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Show BoypowerManpower From 1921-1969 xSffSffS. By Boyd R. Ivie America's Manpower begins with Boypower, as it was in 1921 in Orem and as it is today, the purpose and aims of the Boy Scouts of America remain the same. Scouting is a character building, citizenship training, physical fitness program. Its aim is to develop healthy participating participat-ing citizens of moral integrity and worth. EARLY HISTORY Early in 1919 people were talking talk-ing about Scouting. Many said, Let's have it in Utah Valley for our boys, let's have our own Council." With the help of youth minded citizens from around the valley, the Utah County Council, Boy Scouts of America, was found ed on February 22, 1921, with 923 boys. Six of the new Council's Coun-cil's troops, 62 boys and 24 scouters, were from the Orem area. These first troops were: Troop 27, Windsor Ward; Troop 31, Vineyard Ward; Troop 32, Sharon Ward; Troop 33, Timp-anogos Timp-anogos Ward; Troop 34, Lake-view Lake-view Ward; and Troop 35, Grand-view Grand-view Ward. The name of the Council was changed in September of that year from Utah County Council to the Timpanogos Council. By 1924, the first camp was acquired ac-quired up the North Fork of the Provo Canyon Camp Stewart. The name was later changed to Camp Timpanogos. The Zlon Park Council joined the Timpanogos Council in 1927 and in 1934 the Bryce Canyon Council petitioned to also join. This addition resulted in the name change to the Utah National Parks Council. The council area extends from Lehi on the north, to Moccosin, Arix. on the south the east and west borders of the state and all of the Uintah Basin. It is one of the largest area Councils in the United States and ranks 30th in the nation in membership. In 1945 Camp Timpanogos was sold and a new camp purchased up Payson CanyonknownasCamp ' ti YEAR J EIHlI OBTV'S CONSTRUCTION OF THE OREM CITY CENTER ff f OPENING OF CASCADE FAIRWAYS I I I I OPENING OF SIGNETICS CORPORATION uEvj (fl llfijil OPENING OF 13th SOUTH DIAGONAL I I CJjK JJ J GROUND BREAKING for 13th S. SHOPPING MALy "919 TO 1 969 FteK. P I If iopaaoaa;aaa m l) , 'P' '. 'm ! ! 1 , H h.y' 4 JL Maple Dell. This Camp has been developed into one of the finesf Boy Scout Camps in the Nation serving over 4,000 boys annually. Our council has grown from the 1921 figure of 923 Scouts to the present boy figure of 25,758 Cubs, Scouts, and Explorers. This is over 90 per cent of all available boys. SQUAW PEAK DISTRICT Our present Squaw Peak District Dis-trict area was a part of the Provo Pro-vo District froml921-1936.Then the Orem Area became an independent in-dependent district known as the Sharon District until 1955 when the present Squaw Peak District name was adopted. Instrumental in getting scouting started and the district's first chairman wasS.H, Blake of Vineyard. Mr. Blake later la-ter served as 2nd Vice President on the Council Executive Board. The first District Commissioner in Orem was Boyd C. Davis. Other members of the first Sharon Sha-ron District Committee included: includ-ed: Ray Wentz as Courts of Honor Hon-or Chairman; Charles Davis as Camping Chairman; J. Erval Christensen as registration chairman; Thomas Cordner as reading chairman; and John Lewis as the first neighborhood commissioner. We speak today of Boypower Manpower and what it does for a community. Let's review some of the early leaders, past and present, as well as some of the names of boys from those early rosters. As we do this you get more of an idea as to what is behind our present day theme of BoypowerManpower, and what Scouting has helped to give in the way of community leadership. Many names you will recognize as having served or is now serving, serv-ing, the community in positions of leadership in all phases of community activity. Orem citizens who have served as District Scout Committee Chairman are: S.H. Blake, Karl E gar, George Ashby, Alfred Mad-sen, Mad-sen, W. A. Cox, J. Alvin Hig-bee, Hig-bee, Joseph T. Bentley, Joseph Golden Anniversary T. Smith, Louis Ringger, Rex Blake, and Boyd C. Erickson. Those scouters who have served serv-ed as District Commissioners are: Boyd C.Davis; Harold Gardner, Gard-ner, Spencer Madsen, George McKinny, T.A. Poulsen, Wesley Soulier, Louis Ringger, Rex Blake, Erwin Harward, and Jack W. Lewis. The first district advancement committee, known as such, consisted con-sisted of C. M. Fielding and Thorval Rigby. As we look over the list of leadership we see