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Show Report On The Nation's Bicentenial: One Year To Go. ... TELL ME Orem-Geneva Times July 10, 1975 As I travel across the United States, the two questions most often asked are: When is the Bicentennial? Where will it take place? The Bicentennial is now springing up across our entire Nation it is a spirit of participation and achievement. In sharp contrast to our Centennial in 1876 which was celebrated in a single cityPhiladelphia the activities commemorating our Bicentennial Bi-centennial will take place in communities within each of our fifty states, the three territories, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico and the District of Columbia our Nation's Capital. Where is the Bicentennial? Bi-centennial? It is in your community! . As of one year before our 200th birthday, there are over 5,000 communities flying the Bicentennial Bi-centennial flag. - Today we enter our 200th year as the United States of America and we begin the one-year countdown to the date which will launch us into our third century. It is my hope that during this final year of our second century, all Americans will come together to remember how we came to be, celebrate what we are, and to reflect re-flect on where we are going. It is also my hope that all Americans will use this coming year to prepare a celebration be -fitting our great Nation. When is the Bicentennial? It is already well underway for over several thousand events have been held and there are over 15,000 programs and events currently being be-ing planned across the Nation. Liberty Day 1976 is a Sunday. It should be a day for each community to come together in their own way to celebrate the Bicentennial in a manner best suited to their own location, means and desires. As the bells peel across the Nation on that day, there will be an abundance of fireworks, parades and rhetoric in the finest traditions of our 4th of July. However, most communities are also laying plans to insure that July 4th will also be an occasion to lay the cornerstone for the third century. It would be most appropriate occasion to cut the ribbon at a restoration site, dedicate your new museum or unveil your Bicentennial cornerstone. It is also a day to break ground for a Bicentennial Project that will help shape a better tomorrow to-morrow so future generations can look back and always know that your community of today cared about itself, about its nation and the principles which we honor. The centerpiece of our Bicentennial will be in the form of a beautiful mosaic of the many varied programs and events initiated by the people of our great country. Overlying Over-lying all Bicentennial activities is a renewed appreciation for the documents which have enabled our Nation to become the oldest surviving democratic republic on earth-the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. . Most importantly, the Bicentennial is a time for every American to be proud of his flag and his homeland. The Bicentennial is a time for every citizen to hold his head high and say in his own way, I Am An American. CUP Jensen Unit To Help Uintah Basin The Central Utah Project, the result of resource development largest and most comprehensive jn the area. The population of Vernal, for example, shot up more than 20 percent since the 1970 census, and the growth is just beginning. In addition to warning us of the growth that is coming and of the problems it will bring, as well as the benefits, public officials have the responsibility to plan to meet and solve those problems. In the case of water, that planning plan-ning has been done. The only question is whether the legal, political, and financial questions can be answered in time to build the needed facilities. The Central Utah Project, a water reclamation project involving in-volving the storing and exchanging exchang-ing of water throughout 12 of Utah's counties, has been on the drawing boards for more than 50 years; and though it is constantly con-stantly being refined, parts of the CUP have been under construction construc-tion for nearly 10 years. The Jensen Unit of the Central Utah Project is designed to add approximately 22,600 acre-feet of water to already stretched water supplies of Utah's Uinta Basin. More than 75 percent of this new water, 18,000 acre-feet, acre-feet, will be available for municipal mun-icipal and industrial use. The remaining 4,600 acre-feet of water will provide supplemental supplement-al irrigation for 3,640 acres of land now being irrigated, and allow area farmers to bring an additional 440 acres of land under cultivation. The Jensen Unit, one of six planned units of the Central Utah Project, is located in eastern Uintah County near the rapidly water reclamation project ever undertaken in Utah, is designed to insure that Utah's water resources re-sources are fully and properly utilized, giving the state an adequate ade-quate water supply into the foreseeable fore-seeable future. Most Utahns agree that one of the major problems we will face during the coming decade is accommodating ac-commodating growth that already is upon us. Utah's tremendous energy resourcescoal, re-sourcescoal, oil, gas, and oil shale plus the fact that the In-termountain In-termountain Region is one of the still relatively uncrowded parts of America, assure us that Utah will grow and grow fast in the next 10 years. It is hoped that this growth will bring economic stability to our state, allowing our children to stay and live in -Utah rather, than having to seek jobs in California Cali-fornia and elsewhere. But, growth also brings problems prob-lems to those areas most closely affected by it. Suddenly, there are more people needing more roads and more schools and more hospitals. Suddenly, there is much more garbage to be disposed dis-posed of; more law enforcement