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Show ' IW -rfm-rmmm. .1,1. 'Resolve' -2 Thursday, January ?t1971 Orem-Geneva Times i ILLUMINATING THE PROBLEMS. THE PEOPLE, THE - l IHIUMHIIH.WIWUJWWWII Assurances Of State Road Commission To Restore Provo Canyon Deserve Support Of Highway Users After all is said and done about the proposed widening of 800 North Street in Orem and the construction of a new four-lane divided highway in Provo Canyon by the Utah State Department of Highways, two significant facts stand out: 1. The volume of traffic passing through Provo Canyon is increasing every year, with as many as 13,246 cars using the road in a single day in 1969, and 20,000 vehicles per day projected for summer weekends in the year 1990. 2. The present road through Provo Canyon is too narrow, and it is also below tolerable standards of surface, alignment, safety and sight distance for passing. Even the most conervative-minded people of foresight must agree that something must be done in the immediate future to improve the roadway facilities through Provo Canyon in order to handle safetly the ever-growing volumes of traffic. JUST WHAT FORM that improvement should take seems to be a subject of wide disagreement among people who are frequent travelers in the canyon and who have a special interest in the use of the road. Some of these people who are concerned about the preservation of the unique environmental en-vironmental factors in the canyon feel that the present road should be improved and up-graded with the very least possible disruption dis-ruption of the ecological situation in the canyon. However, officials of the Utah State Department De-partment of Highways who have been studying study-ing the problem for several years, have come to the conclusion that improvement of the existing road would not only be shortsighted, short-sighted, but would not accomplish the long-range long-range needs of the highway users. HIGHWAY 189 through Provo Canyon is a primary arterial highway which connects Interstate 15 with the major interstate routes of U.S. 40 at Heber City and Interstate 80 at Silver Creek Junction. Through extensive traffic surveys it has been established that 15 percent of the passenger passen-ger cars traveling the canyon are out-of-state, and 10 percent of the traffic is made up of heavy trucks. The average "capacity" of the road in the canyon, based on the types of vehicles using it and the geometric features of the road has been calculated to be a little over 600 vehicles per hour. "Capacity in this sense means the volume at which the road is fully utilized and beyond which congestion begins. SINCE THE "CAPACITY" of the road is being reached at times every summer day, and is exceeded for extended periods every summer weekend, it is obvious that a two-lane two-lane highway will not for long be able to THE VIEWS expressed in this column or any previous column are those of the author, Mr. Williams, and not necessarily those of the Orsm-Geneva Times management. CAN COURT GAG A HOUSE COMMITTEE? by Hal Williams For the first time in the history his-tory of the United States, a federal fed-eral judge has issued a permanent perma-nent injunction against the public printing of a report compiled by a duly authorized Congressional Committee. Judge Gerhard Gesell has decreed de-creed that while the list of college col-lege speakers attached to revolutionary revo-lutionary organizations can be printed inthe Congressional Record Rec-ord (the price of which recently tripled), the public printers cannot can-not make this information available avail-able to the general public. Judge Gesell has decided that the American people should not have access to this vital information infor-mation through the regular channels chan-nels which exist for the dissemination dis-semination of material which their elected representatives regard re-gard as vitally important. It is a clear case of censorship. censor-ship. Rep. Richard H. Ichord (D.-Mo.), (D.-Mo.), chairman of the House Internal In-ternal Security Committee, called call-ed the judge's order "outrageous" and made rough copies of the committee report available to the press. The reasoning exhibited in Judge Gesell's decision (Hentoff et al v. Richard H. Ichord et al) is incredibly twisted. In fact, it is even worse than that revealed in tbe Gesell Report, a Presidential Commission report re-port issued in 1963 dealing with equal opportunity in the armed forces. Gesell was chairman of this "distinguished panel" which included in-cluded such notables as Abe For-tas. For-tas. The implementation of the findings of this commission has been one of the main factors in the increasingly poor morale and growing racial violence in the i Q) accommodate the ever-expanding traffic flows through the canyon. Sooner or later, a four-lane, moderately high speed highway, with a high degree of access control, must be provided to serve the motorists with safety and efficiency. To meet this growing need, the Highway Department is planning to get underway with' the first phase of a four-lane divided highway high-way this summer. The first 3.5 mid section will be built from Olmstead to Nunns at an estimated cost of $2,100,000. The second three-mile section will be built from Nunns to Wildwood at an estimated esti-mated cost of $2,300,000. Initially, only two lanes of the four-lane highway will be hard-surfaced, until