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Show Coo 11 liil ($( 11 li 11 LLs hi lenai 1 AMERICAN FORK, UTAH, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1941 NUMBER 37 1 -iff T A Pnorl Community Pays Final Tribute To Ellen Proctor Sincere Tribute Paid Bertha Haag By Community School District Has Slight Population Drop L Set For Cday-Tuesday Former Am. Fork Resident Dies From Injuries Relatives here were notified of the death of Blaine Lewis Whim-pey, Whim-pey, 34, who died early Sunday in a hospital at Ely, Nevada of in -I v , 4 " 90 JaTnext week-Monday Qjy-wd on eacn mtfm be presented by the j of AlP stake. fLiy evening the shows Lamented in the Alpine and yrds, commencing at (a (anil wUl route with their Lhows, each lasting 20 evening the shows tmsented In all fourAmer-frt fourAmer-frt rds, commencing at Ed In clockwise fashion, go-i go-i nrd to ward. fgi Has arranged an out-V, out-V, presentation. Judges will Cned at various points, unclothe un-clothe actors, and the shows judged on a point system Ashby plaque will be pre- th winner. This plaque, b. ur tnd Mrs. B. L- Ashby, L ym one year by the win- ( permanently If won three bch year the name of the k eneraved on the plaque. C nrd is responsible for spe- W between acts ai ineir CUT tni u responsible for its Cj ghow and transportation. I irt must be up to MUiuai (nent Association Stand-I Stand-I in oMticloants must be a of the ward presenting it Judges are selected from 1 8 stake and shows will be I on both evenings, i fedskms will be scored on s basis as follows: selection m and standards, 35 points; punt of theme, 35 points; il effectiveness, 20 points; I points. iseore Is to be signed by the ipliced in a sealed envelope MA to the chairman, fudged jst to confer in rendering a isaml public is Invited to id the Road Show perform- lthich will be of high stand -Kid very entertaining, M. I. A. tainnounce. ;n Auxiliary Enjoys Social juries suffered Saturday night in an automobile accident between Ely and McGill. He was the son of Mr- and Mrs. Lewis Whimpey of Santaquin and a nephew of Mrs. L. R. Pett of this city. They were former residents of American Fork. Mrs. Whimpey, who was with her husband in an auto headed toward Ely from Cherry Creek. susUined a broken leg, possible skull fracture frac-ture and lacerations and at last reports was in a serious condition at the Ely hospital. The accident occurred when the car driven by Mr. Whimpey collided head-on with a truck. Mr. Whimpey died of Internal injuries in-juries and a skull fracture. His body was brought to the Anderson Brothers Mortuary in this city, who will be In charge of funeral arrangements Mr. Whimpey was born October 25, 1907 at Mercur, a son of Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Whimpey. He resided for a number of years at Oenola, where he was engaged in trucking, farming and mining. Surviving are his widow, four sons and daughters, Carma, James, Irene and Nancy Whimpey of Oenola; Oe-nola; his mother, a brother, William Wil-liam Whimpey, of Taft, California, and four sisters, Mrs. Evelyn Kay of Santaquin, Mrs. Amanda Smith of Long Beach, California, Mrs. My-ra My-ra McConnell of Dunsmuir, California, Cali-fornia, and Mrs. Louise Wlrthlin of Spanish Pork. Funeral services are beini held today (Friday) at 1 p. m. 1 the Santaquin L. D. S. ward chapel, directed by the Anderson and ''ions mortuary of American Fork. , o ML Men To Stage Basketball Tourney Here American Fork Lions Ladles an members were entertained pbomi of Mrs. Olln H. Rlrie pmday evening with the new p of the club as hostesses. The parted officers include the pt Mrs. A. F. Galsford, M, Mrs. Leo G. Meredith, I'" iraiueni; Mrs. jonn xl. kieand vice president; Mrs. PWdis, secretary and treasur-JkOlln treasur-JkOlln H. Ririe, accompanist; ( R. Halliday, chorister and ?"WS. Taylor, reporter. hot luncheon was serv-rWock, serv-rWock, bowls of varl-colored rmums decoratimr the Od ThankSL'lvina fa P pi. Following the lunch- inci orutge was played, Infold Hollev. winninir thp hich and Mrs. William Chip- " Wt Prize. Tho rliih rvriw I "Jed to Mrs. Ray Ellison. ' W enjoying the affair were I wnde. Mrs. Francis Abel, I Mlllor. Mrs. K. J. Bird, I" L. Faddis, Mrs. William Mrs. j. f. Walton, Mrs. lfMay, Mrs. Clen Saunders, w Holmsteal, Mrs. David rs. Elmer