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Show Universal Ilictolilain;: Corp. 14 P.O. Bos 2G08 Salt Lake Citv, Utah 84110 jhe Newspaper Published W eekly and Read Daily .The Newspaper ruDiisnea eeiy uou cuu w" rem eneba -Cunes ouncil Accepts Commission's ales Tax Recommendation Volume 45 Number 14 May 1, 1075 PRICE TEN CENTS I ? L . , f ! -I -- - .j , : -r a 4'.-'' . ' ,. " . .... . r ' -' ' - - ' j Decision Is Made On Project The City council has reached a decision concerning sewer cu.it s in the Keven Watts develop-me.rf develop-me.rf in Southeast Orem after several se-veral mon'hi of discussion. Mr. Watts will be required to pay lor facilities, including a serine se-rine pumping station adequate fui his development, and the city pay for any additional costs for others " using the facilities. Estimated cost for a lift station sta-tion at tlie Watts development is -si 9, 100. The city would pay the $6,000 it would fake to handle tlie area north ot the development. develop-ment. Each dwelling will be required to pay 100.00 for a hookup fee. The Ore m City Council lias authorized the Utah State Tax Commission to collect a 34 Sales Tax in Orem. The recommend recom-mend it ion for the sales tax percent per-cent was presented formally to the Council last Tuesday. Mayor James E. Mangum, in presenting tlie recommendation, stated that the acceptance of the Sales Tax appeared to be a formality form-ality which the Council was obliged to accept. The optional ability to accept the sales tax amount, which is increased from previously, was discussed, but a motion to accept the 34 was passed unanimously. Orem B Volume usmess Rises dllOWN ABOVE is a special display created by local scouts during a recent Scout-O-Rama. This year, the scouts will present their own creations for the public. The event will take place this Saturday at the University Mall from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Everyone is invited to attend. Tickets will be sold by the scoulsnp to Saturday morning. Scout-O-Rama Plans Finalized Fire Guts Paint Shop A fire gutted the paint shop area at the Adams Car Care Center. 30 0 W. 800 N Orem. Public Hearing Held On Plant A Public Hearing on tlie development dev-elopment of Orem's Treatment Saturday, April 2G. Damagesas Plant was held last Tuesday Saturday morning will end the ticket sale for theScout-O-Rama which will begin at 10 a.m. at the University Mall that day. The huge scout activity promises to be one of the best they have had. The first 800 people holding Scout-O-Rama tickets to come to the Scera Theater at 10 a.m. Saturday will be shown a feature movie free of charge. Drawings for all kinds of prizes will be held each hour at the Mall. Those wishing to be eligible elig-ible for these drawings need to put their ticket stubs in one of the deposit boxes to be found throughout the Mall. Displays will be held from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Each scout unit will be assigned a certain area where they will display their works. Weigh in of cars for the Pine Wood Derby will be from 10 a.m. to 12 noon in the east end of the Mall. Awards will be given at the end of the day's activities 5p.m. First, second, third place and the Sweepstakes winner will be announced an-nounced for the displays. Awards will also be given at the time lor the Pine Wood Derby and the Space Derby. Troops 427, 423 and 189 will be located outdoors on the south side of the Mall. They will present pre-sent pioneering displays. Circus and puppet performances will be shown on stage at the Mall by troops 189, and 184. Everyone is encouraged to come out and support this scout activity. PARENTS INVITED TO ATTEND WORKSHOP The Orem Elementary invites all parents in the area to a three-week workshop on family communication skills. It will begin Thursday at 7 to 9 p.m. at 450 W. 400 South in Orem. The leader will be Mrs. Nola Jensen, elementary counselor. "King And I" Play Tryouts Next Week The Orem Booster's Inc., announces an-nounces that the Rodgers and Hamnierstein musical comedy, "The King and I" will be presented pre-sented as part of it's annual summer festival on June 25-26-27-30. The musical will be directed by Jerry Elison. Jim Farns-worth Farns-worth will act as choreographer, Phyllis Bestor and Beverly Co-tant Co-tant will direct the chorus, and Walter Wilson will conduct the orchestra. Tryouts for interested people will be held in the auditorium at Orem Junior High School at the following times: Tuesday, May 6-3:30-5:30p.m. Wednesday, May 7-7:00-9:00 p.m. Those auditioning should plan to sing a musical number and read from material which will be provided at the audition. Chamber Pledges Support Formal support to a request that a city planned in connection with the Kaiparowits power project pro-ject be located considerably inside in-side Utah's border, has been given by the Board of Directors of the Orem Chambe r of Commerce. Com-merce. It has been reported that planners plan-ners are considering the possibilities of locating the town very close to the southern border of Utah. If the decision to build the city in that location is finalized it would encourage the residents of the area, as well as the builders, build-ers, to give Arizona the bulk of their business. a