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Show : p.: t:. -...f., t.. VOL. lav if'aij iption $3.50 Year. Single Cppy 10c THE AMERICAN FORK CITIZEN, Thursday, June 27, 1957 NUMBER 13 V 7W1 .AAA a AL i A A A J kLAvAJ A 7 1 J ar jCS Purposes of Welfare Plan Eiplained By Visitor; Pres. Young Attends Basic concepts of the church Welfare Plan .are three fold, It was stated by William T. Lawrence, Law-rence, member Of the Welfare Board, .who represented the gen-eral gen-eral authorttlesof the LDS Church at Alpine Stale quarterly quarter-ly conference held Sunday. Elder El-der Cllford E. Young, assistant to the Twelve, was In attendance attend-ance as a -member of the stake. Purposes of the Welfare Plan are to supply' commodities In times of emergency, to assist the unfortunate in rehabilitation, and to give . the entire church membership a chance to serve, Elder Lawrence stated in his address ad-dress during the . morning session ses-sion of the conference. The speaker gave seven points for happy living, live righteously, avoid debt, save a little, have food and clothing to last a year, do not speculate and own your own home, develop unity and oneness In the home, and. discard dis-card greed and covetousness. . Elder Young enlarged on temporal tem-poral affairs by saying debt should not be greater than ones ability to pay, storage should HomSbuilder Girls Visit Countries During 'Holiday' "Homebuilders Holiday" was held Wednesday, June 19, at 8 p.m. by Homebullder girls and their mothers of the American Fork Ninth Ward. . Via the Magic Carpet, the boat docked at the ward recreation hall for a holiday trip to several sever-al countries of the world. Helen Webb, 'Seagull .teacher, welcomed (he girls and mothers to the event. Opening song was "America" and prayer was given hy Sharon Robinson. Narrator for the affair was JRamona Martin, Lark teacher.; Passports are required before anyone can board a , ship, and lor this . trip everyone t made their., own.. Clever passports were Dutch-. caps for.' Holland, red roses for Mexico, grass skirts for Hawaii, -shamrocks for Ireland, Ire-land, and peasant aprons for Sweden. At the port each group did a skit for the country they represented. repres-ented. The Dutch girls from Holland did a Dutch dance. Others presented a bullfight for Mexico, a hula dance for Hawaii and an Irish song for Ireland. The girls representing Sweden churned butter and herded goats. After this , the entire group enjoyed participating In the .Swedish Tomte Guleben dance. ' ' ' . .? h -1 Next on the program was the International ceremony. Helen Webb gave the Spirit of Home Building. Talks on each .country .coun-try were given by Juel Ann Lar-aen. Lar-aen. Great Britain; Carpi Webb, New Zealand; . Carol Hatch, Canada; Kathy Nlcholes, Sweden; Swe-den; M r s. Geneve ' Cornell, teacher, Germany; Pamela Shatter, Norway; Jane Evans, Switzerland; Claudia ? Hansen, Denmark, and Carolyn Cornell, United States. : ; - . -. A fashion show presented by the girls was narrated by Mrs. Cornell. Participating in ' the show were Annette MeVkley, Helen He-len Holllen, Mary Lou Larsen, Juel Ann Larson, Carol Webb, Miriam Allred, .Cheryl Densley, Julie Ann Pulley, Marsha Merk-ley, Merk-ley, Pamela Shatter, Carolyn Cornell, Claudia Hansen, Carol Hatch, Kathy Nlcholes, " Anita Grace; Sharon Robinson, Jane Evans and Patricia Cook - ; ! Following the activities, a smorgasbord luncheon was eerv j edL The centerpiece for the table was a wona giooe witn nooons going from it to dolls and food representing the different countries. coun-tries. There were , sandwiches from United States, green sliced pickles from Ireland, Frltoa from Mexico, pineapple and fruit punch from Hawaii and cup cakes from France. Special guests for the party were stake leaders Lucille Woot-ton Woot-ton and Myrtle Pulley. Forty-six Forty-six girls and mothers were present pres-ent for the affair. . Fire Department Called Out for Grass Fire H A grass fire at the old Hampton Hamp-ton home at 1st South 28th West called out the fire department Tuesday afternoon.. There was no damage to the home' from the fire, reported Fire Chief LaDrue Varney. The fire was started by-sparks from a nearby be staples and not' luxuries and, citing Incidents during past years of accomplishments of the Church during emergencies. The