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Show yrirasAL KicnoFiLKira. cor. 141 PI2Itf0!!T AV2. SALT CIT.:t ItTAH 7 -Be C3gDL Eta? Odd ftiy a STPPt tT a mx n fi n n n httq ai utih's ivv- --" -- I I I I I I II I I vj JI V - -UlULliij Orem has been selected as the site for the 1961 Jaycee sponsored State Road-E-0 Teenage Driving Contest, announces an-nounces Robert Mower, Orem Jaycee president. The state contest will be held here on May 27. Upwards of 200 entries are expected to be here for the teen-age driving contest, Mr. Mower stated. Orem Jaycees have appointed Charles Tol-ley Tol-ley of their organization to serve as chairman for the meet. . The contest will be comprised compris-ed of a written test and driving driv-ing test. Local and state police officers, will serve as judges. Winner, of the state meet will compete in a national contest con-test to be later this year. , Orem will also hold their local contest In the latter part of April to determine their entry in the state meet. OREM Better Late Than Never There is a bill now before the state legislature that will make it illegal for women to practice polygamy. The law the way it reads now makes it a violation for men to practice prac-tice polygamy, but does not mention women. It is estimated there is in the neighborhood of 20,000 cases where polygamy is being practiced in the state of Utah. ' : , 7 Blame The Printer Recently Govenor Clyde was late in the delivery of' his speech to the Utah legislature. The reason given was that the printer was holding it up. The poor printer has broad should ers, but what next can they blame the poor guy for. Anchors Away Heev-Ho! By the time Orem residents read "this article the writer will be far out in the Pacific Ocean, on a deluxe air craft carrier, called the Midway, a the guest of the U.S. Navy, along with ten other publishers of Utah. Two Utah county pub Ushers will also be on the cruise Jack Warner of Span ish Fork, and Russell Innes of Lehi. We are slated to go on a shakedown f cruise aboard the Midway for 5 or 6 days. We then land in Hawaii where we will be the guest of the U.S. Navy for four more days, be fore flying back to Frisco on Feb. 25th. Don't ask this hum we typo now ne managed a cruise like this because I don't know yet. It is a chance In a life time to see an aircraft carrier car-rier and the various naval installations. in-stallations. The next inside Orem will be put together far out in the Pacific Ocean. That is if the writer Is WELL. Community Church Chooses Minister, Donald Foster, minister at Butte, Mont., was officially named minister of the Orem Community Church Sunday by )Rev-' Maurice McDowell, in-termin in-termin minister at the church. , Mr. Foster founded the church at Butte where he is now serving. He' was educated in California, is married but has no children. He plans to take over his duties in Orem around the first of March. The committee members In charge of interviewing Mr. Foster include Mrs. Pat Arnold, Mrs. Ralph Schench, George Buck, Kent Peterson, Art Holloman and Joe Stokes., WEN BOOKS IN NAME CONTEST Looking over and displaying books by Marguerite Henry which the Union School won as runner-up in a contest to name a fictional colt are (back from left) Principal Richard Robins,. Margaret E. Johnson, Alpine School District elementary element-ary supervisor; LaVor Madsen, sixth grade teacher; (front from left) Stephanie Harding and Ronald Stod dard, sixth graders'. The name the school was 'April Mist.' Jaycees Issue Challenge To C. of C. In Bringing New Industries To Orem In spirit of community progress and competition, Orem Jaycees this week issue a challenge to the Orem Chamber of Commerce to see which organization can be instrumental in bringing new industry to Orem the quickest. . Jaycee Business and Industrial Development Committee Com-mittee t report that they are communicating with two or three small industries who have expressed interest in Orem. Committee members are Nick Netto, chairman, chair-man, Douprlas Clark. Robert Faddis and Harley Gill-man, Gill-man, ex-of f icio member from the City Council. Orem C. of C. also has an industrial development committee that is underway and is coordinating with a county-wide effort through Greater Utah Valley, Inc. The C. of C. has also announced that they plan to set up a file of all available sites and buildings for in dustry as well &s available establishments. , "The Jaycees have elected to pursue an individual course of action