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Show T f I V 1 '-. ;,';-.' ntlTT GOOD LIVING IN FIXZ UZlJ VOLUME 19 NUMBER 5 OREM, UTAH, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1951 PRICE 10 CENTS teva steel plamt fQ" fj? 0F UTAH'S 3 33 ! TOP PLAY PROGRAM I ..' i t " I -v ' ; : " v.'- ' " ' ! : i' i 1 tmJm tJ-- i ' L ) M ''" 1 if m i t r i Ulah Power and Light Company's new Hale steam-electric station located at the mouth of Provo canyon just east of 20lh NORTH TO 20lh SOUTH By O G- SEM1T Orem's Polio Drive was cli-maxed cli-maxed On Wednesday night with a novel 'porch-light' paraae in which members of the Orem t Junior Chamber of Commerce canvassed the city by automo- bile. Some of the city's small fry braved the cold winter night ito do much of the leg work ; knocking on doors and collect-rj collect-rj ing the contributions. The youngster who answered the in-jvitation in-jvitation of our lighted porch light looked mighty chilly when we opened the door, but he had a big grin on his face- You could tell he knew how important import-ant the gathering of funus to : fight Polio is, and he was willing will-ing to do his part. The Jaycees, i their young helpers, and Ed iWickman, Orem drive cnair-man, cnair-man, alT are deserving of praise f for the successful execution of I this program. ' Something New Added? Everyone is interested in halt-j halt-j ing tooth decay even dentists. . Now several Utah communities are studying the possibility of reducing tooth decay by the use ! of fluorides in culinary water I supplies. Several authoritative I reports have come out recently .indicating that substantial re- ductions in cavities can be re-i re-i alized through increasing the fluorine content of drinking water. I The Utah County Dental So- ciety has strongly advised the use of fluorines by cities nd has formally recommended that j the Orem city council institute I their use. Doubtless the adding I of fluorinating equipment to I Ortm's water distribution syst- em would up the cost of drink-I drink-I ing water somewhat, but would-I would-I n't most people be willing to I pay more for the dental pro- tection? f More Pared Roads !' So far this winter the Orem city road department under the supervision of Mayor J. W. Glllman hasntt been required I to spend much money clearing I the city's streets of snow Quite I a switch from the last year or I two. If we don't have any more now the rest ef the winter than we've had so far, maybe that money which wasn't used for snow clearing can be put into some paved roads. Orem citizens are becoming increasingly insistent in-sistent about starting a compre- nens ve road In Orem. paving program Mr. and Mrs. Maurice Mil-Jer Mil-Jer are the parents of a baby boy born Wednesday morning at the Utah Valley hospital. JJL- "1 NEW UTAH POWER HALE PLANT KEEPS PACE WITH AREA GROWTH This is the third in a series of features which is designed de-signed to acquaint Orem people with th? business and industrial establishments which are paying Orem's taxes and which are providing Orem's payrolls. The series will feature members of the Orem Chamber Cham-ber of Commerce boosters for the development of Utah's fastest growing city. By Hugh de Nagy Mrs. Orem Housewife could use her electrical appliances, including her refrigerator, her stove, her lights and toaster for 24 years on the amount of electricity el-ectricity produced in a single hour by the Hale Plant (formerly (former-ly called the Orem Plant) of the Utah Power and Light Company located at 8th North and 17th East. There are two units at the Hale Station. One is the original 17,000 KW unit and the other is the new 40,000 KW addition. Tht units can be operated either separately or in -combination. Since the completion of the new $7M million addition in May, 1950. the combined output of the two units can reach a maximum of 67,000 kilowatts per hour. At this rate, the plants would consume approximately one half ton of coal every minute, min-ute, or about 14 coal cars per day. According to Fred W. Kemper, Kem-per, superintendent, both units cost in the neighborhood of 10 million dollars- The first unit was built in 1936 and the new The units were built laxgely by Utah people and are operat-, ed by men from the surrounding surround-ing areas. j Large Payroll I The station now employs over 50 men who keep it running 24 hours a day. seven days a week. Included among the employes are operators, machinists, weld-! ers, chemists, millrights, clerks, i electricians and crane and bull-, dozer operators. I This station is part of a nuge , interconnected system furnish ing power from . the southern coal field up through the farming farm-ing communities, cities, industrial indust-rial areas and into northern Utah Ut-ah and southern Idaho. During the big frost up north several weeks ago the Hale Station was instrumental in preventing a total blackout because ot its huge