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Show ; -: . ' .v.v . ... . ,,,. , ... a.iii,jffi 'MAINSTREETER" One oi ihe newest types of street lights available avail-able is this fixture which gives out 24,000 lumens of "non-glare" maximum max-imum spread light. The "Mainstreet-er" "Mainstreet-er" was recently demonstrated in front of the UP&L office in Pleasant Pleas-ant Grove. It is reported to transmit four times as much light as1 given off by older types of fixtures. Orem City Council is considc-'ng an improvement im-provement project for better lighting of State Street. Engraving courtesy of Pleasant Grove Review. Parents Could Do To Blarr.o If Youngsters lias Accident, Is Claim "If a youngster has an accident, ac-cident, 75 per cent of the time it is the parent's fault for neglecting neg-lecting safety training, according ac-cording to our statistics," JJvl. Smith, president of Farmers Insurance Group Safety Foundation, Foun-dation, declared today in urging urg-ing parents to make safety training as much a day-to-day activity as good health habits. Witt school underway, now is the time for a stepped-up review of back - to - school safety rules, he said. "Good safety habits learned today may save the child's life not only tomorrow but five 10 or 50 years from now," Smith pointed out. He said that the following simple lessons learned now may save your child's life. 1. Show him how to cross the street safely. Teach him that it is necessary to look in all directions because sometimes some-times cars turn corners or fail to stup even when he is crossing cross-ing with the light. 2. Teach him what traffic lights mean. 3. Teach him how to board and leave a bus or automobile and to be reasonably quiet once aboard. 4. If he must walk to school, teach him the safest way and with him at least once before school opens. 5. Teach him to come directly di-rectly home from school. 6. Teach him to refuse to go with strangers. 7. Teach him that the policeman police-man is the person to ask for help. 8. Be sure that he knows his name, address, and telephone number. OPENING SOCIAL SET BY THIRD WARD R. S. Orem Thid Ward Relief Society So-ciety social will be heeld Sat urday at 7:30 p. m. in the Orem Third Ward and Twenty First ward hall. This social will be for members and their partners. Jaticr.cil llcrr.o VecIi Designated By Mayor Hansen PROCLAMATION WHEREAS, Orem is proud to be known as a city of home owners, and home-ownership is a mark and spmbol .of a sound and substantial com-. city to participate in this nat munlty in which our citizens nte great value; and WHEREAS, the Home Builders Buil-ders of Orem have added hundreds hun-dreds of fine homes to our community in recent years; and WHEREAS, these new homes have added splendid new neighborhoods in which our citizens live and have contributed con-tributed greatly to better living in our city; and WHEREAS, the Utah Valley Orem - Geneva Times Thursday, Sept 10, 1959 ion-wide observance dedicated to the theme "For a bright tomorrow a new home today." IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the rtty of Orem to be affixed. DONE at the city of Orem, this 1st day of September, in the year of our Lord, 1959. V. Emll Hansen MAYOR Association will celebrate NATIONAL HOME WEEK by spornsoring a PARADE OF HOMES, September 12 through 20. NOW THEREFORE, I V. Emil Hansen, Mayor of Orem, do hereby proclaim the period, September 12-20, as NATIONAL NATION-AL HOME WEEK and do hereby urge the citizens of our CHAIN LINK FENCE "ITS CHEAPER THAN YOU THINK" Call Us Now For A FREE ESTIMATE Bullock Sales & Service Chain Link Fences Our Specialty 1182 North state, Orem Ph. AO S-Z269 are your bills t out of sight? bring them down I with a CASH i LOAN j $25 to $2000 Pay off old bills and cut monthly payments as much as one-hall Quick confidential cash loans on signature ' only, car or furniture. PHONE FIRST FOR 1-TRIP SERVICE AMERICAN FORK 15 East Main Street Lloyd L. Orvin, Manager Phone: 860 loans bolow $600 mad by City Financ Co. (Utah) State Street "White Way" Be Feasible In 1960 May Orem City may have a new -White Way" in 1960 if plans of the Orem City Council materialize. The Council has been studying various plans of lighting State Street for several months, and it appears that definite action will be taken soon. Reason for this view is that this week the Utah State Road Commission established a tentative ten-tative street lighting budget of $200,000 for the 1960 fiscal year which began July 1. Requests for street lighting assistance have already been received by the commission from Panguitch, S a 1 1 n a Kanosh, Salt Lake City, Moab and Payson. Better order your f 1 1 personalized listing now I No nd to mlM Important I 1 1 , calls Just bcau . the phone you use li liited i under another name i : If you rent a room, share '! an apartment or live with I relatives, a personalized 1 i:t: ;naiirp that vour f 1JBL111& J- - 1 .i name, number and address j f wUl be included in the new directory at a surprisingly I low cost. To order person- elized listings, just call the "'- telephone business office. 