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Show priotsAL racrc?iiKX7r& 'tare. 141 PISRP02TT LH. SALT LAST. CIT WJUI OREM . rr-- iv w w w w r -.VA fiTrrt dt AWT hnnhH mm itniua U Free Class Ads Offered Starting next week any teenager, teen-ager, wanting employment, 6end or phone your name, address ad-dress and what you can do or desire doing to the Orem-Gen-eva Times. We will run your name and address, so as anyone any-one desiring your services may contact you. If you are a baby sitter, cherry picker, store clerk or any other occupation, call in and let us help you, free of charge. Softball Pitcher Several years , ago,, Evaa Baugh passed the remark after watching Acel Bowh pitch soft-ball, soft-ball, "With a little practice that kid is going to be tough to hit, tie is doing something that is fooling those batters".. Baugh's prediction is fast coming true. Bown is comparatively new to the softball wars, but he is fast becoming one of the toughest tough-est pitchers in the city to hit. Acel pitches for the Orem 12th ward and in a game he recently whiffed 12 batters, in a game against Orem 18 he allowed but one hit. vnamoer m commerce Works Pays Off . Elko Nevada is an example of what can be done by a good active Chamber of Commerce. 'Elko is fast becoming a second sec-ond Los Vegas as for as tourist are concerned. All they have to offer tourist is a nice golf course, good motels and a place to lose your money. It is reported that hundreds of Utahns are flocking to Elko each week-end. It is almost impossible im-possible to get a room without reservations. The Elko boosters have got out and pushed their town as a paradise for tourists and it is really paying off. Provo Man Injured In Auto Collision Marrell Barney of 940 east Sth south in Provo was injured Saturday at 10:51 p.m. in a two car collision at 350 south state in Orem. Mr. Barney, 26, who was driving a 53 Oldsmobile Sedan, failed to keep his car under control and rammed into the back of a 49 Chrysler Sedan driven by Terry R. Dillion, 26, of Orem, who was slowing to make a left hand turn. - Both cars were traveling south on tLS. highway 91 when the accident occured. Mr Barney Bar-ney was taken to Utah Valley Hospital where he was treated for cuts and bruises and released. re-leased. Investigating officer, (Howard Ohmie, estimated the damage at $350. . Mr. Barney was cited for failure to keep proper control of his car and Mr. Dillion was cited for no operators license. No Protests Heard At Rezoning Meet No one appeared to protest the proposed rezohing of two areas in the city at the public hearing held in the Orem City Council chambers Monday night, following a brief discussion discus-sion by the Council with three of the interested parties present, pre-sent, the Council voted unanimously unan-imously to approve the rezon-ing. rezon-ing. . Affected is the property fronting 800 North extending from 200 East to West boundry line of Eli Clayson's grocery store property which will be changed from the Residential 2 classification to Commercial 1. This action, according to Mr. Clayson and Everett Booth, will permit expansion of Mr. Booth's service and Mr. Clay-son's Clay-son's store as well as provide for additional parking facilities. faci-lities. " Also affected is the property on 165 South Street between 400 and 800 West and between 100 and 200 South, which will be changed from Residential-1A Residential-1A to permit construction of residences on 65-foot lots rather than 80-foot lots. Lee Earl Burr, property developer in this area said the area was originally zoned to permit 65-foot lots, but Zoning Zon-ing Ordinance No. 176 increased increas-ed the requirment to 80-foot lots. City Manager O.V. Farns worth presented to the Council Coun-cil an ordinance prepared by Utah County Planning Con-sultana Con-sultana I. Dale Despain. The ordinance incorporates other changes in the city zoning ordinance or-dinance approved following a recent public hearing. Involved is a realigenment of the Agricultural and Industrial Indus-trial zones in the west part of the city. The new zoning will designate the area west of the new interstate freeway as Industrial In-dustrial and the area east of the freeway as Agricultural. Will ' - m - ,-l ,-l 1 jj . M ill aw I III ' J - 4 ' wi & t TO COMPETE FOR MISS UTAH Sylvia Sumner, Miss Orem of 1959, has been entered in the Miss Utah Pageant by the Orem Junior Chamber of Commerce. Miss Orem Awaits