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Show Universal HIcrofilning Corp. 14 P.O. Eoi' 2608 Salt Lake City, Utah 84110 si: b 1 STEEL PLANT jHUB or VTAKS rait totetsa Wimz& Volume 42 Number 18 Thursday, May 4, 1972 PRICE TEN CENTS EDITORIAL . . . Orem's Stake In Bond Election Orem residents have an Important stake In the 8 million-dollar Alpine School District Dis-trict bond election to be held next Tuesday. Every registered voter should present himself him-self at the polls and vote his convictions as to what direction the Alpine School Board should take in meeting the challenge of burgeoning classrooms and deteriorating buildings throughout the district. Growth of the public schools in Orem, as well as the growth ol the other schools in the Alpine School District, has been no less than phenomenal during the past quarter of a century, starting with the construction of the Geneva Elementary School, 665 West 400 North, back in 1948. SINCE THE CONSTRUCTION of the Spencer Spen-cer and Vineyard (Union) Schools in 1912, there had been no new elementary schools built in Orem for more than 36 years. By 1947, however, classrooms ware bulging with the "war babies of the many people who had made Orem their home. Until the year 1912, only education through the elementary grades was available to children in Orem. At that time, through the efforts of H.M. Aird, district school supervisor, and a number of school patrons junior high school classes were established in the two rear rooms of the newly-built Spencer Grade School. IT WAS NOT UNTIL 1921 when the new Lincoln High School building was completed com-pleted at 351 East 800 South, that high school classes were taught in Orem. The building was originally constructed without the east wing which was added in 1924, making it the largest and best-equipped school in the district. Since that time, several wings nave been added to the building which was re-named Lincoln Junior High School in 1956 when the new Orem High School was completed. The completion of the new Orem Junior High School at 765 North 600 West several sev-eral years ago with the resultant division divi-sion of junior high school students between the two schools, has provided a dramatic contrast as far as the two educational plants are concerned. ALTHOUGH ADDITIONS to the Lincoln Junior Jun-ior High School have added more classroom space, and even school lunch facilities, the two-story building is sadly lacking in many of the features which are considered necessary to carry out the kinds of pro grams of which the administration and faculty facul-ty are capable. Moreover, Lincoln Junior High School has been described as a 'fire trap' by those who have evaluated the problems of evacuating several hundred students from the building in the event of a fire. Estimates to install adequate fire alarm systems and sprinkler systems range from $100,000 to $200,000. OREM IS NOT ALONE in suffering from obsolete and hazardous schools. The American Ameri-can Fork Junior High School, PleasantGrove Junior High School, Lehi Junior High School and Cedar Valley Elementary School are all over 50 years old. Each of them are subject to fire and safety hazards, leaky roofs and failing boiler facilities. All of the obsolete junior high schools are lacking inadequate space and auditoriums for the kind of educational programs other newer facilities in the district are able to offer. APPROVAL OF THE 8-million dollar bond issue by the voters Tuesday would enable the Alpine School District to obtain an additional 2-million dollars instate building aid. With this financing available the Lehi area would receive six new classrooms and library at Sego Lily Elemtary School and a $100,000. renovation of the Lehi Junior High School. American Fork would receive a new $2, 750,000 junior high school and six new classrooms and a library at Alpine Elementary SchooL Pleasant Grove would receive a new $2,750,000 junior high school . Orem would receive a new $3,250,000 junior high school and a $400,000 addition to the Windsor Elementary School. Also, a total of $1,500,000 would be spent to improve vocational offerings in seconary schools. IT WOULD BE AN understatement to say that the need is critical for the new school facilities which are outlined under this program. pro-gram. Even with the opening of the new elementary school at 400 West 400 South in Orem this fall, the pressure for school buildings is expected to mount. THE FACT THAT APPROVAL of the bond issue next Tuesday will NOT raise the property tax mill levy is likely to be a deciding factor in minds of most people, who will vote FOR the bond issue. Public Hearing Meeting Attracts Concerned Citizens A two-hour public hearing on the opening of a neighborhood park near the Sharon elementary school was held at the City Council Coun-cil meeting Tuesday night, and culminated in the Council deciding de-ciding to extend the protest period per-iod