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Show fork Citizen icnca fSTT , AMERICAN FORK, UTAH, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1945 " " l XXXU v a. NUMBER 49 I - 4 T i "Mmmmmmmmmmmm 'ate Legislature Has jmpleted Little :,4 jgislation After 4 Weeks When they quit lawmaking at the end of the fourth week of the twenty-sixth session of the state legislature the members counted their tangible achieve ments, in the matter of laws passed and killed at only about ten per cent. Ten per cent that is, of the more than 300 bills and resolutions introduced.- But that . . . Is ft somewhat misleading flimre newly erected American .O,ioo . oom f fv ,Jha Youth Camp norm or tnei . . . .'inn . lr Youth Camp iated Local Jaycees was OIHCiaujr jiuubwu Vday evening by the Jaycees they conducted ineir regu- leetlng there. kident William Wright di- the meeting. Besides the cout officials of American City were guests at the on. neighborhood of 100 hours preparation, committee consld eration, lobbying persuasion and plain ordinary horse-trading to one hour of debate on the floo: to get a bill passed And the 100 hours have al ready been devoted to man: pieces of legislation that will' have an important and controlling controll-ing influence on the waythe TOT V. tic """"wu l TTfnV. ,tl II J. principal speaker He dis-, heir J P r ar2S ?h5i four vears- For Stance, fe "Sh Si the joint committee of labor and Iiuwuig J"-"", Hrirtncf.ro rt.avr.tnrt a crroof rtoal f fcrls. Itwasexpainedthat,ime ' hew camp is to De usea Dy i ' , :. : r:: fcuth in the Alpine stake tr night trips and day proof pro-of any nature. A 5-man to be selected from vari- itv organizations, will be d to direct the new camp tion. rl and John L. Ohran and 8; Greenwood, committee In ni caniD Dunaine. ar a compromise on the Dill re specting extension of benefits under the Workmens' Compensation Compensa-tion and the Occupational Disease Di-sease acts. They recommended a boost in minimum compensation compensa-tion from $16 a week to $22.50 a week. W. C. Jensen, (D. Ogden) and his committee have approved approv-ed those recommendations. They bnty Celery count Growth ts of .the Utah Celery ers cooperative have in- d ten-fold, John W. Gerb- :ecutive secretary and man- of the business, reported May at the annual meeting lie stockholders held In the d Inning 7nd Ernestli kk had charge of refresh- qh W V tlV()W V4H vv HatU Will promises are ahead for the major controversial measures yet to be presented. Such as elections and voting, post war planning for emnlovment and nubile enn- UUp struction, budgeting of the state s income iana Tnere reauy is a stickler!); taxation (another (anoth-er brutal word in these days); highways, social security affairs and that always diverting and continuing question of deers for the hunters and brouse for the sheep and cattle (or which). There seem to be anywhere from two to twenty schools of fHMiirVtf rtn a r tr rr oil r4P f Kada b city and county building. - nU IIZ 1942. assets were listed at , while the financial report Kcember 31, 1944, showed as of $38,061.72 lded the cooperative's con fiiTnnn vTa ; to everything from the number I $12,000 vegetable processing , . ' tn J?,n. nn hn. It here in American Fork, 7 Z7 XZT. Ti liquor commission's commissions or failure of commission (de- rSSei n-e dePtment : of agricultures i desires to extena tneir aomain installed equipment valued ,000. DeVere Wootton of Amerl- Fork, Alfred J. Madsen and Scott of Provo, were re- d directors. William S. , American "Fork, was elect- fill the unexpired term of to assumption of control over all soil conservation enterprises. And the gamut of subjects before be-fore the legislature runs on to an unbelievable number. Rep. Selvoy J. Boyer (D. Spring- yille) took a lot ofwind out of the organized labor sails in the house early In the week's pro- Mower. Holdover direc are E. Ray Gardner, Ameri-Fork, Ameri-Fork, and Claude Carter, lo. nt BSiSmmu wnen he squelched " oi opnngviue succeeas. . d..,---! m um-t 0nrl his effort to permit public employees em-ployees and agencies to bargain collectively by saying "are we to