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Show Universal Microfilming Box 2608 Salt Lake City, Utah 84101 A.F- - Steel Days Celeb ration Gets Undemay I iiursday I i AMERICAN FORK STEEL DAYS ROYALTY GREETED BY GOVERNOR-Governor Calvin L. Rampton greeted the American Fork Steel Day Royalty at his oifice last Friday. Lovely Queen Ann Thompsci presents complimentary Steel Day tickets to Governor Rampton, as her smiling attendants Lucinda Kitchen and Shirlee Begay look on in approval. Governor Rampton was most cordial in his welcome of the royal trio and extended his best wishes for a successful community commun-ity celebration. He and Mrs. Rampton will appear in the evening Steel Day Parade. Ikn. kdi floyaffy'fflvites Gov. taijjfon to fiicnrJ Steal Deys Governor Calvin L. Rampton greeted members of the American Ameri-can Fork royalty at a special appointment ap-pointment in his offices at the Utah State Capitol Friday morning. morn-ing. Queen Ann Thompson and her attendants Shirlee Begay and Lucinda Lu-cinda Kitchen were introduced to the governor by Councilman Malcolm Mal-colm H. Beck, general chairman of the American Fork Steel Days Celebration. Governor Rampton graciously Clifford D. Finch fed feipr vi niiivi ivkaii win ivi Clifford D. Finch became manager man-ager of theAmerican Fork telephone tele-phone exchange July 7, replac-ing replac-ing Eugene L. Britt, Jr. Mr. Britt, who has been manager for the past two years, is resigning resign-ing to work on his Masters degree de-gree in Business Administration at Arizona State University. f Mr. Finch was transferred from his position as a Business Office Supervisor in the Training Train-ing Department in Salt Lake City. Prior to that he worked as a Commercial Com-mercial Representative and Service Ser-vice Representative. He is a native of Omaha, Nebraska, Ne-braska, where he attended the University of Omaha before serving serv-ing in the U.S. Army. He later served a two year mission to New Zealand for the LDS Church, and then attended Brigham Young University where he majored in Political Science. For the past two and a half years, he has been teaching traffic traf-fic school for the Salt Lake City Kiwanis Club. This program isin conjunction with the city court system. Cliff and his wife Jan have m WEDNESDAY, JULY 16 Open City of Fun Carnival - Evening hours Baseball - Colt League A. F. Pirates vs. P. G. Colts THURSDAY, JULY 17 9:03 a.m. --Swim Meet - American Fork Veterans Pool 10:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.n.--Art Show - City Hall Auditorium 12:00 noonCity of Fun Carnival 2:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.Handicraft Show - Stake Tabernacle Taber-nacle 4:00 p.m. Horse Shoe TournamenNJr. Division 5:30 p.m. & 7:30 p.m. -Baseball - City Park Pony League 2 games 7:00 p.m. Horse Shoe Tournament Sr. Division FRIDAY, JULY 18 10:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. -Art Show - City Hall Auditorium 12:00 noonCity of Fun Carnival 2:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. Handicraft Show - Stake Tabernacle 4:00 p.m.Pet & Hobby Show - City Ball Park Fireman Frank & Smokey 6:00 p.m. Horse Shoe Tournament Robinson Park - Utah County Invitational 8:00 p.m. Baseball City Park American Legion - A. F. vs. Helper SATURDAY, JULY 19 6:00 a.m. -Flag Raising City Hall 6:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m.-J. C. Chuckwagon Breakfast -Robinson Park 8:30 a.m.--Big "City of Fun Carnival" 10:00 a.m. --Parade - West to East Route 10:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. -Art Show - City Hall Auditorium 11:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. Handicraft Show -Stake Tabernacle 11:00 a.m. Utah Speed Boat Association Boat Races -Am. Fork Boat Harbor 1:00 p.m. Horse Races - Rodeo Grounds 6:00 p.m. Parade - East to W3st Route 6:00 p.m. Championship Horseshoe Tournament - Robinson Robin-son Park - Utah Open 8:30 p.m. Variety Shrw and Fire.-orks - City Ball Park-Hawaiian Park-Hawaiian Trip & Color T.V. Drawing W A greeted the American Fork visitors visi-tors and accepted tickets to the Steel Days variety show, which were presented lo him by lovely Queen Ann. The Governor and Mrs. Rampton Ramp-ton will be special guests of honor in the evening Steel Days Parade and will also be on hand for the Steel Days Celebration Saturday. Accompanying the royal trio on their visit to the Governor's of- Clifford D. Finch three children; Twins, Kathi and Kristi, age four and Jenni, age three. The Finch's are expecting expect-ing another addition to their family fam-ily in December. They will make their home in American Fork. - y ' f r . - i - k nn-r-mmi f J fice, in addition to Councilman Beck were Mrs. Paul (Deanna) Murdock, chairman of the Queens Committee, Dick Devey, Steel Days publicity chairman, and Mrs. Ralph H. (Betty) Spencer. The group also toured the capital capi-tal building and the lovely royal trio was photographed on the capitol grounds. Drawing For Steel Days Horse feces Tonight at 7 Drawing for entries in the Steel Day Horse Races will be held tonight (Wednesday, July 16) at the American Fork