Bate, Mrs. C. A. O. 8. Richards, Mrs. Leo Mrs. James Chadwick. ' Houston, Mrs. R. W. Mad-uA Mad-uA F. Galsford, Mrs. Glen W. H Halliday, Mrs. H. Ollu H. RW. and will be held on December wTT W1 M". Leila Abel, Adamson, Mrs. Jennie aLoa Bird. fef Society Conference Sun. USllty confence will be Pie a Hras 01 Alpine It. k Undav evpnlna afonnt. kofTlncem'nts male by of- Wat OronnWoH haf7KPresldpncl wlU be In .moctta n each ward K ard member will be Seltef o . es arc desired by " Society officers. American Fork will be the scene of the annual basketball tournament tourna-ment of District Six of the L. D. S. M. Men leagues, It was decided Sunday Sun-day when M. Men leaders of the 20 stakes, comprising the district met at the Joseph Smith Memorial building at Brigham Young university. uni-versity. The tournament will be held February 18, 19, 20 and 21, It was decided with 16 teams being allowed al-lowed to enter. The district, largest In the church, comprises Utah, Wasatch, Juab, Carbon, Millard and Emery counties coun-ties in Utah. New Mexico. Colorado and southern Wyoming. Reelected supervisor of the district dis-trict Sunday was LeRoy Johnson of Provo. with Leon Bird of Spring-ville Spring-ville assistant supervisor, and Donald Don-ald Fuller of Payson, secretary-treasurer. secretary-treasurer. Bird replaces Griffith Kimball of Provo and Fuller takes the place of Blaine Hansen of Palmyra. Lions-Legion Make Drive For Furniture The American Fork Lions club are sponsoring a drive in cooperation with the American Legion to obtain furniture or any musical instrument instru-ment to aid in furnishing the newly completed recreation rooms for the soldier boys at Camp San Luis Obispo, California. They need Just about the same furnishings that any ordinary living liv-ing room would have: .easy chairs, settees, tables, lamps, nigs, magazine maga-zine racks, desks, ec. The equipment need not be new, but it must be serviceable and sturdy. stur-dy. They are desirous of obtaining, a piano or any musical instruments. Anyone In the community having any furniture that they would like to contribute for this purpose are qcVaH n pptrin touch with H, C. Jensen, Clarence drsmt w Wn Madsen: " This committee wux mate the arrangements to have the furniture furni-ture called for and see that It reaches reach-es its destination. . o ; War iwim "War Jitters" are responsible lor the alarming Increase In automobile accident deaths, according to the National Safety council. The funeral services held Saturday Satur-day at 2 o'clock in the Alpine Stake Tabernacle for Mrs. Ellen Gardner Proctor. 80. were largely attended by relatives and friends and the Moral offerings were profuse and very beautiful. Mrs. Proctor passed away at her home in the Fourth ward the previous Wednesday of causes incident to her advanced age. Bishops counselor Henry E. McNeill Mc-Neill officiated at the services, which opened with a vocal solo, Face to Face" by Moral D. Steele. Mrs Mary Humphries was the piano accompanhit for all of the musical number1?. John N. Klelnman offered offer-ed the opening prayer. Mrs Mary E. Abel read a biographical bio-graphical sketch of the life of Mrs. Proctor and speakers were Leonard Harrington, Lot Robinson and Mr. McNeill, all of whom spoke highly of the life and character of the deceased. de-ceased. ( Rulon Nicholes sang a solo, "My Task" and as the concluding number Mr. and Mrs. Harry LincHey of Provo Pro-vo sang a duet, "In The Garden." The benediction was offered by Clyde P. Crookston. Interment was made in the city cemetery, where James T. Gardner dedicated the grave. Biographical Sketch of Ellen Proctor Ellen Gardner Proctor, daughter of James Gardner and Jane Trehl-fall, Trehl-fall, was born in American Fork, Utah County, Utah, June 25, 1861. Her parents , had heard the Gospel from the lips of humble missionaries in their native land In Lancashire, England. They were convinced of the truthfulness of the message and rejoiced in the privilege of being baptized into the Church of IJesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. They received the spirit of gathering and after a long and tedious Journey arrived ar-rived in Salt Lake City In the year 1855 and immediately made their permanent home in American Fork, now known as First South on Center street. Ellen was the third