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Show All Eyes On 450 East That an obscure, dead-end Orem City street, less than 100 feet In length, could be the subject of so many hours of meetings, meet-ings, so many columns of newspaper space, and so much concern by so many people, is an almost incredible fact of life in 1972. Nevertheless, this short Orem street, fronting homes at 1080 South 450 East and 451 East 1070 South, has in the past two months, become a prime topic of conversation, conversa-tion, not only in Orem, but throughout Utah County. REASON FOR THE propulsion of this short section of 450 East Street (which goes nowhere) no-where) into the headlines and onto petitions is the prospect of having it become one of several access routes into the adjacent University Uni-versity Mall shopping center. This possibility came to light recently when the Orem Planning Commission recommended rec-ommended to the Orem City Council that an area just south of 1070 South be re-zoned re-zoned from R-l to SC-2. This would permit per-mit the expansion of the University Mall at this location. AS RESIDENTS in the area considered what their attitude should be toward the property re-zoning, they found that the Mall developers planned to use 450 East Street as an access to the Mall on the strength of a committment made by the Orem City Council Coun-cil 18 months earlier. At this point, Richard Hanks, representing a group of home-owners in the Christeele Acres area, met with the Council and presented pre-sented a petition concerning 450 East. The petition, signed by some 240 persons, stated that the signers protested the opening of 450 East Street at 1070 South for egress and ingress to the University Mall. The Orem City Council was asked to rescind any agreements which may have been made with the Mall developers providing for the opening of this street into the Mall. AT THAT TIME, Mr. Hanks told the Council Coun-cil that the adjoining property owners would offer no objections to re-zoning the Mall property if their request to close 450 East were granted. Subsequently, a meeting was held between City officials, area residents and the Mall developers in which the residents attempted to get the Mall developers to agree to the 450 East closing, without success. At the March 7 public hearing which considered con-sidered the re-zoning request, Keith Soren-son, Soren-son, representing the University Mall, told the Council that the Mall developers had relied upon the City's earlier agreement to open 450 East as a Mall access. "WE'D LIKE TO use this property as a location for a nice restaurant, he explained. ex-plained. "We will comply with all the requirements require-ments of the SC-2 Zone. We would intend to use 450 East for egress and ingress, as was granted by the City 18 months ago" Mr. Sorenson stated. Without the Council's assurance that 450 East would be closed, the large crowd attending at-tending the public hearing unaminously protested pro-tested the requested re-zoning. However, in a split vote the Council voted to approve the zone change for the Mall. THE RESIDENTS were then advised by the Orem City Attorney to resent their request for a street vacation to the Orem Planning Commission at its April 15th meeting. meet-ing. March 14's Orem City Council meeting brought a surprising development in the saga of 450 East Street, when Councilman Har-ley Har-ley M. Gillman reported that he had found a discrepancy in some minutes of an earlier Council meeting in which the street was an issue. Mr. Gillman told the Council that he had listened to a tape recording of the City Council minutes of Sept. 29, 1970, and found that the Council had actually approved the opening of 450 East at 1070 South for use as an egress from a drive-in window at a bank to be built at this location. Mr. Gillman pointed out that the printed minutes of the Council meeting did not show any conditions attached to the approved opening of 450 East, and that apparently the printed minutes of that meeting are what the Mall developers have relied on in planning plan-ning their developments in the Mall. THE OUTGROWTH of this disclosure was action by the Council to have the minutes of that earlier meeting corrected to reflect re-flect the actual words spoken on the tape recording of the meeting, and for the Woodbury Wood-bury Corporation be advised that the opening of 450 East was intended to be conditional on the construction of a drive-in bank at this location. Tuesday night the Orem City Council reviewed re-viewed petitions from Mr. and Mrs. Jack Hansen, 460 East 1070SouthandMr.andMrs. James B. Dexter, 1080 South 450 East, to vacate 450 East Street at 1070 South. The Orem Planning Commission is scheduled to consider the requested street vacation on April 5. Whatever recommendation the Orem Planning Plan-ning Commission makes regarding this matter, the Orem City