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Show V (1 V- John Roberts Orcni Elands Am. Fork First Loss Region Four threatens to go right down to the wire, as three teams vie for two playoff berths from this league. Last week the American Fork Cavemen saw their league lead evaporate at the hands of the Orem Tigers as A.F. took a 62-52 62-52 licking at Orem, while Provo and Orem continued winning to throw the league race up for grabs as all three teams are now tied at 4-1. Last week, A.F. lost to Orem and then rebounded for a 77-52 win over the Uintah Utes out at Vernal. The Orem game was a frustrating frustra-ting experience not only to the team, but to the coaches and fans from A.F. as well, as the usually hot-shooting Cavemen Club turned cold from the field and were thumped from the unbeaten class. Orem, a very tall team, jumped off to a 9-1 edge and went on to a 15-7 first quarter bulge, but then the Cavemen played like we all know the can, and raced out to a 31-25 halftime lead and A.F. fans felt pretty good. But the game was far from over. Orem collared the Cavemen at 37 all and with 2 minutes remaining, remain-ing, the score was still tied at 52 each when the roof caved in on the Forkers. Bill Allen stole a pass with A.F. in a press, and went in to score, but was called for a foul on something or other error. No one seems to know yet what the call on Allen was, but, nevertheless, never-theless, Orem's Terry Peterson canned both pitches to put Orem intc the lead and from then on A.F. could not beg, buy or borrow bor-row a point while Orem paraded to the foul line to stretch their lead to the final score of 62-52. It would be nice to say that Orem's defense was the difference dif-ference in the game, but the truth is, that A.F. could not hit worth dog-gone. As a team, A.F. hit for 10 for 57 from the field, and several of the misses were from point blank range, it was just a darn good off night for the Cavemen, and Orem's shooting was not much better, percentage wise. Meanwhile, Provo clobbered the CarbonDino'sl07-52andLehi 65-50 and Orem ripped Carbon 69-53 to keep pace with A.F. as the front runners in AAA play. Uintah was not really a tough game for A.F., but it was not real easy, either. The Utes are very well coached by former USU star John Ericksen, and the Utes run their patterns well, set picks and screens very good and they have a couple of excellent shooters, shoot-ers, and it was simply the very strong rebounding strength of the Cavemen that was the big difference. differ-ence. Jeff Webster and Steven Dean with 11 and 10 points each carried A.F. to a 40-28 half-time half-time score, with Jeff getting his points in close, while Steve hit for long-range bombs from outside. out-side. During the second half, A.F. boxed so well on the boards that the Utes never got a single offensive of-fensive rebound the entire second se-cond half and that was their downfall. down-fall. Because when they did miss a shot, the Cavemen had the ball, and with many of the reserves in the game, wound up with an actual closer game than the score would indicate. Steven Dean is beginning to score on offense better now than in early games. He led A.F. both games last week with 19 against Orem and 20 against the Utes. But it is still the balance of team scoring that helps A. F. the most. Webster hit 16, Randy Mott 13, Bill Aueii y at Vernal for good team scoring again. Jon Varney hit six for six from the line to aid the cause. Tomorrow night the winless Lehi Pioneers invade the Cavemen Cave-men lair to do battle in their long time rivalry, with A.F. prohibitive pro-hibitive favorites to cop the victory. vic-tory. But what happens when these two clubs meet is sometimes some-times hard to explain. The underdog sometimes wins when there is no way possible. Lehi, without a really tall man in the lineup, relies on quickness quick-ness and ball handling ability to combat the opponent's height. Ron Ellison, Ron Peck, Bob Mc-Stay Mc-Stay and Cam Cooper are the Pioneer's biggest threats, with Ellison dangerous from outside. A. F. has all the better of it, on paper leastwise, and should race to a big win to keep pace up front wit'ii the leaders. Next Wednesday, January 26, A.F. goes over to try the Spanish Span-ish Fork Don's for the first time this year and will meet a typical Don team that sports a 2-2 record at the moment. They play Carbon tomorrow and should improve that mark. Defensive minded are the Dons who apply pressure all the time and this should be a very interesting inter-esting pairing with the game at S.F. Coach Joel Gardner has four good players in Ray Newitt, Kevin Ke-vin Roper, John Swenson and Dave Johnson, who defeated Pleasant Plea-sant Grove 68-40 last week. Payson remains unbeaten and leads AA schools easily, but a tough test tomorrow ehn they travel to Provo for a game with the Bulldogs. nnn nn 'i I is lU , r I 1 1 iron A' I si I i It; P J ' ' 1 ' ' A ry, ij it HIGHLAND WARD GIRLS - won the Regional Volleyball Tournament held at the PI. Grove High School. Ten teams participated with two teams representing each stake in the Region. The Highland Ward represented the Alpine