producing ability. The Hale station was named after J. A. Hale, a Utah Power and Light Company vice-president- The new addition was bu:it here in order to further satisfy the electrical needs of Utah and this area in particular. The Utah Power and Light Co. is building other new plants and additions in order to keep ahead of the needs of the state and the country in the event of a national nation-al emergency. Orem. Put into service last summer, the new 44,000-kilowait eddiiion in the foreground was built at a cost of $71j million. Gicnt Coal Stockpile The station keeps about 25 000 tons of coal on hand in the giant stockpile on the west side of the plant. This coal is taken from hoppers under the coal cars, transferred to an over head conveyor belt by means of another belt and dumped on -the pile where a bulldozer spreads it out. Huge bunkers located at the top of the new addition keep coal on hand for the boil ers. The coal comes in slack form from as many as 15 different Utah coal companies. From the bunkers, it goes through large pulverizers where it is turned into a fine powder similar to flour. This is blown into the boiler which reaches 108 feet into the air. Temperatures in side the boiler reach as high as 2500degrees F. This heat turns the boiler water into steam whiih turns a turbine which in turn turns the generator. The new boiler can be operated on either coal or oil, but oil is used only for emergencies. 204 Foot Stack The ashes from the boileis go through a huge precipitator wnicn oy mecnanical and electrical elect-rical means, takes the fly ash and dust from the smoke which goes out through a 204 foot high stack. This collection of ashes goes into huge silos where it is dumped into a waiting railroad car for disposal. The cooling water for the sta- tion is taken from the Provo River via a canal at the rate of 50.000 gallons per minute. It is then returned to the canal with- out loss Not only the people from this area benefit from the plant but also miners, railroads, truckers, manufacturers and industries benefit either directly or indirectly. indir-ectly. Business Office The local office of Utah Power Pow-er and Light Co. is located at 8 h North and State Street at wh'ch place all the business activities ac-tivities for the area are handled. handl-ed. Horace Bean is the head service man for tne Orem office and Mrs. Rowena Clark is the office attendant. Robert L. Powell Pow-ell is also a service man for the Orem office. The expansion program of Utah Power and Light Co. in the Orem area is making a substantial sub-stantial contribution to the '-j a b -sty 1' Officials of Utah Power and Light Co. inspect Hale plant's control board from which its output of power is regulated. In the picture are J. A. Hale, left, UP&L vice president for whom the plant it named; George M. Gadsby, president; J. R. Hughes of Ebasco Services. Inc., plant's builder, and Fred Kemper, superintendent of Hale plant. OREM WOMEN PLAN PROGRAM ON CHILDREN'S LITERATURE A program on 'Children's Literature', under the direction of Mrs. Willard Yergensen, will be presented at the meeting of the Orem Women's club set for Wednesday, Feb. 7 at 3:30. Mrs. Leo Poulson will be in charge of the musical portion of the program. Mrs. Richard Wells will read the litany. Hostesses wil be Mrs. Bolos Abraham and Mrs. Charles Aiken. Tickets for the club's annual dinner dance on'sFeb. 22 will be distributed at the meeting Club members are asked to make suggestions to the nominating committee for the coming election elect-ion of officers. Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Louder Loud-er and family had as thsir dinner din-ner guests Mr. and Mrs. Andy Roberts and children, Mel and Kathy, frjm Tooele.. Utah. Fol-liwing Fol-liwing the dinner the evening was spent in visiting. rrrowth and development of the romniunity, and is an important factor in a bright outlooK for Orem's future. City Says: Clean Your Own Sewer Lines, So Sorry Orem homeowners with clogged clog-ged up sewer lines will no longer long-er be able to call on the city to alleviate this condition as result of action taken Monday night by the Orem city council. The city lawmaking body passed pass-ed an ordinance termed a protective pro-tective measure for the city' which provides that persons connected con-nected to the sewer shall vy a monthly service charge of 50 cents for maintenance of sewer trunk lines only. Maintenance i of the sewer lines from the main trunk to the house will be the homeowner's responsibility entirely. City officials were quoted asi saying the measure was passed inasmuch as in the past considerable consid-erable trouble has been sustained sustain-ed by the city in maintaining sewer lines with the cost being born entirely by the city. Often the sewer stoppage has been the result of negligence of the homeowner, they said. The new ordinance also requires re-quires persons undertaking