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Show UNIVERSAL I-HC2CEJUIIN& COKP. 1A E CICY, UTAH f1 Vu: W ;(J f : : J' r ..ir plant nnnnn hub of utah's VOLUME 28, NUMBER 18, Thursday, May 5, 1955 Orem, Utah SUBSCRIPTION 3.00 PER .YEAR PRICE 10 CENTS I ' Jb.hi HI HI I '? MvW fa L ---'.va STEEL &ttm - eneba 27 New Homes And Four Commercial Bldgs. Permits Authorized During Month Of April The Orem April building report compiled by Lloyd Louder, city building inspector, shows a grand total of $364,950 as compared with a March total of $2,236,700 which included the Orem high school building figure. Twenty-seven new homes, one duplex, and seven - additions to residences were authorized during April for a residential total of $342,500. Four permits were given in the commercial division for a total of $1(5,500. A $5,000 addition was authorized to the building owned by Charles E. Rohbock and occupied oc-cupied by the Orem-Geneva Times and the Orem Shoe Shop at 538 So. State. The newspaper plant will be expanded to the rear and the room now occupied by the shoe shop. New quarters will be provided on the north lor a combined leathercraft and shoe repair shop for the Orem Shoe Shop. Elwood Sundberg at 495 South State has permission to build a $10,000 addition to the Olpin Mortuary; Mor-tuary; Stein and McClintock is building a $1,000 addition at 383 No. State; and a $500 fruit stand authorization, was given to Keith Gurr at 904 South State. Seven garage permits and one barn permit were issued for a total of $5,950. In the residential division " a $14,000 duplex authorization was given to Brady Dirker, 359 East 200 So. Street. Other home authorizations au-thorizations were as follows: Wm. Davis, 612 N 400 East, $1,000 addition; ad-dition; Central Builders, 765 W 650 North, $9,000; LaVar Hooley, 862 S 800 East, $4,000 'addition; Richard Cooper, Orlean Terrace, $14,000; J. E. Adams, 208 W 4th South, $13,000; V. F. Short, 75 N 800 West, $10,000; Q.- Elder & Sods, 276 N 720 West, $15,000; J. D. Pyne, 585 N 800 E, $11,000; Carlos Roberts, 210 N 800 East, $14,000; LeLan Gordon, 847 N 350 East, $4,000 addition; C. L. Burn-ingham, Burn-ingham, 791 Woodmore Drive, $12,000; Reed L. Stone, 317 East 400 So., $12,000; Tri-Co Builders, 710 West 255 North, $10,000; E. E. Lindqulst, 24 East 1200 South, 5io,ooo; stein McClintock, 466 North 400 East, $12,000; Woodrow JJraper, 1301 N 50 East, $7,000. Melvin Laird, 1044 South 800 East, $12,000; Kenneth Ludlow, B75 s 500 East, $9,500; Marion J. Clark, 735 East 1200 South, $15,-000; $15,-000; Richards Adams, 834 S 150 West, $12,000; A. J. Gleason, 717 .East izoo South, $12,000; Richard Casper, 1775 S 450 East. $11,000: T. J. Varley, 138 S 400 East, $20,-000; $20,-000; Ralph Handly, 1275 W 1600 North, $2,000 addition; V. F. Short, 35 W 800 North, $11,500; LaMar Memmott, 387 400 North, $1,000 addition; L. E. Burr, 492 W 165 South, $7,500; Paul H. El- lertsen, 48 W 500 North, $12;000. Boyd Collings, 86 N 800 West. $10,000; Rueben Willard, 1433 N WW west, $4,000 addition: Stein McClintock, 1186 South 800 East, $8,000; Max T. Pyne, 15 E 1200 South, $12,000; and Harold Wal ton, 350 E 1864 S, $10,000. New Subscribers, Bless 'Em LeRoy T. Holdaway, Canada Max Broadhead, Provo ' Marlow R. Harston, Orem Sidney M. Russell, Orem Grant V. Maxwell, Orem William Dalebout, Orem D. C. Bishop, Orem Renewals Leland Wooton, Orem FAMED NEW YORK SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA A huge throng of Central Utahns is expected to attend the New York Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra concert at the BYU Field-, house Thursday, May 12. The concert will begin at 8:19 p.m. Music lovers will be privileged to tee in action the great progidy H 0 TREE PLANTING CEREMONY tion of Garden Clubs and other Utah garden notables paid tribute to Melvin D. Wallace, prominent horticulturist and hybridizer, for his contribution to Utah flower culture at a recent tree planting ceremony held in the Orem City Park. Upper Photo City Manager O. V. Farnsworth provides school children from the Sharon