Stake A. Team and the Am. Fork Fourteenth Ward represented the Alpine Stake B. Team. The girls will be presented the First Place Trophy by Jody Harris, Regional Sports Director. Members of the winning team include: Gwen Turner, Ruth Day, Joy Day, front left to right, 2nd row, Dora Bring-hurst, Bring-hurst, Leader; Mary Strasburg, Sherilyn Buhler, Marilyn Bringhurst. In rear - Ileen Adams, De Anna Parkhurst, Teresa Iverson. Cavemen Sophs Lose to Orem, Uintah Last Week Sophomore basketballers dropped a couple of games last week with Orem taking a 56-46 56-46 win and Uintah winning a close 63-60 game at Vernal. Coach Don Mower's team seems to have a lot of talent, Scouts Aid Ranchers in Filling Gullies Nestled at the foot of the Lake Hills mountain range on the west and the shore of the Utah Lake to the east, sits the Mendenhall ranch. There mile after mils of neat productive farms and ranches are owned and operated by men and women such as Mr. and Mrs. Mendenhall who long ago learned to love the soil. Realizing their growing problem pro-blem of poor farming and ranching ran-ching conditions: for in-efficient irrigation systems; erod-able erod-able soils, and poor range management. man-agement. Something had to be done. Also realizing that the Alpine Soil ConservationDistrict was In business to help with such problems, Mr. Mendenhall signed a cooperative agreement with the District on July 30, 1951 for help. A ConservationRanchPlan was developed on 1,077 acres with the assistance of the Soil Conservation Con-servation Service. Mr. Mendenhall Menden-hall made decisions of treatment and needs. Recently Mr. Mendenhall passed away, leaving the ranch to his son Paul and his lovely wife Florence. Mrs. Mendenhall Menden-hall can remember as a girl riding rid-ing on horseback along the lake shore, of seeing gulley after gul-ley gul-ley cropping up caused by torrents tor-rents of water and mud. These gullies are still being caused. Paul Mendenhall is now affiliated af-filiated with the American Fork Lions Club Scout Troop as Scout Master of Troop 817. Recently learning about what the Parks Council "GOOD TURN" can do, he permitted the scouts from the Council including Alpine and American Am-erican Fork Stake to help him plug gullies on his ranch in accordance ac-cordance to his conservation plan. Each Scout Troop has gathered Christmas Trees from their own areas. 134 Scouts and 44 adult leaders participated. A total of 1,193 trees or 45 loads have been collected and 200 lineal feet of gulley plugging has been accomplished. Realizing that this practice will not only hold the soil back from going into Utah Lake, but will also correct the pollution of our environment caused by the burning of these Christmas trees. Paul is also aware that it is costly to fill these gullies with the use of heavy equipment that is sometimes used. NOTICL OF SALE Lehi City has for sale by sealed bid, a 1968 Ply mouth fordor sedan and a 1969 Ford fordor sedan. These vehicles may be inspected by calling at the Lehi City Office, Of-fice, 51 North Center, Lehi, Utah during normal working hours. Persons desiring to bid on these vehicles are requested to submit a sealed bid to the Lefii City Office at or before 12:00 Noon on Wednesday, 3Feb-rary 3Feb-rary 1972. Bids will be opened at this time. A minimum bid will be re- 4 but have been hurt by the flu bug going around. With a couple cou-ple of players unable to play, it has hurt the team somewhat, but still, the team has been doing do-ing pretty good and are improving improv-ing each game. Mr. Mower is carrying a large squad and giving each member game time. A.F. sophs have good height and reasonable speed, but are still learning the basics. Last week, the team had a hard time boxing out the tall opponents in the post that hurt them in the final scores, but the team is coming on and should develop into in-to a top team. Kurt Holmstead, Wayne Peder-son, Peder-son, Jeff Ingersoll, Steve Hard-man Hard-man and Ricky Street have been r " 1 i ' f Soren Sabey of the Soil Conservation Service on a followup visit with Paul Mendenhall, ranch owner, pointing out location lo-cation of proposed gullies to be worked on. it f .L 5-v-w3 . ...i.ir.1 vr-Mm.j -r M X 1. Marvin Wilicock, ranch foreman, and Art Laycock, Camping Camp-ing and Activities Chairman observing gullies to be worked on, before placing trees in gulley. ' .,v .r t I. i ....... T ... After picture of completion of gulley plugging, with owner, Paul Mendenhall thanking Art Laycock - Camping and activities act-ivities Chairman, for the good turn. Scouts and leaders in background, they are: Left to right; Newell Kitchen, on bank; Vernon Johnson, Ted Myric, Terry Bishop, Marvin Mar-vin Wilicock, Paul Mendenhall, Paul Arrington, Dale Greening, Art Laycock, Clint Packston, Craig Thomas, Lynn Hardy, Kevin Gordon and Devon Hill, kneeling. quired on each vehicle as follows: fol-lows: 1968 Plymouth, minimum bid of $450.00 1969 Ford, minimum bid of $900.00. Leisure time spending will reach $250 billion by 1975, the American Automobile Association Associa-tion predicted. Ninety-seven per cent of the salt produced in the U.S. is used in industry. The medical world does not use as much cocaine as in years past because of tne development of more suitable synthetic drugs. Beluga sturgeon fish have been known to weigh as much as 1.5 tons. REPORT OF CONDITION OF BANK OF AMERICAN FORK OF AMERICAN FORK IN THE STATE OF UTAH AT THE CLOSE OF BUSINESS ON DECEMBER 31, 1971 ASSETS Cash and due from banks (including $7,936.88 unposted debits) 889,533.69 U. S. Treasury securities 2,695,082.83 Obligations of States and political subdivisions sub-divisions 1,910,613.60 Federal funds sold and securities purchased pur-chased under agreements to resell 200,000.00 Other loans 8,593,123.93 Bank premises, furniture and fixtures, and other assets representing bank premises . . 