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Show UTIYRSAL lIICnOFILKirri COP. . JT-iTmn" Air-1 , v.1. x . The long-exvected announcement announce-ment by ZCMI of its participation participa-tion in a mulli million dollar regional stepping mall to be constructed con-structed in Orem was made Wednesday Wed-nesday In the firm's annual report to shareholders. The shoppingcenter, which will employ seven 1 hundred people and provide a retail hub for Central Utah, will be located on a 76-acre site east of State Street between 1100 South and the soon-to-be constructed 1300 South interestate freeway access road that will link Orem with the Provo Canyofi highway near the BYU stadium. The fact that construction of the Orem shopping mall would be advanced by one year due to the earlier programming of the freeway free-way access extension was reported re-ported exclusively by the Orem-Geneva Orem-Geneva Times onMarchl6,1966. OREM DEVELOPERS DeLynn, Heaps and Ralph 0. Brown of Orem and Wallace R. Woodbury of Salt Lake City who head the syndicate which is de-I de-I veloping the Orem shopping mall, said Wednesday that the purchase of the entire 76-acre site is completed. Last year this area was re-zoned re-zoned to a commercial classification classi-fication to facilitate the development develop-ment of the shopping mall. Target date for opening of the shopping mall and the fourth branch store for the pioneer Utah department store is to coincide with the opening of the last sector sec-tor of Orem's 1300 South freeway free-way access route east to BYU. TWO DEPARTMENT STORES According to Mr. Heaps and Mr. Brown, preliminary mall designs are now underway, calling for at least one other large department de-partment store in addition to ZCMI. for a major shopping center than any other area In Utah outside of the Cottonwood Mall Mr. Woodbury stated. "Utah County is surprisingly low in general merchandise facilities, facil-ities, and a great many people do a lot of shopping in Salt Lake City. DIVERSIFIED CENTER Mr. Brown and Mr. Heaps said the developers feel construction construc-tion of a well-diversified shopping shop-ping center in Orem will reverse this pattern. As a matter of fact, we expect to draw more than 10 per cent of our business from outside Utah County. Mr. Woodbury estimated the cost of constructing a shopping mall of the size contemplated in Orem would be between $7 million and $12 million. He indicated in-dicated that such retail centers experience maximum success when about 70 per cent of the floor space is occupied by national na-tional merchandise outlets, and 30 per cent is occupied by local firms. , The proper mix of stores is vital so that all of them can succeed." TWO-STORY BUILDING Although architectural details of the Orem ZCMI store are yet tentative, plans call for a two story building designed so that an additional third story can be built when growth of the business justifies it. HAIL ANNOUNCEMENT Orem business and civic leaders lead-ers hailed the announcement of ZCMIS plans Wednesday as a major step in the development of Orem City as the retail center cen-ter of Central Utah. Mayor James E. Mangurasaid, We welcome ZCMI to the business bus-iness community of Orem City and will make every effort to show our support." Winston M. Crawford, president presi-dent of the Orem Chamber of Commerce, said, 'We feel ZCMI has made a wise choice in coming com-ing to Orem. Ideally located in the center of Utah County's population, pop-ulation, the new Orem shopping mall will attract business from the entire area." Based upon economic studies ; of the Central Utah area, the , Orem shopping mall will be from j 500,000 to 700,000 square feet j in size," the Orem men reported. 1 This compares with the Cottonwood Cotton-wood Mall in Salt Lake County which comprises 600,000 square 1 feet. Our studies indicate that Utah County has a far better potential T""u"!l'WiH "o) i n r n fr rn ILLUMINATING THE PROBLEMS, THE PEOPLE. THE ISSUES OF OUR TIME. EEVA -STEEL - PLANT jf' H'UB 0F AH'S The Impact of ZCMl'S announcement that it will build a large branch department store in the new Orem Shopping mail, electrifying as it is this week, may not be fully measured for several months. During this time studies will be made, plans will be firmed up, ground will be cleared, and work will get underway on construction of the most advanced and most costly retail trade center ever built in Utah, south of Salt Lake County. And while all this is going on, work will be underway simultaneously on construction of an adjacent freeway access road that wil provide convenient and speedy approaches to the shopping mall. The combination of the two construction jobs will provide employment in Orem for an extended period for a substantial number of skilled and semi-skilled workers in both road-building road-building and commercial construction. WITH STABLE employment expected to continue indefinitely now at the Columbia-Geneva Columbia-Geneva Division plant, U. S. Steel Corporation, Corpora-tion, the two big construction projects centered cen-tered in Orem are expected to attract an in-' flux of workers into the Orem area and trigger, trig-ger, a spurt in residential construction. Land values in Orem are certain to improve im-prove and choice home locations will become increasingly at a premium as the construction construc-tion continues. An encouraging appreciation in real