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Show i SALT TJf-1 CXT" ' ,r?H gVEVA STEEL PLANT H n n rj HUB 0F JUTAH'S J rem - eneto xw& 1 1 ; 1 PRICE TEN CENTS ThurS., Feb. 3, 1966 VoL36No.5 Police Chief of Orem Gets DSA Award Larry E. Lunnen. Orem chief of police, was named the 1965 Distinguished Service Award winner win-ner at the annual Jaycee DSA banquet last Thursday evening. The winner was introduced by Aldo Busslo, External Vice President Pres-ident of the Jaycees, following a well-planned, entertaining, and inspirational dinner meeting. Mr. Busslo stated that the DSA is awarded to that person between the ages of 20-35 who goes be yond his job, exerting extra effort to make the community a better place for us and our children, and is self-sacrificing, receiv ing no pay for those efforts. Referring to the past DSA win ners (many of whom were present) pres-ent) Mr. Busslo said Chief Lun nen now joins an elite group, IMPROVES STANDARDS President of Utah State Chiefs of Police, Mr. Lunnen's main endeavors have been to improve the standards and effectiveness of the police department. He es tablished a continuous inservlce training program consisting of a two-hour weekly class attended voluntarily by all Orem police not on duty. He established an award program honoring local citizens for outstanding service in aiding law enforcement and also created an award certificate to be presented at a city council meeting to an outstanding citizen for safe driving. He established a law enforcement seminar for high school students and an open house acquainting citizens with the law. He co-sponsored a shop lifting clinic for Orem business- OREM . .- WHERE THE - ACTION IS If you want to go where the action is, take a trip to Timp Haven in the North ForkofProvo Canyon. Saturday was a special day for skiers of Utah County. Our rough estimate would say that in the neighborhood of 2500 skiers and tubers participated on the slopes of Beautiful Timp Haven. Mr. and Mrs. S. Paul Stewart have recently installed a ski lift that extends about two miles up the mountain and takes about 30 minutes to ride it both ways. The lift takes you from the canyon floor to peaks and terrain suitable for skiing that is breathtaking and beautiful. Older people (like myself) can ride the lift both ways and get off If they desire to take time out to watch the skiers and enjoy the beautiful scenery. From the top of the lift the view down and across the snow- covered hills Is one of beauty. To the . left silhouetted against the blue sky, and still much higher is the beautiful Mt. Timpanogos with its snow covered peaks, and rugged cliffs. If a person enjoys scenery and just plain getting out into the outdoors, they should visit this fun ski resort that is less than a 45 minute drive from the Orem or surrounding area. On the ski slopes you can wit ness many different types of winter enthusiasts. Some are bold, daring and a little reckless, others are learners, and are very careful. Small youngsters can be seen trying out their skis, some of them remind a person of young birds trying out. their wings the first time they are let out of their mothers sight. All of the skiers seem to be well equipped with warm clothing and the works so far as wearing appearel goes, however I did see one skier In shorts, he had blue legs. Down near the camp where mothers and fathers can watch the young fry from the automobile if they so desire, the Stewarts have a hill made especially for tubing. This sport is very popular with both young and old. Huge tire tubes are obtained from the owners of the resort, then you sit inside and ride the tube down the hill. The ride is about a city block long and boy, oh boy, do they go. This sport Is safe if certain precautions are taken by the riders. After you have taken several rides and your appetite is sharpened sharp-ened up by the cool brisk air and the unusual exercise the Stewarts Stew-arts have a beautiful lodge that provides the skiers with chairs, comfort and snacks to ready you for another go for the hills, where the real action is. ! See pictures inside i r h f a ...J"'" " - P ' idWBkiiwiiiM"iiiHfri -jm in mi tmmnmm Larry Lunnen men and conducted a survey to improve parking problems. One of his recommendations accepted Dy me Utah state Road commission commis-sion is the no U turn' at intersections in-tersections with a light signal. CHURCH AND FAMILY MAN Chief Lunnen Is also chairman of the Orem council on Children and Youth and is the financial clerk of Orem Fifth Ward. He and his wife, Kay, are the parents par-ents of a son, Marty, six, a daughter, Juri Kay, 2, and this year have taken into their home a 17-year-old Indian youth, Harrison Har-rison Alison, under the L.D.S. Indian program. EDUCATION Although originally from Salt Lake City, the Lunnens moved to Orem In October 1963 from Seattle Se-attle where he was special Investigator Inves-tigator for the Treasurey Department. De-partment. He attended Law Enforcement En-forcement Training School in Washington, D.C. arid also the Federal Bureau of Narcotics TrainingSchool. Not content with a bachelors degree in sociology he is presently working on a masters degree in public admin istration. FUTURE PLANS What looms highest on his things to do- list? the establishment estab-lishment of a police academy setting up minimum standards of