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Show VlUVCiiCJ, I.illUli J.1U All lit ID , 14 P.O. B02 2608 Salt Lake City, Utah 84110 The Newspaper Published W eekly and rocI Daily fV STEEL PLANT VOL. 45 NO. 15 May 8, 1975 PRICE TEN CENTS 0xtm ai uu u ? y Li4(yjiitiii0BiJyi Twitchell Is Honored By Senator Ephraim Twitchell, director of the Orem Senior Citizens has received an award from Senator Frank E. Moss, for being an Outstanding leader for senior Citizens Ci-tizens of Utah County. The award was made during the Governor's Council on Aging at the Salt Palace in Salt Lake City last Thursday. The Orem Harmonica Har-monica Band was invited to perform per-form at the event. The Council was held in conjunction con-junction with National Senior Citizen's Ci-tizen's month, which is during the month of May. Mr. Twitchell has been an outstanding out-standing organizer and leader for the Senior Citizens. Through his efforts the organization has progressed to what it is toady. Orem High's Last Concert Set Tonight Orem High school will present its final band and orchestra concert con-cert of the year tonight at 7:30 p.m. in the school's auditorium. There will be 230 students performing per-forming in the concert which will include the Symphony Orchestra, Stage Band, Jazz Ensemble, Sym-phynic Sym-phynic Band and Concert Band. It will be the final concert for 76 graduating seniors. According to Director Wes Barry, everything from the Masters Mas-ters to popular music will be offered. Despite the large number num-ber of participants, the concert will not be oppressively long, he stated. The musical numbers will move quickly. Each family should have received re-ceived tickets last week during the Ambulance fund drive. Each house received tickets for the concert with a letter from Mayor James E. Mangum requesting donations do-nations for the Fire Department. Receives "Red Tag" The Orem CityCouncilaverted action in rescinding last week's approval of the site plan and authorization of a Seven-Eleven convenience store at 760 West 400 North. Mayor James E. Mangum brought up several questions ques-tions which consequently motivated motiv-ated the Council to drop a motion to rescind the action Sat. April 25. 'The Council should not move in a direction just because of pressures brought to bear," said Mayor James E. Mangum, in apparent ap-parent reference to the large group who had gathered in the council chamber to protest last week's actions. Attorney Joseph I. Dimickact-ed Dimickact-ed as one of the spokesman for the dissenting Orem citizens. A large number of legal ramifications ramifica-tions were brought up by the Orem Or-em attorney. He said the Board of Adjustment! cannot redefine boundaries of a zone. At a prior meeting, some months ago, the Board of Adjustment acted in extending ex-tending the boundaries of the C-l zone to Include property that Seven-Elevenhas beenbuild-ing beenbuild-ing a store on. Attorney Dimick claimed that the building of a convenience store in that neighborhood would have a detrimental effect on the neighborhood. ' He said that the store would be so close to the school that the kids would have their lunch money "ripped off." In closing, Dimick asked the Council to reconsider last week's action. Councilman Glen Zimmerman made a motion to "Red Tag" (stop construction) the store until both sides of the issue can meet together before the Council and discuss what should be done. The motion was seconded and carried. car-ried. Westmore Discussed Residents living in the area of the Westmore school are Invited In-vited to attend a discussion meeting meet-ing in the Westmore school auditorium audi-torium on Thursday. May 8, beginning at 7:30 p.m. The topic of the discussion will be the proposed neighborhood park on the land directly nortH of the schhol. In order to develop the park, citizens must petition the City Council to establish a . : . . i f.-v s -'v.,- .... . ; W - ' ; x . - r-- . r r ; i i -. OREM HIGH SCHOOL Juniors chose these three royal couples to represent them at the recent Jr. prom. How could they have chosen better? ' Reading from left to right they are; Commencements Exercises Set May Orem High School will hold Commencement Exercises for the Class of 1975on Friday May 30 , 1975 in the Smith Fieldhouse onthe Brigham Young University Campus. The exercises exer-cises will begin at 8 p.m. The following class officers have been selected to represent the class during the exercises: Paul Liston; senior class president, pre-sident, David Thacker; senior class vice -president, Jackie Huish; senior class historian, Elder Rex Skidmore To Speak At Brother Rex A. Skidmore, Regional Representative of the Council of the Twelve will be the speaker at the Stake Conference Confer-ence