1 i Mevatata ifotei TefepaoM Funds for the lighting pro jects are partially provided by the state at the request of cities and counties. Upon final approval of a particular pro ject, the commission supplies the materials and engineering service for the light installation. installa-tion. The local government as sumes cost of installation and maintenance, which is no small expenditure. Orem city officials have ex pressed themselves as being favorable to the installation of street lights on the highway channels in the center of State Street along the business areas. To receive state assistance Orem City must submit its request re-quest before the state budget is spent or obligated. PVT. JENSEN TAKING MEDICAL TRAINING FORT SAM HOUSTON, Tex. (((HTNC) Army Pvt. Marvin W. Jensen, 18, son of Mr. and Mrs. Woodruff Jensen, 575 W. 800, S., Orem, Utah is scheduled to complete medical training Sept. 4 under the Re serve Forces Act program at Brooke Army Medical Center, Fort Sam Houston, Tex. NEW TELEPHONE DIRECTORY Tf " T T- ' 1 I . - J kJ .."-,, NOW OPEN ALL NEW ALLEN DRIVE-IN CLEANERS 373 North State Streets Orem AC 5-0501 Convenient Drive-In window. Off street parkins. After hours night depository. T i ' - . ' - mmm Mil m nil h' h li nil 11 n i f l i u u 14 l i 1 1 mm n mi mi mm yii i t Oi ill J fJ U&S '.mmm y ilff I II i t "ii ,r i.i,. ,,wwiiiM.a&fc&, -i afe".:; ,, , mT ii " i I fi R a CASH fi I InA J 'ill"" I Uinta Finance Co. 1578 South State, Orem Phone AC S-4896 In Germany, Italy, Belgium, England, Japan and other countries, men are happily making steel to send to the United States -itself the greatest steelmaking nation in the world. The steel they are sending here means jobs and wages lost to American steelworkers forever. Long before the strike began, however, imports of foreign steel were rising while exports of American steel were falling. Since December 1958 monthly steel imports have exceeded exports, for, the first time in modern history. 1 r One of the chief reasons for this is that steelworkers' wages abroad are only one-third to one-seventh as much as the American Ameri-can steelworker gets. Yet the leaders of the steel Union in this country have called 500,000 steelworkers out on strike for more inflation -and an even wider wage gap between the U.S. A. and its foreign competitors. , Here from recent trade reports are a few examples which highlight the growing threat of foreign steel imports: ; A manufacturer of fencing, nails and wire for 58 years has completely closed one of his plants. The reason: foreign compe- .:' tition. t . . ." A steel mill which regularly shipped 24,000 tons of barbed i wire annually, sold only 220 tons in 1958. v . So far this year imports of plumbers' pipe on the West Coast ; have averaged 13,000 tons a month -sulwtantially more than : total American production in that area. At Houston, Texas, 21,600 tons of steel from Belgium and Japan were unloaded in a single day. And two other ships were waiting to unload steel. About 50 percent of all the steel being consumed in Ballas, Texas, is foreign-made. During the second quarter of this year imports of foreign steel poured into the eleven Southern states at the annual rate of 2,000,000 tons. This would provide full-time employment for 13,200 men and an annual payroll of $90,000,000. The picture is not encouraging. If American industry cannot can-not produce steel products more efficiently and at lower cost, the jobs of many more steelworkers will be permanently lost The logical solution to this problem is to hold wage costs In line here at home while we strive to improve our industrial efficiency and regain our technological advantages over foreign producers. v v , There are two important ways to improve efficiency. One is to continue to install the most modern facilities and equipment equip-ment as rapidly as profits permit. The other is to eliminate waste and unnecessary , work wherever they exist. : w The Union has repeatedly denounced the profits necessary to pay for the modernization of our plants, and has steadfastly opposed proposals to eliminate waste. Yet the companies still continue to hope that the Union will oooperate in meeting the problem of foreign competition. . " V The result could be a permanent gain for the steelworkers, the steel companies and the nation, THE STEEL COMPANIES COORDINATING COMMITTEE 375 Lexington Avenue New York 17, New York Allegheny Ludtum Steel Corporation Armco Steel Corporation Bethlehem Steel Company The Colorado Fuel and Iron Corporation Great Lakes Steel Corporation Inland Steel Company Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation Kaiser Steel Corporation Republic Steel Corporation United States Steel Corporation Wheeling Steel Corporation The Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company. At the Sign of the Friendly Indian. |