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Show Universal Microfilming Box 2608 ' B Salt Lake City, Utah 84101 & if5$Pr- 3 -. - -v- -. .fit. -K -, , I I, ) L.1 I u sji L DR. ELMO WALKER-Train- ine school physician Dr. Elmo WatXer Hamad Training School Physician Dr. Elmo Walker has been appointed physician at the Utah State Training School according to announcement by Paul S. Sag-ers, Sag-ers, superintendent. Dr. Valker is a native of Pop-larville, Pop-larville, Mississippi. He attend ed Brigham Y'.ung University at Prove and the University of Southern Mississippi and is a graduate of the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School at Dallas, Texas. He in terr.sd at the Mississippi Bap tist Hospital in Jackson, Mis sissippi, and has been in pri vate practice since 1957 in Mis sissippi. Dr. Walker and his wife, Wyn- ema, reside in American Fork. They are the parents of two daughters who reside in Salt Lake City, and a son who is currently completing a residency inneuro surgery in Fheonix, Arizona. Work Planned For New City Parking Lot on Main St. City street crews will lay asphalt on the Vern Humphries property on East Main as soon as their work schedule permits, providing an additional public parking facility for downtown shoppers. The project is planned as joint effort of the AmericanFork Chamber of Commerce and American Fork City. Two Bids Opened For Adjacent to Am. Fork The American Fork City Council Coun-cil opened two bids for a parcel of property 12 by 98 feet at the regular council meeting Monday Mon-day evening, with Mayor Neal Savage presiding. Bids were received as follows: Harry and Mary Barrat Walton, $4,100 total bid; Bank of American Amer-ican Fork, $17,000 total bid. Muscles Exercised To Beautify Community Boys physical education classes class-es at the American Fork Junior High School used their muscles to help beautify the community last week. The youths, under the direction direc-tion of principal Douglas Nich-oles Nich-oles and physical education instructor in-structor Ned Anderson, cleared weeds and debris from the parking park-ing strip along First East from Fifth North to about Seventh North. Rocks were later piled by Alpine Al-pine School District equipment and were removed on Wednesday of this week. The beautification project was carried out as part, of the citys beautification program and the school's Americanism program Mr. Nicholes said. The parking strip is part of the area viewed by persons entering en-tering American Fork from the n"rth along First East. a 1 ? Vr- AMERICAN FORK mote Americanism campus. Parents Invited !o Back to School Night at AFHS Back to school night at the American Fork High School will be held tonight, Sept. 24, at 7 p.m. All parents of high school students are invited to be in attendance. Faculty members and P.T.A. officers will be introduced dur ing the general session. P.T.A. goals for the year will also be explained. Following the short opening session, parents are urged to visit their children's classrooms class-rooms to become acquainted with his or her teachers and to learn of material to be taken up during dur-ing the school year. Class sessions will last 10 minutes each with a five min-uate min-uate break between classes. Students Stu-dents should provide their parents par-ents with class schedules, names of teachers and room numbers in advance. No individual conferences will be held at this time. These conferences con-ferences are scheduled for the first part of November. Back to school night benefits both students and parents as it helps parents to gain a better understanding of classroom goals for the year and provides parents par-ents with the opportunity to meet the individual teachers. Mrs. Leland (LaRa Gray is serving as P.T.A. president at the high school this year and is general chairman of the Back to School night activities. P.T.A. officers said parents may join the P.T.A. organization organiza-tion that evening. Magazine subscriptions sub-scriptions to the P.T.A. magazine mag-azine will also be available. Surplus Property City Hall After a discussion of the bids by the city council, it was decided de-cided to take both bids under advisement, with advice of the city attorneys, Wootton and Woot-ton, Woot-ton, to be sought in reaching a decision. The matter is expected to be resolved at the next council meeting, meet-ing, Sept. 28. The property has been declared surplus property, with the parcel sought by the Bank of American Fork in connection con-nection with a planned expansion of drive in banking facilities. They have indicated that the property pro-perty purchased would then be deeded back to the city as a dedicated ded-icated street and used as a connector con-nector road between Center and Chruch Streets. Am. Fork High Gains 84 Students The halls of American Fork High School are packed this year with a record number of old and new students in the school. This year 884 students registered reg-istered compared to 800 who registered last year. A.F. High has 31 new students who transferred from other schools. Four new Indian students have registered and five have returned from last year. The sophomore class is fue largest in the school with 286 siudents. Juniors are second with 283 and seniors comprise the smallest class with an enrollment enroll-ment of 266. : v.s-: j vf . y: JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL boys gym classes help to beautify the city and pro-- pro-- by cleaning weeds