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Show I J J s 1 ; t PS WW fej? MAYORS OF UTAH COUNTY back American ' Fork Civic Chorus Concert - Mayor F.Haws Durfey, AmericanFork, left, presents concert tickets to Mayor WinstonCrawford,Orem, as Mayor Van Burgess, Alpine; Mayor Calvin City Mayors Assist Civic Chorus Boosters Mayors of five neighboring communities in Utah County have expressed their approval of the concert to be presented May 17 by the American Fork Civic Chorus. Mayor Paul Fordham, Pleasant Grove; Mayof Van Burgess, Bur-gess, Alpine; Mayor Calvin Swen-son; Swen-son; Lehi; and Mayor Winston Crawford, Orem, met at the American Am-erican Fork City Hall Monday to receive tickets to the concert. Mayor Joseph A. Christiansen, Lindon, was unable to attend due to a previous commitment, but expressed his support for the project. Tickets will be distributed dis-tributed in each of the. above named communities as well as In American Fork. ' Terming the civic concert "a splendid project to unify Utah County," the mayors congratulated congratu-lated American Fork Mayor F. Haws Durfey on the successes of the chorus in the appearances they have made in concerts . throughout the area during recent re-cent years. The May 17 concert to be held in the Alpine Stake Tabernacle, will be a fund raising event, with proceeds used to purchase matching jackets for male chorus members and material for dresses for the ladies who are members of the singing organization. organ-ization. The jackets will remain the property of the chorus and should a member drop out, his jacket will be returned to the chorus for the next member. Chorus members are donating $5 per person toward the uniform dress fund. Additional proceeds are expected to be raised through donations from business, professional profes-sional and key citizens contributions. contribu-tions. American Fork City began the Civic Chorus Boosters Fund with a contribution of $300. For this contribution, they will receive a block of tickets which will be distributed to their employees. Other business houses, key citizens citi-zens of the community and professional pro-fessional people are now being! contacted for contributions, with tickets to be provided through their efforts. The American Fork Civic Chorus, directed by Jack Lar-sen, Lar-sen, has been an outstanding representative re-presentative of the city of American Am-erican Fork since they were organized several years ago. The chorus has appeared in concerts at many Utah communities, with performances at Brigham City, Provo and Sunset among recent concerts. They will appear at a benefit performance at Heber City, Friday, May 2. The civic chorus has been invited in-vited to appear at the Utah Municipal Muni-cipal Convention in September, which will be held in the newSalt Palace. The benefit performance of May 17 will provide uniform jackets and dresses for the r "After Seven Wives I Still Don't Understand Women!'" This fellow might not understand women - but it's a sure bet he knows insurance. He has the Bowen and Leavitt agency check his homeowners, auto and bus-: bus-: iness policies regularly to assure him of adequate coverage. ; P.S. This avoids overlapping coverages and excessive exces-sive premiums. 0owen - Leavitt Insurance Inc. t " 500 South State Orem, Utah "Your Security is Our Business'' Swenson.Lehi; and Mayor Paul Fordham,Pl. Grove, look on in approval. May 17 concert will raise funds for uniforms for American Fork Civic Chorus. Mayor Durfey organized Civic Chorus Boosters group last week to aid fund drive. chorus members for future ap-pearances-and will also provide local residents an opportunity to hear this outstanding musical aggregation. ag-gregation. The chorus has been invited to sing at several out-of-state appearances, but have found it necessary to decline, due to expenses involved. The Civic Chorus Boosters organization or-ganization is led ty Mayor F.' Haws Durfey, who organized a citizens committee to sponsor the benefit concert last week. Committee members are now contacting townspeople inviting them to become Civic Chorus Boosters. Orem Student Honored by School Gary Schwendiman of Orem, PhJ). candidate in psychology at Brigham Young University, has been selected by the American Psychological Association as one of 10 outstanding young psycho! ogists in He has the U.S. and Canada. Corps drill teams from the Uni-received Uni-received a two-week, versitv of Utah and several hieh all-expense paid trip to London in July to attend the International Interna-tional Congress of Psychology. The 10 receipients were selected sel-ected from nominees named by all PhJ). granting institutions in the U.S. and Canada of young psychology PhJ). candidates or those who had received their doctorates doc-torates since 1966. Mr. Schwendiman, from Pullman, Pull-man, Wash., attended high school in Pullman and received his B.S. degree with honors from Wash-, Wash-, ington State University in 1962. After graduation he served on a mission to Germany for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, after which he attended BYU and received a master's degree in psychology in 1967. At BYU