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Show HoffffOCG 1? Surely there Is something wrong in relation to our license laws, It seems that a number of people whom we call businessmen are refusing to pay the required 11 cense for the privilege of trying to make a living; others pay under protest, and still others do not pay at all. This Is a bad situation. It should not exist. There is surely a better way for all of us to work together. Could it be that these old license laws are so obsolete that they are doing more harm than good. Some ask why one man should pay a license In his attempt to provide for his family, any more than the other man who is doing the same thing whether he is buying, and selling, teaching teach-ing school, working for Uncle Sam, practicing medicine, practicing prac-ticing law, barbering, dolling up your wife's hair or any of the other ways of providing for the family. If anyone should go free of a license it is the man who has to have a building on which he pays a heavy tax, some of which comes back to the city, has to have an inventory on which he pays a heavy tax, some of which corass back to the city. He collects col-lects sales tax, some of which comes back to the city. He often hires help which Is surely good for the city. Are the services provided by these business houses hous-es something we do not need; if so we had better try to get rid of us. If they are something we need, lets keep them and encourage en-courage more to come. Instead of soaking him if he hires an extra man or .two, let's give him a prize. Someone, said it costs more to enforce the law than It brings in. If this is anywhere near true, let's get rid of the law and work for the good will of all. Someone said the money derived from these licenses goes for the protection of the business houses. If that is true, none of us should fe5 7 JFK ii. 4T" PS r - HIND QUARTERS - Good Grade r0Sm CUT and DOUBLE WRAPPED t-5 g Financing available-Easy terms Ham Sandi'ichos Saturday only. .Each Large AA. Potatoes' Bananas iHJ - 11 i'i 11 DISHES flfe White Lotion Mildness tor Hands 1 0 798 West 400 North 225-6258 Vi v. . . "ssssssssmm II object to a reasonable contrlbu tion. Do you think we would loose anything if we were to throw the gate wide open and welcome any and all legitimate business into our city, scot-free from any license? Don't you think that be fore long we should be getting more revenue for our city from property taxes, inventory taxes, collections of sales taxes etc. than we do from these licenses and have a much better feeling among our people? Very few people engaged In any of the aforesaid occupations would object to a small yearly fee; call it license or something else, so long as we know it goes for a good purpose; say law enforcement, even if it means hiring more policeman. There might not be so many burgularles. Provo Is spending thousands of dollars in their attempt to hold business and, of course, hoping to induce more. Let's use our heads. We may shout from the house tops what a wonderful place Orem is to live in. The Chamber of Commerce may send out tons of Brochures, etc. But, until we get better Public relations in our city, It profiteth us not much. Something should be done about our very high charge for water and sewer. We are our own best advertiz-ers, advertiz-ers, for good or for bad. 0. H. Anderson Dear Editor, As employees of the City- County Health Department we are at a loss to understand the action recently taken by the new Health Board concerning the cut in wages and personnel. We feel that we should have been given some op portunity to discuss this and to explain the situation as we feel that it actually exists. We have always felt that there were good relations between the Department and the Cities - Both 2tS Lux t I . - - - GrahatnTTS&Zi 3 foMtiSsA 3 f fyfrO. H la fs Western Style. . . . 59f tp BdHCapS Boys and Men's.... ft Cotton for Suits of or I tLQ tlO7) CSjOtf) Sportswear. Reg. 1.98 Cotton prints rflTj Warns una w......