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Show Ut?h Ptea'J As. J0' 467 Sast 3 Soutb QTEB fK2 - -v. mm IMP lni - KYkMVih Volume 50 Number 3 January 17, 1980 PRICE FIFTEEN CENTS '1 Fagin (Bruce Hertford) looks on as Bet (Jean Anderson) hears a disheartened Oliver (Noel Paterson). Gifford Nielsen Featured Speaker At Luncheon Area sports fans got the opportunity to hear what its like playing por-fessional por-fessional football in the National Football League from Houston Quarterback Quarter-back Gifford Nielsen. Nielsen, backup quarterback for the Houston Hous-ton Oilers the past two years was the featured speaker at a combined Orem Kiwanis Club-Circle K meeting Monday at the Orem Campus of Utah Technical College. Gifford Nielsen is a native of Provo, Utah, where he was all-state in football and went to Brigham Young University Univer-sity where he earned all-American all-American honors. Nielsen stated when he was in his senior year at BYU he learned a very valuable lesson - always be prepared. - - Nielsen explained he was on the heighth of his career, potential Heisman Trophy winner, All-American and national record setter when one Saturday afternoon in Oregon it was all-over due to a knee injury. At this time Marc Wilson stepped in and led the Cougars to the WAC championship and set records along the way. The lesson he learned from Marc Wilson was to be prepared, which is what he is trying to do as a Houston Oiler backup quarterback to Dan Pas-torini. Pas-torini. When talking about the Houston organization the confident Nielsen stated he was all the respect res-pect in the world for the team and his current role as backup quarterback for Dan Pastorini. "The first time I ever talked to head coach Bum Phillips was the day I was drafted two years ago. He phoned me and I heard this real Texas drawl, "You are an Oiler, now son." I said "Fine, I'm very happy." Nielsen went on to say Bum Phillips Phil-lips is a lot like BYU coach LaVell Edwards in that he expects the players to assume responsibility for their own actions. We have curfews and rules but Bum never checks anyone. He always tells the team we are his second family and he loves us verv much. "When you become a M The Nielsen family poses during the Kiwanis luncheon held at the Orem Campus of the Utah Technical College. (L to R) Gifford Nielsen, Mrs. Gifford Nielsen (Wendy) and Clifford's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Stan Nielsen. i m I x iCjLlLlJf ' ': ' 'V ' ; i M v i 'i h i i Houston Oiler backup quarterback Gifford Nielsen was the featured speaker at the com - bined Orem Kiwanis Club-Circle K meeting Monday. Nielsen stated he loves being a Houston Oiler and is excited about his professional pro-fessional football career. Houston Oiler you receive a cowboy hat and a pair of boots and this was one of the first things I received re-ceived from Bum. "When I was a rookie, Pastorini took me and about eight other veterans to the 'Watering Hole' after practice where they had their drinks and I had my 7-Up. We talked about why I act and believe the way I do and we have been close ever since." Gifford said he is no longer a Dallas Cowboy fan because it was against the Texas rival he got his first start as a rookie. "Dan Pastorini came to practice with a hamstring ham-string pull and told me I was the starting quarterback quarter-back against the Cowboys. Cow-boys. It was a preseason game but in Texas, the Dallas Cowboy Houston Oiler game is called the Texas Super Bowl and it is a very tough battle. "When I looked across the line there was Too Tall Jones on one side, and I couldn't believe how big he was 6-8 and 286 or 260 or whatever, what-ever, and on the other side was Thomas Henderson Hender-son just as big, only an inch or two shorter. And they came in, one from one side and one from the other, and they got me. And in the NFL, those defensive players like to intimidate a rookie, kind of let him know that this is the NFL, so they don't just jump off you. They take their time. They swing one leg up over your head, plant an elbow in your ribs and just move so slowly. I just remember remem-ber looking at Henderson's leg. I started at his shoes and went up, to the stockings stock-ings and got to the top of the stockings and I noticed that he held them up with thumbtacks." Nielsen got another chance to start at quarterback