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Show Salt Lakg City, Utah 84110 ; :EV4 STEEL gLANTH " HUB OF UTAH'S F Vol. 40 No. 31 Thursday, August 6, 1970 PRICE TEN CENTS DESPITE THE UNUSUALLY rainy season Located near the mouth of Rock Canyon this summer, the construction on the new in Provo, the temple is scheduled for com-Provo com-Provo IDS Temple has progressed steadily. pletion sometime in 1971. . ; Re-Zoning Proposals Still Unresolved A comprehensive re-zoning program for Orem City, thought to have been resolved by action of the Orem City Council last week, was up in the air Wednes- day following Tuesday night's council meeting at which were appeared to still be someinde- cision regarding the boundries of the various zones. In order to come to a firm decision de-cision on the re-zoning plan the Local Man Found Guilty On Tax Charge Eldon C. Harris, 56, 1015 East 500 North, Lehi, was found guilty guil-ty in United States District Court on July 29, 1970, on a Federal charge of willfully filing a false and fraudulent withholding exemption certificate with the Department of Welfare for the State of Utah. Mr. Harris, who was eliminated elimi-nated in convention as a candidate candi-date this year for the office of Representative in the Utah House of Representatives, was charged with filing a Form W-4 under an assumed name with the State of Utah on December 16, 1966, on which he claimed eight exemptions, exemp-tions, knowing that he was entitled en-titled to only one exemption for himself. The trial lasted two days, during dur-ing which time Mr. Harris spent the better part of one day on the witness stand. Mr. Harris claimed that he was married to a woman who had six children by a previous marriage. Harris also offered various evidence to support sup-port his claim. Assistant United Uni-ted States Attorney James F. Housley, through the use of eight witnesses, refuted Mr. Harris' claim that he was married and presented testimony that Mr. Harris was engaged to another woman. The jury was in deliberation for approximately twenty minutes before bringing in a guilty verdict. ver-dict. Chief Judge Willis W. Ritter postponed sentencing until a pre-sentence report could be prepared. This is the first time that this particular tax charge has been filed against a Utah resident. The maximum sentence the Internal In-ternal Revenue Code provides for this offense is one year in jail andor a $500 fine. Election Registration Information Primary Elections will beheld T uesday, September 8, 1970, from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. this year, and general elections will be held Tuesday, Nov. 3, 1970, from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. Registration a.m. to 9 p.m, time is from 8 on the following days: Tuesday-August 4 Saturday -August 8 Tuesday-August 25 Saturday-October 10 Tuesday-October 13 Tuesday -October 27 Wednesday - October 28 Registration agents are: Orem 1 - Ina Ostler, 1683 N. 400 West, 225-1566. Orem 2 - Colleen Anderson, 847 N. 60 East, 225-5293. Orem 3 -ErleneCuster, 240E. NuView Circle, 225-1160. Orem 4 - Mildred Johnson, 548 N. 800 East, 225-0730 Orem 5 - Marilyn Allen, 570 E. 400 N., 225-1920. Orem 6 - Clara Louise Pyne, 390 N. 100 East, 225-3727. Orem 7 -Sarah Gordon, 475S. 400 East, 225-3648. Orem 8 - Margaret N. Nicol, 435 E. 900 S., 225-5883. Orem 9 - Cleo Webb, 1434 S. 720 E., 225-3297. Council was scheduled to meet in executive session at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday night. ... 43 Children fuOinpieie all miner Reading Program As the closing date for the Orem Summer Reading Program draws near, the library would like to remind all those who registered regis-tered for the program to bring in their tally cards as soon as possible. The following children have completed the Summer Reading Program. Lillian Bennion, Hollie Carlson, Carl-son, KathleenWoodward,RossW. Jensen, Pamela Gleason, Nancy Norton. Linda Wood, Tammy Park, John . Harmon, Carolyn Houtz, Dalla Lee Edwards, Robert P. MerriU. Reva Toph am, Carrie Cox, Denny Taylor, Richard Cox, Gary Reid Lawlor, Sherilee Littleford. Sharron Lamoreau, Annette Herringer, Brad Boehner,Steven Mark Close, Julie Ann Pace, Chet Reed Williams. Anna Gleason, Becky Luke, Rebecca Re-becca Gilner, Sharlyn Rowley, Bradley Weber, Diana Long. Lynne Hendrickson,Jerna Mitchell Mit-chell , Doug Jensen, Christine Gordon, Shalice Taylor, Suzanne Byland, GaryCox, JaneseJensen. Ron Lamoreau, LeRoy Houtz, Leslie Ann Herringer, Brenda Boehner, Connie Rae Hazel. Mt. Fuel Earnings Above Last Year Earnings of MountainFuelSup-ply MountainFuelSup-ply Company (a natural gas utility) util-ity) and subsidiary for the first six months of 1970 and for the 12 months ended June 30, 1970, were considerably above earnings earn-ings for the comparable periods a year ago, it was reported recently re-cently by M.M. Fidlar, president. Earnings for the first six months of 1970 were $5,094,321, or $2.08 a share, compared with earnings of $4,542,459, or $1.86 a share for the same period in 1969. For the 