three more weeks. One hundred seventy-five people attended the hearing, some of them maintaining that they had not had enough time to make protests, or study the issue. Protests must be made in writing writ-ing to the City Recorders Office. Other business of the Council was a report by the City Engineer En-gineer that a traffic study had been made on the 400 South and State Street, and it was found that traffic was great enough for the city to make recommendation totheStateRoad Commission that a semaphore be pi iced at the intersection. Plat maps were approved for subdivisions at Sunset Park, and Plat View Palasade. Tne Council opened bids for a new fire department pumper truck, but tabled the action for further developments. Mayor Declares May 7-14 Music Week In Orem Orem City Fire Department Holds Baby-Sitters Class Orem City Fire Department will hold a baby sitter's safety course Thursday, May 4, 1972, New Officers At Lincoln Jr. Seminary Lincoln Jr. Seminary recently elected new officers. . Alan Cook, son of Mr. and Mrs. Alan D. Cook, was elected president presi-dent of the council. Ron Craven, son of Mr. and Mrs. Rulon G. Craven, was named devotional vice president. Thayne Aired, son of Mr. and Mrsiiobert Aired was elected bulletin board vice president. Janet Gilbert, daughter of Bishop and Mrs. Stanley S. Gilbert Gil-bert is the new historian. Jean Maria Free, daughter of Mr, and Mrs. Joseph C. Free, will be the New Era coordinator. Nancy AUred, duaghter of Bishop and Mrs. Wallace E. Allred, will be the secretary. And Steve Best, son of Bishop and Mrs. Brian Best was named activities vice president. from 4 to 5:30 p.m. at the Orem Fire Department. It will be a five-week course held each Thursday for those interested from 9 years to ovar 21 years old. The fee will be $.50 far the course and there must be at least fifteen register to hold the class. No more than thirty will be enrolled for the course. Topics to be covered are Fire Safety, Tips for Babysitter's Safety, Entertainment and Control Con-trol of Children, Mdical Aspects of Babysitting, Infant and Child Care, First Aid, and Safety in the Home. The staff teaching the course will be representatives from the Orem City Fire Department, Orem City Police Department, Utah County Safety Council, Utah County Health Department, BYU College of Family Living, and Orem High School. Registration will be at the Orem City Fire Department, phone 225-1314. Students must be registered by 5 p.m., May 3. 1972. Chief Simmons To Speak To Hillcrest PTA The final Hillcrest Elementary Elemen-tary School PTA meeting for the school year will be held Thursday, Thurs-day, May 4, 7:30 p.m. in the school auditorium. Alpine School District Superintendent, Super-intendent, Dan W. Petersen, will be present and will explain the bond election scheduled for May 9. This will be a good opportunity opportun-ity to become better informed about the educational facilities needed in the area. Election of new PTA officers will be held. Nominations will be accepted from the floor if the person nominated has given his or her consent to run for office. Your PTA membership card must be shown in order to participate in this election. Guest speaker for the evening will be Orem City Police Chief James A. Simmons, speaking on Crime in Orem and the Drug Problem. Accompanying Chief Simmons will be Officer Gerald Nielsen. This meeting promises to be most informative and all are encouraged to attend. M I iM ml hi i r Mayor Winston Crawford proclaimed pro-claimed Monday, May 7-14, as National Music Week and asked that all citizens observe and take part in the activities recognizing recog-nizing the importance of music, musicians,and musical organizations organi-zations to the cultural life of our city, state, nation and world. Musical activities and events in the area are initiated by the Orem High School Symphony Orchestra and Bands concerts scheduled tonight at 7:30 p.m. in the High School auditorium. Sponsors for the "Harvest of Harmony week in Utah County are the Utah Valleyettes chapter of Sweet Adelines Inc., a national organization, who sing for enter- Phil Shumway Urges School Bond Election We have always taken great pride in the efforts which we, have made in giving top educational educa-tional opportunities to our children child-ren in Orem and in the Alpine School District. We are now faced with a great challenge to continue to give the same opportunities oppor-tunities to the students of the ivor future, an educational op portunity which will be equal to the opportunities of the past. Our city and school district are growing so rapidly that more space for school functions is4 an absolute necessity. Without this additional space, double sessions ses-sions of schools, and overcrowded overcrowd-ed tension-producing situations are inevitable. The passage of the upcoming bond proposal, May 9, will be of great value to all who live in our district. With the