lose the spoils' system and freeze every public Job in Utah?" The house agreed with the Democratic Democra-tic floor leader. No collective bargaining for the state or other public employees. A lot of other civil service proposals pro-posals are quite apt to meet a similarly conclusive fate. But the county firemen did win a victory their plea for recogni- ineral Conducted re For Mace Brown im. 3fi r hoiH ot 9 tlon was panted. i. in the Anderson and Son's Senator Mitchell Mellch (R. tuary with Bishop Stewart Moab) chalked up a couple of want in charge. Mr. Brown ! credit marks bv s successful killed in an auto-pedestraln; sponsorship of the emergency dent January 28 at Fontana, measure permitting the contln-1, contln-1, where he was a guard atiued employment of women in tense plant I above-ground mining operations. overcrowded building and' The aggressive and articulate y beautiful floral pieces bore Republican floor leader in the ence of the respect felt for house, Rep. Clifton O M. Kerr of Brown and his family. The Tremonton, abetted forceful ude and postlude were played speaker W. R. White in cutting s. Jack iverson Opening off debate that has resulted in iber w:, o a t v,: no-, .the tabling of nine and the re- sunR by Mrs. Joseph Mech-1 committing to committee of a ina Mrs. Jack Cook. The in- uc "u"lutl UA "on was offered by Rollo . Milton Brown then nlav- Hlfct.iv iui"uhvp. h- i . i t a it- - T-v ax-Pllo solo Teach Me to1 Annual meeting oi me ueer 1 Creek Irrigation Company was akrrs were Frank Brown, held in Provo Wednesday. Amer- usin of the decpased. and lean Fork Metropolitan water 6lH. Jorensiw. Mr -R ol boyhood experiences and of Deer Creek, stock, was reptiM B'zea the deceased for his sented Dy ixt kodicsou, w. v. 'striousness. vntul farminr Day. Harry Jerling and Isaac Fox py, and fine disposition. Mr. j represented the Highland con-lensen con-lensen srmb-a m a noiaVihnr wrvfttion district which ownes MM M ' Wend of the family. Clos marks Wfro maHo hv Rlsh- T.. j turrant 5010 shares of Deer Creek. Ten of the eleven old directors t"urrant. were reeiecuea. j. iv. iuuumu, Irs. M.vhom rrrir Pmvn who is reported to be as a clositiff nnmhor fwiinff , movine to California was replac fie. Thf honftriiofinr. ,.mc r.rr. , prt hv John Beesley. J. W. Gill- ?nced bv Harrv K nrnwn and man was elected president and Isravp ridrii.ot k nrrrn v Wnitpr p. Whitehead, secretary. fwson. Members of the Relief O. C. Day is the director from feiy cared lor the flowers. Highland. Veteran Poultry Operator Dies In Salt Lake Rudolph Konold, 82, former resident and prominent poultry raiser of American Fork, died at the home of a son, A. E. Konold, Salt Lake City, Thursday, February Febru-ary 1, 1945. He was born July 29, 1862, in Priceville, Ontario, Canada, the son of William and Elizabeth Gilbert Gil-bert Konold. With his wife, Mary Bone Konold, he moved to American Amer-ican Fork in 1925 where he engaged en-gaged in the poultry business until the death of his wife in January 1937, when he retired. Earlier in life he was an engi neer for the Union Pacific and Denver and Rio Grande railroads. rail-roads. Later he was general manager of the Salt Lake office of the Phoenix MutualLife In surance company and later held the same position with the Columbia Col-umbia Life. During his residence in Amer ican Fork he engaged in the poul try industry, taking pride in his work and accomplishments. He was president of the local Utah Poultry Association during which time he was instrumental in or ganizing a local Presidents organization or-ganization of the state associa tion. He became president of this group and when he retired he was made President Emeritus and given an honorary life membership. He was founder of American Fork Poultry Day which was an annual event until the United States entered World War II. Funeral services were conduct ed in the Bryan LDS ward in Salt Lake City Monday. Mr. Ko nold had recently become a mem ber of the Church of Jesus Christ' of Latter-day Saints and was an elder in that ward. Speakers were Clyde P. Ed munds, general manager of the Utah Poultry Association, and ElderClifford