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Show f-- P 111 fj "Qj I mm mm AMERICAN FOKK, UTAH, 'BIDAYIAY 22, 1936 NU-lLBEIiiM ert' see oil 95 81 Ji 0 mi 1) di w d ft sf I s F nn Damage Reaches $10,000 In District r " jt. whuiidin and t SSTwlnd damage ' ,it of the nvuo fZ '4 10:00 P. m. '-rttest damage was done a Si "Fork tigh school J intire roof of the large uai M stripped from the Cud the north gable end of L toppled onto the celling UortT rooms and Into the Lt of the "gymnasium prop-C prop-C damage wss also done to ith-vaB of the new section junior High, building now instruction. t damage over the district ! broken windows, uproot-'met, uproot-'met, damage to barnt and i ooops and severe damage to 'jjd telephone lines. !s of large trees over the I not down, some canym timhone lines and oth- -1 onto homes and other l buildings. Hundreds of ji were blown out of private j buildings and home. , j company linemen by Wed- ! Mnair work on I Qu0Kuw ', V.Unhm MTVlCe SUSO JflCk v-- attd, sod power lines of the jc, ft Utah Railroad were 4, - 'v--' i service was repeatedly to ad. during the atonn Tues-jbt, Tues-jbt, and telephone service I Hem Ask evidently felt the fof the storm and the high I situated on the hill norti. of m submitted to the furry of jt wuh nothing whiter to its sweep. - People la . this of town said ft person eouw n remamea mumui hu wind when It reached its lally the north gabk of the 1 gave way under , the air Wi and then the roof was 1 back and lifted off the struc-i struc-i gust after gust lashed Itself the building. - -complete roof, rafters and pt, was stripped from the east if tht gym and strewn over the js for several rods. Only -a. j portion of the roof on the net comer of the building was :.tict isiderable damage wu done to JHng and floors In the dreas-pom dreas-pom sections of the gxunnashim Jja to the north half of the felling and floor. ji also reported that the steel of the roof are out of line considerable work will be neces-1 neces-1 to reconstruct and place the a a safe and proper con-.,:: con-.,:: "; -: a meeting of the board ' of ; 'Jan and the architect Wednes-ewnlng Wednes-ewnlng the damage wae estl-4 estl-4 at between $5,000 and $8,000 : aAool propertr. The board sed John Hunter as foreman to ."-struct the building. $t gymnasium wsm pcmatrnpittA fibs Oroonman of Provo under Pwpared by Joseph Nelson as architect M at the building wu dls-Wednesday dls-Wednesday and Thursday 0 the uncertain condition pre-ft pre-ft at the gymnasium and while officials were making aur-?o aur-?o determlnn in t - 4-w uvn iiiuwi f necessary to bring the ,w oacx to a safe condition. f end of tile chicken I belonging to Clyde Blrk wae i JL v evena barn toout were blown over. ajwerahle damage resulted to f ps, according to reports Tomato, cabbage, onion I r crops where Individual prevaU suffered the most In -Tr0" as blown completely 7 from the plant. PSDital RnnrH Ao Seek Funds 'S.. totettiDf a modern ir..."0"1 the UW. board. 1 aiui wua, a. r, oale- Sfoty Jetting a W iSl,C0Oununlty- Three Wasif-01810"1 SfSalT0 P ai i . . . . ' tte "Brwa t the com- board arvl P06" U.thennmer. TaUrne,frr.h06plU1 I -a WlQfty) . - , " High School Graduates Class of Seventy-Seven A capacity crowd filled the taber nacle for the high school gradua tion exercises held Thursday, eve ning.. The program was of a most unique nature being given in. pa geant, form. Each department of the school work was represented with a short talk by a member of the graduating class who told of the advantages of his line of study and the assistance he had received from it toward hie general education. Miss Alice Parker clayed prelim inary music and also the march of the graduates, the "Grand March," from the opera Aide, The high school band played the "Olow Worm" by Uncke. and the invoca tion was offered by President Earl 8. Greenwood The mile rlee mem bers sang "Just For You." ' The Scroll, a commencement rwa cent presented by the graduating class, gave In chronological sequence the departments of study at the school. As the lights of the audi torium dimmed, the trumpet her ald was heard and The Scroll Appeared Ap-peared as the page of a large book with the heftdlng of the denartment shown by means of an ultraviolet nght. This heading gradually faded as the flood lijrht grew brighter and the opening words of the epeech were shone on the page. The departments de-partments and speakers for each are as follows: , . Introduction. R. Gardner: Encash. MSdred Greenwood; Mathematics, Arnold Terry:; Social Science. Bar bara Pett; 6cience, Edna Anderson; Music, Emily . Curry: Shop, Earl Brfrwn; Speech. Mary Walton: Homeroaklng. Jean