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Show Onniwoat P.O. Box 2608 on It Lake City, Ut 04110 Published Weekly and Read Daily UD OF OTAH-S fvY M J PRICE TEN CENTS CA-UT'0v r- ST"The Newspaper m g dfe &&J VA STL PLANT h n ft H Volume 4G Number !(' AiirilJl - ! ' ) ;. : ; V AH ' T'7n n ' : ( ": r : -i ! fhr-p ' I r. . " : t ; H U " i i, - -iib,-u-i. rfujj ,..... 1 .... .. ft ., . j -I fca..jBto'.B..-. -V- K. ........ . 0' fe) . 7vvv' h : I, i . i 5 . .. ... A, I. TRADITION HAS IT THAT it is right of outstanding students to take part in graduation gradua-tion ceremonies to top off their academic career in high school. Shown above are some of the honor students at Orem High School who will play an important role in the graduation program May 27. Top: Dave Lindstrom, chairman of the Senior Advisory Ready-Set-and Go! "Clean-Up For 76" Residents of OremCityare reminded re-minded that the week of May 1-8 has been designated as "Clean Up for '76" week and everyone's participation in this worthy event is needed to make it a success. Each private individual, civic club, school or any other organization organ-ization is encouraged to take part in cleaning up our city for the Bicentennial year. Prizes will be awarded in the following cate gories: Scouts, including girl scouts. Each troop is to choose a cleanup clean-up project in their area. Civic clubs and organizations. These groups should choose a community service clean-up project pro-ject such as the cemetery, parks, marina, etc. Schools. High Schools and Jr. Highs wiU be able to work on a project of their own choosing. Elementary Schools will compete to bring in the greatest amount of trash. Home owners, apartment dwellers, mobile home owners or renters can clean up as a group or individually. Group projects should be cleared with Val Mc. Mister (225-1314) (225-1314) so there will be no repetition. repe-tition. ...4 o i i - MR. AND MRS. LEO MERRILL, Orem, stand by as their son, Robert Merrill is awarded top prize in the Scout Expo '76 ticket contest. con-test. He won an adventure on the Colorado River for himself andacompanionfromTour 7 r' ; v Participants should take a 'before 'be-fore and after" picture and submit it with name, address and telephone number to ValMc-Alister ValMc-Alister at the Orem City Fire Department. Flag Contest Ends May 12 May 12 is the deadline for the Orem City flag contest, according ac-cording to John L. Cross of the City's flag committee. The contest is open to all Orem residents of any age and there is no limitation to the number of flag designs that can be entered by one person. Many entries have already been received, re-ceived, reported Mr. Cross at a recent committee meeting. Information sheets on the contest con-test are obtainable at the Orem City Library. Mr. Cross suggested sug-gested that those wishing to enter en-ter keep their designs simple. Too many people try to put too much in, he said. Also it is wise to avoid numbering and lettering since the flag often hangs limp making the lettering unreadable. Mm) v. . .'-'?: v, '. ,'", ' v : l Jsi Committee; Nancy Allred, Thayne Aired, Patricia Anderson, MarilynBaum.Ste ve Best and Janet Gilbert. Center: Keith Johansen, Ray Nielson, Matthew Parsons, Vickie Stewart and Maiilyn Turley. Bottom: Loralee Turner, Kirk W inward, Barbara Bown, Candy Taylor,DennisBowenandLoree Bascom. Mi Merest Slates Spring Carnival Springtime comes to Hillcrest in the form of an old fashioned fair. Where else but in America can such exciting events happen? It happens in Orem, Friday night May 7. There will be concessions, booths, both for fun and for food. Hamburgers, chips and salads will be sold. For those with a taste for the sweets, there will be an ice cream parlor, a pastry pas-try shop, a sweet shop, and a marvelous spot where you can get the best pie and ice cream. If you have a lighter appetite, you can sip drinks and nibble at sno-cones. Among the games and fun are bean bag throw, grab bags, county store, fortune telling. You can bob for apples, throw darts or try your skill at putting out candles with a squirt gun. All in all, it soudns like a great time, and ifyoumissouton it, it's your own fault. Co-chairmen of the event are Edna Goodrich, Sue Swain and Colleen Stewart. West. Robert is a Star Scout and attends Lakeridge Jr. High. He is a member of the Orem 58th Ward, Sharon Stake, Troop 458. Making the award are Russ Hansen and Lloyd Christensen. Water Quality Public Meeting Planned Tonight Results of the first nine months of a water quality study in the Mountainlaiul Area (Summit, DtaJi and Wasatch Counties) will be discussed at a public meeting at the Provo City Center, 7:00 p.m., Thursday, April 20, 107G. Elected officials will discuss projected land use, population, and water quality data and the region's progress in meeting State and Federal waterquality standards. One main item of discussion will be need and capabilities cap-abilities of controlling non-point sources of pollution such as urban ur-ban stormwater runoff, agricultural agri-cultural pollutants, and sediment. All members of the public are invited. This public