result of the fire reached between be-tween $4,000 and $5,000, according ac-cording to Orem City Fire Department. De-partment. The fire was confined to the painting area and a paint storage sto-rage room and no one was injured in-jured in the blaze, although traffic traf-fic on 800 North was stopped while firemen worked to extinguish extin-guish it. One of the employees, Dave Jodrey, reported that the fire exploded," The fire department suspect a malfunction of an exhaust ex-haust fan caused the fire. Band Students Canvas City To Raise Funds Orem residents have the opportunity op-portunity to participate in a community com-munity venture that should bring them a great deal of satisfaction. Do you get a thrill when you see a band march down the street in perfect time, instruments flashing in the sun and uniforms pressed to perfection? Do shivers shi-vers run up and down your spine when you hear a trombone blare out Stars and Stripes Forever? If so, then this weekend you will have the chance to stand up and be counted with all the rest of those who feel the same way. Members of the high school band will 'canvas' the city in the next few days to deliver letters explaining the need for the funds to help pay for uniforms, equipment, equip-ment, supplies, and many other items. They will also carry with them free tickets to the final concert of the year to be held May 8, in the high school auditorium. They promise something for everyone-from masters to popular. po-pular. This is the last concert for 73 graduating senior. There will be 230 musicians taking part. Performing will be the concert con-cert band, the symphony orchestra, or-chestra, stage band, jazz ensemble and the symphonic band. evening. City Engineer Russell Brown outlined the purpose of the public hearing and spelled out many of the Clean Water Act requirements' which are prompting an upgrading of water standards for cities across the nation. The proposed projects for the Orem Treatment Plant come under the directions of federal programs and allow for a 75 funding on the project. Planning, specifications, and construction all come at specific phases of the development and Tuesday's public hearing was set to receive re-ceive any public common on the preliminary stages which are now being planned. . Items needing instigation, and tite extent uf the project, were relevant questions, ques-tions, Mr. Brown stated. There were no citizens present for the Public Hearing who had specific statements or input on the project. Upon recoinmendafion, the Council approved of the submission submis-sion of a Notice of Intent which will later allow them to submit an application through the Moun-tainlands Moun-tainlands Associations of Governments Gov-ernments (MAG) to seek federal funds on the treatment plant. In other business, the Council Chamber To Hear Key Hen Th- Orem Chamber of Commerce Com-merce monthly membership meeting will be held today at 12 iwon. Key personnel of Orem City will be the featured speakers at the meeting which will be held in the new Go'.d n Apple Cafe at tiie Orem Plaza. .Call Connie Barker for reservations -225-5750. Cost is $2.85 per per- Those participating on the program pro-gram wUl be: City Manager, Ear I Wongreen. Director of Community Development Randall Deschamps, Public WorksDirec-tor WorksDirec-tor Jack Jones, Assistant City Manager Barry L. Bartlett, and I). Alan Homer, the City's Finance Fi-nance Director-Recorder. Mr. Wengreen was raised in liaho and received his education edu-cation at BYU in Business Management. Ma-nagement. He served as a City Councilman for six and a half years, receiving the JC's Distinguished Dis-tinguished Service Award inlOGl. He has been City Manager of Orem for 11 years. Ranla'l Deschamps, born in L-is Angeles, his been employed bv Orem City for nearly three ju(rs, : Before coming to Orem, he was with the Salt Lake Planning Commission for two years. He has a de3ree in seolony from BYU. Mr. Jones was born in Eureka, attended schools in Springville, and was a student at the University Univer-sity of Utah. He worked for Tiorn Construction Company for 25 years, beginning as crew foreman fore-man and ending up as vicepresi-dent vicepresi-dent of that company. He has been working forOremCity since Sept. 1974. Mr. Bartlett was raised in Iowa. He earned a Masters ae Business activity in Orem increased in-creased by 28.t,(. last year, according to a study just released by Utah Foundation, the private research organization. For the state as a whole, the overall gain inbasiiness volume a moun- ted to 11,8't during 1974. A large part of the increased dollar sales volume in 1974, however, how-ever, was due to inflation. According to the report, the average aver-age increase in the cost of living last year was 11. When adjustments adjust-ments are made for this use in the consumer's price index, the net gain for the state was only U.7Vr. This record, however, still was considerably better than the experience of the entire nation, which last year registered an overall decline of 2.2'c in personal consumption expenditures expendi-tures stated in constant dollars. The Foundation report shows that gross sales in Orem, as measured by local option sales tax collections, amounted to $115,303,003 