speaker paid tribute to the late Ell JClayson, for over 40 years stake clerk, for thehelphe had given in establishing .the first stake cannery and farm. . At the' afternoon session Elder Young urged, home training in culture and refinement, advised the MIA to adopt a program which would develop these attributes at-tributes In their' charges, 'and related first hand "knowledge of his grandparenets of the Prophet Proph-et Joseph Smith and his mis sion. Dr. C. Douglas Barnes, former president of Long Beach Stake, and Victon Bowen, president of Great Falls, newest stake in the church, 'were present and spoke k briefly. Lot Robinson, connected with, the stake cannery and welfare wel-fare storage for 22 years, who has been released since the store house has been moved to Orem, told of his past work. Three mis . sionarles, Foy Swain, , Fourth Ward, from the Canadian Mission;. Mis-sion;. Clare C. Webster, Fifth Ward from, the Southern States Mission, and Merrill Beck, Sixth Ward, - from the East Central Mission, bore, testimonies. In his address of welcome, VCTesldent Phil D. Jensen, who conducted the meetings,, com mented on the serious respond biUty of members of the Mel chizedek priesthood, asked all temple attenders to renew their recommends during the month of July, asked for increased at tendance at ward Sunday Schools, and paid tribute to Lot Robinson, Milton Brown, Eldon J. Miller and Ida H. Wagstaff who have been released from their stake work. - v : Major change in stake officers occurred .with the release of Lowell R." Bennett and his as sistants from the Sunday School superln tendency and sustaining of Leo O. Meredith, Melvln W. Grant and DeMont W. Coombs tq replace them. Cleone E. Noble was replaced in the ymmia su perintendency by ' Douglas ' E. Nlcholes, - and Ruby Conder was sustained as co-chairman of the Old Folks Commltttee to take the place of Delia Spafford, and Violet Varney was sustained as secretary of the committee, re placing Mrs. Conder. Speakers at the afternoon meeting, in addition to Elders Young and Lawrence were Pres ident Stanley D. Roberts, Presi dent Homer A. Royle, Lowell R. Bennett, Leo G. Meredith, Llllle M. Walker, president of the YWMIA, Roxie A. Richards, president of the stake Primary asoclation. , and Leland F. Pri day, stake clerk. Each expressed appreciation for the privilege of service ' and testimony of the gospel. - , . . v Music for the day was turn ished by the Relief Society Singing Sing-ing Mothers, under the direction of Zella W. Thornton, with Lydla O. Kirkpatrlck and Mar-Jorie Mar-Jorie D. Merkley as accompanists.' accompan-ists.' They sang "Oh, Praise Ye the Father?,.. fTeach ,Me, O Lord", "Oh Saviori Hear .Me", and "My Redeemer Lives". Prayers Pray-ers eere spoken by Melvln H. Beckstrand, Sixth Ward , High Priests leader; Terry P. Draper, Fifth. Ward High Priests leader; Frank Q. Shelley and Clarence A. Grant, counselors In the' High Priests quorum. Ushers and trafr flc managers for the day were members of the 67th and 286th quorums l of Seventy. - Milton Brown was In charge of the sound system and recording and members of the American Fork Garden Club furnished beautiful flowers for the building. . , - ' BHA Conference ' . The evening session was under un-der the direction 6f the Alpine Stake Mutual Improvement Association. As-sociation. The meeting was held in the Amphitheatre at the Utah State Training School, and. an impressive program of music and talks was presented for the large, appreciative crowd that attended. , Several awards were made that evening. Lou Jeanne Bow-en Bow-en Smith was presented a Golden Gold-en Gleaner ) Award by Betty Street, stake Gleaner leader. The Distinguished Leadership Citation was awarded to Dr. James S. Chad wick. Only one of these awards la given in a stake during an entire ytar. Dr. Chad-wick Chad-wick also received. the YMMIA Leadership Recognition Award along with Van BurgessV Ferris McAf fee, Andrew Block and William Thornton. Wayne Mc- Daniel was awerded the Master M Man Award. These presenta-H Next meting vi the group will tlons were made by Keith Beck,be July 11 at Regal Recreation Second Half Play Begins July 5 For Softball League The first half of the Alpine Stake Softball League play will be completed this Friday except f or-a- postponed, game between Alpine and Fourth Wards which will be played at 7 pan. July 5. The second half schedule will begin July S at 8 pm. with the Ninth Ward opposing the Sev enth Ward. This game will be followed by the Sixth-Alpine game at 9 pm. . For second Half play, the Ninth Ward will field two teams. Ninth B team will replace the First Ward team on the schedule. sche-dule. All teams are cautioned that the 10 minute forfeit time will be strictly enforced during the second half play. (TAKE SOFTBALL STANDINGS To W L Play 3rd Ward 6 0 1 Alpine Ward ..r.. 3. 