meeting will precede pre-cede the two-day water quality seminar for Elected officials at BYU on April 30 and May 1 sponsored spon-sored by Mountainland Association Associa-tion of Governments and the Environmental En-vironmental Protection Agency. Rabid Animal Law Changed The Orem City Council approved ap-proved changes in the animal control ordinance concerning rabid animals during regular session this week. In other business the council approved the purchase of the Hilton Marx property at 900 N. and Main street, approved the design for the proposed city center park, approved plans to make improvements on the city well located at 950 W. 750 N., and approved the application of a class B beer license and a class A cabaret license at Cascades 10th hole located at 1313 E. 800 N. The changes in the rabid animal ani-mal ordinance will allow theorem theor-em animal control dept. uie authority to quarantine suspected rabid animals for the required two week period. In the past, rabid animals were turned over to a private veterinarian. The veterinarian asked that animals with no apparent ap-parent owner not be turned over to him. The new ordinance will allow the city to take over that responsibility. The council also approved the purchase of one acre of property belonging to Hilton Marx for the sum of 16,000 per acre. The property will be payed of in four year installments with an interest in-terest rate of eight percent per year. The proposed north fire station sta-tion will be placed at this location. loca-tion. The council approved the expenditure ex-penditure of $G50 and the cost of landscaping, for improvements on the city water well located at 950 W. 750 N. High School Seeks Coach Principal Clifton M. Pyne his announced that the head basketball basket-ball position is now openatOivm High School. Coach Jacklin who piloted his golden iger cagersto a 4th place finish in the 1976 4A State Tourney has accepted a position at the Alpine School D istrict is-trict Office effective July 1, 197'j. Letters of application for the head basketball coach position should be sent in writing to Dr. Pyne at Orem High School, 175 Sou'Ji 400 East, Orem, Utah 84057. A resume should be included. in-cluded. Appointments tor interviews inter-views will be made with selected applicants in the near futu-e. Principal Pyne expressed appreciation ap-preciation to Coach Jacklin for his dedicated sei vice to Orem High School and wished him wjll in his new assignment. LDS Urged To Get Involved Mormon Church leaders have urged their followers to get involved in-volved in election year politics in order to improve the moral climate of the country. They want the church members to get involved in-volved as citizens rather than as church members. The First Presidency of the Church said that the church does not endorse political candidates, but urges its members rather, to study and pray over candidates, records and positions on issues. LA17 DM HUHMHH Law Week In Progress The week of April 25, through May 1, 197G has beenproclaimed by Governor Calvin Hampton as Law Week, U.S.A. in a proclamation proclam-ation signed April 12, 1976. In designating the event, Governor Rampton called upon 'all citizens, citi-zens, organizations, schools, churches, civic, service and fraternal clubs, businesses and the news media to commemorate commemor-ate the past, celebrate the present pre-sent and demonstrate their faith in our nation's future." In the past, the state has held only a "Law Day" observance on May first. However, due to the celebration of our nation's Bicentennial and May first falling fal-ling on a Saturday this year, the Utah State Bar, which sponsors the event, felt it appropriate that an entire week be devoted to law-related events. The theme of this year's event is appropriately been set as "Two Hundred Years of Liberty and Law," and has been set apart by joint resolution of Congress, the President of the UnitedStates and Gubernatorial proclamation. The mayors of Utah's cities and towns are likewise being encouraged encour-aged to so proclaim the week as Law Week, U.S.A. national Guard To Train In 'North Carolina Traditionally members of the Utah National Guard spend their yearly two week summer camp in the state at Camp W.G.Williams near the point of the mountain. This year however, nearly 350 Utahns will be leaving May 1st for North Carolina. The men are all members of the 19th Special Forces Group, Utah Army National Guard. Major Mike Margetts, one of the chief planning officers of the Special Forces Group, said the Utah Green Berets will parachute para-chute into the Normandy Drop Zone near Fort Bragg, North Carolina. According to Major Margetts, the logistics of moving 350 troops and enough support material to function for 15 days in the field is monumental. The U. S. Air Force is providing four C-141s and three C-130 aircraft, air-craft, each capable of transporting transpor-ting huge loads of material and personnel. The Utah citizen soldiers will establish themselves in theNan-tahala theNan-tahala National Forest, North Carolina, where they will conduct actual field training under the direction of