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Show P- O. Box 147 iiU b A TftiAlERICAN FORK CITIZEN, Thursday, July 30, 1953 NUMBER 22 'Junior Citizen'- it-.,. W-i V . ' p ' LI m" ' 'i1i'mi i ' John T. McNeill, (center) named "Junior Citizen of the Month" for June, holds plaque presented to him by Heber Grant Ivine.-Xlcft) state vice president, while Sherman H. Christensen, member of the committee, looks on. Alpine School District Teachers Accept Contracts as Drawn The Alpine School District board members and a representative represent-ative committee of district teachers teach-ers met Monday evening at American Fork to get an understanding under-standing of available teaching force to be expected on the opening open-ing of school early ln September. All board members were present pres-ent with Basil Dorton, George Scott. Mrs. Emily Pedersen. John M. Nlchol, Thomas C. Laursen, Elizabeth Mortenson and Margaret Mar-garet Hayes, representing the teachers and Afton Foragren and Howard Hardy (the U. E. A. state group. Alpine District will need 277 teachers this coming school year and have already signed the needed eight additional teaching force. Some 131 others of the regular force have turned in thetrHgned contracts, leaving 138 contracts yet to be signed and turned ln before the opening of school here ln early September. Septem-ber. Alpine School District gave a blanket raise of $200 to aU teachers this year, which Is expected ex-pected to meet all demands of the teaching groups. With this year's raise the aver age teacher-principal salary will exceed $3,800 ln the entire Al pine District. Top salaries to high school principal reaches $5500 and Clarence A. Grant Reports on Boston Convention ' Clarence A. Orant, executive secretary of the Utah Association of County Officials, arrived home Saturday after attending . the national convention ln Boston and taking an extended bus trip to both national and church points of historic Interest. Mr. Orant left here Aug. 7, by plane and Joined the Utah delegation dele-gation ln Chicago.'' The group traveled to Niagara Falls, into Canada, western New York state and-Philadelphia before attending attend-ing the two days packed convention. conven-tion. --. ... - - Highlight of the Boston visit ' was a boat trip in Massachusetts Bay and tour of national shrines. The American Fork delegate had an opportunity to visit with Miss Associated Artists Planning Enlarged Show For Steel Day American Fork Associated Artists Ar-tists are planning an enlarged art exhibit .for Steel Day Sept. 7, it was reported following a meeting of the general committee commit-tee heads Monday night. Chairman Chair-man Walter B. Devey took charge and listened to reports from the various committees. . Letters from the aft group have been sent- to prominent 'artists of the state inviting them , to participate' in the coming exhibition. ex-hibition. An invitation is also being be-ing extended to the younger ar-tlsts ar-tlsts of the city to Join the show, It is the hope of the Association Associa-tion to obtain a larger room for the exhibit so the pictures can "be shown to better advantage. Jean Gordon , represented the Association at the meeting Mon Receives Award starting salaries are $2850 according ac-cording to school officials. At the close of the Monday meeting the school officials and teacher committee authorized the following statement: "Representatives of the Alpine District Teacher's Association and the Alpine School Board con sidered school problems of the district at their, special meeting Monday night. "Teacher contracts were discussed dis-cussed and both the association officers and members of the Board agreed that the problem could be solved on a temporary basis, but that many other problems prob-lems were so seriously ln need of special attention that the Governor Gover-nor should be requested to call the Legislature immediately to consider the proposals made by From the tenure of the above statement teachers of this dis trict, while satisfied with their contracts, are offering . their moral support to their state group on the general teacher move to get state legislative en actment and state-wide approval for higher pay for the teaching L profession, retirement funds and other needed concessions. On the other hand Governor Lee Is receiving like approval from ' taxpayers of the state to check the confiscatory trend of taxes on the general public. Alta Barratt, serving a mission and now ln Watertown, Mass., Just north of Boston. Her mis slon president reported that she Is doing Splendid work. After two days in New York City, the group went on to Wash' lngton where the Utah congress. men and senators were their guests at a breakfast. They were guests ln Peoria. 