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Show - in rr... ' etit City THE AMERICAN FORK CITIZEN, Thursday, August 27, 1953 NUMBER 28 V oganfie Three Day Cify - WideSlSales I 1 vent Here! Thursday Friday & Saturday i t Sgt. Douglas A. Coleman Released As Korean Prisoner Tuesday I -T. Word flashed over the radio Tuesday night nd confirmed by the War Department in Washington, Wash-ington, D. C, announced that Sgt. Douglas A. Coleman had teen released from a North Korean Kor-ean prison camp. He was first reported missing after the heavy battle of July 14. The announcement brought unimaginable relief to the ser vlceman's parents. Mr. and Mrs. Adeltert F. Coleman, 55 South 1st East. He entered the Army In September Sep-tember 1051, and arrived In Korea Ko-rea December 14, 1952. His parents par-ents received word of his "missing "miss-ing In action" on July 24. By a strange coincidence, word of his release came on the day he was to have left Korea on rotation. Stake High Priests Meet Tonight At Rotary Park Alpine Stake High Priests. their wives, and all widows of High Priests will meet Friday, Aug. 28. at Rotary Park for a summer picnic party, the meal to be furnished by the men, it was reported today by F. Rulon Nlcholes, president of the quorum. quor-um. Each one who attends Is asked to bring his own plate, cup, fork, knife and spoon. If the weather Is inclement the party will go on at the same hour (6:30 p. m.) In the basement of the tabernacle. The program 'Will Include group singing lead by Clarence A. Grant, an original paper by Mrs. Bert Tlmpson, accord! an numbers by Larry Miller, and a talk by J. Stanley Peters. 0. P. Skaggs Opens Super Market :Thia -ek End The American Fork O. P, - SkasKS -super - market, operated by Mr. and Mrs? Walter (Bus) Eggett. Is celebrating this week with a grand two-day" opening. Friday and Saturday. Besides offering hundreds of specially priced food items, the firm is practically reeding me people of north Utah County for the two days. Hot cakes and cof- fe will Deserved all morning Friday and franks, cookies and cnia soft drinks will be handed. out from 1 to 9 p. m. On Satur day a family snack bar will be open from 11 a. m. to 5 p. m. This brand new Skaggs auper market has been under remodeling remodel-ing for the past three weeks and now is rady for your final ln-epectlon, ln-epectlon, "Bus says. - This is the largest food market mar-ket In north Utah County and boasts the greatest array of .foods, Vegetables .and meats to be - offered the public In this area. A big page advertisement with special bargains appears on page eleven of this paper witn a special spe-cial invitation from Mr. and M$. Eggctt to attend their opening. - wa " BaaBBBBmmMBBBBBBBBBBBBaaLhBamaBKBBmBBBBBMMmaBBBB1 Sfi. DoofUs A. Coleman . - v ,.-! .- h V'lC :iHgh S0001 band rcPresent th'i Apollo Hall, the committee an- A - w V"rrv--3 state at the National convention inounced todav 1 mt vKVr'jiSU are being LiVVV; 1i Springs next June t was re-... bv , HumohrtM FloraV James A. Shelley To Head Legion For Coming Year 0f World War n. was elected coni- mander of American Lebpn Post' 49 at a meeting and smorgasbord held last Tuesday at the canyon home of Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd A. Buckner, Ogden, national vice Bennett. He succeeds Henry E.' presidents. Purpose of the meet-McNeill meet-McNeill who has served as com-! lng was to acquaint local chap-mander chap-mander and service officer for ter officers with their specific the past year. . . , , -I duties and to put into final form Other officers elected were Kenneth W. Morton, first vice commander; Richard W. Healey, second vice commander; Mr. ling achievements oi junior im-Bennett. im-Bennett. sergeant at arms, and kens, establishment of a speak-Mr. speak-Mr. McNeill, chaplain. Earl H. tf s bureau, and programs to Barratt was retained as adjutant promote Industry and agricul- and Mr. McNeill will continue to work as service officer. George E. Graff, Junius H. Noyes, W. E. Hoggard and Jack I verson are officers who worked! the past year with Commander McNeill - Forty-iive members of the Post j .:,,i, , . . and Auxiliary enjoyed the more Jli ,v,iu than ample meal which was pro- k- k- ..j! vlded by the legionnaires and: prepared by auxiliary members. Tower Raised On 6th-8th Ward Church The tower on the 6th-8th Ward new chapel at Third North and First East was raised last week under the direction of E. A. Wilson, building superintendent and counselor in the Sixth Ward bishopric The tower was built on. the ground and then raised into pos ition by a huge crane brought from, the O. T. Vincent Com. v ween vm4 pany. The -tower, itself, is. 41 Jeeti tall with the spire adding another an-other 7 and one-half ecU Total (distance from the ground Is 72 feet. The ball, flnnial and shaft were a gift to the church of Oeneva SteelCompany and were covered with stainless steel by uuniner oneei Meiat tympany, .weight Eht of the tower and spirt was estimated by Mr. u;;n.'""'1, this class of oeing aooui ziuu pounas. five m iinn MviiMif miiA men worked on the Job of erec ting the tower with about 100 spectators on the ground At the present time the second coat of paint has been put on all the people mentioned docs not the woodwork in the building: chanKe U1 be made in and about one-third of the third the f&mous brand name merch-coat. merch-coat. The benches and Interior; lse, which has been handled trim are in and the .floors are f P reully selected down ready for the asphalt tile andhrouBh the 81 years of contln carpeUng. Lighting fixtures are, ous cnrl wchlpan in process of being installed. Merc. Co. Many years have been JT .. . ,, . 'spent In searching out the out- The recreation hall, chapel ,. K,anH, and foyer, have -.been fc .treated cut down the noise - from - one rbbm to another. T. P. Pope, the1 architect, was here Monday to mftlco an fnsnectlon oL the build- ing which they hope to be In by the first of November. Jaycees to Take H. S. Band To Nat. Meet Alter a hard fought battle at the board meeting of Utah State "u'"ul V"""'L' """"-',jueen, ner attendants, Miss a- neia in wgan ounay, wie ertcan Fork delegation came a-1 aeiegauon came a-' way wun uie approrai 01 uie board to nave American rom V... T t.rnnn tj Wight Wol .v. wr, ...... . ...6..., - prt-aiuciib. The hardest competition came;Qiaaj0ius Society and winner of Wi A Affllnn 1ilLlflrAtln ' ... . . , i : from the Ogden delegation. First fund raising project lor band transportation will be a farewell party for Miss Utah, Miss LaVon Brown of Utah County, who Is leaving Soon for the national Miss America contest con-test In Atlantic City, N. J. Miss Louise Beck, American Fork, and Miss Jerry Shilling, Garfield, attendants to Miss Utah, will attend her Monday evening. The unusual event will be held In the Apollo Hall Monday night Aug. SI, when Miss Brown will display her wardrobe and a musical mus-ical program will be presented. Tickets are $1.00 per person.' Tickets for the Monday even- lng show may be obtained from any member of the band, Keynote speakers at the Logan confab were Orwln FJare, Big Timber, Mont., and E. LaMar 'recommendations for the ooser- nce or Nauonax newspaper Week, recognition of outstand- ture In the state. Early arrivals were entertained entertain-ed at a canyon party Saturday night. Going from American Fork we,re Heb V,1! state wvlce President; Marvin Teuscher, state chairman of . .. nriv. o.ini, state director: Mr. Wight, Ralph D lT ,.L ."",. T B. Hammerstrom, secretary; La- t nrWk,i Grande Terry, treasurer, Laueu . aA rkaa Bateman, directors; Lewis Smith, safety chairman; Richard Rich-ard E. Hunter, chairman of the band project, and the two Mrs. Ivlns Dept Personnel Changes at Chipman Merc. Co. Beginning September 1, Mr. Chris Scott, who has been with the Chipman Mercantile Com pany 29 years this July, will as sume the responsibility of man aser of the Men's Clothing, to gether with the Ready-to-wear nri nm ruwla ripnortmenLt Mr. ftrott-hra-had-extende- exoer- lencerwith-thts company te se lectlng merchandise for sale, and his new assignment Is made with considerable enthusiasm. Assisting Mr. Scott In the Dry Ooods and