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Show DC Orem-Geneva Times M f oi:aj,iiciaiy i Thursday, May 16, 1968 w i ;3; lenders W CP rt 5nr Heart 1 hy HAL WILLIAMS, oa. f I fflw A V.V- ILLUMINATING THE PROBLEMS. THE PEOPLE. THE ISSUES OF OUR TIME. As Orem City Cemetery Notes 25th Anniversady Perpetual Care Hinges On Advance Sale Of Lots With the approach of Memorial Day two weeks from today, the attention of nearly every family in Orem is directed to the Orem City Cemetery where now lie the mortal remains of some 715 friends and loved ones. Nestled below the majestic Mt.Timpanogos, the Orem City Cemetery is situated in one of ; the most beautiful locations in Utah. Flanked by stately poplar trees, and landscaped with lush green lawns and eyergreens, the cemetery ceme-tery is a peaceful and beautiful place where the bereaved can find comfort and the dead can retire in dignity. IT WAS NOT always thus, however, for only a quarter of a century ago Orem residents were required to use the cemetery facilities of neighboring communities, since Orem had no cemetery. And, prior to 1925, there were a number of burials in Orem in graves located on private property, often in a hallowed corner of afield or orchard. The history of the Orem City Cemetery goes back to July 11, 1941, when the Orem City Council named Mayor B.M. Jolley, An-tone An-tone Rohbock, and Mrs. Donna York to a committee com-mittee to investigate the advisability of establishing es-tablishing a cemetery on the Shaya farm located lo-cated between the Provo Reservoir canal and the Alta Ditch canal at 800 East 1500 North. It was on the recommendations of this committee that Orem City purchased the 108-acre 108-acre site from the State of Utah for $4,500. Included with the property was ten shares of Alta Ditch water IT TOOK NEARLY two years of planning before the Council was ready to begin the development of the property, and just 25 years ago this week work got underway to plant trees and landscape the area to make the Orem City Cemetery one of the, best situated and most beautiful cemeteries in the state. Since that time there have been 715 interments inter-ments in the cemetery, and 2500 more burial lots have been sold. And all of these 3,200 graves are legally entitled to perpetual care. Over the years the cost of maintaining the cemetery and providing perpetual care for the graves contained therein has been borne by the taxpayers as a whole. That is, either a property tax mill, levy was set, or money was appropriated from the general fund to finance cemetery maintenance. However, four years ago the Orem City , C ouncil decided that the burden of financing the perpetual care of the cemetery was to be -gradually shifted from the taxpayers as a whole to the actual users of the cemetery. , As a means of accomplishing this objective, the Council increased the relatively low price of burial lots and enacted an ordinance which required a substantial portion of the monies received for burial lots to be placed into a Cemetery Maintenance Fund. THUS, THE PRICE for an adult lot today is set at $75.00, with $70.00 per lot being charged , when more than two are purchased at the same time. The price for child's burial lot is $40.00 From each adult burial lot sold, the sum of $50.00 is placed in the Cemetery Maintenance Fund, and from each child's lot sold, the sum of $25.00 is placed in the fund. According to City Recorder Anne Cooper, the Cemetery Maintenance Fund now totals $7,000, which amount has been invested in U.S. Government bonds, netting a maximum return of 4.15 per cent interest. Accordingly, the annual interest realized from the capital investment amounts to about $290.00, an amount considerably less than the nine thousand-plus dollars budgeted each year for cemetery maintenance. WITH THE CEMETERY Maintenance Fund growing by only about $2,000 per year and invested capital of some $200,000 required to earn sufficient interest to provide perpetual care for the cemetery, it can be readily seen that with the present rate of growth it will require re-quire nearly another one hundred years to accumulate sufficient capital to put the cemetery ceme-tery on a position to finance its own perpetual care. However, there are now a total of 15,600 grave spaces plotted in the Orem City Cemetery, Ceme-tery, and this figure could be expanded to 20,000 with the enlargement of the cemetery. Thus, there are ample grave spaces available avail-able for sale at the present time. The sale of some 5,000 additional grave spaces would bring the Cemetery Maintenance Mainten-ance Fund to well over the $200,000 mark and generate sufficient interest to entirely finance the cemetery maintenance. AND SO, IT would seem that if the Orem City Council truly desires to shift the cost of perpetual care at the cemetery from the taxpayers tax-payers to the users of the cemetery, the City must undertake a concerted effort to pre-sell a large number of people burial lots in advance of their need. The city ordinance .provides that the City Council may contract with religious and fraternal fra-ternal organizations to designate a reasonable portion of the cemetery in which burials may be restricted to members of such organizations organiz-ations and their families. The Council may also designate an area in the cemetery reserved for raised markers not over 36 inches high. These two provisions may be an added inducement for people to purchase a grave