111., of the man. ufacturers of caterpillar equip mentfor a breakfast, arranged by George Simmons, Utah sales man. Notice Change, on overseas postal rates will go into effect August 1, according toTP6stmaster O. Easton BrowneRates which have been ; 14 cents per pound straight, will "be" raised to" 45 cents for the first pound and 22 cents for each additional pound day night. Tickets on the car are being distributed to women's club presidents this week and next week ticket boxes will be placed ln the business houses. Members of the Junior Cham ber of Commerce reported that several high school bands lh the state have written that they will be ln attendance and this week business houses are being con tacted and urged to enter floats In the parade. Details of the Queens contest are being- worked out and sever-al sever-al 'young -women have' already entered the contest. Next week nami of th contestants will be published and voting for candidates candi-dates will get into full swing. John T. McNeill Receives Pfaque As 'Junior Citizen of the Month' John T. McNeill, recognized last month as the ,'Junlor Citizen Cit-izen of the Month" by the Junior Jun-ior Chamber of Commerce, Thursday night at the club meeting wax presented with plaque designating the honor. The award came following his rescue In June of 20-months old Roy Loeffler, son of Mr. and Mrs. Werner Loeffler, who had fallen 'Into a stream of water near the McNeill Market, 85 E. 4th North Any Junior citizen between the ages of five and. 17 will be similarly rewarded each j monin ior ouusutnaing comriuu-tlon comriuu-tlon to the community, Lyman B. Wight, president, said. The presentation to young McNeill was made by Heber Orant Ivlns, state vice president of the Junior Chamber of Commerce. Com-merce. To Work For Steel Day .The American Fork club has been chosen as "Club of the Month" for August by the state organization. The Jaycees will bend every effort toward selling Scouts Do Brisk Trading , j At National What was probably the big gest collection of souvenirs to enter American Fork from over the entire nation was brought ln last week end when 14 Boy Scouts and two leaders arrived home from the National Jamboree Jam-boree at the Irvine Ranch ln California. One collection brought to the office for. Inspection, contained a vial of water from the Atlantic Ocean, both blue and black coal from Pennsylvania, coal from Kentucky, coal buckets made from Iron from both states, Kola Nuts from Hawaii, scrip from an Ohio store, neckerchief slides from several states and sleeve patches from various troops, the most notable probably being the one from the Valley Forge Coun cil. Types of wood, shells, and other momentoe from Callfor nla. and from other Utah troops, a piece of granite from the Salt Lake Temple, wool from San pete, a bracelet made from Skunk vertebrae from Millard County, and uranium ore from the southeast were also ln the prized box. Scoutmaster John Abel brought home a cannon ball fired during the battle of Get tysburg. He traded with another scoutmaster whose father now owns part of the famous battle field. Log of the trip sounds like the ;accldent and oniy one local boy Journey on the magic carpet .!6uffered any illness during the so many wonderful things hap- j encampment. Of interest to pened to the boy on the twoiUtahns wlu meeting be-weeks be-weeks trip.-For instance, they ntmntr John akpi reached Donnar Pass Just ln time to watch speed boat races which happen only at regular Intervals, and not content with cafeteria food for the second meal in San Francisco, the boys went to the "swank Golden Pheasant . where the management manage-ment and waitresses paid the 38 ln -the group special attention and. helped them with menues so their wallets were not completely com-pletely flat. On a trip to Treasure Island, Merlin. Walker., Jesse Scott and Evan Durfey helped to put out an oir fire while thrrest of the group looked on, and they toured tour-ed It submarine whlclThad gone through the Bakinl tests. Other San Francisco highlights were the Golden Gate Park, the a-quarlum, a-quarlum, the Presidio, ' Fisherman's Fisher-man's Wharf, and the cable cars. They visited Travis Air Force Base where they saw . the big transports and bombers. On the way down the coast they stopped stop-ped at California Polytechnlcal School, at San Luis Obispo, where they were given a dinner