excavations ex-cavations in city streets to post a $25.00 bond to guarantee the completion of street repairs. TWO NEW SCOUT COMMISSIONERS NAMED Lorin Mangum and Leon Hebertson Heb-ertson were appointed this week to serve as neighborhood Scout comm'ssio'ners in Orem stake. Mr. Hobertson will work with Scout troops in Vineyard, Vermont Ver-mont and Sharon wards. Mr. Mangum will assist with scout ing activities in Windsor, Gen eva and Orem First wards rasa V' " fcgHH'ii i )i - DAYLIGHT BURGLARY NETS $200 LOOT Plenty of nerve and a lack of money were combined this week in a desterate man wno siaeea a daylight burglary that is still baffling the police. An unidentified unident-ified man walked into an Orem service station on Saturday and fled with a cash register containing con-taining $200 in cash and checks. Utah and Salt Lake County officers were alerted to watch for the theif's automobile after he reportedly headed north on State Street following the theft. Gordon Duke, manager of the station located at 1638 North State Street, told police that wh'le he was busy in the rear of the building, an automobile, described as a late model two-tone two-tone sedan, pulled up and a man entered the station and carried the cash register away to his car C. J. Smith of Redmond, Utah spent several days here w'th his daughter and family, Mr. and Mrs, Lyle McDonald. PROCLAMATION WHEREAS, February 8, 1951, is the 41st Anniversary of the founding of the Boy Scouts of America, chartered by the Congress of the United States, as a program for all the boys of America, and WHEREAS, the Boy Scout Program has affected the lives of 17,750.000 American boys and men since 1910, and now has an active enrollment enroll-ment of 2,750,000 and WHEREAS, the Movement is engaged in a Crusade to "Strengthen Liberty" by giving giv-ing more boys a richer experience ex-perience and increase its usefulness use-fulness to the Nation and WHEREAS, the Boy Scouts of America, a great force for training youth in right character char-acter and good citizenship, marks its 41st Anniversary by a nation-wide clothing collection to meet emergency emergen-cy needs abroad, increased participation in Civil Defense De-fense and the promotion of conservation of the Nation's natural resources; NOW -THEREFORE, I. J. W. Gillman, Mayor of the City of Orem. in the State of Utah, do hereby proclaim the week of February 4tn to 12th as Boy Scout Week and urge our citizens to recognize the patriotic volunteer service being rendered to our community com-munity by the volunteer Scout Leaders, and to help, in all possible ways, to further fur-ther this wholesome youth program. IN WITNESS WHEREOF I have hereunto signed my name officially and caused tne seal of the City of Orem to be affixed, this 23rd day of January, 1951. J. W. GILLMAN, Mayor Boyd C. Dav:s was able to return to his teaching duties at Lincoln high school on Friday after nearly a week's absence following a heart attack the previous pre-vious Sunday. REPRODUCTIONS OF FAMOUS PAINTINGS SET FOR GENEVA SCHOOL SHOWING j Preparations are now under-i under-i way at the Geneva elementary j school for the presentation of an ' important cultural contribution to the people of the Orem-Gen-c va area, according to Principal Thorit C Hebertson who ann-; ann-; ounced today that a unique art ' exhibit in which 150 fine art 1 prints reproduced directly from the originals will be shown at 'he school February 13, 14. 15 and 16. The exhibition, I rmall admission to which a fee will be charged, is being held to raise money to finance the purchase of pictures for the school. The traveling gallery goes to various schools throughout the country It consists of 150 masterpieces I renracontinff iha Frpnrh Ttnlifln. Flemish English, Dutch, Spanish. Span-ish. German and American schools of art. Famous portraits, landscapes, marines, and pastor al scenes in the colors of the or iginal convases will be on dis play. Among the most famous art ists represented are: Gainsbor- i "e"- ", " - iviuruio, van xjvlk, napnaei, anu many others of the Old Masters while among the more modern are representative subjects from the brush of Ben Foster. Geor ge D Forest Brush, George In nes. Ernest Albert, Frank Du veneck, Gardner Symons, Bruce Crane, William Wyant, Harry Vincent, Robert Wesley Amick and Gustave Wiegand. At 7:30 each evening of the exhibit a special program will be held in the school auditorium in which reproductions of fam ous works of art will be shown on the screen through an opaque projector. School children will strike poses in several ot the well-known paintings on the stage. Following the program a , conducted tour will be made 1 through the school In charge of publicizing the event are Reed Moss and Mrs jean irowDriage, kia repres entative. OUm NATIONAL GUADD ACTIVATION SET TONIGHT Activation of Orem's long-promised National Guard unit will be accomplished at 7:30 