estate values in the south end of the city has already been evident during the past year when an unprecidented number of multiple dwelling units have been built and are even now under construction. AFTER CONSTRUCTION of the Orem shopping shop-ping mall and freeway access route are completed, com-pleted, many of the construction workers on these projects will doubtless leave town in . pursuit of work on other similar projects elsewhere. Of lasting impact, however, will be effects of a stable work force of possibly 1,000 people which will be needed to operate the shopping mall. Largest employers will likely be the new ZCMI store and the other big department store. However, several hundred employees will be needed to man the other' smaller stores which will be included in the shopping shop-ping mall. TO THE EXTENT that presently-established local stores re-locate in the shopping mall, the number of local workers in the retail trades would show little increase. However, it is expected that the shopping mall will attract retail outlets from a number num-ber of national retail chains not presently represented in the area, as well as a limited number of newly-established local concerns. Developers of the Orem shopping mall have indicated that they are considering the allocation of about 70 per cent of the floor space in the project to national merchandise merchan-dise outlets, and 30 per cent to local firms. The ratio of vehicle parking space to building floor space in the new development is expected to be such that hundreds of cars can be parked conveniently adjacent to store buildings to facilitate the movement of thousands of people through the shopping mall at the same time. WHEN THE DIMENSIONS and operating staff of the shopping mall become fully known and approach realization, Orem City planners plan-ners and Alpine School officials are going to have to give their current projections of numifipal and school needs an agonizing reappraisal. re-appraisal. Assuming that 1,000 people actually are employed at the shopping mall, and that these represent a total of 800 new families taking up residence in Orem, a reasonable increase of 5,000 in population can be expected. A population increase of this size would most certainly require at least two additional addi-tional elementary schools and possibly a new high school. The cost of police protection, municipal utilities and services would go up, but so would the assessed valuation of Orem City increase. The per capita cost of government would likely decrease, since more people would be her e to help pay the taxes and expenses of the city. BUT MORE IMPORTANTLY, Orem City would begin to realize it's fair share of the optional one-half -per cent sales tax which is distributed on the point of sale basis. The present $80,000 or so which Orem now gets each year from the sales tax would likely like-ly be increased by several times, profiding needed revenues for such things as civic centers, public parks, libraries and fire stations. THE OREM-GENEVA TIMES applauds the entry of ZCMI into the Central Utah area and welcomes it's newest branch store into the new Orem shopping mall. We will view with interest the development of what will soon become Utah's choicest shopping center in Orem, the city which has for many years been Utah's choicest residential community. Vol. 36 No. 17 Thurs., April 2, 1966 PRICE TEN CENTS Cleanup Drive In Orem Set for May to 14 Members of the Orem Chamber of Commerce and other civic clubs are launching a city-wide cleanup campaign throughout Orem city. The campaign will be conducted through coordinated efforts of Orem City and the vari ous civic clubs. The cleanup drive will be launched May 1, when all citizens are urged to paint-up land clean-up, the campaign will run for two weeks in which residents resi-dents are urged to put the items ion the curb for pickup. Saturday May 7 special trucks will cover the city east of Highway 91, and the following Saturday, May 14 eautihcation Frojeci To Get Started in 0 rem Saturday morning, May 7 at 8 a.m. , 'Muster Day, will get under-way according to City Councilman, James Para-more, Para-more, Chairman of the committee working on the beautification oi State Street. One of the goals of the group-is to plant Golden Rain Trees along State street. To kick-off the project, the Orem City Garden Club will plant some trees this Friday along State Street. Saturday morning May 7 at 8 a.m. every unit in this beautiflcatiori .. project is urged to meet at the City HalL A pro, gram to plant petunias In the parking between the sidewalk and the highway has been set out and will get started. All boy scout troops are solicited to report Saturday morning to help with the project Plans indicate that the planting will begin at City Hall and go both North and South After the flowe rs have been planted, plant-ed, the City and Property owners are asked to cooperate in the watering wat-ering and care of them. Mr. Paramore announced that Monday night at 7:30 p.m. at the Little Theater at Orem High School a mass meeting at which all property prop-erty owners, expecially those along State Street, should be in attendance. At this meeting plains will be explained fully, and plans of the program and those involved invol-ved will be reported. : Mr. Paramore also pointed out that Businessmen are asked to carry out the theme of the beautification beau-tification project by