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Show Salt Lake City, Utah 84110 'GjyVA STEElpLmpr HUB. QF UTAH'S WJ Golden Anniversary f.1 E r,i4 R I E s 1877 OREM'S FIRST SETTLERS... During the first, decade of settlement on the bench which has become Orem City, a number of industrious people established es-tablished themselves here and stayed to populate and build the community. For some, the trials and hardships were too much. The names of those who came and traveled on to what they considered con-sidered "greener pastures were not recorded. But those whom history names as some of the earliest residents and builders of the community are: Thomas J. Patten, Andrew G. Johnson, John S. Park, M.J. Knight, Alfred Al-fred N. Billings, Samuel Hadfield, J.W. King, James Loveless, Love-less, Samuel Skinner, Joseph Evans, Davis S. Park, Peter M. Wentz, James Stratton, Amasa Mecham, Thomas Barrett, Sam Baxter, Newell Knight, August Johnson, Charles Johnson, Elliott A. Newell and Thomas Cordner. The Thomas Cordner family became the first permanent residents on the bench. They were required through circumstances cir-cumstances to remain in their cabin through the winter of 1877. . - . Thomas and Mary Ann Cordner had left their Provo home and moved onto the bench during the summer of 1877. They had sold their two acres in Provo, so there was nowhere else for them to go when winter came. Other settlers had homes in neighboring communities to spend the winter. Although consideration is entitled claims that someone else may have been the first permanent residents of the bench, the preponderance of evidence appears to favor the Cordner claim. This claim is supported by entries in Thomas Cordner's records and reports of family members and other families; and a certification made by the Bureau of Land Management, Manage-ment, United States Department of the Interior: "Our records show that Homestead Application No. 3344 was filed by Thomas Cordner, December 8, 1877, $1.25 per acre, 160 acres, $16.00 purchase money. Final certificate certi-ficate was issued May 19, 1885. "We have no record of anyone filing a prior homestead entry for these lands. "The deed would be dated 1886 and the property would be occupied prior to 1877 because the laws at that time and now require that certain improvements be made on homestead applications before the lands may become eligible for purchase. pur-chase. 'Proving' on these lands would account for the period of approximately nine years from the filing of the application to the acquiring of the deed to the lands.' Ik- Who were the first white children born in Orem? Alexander ' Cordner was the first boy born to the Thomas Cordners March 17, 1879. Ella Malinda Newell was the first girl born to Mr. and Mrs. Elliot A. Newell on April 10, 1880. fl Thomas Cordner, grandson settler, is pictured standing home, one of the very first located at 03 South 1000 East. Directors Named For 4 BYU Tours Four directors for the Br igham Young University Semester Abroad programs next year in Europe and Isreal were announced announc-ed recently by Dr. Ernest L. Wilkinson, BYU president. With new brochures just off the press, students are already beginning be-ginning to sign up for the Semester Se-mester Abroad programs for 1970 spring semester. Dr. Richard Rich-ard J. Allen will head the Salz-burgh, Salz-burgh, Austria, group; Dr. Gary; Lambert, Grenoble, France; Dr. Ellis T. Rasmussen, Jerusalem, Isreal; and Dr. Harold E. Rosen, Madrid, Spain. At the present time, 150 BYU students are spending this semester semes-ter in three European countries with BYU faculty members lnstructng them in history, language, lan-guage, art, music, and political science in addition to visiting various historical and cultural sites. Following their regularclass work and final exams, students will make separate tours of Europe Eur-ope before meeting in Londonfor a return trip by jet to Salt Lake City on June 12, according to Robert C. Taylor, BYU Travel Studies director. Next spring will be the sixth year that BYU has sponsored a semester of study in Salzburg, fifth year for Grenoble, and the second year for both Madrid and Jerusalem. w SLS "1 7) and namesake of early Orem in front of the old Cordner. such homes built on the bench: Clyde E. Weeks, Jr. Histories Wanted Histories of organizations for Orem-Geneva Times Golden Anniversary issue will be accepted accept-ed until Fridav. May 2. 