from area along North First East adjacent to the school First Offset Newspaper in Utah County THURSDAY, SEPT. 17, 1970 y - m'A l:;-ft 71 H ' . -S j WORK IS 87 PERCENT COMPLETE on new sewage pumping station now under construction on the research and development park site on Seventh North. Contractor Dale Nash, on ladder, is assisted by Preston Nash as work proceeds on first building on the research park site. The pumb has been received and installation is expected to be completed by mid-October. f erim Re Eifilfrofiosi An interim report on findings on infiltration problems of the American Fork Sanitary Sewer Collection System has been received re-ceived from Engineering Associates, Assoc-iates, consulting engineering firm engaged as consulting en gineers for the impending sewage plane expansion project. The study on infiltration has been made from observations March through August, according to J. Dean Hill, firm representative represen-tative on the project. The study also includes recommendations so that remedial remed-ial projects might be initiated as soon as possible. Following presentation of the findings of the report, Counci!-man Counci!-man William Blomquist suggested sug-gested a meeting of the sewer department committee to consider con-sider the best possible method of sealing leaks in the collector collec-tor lines. Tar and Oakum joints were used to seal pipe lines when they were installed severalyears ago, according to superintendent of city services Ray C Nelson. Nel-son. Rubber gaskets are now used in the line installation, eliminating, elim-inating, many earliei leakage problems. It was decided to contact the Penetryn Corporation ;or a survey sur-vey ot line leaks with their specialized spec-ialized equipment, with a decision to be made as to sealing methods. Alpine Voters Pass Water Bond Proposal Alpine voters passed the water bond proposal 178-32, thus paving pav-ing the way for $187,000 water project to improve the city's water system. The improvement will include the construction of a 500,000 (jallon reservoir and approximately approximat-ely 24,000 feet of six to 12 inch distribution lines. Repayment of the bond will span 20 years and be financed through an increase in the minimum water rate of abou 50 cents per month. An increase of $50 in the connection line and a two mill tax levy. t -sit. port Presented in City Sewage C Infiltration observations were made in the early morning hours when little or no contribution was present from home connections. According to the study by Engineering En-gineering Associates, lines on 300 East, 200 East and the 12 inch truck line from the west segment of the collector system are the main infiltration problem areas. The study recommended that television inspection and Penetryn Pene-tryn sealing of the 12 inch truck line, starting at the manhole between the railroad tracks and 200 South, proceeding as far We must not fail.'' With these words the 1970 Utah County United Fund drive for $240,000 was kicked off recently. The speaker was Raymond W. Sundquist, general superintendent superinten-dent of Geneva Works. Several hundred officers, directors, di-rectors, campaign team members mem-bers of the United Fund and Utah citizens attended the kick-off luncheon lun-cheon in the Wilkinson Center at Brigham Young University. Mr. Sundquist told them that the campaign they begin today, "is more than simply another fund drive. Instead, it opens to every citizen of Utah county a single compelling avenue to the responsibility, shared by each of us, to make cur community abetter abet-ter place to live.. and work., and rear our children. "It holds the opportunity," he pointed out, "to improve in our own backyard the way of life we all cherish. And it measures the quality of our citizenship against the tradition... established by the men and women who first settled this valley.. of cooperative action for the common good." Mr. Sundquist then directly addressed ad-dressed the membersof the campaign cam-paign team.. .the drive chairmen, division leaders, loaned executives, execu-tives, and agency representatives. representa-tives. "I enlist the full support of each of you," he said, "for the campaign to gain a 'fair share' contribution by every citizen of Utah County as we go forward in this endeavor over the next eight week.s United, we will a-chieve a-chieve our goal," he emphasized. Early in his talk, Mr. Sundquist Sund-quist haa labeled the United Fund drive "the most important activity ac-tivity carried out by communities communi-ties in Utah Valley." He criticized the increasing tendency of people to turn away from local problems to worry aboi't questions over which they have little control, thus shirking or leaving up to others duties at home. "We need to reverse out priorities," prior-ities," he said. "We need to re-dedicate re-dedicate ourselves to strengthen the fabric of democracy on the local level, right here in our own valley. "There is no better way to do this.. to meet our local respon- Utah County United Fund Drive For $21,000 lets Underway NUMBER 30 on womii uJQiGi south as practical be made. The second area to receive attention should be the 300 East line from 500 North Street to 700 North and the third area would be the 200 East line, from 300 to 700 North. The fourth area needing attention wyjld be the 300 East line from Yale Avenue and 300 North. The study also recommended that the flow recording instrument instru-ment at the sewage disposal plant be adjusted and put in proper operational op-erational condition. Inspection r hows the recorder to be badly out of adjustment and calibration J,. Ljy j Cj : I" urn pt. ,.