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Show ki- 1 I An.. O TT , ft ail VOL. L THE AMERICAN FORK CITIZEN, Thursday, March 26, 1953 NUMBER 4 ft-" Runnerup in I 'tiviKfe Ww w. ; r Jr,? i American Fork High School basketball team with Coach Don Overly and second place trophy won last weekend. Left to right: Elton Abel, Kenneth Fierce. Wayne Binch. O Dell Nlelson. Uuy Humphries, Mackey Boley, Ronald Turner, Jerry Parduhn, Boyd Hoglund, Merrill Bateman, Jerry Chadwlck, Dale Oreenlng. Speech, Music Festival Read v for Presentation County Tax Collections Near Total Major share of the $4,178,794.- 46 taxes for 1952 which have been collected to date In Utah county comes rrom me Alpine School District, according to SI . . ..t..J W.. W- ii&uics icicucu ruu; county treasurer. Taxes collected In Alpine School, District amounted to $1,301 .935.-60, .935.-60, with about half the amount coming from Oeneva Steel Plant. Total collected In unmcorporated'8Danale1 Banner bv the con-'c11. Utah. County Is $682,374.98. gregatlon, My Own America" bula sent 80011 and The amount collected to date by a girls'triple trio; "Onward I same favorable response would Is 96.71 percent of the total taxes, christian Soldiers" by a male!06 appreciated. Treasurer Maurice Bird reported.Chorus, "America 'The Beautiful"! ' Other major collections show, $541,609.30, Provo School Dls - trlct; $723,710.92, Nebo School; District (location of Ironton steel plant); $100,442.58, Orem; $409,767.93. Provo; $78,701.54. Sprlngvllle; $64,948, Spanish Fork; $48,836.10. Pay son; $64,-578.12, $64,-578.12, American Fork and $32,-732. $32,-732. Lehl. - . BegihherTeacHers To Receive Salary Raise Beginner teachers In Alpine " "" a report made by 8upt David MltS?eU followlL .meeting of the school board last week p-trf wi'n . . rV'U . , This will bring the total salary of;1" tj? UnJ: tmn w,r ted to Pray Together - and the new teachers to $2870 per year. will ring "The Lord's . Mr. Mitchell reported that prayer". 1 board members have been great-1 ly concerned about the shortage! Prayers will be spoken by Clar-of Clar-of teachers and the Inability to nce A. Orant and Clifford E. -sign -replacement-teachers- forjYoung Jl.Mus1c will be conduc- - w snMtM " " i , Last : year--Alpine , Dlstrlcfa' and accompanists are Ed-starting Ed-starting salary was lower than.1 Wrl and Ruth Moss. surrounding districts, and donr ' slderablv lower than that of Cal- lfornla, Oregon and Washington.' The three states are-sending rep- .resentatlves into Utah colleges and ilimlnff contracts with a ki.u MM.ntnn nl. Mwnutlu iducat on vraauaies. it was re- IMKV Wll... V ,..UV fr'W trlct conference. Pacific-coast states are offering offer-ing from $500 to $700 more per van. than TTfoh HUtrVrt - and UUh's graduaUng teachers are going where they can get the best salaries, the luperlntendent said According to Mr. Mitchell, this coming year Alpine District will need a great many replacements,' and the salary raise Is designed, to make the local positions more attractive to home graduates, Second Grass Fire ki 4:43 Wednesday afternoon the firemen answered another r' u "eA w wi . , i : triwAvdtilflLte home. rass nrr'M -rwrwwwv.--. ' wood premises on the way to the There was no uamage out tne Training School. There was no speedy run of the firemen prob-damage prob-damage " jably saved nearby garages. State Basketball Annual music and speech festival fes-tival sponsored by Alpine Stake MIA will be held Sunday evening even-ing at 7:30 in .. the tabernacle. There will be no meetings held that evening In any of the LDS wards. The public is Invited. Theme of the festival will be 'America United To Sing getner. to wort .x.ogetner, to, 'Pray Together". Virginia Beck- strand, counselor In the YWMIA; Leland F. Priday, assistant sup- erintendent of the YMMIA, and' n 1 . I v. wrceiiwoou, opcctn director, have arrangements In charge. I Musical part of the program will loclutlo Dreiud music bv the 'orchestra 4intrtn f th. -Rtarioius