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Show Universal Microfilming Corp. 14 P.O. Eos 2608 Salt Lake City, Utah 84110 Council Mulls Use QVQilUe etietia Allotment fdfffli A STEEL PNTMHUB $333. 000 I tetn 4fr a Volume 42 Number 41 October 12, 1972 PRICE, TEN CENTS Fi TUP ILLUMINATING THE PROBLEMS. THE PEOPLE, THE ISSUES OF OUR TIME. Tight vs Liberal Zoning To some citizens who took note of the recent denial by the Orem City Council of an application to re-zone certain properties commercial in order to accomodate the construction of a Gibson's Discount Center here the action seemed virtually incredible. They could not understand the logic behind the action which on its face seemed at such a' variance with earlier re-zoning approvals which led to the establishment of the University Univer-sity Mall regional shopping center. BUT THE FACT IS, the location of the University Mall in Orem is a factor which now must be carefully considered in connection con-nection with every request for commercial re-zoning which comes before the Orem Planning Commission and Orem City Council. Coun-cil. Although the predictions are most optimistic optimis-tic about what the effects of the University Mall will be on Utah County and Orem City, no one really knows at this point exactly what the impact will be on the commercial life of the area. Thus, any further expansion of Orem's commercial zones must be carefully care-fully examined in the light of what will be best for the community as a whole, rather than how such expansion might benefit any particular entrepreneur. THE OVERRIDING INTEREST of city of- . ficials must be concerned with promoting a strong' business community, able to meet fte needs of the citizens through healthy competition and growth. The failure of any business in the community diminishes the rest ifya -real way, and unwise zoning must n tft allowed to contribute to business failures. For over a quarter of a century, now, Orem City has been trying to recover from a decision which was made to zone the entire length of State Street commercially. From 20th North to 20th South - a distance of five miles - was thrown open to commercial com-mercial zoning when property owners could not agree on particular sections around which Orem's main business districts could center. And so, as new business have come to Orem over the years, they have located from one end of the city to the other, and have resulted in the longest business trip development in the State of Utah. WITH THE EXCEPTION of the Orem Shopping Center and Mountain Shadows Shopping Shop-ping Center which were built at State Street and Center Street about 10 years ago, there has been little effort to centralize Orem's business district. And so, even though both large and small businesses are found on every block of Orem's State Street, there remain thousands of feet of commer cially - zoned State Street frontage which have yet to attract commercial developments to them. The experience of city planners over the years has been that commercial developers are prone to consider many things in establishing estab-lishing new retail outlets. Regretfully, however, developer often give the matters of attractive landscaping, traffic safety and adequate drainage too little consideration in building new stores. HOWEVER, WITH THE advent of the University Univer-sity Mall to Orem, city planners had an opportunity to create a new zone for shopping shop-ping center development in which detailed requirements could be made regarding landscaping, land-scaping, traffic safety and drainage. Realizing that these important items were also vital to the success of their project, the Mall developers were anxious to cooperate with the City in these areas. The stage has now been set for an ex-pansionof ex-pansionof landscaping requirements, traffic safety and drainage provisions to all other commerical zones in the city. If Orem City truly is to become Utah Valley's shopping Center, the city's entire shopping areas must be upgraded. ESTABLISHED BUSINESSES must be alert to keep their stores up-to-date by refurbishing refur-bishing their buildings, expanding their parking park-ing lots and installing attractive landscaping. New businesses must be required to provide . complementary landscaping and see that adequate parking lots are engineered to handle both drainage and traffic safely. Fortunately, Orem's vast land area provides pro-vides plenty of acres where meter-free parking can be located. However, the days are gone forever when a developer can expect to asphalt a parking lot next to his store without providing attractive landscaping and without assuring shoppers that problems of safety and drainage have been resolved. ALTHOUGH SOME developers are far-sighted far-sighted and astute enough to recognize the values accruing from well-landscaped, well-lighted well-lighted and well-drained parking lots, other developers may ignore these factors and omit them entirely, unless they are compelled com-pelled to include them through the application appli-cation of city ordinances. For this reason too much attention cannot be given to developing and enforcing legislation leg-islation designed to continually upgrade the character of Orem's business community. Now is the