense program. Mr- and Mrs Joe Slade of Lyman. Wyoming and Mrs. Newman visited relatives in Orem on Monday, Mr. and Mrs. Orlo Gouging Goug-ing and children, Bert. Zo ar.J Maisie. visited in Henriville over ov-er the weekend. Mr. and Mrs. R A. Sandstrom Sand-strom attended the Thomas reunion re-union at Salem Park on Sunday. OREM FLOWER SHOW TO OPEN HERE SATURDAY; MANY ENTRIES DUE The activity room of Lincoln high school will be the scene of the Orem Garden Club annual flower show slated for Saturday and Sunday, according to Whit Watts and Paul W. Carroll, show chairmen. The show annually attracts hundreds of people from all over the. stitc On the opening day entries will he received from 7 to to a.m. Placement and classification will be completed between 10 and 11 a.m. and judging will be done at 12 noon. The show will be open to the public at 2:30 p.m. on Saturday and will close Sunday night. Orem, Sharon All-Stars Named All-star teams from Sharon and Orem stakes were named this week by team managers and are scheduled to play on August 24 at 8 p.m. The ail-star game will be preceded by a game between the Pleasant View Junior M Men and the winner of the Orem stake Jr. M Men league at 7 pm. Managers of the Orem stake all star team will be Leonard Madsen, Vineyard and Lafe Harris, Windsor. Named as team members were Harding, Vineyard Vine-yard and Crandall. Vermont, catchers; L. Swenson, Windsor, Loveridge, Sharon, and Beck-man, Beck-man, Geneva, first base; Colyer, Pleasant View, second base; K. Madsen. Vineyard, third base; Jarman, Windsor, shortstop; R-Hansen, R-Hansen, Vermont, V. Clegg, Vineyard, and Baxter, Windsor, outfielders; Williams, Vineyard, Miller, Pleasant View, and Fountain. Geneva, Pitchers (restricted (re-stricted to 3 innings each.) Sharon stake all-star team members are Burr, Grand View, and Soffe, Oak Hills, catchers; Judd, Timp, and Balser, Grand Vew, first base; Harding, Grand View, second base; J. Pino, Grand View, third base; Blay-cock. Blay-cock. Timp. shortstop; Taylor, Oak Hills, Bradshaw, Timp, Stubbs, Lincoln, Griffiths, Grand View. Paulson, Lake View, outfielders; L. Edwards, Lincoln, F. Pino. Grand View, and S. Johnson, Lake View, pitchers. Managers of this team will be the winner and runner-up runner-up of the Sharon stake league. 'Arthur Gaeth Sets (Talk Thursday at . Lincoln Auditorium Arthur GKaeth, former faculty fac-ulty member at BYU and network net-work news commentator and foreign correspondent during the war. will speak in Orem Thursday, August 24 at the Lincoln high school auditorium, under the sponsorship of the Utah Farmers' Union, it was announced an-nounced today by Martin Johnson, John-son, manager of Mt. A Lake. Mr, Gaeth is a professional lecturer and considered one of America's best informed students stud-ents of conditions in the Balkans. Balk-ans. He will speak on the world situation and will discuss co-ops and the farmers union program. The meeting is set for 8 p.m. The meeting here wll be one in a series he will give in Central Cen-tral Utah during the next ten days. Gaeth intreviewed Marshall Tito in 1946, he covered the creation of the United Nations, he covered the war trials in Germany Ger-many and has been Mutual's Washington correspondent During Dur-ing 1948 he took a flying trip around Europe and has had special assignments in nearly every country of Europe and Asia. He left radio early this year to become field director for the National Farmers union. He hopes to devote his energy to organizing family-type farmers, creating cooperatives and building build-ing enterprises that will help to improve the lot of Utah farm families- The meeting next Thursday is free to the public. Sue Finlayson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs- F. L. Finlayson of Provo, became the bride of Kent Patten, son of Mr. and Mrs. Stanford Patten on Wednesday at the Mati temple. |