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Show Uni -rsal Microf il.in; ' G.- Salt Lake City, Utah ( v rs Boosting American Fork Hub of North Utah County THURSDAY, SEPT. 25, 1969 Atffil V .1- , r7 JlJj Harold Anderson Number 31 K f!:reldW.Apdsrsc:i C::.!-Jrj School Harold W. Anderson, Am. Fork banker received a diploma from the Pacific Coast Banking School In Seattle, Washington, on Friday afternoon, September 19, signifying signify-ing completion of a three-year course in advance banking subjects. sub-jects. In addition to two-week resident sessions, the course includes extension problems and the final submission of an acceptable ac-ceptable thesis or research report. re-port. PCBS is one of the top regional region-al banking schools in the U. S. A combined total of 525 bankers and trust officers attended the 1969 resident session to participate par-ticipate In advance college-level courses in the Commercial and Trust divisions. This year's graduating class totalled 171. The school is sponsored by the bankers associations of Alaska, Arizona, California, Hawaii, Idaho, Ida-ho, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, Utah and Washington. Initially founded In 1938 by a few Seattle Seat-tle bankers educators who realized reali-zed the need for this advanced education program, PCBS grad-ually grad-ually attracted bankers from neighboring states. The faculty also consists of over 35 leading educators, bankers, economists, lawyers and trust officers from throughout the U. S. Democrats, Republicans Set llupating Meetings Friday Michael Bromley, Republican Party precinct chairman and Byron McFarlane, precinct chairman for the Democratic Demo-cratic party announced that nominating conventions for the upcoming city elections will be held on Friday, September 26 at 8 p.m. Tha Republicans will meet In the Senior Citizens Building and the Democrats in the auditorium of the American Fork City Hall. Those Interested in running for office on either ticket may contact their respective precinct chairmen, Mr. Bromley Brom-ley or Mr. McFarlane. Offices to be decided in the upcoming election include that of mayor and the city council posts currently held by Joseph B. Hanson and Norman Shumway. Plan to attend the nominating convention of your choice -tomorrow evening at 8 p.m. mmr:' vmmmt Mfaa' ' HOLDS OPEN HOUSE The newest business in Am. Fork is the Jack Frost Drive Inn which will be holding an open house this weekend. Local residents are invited to pay them a call. CONGRATUIJiTIONS EXTENDED-CUfford Finch, left, and HaroldPaxman, right, representatives of the Am. Fork Chamber oJ Commerce, welcome employees of Jack Frost Drive Inn, Adrene Hill and Donna Davis. This weekend is the grand opening of the establishment. Lisas' Ticket Ss For Ice" Successful Although the final results are now known as yet, the Utah Lions sponsored "Holiday on L" benefit ben-efit performance is believed to have been highly successful. A percentage of the proceeds are marked for the Lions sight conservation con-servation project. A large group cf American Fork residents, Including members mem-bers of the Senior Citizens organization, or-ganization, attended the opening night performance in the Salt Palace. John Eldredge, Lions Benefit general chairman, was introduced intro-duced to audience members by Al Grant of "Holiday on Ice." Mr. Grant paid tribute to the Lions of Utah for the amount of ! tickets they sold to the performance. perform-ance. Notice to Dog Owners Dogs in the area are running loose and many sheep are being killed. Dog owners are asked to j cooperate by keeping their dogs tied up at night. Dogs found run-r ning at large will be picked up according to Virgil Adam son, Animal Control Officer of American Amer-ican Fork. MERMAID PIZZA BURRITOS I 5 . " v "VI vvv W, f wl & f J K I Hi. f. w, T A - V iV . i . MM 1 4 p - I City Fathers Discuss j Pertinent Problems at Regular; Session Various items concerning the j city were on the business agenda ' receiving the attention of the city i council Monday evening at the I regular semi-monthly meeting. Mayor F. Haws Durfey was In. charge. All members of the coun-: cil with the exception of Harold Anderson, who was absent from the state, were present. if . f i" till LJ -u NEW UTAH STATE HORSE SHOE PITCHING CHAMPION --Alma --Alma Madsen, local horse shoe pitcher, won the Utah State Horse Shoe Pitching Championship at a recent state tournament tourna-ment