4 Si! FOUR BYU PROFESSORS who have been named Semester Abroad directors for next year examine travel posters. From left are PRICE TEN CENTS City Is Born May 5, 1919 Fifty years ago on Monday, May 5, the Board of County Commissioners Com-missioners of Utah County met in the commissioner's room at the county court house. Their actions at that meeting are. commemorated com-memorated this year in Orem for on that day Orem was incorporated incor-porated as a townsite. Present at the meeting were . Joseph Reece, chairman; H. F. Thomas and R. D. Wadley, commissioners; com-missioners; and L.T. Epperson, clerk. The history- making motion quoted from minutes of that meeting meet-ing reads: Whereupon the following follow-ing motion was made by commissioner com-missioner Wadley. That whereas where-as a petition complying with Sec. 783 Laws of Utah 1917, has been duly filed with the County Com- ' missioners of Utah County wherein 207 electors of the town of Orem, requesting that said town be incorporated, and where- as there is at least a population of 300 inhabitants in said town, now therefore, on motion of Commissioner Com-missioner Wadley seconded by Commissioner Thomas the said town of Orem is hereby incorporated incor-porated and the following named persons are appointed as trustees of said town who shall hold office until the next municipal election and until their successors are. duly elected and qualified : J. Lawrence Snow, James A. Loveless Love-less Jr., Wm. Gillman, Emery McKellip, Niels Jacobson. The first named person to be president presi-dent of said board. Golden Event Will Honor 50-Year-0ltls All persons 50 years of age and older living in Orem and vicinity are invited to a special Golden Happening May 5 from 3 to 6:30 p.m. at the Scera Theatre, chairman Stan Leavitt announced today. From 3 to 3:30 will be a special program honoring all citizens who have lived in Orem since 1919. A free show will entertain the group until 5:30 after which refreshments will be served by the Orem Women's Club. Main attraction will be a decorated centennial cake commemorating com-memorating Orem's 50th Anniversary. Anni-versary. Sponsors of the Golden Happening Hap-pening are Orem qity, Women's Club, Scera and Senior Citizens. BRENT CROMPTON HOME ON LEAVE Spec4 Brent Crompton, son of Mr. and Mrs. CliffordCromp-ton, CliffordCromp-ton, is home on leave after completing com-pleting microwave training in New Jersey. He has been assigned assign-ed to Thailand for further duty and will depart for the field in about two weeks. His wife, the former Vicki Timpson of Provo, will remain in Provo with her parents. Spec4 Crompton graduated grad-uated from Orem High School in 1966. ABWA Boss of the Year. Victor H. Chris-tensen Chris-tensen was voted "Boss of the Year at a recent meeting of the American Business Women's Association. From left are Mrs. Helen Nielsen, president of ABWA; Victor Orem Clan Named 'Boss Of Year' Victor H. Christensen, Orem City treasurer, was named 'Boss of the Year at the annual Bosses Night of Ti-Ute Chapter, American Ameri-can Business Women's Association Associa-tion held recently. Mr. Christensen Christen-sen was lauded as stalwart of City Hall, town partriarch, financial advisor, chief counselor and best friend to all of Orem, by his secretary sec-retary Mrs. LaPriel B. Pulver. Mrs. Helen Nielsen, Ti-Ute Chapter president conducted the meeting and Mrs. VaidaSweuson was chairman. Speaker for the evening was Walter Stewart of Benjamin,Spanish Fork LDS Seminary Sem-inary instructor and church building build-ing contractor. Mr. Christensen has worked for Orem City for 22 years. Past responsibilities include Credit Union, Purchasing Agent, Inspector in Engineering Dept., Supervisor of Parks,Sexton,Wa-ter Parks,Sexton,Wa-ter & SewerDept.,NotaryPublic, Sanitation Dept. and Police Dept. He and his wife Evelyn have four children and 10 grandchildren. Following is a portion of the winning nominating letter: "When a problem arises, no matter in what department, people peo-ple always turn to Vic for advice. ad-vice. When people come into the office with problems, they always . want to see Vic first. He has a special talent for handling other people and being understanding to all people. "One example of his concern-for concern-for his fellow workers was when he worked so hard to start a credit cred-it union for the City employees. At one time the new credit union became shakey and about to fold, so Vic got a personal loan to keep it from going under. He' takes things personally upon himself him-self to help others and to help things run smoothly. Dr. Ellis T. Rasmussen, well-known Orem resident; Dr. Harold E. Rosen, Dr. Richard J. Allen, and Dr. Gary Lambert. Thursday, May 1 pfe , - for ty i mm1 1.., FINANCIAL ADVISOR "Some of our employees do not have a very high pay scale and as the credit committeeman, Vic works with many of them to advise ad-vise and counsel them in their finances; fi-nances; all on