171,111.30 Real estate owned other than bank premises 61,975.35 TOTAL ASSETS 14,521,440.70 LIABILITIES Demand deposits of individuals, partnerships, partner-ships, and corporations . 3,300,658.84 Time and savings deposits of individuals, partnerships, and corporations 7,989,355.99 Deposits of United States Government 76,407.13 Deposits of States and political subdivisions 1,666,640.24 Certified and officers' checks, etc , 94,237 86 TOTAL DEPOSITS $13,127,300.06 (a) Total demand deposits 3,841,930.25 ' (b) Total time and savings deposits 9,285,369.81 Mortgage indebtedness 13,845.00 Other liabilities 266,749.95 TOTAL LIABILITIES 13,407,895.01 RESERVES ON LOANS AND SECURITIES Reserve for bad debt losses on loans (set up pursuant to IRS rulings) 198,878.23 TOTAL RESERVES ON LOANS AND SECURITIES 198,878.23 CAPITAL ACCOUNTS Equity capital, total 914,667.46 Common stock-total par value 125,000.00 (No. shares authorized 125,000) (No. shares outstanding 125,000) Surplus 625,000.00 Undivided profits 164,667.46 TOTAL CAPITAL ACCOUNTS 914,'66746 TOTAL LIABILITIES, RESERVES, AND CAPITAL ACCOUNTS 14,521,440.70 MEMORANDA Average of total deposits for the 15 calendar days ending with call date 14,163,678.84 Average of total loans for the 15 calendar days ending with call date 8,562,538.38 I, Carl E. Devey, of the above-named bank, do solemnly swear that this raport of condition is true and correct, to the best of my knowledge and belief. Carl E. Devey CORRECT ATTEST Orville Gunther Edith T. Christensen Gleu r. Anderson Directors (SEAL) STATE OF UTAH COUNTY OF UTAH, SS: Sworn to and subscribed before me this 12th day of January, 1972. Larry R. Miner Notarv Public STATE OF UTAH Department of Financial Institutions I, W. S. Brimhall, Commissioner of Financial Institutions, do hereby certify that the foregoing is a true and correct copy of the statement of the above-named bank, filed in this office on January 13th, 1972. W. S. Brimhall commissioner of Financial Institutions Police Chief . . . (Continued from front page.) improvements have been made in the department, whv start. over? Councilman Pierce voiced the opinion that the Mayor informed in-formed the council of his plans and not one man raised his voice. "I think we are in due process right now, Councilman Fierce said. Mayor Savaee stated that his honest feeling was that the due process is in effect. The carrying most of the scoring load so far, with several others seeing see-ing more game time and improving improv-ing each game. Today at 4 p.m., the Cavemen sophs will go over to Lehi to test the Pioneer sophs and they should all see game time and still come up with a win; although al-though Lehi Coach Bus Manning probably will disagree with them. THE AMERICAN FORK CITIZEN. THURSDAY. JAN 20. 1972 Mavor has the prerogative. You cannot hold a hearing on an appointed ap-pointed official. It's not fair to the man in office or the one who will replace him. The Mayor appoints with the advice and consent con-sent of the council. "I have not given this city to anyone," Mayor May-or Savage said. Many irate citizens hurled their opinions at the council as they vocally supported Chief Adams. "It doesn't sound like you've got good morale on the council." "If you paid him by the hour, you wouldn't be able to afford him." "I don't think he has ever been dishonest." "He knows every nook and cranny in this town." These were some of the opinions expressed inChief Adams' behalf. Mayor Savage said that he didn't ieel he had made a mistake. "I must go with my recommendation recommenda-tion for a new man." The coun cil has not been asked to vote. It hasn't come to that point. One man summed up the feeling feel-ing of the crowd in a few words when he said "We're here to let the councilmen know we voted for them - let them vote for Boyd. That's what we want!" No official of-ficial action was taken at the meeting. 1heOld1inrm "Speakers, like anmeU, are more brilliant when they get down to earth." fill U I n I c Co j . I VJUL vy J vIUJL p " " ( O ) J I 1 1 ji 4 I 1,0,1 II E II nu n a i i "ii n i PASSBOOK SAVINGS No minimum required. Open your account with any amount. SAVINGS CERTIFICATES Every 90 days your savings earn 5 per annum. $500 minimum. HT 1, , INVESTMENT CERTIFICATES Your savings reach maturity in just one year. $500 minimum. tr INVESTMENT CERTIFICATES Your savings reach maturity in just two years. $500 minimum. SA ;i'iri -v.T-.-M. . |