Defeating 10 of 12 competitors, Alma received this beautiful trophy at annual awards banquet Saturday. Alma Madsen Takes First in State Horse Shoe Tourney Alma Madsen, well known local lo-cal horse shoe pitcher, took top honors in state competition recently, re-cently, winning the Utah State Horse Shoe Pitching Championship. Champion-ship. The championship tournament was sponsored by the Utah State Horse Shoe Pitchers Association Associa-tion with the Class A events held at Midvale on recently completed complet-ed courts. Mr. Madsen defeated Clarence Giles, Riverton, one of the top pitchers in the state, for the title. The last match required pitching 80 shoes, with Mr. Madsen finally fin-ally winning 51-47, with the outcome out-come not known until the last shoe was thrown in the match. During competition, Mr. Madsen Mad-sen played against top players ! in the state, winning 10 of the 12 ! games in the tournament. He has previously won first place In the B Class in state competition four times. He also took first place in the only All Church horse shoe pitching tournament, competing in B Class. Other winners in the state 9rt 1 119 9A UftT rnr Councilman Norman E. Shum-way Shum-way asked for authorization to call for specifications for a new 1,000 gallon pumper fire truck to be submitted by October 13. He was directed to do so in view of the fact that delivery date on new equipment such as this requires about a year. The proposed new ; truck would replace the 18 year 1 old Crown truck. However no im- tournament were Roger Parsons, Midvale, second place; Nate Mc-Bride, Mc-Bride, Ogden, third place; and Carl Davis, Provo, fourth. Clive Wallin, defending state champion, did not participate in the tournament tourn-ament this year. Trophies for the first four places were presented at the annual association banquet ; held last Saturday. Mr. Madsen has directed the' Steel Days Horse Shoe Pitching events for several years and has also assisted with the Blazer HorseShoe Pitching for several sev-eral years and has also assisted with the Blazer Horse Shoe Pitching Pitch-ing Tournaments held each summer sum-mer by the Primary Association. Sportsmen Slate Meeting Tonight j! i If? j t ; ( -.-T- The American Fork Sports- Fork City and the Civic Chorus men's Association will hold their on the performance of the chorus first meeting of the season on , at the recent Utah Municipal Lea-Thursday Lea-Thursday , September 25, (to- gue at the Salt Palace in Salt night) at 7:30 p.m. at the Utah , Lake City. Power and Light Auditorium. It was noted that Mayor Durfey Conductine the meeting will be and the council had sent a tele- Elton Robb, president. Mr.Kobb, on behalf of the group wishes to extend good wishes to Peggy Shoell, a good member of the organization who is in the hospital. hospi-tal. Guest speaker at the meeting will be Ken Christensen, a taxidermist. " US-"--.. "A i , K.f ,''-i H.k MAKES WAY FOR PROGRESSOn the site of the new Jack Frost Drive Inn, stood this old home owned by Glen Robinson. It is thought to have been built by a Mr. Melsner in the early days of the community. mediate decision will be made as ;to whether the Crown truck when replaced would be disposed of or kept as standby equipment. Further discussion as to updating the present housing accommodations accommoda-tions at the fire station was held. In view of the fact the city ha-recently ha-recently acquired a brush fire fighting truck, additional housing Is needed. Councilman Malcolm Beck , asked permission to purchase a mower bar for weed control, the bar to be attached to the city owned tractor and used for mowing mow-ing off weeds. The request was granted. A resolution was presented to the effect the city's animal control con-trol officer be authorized to enforce en-force that section of the zoning ordinance regarding animals. ! !This resolution does not relieve the building inspector of his powers pow-ers and duties but sets up joint control over the animal section. The motion for passage of the resolution was made by Councilman Council-man Beck and seconded by Councilman Coun-cilman Shumway. CouncilmenJo-seph CouncilmenJo-seph B. Hanson, William Blom-quist, Blom-quist, Beck and Shumway voted "aye" and the resolution carried. Councilman Shumway was given giv-en authorization to have "children "child-ren at play" warning signs to motorists placed on 4th East below be-low the new Jack Frost drive in and also at 4th East and 4th