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Show saw T-'JceicTT-" rivi Ti pa doff Slated Friday at 7 a m oairad See irazwC5 Full Week of Entertainment and Fun Await Orems Envoys at World's Fair Police Issue Warning About Gun Shooting tS , xecayse oi the growing amouni oi damage betng caused caus-ed within 'the city by youtlu with guns, Orem police are prepared to enforce the local gun laws "to the letter," of-. of-. ficers said this week. 2ty ordinance prohibits , shooting of guns a-nywhere within the city limits, police pointed out. The law includes includ-es B-B guns, pellet guns, air guns, rifles, and hand guns, shot guns in fact any type firearms. Officers said that anyone found carrying a gun within the city limits would be picked pick-ed up, and the gun subject to seizure. For those who wish to practice, pract-ice, the target range is available avail-able a-t Orem City Park in Provo Canyon during daylight hours. In the past, 'officers have held the guns for 30 days, after af-ter which the owner could reclaim re-claim it. However, because of the- mounting complaints by homeowners and citizens of damage done, this practice may have to be abandoned and more stringent laws passed. Applicants for City Manager To Be Interviewed Today Applications for the positions posi-tions of Orem City Manager and City Judge will be interviewed in-terviewed by the Orem City Council in the city hall tonight, according to Mayor G. Milton Milt-on Jameson. He said a number of applications appli-cations have been received from persons interested in the two positions being vacated by O. V. Farnsworth and E. H. Johnson. Under the terms of Sec. 17-2-2 of the Revised Ordinances of Orem City, "The . City Council shall appoint a City Manager, who shall be respon-' respon-' sible for the administration of the city business of the City of Orem, and hold office at the pleasure of the City Council. Coun-cil. The City Manager shall be chosen solely upon administrative administra-tive ability and he need not be a resident of the city or state when appointed." The statute sets out no qurjJ'ufiSlons for the Cilty Judge. Any person may be appointed, ap-pointed, whether or not he Is an attorney. . eva steel plant h nnrj rhnm of utah-s gag rem eneb& titter Vol. 32 No. 21 Thursday, May 31, 1962 PRICE TEN CENTfc Building, Gasoline Tanker Destroyed In Spectacular $50,000 Fire Tuesday One Driver Jailed, Other Critical i V ;- -" Mrs. Davis Rebecca Davis Dies in Salt Lake Rebecca Goodmanson Davis died Monday night at the home of a son in Salt Lake City of natural causes. She was born in West Manr na Iceland, November 13. 1876, the daughter of Good man Goodmanson, and Hanna Halverson. She married Jeremiah Davis in Winter . Quarters, Carbon County, January 2, 1879. The marriage was later solemnized in the Salt Lake Temple. He died January 8, 1953. She and her husband made their home in Mapleton until 1936 when they moved to Orem. For the past two years she has resided in Salt Lake with a son, Clifford, who survives her, as do two sisters, Nena Harmer, Ena Carrrick, both of Springville, four grandchild ren, 16 great grandchildren. Funeral services will be at the Olphin Sundberg Mor tuary, today at 11 a.m. Friends may call at the mortuary prior to services. Burial will be in the Orem city cemetery. Charred wreckage of a building and melted twisted metal of a gasoline tanker remained re-mained today as the aftermath of a spectacular $50,000 auto wreck and fire early Tuesday morning at 800 North State St. As the Times' went to press late Tuesday afternoon, the driver of the gasoline tanker-trailer tanker-trailer was in Utah Valley Hospital Hos-pital n critical condition with burns' over 83 percent of his body. (The early press-time was due to the Memorial Day holiday.) At the same time the driver of the car involved, who escaped es-caped with only shock and bruises, was lodged in Utah County Jail with charges of driving while under the influence in-fluence of intoxicating beverages. beve-rages. Officials said that the more serious charge of automobile auto-mobile homicide might be filed should the truck driver die of burns. Fighting for his life in a hospital bed was Gilbert Urias, 34, of Salt Lake City. The other driver was Robert Howard Ho-ward Wall, also 34, of Theodore, Theo-dore, Ala. Officers said the accident occurred about 1 p.m. after the westbound Wall vehicle ran a red light. After the impact the southbound tanker continued out of control across the island to the east side of the highway, where it jack-knifed jack-knifed and the tractor-cab and all but the rear tanker overturned. over-turned. Almost immediately one of the tanks exploded into flames, which scattered burning gasoline gaso-line across the highway and .'gndted the vacant building formerly occupied by Belle's