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Show " 'a j" - tm Universal Microfilming:' Corporation 141 Plerpont Avenue Salt Lake City t Utah VOL. LV Subscription $3.50 Year. Single Copy 10c THE AMERICAN FORK CITIZEN, Thursday, April 10, 1958 NUMBER 7 Forensic Squad Wins Top Debate Honors City Officials Take Steps to MeeJ Seasonal Flood Threat STATE DEBATE WINNERS American Fork High School Forensic Squad won the state championship In debate at a recent meet held in Salt Lake City. Shown displaying their trophies are: front row, left to right, Merlynne Strong, Miriam Day, Joyce Hollien, Doris Smith, Marilyn Kawakami. Second row: Ronald Inouye, Orville Day, Mark Allen, Bob Mon-son, Mon-son, Bruce Chadwick, J. N. Washburn, coach. Back row: Davis Knight, Kent Mulliner and Jim Chadwick. . For the second straight year American Fork High School's Forensic Squad, won top honors in the annual high school speech meet held last Friday and Saturday Sat-urday at the University of Utah. Outpointing all competition in three of the four contest events, American Fork students were able to tally enough points to lead Lehl, the nearest competitor com-petitor by eleven points. Lehi was runner-up last year also. American Fork was clearly superior i n extemporaneous speaking, oratory, and legisla Pres. Wilkinson to Speak At Stake Conference , Alpine Stake Qarterly Conference Con-ference will be held this weekend, week-end, April 12th and 13th, according ac-cording to Phil D. Jenson, stake president. Ernest L. Wilkinson, president of the Unified Church School Systsm, will be the visitor vis-itor to the sessions on Sunday. Saturday evening at 6:30 p. m. there will be a Leadership Meeting for the following: Stake Presidency, Clerks, High Council, Coun-cil, Patriarch, Quorum Presidencies, Presi-dencies, Group Leaders, Quorum and Group Secretaries of all High Priests, Seventies, and Elders Quorums, also Class Instructors; In-structors; Stake Mission Presidency, Pres-idency, Stake Superintendency of the Sunday School and YM-MIA; YM-MIA; Bishops, Bishop's Counselors Coun-selors and Ward Clerks; Stake and Ward Aaronic Priesthood Committees, Quorum Advise r s and Secretaries; Stake and Ward Senior Aaronic Priesthood Priestho-od Committees, Quorum Advisers Advis-ers and Secretaries; Ward and M ,t " V In , , - t , . Pres. Ernest L. Wilkinson Stake - Ward Teaching Supervisors Super-visors and Seminary Instructors. Instruct-ors. At 8:00 p. m. Saturday evening eve-ning there will be a special meeting me-eting for men and wives by invitation. in-vitation. General sessions will be held on Sunday, the 13th, at 10:00 a. m. and 2:30 p. m. Music for the conference will be furnished furnish-ed by the combined Melchlz-edek Melchlz-edek Priesthood Chorus and the Alpine Stake Ladles Chorus, directed by Kenneth J. Bird. Mary R. Bailey and Lydla O. j Kirkpatrlck will be the accompanists. accom-panists. Sunday evening at T:30 p. m. the final rendition of the East-, East-, er Cantata, "Resurrection Morning" Mor-ning" will be given, by the com-blned com-blned chorus and Orchestra directed di-rected by Kenneth J. Bird. All seats are . reserved ' and tickets can be obtained from any of 'the bishops. There is no charge tive forum; but bewed to Lehl In over-all debate performance. All fourteen of the American Fork entries won points. Students winning superior ratings rat-ings in the different 'divisions were: debate Doris Smith, Bruce Chadwick, Miriam Day, and Orville Day; oratory Joyce Hollien, Hol-lien, and Merlyn Strong; legislative legis-lative forum Ronald Inouye, Jim Chadwick, and Mark Allen. Students winning excellent ratings were: oratory Merrill Warnick; extemporaneous speaking speak-ing Davis Knight, and Marilyn Hospital Fund-raising I Drive Committees To be Appointed Soon Frank Baker, assistant superintendent sup-erintendent at the American Fork Hospital, has been appointed appoint-ed as general chairman of the fund raising drive to finance the community's portion of the $199,190 needed to enlarge the present hospital building. The Federal government will provide $89,635.50 of the