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Show Univexsal I-Iicrof lining Coip. 14 P.O. Bor 2B08 Salt Lake City, Utah 84110 Bank Is r m n rem Mm tmm EVA STEEL PLANT' low i HUB QF UTAH'S f. of Bonis Volume 42 Number 3 Thursday, January 20, 1972 PRICE TEN CENTS ... r.miH I I J LOT .T MAYOR CRAWFORD extends a welcoming hand to the incoming in-coming president, Ernest Evans, "who will take over Mr. Jensen's reins as president of Orem's Chamber of Commerce. Below Gil Jensen extends congratulations to Verd Washburn, one of the first businessmen in Orem. He opened his first business in 1921. New Location For City Shops Seen Prospects for early construction construc-tion of the new Orem City equipment equip-ment and service facility and removal re-moval of the old city sheds at '400 East Center were dis- the Orem City Center. "We hope to be in a financial position to get under way with the project soon, Mr. Wengreen - declared. cussed by the Orem City Council Coun-cil Tuesday night. On the recommendation of City Manager Earl W. Wengreen, the Council approved the expenditure of $600 to purchase new tools and equipment for the use of a new mechanic who has been added to the city's vehicle maintenance department at the shops. -. Mr. Wengreen assured the Council that the new equipment could be moved to the new shop complex which is planned for construction at 900 North 900 West. Just how far away are we from moving the shops to the new location? asked Councilman E. Dixon Larson. Mr. Larson pointed out that the present shops are in the path of the proposed widening of Center Cen-ter Street extending east of State Street. The city manager told the Council that construction of the new city shops had been delayed due to the unexpected overexpen-diture overexpen-diture in the cost of building "We should make some provisions pro-visions for moving ahead with this project in the next budget period. per-iod. , Evans Takes Reins Of Orem C of C Things are no longer just happening hap-pening in Orem, they have happened! hap-pened! This was the theme of the Chamber of Commerce Installation In-stallation banquet held Monday night. Newly installed officers are: Ernest E. Evans (president), Ron Wilkinson (president-elect), and ' Richard Brady (vice-president). Connie Barker will continue to serve as secretary treasurer. Standing under a large banner ban-ner which read "1972, The Year It Happened, newly installed Chamber president Mr. Evans told Chamber members that "This is the year Orem becomes the shopping center of Utah County. Coun-ty. Mr. Evans reminded members of their new responsibility toward the community and indicated that the Chamber would have to expand ex-pand its horizons since Orem would soon be serving the entire county. Mayor Winston M. Crawford made a few brief comments before be-fore the installation of the new officers. In one of these comments com-ments he said, "We'll never succeed until we have unity across the entire county. I feel that very sincerely. Several persons were honored at the meeting including Duane Herbert and Milt Littlefield, retiring re-tiring members of the Chamber's Board of Directors. Other retiring re-tiring board members not able to be present at the meeting were Leland Black, Bob Healy, and Maxine Kitchen. A special plaque was awarded A. Verd Washburn as the first man to open a business in Orem. Mr. Washburn opened his business bus-iness in 1921. Susan Harding, Miss Orem, was given special recognition for her contribution to the Chamber during the past year. Gilbert M. Jensen, outgoing Chamber president, was awarded a plaque in recognition of his service to Orem during 1971. Cascade PTA keets Tonight Cascade PTA meeting will be I t 'Si . iflj sJ . SJ r'j ' ;,. A- ) MAYOR CRAWFORD presents outgoing Chamber of Commerce president, Gil Jensen with a plaque for his year's service. Mrs. Winston Crawford is pictured in front. EelowSusaa Harding, Miss Orem, receives a small music box as a token of appreciation from the Orem City Chamber of Commerce for functioning throughout the past year as Miss Orem. 7977 kycee DSA Winner To Be Revealed Tonight United States Jaycee Chaplain Frank Tremea will highlight the 1972 Distinguished Service Award Banquet to be held tonight, Councilman Glen Zimmerman commented, "We're trying to beautify Orem City, and here we have, the biggest eyesore right In the center of townl In other action, the Council approved the payment of $921.45 to the Metropolitan