funds available, school facilities can be developed so that a high quality qual-ity education can be maintained for us. We can continue, as we now are doing, to have one of the lowest, if not actually the lowest, student dropout rates of any school district of comparable size anywhere. We can continue con-tinue to operate as we now do on about the lowest per-pupil expenditure ex-penditure in the state. Our students stu-dents can continue to compete com-pete educationally with graduates from any other school district in the state. Without the passage of the bond proposal, it would bo necessary neces-sary to increase the tax levy immediately to the highest legal limit. We would lose hundreds of thousands of dollars in state building aid. School programs would suffer until students and parents alike would feel a frustration frus-tration and satisfaction i which would be harmful in a major degree to our community. I urge all eligible citizens to vote for passage of the bond propsal on May 9th. tainment or fund raising events. , Highlight for the week will be a benefit show at the Spring-ville Spring-ville H.S, May 12, 8 p.m. for raising funds for construction of a Springville Youth Center. Tickets are available attheStore 224 in Springville and at the door. The Sweet Adelines are primarily pri-marily a service organization. The Valleyettes chapter rehearses re-hearses each Thursday evening from 8-10 p.m. in Room 2-B of the Provo High School. An Invitation is extended to any woman in Utah County who would like to sing with the group. Previous Pre-vious voice training is not required. re-quired. May Proclaimed Senior Citizen's Month in Orem : ' Mayor Wi iston Crawford has procalimed May as Senior Citizen's Citi-zen's Month. A special dinner Thursday, May 4, at the Civic Center Multipurpose room will initiate the month's activities. At the dinner, all Sr. Citizens whose birthdays are in May will be honored. Wednesday, May 10 at 2:30 p.m. There will be bowling at Miracle Bowl for senior citizens. Thursday, May 11 at 1 p.m, Travelodge there will be games, and other entertainment such as shuffle-board, billiard, table tennis, bingo, and card games. Refreshments will be served. The regular classes in flower drying and macrame are at 3:15 p.m. at the Orem Junior High SchooL; in Room 60. Tours of interest has been set up for May. Those that have been listed are as follows: May, Denver, Colo, by Rio Grande railway. It will be a three day trip. The following day a four hour bus tour has been arranged, though Denver City and surrounding places of interest. May, Vernal Utah tour, a group of Orem senior citizens will leave by bus to Vernal. Senior citizens of Vernal are making arrangements for entertainmetn for the group. There will be a lot of sight seeing, and then on to Flaming Gorge, the group will travel on to Green River, Wyoming, and stop for dinner and travel on to Evanston, Wyo. and then on home. Information on the above tours are available by contacting Ivan Farnworth, 225-3531. W j ill r J Y ' L ain -tiiuiiu i-'ir-' "m wr-n " twaw- -MM"ia'i'-w QUEEN ROSEMARY DUNN poses with her two attendants following the Miss Orem Pageant Friday night. They are from left to right; Pam Glenn, second runneru;,; Queen Rosemary Dunn; and first runner up, Kathleen Steed. Rosemary Bunn Ctqiw& iHiss Orem For 1972 Rosemary Dunn, 21-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Basil H. Dunn, was crowned Miss Orem Friday night in apageantatOrem High School where Karen Herd, Miss Idaho, First Attendant to-Miss to-Miss America, acted as mistress mis-tress of ceremonies. Miss Dunn has now taken over the responsibilities that Miss Susan Harding has handled during the past year. Chosen as first attendant was Miss KathleenSteed, 20, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Stuart Steed. Second Attendant was Miss Pamela Glenn, 18, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Avery Glenn. Arianne Moffitt, 18 year old daughter of Dr. and Mrs. John W. Moffitt, was chosen by the other contestants as Miss Congeniality. Con-geniality. Miss Dunn was named Miss Outstanding Talent. After two months of workshops, the 14, contestants and the committee com-mittee put on the annual pageant under the sponsorship of the Orem Boosters. A special thanks to this committee from the Pageant Director, Beverly Cotant, to Paulina Jolley, Production Pro-duction Chairman; Jody Ren-strom, Ren-strom, Chairman of Judges; Jo Ella Eccles and Connie Barker, Chairmen of Hostesses, Tickets, Social at City Hall,, and many other duties; Mary Evans, Publicity; Pub-licity; TerryChristiansen,Stage Manager; Grant Butter and Clayton Clay-ton Bishop for props and scenery; and the rest of the entire committee. Miss Dunn is a junior at BYU najoring in music. She has been a student of the piano for some 10 years and at present is a student of Paul Pollei. She also plays the guitar, harpsicord, and is proficient as a tap and