that early scouters knew fully the value of a good assistant in as much as each of these troops had two leaders: Troop 27, Lyland Kirk and LeGrand Jarman; Troop 31, Thorit Hebertson and Juel Anderson; An-derson; Troop 32, Fred Fielding Field-ing and W. E. Losee; Troop 33, Ludwig Poulson and Waldo Harris; Har-ris; Troop 34, Lamond Bunnell and Alfred Madsen; and Troop 35, John Tanner and John B.Strat-ton. B.Strat-ton. Listed among the troop rosters of some years ago you read the following names as active registered regis-tered boy scouts: Merril Kitchen, George Tucker, Lowell Christensen, Chris-tensen, Frank Stratton, Ross Hilton, Hil-ton, Wayne Bellows, Fay Fielding John Gillman, Carl Louder, Clyde Lunceford, Andre wJolley.Verlin Clegg, Paul Taylor, Arch Madsen, Mad-sen, Earl Jones, Sam Pyne, Glen Rowley, John M. Nichol and many other distinguished citizens. Yes, Boypower has meant Manpower for Orem as these once active scouts continue to serve our community. com-munity. Scout Executives who have served the Orem Squaw Peak Area are: A, A. Anderson, Rulon Doman, Floyd Loveridge, John Cross, Joseph Barney, Jack Moul-ton, Moul-ton, and Boyd R. Ivie. Vineyard Ward tops all sponsors spon-sors with continuous .tenure of units with the troop in its 49th year, the Explorer post in its 22 year and the Cub pack in its 14 year. However, in Cubbing they History Of Utah It wasn't even a stop in the road then Just a few scat- tered farms and orchards. But even so. the area, which later took the name of Orem, was the cradle of Utah's electric utility industry and today, within the city limits of the town memor- must share honors with the Orem Community Church who is also in its 14th year of Cubbing. Since the Squaw Peak district was first organized it has grown in Scouting as Orem has grown in size, not only in numbers but most important in quality. We are now one of the largest districts dis-tricts in the Nation and by far one of the best in quality Scouting. Scout-ing. We currently serve 132 Cub, Scout and Explorer with a total boy membership of nearly 3600 and with a volunteer leadership of over 1000. By 1976 when our Boypower theme draws to a close we will be serving over 150 units and have a boy membership of over 5000. As we have in the past and as we shall in the futureSquaw Peak Scouts and Scouters will continue to give service through community good turns, conservation conser-vation projects, city cleanup campaigns, 'get out the Vote participation, landscaping projects, pro-jects, and many others. Scouting in Orem will continue its practice of democratic living, its scheme of self education, its plan of personal growth, its channel chan-nel for service, its path to nature, and above all its gateway to world friendship. With the Scout Oath and Law as its guideline Scouting will continue con-tinue to grow with Orem and give strength to our city. Yes Boypower Boy-power means Manpower! On my honor I will do my best to do my Duty to God and my Country and to Obey the Scout Law. To help other people at all times. To keep my self physically strong, mentally awake, and morally straight. 1 Power & light Co. aoilia of the early days of the electric era can be viewed in a building that once was a school for the budding art of electrical engineering. These relics of the indue' early-day handiwork can be found at Utah Power & Light Co.'s Olmsted Plant at the mouth of Provo Canyon once the site of a pioneer electric engineering engineer-ing school. Nearby is the still-standing N win's generating station, the plant that fed the world's first 44,000 volt line, at the time the most powerful in the world. While the iastallation was not the first generating plant in the area, it contributed the most to the electrical development of the state and even to the nation. With the electrification of Thomas Edison's MenloParkin 1879, . enthusiasm for the new energy form inflamed men's imaginations. im-aginations. Every town of every size began to see its star hitched hitch-ed to electricity. To the north, Salt Lake City became the fifth city in the world to offer central station electric service in 1881. In 1888, the newly formed Provo Pro-vo Edison Electric Light Co., installed the first electric system sys-tem in Provo a small direct current machine in the Holdaway mills that served only one customer: cus-tomer: theWestsideCooperative. This business failed and the Provo Woolen Mills obtained a franchise in 1889. Service under this company was far from