officers are needed; and, of course, the demand for the basics, bas-ics, water and electricity, jumps as suddenly as the new people , arrive. Utah's Uinta Basin has been spotlighted by public officials as one of the areas where we can expect this great growth in the next decade. But, the fact is that the crunch is on in the Uinta Basin already. The population has started its sharp climb as the "01113 pPECQS if . iiV-: -1 U VLK SI I it A I There are three prices for shoplifting: First, if the shoplifter is caught, he faces the possibility of criminal prosecution for stealing. Second, a new Utah law says that shoplifters shop-lifters can be sued by merchants for the retail value of the stolen merchandise plus court costs, attorneys' fees and more., Third, if the shoplifter gets away with it, the cost of what he takes is passed on to you. Already that's a $15-million-a-year price tag. So if you see someone shoplifting, tell the store owner or a clerk. If the shoplifter doesn't pay for his crime... you will. expanding communities of Vernal and Jensen. Basically, the Jensen Unit plan calls for a new reservoir to be construct on Brush Creek northeast of Vernal. The newTy-zack newTy-zack Reservoir will be connected via an aqueduct to the existing Steinaker Reservoir and Ashley Creek, present source of Vernal's municipal water, so new water can be transferred to these sources. A related feature of the plan, really a water exchange, calls for a pumping plant to be built on the Green River just below where it is joined by Brush Creek to pump water directly out of the Green River for irrigation in the Jensen area. This pumped water will more than make up for the water that would normally have flowed down Brush Creek to the Jensen area, but which, after completionof the Unit, will be stored in the new Tyzack Reservoir to be transferred trans-ferred toSteinaker Reservoir and Ashley Creek for use in the Vernal area. In addition to storing more, than 22,000 acre-feet of badly needed water, the proposed Ty-, zack Reservoir also will control flooding on Brush Creek. An Army Corps of Engineers study shows that Brush Creek actually flooded to one degree or another during 26 of the 33 years between be-tween 1939 and 1972. This almost al-most annual flooding causes severe sev-ere damage to canal headings, roads, bridges, fences, and farm buildings, and deposits considerable consid-erable silt on otherwise productive produc-tive lands. In addition to flood control on Brush Creek, studies indicate that regulating the flow in the creek will stabilize and enhance and, in some specific areas a-round a-round Stewart Lake near Jensen, enlarge fish and wildlife habitats. habi-tats. As the population of an area grows, as it is doing and will continue to do in Utah's Uinta Basin, the need for recreational facilities grows almost as fast as the need for water. Fortunately, the two go hand in hand. A modern campground with parking spaces next to each camping space, a picnic area with tables and grills, short scenic trails, comfort stations, and a boat ramp is planned for the shores of the proposed Tyzack Ty-zack Reservoir, key to the Jensen Jen-sen Unit of the CUP. Rainfall in this, part of the Uinta Basin averages only 7.67 inches a year, barely half the state average. And, Utah is the second driest state in the Union. Yet, precipitation in the nearby Uinta Mountains is much higher. The mountain precipitation, however, how-ever, is mostly in the form of WW TOWN HAS MORE 0(L- VJELIS TH AM INHABITANTS ? D ES IT POSSIBLE FOR FISH TO LIVE WITHOUT AR? , WLGORETEXASf XT CONTAINS 4.ooo qL-yJELLS.,..50w tof,' rJA-K ' " FISH DO NOT BREATHE AIR! THEY BREATHE PURE OXVGEM VJH1CH THEV EXTRACT FROM WATER THROUGH THEIR 61LLS J "Heat Engine" Geneva Names Creates Interest Metallurgist HOW LONG DOES A DATE PALM BEAR FRUIT v0B WW Rfi FROM Z TO 3 QENTUWES! ARE TURKISH BATHS OF- TURKISH ORIGIN 1 L?2"S ( si I i ... I v -r.-.v -TZJ If - Li .vvv.t km THE NAME IS MISLEADING .' THEY &RE NOT TURKISH.NOR ARE THEY BFfTHsTlWEV ARE HOT-MR ROOMS OF ANCIENT ROMRN ORIGIN ! fM:- i n u t 5 a !, -V.;, ' Byrjiufh looise Partridge As of yesterday, my son (The Eldest Moppet) and his dear family fam-ily are citizens of Orem. For about a year they were only four blocks away from The Last Resort Re-sort here in Provo. For almost a year I could walk to their place and have full use of six grandchildren grand-children and two adorable but unpredictable kittens. Now, the whole kit-and-bilin' might as well be in another state. There are reasons for this all having to do with modern life and automobiles. Theirs is a one car family and that one car spends a good deal of its time either in Blanding Utah, or coming and going there. If stationary, it will probably be on BYU campus. Either place, it is out of family use. Yes, I have a car, the dear old Green-Darnit which I will not run up hills and there is the Orem traffic to further discourage dis-courage me. Every time I run my thirty-four year old Chev up a hill, it gets mad and boils. That's warning enough for me. For running errands on the level, it works beautifully. Soooo. . . There is no phone as yet at my son's brand new house so I can't even call up and complain. Altogether, I'm a sad case and I'm writing this chit to take the curse off. There are other things. Yesterday my brother and his wife and their two house-guests from New Jersey and myself went over to Springville to see a display of quilts in the Art Center. Cen-ter. The tourist guests, Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Conrad were of course taken up with our mountains moun-tains and such. Mr. Conrad is a man of distinction and a cook besides, that is, he enjoys cooking cook-ing and of course his wife is glad as who wouldn't be?. The plan was to take the Conrads to a certain Chinese resturanthere in town