School an opportunity to help plant one by the garden association. Bottom Photo Featured dignitaries in the ceremony ,were Mrs. Theo Kendall, president of the Utah Association of Garden Clubs, M. worth; president of the Orem POW-VOW OF SOFTBALL MANAGERS TO LAY FINAL PLANS FOR FIELD LIGHTING PROJECT Kick-off date for the city-wide ' scrip tion cost of the Times is fund raising drive designed to $3 per year. This amount would finance the lighting of the new City Softball field has been set for Saturday. Conducting the drive, which is co-sponsored by the Orem Junior Chamber of Commerce and the Orem-Geneva Times, will be members of local church Softball teams. A pow-wow of all Senior M-Men M-Men softball managers and Jaycee Jay-cee representatives will be held Friday night at the City Hall at j 6 p.m. to lay final plans for ! house to house canvassing of all ! residences located within the confines con-fines of the Scera recreational area. As a climax to the drive mere will be a one night all-out u..ve to be conducted Tuesday even- ing. May 17. The drive will be in the form April 29 of a subscription campaign where Girl to Gerald and Frances by the Orem-Geneva Times has James Pyne , offered to aid the softball light- Boy to Don E. and Dixie Muring Mur-ing project by contributing half phy James of the one year subscription cost April 30 to the city project. Boy to John and Mae Rlchens Free Uniforms The ward selling the highest percentage of subscriptions would receive free uniforms for their team or a cash sum of equivalent equiva-lent value, should their team al ready have uniforms. The sub- 1 c4 Officers of theVrtah Associa- of four Linden trees contributed D. Wallace, and Mrs. O. V. Farns Garden Club. be divided, with $1.50 to go to the lighting project and $1.50 to the paper. In addition, a cash bonus of 30 cents will be awarded to each ward for every subscription sold. WHO'S NEW Utah Valley Hospital April 28 Girl to Clyde W. and Esther Hansen Asay Martinez May 1 Girl to Jack and Helen Keller Higbee Girl to Laird and Helen Jack Billings May 3 Boy to Rolf A. and Ingebourg Arnold Robison of the podium, Guido Cantelll, who has been guest conductor of the Philharmonic for each season since 1951. The famous 104 piece orchestra will also appear in the Salt Lake Tabernacle on May 11 under the sponsorship of the McCune School of Music and Art Carl W Buehner Addresses East Sharon Conference East Sharon Stake membership was in attendance at the morning session when Carl W. Buehner' of the Presiding Bishopric of the church stated that "the expert- ences of true ward teaching are esponsible for the great activity of the membership of the LDS . . . ' . u.,i m- ; honors in the Jaycee trade proof pro-of God in order to obtain bles- .... j ,i .i,i . , . , , . j . motion division and the right to sings and be able to respond to . . . . . ,. 6 . , , I compete in national Jaycee com- day prophets J. Leonard Love, of the General Church Welfare Committee, also spoke. He urged members to teach their children to be future home managers and to prepare their hearts and minds to receive the things of God. General sessions were held in the Provo Tabernacle with President Pres-ident Henry D. Taylor conducting. conduct-ing. Other conference speakers included in-cluded President Taylor, William C. Faulkner .and B. A. Childs, counselors; Stewart Sanderson, Stanley H. Roberts Jr., Codell An derson, Bee Wright, Dorothy D.4 Rea, Mr. and Mrs. Orvil Ells worth, Harvey L. Taylor, E. Weston Wes-ton Belnap, Ben E. Lewis and Harold Glen Clark. Music for the general sessions was furnished by an Aaronic i-riesmooa onorus ana an Liuo Girls Chorus from Edgemont 2nd. Both were directed by Mary Rey nolds. i 1 Those sustained to new stake positions included Estella Theo-bold, Theo-bold, Sunday School board; Ralph Densley,' YMMIA; Marilyn. Den-sley Den-sley and Lauranell Bendickson, YWMIA; and Elayne Bullock, Thelma Clark, Eva Woodruff, and Lorraine Ripple, Primary board. Phone Requests To Be Filled Completely Shortly After June As of the end of this