beyond their wildest Imaginations Imagina-tions and where they went wading wad-ing for the first time ln the ocean. oc-ean. They pitched camp at the Jamboree headquarters July 14, and the following day went to the naval base at San Diego where they had lunch with Na-vymen, Na-vymen, toured the harbor in an LSU, saw the remainder of the mothball fleet ln the harbor, and also two ship loads of Na vymen leaving for overseas duty. On the return .trip to . the camp they took In the Balboa Zoo but had time for only part of It ; The programs presented at the Jamboree 'were ) both thCUllng and Interesting. Each morning the flag raising was accompan- American Fork and its attractions attrac-tions for a bigger and better Steel Day celebration. At the Thursday night meeting meet-ing checks were presented to Mrs. Phyllis Llnd, representing the First Ward, and Mrs. Earl Larson, representing the Eighth Ward. The money was the profits pro-fits on the .Chuck Wagon sales at a recent community benefit. Presentation was made by Sher man Christensen, member of the commlttee, ln the absence of William R. Ellison, project cnalrman The group went on record for pushing the "walking blood bank" whereby it h expected to type blood from between 400 and 450 persons so adequate supplies could be available at a moments notice In case of emergency. As a result of the favorable advertising of the Jaycee fly spraying campaign, the committee commit-tee has been asked to spray 1700 head of sheep belonging to a grower ln Cedar Valley. Jamboree led by the firing of a bomb, all boys from American Fork re ceived certificates showing they had participated in at least five activities, and Bishop Joseph Wlrthlin presented each LDS boy with a memento. Sunday church, services were held by Catholics. Protestants, Jews and Latter-day Saints. At the LDS meeting' there were a- bout 1000 visitors ln addition to the 3000 8couts from throughout the nation. They were addressed by Vice President Richard Nixon. Arthur A. Shuck, national pres ident or me soy scouts or Am erica, Bishop Wlrthlin, and El bert Curtis, superintendent of the YMMIA. Opening program was a historical his-torical pageant "Cavalcade of America" showing how the scouts of America from colonial days to the 19th century did a better Job than Is being done today. The final night the "Cavalcade" "Cav-alcade" was concluded with the modern Boy Scout proving that he la carrying as well If not better bet-ter than his forebearers. Top flight stars froxn the entertainment en-tertainment world and 'renowned 'renown-ed bands kept the boys In a tingle tin-gle at every performance. Not the least of their thrills were the swims ln the ocean which were taken as often as time permitted. per-mitted. TVi irin U'4 mid without. and John Hardy, a scoutmaster from Klrtland. Ohio, who is a member of the Reorganized Church. Mr. Hardy related the changes taking place ln the Klrtland 'Temple which was built by the ' Mormons" in 1838 and now belongs to the Reorganized Reorgan-ized Church. County Commission Continues Tax Equalization., Work Utah County commissioners and theVounty" assessor were lh the -field moat of the past-week attempting to complete the equalization of property values before the August 10 date for setting county tax levies. The county secured an exten slon of the equalization deadline from the Utah State Tax Commission Com-mission after protests were filed on the county's reclassification of farmlands. , . r - t Completion of the equalization Job will be done before the com mission meets with the 8tate Tax Commission in an attempt to "Iron our differences.? The best solution' to Utah County's problems and the problems prob-lems in other counties, would be a "complete revision of Utah State tax laws, It was suggested by J. Austin Cope, Utah County assessor.- . Taxing officials of the state and counties are agreed that the laws, In. some cases, are antiquated anti-quated and have no practical ap plication to current conditions. This results ln having each seg ment of the tax paying rxmula tlon feeling that they are being penalized," Mr. cope said. Street 'Oiling Way On Big Keith L. Peterson Named Sales Manager At Paul L. Harmon Co. Keith ii Peterson The Paul L. Harmon Co. of American ' Fork, announce this week that Keith L. Peterson of Lehl has been placed ln charge of the sales' department of the company. Keith was formerly employed at the University Appliance Center ln Provo where he has been working since his graduation gradua-tion from the Brlgham Young University. He graduated from the