Holmstead: Ag riculture, Myron Burgess; Commer cial, Ludle Mulr; Health, Verda Mil ler: Extra Curriculum. Winifred Babcock: Our Parents, Irene Gld- dmgs; Conclusk, Phil Jensen. The two pages were Mina IJJU"! Beth Ann Alkn. " ' Following the reading of the trolI, the diploma of graduation were presented to 77 student by James Smith, coresident of the school board. The ladies glee dub sang "A Tiny Seed Became a Shrine" and the benediction wu pronounced by E. Ray Gardner. -M3s Dcothy Varanaki wa ln charge of the' printing of the scroll and for the decorations used at the exercises. It was through her untiring un-tiring efforts that thli new and different dif-ferent type of graduatinff exercise were made possible. Evan Bairwas in charge of the construction of the scroll, Clinton Gerber and Jack Peters managing the staging. Assisting As-sisting Miss Varanakis with the painting were Vivian Burch. Madge Taney, Ethel Dean. Margaret Hor- gan. Hazel Monson, Donna Woot- ton, Reva McDonald, Jesse Butte. Edith Smith, LaVon Devey and others of the art department. - ' The musical accompaniment for the scroll reading was played by Maxine Taylor, first violin: TJiHm Seastrand, second violin: Norma Durrant, third violin; Mildred Anderson, An-derson, cello, and Evelyn Peck. piano. - . Community Church Activities The Women' Missionary Sodetv members of the Community Church me; at the home of Mrs. Joseph Parr on Thursday afternoon. Presi dent, Mrs. John Bunten presided. nine members were present. The foreign topics, "Gantemala" and "That Other America" were given by Mrs. Jt. W. Clark and' Mrs. Elmer Bezzant. The home tonic. The University Groiro At Menmnl" ' wa given by Mrs. Sarah Dixon. Lunch was served by the hostess. Kensington Society will meet in the church parlors, Thursday after noon, May ssta, with Mrs, John Ducxworth as hostess. AH members are urged to be present as there is work to be done. The "LUao Time Tea" held recent ly in the auditorium of the Oom- munlty Church was a pleasant oc casion ror au present Lilacs and Darwin Tulln tn tones of rom and lavender were used Very effectively in oecca-aung the room and tea tables. r-. ,. A program oonslstlng of readings and vocal numbers was greatly" enjoyed. en-joyed. Those assisting in the program pro-gram were Mrs. LaRue Morton. Mm. Jarvis Aydelotte, Mrs. Elmer Bei- sant, Miss Margaret Blnns, Miss Madollne Rcbinson and Mrs. R. w. Clark, Mrs. R, W, Clark, Reporter. f 1- 'V 1: -4 jf i ti: f WW -Cuts by courteey of Ealt Lake Tribune. , Above is picture showlr damage to American Amer-ican Fork High School gymnailunv TJpper view shows north end and missing root Lower view is looking down onto steel gtrders from which rafters and sheeting was stripped. New Officers Take Over Lion Club Duties . ' ' 11 CLiJamm"-,t The officers for the Lions club for the coming year were Installed at a cleverly arranged meeting held in the Harrington school building Thursday evening. The wives of the club members were the guests of the occasion. Following community singing conducted con-ducted by Mr. K. J. Bird, the outgoing out-going president, Leo O. Meredith, gave a report and . present : the president's button to A. F. Gate! ord, the incoming president. Mr. Gale-ford Gale-ford presented Mr. Meredith , with the past president's button, and accepted ac-cepted the duties of president. . Secretary Lloyd B. Adamson gave the secretary's report and financial statement and presented the button of his office to T. A. B&rratt, the new secretary. Mr. Barratt present, ed Mr. Adamson with the past secretary's secre-tary's ring. Mrs. Russell Humphreys abely read the "Legend of Tlmpano-gos". Tlmpano-gos". 1 At 9 p. ' m. the time was turned over to a special radio program of greetings to the . American Fork Lions club on their installation night The program opened in Washington, D. C. where "Melvln Jones,'' International secretary of the Lions club gave a speech of welcome wel-come and introduced "President Roosevelt'' who gave a good will ad-drees ad-drees and congratulated the American Ameri-can Fork Lions club on their activities. activi-ties. Controls were transferred to Denver, Den-ver, where "Richard J. Ceenbaugb, international President of the club, gave a talk especially for the members mem-bers of the local group. Music from the TMincan" sisters, singing "Springtime in the Rockies,'' and "Utah Trail," was heard over this station. . .Transferring to Los Angeles, Ex-president Ex-president "Herbert Hoover" gave a good will talk and expressed his best wishes for the success of the American Ameri-can Fork club. Going back to Wash ington "The March of Time" was presented, the