-"f ff, N , ! h r : V ''1 jX .t, J : M ALL SET FOR THE BIG PULL-Utah County United Fund workers rolled up their sleeves and started pulling recently for the 1370 drive goal of $240,000. Asking every Utah Valley Val-ley citizen to join them in the big pull for success are these drive leaders: Mac Haycock, advance gifts chairman; Grant Burgon, professional division chairman; Delbcrt Brown, general gen-eral campaign chairman; Mel Arrington, loaned executives chairman; Myron Fulrath, United Fund president; and Jack Allen, south Utah county chairman. sibilities..than through the forthcoming forth-coming campaign by United Fund of Utah County. And there is no better time than today for each of us to understand clearly why this is true. "To start, United Fund of Utah County, formed six years ago, is a non-profit corporation, wholly owned and directed by the contributors con-tributors in Utah County. "It is not a chapter of division divi-sion of an outside organization. There is no national United Fund. Nor is it affiliated with any other United Fund in Utah. On the contrary, con-trary, United Fund of Utah County is an independent corporate entity en-tity under the constitution of the State of Utah. It stands on its own feet. The American Fork City Council Coun-cil hoard a discussion of the in-filtration in-filtration in sewer collection collec-tion lines, met witu representatives representa-tives of the AmericanFork Business Busi-ness Development Corporation, heard reports of councilmen, discussed dis-cussed possible changes in the vacation policy for city employees employ-ees and heard requests from citizens citi-zens in their regular council session ses-sion Monday night. Councilman William Blomquist detailed a repoii of an interim study compiled by the Engineering Engineer-ing Associates, Inc., of Salt Lake City, concerning infiltration into sewage collection lines. This discussion dis-cussion is covered in a separate article appearing elsewhere in this issue. With the approval of the council, Mr. Blomquist was authorized to contact the Pene-tryn Pene-tryn corporation for a study of lines and estimates of repair costs. Mr. Blomquist said that once lines are sealed, infiltration infiltra-tion will be reduced by one-half. Garth Read, president of the American Fork Business Development De-velopment Corporation, and Dee R. Hunter, past president and financial fi-nancial director, met with the city officials to bring the council up to date on progress of the Research Re-search and Development Park on Seventh East. Bids for concrete work have been opened and contract con-tract let for curb, gutter and sidewalk side-walk installation. This phase of the work will be completed in 45 days. The bid for the $10,000 M ollecflon Systesii and the accumulator meter to be inoperative. Mr. Hill estimated that it would require $150 to $200 to put the recording equipment in proper condition, with an inspection inspec-tion of the equipment made by a representative from Wiscomb Company. Councilman Blomquist noted that work on the line survey is right on schedule, but preliminary prelim-inary plans for the plant expansion ex-pansion project had not been completed as anticipated. Line studies were made March 27, June 30, July 28 and August 19. ! UNITED FUND- of county: Ski 111' .Ji ? . . ft City Council Consider Change in Vacation Policy For City Employees Councilman William M. Pierce asked that the American Fork City Council review their vacation vaca-tion policy for city employees at the Monday council session. In considering the need for extending ex-tending the present vacftion period, per-iod, Councilman Pierce said employees em-ployees are presently required to work the first five years with only one week of paid annual vacation. vaca-tion. Following this period, employees em-ployees are given a two week an metal building to be built on the M-l portion of the park has also been let and this building is slated for completion in 90 days according toMr. Read. The building build-ing is expected to be leased prior to completion. He also noted that the lift station sta-tion building is nearing completion comple-tion and sewage pumps will be installed in-stalled soon. The pumping station will serve the entire research park, with all utility lines now installed in the sewage collection collec-tion system of the park. Power, telephone and natural gas lines are soon to be laid, with negotiations ne-gotiations still in progress with Mt. States Fuel Co., said Mr. Read. Mr. Read and Mr. Hunter expressed ex-pressed the appreciation of the corporation for the cooperation of American Fork City in encouraging encourag-ing the development of the privately pri-vately owned research park. "It is our genuine hope for more employment in the city of AmericanFork," said Mr. Read. "Those of us who have invested in the project expect to be many, many years before the corporation corpora-tion receives any dividend from the investment. The first three homes on the 21 building lots sold art-expected to be under construction this fall, with the first group of six homes planned for completion in the coming year. Road work witiiin the confines of the park is scheduled for this fall, with the road from the residential resi-dential area toSeventhEast planned plan-ned for priority completion. In