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Show UTIVIRSAL !;iCr:CFJ.Li;ira 0OI: . 141 PIZRPONT AV2. SALT JJZ'Z CIT', UTAH 841Q VoL 37, No. 34 Thursday, August 24, 1967 PRICE TEN CENTS I m ilk gyA steel PLANT ffijHUB 0F ILLUMINATING THE PROBLEMS. THE PEOPLE. THE ISSUES OF OUR TIMK, Impact On Utah County Economy Visualized As ZCMI President Reaffirms Store Plans For Orem Mall Some people just won't take 'No" for an answerl This Is apparent from the continuing efforts by certain people in a nearby Utah County community to persuade officials of ZCMI to change their announced plans to build a new store in Orem and build the store in this other community. Ever since the Orem-Geneva Times first announced back on Feb. 25, 1965, that a regional re-gional shopping center would be constructed in Orem on a 76-acre site adjacent to the 1300 South freeway access road, it has been no secret that repeated and continuing efforts have been made to get ZCMI to change its plans to come to Orem. EVEN AFTER ZCMI formally announced its plans over a year ago to have the opening of its new Orem store coincide with the opening of the 1300 South freeway access east to BYU, efforts on the part of those persons who would have it otherwise have continued to press the top management of ZCMI to abandon the Orem location in favor of one in this other community. commu-nity. Developers of the projected $10 million regional shopping mall in Orem announced at the onset that actual construction of the huge retail complex hinged upon the extension of the proposed diagonal road at 1300 South Street from State Street to BYU. Market research has designated the area between 1000Southandl300South, and between State Street and 800 East in Orem as the prime location in Utah County to locate a shopping center. The strength of this retail sales magnet mag-net will not only hold Orem shoppers in the city, but will draw trade from the tens of thousands of customers in the surrounding counties. ZCMI HAS SHOWN a substantial measure of confidence in the Orem shopping mall by already having made sizeable investment in the purchase of the property. Moreover. ZCMI is even now working on details and plans for its building. Doubtless, the establishment of large, successful suc-cessful department stores here will attract a variety of other specialty stores and professional profes-sional offices. Already, a grocery super market and drive-in are operating just south of the shopping mall site. Also, located nearby are a convalescent and medical center, service stations, a piano store and a drive-in theatre. THOSE CLOSE TO the scene of the Orem shopping mall development from its inception say they will not be surprised to see it surpass Salt Lake City's Cottonwood Mall in scope and sales potential. Certainly, as the hub of Utah County's traffic pattern, it will have a powerful attraction to modern, up-to-date stores surrounded by acres of free parking. Replying to efforts which have been made to attract the new ZCMI store to another Utah County community, H. H. Bennett, ZCMI president, said this week that the firm is too firmly committed in Orem to be able to change locations. To cast doubt on our intentions to go to Orem at this time would be unfair to tMe people of Orem he said. BESIDES THE PUBLIC committment ZCMI has made to come to Orem, many local residents resi-dents calling in telephone orders to the Salt Lake City ZCMI store have been assured by store representatives that they would soon be able to shop in their own Orem ZCMI store. One local merchant has even been approached to see if he would be willing to manage one of the depatments in the Orem ZCMI store. The Orem-Geneva Times has every good wish for those dedicated businessmen in other Utah County communities who are striving to rejuvenate their business districts and attract new blood into them. Certainly, they need every encouragement and support. However, when an outside firm, whether large or small, makes a decision and a public announcement that it intends to locate in a particular city, the businessmen in the rest of the county should accept this decision as final and contentrate their efforts on other firms who have not yet made committments. The dedicated men who are working with the Utah ValleylndustrialDevelopment Association Asso-ciation (UVID A) recognize that what is good for Utah County industrially is good, ultimately, for each community. A new factory payroll in one town will have an important impact on every other town. AND SO WITH Orem's new multi-million dollar regional shopping mall: dozens of up-to-date stores surrounding the newest ZCMI store will not only attract shoppers from the entire area, but will provide employment for over 1,000 persons from all over the county. The Orem-Geneva Times promises to be among the first to offer the sincerest of congratulations to other Utah County cities which attract new business and