of the Sharon Stake which will be held May 10-11 at the Stake Center, 545 South 800 East. Priesthood Leaders Meeting will be held Saturday, May 10, 4:30 p.m., with attendance requested re-quested of the following; Stake Presidency, High Council, Clerks, Patriarchs, Melchizedek Priesthood Quorum Presidencies and Group Leaders andSecretar-ies, andSecretar-ies, Bishoprics, Clerks, and Executive Ex-ecutive Secretaries. Stake Conference Leadership Meeting will be held Saturday evening, 7:00 p.m. Theme of this meeting will be "Go Ye Into All the World." Invited are all Seventies Sev-enties and Stake Missionaries, AP?YW Directors and Advisors and SecretariesWard and Stake), All eighteen year old Elders and all Priests and Laurels in addition ad-dition to those listed above. Wives and partners are also invited. General sessions are scheduled for Sunday, May 11, at 9:00 a.m. for the 11th, 16th, 19th, 20th and 23rd Wards. Jr. Sunday School for children 3 through 6 will be held at the 16-13th Chapel. Parents should bring children by 8:30 so that proper identification can be made. The 12th, 13th, 31st, 32nd, and 38th Wards will attend the second session at 11:30 a.m. JuniorSun-day JuniorSun-day School for children 3 through 6 of the 12th and 32nd Wards will be held in their Chapel and for 13th, 31st and 38th wards in their Chapel., and for 13th, 31st and 38th wards in their Chapel. Parents are requested to bring their children by 11:00 so they can be properly identified. Ward sacrament meetings will be held at their regularly scheduled times in all wards. Park Tonight special improvement district. The funds derived therfrom would be used to share the cost of the improvements on the park. All interested residents of the area are invited to attend. The citizen committee encouraging encour-aging development of the park consists of Stan Leavitt, Callis Harms, Walter Cryer and Margaret Johnson. 30 For Orem HlghESSL. and Lynda Starley; senior class secretary. Music for the evening will be provided byheOremHighSchool combined Syphony Orchestra and , the Symphonic Band directed by Wesley Barry and Larry Hill, and the Orem High School A Cappella Choir directed by Edward Ed-ward Sandgren. Principal Clifton Clif-ton M. Pyne will recommend the prospective graduates to the school board member who will present the diplomas. Platform guests will include Stake ELDER REX SKIDMORE VERN THURBER HONORED FOR WALK Verne Thurber, 82, was the oldest participant in this year's Walk-a-thon. Mr. Thurber was awarded a night on the town by the March of Dimes for Walking the full 20 miles, He was also among the first to return. SHELLY JOHNSON . WINS PRIZE Shelly Johnson of Orem was one of the many prize winners of this year's Walk-a-thon, sponsored by the March of Dimes. V -.'i4Wstasast-t.-"f A a Bank Celebrates 100th Anniversary The 17 Utah offices of Commercial Com-mercial Security Bank have ambitious ambi-tious plans to observe the firm's 100th Anniversary this year, Warner M, Murphy, vice president presi-dent and manager of the Utah County division reported recently. re-cently. Peak of the observance, he said will come Friday May 9-The 9-The date in 1875 that Corinne Merchant John William Gutherie Jr. added a modest "Banker" sign to his storefront. Each of the 17 banks will have an Open House for customers and friends to highlight the May 9th "Birthday Party," Mr. Murphy added. A feature of the day will be the official cutting of the birthday cake during the morning of May 9. Local dignitaries in each of the communities served by commercial com-mercial security will officially cut the cake. In Orem, Mayor James Mangum will officiate and in Provo, Mayor Russell Grange will preside. Another highlight of the day 51 Janine Bown, Lynsey Parker, Marilyn Baum, Matt Parsons and Leona Henry. Ron Ostler was not available for the picture. the participating students, school board members, faculty members, mem-bers, Alpine School District administrative representatives and Orem High School administrators. admini-strators. Paul Liston is senior class president and the graduates will number approximately 616. Ron Anderson is studentbody president. presi-dent. Mr. David Lindstrom is the chairman of the senior advisory committee and Mr. Ray Cord- ner is general faculty chairman pay towards the continuance of the for the commencement exer- program. It was stated that 70 of cises one officer's time is now calcula- An invitation is extended to ed as being necessary for the parents, family members old program; of this time, the school enough to enjoy the services, pays one-half (35 of the officer's friends of the graduates and total pay), others who may be interested. V it was stated that should. Other students participating the ; total amount of