Water Board for water used on the Cascade Fairways Gold Course. Orem City will be reimbursedbyStrat-ton reimbursedbyStrat-ton Brothers for the cost of this water. The Council approved the payment pay-ment of $1,271.00 to Utah County Coun-ty as Orem City's share of the cost of operating the North Utah County garbage dump for the month of December. The Council also voted to approve ap-prove the payment of $1,006.45 to the Utah League of Cities and Towns for Orem City's membership mem-bership in that organization. held this Thursday evening, Jan. Jan 20, at 8 p.m. at Park's 20, at 7:30 p.m. in the Cascade cafe, according to KarlSchem- multi-purpose room. A special ensky, president of the Orem film will be shown entitled "Par- jaycees. ents, Children and Reading. Plan Mr Tremea is the only rep-to rep-to attend and support your PTA. resentative from Utah to serve on the National Board and has an active Jaycee career behind him. He served as Utah Jaycees president during 1969-1970 and is a past chairman of the Board of Utah Jaycees. He resides in Clinton, Utah. To the hundreds of young men in Jaycees, Mr. Tremea epitom izes the example of leadership A New Lounge Opens In Orem the new Lvnn J. Far ns worth is owner and manager of the MaDle Lanes Lounge, located in Orem. Mr. Farnsworth was t T" hnn ltr"TlrH Dorn is rruvu auu w T x t orh,avo ua lc Training through Community Frank Tremea for the Dast 17 years. He is nresentlv livine in Provo: but will be moving to Orem. Mr. Farnsworth operates the bowling bowl-ing alley, lounge and also the barber shop. The beauty shop will be operated by his wife, Linda. His twin brother, Lee, will also be working with him. J:) . mi' is i) , ri i - - '"T"" " " ; RIBBON CUTTING WITH THE CHAMBER of Commerce, Miss Orem, and Mayor Craw ford The new Maple Lanes Lounge is owned and operated by Lynn J. Farnsworth. Service. and will address the banquet on that subject. The banquet tonight will honor Orem's outstanding young man for 1971. Nominees for the DSA are Dennis Ruffell, 355 N. 300 W Lindon; Karl Schemen-sky, Schemen-sky, 453 N. 500 E.j Ed Warner, 623 N. 300 E.; Dean Johnson, 61 E. 100 N.; Gary Guyman, 1578 S. 450 E and Jerry C. Trucker Pleads Innocent To Failure To File Salt Lake City, Utah Richard F. Millar. 40. 755 North 400 East, Pleasant Grove, Utah, pleaded innocent to a nine-count information of failing to file Employer's Em-ployer's Quarterly Federal Tax Returns for the last two quarters of 1967, four quarters of 1968, and the first three quarters of 1969. Taxes allegedly due on these returns total $8,620. During Dur-ing this period Mr. Millar operated oper-ated Dick's Fruit and Produce Company, a trucking company. Trial has been set for January 27, 1972. The Internal Revenue Code provides that any person who willfully fails to file Federal tax returns is guilty of a misdemeanor, mis-demeanor, and upon conviction thereof, may be fined not more than $10,000 or imprisoned not more than one year, or both, on each count together with the costs of prosecuton. Washburn, 1639 South State, all of Orem. President Schemensky expressed ex-pressed the appreciation of the Orem Jaycees to all persons who have submitted nominations and also to the judges for this year's award. The judges are Clyde E. Weeks, Jr., Orem postmaster and local historian; James Simmons, Sim-mons, Orem Chief of Police; H. B. (Jack) Sumner, editor and publisher of the Orem-Geneva Times; Jack Salmon, owner of Salmon Pharmacy; and Ray Hanks. The banquet will honor all DSA nominees and will be attended at-tended by past DSA winners. Anyone Any-one wishing to attend can do so by calling Terry Eckert at 225-2528 225-2528 and making reservations. Vote Defeats County's Bond Issue The proposed $4 million bond issue for a new courthouse -jail complex for Utah County was defeated Tuesday by an almost four to one margin by Utah County Coun-ty voters. With all 50 districts in, unofficial un-official vote was 11,396 against, 3,905 for. The election was under a cloud almost until the polls opened, because of an attempt to stop it through a legal action filed by the Committee onSpending and Taxations (COST) which claimed the public had been misinformed, . and that public officials had illegally il-legally used public money to promote pro-mote their cause. The case was dismissed Monday Mon-day by Fourth District Judge Morris Harding, on the grounds that the plaintiffs were not prepared pre-pared to post bond, and that they