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Show I ' VA STEEL PLANT hnnnfl HUB Of UTAH'S fJ H H j ' y fiiPvvv 1aawa 7iiryA (y?S7y x ? 11 uiv ii iix 1 1 f i 1 1 1 1 mux 1 1 i y r i k 1 i r y r-vMu .- i ? TOP PLAY PROGRAM GOOD LIVING IN FINE H0MZ3 " " ' VOLUME 19 NUMBER 9 OREM, UTAH, THURSDAY, MARCH 1, 1951 ' ' PRICE 10 CENTS v. T. - V , 1 Beaming behind the check stands of Park's Super Market are these 12 employees of the store. VI Eire Orem area residents. The group includes, left to right, Richard D. Park, owner and manag- r of the store; Mrs. Park. Everna Park, meat wr apper; Don Kemp, manager of the meat market; Virgil West, Glade Walker, Leo Ferguson, Kenneth Sackeit, Paul Bandley, Dave Kinser, Rex 3uke, and Floyd Newby. 'ark's Supor Market History is lame Made Success Story This is the sixth in a series of features which is designed de-signed to acquaint Orem people with the business and industrial establishments which are paying j Orem's taxes and which are providing Orem's payrolls. pay-rolls. The series will feature members of the Orem Chamber of Commerce boosters for ilie development develop-ment of Utah's fastest growing city. j Largest retail store in Orem is Park's Super Market swned and operated by Richard D. (Dick) Park, one of the city's youngest and most enterprising businessmen, and one of Orem's native sons. Park's Super Market, situated at 8th Xorth and State, started out as a fruit stand in 1944. Under Dick's supervision super-vision the fruit market expanded, and in 1946 became the modern market that it is now. And it is still growing. Dick has an ex; ansion pro; ram under way which .will enlarge his store by one-third again. It will add 3000 square feet to his already-spacious super marKet The grand opening for his enlarged en-larged store is set for the latter part of this month. I Dick was graduated from Lincoln high school where he was outstanding in student activities ac-tivities and athletics. He was a three-letter man for 1hree years. He was also a student at BYU. He began his business career by Operating a 23-acre fruit farm nd opening a fruit stand at the lite o his present store in 1944. He purchased fruit and produce locally and trucked it into the i f ,:':: ; ' , . " i&sisl 1: . ,; , - i in nr ' Shown rehearsino for the Orem stake Speech and Music Festival set for Scera Sunday night re, left to right, Glena Johnson, Ann Reynolds, Nadine Hales. MarJean Straton, Donna Stolworthy, and Nelda Ann Harward. choral reading. I i r. n.. a ., ... . - inymg ine reianonsnip neiween me --a- -- e reboot, left, these students of Spencer school stand in f-crt of the PTA seal end held letters which spell out the n"cs of the women who established the first PTA organization. organiz-ation. The cake in front has 26 candles to represent the 26 years of history of the PTA in Utah. Parents, teschers and students of Spencer honored the founders of PTA at a pro- 1 , i. i .ar?a t0 conduct a substantial re- tail trade. Early in 1946 he be-"an be-"an construction of his present market building and it was op--ned for business in November f that year. During the five years of its operation Dick reports re-ports that he has increased the volume of business each year, and with the increased shopping space and parking area being provided at his store, he expects to break all volume records this year. He was first in Orem t") ins all a self service meat department. de-partment. i a. Unmo rinht. und ... ' .;;; t; ,.i 1--,,- ijU I - t ' ? v Mrs. Dick Park is the former Nita Bone, also a student of Lincoln High and a resident of Pleasant View. They have four children. Associated with Dick in the operation of the market are Leo Fergusrn and Glade Walker, siore managers, and Don Kemp, manager of the meat department. depart-ment. Park's Super Market is a member of the Associated Grocers, Groc-ers, a corporation which is a buying and distributing agency which enables independent grocers groc-ers of Utah to buy trainloads of merchandise and thus maintain compe'i'ive prices with chain grocery stores. Park's Super Market also provides pro-vides an outlet for considerable quantities of locally produced fruit and vegetables. During the "rowing season of all locally-grown locally-grown fruits and vegetables he buys direct from the farmer. Li connection with the market's mar-ket's enlargement program '"h;ch will be completed late this mon'h Dick reports that he has purchased nearly an acre f property adjacent to his store which is being made into a parking park-ing area for the convenience of his patrons. