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Show Qrem-Geneva Times Thursday. May 8 1969 aiiiiTiiii'iiii'iiiMi n i i for his . . . V?W1 Orem-Geneva Times Observes 40th Anniversary As Orem City Celebrates Golden Jubilee Year As Orem City observes the 50th Anniversary Annivers-ary of it's founding as an incorporated community com-munity this week, the OREM-GENEVA TIMES, too, notes a significant anniversary In it's history as Orem's most durable and authentic chronicler of the people and events in the city. NINETEEN-SKTY-NINE also marks the 40th Anniversary of the founding of the OREM-GENEVA TIMES back in the year 1929. Those were depression years when cash was scarce, and people had a great need to gain the kind of strength that can only come from being informed about the activities in the community, mundane and unexciting as they might be. The Sharon Stake of the LDS Church had been oranlzed Sept. 15, 1929, on the division divi-sion oi the 'Utah Stake. Included in the stake were the Edgemont, Grand View, Sharon, Timpanogos and Vineyard Wards with a total LDS membership (including children) of 3,022. Arthur V. Watkins, Orem Town Attorney at the time (and one day to become a United States Senator) was named president of the new Stake which Included all of the incorporated area of the town. President Watkins : established 'THE VOICE OF SHARON" as a monthly publication publica-tion of the Sharon Stake soon after the organization of the stake. Since there were no printing facilities in Orem at the time, THE VOICE OF SHARON was published In Provo for several years. AFTER THE ORGANIZATION of Sharon's Community Educational and Recreational Association As-sociation (SCERA) in 1933, the "VOICE OF SHARON became the official organ of this organization. Dee Brown was editor and Henry D. Taylor was business manager. In order to assure the continuity of publication, pub-lication, President Watkins acquired a major interest in the Utah Valley Publishing Co. which printed 'THE VOICE OF SHARON" as a weekly in Provo for a number of years. He took an active interest in the operation of the newspaper, writing many, of the editorials which appeared in it's columns. All during this time, 'THE VOICE OF SHARON was circulated mainly in Orem and was oriented to the growth, of the community com-munity and it's people. In 1942, after construction of the Geneva Steel Plant got underway at Orem's west city limits, Mr. Watkins changed the name.,-,,, of the community newspaper to the "OREM-GENEVA "OREM-GENEVA TIMES," in order to more accurately ac-curately reflect the identity of the community com-munity which it served. DURING THE WAR years, the OREM-GENEVA OREM-GENEVA TIMES effectively welded the community com-munity into an vital force which gave solid support to the war effort. As the need for an office in the Orem City Hall to serve as a rationing office was apparent, the TIMES' reported the closing of the WPA Library in the basement, and the conversion to a rationing office. Sales of government War Savings Bonds were actively promoted by the newspaper, and the entry of Orem's sons and daughters into the Armed Forces was faithfully reported. re-ported. And as news from the battlefields came in, the 'TIMES' reported on the movements of Orem's service men and women all over the world. Although honor and glory was reflected in the pages of the 'TIMES' as a result of the efforts of those bearing -the brunt of the battle, sorrow was also reflected as the supreme sacrifice was made by 16 men from Orem. And as the wartime boom covered the Orem City Park with a trailer city, and subdivisions sub-divisions were started to house the burgeoning burgeon-ing population, the 'TIMES' reported on the efforts of city administrations to grapple with the complex problems of a growing community. In 1946, Mr. Watkins was elected to the United States Senate. Before he left for Washington, he sold the OREM-GENEVA TIMES and the physical plant of the Utah Valley Publishing Co. to M. Neff Smart. TWO YEARS LATER, Mr. Smart moved the entire newspaper operation to it's present pres-ent quarters at 546 South State Street in Orem. As publisher and editor of the OREM-GENEVA OREM-GENEVA TIMES, Mr. Smart brought the newspaper to a position of prominence among Utah weeklies during the next seven years. HAROLD B. SUMNER purchased the Utah Valley Publishing Co. July 1, 1953, and became Editor and publisher of the OREM-GENEVA OREM-GENEVA TIMES. During the past 16 years the OREM-. GENEVA TIMES has endeavored to build upon the earlier efforts of those who pioneered pione-ered the development of Orem's only newspaper. news-paper. It has attempted to report factually both the significant and the trivial, the earth-shaking and the inconsequential, the joys and the sorrows, the good and the bad, and the far and the near. The editorial policy of this newspaper has been, and continues to be directed to reporting re-porting events as they happen, facts as they are, and constructive opinion as it can shed light upon the people, the events, the issues of our time. ' , ,! v -' ' . AS OREM BEGINS its second half-century as an incorporated entity, the OREM-GENEVA. OREM-GENEVA. TIMES pledges a renewed dedication dedica-tion to the highest principles of journalistic excellence in the service to all the people of Orem. Live It Up. . . Trade Up to A CAREFREE ELECTRIC RANGE rai5a irai 13 Mffi as! JJ ' ? JL: The one with the cleaner, cooler kitchen, of course. You can tell a carefree electric range by the kitchen it keeps. A flameless range cannot create dirt, or spread it around. So everything in your kitchen, including yourself, stays cleaner, longer. See your electric dealer's smart new models now. A flameless range is another an-other step toward carefree total electric living. NOW. . .