child In a family of six and truly gladdened their happy home. She was taught and trained in the worthwhile things of life courage, Integrity and faith by her pioneer parents, who loved their religion better than life itself. She enlisted m the Sunday School and other Auxiliaries of the Church near their first beginning in American Ameri-can Fork and took an active part in these organizations. She attended attend-ed the District schools here and well remembered her first teachers Mrs. Mary Griffith, Mrs. Snow and later Eugene Henrold and Joseph B. Forbes. She was united In marriage by Bishop L. E. Harrington to Robert Proctor, son of John Proctor and Martha Parker. January 1. 1883, whose parents also had emigrated here for the Gospel sake. Twelve children came to bless their happy home (seven girls and five boys) Millie. James, Elsie. Marie, Mattie, John, Florence, Jane, Nell,, Dr. H. T. Plumb, of Qeneral Electric's "House of Magic," demonstrating the lighting of an electric lamp without wires. Local Republicans Attend State Banquet American Fork was well represented represent-ed at a Republican banquet and meeting held Monday evening at the Joseph Smith Memorial building in Provo. Miss Marlon 1. Martin of Bangor. Maine, assistant chairman of the Republican national committee, commit-tee, addressed the banquet meeting. More than 100 Republicans, including in-cluding many state party leaders gathered for the banquet, sponsored "House of Magic" To Be Presented Here Tomorrow General Electdlc's "House of Magic" which amazed over three million people at the New York World's fair will be presented free of charge Monday evening, Novem ber 24. at 7:30 p. m. In the High School Auditorium. Residents of this area who have not already received their free tic kets to this fantastic demonstration of science may obtain them from the American Fork store of the Utah Power and Light Company, or from hv th Prnvn fMtv T?jniihHrnn rlnh "Never has there been a greater , y American Fork electrical dealer, need for Republican activity than at I , ylo,f1 the present time" Miss Martin le-. P1 ?Ues c VDi Bt? clared. "An opposition party is as necessary to the country as a conscience con-science to the individual, and we must remember, that only by maintaining main-taining a virile two-party system here in this country can the people have a choice In the conduct of the country's affairs. When it becomes a one party affair, it will not be the America we have today," she said. American Fork had the largest representation of any city in the county, with the exception of Provo, and those attending from here were: Mrs. Blanche Tattersall, state Republican Re-publican committee woman from Utah County; Mr. and Mrs. Edward R. Tuttle, Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Ashby, Mrs. Frank Bush, Mrs. Sidney Nicholes Nich-oles Jr., Mrs. Chart Anderson, Mrs. Mate Earl, Mrs. Martha Buckw alter, and Mr. William J. Chad wick. Two Trucks, Car Feature in Accident A passenger automobile and two trucks figured In a smash-up Sun- Robert, Darrel and Tom. James and day at 2:15 a. m. Just outside of Elsie died In babyhood. Although the mother of a large family, yet her heart was in the Gospel and she took great Joy in doing her part, wherever she was called to labor. She was first counselor in the Primary association of the Fourth ward for a number of years. She was a teacher In the Religion class and also a teacher In the Relief i Society, for many years and was si member of the Daughters of Utah Pioneers On August 6, 1921 she was left a widow with five unmarried children, yet her faith) in her Heavenly Father supported her in this, as In all she was called to pass through. She trusted inplicltly in Him and with no complaints her faith and confidence confi-dence in His Wisdom and AlwLse care. On February 9. 