during 1974. This compares with total business activity of $89,557,000 in 1973, $27,373,000 in 1970, and $17,580,-000 $17,580,-000 in 1967. The total increase in business volume between 19G7 and 1974 in Orem was equal to 555.8'"t Throughout the entire state, busi-ness busi-ness activity rose by 119.5. during this same period. Inflation, Infla-tion, of course, accounted for much of this gain in the dollar volume of business activity. Between Be-tween 1967 and 1974 a 47.7 rise was recorded in the consumer's price index. Some of the largest percentage gain in business activity last year were recorded in the smaller counties of the state. The report shows that the 1974 increases in-creases amounted to 64.1','i inDu-chesne inDu-chesne County, 27.8 in Daggett County, 27.2 in Uintah County, 20.4 in Carbon County, 20,0', t In other business, Police Chief James Simmons and Safey Advisory Ad-visory Council member Alton Sigman met with the Council and asked the city to proclaim the week of May 12-17 as National Police Week. Chief Simmons presented a run-down of activities which are being conducted on behalf of public pub-lic relations by the Orem Police Department. Among a number of items which were mentioned was the police department's Service Program, the "Have-a-Friend, Call-a-Cop program, the firearm fire-arm training program, the "Lady Take -Care" program, and various vari-ous other community services. For National Police Week itself, it-self, Orem activities will include in-clude display areas which will be utilized at the Orem University Mall. Officers will present film and demonstration programs to the public at the display areas. Approximately 70,000 people will in Piute County, r ounaation UK i'ieu unuugii uic uiauidyo, analysts attribute many of these Chief Simmons reported. The earns to steooed-uu enerirv ex- Council unanimously proclaimed urem uy s acceptance oi, ana participation in, National Police Week. In another matter, Councilmen Merrill Gappmayer and Glen plorationand he development in these areas. Total sales volumes throughout through-out the State equaled $4.2 bilion last vear. an increase of 11 over 1973. The study notes that Zimmerman, r, long with As-the As-the percentage gains were modest sistant City Manager Barry Bart-during Bart-during the first half of the year ktt, were appointed to this year's but rose sharolv in the last two Wa&e ad Classification Review quarters of 1974. More than half of all business activity in Utah is concentrated in Salt Lake County with half of the Salt Lake County total located within Salt Lake City proper. During rectnt years, however, there has been some shifting of business activity away from the central businesss district to the suburban areas. Between 1967 and 1974, for example, the dollar volume of business activity within with-in Salt Lake City has risen by 81, compared with a gain of 188 in the suburban areas of Salt Lake County. The movement of population from the city into the county along with the construction con-struction of large shopping malls in suburban areas are cited by the report as major factors responsible re-sponsible for this business shift. Cominitee. Reportedly, requests for re-classification within city departments have been urged. The Wage and Classification Review Re-view Committee will present recommendations to the Orem City Council for final approval. oise Cascade Moves To Ore iii went on record as accepting the grPe n Public Financial Admini stration froniBYUanahas worKea as a private economic consultant. He has been withOremCity since Sept. 1974. D. Alan Homer attended the U. of U. and plans to enroll in graduate gra-duate school at BYU this fall. Before he came to Orem City, he worked as the general accounting accoun-ting supervisor for the Orem Plant of Signetics Corporation. conditions set out in an agree ment with Stan Collins of Sundance Sun-dance to accept, according to ordinance, by 1977, covenants with the Provo Canyon Sewerage Development District. The Council specified that they were not specifically authorizing a connection to Orem's sewer line. 7-11 Discussion Occupies Council ..I.- J.. ........ y, 1. ,.fa.9fm,l0m! ) JrM V. ' x.' f r REIGNING AS INDIAN royalty at BYU during the Centennial year (1975 -76) are Sandy Rambler (center), Miss Indian BYU; Deanna J 4 ft'-S " Crowfoot, left, second attendant; and Deanna Good Bear, first attendant. Considerable discussion was given at Tuesday's City Council Coun-cil meeting to an appeal by Seven-Eleven stores to override over-ride a Planning Commission denial, de-nial, and allow a Seven-Eleven store to be established at 760 West 400 North. Mayor James E. Mangum said there were questions of time, legality, and morality which were present in the whole matter. A Board of Adjustment decision Miss Indian Named At Y Apache IndianSandraSue Rambler, Ram-bler, a freshman pre-law major, has been selected to reign as Miss Indian BYU duringBrigham Young University's Centennial year 1975-76. A native of Bylas, Ariz., she is the second Apache to hold the position representing the 550 Indian In-dian students and the Tribe of Many Feathers on the Provo, campus. Verenda Dosela, now Mrs. John Rainer Jr., was the first Apache to hold the title in 1908-69. Attendants for