a-mount a-mount needed, and the community com-munity must supply the remainder re-mainder $109,554,50. The drive for funds will Include In-clude not only American Fork tout also surrounding communities commun-ities and area, according to Mr. Baker. Chairmen wi be. appointed ap-pointed from the various communities com-munities to assist in this worthwhile worth-while project. Persons will be contacted in the near future to help form committees and participate in fund-raising programs. pro-grams. The architect is now working on the plans of the new addition, ad-dition, and it is expected they will be completed around May 1. Am. Fork Places Three in Region Speech Meet In competition held Monday at Brigham. Young, High School, American Fork received five ratings rat-ings of Superior in the regional Interpretive Speech met. A ranking of Superior entitles a student to participate in the state meet. Those "receiving these ratings were Bill Finney, Janet Andrews, Aloa Rogers, Barbara Adamson, and Connie Stringham. Aloa Rogers received a Superior Super-ior rating in dramatic reading. In humorous reading, Connie Stringham was rated. Superior. Bill Finney placed among the top In radio reporting. Barbara Adamson was Superior in panto-mine panto-mine and Janet Andrews received receiv-ed the same rating in retold stories. Each of these students will participate in the State Finals at the Brigham Young University Friday. 'A German chemist named Marggraf discovered how to ex tract pure beet sugar from sug ar beets back in 1747. His dis covery led to establishment of the beet sugar industry around the world with 68 "beet" sugar" factories now in operation in the United States alone. . Usefulness is doing rightly by yourself and.pthers;, 7 Kawakami; legislative forum-Kent forum-Kent Mulliner. Robert Monson was ' rated as good in extemporaneous speaking. speak-ing. Following Lehl in the scoring were Brigham Young High School and Hurricane High School. An interesting feature in the scoring was that Region 7 dominated domi-nated the" tournament. An assembly to honor the winners win-ners was held Wednesday at the high school. Max Chipman Named Star Poultry Farmer After extensive judging of state - wide candidates, Max Chipman, son of Mr. and Mrs. Curtis T. Chipman, was awarded award-ed the prize as the State Star Poultry Farmer. The competition compet-ition is held by the Utah Poultry Poul-try and Farmers Coop. In con- Max Chipman juntion with the Future Farmers Farm-ers of America. One hundred dollars was a- warded as the first prize in the competition.. State Star Poultry Poul-try Farmer means that Max's activities in the way of poultry raising were the most outstanding outstand-ing In the state. The award was made at the recent FFA convention held in Salt Lake. Local Postof f ice Shows Loss For First Quarter Postal receipts at the American Fork postof flee for the first thirteen thir-teen weeks of 1958 totaled $8273.-48 $8273.-48 as compared to $9,060.09 last year Postmaster Easton Brown found this week when the quarterly report was computed. This is a 9.26 loss in receipts at the office from a year ago. In dollars it amounted to $786.61 the report disclosed. This is not a lot of gross business busi-ness to pick up during the following fol-lowing three quarters if the business swing goes up as anticipated," an-ticipated," It ' Is 7felt""by" poslaT officials here. No man is useless while he has a friend Robert Louis Steven- son. 1, ' : v-1, V'" x v , ' . ; v," " ' K s. ... "ft ' . A - - Store Glass Door Smashed Late Friday Night Glass in the front door of the O. P. Skaggs store was smashed Friday night but apparently ap-parently no entrance was made into the store since nothing was found missing. , The "broken glass door was discovered early Saturday morning mor-ning by neighboring business operators. - A check by Bus Eggett, store owner, and city police officers failed to find anything, missing mis-sing in the store. Small change left In. the cash registers and a quick check of merchand i a e failed to show any losses. A piece of lumber had been used to smash jthe