South. Councilman Hanson reported that contact had been made with Edwin Lovelace, District Six en- 3 jinepr and Wayne Winters of the state highway office relative to the traffic problem at 5th East and Highway 91, and also a request re-quest had been made for updating updat-ing the semaphores controlling traffic at Main and 1st East, Main and Center and Main and 1st West. As to a request made that a mobile mo-bile home be permitted to be established behind a residence on North 1st East Street, the council's coun-cil's decision was that it is inadvisable in-advisable to make exception to the existing zoning ordinance. Ben Hunter, representing the Utah Motels Association met with the council concerning the city again taking advertising space in , the association's travel guide. Approval was given. On motion of Councilman Beck, seconded by Councilman Hanson, the city's animal control officer's pay was raised to standard pay. Mayor Durfey discussed at some length business concerning UVIDA. The city will meet its assessment of $370.43 and the ; Chamber of Commerce will be contacted as to that body's share. A letter was read by the mayor from Mayor Winston Crawford of Orem, congratulating American gram to Councilman Harold Anderson An-derson congratulating him upon graduating from the Pacific Coast Banking School held at the University Uni-versity of Washington. Mr. Anderson An-derson had completed the three year course of schooling, having attended for a period during each of the three years. fci...a.t..,a.Ftfc-MI-' ROTARY CLUB VISITOR-Leland F. Priday, vice president of I Overly, president, right, greet Dist. Governor George H. j Meeting Tuesday. i I NEW ALPINE SCOUTING DISTRICT OFFICIALS were sworn in at the annual scouting fellowship banquet last week. Con Brady, left, is the new district chairman. Keith L. Beck, at right, was retained as district commissioner. Con Indy Apposed Alpin Disf. Scoisting Chiirmin; (Khars I Con Brady, American Fork High School principal, has been appointed Alpine Scouting Dis- trict chairman. Mr. Brady sue-1 ceeds J. LeGrand Adamson who 1 had served in that position for j the past two years. i Other members of the scouting districts "Key Three" are Keith ! L. Beck, district commission- ' er and K. Hart Bullock, district j executive. President D'MonteW. Coombs, . President Alvin Fulkerson and i Harold Heinz are district vice , chairmen. Assisting Mr. Beck wiU be area commissioners Wayne R. McTague, William H. Blom- qulst and Bert Alexander. Richard Mecham is chairman of the newly formed Explorer Committee. He is assisted by Eu- gene Colledge and all Explorer and Ensign leaders of the Alpine Al-pine and American Fork LDS Stakes. Dr. James S. Chadwick heads the advancement committer. Committee members are Donald E. Hall, Karl H. Bennett, Keith J. Richan and Thomas A. Walker. Walk-er. J. LeGrand Adamson is leadership lead-ership training committee chair - J man. Assisting him are Leo K. i Reimschiissel, Ralph Spencer, Ruth Mott and Cora Adamson. Francis N. Scholes will direct the organization and extension committee. Other members are Paul Mecham and Horace Walker. Walk-er. Francis Murdock is chairman of the camping and activities committee. Members are Art Laycock, James R. Vasey, Stan- Parents to March Back to School z A. F. High Tonight ' Back to school nitrht. an im portant event for all parents, will be heldThursday, September 25, at 7:00p m. at AmericanFork High School Parents and teachers will meet in the auditorium for a half hour business meeting. Student problems and educational matters mat-ters will be discussed. All new teachers will be introduced also. After this short business meeting, at 7:30 parents will follow fol-low the regular schedule his child meets on the usual school day. In the ten minute period allotted allot-ted to each class period, teachers teach-ers will explain classroom procedures, pro-cedures, grading rystems and' outlines of the year's course. Because Be-cause of the limited time, Individual In-dividual student problems cannot can-not be discussed on this evening. Five minute breaks between class periods will enable Darents to find the next class. Classes will end at 9:00 p.m. i j ford W. King, Glen Brown, Ray ; Beasley, Ralph D. Pratt, Joe i Bond, Finance committee chairman is Mahlan Peck and health and safety committee chairman, Dr. Joseph D. Liddle. Don Mower and Paul Durrant are health and safety committee members. Organization