next school year are freshman Deanna Good Bear, first attendant, and sophomore Deanna Crowfoot, second attendant. atten-dant. All contestants were judged on their knowledge of contemporary con-temporary Indianaffairs, modern and traditional talent, and voted upon by Indian students. was sited as being made without with-out legal authorization, and construction con-struction plans had proceeded by the convenience store under arrangements that weren't infact legitimate. "How do we undo what the Board of Adjustments has done." Councilman E. Dixon Larson asked at one point. "If we go contrary to the Board of Adjustments people will be victimized," Councilman Gappmayer Gapp-mayer suggested at one point. A motion was made to reverse the Planning Commission and go with the sanctions that the Board of Adjustments had previously given gi-ven in apparent approval to the convenience store. Councilman Larson, Zimmerman , and Gillman voted for the motion. Councilman Walker and Gappmayer Gapp-mayer voted against the motion. The Boise Cascade Builder Center, presently located in Provo, has scheduled a Sept- Letters Read To Council " Mayor James E. Mangum read two touching letters from two aging Orem citizens intothe public pub-lic record last Tuesday evening. One letter was from a 94 year old Orem gentlemen who was sending $5 to the city on this year's ambulance fund. The senior sen-ior citizen's letter expressed pride in Orem City, and satisfaction satis-faction in being able to contribute con-tribute to Orem's very first ambulance am-bulance fund, many years ago. The second letter was from an 88 year old Orem lady who was sending $10 to the ambulance fund. The lady stated in her letter that she was proud to contribute, con-tribute, and went on to state that she hoped to contribute more to the fund when her financial ability allowed it. Mayor Mangum reported that in the first three days since the ambulance fund was commenced, commen-ced, just under $3,000 has been collected. ember 1st opening in its new 10 acre site located at the corner of Center Street and Geneva Road in OREM. Gerald Anderson, manager of the center points out that "the new site will offer the obvious advantages of better customer service and a potential for future fu-ture growth as business activity in the ra i dictates." The new facility will include services for consumers as well as contractors in a new 24,000 sq. ft. store and office conplex. Wanhousing outside will cover some 15,000 sq. ft. DR. BROWN IS NOT LEAVING OREM Due to out of town commitments commit-ments and the time it would require re-quire to be parade chairman, Dr. Ron Brown found it necessary to resign as the parade chairman chair-man for the Summer Festival, he recently announced. It was erroneously reported last week that Mr. Brown was leaving Orem and therefore was resigning from his post. This information was not correct. Club Offers Car Wash This Saturday, the Orem Sertoma club will be offering a car wash for all interested persons. per-sons. It will be held at the Crest-view Crest-view Car Wash, near 1600 S. State, Orem, and will cost $1 per car. The inside of the windows will also be cleaned. The money earned from this project will go to the club's sponsorship programs. Summer Band Registration -Begins Saturday This is the last call for those students who will be entering Lakeridge or Orem Jr. High Schools 7th grades this September Sept-ember to get in on summer band instruction. It is important for beginning students who desire to participate in band activities during dur-ing the coming school year to realize that unless thay register for this summer instruction, they cannot participate in the fall. Registration andinstrument placement will begin Saturday, May 3, from 9 to 12 noon at Lincoln Jr. High band room, for Lakeridge students. Orem Jr. High students will register at the band room of that school from 2 to 5 p.m. Instruction will begin Thursday May 8, at Orem Jr. High from 4:00 to 5:00 p.m. and will continue con-tinue each Tuesday and Thursday Thurs-day through May. Classes begin Friday, May 9, at Lincoln from 4 to 5 p.m. and will continue at this time each Wednesday and Friday through May. Registration fees for beginning band students are $8, covering the cost of instruction and materials mater-ials (books), which then become the personal property of each student. v.. i 4 t 'A z -a f. V ' .' ' Its 4 FIVE ON HONEYMOON f . I ' 1 NOW PLAYING ' ,- - I The play "Five on a Honey- - - f V V ' moon" is currently being played f , t at the Lincoln Jr. High school. . - x if It opened last night and will ', : continue through Friday night. , . ( - " '-K Funds raised from the play - , will go to aid the construction . , of the new Lakeridge Jr. High ',.- school presently under construe- gTEVE CAMERON (right). Summer Band tion. ' program is shown explaining some of the Family tickets are ivailable at instruments to a group of future band $2.50. Individuals are admitted members. They are: Joe Grimes, David for 50?. Curtain time is 7:30. soothe, Paula Tomsick. All sixth graders :'j i if : it: (, ''. wanting to be in band this fall should register reg-ister this Saturday at their respective schools" in order to be eligible. Summer practice will begin next Thursday. |