Coveted Miss Utah Contest In SLC Saturday Climaxing the busy agenda for Miss Orem of 1959 will be the Miss Utah Pageant competition com-petition in Salt Lake City Saturday. Sat-urday. Eighteen year old Sylvia Sumner, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harold B. "Jack" Sumner, will represent Orem in the Miss Utah contest. She will be sponsored by the Orem Jay-cees. Jay-cees. Telecast Slated Preliminary judging of the Miss Utah candidates will begin be-gin in the morning Saturday. Ten finalists will be judged in a "live" telecast via KTVT, Channel 4, from 9:30 to 10:30 p. m.The telecast will originate in the new Prudential Federal Savings Building at 33rd South and State St. Contestants will be judged on beauty, poise, personality and talent. The winning Miss Utah will be awarded a $1,000 Pepsi-Cola Pepsi-Cola scholarship, a wardrobe from ZCMI, many other valuable val-uable prizes, and an opportunity oppor-tunity to represent the state in the Miss Amer ica contest in Atlantic At-lantic City, N. J. in September. Parents Requested by City Fathers To Report Pornographic Materials In other action the City Council Cou-ncil this week passed a resolution re-solution voicing its concern over the victimizing of children child-ren by dealers in filth and calling citizens of Orem to undertake un-dertake a program of vigilant watchfullness for evidence of solicitation received in their homes by mail or other means intended to promote the sale or distribution of obscene materials. mat-erials. The resolution d e clares that a million American boys and girls of high school and junior high school age may receive re-ceive obscene literature and pictures in the mail this year, even though they neither want it or solicit it and that quite possible that children here in Orem are unwillingly being carried on mailing lists used by mail order pornography houses to solicit sales of their filthy materials: Police records and sociological sociolog-ical studies show that a link exists between addiction to pornography and the increasing increas-ing rate of sex crimes, the resolution re-solution continues. Children who may never be exposed to Construction Of Basement Homes No Longer Permited City Manager O. V. Farns-worth Farns-worth reported to the City Council Monday night that a resident had asked for a permit per-mit to construct a basement home. Mayor V. Emil Hansen said Orem's zoning ordinance now prohibits construction of such structures anywhere in the city. The Council agreed that no exceptions to this provision pro-vision could be made and instructed in-structed the manager to so in form the person seeking the permit. For Miss Orem, the Miss Utah Pageant will be the crowning event of a busy schedule. She reigned over the Orem Flora-Festival in June, appeared on mammoth floats in the Orem and Provo and Pleasant Grove parades, and has appeared before local civic clubs. She and her attendants will also ornament a huge float in the Days of '47 parade in Salt Lake City, this will be a result of the combined efforts of Orem City, Orem Chamber of Commerce and the Orem Jaycees. Miss Sumner is a 1959 graduate grad-uate of Orem High School. She will play a piano selection , in the talent phase of the contest. A member of the Orem 12th Ward, Sylvia has been Sunday School organist for seven years. In church work she has earned the Silver Gleaner award in addition to five individual awards, also was sports director direc-tor for the Y.W.M.IA.. Promin- j ent in high school activities, she has sung in the OHS Acap-pela Acap-pela choir, "The Messiah" oratorio ora-torio and the Easter Cantata. this material could nevertheless neverthe-less be victims of distorted criminals who have been exposed ex-posed to it. The Council declared that the health, safety and welfare of residents of this community depend upon the stamping out of this growing traffic in immorality im-morality and depravity, and invited every citizen to join the crusade to wipe out the half-million dollar a year traffic traf-fic in pornography. I The Council called on persons per-sons receiving such matter in their homes by mail to deliver it and the envelope it arrives in to the Orem postmaster for prompt dispatch to federal investigating in-vestigating officers. Services Held For Cloriece S. Larsen Funeral services were ,held July 9 at the Olpin Drawing Room Chapel for Cloriece Sudbury Sud-bury Larsen. - The services were conducted