such time as traffic volumes justify surfacing the other two lanes. THE FEARS OF SOME that the new thoroughfare through Provo Canyon will result in a catastrophic disruption of a unique canyon environment appear to have been allayed al-layed by Blaine Kay, state highway engineer, who recently said that the Highway Department's Depart-ment's old goals were to build highways safely and efficiently. To these goals have been added the goal of building them in harmony with the environment, so that the impact on the environment is minimized or actually improved. In Provo Canyon, for example, the new road will be on a new alignment, and special pains have been taken to minimize the impact on the river. Geological problems throughout the canyon have been carefully studied and reviewed with various interested and concerned people, both within and outside the State Highway Department. The highway has been designed with a view toward providing maximum utility util-ity with a minimum disruption of the environment. en-vironment. ADVICE HAS BEEN sought from the most respected geologists and biologists in planning plan-ning the route of the highway, and the Utah State Fish and Game Department is cooperating closely in problems of erosion control and river restoration. And finally, after all construction and erosion work has been completed on the road, nearly one million dollars will be spent in landscaping contracts to restore the environmental en-vironmental factors in the canyon. It would seem that the Utah State Road Commission has left no stone unturned in making certain that the new Provo Canyon Road will be a blessing, rather than a curse. . It remains now for all those interested in the project to lend their support in seeing that the restoration work is accomplished and that Provo Canyon remains' a thing of beauty and a joy foreverl armed forces of the UnitedStates. If the judge's decision stands, it will have even graver effects. In findings against the House Committee on Internal Security, Judge Gesell says that the publication pub-lication of this committee's report re-port will tend to inhibit "free speech." The use of the term "free speech in this case is somewhat some-what ironic. One of the major points the Committee wished to make was that a very large amount of money was being dispensed by the colleges col-leges and universities to various' persons preaching revolution. Nat Hentoff, the individual represented rep-resented by the American Civil Liberties Union in the suit against the Congressional Committee, received $4,700 for the four free speeches he is listed as having made. Judge Gesell seems to think that responsible college administrators adminis-trators might, in the light of the information presented by the committee, think twice about paying pay-ing speakers to radicalize their students. He seems to feel that this is unfair to the revolutionaries. He seems to feel that their right to indoctrinate young people to hate their country and their form of government stands above the right of the citizens of the nation to know who the sowers of hate are and how much they are being paid. Therefore, he has ruled that .the list voluntarily supplied by various vari-ous colleges and universities may not be distributed through the regular channels. Existing legal precedent is flatly contrary to Judge Gesell's opinion. In 1956, a panel of three federal judges decided in a similar case that "we have no more authority to prevent Congress, Con-gress, or a committee or a public pub-lic officer acting at the express direction of Congress, from pub LSSUES OF OUR TIME lishing a document than to prevent pre-vent them from publishing the Congressional Record. A question should be raised as to whether Judge Gesell should have disqualified himself from deciding this particular case since his father, Arnold Gesell, was once listed in a previous report by the same committee whose report he is trying to suppress, as a speaker at a conference con-ference organized by a group which the Attorney General had declared Communist and subversive. subver-sive. The 65 speakers' names are as follows: Muhammed All, Herbert Aptheker, Robert Avakian, John C. Bennett, James Bevel, Paul Boutelle, Elaine Brown, H. Rap Brown, William Bunge, Stokely Carmichael, John Ciardi, Jesus Colon, Don Cox, Carl Davidson, Angela Davis, Rennard Davis, David Dellinger, Douglas Dowd, Harry Edwards, Richard R.Fernandez, R.Fer-nandez, John Froines, Charles Garry, Carlton Goodlett, Dick G r egory, Deirdr e Gr iswold, F red Hampton, Floyd Hardwick, Nathan Na-than Hare, Tom Hayden, Nat Hentoff, Masai Hewitt, Abbie Hoffman, Paul Jacobs, Michael Mich-ael James, Le Roi Jones, Edward Ed-ward Keating, Paul Krassner, William Kunstler, Mark Lane, Claude Lightfoot,StaughtonLynd, Floyd McKissick, Stewart Mea-cham, Mea-cham, Charlene Mitchell, Jessica Jessi-ca Mitford, Carl Oglesby, Linus Pauling, Sidney Peck, Marcus Raskin, Richard Rothstein, Jerry Rubin, Nancy Rubin, J. Mark Rudd, Robert Scheer, Bobby Seale, Mulford 0. Sibley,Jerome Skoinick, Ribert Sollen, Mike Speigel, Benjamin Spock, Reies Tijerina, C.T. Vivian, Wyatt Tee Walker, Daniel Watts, Michael Z agar ell. (Total: 65 speakers, 151 speeches.) STEREOS STOLEN Colleen Nelson, 233 E. 1600 S., reported to Orem police the theft of a stereo tape case valued at $50. Dee Pyne, 706 W. 700 S., discovered last week the theft of a stereo