industry to their towns. IS IT TOO much to expect the same from them? ' Work to Get Underway Soon on New Diagonal "Construction is expected to get underway late in 1967 or early in 1968 on the 1300 South freeway free-way diagonal from Orem's State Street to BYU, Edwin E. Love lace, Jr., engineer of Districts Six, Utah Department of Highways, High-ways, said Wednesday. The district engineer who resides re-sides in Orem s?id the exact location lo-cation of the freeway access road has been finalized, and plans have been sent to the Highway Department Depart-ment in Salt Lake City. I expect that property appraisals ap-praisals and purchases of right-of-way will get underway very soon so thit the project can be advertised to contractors, Mr. Lovelace said. He indicated that the problem of a crossing at the Carterville Road has been resolved at the present time by planning for an overpass at this point. City officials and community workers, alike, hailed the announcement an-nouncement regarding the extension exten-sion of the freeway access as a significant step in providing a much-needed throughfare through Orem from BYU direct to Interstate In-terstate 15. Those familiar with highway construction problems suggested that if all factors are favorable, favor-able, traffic could be travelling the new diagonal route by this time next year. ID Officer Resigns From Police Force Vern Stiel, identification officer of-ficer of the Orem Police Department, Depart-ment, announced today his resignation res-ignation from the department. Mr. Stiel said he has accepted a position as Criminal Record Analyser with the Utah State Criminal Identification Bureau in Salt Lake City. He has been with the Orem department for 10 years and has been the identification officer of-ficer for four years. His resignation resig-nation becomes effective Sept. 15 but since he has to report to his new employment on Sept. 1 he will use his two weeks vacation vaca-tion to make it possible. Mr. Stiel and his wife, Shirley, Shir-ley, and four daughters plan eventually even-tually to make their home in Salt Lake City. Gasoline Ignites; Big Fire Averted A customer having his car serviced at Ferg's Rocket Service, Ser-vice, 1240 S. State, Saturday, signaled his wife to drive the car a little closer to the water pump while the attendant was inside the station getting some transmissior fluid. However, neither of them noticed the car still hooked up to the gas pump. When the car was driven away the electrical wiring Ignited the gasoline. Fortunately, For-tunately, a safety valve kept the fire from igniting storage tanks and the fire was out when the firemen arrived. Investigating officer Dick Chat-terton Chat-terton reported damage to the week-old pump at $500. MangumAppointed Orem Mayor Balance of 1 967 James E. Mangum will serve as mayor of Orem City for the remaining four months of 1967, it appeared Wednesday, even though his resignation from the city's top elective office is ef fective Sept. 1, 1967. On the motion of Councilman Stanley A. Leavitt, the Orem City Council on Monday night voted to appoint Mr. Mangum as Mayor of Orem. to serve until Jan. 1, 1968, or until his sue cessor duly qualified. The Council was required by law to fill the vacancy in the mayor's post created by the Sept. 1 resignation of Mr. Mangum. According to City Attorney Hugh Vern Wentz, any citizen of Orem could be appointed to serve as mayor, including a member of the Council, or Mr. Mangum, him self. Councilman E. Dixon Larson, mayor pro temp, conducted the meeting in the absence of Mayor Mangum. Largest Pipeline Built At Geneva U.S. Steel's Geneva Works Pipe mills division here is making 40-inch 40-inch pipe for what will be the largest crude oil pipline in the United States. Utah-made pipe will form the major part of the 630-mile line reaching from the lower Louisi ana Gulf Coast Region to Central Illinois. Rail shipments of the 40-inch pipe from the Geneva mill al ready have started, the first of the pipe going to a Louisiana destination near New Orleans. Production of the 40-inch pipe marks a significiant achievement for the Geneva mill and its employees. em-ployees. Furthermore, the Utah Valley mill is the only one of the U. S. Steel Corporation's pipe mills currently capable of producing pipe of this diameter. Geneva Works General Super-, intendent Raymond W. Sundquist, said, 'This marks a major accomplishment ac-complishment of Errors Zero attitude and teamwork. i When the line, known as CAP-LINE, CAP-LINE, is completed and placed in operation in 1968, it will have an initial design capacity in excess ex-cess of 400,000 barrels a day, but can be expanded to more than a million barrels a day to meet the increasing demand for crude oil in the midwestern states it will serve. Eight companies will build and own CAPLINE. They are Ashland Pipe Line Company, Clark Oil and Refining Company, Marathon Pipe Line Company, Mid-Valley