(QU 3 fifeS. , . . . ReguSNow... f$$y COMPLETE SEWING NEEDS Metal zippers Butterick and Simplicity Patterns MOST COMPLETE SEWING HEADQUARTERS IN TOWN kins Wilberq Both in Orem Sanitarians and Nurses hav always been ready to respond to any call from the cities and have tried to help work out the: problems on the best basis pos slble. Why they should suddenly develop this indefferent attitude toward the Health Department is just not understandable. From our point of view, and it seems a perfectly logical one, we can see no valid reason for this sharp cut back in salaries which is going to pose a rather severe economic problem for us as well as a bad let down in moral in the Department, especially when other County employees have re eelved Increases in salaries, As far as the general Health Department is concerned we seem to be living within the budget set for the year. There was no deficit at the beginning of the year as has been claimed and anticipate hone. Neither can we see the Justlfi cation or logic in taking the mos qulto program out of the Health Department, eliminating the En tomologlst, and according to In formation appearing in the news paper abandoning the project in as much as no apparent work has been started and the first brood of mosquitoes is already on its way to producing a record breaking season. We feel this program should be administered through the Health Department with close cooperation with the County and that it should be under the direction of one who under stands the mosquito problem and the materials used to control them. We were very fortunate last year in not having an en cephalitis problem as occurred in other places In our Country. We feel that if the City Councils and general public were more clearly informed on the situation in the Health Department as It actually exists it would give them better basis for dealing with the situation. City-County Health Department Employees MODERN DANCE CLASSES OFFERED Teaching his third Summer School modern dance classes at Brlgham Young University is A. A. Leath from San Francisco. The classes will be held from May 31 to June 11. ' YOUR. CHOICE J wni J f V xuuiu auap,..oag Pack, Reg. 1.02. . . AS 1$ TT.-J r- 838 North State 225-0336 T1& i xjctne. Jk. iv iih)v Y- ,1 I I in I K ' I 1 -i HONOR STUDENTS - Representing their class as speakers at graduation exercises of Orem Junior High School are the above: (seated, from left) Vlckey Johnson, Paula Bailey, Denise Johnson, Cathy Cramer; standing, Charles Allen, Craig Hunt, Tom Peterson. Danny Lucas was not present for the picture. CHOSEN AT OJHS - Studentbody officers for Orem Junior High School for. next school, year center picture, front row . from left, Robyn Bullock, Karen Fowlke, Jane Ann Wellington, Nlla Roper;, back row, Glea Clark, Steven Leavitt, David Jaramillo, Ben .Allen, Dennis Hunter and Kerry Downs. Class , officers for the eighth grade are, front row, lower picture, . Jannifer Nelson, Connie Kump and Connie Louder; ninth grade, back row, Marsha Perry, Blaine Christensen,' and Kris Peterson. ' " .v ' ,' ' . OREM 'It was the biggest audience we've ever had, and the band played the best they've ever done, Wes Barry told us this week about the Orem High band concert last Thursday. Wes had a right to be proud. The band, which has won a great many honors, received a standing ovation Thursday from a home town audience. The 1812 Overture by Tsch- alkowsky, planned as the final number, roused the audience to demand an encore, and they then concluded with "Stars and Stripes Forever" by Sousa. During the program awards were given to 41 graduating sen- ;ors. Larry Hill received the Outstanding Musicianship award. Larry is also winner of the Sterling Scholarship. Kathy Ken- nard is winner of the Elks scholarship. scholar-ship. Both these cash awards will be presented at the school awards assembly. More than a word of praise is due to Wes, the man with the baton. It requires a lot of practice to bring these kids through all the awkward stages until the noises they produce are real music. Our hats are off to Wes Barry. Orem - Geneva Times HAROLD B. SUMNER Editor and Publisher Published every Thursday at Orem, Utah. Office and plant located at 546 South State Street. Mailing Address O. Box 65, Orem, Utah. Subscription price $3.50 per year. Second-class Postage paid ai Orem, Utah. AL'S TV REPAIR Phone 225-2448 Guaranteed Repair Service Reasonable Rates on any make of set, B & W or color This ad worth $2.50 on your next TV Service call. Offer good until July 1. 1965. Summer School Available At Junior Highs ' Summer school classes will be held at both the Lincoln and Orem Junior High Schools June 7th to July 2nd. Classes will be held at 7:30 a.m., 8:30 a.m. and 9:30 a.m. for the four weeks. A $1.00 fee will be charged for each class taken, payable at the time of registration. , A student may register for a maximum of three classes per day. It will be necessary for parents par-ents to go to the school to register regis-ter students. : 1 Classes must have a minimum of 15 students per class and cannot can-not exceed a maximum of 27. As a result, the program will be limited to a first come, first served basis. Lincoln Junior High School will Offer Classes In remedial or enrichment math, arts and crafts or shop for 7th grade students; and remedial or enrichment math, arts and crafts or shop, and type for eighth and ninth grade students. ; Orem