12 months ended June 30, 1970, earnings were $7,311,174, or $2.98 a share, compared com-pared with earnings of $7,003,179, or $2.86 a share. There were 2,450,320 shares outstanding in all periods. Orem 10 - Colleen E. Stout, 924 S. 1000 E., 225-0576. Orem 11 - Lynetta B. Wolsey, 147 E. 1700 S., 225-2886. Orem 12 - Farelyn P. Burg-graaf, Burg-graaf, 1554 S. 320 E., 225-3153. Orem 13 - Penny Lynn Anderson, Ander-son, 1576 S. Main St., 225-6463. Orem 14- Margaret Anderson, 976 S. 200 East, 225-0035. Orem 15-LaraineSmithFlood, 990 S. 150 W., 225-1899. Orem 16 - Joyce M. Long, 90 N. 705 W., 225-5615. Orem 17 - Joycelyn Demaree, 337 N. 1030 W., 225-4026. Orem 18 - Jean R. Bishop, 712 W. 640 N 225-0996. Orem 19 - Mildred A. Snow, 533 N. 940 W 225-7130. Orem 20-Thbra L.Crawford, 612 W. 1200 N., 225-0959. Orem 21- LuJean McAllister, 296 E. 1864 S., 225-5455. Orem 22 - Loreen H. Bliss, 757 S. 400 E., 225-1281. Orem 23 - Inez White, 167 S. Ellis, 225-5010. Orem 24 - Marilyn T; Brock-bank, Brock-bank, 880 N. 275 E., 225-3720. Orem 25 - Rhea Olcott, 285 E.400S., 225-7546. Orem 26- Edith Kinghorn, 540 S. 600 W., 225-7407. BYU Dancers Tour Europe The President of Portugal and the King and Queen of Denmark have personally greeted tne famous American Dancers of Brigham Young University, now on their fifth tour of Europe. The BYU students also have proved to be effective in people-to-people relationships as they parade through streets of ancient cities and perform in festivals of eleven European countries on their three month tour. Letters from Mrs. Mary Bee Jensen, director of the group, report re-port that the BYU students were the hit of the famous Santarem Agricultural Fair in Portugal where they were visited back-stage back-stage by President Americo Thomaz who shook hands with each member of the cast. Aj U' S f -h NEWLY APPOINTED AMBASSADOR from Guatemala to the United Nations, Rafael E. Castillo (right) discusses some of the problems prob-lems of his country with Dr. Wilford LeCheminant of Provo, chairman of the board of directors of Ayuda, a non-profit and non- Family Of Guatemala Ambassador Live Here Rafael E. Castillo, a 1957 graduate grad-uate in civil engineering from Brigham Young University whose family lives in Orem, has been appointed ambassador from Guatemala to the United Nations. Ambassador Castillo was in Utah this week visiting his family fam-ily and taking a brief vacation before assuming full-scale duties in New York. He supervises 12 persons in the Guatemalan delegation dele-gation at the U.N. He was appointed to the position po-sition July 2 following the inauguration in-auguration of the newly elected president, Carlos Arana, the day before. President Arana is a retired general who became famous fam-ous for putting down various communist com-munist guerrilla uprisings in the mid-1960's. Our two major problems in Guatemala are peace and social progress. We must first have peace in order to achieve social progress--and that's what the new government intends as Its basic policy the Ambassador said. He represents a country of approximately 6 million people living in an area half the size of Utah. Although this is his first experience ex-perience as a diplomat for his country, Mr. Castillo spent the New Secretary For C of C ; The new secretary for the i Orem Chamber of Commerce is , Linda Jolley, it was announced , recently. She will take the place ' of Linda Rowland, who is leaving to teach swimming and gymnastics gymnas-tics at the Brigham Young University. Uni-versity. Mrs. Jolley has worked as the Orem City Treasurer's secretary secre-tary for two years prior to working work-ing for the Chamber. She has also worked for the Payson and the Spanish Fork newspapers and one radio station. A daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Grant Larson of Genola, she attended at-tended Payson High School, Utah State University and Utah Technical Tech-nical College of Provo. She is married to Jim Jolley and they have two sons, Scott, Orem West Stake Visiting Teachers Set Conference The Orem West Stake Relief Society will hold a visiting teach' j er conference Monday, August 10, at 2 p.m. in the Orem 4-27th WardChapeL Sister Aline R. Pettit of the Relief Society General Board will be the guest speaker. All visiting teachers who have served 25 years or more will be honored at the conference. Two original songs will be presented and light refreshments will be served. All Relief Society visiting teachers of the Orem West Stake are urged to attend this event. GRASS FIRES Several grass fires have been reported to the Orem police and fire department this week at the following locations: UI-14, 200 S.; 1200 W. 558 N.; 800N.600W.; 800 N. 1-15; 589 E. 1500 S.; 995 S. 500 E.; 613 N. 300 E. last four years as a senator from El Quiche electoral district, worked as president of the Congressional Con-gressional Agricultural Commission Com-mission and on communications and exterior relations committees, commit-tees, and directed the PID (Partido Institucional Demo-cratico) Demo-cratico) party. Mr. Castillo