week, about one fourth of the more than nineteen hundred customers who requested that their telephone service be changed from rural to one, two or four party lines will have had their service changed, chang-ed, reports John W. Snell, Provo district manager of the Mountain States Telephone Company. All those who have requested a change will have their request granted shortly after the first of June, according to Mr. Snell Ten men are working full time in the Orem area to make these changeovers plus three or four men in the central offices who make necessary equipment ar-rangments. ar-rangments. Because of the flexibility of the Orem service the telephone company com-pany is able to make these ser vice changes without having to change the telephone numbers. CITY ADVERTISES BIDS FOR INSTALLATION OF 16 INCH WATER LINE FOR NEW WELL Orem City Council at Monday night' meeting authorized the city engineer to immediately prepare pre-pare specification for bids to run the 16 inch water main from the new well on 8th East and 15th South, west to Main Street and then run a 12 inch line from 15th South and Main Street to 12th South and from there westerly to 4th West. With the Installation of these lines and the new waterpumps, LOCAL JAYGEES WIN iFOUR HONORS AT STATE CONVENTION . re V Pfurfd schaf Tf state laurels at the Utah fW!eI.J,7Cee invention held at Richfield recently, according to Wne Gammon, Orem president. petition. ... - Another signal honor for the local Jaycees went to Eddie Durham, Dur-ham, first vice president, who won first place in public speaking on the subject 'Speak Up Jaycee.' Mr. Durham will compete in na tional Jaycee competition. The Orem Jaycees were awarded award-ed first place honors in percentage percen-tage of members achieving Spark Plug Awards, a form of leadership leader-ship training program. Still another award went to the Orem Jaycees when they achieved achiev-ed second place honors in civic improvement by virtue of their playground project in the Bev- erly subdivision. OREM RESIDENTS INVITED TO PHONE CO. "OPEN HOUSE" Complete amazement at the quantity of dial equipment in the new Orem telephone building and the apparent magic of its per formance has been the typical reaction re-action of people who attended the Telephone company's open house last night, according to John W Snell, Provo," District Manager of Mountain States Telephone Co. Mr. Snell reports that all Orem residents who have not seen the mechanical brain still have the opportunity to do so tonight from 7 to 10 p.m. Guided tours will be conducted during the evening giving local residents an inside look at the 175 tons of intricate dial equipment equip-ment now serving Orem subscribers. subscri-bers. Guests at the Open House will see such points of Interest as a machine which au tomatically punches out cards showing the locations of any trouble which might develop in the hundreds of thousands of relays in the dial system; an air condtioner, one of the largest in this area; and a large power plant which includes a diesel generator for use in case of power failure. Visitors will also be able to participate in a game of tick-tack-toe with a machanical brain that promises to beat all challen- 'gers. city.1 officials feel that city water supply and distribution will be greatly improved. The Council instructed the manager to purchase a Fairbanks Morse pump as this company was the low bidder. The bid was for approximately $9,000, depending upon acceptance of a few minor changes in motors. Three bids were considered in the final voting vot-ing Monday night Other Business The council also authorized a maximum payment of $150 for expenses for the auxiliary fife- men to attend the state Fire Con tention to be held in Brlgham City, July 17, 18, and 19. George McKinney showed a 20 minute film on civil , defense which presented the council an opportunity to understand the functioning and duties of the local lo-cal civil defense set-up. Another business matter decided de-cided by the city fathers was that of Ordinance No. 74 relative to