College of Commerce after completing the work necessary for graduation In the field of Marketing and Business Administration. Admin-istration. Keith Is 28 years old. Prior to attending college for his degree, he filled an LDS Mission to Den mark where he labored as Branch President of the Copenhagen Branch. Before entering the Mission Field he spent 20 months In the Army working as a Post Exchange Manager ln Korea. Mr. Peterson is currently living ' : '- ..i . , -' '-j in Lehl with his parents, Mr. and a Mrs. Lester D. Peterson. He,i plans to make his home in American Fork In the near future. Sgt. Coleman Missing in Korean Action A telegram-from the War De partment Friday Informed Mr. and Mrs. Adelbert F. (Dell) Coleman that their son, Sgt. Douglas A. Coleman had been missing in action ln Korea since July 14. ' Sgt. Coleman was with the B battery of the Forward Observation Obser-vation group of Field Artlllary He entered the service ln Sept. 1951, and after training at Fort Lewis, Camp Roberts and 'Fort Sill left for overseas duty. He was in his senior year at the BYU, majoring' ln marketing market-ing and accounting, when he entered the service. He possessed outstanding vocal- taienV which he -had given generously -ln Pto- vo and American Fork. Anxiously awaiting -furthern.,. -. i-A ... ' word of the missing artlllaryman Am-PrtMnrt4speakers at the 8undaymorplng u, American for, . .. ,,,. c.l. m... j are his parents and a sister, Carolee C. Andrus, wife of Capt. Laron C. Andrus, Big Springs, Texas. Clifford E. Young To Address Scout Camporee Elder Clifford E. Young, assistant assis-tant -4o the Council of the Twelve, will' be the campflre speaker at the overnight camp- oree of Alpine District Scouts & Fathers which will be held at Camp Tlmpanooke Friday night and Saturday. Floyd Loverldge, executive secretary of the National Parks Council, will also be ln attendance. attend-ance. Music for the Friday night campflre meeting will be lead by Elmo Hansen. " r , Mombers of eight units, representing, repre-senting, approximately 125 boys, are expected to be In attendance, with fathers and acouters brin lng the total near the 200 mark, Hard iirfaHnir nt ImnriAin Fork citystreets swung into i high gear this, week -with graveling, grav-eling, grading and tack coat- lng of some .half dozen sections over town, it was reported at the City Council meeting Monday evening. Oil is now down on Second and Third East streets and on Fourth South, tack coating and grading Is .. going forward on 4U;nU:r-and -First-West -streets and preparation of grades Is progressing ln a number of other sections. Each day now will see progress on the streets and in a matter of three or four weeks with ideal id-eal weather citizens should be freed from dust and dirt which has plagued them since the city ci-ty sewer Job started. During the week the Utah Fluorine Content In 1st Hay Crop Shown On Co. Map Mr. S. R. Boawell, Utah County Agricultural Agent, has placed a large map ln his office showing the various ranges of concentrations concentra-tions of fluorides that occur ln the first cutting of alfalfa hay ln Utah County. t , The Information on this map has been furnished by the State Agricultural Experiment Station, ln cooperation with Stanford Research Re-search Institute. Both agencies have been making a study during the past two and one-half years of the fluoride problem ln the county. The data on the map are the result of intensive survey, sur-vey, collection and analysis of the first crop of alfalfa. It has been compiled tor the purpose of letting the growers, feeders, and, buyers ln the valley know the fluoride content of the hay. As contrasted with previous crops. It shows .that there is only small f racUon of the crop that not a safe normal feed. The spring cutting of alfalfa has proven ln the past to carry a lower fluorine content than suc ceeding crops. Similar maps for the second and third crops will be made public as quickly as it Is possible to gather and analyze the alf alfa. , , UTAH RANKS HI OH IN EDU CATION. Its State University formerly the University of Des-eret Des-eret was founded ln 1850, the first Institution of higher learn lng to be established west of the Mississippi River. The -Utah State Agricultural College at Logan and the Brlgham Young University at Provo are two oth er notable schools. Church Leaders Attend Final Session Sun. at Mutiial Dell Elder Clifford E. Young, as- personal faith promoting Incl-slstant Incl-slstant to the Council of the' dents. Twelve; Bertha S. Reader," gen - eral president Of the YWMIA, i m.i- ft ' t u. A".'"