Mr. Schwendiman has been a research assistant, a teaching assistant, and an instructor in-structor in psychology. A member of the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues and the Western Psychological Psychol-ogical Association,Mr.Schwendi-man's Association,Mr.Schwendi-man's major research interests are in the areas of attitude formation for-mation and attitude change along with more general interests in group dynamics, small group discussions, dis-cussions, and personality theory. He has presented numerous papers pap-ers at professional meetings and has several publications to his credit. Mr. Schwendiman married Jill Bateman and they have two children. child-ren. Mrs. Schwendiman, who has both B.S. and M.S. degrees from Utah State University, taught water wat-er ballet, modern dance, gymnastics, gym-nastics, and swimming at BYU from 1966-68. He and his family live at 515 E. 1834 S., Orem. Your Heart Fund fights them all heart attack, stroke, high blood pressure, rheumat-' ic heart disease, congenital heart disease and many other heart and blood vessel diseases. National Guard Lead Parade May 17 With brass bands blaring and flags flying Utah National Guardsmen will lead off the Armed Forces Day parade May 17 in Downtown Salt Lake City. Some 1,500 Army and Air National Na-tional Guardsmen will step off smartly at 10 a.m. starting at the Brigham Young Monument on , Main Street. Leading the troops will be Maj. Gen. Maurice L. Watts, Utah Adjutant General. Crowds lining the streets will get a close look at the citizen-soldiers citizen-soldiers with their tools of the trade. Included in the big parade will be an assortment of heavy equipment used by Guard engineers, engine-ers, artillerymen and others. Reserve Officer Training schools are expected to join in the parade. ; From the Brigham Young Monument, the parade will proceed pro-ceed south along Main Street to 3rd South where it will turn east to State Street. It will then turn north on State Street and pass the reviewing stand in front of the Federal Building at 1st South. Gov. Calvin L. Rampton and Gen. Watts will join other dignitaries dig-nitaries on the reviewing stand as the parade passes by. - Salary Hikes Will Hurt Schools Report Says Most school districts in Utah cannot increase teachers salaries by the $1,000 a year demanded by some spokesmen for teacher groups without seriously further curtailing vital school services. This was the conclusion reached in a special study of school finances fi-nances and teachers salaries just completed by Utah Foundation, the private tax research organization. organ-ization. The Foundation analysis shows that salary increase's made during dur-ing the past two years have exceeded ex-ceeded the added funds available through legislative actions. As a result, other important aspects of the school program have been reduced in order to produce the salary agreements. For example, the Foundation study points out that the amount budgeted for textbooks in 1968-69 1968-69 by the forty Utah school districts dis-tricts was actually 24.3 less than the amount expended for this purpose in 1966-67 despite rapidly rising costs during this period. In addition, expenditures for library books and audiovisual materials were cut by 15.7 and teachers supplies were reduced by 4.7 over the past two years. These cuts were made despite the findings of the 1964 Governor's Gover-nor's Utah School Study Commission Com-mission which observed that "in some schools books, supplies, and equipment are inadequate." The State Superintendent of Public Instruction has declared that 'while I am in favor of doing all we can for teachers salaries, it is obvious that many districts went beyond what was available a year ago in making salary agreements." He warns against further raids on vital school services ser-vices in order to satisfy salary demands, and recommends that a portion of the added operating funds provided by the new school legislation be used to restore the budget cuts made in these non-salary non-salary items. In addition, he suggests sug-gests that sufficient funds be provided pro-vided to offset the decline in purchasing pur-chasing power resulting from inflation. in-flation. According" to the Foundation study, if Utah continued to devote the same proportion of its operating operat-ing budget to teachers salaries in 1969-70 as it did in 1967-68 then the increased funds provided by the 1969 school legislation would permit an average salary Weeks Wit The miracle of flight was again impressed upon my consciousness conscious-ness again last week as I traveled travel-ed to and from a business conference con-ference in Hot Springs Arkansas." The mighty jet planes, like giant eagles of the sky, soar into the heavens around the clock, carrying carry-ing dozens of passengers in comfort com-fort and safety. TELESCOPING TIME into convenient con-venient capsules, the huge planes hop from state to state, racing the sun and depositing passengers on airfields across the continent. Soaring at 32,000 feet altitude, the jets skim over rolling meadows mead-ows of clouds, leaving vapor1 trails across the throughfares of heaven. Stopping