was expressed oy we voun by a mixed chorus with Jewel Murdock as soloist, and "The Battle Hymn of the Republic", with Vera Clark as .soloist, by a mixed chorus. Ten three minute talks will be given on phases of Americanism by Merrill Wamlck, Seventh Ward; Jeanette Royle. Eighth Ward; - Mary Woolston,-Second WardLOlen Smith. First .Ward. Jesse 'Wagstarr.'Thttd'Ward; Dixie Rhone: Sixth Ward;" Esther Day,. Highland; Vola Johnson, Alpine; Norma Mecham, Fifth Ward, and one from the Fourth Ward who had not been named at press time. "This is America a declara- f rn rt faltH will Ka nluan tier a - nirl with VlnrrUI RgmAn ,7 L ' , . , Jil jrw nw inpr nnri una in nn v prn and Ward McDonald wlU have charge of lighting and sound ef tecta, Humphries Floral will assist with floral rdecoratlons, and ushers wlU be Junior M Men, Tad Devey. Daryl Conder. Cllf- fnrd Mortutn Rrtvl Milnit t.vnn ruixy,- viyae otronn. wicrrui I' - ...www.. . ney Orlffln, Speoial Practice There will be a special prac- U PMUdpanU In the festlval Saturday. Chorus and 'ctT 6:00 p. in. Choral reading and speech winners, 7.00 p. m. yjJA p:rtt CetW V rire V-QIU Department Wed. Dried weeds which had been set on tire and then blown by the wind called the Fire' Depart- ment Wednesday afternoon" to r Tournament Council Plans For New Subdivisions A resolution requiring all subdivision sub-division contractors to Install city utilities was passed at the meeting of the City Council Monday night. It was reported by City Manager Ray C. Nelson. This will eliminate the breaking up of streets and lots after homes are completed. An ad- To-ljustment on installation charges will be made to eoualize the cost 0f the contractor ! with other properties, Mr. Nelson said. The Council studied a break down of sewer costa computed . . wun ine extra wore aone in ar eas added but with no raise in the ontract price Appreciation oi ine puoucs response to the monthly water nd 14 waa noted that sewer Jaycees-Nominate, Plan Tooele Swimming Party Ra'Iph7.B. Hammerstrom and Lyman B. Wight were nominated forlfi534 ,presldetOf thjt American Fork s7 anlor Chamber of Commerce at the meeting held Thursday evening. Receiving the nod nfor vice president were Irv lng Chlpman and O. Preston Taylor. At the election, which will be held April .2. five members, of the board of directors , will.- be chosen. Running for the posts are LaDell Terry, Howard Oor don, Sherman Christensen, Max Shirk, Stephen Paul Shelley, Ouy Ivlns, Louis Smith, and Dean M Bateman. Heber Orant Ivins, president for the past year, will automatic ally become a state director. La-Orande La-Orande Terry was reelected buck private. - '. t .1 JayceeX. who. axeMvetlgating the feasibility of a swimming pool - lor - American - Fork, are planning a- swimlngparty at Tooele." r.- j-; ' Rotary Club Host To IIS Ball Team - American Fork -.High School basketball' team who were run-nersup run-nersup in the state tournament, and the coaches were guests- of the Rotary Club for luncheon Tuesday. Cecil Baker, coach .at the USAC. was the guest speaker and Ira J. Taylor Jr. was program pro-gram chairman. ' Coach Don Overly spoke briefly brief-ly and Introduced members of the. team. The luncheon was held at the Crown cafe, Oremk with Eugene Barker, president, presiding. pre-siding. WfcyT Could I climb to tht hlchett place in Athens, I would lift my vici snd proclaim: "Fellow clt- lient. why do you turn and icrape wry-amio--ithwi1t Uke io llttlt car of your children to whom one day you must rctin-quUh rctin-quUh It ill?" v Sperate Tonight's Concert Promises Treat Advance ttcke? sales Indicate a large attendance at the benefit concert sponsored- by Jthe.Com-munlty Jthe.Com-munlty Presbyterian Church to be held In the Alpine Stake Tabernacle, Tab-ernacle, March 28, beginning at 8 p.m. The well known Mendelssohn chorus of some 40 voices and Oerrl Patton, dramatic soprano, will present nn evening of out standing musical entertainment. The Concert -proceeds are to be used to purchase