Pipeline Company, Shell Pipe Line Corporation, Service Pipe Line Company, Texas Pipe Line Company, and Pure Transportation Transport-ation Company, a subsidiary of Union Oil Company of California. Shell Pipe will supervise con struction of the line and then operate it for the owners. m 1 7 ,. ijl f-PT. . - : I '-M: ,. II, 1 ' n ;;!.f . jsSwttl in JA -A nlu-j. t r l .hi ' . - tow - k--- --i 7 7 A - - y THE GENTS" national winners of the United States Junior Chamber of Commerce 'Battle of the Bands last Saturday night at Braintree, Mass. are shown in dapper costumes as they appeared in the Orem Pageant after winning the state contest earlier at. Valley Music Hall. From left are Kevin Rollins, Mike Ostler, Lance Robert, Craig Rollins and Barry Jensen. Orem High Musicians Win National Crown The Gents, five fine young musicians from Edgemont and Orem created an explosion in Braintree, Mass. Saturday night when they played against the 10 finalists in the final bout of the three-day competion in the United States Junior Chamber of Com- Rate Reduction Will Finance More Lights A rate reduction by Utah Pow er & Light Co. on mecury vapor street lights presently operating in Orem City will make possible pos-sible the installation of 60 additional ad-ditional street lights at different locations within the city, City Manager Earl W. Wengreen said Wednesday. Mr. Wengreen said he was advised ad-vised by Marden R. Millward, commercial, sales representative representa-tive of Utah Power & Light Co., that as a result of the rate reduction re-duction made effective July 9, 1967, there will be a savings to Orem City of $181.35 per month, or $2,176.20 per year. The monthly charge for six of the city's 7,000 lumen mercury vapor park lights has been reduced re-duced from $4.20 to $3.30. The monthly charge for the city's 57-20,000 lumen mercury vapor street lights has been reduced from $6.45 to $5.60; and the monthly charge for 102 of the 20,000 lumen mercury vapor street lights has been reduced from $4.55 to $3.30. LIGHTING SURVEY At the request of Mr. Wen- PAM1LA SMITH, juvenile, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William F. Smith suffered very minor injuries when the car she was driving driv-ing struck the rear of the vehicle of Kuen Bo Lew who was slowing to park in front of the Sportsman at 644 N. State, last Thursday shortly before noon, and pushed the Lew car into the front of the building. A small window was broken in the building and the Lew vehicle was damaged front and rear. Miss Smith was cited for having no driver's license and the other driver for not wearing wear-ing glasses. green, Mr. Millward made a survey of the Orem City street lighting system and presented two plans for installing additional lights within the corporate limits. Under one plan, 48 more 20,-000 20,-000 lumen mercury vapor street lights would be installed on State Street, providing for the operation of four additional blocks of highway high-way lighting. Under this program, the cost to the city would be $1,900.80, resulting in an annual savings of $275.40 under the amount presently pres-ently being paid by the city for street lighting. 60 LIGHTS APPROVED The Orem City Council, however, how-ever, approved the plan providing provid-ing for 60 more street lights placed in stratigic places through out the city. Under this plan, 7,000 lumen mercury vapor street lights will be installed at the following locations: lo-cations: On 1600 North Street at 400 West, 400 East (at bridge) and 800 East. On 1200 North Street at 1200 West, 950 West, 900 West, 100 West, 50 East, 200 East, 400 East and 800 East. On 800 North Street at 900 W., 800 'West, 600 West, 400 East, 600 East, 800 East and 1000 E. On 700 North Street at 400 W. On 600 North Street at 400 East, 600 East and 800 East. On 400 North Street at 1060 West, Main Street, 600 East, 800 East and 1000 East. On 200 North Street at 400 East, 600 East and 800 East. On 100 North Street at 400 East. On Center Street at 800 West, 400 West and 800 East. Seven thousand lumen mercury vapor street lights would also be placed on 400 South Street at 1200 West, 800 West, 400 West, Main Street, 1000 East and 1050 East, On 800 South Street at 1200 West, 800 West, 400 West, Main Street and 1050 East. On 1000 South Street at Main Street. On 1200 South Street at 700 West, 400 West, 150 West and Main Street. On 1300 South Street at Main Street. On 1600 South Street at Main Street and 400 East. On 2000 South- Street at Sandhill Sand-hill Road, Main Street and 275 East. 20,000 LUMEN LIGHTS In stallation of 20,000 lumen mercury vapor street lights will be installed on 800 North Street at 1200 West; 400 North Street at 1200 West; Center Street at 1200 West; and 1300SouthStreet at the Sandhill Road. merce 'Battle of the Bands." The combo pitted their talents against 28 musical groups which were all state winners from throughout the country. According to John