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Show Orem-Geneva Times Wednesday. January 30, 1991 Page 8 Soldiers leave mid cheers, tears, flags By Jeanne Thayne It seemed like the whole town turned out Monday to bid farewell to members of the 1457th Engineer Battalion of the Utah Army National Guard whose headquarters are in American Fork. Despite the bright sun and better than usual weather, the atmosphere was a somber one as Mid-East expert to analyze Gulf Crisis at Friday Forum Middle East expert and BYU Associate Professor Donna Lee Bowen will analyze the current situation in the Middle East at the February 1st Friday Forum meeting of the ProvoOrem Chamberof Commerce, according to Chamber President Steve Densley. The Forum will be held at the Seven Peaks Resort Excelsior Hotel at noon. All Chamber mem Winners named for "If I Had a Wish" was this year's Reflections theme. The students stu-dents at Lakeridge Jr. High had an opporutnity to express and create in four different areas: visual arts, photography, music, and literature. The students who won and will receive trophies are: VISUAL ARTS: Nathan Wright, Bronze Swallow, Natalie Peterson, Spencer Spen-cer Clements, Daniel Thrower; PHOTOGRAPHY: Amber Proctor, Daniel Thrower, Natalie Peterson; MUSIC: Laura Sandberg, Angela Clark, Daniel Thrower; Karen Thomas; LITERATURE: John Auction will An auction to benefit a Provo boy suffering from aplastic anemia will be held Saturday, February 23, from 9 a.m. - 6 p.m. at the Bonneville Stake Center, 100 South 900 East, Provo. Shawn Stoneman, a freshman at Provo High School, has only a 15 percent chance of survival if he does not receive a bone marrow transplant immediately. The cost of the transplant will exceed $250,000 and his family's medical insurance will not cover the operation. Stoneman is hoping that the money can be raised through private donations. The auction is being coordinated coor-dinated by the Boys Club to help raise money for his operation. Donations can be made directly to the Shawn Stoneman Trust Fund and at any First Security Bank. Every dollar goes directly to the operation because there is no ad men dressed in camouflage fatigues hugged and kissed family fami-ly and friends goodbye. More than a thousand soldiers sol-diers and well wishers crowded in front and around the armory building at American Fork. Mayor B. Kay Hutchings of American Fork presented a flag to the group. He said it had flown over the City Hall at American bers are encouraged to attend. Donna Lee received a Ph.D. in Near Eastern languages from the University of Chicago, a B.A. in Political Science from the University Univer-sity of Utah, and has done extensive exten-sive field work in the Middle East. She is also consultant for the Smithsonian Institute and the World Bank. Members and guests may call 224-3636 for reservations. LJH Reflections Geertsen;, Daniel Thrower, Matthew Mat-thew Peterson, Karolee Kohler, Tiffany Taylor. HONORABLE MENTION In VISUAL ART: Jon Juvenal, Kris-ten Kris-ten Keller, Trevor Wood, Steven Flemming, Kreg Ryan Johnson, Amanda Pack, Margie Lehnardt. LITERATURE: James Ramsey, Barbara Jensen The winners now will compete in the City Evening of Excellence, on Thursday, Feb. 7 at 7 p.m. at the Suncrest Elementary. Winners Win-ners of the City will compete in Region, State and National Reflections contests. benefit boy ministration costs. DONATIONS WELCOME Donations, either money or items, may be made at the Boys' Club. The club is open from 9 a.m.-9 p.m. on Saturdays and 4 -9 p.m. weekdays. All checks must be made payable to the Bys Club. The club is located at 150N. 1050 E., Provo. According to Tom Lowery, a volunteer assisting with fundraising, volunteers had raised $29,334.84 as of Jan. 15 for the Robert Shawn Stoneman Trust Fund. The funds have been raised through community dinners, din-ners, school activities; collection cans and booths, auctions and personal donations by individuals in-dividuals and businesses. Anonymous contributions from small collection cans around Utah Valley totaled $12,089.04 by mid-January. Fork and asked them to fly it over their battalion and to bring, it back to the city when they all return safely. The high school band played some rousing numbers and the twirlers tossed flags high and did a routine using wooden bayonets instead of batons as they expressed ex-pressed support to their heros. Students displayed banners Helping your child Succeed in school by Lily Eskelsen, president . Utah Education Association I took a class once on teaching writing to elementary school children. It was excellent, in it, we discussed the process of brainstorming for ideas, writing rough drafts, re-reading and editing edit-ing the draft, getting input from classmates and writing a final, corrected piece ready for "publication." "publica-tion." Publication could mean anything from being displayed on the bulletin board to being sent to a local newspaper. This writing process is sometimes some-times misunderstood because of the first phrase. In writing the rough drafts, teachers will encourage en-courage students to write down their thoughts without worrying about spelling and grammar. At this point in the process, it is more important to focus on clear thoughts or descriptive language. This is also, not so coincidentally, the part my students most enjoy. The editing, corrections and final drafts are more painful, but as the saying