by Bishop Vernon L. Greenland Green-land of Orem Ninth Ward. He also spoke briefly during the service. A biographical sketch was given by Evelyn Madsen. A beautiful vocal solo, "This Holy Hour" was sung by Zoe Clark and the Lynndyl Singing Mothers sang "Prayer Perfect." Pall bearers were: Reed Lar sen, Arnold Larsen, Norman Warren, Verl Madsen, Scott Wilkins and Mike Opsitmik. She was buried in the Nephl Vine Bluff Cemetery. Dedication Dedica-tion of the grave was by Lyle Johnson. Survivors include: her husband hus-band and mother of Orem, one sister, Mrs. Gerald Nielson of Lynndyl; and one brother, Alton Al-ton D. Sudbury of Salt Lake City. Wttn sett Vol. 32, No. 26 Stop Signs Will Stay at 6th East And 400 North St. The four-way stop sign at 600 East and 400 North will temain . in . . t h e i r - present locations, it was decided by the Orem City Council Monday night. The vote was taken on the. matter following a recent recommendation by the Orem Safety Council that the signs r-main r-main at the intersection as a traffic control measure. Originally, the signs had been erected following a request re-quest by residents using " the Subsequently, a petition signed fcy other residents us'ng ths affected street was submitted to the City Council requesting removal of the signs halting east- west traffic During discussion on the motion councilmen noted that those asking for removal of the signs actually resided farther far-ther away from the intersection intersec-tion than those who had asked for erection of the signs. They felt that the signs should not be done away with contrary to the wishes of those living nearby near-by who had originally requested reques-ted the signs. Street Signs Pose Headaches for City Orem's newest Ordinance No. 190 passed by the Orem City Council May 18th, 1959, regulating the construction, erection and maintenance of signs adjacent to city streets, came in for criticism by a pros pective businessman at the Orem council meeting Monday night. Dee Pyne, who is setting up a used car lot at about 1500 South State Street, described the ordinance as one which "although it might be legal, is not workable." He said he had contacted both the city building inspector and state highway personnel in an effort to find out what set back would be -required "f0' ms new signs, nc saia ne( received re-ceived three different sets of instructions. The fact that the sign posts are already set in concrete complicates the matter, he said. Also, the property lines part-iculary part-iculary along State Street vary creating situations where a sign on one side of the street might be legally located several sev-eral feet closer to the curb than a sign on the exact opposite op-posite side of the street. Mayor V. Emil Hansen and councilman agreed that a problem pro-blem exists due to the fact that State Street is outof alignment, align-ment, but that the ordinance presently in effect must be observed ob-served until such time as improvements im-provements can be made on it. VACATIONERS VISIT OLD STOMPING GROUNDS Visiting recently at the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. O. Guy-mon Guy-mon have been their sons and families, Mr. and Mrs. Melvin O. Guymon and family from San Diego, Calif., and Mr. and Mrs. Leon W. Guymon and family from Seattle, Wash. ' 1 s, 1 "; 1 - v 'f vj' ! f. U- y? - f i f ' i y ,! I - I J TOURISTS STARTLED BY MOCK ARREST A surprised Frankfort, Indiana foursome were "arrested" briefly last Saturday noon by Orem Officer Floyd Farley, assisted by John Huish, president of Orem Chamber Cham-ber of Commerce. The Indiana visitors visit-ors were all smiles when they learned that the arrest was a publicity stunt . i "' " v i i . x I ' , v. k, j if j I fl J V 'Ms f- Mr I I BLACK IRIS AWAKpED FIRST PRIZE IN WORLD COMPETITION Luzon Crosby (photo inset lower left) is awaiting a firat place trophy from Florence, Italy for 'her hybridization of the "La Negraflor" (Spanish spelling for Black Iris). The contest is an annual an-nual world competition for new varieties. One of the conditions of the contest entries is that a variety must not have been introduced more than three years at the time of entry. Mrs. Crosby submitted three entries' to the Florence contest two years ago. The hybridized entries en-tries were planted in the Florence Iris Gardens' and received re-ceived their judging, this spring. This is the second time that an Iris1 grower In Utah County