1922 she rejoiced re-joiced to enter and receive the blessings bless-ings given in the House of the Lord. She loved her children and taught them by precept and example to live the Oospel and trust in God for the blessings needed for their happiness hap-piness here and hereafter. She' proved herself a loving and devoted wife and mother, a splendid neighbor, beloved by all who knew her. Her children and grandchildren garl S. Greenwood, a member of proved their devotion and love bnthe "Alplhe Stake Presidency, has their tender care during her life, especially during the last two weeks while confined to her bed, by doing all in their power to comfort her until Father, seen. fH ,to release her Wednesday morning. November' 12, 1941, to meet the reward of a well spent life the city limits on the highway northwest of American Fork, in which two persons suffered injuries. According to reports, Mr. George Rasmussen of Magna was driving one of the trucks and towing another an-other one behind his truck- He was traveling north. An automobile driven by Fredrick A. Howes of Salt Lake City, traveling south, crashed Into the trucks. Mr. and Mrs. Howes suffered cuts about their head and face, but were not seriously injured. Another couple riding in the rear seat of their car escaped any injury. Mr. Rasmussen was also uninjured. Night Officer Francis Anderson conducted an investigation and then called the state highway patrol, as the accident occurred outside of the city limits. Mr. Rasmussen was arrested ar-rested by the patrolman for falling to yield the right of way. It was reported that the truck was over the center line. Local Man Injured complicated scientific phenomena understandable to the laymen, will serve in the capacity of the "magician" "ma-gician" -and present the show. In real 'life he Is an engineering sultant for the General Electric company at Salt Lake City. Dr. Plumb sqeezes light out of a gas-filled tube with his hands and lights an lncadescent lamp with a match as well as with electric current cur-rent flowing through his arms. He demonstrates humidity control by turning a light on with a moist breath and off with a dry breath. The "Rouse of Magic" will imitate imi-tate the light of a firefly with chemicals. chem-icals. It is ft cold light, but the cost of producing it is some 25 million times that of the electric lamp. The demonstration, according to Dr. Plumb, is lntender to suggest some of the changes which are in store for future generations as a result re-sult of laboratory research. In this fanciful presentation of fact the eye Is fascinated by brilliant colors leaping out with the ultraviolet ultravio-let while music travels across the stage on a beam of light. Dr. Plumb causes a shadow to stand still after its owner walks away. The lecturer, affectionately known as "High Tension" Plumb by students stu-dents when he was a college professor, pro-fessor, will demonstrate stroboscope light, which flashes on and off too quickly for the eye to detect. By Its use a disk revolving 900 times a minute is made to appear to stand still. A "kidnap detector" will be demonstrated dem-onstrated by utilizing capacity control con-trol of electric current. Whenever a body draws near the baby the detector causes a bell to ring. It is Impossible to touch the baby without with-out ringing the bell. A new York newspaper described the show as "the most indescribable and awe-inspiring feature of the fair." Local Girl Listed In College "Who's Who" been confined to the Utah Valley hospital at Provo during the past several days receiving treatment for Injuries suffered in an automobile accident in Provo on Thursday of last week. . '"" " '' ' Mr. Greenwood was riding with She is survived by the following Mercer Greenwood when the colll- chlldren: Mrs. Millie McDanlel of slon occurred. He sunerea a con-Alpine, con-Alpine, Mrs. Marie Adams, Mrs. mission and other injuries and was Mattie Hoggard, of American Fork, confined to the hospital for several Mrs Florence Bohan of Berkeley, i days. He has been removed to his California; Mrs. Jennie Bell of Salt (Continued On Page Four) home this week and Is reported to be doing as well as can be expected. 'Twenty-five B Y.- U.