time to insure that Downtown Orem is the kind of a place that continues to attract interested shoppers five or fifty years from now. Eight Candidates ; To Speak In Orem m, Wednesday night, October 18, at 8 p.m., Orem residents are invited to ' Meet Your Candidates Candi-dates in the Orem City Center, Cen-ter, under the sponsorship of the Orem Chapter of the American Ameri-can Association of University Women (AAUW). In this meeting, which has been under the planning of Ethel Butler, AAUW coordinator for the event, Congressional Candidates, Candi-dates, State Senate candidates, and 4-year County Commission candidates will addres the public - and present their platform and stands on political isues, followed by a general question-answer period to be opened to the floor Candidates who will aspear will be Congressional Candidates Gunn McKay (D) BobWolthus (R), and Dr. L.S. Brown (I); Utah State Senate candidates Geral Wilde CD) Dean Jeffs (R) and Ken Larson (I) and 4-year County Commission candidates Leo Daley (D) and Verl Stone (R). "The knowledge of our government govern-ment -is so important, and especially at this time, said Mrs. Josephine Olinghouse, AAUW president of the Orem Chapter. 'This will give you a chance to bring your questions ques-tions directly to the candidates to help you to determine how they stand and which one you will vote for in the general election. Virgil and Julie Friday At OHS Recently CBS paid VIRGIL and JULIE over $3,700.00 to appear for ten minutes on a national television special from the Ed Sullivan Theatre, Broadway.New York. It was necessary for the studio to fly Virgil and Julie, with their baggage, over 6,000 miles for this one brief appearance. appear-ance. The act that was so sensational as,to attract this attention from the networkwastne'LondonSpirit" Seance. This act was developed by Virgil and Julie over a period of years and featured by them ontheir five-year tour completely complete-ly around the world. 'The London Seance will be just one of the many feature acts that will be presented during dur-ing the Virgil and Julie production prod-uction of 'One Fantastic Night." Virgil and Julie will be at the Orem High School auditorium at 8:00 p.m. on Friday. Oct. 13. and are being sponsored" Dy Orem High School, who', is now selling tickets and expects to fill the auditorium to capacity. They advise everyone to get their tickets tick-ets early so as not to miss what they feel will be A MUST SEE SHOW! Tickets will be $L50 if bought in advance and $2.00 at the door. . 4, ' t ) ' "i I " t I - ' " ' sr jss -js f t fcjj K ' t f 1 Uf t ,fe . . - A u. , - u 5i'f - V y ta ' 'ivT'? w- A f7 I 1 r a f: ; r t V ,K if" l-i VJ til 1 HELPING TO PLAN OREM HIGH homecoming activities are Varsity Songleaders. From left to right they are: Saudi Sumner, Debbie Curtis, Andrea Bradford, Julie Tooke, and Debbie Hill. (Kellie Clegg missing from photo.) i ' l i ,jta.it .j iy I GETTING READY FOR today's homecoming game, which as been changed to 3:00 p.m. are varsity cheerleaders. Left to right they are: Bob Rollins, Vickie Toland, Val Call, Sandie Goodwill, Kevin Call, and Orem High omecoming Provo and Spanish Fork guardsmen have been experi menting with a new concept in training called "Adventure Training and if reports from the officers and men of Battery C, located in Provo and Spanish Span-ish Fork is any indication, the so-called 'Adventure Training is here to stay. Battery C, along with its parent par-ent unit, the 1st Target Acquisition Acquisi-tion Battalion, 140th Field Artillery Artil-lery in Salt Lake City was airlifted into landing zones in the tops of the rugged Uinta Mountains Moun-tains in eastern Utah in the Lost Lake area near Mirror Lake. Then, using knowledge gained from a recently completed map reading class, the guardsmen navigated and hiked out to pickup pick-up zones some five miles away. The map reading exercises was a success, according to CPT Buddy Barnes, Battery C Commander Com-mander and Lt. Brent Eichers, commander of the Spanish Fork Detachment of Battery C. They pointed out that there was much more realism and actual application applica-tion than heretofore had been the class with the normal classroom class-room environment. Mutual Interests Fireside Oct. 15 The Orem Regions Mutual Interests In-terests will hold a fireside Oct. 15 at 8:30 p.m. at 1450 South 800 EAst in Orem. The Verlan and Shirley -Anderson family will be featured on the program. All are Invited and encouraged to attend. Homecoming is being held this week at Orem High. The theme that has been chosen this year is "Homecoming - Just a Warm Feeling! The following is a list of events that are being held this week. MONDAY - Lunch hours - pie eating contest 5:00 - powder-puff football TUESDAY - Lunch hours -ice cream eating contest. WEDNESDAY - Lunch hours -Tricycle race. 3:15 race day (3-legged, gunny sack, etc.) Royalty finals; 3:30 -J. V. Football - Orem at Kearns. 