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Show f. " I "V I , J . - .1 i - i H x J - SANTA CLAUS, MISS AMERICAN youngsters and give each a candy canes for the occasion. The twinkling eyes and excited cries of community children signaled sig-naled the arrival of Santa Claus in the downtown area last Friday Fri-day afternoon and the ushering in oi the holiday season. The jolly old gent rode into the city on the back of the fire truck with the ring of the truck's siren announcing his arrival to the enthusiastic youngsters waiting wait-ing in line to greet him. Junior wmwr a ! Mil yrYl . f s, -;J e r'5 P?j . '- j " ; x r. " . - p, -HI MEMBERS OF THE AMERICAN FORK JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL CONCERT BAND prepare for upcoming up-coming Christmas Concert on December 10. Directing them is Rodney E. Harris. The Am. Fork Junior High Music Department is busily engaged en-gaged in preparing for their Winter Win-ter Concert. It will be held in the High School Auditorium on December 10 at 7:30 p.m. Indi- Pink Ladies Plan Tea Friday at 2 Pink Ladies at the American Fork Hospital will honor hospital staff members at an "Appreciation "Apprecia-tion Tea ' onFriday, December 4. The holiday event will be held from 2 to 5 p.m. in the hospital conference room. Members of the volunteer organization or-ganization are currently in the midst of making cookies and candies for the event. "We think we've got a good hospital and wonderful employees - and we are giving the holiday tea to show our appreciation t" them," Pink Ladies officials said. 0 U;: lj'U , fA LADY LOVELY STORE open in Alpine Plaza. Grand opening of this new store, which will feature a complete line of cosmetics and home care items, will be this weekend. Mrs. Loreen Rieske shows new perfume line as she arranges stock for opening event. Universal Box 2608 Salt Lake FORK, MISS COLLEEN SMITH, and Mayor Neal Savage greet cane. American Fork Jaycees provided Santa with 1800 candy ives in Also on hand to welcome Santa was Mayor Neal Savage andMiss American Fork Colleen Smith. Santa immediately went to the American Legion Hall where he met the boys and girls. Mayor Savage, Miss Smith and members of the American Fork Jaycees assisted Santa in giving each child a candy cane. William (Bill) Lynch, Jaycee cations are that it should be a worthwhile event. Rodney E. Harris, Music Department De-partment Chairman, said that with the bands, string ensemble, and Junior Patriots performing, a great variety of music is planned. plan-ned. Everyone will find something to suit their taste. Bert Taylor, new to the Music Department this year, will conduct con-duct the String Ensemble and the Junior Patriots. Considering the fact that American Fork does not have a much needed Elementary Elemen-tary School String program, Mr. Taylor and his students should be commended for their hard work and determination in wanting want-ing to expand this area of cultural cul-tural refinement. Those of you who saw the Junior Patriots' ) debut last month or saw them on i KSL T.V., know of the spirit i and enthusiasm they exhibit. Under Un-der the direction of Mr. Taylor, they have another fine, patriotic program planned. With Mr. Harris conducting, all of the binds will perform on High Qmk Bept Smtes Concert fJexf Ihursduv ' A i 1 1, All , " '"i ), ; " i , -: ""1 Microfilming City, Utah Bkw. j president, said 1800 candy canes were provided for the occasion. Santa's visit was arranged by the Jaycees with Jed Wiscombe serving as chairman. The Christmas lights installed in the downtown business area earlier in the week by the Jaycees were turned on Friday evening to help provide a holiday atmosphere atmos-phere to the community during the festive season. the program this year. The Beginning Bands will be combined into one band, followed by the Intermediate Band and the Concert Con-cert Band. All of the bands are making good progress, reports Mr. Harris. Although the Concert Con-cert Band enjoys a fine reputation, repu-tation, this years students are not relying on past experiences but are working diligently to develop their own musical talents. tal-ents. With approximately one third of the Junior High students involved in-volved on the Concert, it is hoped that a large turnout of people will be able to see what the youth of the community are doing. l American Fork Lady Lovely Store Sets Grand Opening Fri., Sat. in Alpine Plaza Lady Lovely, a new