Ready-to-wear departments de-partments is Mrs. Thelma Moss, who will be the assistant buyer in this part of the store. Mrs in Moss has had extensive exper handling i - v merchandise which makes t her very capable in assuming this new responsibility. This change of assignment to wnlch render the Bcrvlce - These changes came about from the fact that Mr. J. Stanley Pct- ers is leaving tne cnipman Merc onttle Company to accept cm- pioymcni m eai uiae wy. Steel Day Queen Selection Program Friday, August 28th American Fork's Steel Day Am-(merican Fork and her attend- ant win ho rhnw Fridav niuht ant. wm k. chosen Fridav nlnht when contestants are ifK-To at a public appearance Humphries Floral Roberts, president uu'""cu an(j J()nn c . the Wasatch ehaoter. Utah several first prizes this year. Mrs L. E. Chipmanand Mrs. L. R. Pett will have charge of the decorations. de-corations. Leland F. Prlday and his string ensemble will provide background music, lights will be furnished by Utah Power and Light Company under the direction direc-tion of LaMar S. Evans, and Milton Mil-ton Brown will have charge of the sound system. Mrs. Delbert Ray Chipman will be narrator and Judges will be Irma Felt Bltner, Conrad Harrison, Salt Lake City; Brick Pagan and Dick Ounn, Provo. The management of Apollo Hall is donating the hall for evening. charge of 25c fo children and 50c for adults is being made. Wednesday evening Miss Ruth Tolman, of the Tolman School of Charm. 8alt Lake City, spent the evening here to brief contestants con-testants on posture, poise, tal ent, and other phases of the contest. Monday queen committee members, Mrs. Delbert Chipman, Mrs. A. F. Oalsford and Mrs. Harold Holley spent the day In Salt Lake City, with the queen aspirants. They went to the Roof Oarden of the Hotel Utah for luncheon, saw ,the ZCMI fashion show and were Interviewed Inter-viewed by reporters from the Deseret News and Tribune and had their pictures , taken. Ticket Sales Beginning today club women of the city will handle Steel Day ticket sales from booths In front of the principal business house. They will continue until Steel Day. Program Changes Two changes In hours of the Steel Day program have been made, it was reported by Lyman Wight, secretary. The rodeo has been advanced to 1 p. m. and the evening parade to 5:30. A complete program will be an nounced next week. Award of Honor Granted Geneva Steel Co. The National Safety Council "Award of Honor", the highest safety award a steel mill can win, has been presented to Gen eva Works of the Columbla-Oen 7 on ww . o.jb.mm Corporation, At a special dinner meeting In Provo-this- week,- Mr. Or Ernest Bourne, Executive' Secretary "of the Utah Safety Council, pre sented the award In recognition of "an outstanding safety per formance during 1U2." A. E. Terry, Assistant General Superintendent, accepted the a ward for Geneva works. Mr. Ter ry pointed out that the safety record of the mill was 71 percent below a par of safety performances perform-ances based on a frequency of lost time accidents for all other steel mill operations. He explained ex-plained that the injury experi ence rate at the Geneva Works for 1952 was an actual 12 percent per-cent of disability accidents for every 1,000,000 man hours worked. work-ed. L. J. Westhaver, Vice President Presi-dent of Utah Operations for Columbia-Geneva Division, paid tribute to the men of the mill for the outstanding safety' record. re-cord. "We owe a real debt to the men of the mill and to the mem bers of our many safety commit- tecs for this outatandlng safety recordr Without their untiring efforts to put across the message ri n4 a I TL VIIV OllrtU JUU Be Complete " A . lx Hnr SlPlM IlllV MeCI Progress on the city Progress on the city street 'ay'nB program and the com- pletion date of the Job was one "' tne major discussions at the 1 1 .1 II I -. .. I . council meeting Monday evening. The project is over 65 'i complete com-plete Recorder Ray C. Nelson reported, re-ported, and with normal progress through the remainder of this week and all next week should see all of the major streets completed