goes, no pain-no gain. I take great pride in that I am a constant annoyance to my students stu-dents and my own children. Although Al-though some may disagree with my with aplastic anemia CHRISTMAS MIRACLE Possibly the largest anonymous donation was made in a fundraising "miracle" on Christmas Eve. A family of seven appeared at the Stoneman home to sing a carol and present a gift to Shawn. The gift was a $1,000 cashiers check toward Shawn's operation. The family left without identifying themselves. Two poems along with $20 came from an inmate at the Central Utah Correctional Facility in Gunnison and local businesses have donated a few thousand dollars. Provo police pooled their resources and made a large donation also. DINNER DANCE On Feb. 2, a Valentine's dinner-dance will be held at the Steel Workers Union Hall at 1847 S. Columbia Lane in Orem. Celebrities attending-and avail Joe Cannon recalls earliest Utah iron production effort By Clyde E. Weeks Utah's first successful steel-making steel-making enterprise produced just over one ton of iron a day, according accord-ing to Joseph A. Cannon, Geneva Steel President and CEO, who spoke to Helen B. Weeks' "Pride in Our Pioneer Heritage" class at the Utah Valley Community College Col-lege last Wednesday evening. He reviewed the history of steelmaking in Utah, including the failed enterprise at the Deseret Iron Mission. "In 1868, the settlers tried again. This time they tried it at Ironton, located just west of Cedar City. They set up another cooperative enterprise called the Utah Iron Mining Association. It was organized to develop new iron mines and iron works." "In 1873," he said, "they actually ac-tually succeeded in producing 2,400 pounds of quality iron in a day." 4,000 TONS Cannon placed that quantity in perspective by stating that Geneva Steel produces some 4,000 tons of iron a day, every day. About a year alter the early settlers started producing iron, they organized their operation into the Great Western Iron Manufacturing Company. This first iron-making venture failed because they had Indian attacks, they had floods that wiped out their blast furnaces, and they had a lot of natural problems, plus they didn't have exactly the right kind of ore. "The Great Western Iron Manufacturing Company struggled strug-gled for 10 years, but they never actually made money, Cannon said. GEORGE Q. CANNON "In 1883, my great-grand father, George Q. Cannon, a member of the LDS Church Presidency, came down and tried and bands offering love and support to mem-i mem-i bers of the battalion. Yellow ribbons rib-bons and flags lined American Fork's main street as a conveyance con-veyance of support and love. The battalion traveled by bus caravan to Fort Lewis, Washington and then were scheduled to fly to Germany with Saudi Arabia as the expected final destination. strange technique, I constantly correct grammar mistakes. "I done my homework, Ms. Eskelsen." Eskel-sen." 'You done it? How is that possible without a helping verb?" "OK. OK. I've done my homework." "Me and Jim are going to the library." "Who?" "Me and Jim." "Who?" "Geeze. Jim and I. OK?" Elementary teachers have a special, almost criminal fondness for "can" and "may". "Can I go to the bathroom?" "Unl less you have a medical condition, I'm sure you can, but perhaps you meant to ask for my permission and not whether you have the capability to go." Kids pretend to hate this. But it's a game. Do it good naturedly. Smile, wink, and tickle when administering ad-ministering this dose of grammatical gram-matical medicine. I've found that sheer repetition makes this a game the other children will pick up. I ought to feel guilty, but I will confess to a twinge of pride when I hear one child ungrammatically sat to another, "It ain't right to say "nothing." You're supposed to say, We didn't learn anything today." able for dances-are Mrs. Utah and Miss Sweetheart. Two bands will perform. Tickets are $10 per person or $25 per couple for the dinner and dance. Dancing only is $5 per person. Shawn's chances of survival without a bone marrow transplant are 15 percent Anyone wishing to be tested as potential donors should contact Mark Austin at LDS Hospital, 321-1157, Monday through Friday, 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. or Valene Johnson at Utah Valley Regional Medical Center, 379-7187, Monday through Thursday, 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. Blood donations can be given at any hospital in the name of Robert Shawn stoneman at Primary Children's Hospital. Contributions can be mailed to the Robert Shawn Stoneman Trust Fund, P.O. Box 1734, Orem, UT 84059-1734. to save the company. He became president of the company which was now called' the Iron Manufacturing Manufac-turing Company of Utah. That effort was doomed to failure because be-cause they didn't have modern equipment." "Because there was iron ore and coal in Utah, people continued con-tinued to think that we ought to be producing iron and steel here," Cannon said. "In 1923, a new company broke ground at Ironton for the Columbia Steel Corporation. They began producing pig iron a year later. In the 1930s, United States Steel Corporation bought this plant." Cannon said that nobody in the East had any interest in steel in the Western United States-Utah States-Utah in particular. DR. MATHESIUS "But there was a genius man named Walter Mathesius who came to the West and said, There ought to be