ballet dancer, as a vocalist and in music theory. She does some composing and after her education at BYU, she plans to attend JulliardSchool of Music in New York. She is a member of Alpha Lambda Delta, Women's National HonorSociety, and in high school was a member of the Journalism Club, Spanish and FrenchClubSjNationalHonor Society, and the School Spirit Committee. At BYU, she is on the Dean's List. Miss Steed is a junior at BYU. She belongs to the BYU Angel Flight and has served ontheBYU Program Bureau as well as other committees on campus. For the past three years, she has been a member of the AFROTC Footprints, Foot-prints, and the Angel Flight drill team. She served as production manager for the Footprints, and was chosen second attendant to the Military Ball Queen by the BYU ROTC units. She has also served as Military Ball Queen chairman and operations officer in Angel Flight. She is interested inter-ested in a career in teaching handicapped children. Miss Glenn is interested in music , and hopes to become a teacher of music education as well as to perform. She is now a member of the Orem High ACappella Choir, and was a member of the Billings West ACappella Choir last year. She has played the clarinet for 9 years and has been in the Symphonic Sym-phonic Band for three years. She is on the honor roll at Orem High. Miss Moffitt is a student at Orem High. She is vice-president of the Tigerettes, a Sterling Scholar representative, Senior Ball Queen and has been in two Business school plays. She plans to work in medicine. This year, the Miss Orem Pageant has been set up on a delayed program, thus sending Miss Susan Harding as Orem's representative to the Miss Utah Scholarship Pageant. Miss Dunn will represent Orem in the 1973 State Pageant after she has been given a year's experience and training. The Orem Boosters wish to, thank Charles Rohbock of Ron-bock's Ron-bock's Sons Floral for his support in Miss Orem's Scholarship Pageant and wish to extend an apology to him for leaving him out of tne Pageant Program. Mr. Rohbock furnished the flowers for the Queen and the. attendants; and for the next year will furnish flowers for Miss Orem wherever she appears officially. of-ficially. We also wish to thank: Mr. Kent Dastrup, pageant soloist, for his beautiful songs and wish to apologize for leaving him off the pageant program. A special thanks is extended to Mr. Lorln Jex for all the beautiful background music heard throughout the pageant. It certainly cer-tainly set the mood for the 1972 Pageant. Thanks again Chuck, Kent and Lorin. Seminar Tuesday Tuesday, May 9, 7:30 p.m.,the Orem Chamber of Commerce will sponsor a Business Help Seminar, Semin-ar, "Advertisement that Pays. It will be held in the multipurpose multi-purpose room of the Orem City Center with no charge. Anyone interested is Invited to attend. SATISFACTORY CONDITION Lital Preece is in satisfactory satisfac-tory condition at the Utah Valley Hospital following a major operation. opera-tion. FLUE HOSPITALIZES VICTIM Sylvia Sumner Strong is reported re-ported in satisfactory condition under observation at the Utah Valley Hospital following a severe se-vere bout with the flu. OREM MAN CONVALESCING Mr. M.J. Hill is convalescing at home after being released from the Utah Valley HospitalTuesday. American Cancer Sponsors Bike -A-Thon May 13 LINCOLN JUNIOR HIGH Seminary officers newly elected are from left to right: Front, Alan Cook. Ron Craven, Thayne Aired; Back, Janet Gilbert, Jean Marie Free, Nancy All-red, All-red, and Steve Best. To fight Cancer try the Bike-a-thon. The first annual tour of Utah Valley by bicycle will take place Saturday, May 13 according to Lillian Berrett of Orem, Crusade Chairman for Utah County. "This is a bike-a-thon sponsored by the American Ameri-can Cancer Society, Utah County Unit for Utah county bicyclist and will afford the cyclist an opportunity oppor-tunity to wheel and deal for the cause of cancer, said Mrs. Berrett. Bicyclist may obtain regis-teration regis-teration iorms from any bike shop or sporting goods store, local banks or the American Cancer Society Office 84 North University Avenue, Provo. The cyclist must obtain a sponsor spon-sor or as many sponsors as possible pos-sible who will donate to the cancer can-cer society any amount per mil pedalled. The cyclist will turn in the original registeratlon form to the American Cancer Society either before or the day of the ride to recieve a 'Ride card which will be checked at each check point'shown on the map on the ride card. These checkpoint authorizations are proof to the sponsor of the miles cycled by the participant. The sponsor will by furnished a receipt for his donation by the Cancer Society. i in i. -1 in i V ' 1 " ' I 1 A tni i t MAYOR WINSTON CRAWFORD, Miss Orem, Rosemary Dunn, andSr. Citizen's Representative. Represent-ative. Jospeh Rowley view the proclamation signed by the mayor making May Sr. Citizen's month in Orem. |