had not properly notified the county, said County Attorney Arnold C. Roylance. The bond issue was to be over 15 to 20 years, for construction con-struction of a three-story complex com-plex adjacent to the old County Courthouse in downtown Provo. Promoters of the new facility contended that more efficient law enforcement would result, while critics charged that a change of philosophy is called for which is not reflected in the plans for the new jaiL COST Chairman Joseph Jenkins, Jen-kins, one of the plaintiffs in the unsuccessful lawsuit, said claims by the Utah County Commission that there would be no tax increase in-crease to pay for the facility, and statements on its cost had been designed to mislead the taxpayers, because the mill levy had already been increased for the purpose and that with interest, in-terest, the total would have been $6.5 million, not just the principal prin-cipal of $4 million. County Commissioner Stanley Stan-ley Roberts said the complex was planned around the most advanced theories of law enforcement, enforce-ment, and that critics did not have the expertise that went into the design of the proposed facility. facil-ity. It appears !he voters weren't convinced. Rabie Shots Available For Family Pets Orem City Police Dept. have doubled their animal control force and are really cracking down on animal problems in our area. This is being done in an effort to minimize complaints, which have been coming in. Loose dogs are prime targets and dog owners should be reminded re-minded that no dog can be loose, even for the "5 minute bathroom break which has been the source of many of our complaints. All dogs must be housed, chained or on a leash. Any exceptions will be impounded at the owners expense. ex-pense. Dogs have been our biggest sorce of complaints. Neighbors just don't want dogs in their garbage gar-bage cans or doing their "little chores on their yard. Dog licenses are also due before be-fore March 15, and to help with the expence. Dr. Edmunds and Dr. Thurman will hold rabies clinics at both Fire Stations Saturday Feb. 5, 1 to 5 p.m. Shots will be $2.50, just half of the usual $5.00 charge. Licenses will also be available at this time. construction of a new five million mil-lion gallon water storage tank and two major water trunk lines on 200 North and 600 South. Orem voters approved the sale of the bonds in the municipal election held Nov. 2, 1971. At the time the bond election was held, Orem City officials said that they had made application applica-tion for a federal grant for one-half one-half the cost of the water improvement im-provement project through the Department of Housing and Urban Development. Because it takes so long to process and get approval on a federally-funded project, it was decided that bonds should be authorized for the total cost of the project so that construction could proceed. In other relatedactionTuesday night, the Orem City Council approved ap-proved the payment of $13,300 to Rollins, Brown & Gunnell to provide pro-vide engineering services on the water improvement project. Over the next 10 years Orem City will pay interest in the amount of $103,957 on the $450,000 in water improvement bonds which were sold Tuesday night to the Orem State Bank. Orem State Bank was the only one of the five financial institutions institu-tions bidding on Orem City's bond issue to bid less than four percent interest: an average interest of 3.8865 percent. Second lowest bidder was First Security Bank with a bid of 4.0246 percent interest and a net cost of $107,658.75. Continental Bank & Trust Co. bid was 4.0474 percent Interest and a net cost of $108,269. Burrows, Smith and Company bid was 4.0704 percent interest and a net cost of $108,882.50. Zions National Bank bid was 4.4486 and a net costof$119,000. The sale of the $450,000 in general gen-eral obligation water improvement improve-ment bonds will bring that amount immediately into the treasury of Orem City to be used for the Farmers State Goals At Annual Convention Clyde Jarvis, president of Montana Farmers Union was kick-off speaker for the Nineteenth Nine-teenth Annual Convention of Utah-Idaho Utah-Idaho Farmers Union. Mr. Jar-vis Jar-vis emphasized two important goals: 100 percent of parity for all farmers, and unity among farm organizations. Mr. Jarvis said, "Our goal is 100 percent of parity for all farmers, regardless of what it takes to get it "We have been fighting increases in-creases in costs for others