Council remains on the horns of a dilemma: The City is committed com-mitted to opening 450 East if a bank is built there; the Mall developers have relied on an unconditional use of 450 East and plan to build a restaurant there; residents of the adjacent area are firmly opposed to the opening of 450 East Street for any purpose. ONE THING IS CERTAIN: it would take the wisdom of Solomon to resolve this matter to the satisfaction of all parties concerned. n u t i a uth louise Partridga . Well, they're gone. Son, daughter-in-law and three grandchildren. grandchil-dren. It was a short visit, not even long enough for the last one to get used to me. He broke into tears when I'd hold out my arms to him. This is very, very darned frustrating to any grandmother. grand-mother. While they were here we called my daughter and hers in California. But the young cousins wouldn't know each other, some of them, if they met on the street. I think this is sad but I don't know what can be done about it. Baby Deane, named for my sister and her husband, is walking walk-ing now. He was just thinking about it when I was at their place at Greeley, Colorado at Thanksgiving Thanks-giving time. It takes an active adult full time keeping up with that young one. Ah, me-PEACE, It's wonderful but how I will miss them. Now, I can sweep the floors, or vacuum or whatever, and have it take. But it won't be the same. This is a busy month, March. E verything seems to come at once and there are memories. One year ago this month I was in the hospital. And a sad case. Also, my Lady Mother died in March. There are other things . . . but there is this about it. The world outside is beautiful. My magnolia tree is burgeoning and people are calling me up to find out what it is and if it's reaL Son and wife went to the basketball basket-ball game last night at the Mar- iott Center or whatever it's called and I don't think for a minute that I've spelled the name right but I don't know where to go to find out. Anyhow, they could hardly watch the game tor watching watch-ing that fabulous building. I tried to tell them beforehand that it was bigger than it looked. People walking in there just aren't prepared for that great hole in the ground. I'm having another spell of frustration over what is called trash mail". Come, day before yesterday, a heavy envelope, on the outside it said "Remove All Contents," or some such. So I did. There was a report to the stockholders type thing and single blank sheet that looked as though it must be inserted in a certain sort of notebook. The Stock Holders Report went right into the wastebasket as always. ' These things mean nothing to me. I don't have that much "stock" believe me. A report complete with graphs and whatchacallits all in color and on very expensive ex-pensive paper and all sent as bulk mail while I have to pay it h My am li vmf Mm If li U VI jy 9r o ON 100 NYLON MULTI-COLOR IN GREEN, RUST, OR BEIGE TONES NOWJUST SQ. YD. INSTALLED Thick Foam Back and Easy- Care For Nylon Loop, Make This Carpet Ideal For Game Rooms, Family Rooms and The Kitchen PAINT & GLASS CARPET & DRAPERIES mm 13 1066 SOUTH STATE Orem-Geneva Times Thursday, March 30, 1972 ft : h ' ft Site!: Orem South Stake Conference President Phil Shumway of the Orem South Stake opened the general session of the quarterly conferenceon a hopeful note when he stressed the importance of temple work as a source of inspiration, services and sacrifice. sacri-fice. 'It ties the family together to-gether and shows us that death is not the end,' he emphasized. Other speakers for the session, which was held in the Provo Tabernacle were LeGrande Curtis, Cur-tis, representing the General Authorities, and Arden Rowley and Stan Leavitt, counselors in the stake presidency, as well as Arthur King,Gayle Larsen, Mar-cia Mar-cia Farley, and Nelda Shumway. Alta Rowley sang 'How Lovely was tne Morning." Music for the session was furnished fur-nished by the Stake Relief Society So-ciety Chorus. Released from YWMIA music director was Colleen Winger. Sustained to new positions were Carl M. Rowley, alternate High Councilman; Merlin Man ning, assistant stake clerk; Dello Rowley, staxe Duuaing representative; rep-resentative; Ray andSylvia Hold- away, senior citizens; Gilbert Taylor, assistant music director YMMIA, and Marlene Harms, Drama director ywmia. WALK-a-THONERS ENJOY their noon meal at the Scera Park pavilion Saturday. The fund-raising stunt for the March of Dimes brought some thousand walkers through Orem and back to the BYU stadium. I' ; i U Xby HAL WILLIAMS WHO'S PROMOTING ANGELA'S CAUSE? Now that Angela Davis is out of jail on bond pending trial, many of her ilk are working furiously to raise defense money to beat the rap in court. It is this writer's opinion that she will not be convicted because it has been made such a political issue-rather than criminal. With more than $1 million of the