also met inProvo with officers of Ayuda. Inc.. of Provo, a non-profit organization started by several BYU alumni last summer to help improve the medical facilities for some 8,000 Quiche Indians scattered in the mountains near Cunen. Mr. Castillo donated a large house (his birthplace) in Cunen for personnel working In the pilot Ayuda (which means help inSpan-ish) inSpan-ish) project. After attending the University of San Carlos in Guatemala, Mr. Castillo came to BYU and became be-came a member of the LDS Church in 1956. Professionally, he has worked with firms in both Central and North America as a civil engineer engi-neer and as a consultant. He married Janice Johnson, and they are parents of seven children ranging in ages from 19 to 4. The family will continue to reside in Orem. Linda Jolley i 5, and Chris, 5 months. She began training at the Chamber Cham-ber of Commerce Monday. City To Sell Property Orem City announces that they will accept sealed bids (see legal) on miscellaneous surplus property, prop-erty, including used desks, chairs, storm doors, cabinets, bookkeeping machines, heaters, and air conditioners. Also open for public bidding are used vehicles. The above items are on display dis-play in the city shops and in the basement of the new City Center. Those interested should pick up and return bid forms to the City Treasurer's Office. The deadline is 12 noon Friday, August Aug-ust 7. denominational Utah corporation which is helping some of the 8,000 Indians in Ambassador Castillo's hometown of Cunen. The Ambassador was a guest of the Exchange Club at which he had previously been a guest speaker on Ayuda. Billy Casper To Speak At Fireside Famous pro-golfer, Billy Casper, will speak at a multi-stake multi-stake M-Men and Gleaner fireside, fire-side, Thursday, August 6, at 8 p.m. The fireside will be held in the West Sharon Stakehouse,1700 South 400 East, Orem. All M-Men and Gleaners of the Orem area are invited to attend this event. (jfl,r OliearS PnWPF IVfclp x Part of the northwest section of Orem suffered a power failure fail-ure Tuesday night about 10:20 p.m. when a power pole and lines were knocked down by an automobile. auto-mobile. According to Orem Police, the vehicle driven by Carl L. Paystrup, 865 N. 50 W. was totaled when it ran off the shoulder shoul-der of the road and sheared off a power pole. The car traveled 156 feet before be-fore colliding with the pole. Paystrup Pay-strup suffered bumps and bruises, according to police. Citation is pending further police po-lice investigation. Council Sets Mi 11 Levy for City The Orem City Council Tuesday Tues-day night set Orem's property tax mill levy at 23.11 mills for 1970. This will be the fifth consecutive year that Orem's mill levy has been set at 23.11 since 1965 when the levy was reduced re-duced from 27.45 mills. Under the Orem City General Funds Budget approved by the Council in July, the current mill levy will raise $550,874 in property prop-erty taxes this year. This amounts to 40 percent of the total operating budget of $1,351,259. The balance of operating revenues reve-nues come from sales and use taxes, franchise taxes, licenses and permits, revenues from other governmental agencies, fees Orem Man Arraigned For Burglary John Edgar Thompson, 23,1446 S. State No. 199, Orem, was arraigned in the Orem City Court on a second degree burglary charge filed by the Orem police. Thompson, who is charged with burglarizing the Wheelwright Trailer Court office, is in the Utah County Jail in lieu of $1000 cash or $2000 property bond. Preliminary hearing will be set at a later date, Orem Couple 'Satisfactory' After Mishap Reported in satisfactory condition condi-tion in the Utah VaUey Hospital, Tuesday, following a boating accident ac-cident on Utah Lake were Mr. and Mrs. Mitchell Sawaya, 1075 S. State, Orem. Mr. Sawaya suffered a serious knee injury, and his wife had injuries to her hand and other bruises and abrasions. The accident occurred on the Utah Lake and involved a collision colli-sion between two boats, with one ending up on top of the other. Regulations Set For City Center Regulations covering the use of the new Orem City Center and library have been approved by the city counciL The new regulations prohibit the use of foul or abusive language lang-uage in the buildings or use of alcohol or tobacco. No one will be permitted to enter the center barefooted at any time. Cost of any breakage or damage dam-age to the facilities must be paid by the person or group using us-ing the building at the time the damage occurs. Damage to the facilities or conduct which does not strictly adhere to the rules and regulations for use of the City Center shall be sufficient Reason to refues the use of the (center to that individual or group. U J U 1 1 - THE LAST FEW moments on city property are hectic ones for this well-worn historic his-toric building. The old city hall is all Jacked up and loaded in preparation for its big move the first of next week. Still from services, and fines and forfeitures. for-feitures. In