'l 1 7th Ward ... 3 3 1 6th Ward 3 31 4th Ward .2 2 3 8th Ward 2 3 2 Highland Ward 1 5 1 THIS WEEK'S SCHEDULE Thursday, June27- , 7 partFourth vs Fifth . 8 p.m. Third vs Ninth 9 pm. Alpine vs First Friday. June 28 7 pm. Hlghalnd vs Fourth 8 pm. Sixth vs Seventh STAKE JUNIOR TOURNEY Monday, July 1 6:30 pm. First vs Second "7.30 pm. Seventh vs Fifth 8:30 pm. Alpine vs Ninth 9:30 pm. 4th vs Highland Old Folks Party Enjoyed By Tri-Stake Groups . The trl-stake old folks party was held June 19 at Rotary Park, and was attended by 563 who enjoyed the party and the fun. There were 196 from Amer ican Fork, i 165 from LehL 144 from Pleasant Grove, 44 from Alpine and 16 from Highland. Tables were decorated by Fay Chipman and Edith Lassen, and featured flowers, green crepe paper and nut cups. Music for the day was, furnished by Milton Mil-ton Brown. Following dinner, which was served at 12:30, a program was presented. Mayor George Scott gave a welcome address and William C. Smith of Pleasant Grove gave the response. A girls trio from Pleasant Grove comprised of Louise RadmalL . Rosalie Rich companled by Hal Haycock, sang a number. Neils FUgal of Pleasant Grove gave reading. Mrs. Ann Bushman and Mrs. Ada Robinson,. Lehi sang two numbers, accompanied by Mrs. Eva Carson. A double trio from American Fork. Helen Webb. Ella Grace, MarJOrle Merkley, Lucy Lamoreaux, Lucille Woot- ton. accompanied by La Von Harward, sang a number, The Mia Maids of the Sixth Ward presented a dance number and Ginger Brooks, American Fork, sang a vocal sola Concluding number on the program was an accordion solo by Orvlue Day of Highland. , ; ' -;v Alton Storrs was chairman of the party. . s County Wildlife Group Formed ' At Provri Meet Representatives from- nine of the Utah County Sportsman's Associations met at the Provo City and C o u n t y Building Thursday, 'June 20, to organize a Utah County Wildlife Association. Associa-tion. - V.-v . : Jack . Allshouse, president of the American Fork Sportsman's Association, was elected president presi-dent of the county group at this meeting. 4 :. The Wildlife Association was formed to more .fully organize the Sportsman's Associations In the county and to bring the associations as-sociations and members of the associations closer togetheo Sportsmen In the county who have a . grievance or problem they wish to discuss or who have any questions can meet wlth the county group and ' discuss the problems and come to an agreement or find an answer. SundaySchool Head Released. During Stake Conference' Lowell Bennett " was feleased as superintendent of "the Alpine Stake Sunday School during the second session of Alpine Stake conference Sunday, June . 23. Sustalnedlnhlsplace-was LeoHr Q, Meredith. Keith . Dalton and Francis. Mortenson were also released as assistants in the stake superln-tendency. superln-tendency. Sustained as assistants assist-ants to Mr. Meredith were Melvln Mel-vln W. Grant and DeMont W. Coombs. ' ? Mr. Bennett served as second counselor in the bishopric in the Hinckley Ward, Deseret Stake. He also was a , Sunday School teacher there fof three years. Since coming to American Fork he has been Sunday School Superintendent Su-perintendent of the Fourth Ward and MIA Superintendent of the Sixth Ward. Mr. Bennett was a member' of the Alpine Stake Sunday School board for three years before his appointment appoint-ment as superintendent. He was head of the Stake Sunday school for seven years. : He was born and raised in Meadow, Millard County. Mr. Bennett taught school in Mea dow for two years, In Hinckley eight years and 10 years in Lehi, He Is present! teaching mathe matics and science at American Fork Junior High School where he has been-for three years. His wife is the former Hope Hilton. They have five eons, Gordon, 20, Ronald, 16, Lynn, 12, Bruce 8, and Robert Dean, 5. ' Before his appointment to the superlntendency ' Sunday, M r. Meredith-served as Sunday School teacher in the Seventh Ward and was a former member of the Alpine Stake Presidency He is now president of the Mel- chlzedek Priesthood Chorus. 