obtaining cedar boxes filled with planted "petunias to place on the cement and black-top between the sidewalk side-walk and the road. He went on to 'state that this project of beautification is one that will involve in-volve the young' people of the city in a constructive civic pro-'ject. pro-'ject. He reported that the Boy-Scouts, Boy-Scouts, 4-H Clubs andGlrlScouts have all volunteered their services ser-vices in this project. Clubs spearheading this pro-gressive pro-gressive movement are the Children Child-ren and Youth Committee, The Orem Garden Club and the Shade Tree Commission. t It! J 1 v. . Members of the Committee for the Civic Beautification Project are shown going over plans for Muster Day to be held Saturday May 7. From left to right they include:front I 1 i v row," Don Foster, Mrs. Thomas A. Jacobs, Mrs. Paul Ferguson, and Mrs. Bennett Niel-son Niel-son . Back row, Earl Wengreen, John Dennis and James Paramore. Garden Club Plans Arbor Day Program at Park The Orem Garden Club's Arbor Day Project will be held Friday' April 29, 3:30 p.m. in the Orem City Park. The group will meet at the Parks' flag pole for a short program and will then commence to plant the first Golden Rain trees in connection with the beau-tivication beau-tivication of State street. Their plant sale will be held at the close of the planting procedure, with proceeds going to the civic beautification project. Bedding plants, Gladiolius bulbs, and rose bushes will be available. Golf Course Gets Council Approval Construction of a privately-developed privately-developed numicipal-type golf course in Orem was given the green light by the Orem City Council Monday night on the request re-quest of Herbert B. Stratton of Stratton Fruit Growers, Inc. Until this time the Council had been considering the proposal of the Orem Municipal" Golf Association Associ-ation for construction of a municipal munic-ipal course on city-owned land near the "cemetery. ACCOMODATE NEEDS Mr. Stratton told the Council Monday night that his company proposed to construct a golfing facility that would accommodate the needs of local residents for the next five to ten years. However, Mr. Stratton said his organization would withdraw its proposal if the city intended to proceed with construction of a municipal course at this time. Mr. Stratton has been an officer of the Orem Municipal Golf Association As-sociation which has been pushing efforts to get a golf course for Orem for the past two years. COST $300,000 Mr. Stratton told the Council the total costs involved in getting the nine-hole golf course open by 1968 would be approximately $300,000. Land cost would be $150,000;construction cost,$75,-000; cost,$75,-000; equipment, $10,000; clubhouse; club-house; and 1967 operational costs, $30,000. He said that although the golf course would be privately-owned it would be a numicipal-type operation with nominal fees charged. He requested that the Orem Municipal Golf Association Associa-tion actively advised the operating operat-ing corporation on the operation of the course. He also asked that the city make certain concessions to insure in-sure the success of the course. COUNCIL APPROVAL After a brief discussion on the merits of the construction of a golf course by the city and by Mr. Stratton's organization, the Council Coun-cil approved Mr. Stratton's proposal. they will cover the west side oi the Highway. It is felt that by taking the two weekends to do the job it will enable the trucks and volunteer help to do a more thorough clean-up job of the city. At present city trucks, volun- teer vehicles, and probably national guard equipment will participate. Vehicles are needed to haul the personnel that is unable to ride in the trucks and assist where ever they are needed. The cleanup trucks will haul off anything within reason. Resi dents are urged to clean-up their" i premises, vacant lots, and urge i their neighbors to do likewise. The cleanup of our city is ! everyone's responsibility, and the committee in charge urges everyone every-one to volunteer their help in this important project. The group will meet each Saturday morning at the city hall at 8 a.m. and from there the trucks will leave for the pickup. The committee consists of Fielding Harris. Mary Piper,Dee Johnson, Art Holloman, Charles Rohbock, and H. B. Sumner. 0 urglars rem Fosto Hit 11IC6 Postal inspectors and police were looking this week for post office burglars who are fond of ice cream bars following the burglary of the Orem Post Office Of-fice Sunday night. Sometime between 5 p.m. Sunday Sun-day and 4 a.m. Monday, burglars forced the locks on two sets of metal swinging doors at the rear of the post office and made off with $666.00 worth of stamped envelopes and postal cards. And to add insult to injury, they stole several ice cream bars from a dispenser in the post office and left ice cream wrappers wrap-pers and melted bars strewn on the floor of the office. The robbery was discovered by" Jesse McGee, postal clerk, who reported for work at 4 a.m. Monday. Mon-day. He .entered the front of the post office, noticing that the lights in the rear parking lot were off. Upon entering the building he. found evidence of the robbery and immediately telephoned Postmaster Post-master Clyde E. Weeks who arrived ar-rived on the scene moments later. Mr. Weeks said that the thieves were apparently interested mainly main-ly in cash and attempted to