a new piano of which the. church Is In need. In deference to the pulley of the LDS stake officials, no tickets will be sold at the door, says Aaron Hey, church choir director and chairman for the concert. Tickets may be purchased from members of the general commit tee or other members of the Community Church. The chorus, organized 30 years ago, has appeared In innumer aole concerts. , The director Is Elvis Terry and Eula Norton Is the accompanist. Both are from Orem. LeOrande Anderson. Pro vo is president of the organiza tlon. The chorus will sing 10 num bers, of a classical, semi-classical and patrioticjnature." Soloists with the chorus are Boyd Clark Moroni Jensen. Harold Peterson Aaron Hey and Reynold Helner - Mrs. Patton will sing two groups or Negro spiritual; songs. Ruth Nagelvort, an outstanding pianist, pian-ist, will accompany her talented daughter. i Featured on the program also win be a piano duet by Mrs. Norton and her daughter Jalmee "The piano project was under taken by the Adult Fellowship of i n e community Presbyterian Church from which a committee was named. Mr. Hey Is program chairman. Oeorge Molascon. ticket tic-ket chairman; Mrs! Richard Wilson, Wil-son, finance chairman and Ralph Bcioei, publicity chairman.. Binnalls ttend Insurance "Meet Mr. and Mrs. J. Ralph Binnall returned last week from Berkeley, Berke-ley, Cal., where they were guests of - the State - Farm -Insurance ' Companies. - All of the 509 agents representing represen-ting the State Farm Companies throughout .the states of Washington, Wash-ington, Oregoru Idaho,Utah, Nevada, Arizona and New Mexico were Invited, with their wives, to attend special 2-day seminars at the Western Office located In Berkeley. "The mcetltigstncluded ""dis cussions, conferences, p ant meetings, and a tour through the modern 6-story State Farm building in Berkeley,, owned by the company and occupied since February, 1948. According to Mr. Binnall. the purpose of the seminars was to further Improve the service and operations of State Farm In .the interests " of Its' policyholders. Being a mutual company, he explained, ex-plained, policyholders are the real "bosses" of the . organization. Alpine Motor Salesman Douglas Nash, popular young man of American Fork, Joined the staff of the Alpine Motor Co Douglas Nash this week as automobile sales man. This firm la anticipating an upsurge of business during this year and this makes three full time salesmen In the - car sales organization. . , - Mr. Nash completed' his education educa-tion here, married Mfss Shirley Deck and for some time has oeen employed at Dugway. His many an Fork and north Utah County ire congratulating him on his -ew "o JMm . ' . . '. J - . i.-. - V ' ' - ' ' k', I'.V") , my : v-I '": . . ;U'.V. -U.l n" .ii.i i- i m i iJ Gov mm p. ncoe Jesse W.Spaf ford Named Chairman AF Cancer Drive Jesse W. Spat ford," American Fork Dairyman, -director of Utah Ut-ah Poultry and Farmers Cooperative, Cooper-ative, and member of the Rotary Club, has been named chairman of the cancer drive' which will take place, between April 1 and April 15. This Is part of a strong nation al drive to primarily educate the public on the symptoms of cancer can-cer and secondly to collect funds to further research on control of the dreaded and fatal disease. Mayor Willard R. Cleghorn has issued a proclamation urging the citizens of American Fork to support the drive to the greatest great-est ektent, and especially to welcome wel-come those who call at the homes with educational literature litera-ture on the vital subject. According to national statistics 1200 of the present population of American Fork will contract cancer during their lifetime unless un-less something more Is found to combat the disease. Present medical me-dical practices can cure about 50 per cent of cancer cases if treatment lsstarted In the very early stages. So the best method of fighting the malady Is education, educa-tion, the chairman stressed. Members of the local Rotary