18 Local Cadets Attend Annual CAP Encampment Eighteen "OvU Air Patrol Cadets of American Fork are now attending the CAP annual encampment at Cheyenne, Wyo, They are receiving training In character guidance, aviation education, communications, mil' ltary science, physical training! and drill, small arms firing and orientation flights in - United States Air Force aircraft. ". Those attending the encamp ment are Charles L. Downey, David Park, David L. Smith, Jay Taylor,, Glen Wright, Jack Wright, Mary I. Nielsen, Mark Nlelsenohn Nay, Garthm M. Miller, Charles R. Masterson, Douglas 8. Greenwood, Frank Gordon, Joyce Evans, Gerald Clements, Jack Nell Clegg, Bruce L. Brown and Kent Boley. Browne Lake Reservoir Being Constructed For Public Fishing r Construction of Browne a permanent public trout fishing fish-ing water of 54 surface ' acres, was begun this week In Daggett County some ten miles northwest north-west of Manila, the Utah Department De-partment of Fish and Game said today.'- ','.';. - Completion of construction and first impounding of water is expected about mid-summer. The lake will be stocked with cutthroat trout presently being raised from a pure strain of this species recently secured from California through the cooperation coopera-tion of the department of fish and game in that sister state. The department said nans call for establishment of this pure strain of cutthroat In the lake with the eventual building of a spawning station there from which eggs will betaken to supply this species to other waters in the state. It was noted that the source of supply for native trout eggs Is rapidly disappearing. . July 4th is Family Day At City Swimming Pool July 4 will be family day at the Veterans Memorial Swimming Swim-ming Pool. The pool will be opened to the public from 10 am. to 10 pm. Swimming tick-eta tick-eta will cost $1 per family. There will also be family rates at the snack bar. Five . hamburgers, malts' or milk shakes or a combination com-bination Of any of -them will cost $1. Scheduled swimming classes will not be held that day. Lake, (Suard Finishes Road During GUARDSMEN CONSTRUCT SCENIC ROAD SP-2 Marvin Laycock of H&S Company Com-pany operates a caterpillar for the National Guard project of building 4 scenic road from righton resort to Midway. Three batallions of engineers have now completed construc tion. of a two-way graveled ect was started two years ago. , i j: Reading Conference Scheduled by USU LOGAN Local librarians, school librarians, county com mlssloners and county and city library boards, the newly created creat-ed state library commission are expected at the Rural Reading Conference to-be sponsored by Utah State University Extension Service and library staff July 11 and 12. ' Purpose of the conference will be to consider' how books and other reading materials ' can most effectively he made available avail-able to rural areas through the new State. Library. The' home demonstration agent in each of Utahs 29 coun ties.- is being- acked to assemble rllbrary personnel from each county, said Dr. Carl J. Friscn- knect. director of the Agncui tural Extension Service, and Milton Adams, university llbrar I lan. Alfred Stef ferud, editor of the Agricultural Year Book for the UJS. Department of Agriculture and one of the nation's best qualified authorities on reading problems of rural areas, will be visiting lecturer at the Reading Conference and will address at least three sessions of the meet. The conference v will Include panels on such items as "book club .programs," 'DoosLxairs," "story hOurs" and the role of the library in the rural community. Conference sessions will . be conducted in the Student Union, Boys and Girls Participate In Fish Derby S3 nav van iniCK FINNS the annual Fish Derby held Saturday, June 22, at the stream just below the old Mill Pond. The event was sponsored by Robinsons Sport Shop and the Jaycees. Marion Robinson made arrangements and furnished prizes for the derby. The Jaycees served ; - punch to the boys and girls; Approximately 200 boys and girls 12 