Tavern. ( Two men just outside a lo-r-al rafe saw the driver after he had pulled himself out of r -5- NIGHTIME BLAZE - Firemen from Orem, Provo, Pleasant Grove and Geneva Steel Battled at least three hour3 to bring this spectacular gaso-' gaso-' line fire under control Tuesday morning. morn-ing. It was finally controlled with the overturned cab. Loren Grange and Grant Penrod put out his flaming clothing after he had. crawled to safety while another explosion wracked the area. Ambulance driver Scott Wilkins was forced to go through a wall of flame to pick up the injured man. Fire departments from Orem, Provo, Pleasant Grove and UiS. Steel's Geneva Works responded to the call, as well as State highway personnel, police and Civil Defense workers. work-ers. Traffic was blocked from the area as the explosions continued, con-tinued, both of the gasoline tanks and the truck's huge tires, and efforts were made to control the blazing gasoline. Flames were shooting high into the a'r. Some reports said they could be seen as far away as Mountain. Danger of explosion continued con-tinued even after the flames had been controlled by Geneva's foam truck. The upturned up-turned tanker lay half full of hot, liquid gasoline, which was removed by a pumper brought from Salt Lake City. Normal traffic was resumed through the area by mid-morning' mid-morning' Tuesday as mopping-up mopping-up operations were completed. Windows were broken in at least three surrounding buildings, build-ings, and plastic signs on a nearby gas station were warped warp-ed by the heat. The totally-destroyed building build-ing belonging to Heal Realty was valued at $20,000, with fixtures worth about $4500. Loss of the tanker and gasoline foam from one of Geneva's trucks. Total damage was estimated at well over $50,000. One driver was in the hospital with burns over 83 per cent of his body, with only narrow chances of survival at presstime Tuesday . Photo by Vernon J. Stiel was estimated at $25,000. The truck belonged to Pacific In-termountain In-termountain Express. The Wall car was totally demolished. the Point-of-the- Alpine School Board Offers Teacher Contracts Another step in the thorny path of salary negotiations in the Alpine school district was taken this week by the Board of Education. At its recent meeting the board of education instructed the administrative staff to send contracts to all employees on May 24, 1962. Official sendoff for members mem-bers of the Orem High School band which will perform at the Seattle World's Fair Monday Mon-day will be Friday morning at the high school at 7 a.m. The public is invited to attend at-tend to give them a rousing farewell. Instructor and director Wes Barry, in expressing appreciation appre-ciation to all those who have made this trip possible, said: "It is hoped that the band will at all tmes represent the community of Orem with dignity dig-nity and in the manner that an outstanding musical organization or-ganization should. Perhaps there may be even more pride in the band from its members, extending through each individual in-dividual in school and com munity, as the band performs in various activities. With sufficient suf-ficient notice the band is available avail-able and wll continue to give its services in the many, many school and community affairs as requested by the pepole of our area." The band will travel . to Seattle by chartered bus, giv ing two concerts enroute at Brigham City and Middleton. They will arrive in Seattle early Saturday, with time for rehearsals, sightseeing, church services and other activities before their four scheduled performances Monday. The first concert will be at 12:15 p.m. at the Plaza of the States, with others following during the afternoon and evening. Tuesday the group will be free to tour the fair itself. Wednesday they will be in Victoria, Thursday coming home through Portland and Columbia Drive. They expect to arrive home Friday evening. even-ing. - New uniforms have been purchased to go with those already al-ready owned completely uniforming uni-forming the entire band. A striking effect is gained by the contrasting colors as half the band wears blue coats and the other half wears gold. The travelling troupe ac-companing ac-companing the busses will include in-clude Dr. and Mrs. Mario Harston (Dr. Harston is serving ser-ving as physician for the tour), Mr. and Mrs. V. F. Barnum, Mr. and Mrs. Wes Barry and Mr. and Mrs. Wendell Locke. Lyle McDonald will drive the instrument truck which was furnished by the Alpine School District. When the Invitation from the World's Fair Board was received, committees were formed to plan the trip and raise the fund3 to make it possible. pos-sible. A goal of $10,000, based on an estimated $100 per person per-son with 100 expected to make the trip, was set up by