W. Agnew, Jr., chairman of the national Battle of the Bands, the boys are fantastic individuals and he couldn't ask for a finer group. He said they will become very famous and already are being be sieged by offers from major recording re-cording companies and motion picture studios. In the phone conversation, con-versation, Mr. Agnew said, We're just trying to straighten out the explosion." He did not know when the boys would be able to return home or what offers they would accept. Their winnings are reported to include a Volkswagon van, which they may not keep because, according ac-cording to Mr. Agnew, 'They'll be flying all over the country," a wardrobe for which they've been measured, cash awards, and offers from recording companies. They are to be featured in Bill-boardMagazineswhich Bill-boardMagazineswhich is reputed to be the biggest theatrical magazine mag-azine in the country and of course will be included in the forthcoming forth-coming Battle of the Bands Album Al-bum which will hit the stands in about two months under the Nor-mandie Nor-mandie lable. Meanwhile the boys are touring tour-ing the sights and have visited Lexington, Concord and Plymouth. Yesterday they met with Governor John A. Volpe, R, of Massachusetts. Massachu-setts. The boys were accompanied,on their trip by Mrs. Byran Jensen, Mrs. Darrold Ostler and Mrs. Ostler's mother, Mrs. Dorman Willitt. Playing in the winning combination combin-ation areCraigandKevinRollins, sons of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph RoUins; Lance Robert, son of Mr. and Mrs. David Robert; Barry Bar-ry Jensen, son of Mr. and Mrs. Byron Jensen, and Mike Ostler, son of Mr. and Mrs. Darrold Ost ler. All of the boys are bona fide musicians with an extensive mus ical background. Craig, 17, who plays lead gui tar and organized the group, has studied violin for nine years. He has won many scholarships in music and last year was concert master of the Utah Valley Youth Symphony. Barry, 16, drummer, has stud ied for six years, and has worked with seyeral BYU groups in var ious programs. Barry will be a junior at Orem High this year. Kevin, 14, is the lead singer and also plays the tambourine and bass guitar. Like 'Craig, he plays the violin and does many public concerts. He will be a sophomore at Orem High. Lance, 16, is the bass guitar and saxaphone player for the group. He has been playing the saxaphone for about six years, and has performed with many of the BYU bands in their concerts. He will be a junior atOremHigh. Mike also will be a junior at Orem High and is the organist, of the group. He also plays drums, trombone, accordian and does some harmonizing with the group, . Bond Election Is Postponed Until Early In 1968 The Orem City Center Bond Election, originally scheduled for Sept. 26, 1967, was postponed by the Orem City Council Monday night 'until after the first of the year." The action was taken by a unanimous un-animous vote of the Council on the motion of Councilman Stanley A. Leavitt, chairman of the City Center Study Committee. Mr. Leavitt said he made the motion "reluctantly" after considerable con-siderable contemplation and after af-ter talking to many people during the past week. Architects and builders agree that construction costs are going up, and for this I have a reai concern," Mr. Leavitt said. However, in view of conditions con-ditions in the community at the present time, it would seem wise to postpone the election," In other action, however, Mr, Leavitt made the motion for the city manager to proceed to investigate in-vestigate sites for a new fire station. sta-tion. It might be well to select two sites, if they meet the requirements re-quirements of the Board of Fire Underwriters," CouncilmanHar-ley CouncilmanHar-ley Gillman said. The Council voted to move ahead with efforts to locate fire station sites, On the recommendation of City Manager Earl Wengreen, the Council approved position descriptions de-scriptions and job classifications for three new jobs in the city: fireman, fire prevention officer, and billing and collection supervisor. super-visor. In other action, the Council appointed ap-pointed Councilman Ellis Ras-mussen Ras-mussen to serve as mayor pro tern for the balance of 1967. YUP, THINGS ARE HAPPENING in Orem. The latest tourist attraction across from City Hall and south a half block on the west is this unsightly fence cluttered with paper and trash of all types. This reminds a person of the question, 'Who's onsecond?" which refers to the city fathers. Our city and Stat has ordinances which prohibit such eyesores, but there seems to be some conflict con-flict about who is to enforce it.Weare wondering wonder-ing if it's the responsibility of the city attorney, at-torney, city manager, chief of police, chief of the fire department, city engineer or the land owner. Jurisdiction of such matters ' should be settled once and for all and the law enforced. . |