of the district scout leaders was announced' at the annual fellowship banquet held last Thursday evening in the stake tabernacle. Some 300 Scouters from throughout the community were : in attendance, j K. Hart Bullock, district scout exective, said over 1300 boys are registered in the 53 Packs, i Troops and Posts in Amer'can i Fork. j Plans Underway For A. F. High School Homecoming Week Students at the American Fork High School are making plans and preparing for a week of festivities for the annual Homecoming Week to be held from Monday September Septem-ber 20 to Friday, October 3. The theme of the occasion will be "Homecoming Headlines." According to Susan Brown, chairman, fun filled activities have been planned for the full week. Class days wiU be on a competitive basis and the days have been set apart as follows: Monday, September 29 will be Faculty Day with the teachers wearing badges and other evidence evi-dence of support of the Homecoming Home-coming events. Tuesday, September 30, will be Sophomore Day and the Sophs will compete with posters, stunts etc. for the Homecoming. Wednesday, October 1, wiU be Junior Day and the events of the day will be climaxed with a dance Calendar of Coming Events Thursday, September 25 "Back to School" Am. Fork High School 7:00 p.m. Football Am. Fork Sophs vs. Spanish Fork Sophs A.F.H.S. 4:00 p.m. Am. Fork Sportsmen Meeting Utah Power and Light Aud.-7:30 Aud.-7:30 p.m. Friday, September 26 Football Am. Fork at Spanish Fork 3:00 p.m. Republican Nominating Convention Senior Citizens Center-8:00 Center-8:00 p.m. Democratic Nominating Convention Am. Fork City Hall Aud. 8:00 p.m. Saturday, September 27 Ninth Ward Laurels-Ensigns present "Fighting Prince of Donegal" -Ninth Ward Church--5:00 p.m. and 8:00 p.m. Football Little League gamesAm. Fork Ball Park 9:00 a.m. Thursday, October 2Travelogue for Senior CitizensSenior CitizensSen-ior Citizens Center 2:00 p.m. the Am. Fork Club, left and Don Fields, a special guest at Rotary District G:v:rr.:r . F. terms George H. Fields, District Governor of Rotary International was the ?uest speakev at the Am. Fork Rotary Club, on Tuesday, September 23, at the Alpine Coun try Club. In his talk he mentioned the real basis for progress in Rotary Ro-tary comes through the individual involvement. He said the history of Rotary was one of service to other people throughout the world. The theme for this year is to "Review and Renew." To see if you can do better things than have been done in the past. He challenged the local club to show a substantial growth in membership. mem-bership. A goal was set for five per cent growth In mem bers. In the area of youth service the youth are the best Informed of any generation In history. Ro-tarlans Ro-tarlans need to find a way of communicating with the youth in their communities. The generation genera-tion gap needs to be bridged through understanding one another. anoth-er. There is much unrest in this country and Utah has been fortunate for-tunate In not having any major problems of unrest. However, it could come here sometime. The Interact Clubs that are being be-ing formed at this time could be a great way to bring youth and older old-er people together. He complimented the club on their' Youth Exchange Program. There is at present a young lady from another country living in one of the Rotarians home here. Rotary would like families to send some of their youths to other countries. He concluded by saying we need better acquaintanceship between be-tween the peoples of the other nations na-tions of the world before we can have world peace. from 7:30 to 10:00 p.m. In the Girl's Gym. Students as well as Alumni are cordially invited to attend the functions of the Homecoming. Home-coming. Thursday, October 2, will be Senior Day with the Sophomore Game to be played Thursday afternoon at 4:00p.m. in Pleasant Grove. This team is going great, come out and support the boys. At 6:30 p.m. the Homecoming Parade will be held, from the Harrington School to the high school followed by a Pep Rally and Bonfire at the high school parking lot. Townspeople as well as alumni are urged to participate. parti-cipate. Friday, October 3, will be "All School Day" with an Alumni Assembly As-sembly to be held at 9:30 a.m. The big game with Pleasant Grove will begin at 3:00 p.m. and the concluding dance will foUow at 8:30 p.m. The dance wiUbefor all ages and again the alumni are invited to join the event. |