salvage yards, which is to be placed in the courts for declaratory declara-tory judgment. . ' New Police Officer . The council also recently authorized au-thorized the advancement of Joe Gardner from the road department depart-ment to the Orem police department depart-ment now making a six-man police pol-ice force for this growing community. com-munity. Mr. Gardner had served as a police officer for Orem City few years ago. - ) 6 . i - COMBINED SERVICE OF 32 YEARS Meet the eight Adams brothers of Orem either served in the Army, Navy Force. Seven of the brothers gaged in civilian occupations. M Adams, standing at extreme right, OREM TO HONOR ARMED FORCES WEEK FAMILY AT PUBLIC RECEPTION MAY 12 Designation of the William D. (Dee) Adams "family of 871 East 800th South as Orem's Armed Forces Family to be honored dur ing the local observance of Armed Arm-ed Forces Week May 12 t 19, has been announced by Mayor Le-Grand Le-Grand Jarman. Chairman for Armed ' Forces Week activities in Orem is Mrs. Grant John:on, district president of the Veterans of Foreign Wars j Auxiliary. Mr. and Mrs. Adams are the parents of 10 living children, eight of whom have served in the armed forces of the United States. The family will be honored at a public reception next Thursday Thurs-day evening in the Scera Auditorium Audi-torium between shows. This will be the kick-off to the local observance ob-servance of Armed Forces Week. On May 19 Mrs. Adams will oc cupy the reviewing stand with General William Dean in the Provo Pro-vo Armed Forces program to be held in the BYU fieldhouse. The eight Adams boys who have served in the armed forces are as follows: May 15, 1955, as "Own Your Own wniu urhn ,iVi Kolti wri. j , . -v . " Army from 1940 to 1945 in ?he Aleutians and Phillipine Islands and with Utah National Guard from 1946 to 1950. He returned to active service in 1950 and spent one year in Korea and since has been stationed In California 1 Texas and Arizona. Douglas was with the Army Air Force as a demolition expert, and was awarded the Bronze Star. Shelby served with the Navy in the Pacific Theater from 1942 to 1946 and again for a abort time in 1950. Rulon was with the Navy in the Pacific and also was in France, Africa and Korea. Morris served with the Air Force, in Alaska for part of the ' time. I NEW PRINCIPALS OF SHARON AND EDGEMONT SCHOOLS NAMED; EFFECTIVE IN AUGUST Superintendent Alma P. Burton of the Alpine School District has announced the appointment of Ivan Perry, present principal of the Sharon Elementary School, as principal of the new elementary school in Edgemont. The new Edgemont School is expected to be completed by the opening of the 1955 school year. Mr. Perry, a veteran school teacher and principal of the old Sharon School for a number of years, is a resident of the Edgemont Edge-mont area where the new school is being constructed. Named to succeed Mr. Perry as principal of the Sharon School is Elwood Baxter, principal of the Lindon Elementary School. Mr. Baxter is a former member of the Orem City Council and is now serving on the City Planning Commission. Replacing Mr. Baxter Bax-ter as principal of the Lindon School will be Thomas Larson, present Alpine School principal The new appointments will be effective in August Geneva 2nd Primary Clas Holds Special Mothers' Program Members of the Group 2 class of the Geneva 2nd Ward Primary held a delightful "Mother's Day" social Tuesday afternoon. Songs were sung and each child ' gave a "tribute to Mother" under the direction of Mrs. Bill Gapp- meyer, teacher. Tasty refreshments were then served to the following mothers: Mrs. Leland Gappmeyer, Mrs. Wesley Graff, Mrr. Glenn Andrew, An-drew, Mrs. Kent Watts, Mrs. La Verl Turnbow, Mrs. Phil Shum-way, Shum-way, Mrs. Richard Adams, Mrs. Lee Bishop and Mrs. Woodruff Jensen: , " who have or Army Air ' are now en - Sgt. Willis is currently Perry was in the Army srving in the occupation of Korea. Devon has served with the Utah Ut-ah National Guard and was called cal-led to active duty in 195t, nJ later served in the Regular Army in Germany. ' . Que ssrved with the Army in Korea, where he was awarded the Bronze Star. , The boys have all been mem bers of the Boy Scouts of Ameri ca and are all active members of the LDS church. ' Children at home are Rhea Jean, 13, who attends the Lincoln Junior High School, and Jerry, 11, who attends Hillcrest Elementary School. " Mayor Proclaims "Own Your Own Home Week" PROCLAMATION WHEREAS. Governor J. Brack en Lee has proclaimed May 8 to LUUII,U AUOV U bV . 