Junior High School will offer classes In arts and crafts, drama and speech, remedial or enrichment math, and remedial reading for sixth and seventh grade students; and arts and crafts, speech and drama, and remedial reading for eighth and ninth grade students. Remedial reading classes will be limited to four students per class. This program is made possible by the special appropriation provided pro-vided by the recent legislature. Parents are urged to see that their children take advantage of this opportunity. Further Information Infor-mation has been distributed to all Junior high students and should have been taken home. Registration Registra-tion has already begun at both Junior high schools. If further information Is desired de-sired please call 225-1800 Lincoln Lin-coln Junior High School, or 225-1700 225-1700 Orem Junior High School. SPENCER PTA MEETS TONIGHT ; Spencer's final PTA meeting for this year will be held tonight at 7:30 p.m. at the Spencer school sixth grade classroom. Dr. Joel Moss of the BYU will sDeak on parent and youth guidance prob lems. CAR PROWLED s Is A typewriter and clothing valu ed at a total of $330 was stolen from the car of William Bugg, 901 W. 230 N., as it was parked near 577 N. State. Orem-Geneva Times All the talk lately about the Second World War brings a personal per-sonal thought or two. On Pearl Harbor Day - it was Sunday wasn't it? - My Lady Mother and I were going about our business and the carefully controlled voice of the radio announcer caught my attention. atten-tion. It weemed there had been a plane attack on a place called Pearl Harbor. Pearl Harbor..... Pearl Harbor....... Mother," I shouted, "the Japs are bombing the Sandwich is lands! Hawaii wouldn't mean much to mother, but Grandfather Partridge had been on two LDS missions to the Sandwich Island and the second time, when he was president of the mission, he took his first family along and my father was a teenager who took naturally to that Pacific paradise known now as Hawaii. "Mother," I shouted again, "the Japs are bombing the Sandwich Islands!" Nonsensel" said My Lady Mother and it did seem nonsense, too. What to do? Now that I'm retired re-tired I suppose I can talk about my professional life. For some reason or other it Isn't professional profes-sional to talk about one's profession pro-fession in the public prints, especially es-pecially if one's profession is nursing. I had been out of nursing raising my children but after wandering around the house in a half daze it occuried to me one day that I might be useful at the local hospital. So, I mounted my daughter's beated up old bicycle and pedaling furiously I made it to the hospital and gave myself up. It wasn't easy. The shortage hadn't begun. It isn't important but starting I was paid 25? an hour. I laundered launder-ed my own uniforms, provided my own transportation and if, in an emergency, I took a taxi, I paid for. that, too-but I got delicious meals free. We used to have practice blackouts black-outs and one night during such a hassle I answered the phone to learn from a female VIP living 'on the grounds that she could qupte: "see a glimmer of light in the basement of the south wing," and unquote. " I could see the nurses' home from where I stood and I answered with, "Madam, your front porch light Is on," and hung up. It's always the people with a big front porch light blazing who interest themselves In the glim- Utah's Finest Used Cars Cars 70 Over 70 Cars i959 Chevrolet Bel Air Sedan V-8, R.H. AT $795 1959 Chevrolet Nomad 6 Pass. 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I was so NEW INSIDE PAINT WITH THE BUILT IN SECOND COAT A latex flat wall paint so high in hiding, so smooth in leveling that one coat looks like two! Try it. 1767 So. State Phone TRA( Inside or outsideI I YOUR 1 BEST BUY IN PAINTy UNITED SALES & SERVICE surprised that she would be In-terested In-terested in undergoing such an experience that I took her up on It and so I'm tattooed and I can prove it. Right here on my back. A national Red Cross worker told me then that I was crazy to waste my time and talents at the local hospital. "You have a college col-lege degree and are graduated from one of the biggest nursing schools in the U.S. Come with us and BE SOMEBODY. We need teachers!" Well, I guess I was crazy, but by then nurses were very hard come by and I was scrubbing in surgery. Besides, I've been crazy all my life and I'm used to it now. THE OUTSIDE PAINT THAT LASTS, LASTS AND LASTS Its tough, brilliant finish fin-ish wears slowly and evenly. Resists cracking crack-ing and peeling. Keeps maintenance down. Duplex Depend on "Dutch Boy" more years to the gallon Orem, Utah 225 - 1512 PHONE 373-3031 r |