the 2nd Battalion 7th Special Forces Group, who are full-time Green Berets stationed sta-tioned at Fort Bragg. The mission mis-sion of Special Forces personnel is to conduct unconventional war fare against the enemy. Major Margetts said the full-time Berets at Fort Bragg will provide the Utah Guardsmen with a Special Spe-cial Forces mission necessitating neces-sitating the use of unconventional warfare tactics. Members of the U.S. Marine Corps will act as aggressors during the operation. In addition to the ground troops, the aviation section of the 19th Special Forces Group will be flying U-10 airplanes and OII-58 OII-58 helicopters cross country to support the mission of Utah Guardsmen. The entire Utah Special Forces contingent will return home on May 15th according ac-cording to Major Margetts. Public Hearing To Discuss Waste Water A public hearing will be held on May 11, 1976 at 8:00 p.m. to discuss and gain citizen imput im-put concerning the proposed waste water treatment plant. No decision will be made at this hearing, but the public is invited to attend and participate. 7.9 Presented To Orem City Manager Al Haines presented a$7.9 million tentative budget for fiscal 1976-77, to the Orem City Council Tuesday night. The proposed budget represents repre-sents an increase of nearly $2 million over last years budget. Proposed expenditures include over $840,000 for running the general government, over $630,000 for parks playgrounds and library services, over $698,000 for the police dept., approximate $780,000 fur the fire dept., over $83 8,000 for public pub-lic works, and over $2 million for public utilities. According to the tentative budget, bud-get, city officials hope to receive re-ceive tax revenues of $2,290,000, including $1,160,000 coming from property taxes and $1,130,000 from sales taxes. Revenues from grants and revenue sharing exceed $2 million, mil-lion, and revenues from utilities are expected to surpass $2,240,000. Expenditures for utilities wiU take the biggest chunk of the budget with over 25 percent expected ex-pected to be spent on utilities. Utilities are also expected toj FY 1977 s Courts & Public Safety $1,635,839 (A) E R V I C E Utilities $2,004,719 (B) Roads $1,656,652 (C) General Government $1,803,854 (D) Cultural Services $ 631.114(E) Ocher Public Works $ 203,428 (F) Property Tax $1,160,000 (A) Sales Tax $1,130,000 (B) Utility Revenues $2,240,350 (C) Licenses, Fees & Permits $ 314.600 (D) Revenue Sharing $ 628.082 (E) Other Grants $1,558,898 (F) Opening Balance $ 819.396 (G) s c I P T S Other 84,280 (H) .4 x -v.. ..,;. . " . : THIS BIG hole-in-the-ground is necessary to the sewer system in Orem, but is dangerous dan-gerous because it attracts children. It is located near 4th North by Geneva School and the children there would like to think Million be the biggest source of revenue for the city with over 28 percent per-cent of the expected revenues coining from the utilities. If the proposed budget is adopted ad-opted the police dept. will receive re-ceive a personnel increase of six people, including four patrolmen patrol-men one clerk-typist an one additional ad-ditional person in the investigative investiga-tive division. The fire dept. will receive four new people and an aerial truck inaddition to the proposed north fire station. The library staff will be increased by two additional positions while the finance dept will receive two new employees. Higldights of the proposed bud- Lucile Thorne Visits Council Dr. Lucile Thorne was presented pre-sented to the Orem City Council as Orem's and the State's representative rep-resentative in Washington D.C. in the National Mother of the Year contest. Members of the council expressed ex-pressed their appreciation for the work that Mrs. Thorne has done and the example that she has set. OREM CITY BUDGET $ 7,935,606 2W . I ' 20.9. ' 2(b)7c J 8.0 "c' x (e) 2.vc. y Budget Council get include the training of police pol-ice dept. personnel in a variety of additional skills and the purchase pur-chase of additional weaponry and amunition. The fire dept. will develop such as conducting fire safety surveys, hose inspections and developing long range master plans for community fire protection. protec-tion. Members of the city council will meet with the city manager to discuss the proposed budget, during the month of May. Members of the community are also invited to examine the budget in the city recorders office during dur-ing the period of May 17, to May 28. A city employee will be available in the city managers man-agers office during regular working hours, and on the evenings even-ings of May 18, and May 25, to answer questions. A series of public hearings will be held during the month of June, to discuss the budget. Orem residents are encouraged encour-aged to attend the hearings to provide imput, ask questions, or just become better informed on how their money is being spent. . i. "1 H 4 '.-! ".6rc A 2(t? (B) 19.6CI- W 10.3 . X (G) VJ ir of it as just another piece of playground equipment. Parents are urged to warn their youngsters of the dangers in playing in this area and to watch them closely. |