years old and younger attended the annual Fish Derby Saturday, June 22. The event was ' sponsored by Robinsons 8ports Shop and the Jaycees. Prize , winners of the Derby were the following: Largest fish for a boy was caught by Brent Hayes. His 14 inch fish won him a spinning rod. Largest fish for a girl, lift inches, was caught by Patsy Edwards. She won a fly rod. Earl Laycock was the first boy td catch a fish, 'and Sharon McRae was the first girl road during the annual summer encampment. , The proj CAMP W. O. WILLIAMS-A two-week sumtne r J' training camp for some 400 Ulph National Na-tional Guardsmen ended 8unday when the last unit . moved In convoy to its home town ar-mory., ar-mory., , . ,) Heavy artillery , filing testa were concluded Friday, by four battalions, the 143th from Provo, the 222nd from Ogden, the 204th from Logan and the 213th from Cedar Qty. It ended tests in which hundreds of rounds of shells were fired by eight-inch Howitzers ' and , 155 max" "Long Toms" Into the -OQUlrrh Mountains Moun-tains west of Camp Williams. Three batallions of engineers. tahJVard : Plans-Reunion-! ' A reunion for all embers' and former .members of 'the American Ameri-can Fork Fourth Ward Is being planned for Tuesday, July 2, at the Rotary Park.- The fun will start at 6:00 pun:, and there will be refreshments, games and swimming. v :vv. , . ' f A pot luck supper will be enjoyed en-joyed during the evening, and everyone Is to 'bring whatever thev wish. AIT ward members and former members are invited to attend. ' said Mr.Abrams. .;Cvvi; .,' Anyone Interested in reading and libraries Is Invited. , - Aorjroxirnately 200 American that participated. to catch one. They each won a lure. - p,.-. .; ,lJ ;'.'' Bobby Boren caught the smallest smal-lest fish for a boy, and Norene Grant caught the smallest fish for a girt. They won fly lines. First boy to get the limit of four fish was El wood Stephens. lie wont fishing creeL First girl to catch the limit was Patsy Edwards. Ed-wards. She won a dip net. Iri the contest for the best dressed Buck Finn and Betsy Thacker winners were Ronald Hampton and Francell Pulley. Mr. Hampton Hamp-ton won' an automatic reel and Encampment aumonuu - mure uuia - i,i A. I I . - completed a. two-way graveled road froin . the scenic Brighton ski resort over the, top of 9JE23 foot Guardsman Pass to Midway. Mid-way. The project was begun two years ' ago by . the engineers. They spent f one ' week of summer sum-mer training In 1355 on the project, pro-ject, one week in 195S and the entire two weeks ; of . the 1S51 encampment. Despite delays by rain, mud, hall, snow and equipment break downs, , the project was completed com-pleted as scheduled, Even & mock war with aggressor forces failed to stop work on the road. -The roadway will be open to the public'. However, Guard of-, flclals have urged motorists to drive slowly and use good common com-mon sense to avoid accidents while "using the roadway. A maximum -speed' of- 2rm ir la advxlsed while traveling on the road, f y The 957 encampment marked the largest gathering of" forces In the history of the Utah National Na-tional Guard.-Trops were hindered hin-dered during the first week of the two-week training course try rain and. cloudy weather. The second ' week . provided cleared weather and warm skies. A record payroll of $400,000 will be paid guardsmen at their home town armories. From this, $30,000 will be withheld for' Income In-come tax and other deductions. Most of the heavy vehicles and other machinery were plac ed in mothballs inthe vehicle-concentration vehicle-concentration site at Camp Williams, Wil-liams, awaiting the return of the forces again' next summer. Fork Boys and Girls enjoyed Miss Pulley won a fly reel. . The Fish' Derby was held at the stream Just below the old mill pond. Boys and girls met at the city hall at 9 am. and started start-ed fishing at the stream at 10 After the Ashing, punch was served by the 4 Jaycees. 5 Prizes for the event were all furnished furnish-ed by Robinsons Sport Chop. -' Marlon Robinson made all arrangements ar-rangements for the annual derby der-by well in advanfc. About 519 fish from the State' Fish Hatch-' ery at Springvllld were planted in the stream for the event:- - 1 9. Incinerator. stake YMMIA superintendent. Center In Provo. t . ' . .. '' . "' -rt : ( ' . 1 |