response to lot owners in the Evergreen Park subdivision, which adjoins the research park, Mr. Read was advised that construction con-struction on the neighborhood park was right on schedule, with materials purchased for the automatic auto-matic sprinkling system. Piping is expected to be laid and the sprinkling system installed by October, according to Councilman Council-man Malcolm H. Beck. Approximately Approxi-mately 5,000 yards of additional MAKING THE PRESENTATION OF THE MINI-BUS are, 1. to r., Delbert Brown, Mountain Bell Telephone Company, who is the General Campaign Chairman, Myron Fulrath, retired U. S. Steel Executive, who is president of the United Fund, and William Rust, president of HELP, Inc. Dr. Quinn Hatch and Jess Walker are accepting for the Alpine School District. United Fund Presents Mini-Bus To Alpine School Dist. This Week A presentation was made this past week by the United Fund of Utah County, of the keys to a mini -bus to HELP, INC , an a-ge.icy a-ge.icy of the United Fund. This is the third bus purchased by the United Fund 'or HELP, INC. The Lions to Sell Calendars Tonight On Thursday evening, (tonight) the American Fork Lions Club members will be canvassing the community selling the Lions Birthday calendars. The drive will continue throughout the next week with the Lions making house to house calls. Any person interested in-terested who Is not contacted personally is asked to call Ray Walker, chairman or any of the block captains. Den Hall, Block one; Roy Smith, Block two; Lloyd Adamson, Block three; Frank Greenwood, Block four; Norman Clark, Block five; Maa Hunsaker, Block six; Alan Anderson, Block seven; and La Dell Teryy, Block eight. nual vacation with pay. Councilman Pierce proposed that the existing schedule was archaic ar-chaic and asked that the entire vacation schedule be considered with a view to extension. Mayor NealSavage also voiced his concern for the improvement of a vacation policy and asked that all council members consider con-sider the problem during the next two weeks and be ready to discuss dis-cuss the matter at the next council coun-cil session. soil fill are necessary for contouring con-touring the park landscape. This will be hauled by the Utah National Na-tional Guard this fall, prior to installation of the sprinkling system. sys-tem. Councilman Rodney Turner discussed the function of the Shade Tree Commission and will be meeting with members of the commission soon to determine future proiects of the group. Members of the Bridlettes met with the council to discuss possible pos-sible civic projects which the group might undertake as a benefit bene-fit to both the community and their organization. Representatives Representa-tives from the Bridlettes were Kay Chidester and Fay Gagon, who reported on present activities activit-ies of that organization. The group presently is working on a community project of providing children at the Utah State Training Train-ing School the opportunity of riding rid-ing a horse and getting acquainted acquaint-ed with the pleasure of riding. They are also assisting in providing pro-viding equipment for the Fillies 4-H riding club, which they formerly form-erly sponsored. Girls from 10 to 16 are invited to join this organization. The group is also interested in establishing a transfer station for horses in American Fork Canyon through cooperation of the U. S. Forest Service. They noted special needs of the riding club groups as adequate ade-quate rest room facilities near the race track and a cover for the track grandstand. Councilman William Pierce also al-so asked their cooperation in working on the 1971 Steel Days Celebration. In other action, the council approved ap-proved claims against the city for the montii of August, purchased one-quarter share of irrigation Water from Vivian Harris and one-half share of irrigation water wa-ter from the Mary Cunningham estate. The meeting was conducted by Mayor NealSavage, with all council coun-cil members in attendance. three buses have now been turned turn-ed over to the three school districts. dis-tricts. The third one was given to the Alpine School District. The purpose of the mini-buses are to transport children to social soc-ial education and therapy classes. class-es. The United Fund is, at the present time conducting its Seventh Sev-enth annual campaign with the programs scheduled in American Fork- Wednesday morning, Orem- Thursday morning, PL Grove, -Tuesday and Lehi- Monday, Mon-day, under the direction of local lo-cal chairmen. Safely Problem 0! Hob Hill Children Aired A problem of children in the Nob Hill area walking to the Shelley School through the city cemetery and along city streets was presented for council consideration con-sideration by Councilman William Will-iam Pierce. Councilman Pierce asked what safety precautions have been made to provide safe walking route for children residing in Nob Hill and attending Shelley School. There is no sidewalk on the south wall of the city cemetery, ceme-tery, with a number of children using this route to reach the Shelley Elementary School. It has been reported that many of the children are walking in the street, causing serious safety problems for themselves and motorists mo-torists using the same route. Mr. Pierce asked if adequate facilities were planned to take care of the foot traffic. The problem was referred for further study and contact will be made with school officials to bring the matter to their attention. |