against the San Diego Chargers in a playoff game a couple of weeks ago. According to Nielsen, "In that game, I ran for 15 yards to the one-yard line. I had never run that far before in my life. Imagine what coach Edwards Ed-wards must have thought when he saw me. And all I could think of was scoring scor-ing a touchdown. I thought I'd give the cornerback a little hip and go around him and score. Well, the cornerback came up and a safetyman came over and they love to hit tall, Continued Page 2 A 0liver To Play At Lakeridge Jr. Eligh One of the most popular pop-ular of all British musicals, musi-cals, Lionel Bart's Oliver!" (adapted fromi Charles Dickens immortal immor-tal Victorian novel, Oliver Ol-iver Twist), will be the winter offering of the Orem Civic Theatre. Opening Jan. 18 at 8 p.m. at Lakeridge Jr. High auditorium, the production product-ion will be presented Friday, Fri-day, Saturday, and Monday Mon-day evenings through Jan. 28th. Oremites Eric Fielding (a member of the American Amer-ican Scenic Designer's Union) andJanetSwenson have designed the settings and costumes for this production, which takes place in and around London Lon-don in the 1850s. Bruce Hertford, who recently directed the successful touring production of Saturday's Warrior, has directed this show as well and brings to"01iver!"a wealth of theatrical experiences. The show, utilizing the intimate thrust stage at Lakeridge, will have the added symphonic background played by numerous professional pro-fessional orchestra members. Charlie Sor-ensen, Sor-ensen, recently from the San Francisco area, - has created exciting new choreography for this production, assisted by Jon Powell. The Dickensian char Food Service Formed By County Commission The Utah County Commission and Moun-tainlands Moun-tainlands Association of Governments agreed to form a food service to help the commissioners maintain better control over various meal programs. pro-grams. The services provided include feeding of prisoners prison-ers at the jail, people from the Timpanogos Mental Health program who stay at the jail facilities, faci-lities, youths involved in the correctional programs and elderly involved in a "mobile meals" program. The commissioners said the 'change was mainly main-ly administrative action and would not result in fewer meals being provided pro-vided nor any workers necessarily losing their jobs. Jim Hales from MAG was selected as acting director until the county can find its own administrator. adminis-trator. Hales had previously pre-viously investigated the matter, and, along with Commissioner Jerry Bradshaw, proposed the change in administration acters included within the musical are Oliver himself, him-self, played by Noel Paterson, Pat-erson, and the numerous characters he meets on his travels from workhouse work-house to London. Among these are Fagin, the old Jew who leads the band of pick - pocketing boys, Nancy, the sympathetic heroine, Bill Sikes, her villainous lover, and the irrepresible Artful Dodger. Dod-ger. Assaying these roles will be Bruce Hertford, Carol Hertford, Ray Anderson, and Dan Thompson. Also in the cast are Charles Sapor iti, Linda Williams, Jean Anderson, An-derson, Mike Strickland, Susan Brand, JohnSacco-man, JohnSacco-man, Laura Whipple, Dale Zabriskie, Jan Cameron, and Dennis Lisonbee. The cast of seventy-five seventy-five performers is dedicating ded-icating this particular production to Oremite Jerry Elison, for his numerous and generous contributions to theatre in Utah Valley, and especially es-pecially for hi3 continued excellence with the Orem Summerfest Theatre program. Tickets for "Oliver!" are available at the Orem City Center and through all cast members. General Gen-eral admission is $3.50 and children underl2 are $2. Group discounts are available. SEE PICTURES INSIDE OF THIS PAPER of the various food programs. pro-grams. They also decided to request the county and state auditors to overlook the county food service program. Another clause was added to provide for adjusting ad-justing revenues and expenses ex-penses as part of the agreement. The mobile meals program pro-gram may eventually split off from the food service and be handled directly by MAG. In other actions by the commission, the zoning ordinance was amended to: (1) allow alcohol to be distilled in agricultural zones, providing it is not for human