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Show a TOR ILLUMINATING THE PROCLEMS. THE PEOPLE. THE ISSUES OF OUR TIME. Residential Growth Of Orem Must Continue While Irrigation Rights Of Farmers Are Preserved The release of water Into the irrigation ditches and canals of Orem this week marks the 105th year in which this precious "life blood0 of agriculture has been channeled by earnest men to the brink of their, greatest need. From pioneer times until the present, the irrigation water has moistened the parched earth on the Orem bench and nurtured the plants and trees' whose fruits and vegetables have made this one of the choicest agricultural agricul-tural areas in the state. Getting and keeping the water on the bench has not been easy. The first local irrigation irriga-tion company was organized in 1863 by early settlers who, with mules and home-made tools, dug a ditch from the mouth of Frovo Canyon onto the bench. SINCE NEITHER surveying instruments nor trained engineers were available, the ingenuity ingenu-ity of the settlers was taxed to lay out the. course and elevations for the ditches. The method generally used was to make a dam in the main stream after a plow furrow had been made extending from the stream bed in the direction desired. The water was then diverted into the furrow. As the water soaked the ground, the ditch was widened and deepened and directed along the desired path. Section after section was made in this manner until the ditch was completed. com-pleted. The ditch, which measured two and one-half feet deep and six feet wide, carried the precious prec-ious water out over two thousand acres of parched ground to bring life to the desolate area. THE PROVO BENCH Canal and Irrigation Co. was organized in 1865, and the first action ac-tion of the board was to levy a tax of $3.00 per acre to finance the enlargement of the canal and construction of additional ditches. Since the water from the .first canal was directed largely to the southern part of the bench, another irrigation company known as the North Union Irrigation Co. was later organized or-ganized to take the water north. Over the years, other irrigation companies compan-ies have been formed. All of the ditch companies have maintained a continuing program pro-gram of enlarging canals and ditches and extending them to where the water can be put to the most beneficial use. TODAY THERE ARE few blocks of Orem City which do not have canals or ditches traversing them, although in many cases they have been co ver ed with culverts and sidewalks. Legally, jthe irrigation ditches, established over a long period of time, have a prime ' right-of-way over land, even when they cross property belonging to people who make no use of the irrigation water, whatsoever. This fact sometimes causes the resentment of people who have purchased building lots and built homes adjacent to these ditches. In some cases, subdividers have come in and built numerous homes on lands no longer used for farming, but through which the irrigation ir-rigation ditches still carry water to other productive lands. In approving subdivision plats, Orem City has in the past done so on condition that the subdividers work out satisfactory arrangements ar-rangements with the ditch users to protect the utility of their ditches. IN PRACTICE, however, some subdividers have not fairly met their obligation to protect the interests of the ditch users, and the problems prob-lems of the. farmers have increased as the result of residential construction. Little wonder that in recent years some friction has erupted between the farmers and the city when ditches have been weakened, weak-ened, or even re-routed in some cases by subdividers. The recent meeting of the Orem City Council and officers and stockholders of the ditch companies was a healthy step in the direction of promoting a better relationship leading to a more orderly residential development devel-opment and preservation of Orem's vital network net-work of irrigation ditches. Certainly, men of good will can formulate policies and procedures which will protect the priceless irrigation rights of the farmers farm-ers even while the residential and commercial growth of the city continue to prosper. 3 Plan Now For That... Check Your Car I BEFORE MAY 15 DEADLINE Complete Car Service Plugs , Cables Tires Oil Filter Lights Points O Brakes We Give Gold Strike Stamps Atlas Batteries V f 'T' MO' Let Mott's Take Care Fill up with Chevron Gasoline No Car Is More Dependable Than Its Battery IT'S CHEVRON 406 North State OREM r; V V, If""", -" . ) Dr. John Bernhard: Dr. Bernhard Tells What's Wrong With High Education Dr. John T. Bernhard, who will assume the president's post at Western Illinois University this August, was honored guest and speaker at Orem Klwanis Club luncheon. Dr. Bernhard drew on his long and varied experiences as educator, edu-cator, state senator and as a member of a special study committee, com-mittee, to explain the current situation sit-uation in higher education in Utah. Utah needs to accept the findings find-ings of the rest of the country and go to a system of junior colleges in urban centers to better bet-ter provide for the education needs rather than continue the upgrading up-grading of so many colleges to university status, he advised. Dr. Bernhard stated that too much political power is concentrated con-centrated in the college groups and Utah does not have the money to continue unwise course and the accompaning huge drain on its resources. Instead, he said, the Utah Coordinating Council for higher education must be given power and authority over higher education rather than Just making suggestions which are often ignored. ig-nored. Following the address Kiwan-ians Kiwan-ians finalized plans for the official of-ficial visit of the Utah-IdahoDis-trict Governor, Joe Sebee, Saturday, Sat-urday, May 4 and the Mother's Day Party, May 11 at 7 p.m. Guests were Bill Barrett of Salt Lake City and Wayne Mills of Orem. i a.n .vnr II tA "Wy 1 1 I 1 X I II THE Vi&WS expressed In this column or any previous column are those of the author, Mr. Williams, and not necessarily those if the Orem-Geneva Times management. STUDENT "LEFTIES" TAKE OVER COLUMCIA UNIVERSITY Back in the good old days, college col-lege students were interested in learning from their professors, and having a few initiations and good times together as young adults. But never did they take over a university! This has now been accomplished accomplish-ed in America by the Communist-leaning Communist-leaning Students for a Democratic Democra-tic Society (SDS), led at the very respectable Columbia University in New York City by Mark Rosen-feld. Rosen-feld. True, buildings at other universities un-iversities have been disrupted