plot sooner than they normally nor-mally might. If commercial cemeteries can pre-sell burial lots by the thousands, making a good profit, certainly Orem City can do the same; thing without making a profit, but by accumulating accumu-lating a Cemetery Maintenance Fund of sufficient suf-ficient size so as to assure that the care of graves in the Orem City cemetery will be truly perpetual. UTC To Highlight Fine Art Exhibit The opening of the Sixth Annual An-nual Art Show and the Open House will highlight Utah Tech nical College at Provo Week beginning be-ginning May 13. The theme of "Spotlight 68" will mark the special week so designated by the Utah County Commission as UTC Week. Beginning Monday the college will be open to the public to visit the art exhibit which will feature over 150 works of art produced by day, evening, and summer art students. The fine arts will be represented by works in oil, pastel, water color, charcoal, char-coal, and design in mosaic. ARMY SURPLUS "C" RATIONS Ham and Eggs Beef Steak Ham Beef with sauce Wing Tanks 75 gal. 18a PUP TENTS 7 88 Factory Surplus Electric Blankets Non-Working Ideal for Camping Bobs Army ; & Navy f Store : 418 NORTH STATE OREM, UTAH CLOTHING PANTS SALE Dickie, Shapeket Lee-Prest, Lee Jeans Washington DeeCee Konstant Krease Big Yank Permanent Press For Work and Play $5.50 to & 7.00 values 425 Used Coveralls $1 98 Bobs Army & Navy Store 418 NORTH STATE OREM, UTAH ' SHOES SPECIAL SALE 8 inch and 10 inch WORK SHOES AND BOOTS $g)95 GYM SHOES 1 98 This Week Only 1 gal. of Coleman Cole-man Fuel FREE with with purchase of Coleman Stove Bobs Army & Navy Store 418 NORTH STATE OREM, UTAH THE VIEWS expressed in this column or any previous column" are those of the author, Mr. Williams, and not necessarily those of the Orem-Geneva Times management. POOR PEOPLE'S MARCH A POLITICAL FOOTBALL With the driving of the first stake in the building of "resurrection "resur-rection city inWashington,D.C, millions of Americans must be appalled at the audacity of these so-called "poor people building a camp on public property in the nation's capital. What would happed to anyone else who took his tent or prefabricated pre-fabricated house and pitched it on federal property in Washington D.C. (or any place else)? He would be arrested. If everyone did what is going on now in the capital, that city would soon become the garbage pit of the world. As these so-called poor people camp near the Lincoln Memorial, how long will the beautiful grass last? Where will they cook? What are their toilet facilities? Where will they dump their trash? Where will they get their water to live there for perhaps months? For the distance that many of these people are going, one certainly cer-tainly could not consider them poor." It takes' money and lots of itto travel nowadays. Then to have no "income while there with the family must take their life's savings. Or better yet, they are being paid to blackmail Congress Con-gress into more socialism for the non-worker while the hard worker work-er pays more taxes to keep the doles. It is apparent that lame ducker Lyndon B. Johnson is absolutely gutless. Not one high government officiall has encouraged the "poor people to stay home and work out complaints com-plaints and problems through the proper channels--just as good, law-abiding citizens should do. But everyone knows that these folks are good, law-abiding citizens citi-zens until they find a law they don't like. And they then proceed to break it! No leadership in government breeds anarchy. Certainly, no government leader who swears to uphold the Constitution would willfully neglect neg-lect his duty. However, the ways things are going, the neglect seems to be there. vt , r The Rev.1 Ralph Abernathy'j the successor to Dr. Martin Luther King's Southern Christian Leadership Lea-dership Conference, is preaching the same line as King "nonviolence. "non-violence. But every keen reader and observer ob-server knows that where. King or his SCLC group went, some kind of violence did happen. Of course, the group always blamed some black militant organization for that. The present encampment will be the home for some 5,000 expected ex-pected to arrive in Washington during the next four or five weeks. The high point of the arrival will be a mass rally on Memorial Day. How would President Lincoln view these goings-on if he were alive today? King's widow, Coretta, led a Washington, D.C., Mother's Day march through some of the City's worst slums and through some of the blackened ruins from riots following her husband's death. She told the rally: I must remind re-mind you that starving a child is violence. Suppressing a culture is violence. Neglecting school children child-ren is violence. Punishing a mother and her family is violence. vio-lence. Even the lack- of will power to help humanity is a sick and sinister form of violence. Mrs King did not plead guilty for her people on any of the above accounts. She only blamed the government and white people for the misery of AmericanNegroes. What baloney! It will be an interesting phenomenon phe-nomenon as the development of "resurrection city transpires. Even that terminology could "burn" a good Christian. Also in the wake of the poor people's march comes the news that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., left an estate of less than $5,000 in cash. King's attorney said that the Negro leader gave the $50,000 Nobel Peace Prize