3:30 - Sophomore football -Kearns at Orem 6:00 - Parade - pep-rally - announce - Tigerettes march Fireworks - Rock dance - Alumni - Football 7:00 royalty 7:45 8:00 .50? FRIDAY - 3:00 Kearns at Orem 8:00 - Virgil and Julie, public invited SATURDAY - 8:00 -10:00 -Homecoming Dance, best dress, $1.50, pictures $25 Juvenile Judge Asks For Help From PTA The Orem City PTA Council board was asked by Juvenile Judge Merrill L. Hermansen to aid the juvenile program by providing pro-viding volunteers to serve as best friends and helpers for young people on probation with the court. Judge Hermansen said the Juvenile Ju-venile Court at present is trying to expand its program beyond the regular staff to provide constructive construc-tive associations for youth on probation. Many of these young people need good contacts with epople who can befriend them and be examples to them, he -said. Square Dancers Plan Saturday Night Dances Regular club dances for the Utah Valley Squares are held each Saturday night at 8:30 p.m, at the Orem City Center in the Multipurpose room. Callers will be Harry Baker of Salt Lake City and Rand Stephens, Provo. All square dancers are Invited to join the club or attend the square dances as guests. OREM MAN SUFFERS SEVERE HEART ATTACK Eugene Backus of 405E. Center Street in Orem was listed in Fair Condition in the Intensive Care Ward at the Utah Valley Hospital Tuesday following a severe heart attack early Sunday morning. Orem Police Ambulance Ambul-ance transported Mr. Backus to the hospital when the heart attack at-tack was reported. Sherry Christensen. The songleaders and cheerleaders, along with Tigerette officers and the pep commissioner, Susie Young, recently helped with a banquet honoring the football players. Paul Dunn To Speak At Conference Elder Paul H. Dunn, a member mem-ber of the First Council of Seventy Sev-enty of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, will speak at the Orem South Stake Conference Saturday and Sunday, in Provo. Elder Dunn, former president of the New England Mission, was a teacher and coordinator in th Church's Seminary andlnstitutes programs. He also is the author of books on teaching techniques. He was a professional baseball player prior to receiving a doctorate doc-torate in educational administration administra-tion from the University of Southern South-ern California. The Conference session will be held Sunday at 10 a.m. in the Provo Tabernacle. Stake President R. PhilShumway, 834 South 400 West, Orem, says visitors are welcome. At the same time Junior Sunday School will be held in the City and County Building directly across the strest from the tabernacle. , Stake Priesthood Leadership Meeting at 7:00 p.m., Saturday in the Orem 4th and 27th Ward Chapel will include Aaronic Priesthood group leaders and quorum presidents. Orem Boy Wins In Scout Speech Meet The allocation to Orem City of $333,000 in federal revenue sharing shar-ing funds was the subject of a discussion by the Orem City Council Tuesday night at its regular reg-ular meeting held in the Orem City Center. The funds which will come to Orem City under recent legislation legisla-tion enacted by the U. S. Congress Con-gress can be used for needed projects within the city as determined de-termined by the Orem City Council. Coun-cil. According to Mayor Winston M. Crawford, similar or even larger allotments can be expected to come to Orem in succeeding years under the federal revenue sharing program. High on the list of projects discussed was the removal of the. Orem City warehouse and garage from the Orem City Park to a new location in the industrial indus-trial zone, improvement of the culinary water system, construction construc-tion of a senior citizens building build-ing and a reduction in property taxes. The Council voted to hold an executive session at 6 p.m. on October 24 in which the use of ftp revenuing sharing funds will be discussed. In other action the Council heard William Horlacher, new owner of Ranch Meats, Inc., make an appeal for a downward adjustment adjust-ment in his sewer charges for his turkey plant located at 1290 West 400 South. Mr. Horlacher explained that the U. S. Department of Agriculture Agricul-ture requires hira to place his sewage in the Orem City sewer line. Councilmen pointed out to Mr. Horlacher that he is being treated on the same basis as other citizens cit-izens who utilize the sewer. Mayor Crawford pointed out the asset which Ranch Meats is to the community in the form of jobs and taxes, and asked that an effort be made to help with Mr. Horlacher's problem. The Council took the matter under advisement. City Attorney Frank Butter-field Butter-field presented the Council with a proposed ordinance which would regulate and license cats. He outlined the provisions of the ordinance and suggested that a public hearing be held on the proposal. Orem Extends Moratorium On Mobile Home Parks Extension by one month of Orem City's moratorium on new mobile home park construction was approved by the Orem City Council at its regular meeting held in the Orem City Center Tuesday night. The Orem Planning Comission had requested an extension of the original one-year moratoriumby one month to allow the members to study the need for a continuation contin-uation of the moratorium. City Planner Randy Deschamps told the Council that one application applica-tion for a retirement mobile home park is pending at this time, and a decision needs to be made on a policy to handle future applications for mobile home parks. . In other action the Council voted to approve a contract with