-fstudent&wlll. be listed In the 1941-42 edition of Who's Who Among Students of American Universities and Colleges, according to H..Pettus Randall, editor. edi-tor. Miss Maxine Taylor, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Glon L Taylor of this city, Is one of the 25 selected. The students were chosen recently recent-ly -by a' "committee on ratingaln scholarship, leadership in extracurricular extra-curricular activities, character and potentialities of usefulness to business busi-ness and society. Approximately 5000 students from more than 550 colleges and universities uni-versities were represented in last year's edition. Sincere tribute was paid to Mrs. Bertha Chadwick Haag, at funeral services held Monday afternoon at 2 o'clock in the Alpine Stake tabernacle. taber-nacle. Mrs. Haag, 47 years of age, passed away at her home here on Thursday of last week of a heart attack, following an illness of eight days. The large attendance at the services serv-ices and the many beautiful floral tributes bespoke the love and esteem held for Mrs. Haag In this community. com-munity. Bishop John W. Pulley was in charge of the services, which opened open-ed with a vocal solo, "Beautiful Isle" by Moral D. Steele, accompanied by Mrs. Mary Humphries. Daniel H. Jorgensen offered the invocation. The biographical sketch of Mrs. Haag's life was read by Miss Mary Pulley. Speakers were Lot Robinson and J. Stanley Peters. They brought out many beautiful thoughts and offered consoling words to the bereaved be-reaved family. Mr. and Mrs. Arnold Brans of Lehl sang a duet, "In The Garden," accompanied by Mrs. Humphries and the closing musical number was a violin solo, "A Perfect Day" by Del-be Del-be rt Ray Chlpman, accompanied by Mrs. LaRee Van Wagoner. Bishop Pulley made closing remarks re-marks and the benediction was offered of-fered by Counselor H. E. McNeill. The grave at the city cemetery was dedicated by Thomas E. Sunderland Sunder-land of Lehi, a brother-in-law of the deceased. Biographical Sketch of Bertha Haag By Mary Pulley Bertha Chadwick Haag was born December 18, 1893 in American Fork, Utah, the daughter of Thomas and Christine Jensen Chadwick. She was the fourth child in a family of seven children Alice, El mer, Alfred, Bertha, Barbara, Reed, and Ida. A brother and sister, El mer and Ida, have preceeded her in death, as well aa her father and mother. 1 BeruiA wneh a fluid endeared herself to her many little friends by her kind and lovely disposition. Her nearest and dearest school friend was Eva Thornton. They both started their school days to-geth, to-geth, up at the old North School House. This deep friendship soon ended, however, for one night after school, Elva's clothes accidentally caught on fire while burning leaves and she was burned to death. This was the first tragedy to come Into Bertha's life. When she was 18 years old ber father died, leaving 'a large family with no support and her mother in poor health. Elmer and Alice were married, leaving the responsibility of caring for their mother on Ber tha. Four years later her mother passed away. This left Bertha In charge of the family. She did the house keeping, while the rest of the children went out to work, getting get-ting Jobs here and there wherever they could. Bertha, Barb, and Ida took care of the Fourth ward meeting house for over 20 years. Under their supervision su-pervision the church was always clean and tidy, and their work was appreciated by the bishopric and ward members because of their efficiency effi-ciency and dependability. Bertha married Leonard C. Haag on May 12. 1931. She was a lover of children and not being fortunate In having any of their own, they took little Berttiece, her sister's daughter, when but 3 months old to raise as their own child. They have given this child all the love and affection and have done all in their power to make her comfortable comfort-able and happy And in return this little one has brought peace and Joy into the lives of Bertha and Leonard. All the neighbor children dearly loved Bertha, because of her t hough tfulness and kindness to them. In June, 1934. the Reaper came and took from Bertha her beloved sister, Ida. This was a terrible blow to her because of the love these two sisters had for one another. Bertha had been so patient in caring car-ing for Ida during her sickness and to part with her was a severe ordeal or-deal . Leonard is a Legionalre and Bertha Ber-tha a member of the Ladles Auxll iary. She has been a Relief society so-ciety teacher lor many years. Bertha's spare minutes have been spent in crocheting.- and.