steel here!'" "He looked all over the West," Cannon said. "He saw the resources resour-ces here in Utah, and he picked this place back in the Thirties. Everyone thinks that Geneva Steel was buil t here during World War II to be out of range of Japanese bombers. That is true, but Mathesius simply used the war as an excuse to get his steel mill built out here. He had been trying since the Thirties to do this. We have information that he tried to get it to be a WPA project to be built out here during the Depression." PERSISTENT EFFORTS "That failed, but he persisted," persist-ed," Cannon said. "Eventually, he was able to persuade the government govern-ment and U.S. Steel to build the mill here. They put the mill up in 18 months, working around, the clock. Over 10,000 workers worked night and day building this plant." PUBLIC Fires can happen, even in your home Public Service announcement Orem Department of Public Safety Don't make the mistake and follow that rule of self-exclusion and think you will never experience ex-perience anything like a fire in your home. Odds indicate fire will strike your family once every generation. Last year Utah lost over 30 million dollars and 18 lives. Without an early warning device, like a smoke detector, you are at risk. Here are the facts. Most fires that 'take lives are not the MGM Grand Hotel fires, they are the cumulative individual home fires that add up to large numbers. And, the tragedy is, it doesn't need to happen if one just takes some time to install and maintain smoke detectors. With a smoke detector you are two and a half times more likely to survive a fire if you are asleep than without Howard Nielson to be honored for Middle East Resolutions Howard Nielson, former 3rd District congressman, will be honored at & luncheon at the University of Utah Student Union on Thursday, January 31. During his last term in Congress, Con-gress, Nielson sponsored two House Resolutions that called on Israel to reopen schools and universities closed during the intifada. in-tifada. His resolutions were one of the few times Congress has expressed ex-pressed concern for Palestinian welfare and human rights. Former Illinois Congressman and presidential candidate, John Orem-Qeneva(Times USPS 411-700 Published each Wednesday for $10.00 per year by the Orem-Geneva Orem-Geneva Times, 546 South State Street, Orem, Utah 84058. Second Class postage paid at Orem, Utah 84057 POSTMASTER: Send address changes to the OremGeneva Times, P.O. Box 65, Orem, Utah 84059 Cannon stated that the Geneva Steel Plant was built so that it could be expanded the double its capacity. "And it was laid out that way by Walter mathesius. mathesius was a far-sighted genius. The way he constructed this plat is enabling ena-bling us today to make one of the most modern steel mills in the world, simply by the way he laid it out." ONE BILLION DOLLARS Cannon recalled that U.S. Steel Corporation had said that it would take one billion dollars to renovate the Geneva Steel Plant. 'We are doing everything they said they would do-and morefor $240 million," Cannon said. "I am really interested in the history of the facility, because very time we uncover things, we find some tremendously interesting interest-ing things." "Geneva Steel was Walter Mathesius' crowning achievement," achieve-ment," Cannon declared. Joseph Cannon related the circumstances of his purchase of the Geneva Steel Plant and the fortuitous events which enabled him to raise the millions of dollars required to consummate the deal. LEADING EXPERTS "We recognized that improvements improve-ments would need to be made to address the environmental concerns con-cerns at the plant," Cannon declared. "Geneva went out and spent millions of dollars, hiring the world's leading experts in sources of pollution control, such as Dr. John cooper. We figured out what Geneva could do to fix our part of the problem. We didn't argue with the state. As soon as we knew what we could do in November, 1989, then we announced an-nounced what we would do, and said, We are starting today-'" "ADDRESSING THE PROBLEM" (Continued Next Week) SAFETY one. You are one can a half times more likely to be injured without a smoke detector. Even so, only a little over 60 percent of the households in the United States have a detector, many of which don't work because be-cause they have been put up and forgotten. Local fire officials encourage en-courage all of us to install and maintain smoke alarms. You don't have to pay hundreds and thousands of dollars to buy adequate ade-quate protection for your family. According to the National Fire Protection Agency, smoke alarms are the preferred device over heat detectors. Call your local Fire Prevention Bureau for specific questions you might have. Also, remember that the Orem Fire Prevention Bureau has free smoke detectors for handicapped, senior citizens, and low income households. Call 224-7021 for details. B. Anderson, will speak at the event. Mr. Anderson is on the Board of Directors of the Council for the National Interest (CNI), a citizens group that advocates a balanced Middle East policy. Local members of CNI, and the University ofUtah Chapter of the General Union of Palestine Students Stu-dents are hosting the luncheon. The public is invited to attend the luncheon at the University of Utah Student Union. Additional information and reservations may be obtained by calling 467-2434 467-2434 or 467-9483. |