the fiance committee under Charles Char-les Rohbock. Each band student was expected ex-pected to raise a minumum of $70 toward the fund. Most of them chose to earn this share by donating time and effort to the projects organized by the committee, while others with paying jobs gave their funds from personal income. , Additional monies were raised through successful projects pro-jects supported by the people of Orem and surrounding com munities, extending to Salt Lake and Ogden valleys and jto Sanpete county. Projects included the candy sales, with aDprox'mately $2500 netted; Orem-Geneva Times subscriptions, subscrip-tions, $1165: concert tickets Sales, $1100; miscellaneous sale items. $2000. Another $2000 came from generous in dividuals and organizations. Several students surpassed their $70 minimum, some near- ing $300. Sale of a few remaining re-maining Items should complete com-plete the finance drive. Chaperones . will be Helen Pippin, Eileen Christensen, Marda Mendenhall, Bessie Keetch, Vern Keetch, Kay Mendenhall, Willard Gerber, Dan Allen, and Grant Butler. These adults will ride tha busses with the band members. Marvin Stratton, general chairman; N. Floyd Johnson, co-chairman; Helen Pippin, secretary; Wendell Locke, pictures pic-tures and advertising; Wes Barry, band instructor, music; Leeman Bennett, transportation; transporta-tion; John Weenig, itinerary; Charles Rohbock, finance; Gordon Billings, assistant on finance: Zelda Bylund, candy sales; Ruth Barnham, food; LaVar Ware, publicity; and Milton Johnson, chaperones. Mrs. Kofford Veda M.I(of ford Succumbs to Heart Illness Veda Meiling Kofford, 74, 270 N. State, Orem, died Monday Mon-day morning at the Utah Valley Val-ley Hospital of heart illness. She was born Aug. 31, 1888, in Mount Pleasant a daughter daugh-ter pf James and Hannah Pcderson . Meiling. She attended Mount Pleasant Pleas-ant Schools and the Wasatch Academy. She married" Wil-liard Wil-liard H. Kofford July 20, 190, in Provo. They have resided in Orem for the past 53 years. Mrs. Kofford was a member of the Orem Community Church and had served as historian his-torian and was a deaconess for many years. She had furnished altar flowers for many years at the church. Her hobbies were gardening and corresponding corre-sponding with -friends. She Is survived by her husband; hus-band; a son and four daughters, daugh-ters, Weston M. Kofford and Mrs. Victor (Evelyn) Christensen, Christen-sen, both of. Orem; Mrs. Henry (Dorothy) Campbell, Spanish Fork; Mrs. Paul (Alene) Taylor, Tay-lor, Lake View; Mrs. Frank L. (Jean) Merritt, Redondo Beach, Calif.; 19 grandchildren; grandchild-ren; six great-grandchildren and a sister, Mrs. Olivia Wall, Mount Pleasant. Funeral services will be held at 11 a. m. in the Orem Community Church t o day. Friends may call at the church 130 No. 400 East, Orem from 10 a. m. until time of services. serv-ices. Burial will be in the Orem City Cemetery. Public Invited to Attend Open House at Scera Park Elementary School Today, May 31 , from 2:30 until 7 p. m. I, ,, in. uji .m iinn-im. ...ji jji.mjiiiu.jii.niiiii mm m 1 ' I "" "'" f "" ""' "'" " ,11 - .in HWIIII n ri III ! mniu llllUMIIUUIIim.il JJIWOTWJ.H..I.JI.MIMI,)J.U ,,.r- ,-w . .. . ji is.:'.:' - pM.-x.',W:i' i'te ' ,,,.4:.::. 1 IT'Z TSrr??? " . . .... . r . . . 'f!- nmM-nm-wim,.,,,,, Alpine , school district this week extends a cordial invitation invita-tion to the public to attend an Open House at the Scera Park elementary school, 450 South 400 East, Thursday, May 31, from 2:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. Although the dedication will not be held until next fall, it was thought that the public should be given the opportunity opportun-ity to view the newest educational educa-tional plant of the district immediately im-mediately after its completion. Superintendent Dan W. Peterson, Assistant Superintendent Superin-tendent Quinn Hatch, District Supervisors and Principal John Nicol will welcome visitors visit-ors and conduct them through the building and explain its construction-design. Teachers will be in the classrooms to give aditional .information and explain how the rooms have been designed to accommodate the "educational activities that are to be conducted, in the room. Architecture was designed by Lorenzo S. Young and Partners Part-ners of Salt Lake City, Utah who have designed many beautiful buildings through out the state of Utah, including includ-ing numerous school buildings. build-ings. Contractor was Richard J. Miller Construction Company of American Fork. Square footage totals 43,750 in the building. The cost of $565,000 in the total contract makes an average aver-age of $12.91 per square foot. The building includes 21 classrooms from Kindergarten to Sixth grade with Remedial Reading Room and Special Education Room. |