E. Young, assistant to the Twelve. Each paid splendid splen-did tribute to the deceased, emphasizing em-phasizing his sincerity, dependability, depend-ability, and the exemplary life he had lived. Graveside services were con ducted In American Fork cemetery. ceme-tery. Former Bishop Joseph H. Storrs, long time acquaintance and friend of the family, said a few words in tribute to Mr. Konold Ko-nold after which he dedicated the grave. He is survived by four sons and a daughter, Alfred E., Elbert R., and' Ira H. Konold, of Salt Lake City; Frank C. Konold of Ho-quiane, Ho-quiane, Wash., and Mrs. Blanche Hoffman, Oakland, Calif., three brothers, Alfred L. of Laramie, Wyo., Otto of Albany, N. Y., and Daniel Konold of Ogden; ... 13 grandchildren and 14 great-grandcildren. New Rotary Club Organized In American Fork Hospital News A new Rotary Club was organized organ-ized in American Fork this week with twenty-two members. The Provo Rotary club committee comprised of John Creer, Ernest Salerno and Ed Stein helped in the organization.,! The organization meeting was held at the Mos$ Cafe, Ameri can Fork, Tuesday evening with Mr. Salerno In charge. Rotary District Governor Comer P. Pea cock and Cliff MOffett of Provo were the speaker" They discussed dis-cussed the function pf the club. During the meeting a set of officers were elected as follows: S. Dwight Packard, president; David Greenwood, Vice president; Wayne Chadwlek, secretary-treasurer; secretary-treasurer; Frank Humphries, Ernest Parduhn, Roy Humphries and Kenneth Chrlatensen, directors. direc-tors. President Packard is superintendent superin-tendent of the southern division of the Utah Power & Lieht com pany and has beer & resident of American Fork fOr five years. He has two sons tn the U. S. armed forces and also has one daughter. Mrs. P tckard is active ac-tive in club work l4 this city and is head of the Minute Women's organization here. ' The club will meet weekly at 12:15 p. m. at the Moss Cafe for their luncheon meeting. Present membership includes the above officers and C. D. Strang, George Jones, Arthur Dye, J. S. Cook, Ray C. Beers, Alvin Monson, David Cahn, W. F. Anderson, Owen Lynch, G. W. Hanks. George Moss, James Steggler, John Ferrell and Dr. C. R. Anderson. Am. Fork Boys Farmer Candidates City Paper -Drive Most Successful f i ' Young people of the First ward will be the first occupants of the new Youth camp Just completed com-pleted by the Junior Chamber of Commerce President William H. Wright announced Wednesday. Wednes-day. With the closing of the waste paper contest 6780 pounds had been collected by the First ward. Oddly enough, the wards placed as numbered with Second gathering gath-ering 4540 pounds, Third 3960 pounds, and Fourth 3750 pounds. This amount added to other small amounts sent in made a total of ten tons for the city. The City Fathers furnished the truck and Junius Christensen gathered up. the paper, donating his time to the effort of the drive. .The paper was sent to Provo to complete a carload being gathered gather-ed there. Mrs. W. J. Baker, Orem, gave birth to a son January 31. Mrs. Sterling Burnlngham, Provo, Is the mother of a girl born February 3. Mrs. Jean Parker Scott, Ameri can Fork, sent word to her hus band, Leut. Leon Scott, Marfa, Texas, of the birth of a son; February 1. I Mr. and Mrs. Stanley F. Green , (Beth Holindrake) are rejoicing, over the arrival of a son Febru ary 3. The happy grandparents are Mrs. Fred Green, Salt Lake City, and Mr. and Mrs. Hayden Holindrake. ' Mrs. Mae Walker, Pleasant Grove, gave birth to a baby boy February 6. t Mrs. Carl Monson, Lehl, Is a patient at the hospital this week. Viola Chatwin, 3 year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Chatwin, has been a patient this week at the hospital. Mrs. Reed Peterson, Pleasant Grove, is receiving medical treat ment at the hospital this week. Mrs. Fred Pawlpwskl Is a patient pat-ient at the hospital this week. 1 Parent-Teachers Hear Supt. Mitchell BAND CONCERT Annual hanrf onnrt. nnpspntpH Jchool will be given in the -high School auditorium the evening of February 21. K. J. Bird, the