requirements and training for all police personel. He Intends to do "all we can toward being recognized recog-nized as a profession." Guest speaker at the DSA night was Grant Thorn, Springvllle contractor, con-tractor, recently returned president presi-dent of the N.E. British mission, mis-sion, and former national Jaycee vice-president. It was noted that his concession speech when he was defeated for the office of national Jaycee president inspir ed the writing of the Jaycee creed which is in use today. Dee Blackley, Orem Jaycee president was the master of cere monies and 1965 DSA chair man. Special guests were G. Milton Jameson, ex-mayor of Orem, and Craig Mickelson, National Na-tional Director of Utah Jaycees. Entertainment for the evening was furnished by the effervescent stars of the "Unsinkable Molly Brown, VickiWentz, Jerry York4 accompanied by Cathy Olsen. li N I Be frepared jf H camera k ?S In the above picture, Mayor James E. Mangum is shown presenting Orem's 'Miss Smile', Denlse Stone, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ira C. Stone Jr., of Orem and Orem High School senior with a proclaimation delcarlng February 6-12, 1966 as Children's Dental Health Week, in Orem, Utah, and the Mayor urges all citizens and all community organizations or-ganizations to Join in the observance. Many of the citizens and members of the dental profession of this municipality are concerned with the prevention o dental disease; and urivznsAL iiicroFiuiirc cor. . 41 PISRPOrT av3. SALT Jjr- CIT', UTAH Attention Fido? Your Tax Deadline Is March 1 5 All dogs six months of age and older must have a dog license which costs $4 and all 1965 dog licenses must be renewed by March 15, according to Gary Guyman, Orem animal control officer. He said that any dog not contained onhls owner's property may be picked up and will be subject to impounding and the owner own-er subject to citation. Dogs picked up by the animal control are held for three days before being disposed dis-posed of. Orem does have a severe animal ani-mal problem, said Mr. Guyman. Approximately 100 complaints a month are referred to the animal control officer. These Include such reports as dogs traveling in packs, knocking over garbage, ruining grass and shurbs, stray cats becoming a nuisance, sick or injured dogs and cats, lost dogs and cats (or horses, donkeys. cows, etc.) and large dogs creating cre-ating disturbances in school yards. Mr. Guyman asks the cooperation co-operation of Orem animal owners in alleviating this problem. Weeks Elected To Head Boosters Clyde E. Weeks, Orem postmaster, post-master, was elected president, and Earl W.Wengreen, Orem City Manager, was elected vice president presi-dent of Orem Boosters, Inc. at the annual organization meeting held this week. New members of the boosters board of directors include Fay R. Johnson, H. B. (Jack) Sumner, Robert E. Evans and Mrs. Albert D. Clark. Hold-over members of the board include Winston M. Crawford Craw-ford and James M. Paramore. Retiring Board members include Herbert B. Stratton, H. Grant Butler, MeredithStratton, Madge Davies and Russell Park. BROAD MEMBERSHIP Mr. Weeks, the new Boosters president who was one of the original incorporators of the organization or-ganization back in 1950, said the membership includes all officers and members of all Orem clubs, churches and civic organizations or-ganizations who are devoted to the upbuilding of the community. Traditionally, Orem Boosters, Inc. has staged the annual Orem community summer celebration which for the past several years has been designated at the Orem Summer Festival. Mr. Weeks said the newly constituted con-stituted board of directors will meet at 7:30 a.m. Saturday at the Orem city hall to lay plans for the 1966 Orem Summer Festival. Any citizen with a proposal or suggestion for this year's program pro-gram is Invited to attend this meeting. WINDSOR SCHEDULES RANGER AND DENTIST Yellowstone Park Ranger. Ted Parkinson, is scheduled to visit the Windsor School Feb. 10 to lecture to the students and show slides on wild life and conservation. conser-vation. Russell Hansen. princlDal. also said that the care and Drob- lems of teeth will be presented to the students by an Orem dentist on February 9. f- r . 1 f - "8 I d - - - - - jw--i . v . Featured in the top photo is Clyde Weeks, left, newly elected president of the Orem Boosters Club, right, City Manager, Earl Wengreen, the clubs new Vice President. The middle picture includes from left to right, H. B. Sumner, Delia Clark, Robert Evans and Faye Johnson, recently elected Directors of the Club. In the Bottom Picture from left to right is Herbert Stratton, outgoing president and his wife, Meredith who has served as secretary of the Organization and Russell Parks who served as a Director. All have given years of un-replaceable service to Orem City and the Boosters Club. City To Crack Down On Tobacco Sales A crackdown on Orem business bus-iness establishments which allow sales of tobacco and beer to minors min-ors was voted by the Orem City Council Monday night. Councilman Council-man Harley Gillman called for a full report on the operation of automatic cigarette vending machines ma-chines which legally may be a-vallable a-vallable for public use only if they are controlled by a remote control operated by the proprietor. propri-etor. Councilmen said