valued at $65 from his boat. LaMar Grant, 523 N. 1025 W., also reported the theft of a stereo last week. THE FOLLOWING are Orem Junior High's Outstanding Citizens Citi-zens for the month of December. From left to right they are Jan Shurtliff, seventh grade; Rhonda Prestwich, ninth grade; , Fred Butterfield, eighth grade; and Bret McGee, sixth grade. Jaguar Jabber By Janice Hirst School opened again after the twelve days of Christmas and New Year's vacation on January 4th, 1971. Promising more activities for the students and administration administra-tion of Orem Junior High. Last Monday, December 21st, Miss Jolynn Peterson's ninth grade first period type class were honored to hear Mrs. Marilyn Mari-lyn Wood as she spoke on the treatment of American and allied al-lied prisoners of war, to these students and other type students who later heard her comments on tape. As a result of her talk many students wrote letters to the North Vietnamese Peace Delegation Delega-tion demanding proper treatment towards American and allied servicemen ser-vicemen taken captive. When these, and other letters from all over Utah, are gathered at a location in Provo they will all be sent to the North Vietnamese Peace Delegation with hopes for Orem To Get Four State Road Projects Thirteen million two hundred thousand dollars programmed for highways in Utah County over the next two and one-half years was announced by the Utah State Road Commission in a news conference held December 29 in the Orem City Center. The largest project in terms of dollars will be completion of 5.1 miles of Interstate 15 around the point of the mountain inSaltLake and Utah Counties. This will be a six-lane divided highway, costing cost-ing more than $5,700,000. Of this amount $3,300,000 is estimated esti-mated to construct the section in Utah County. Also of importance to the county coun-ty will be the four-lane divided highway scheduled from south Santaquin to Nephi. Perhaps the project creating the most interest and attention at this time is the four-lane divided highway scheduled in Provo Canyon. This will be a four-lane divided highway with the section from Olmstead to Wildwood, costing an estimated $4,400,000. Final surfacing on sections of Interstate 15, lighting projects at interchanges, Ironton Connection Connec-tion to US-91, completion of the Moark project, and several safety, safe-ty, billboard and junkyard control con-trol projects round out the two and one-half year's program. Of special interest to Orem City are four projects. These include a $14,000 junkyard control con-trol program at Interstate 15 and 800 South; a $15,000 railroad crossing on Center Street; a $22,000 intersection improvement improve-ment at 1600 North and SR 114; and $13,200 for an Orem City Topics Study. Although construction is not yet scheduled for the widening of 800 North from State Street to Olmstead, Olm-stead, the State Highway engineers engi-neers are now evaluating the degree de-gree of access control to be allowed al-lowed on the street. Alignment HUB CAPS STOLEN Four wire spoke hub caps valued at $122.40 were reported stolen from a car of Max Fillmore, Fill-more, 196 S. Inglewood while the auto was parked at 50 S. 800 E. near the 33rd Ward ChapeL THEFT REPORTED A tire and rim valued at $35 were taken from a truck rack belonging to Alan Kirkwood, 294 N. 400 W. tOrem-Geneva Times UTAHSTAli:ASSOCIATIOK HAROLD B. SUMNER Editor and Publisher Published every Thursday t Orem, Utah. Office and plant, located lo-cated at 546 South State Street.! 'Mailing address; P.O. Box 65, Orem, Utah 8407. Subscription price: $3.50 per year. Second-class postage paid at Orem, Utah. better treatment of Americanand allied Prisoners of War. Grandmother's Earthquake", a short story of how children created an earthquake one day because of their grandmother's strong belief in her almanac's predictions, initiated Mrs. Dorothy Dor-othy Buckley's seventh grade reading class to make a special study of the almanac. Besides special worksheets on this study each student is making his or her own almanac using cards, pictures, or old calendars and "developing their own creative ideas in prose and poetry" on specific themes like "Jewels of the Months," "Flowers of the Months," "Stars of the Months, and "Colors of the Months. A few students have done a great deal of research for their almanacs al-manacs on "How the Months got their Names and other creative ideas. Tom McGinnis, an Indian student, worked out an almanac on "The Indian Names of the Months with one such as "Moon of the Cracking Trees, the Indian In-dian name for the month of January. of the street will probably finalized this summer. be MEMBER, FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE CORPORATION You The Bank of Pleasant Grove has a complete line of savings programs regular statement savings, 90-day time savings certificates, one year maturity certificates of deposit, and two year maturity certificates of deposit one of them is exactly right for your savings needs. We also have statement savings and quarterly interest. With statement savings you get a BANK OF Better Driving ' A good New Year's Resolution would be to enroll in a Defensive De-fensive Driving Course so as to become an accident-free driver during 1971, Karl Richards, Safety Director for the Safety Council for Utah County advised all Utah County motorists. The 1970 traffic death toll, which has exceeded that recorded during 1969, is appalling, he said. 