director, di-rector, will have over 50 students taking part. The complete program will be announced next week. Superintendent David R. Mitchell was the guest speaker at the meeting of the Parent-Teachers Parent-Teachers Association Thursday evening; February 1, in the Harrington Har-rington school. Problems of the school lunch was the subject of discussion. Mr. Mitchell said it had become necessary to advance the price to the students as at present the cost of lunches was 29c per day and funds received amounted to 22c. The charge is now 15c which with the state and federal assistance assist-ance covers the cost. Following Superinte n d e n t Mitchell's talk questions presented pre-sented by parents were discussed discuss-ed which included such throught provoking topics as arts in the school, wider consolidation, and increase in school population. Alpine P. T. A. Alpine city Parent-Teachers Association have purchased a motion picture projector and will give shows every Friday at the amusement hall, it was announc-cd announc-cd .Thursday by Mrs, Robey Forbes, For-bes, president or the association. The following boys will represent rep-resent the American Fork F'u- ture Farmers of America chapter at the state convention held at Fillmore, April 6-7, 1945. These boys FFA books have been sent to the State Advisor Mark Nich ols at the state capitol building. Willy Reimschllssel's produc tive activity is a dairy and swine project. Richard Mitchell's project proj-ect consists of swine, corn and tomatoes. Fred Buhler's project is poultry and baby chicks. Each of these boys is a candidate for the State Farmer Degree. In order to be given the degree the boy must have the following qualifications: 1. He must have held the degree of Chapter Farmer for at least one year pre ceding election to the degree of State Farmer, have been an active ac-tive member of FFA for at least two years and have a record of satisfactoryly participating in the activities of the local chapter. chap-ter. 2. Must have satisfactorily completed at least two years of instruction in vocational agriculture, agri-culture, have in operation an outstanding program of supervised super-vised farming, and be regularly enrolled in a vocational agricultural agricul-tural class (or have completed the vocational agriculture offered offer-ed in the school attended. 3. Be familiar with the provisions pro-visions of the constitution of the state association and national organization. 4. Demonstrate proficiency in parlimentary procedure. 5. Be able to lead a group discussion dis-cussion for forty minutes and pass some occupational or FFA tests provided by the agricultural committee. 6. Must have earned by his own efforts from farmnig or other agricultural work, and deposited de-posited in a bank or otherwise productively invested at least $200. At least two-thirds of the amount must be derived from his supervised farming program. 7. . Show outstanding ability as evidenced by his leadership and cooperation in student, chapter chap-ter and community activities and have a satisfactory scholarship record as certified by the local school superintendent or pinci-pal. pinci-pal. 8. Must nave participated in an outstanding way in activities for community improvement and the development of agriculture. Harold Goode, United States Steel Company Announces Intention to Bid For Geneva Cavemen Lead League, Defeat Lehi American Fork Cavemen took undisputed lead in the district basketball league Friday night when they triumphed over Lehl 54-39. Out in front from the first minute the local boys were never in danger. Little, Clark and Shelley led the attack with Cooper and Mitchell playing good ball for the Invaders. Box score follows: LEHI G. T. F. P. E. Evans, f 7 2 0 14 C. Dorton, f 0 0 0 0 Mitchell, c 0 6 4 4 Scown, g .". 