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Show : ' .5 'V w' V; '! m If'-"" THE STURDY TUBA players of the Orera Tiger Marching Band pose for the Geneva Times pholor gher. They are, from left THE PRIDE OF OREM BOOSTERS DO IT AGAIN A group of dedicated Orem citizens deserve high praise from Orem citizens for the work, that they do free gratis to promote different activities for the city. Being a member of the Orem Boosters takes hours and hours of time, and expense in many cases. The group has just completed the Orem summer festival, which had to be one of the best ever, in spite of many conflucting functions vieing for the public's attention. The Hobby Show proved to be gaining momentum and had the Multiple Purpose room filled with interesting exhibits. Jerry Elison's Oklahoma production had to be held over for an additional addi-tional night, to accomodate the crowds, this alone speaks for the caliber of production that "Oklahoma" proved to be. The parade was well attended, attend-ed, and in our opinion was one of the best. These and other ituiitiuus, were the results of hours and hours of behind the scenes work by the various committees, com-mittees, and we feel that we speak for the people of Orem when we say THANKS BOOSTERS BOOS-TERS for a job well done. (Cit-izensof (Cit-izensof Orem,retthese people know about your appreciation by a personal thanks via phone or when you see them: Gerald Nielsen was General Chairman of the Summer Festival. Other chairmen were: Youth golf tourneytrack tour-neytrack meet, Glen Zimmerman; Zimmer-man; Chess Tourn.,LorenPom-eroy; Tourn.,LorenPom-eroy; Lion's Breakfast, Reid Pulver. Art and Hobby Show, Paulina Jolley; Parade, Ron Brown and Connie Barker; Ball Games, Stan Adams; Ad-ams; Park Activities, Jo EUa Eckles and Paul Richardson; Archery-Pistol Shoot-Off, Stan Leavitt; Gun salute and fireworks, fire-works, Ernie Evans; Musical play "Oklahoma," Jerry Elison, Beverly Cotant, and Vera Nielsen; Baby Contest and Patriotic Program, Leah Johnson; Riding Club Family Show, Auto Show, and Military Displays, Gerald Nielsen. OREM HIGH BAND People of Orem should be mighty proud of the fancy, high-caliber high-caliber band that represents the city in the various parades and functions. Again this takes untold un-told hours of practice and in-teruption in-teruption during the so-called summer vacation of the people that make these displays possible. poss-ible. We know we speak for the people of Orem when we say thanks Wes Barry and Larry Hill, directors, and all the students stu-dents who take part in thrilling the thousands that watch you perform, and special thanks for that extra feeling of pride and thrill that Orem residents enjoy every time you pass by representing repre-senting the town they live in. The Band is so good as it passes by we hear comments from the bystanders such as: "They are good, this looks-better looks-better than a college band." "Boy, look at those snappy uniforms." uni-forms." "That band is well directed, and disciplined." "That is the best tngn school group we have ever watched, both in numbers and performance." perfor-mance." MRS. HANSEN ENTERS ' HOSPITAL FOR THERAPY Lurleen Hansen, mother of Mrs. Clifton (Peggy) Pyne, is improving, but slowly, fromher recent surgery at the University of Utah Medical Center in Salt Lake City. This is the second time Mrs. Hansen has w surgery since February. Universal Kiciofllmlnc Cc-rp. 14 P.O. Bar 2608 Salt Lake City, Utah 84110 Oram High Band Marches iujf 24 The Orem High Marching Band is preparing to lead off the Twenty-fourth of July parade par-ade in Salt Lake this month in their new uniforms, according to Wes Barry, band director. This will be the 25th consecutive conse-cutive year that the Tiger Band has marched in the Salt Lake Parade. According to committee com-mittee records, this sets a record re-cord for the longest consecutive consecu-tive appearance of a band. The 172 piece Band has worn their new uniforms in both the Orem and Provo parades thus far. By the end of the summer they will have appeared in a total of five parades, Salt Lake City, American Fork, Springville, Provo and Orem. Wes Barry and Larry Hill Drug Abuse CenUr Opens A new center for drug rehabilitation re-habilitation has opened in Orem. Local drug abuse is increasing increas-ing at about 3 each year, resulting re-sulting in 5-6,000 people in Utah Valley now using illegal drugs regularly. Drug abuse and the drug culture can have a destructive effect on the community, com-munity, the home, and most of all, on the individual personality person-ality and potential. Director