has won the award. Tell Muhlestein of Provo won the award last year. The contest originated three years ago. An Oregon Ore-gon Iris grower was the first award winner. Mrs1. Crosby is the wife of Sam Crosby. She has received many other trophies from various other flower shows and Iria.com- -'petition Wall Street Financiers Are Still Human Says Returning Orem Savant Stock brokers and personnel person-nel operating the financial institutions in-stitutions on Wall Street in New York City are not the hard-nosed, machine type personalities per-sonalities as generally viewed by the man or the street across the nation. This was the opinion formed by Dr. Howard Lowe of Orem, professor of finance and banking at BYU, who recently attended a forum on finance on Wall Street. "Actually I found Wall Street personalities cordial and most perjonablej" Dr. Lowe averred. "These financial people peo-ple are hard working people with high integrity," the BYU savant stated. Professor Lowe represented the BYU at a three week finance fin-ance forum sponsored by the New York and American Stock Exchanges, and the national as eta Orem-Geneva Times sociations of Investment Bank ers, Security Dealers and In vestment Companies. The forum for-um attracted college finance instructors from 30 universities. universi-ties. "Millions of dollars are tran sacted every day on Wall Street and these transactions have an effect on very town in the United States." Dr. Lowe stated. "If Wall Street was ever bombed the entire country would be paralyzed. This is why some financial institutions in New York are building underground un-derground facilities away from Wall Street." Currently teaching summer school at BYU, Prof. Lowe will take a two year leave of absence from BYU this fall to instruct at Arizona State University Uni-versity at Temple. He was recently re-cently released as bishop of the Orem Third Ward. and an opportunity for them to receive re-ceive copies of the newly printed Orem C. of C. tourist' brochures as well as a free dinner, thanks to the management of Park s Cafe. Shown above, left to right: Mr. Huish, Eldon Downs, Mrs. Barney Dorner, Mrs. ' Downs, Mr. Dorner and Orem Patrolman Patrol-man Farley. Thursday, July 16, 1959 Councilman Recommends One Third Of Park Budget Be Earmarked Annually for Development of Parks A long-range program of city park site acquisition was advanced by Counclman Earl Wengreen at Monday night's regular City Council session. He suggested that perhaps one-third one-third of the c'.ty's park budget be earmarked each year for the purchase of well-located park sites in various sections of the city. "Rising land prices and our growing populat'on are two factors which suggest that good city planning should include early "purchase of property which can be developed at a later date for city recreation areas," Mr. Wengreen said. Mr. Wengreen reported on planning sess'ons currently be-in? be-in? held between Orem City and representatives of Lindon and Pleasant Grove for the development of the old Geneva Resort property. Citizens Can File Complaint If Nearby Fields Are A Fire Hazard With 25 square mile3 located growth, when same endanger within the boundaries of the Orem City limits, citizsns are reminded of the grass f 're hazard ha-zard that exists within the city coupled with . the fact - that there is only one fire station to answer calls. In the event of a grass fire and a house fire at the same time there would probably be a shortage of volunteer firemen to fight both fires at the same time. , . ". V Property owners . who feel that there is a fire threat to their home or property due to nearby fields or weed areas have the right to issue a complaint com-plaint to the city attorney and request that the fire hazard be removed.'