0 2 11 Cooper, g 6 1 1 13 Olmstead, f 2 2 15 Gale, c 0 0 0 0 Meyers, g 0 0 0 0 Gray, g 0" 0 0 0 Roberts, g 0 0 0 0 7 37 Vern Walker Seriously Injured In Car Vern Walker is in a Salt Lake hospital in a serious condition, the result of a two car crash at 7009 South State Street, Salt Lake county, Sunday. A southbound vehicle driven by Lovell B. Robinson, 6241 So. Street, skidded into the northbound north-bound car driven by Mr. Walker. A. Ray Ellison, a passenger In the Walker car has a badly bruised arm and Mrs. Fannie Robinson, a passenger in the car with her husband, suffered a head laceration. Mr. Walker has a fractured pelvis bone and other Injuries. At the latest report he was improving im-proving and barring complications complica-tions is expected to recover, though he will be confined to his bed for several weeks. Spur Being ious Checks Passed BANKS CLOSE MONDAY Next Monday, February 12th, being Lincoln's birthday and a legal holiday all banks and public pub-lic offices will be closed. GOLD AND GREEN BALL Gold and Green Ball, annual social event sponsored by the Alpine stake MIA will be held in the Apollo Hall the evnlng of February 20, officers have announced. an-nounced. Voting for the queen has been going on in the wards for the past month and will close Tuesday, Tues-day, February 13. Chief of Police T. J. Turner today to-day was advised by the United States Secret Service to warn all merchants to be alert for spurious spur-ious United States Treasury checks. These counterfeit checks are printed on yellow safety paper, with the "Treasury Department Draft" In upper right hand corner: "United "Unit-ed States Treasury Department, Washington, D. C." in capitat tttenr near'-wntertoptDttf' ABLED VETERANS BUREAU' In lower right corner: under which is stamped signature of "W. A. HOYT," with typewritten title Capt. 9th Inf. D. O. L.". Checks are payable to "Royall Garrett". Printed in lower left hand corner corn-er are words "To the United States Treasury, Washington, D. r or anv bank or United States Post Office Totals 15 13 AMERICAN FORK G. T. F. P. McAllister, f Peters, f Little, c Shelley, g Clark, g 5 Bennett, f 1 Chilton, f 0 Durrant, c 0 Steffens, g 0 Seastrand, g 0 2 4 6 4 2 6 0 8 1 13 0 8 6-13 1 3 Totals 22 24 10 54 Score by quarters: Lehi 7 15 25 87 American Fork 12 24 43 54 Lincoln beat Provo for the first time In fflstMT. The score was 40-39. In another thriller B. Y. High downed Pleasant Grove 30-27. 30-27. Tonight Lincoln comes to American Fork, Provo plays P. O. and Lehi meets-B. Y. High. League Lea-gue standing is: American Fork 4 1 .800 B. Y. High 3 2 .600 Provo 3 2 .600 Lincoln 2 3 .400 Lehl 2 3 .400 Pleasant Grove 1 4 .200 M MEN M Men's league closed Wednesday Wednes-day night with Fourth ward the stake champions and Highland runnerup. The Fourth ward team won every game; Highland lost two of the ten games played. Wednesday's scores were, Fourth 46, Highland 22; Second 46, Alpine 26; Third 27, First 23. SENIOR SCOUTS First ward Senior Scouts have won every game so far. The league closes next Wednesday evening. Scores this week were, First 44, Third 14; Second 26, Alpine Al-pine 25; Fourth 30, Highland 23. Polio Drive Expressing his appreciation for the efforts of all who contributed contribut-ed to the success of the drive for funds to fight infantile paralysis, Chairman Thomas A. Barratt, announced that American Fork had sent in $550.70. The President's Birthday Ball accounted for $151.75; Harrington Harring-ton school, $81.59; High school, $52.78; and Training school, $15.62. During the week of the drive collections at the Cameo Theatre netted $204.39. Chairman Barratt expressed special praise to the Training school which contributed without with-out solicitation, and to the Har- "T ! rlngton children, where 653 or ; uvt'I u IK -i 1.1:111, ui nic jujjiio contributed. WARD MEMBERSHIP PARTY ... .Ward Memberslilpxparty , for the Second ward will be held Tuesday, March 6, It was decided Tuesday night at a meeting with the bishopric and executive officers offi-cers of the auxiliary organizations. organiza-tions. The following were appointed as committee heads and will be assisted by all officers of " the The Chief requests organizations; . Glen L. Taylor, tint nnvone offering one of these chairman, Ruth Mawhlnney, spurious checks be detained and Edward T. Hall, Evelyn Madsen, he tx' notified at once." and Elwyn Wride. San Francisco, California, February Feb-ruary 6, 1945-Unlted States