club will sponsor the drive. Already Al-ready Mr. Spaf ford has appointed appoin-ted Ewlng Albertson. Roy Hampshire, Hamp-shire, and Clifford E. Young Jr., as chairmen of the business dis trict, and Cecil Ray Hansen, will take - over the .drive at the schools: Before the first of next month district captains and aids will have been appointed and the. drive will be on the upswing, Chairman Spaf ford -stated. Fire Destroys Tattersall V Celery Plant Fire of undetermined origin f completely destroyed-the .celery packing plant and machinery of Richard " . Tattersall early Friday Fri-day morning. The fire had gained gain-ed such a start before the alarm was turned In that the fire department de-partment had no chance to save the structure. The home of Joseph Hoglund and., the chicken coops belonging to Ferrll M. Sorenson were saved sav-ed by the department who kept a constant flow of water on the buildings. ' Palnr on the Hog-lund Hog-lund home was blistered. Mr. Tattersall -estimated 'his loss at $20,000 with $12,000 cover ed by Insurance. The plant had not been used since October" when the 1952 celery rufl was completed. Mr. Tattersall spent the-wlnter-lbx-ArlzHna -. looking after new celery plants and had returned only a week pretlous to the rire.TneT5aturaay Deiore ne- had gone to 'the- building to5 be. gin cleaning and repairs for the 1953 season, i Machinery destroyed' was a 40 foot celery washer, conveyor belt. and a lidding machine . which alone cost S25'00T'A large number of wobcTahd steel .crates were also destroyed. VThe" fire iiiarmwaa furned tn by Delbert Chlpman who was re turning from Salt Lake City when "he saw the blaze. After turning in the alarm he lmmed lately went to the Hoglund and Sorenson homes and aroused the Inmates who were not yet aware of the threatened danger. Ten men of the American Fork Volunteer Fire Department turn ed out but the roof of the bulW lng fell In as the fire truck was nearlng the blaze, Chief Olen Chadwlck reported. The plant which operated from August 15 to October 15. last year shipped a total of 110 cars of i-elery. It had been operating for five years. Mr. Tattersall Is already al-ready making plans to rebuild a hcfci8"niind"('tr'8tnimre vhlch he expects to have In operation op-eration In time for this years crop. Lose Final Game After Three Hard Fought Victories American Fork chiseled an- lead 43 to 41. ' other niche in state athletic hls-i The two fighting teams went tory during the - past weekend Into a death battle almost from by winning three of four crucial the opening whistle and carried games In 1953 Class B, champ- through the regular game plus lonshlp basketball play at the I two extra periods, new BYU Fleldhouse. Don Overly, Tne first quarter closed 12-6 and his great basketball team for 0ur boys. The second period battled their way through Wed- waa cioxt and ended Am. Fork ncsday, Thursday and Friday, ;2o, Spanish Fork 15. ' Oainlng widespread respect and in the third period the flght- honors as One Of the greatest; ni Snanlsh Tork leum hail rlns. teams piaymg in uie ivsj state I tournament. They carried the battle to the very end of the greatest B tourney tour-ney ever staged In the state of Utah and one followed by- the greatest crowds of basketball fans ever to toe run off In the forty odd years of basketball play in our state. They emerged with the second place trophy and the respect of thousands of sportsmen over the state. The Cavemen met Beaver the opening day of the tournament and easily eliminated their southern opponents with a score of 65 to 50. They closed the opening op-ening period 12 to 6: ended the half 28 to 20, carried their lead . L- . l iL. ILI.J . 1 . uiruugu uie - uiira quarter wiui a 42 to 36 margin and clinched , the opening days play with the' 65 to 50 closing score. BEAVER Cox Pearce .. Roberts . Heppler .. .... Murdock Marshall Eyre".:.;". Tattersall Smith . .... . C. T-11 T-11 10 F. P. 7 1 3 1 1 3 0 0 0 0 11 0 0 0 0 Totals 19 23 12 50 AMERICAN FORK c. t. r. p. 2 7 6 10 Boley , . Parduhn 5 0 Turner Oreenlng Abel Hoglund Nlelson Bateman Chadwlck . . Totals , . ... 