-quUting. She was a wonderful home-maker and an excellent cook she spent several summers up to Mutual Dell as the cook there. She mothered all the children of the neighborhood and was always thoughtful of those who were sick (Continued On Page Four) Despite the fact that there Is ft definite Increase in population, the number of school age children residing re-siding In the Alpine District is 77 less in number this year over the report of last year, it is shown in the census figures released at the school board office here this week. There is a total of 5239 students between be-tween the age of six and eighteen residing in the district this year, as compared to 5316 for the 1940 census report. Of this number, 2720 are boys and 2519 are girls. In American Fork there Is ft decrease de-crease of 68 pupils over that of last year. Lehl shows a decrease of five pupils, Pleasant Grove a decrease de-crease of 7 pupils, and Lincoln shows an Increase of 3 pupils. In commenting on the condition, Clerk Joseph Walton stated that the only thing that this can be ac counted to' la the fact that our younger people with families have moved to the defense area. Practically Prac-tically every available house In American Fork Is filled at the present pres-ent time, and ft number of new houses have been built, which makes this report almost unbelievable. unbeliev-able. There are fifty children of school age enrolled In schools outside of the district and there are eight students In the district enrolled In schools outside of Utah. Forty-nine Forty-nine students of school age are enrolled en-rolled in Utah private schools. The number of students of school age legally excused totals 177 and those not legally excused, IS. The total number of children between be-tween the ages of six and eighteen eigh-teen enrolled In the schools, totals 4940. Students legally excused in the district are listed as follows: Under eight years of age 2; over fourteen, services required to support sup-port mother or Invalid father, agrees to meet school attendance requirements, require-ments, 1 ; pver IS years or has com-, pleted eighth grade, has employment employ-ment permit and agrees to meet school attendance requirements during dur-ing year, 9; high school graduates, 50; equivalent instruction at home, 1; physically incapacitated, mentally men-tally unfit to profit by Instruction offered, 20; holding employment permit when no part-time classes are available, 4; adequate educational educa-tional opportunities in connection with employment, SI; married, SO; other causes, 31; total, 177. The age distribution of the children chil-dren residing In the district follows: fol-lows: 439, six-year olds; 433, age 7; 383, age 8; 431. age 9; 420, age 10; 422. age 11; 433, age 13; 443, age 13; 472, age 14; 428, age IS; 404. age 18; 472, age 17. The total number of students of school age In American Fork is 1371, there being 72S boys and 648 girls. Of this number, 1395 are enrolled in school; six are enrolled in Utah public schools outside of this district, dis-trict, three enrolled in Utah private schools, two enrolled in schools outside out-side of Utah; 59 are legally excused and 6 not legally excused. The total number of school age children in Lehi totals 985, (513 boys and 473 girls) and of this number 955 are enrolled in the school of. the district. Eight are enrolled in Utah public schools outside out-side of this district. 21 are legally excused, and 1 not legally excused. There are 1122 children of school age in Pleasant Grove (569 boys and 553 girls) and of this number 1076 are enrolled In the local schools. Eight students are enrolled In Utah public schools outside of this district, dis-trict, seven are enrolled in Utah private schools, enrolled in State Training School, 3; number enrolled en-rolled In deaf school, 2; legally excused, ex-cused, 30; not legally excused, 1- In Lincoln there are 1761 students stu-dents of school age (914 boys and 847 girls) and of this number 1614 are enrolled in the Lincoln schools. Twenty-eight are enrolled in Utah public schools outside of this district, dis-trict, '39 enrolled in private schools, six 'ur schools outside, cf -Utah,. 67, are legally excused and 7, not legally excused. Special Chorus At First Ward The Medelssohn Chorus of Provo fll prwent'an outstaftdlnrinuskl -program in the American Fork -First ward on Sunday evening, December 7, according to M. I. A. officers who have charge of the program. An outstanding concert program Is being arranged for by the chorus for the occasion and everyone Is invited to attend. v - t t t f I r i t i (V i 4S ..... 'I |