in luring derstand that C. of C. organizations in other cities of the county are exerting more efforts on their ow. to bring in new industries than the efforts and progress being made to date by the united county wide effort," unairman JNetto declared. DISPLAYS FREEDOM SHRINE DOCUMENTS Mrs, Dorothy Stratton, Orem High School Librarian. Freedom Shrine Presented To OHS Gen. Maxwell E. Rich of the Utah National Guard was the keynote speaker at an Orem High School assembly held Monday, Feb. 13, to kick off Crime Prevention Week and to intensify patriotic spirit. Sponsored by the Prpvo Exchange Ex-change Club the assembly also al-so featured the presentation to the high school of the '"'Freedom Shrine," a group of permanently mounted reproductions repro-ductions of famous documents in United States' History. The Freedom Shrine will be exhibited ex-hibited in Room 49 of the high school. Awards for the school-wide Crime Prevention Essay con-test con-test were . also made. Nan Christensen, an OHS senior, took first place honors and a prize of $25. Second place and $15 went to Ruth Lynne Cannon, Can-non, and third place was a-warded a-warded to Martha Day, who received $10 dollars. Miss Christensen's article was real before the studentbody. Chamber Plans To Set Up File Of Available Industrial Sites Orem Chamber of Com merce Industrial Development Committee this week announced announ-ced plans to set up a file of all available land and building build-ing in Orem that could be used either for housing light industry or for businesses. , Residents of property owners own-ers knowing of such sites are encouraged to submit this In which won the books for . - aiiinwmiiiiiwii iiwiwwww n buildings for new business new industry since they un C of C. Opens Membership drive "This year the Orem Cnam-ber Cnam-ber is shooting for 100 per cent membership," stated Jack Ekins, chairman of the membership mem-bership committee. The drive will begin Monday, February 20, and should be completed by the end of the month. Mr. Ekins is being assisted by Jack Salmon and Dea Abbott. Ab-bott. A new feature for the coming year will be the holding hold-ing of monthly meetings for all the members of the chamber, cham-ber, not just for the Board of Directors, as in the past. "The date hasn't been decided decid-ed upon as yet," said Mr. Ekins, "but we will begin the meetings at noon and dismiss promptly at 1 o'clock. These meetings should stimulate the members by getting them to express their ideas on how to keep Orem Industries growing and how to attract new industries indus-tries to come here." , formation to the Orem C. of C. secretary, Enid Peterson, phone AC 5-1818. By having a file of available sites and buildings the chamber cham-ber will have a better opportunity oppor-tunity of providing essential information to prospective Industrial In-dustrial firms and business establishments. Union School Wins Books Ifi National Colt-Naming Contest "Apru ivusi" is the name chosen by the Union School in Orem which was recently awarded a runner-up position in a national contest to name a' fictional colt. The school won five autographed books written by Marguerite Henry. Miss Henry is the author of many books about animals, chiefly horses. "Misty of Chin-coteague" Chin-coteague" is a delightful story of a horse whose ancestors, while being shipped ; from Spain to America, survived the ship wreck of a Spanish galleon by swimming to the Island of Chincoteague off the coast of Virginia. Last spring when Misty gave birth to a colt, the author of the book decided to give the boys and girls who knew Misty an opportunitM to select a name for the cJit. Each school and public librlry in the U.S. Vol 34 No. 6 February Fantasy Band and Vocal Concert Tonight The public is cordially invited in-vited to attend the annual February Fantasy on Wednesday, Wednes-day, February 22, at 7:30 p.m. in the Orem High School auditorium. aud-itorium. About 475 students of OHS will participate. In charge char-ge are Wes Barry, band teacher teach-er and Richard Dastrup, chorus chor-us leader. The OHS concert band and beginning band will combine to give three numbers at the beginning pf the affair. The A Cappella choir will then give three numbers, the concert choir will give two numbers and the Boys Glee Club will sing two numbers. Following these the Senior Group Glee, Junior Girls Glee and Senior Girls Glee Club3 will each render two numbers. The grand finale will feature fea-ture the combined bands