$25.00 FREE The power company will present you a $25 cash gift when you purchase a new electric range, provided the range Is Installed in a residence served directly by Utah Power & Light Co. or The Western Colorado Power Company. The range must be purchased before May 31, 1969. This is the power company's way of encouraging you to see how wonderfully carefree a flameless electric range in your home can be. Because It's lectrlc, It's better UTAH POWER & LIGHT CO. AN ACRE AND A HALF UNDER GLASS, Rohbock's Sons Nursery is the largest whole sale nursery in Utah. Completed in 1968 the nursery is located on the 12thSouth freeway. Mil 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 COULD AMERICA FALL AS ROMANS DID? As Americans faced the tax deadline recently and saw a true picture of what they paid to the Federal government, perhaps many reflected upon the costs of present-day federal government. The primary factor of the downfall down-fall of ancient Rome, all history students agree, is that it overextended over-extended its governmental activity. activ-ity. This great empire collapsed internally before its far-flung frontiers were successfully broken brok-en by barbarian tribes. OF COURSE, there were many factors involved in the catastrophe: catas-trophe: an uncontrollable public debt; grinding taxation which' could not stop inflation while both combined to make saving impossible; im-possible; slavery; the decline of agriculture leading to urban congestion con-gestion and disorder; official corruption; cor-ruption; loss of religious faith and consequent immorality. All of these played their part in tumbling the realm of the Ceasars. Basic to all the decadence, however, was the effort of the Roman government to regulate minutely the lives of its millions mil-lions of subjects. This drained economic strength from the people. peo-ple. It substituted free "bread and circuses for individual initiative. in-itiative. And all the time an ever-increasing ever-increasing burearcracy bore down more heavily on weakening weaken-ing foundations. ', THE SIMILARITIES do not constitute con-stitute an exact parallel for the United States today. Equally striking strik-ing differences could be cited. Roman leadership had little of the scientific knowledge and still less of the marvelous technology that is currently at our disposal. But stacked-up jets and strikebound strike-bound cities are not so functional as we would like to think. On the whole, there is a remarkable resemblance between the warning warn-ing signals of 369 and 1969 A.D. One reason that taxes are so high is that at the beginning of the current fiscal year, there were a total of 3,055,201 civilians civil-ians on the payroll of the national na-tional government, excluding those in hush-hush' agencies like the CIA, for which the Civil Service Commission keeps no record. THIS IS NEARLY half again as many as were similarly employed em-ployed 25 years ago even though the rolls were then greatly swollen swol-len by the emergency of World War U. A better picture of the growth pattern is obtained by citing the statistics prior to the New Deal. In mid-1930, civilian personnel employed by the Hoover Administration Adminis-tration totalled 604,948. This was a ration of one to every 203 Americans. Today the ration is approximately approxi-mately one to every 67. Thus the national bureaucracy has increased 500 per cent during dur-ing a period in which the population pop-ulation gain has been 63 per cent, THESE FIGURES, moreover, flatten the true growth curve of those employed at taxpayer expense. ex-pense. They exclude state, county, coun-ty, and municipal government employees, all of which have shot up greatly during the past 25 years. Gov. Nelson Rockfeller has suggested that to meet the increasing in-creasing strain of local taxation, the surtax be continued even if we escape from the Vietnam tangle. tan-gle. This money, Rockfeller claims, could then be returned to the states in block grants. This raises the question why Washington should be allowed to tax as agent for the states taking tak-ing its cut and wasting considerable consider-able amounts before it ever gets back to the states. IN SOME UNDERTAKINGS--, such as Vietnam or foreign aid-extra aid-extra vangence and corruption are to be expected from the nature of the operations. But that does not explain why the Post Office Department De-partment allegedly has poor service