satisfactory. sat-isfactory. The operation, however, how-ever, exposed the people to electricity elec-tricity and resulted in a demand for good service and an adequate supply. In 1897, an energetic man named L.L. Nunn came to Utah after successfully generating and transmitting high voltage alternating alter-nating current for power purposes pur-poses for the first time at Tell-uride, Tell-uride, Colo. He built the Nunn plant in Provo Canyon. It's construction con-struction was hailed 'with much joy" because it offered improved Parallels Orem mum THE HISTORICALLY prominent Nunn power station near the mouth of Provo Canyon when power transmission developments develop-ments after the turn of the century helped set the pattern for electrical transmission and generation nationwide. service. A year later the plant provided 750 kilowatts of power to run a gold mine and mill at Mercur some 32 miles away, over the world's first 44,00 volt line. Insulators In-sulators for the lines were developed de-veloped at the Nunrt Station and became known throughout the industry in-dustry as the Provo type. You still see them in wide use today on telephone lines. These early developments then led to the formation for-mation of the Telluride Power Co., in 1900 and the subsequent replacement of the Nunn's Plant with the Olmsted Plant in 1904 . the one operated today by Utah Power & Light Co. Incident to the power operation, opera-tion, and because of the lack of trained personnel to man its operation, op-eration, Mr. Nunn founded the Telluride Institute as a practical prac-tical training ground in which to develop worthy and bright young men." After the formation of the Telluride Power Co., an Institute Insti-tute building containing class 1 1 I Year of Great Happenings A City As Expansion t V. "-"lev J It ft- rooms, laboratory, library and quarters was built at Olmsted. Her e eager young fellows in a regular reg-ular college atmosphere learned the mysteries of the newly harnessed har-nessed force. At one time as many as 40 students received classroom and on-the-job training train-ing in electrical engineering. This Institute building today houses hous-es a Utah Power & Light Co., museum and is open to the public and for schools. In the meantime, small electric elec-tric plants were springing up in the surrounding area. Pleasant Grove, Lehi and American Fork got electric service. Another UP&L predecessor company, The Knight Power Co., was formed to serve some communities in the area plus mining activities to the west. Utah Power & Light was organized or-ganized in 1912 and purchased the properties of the Telluride Power Co., the Knight Power Co., and some 130 other small isolated operations, that for the Continues most part were confined to population popu-lation centers. These small enterprises en-terprises were generally confined confin-ed to the population centers and were not yet united into one economic, efficient unit. The consolidation con-solidation and integration was a daring concept because it had not been attempted on this scale. In order to visualize the times, consider: The automobile had just been developed. Upper Main Street in Salt Lake City had but recently been reclaimed from alternating mud and dust by paving. Gaoline could be bought west of Denver only in sealed five gallon cans. Electric service had not been extended to the Farm.it was common com-mon to have lights from dusk to 10 p.m., or on "dance night" to midnight. There was still skepticism about this "electric fluid" as pointed up by resistance of farmers far-mers to L.L. Nunn's plant on the grounds that something of value had been taken out of the water. These, then, were some of the conditions under which Utah Power Pow-er & Light Co. was organized. Its formation in 1912 brought the first efficient electric service to the area, including Orem, and, at the same time reduced the cost of service up to five times. BYU APPOINTS NEW DEAN OF EDUCATION Dr. Stephen L. Alley, associate dean, has been appointed dean of the Brigham Young University College of Education to succeed Dr. Antone K. Romney, who has been assigned to set up a new program of comparative and international in-ternational education within the college. Dr. Curtis N. Van Alfen, chairman chair-man of the Graduate Education Department, has been named assistant as-sistant dean. The announcement was made today by President Ernest L. Wilkinson who said the appointments appoint-ments are effective Sept. 1. 1 |