when we should have been fighting to increase our own income. No segment of agriculture is receiving re-ceiving full parity for what it produces. In fact, the parity level keeps going lower and the cost price squeeze continues to widen, Mr. Jarvis said. On unity, the Montana President Pres-ident said, "We know that the agricultural coalition of a large number of far m and ranch organizations organ-izations and commodity groups which supported the coalitionbill Historic Sites Are Announced proves that agriculture can work together. We also realize that the unified efforts work, because be-cause labor and industry have demonstrated the effectiveness of organization. Roy Holman, president of the Utah-Idaho Farmers Union in his address to members and delegates del-egates expressed some disgruntle dis-gruntle ment with the position the farmers have been in for the past 20 years, but was also somewhat some-what optimistic about the future. The wheels of change grind slowly for the farmer, but they are grinding and changes for the better do appear on the horizon. In 1972 it does look like a bargaining bar-gaining bill might be passed by the Congress. If passed this would be a definite milestone in the history ofagriculture.Farm-ers ofagriculture.Farm-ers have never been in a bargaining bar-gaining position since the pilgrims pil-grims bartered corn to the American Am-erican Indians, Mr. Holman said. "1972 is an election year and if politicans are ever going to make good on campaign promises, prom-ises, this would be the year. Medical-Dental Male and spaded females are $4.00 each. Unspaded female licences are $10.00 each. rr Mlltnn T Ahrams rhalr. man, Governor's Historic and (gnf&T IS Cultural Sites Review Commit- tee, announces the committee's nOW Reality action at us meeting January 12, 1972. The committee entertained a proposal by Mrs. Frank Jex, of the Capitol Hill Awareness Team, (CHAT) to make the Capitol Hill area in Salt Lake City an historic his-toric district. The committee did not accept the whole area recommended by Mrs. Jex, but did officially list the "Marmalade "Marmal-ade District on Capitol Hill as an historic district. It further fur-ther approved that a letter be sent to CHAT supporting their efforts on behalf of the historic revitalization of the entire area. The commiti.ee further entertained enter-tained a proposal by Senator Ernest Ern-est Dean, Alan Stauffer, an aide to Senator Dean, and Steve Rush-ton Rush-ton of the U.S. Forest Service that the American Fork Canyon be declared an historic district, specifically designating as individual in-dividual historic sites, (1) Forest For-est City (Townsite), (2) Deer Creek (Townsite), (3) Grave of George Tyng, (4) Railway Grade. (5) Toll Gate, (Site), and (6) Dancehall Cave. The committee did approve the six items as recommended, however, deferred de-ferred discussion on the District Dis-trict until a later date. Other action by the committee commit-tee listed one . site on the National Register of Historic Places. Twenty-five sites (including those listed above) were listed Planners of Salt Lake City, on the State Register Cascade Medical-Dental Center Cen-ter to be located at 560 South State, Orem, is now a reality. Construction will begin soon with facilities to serve the public, pub-lic, including medical office space for four to six physicians. Five local dentists willhave their offices in the Medical Center, and will include the specialties of orthodontics and oral surgery. A new oral surgeon will provide pro-vide increased services for the Orem area. Physicians offices will include pediatrics, two general gen-eral practitioners and space for allied specialties -- OB-Gyn surgery and ophthomology. Facilities Fac-ilities will be available for a medical-dental X-ray lab and a complete dental lab. Adequate parking is being provided pro-vided with room for expansion of the center as Orem's needs increase. Financial assistance for completion of the center is being provided by a local bank. Contract management and construction con-struction will be accomplishedby TRAK, INC. of Orem. Completion of the 1st .phase of the center is to be accomplished accom-plished by late spring, with the seven presently committed tenants assisting. Final details of the plans are being completed by Bolton-Rather-Todd, Architects and ARTIST'S RENDITION of the new Medical Center which will be located at 560 South State, Orem, directly Geneva Times. west of the Orem- |