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Show PiW Force Has senior openings High school seniors graduating in May can volunteer for guaranteed training in the U.S. Air Force now and Regular Air Force enlistment in May, June or July, according ac-cording to Technical Sergeant Terry Johnson, U.S. Air Force recruiter, here. "There are over 140 guaranteed training programs now available, ranging from Air Operations Specialist to Dental Specialist to Aircraft Maintenance Specialist, and many more for this year's oninrs (n ronirtr for $600,000 Reserved For Enterprise Reservoir The Board of Water Resources has agreed to commit $600,000 from its Water Conservation and Development Fund for modifications to the Upper Enterprise Reservoir, located about 11 miles southeast of Enterprise, Utah. Modifications will include an extension of the dam outlet, installation of a drain and filter, and replacement of materials, particularly on the upstream face of the dam. Modifications are required to restore the dam to a safe condition and protect the dam structure from further damage caused by high stream runoffs this year. Some areas around Enterprise were flooded, due to the high runoffs. The costs for modifications are expected ex-pected to be repaid to the Board's fund by the Enterprise Reservoir and Canal Co., project sponsors, over the next 50 years. The State's Water Conservation and Development Fund, created in 1978, makes possible such projects as the Upper Enterprise Reservoir. The Fund was established in 1978, in AP Program Dr. Clifton Pyne, Supervisor of Alpine District High Schools, introduced to the school board recently the Advanced Ad-vanced Placement (AP) Programs offered in the high schools. Students successfully passing the AP exam are automatically granted eight semester hours or 12 quarter hours of college credit upon application to the college or university. Currently the schools offer AP classes in English, U.S. History, Calculus, Chemistry, Biology, European History, Physics, and Music. Mr. Allen Nielsen, Counselor at Orem High School reported that each year there are approximately ap-proximately 150-160 students at Orem High School taking advanced placement tests. Some students, he said take J You get the pig Visa Banking Card XI Plus System Available only at Wasatch Banks VVi'h No Annual Fee technical training after graduation," said TSgt Johnson. "While these job specialties will be filling fast now, I want to emphasize em-phasize that it is Air Force policy not to enlist students into this program unless they will lie graduating at the end of this school year," TSgt Johnson stated. Seniors interested in obtaining more information in-formation about the opportunities available to I hem in the Air Force can visit the recruiting office at 475 N. 200 W.. Provo. conjunction with the sale of $25 million in General Obligation Bonds, to be a revolving source of funding help for small and medium sized water resource projects in Utah. The fund is composed of investment interest of the bond proceeds and repayments of commitments com-mitments by project sponsors. A sale of $11 million General Obligation Bonds, part of an additional $25 million bond commitment by the State to further bolster the fund, has been authorized by the State Bonding Commission. Bids on those bonds are scheduled to be opened on Oct. 22. Water development projects have received strong backing from the State Legislature and Gov. Scott M. Matheson. Since 1978, six water resource projects for agricultural, municipal and industrial needs, costing some $2.8 million, have received assistance from the fund. The Water Conservation and Development Fund is conceived to be a wise investment by the State for the future development develop-ment and use of Utah's limited water resources. Reviewed more than one test per year. Mr. Nielsen also reported that some students by taking advanced ad-vanced placement classes enroll in college as sophomores, having earned a year of credit before enrolling in college. Mr. Jarman, Principal Prin-cipal of Orem High School indicated that the AP Program has added strength to the school, it stimulates the students, bridges the gap with students going to college and, of course, offers rigid studies to benefit students. Mrs. Joyce Jones, an English instructor reported her pleasure as a teacher working with AP students. The students, she said, have demands to learn and are anxious to commit themselves to excellence. 7' i ' i I . ! . ! II If '' ''' ; ' ; r J f ':J 'j ', ' '' i i ' - t fi i 1 t . r"i . - ; t ;;, . . t 1 i v ' . 1 if k . i I I s I I - 1 . . "t " J ' ' Orem resident Ellen Fielding returned home this weekend from Guide Dogs for the Blind, Inc., San Rafael, Ca., with Haiti, a capable Labrador retriever. She and her 16 classmates were officially of-ficially presented their new canine "eyes" in informal graduation exercises Oct. 11, marking the successful completion of the rigorous training. Daughter of Mildred Fielding, with whom she lives, Ellen is pleased with Haiti, her second dog from San Rafael. A graduate in special education from HYU, she has worked as a tutor of handicapped handi-capped children with the Alpine School District. She did volunteer work with the district this summer and hopes to get a permanent assignment. In addition to the usual leaching duties such as lesson preparation and assignment grading, she also teaches Braille, abacus and use of the Optacon. Although the cost to non-profit Guide Dogs to train one persondog team is over .,000, there is no charge to the recipient either for the valuable animal or in-residence training. The school receives no federal r slate funds and depends entirely for