com-pleted by Labor Day, he stated. The goal is to complete the whole program as nearly as possible by Steel Day, September 7th, it was stated. Present at the meeting were Mayor Cleghorn, Councilmen, Jones, Searle, Devey and Dunk-ley Dunk-ley and Recorder Nelson. Paul Harmon and Mllo Bean, representing the Rotary Club, discussed progress being made dh Rotary Park south of the baseball field. They plan to install in-stall tables and arrange a parking park-ing area on the implanted area. The public still drives cars onto the sodded section .and damages the grass In spite of the appeal made for the public to keep cars off the, lawns. The city officials expressed their appreciation to the club for the splendid work they are accomplishing at the park. The special city council committee, com-mittee, working with the World War veterans of this city, reported re-ported that the groups had reached a workable plan and future problems of these organizations organ-izations should be worked out by this three group six-man committee. com-mittee. Two each from the two veteran organisations and two from the city make up the group. The sewer connection fees was a matter of discussion by the officials. In cases where con nectlon fees have not been made yet the city must Insist on immediate im-mediate payment. It was stated. All future connections will be at a higher rate, It was announced. Representatives of the Ameri can Fork Irrigation Company re ported that recently trouble had developed with rented Irrigation water users. They requested that the city, inform users of city owned irrigation water of the company rules governing the use of water and its ditches. City officials promised to Inform water users of the regulations. J. Stanley Peters Accepts Position In Salt Lake City ' September 1. will terminate 17 years and two weeks with Chip- man. Mercantile nmnnv.whn. u.stantejr . Peters.- awiatant man ager, leaves to accept the post tlon of field representative and Inspector for the Utah Livestock Live-stock Production Credit Association. Associa-tion. Mr. Peters' headquarters will be In the Dooley Building, Salt Lake City. Mrs. Peters and their two children, Jeanne and Jimmy, Jim-my, will move to Salt Lake City as soon as they can dispose of their home here. Mr. Peters nas oeen active in both civic and church' affairs during the past years. He ser ved as city Councilman from 1940 to 1948, was a counselor in the Second Ward bishopric for five years and bishop for two years before moving into the Eighth Ward. The past four years he has. been a member of Alpine Stake High Council. The intellect of the wise is like eln.u: it admits the light of heaven and reflects it. ' ' .j ; -Augu.it W.Jlare of safety we would never be able to prevent accidents and develop these splendid results," west haver said. . s Fifteen Thousand People Expected To Attend The Three Day Pre-School Sales Promotion Every Business House in City Makes Super Low Price on One Item and Reduces Hundreds of Other Items For Great Three Day Sale Some Two Hundred Free Gift Certificates To Be Handed The Public During The Great Weekend Sale Event , Live Jaycees Club Members Organize 54 Firms to Stage Big Promotion The greatest city-wide sales promotion event ever staged In American Fork breaks this week end, Thursday, Ftlday and Saturday, Sat-urday, August 27, 28 and 29. Every Ev-ery business house, from the largest lar-gest to the smallest, has gone all out to offer Jthe best array of bargains ever presented In a city ci-ty promotion. It is a back-to-school sales event ev-ent for the dry goods and clothing cloth-ing firms of the city and a big food savings event for the markets mar-kets arid meat stores. Every one of the 54 American Fork business busi-ness firms has made special purchases, pur-chases, marked down high class merchandise lines and otherwise other-wise gone all-out to offer the public the best buys on every type looa, c Joining and home furnishing Items on the present day market. The promotion sales literature, Included In this paper. has gone out to the thousands of home people