his own time.: I personally know of three employees em-ployees who would have had to take out bankruptcy had it not been for the help and advise of Vic Christensen. "He has special concern for cfHpr people. One example of the compassion he has for his employees em-ployees was demonstrated this past year. One of the ladies in our office had major back surgery and was away from work for eight long months. During this period of time Vic and his good wife made regular visits every two weeks to cheer her up, as well as keeping her in touch with the office. When she returned to work it was easy to make the adjustment adjust-ment because of the efforts of her boss and the efforts of Vic as a friend as well. FATHER TO ALL "Vic Christensen goes the extra ex-tra mile to maintain and cultivate culti-vate -an' atmosphere of good will among the employees. He does ing student works are Bird, Neil-special Neil-special things, like bringing a box son, Hanks, Tippetts, Thomas, of candy on Valentines day to make it special. As one of the new girls in the office put it: "he's kind of like a father to all of us. He is understanding and yet expects ex-pects the most of you. And he gets the most out of you because be-cause people like working for him and doing their very best. You kind of feel like he has done so much for you, you couldn't possibly ever pay him back." And one of the other girls put it this way: "Although I have not known him long - just a year or so, I find myself looking back and thinking of moments which will stay with me always. He is the type of person who greets a Monday morning with a smile. As he passes by he pats me on the shoulder saying, 'Cheer up, the first hundred years are always al-ways the worst.' You never see him without that smile or without with-out a twinkle in his eyes. "With his keen sense of humor, he enjoys hearing a good story, and it is not unusual to hear his laughter fill City Hall with joy and merriment." Memorial Gift To City Library Orem Library Board members recently purchased for the library, li-brary, the book "A Scrapbook of Inspiration" compiled by Paul and Karen Searle. The book was given in memory of Joseph A. Clayton, father of library staff member. Mrs. Parley Par-ley (Dorothy CJ Rasmussen. Honors Cotillion Sets Invitational Utah Valley Honors Cotillion Invitational will be held at the Provo HighSchool lunchroom May 3 from 2 to 5 p.m., according to Mrs. Larry (Margene) Jensen. All high school girls interested inter-ested in applying for membership should be at the meeting. 1, 196a 4 H. Chrlstensen, LaPrlel B. Pulver, secretary secre-tary who nominated him, and Barta Swensen, chairman of ABWA and toastmistress. Photo by Lyle O. Mann. Schools Plan Arts Festival In cooperation with Orem's Golden Happenings, Orem High School and the two junior high schools will hold a combined Creative and Performing Arts Festival May 7, 8, 9, and 10 at the high school. Several local clubs also will contribute to the show, according to H. B. Stratton, OHS vice principal. The Arts Fesrival is in lieu of the usual musical held annually an-nually for the past several years. Four major events are planned. May 7 at 8 p.m. will be a vocal concert under the direction of leaders Sandgren, Larsen and Sagers. Instrumental music will be highlighted May 8 at 8 p.m. with tlirectors Barry, Long and Cameron. May 9 will be the night for drama with productions directed by Christensen, E lis on, Woodard and Thomas. The drama festival begins at 8 p.m.. May 10 will see Orchestra and Interpretive In-terpretive Dance numbers directed dir-ected by Barry and Madsen. Performances begin at 8 p.m. ART DISPLAYS Arts, crafts, industrial arts and clothing may be seen in the B gym and other areas of the campus every evening during the festival. Teachers contribut- Harding, Fowlke, Bramall, Rus- sio, Hill, Cawley and Jones. TICKETS Free tickets to all performances perform-ances are available through local merchants. If purchased at the door the tickets are $ 1 per family. Purpose of the festival is to coordinate and develop a public consciousness of excellence in the arts on a secondary level and to provide an opportunity for student participation in a noncompetitive non-competitive display of the finest talent and skill in the community and to further the commemoration commemora-tion of Orem's Golden Anniversary Anni-versary Celebration, school officials of-ficials said. RECENTLY'SUSTAINED BISHOPRIC of the Orem 14th Ward, West Sharon Stake, are, front row from left, J. Fred Gummow, 1st counselor; Bishop W els ford H. Gus Clark; Myron D. Christensen, 2nd counselor. Back row from left, Robert E. Brereton, welfare wel-fare clerk; Albert