it has been brought to their attention that certain business establishments have been ingoring the ordinance ordin-ance govering tobacco sales, and that unless these concerns immediately im-mediately assure full compliance with the law, they will receive citations from the police. CITY ENGINEER In other action, Mayor James E. Mangum asked City Manager Earl Wengreen what response is being received to the city's early preventive measures and education of children and youth can aid in preventing a large part of the incidence of dental disease, especially tooth decay and can help to ensure the good dental health of future generations of adults. In the background back-ground the winning dental posters are shown. The poster on the left was made by Elizabeth Robinson and the poster on the right by Jane Rasmussen. The poster winners will receive cash awards from Orem Dentists. advertisements for a licensed city engineer and director of public works. Mr. Wengreen said five written applications have been received to date and expressions of interest in-terest have been received from several others. February 14 was set as the date by which applications must be received to be considered for interview by the Council. FIRE RATING A possible reduction in fire insurance rates was suggested by Mayor Mangum who reported to the Council that the Utah Board of Fire Underwriters is expected to make a re-evaluation of Orem's fire rating classification at an early date. The re-evaluation is based on the recent completion of Orem's $600,000 water works improvement project which included in-cluded installation of over 100 fire hydrants throughout the city. The Council discussed Orem City's participation in a county-wide county-wide planning program which is receiving the benefit of federal aid. According to Mayor Mangum, ;Utah County has qualified for a federal grant of $43,000 for technical tech-nical planning. I. Dale Despaln, planning consultant con-sultant for Orem and Utah County Coun-ty is slated to discuss Orem's participation in the planning at an early meeting of the Council. Under the program proposed, Orem City will pay $1,856 as its share of the cost. In return, Orem will receive technical consultants to provide base maping of the city, a land use study, population study and projection land use analysis projected to 1980, and master planning. RETIREMENT POLICY At the request of Mayor Mangum, Man-gum, the Council adopted a personnel per-sonnel policy with respect to the retirement of full-time city employees. After a lively discussion dis-cussion on the matter, a mandatory man-datory retirement age of 65 was set by the Council. Previous to this time there has been no definite policy in effect in the city regarding mandatory retirement retire-ment of employees. Ballots Cast Mon. Feb. 7 warn n Alpine School I February 7, 1966, the residents of the Alpine School District will have a chance to vote on the additional bonded indebtedness. At this time in the Alpine School District a $2,000,000 bond election elec-tion will be held. The new bond issue is to be used to meet the following needs; The Orem High School must have an addition. Built originially in 1956 to house 1500 students, its daily student enrollment for 1968 is now set at 1750. Their needs must be met. A new elementary school is planned for a location at 8th East 2 nd North, Orem. The Sharon Elementary, near this area, was built orginally to house 19 units. Twenty four units are now crowded into its confines. The old Lindon School built In 1892 has long been In need of renovation and addition. Fourteen Four-teen new rooms are planned for this site. By 1967 American Fork's High School will no longer be able to Include the 9th grade. With the 9th grade returning to the junior high, the 6th grade will of necessity have to find other quarters. quar-ters. A seven room addition at SheUey is a must. Lehi Junior High has never had facilities for preparing school lunch and lacks a suitable music room. The bond will care for these deficiencies. The vocational shop program has outgrown Its space at Lehi High School. An addition will fill this need. By voting this bond issue the district will put itself in a position posi-tion to enjoy state bond and building aid. For the first time in history the Alpine District received re-ceived in the present fiscal year, $232,000 In state bond and building build-ing aid. By voting this new bond issue the district will continue to meet the states prescribed formula for-mula and in so doing should receive re-ceive approximately $250,000 a year for the next four years. Without With-out the bond the district will lose the fore-mentioned state aid, In the past, Alpine tax dollars have helped other areas by way of state bonds and building aid. By voting tliis bond issue, Alpine District stands to receive about $1,000,000 in state aid during the next four years. Tax rates will not UP. ' ( Two Boy Scouts from Troop 426 were recently seeking much needed information that was necessary for them to obtain their Gold Quill Award. Lamar Gourley, son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Gourley left and Douglas James Warner, son of Mr. and Mrs. John David Warner, seated, is trying the keyboard of the Linotype machine out for size. The boys were taken on a tour of the Orem-Geneva Local Scouts To Observe National