store specializing in c o s m e t i c s and home care items will hold their grand opening in their new Al- h i a a , ; j Am. Fork Jaycees Collecting Items For Sub-For-Sanfa The American Fork Jaycees are collecting toys for their annual an-nual Sub-For-Santa project. If you have any toys which are not in use, won't you please donate them to a needy family? Residents of the community are asked to help the Jaycees provide pro-vide a merry Christmas for some boy or girl who Santa might not otherwise be able to visit this Christmas Eve. Toys will be repaired or repainted re-painted as needed, said Dennis Earl, project chairman. Those wishing to donate items to the project may do so by contacting Mr. Earl at 75 6- 2948; Ray Beasley at Ray's Taylor Durg, 756-4021; or Jack Wadley at Jack and Jill Lanes, 756-4651. 756-4651. Items may also be left at Jack and Jill Lanes, if desired. Building Permits Reach $82,100 For Hovembar Building permits for the month of November reached $82,100, as temperate weather permitted continuation of building projects. City building inspector Carl Hansen reported the following permits issued: Alma Peterson Contractor, 771 East 230 North, residence, $18,000; Jack Wilkerson, 653 East 300 North, addition to home, $1,600; Marvin C. Cartwright, 248 North 100 East, residence, $16,000; Dee R. Hunter, 90 South Center, addition to office, $2,500; John C. Cook, 103 East 100 North, service station, $22,000; Barratts Construction Company, 577 East 200 North, residence, $11,000; Barratts Construction Company, 221 North 600 East, residence, $11,000. Junior Patriots To Appear at Alpine, Greenwood The Am. Fork Junior High School "Junior Patriots" chorus will present their musical program pro-gram at the Alpine and the Greenwood Green-wood Elementary Schools onFriday, onFri-day, December 4. Douglas E. Nicholes, Junior High School principal, said the chorus will appear at Alpine Elementary Ele-mentary at 1 p.m. and at Green- ! wood Elementary School at 2 p.m. The 73 vcice chorus appeared on the Jackie Noakes television show on November 11, Veteran's Day. They also made their first public appearance in concert with choruses from Salt Lake and Provo pine Plaza location, 53EastMain, Friday and Saturday, Dec. 4 and 5. The Holiday Magic line of cos- metics, offering complete beau ty care, will be sol' by owners Mr. and Mrs. Virgil Reiske. They are exclusive distributors for the new line in our shopping area. In addition to a full line of cosmetics for milady, Lady Lovely Store will offer toiletries for men in an exciting new fragrance fra-grance and containers. The merchandise has been beautifully arranged.for your shopping convenience and Mr. and Mrs. Reiske are trained to assist you in making the right selection for your beauty and home care needs. The store stocks individual beauty items and complete kits for beauty care. All are attractively at-tractively packaged for your own use or gift giving. Free facials will be given to all women coming in the store during the grand opening. Store hours will be from 10 a.m. til 8 p.m. on weekdays and from 10 a.m. until 6p.m. onSaturdays. Mr. and Mrs. Reiske invite you to come in and get acquainted acquaint-ed with their new store and see for yourself the lovely array of cosmetics available at the Lady Lovely Store. School Board Mews ieport; Accepts Official The Alpine School District Board of Education met recently to discuss matters of business including a review of the 1969-70 1969-70 drop out report, the budget repr for October, additional services information, accepted the official canvass of school board election ballots and accepted ac-cepted tht audit report for ihe 1969-70 fiscal year. Dean T. Worlton, director of pupil r-srsonnel, reviewed for the board the 1969-70 drop-out report. re-port. i'he report showed eighty-eight eighty-eight students dropping from the district's high schools during the school year. Forty-six of these students left for marriage; twenty joined the armed services; while twenty-two terminated at age Boosting American Fork Hub of North Utah THURSDAY, DEC. 3, 1970 ..V r ' , ! ' si i- - AMONG THE THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE who enjoy the Christmas display at Mary Pulley's spacious spac-ious gardens each year are family members, Mrs. Ruth Hansen, her son and daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Wendell Hansen and their children and grandchildren. The group, representing