Riding Rid-ing Club House at the rodeo grounds. The race event will feature eight races, four for thoroughbreds, thorough-breds, three for quarterhorses and one for Appaloosas, according accord-ing to Phil Zimmerman, president presi-dent of the American Forks Men's Riding Club, who are sponsoring the event. The races will begin at 1 p.m. at the American Fork Downs, located lo-cated north east of the city. New bleachers have been constructed con-structed at the race track to provide comfortable seating to 500 spectators. Outstanding entries of top race horses of the area are expected in the race meet, with the track in excellent condition . ays If you like barbershop singing and almost everyone does, you will want to be on hand for the Steel Days Variety Show to be presented by the Lakeside Chord Busters. The 50 voice male barbershop bar-bershop chorus will headline the Steel Days variety evening show, the closing event of the 1969 Steel Days Celebration. The Chord-Busters will appear ap-pear at the city ball park at 8:30 p.m. Saturday, July 19, presenting pre-senting a crowd-pleasing array of popular barbershop arrangements arrange-ments of songs you like to hear. Program numbers will include semi-classics and traditional Steel D A - " 3 a American Fork will become the focal point of interest in Utah County this week, with the presentation pre-sentation of the annual Steel Days Celebration. An outstanding outstand-ing array of events has been planned, sure to please all family fam-ily members from the toddlers up to the grandparents of the Ml . . a.vA II ' a VY 1 1 f I City Council Approves The American Fork City Council Coun-cil annexed 48.84 acres of frontage front-age property on the east side of Fifth East street, approved a 23 plot subdivision in northeast American Fork and defeated i controversial measure which proposed establishing an Irrigation Irriga-tion Commission and setting up minimum standards and regulations regula-tions for operation of irrigation ditches in the community. In other action the council denied a request for water service ser-vice outside the city limits from the Utah State Department of Highways and heart reports from councilmen. The council voted unanimously to annex 48.84 acres of frontage along the east side of Fifth East, including property below the In-?rstate In-?rstate 15 freeway. Property annexed belonged to the following residents; Noah H. Pulley, Dorothy Dor-othy T. Steele, Russell Thompson, Thomp-son, and two plots belonging to E. Ray and Stella Gardner. The annexation was proposed by the Lincoln Land Development, who have been acquiring property along, the Fifth East and 1-15 route, and was engineered by Aspen Engineering Corporation. The property was annexed as R-l zone and a public hearing will be required before the zone can be changed for other purposes. pur-poses. The council also approved the proposed 23 unit Evergreen Acres, as submitted by the Am. Fork Business Development Corporation Cor-poration through Preston 3ar-ratt. 3ar-ratt. This area comprises 8.62 acres and was adopted by the council by unanimous vote. The Evergreen Acres subdivision will be located on the north boundaries boundar-ies of the Research and Development Develop-ment Park, adjoining the Ander Variety Show to Featur barbershop arrangements of popular pop-ular melodies. The Chord Busters have won the Utah area chorus championship champion-ship for two years and their distinctive dis-tinctive barbershop style has made them concert favorites for audiences in the Intermountain area. They will be featured at the July 24 Pops Concert to be held at Davis Stadium at Lagoon, appearing ap-pearing as guest artists with the Utah Symphony Orchestra. Thayer Evans, one of the famous fam-ous Evans Brothers Quartet, is director of the Chord Buster, adding to the hilarity with his clever repartee and spirited di O V O P area. The City of Fun Carnival has arrived in town and opens for business tonight (W e d a e s d a y), continuing for the full celebration celebra-tion Thursday through Saturday. The two mammoth parades promise to be top events, under the direction of parade chairman Wit S HafWI -ft' Boosting American Fork 1 1 THURSDAY, taxes li - Division Monday son subdivision on the north. Councilman .To.senh B. Hanson reported on findings of a study .made of Payson City policies in regards to handling irrigation ditch problems within the city limits. He suggested that American Amer-ican Fork City continue study of the irrigation ditch problem until a better solution could be found for meeting problems in this area. The controversial ordinance which proposed control measures against residents depositing litter lit-ter or animals in local irrigation ditches and providing for establishments estab-lishments of a five man volunteer volun-teer Irrigation Commission was defeated after a spirited discussion. discus-sion. Councilman Malcolm H. Beck had proposed study of the measure some six week 3 ago by council members and brought the matter to a vote by a motion which was seconded by Councilman Council-man Harold W. Anderson. Mayor F , Haws Durfey