glass from the door. It was taken from and returned to the old show house building , now being remodeled, re-modeled, officers reported. It is assumed that some prankster prankst-er was responsible for the smashed glass. School District Named in $5,000 Suit Alpine School District has been be-en named as one of seven defendants de-fendants in a $3,000 suit filed by a Provo basketball player, who said he was assaulted and suffered a fractured jaw, following fol-lowing a junior varsity game at American Fork High School Jan. 3. i The suit was filed by A. J. GUeason, guardian, on behalf of Tom A. Gleason, 1720 N. 44 E.,Provo, aginst the Alpine School District, David Tittensor, and five John Does. The complaint said the youth was "struck in the mouth by David Tittensor, aided by" the five unidentified John Does, and as "a result of the assault," suffered "severe and permanent perman-ent injuies" about his head and mouth; shock to the nervous system; a fractured jaw, and loss of four permanent teeth. The complaint charged the school district with negligence in failing to provide supervisors; supervis-ors; in permitting pupils, including in-cluding the six to "gang up and mill around plaintiff for a su stained period of time," and in "permitting the subsequent assault," as-sault," upon, the plaintiff "without "with-out any restraint on the part of any supervisor, teacher or employe." It added that a written notice of the plaintiff's - claim was made upon the school district Jan. 25, but had not been paid. Plaintiffs are seeking judgement judge-ment of $5,000 for general damages, dam-ages, plus medical expenses. Fathers and Daughters Party, April 16 The annual Fathers and Daughters social will be held Wednesday evening, April 16, at 7:30 p.m., in the Alpine Stake Tabernacle. All glrh twelve years of age or older, of Alpine Stake are invited to attend and bring their fathers. A full evening of entertainment entertain-ment has been planned. There will be a special guest speaker from Brigham Young University and a program. Bishop Fred Scholes will give a tribute to the daughters, and one of his daughters daugh-ters will give the tribute to the fathers. There will be musical numbers by a chorus of girls from the Third, Seventh, Ninth and Alpine Wards, and Mr. and Mrs. Stewart Durrant will show films on Alaska. Games will be played and refreshments re-freshments will be served. A prize will be awarded the lather! who has the most daughters present. , The affair is undar the direc- 'tibn of the stake and ward activity ac-tivity leaders 'and sporty .directors- ,c, yUW.. , , "V Preston Taylor Named President of Jaycees i Si Jf I ,,, " - o Preston Preston Taylor was elected president of the Junior Chamber of Commerce at the organization's organiza-tion's annual election dinner meeting Thursday evening, April 3. He will replace LaDell Terry who has served as Jaycee president presi-dent during the past year. Other officers named to serve with Mr. Taylor are: Sherman Chrlstensen, internal vice presi dent; Don Ohran, external vice president; Eldon Rasmussen, treasurer; Guy Ivins, secretary; Harold Anderson, Dean Lewis, Women's Clubs i Mrs. Karl Banks, standing, president of the Timpanogos First District of Federated Womens Clubs, Is discussing the theme of the convention which is "Knowledge is Power" in the Sputnik age. Shown with her are: left to right, Mrs. Elden J. Miller, Invitations and program chair-.man; chair-.man; Mrs. Donald M. Northwood and Mrs. Newell Beal, decoration committee chairmen, and Mrs. Joseph B. Hanson, convention chairman. District convention of the Utah State Federation of Womens Wom-ens Clubs, Timpanogos First District, is scheduled for Satur day, April 12, at the Forbes School in American Fork. American Fork Clubs are hosts for the affair and presidents of the clubs acting as committee chairmen are: Mrs. Joseph B. Hanson, convention chairman; Mrs. Elden J. Miller, invitation and program; Mrs. Wilbur Harding Hard-ing and Mrs. Harold Holindrake, luncheon and registration; Mrs. James S. Chadwick, program; Mrs. Donald M. Northwood and Mrs. Newell Beal, decorations. The convention . will begin with registration at 9 aon., and at 10 a.m. the first session will convene. 