R. Thomas, statistical clerk: L. Dale Braithwaite. finance clerk; Council Policy Planned Consideration of policies and guidelines for the development of planned dwelling groups in Orem City occupied the lion's share of time by the Orem City Council Tuesday night at the Orem City Hall. The Council met earlier than usual with the Orem Planning Commission at 6 p.m. to discuss the planned dwelling groups and the changing of zoning within the city. An innovation in subdivision development in Orem City, the planned dwelling group features a new concept of grouping 40 or 50 homes round a common park and play area which all the members mem-bers of the neighborhood' can utilize. The planned dwelling group is characterized by smaller individual indi-vidual yards, connecting sidewalks, side-walks, and private roadways. In a recent Council action, approval ap-proval was given to one planned dwelling group, while applications for four others were denied. Tuesday night, Clyde Naylor, presented new plans for two planned plan-ned dwelling groups which had Ditch Problems Aired At Council Meeting Problems of subdivision developers de-velopers encroaching on irrigation irri-gation canal and ditch rights-of-way were discussed by the Orem City Council and representatives repre-sentatives of ditch companies at the regular meeting of the Council Coun-cil held Tuesday night in the Orem City Hall. Leonard Walker and Eldon Swenson of the North UnionCanal told the Council problems of ditch access and maintenance are being be-ing created as a result of subdivision sub-division developers building too close to ditches and, in some instances, disrupting ditch systems. sys-tems. Recalling a meeting held about one year ago between the Orem City Council and representatives of the ditch companies, Mr.wal- ker said he felt the cooperation promised by the Council at that time had not been fully effective. e. . The ditch companies want to be notified by Orem City when building build-ing permits are applied for or issued for construction adjacent to canals or ditches, he said. City Manager Earl Wengreen said the city is not always aware of developments being made adjacent ad-jacent to ditches, but that when a problem has been observed a contact con-tact has been made with the ditch companies. Mayor Winston M. Crawford told the group that Councilman John Jones would meet with representatives rep-resentatives of the ditch corn- Vol. 39, No. 18 to Set for H ousing been rejected earlier by the Council. Coun-cil. Burning Tree Acres, a planned dwelling group comprising 41 lots, would be located at 1800 Soutb' between 300 East and 400 , East." Park Lane Estates, comprising compris-ing 52 units, would be located at 200O South between 50 East and 100 East. The general view of the Council Coun-cil concerning the planned dwelling dwell-ing groups as expressed by Councilman Coun-cilman Donald Shaw, is that they do not increase the population density in an R-l zone." Mr. Naylor demonstrated that the two projects as now planned would provide no more population popula-tion density than would conventional conven-tional subdivisions in the same areas. ' . . In an effort to establish ground rules for development of planned dwelling groups, the Council will , hold a special meeting with the Orem Planning Commission on May 8. panies in the near future in an effort to resolve any problems that might arise, , , In other action, the city manager man-ager informed the Council regarding re-garding requests made by certain cer-tain city employees in the low? est salary brackets for an increase in-crease in pay. He suggested that the Council consider a cost of living increase for city employees, em-ployees, effective July 1. The Council decided that nothing noth-ing could be done regarding salaries sal-aries for the balance of this fiscal fis-cal year, but that consideration would be given to salary matters mat-ters next month when the next year's budget is prepared. Summer School n xj.: KRU 1811311011 ---a - - Registration for summer, school will be held May 5, 6 and 7 in the Scera Park and Westmore Elementary Schools for all elementary students in the area. Notes will be sent home from all the schools with more specific information. WESTMORE SCHOOL SPRING CARNIVAL Westmore School will hold their "Spring Carnival", Friday, May 2, from 1 to 5 p.m. at the school. The event is sponsored by the Westmore PTA. Jay E. Gehring, executive secretary. Outgoing Out-going bishopric included Bishop David J. Stone, Sheldon H. Talbot, 1st counselor; J. Fred Gummow, 2nd counselor; Kenneth Harris, finance clerk; E. Joyce Year ley, executive secretary. Albert R. Thomas and Robert E. Brereton remained in their positions. |