off on route for a few hours at Dallas, Texas, I caught a taxi at the airport and headed for town to take the pulse of this giant Texas city. As the cab drove along, I looked out the windows to see the interesting sights. SUDDENLY, an ominous feeling came over me as we approached a tall building looming up ahead. A large sign on the building said: Texas School BookDispository". No wonder the building and the locale looked familiar! I was riding on the identical route that President Kennedy had followed when he was shot from the window of the building just ahead! - i Just as the taxi reached the fatal fa-tal spot where the bullets were fired, all the horror and unbelief of that dreadful moment flooded over me. At just that moment, the taxi driver laconically drawled, Right there is where President Kennedy got his!" I know," was all the response I could muster. But when I left the taxi, I had cold sweat standing : out on my forehead. ; Later, I happened across a folder extolling the wonders of the Southwestern Historical Wax Museum Mu-seum ;at State Fair Park in Dallas; Dal-las; Featuring more than 100 V mous and . historical figures in living wax, 34 authentic wax scenes are recreated in breathtaking breath-taking realism and accuracy! And who was the star of the show? LEE HARVEY OSWALD, who was found by the President's Commission to be the assassin of President John F. Kennedy. In the Wax Museum scene he is shown at a replica of the School Book Depository window from which the shots were fired that killed Kennedy and wounded Governor Gov-ernor Connally, and holding an exact duplicate of the rifle and scope used by the assassin. 1 didn't go to the museum. Instead, In-stead, I flagged a cab and drove back out to the airport to await my flight to Hot Springs. As I waited, I recalled another an-other flight from this same airport air-port not too long ago: a flight which carried the body of a slain President, his young widow, and the new President. Never did an airplane carry a heavier burden. Never did a nation na-tion carry a heavier heart. As I left Dallas, I looked down at this thriving metropolis, glistening glis-tening in the sun. And I wondered how different the shape of history ( might have been if the trigger of hate not been pulled to strike down yet another American President. increase of about $660 next year. The report warns, however, that this figure represents a statewide average increase which some districts may not be able to meet without imposing further service cuts. Although the school program was raised by $1,166 per distribution unit for most districts dis-tricts in Utah, the increase in some districts amounted to only about $650 per distribution unit. The ability of local school boards to provide salary increases to their teachers, therefore, will vary considerably among the forty Utah school districts. Another point of controversy discussed in the Utah Foundation report is the matter of school district balances. Some spokesmen spokes-men for teacher groups have suggested sug-gested that these balances totaling total-ing $4.0 million on July 1, 1968, could be used to meet current salary demands. Foundation analysts point out, however, that beginning of the year balances are quickly expended expend-ed because the early months of the school year constitute a Mean" revenue collecting period. In fact r m U.S. SENATOR Frank E. Moss will be the featured luncheon speaker at "Cap Day" activities, Friday May 2, from 12 to 5 pm at the Eldred Center in Provo. Senator Moss To Speak At CAP Events Utah County's Community Action Ac-tion Program, a local agency whose aim is to eliminate poverty and its effects, will be in the spotlight Friday with a visit from U.S. : Senator, Frank E. Moss. " Moss is the featured speaker at the 12:15 luncheon, and will meet with local residents in a reception line at 2:30 p.m. He is paticipating in '"CAP 'Day" events which will take place at the Eldred Center in Provo from 12 to 5 p.m. The general public is invited. As Utah County's Community Action Program nears the com pletion of its second year. sponsors five separate programs. pro-grams. Some programs are for the young, and others for older citizens. "Each is designed to aid a part of the 5,000 poverty families fami-lies in Utah County achieve economic ec-onomic independence," says Dr. Phil Thorpe, program director. Project Head Start, administered ad-ministered through the Alpine, Nebo and Provo School District helps pre-school children from disadvantaged backgrounds. The children receive a variety of enriching en-riching experiences gained from field trips and classroom activit-which activit-which help them enter the public pub-lic schools on equal footing with their more fortunate classmates. Head Start's aim is to prevent pre-vent poverty. 'By giving children from poverty pov-erty families an equal chance when starting school, they wiE probably not be high school dropouts, drop-outs, statistics show," ' continues con-tinues Thorpe. ... .