main headline news feature being the court of Judge Ernest Seastrand handling the case of two club members vs. the public. One of the culprits admitted having been fined once before, having failed fail-ed to return a book to the library on the due date. Those taking part on the broad cast were, J. A. Owens of Provo, Norman B Wing. R. E. Shelley and Phil Jensen.' The Duncan sisters were the Russon Sisters of Lehi, The , room was decorated with the art work of the 3rd. 4th, Bth and 6th grade students, each student, whose father was a member of the club, having made a fac-sl-mile of the Lion emblem and fastened it to his or her work. Flowers placed m the windows were furnished by the school. The banquet table was deco-(Contlnued deco-(Contlnued On Page Four) Peppy Day - - Tomorrow Saturday win be Poppy Day in American Fork, we all will be called upon to wear the Memorial flower of the World War and make attributions for the welfare of those who sacrificed health and strength as part of the price of the nation's World War victory. X am sure that an veimns of the war and all other patriotie citizens will wear the symbolic little flower, and will contribute as liberally as their means permit for the work of mercy and relief the poppy makes possible. Poppy Day contributions are used by The American Legion and Auxiliary Auxil-iary to help the disabled veterans tn the hospitals, to help their families at home, to aid children left without with-out a father's support because of the war, and in all phases of Legion and Auxiliary work for the wnr' Jiving victims. Every penny is made to serve effectively for the purposes for which it is donated under the administration ad-ministration of the Legion and Auxiliary's Aux-iliary's volunteer workers. The popples will be distributed by thewomen of the Auxiliary, the wives, mothers, sisters and daughters of the men of the Legion, They will work without compensation of any kind, giving their time and efforts gladly to honor the dead and serve the living. I hope we all win respond re-spond to them in the same spirit when they offer the popples on the streets tomorrow. Fire Damages Creamery . Plant Fire which started on the roof of the local Mutual Creamery' plant at noon Wednesday did $65 damage to the structure before firemen had it out. The local fire department was on the scene Just two minutes after the alarm went In. Mr. Jarvis Aydelotte Ay-delotte said he held his watch to see just how long It would take the men to gather and get things underway. The fire was caused by soot from the smoke stack. O ' GENEALOGICAL UNION MEETING The Sunday" School and Genealogical- committee will bold their regular monthly union meeting Sunday Sun-day at 3 p. m. in the Second ward. Mr. Clayson of the Stake Genealogical Genealo-gical committee is desirous of meeting meet-ing all members of the ward committee com-mittee at the meeting Sunday. Notice The public is urged ' to notify either James Preston 1 or Howard Warnick of any White Top In this district so that the weed crew can eliminate all isolated patches! Seminary Class Urged To Take Success Road "The Roads Of life" ' was the theme discussed by Professor Harri-snn Harri-snn R Mrrrint thegTaduatlon exercises of the Seminary held Tuesday evening in the stake tabernacle. taber-nacle. The auditorium was well filled, all enjoyed the exercises very much. Professor Merrill cited three roads from which the young men and young women of today might choose his life's highway. These he explained ex-plained with stories making an interesting in-teresting talk. ; The meandering road is an easy one to follow while those not' able to keep on this highway go down on the down road and those filled with the fires of ambition take the up road that leads to success. The way we build our early life and the direction di-rection in ; which we -turn our thoughts largely determine the road we follow. He urged the graduates to seek the up road and strive to reach their goal The program was carried out as followst -..organ prelude and entry march of the graduates, Alice Parker; Park-er; invocation, Glen Andreason; song service directed by K. J. Bird; solo LaMar Clements; ladles chorus singing two numbers "Lily Bells" and "I Passed By Your Window"; salutatory address. R G. Gardner; song, "Come Join Our Celebration" by the congregation; valedictory ad. dresses, Lucile Mulr and Fern Marsh; awarding of diplomas. President Clifford E. Youm: string trio number by Mildred Anderson, Lillian Seastrand and Maxine Taylor; Tay-lor; address to graduates, H. R Merrill; Mer-rill; song "DoxoJogy" by the congregation congre-gation and the benediction by Emily Currie. 