consumption; (2) allow electric generating gener-ating plants in agriculture zones when approved by the commission; and (3) create a board of adjustment adjust-ment in conjunction with zoning and the planning commission. The need for a night watchman at the county building was also considered, con-sidered, but no definite decision was reached nor appointments made. New appointments were made in the Timpanogos Tim-panogos Sewer District. Those selected were Zenneth Chamberlain from Alpine, David Hol-daway Hol-daway from Pleasant Grove, Ted B. Barrett from American Fork and Joseph Shelton from Lehi. County Delinquent Tax Copies Hon Available Copies of the "Utah County Delinquent Tax" are now available. They can be obtained at the county building in Provo or any local newspaper in Utah County, including Richard Hillam, new Orem Chamber of Commerce President, displays the beautiful beauti-ful plaque given to outgoing president Max Curtis in last week's Installation ceremonies. (See pictures inside) Miller Named To Water Beard Dr. A. Woodruff Miller Mil-ler was appointed to the Metropolitan Water Board. Presented for the position by Mayor James E. Mangum and approved by the City Council, Dr. Miller will replace Marion Mar-ion Clark. A professor at BYU, Dr. Miller has been in volved with the Utah County water study. Grant Named To Art Council The Utah Arts Council Coun-cil announces the appointment appoint-ment of Julie Grant as its new Arts-In-Education Coordinator. Effective immediately, Ms. Grant replaces Jann Lefler, currently cur-rently serving a mission in Chile for the L.D.S. Church. Ms. Grant comes to her new position with a solid background in the arts, humanities and the educational process. A native of Dallas, Texas, she earned a B.A. in Humanities from BYU and has her thesis "in progress" for an M.A. in Art History from the University Uni-versity of Utah. She has been a member of the BYU faculty, most recently re-cently during their Study Abroad in Austria program, pro-gram, and has served as a Teaching Assistant for the University of Utah. In her role as coordinator coordi-nator for the Utah Arts Council, Ms. Grant will administer the Council's extensive Arts-in-Educa-tion program. A-I-E is an arts resource program for educational settings that works to encourage people, institutions and schools to provide a variety and growth of arts experiences in their area. Through residencies of varying lengths by professional pro-fessional artists, the program pro-gram gives Utah's citizens of all ages the opportunity to enhance their appreciation appre-ciation of the arts and expand their means of expressing and communicating com-municating ideas and experiences. ex-periences. the Orem-Geneva Times, free of charge. The 36-page list was printed; and distributed through Spanish Fork for the entire county. It is a comprehensive list. i A S$ I i I Gordon New Director The appointment of David K. Gordon of Provo as Director of the newly created Office of the Handicapped Han-dicapped was announced today by Dr. Anthony W. Mitchell, Executive Director Dir-ector of the Utah Department Depart-ment of Social Services. The new office will incorporate the staffs of the Developmental Disabilities Dis-abilities Council and the Governor's Committee on Employment of the Handicapped. Han-dicapped. It will be located lo-cated in Room 137 of the Social Services Building at 150 West North Temple in Salt Lake City. The 35-year old Gordon Gor-don is a Tooele native who has been a social worker at the Utah State Hospital for the past two years. He holds a Bachelor's degree from BYU in social work and Master's degrees in social work and educational educa-tional psychology from the University of Utah. Mr. Gordon has also been a social worker in a community mental health center in South Carolina, a counselor for LDS Social Services and a self-employed marriage mar-riage and family coun- selor. He is currently. Dresident of the Utah Council of the Blind and is also president of the Coalition Coal-ition for Independent Living. He is Married and has two children. North Stake To Hold Sunday Conference The Orem Utah North Stake has planned a Stake Missionary Conference and Priesthood Leadership Leader-ship Meeting Sunday, at 7 a.m.. The Conference will be presided over by President Donald B. Jessee, of the Orem Utah North Stake. Those to