p.m. tonight. Thursday, in the Provo armory, according: to Lt. Col. Glen A. Wright, commanding com-manding officer of the 1457th combat engineers. Adjutant General J. Wallace West. Utah National Guard rimmnndoi' and Col. Halht D. Edson, both of Salt Lake City, will be the top brass attending the activation ceremonies. Col. Edson will conduct the inspection of the unit. Organization of the Orem guard unit, plans for which were first projected here four years ago, was completed this week Young to Speak At Orem Stake Conference Sunday Elder Clifford E Young, assistant ass-istant to the council of the twelve, wfl represent general authorities of the LDS church at the Orem stake conference this weekend, President Walter R. Holdaway announced today. General sessions of the conference con-ference will be held in the Scera auditorium at 10 a.m. and 7:30 p.m. Priesthood leadership meeting will be held at 2 p.m. in Scera for all stake and ward priesthood leaders. Music for the morning session of the conference will be furnished furn-ished by the Vermont ward choir under the direction of Tennis Poulson. A ladies double trio from Vineyard w';l furnish special music for the evening session Halvor Clegg, 13 year old .'on of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph H. Clefig is home from the American Americ-an Fork hospital where he un-deiwent un-deiwent an appendicitis operation. operat-ion. Mr. and Mrs. Seth Rawl-inss Rawl-inss arc moving back to iheir home in Vineyard after spending spend-ing the winter in Provo. Mrs. Rawlings' health is greatly improved. im-proved. Bishop and Mrs J. Reed Eurgener, Mr. and Mrs- E. E. Twitchell and son Eph Ji. and Lloyd Louder attended the basketball bas-ketball game in Salt Lake City last weekend. SERVICES HELD FOR GA1SFORD INFANT Funeral services were conduc ted on Friday in the Olpin Mortuary for the infant son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert K. Gais-ford Gais-ford of Clearfield, Utah. Mrs. Gaisford is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W, M. Vernon of Orem. Or-em. Ek n V- Smith was the speaker speak-er at the services. Music was furnished by Mrs. Leo Ford and Mrs. Robert Holdaway, ac companied by Dixie Gordon. Interment was in the Lehi cemetery. t f'Zjt" I I !p 1 r ' U Js. w "' Shown hanging the first group of reproduction of the old masters mas-ters to be shown in an art exhibit February 13 to 16 at the Genera school are, left to right. Principal Thorit C. Hebertson. Mrs. Rev Ahman, chairman of the music committee; and Willard Luce, l charge of display. Local art pslrons and those interested in dTl- oping an appreciation for fine art are expected to attend the event. ( with Lt. Gne W. Hines. former urem resident now residing In Provo, named commanding officer, off-icer, and Master Sergeant Edward Ed-ward D. Durham of Orem named nam-ed first sergeant. The unit was designated as Company 'C of the 1457th combat engineers. Lt. Hines has been a member of the national guard for three years, two of which he has served ser-ved with the 1457th combat engineers en-gineers battalion at American Fork. He is employed at thfr Geneva Steel Co. as a metallurgical metal-lurgical engineer Sgt. Durham has resides in Orem for the past 10 years. He is a Lincoln high school graduate grad-uate and is attending the BYU at present where he is a senior majoring in public administration- He has been a member of the American Fork guard unit for the past two months. Serving with Lt. Hines and Sgt. Durham in the Orem unit are the following men: 2nd L. Eleroy H. West, executive officer; offic-er; Master Sgt. Clarence G. Miller, Mil-ler, St Floyd J. Terry, Sat. Don M. Walker, Cpl. Wesley E. Carter, Cpl. Harold R. Hardy. Pfc. John R. C'aley. Pfc. Robert C. Farrer. Pfc Lyle V. Thack-cr, Thack-cr, Pvt. Kenneth C Carroll, Pvt. John E. Denhalter, Rci. Elmer El-mer K. Bylund, Ret. Marvin HiRhee. Ret. Wayne P. Russon, net. Wendell G Russon, Ret. Leo V. Brown, Ret. Alton F. Giles, and Ret. Johnny R. Smith. 70 Man Strength Authorized strength for the Orem guard unit is 70 men, which goal is exepected to be met by the end of the year. For the time being drills will be held every Thursday night in the Provo armory, however General West has announced that funds are available for the construction of an armory in Orem. The Orem city council ' has already picked out a site for the armory at First North j and Fourth East Streets. As yet, however no definite amount has been allocated for the local guard building. Vacancies Open Lt Hines has announced that enlistments are now being accepted ac-cepted for the Orem guard unit. Men 17 to 26 years are eligible to join those 17 years old only with parents' consent. Pay for guardsmen for the weekly two-hour two-hour dril is equilavent to a full day's pay on active duty. It runs from $2 00 per drill to as high as $8.00 per drill depending depend-ing on rank. |