tnd choruses with three numbers: "A Mighty Fortress Is Our God," "The Omnipotence," and "Battle Hymn of the Republic." Re-public." The co-directors feel hat this will be an outstanding program. The bands and vocal groups have been rehearsing for more than a month. There will be a nominal ad mission charge. Future Traffic, Roads Discussed I. Dale Despain addressed a meeting attended by members of the Orem City Council, state road officials, Orem Planning Commission and other Orem civic groups re cently to discuss the problem of concentrating ' the scattered community. f : " '"'", , Mayor M.D. Wallace conduct ed the meeting. Mr, Despain said that a nucleus can be started with the opening of Orem's Center Street west to the Geneva Road and east over the brow of the hill to High way 189. He also recommended that Main Street be opened from 400 South north to the shopping center and continued on north until it reaches U.S 91. ' Mayor Supports Sales Tax On Population Basis Mayor Melbourne D. Wallace stated that Orem will never be, in favor of the one-haif cent sales tax for munlcipali ties until the Utah law is changed to permit distribut ion of the tax on a population rather than point-of-collection basis. " Mayor Wallace said that un der the present plan (if Utah County Commission , adopted it) Orem would receive only $2.71 per capita in comparison with Provo at 6.20, Spanish Fork at $6.50 and unicorporat- ed areas at $8.29. In terms of amounts, Orem would receive only $50,000 under the exist ing system, whereas if the law were changed it would get $82,773. -- was allowed one entry, winner received $1,000 The from the publishers, , Rand-McNal-ly Publishing Co. The Union School faculty decided that such a contest would motivate more purposeful purpose-ful library book reading. The story of Misty was read to the children in the fourth, fifth, and sixth grades, and each child was asked to submit a name for the colt along with an explanation why the name was chosen. From these entries en-tries the faculty selected the name "April Mist" to be the official entry of the Union School. Now that the books the school won have been received, the children are enjoying the reading of many fine books by Miss Henry, according to Principal Prin-cipal Richard Robins. a Cigarette Vending Machines To Be Closely Regulated Orem , retail establishments after Thursday will no longer be able to display tobacco products and cigarettes where minors can get access to them. This was the effect of a revision re-vision to the Orem City ordinance or-dinance regulating the sale of tobacco enacted by the Orem City Council Monday night. Passage of the ordinance was the upshot of recent discussions dis-cussions between the councl and Charles Fillmore, local cigarette vending machine operator. op-erator. Mr. Fillmore had said it was unreasonable for the city to require taverns to keep cigarette vending machines be hind the counter when minors are not permitted admittance under the law. 1 City Attorney Hugh Vern Wentz, who prepared the rs-vissed rs-vissed ordinance at the dir-eption dir-eption of the council, said the effect of the new provisions would" be to requlire stores selling cigarettes u maintain tobacco displays beyond the reach of minors. ' , "The location of cigardtte vending mach nes would no longer be requird behind the counters of taverns, since min ors are not admitted to tav erns,". Mr. Wentz said. City Manager O. V. Farns-worth Farns-worth sa d all retail establish ments would be notified of the new provisions with which they are expected to comply BYU Professor To Speak at Orem West MIA Professor Ivan J. Barrett of the Brigham Young Univer sity will be the main speaker at the MIA services Sunday evening in the Orem West Stake as the concluding meeting meet-ing of quarterly conference. The meeting will be held at 7:30 p.m. in the Orem 14th-5th-20th LDS Ward Chapel. Musical numbers will be given giv-en by Moroni J ensen, the Orem High School Girls' Glee Club and by the Explorer Scout Chorus from Orem 5th Ward. There will also be made the presentation of a Master M-Men M-Men and a Golden Gleaner award. , Pictured above are 10 happy U.S.P.A. publishers purchasing Western Airline tickets to San Francisco where they will embark on a 10-day cruise to Hawaii as guests of the U.S. Navy. They will tour the U.S.S. Midway and naval installations in Pearl Harbor. Left to right, back row, are the following: H. C. McConaughy, Hal MacKnight, Bill Wilson, J. Parr