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur For-sell. For-sell. Draper, visited at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Dexter Sunday. The Forsells are Mrs. Dexter's parents. Anna Lou Judd, Jewel Williams, The girls will participate in a gram last week. The croup above includes, left to right, Mrs. Jack Cameron, PTA president; Fenton Prince, Spencer prin-ci7-a'; Mrs. Edwin Aiken, program chairms-n: Melvin Bennett, LeAnn J&rman, Sheryl Lision, Eva Ann Heaps, Dale Judd, Karen Mansfield, Marie Terry, Earl Workman, Msxine Duke. Neal Bi?gs, Maureen Duke and Paul Smith. They are fourth and fifth graders. CITY STUDiES EXPANSION OF POLICE DEPARTMENT, STREET PAVING REQUEST Police matters and road problems were subjects of discussion discuss-ion at the regular meeting of the Orem city council on Monday Mon-day night. Orem Police Chief Ralph Peters appeared before the council coun-cil and outlined the expanding problems of the police department. depart-ment. He stated that a number of new problems have been a-rising a-rising recently in the department which have never come up before. Chief Teters said that an additional man on the force is necessary to adequately handle the job to be done. He requested the council to give immediate consideration to the appointment appoint-ment of another policeman. He also declared that the police pol-ice department is handicapped at the present time by having only one police car in service. He recommended that the city procure a new car immediately for th police so that two cars can be used at the same time. Councilmen agreed that the needs of the police force are increasing in-creasing and voted to study means of expanding the force. They also received a bid from a local automobile dealer for a new police car and made plans for a demonstration of it the next day. Street Widening In connection with the construction con-struction of the new elementary school at 11th South and Main street the council discussed the wilening of Main street to 60 feet between 8th South and '2th South streets; City Engineer Leonard V. Beckman displayed a map of the street area showing the location of buildings in relation rela-tion to the street widening program. pro-gram. Plans were made to vis- it the street on Tuesday to work out the details of the widening. The four-day double eliminat-Oiling eliminat-Oiling Petition ion tournament is being direct- A letter was read by Mayor J. ed by Lloyd Whitlock of Provo. W. Gillman from one of the pro- Parlell Peterson of Orem will perty owners on 8th East who assist him. had signed a petition last fall Season tickets are $2.00 for seeking oiling of the street from the tournament. General admis- Center street to 4th North. Act ion on the petition was request-j rd with the abutting property owners paying two-thirds and "the city paying one-third of the 1 cost. Th matter was tabled for future action. Request Heard , Sam Kitchen appeared before the council with the request that the council consider a reduction re-duction of the fee required of property owners to connect onto on-to the sewer line along State Street, City attorney H. Vern Wentz ruled that the price could not be changed unless the sewer ordinance was amended. The council agreed to discuss the proposed ordinance change. ' Mr. Beckman reported on a survey made to determine what portion of th Carterville Road lay within Orem City. The survey sur-vey had been ordered because the Utah county commission had designated one mile of this road for oiling this year, believing it to be entirely within the city. Mr. Beckman said that part of he road is in the city ana part is in the county. Mayor Gillman was instructed to write the county commission requesting he oiling of a full mile located within Orem City. MORDECAI JOHNSON SPEECH ISSUE STILL AVAILABLE Reader response to last week's fssue of the Orem-Geneva Time containing the speech of Morde- cai Johnson, made it the most popular edition of the paper ever ev-er printed. An additional edition of the paper was necessary to meet the dmrmd for copies of the speech, and scores of persons have expressed ex-pressed their appreciation for he opportunity to read it. Some copies of the speech are still a-vilcble. Region 6 M Men Hoop Tourney Here Next Week Orem City and Lincoln High school will be hosts to over 160 M Men and their coaches from Central Utah, and Eastern Colorado Colo-rado starting next Wednesday, when 16 teams of Divison 6 will begin their double elimination tourney at the Lincoln High school gym. i The games will be held Wednesday Wed-nesday through Saturday, with the finals set for Saturday evening. even-ing. Winner will enter the LDS all-church tournament along with district winners from all sections of the nation, Mexico and Canada. Sharon stake champions, Oak Hills ward will play at 5 p.m. on Wednesday against the winner win-ner of the Western States mission. miss-ion. Windsor ward, Orem stake champs, will play the runnerup of Alpine-Wasatch stake at 8 p.m. on Wednesday; and Vine yard ward, Orem stake runners- up, will play East