Steel Corporation has advised the Government that it is interested in-terested in discussing a possible basis of purchase or lease of the Government-owned steel plant at Geneva, Utah, for post-war operation, William A. Ross, President Pres-ident of Columbia Steel Company, Com-pany, United States Steel's Pacific Pa-cific Coast subsidiary, announced announc-ed today. Mr. Ros;' statement follows; Recent discussion in the press about the possibilities for the" post-war production of steel west of the Rocky Mountains may have led some exponents of the further industrial development develop-ment of the Far West to Jump to the conclusion that United States Steel Corporation and its Pacific Coast subsidiary, Columbia Colum-bia Steel Company, have little Interest in the future of the new Oovernment-owned steel plant at Geneva, Utah. Any such Impression is quite contray to the truth. This plant in Utah was designed and built for the Government by Columbia Steel Company, acting on behalf of United States Steel Corporation, Corpora-tion, and is now being operated for account of the Government by another subsidiary bf United States Steel, such construction and operation being a war project pro-ject undertaken by the Steel Corptaration without any fee or profit. United States Steel Corporation Corpora-tion is also an exponent for the continued industrial development develop-ment of the Far West. - It recognized recog-nized the Importance of Pacific Coast steel markets and their potentialities, when it acquired Columbia Steel Company in 1930. This company then had and now continues to maintain a fully integrated ' steel operation i west of the Rockies, with coal and iron mines and a blast furnace and by-product coke ovens in Utah, and steel producing and finishing facilities near San Francisco and Los Angeles. During Dur-ing the past few years, Columbia's Colum-bia's steel finishing facilities in California have been substantially substant-ially extended and modernized by the expenditure of large sums of money. Columbia Steel Company has plans for further enlargements and modernization of its facilities facili-ties to keep pace with the in dustrial growth and development of the Pacific Coast area. Undoubtedly Un-doubtedly the acquisition, of the Government's steel mill at' Geneva Ge-neva upon some mutually satis factory basis and the installation of any required additional finishing fin-ishing facilities could be made to fit in with this post-war pro gram, without causing the abandonment aban-donment or curtailment of Columbia's Co-lumbia's existing modern facilities facili-ties in California. In a recent letter to the Chair man of Defense Plant Corporation, Corpora-tion, the Government agency owning the Geneva steel mill. Benjamin F. Fair less, President of United States Steel Corpora tion, stated in part: We also wish to take this op portunity to advise you that at such time as either or both of the plants at Fontana and Geneva Ge-neva are no longer needed for present or future war efforts and disposal of the facilities to private interests is under con sideration, we would be interest ed in discussing with your representatives rep-resentatives a possible basis of purchase or lease of all or a part of such facilities for operation as part of the Columbia Steel Company. In the event we were able to arrive at a mutually satisfactory satisfac-tory arrangement for. either the purchase or lease of all or part of such facilities, we would ex pect to undertake to operate them at as, high a rate of capacity ca-pacity a would be warranted by the mirket for their products in the territory naturally served Jay their, facilities." Referring to the effect of such an acquisition upon the over-air steel-making capacity of United States Steel Corporation, some of which is now less efficient than the new plant at Geneva, Mr. Fairless stated: "We anticipate that such acquisition ac-quisition of these facilities would be accompanied by reductions or displacements In existing capacity capa-city so that our basic steel-making capacity would not be increased in-creased In the post-war period." ..J t r - r ' I |