four generations greet Santa Claus in front of the traditional display. They have grown up with ' Aunt Mary's display" as part of their Christmas memories. s m US iO The sloping lawns of Mary Pulley's Pul-ley's residence will once again take on a holiday appearance this Saturday evening, December 5, when the turning of a switch will light the traditional Christmas scene. Santa will be on hand to stand at Miss Pulley's siJe and greet the mre than 4,000 youngsters expected to view the scene with their parents, between 5 and 9 p.m. Motorists should approach from the south and proceed up the hill, Miss Pulley said. This provides all with better view of the panorama. Each night after Saturday, the lights will be on and Carols heard from 5:30 p.m. to 11 p.m. until New Years night. More Donors Needed For New Scoreboard Progress on the proposed scoreboard for American Fork High School is progress, according accord-ing to Principal Con Brady. Contributions from alumni and townspeople have been picking up the last little while. However, donations are not coming in as fast as was expected. Even with students and former graduated classes pledges, there remains a deficit of approximately approximate-ly $650.00 sc there is still time for everyone to contr ibuteto-wards ibuteto-wards the score clock. Mail your donation to Principal Prin-cipal Con Brady American Fork High School. It will be appreciated apprec-iated and Mr. Brady will send you a receipt along with a letter of appreciation from the school. American Fork remains one of the few schools in Region Four without a scoreboard. Gunsn, thing Registration is now open for gunsmithing classes which will begin next Monday, Dec. 7, according ac-cording to James Grace of Lehi, Instructor. These classes, held at the Utah Technical College in Provo, will continue for some four months. For further information inform-ation concerning fees, etc., contact con-tact Mr. Grace or the school at registration. UinSffflQ eighteen or with board permission. permis-sion. The district's drop-out rate is among the lowest in the state and nation. The official county clerk's canvass can-vass of school board election ballots was accepted, with Frank E. Greenwood, Harvey E.Smith and R. Phil S tramway declared as duly elected to the board of education. The three will begin their new term of office at the first board meeting in January, at which time they will be officially of-ficially sworn in. The o f f i c i a 1 canvass showed that Mr. Smith received 2,300 votes. He was unopposed. Mr. Shumway, also opposed, received 3,208 votes. Mr. Greenwood re mmL IP County Yi i I I m umn S 3 On Monday evening, December 7, residents of the Utah State Training School will come to view the scenes, greet Santa and receive re-ceive a treat. Those unable to make the trip will receive a visit from Santa at the school. The 1970 display will make the 28th Chr istmas season Miss Pulley Pul-ley has shared !..r scenes with the community. Thousands of people have shared the Christmas scene over the years with grandparents grand-parents and great-grandparents now bringing their grandchildren to share the traditional scenes. Myriads of lights shine from the many shrubs and trees of the Donkey Basketball Here Friday Night Donkey basketball will be featured fea-tured at lively game to be played in the boys gym at American Fork High School Friday, December De-cember 4. Game time is 7:30 p.m. Faculty will oppose varsity and alumni for one of the best games of the year. Tickets are $1.25 for adults, 1 for children chil-dren at the door, or $1.25 for adults, $.75 for children if bought in advance from Letter-men Letter-men members. be lurried i' y' v 1 ; DECORATING SIDEWALK CHRISTMAS TREE in downtown American Fork are, 1. to r., Kathy Peters, Shalana Larsen, Karen Taylor, Shellee Turner, American Fork Junior High School stu-dentbody stu-dentbody officers. Junior High Sciiool students decorated the trees last Friday. n-fii ill iiii-i iisi 1 u ceived 2,462 votes and his op-ponen op-ponen Richard Reisner received 1,060 votes in Precinct Three. Mr. Greenwood begins his fifth term, Mr. Shumway his fourth and Mr. Smith his third. The audit report for fiscal year 1969-70 was reviewed by the board as prepared by S. Arvid Dodge, auditor. The report re-port expressed high regard for the district operation and its general fiscal condition, with some suggested procedural accounting ac-counting changes