Godfrey, Russell Innes, Joel Dunn. Front row: Jack Warner, C. W. Claybaugh, ticket agent, Jack Sumner, Bill Wallii. ; , 1 , Thursday, Feb. 16, 1961 Orem West Stake Conference To Hear Elder Gordon Hinckley Visiting Church Leader - - Elder Gordon Hinckley New School May Be Named Scera ibnentary 'Among the names to be considered con-sidered for the new elementary element-ary school to be erected at approximately " Fourth South and Fourth East, this year is Scera Elementary School. This name has received favorable mention from members of the Alpine School Board, who are expected to make a decision on naming "the" school " at their regular meeting this week. , Some of the reasons cited by school board members for favoring the name are that the school will be located ad- that the Scera program is one of the finest things in Orem, and that it was developed and is being developed for youth. Other names suggested have been Timp View, Victor An- derson, Philo T. Edwards and ' Arthur V. Watkins, and others In regards to ' using names ' of individuals, the board has felt that there are several individuals in-dividuals identified with the I area which would make it difficult to attempt to choose 1 a personal name. pi! m I - " I I- 7 pi r fv: llllj I ;i j :; J fe'7 u Elder Gordon B. Hinckley, assistant to Council pf Twelve Apostles, member of the First Council of Seventy, Elder Stewart Ste-wart B. Eccles, member of the General Welfare Staff of the LDS Church will be the featured fea-tured speakers Saturday and Sunday at the quarterly conference con-ference of Orem West Stake. Sunday's general sessions, to which the public is invited, will be held at 10 a.m. and 2:30 p.m. in the Scera Theatre. Conducting the conference will be Stake Presiden t E. Caryle Bunker. ' Elder Eccles is a director of the famed Church Welfare Plan. Saturday evening at 6:30 o.m. a welfare meeting - will be held in the Vineyard Ward chapel for all members of the welfare committees, of the stake. .At 8 p.m. in the same cha pel a priesthood leadership meeting will held for the stake presidency, high council, ' all Melchizedek presidencies, ward committees and advisors for the Senior Aaronic Priesthood, bishops,, ward clerks, all group leaders and assistant group leaders and secretaries. Music for the general sessions sess-ions will be furnished , by. the Orem Fifth Ward choir .'under the direction of Richard ..." E Barker and the Lincoln Junior Hish School chorus directed by Victor .Hansen. Six Songsters From Orem To , Sail To England , Six Orem " women, members of the "Singing Mothers" choral group of, the. Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, left Salt Laka . City Monday night on a trip to the British Isles. VV The 54-member chorus will journey to England on , the Queen Mary and serve as singing sing-ing missionaries for.one month They will participate in the dedication of ..the. new- Hyde Park LDS Chapel in London, Feb. 26. The group will sing under the direction of Dr. Florence Jepperson Madsen of Provo. Those from Orem making the trip are Marion Ostler, Alta Rowley, Helen Weeks, Clauda Sutherland, Thelda Lunce-ford Lunce-ford and Margaret Rebinson. PRICE TEN CENTS Appointment of Orrin T. Miller to succeed Leonard V. Beckman as Orem City Engin eer, is announced today by City Manager O.V. Farnsworth. The appointment has the approval ap-proval of the Orem City Council. Coun-cil. The . new engineer is a Salt Lake City resident who has had considerable engineer ing experience both home and abroad. His most recent as signments have been with Edward Ed-ward and Kelsey Western who are handling the engineering for the drainage for the Utah County Interstate Freeway and in designing storn sewers for Salt Lake City and with T.J. Orrin T. Miller.. Davis Inc. on a -engineering project cn the island of Guam. Mr. Miller has also been employed as an engineer under the Point Four program - in Iran from 1951 to 1953, post safety engineer at Fredrick, Maryland by . the department of Defense Bacterlogical Warfare, War-fare, and design engineer by Templeton and Link Consulting Consult-ing Engineer in Salt Lake City. He has also been employed as a hydraulic and distribution distribut-ion engineer from 1956 to 1958 in Salt Lake City. Mr. Miller is a University of. Utah graduate and has his masters degree from the same institution. Mr. and Mrs. 1 Mil-lc-r will make their home here. They have one daughter, Lois Anne, eight months. Watch For -Operation Res-Q! I . J I f I y 1 |