money to the National Association for the Advancement Ad-vancement of ColoredPeople.the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee, and the SCLC. Mrs. King will now get $1000 per month from the SCLC. . So many people feel that Dr. King was doing some good. Maybe he was. But when he geve money to the Student Non-violent Coordinating Co-ordinating Committee (SNCC),h 1 donated to one of the most active Communist - oriented organizations organiz-ations in the United States today. Whatever happens with the encampment en-campment beginning in Washington, Washing-ton, one could place a safe bet that the real loser will be the American taxpayers: Paying for cleaning up the mess, policing the area, protecting the nation's shrines, etc. In addition, if Congress gives in to the blackmailing tactics, a national minimum wage will be given (among other things), mov-ing"'America mov-ing"'America closer to an all-powerful, all-powerful, federally - dominated socialistic state. Orem - Geneva Times . HAROLD B. SUMNER Editor and Publisher r P ublished every T hursday at Orem, Utah. Office and plant located at 546 South State Street. Mailing address; P. O. Box 65, Orem, Utah 84057. Subscription price: $3.50 per year. Second-class postage paid at Orem, Utah. SPORTING GOODS Salmon Eggs 10c Lucky Brand- WobblerS for 88 Aluminum Pack Frame 4 95 Life Jackets 598 Sleeping Bags $ 6 And Up Bobs Army &Navy Store 418 NORTH STATE OREM, UTAH HARDWARE Roller With Cover and Pan 98 Outside White Enamel Paint $98 A Gal and up Redwood Oil Stain 98 In 5 gal Lots Bobs Army &Navy Store 418 NORTH STATE OREM, UTAH 0 , pmmm DURING THE MONTH of April, Mr. Hunt's Sixth Grade Class at the Scera Park Elementary Elemen-tary School held a Class Science Fair. After judging was completed, Denise Dixon right, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert N. Dixon, was awarded first place for her project on the anatomy of a frog. Mike Hudson, center, son of Mr.and Mrs. A. Radell Hudson, placed second with a project on sound reproduc tion and Kelli Clegg, left, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Carl B. Clegg, was awarded a third place ribbon with her project on ants. Honorable Honor-able mentions were also awarded to Doug Eastmond, left, son of Mr. and Mrs. F. Taylor Eastmond, for his project on the heart and to Shelly Tucker, right daughter of .Mr. and Mrs. Karl L.Tucker, for her project pro-ject and research on footbinding. Letter to Editor.., Dear Editor: It is hard to believe that a reporter of your newspaper could twist the facts around enough to come up with a story as misconstrued mis-construed as was printed in your paper under the heading 'Council Gets Master Plan for Development Develop-ment of Orem City, Park on Thursday, May 9th. I would like to give your readers the truth as to my stand and to why. On or about the 12th day of April, 1965, Orem City and the Orem Veterans Council signed a Contract Agreement assigning certain land which the City owned to build a Veterans Memorial Park. - After reading in your paper several articles about the Planning Plan-ning Commission being asked to come up with a Master Plan for the overall park which included includ-ed the Veterans Memorial Park, Bill Davis and I invited ourselves to a Planning Commission Meeting. Meet-ing. We waited to be heard, but before we got a chance Mr. Davis had to leave. So before leaving I stepped to Mr. Park's chair and told him quickly why we had come. He asked me to come back in about an hour, which I did. They were quite surprised to learn of the Veterans contract with the City. I thought I had left an understanding un-derstanding with them that we wanted to be heard on anything that pertained to the veterans part of the park. After this time I was contacted con-tacted only once about a meeting of the Planning Commission and that was the day of a meeting and I was in Ogden and didn't get the message until late that night and the meeting was over by that time. Your reporter writes that Mr. Park told the Council that Mr. Locke had, in fact, been invited to meetings of the Orem Planning Commission at which the Park plan was discussed, but that he had been unable to attend. This is not ture and is not even close Senior Sluff Day At Aspen Senior Sluff Day, now an annual planned affair, is scheduled for May 20, according to school officials. of-ficials. Scene of entertainment for the departing seniors will be Aspen Grove, weather permitting, permitt-ing, and games, program and good food are on the agenda. An honor assembly known as Senior Send-Off will be held Friday Fri-day morning May 17. to what was told by Mr. Park. I consider Mr. Park and myself good friends of many years and neither of has to be belittled by false statements from a news reporter. There are other parts in 'this article that are twisted, but none as bad as the one I have mentioned. I'm sure our differences differ-ences are solved with the Planning Plan-ning Commission, because a meeting has already been set, but such reporting should not go without with-out comment. Wendell J. Locke GREAT EATING! H GREAT FOOD! teaks M Bacon End Pieces a -89 Franks SKINLESS Lb. 49 LETTUCE Tomatoes , 19c Case of 24 Can Pop in $ Aspirins Reg. 29c 10- EGGS LARGE "A" 3-'l BATTERIES Large Size 2 "25' BOBBY PINS Reg. 25c 10 TOOTH PASTE - - 59 Frozen Orange Juice 5 & $ 1 . WUBERGS DEPT. STORE 838 North State, Orem WILIONS CASH MARKET 798 West 400 North, Orem |