that our family enjoys. But to get back to the quilts. We went to Springville by the old road of course. Tourists get their fill of freeways in the general gen-eral course of things. There were the yarns about our family to help pass the time and yarns about western families always interest Easterners. We could tell the rtmtiutoa Conrads about old Tronton, about the Fish grotto that has been gone for years, though the sign is still there andlcanrememberwhena tin elephant, life size, stood to the east of the road and a little up the foot of the mountain. It was an advertisement for the Smoot drugstore, which is long, long gone. That elephant, with its painted red blanket, was a great wonder to me , a child. I have an old bottle with a Smoot Drugstore label on it. The ink is faded. I can't make out who the medicine was perscribedfor, but probably George Taylor who owned the Provo Book and Stationary Sta-tionary Store. His wife was a Smoot. Ah, well- I'm going to try andgetagroup together to go over to Springville Spring-ville again and see those quilts. I don't quite know why. In a way quilts are quite beyond me. Just looking at them gives me spots in front of my eyes, and I know of quilts just as fantastic that HAROLD B. SUMNER Editor and Publisher snow, causing a tremendous J t spring runoff. followed by a dry Published every Thursday ai summer and falL Orem, Utah. Office w Iptont The Jensen Unit of the CUP, located at 546 South State Street, as with tho ontim rnntw,i m Mailine- address: P.O. BOX 03, Water Project, is desiened to Utah Cot" nwtte8 10f capture and control that water which normally is wasted during spring runoff and to hold it and direct it to where it can best be utilized when it is needed mosL VJG'BE OPEC! 1446 South State, Orem J "We Buy Anything We Sell Everything' are not hanging in the Art Center. Cen-ter. LoBerta Sorenson across the street has one and so does Merle Kirk up the street. I have fragment of a quilt said to have been made and kept in the family of George Washington's mother whose name was Ball. No, I can't prove it was, but then you can't prove itwasn't. Dearie". I also have a worsted crazy quilt that my grandmother Truman Tru-man made. It lives in a cedar chest, of-course, Selah. Go see the quilts. Y To Sponsor LDS Writers' Convention The First Annual LDS Writers Convention will be held July 21-23 21-23 at Brigham Young University, sponsored by BYU and the departments depart-ments of Public Communications and Internal Communications of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Dr. ClintonF. Larson, director of the conference, said the convention con-vention offers an opportunity for LDS writers from across the nation na-tion to share ideas, to obtain help in publishing, to improve perspectives about writing skills, One of the most popular exhibits ex-hibits at the art and hobby show during the Festival was the "heat engine." Wouldn't it be nice to have electric autmobiles, no pollution, less noise, and fewer repairs? Mr. E j L.Fairbanks, who was the exhibitor of the engine thinks he might have the answer. He feels this wheel could be put in Saratoga, Yellow Stone Park, and many other hot water lakes around the world to generate gene-rate electricity and hence relief our energy crisis. Manynewand improved models of this type can be made since this is only in its infancy but it does have great potential. The wheel operates on two principles, first the ball dipping into the water exerts a pressure which forces the mercury to the inner ball hence this ball becomes be-comes light and on its upward sweep it remains empty. Past top dead center the mercury runs from the inner ball to the outer ball creating weight causing the wheel to rotate due to gravity and hence it works like an overshot over-shot water wheel which has empty emp-ty cups on one side and on the other side the cups are filled with water which again rotates due to gravity. Japan, Turkey, Australia, Iceland, Ice-land, Germany, and many other countries as well as the United States have many hot water springs and lakes which would make the use of this wheel very important and of practical value, Mr. Fairbanks feels. Philip E. Jones of Payson has been named chief metallurgist at Geneva Works, effective immediately, im-mediately, it was announced today by H. A. Huish, general superintendent. super-intendent. In this position he will direct operations of the Metallurgical, Metal-lurgical, Chemical and Inspection Department at the Utah County steel making plant. Mr. Jones was born in Payson and attended the. University of Utah where he earned a B. S. degree in Metallurgical engineering. en-gineering. Upon graduation from college, Mr. Jones joined Geneva in 1957 as a management trainee in the Met., Chem. and Inspection Department. De-partment. One year later he was promoted to senior metallurgist and in 19G1 was made metallurgist-plate and structural. He became product metallurgist-sheets metallurgist-sheets and coils in 1964, product metallurgist-pipe mills in 1965 and, during that same year, was appointed general supervisor-metallurgy, supervisor-metallurgy, steel products, the positin he held until his present pre-sent appointment. and to receive guidance from experts ex-perts in many types of writing. Dr. Larson is professor of English En-glish and poet in residence at BYU. The keynote address at 9 a.m. on Monday, July 21, will be given by Dr. Marden Clark of the BYU English Department. The program pro-gram also will include discussions discus-sions of television and radio scriptwriting by KBYU-TV and FM producers and writers; writing by Dr. Marshall Craig of the BYU EnglishDepartment,and technical writing by Prof. JohnS. Harris, national president of the Association for Teachers of Technical Writing. Somebody Cares! 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