Provo stake champs at 9 p.m. sion will be 50 cents except for !.he final nights. Tickets for the championship games are 75c. Children's tickets will be 25c. Championship and sportsmanship sportsman-ship trophies will go to. winners in those two divisions, according to Mr. Whitlock. He declared this week that the cooperation of Orem and Lincoln High school sch-ool people in being hosts to the 'ourney is very much appreciated appreciat-ed by directors of the tournar ment. The District 6 toursament is part of what is termed the world's largest basketball league. lea-gue. Nearly I0;000 M Men compete com-pete for the chance to represent their wards in all-church finals each year. OREM STAKE SPEECH-MUSJC SPEECH-MUSJC FESTIVAL SCHEDULED SUNDAY Final rehearsals were under way this week for the Orem stake Speech and Music Festival set for 7:30 p.m. Sunday in the Scera auditorium, according to .i:zabeth Guymon, stake MIA 'peech director, and Gilbert E. Childs, stake MIA music director. direc-tor. The festival will feature speech and musical numbers by individuals and groups from each ward in the stake. Glen Parsons and Demon Sel- man will debate the question: "Resolved that the proper age for marriage is 25 for men and 22 for women" Impromptu talks will be given by Lenn Shumway, Joy O. Clegg and Ray Louder. Elon Smith and Ray Peterson will give a demonstration street meeting. "I am speech,',' a choral reading, read-ing, will be given by Nelda Ann Harward, Anna Lchj Judd, Ann Reynolds, Donna Stolworthy, MarJean Stratton, Jewel Williams Wil-liams and Nadene Hales. Musical selections will include in-clude the following: "Bless This House," Geneva ward explorer quartet; "Come Unto Him," Vermont ward vocal duet; "Just A-Wearyin' For You', Vinyard ward quartet; "Clair deLune," Windsor ward vocal trio; "School Thy Feelings," Beverly .ard male quartet. During the program the ward speech and music directors will be introduced. HI COUNCfL ALTERNATES NAMED AT CONFERENCE Martin A. Johnson and Harry E. Faught were sustained as alt-: alt-: mates on the Sharon Stake high council at the Sharon stake conference held Sunday in the Scera auditorium. ... , .' .. , , , , President Henry D. Taylor of Sharon stake, who last Friday night was named chairmen of the Central Utah Welfare region of the LDS church. He succeeds President Victor J. Bird who has rerved in that pc6ition for the past three years. The Central Region in the largest region in the church. It includes the Des-eret Des-eret coal mine at Orangeville which is operated by the church as well as the slakes in Utah, Carbon and Emery counties. Orem Red Cross Workers Poise For Fund Drive Sparked by enthusiastic workers work-ers and nationwide publicity, local Red Cross workers rolled up their sleeves today and started work on the annual lund drive which will see Orem strive for the quota of $3400. Other Utah county quotas are Lehi. $1600; Amer'can Fork $2400; Pleasant Grove, $1280; Provo, $12,800; Springville, $3040; Spanish Fork, $2600; Payson. $200; Sanlaquin. $830 Heading up the carrpa'gn here are Mrs." Harold R. Knudson, chairman of the Red Cross for Orem; and Mrs. Ronald Adams Orem drive, chairman. Red cross leaders, pointing out that the nation's mount'ng military strength is creating in creased demands on the organ-izat'in organ-izat'in to train 20 million persons per-sons in first aid, instruct hundreds hun-dreds of thousands in home Jiursing and nurses aides; re-cru'ting re-cru'ting millions of blood donors and prepare for mass feeding, clothing, shelter, etc. Mrs. Adams reports that the city has been organized on a ward basis and that ward chairmen chair-men of the drive have been named as follows: Pleasant View, Mrs. T. J. Lewis; Windsor, Wind-sor, Mr. and Mrs. David Rowley Row-ley Jr.; Grand View, Mrs. Eric Sandstrom; Lake View, Mrs. Irwin Bunnell; Vineyard. Mrs. Harold Holdaway; Geneva, Mrs John E. Adams; Timpanogos, Mrs. Grant Rowley; L'ncoln, Mrs. Sarah Gordon; Sharon. Mrs. Wayne Aired; Orem First, Mrs. Don Clayton Jr.; Edge-mont, Edge-mont, Mr. and Mrs. Don Elliot; Beverly, Mrs .Grant Young; r' : w I ;i A- r "Got a tempersiture?" The nineteen high school &irls who have recently completed a Red Cross home rursing class at the Orem city hall under the direction of Orem Public Heal'h Nurse Betty Oldroyd know how to find out! The girls, all nwm Ti of Mrs. Moldawry's Home Living class at Lincoln Hiah schocl, have received Red Crors ce i.fictiei in home nursing follow:-,? .heir completion complet-ion cf the two weeks course. The course, designed to qualify the girls to la e re-e cf fick jrecple in the home, improvisinj equipment and making the patient comfortable, weg held in the cilv health room in the basement of the city hall. Shown left to right are: Dorothy Paulson, Doris Paulson, Frankie Healy, Dorothy Green. Mary