time an will be Mary Lynn Clark, Judy Orem Police officer spends at the Everett, Marilyn Farnsworth, change, the city and the school Neil Harrison, MarilnGagon,Da- district would still pay half each vid Lynn Gordon, Roger Ber- for the specific time spent at rett, Susan Graff, Renee Hough- the school. The Council passed a ton, Kent Ipson, Loralee Lit- motion reflecting the above pro-tleford, pro-tleford, Kerri Lee Quilter, and visions. EvanChristensen. Citizen Hearings Set By County Martin B. Hickman, Chairman of the Utah County Government Study Commission, has announced an-nounced that the Commission is holding a series of Community Forums to give citizens and civis organizations the opportunity of airing their concerns about government gov-ernment in Utah County and making recommendations for its improvement. The forums are held from 7:30 to 9:30. They began May 6, 7, 8, and will continue May 8 in room 311 of the County Building in Provo; on Tuesday, May 27 in the PaysonCityCouncilCham-bers PaysonCityCouncilCham-bers and on Wednesday, May 28 in the American Fork Public Safety Sa-fety Building (98 North Center Street). Noting that many larger counties coun-ties with unchecked urban sprawl and deteriorating life quality have been locked into their problems, will be a drawing at 4 p.m. in each Commercial Security office to determine the winners of the solid gold ingot which bank customers have been able to register reg-ister for since April 21st. One gold ingot will be awarded at each ' branch. Stockholders of Commercial Security Ban-corporation, Ban-corporation, the central corporation corpora-tion of the system, will receive, with the 1974 annual reports a special history of the organization. organiza-tion. The 32 page history was written by Murray M. Moler.as-; sociate editor of theOgdenStand-ard theOgdenStand-ard Examiner, and is illustrated with pioneer photographs of the company's early offices. During the past decade, the banks assets have grown from $71,000,000 at the end of 1965 to over $290,000,000 in 1974. Other signincant growth areas during this 10 year period are loans, which have increased from $36,600,000 in 1965 to $159,000 000 last VP3T rffinn:Jtc hav jumped from $62,900,000 to over , Taylor with Carwin C. Wil-$250,000,000. Wil-$250,000,000. "ams as study director. "It is no secret that I have been pushing the idea that the time has come for Orem City to hire its own full-time City Engineer, said Mayor James E. Mangum, in prefacing a number num-ber of remarks he made about a proposal before the council to re-structure the function of the Engineering Department inOrem City.---. Mayor Mangum called consulting consult-ing City Engineer Russell Brown "one of the most, if not the most, qualified engineers in the state." The Mayor said, however, that there is no "Check and balance" bal-ance" now operating in the city to conteract the actions of the Engineering Department. I am not in any way, or in any form, questioning the honesty or integrity in-tegrity of anyone," said the Mayor Council Authorizes Computer Programmers The Orem City Council has approved of plans to create several sev-eral new "programs" for the city's IBM-Ill Computer System. Bob Tucker and Bill Spears, two graduate students fromBrig-ham fromBrig-ham Young University, were given the 'go-ahead' for creating :uinpuier programs for the city's Orem High School principal Clifton Pyne and Alpine School District Superintendent Kent Abel met with the Orem City Council Tuesday and reported on the 18-month 18-month old Security Officer Program Pro-gram which has been operating at the high school. Superintendent Kent Abel requested re-quested that Orem City go on record officially as to the per centasre of monev which thfw will Dr. Hickman said "Utah County still has time to preserve and enhance en-hance its way of life by govern-mentally govern-mentally preparing for the future. Citizens of Utah County will probably never have a better chance to meaningfully revitalize their government and make it more responsive to their wishes than right now." He encouraees all interested citizens and groups to meet with the Study Commission Commi-ssion in one of its forums. Confronted with an expanding population, development problems, pro-blems, organizational complexities complexi-ties and other pressures, the Utah County Commission in 1974 exercised exer-cised vision and courage in authorizing a needed new look at the government in the county-improvised county-improvised over the years through tradition, chance, state and federal dictationand gradual accumulation. The Commissioners were concerned con-cerned about rationalizing the county government to make it more responsive to the citizens of the county in meeting their needs and