In American Fork, Lenl, Pleasant Grove. Alpine. Al-pine. Cedar Valley and the north Utah County ruralareas today. Read the offerings front these fifty odd firms, visit their stores sto-res and business places and learn of the great savings to be maae over the three day period American Fork is truly the shopping center of Utah this week end, declared every mem oer or the Jaycees live group of promoters and the half hundred plus firms participating In this event, YouH need shoes, hose, over alls, underwear, etc. etc. for the kiddies and young men and wo men, who will enter school In the next two weeks. You can find all these Items In American AlpjneMstrictrJnstituterProgram Scheduled. forSept. 9, 10,. and 11 Teachers Institute and work shop held annually by the Al pine School , District has been scheduled for Sept 9. 10 and 11, according to Superintendent Da- Lvld R. Mitchell. Workshops will begin at 8:30 Wednesday morning and continue conti-nue through the day with teachers tea-chers meeting their principals in each .building. Thursday's ad-Jenda ad-Jenda calls for the high school teachers to meet in their own buildings and elementary teachers tea-chers to meet at the Westmore building in Orem. The program will continue all. day. The Institute proper will begin be-gin at 10 a. m. Friday In the A-merican A-merican Fork High School. Featured Fea-tured speaker of the morning meeting will , be M. Lynn Ben-nlon, Ben-nlon, superintendent of the Salt Lake City schools. Oroup singing sing-ing and special numbers will be under the direction of KL J. Bird, head of the American Fork mus lc department.' " js New teachers and guests will be Introduced by Supt. Mitchell who will also give Instructions Fork this week end. Youll need quality foods for your tables. These, too, can be found In the greatest quantity and at savings all through the week end. Automobile firms, service stations, sta-tions, home appliance dealers. In fact practically every retail establishment In the city has arranged ar-ranged specially priced items for the event. Then there are hundreds of other house hold Items available during this great dty-wlde sales event. Dont miss any of the of ferings themany firms have ar- ranged and set out for your se lection. To help the shoppers, every Store and firm has placed Red Tags on the special sales items In their stores and firms. Just go In, look for the distinctive "Red Tag" items, note the low prices and save yourself dollars and dollars on your school, home and family purchases. Eighty dollars in prize money ie being given, the boy and girl who presents the best essay on "Why I Like to Shop in American Ameri-can fork". This Idea Is to be set out In a 50 word or less essay. Competent Judges will select the two winning essays on this subject. ' By now if you have read this news item you Just cant miss this greatest of great American Fork City promotion events. Wen be seeing you on one or all three of the great days. You can save dollars, have fun and learn of the new program to promote this north Utah County city as a shopping center for this area. 9 See. pages six and seven of this paper, to the teachers. The meeting will close at 11.15 to give the Alpine Al-pine Teachers Association 45 minutes for a business meeting under the direction of Basil Dor-ton, Dor-ton, president. Departmental meetings at 1 p. m. will follow the luncheon hour. High school teachers will re main at the American Fork) ' High School and elementary teachers will go to their respective respec-tive buildings to, meet with the principals. Teachers who will train prospective pros-pective elementary teachers will meet with Miss Alice Parker and Miss Margaret Johnson, supervisors, supervi-sors, In the high school library. The P-TA Council will meet also al-so In the high school and Mary R. Camenlsh will conduct a ' meeting of the lunch room per- sormel Jn the American Fork: High SchooUlunch center." Registration at the district .7 high schools and actual work In the elementary grades will be-gin be-gin 8cpt. 14, Supt. Mitchell said. - 1 1 . . TV . -km r ' f . .4 ' .':f |