-. Head Start has served nearly 6100 culturally and economically deprived children in Utah County. At the other extreme in age is the Foster Grandparent Program Low-income ($1600 a year or less) men and women over 60 years of age are hired by CAP to work 20 hours a week in doing what grandparents usually do best-loving and caring for children. child-ren. And the children are special. Many are slow to learn, mentally retarded, and orphans. Tke 50 Foster Grandparents provide-"tender provide-"tender loving care" for more than 100 children at the American Ameri-can Fork Training School, Utah State Hospital Youth Center, local loc-al school districts and the Utah County Youth Home. Operation Mainstream, operating oper-ating since October of 1968, stabs most directly at the heart of the poverty problem joblessness., The program provides the salary for up to one year for on-the-job training of 20 full-time chronically unemployed persons. Limited counseling and basic education ed-ucation classes are also given to those trainees requesting it. Vocational Improvement Program Pro-gram is the other CAP Program. VIP works with 60 chronically unemployed persons, most of The pretty presence pres-ence of flowers brings out the full loveliness of every bfide on her day. Potted Plants Cut Flowers Floral Arrangements as Specified Rohbock Sons' Floral 1042 South State -, Orem mi? yjW . issssjJ feX 1 kT?& tl f vP l We wiU run your announcement picture ... Xy,o v d " fV' iV3A"' and wedding picture free -With each wedding -wf fSf tyX V invitation order-savings of $6.00-a picture j .J7 V i 1 Ml . C i in the paper you will bejroud of-r-plus , v Wm 'Pv wFl V a storv in detaU Uke every bride deserves - ' ' sssJ Vv i r,ie ovtro freo nnnles for friends and rpla- New Date Set for Camporee August 2 is the new date (previously (pre-viously announced as July 12) for the Fourth Annual Utah National Na-tional Parks Council, Boy Scouts of America, Explorer Rodeo which this year will be held at the Lehi Rodeo Grounds, Lehi, Utah, according to Floyd Love-ridge, Love-ridge, Scout Executive. Events for the Explorer Rodeo will include; calf roping, wildcow milking, bull riding, ribbon pull, barrell race, pole bend, keyhole race, team roping, and bareback riding. Entrance fee and application must be at the Council office in Provo prior to July 10. Upon receipt of application, each par- whom were on welfare. The program pro-gram recipients are given three hours a day of basic education, and three hours of vo'eational training. VIP, operating at the Utah Technical College in Provo, Pro-vo, has successfully trained and placed in meaningful jobs nearly 75 ex-welfare recipients. an All c h M II - - r - x II V" T ft mmi& , .... : ss 0JKtL.lvl- v-vv I GENEVA TIMES 546 South State-Orem ' 8 Home of Orem's Home-Owned Newspaper 1-. .i-r- m m h v h mm mm & Orem-Geneva Times Ucipant will receive a parent release re-lease form and medical blank-both blank-both must be completed and brought to the rodeo. Event check in time on August 2 is 12 noon at the Lehi Rodeo Grounds. Any registered reg-istered Explorer may enter the events. For the first time, the Explorer Explor-er Rodeo will have a Queen contest as part of the rodeo activities. The queen contest is open to young ladies ages 14 to 18. Applications for the queen contest con-test are available for Explorer advisors or district executives and must be filed by July 10. Qualities to be judged in the queen contest are: personality, horsemanship, and ability to follow fol-low instruction of judges. The Explorer Ex-plorer Rodeo queen will reign over the entire Explorer Rodeo. Beginning May 1, tickets for the Explorer Rodeo will be on sale from Explorers throughout the Council, from district scout executives, or at the Council office. of-fice. Explorer Posts will receive 50 commission from rodeo ticket tick-et sales for their post explorer program. Individual belt buckles will be presented to the winner and 2nd place in each event. There will also be an individual all-around' cowboy belt buckle for the to explorer. Two post team trdphiei will be issued 'at the end of thi Sponsored by 'the Icctonc plorer Cabinet, the 1969 Explor1 . er Rodeo is hosted by the Lehi , , : i,. i,. yuw - " -r"- , M tives and scrapbooks. s w.. ,;.yOT3 Thursday, May 1, 1969 District Explorer Cabinet and a special 1969 Explorer Rodeo Committee. More information may be secured se-cured from your district scout, executive, or by writing: Utah National Parks Council, BSA P.O. Box 106, Provo, Utah 84601 Cold Winds Attend Stake Skillerette Bitter cold winds Saturday morning failed to daunt the spirits of Orem Guide Patrol boys competing com-peting in scouting skills at the Skillerette held on the Scera Recreation Lawn. Directing the. annual event was Lyle De St-Jeor, St-Jeor, stake scouting director and Fern Bellows, stake primary, president. ! Seventy three Guide Patrol boys led by their ward leaders participated in seven events showing scouting skills. Trophies were won by: 18th Ward Kim's Game; 25th Ward - Scout Oath Puzzle; 34th Ward - Rope Whipping; Whip-ping; 25th Ward - Knot Relay; 34th Ward 4 Scout Law Relay; 24th Ward - Dressing Relay ; 7th Ward - Match Splitting. I J : A : uniform inspection was lel and many boys j were awarded 101 percent certificates tor beini; in fulluniform. |