1 Presentation of colors will be by the VFW Auxiliary; Mrs. Har old Paxman will lead the pledge of allegiance; the group will then sin stmnsrlpd Baane, M -1 i .1 4, 1 Taylor Paul Wiscomb, two-year directors; direct-ors; Howard Sherwood, Rulon Smith, George Abel, one-year directors; LaDell Terry, state director, and Walter "Bus" Eggett, buck private. Retiring officers include Mr. Terry, Don McCloud, Frank Baker, Wayne Winters, Jay Lar-sen, Lar-sen, Wes Peterson, Irvin Chip man and Norman Clark. The Inaugural Banquet has been set for Thursday evening, April 17. to Hold District L . ' , J 0 i) under the direction of Mrs. Dwight S. Packard, and Mrs. A. Frank Galsford' will offer the invocation. Address of welcome will be given by Mrs. Hanson, with a response and presidents message by Mrs. Karl Banks. Minutes and roll call of clubs, at which time each club will introduce its new president, will be under the direction of Mrs. L. B. Bennett. Ben-nett. Distinguished guests will be introduced by Mrs. J. D. Pyne, followed by reports from district officers, Mrs. Ronald Price, Mrs. Vern Holindrake, Mrs. Frank Greenwood, Mrs. Barnett Dewey and Mrs. Lucille Hlllman. Musical numbers will be presented pre-sented by the Bel Canto Chorus, Tmme6ryMfsTKay "MoTtolE Closing remarks will be by Mrs. Banks; tribute to clufr women, Mrs. S C. Jackson, and retirement retire-ment of .colors, VTW Auxiliary ,.y Wrf -LAwrejpv jr ,wJ.b ( r n 5v' (4 i r - City officials, with the aid, of National Guard equipment and help from Utah County units, are arranging to forestall any damage from early flood waters that, might come out of American Ameri-can Fork Canyon. Already county equipment has done some work In straightening straighten-ing and cleaning of the channfel between the city and the mouth of the canyon and were urged to do some -more work last evening eve-ning when Mayor Anderson and councilmen met at Provo with the commission members. The local guard units- will start Friday to clear the channel chan-nel and dig out the "check" area just above First North Street where excess gravel, carried by high Water Is caught before it gets into the three large city center bridges. Other areas of the channel, where it has filled up, will be cleaned out to give free movement of waters if we get a high runoff period through the next few weeks. Reports from the watersheds in American Fork Canyon shows a twenty-five percent above normal snow cover in the canyon can-yon this yer. The cover starts at the Cave Camp area and increases in-creases on up the canyon. The rapidity of the the run-off of course, will depend on how quickly the warm weather comes and how fast it melts the snow out. City officials are prepairing in advance to meet any emergency emerg-ency that might arise and with the aid of county and guard equipment will get the channel in the best possible shape. If flood conditions develop It is planned to have men on a twenty-four hour checking schedule to keep floating materials from Mocking at bridges and ( chan- nel turns, His reported. ' . Every man Is useful to his kind by the very fact of his existence, Thomas Carlyle. Convention Here toastmistress for the luncheon program. Prayer will be .offered by Mrs. Leo G. Meredith with musical numbers by Richard Robinson. Presentation of the District Mother of 1958, Mrs. Victor J. Bird, will be made by Mrs. Marvin Gease. She will be honored by Mrs. Melvln J. Fillmore, Fill-more, and Mrs. Bird will make a response. Mrs. L. W. Mitchell will make the presentation oi oscars for teachers to Marlon J.' Olsen, principal of J2ie Measar School, Provo, who will respond, Honoring him will be Mrs. Irvin J. Nelson. Mrs. Walter C. Ewlng, state , president, will be the guest speaker. Invitations for the district dis-trict , convenUoninl95911 be extended by the Elysium UlulT of Pleasant Grove, and reports will be given by Mrs. L, S,: Lay-cock Lay-cock and Mrs. Karl Banks. .Mr.8. Ewing .will present the new dls- H?Mfllcrs i r :'N I |