4iumc i? cx.iv, aim WHEREAS. Orem City ways been known as a city of home owners; and WHEREAS, Orem City desires to support the Governor in the ftate department senior vice pres-"Own pres-"Own Your Own Home Week" Went. Mrs. Johnson was present-program- ed wIth a topaz stone to Put NOW, THEREFORE, I, Le grand 'n ner past president's pin indl-Jarman, indl-Jarman, Mayor of Orem City, do "tlng sh holds a district Pres-hereby Pres-hereby proclaim our support of, 1,0 , OWN YOUR OWN HOME WEEK 1 , ,tnjers elected to district posts and recommend to the Citizens of Tta5lud Mrs- O". cha Orem City that they give this larm; Kenneth Baum, guard; matter their earnest considera-1 Charl P- Dowling, hold- ; tion, IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and had the official seal of Orem City affixed this 22nd day of April, 1955, T J T LeGrand Jarman ""J"" I . ; ELWOOD BAXTER Newly appointed Sharon principal ---TT,wT,,Ty1 IVAN PERRY Principal of new Edfemont School. . IK. x m?i -w . . 1 - i 1 -iVT i - v ..... , , & y - " i 1 Vv-4 il J serving with the Army and will leave soon for a new assignment in France. They are, kneeling, left to right: Shelby, DeVon, Morris and Lon Que. Standing: Rulon, Perry, Douglas and M.Sgt. Willis. The brothers are members of Orem's Armed Forces Family. Mrs. Grant Johnson Heads District Auxiliary of -VFW Mrs. Grant J. Johnson ' Re-elected to head the District Auxiliary Six of Veterans of Foreign For-eign Wars, was Mrs. Grant J. Johnson of Orem. Mrs. Johnson, a member of the i ... T n.nn . a T , V km ,ed at a district convention held 1U19. WVUdlSUII aiiu VUC VUJCI newly elected officers were In stalled by Mrs. Harold Paxman, uver trustee; mrs neginaia Waisn, j Bln "Soc instruX! j. w. Houtz land Byraece Mo colQr ier ' Mrs. Kenneth Taylor, senior vlce president; Mrs. Leon Bellow, , Junior vice resident! Mrs. Vnr. man R. Thorn, conductress; Mrs. Wilford Lucus, three-year trustee; trus-tee; Mlna Ney, color bearer, and Billie Jean Ney, musician. Mrs. Easton Brown, treasurer; Mrs. Millard Riding, secretary; Mrs. Mary Larsen, historian, and Mrs. Harold Paxman, color bearer. bear-er. Sharp Increase In ; Employment Noted ITn TTfoV. rmmr I Insured employment in Utah . County for the month of April .reached 14,980 workers, according I A 11 J . M .T . ... . w fxym xasue ox ine uian County Labor Market Bulletin published by the U. S. Employment Employ-ment Security Office at Provo. The report shows a 3:5 per cent Increase in insured employment from last month. Unemployment at 510 persons stands at 3.3 per cent of the total labor force and the report shows that employment is up from last month, while unemployment is down. , Estimates are that the total labor lab-or force in Utah County for the month of April reached 29,900 workers. Studies show that of this total, 28,500 workers were gainfully gain-fully employed, leaving 1,400 as unemployed. This is the smallest number unemployed since October, Octo-ber, 1954 and down 700 from April Ap-ril a year ago. At the present time the labor supply is sufficient to meet local ' labor demand. It appears, however, how-ever, that it may get a little short at mid-summer. MRS. ADA SKINNER ENTERTAINS VISITORS Mrs. Ada Skinner of Orem enjoyed en-joyed a visit from her daughter, Mrs. L. E. (Mary Jean) Stark of Roy, Utah recently. Mrs. Stark and her two daughters, Susan and Kriston, visited with Mrs. Skinner Skin-ner for one week while Mr. Stark was on a business trip to Washington, Wash-ington, D. C, ; -y - i I,,-' ... ... " i ' r A TV I - f ' " ' ' ! j? x ; v r. ' i -. I J 1-4feftK..-.wi...liV-i-. "l..:t-.-..- |