-, New city fire ordinance Is published as follows: ABSTRACT ' OF OREM FIRE ORDINANCE Article Vm Miscellaneous Provisions For Fire Prevention. Section 1. No person shall kindle or maintain any bonfire bon-fire or authorize any such fire to be kindled or maintained on or in any street, alley, road, land or public grounds or upon up-on any private lot, unless a written permit to do so shall first have been secured from the Bureau of Fire Prevention. (Fire Chief). Section 2. No. person shall deposit ashes, smouldering coal or embers, greasy or oily substance sub-stance or other matters liable to create spontaneous ignition within ten feet of any wooden or plastered wall, partition fence, floor, side walk, lumber, lum-ber, hay, shavings, rubbish or other combustible materials except in metallic or other non - combustileb receptacles Such receptacles, unless rest ing on a non-combustible floor or on the ground utside the building must be kept at least two feet away from any com bustible wall or partition. Section 3. No person shall permit to remain upon any' roof or in any court, yard, vacant va-cant lot or open space, any ac cumulation of waste paper, hay, grass, straw, weeds, litter or combustible or flammable waste or rubbish of any kind. All weeds, grass, vines or other Three Orem Boys Take Training At Calif. Army Base Three Orem boys, Pvt. Er- lend D. Peterson, son of Mr. and Mrs. Dean A. Peterson Pvt. Mavin W. Jensen, son of Mr. and Mrs. Woodruff Jensen; Pvt. James M. Hunt son of Mr. and Mrs. Dover Hunt entered the US. Army May 31. These soldiers are currently undergoing the first cycle of basic infantry training at Fort Ord, Calif. The eight-week program consists in troop in formation, . general military subjects, tactical training and weapons instruction. After they have finished with the eight-week period they will go on to advanced or other specialized training be fore assigned to a unit. All three of the boys were graduated from Orem High School last spring. PRICE TEN CENTS The property which Orem City has. obtained from Utah Power & Light Co., is slated for development as a Marina Park. Tentative plans have been drawn up or construction of a boat harbor, softball diamond, dia-mond, picnic areas, pavilion and other recreational facilities. facil-ities. Negotiation which Orem . City has had with the Utah State Land Board concerning the lease of accretion lands adjacent ad-jacent to the Marina Park site and fronting Utah Lake reached reach-ed a successful conclusionMon- day night. The Council voted to pay an annual rental of $25.00 to the Land Board for the ground. The Council, which had exp-cted to obtain the lease for a more nominal sum had been told by the Land Board that the revenue would go to the public schools. property, or is liable to be f ired, shall be cut down and removed by the owner or occupant oc-cupant of the property it. is on. Section 4. No person-mak-. ing, using, storing or, having charge of or control- of any shavings, excelsior,, rubbish, sacks, bags, litter, hay straw or combustible trash, waste or fragments shall, fail, neglect or refuse at the close of eaon aay to cause all such material ; which is not compactly baled and stacked In an orderly manner to be removed from ; the building or stored In suitable suit-able vaults or in a metal or metal lined, covered recept- J.acles or bina.-. . . , ., . Violators of this ordinance are subject to prosecution to the full extent of the law. Graveside Rites Conducted For 2 Week-Old Infant Graveside services were conducted con-ducted by Bishop Lawrence Palmer of Orem Eleventh Ward Saturday at Orem City Cemetery for Mark Ralphs Barron, two week-old son of Bishop and Mrs. Howard Barron. Bar-ron. The infant was born June 26 in Provo and died July 10 from causes due to prematurity Surviving are his parents, one brother and one sister, Bryce and Verdalee of Orem; four grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Homer Barron of Sigurd and Mr. and Mrs. Vergil Ralphs of Rockland, Idaho. Service Station To Hold Three Day Grand Opening Newest service station la Orem Bob's Metro Service located at 185 West Fourtft North (next to mapie ijaaes Bowling), will stage a grand opening Thursday, Friday and Saturday. Manager of the Metro Oil Co. station is Bob Kitchen, who has been associated with his father, Russell Kitchen, in th operation of the Gas Centre Service Station in Orem for the past four years. The grand opening will feature fea-ture free balloons to all; and five gallons of gas free to every 20th motorist driving in to the station. Karen Jeppson Hurt on Bicycle Little seven year-old Karen Jeppson of 765 north 100 east, Orem was taken to her home and treated for shock and bruises bru-ises on her arms and legs Sat urday ater striking a passing auto while riding her bicycle. According to investigating , officer, Floyd Farley. Karen did not see the 56 Mercury Station Wagon, driven by Ann Brinkerhoof Blair of Clearfield, Clear-field, which was making a left hand turn. Failing to see the car she began crossing the street and smashed into the side of the auto. |