!: r. meeting of Alpine Stake Glean ers and Oolden Oleaners held at Mutual Dell in American Fork Canyon. ; Other special guests were President Edward W. Burgess. President Phil D. Jensen, Albert B. Allen, stake clerk; Clarence A. Orant, member . of the High Council in charge of MIA; Melvlnj Beckstrand, representing the Sunday School superin tendency; Keith L. Beck of the YMMIA Supcrlntendency; Howard Oor-don, Oor-don, -Harlo Beckstrand, John Richards and John Page, Elder Young briefly told of the beginning of Mutual Dell when north Utah County was one stake and Junius ,C. Banks, Lehl. and Effle Warnlckl Pleasant Orove, had charge of the two Musual Associations. He then discussed the building of a testimony of the gospel and how living its principles brings lasting happl-ntU, happl-ntU, 1 Mrs. Jorgcnsen spoke of teaching teach-ing the gospel by example and Mrs. Reeder spoke of the lasting advantages of camping and working together and related Under Scale State Road Commission has had a crew of men working on Main Street raising culverts and man hole covers in preparation for the laying of a two inch road mix through the entire city. The present plans are to get the Job underway the last of this week or the first of next week. Councilman Leslie Searle was authorized to check the costs and other details for the erect-Ion erect-Ion of a -special , water-settling - and storage tanks north of the city cemetery Into which irrigation irriga-tion water can be turned and a short pipe line run to the cemetery ceme-tery for the sprinkling system. This could also be run across the road and used on the American Ameri-can Fork High School grounds as well. This would relieve the city water system of supplying a large amount of water during the hot summer season when so much water must , be ..used on these plots. A report was made to the council that some unthinking people are driving cars onto the lawns at the Rotary Park south of the baseball diamond. Fences are . kept up for the purpoaa of protecting this area but these people have pulled the, fences down and driven into the area. The public is invited and urged to use this park for picnic grounds and play areas for the children but driving of cars onto on-to the grass does considerable damage and will soon ruin the area. If the practice continues ar rests will be made and fines, assessed, Mr. Nelson, City Man ager, stated yesterday. Councilman Searle reported that the Intake water line break had been repaired and the full canyon now or water is now reaching the storage tanks ab-. ore town.' - -' Authority to paint tables and benches recently installed on the Robinson Park on East Main Street was given the City Property chairman. City councllmen voted unan imously to install water meters on lines serving the . American Fork High School and the Harrington Har-rington School. Up to now the city has furnished water free for lawn sprinkling at these schools. On recommendation of the City Planning Commission the city officials declined a request to move a small building onto , the propertj between the Anderson An-derson Mortuary and the residence resi-dence or Dr. Kenneth Noyee. The building failed to meet the toning requirements, it was determined. de-termined. A unanimous vote of the council coun-cil authorized City Attorney O. DeVere Wootton to draw up an ordinance prohibiting ."Jay Walking'' Wal-king'' across Main Street. 1 Thenremalnder-nf -the- time- was turned ovee to the group for Individual testimonies and 19 meeting, was furnished by the d.i i.ji.. .). e Bel Canto ladles chorus of the Fourth Ward directed by LaRue R. Morton.. They sang "The Lord's Prayer" and "Dear Lord, i Kind Lord". President Burgess presided at the meeting and Helen O. Beck, , stake Oleaner leader, conducted the program, which had been arranged ar-ranged ln cooperation with Owen Richards. The YWMIA Presidency,, Presi-dency,, Olive Bowen. Letha Hansen Han-sen and Virginia Beckstrand, with ward officers and Oleaner leaders had been present at the' overnight camp. There are 24 Oolden Oleaners (the highest ward given to to women in the church) in the stake with several more almost ready for their final tests. Most recent to receive the award were Mary R. Callahan, Eighth Ward; Betty B. Street, Sixth Ward, and Betty O. Spencer, First Ward. Following the meeting the, 85 persons who attended were served serv-ed dinner ln the dining hall witb Presldent Jensen offering grace. Mrs. Francis B. Abel had gone to the Dell and taken over the preparation of the meals. c i. |