break into the storage vault. A crow bar or a tool of similar simi-lar size was used unseccessfully on the 4 x 7 foot steel door to the vault. The burglars then attempted at-tempted to force entry through the top of the brick-walled vault through what they thought was an air vent. - They peeled off the cover of an air conditioning unit only to find that the top of thevault was constructed con-structed of steel r e-inf or ced concrete con-crete with air vents only the size of one-inch pipe. The burglars next attacked the outside brick wall of the vault, removing several bricks of the outter wall, only to find a heavily-reinforced inner wall which they could not penetrate. A melted ice cream bar was found in the rubble of bricks A Real Stinker Leaves Note ! The nerve of some people! A . note which was left on a Islightly damaged car at the Orem iHigh parking lot, Sunday, read as follows: I smashed into your car while playing around-sorry. The people standing around think I'm leaving, my name and address-but address-but I'm not The note was placed with the Orem Police Detective Division who estimated the damage at $4. The parked car belonged to Mrs. Thelma Farley, 391 N.'IOOO E. and concrete loosed by the rob bers. Mr. Weeks said several locked drawers in the service counter containing stamped envelopes and and postal cards were than broken brok-en into by the robbers. Boxes were emptied and several thousand thous-and envelopes and cards were taken. Four first-class letters were torn open and three parcels were opened by the robbers, but ap parently nothing more was taken. Mr. Weeks found two metal cabinets' in his office pushed back from the front window, apparently ap-parently to provide space for a look-out station for one pf the thieves while the other one was busy attacking the vault. Investigating the robbery were officers of the Orem Police Department De-partment and postal inspectors. Postmaster Weeks asked local residents to be on the lookout for persons, possibly teen-agers, who are seen to have in their possession posses-sion large quantities of both long and short stamped envelopes. Anyone offereing to sell such be reported to the police or the postmaster. Thefts, Vandalism Oyer Weekend Walter Rieske, 851 W. 100 S., reported to Orem police Friday that thieves had entered a home he is . building at 934 W. 150 S., and had taken an 8" table saw, valued at $250, and an envelope en-velope containing $20. i fL--. nh , - r ! x .-- -yf).; ' r i y - ''-v rJ 'ill) i . j 1 '--'Si ' I -"- : irvA v i , f S ' -J! I ! it s jJ ' 5 I 1 b' 1 'ft i -ft Garth Wilkinson and Vernon Stiel inspect some of the damage done in the break-in at the Orem Post Office. The vandals not only ramsacked drawers but left boxes of envelopes and papers scattered about on the floor. In the Middle photo, Jesse McGee focuses our attention to the bricks that were dismantaled and knocked to the floor when the culprits gained entrance to the Post Office. And the bottom photo displays the pieces of shattered brick and empty ice-cream wrappers the snacking lawbreakers left behind them following their little escapade. Car strippers removed $150 worth of equipment from the car of David Randolph Seeley, 126 W. 1200 S., while the carwas parked in his driveway. Taken in the theft were four wire hubcaps hub-caps valued at $100, an electric tachometer valued at $30, and a $20 two-piece ski rack. The theft was reported to city police Sunday, Miss Orem Contest Set For Monday May 2 Other thefts reported included a blue, baby stroller stolen from Clark Varney, 641 N. 120 E., a red and white Higgins bicycle taken from OremJr.HighSchool, reported by Mrs. Roger Chapman, 987 N. 75 E., and a 20" girl's red and maroon bicycle was taken from Sharon School and reported by Isabel Naranjo, 723 N. Orchard Orch-ard Dr. Vandalism was reported by Mrs. James Hanson, 722 E. 1500 S., who said the windows of a house trailer had been broken with a rock causing $8 damage. The 1966 Miss Orem Scholarship Scholar-ship Pageant will start promptly at 7 p.m. Monday night in the Orem High School auditorium, Clyde E. Weeks, Orem Boosters, Inc. president announced' Wednesday. Wed-nesday. Mr. Weeks said tickets for the event will be available for $1.00 each at the door. They are also available FREE exclusively at Albertson's MarketinOremprior to the pageant. Fifteen beauties will vie for the honor of winning the Miss Orem title and a $250.00 university scholarship. The two attendants named will each receive $100.00 scholarships contributed by Thorn Rock Products and McDonald's Mc-Donald's Krive-Ins. Mrs. Delia Clark is general chairman of this year's pageant. Those competing in the Miss Orem Scholarship Pageant include in-clude the following: Sally Peterson, Peter-son, Shauna Burgon, Merilyn Bartlett, Lona Lee Elmer, Lynne Dabling, Roxie Ann Hall, Karen Ann Farnworth, Irene Hilton, Martha Oliphant, Cherie Adams, Glenda Gardner, Deanna Kitchen, Mary Ella Yergensen, Jo-Deen Rasmussen and Lorna Hodgkin-son. Hodgkin-son. Master of ceremonies for the I affair will be Bob Welti, well- known Salt Lake City television personality. Elvis B. Terry will sing the Miss America" song. Talent numbers will be given by the Utah Rockettes and Ros-anne Ros-anne Tueller Nielson, a former runner-up to Miss America. Judges will be Mrs. Russell Innes, Mrs. Hal Jensen. Flovd Taylor, Gordon Owen Jr . aid V i : : . Wendell (Jeri) Winger. 0 |