Rollins, Brown and Gunnell for engineering services on the TOPICS project on 800 South Street. A group of property owners residing on 400 North Street met with the Council to inquire about the future development of 400 North Street and changes presently pres-ently being made adjacent to the new K-Mart shopping center. City Engineer Russell 0. Brown told the citizens that due to the extreme width of the right-of-ways on 400 North a planter strip is being installed north of the curbline. Mayor Winston M. Crawford told the group that a public hearing hear-ing would be held at such a time as further development of the street to the west is contemplated. contem-plated. Another group of citizens from 1200 South Street met with the Council regarding a portion of Social Improvement District BOY ESCAPES INJURY A 10-year old Orem boy narrowly escaped serious injury Monday when he was knocked down by an auto about 6 p.m. at 118 N. 800 W Orem. Treated and released by the Utah Valley Hospital was Russell Rus-sell Foreman Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Russell Foreman Fore-man Sr., 283 N. 800 W., Orem. Driver of the car involved in the accident was Keith C. Evans, 53, 206 W. 1600 Nn Orem. 'N which was deleted on 1200 South Street from Main Street to 400 West. . E. Billings Patten, 25 West 1200 South, told the Council that residents on 1200 South are interested in-terested in obtaining sidewalk and street improvements, but that more information and clarification clar-ification is jieeded in order for them to make an intelligent decision. de-cision. The Council asked the city engineer to meef with Mr. Patten Pat-ten and arrange for a survey of theproperty owners on 1200South to determine just what kind of improvements they would be willing will-ing to pay for. . The Council discussed at length the appointment of a new public works director as provided under a new city organization chart. When questions of a secretary and proper functions of the director dir-ector could not be resoved, th Council voted to discuss the matter further at an executive session to be held at 6 p.m. October 24. Senior Citizens Weekly Schedule Senior Citizens of Orem announce an-nounce weekly activities and coming events. Wednesday, Oct. 18th - 2:30 pjn. Senior Citizens will participate in bowling at Miracle BowL Thursday, Oct. 19th - LOO p.m. - Entertainment by Mrs. Blaine Major of Pleasant Grove. Slides of Interest will also be shown. Thursday, Oct. 19th, 20th, 21 -Lake Powell and.Bryce Canyon Tour Thursday, Oct. 19th - Travel to Manti on Hyway 89 to Richfield, Rich-field, stop for lunch, continue to Kanab to beautiful Wahweop Lodge for two night. Friday, Oct. 20th - Leave at 7:30 a.m. for an all-day tour to Rainbow Bridge including sights as the "Coppee Jar and "The Crossing of the Fathers lunch at Rainbow Bridge, followed by a tour of Lake Powell. Saturday, Oct. 21 - Tour Glen Canyon and Bryce Canyon then on to P anguish for lunch. Back to Orem City at 6:00 p.m. All members who wish to go on this trip should contact Ivan Farnworth, 225-3531 as soon as possible. Contest Deadline Friday For Winter Carnival Hugh Hilton, 15, son of Mr. and Mrs. H. Gill Hilton of Orem has been named third place winner win-ner in the annual Public Speaking Speak-ing Contest for Scouts and Explorers, Ex-plorers, according to Hart Bullock, Bul-lock, assistant chief executive of the Utah National Parks Council, Coun-cil, BS A. Hugh is an Eagle Scout and member of the Order of the Arrow. He has been president of the Venturers organization and a member of the 4-H Club for seven years, serving his year as a junior leader. Hugh also has been president of his IDS Teachers Quorum and is a member of the Orem High School Band. Brad Holm, son of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur D, Holm of Provo was named first place winner in the contest, and second place winner was Blaine Ipson, son of Mr, and Mrs. Hyrum Ipson of Monroe. The Orem Winter Carnival committee Is offering a prize of $25. to the person who creates the best design for a logo and name, according to Dr. Charles Edmonds, chairman of the event. He also reported there are feelings that the name should be changed. Suggestions include Orem's Winter Happening, and Snowflakes and Orchids. Other appropriate names may be submitted. sub-mitted. The event is scheduled for Nov. 24. It will involve a parade, par-ade, exhibits, a carnival, boothes of many types, food concessions and a hiiopter visit by Santa Claus. Those Interested in submitting submit-ting artwork for the contest must do so before. Friday, Oct. 13 at 5 p.m. Entries must be submitted sub-mitted to the Chamber of Commerce Com-merce office in the Orem City Center on or before that time. No entry form is necessary, but contestants should include name, address and phone numbe with their entries. Winner of the contest will be selected by a panel of judges headed by Ell Gourdin. Strong emphasis will be given to simplicity sim-plicity of design and on creativity. creativ-ity. , Mr. Gourdin further indicated that contestants ware free to use a new name f they desired, if that name is appropriate. In the event of a tie, the judging jud-ging committee will reserve the right to divide the prize money between the winners. |