'This problem must be attacked by all Utahns in order to lessen the possibility of becoming be-coming an accident victim. Only those drivers who know the evasive eva-sive actions of defensive driving driv-ing can be almost assured of not being involved in a traffic mishap. mis-hap. The Council's Defensive Driving Driv-ing Course, he pointed out, is one sure method by which all drivers can learn quickly new techniques for accident prevention preven-tion in an extremely short time. The course is open to all licensed drivers in the State. Many drivers, it was indicated, believing themselves to be good drivers feel that this course is not intended for them. Many of those who died on Utah's streets and highways during 1970 attest that simply being a good driver isn't enough to cope with today's traffic. Good drivers must become better drivers. Utah County drivers will have an opportunity to enroll in a course during January, it was announced. The first session will commence on Tuesday, January Jan-uary 5, 1971 in the Provo High School, Room Al-1 at 6:30 p.m. Instructors for the course have been qualified by 'the National Safety Council. Individuals wishing to enroll in the course may do so by contacting con-tacting the Safety Council, 106 City and County Building, Provo, telephone 373-5510 Ext. 69," Mr. Richards said. While advanced registrations are desired, persons per-sons unable to do so in advance, may register prior to the start of the first session. work hard Why not pui if r THE BANK THAT STAYS S ii' ii t i a fcy uth Louise Portridflt Well, I'm home from California, but just barely. I'm still finding wrapped gifts which add to my confusion. Things go indifferently here at The Last Resort at best. With myself, the sole occupant away for days, the situation has been described by someone as, quote, "the hurrier I go, the behinder I get." How true. One of my post-mortem gift openings is a book. A book I would never in this world be interested in except that it was authored by a friend. And this brings me to the subject of books and local books in particular. , we are a very favored community. com-munity. There is an abundance of talent of all kinds here and writers are included. But, and this is a big BUT: There is also al-so a tendency to feel toward locally produced items as they did in the Bible times to wit, "Can any good come out of Nazareth?" and there is another bit about a prophet in his own country. Anyhow, three books are now in my library by local authors and in two cases local publishers. publish-ers. URANIUM FEVER I have already commended to you. Then there is SPEAK TO ME, a book of poems by that fine poet, Christie Lund Coles. The third book, and the one I just opened is THERE IS A WAY BACK by Gerald Neils Pearson. This one is giving me pause, believe me, and I am grateful beyond telling that my children are raised. I started to look through it, feeling that this was the least I could do since it was given to me. I could hardly put it down to do the things that have to be done around herethis chit, for one thing. This book is written writ-ten for and to the local scene. It is, to be honest about it, a report of the drug thing in the prevailing church. Dearie, your outrage at this statement doesn't for your money. to work for you? statement every three months showing precisely how much you have in your savings account and computing your exact interest earnings. With quarterly interest you get those earnings faster and more often. Put your money to work for you with the bank that has the savings plan exactly suited for you the Bank of Pleasant Grove. It's just another way we stay a step ahead. nn7r? Utah A STEP AHEAD. surprise me. . C onvincing the populace is a great part of the problem. Get the book and read it. Why not buy it? Why not buy all three? I remember that when my ill-starred ill-starred book Adventures With A Lamp was published I was told that five hundred people were on the waiting list at the library but how many were sold? Authors can't live on library waiting lists, Dearie. Of course my book was smothered at birth and very quickly there were none to buy. Where was I? I'm letting go I don't know how many of the slick magazines I've been a subscriber to. My Natural History magazine in the last issue is-sue carried an article about musical stones I wrote them that I had an octave of playable rocks from the shale slides in Provo Canyon. They wanted a picture. I scurried around and from the kindness and accommodation of the Allen Photo Shop, got one. Who knows, my rock piano may make the national headlines or something. Announcements of the diamond anniversary year of the state of Utah are beginning to show. No mention of the commemorative stamp that I urged Senator Bennett Ben-nett to work on. He was encouraging en-couraging and sent me a copy of the letter from the Postmaster General who was also encouraging. encourag-ing. Maybe I waited too long, but I kept thinking that there would be a commemorative stamp as a matter of course. When I finally wrote Sen. Bennett, his reply surprised me. The idea had never occurred to him or anybody else, apparently. Of course we have the whole year to get one out, but it would have been nice to have it to start the jubilee year with. And so, "Let us anew our journey pursue." Happy New Year. Selah |