called for a vote on ilie'uiuinance, with Councilman Council-man Norman E, Shumway, William Will-iam Blomquist and Joseph B. Hanson voting against the measure meas-ure and Councilmen Beck, Anderson An-derson and Mayor Durfey voting in the affirmative. Under proposed statutes in the defeated ordinance, the local chief of police would be responsible respon-sible for examination of various ditches and culverts of the community com-munity and would rule on which were dangerous and enforce that section which concerned removal remov-al or gratings or protective devices de-vices on ditches within the city limits. Residents littering the ditch or removing protective devices de-vices would be subject to substantial sub-stantial fine as well as imprisonment imprison-ment in the Utah County jail. The council asked for additional recting. Gary Rutherford is president pres-ident of the Chord Busters, who have a long waiting list of potential po-tential chorus members. The Golden Tones, a ladies barbershop quartet who now hold the regional championship, wil" provide a delightful note of contrast con-trast as they sing winning arrangements ar-rangements of their most requested re-quested quartet numbers. The Goldc-n Tones are affiliated with LAKESIDE CHORDBUSTERS WILL PRESENT EVENING VARIETY SHOW -The Utah Area Chorus Champions, the Lakeside Chordbusters, will present a delightful Steel Days evening variety show at the city ball park at 8:30 p.m. Saturday. The 50-voice chorus sings crowd pleasing favorites in the barbershop style which has made them one of the top singing organizations of the area. Thayer Evans, front row, right, is director of the dynamic singing organization. J E.J. Lee, with showings Saturday, Satur-day, July 19, at 10 a.m. and again at 6 p.m. The parade will follow the East to West route in the morning, reversing their route in the evening. More than 85 entries are expected for the parade, with some colorful and unusual entries to be included Of vi. Hub of North Utah County JULY 17, 1969 Property, time to study the measur; with Councilman Blomquist authorized authoriz-ed to discuss it with the American Amer-ican Fork Irrigation Company. In other action, the council refused re-fused a request to supply water to the rest area on 1-15 which was submitted by the Utah State Department of Highways. The department de-partment proposed extension of city water to the rest area, with the state to provide connecting lines. In view with the city policy of no longer supplying water to residents outside the city limits, it , was decided to abide by the policy in this instance, since a number of similar requests from individuals has been declined. City manager Ray C. Nelson was to advise the state of the decision. de-cision. The council approved $1,050 for installation of fittings to tap into a 12 inch water line to serve Rotary Park now under construction near the high school. The pipe line serving the area will be installed at the expensed the Alpine School District, with pipe already purchased and waiting for the tapping of the water line to be completed by the city. The mo tion to approve the expenditure was made by .Councilman Hanson and seconded by Councilman Shumway with all council mem bers voting in the affirmative. Reports from councilmen were heard with Councilman Shumway asking for permission to look into the possible purchase of a used pickup truck for the animal control officer. Local used car dealers have been asked to assist as-sist in procuring such a vehicle which the city has agreed to furnish furn-ish for the animal cmtrnl post Plans for enlarging the fire station were discussed, Council- (continued on back page) the National organization ofSweet Adelines and have previously won two championships in barbershop competition. They will travel to Hawaii in October to compete for international honors in barbershop bar-bershop singing. Tickets will still be available from members of the American Fork Lion's Club, without the free carnival tickets which have boen included, or may be pur 9 0 e Chore Ousters in the parde lineup. Steel Day Steals will be in the spotlight Thursday, with local lo-cal merchants offering rock bottom bot-tom prices on quality merchandise mer-chandise as they couple the Steel Day Steals with the annual sidewalk side-walk sales for the shopping promotion pro-motion of the year. This marks Number 22 roken iM Causes Dsoiige To Three Vehicles Three pickup trucks were damaged dam-aged Sunday evening as a result of gusty winds which hit the city early Sunday night. Due to tension on cables for the Steel Day banners, one of the steel cables snapped in the wind, permitting the cable end to drop toward the street. Although Al-though the cable was not long enough to reach automobiles traveling beneath the dangling line, a knot of steel struck three passing pickup trucks, breaking the windshields of all three vehicles. ve-hicles. Crews of Utah Power and Light Co. responded to a distress call from city officers and the cable was quickly repaired and put in plact above the street. No other damage was reported report-ed as a result of the