its support on voluntary conli ibutnms. UTC Computer Helps Students Select College Students of Utah Technical College . at Provo Orem now have access to one of Ihe finest sources of career information in-formation available, according to Dr. Robert Jenkins, director of Data Processing Services at Utah Tech. The college has leased what Dr. Jenkins terms "an exciting new software package for its computer system" called a "Guidance Information System" which provides information about occupations, oc-cupations, lour year and t w o y ear colleges, graduate school and sources of scholarship and financial aids. It is operated in cooperation with the Alpine School District's five high schools and the Career Guidance Center in Provo "It is .in excellent source of career information.'' in-formation.'' said l)r Jenkins The software is accessed ac-cessed by terminals located in each of Alpine School District's live high schools and by the Career Guidance Center in Provo across telephone lines to the college's computer on tl Provo campus of Utah ; 1 1 i U1 Ah I i - "t ? r V I Ji v -i i . 1 : Jv, Tech Counselors in each of the high schools. Career Guidance-Center and UTC utilize this tool in helping students make career choices Inl'oi ination about occupations and colleges can lie secured in two ways from I his system. II a student has an occupation oc-cupation or college in Miind. the computer can list on the terminal many i hai ai.'tei istics about that occupation or college If the student has an idea of '. hat lie or she w ants in an m i upation or college, but does not have a particular par-ticular one in mind, then by using a variety of i haracteristics a search can be made through Ihe system to match those characteristics with an occupation or college. Utah Vets Back MX Missile The Utah Military Affairs Coordinating Committee endorses "the continued design, development, and future deployment of the MX Missile System as may be proposed and endorsed by tne .President of the Use it as a Check It's like carrying a small checkbook and its accepted worldwide without Ihe identification hassle of regular regu-lar checks It looks like a credit card but it's not. Purchases or cash advantages come directly out of your checking account at Wasatch Bank Flip it over and it's a Check Guarantee Cash Reserve Card Should you use a regular check, your Visa Banking Card will guarantee it up to $150 In addition you II have a cash reserve should you overdraw your account . . .and beginning this tall you'll use your card for 24 Hour Banking You II get CASH anytime, night or day. weekends or holidays, from your checking or savings account at the Wasatch Bank Plus Center Automated Teller Machine or from any o! nearly a hundred Plus Center Automated Teller Machines located in Colorado. South Dakota. Kansas. Wyoming, Nebraska. New Mexico. Arizona and soon in Utah. OB a ' V 4 1J United States and the . Joint Chiefs of Staff and the Congress." The Resolution, approved by representatives represen-tatives of sixteen veterans organizations totalling more than 100,000 members and "associate members in Utah, was distributed by Colonel Ottis M. Plant, (U.S.A., Ret.) executive vice chairman of the Utah Military Affairs Coordinating Coor-dinating Committee, an umbrella group coordinating coor-dinating veterans organization activities in the state. "In the light of the importance of the MX to national defense, we submit that state and national leaders should understand that Utah veterans representatives are unified in their support of the MX," Colonel Plant declared. School Plans Saturday Fair There will be a Christinas Christ-inas Arts and Crafts Fair Saturday on the south lawn of Timpanogos Elementary Ele-mentary School, 400 N. 500 W., Provo, beginning at 9 a.m. and going until dark (weather permitting). permit-ting). The fair will feature paintings, crafts, Christmas Christ-mas ornaments, gifts, food, etc., made by local area residents. OREM At University Mall PLEASANT GROVE 225 South Main SANTAOUIN 100 East Main LEHI 620 East Mam DYU Sets Up Official Provo Wcatlicr Station Balmy fall days, cool evenings and colorful leaves on the mountainsides moun-tainsides have almost everyone talking about the weather. Now there can be "official" weather talk from Provo with the establishment of a weather station of the BYU campus. Dr. Dale Stevens, an associate professor of geography at BYU and a well-known researcher on climatic data, said that Provo hasn't had an official of-ficial weather station for the past three years. Weather data reported to the state and federal climatologists has come from the Olmstead hydroelectric plant owned by Utah Power and Light Company at the mouth of Provo Canyon. The BYU-Provo station is located on a small plot of ground south of 800 North Street between be-tween 400 and 500 East. The property is part of the BYU land leased to the U.S. Forest Service Shrub Laboratory. "This is the first time that BYU has ever had an official weather station," Dr. Stevens said. "For years the other two universities in the state have had one. The station will be an effective teaching tool and will allow professors from various departments to use accumulated data or put instruments in the fenced off area." The professor said that the station will primarily report tem-perature tem-perature and precipitation but will eventually have several additional instruments to help climatologists Official Ballot for the City of Special Election, October 21, FORM OF GOVERNMENT BALLOT QUESTION (Explanation of Form of Government 'Issue) Under current state law, the long existing Council-Manager form of government in the City of Orem would be automatically changed when the City's