0 ' Primary Festival At Apollo Druggist Anvers Deaths Summons ToUawing;DlttessJ William. Thornton.. 6 Prominent Aroai nt TJtah and American Fork died Monday, afternoon atlxli home here, following-, awj five months' iUH ness from, bract trouble,. Bom Septerow ber 10. 1873.. In. American. Fork; Mr.. Thornton. has made this EinaL Respects : ; Paid Pioneer ; Citizen Final respects were paid WEUaxn Si. Bomnsonrtha oldest resident of American Fork Sunday afternoon with services in the Alpine . 6U&0 Tj&ernacle. Mr. Robinson was: born in England and came to Utah with his parents when Just a bojk He was one of. the first residents to set-' tie in this city and ha ahvaye taken great pride t tht betterment:o the entire community. - t Bishop T. A. Greenwood ol the First ward was In charge? of. the hia horn foe InV serrtoes. . As the funeral: cortege entire, life.. He was the son of Alexander. K. and Elisabeth Miller Thornton. the a nnai enienauunent m wv vw, all .wards of the stake participating. Miss Lue Oroesbeck. stake play leader jand chorister, assisted by Mrs. Frank Bush are in charge the festival which promises to be a very colorful event The complete program is as follows: . Bringing in the May: decorating the throne and singing the "Olad Song. Crowning the Queen.. Flower girls enter followed by the queen. Miss Jean Myers of Highland: girls sing "The May Queen.' Entertaining the Queen; The Swing. Beginners group; Jumping Ropes, second group; Minuett, Blue Birds and Trekkers; daffodllls, the Larks group; stunts, the Trallbulld-ers; Trallbulld-ers; Schottlsche, the Seagulls. Finale: song, fTJsawers"; braiding braid-ing of the May pole. boUiiearJy pioneer reslduntaof. community. The first year after- graduating. from: the University of Utah Mr. Thornton taught school and then accepted a position with the Chh mani Mercantile company which he held for five years. la 1895 he waa married, to Hajdee. Tcane of Lehk la lfiQO he opened a drug store an the corner where his. munbet 1 chain store now stands. la 1904 he took; oyer the ouuiagement of the tele phone company In addlUoA to the drug store work. Five year later he became manager of the Bett Telephone, Tele-phone, company for north Utah county, totting' the position for one year when he was oxiered a agership tax - Idaho, Rather than move from Aroexioaa Fork, Mr, Thornton decided to devote his entire en-tire time to the drug business, and in 1913 started his chain of ten stores when he purchased the num ber t store In this city and the store tn Murray. He was active manager of the No. t store up to December XI, 1935. at which time he was taken in. . Mr. Thornton was vice president of the board of directors of the People's State Bank In American Fork at the time of his death. He also served as a director of the oH Utah Banking Company of this, ctty for a number of years. He served as a member of the ctty council for six years, president of the Commercial Commer-cial Club, wu a member of the Lions Club and held various office of trust In the State fharmscuUcl At the time the American Fork ward waa divided Into four wards, Mr. Thornton was called to the posi tion of ward treasurer which Job he faithfully filled for 39 years hav ng his books up-to-date with all records complete when he handed them to the Bishop Just two weeks ago. Bishop 8 torn said he and Mr. Thoniton were Jhe Jast two pf .the officers of the ward who were in the original organization tn 1901. He said he had never found an error In the records during this entire time. Surviving are his widow; two sons, A. Kennedy Thornton, Salt Lake City,' and William Thornton, Ogden; two daughters, Mrs. Lela T. Plerson, Inglewood, Calif., and Miss Virginia Thornton, American Fork; one brother, Alex Thornton, Pleasant Grove; five sisters, Mrs. Nellie Blnns, Mrl. Jennie Bate, Mrs. Fern Chlpman, all of American Fork; Mrs. Elizabeth Lockhart, Ogden, and Mrs. Sadie Willis, Murray; three grandchildren, A. Kennedy Thornton Salt Lake; Miss Helen Plerson and William Alkn Plerson, Inglewood, Calif. . Funeral services win be conducted today (Friday) at 2:30 p. m. in the Alpine stake tabernacle. Friends may call at the family home Thursday Thurs-day and Friday prior to the funeral services, AU business houses will be closed during the time of the funeral. POPPY DAY PROGRAM. The Spring Festival of the stake Primary association will be held next Wednesday at p. m. in the Apollo hall. The festival omrnder J. J. Mercer Jr.; read A Poppy day program will be given tonight in the Legion Memorial Han to which the public is invited. The program is under the direction of the Ladles Auxiliary to the American