taxpayer's money already spent on this famous black communist, com-munist, it's interesting to note who is helping her finance her part of the program. A huge 'talent show was presented pre-sented on March 4 before more than 6,500 persons (majority of them black) jammed into the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles. Not much was carried in the Utah press but the event was carried by national and international inter-national media representatives. Headliners for what the communist com-munist press called 'an historic event" were Sammy Davis Jr., Aretha Franklin, Quincy Jones, and Donald Sutherland. Wearing 'Free Angela" buttons, but-tons, thousands cheered as Quincy Quin-cy Jones opened the show with some of his contemporary songs, bringing a rousing applause with ' his opener "What's Going On?' Jones thanked the people in the audience (whom he called 'the stars tonight") for their reception, re-ception, saying, "We're all here for a very special reason." He was immediatelygreetedby that well known black radical slogan "Right On" from the audience. aud-ience. Davis, who acted as emcee, interrupted his act with a surprise sur-prise song from Jimmie Wither- eight cents to mail a bill right here in Provo, all this makes by blood pressure rise. This is bad enough, but the next day, along comes another and identical one. I have no doubt that today will bring the third one. This is a local outfit. If these corporations had to pay such postage as you and I pay, Dearie, they'd be far less burdening bur-dening of the mail. Besides, these pamphlets cost money to begin with. Yet, one week, I got seven (SEVEN) such hand outs in the mail. I don't mean seven assorted, either, I mean seven identical ones. After trying to persuade the powers that be to issue a Utah Statehood commemorative stamp on our seventy-fifth year last year and not making it, I get twice as irritated with the waste of postage, paper, printing, time, effort, postmen and what have you than I did before. I can remember re-member when we had two deliveries de-liveries of mail every day. And cards went for one cent. Selah -oh, and letters for two, then three, then . . . Removal of three Restrictive Orders For Utah Highways Blaine J. Kay, State Highway Engineer, has announced that the orders restricting vehicles with a gross weight in excess of 10, 000 pounds on U-68 west of Utah Lake from its Junction withU-73 southerly for 29 miles and the order restricting vehicles with a gross weight in excess of 10, 000 pounds on U-146 from Pleasant Pleas-ant Grove to AmericanForkCan-yon, AmericanForkCan-yon, are hereby rescinded effective effect-ive March 23, 1972 at 11:00 a.m. Also, the order restricting vehicles ve-hicles with a gross weight in excess of 20,000 pounds on U-28 between Fayette and Levan, is hereby rescinded effective March 23, 1972 at 8:00 a.m. All signs must be removed from the roadway. Dated at Salt Lake City this 22nd day of March, 1972. spoon, well-known blues singer. Spoon sang 'Mr. Bojangles." After thanking the audience for being there, Davis said, 'It takes a lot to commit yourself to a choice that is not the most popular." pop-ular." Donald Sutherland, a radical lefty from Canada who has been promoted into being one of Hollywood's Holly-wood's great "funny" men of late, did a satire on President Nixon, then read a statement from Rep. Shirley Chisholm (D - N. Y. who is running for president of the U. S.): 'She will, with your help, gain the strength to winner freedom. free-dom. I applaud what you are doing here tonight." Bob Klonsky, radical who was in part responsible for the show, urged the audience that there be "no letup, no relaxation until we win Angela's freedom." Also introduced to the audience aud-ience were Roger McAfee (a communist from the Fresno area) and his family who put up their 405-acre farm as collateral for Angela's bond. (The Fresno Bee recently reported re-ported in a long interview with McAfee that he enrolled at BYU in 1959, there he met Darlene, a native of Oakland, whom he married two months later, and they both dropped out of schooL The article said that McAfee rejects the Mormons' religious philosophy. He and his wife carried their communist philosophy philos-ophy to Canada and Mexico. Near Ensenada, they set up a cooperative coopera-tive dairy and later arrested and sent out of the country for putting three capitalist dairies out of 1 business. He and his wife flew to Cuba in 1962 in a private plane to start their own Peace Corps. Ten days later the Cuban government would not grant them free travel access. On their return to the U. S., they were arrested but later released for going to Cuba without a permit. Also appearing on the program were the Supremes, Greg Morris (black star on the TV series Mission Impossible), and actors Michael Alimo and Yaphet Kotto. 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