Scout Week February 7-13 To keep in tune with National Boy Scout Week, which will be observed Feb. 7 through the 13 many Orem Merchants throughout through-out the various businesses will feature window displays. These displays will be judged on their orginallty and how well they are able to carry out the theme which is Follow The Rugged Road," or"StrengtheningAmeri-can or"StrengtheningAmeri-can Heritage Judging will also be based on Eye Appeal, Attractiveness, At-tractiveness, Use of Identification Identifica-tion Card, and the boys participation partici-pation on the installation of the display. All locations of the displays must be reported to Alma Banks or Warren Miller no later than Saturday Feb. 5 so they can be judged. Also on Saturday Feb. 12 a bi? ecide Bonding Issue I J v I I ELDER HENRY D. TAYLOR be increased as a result of the bond issue. Rather the present bonded indebtedness structure, which currently runs to 1976 will be increased one year and the current annual bond payments will be increased. With the bond issue the district can complete a $3,000,000 building program with a local outlay of $2,000,000. Bond Debt Proposals from 1967-77 are as follows: 1967. . . Total Debt, $1,180,000; 68. . . $1,200,000; 69.. .$1,170,000; 70.. $1,140,000; 71. . .$1,110,000; 72. . .$1,080,000; 73. . .$1,050,-000; .$1,050,-000; 74. . .$1,020,000; 75. . . $990,000; 76. . .$960,000; 77. . . $930,000. The Total Debt would equal. . . .$11,830,000. The Increased bonded indebtedness indebt-edness will be met by: Increasing Increas-ing annual bond increment. Lenthenlng the period of indebtedness indebt-edness by 1 year; this entails no increase in tax rate. Since World War n the district dis-trict has spent: $21,000,000 on buildings and cites, this amounts to over $1,000,000 per year. $7,850,000 represents the bonded bond-ed indebtedness as of the end of this year. Alpine School District Grade Enrollments are: Kindergarten. . . .1,326 First Grade. . ..1,349 Second Grade... 1,305 Third Grade. . . .1,311 Fourth Grade. . . .1,347 Fifth Grade. . . .1,325 Sixth Grade. . . . 1,284 Seventh Grade. . . .1,292 Eighth Grade. . . .1,216 Ninth Grade. ...1,122 Tenth Grade. . . . WtSStM event that will climax the National Na-tional Boy Scout week will take place. All scouts of the area wiil be entertained in a huge 'Fun Aree" which will be held at the National Guard Armory in Provo. Each troop is urged to bring their partol and troop flags for the occasion. An Extra Special attraction will be presented by Pack 482 of the Orem 3oth Ward featuring featur-ing every day at 5:15 during Boy Scout Week, in the Old Hardware Hard-ware Store by the Sportsman a young full-blooded Bannock Indian In-dian boy who will dance for 15 minutes as part of the window display. The boy, Tommy Mc-Ginnis, Mc-Ginnis, is the adopted son of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas McGinnins. The dance will be under the direction dir-ection of Harry James, a Nav- District Church Officials To Conduct Stake Conference Leading officials of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints will attend the Orem Stake Quarterly Conference Saturday and Sunday, Feb. 5 and 6, in Orem. They are Elder Henry D. Tay lor, an Assistant to the Council of Twelve Apostles; Elder William Wil-liam M. Walsh of the General Welfare Board; and Elder Clarence Clar-ence F. Robison and Miss Edythe C. Johnson, representing the Mu tual Improvement Associations for young men and women. They will speak at conference sessions and confer with local leaders. General sessions will be held Sunday at 10 a.m. and 2:30 p.m. In the Orem High School Auditorium. Audi-torium. Stake President M. Dover Hunt will conduct all sessions. ses-sions. Elder Taylor was a prominent Provo, Utah, businessman before being called to his full-time Church position in 1958. He also is a former California Mission president. He serves as managing manag-ing director of the Church's vast Welfare Program. Elder Walsh is a former groc-eryman groc-eryman and purchasing agent, he works on the staff of the Church's welfare office. Elder Robison is a teacher, track coach and a member of the board's athletic committee. He has held numerous positions in the Church. MU Johnson has taught Sunday School for 15 years. She is a graduate of Utah State University and teaches Home Economics in a Salt Lake City high school. Special meetings for MIA and welfare leaders will be held Saturday. Sat-urday. Visitors are invited to attend at-tend conference sessions. Music during the morning session will be furnished by B.Y. High School Chorus. The afternoon session's music will be furnished by Orem Stake MIA Youth Chorus. 1,000 Eleventh Grade. . . .1,058 Twelfth Grade. . . .945 Special Education. . . . 232. See voting areas inside. tea Times and were given first-hand information on printing and the newspaper business. They were shown the various machines utilized and observed operating conditions. These scouts along with hundreds of other scouts throughout the country, will be observing National Boy Scout Week which will be held from February 7th through the 13th. The Boys Scoutmaster is Ross Hilton. aho boy from the Brigham Young University. The locations and awards given for the window displays will be announced in next weeks Orem-Geneva Orem-Geneva Times. li BREAKTHROUGH FDR YOUTH E!IYJ-I!j I |