from their routine procedures in a few cities in the U.S. where the leftists are extremely powerful. power-ful. And Americans have read of student take-overs in other countries by Communist-led students, stu-dents, most recent of which was at the University of Mexico City. It doesn't really take anything to get a take-over started. : v -. First, find . an excuse fot-a demonstration. T iis ' was done, at the Watts riot, too. At Col- umbia, the lefties were leading a protest against the university's alleged racist and pro-war leanings. lean-ings. Controversy grew out of a lon-standing lon-standing plan to build a $11 million gymnasium on two acres of a 30-acre park near Columbia. This allegedly would deprive Negroes in Harlem of recreation space. Students also protested university univer-sity research programs carried out for an agency supported by the Defense Department. Secondly, organize the left wing on the campus ( and on most campuses, that is already accomplished) ac-complished) . Most major univer sities and colleges have an SDS unit; if not, they have the Communist-promoted Spring Mobilization Mobiliza-tion to End the War in Vietnam Viet-nam committees throughout the land. ( This is also called the April Committee, as it is at the University of Utah. And these folks have been in there demonstrating demon-strating with the SDS at Utah! Thirdly, train the group in methods of subersion, dissent, distrust of the administration, take-over of the university newspapers, news-papers, and lower the general morale of the student body by having a "free university" of classes taught by left-wing professors pro-fessors who teach what's wrong with the university, etc. (The University of Utah has one of these going, too! ) Fourthly, select a reason to demonstrate and take over a building or the entire campus. This could be anything from student stu-dent suspensions, arrests, national na-tional or international political reasons, or just "create" a reason. rea-son. Fifthly, carry out the plan with just a few hundred members of the organization to stop the education of 27,000 students. Be sure to burst into the president's office and have a sit-in until the administrator gives the group what it wants. Wiar the oldest, smelliest, grubiest clothe.9 y.n can find; don't shave or bathe; and taka 'some works of Mao to read while there; it could be a long session. ses-sion. , Student take-overs of univer-ities univer-ities apparently could be the new fad. Oh, for the old day,? wh:. ( r.fter studying maybe) students were more interested in fads such as crowding into phone booths or Volkswagens, marathon walks, panty raids, and fraternity initiations initia-tions swallowing lard and gold fish. But never would they think of crowding into a university president's office to "demand", anything. Problems of this sort can be solved perhaps in two ways. First, have an administration with the intestinal fortitude to administer the work of educating the youth whose parents (or oni their own or a government grant) are putting them through college. Secondly, the university students stu-dents themselves could encourage encour-age kicking off the small min-irity min-irity of lefties wh stir up all trouble. ( Remember the free speech movement at Berkeley run by Couumnist Bethina Apetaker!) - Most college students are there 3 million Travelers can't be wrong. What made the Old Crow Traveler such a big favorite in so short a time? The way the Traveler packs flat? Definitely. But, the most important reason is because of what's inside. Old Crow... the world's most popular Bourbon. Old Crow Traveler itmuciT mum wuiaoi mtisur m cuoof oisnueo o wmio n tut oio mo iisiiuehi co . f mmfmt. fS M 111 Weeks Wit ALIENATION . . . Lately we've Jl been informed to our intellectual intellec-tual gills on the subject of modern mod-ern man and his currently fashionable fash-ionable ill, alienation. You can hardly speak of our species today to-day without also taking notice of our complex civilization and its idiscontents, and querying where 'lit is all leading us. Our youth, it is pointed out, are ilienated from their parents, and the parents are -alienated from what's happening." This may be over-simplifying the whole problem, but I think it all boils down to what I call a nostalgia for listening. Really listening, that is. Children need to listen to their parents and parents need to listen to their children . . . hearing not only the worlds spoken, but the words unspoken: the real meaning, of what is said. MOST OF US, parents and youth included, have such a compulsion for talking that few of us really take the time to LISTEN. Try it! You may be surprised at what you hear. NEVER FORGET: I have a friend who was in trouble a few years ago and I helped him out. "I won't forget you," he vowed. And he didn't. He's in trouble again and he just called me. Which is all right. I always say for a genuine purpose; others are there under false pretenses and as "plants" to disrupt the status quo of educational processes. ( Note: Just Tuesday morning) The Columbia University Board of Trustees asked the city police to come in and remove the 500 demonstrators who had taken over five buildings. As the lefties were being bodily carried out, guess what they yelled! Right "Police brutality! "--the Communist Comm-unist cry against law and order.) TMDRTQnMirn Paul Newman lectures German POW Com-i InviDRTQnMirri Paul Newman lectures oerman vm Lom-I mandant Werner Peters on the Geneva yonvenuon ior prison ers to little avail in Universale nuanous worm warn comedy, "The Secret War of Harry Friggphotographed in Technicolor. Sylva Koscina co-stars with Newman. Now at the Scera Theater. it's better to give than to lend, and it costs about the same. A PICTURE that has haunted me for some time is the one of the terrorstricken VietCong mother mo-ther carrying her baby into an underground shelter during an air raid. For what it's worth, here is my poetic impression of that picture: As bombs are falling From the sky, The Viet Cong Go Underground. A mothersings her Screaming child A silly song To drown the sound. As sure as stars Light up the night, As sure as Spring Returns anew, As sure as men Will kill and fight, As sure as War Is Devil's brew, I'd let women Run the world. The hand that rocks The cradle child Will keep the battle Banners furled, And tame the fury Of the wild. A mother never Sent her son To kill another Woman's lad. Instead of war, She'd rather run A world of Peace Where none is sad. OGod in Heaven, Now we pray, For peaceful lands Where children play. . , Arm? ran? u ii ii if i i i 0 fi0 ROUND STEAK lb 79 CHICKENS 3lT FRANKS ib. 49 LUNCH MEAT a. 49c Pork & Chicken Lunch Loaf 3 llZ' 1. 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