of the program is Dr. V. Vernon Woolf, a PhD. in marriage and family councel-ing, councel-ing, past president of the Utah County Mental Health Association, Associa-tion, and part-time religion teacher at BYU. Other staff members are Bill Rogers, Brent Robison and Carol Drinkwater. They can be reached at 225-4490. Pingree Speaks On Inflation At Luncheon Inflation will be the topic entertained by guest speaker David R. Pingree, Jr., at today's to-day's Chamber of Commerce noon luncheon at Chuck-A -Rama. Recently appointed to the State Money Management Counsel by Governor Calvin Rampton, Pingree will discuss the cause of inflation, its outlook out-look and what a businessman can do to hedge it. Serving as Vice-president of Investments of First Security Company, Pingree graduated from Stanford in Economics and from the Harvard Business Busi-ness School in Finance. Pingree is presently a professor pro-fessor of Finance at the University Uni-versity of Utah and is a registered representative of the New York Stock Exchange. Mr. Pingree j : . . ,.r- A.-iM, 1 .. J to right: Rick Nelson, Bird and Ron Monsen. are directors of the Band. Mr. Hill is a graduate of Orem High School and also of BYU, where his major was music. Mr. Barry began teaching at Lincoln High School in 1950. He started with 28 band students stu-dents there and an additional addition-al 36 junior high band students. Since that time the program has grown so there are between 55 and 65 music students graduating grad-uating each year. Mr. Barry's other musical activities include being leader of a dance band and band adjudicator. ad-judicator. He has been selected selec-ted to conduct the AUState Band in October at the Utah Education Edu-cation Association Convention. He has been associated with the BYU Sounds of Summer, a high school music camp, for about 20 years. Cherry Hill Fun-A-Rama Is Planned The Cherry Hill Community Fun-a-Rama will be held onSat-urday, onSat-urday, July 20th, sponsored by the Cherry Hill Community Advisory Ad-visory Council for the Cherry Hill community. There will be a parade, a family picnic, fun-raising booths for the Utah Valley IDS Hospital extension, sports and field events for all ages, arts and crafts displays, a community commun-ity education display and a community cleanup project with many fun prizes. The Fun-a-Rama was conceived con-ceived by the Cherry HillCom-munity HillCom-munity School Advisory Council Coun-cil to unify the Cherry Hill community and to be a fun activity. ac-tivity. Although the community school is somewhat of a new idea in the Alpine School District, it has exisited in other areas for 40 years. The school served as the center for all community activities in early America. The Fun-A-Rama will lead out with a parade. Everyone in the community is to decorate decor-ate their vehicle, from tricycle to car, and ride it in the parade. Anyone may also put on a costume cos-tume and march in the event. The parade will end at the Cherry Hill Park where activities activ-ities for all ages wiU take place. THANKS FOR THE CANDY A special thanks is extended to Col. Jack Madsen and Sgt. Jacklin Tracy of the Civil Air Patrol for their efforts in providing pro-viding Orem City with "candy from the skies." These men were responsible for the candy drop activities in Orem's Summer Festival. They made sure that the kids were showered with candy every half-hour half-hour (from their plane) during the park activities on Junt 29,. Historian Asks About Summer What do you know about the origin of the Orem Summer Festival? What information do you have about the Orem Boosters Boos-ters Inc.? These are two questions Vera Nielsen, member of the Board of Directors of the Boosters and historian of the organization would like to find out. Jack Sumner has offered his files, which are an excellent source of information. Dorothy Campbell, a long time supporter Lynn Gordon, Lauren Volume 44 Number 28 Gasoline Use Iks Increased Total gasoline consumption for both highway and non-highway uses in Utah amounts to 706,720,000 gallons in 1973, according ac-cording to the Utah Petroleum Council. D. Van De Graaff, executive director, of the Utah Petroleum Council noted that this figure represented a 2.6 per cent increase in-crease over 689,017,000 gallons gal-lons consumed in this state during 1972. Nationwide, total 1973 gasoline consumption exceeded 106 billion gallons, an increase of 4.3 per cent over 1972 demand. de-mand. Increases were reported in every state except Kansas, which showed a decline of 1.2 per cent during 1973. The largest percentage increases occurred