24 27:17 65 " Seore by quarters'7 20 ' 36 -.50 American Fork 12 29 42 65 The . Cavemen ' were never In danger during this game, their fast, sure dribbling and shooting game carried them through to a very sparkling victory. American. Fork bit rough, wat er the second oay wnen tney topped the strong Wasatch con tenders by only wo points, 43-41. This battle opened with two top teams battling for every goal. Tbj first quarter ended 9-15 for Wasatch, the half 16- 23, Was atch - and a nrrowing'rlhlrd quarter margin. Wasatch 31- Amerlcan Fork 29. The stalwart. Cavemen, carried the-fightevery lricrroftheway In the fourth quarter and clinched clinch-ed their championship flight with "a one" basket lead, of 43 jto 41, as the final gun ended, the flrstgreat battle for the Cavemen Cave-men ln'the tourney. I-.-? , t WASATCH O. T. F. P. Lythgoe 3 16 12 18 1 B 5 jyi-3 E11U , Taylor Ritchie ..... 4 43 11 -o4..a 2 Cummlngs 0 0 0 0 Totals 10 31 21 41 AMERICAN FORK O. T. Turner 10 0 0 1 7. 1 0 Parduhn Oreenlng v ., 2 Abel ......v , 3 Boley 3 Hoglund 2 Chadwlck ..- 0 Totals 16 19 11 43 Score by quarters: Wasatch' IS .23 American Fork .... 9 . 16 31 29 . The Cavemen fought their battle of battles Friday night with Spanish Fork. The game rvriwdmra"petiods; oefore j Scorrljy irdarteri the local boys snatched a vic tory- from Spanish Fork with 'ingle fleld.goal and a two point Teak ed the gap and the score stood 32 to 29 in favor of Amerlcaa Fork. The fighting southern team closed the gap In the final minutes and ended the fourt quarter- 36-36 ' ........... Both teams gave their all Ir extra period play and still were tied at the whistle 41-41. Ths great battle ended with the Cavemen snatching victory wits' the first goal In the second extra period. Jerry Parduhn worked free, received a short pass and dribbled down the floor to lay ne In for the final and winning goal of the greatest game of th entire tournament. AMERICAN FORK O, Parduhn 3 Oreenlng 0 t. r. r. 2 0 1 3 2 2 1 0 0 0 Turner 2 Boley 7 Abel 4 IS 10 Hoglund 1 Chadwlck 0 Hoffman D 2? Nlelson- . 0 Totals ...17 19 9 43 SPANISH FORK G. T. F. P. S. Swenson ' 0 4 2 1- J. Swenson U." 2 3. 7 Rowe . 0 12 5 17 Rust - 13 13 R. Larsen J 1 4 4 $ Orant , 0 2 0 At wood :r:::.:ri'i o e A. Boy ark 0 0 0 0 Totals 13 32 IS 41 Scor by quarters: Am. Fork 12 20 32 36 41 43 Sp. Tork . 15 29 36 41 41 . The fighting Cavemen went into the final fourth day of 0 tournament play with a wonder- tul-chance to win the toveted state champlonshlpThey were. rbattUnr the- little known Union - team from eastern Utah. The final came of this great championship flight held great honors for the fighting Cavemen. Cave-men. American Fork carried the battle for the first two periods. -ending the first quarter 14 to 9 and the half 24 to 19. The third quarter was a tattle of battles, ine 8K)wiy weasenuig nm. rwa - team 'Tending "the ' third quarter with a 32 to 32 score. The ' great . fight continued I through the fourth period with Union displaying a final strength our fighting team -could not match. The final . whistle caught our team on the storlUcMjrJL'4i:taimscarer The Cavemen had carried. through a courageous fight, won the-admiratlon--t)f ttie-great-crowdbf "basketball tovers-and came home wrapped In honor and glory as the second place winners fn another great tourn' ament'"' AMERICAN FORK C. T. F. P. Turner . 4. 6. 240. Parduhn 0- 2 ,1 1 Oreenlng .... 0 OT O 0. Aber::.::;:.::.....:.:.:.ra"3 ; a- Boley , 3 2 Chadwlck 2 2 Hoglund , 2 3 Nellson ' 1 0 Pierce.. ., 0 0 1 Totals ..; .14 18 11 39 UNION , o. T. r. P. Benson ..; ... 18 3 5 Eldredge 0 3- - 3 3 Terry .:..:. 2 ' 4 3 ' 7- Lamb ...... . .. '.... 0 2 2 .a Nlckcll 4 11 7 1 Huber "3 .2 3 -8 Ross .,.4...- 1 I 1 3 Bciion 0 1 11 Fenn . ..... 0 0 0 0 41 43 Totals 11 32 32 44 Union 9 19 34 32 44 32 39 at American fork 14 Officials: Mercer and Player. 1 7- 3 0 0 0 'j - Iff I 'J, 1 A |