Ameri-can Legion and will explain the purpose pur-pose of Poppy day, its history and present day importance. The program pro-gram is as follows: Legion ritual and posting of colors and singing of America;' speech, ing. Oenavee Beck; solo, Mrs. LaRue Morton; Poppy playlett; eok, Darren Dar-ren Wanlass; Poppy drill by members mem-bers of Mrs. Nina Booth's dancing class and the closing flag ceremonies. Special Memorial Day Program Plans are Hearing completion for the Memorial day program sponsored sponsor-ed by the American Legion and Leg ion Auxiliary of the American Fork Post Mrs. Dclbert Chlpman Is program chairman and states the program this year win be different from any ever presented on this oc ca&ion before and win be both In terestlng and colorful : ., left the home and crossedithe road to toe tabernacle a group) of boys, under the direction of professor Saner of the Brigham Young univer sity, with trumpets and trombones. played "Rock of Ages," A the procession pro-cession entered the building ' the aoaslo was picked up hyrthe organ, played by Mrs. Owen. Homphries, and two violin played by-Selma and Lillian . Seastrand, great-grandchildren. 5 ' - f.' Til Go Where YoWant Me To Go," the opening song; was sung by a male Quartet the- members being Joseph Young, Ruloa-rTlcholes, Ken neth Robinson and: West Hammond. Prayer was offered! by stake clerk, 131 J. Clayson. Mrs, K: J. Seastrand read a biographical sketch of the life of Mr. Robinson, ber grandfather. . Former Blahc Jjaraes T. Oardner of the First ward, was the , first speaker and told of his' life-long acxraaintanoe-wtth Mr. Robmson, and of the many times he had received encouragement and other help front this friend ef- the entirej common Tn A pggTim was sung by John Halliday and M Edrth Harrison, accotrqwoaed by Mrs, Jensen, an of Pleasant Orovek ' Leo T. Shelley spoke of his work- . tag with Mr, ytobfnson at the time Mr. Shelley was doing his first ward teschmg. ite told of the life time of service to hi church and the keen interest tn hts surroundings that was matotahwt even tn the " last -hours of his life. Mrs. C. EL Young sang the beautiful solo "No Night There." President Clifford E. Young spoke of Mr. Robinson, indorsing aB that had blTeald b the other speakers and ddtog his testimony to the good accomplished in life of service for others. I , E!Arp Greenwood eumraoned up the Tenets cT the "others' and his knowledge of the deceased tn the following attributes: friendly, kind, helpful, generous, self -control, thrifty thrif-ty and spiritual minded. The Quartet Quar-tet sang "A Perfect Day and the broedictton was pnmounced ,-by Bishop Joseph .Storrs. Interment was made tn the city cemetery. As the casket was lower ed the group from - the - B. Y. U. - played "God Be With You Till We . Meet Again." The grave was dedicated dedi-cated by West Jacobs of Pleasant Orove. The Instrumental group were Bennle Schmlett, Bruce Barclay, Glade Jorgensen, Vance Bennett and Don Earl . .. ' Ten Years; Ago Now Taken from file of May 22, 1928) . Today marks the opening of the new Utah Lake Resort, located on the lake shore one mile south of American Fork and west . of the former lake resort Gustavo Schmidt, the owner and proprietor, has been busy the past several weeks and although al-though there yet remains a num ber of Improvements to be made, which he anticipates completing by the next summer season, the necle- ous of a popular summer resort is rapidly developing. Ten Years Ago Now-Honoring Now-Honoring Bishop Joseph H. Storrs, who for 27 years has been manager of the American Fork Co-op, the board of directors and employees of the firm are giving a social In the stake tabernacle amusement hall , Tuesday night Bishop Storrs resignation resig-nation takes effect June 1st " Ten Years Ago Now P. 8. Humphries and Sons, suc cessful florists of Pleasant Grove for many years, have Just completed a property deal involving part of the M. A. Wilde holdings on which they plan to erect a floral establishment establish-ment Cut flowers and potted plants win be sold both wholesale and retail. Ten Years Ago Now . With but one exception the White party of the high school carried at the annual student body election held Tuesday. Lloyd Tregaskls was elected president and Miss Marie Roberts vice president Others elected were: Eleanor Kelly, secre tary-treasurer; Laze 11 Chlpman, yellmaster; Mildred Dunkley, chair man of programs: Helmar Bloom qulst, business manager. 1. Ten Years Ago Now Wednesday at the high school a great deal of Interest was shown when the new year books, the first published for several years, was distributed among the students. |