in the two states farthest far-thest removed from each other. Florida's gasoline consumption rose 10.7 per cent, and that of Alaska increased 10.9 percent. Van De Graaff said: "These figures emphasize the fact that all Americans need to continue their efforts to eliminate wasteful waste-ful uses of gasoline and aU other forms of energy. "It will take years of effort and billions of dollars to move our country closer to self-sufficiency self-sufficiency in energy. While we search for more oil and gas and try to develop alternative fuel sources,, all of us must make the most efficient use of what we have." Steak Fry ffcfd fit GR1 Park A steak fry get-together for Orem Chamber of Commerce members and partners will be hosted by the Hospitality Committee, Com-mittee, July 27, 6 p.m. to 10 p.m., at the GRA Park. Cost for the evening activities activ-ities will be $3.50 per person. Those attending are asked to bring their own plates and utensils. Reservations must be accompanied ac-companied with payment or arrangements to be billed by contacting Connie Barker at 225-5750 or 225-1550 before noon July 26. Questions Festival of the activity and the group has offered to supply information. inform-ation. If any other individual who has served with the Boosters Boos-ters or who has been involved in the Orem Summer Festival has files or information, it will be appreciated if they would contact Vera Nielsen at 1112 South 400 West or call 225-6770. 225-6770. Former presidents of the Boosters would be particularly particular-ly helpful in the project. f -. Hi i ? h til I f Hit Km MEMBERS OF THE OREM High Marching Band pose proudly with their banner. From left to right they are: DaJJece Vernon, flag twirler: Karpn At least for the time being, the Orem City Council has turned down a request from the Utah Valley IndustrialDevelop-.Tient IndustrialDevelop-.Tient Association (UVIDA) for $2,366 to be used in the upcoming up-coming budget year. Along with the Orera Chamber of Commerce's Com-merce's IndustrialDevelopment Committee, UVIDA will be invited in-vited to give a presentation to the Council early in August, where the two organizations will outline what they would do with Utah Tech Hearing Tonight A public hearing on various facets and plans for the new Orem Campus of Utah Technical Tech-nical College wiU be held July 11 at 8 p.m. in the Orem City Center. This was announced today by C. LaVar Rojkwood, assistant for campus development to Utah Tech Pres. Wilson W.Soren-sen. W.Soren-sen. Some of the items to be discussed, dis-cussed, in addition to the master mas-ter plan, will be zoning traffic traf-fic control, parking areas, long-range long-range campus development and anticipated student enrollment. A general question and answer ans-wer period concerning the development of the site will be held as part of the hearing, said Mr. Roekwood, All those who are interested in expressing express-ing their views are invited to attend. Humane Society Attacks Pound "The entire facility and management man-agement procedures were found to be in absolute contradiction with decent and responsible governmental management." So spoke Utah's Humane Society So-ciety Executive Director Thomas A. LItltle in a directive attacking the conditions of Orem's new animal pound. The Society's executive said conditions were inhumane and indicated they found sick animals ani-mals living in an unsanitary atmosphere. In acommunicationwithOrem City officials, Little demanded demand-ed a filtered carbon monoxide euthanasia chamber be constructed con-structed in accordance with the specifications of the Society. He demanded steps be taken to force exhaust, ventilate and cool the new animal structure. Little also demanded Orem's practice of immediate destruction destruc-tion of felines be ceased and procedures for due process be established at once. He added that the Society did not approve of the new building plans and further indictated the plans were never shown to the Society. jf Of ff p O A -- 4 N . 