other action Tuesday night the Council met with Grant Van-der Van-der Linden of the L.D.S. Church offices in Salt Lake City regarding regard-ing the settlement of an agreement agree-ment made a number of years ago between the Council and a local chapel. The agreement concerns the location of Orem City Well No.l on the L.D.S. Church property at 1500 South 800 East. Since no written agreement concerning concern-ing the well can be located, the Council has been forced to rely on the memories of some of those who were involved in making the agreement. In an effort to resolve the matter, mat-ter, the Council voted to make an offer of $1,500 to purchase the property on which the well is situated. The appraised value of the land is $160.00. The Council also met with Fire Chief Arnold Long to review the communications equipment for the fire department. The Council Coun-cil authorized Chief Long to sign an agreement with Motorola covering cov-ering the rental of equipment. After reviewing the final draft Plans Devised For Spending Cutback The Utah Board of Higher Education Ed-ucation recently turned to the nine state sponsored higher education institutions to devise a plan to cope with the two percent spending spend-ing cutback recently ordered by Utah's Governor Calvin L. Ramp-ton. Ramp-ton. "We decided as a matter of policy that we would handle the cutback as a system, but leave it up to the individual institutions institu-tions to make recommendations as to how they would handle their positions most effectively, Peter W. Billings, Board Chairman Chair-man said. Each of the institutions was asked to submit a plan to the Board by August 5th, outlining the method by which it could best absorb its portion of the austerity aus-terity measure. Chairs and tables may be set up or moved pnly under the direction dir-ection of the custodian on duty, and the custodian must set up and put away the public address system. sys-tem. Persons using the facilities facili-ties shall be responsible for cleaning it after use. Refreshments will be permitted permit-ted only in the areas specifically specifi-cally designed for that purpose. No refreshments will be permitted per-mitted in the library, council chambers, city court, utilities department, or other city offices. Reservations for use of the facilities must be made through the receptionist, and rental fees will be handled by the city treasurer. 23o of the new ordinance creating an SC-2 Shopping Center Zone, the Council voted unanimously to adopt the ordinance. This ordinance ordi-nance creates anSC-2Zoneatthe site of the projected University Mall Regional Shopping Center. Basically, the ordinance outlines out-lines requirements for developers develop-ers of shopping centers and provides pro-vides guidelines for the orderly construction and completion of such developments. On the recommendation of Russell Rus-sell 0. Brown, city engineer, the Council accepted a quit-claim deed from the Alpine SchoolDis-trict SchoolDis-trict on a right-of-way located at 100 West 1250 North. The Council also approved the final Plat C of Centerbury Heights subdivision located west of the Orem High School. Odell Miner, administrative assistant to the city manager, reported re-ported to the Council that most city employees are not favorable favor-able to the health insurance program pro-gram provided through the Utah Municipal League. The Council approved extending extend-ing the present insurance coverage cover-age for city employees through August 31, pending a further study of other group insurance plans. Orem BPW Holds August Meeting The Orem Business and Professional Pro-fessional Women's Club held their annual August membership meeting, Tuesday, August 4, at the home of Mrs. Jessie Hawk. Mrs. Hawk's beautiful garden, provided a scenic background for the potluck dinner and business bus-iness meeting. May Morgan, president, reported re-ported on the district meeting, and of National Business Women's Week. It was suggested suggest-ed that the three clubs that make up the district hold a combined Christmas meeting. The 22 members, and their guests were entertained by Scott Stanger, a BYU student, who performed on the guitar and piano. Dorothy Stratton, a member of the club, then showed slides of her recent trip to Expo 70 in Japan, and her month long tour of the Orient. Eleanor Jewett, Josephine Wentz, Pauline Robinson, and Christine Yergenson were guests at the occasion. Administrators Meet At BYU College administrators attending attend-ing a workshop on admissions at Brigham Young University were told recently that wishing for the quieter old days is useless and "prevents us from doing what we need to do in our time. With the theme 'New Horizons in Admissions Excellence," the workshop was attended by 21 selected sel-ected administrators from universities uni-versities and colleges In 11 states. Ik v 7.. L m able to give many more years of service, the former city hall has been purchased by Van Washburn and will be used for his family's residence at800WestCenter,Orem. |