ser-vice even though it has more employees today than the entire U.S. government in 1930 and has raised its charges since then more than the general rise in living costs. During the past quarter century, cen-tury, Americans have become increasingly receptive of centralized central-ized powers. From the feeding of children to the exploration of space no undertaking is any longer either too local or too large for the intervention of our national government. But in fact the federal government, govern-ment, as it was founded, has ceased to be. FREE ENTERPRISE continues on sufferance. The productive capacity of the country is enormous enor-mous and its technology superb. It is still permissible to oppose the authoritarian trend, and, in spite of disorders, there seems little likelihood that our society will collapse like that of Rome What is more probable is piecemeal piece-meal evolution towards that all-embracing all-embracing concentration of command com-mand which political science calls unitary socialism. Campaign Aims At Smokeless Youth A special campaign aimed at the young person who has not yet started to smoke or who has just begun to smoke was endorsed endors-ed this week by Gov. Calvin L. Rampton proclaimed May "Youth Physical Fitness Month in conjunction con-junction with the Youth Tobacco Tobac-co Advisory Council's movement to inform young people of the dangers of cigarette smoking. Chairman Ben M. Roe said smoking is the greatest single cause of preventable death in the United States. He said the effort ef-fort is an attempt to make this a smokeless generation. Rampton's proclamation stated that 4,5000 young people take up smoking each day! 1 Rohbock's Sons, Biggest Floral In Utah County By Connie Wilkinson The Rohbock's Sons Floral is the story of three generations. When Carl Rohbock purchased the present Orem office in 1929 he had already been in the landscaping land-scaping business for fourteen years in American Fork and was taking over where his father left off. And now his four sons are following in his footsteps. At present, Charles E., George, Frank and Jack Rohbock Roh-bock are co-partners in the floral flor-al business. All are residents of Orem. Robert, another brother who was also involved in the business, passed away in 1966. Beginning in the landscaping business, the Rohbock family changed to wholesale work in flowers after World War II. It was at this time that they purchased pur-chased th'e Provo Floral and made it into another Rohbock office. All wholesale work is now done from the Orem office and retail re-tail work carried on from the Provo office. In July 1967 a greenhouse was added to the business. Located west of the Orem Geneva Drive-in, Drive-in, the nursery is approximately eight miles from both the Orem and the Provo offices. Built on half an acre of land, the new greenhouse is 214 feet long and 45 feet wide. The greenhouse is run by complete com-plete automation and also has daylight extended for four hours ' every day with electric light to add more growing time. Carnations, snap dragons, chrysanthemum and sweet peas are grown in the new facility. The addition of the greenhouse green-house was necessary because Rohbock's Sons Floral is the biggest floral in the county. It is also the only business that hasn't changed hands outside of the family in the last forty-five years. About nine part-time employees em-ployees and nine full time employees em-ployees are used including the four brothers. According to Charles E., general gen-eral manager of the Orem office, of-fice, the motto of Robock's Sons is to "give the best that is available in the trade. SPORT COATS Sport Coats take en a fresh look this spring. Brighten up your spring outlook with a NEW colorful color-ful Leven's sportcoats. ' Make your choice from a large selection of new bright colors In plaids, stripes, checks or colorful solids. : Sizes 35 to 46 . $250 $4995 Use Your Favorite Bank Card or Our Convenient Layaway Plan 116 WEST CENTER PROVO, UTAH .IIII.IIMII.IM1H....INII.IHIIMII1 GM SUM Of tlCLLLf NCI teesdteir Klines, $147.00 less than last year's Camaro with comparable equipment. If you equip Camaro with Powerglide, the new 250-hp 350 V8 that runs on regular gas, advanced-design power disc brakes, whitewall tires and wheel covers, the price is $147 less than. last year's model with comparable equipment, including head restraints. $69.00 less than last year's Chevelle with comparable equipment We're not talking about a stripped-down car, either. We're talking about a Malibu Sport Coupe with head restraints and a 200-hp V8 that runs on regular gas. If you add Powerglide, power disc brakes, wheel covers and whitewall tires to your Malibu, you'll find it's $69 less. $101.00 less than last year's Impala with comparable equipment. Add a few options like these to your Impala: Turbo Hydra-matic. Big 300-hp V8. Power disc brukea. Head restraints. Whitewalla. Wheel covers. All together, the price is $101 less than it was for last year's Impala, comparably equipped. Putting you first, keeps US first. 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