population reaches 60,000 to a Commission form of government unless the voters determine that the Council-Manager form of government should be retained. The Commission form of government would require the election of two full time paid commissioners and one full time paid Mayor. The City's current population is approximately 53,000. The Council-Manager form of government proposed by the Government Study Committee, after a detailed six month review which included numerous public hearings, would be composed of members and a mayor, all of whom would be elected at large by the voters of the City. Each of the Council members and the Mayor would serve four-year terms, with the Mayor and part of the Council elected in the municipal elections in 1981. The three Council members elected in 1979 would serve the remainder of their four-year terms, at which time these three offices would again be filled through the municipal elections in 1983. Under the Council-Manager form of government, the chief executive officer of the City would be the City Manager, who would be appointed and removed by vote of the elected body. To vote in favor To vote against To vote in favor To vote against disseminate information for agricultural or recreational purposes. Data accumulated daily by Dr. Stevens and student assistant Don Wright will be sent each week to state climatologist Arlo Richardson especially to help in agricultural forecasts. Daily data will also be sent each month to the National Climatic Center in Asheville, N.C., and the U.S. Weather Service in Salt Lake City. Information collected at the BYU-Provo weather station will be published monthly by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric A d -ministration in a booklet entitled "Climatological Data for Utah." NOAA publishes a booklet for each state monthly listing the precipation, temperature, tem-perature, snow, and other conditions for each weather station in that state. Instruments already installed include a regular rain and snow gauge which is checked daily; a recording rain and snow gauge which keeps a continuous record; maximum and minimum temperature gauges housed in an official of-ficial vented shelter box; and a snow-measuring device. "Many people don't realize that all official temperatures recorded at weather stations are taken in the shade in- one of these vented boxes," Dr. Stevens pointed out. "If temperatures were taken in the sun, these would not reflect accurate ac-curate temperatures of the air. These temperature tem-perature boxes are elevated so that the Shall the City of Orem, Utah, adopt the Council-Manager form of municipal government? of the issue, place an (X) in the the issue, place an (X) in the box SUNDAY OPENING OF Shall the City of Orem open for Sunday use its municipally owned and operated Recreation Center? of Sunday opening at the REC CENTER, place an (X) in the box marked "YES." Sunday opening of the REC CENTER, place an (X) in the box marked, "NO." Orem-Geneva Times- Four txcell Berdean Jarman, principal of Orem High School announced today that four seniors are being commended for their outstanding performance per-formance in the twenty-sixth twenty-sixth annual (1981) National Merit Scholarship Program. Letters of Commendation from the schoo1 nd Nation' Merit Scholarship Corporation, which conducts the competition, will be presented to Mary Ellen Harrison, Heather Jordan, Jor-dan, Andrea Nielson, and Scott Taylor. ( More than one million students entered the 1981 Merit Program by taking the PSAT-NMSQT in 1979. About 33,000 of these students throughout the United States will receive a commendation for outstanding test performance. per-formance. Commended students rank below the level required for Merit Program N Semifinalists-the Semifinalists-the only participants who will continue in the 1981 competition for Merit temperature measured is five feet above the ground." He said that eventually even-tually the weather station will have a daily evaporation tank with a measuring instrument to test the amount of evaporation; an instrument in-strument to measure maximum and minimum water temperatures; and an accumulative wind gauge eight inches off the ground to check how much wind passed by the three-cup gauge in a 24-hour 24-hour period. A 16 foot tower will soon be installed to house a wind direction and speed instrument. The Orem, Utah 1980 YES NO box marked "YES." marked "NO." RECREATION CENTER YES NO -October 16, 1980 At Orem High Scholarships. Nonetheless, Commended Com-mended students have shown exceptional academic aca-demic promise by scoring among the top five percent per-cent of Merit Program participants. An officer of the corporation stated that "To be designated a Commended student in the Merit Program is an attainment deserving of public recognition. The continued educational and personal development develop-ment of such students will benefit the entire nation." Commended students who requested it have been referred as worthy candidates to admissions and financial aid officers at two higher education institutions of their choice. It is hoped that the referral service and Merit Program recognition will result in assistant for these Commended students as they pursue their educational goals. side will also have a multi-level thermometer to probe the temperature of the ground and at two levels above the ground. It will also have a hygrothermograph to record humidity and temperature on a continuous con-tinuous basis. Crop protection chemicals have probably accounted for 20 percent of the growers' improved productivity since 1940 -feeding far more people with far less labor and the same amount of land. MEMBER FDtC - - - - t PAID POL. AD1 ' 1 |