helping them maintain and improve their way of life. . The Commissioners were encouraged en-couraged by the people of the county and civic-spirited citizen organizations to explore potential poten-tial improvements. General recognition re-cognition throughout the state of the need to rationalize county governmental systems made such a study possible through state enabling legislation, and in 1974 the Utah County Commission created the Utah County Government Govern-ment Study Commission. Members of the Study Commission, Commi-ssion, selected from all parts of the countybyaspecialCommi-ttee countybyaspecialCommi-ttee of Appointment, consist of Dr. Martin B. Hickman, Dean of the College of Social Sciences at Brigham Young . University serving asChairman,ColleenDi-xon asChairman,ColleenDi-xon serving as Vice Chairwoman, Dr. Ariel Ballif, Mr. Melvin H. Beckstrand, Mr. Hal M Clyde, Mr. Winston M. Crawford, Mr. Ned H. Hansen, Mrs. Phoebe Innes. Mrs. Loneta MurDhv. Mr. Claudius Stevenson and Dr. Stan 4 I as he emphasized that the structure of the current system is unfair to Russell Brown. The existing structure does not free Mr. Brown from the protection of accusations, said the Mayor. Mayor Mangum said Orem City needs a City Engineer who can be available and responsible to the city on a full-time basis. "Orem City is big enough to need a full-time engineering service," said the Mayor. Councilman E. Dixon Larson stated that the Orem Metropolitan Water Board was in favor of retaining the engineering firm of Rollins Brown and Gunnell, of which Mr. Brown is an associate. associ-ate. Councilman Larson said Orem Or-em City does not have the time to "educate and pamper" a new city engineer. He added that this water and sanitation departments. depart-ments. The graudate students have worked extensively with the BYU's expensive IBM-360 Computer Com-puter System, but they have not worked with the type of computer which Orem City owns. It was stated that adjustments in programming pro-gramming and use could be adequately ade-quately accomplished. City Manager Earl Wengreen stated that the new programs could be significant in measuring the city's water and sanitation system more efficiently. Man hours will be measured in connection con-nection with total garbage pick-up on specific routes, and lags in the system will be able to be better identified, he stated. He said Mr. Spears and Mr. Tucker were charging the city one quarter of what an outside programmer would probably charge. The job will take at least a couple of months to complete, he indicated. During debate of the proposal, City Department heads expressed ex-pressed confidence in the ability of Mr. Tucker and Mr. Spears to operate the equipment and to create the proposed programs. OHS's Spring Choral Concert Is Set May 13 The Orem High School Vocal Music Department's annual Spring Choral Concert will be held next Tuesday, May 13, at 8 p.m. in theschool'sauditorium. The participating organizations organiza-tions will be: the Men's Chorus, two Ladies Choruses, the Chamber Singers and the A Cappella Cap-pella Choir. Music from the early centuries down to the present will be performed. per-formed. A $1 charge is being made in order to raise funds for needed equipment. During the week of spring vacation, the A Cappella Choir and the Chamber Singers made their annual tour through eastern east-ern Utah and Colorado, present ing concerts along the way. The tour was highly successful ,with a total of ten concerts presented present-ed in the seven days. Among the special attractions was a guided tour of the Air Force Academy and Dinosaur National Monument. Recently, the A Cappella Choir and the Chamber Singers were extended an invitation to present a concert for the IdahoState Federation Fed-eration of Music Club's State Convention in Idaho Falls. The two groups will perform there on May 16. 1 -it i FIVE CAPABLE students have beengiventhe task of acting as officers for the Orem High School Choir. They are, from left ti right. was also the feeling of the Metropolitan Met-ropolitan Water Board. Councilman LeRoy Walker said he believed the city was large enough to maintain its own engineering en-gineering department. He stated that if Orem does not create such a department now, it will have to do so "not too far down the road." Councilman Larson countered by stating that contract engineering seems to be a trend which makes a seperate engineering depart- Scouts Request Flag Contest Wes Sherwood and ScoutTroop 171 from the L.D.S. Orem 14th Ward, proposed to the OremCity Council last Tuesday evening that a Contest be held to design a symbolic theme and flag for Orem Or-em City which could be used in parades, city meetings, and other civic and social functions. The Scout