1 ; i Clark, banner carrier; ... ( The Newspaper Published Weekly V STEEL PLANT fj jj "m CF UTAH'S lL July 11, 1974 the money if they could spend it. The Council will thereafter make a decision as to where the money for industrial research re-search will be spent. If this year is anything like previous years, then I am confident con-fident that the Council will pay UVIDA the money they are asking- for, CcunciliuanHarley Gillman told the Council at one point while they were discussing UVIDA's request. Councilman LeRoy Walker commended UVIDA for the reports they have given the Council in years past. Councilman MerrillGapp-mayer MerrillGapp-mayer suggested that if money spent through the Chamber of Commerce on industrial research re-search would prove worthwhile this year, then a new trend in spending such money might be established. In speaking against a motion that would have given $1,000 to UVIDA immediately, Councilman Harley Gillman said he would like to see them get all or none of the money requested. Mayor James E. Mangumsaid it was his custom in telephone conversations to answer all fund requests from public service agencies by saying that if such agencies were funded, such funds would have to come from Orem's contingency fund. The UVIDA request came by letter, however, and a formal hearing on the Council agenda was set. By way of conjecture, Councilman Council-man E. Dixon Larsen suggested suggest-ed that perhaps a lump sum could be given to the Chamber of Commerce each year, and the determination as to how the money should be spent could be left up to them. Councilman Gappmayer said that maybe the Chamber of Commerce would f I f: i I i PICTURED ABOVE ARE" THE officials for the Miss Utah County Pageant, from left to right they are: Betty Greer, program and pageant typist; Jean Meeker, hostess r - Pain Kofford, flag twirler; Wendy Carlson, banner carrier; Dwana Judkins, flag carrier; car-rier; Minon Allen, flag twirler. and Read Daily ppropmtQ 3 m fh its O I? Hf! A t officii u b wmmi not want such a responsibility, and Councilman Larsen agreed that that might well be the case. In other business, the Council approved of expenditures onthe 1974-75 city budget with the exception of six things. These include: a data processor; basement base-ment work in the City Center estimated at $6,000; funds to hire a city purchasing agent; an expenditure in the city manager's man-ager's office; a $32,000 street sweeper; and communication radios to be installed in city dump trucks. Councilman Harley Har-ley GiUman, and other council-men, council-men, said they wanted to study the above proposed expenditures expendi-tures before approving them. Utah County Beauty Pageant Comes To Orem This year's MissUtahCounty Beauty Pageant will be held on August 16 at 7:30 p.m. at the Orem High School. The queens from the cities in Utah County are eligible and wiU be invited to attend the contest. con-test. Tickets will be on sale at the door. Jody Renstrom, Pageant Chairman, says the committee has been organized and plans are well underway. Pauline Hills advises that the judges will be chosen from out of Utah County. Brian Renstrom, a popular personality from Salt Lake, will be the master of cere monies. He was affiliated with the BYU program pro-gram bureau for several years. He emceed the pageant three years ago when it was held in Orem, 9 j 1 , . ' ... v Y 4 If 1 1 i t i re PRICE TEN CENTS City Engineer Russell Brown, (Rawlins, Brown and Gunnell Engineering), was given an extension ex-tension on his contract with the city until September 1. The extension provides for a pay-rate pay-rate as specified in the new budget rather than the old. Mr. Brown, inbringingthe itam before be-fore the Council, said lie wes not even sure if the city could legally pay him for his current services if provisions were not made to make sure that a legal contract existed. The OremCouncilmenpassed a motion which rejected all bids on work to be done on a sewer line at 1200 West. Contractors wiU be invited to re-bid on the work on a basis where Orem City wUl stand the risk in certain hazzards the contractors con-tractors had apparently included automatically in their bids. City Engineer Russell Brown said the problem on the 1200 West sewer line was serious, and involved in-volved clay pipes that were running run-ning at near-capacity during the day, and considerably less during dur-ing the evening hours, thus causing swift deterioriation to the pipes. "The question is, how bad is it going to be?" Mr. Brown told the Council. Mayor James E. Mangum read aloud a letter from John T. Bass, executive vice-president of the Christian Book-seUers Book-seUers Organization, which congratulated Orem city on its Anti-pornography and Obscenity Obscen-ity Ordinance. Mayor Mangum said the city was gaining national na-tional recognition because of its ordinance, and because of the compliments that the prestigious presti-gious Christian Booksellers Organization has given to Orem. Or-em. "Evidently it's beyond our own scope," the Mayor told the Council. f if 1 I I:,'. chairman; Joday Renstrom, pageant chairman; chair-man; Rexene Robbins, stage manager, and Pauline Hills, Judges chairman. |