attend are as follows: stake presidents, counselors, coun-selors, executive secretaries, secre-taries, high councilors, and clerks. Those to attend from the wards are as follows: bishopric, executive secretary, sec-retary, clerk, Melchiz-edek Melchiz-edek Priesthood presidencies, pres-idencies, group leaders, assistant group leaders, secretaries, Young Men's presidencies, Aaronic Priesthood adult leaders, and all seventies. seven-ties. The conference will be held at the stake center, cen-ter, 1000 North Main Street, Orem. mm m U?Ei EEirollmenf Fosflest Growing Utah has the fastest- growing rate of school population in the entire nation. According to the Utah State Office of Education, bur public schools have 8,107 more students than last year. That's an increase in-crease of 2.5 per cent. It brings Utah's total public school population to nearly one-third of a million students. The enrollment en-rollment figure for this school year is 332,575. Utah has the highest, or nearly the highest birth rate in the nation. But there's another factor in the climbing school population. pop-ulation. It's the number of new families moving into the state because of "booms" in several industries in-dustries here. Emery County, for instance, in-stance, has seen a lot of growth arising from a revival of coal mining in the areaand the construction construc-tion of power plants. The State Office of Education shows that county's population pop-ulation up by 7.7 per cent this year. Washington County's enrollment is up 9.24 per cent, and Jordan School District has 2,983 more students this year an increase of 6.87 percent. Alpine District also has a MX Public Meeting To Be Held Jan. 31 The United States Air Force will hold public meetings on the MX Missile Mis-sile Project proposed for Utah and Nevada. These meetings will be held during January at various locations in Utah and Nevada. The meetings meet-ings will consist of a 45 minute briefing by the Air Force on the MX followed by a question and answer period and citizens' comments. The Air Force will accept ac-cept written comments throughout the scoping period. That is, the time it is conducting its preliminary pre-liminary studies on MX basing. Write Forrest McCartney, .Brigadier General, USAF, Vice Commander, Ballistic Missile Office (AFSC). Norton Air Force Base, California. The Salt Lake scoping meeting is poorly located for most area residents. Hopefully this will not keep concerned citizens away. If other meeting locations are poorly plac big growth pattern, witn 1,451 more students. Such rapid expansion brings tough problems to school districts. They must provide more teachers, teach-ers, classrooms, buses, teaching materials, equipment equip-ment and power and fuel. But the growth pattern isn't even across Utah. Some school districts are losing students. That can cause problems, too. Some districts work together to-gether to solve growth difficulties. When fast-growing fast-growing Jordan District needed more classrooms this year, an agreement was made for Jordanstu-dents Jordanstu-dents to use empty classes clas-ses in 'next door" Granite Gran-ite District. The State School Office sees no let-up in the school population increse, with sharp rises coming at least for the next decade. Utah's citizens have great pride in education and the educational system sys-tem in the state. These increases in-creases in student population popula-tion do and will continue to create problems. They will not be easy to overcome. over-come. But, as has been the case in the past, Utah's citizens will indeed meet the challenge. ed local residents ought to call or write their governors gov-ernors in advance of the meetings. For further information informa-tion on the MX scoping process write the MX Information Center, 232 12 University Street,Salt Lake City, Utah, 84102. The next MX meeting to be held in this area will be Jan 31 in Salt Lake City at 7 p.m. in the Whit-more Whit-more Library, 2179 E. 7000 S. PTA Meeting Set Tonight Sharon School PTA will be having a meeting this evening at 7 p.m. under the theme Living with Television, Peggy Anderson Ander-son and Sandra Skouson from the city PTA board will inform parents on how tp equip their children child-ren to handle what they see on TV when they have no control over the viewing. view-ing. Entertaining will be the Sensational Seconds. |