Troop asked that the city sponsor or co-sponsor the contest. The troop also asked permission to have a representative representa-tive on the final judging panel. Councilman LeRoy Walker was enthusiastic over the idea of a flag for Orem. However, he questioned ques-tioned the 'professionalism and capability" of the Scout Troop and also a council representative representa-tive in being able to adequately judge such a design, and flag. He indicated that if a design and flag is created, it should be of the highest quality. The involvement of the Bicentennial Bi-centennial Committee, the Orem Art Board, and the Orem Police Department was brought up as possible sources of expertise and cooperation for the Scout troop. The Council expressed pleasure in receiving the ideas fromScout Troop 171, and a Special Commendation Com-mendation Motion was passed especially for the scouts. Budget Review Schedule Adds Public-Work Item The Orem City Council instructed in-structed Public Works Director Jack Jones to proceed gathering bids and proposals for several city projects. These, projects, which include public work on 400 North and street paving overlays in the city, are part of the Budget Review Schedules which are now being prepared for the City Council. The Budget Review Schedule also includes a proposal for the purchase pur-chase of a telemetry system. Councilman LeRoy Walker reported re-ported that Dr. Kenneth Hooker, chairman of IntermountainHealth Services at the Utah Valley Hospital, Hos-pital, strongly favors installation of a telemetry system for this National Police Week Scheduled May 12-17 National Police week will be observed at the University Mall during the week of May 12-17. The Orem City Police Department Depart-ment will have several displays depicting areas of mutual concern con-cern to citizens and law enforcement enforce-ment officials. Films depicting the police as a servece agency will be shown to the public. Films showing the public what they can do to help prevent burglary, rape, and the use of dangerous drugs will t ft, f ment for the city unnecessary. Councilman Merrill Gapp-mayer Gapp-mayer said that changes should be made in the existing engineering engineer-ing programs of the city. Gapp-mayer Gapp-mayer stated that inspections and bid-openings, as two examples, could be handled in the Public Works Department rather thanby the Engineering Department. The function of the city engineer should-not be ignored, but should be further pursued, said Councilman Council-man Gappmayer. "Russell Brown comes free to Orem City, compared to the services he renders," was how Councilman Harley Gillman expressed ex-pressed his feelings on the discussion dis-cussion topic. The Council approved of the retention of Russ Brown and Rollins-Brown and Gunnell as the city contract engineers. The council also asked the City Manager Man-ager and the Public Works Director Dir-ector to study the possibility of making improvements in the way city engineering is presently structured. Adelmann To Speak On Inflation -According to the Gallup Poll, 48 of the American people believe be-lieve that inflation is caused by government," reveals financial expert, Robert Adelmann, - 'and it is." Adelmann will identify some solutions to the causes of recession reces-sion in a talk on the economy in Provo, May 10, at Dixon Jr. High School at 8 p.m. His talk will be sponsored by the local chapters of the John Birch Society. "Political money manipulators in positions of power in the Federal Government are using the inflation they have created tc bring on recession." area. "There is no doubt about the validity of telemetry equipment," equip-ment," said Councilman Walker. Funds for the purchase of a system should be in the 1975-76 1975-76 budget, said Walker. "We could serve thousands of dollars by doing street overlay work at this time," said Councilman Coun-cilman Merrill Gappmayer. The cost of asphalt is down by as much as 50 per-cent, he said. Bids and proposals on costs of isphalt street overlays, and on reccommended work on 400 North with the Collector Funds were authorized by the council to be gathered. Public meetings on such projects will be held in the future. also be a part of the week's display. Police officers will be available avail-able at each exhibit to answer questions or in any way explain hip various services and func tions of the police department. The display will end of Saturday, Satur-day, May 17, with the addition of three patrol cars being on exhibit with an officer on duty to explain and show the equipment equip-ment necessary for a properly equipped patrol vehicle. 1 J"" ' f'j Loree Bascom, Tod Shultess, Barbara Flandro and Eric Hundley. Vernon Jensen was not present when the photograph was taken. |