Wilson, and Mrs. Belly Oldroyd. Orem Chamber Promote City's Tourney Spot Hangs On Tiger-Pioneer Battle Here Friday Lincoln High school's Tiger hoopsters prepared this week to write some athletic history in to the books and become the first squad ever to represent the Orem school at a state high n-hcol basketball tournament. The Tigers need only to turn back the Lrhi Pioneers in Friday's Fri-day's game, slated here, to capture cap-ture the runner-up spot in the Alpine division and become eligible eli-gible for the tourney berth. The game is set for 8 p.m. A fophomore tilt between the two rchools will precede the important import-ant battle. i Lincoln and Lehi are tied for second place in Alpine division standings, but the locals are favored fa-vored to win over the invaders on the strength of their 10-point victory over Lehi earlier in the eason at Lehi. Both teams have lost to the league-leading American Am-erican Forkers. Coach Evan Baugh brought meager budget which the local las boys back after a disappoint-1 group is now working with, ng early-season record, and thei Tigers have been impressive in The meeting was attended by .heir last-half games. j approximately 40 chamber Coach Baugh is expected to members and their wives. A. K. si art Tom Verbanatz and Carl (Lynn) Bullock, chamber presid-Rowley presid-Rowley at forwards, LaRel ent was in charge. Goulding at center; and Floyd Representing Geneva Steel Farley and Bill Clx at guards. First line reserves are Ray Gilli-ian, Gilli-ian, Richard Peterson, Lloyd Arvin and Jimmy Pyne. In a non-league tilt against Payson last Thursday, the Tigers won without difficulty. Scout Finance Head Urges Completion Of Local Drive L!onel Fairbanks. Orem Boy Scout finance drive chairman, loday called fjr an early completion com-pletion of the finance drive in the city and asked all organization organizat-ion finance chairmen to turn in their collectirns to him as soon as possible. Mr. Fairbanks said '.hat the annual fellowship meet-'ng meet-'ng of scouts in the area will be held March 24 in the Joseph Smith building. At that time all wards with drives completed will be given Gold Star awards, he said. Tommy Moon returned to his home Saturday after a seven week confinement in Salt Lake City hospitals with polio. Crest View, Mrs. Frank Stapley. Ward chairman for Hill Crest is yet to be named. Botj? Mrs. Knudson and Mrs. Adams attended the meeting at Ogden on Fr'day at which was present E. Roland Harriman, president of the national organ-zation. organ-zation. ' v.. , L , i' . V, 's 1 : 1 Urged to DsvolspmCnJ "There are unlimited oppoi-' oppoi-' unities to expand industry ir Orem. With Geneva Steel Utah's Ut-ah's greatest employer on your back doorstep and with the state revolutionizing its economic econom-ic life, Orem stands to become one of the state's key cities." declared Gus P. Backman, manager man-ager of the Salt Lake Chamber of Commerce on Friday at the annual membership meeting of the Orem Chamber. Mr. Backman declared that Utah's natural resources, its high class of well-qualified workers and the fact that Geneva Gen-eva Steel is the foundation of an expanding industrial economy, made the state in general anJ Orem inparticular certain to become be-come increasingly important a the nation's economy. He declared that any chamber of commerce must have adequate ade-quate finances in order to properly prop-erly stimulate commerce an(l commercial development. He indicated in-dicated that the Orem Chamber of Commerce should have a budget bud-get of approximately $8,000 per vear. and was shni-kpH nt th company at the meeting was L. F. Black, general superintend-, ent. He expressed pleasure at coming to Orem to make his home, and said that Geneva Steel was well satisfied with the part local communities of Utah I county are playing in their sir.'-cess.; sir.'-cess.; - , - I Warren Salmon, vice president, presid-ent, introduced each of the members mem-bers of the chamber and Grant Ekins made a financial report. Next project of the chamber, an Easter Egg Hunt for the children cf the city, was reported report-ed on by Vern Stroschein. He-outlined He-outlined plans for a hunt at th4 Orem City park. Program numbers included a Lincoln High school sextet in-, in-, eluding Joann Brake, Noreen ! Allred. Joan Perry, Nyra Colvin, Donna Ashton and Helen Hai-srn, Hai-srn, accompanied by Marian. Johnson; vocal solos by Moroni Jensen, accompanied by Eula Norton; and a reading by Colleen Coll-een Peterson. Mayor J. W. Gillman welcomed welcom-ed the group and spoke briefly. Ornal and Cleo Harding Roper of Vineyard are the parents par-ents of a baby girl born Wednesday Wednes-day at the American Fork ho pital. I Mrs. Nora Vernon is visit- . ing at the homes of her sons, , Orson and W. M. Vernon of Or-1 Or-1 em and Lavon Vernon of Provo. |