to be studied by the board and their implementation imple-mentation considered at a future meeting. The budget report for October and October claims totaling $957,607.16 were approved. NUMBER 41 i Election Canvass in; rjf ... . -.VJ lory Pulley on Bet, 5 landscaping and the Star of Bethlehem Beth-lehem shines over the Nativity scene with the Madonna and Child, Joseph, the Shepherds and Wise-men, Wise-men, camels and sheep depicted in lifelike figures. Santa in his sleigh waves in greeting to viewers and his reindeer rein-deer including the red-nosed Rudolph Ru-dolph are seen. Concealed amplifiers carry the loved Christmas carols into the air for viewers to enjoy. Library Story Hour to Begin Saturday, Dec. 5 A story hour will be held in the American Fork Library basement base-ment for the next three Saturdays continuing from December 5 through December 17, according to Librarian Jenny T.Greenwood. The program will be under the direction of Junior LibrarianEl-len LibrarianEl-len Tracy, who will conduct the 45 minute story telling session each week. Children from four to eight years of age are invited to attend at-tend the story hour, ".'1th stories selected especially for their interest in-terest level. if f . 4 I r 1 SI a? Ill fflwrtMi da ! i 3 mi up wmi Purchases were approved as follows: Lincoln Jr. High, sewing sew-ing Machine, $150; American Fork Junior High, bass clarinet, bid price. The board approved convention attendance as follows: Music Educators Western Division Conference, Con-ference, San Diego, Steven B. Camero, Lincoln Junior High; Richard R. Devey, Lehi Junior Hiih; Edward Sandgren, Orem High School; Chester A. Stone, Pleasant Grove High S chool; Charles R. Fadely, American Fork High School. American Associ at ionof Health, Physical Education and Recreation, Detroit, Leila Ogden. National Science Teachers Association As-sociation Convention, Washington, Wash-ington, D. C, Lowell Baum. National Na-tional Geography Convention, Detroit, De-troit, Janice D. Mayne. In other action, the board released re-leased three students from further fur-ther attendance in the district secondary schools on rec-omendation rec-omendation of Dean T. Worlton. The board also approved an agreement to cooperate withA-merican withA-merican Fork City to improve and landscape an area on the west side of 100 EastbetweenSOO and 600 North. Robert F. Gordon was employed employ-ed as a custodian at Orem Junior Ju-nior High School. Due to ever increasing number of patron requests for seven period day at secondary school level, and for increased music teaching at the elementary level, Supt. Dan W. Peterson presented the cost factor for Im plementation of such programs. Since class load is already very heavy in Alpine School District, it would be necessary to increase secondary teachers by one sixth to man a seven period day and meet present standards of accreditation. ac-creditation. The anticipated cost factor would be $22,5,000 for high schools and $191,00 for junior high schools. Costs to meet the expanded elementary music program would amount to about $54,000. These costs would of necessity have to be met by increased tax levies. On two occasions in the recent past, tax payers have refused to grant such a request. The board proposed to study the requests and the cost structure. struc-ture. Eagles Ask For Used Toys For Christmas Project Used toys or repairable toys will be accepted by the Eagles Lodge 3372 for their Christmas project, according to president Ronald Stine. Persons desiring to donate toys may leave items at the Chuck Carson Barber Shop, Alpine Publishing Pub-lishing Company in American Fork, or at the Lodge headquarters headquar-ters in Pleasant Grove. At least three families will be assisted by the Eagles Lodge during the holiday season. Jr. High Students Decorate Trees On AF Main St. Evergreens in the downtown business area took on a festive look last Friday as students from the American Fork Junior High School decorated them with bright holiday lights. The lights were placed on the approximately 25 trees during the afternoon in time for the turning turn-ing on of the Christmas decorations decor-ations in the evening,' officials said. The holiday project was under the direction of the American Fork Junior High School student body officers with a group of students from the seventh, eighth and ninth grades assisting, Principal Prin-cipal Douglas E. Nicholes said. 1 J . Von . .... |