wind storm Dr. Ludlow Opm Practice In Am. Fork Marvin O. Ludlow, D.D.S. and his wife, Karen are now resid ing in American Fork. Both Dr. Ludlow and his wife are origi nally from Salt Lake City, but have moved here from Kansas City, Missouri where they have been residing for the last four years. Dr. Ludlow has attended the University of Utah and has recently graduated from the Un iversity of Missouri, Kansas City School of Dentistry. The Ludlow's are members of the LDS Church and they have a four month old son, John. Dr. Ludlow will be practicing in Dr. Homer F. Royle's Office chased at the entry gate Satur day evening. Some lucky ticket holder will receive a trip for two to Hawaii at the conclusion of the Chord Buster's concert. The second prize for a lucky ticket holder will be a color television set A dazzling fireworks display will wrap up the Steel Days celebration of 1969, according to chairman Preston Taylor. 9 tK- 0 VJ 1 the end of spring sales and all cooperating merchants will be offering unbelievable prices for regular merchandise. Steel Day Steals will continue through Sat - urday, with stores closed for the parade Saturday morning. Also included on the Steel Days agenda wil be the Art Show, Handicraft Han-dicraft Show, the swim meet aiid the American Fork Championship Horse shoe tournament which will be held on Thursday. The art show will be open from 10 a.m. until 8 p.m., with the handicraft show to be in progress from 2 to 7 p.m. Friday events will include the Art Show, Handicraft Show, Pet and Hobby Show, which will be gin at 4 p.m. in the city ball park and feature Fireman Frank and Smokey the Bear, i he utan County Invitational Horse Shoe Tournament will be played at Robinson Park, with case prizes awarded winners. Sports events scheduled will begin Wednesday evening with a baseball game between the Am. Fork Pirates and the Pleasant Grove Colts, a double header of Pony League baseball on Thurs day and an 8 p.m. game between the Amarican Fork and Helper 3 American Legion Baseball teams play at the city park. Saturday events will begin at 6 a.m. with the flag raising at city hall. The Jaycee Chuckwagon Breakfast wil. be held in Robinson Rob-inson Park from 6 to 10 a. m. end the City of Fun Carnival will be open to celebrants beginning be-ginning at 8:30 a.m. The Art Show will continue at the city hall from 10 a.m. through 8 p.m. and the Handicraft Show will be open in the tabernacle basement from 11 a.m. until 8 p.m. The Utah Speed Boat Association Assoc-iation Boat Races will begin at the American Fork Boat Harbor Har-bor at 11 a.m. and the horse races will get underway at the rodeo grounds at 1 p.m. The Utah Open Championship Horse Shoe Tournament, open to members mem-bers of the Utah Horse Shoe Pitchers Association, will be played at Robinson Park at 6 p.m. Concluding event of the three day celebration will be the variety var-iety show featuring the Chord-Busters, Chord-Busters, which will begin at 8:30 p.m. at the city ball park. A Hawaiian trip and a color teU evisioiu.stwittitbe awarded to-, lucky ticket holders and a dazzling daz-zling fireworks display will top the fun filled events of the 1969 Celebration. Councilman Malcolm H. Beck is general chairman of the 1969 Steel Days Committee and has been assisted by the following committee members: Carma Steineckert, chairman, Art Show; Inez McDonald, chairman, Handicraft Handi-craft Show; Alma Madsen, chairman, chair-man, Horse Shoe Tournament; Ora H. Chipman, chairman, Pet and Hobby Show; Jaycee committee, commit-tee, Chuckwagon Breakfast; E.J. Lee, chairman, Parades; Mary West, chairman, Boat Races; Phil Zimmerman, chairman, Horse Races; Preston Taylor, chairman, chair-man, Var'ety Show; Lynn Harding, Hard-ing, Lion's Club ticket sales chairman; Mrs. Paul Murdock, chairman, Queen Pageant and queen's committee. Barbara J. Hutchings has served as secretary sec-retary of the Steel Days Committee Com-mittee for 1969. Bicycles to he Awarded ai Pet, Hobby Shov Local youngsters are reminded of the annual Pet and Hobby Show, which will feature guests Smokey the Bear and Fireman Frank. The Pet and Hobby Show will be held at the city ball park Friday, July 18, at 4 p.m. The City of Fun Carnival will give away two bicycles, one for a boy and one for a girl, at the conclusion of the Pet and Hobby Show. Registration for the bicy cles will be accepted tor children up and to including 12 years of age at a special booth set up at the carnival. All children participating in the Pet and Hobby Show will receive a special treat and " ill be greeted greet-ed by Fireman Frank and Smokey the Bear. Children are invited to enter their pets, hobbies, decorated decor-ated wagons, trykes, bicycles or other entries in the. big pet and hobby parade. fire at Beeline Station Quickly Extinguished A fire in a metal and glass telephone adjacent to the Beeline Service Station, East State Road, was quicklj' extinguished by the American Fork Volunteer Fire Department about 10 p.m. Saturday Satur-day evening. According to firemen, the blaze was apparently started by youngsters. young-sters. No damage was sustained |
