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Show Senior Citizens Calendar of Events Plan now to attend the annual banquet at the American ; High School Saturday, December 9, at 12:30. The cost single person will be $4.00 and for a married couple, $7.00 i h will include the dinner, membership for 1973, and sub-iption sub-iption to the American Fork Citizen for the calendar year 173. , Daily shows at the Coral Theatre - admission 50 cents. , Bowling Tuesdays and Fridays at 10:00 a.m. at the Jack Jill Lanes. , Men's Haircuts $1.50 at all American Fork Barbers. 15 percent discount on prescriptions at ail American c Drug Stores. Invitation to join the Tip-Top Club for health purposes i meet in the Building Center every Thursday at 9:00 a.nu itiesin the Building Center - 56 East Main. hursday Nov. 23 - Thanksgiving Day. riday Nov. 24 - Harmonica Band at 2:00 p.m. londay Nov. 27 - Art Class at 2:00 p.m. 'uesday Nov. 28 - Bridge - 500 - Bingo at 2:00 p.m. Vednesday Nov. 29 - Billiards at 2:00 p.m. Thursday Nov. 30 - Billiards at 2:00 p.m. Friday Dec. 1 - Committee Meeting at 2:00 p.m. All members are tncouraged to respond to these activities. 3f "V yx L j y PINEWOOD DERBY WINNERS in the American Fork LDS Seventh Ward were, from left, Steven Scovill, second place; Terry Chatter, first place; Clyde Crosby, third place. Seventh Ward Cub Scouts Hold Pinewood Derby WINTER struck its first blow of the season Monday with residents awakening to find their yards tipped with snow, as is evidenced by the covering on these shrubs. MOTORISTS were well aware that winter bared its' fangs for the first time this season. Monday. Mrs. Jean Gordon clears snow from her car in preparation for the drive to work. Main Street, American Fork by Tom Griffiths Some time ago I told of some of my experiences while I was recruiting labor for the Geneva Steel Plant. These were interesting interest-ing and exciting days. A huge steel plant had risen from the fertile farms overlooking Utah Lake while across the world an Austrian Aus-trian Paperhanger was trying to prove to the world that the Nazi's were a superior race, and to prove his point the world was being be-ing drenched with blood. Our own boys, as fresh and clean as the beet fields of Utah Valley were called into the armed forces to prove that the mustachioed madman mad-man was wrong. I was called back home and went into the personnel department and stationed in the blast furnace department. de-partment. It was my job to interview inter-view and staff this department with men. Most of the supervisors supervi-sors had transferred from eastern eas-tern steel mills and were experienced ex-perienced in iron and steel making. mak-ing. They called the local men "beet trompers", mostly because be-cause of their lack of experience exper-ience in making iron. But even "beet trompers" were hard to find. So now, similar type men that I had recruited in various parts of the country began to flow in my direction. Blast Furnace work at its best is hard and hot and operations in those days were not nearly as refined as they are today. So they came, men of all types and descriptions. I remember one of my first experiences. A young man, a recruit, re-cruit, was sent down to me. He had passed his physical and appeared ap-peared to be a good prospect. His answer to my question of why he was not in the army was quite vague, but we could not be fussy when men were so scarce. So I sent him over to the furnace fur-nace after calling the general foreman and telling him I was sending him a good prospect. The next morning the general foreman fore-man called me on the telephone. "You had better get over here and see your "good prospect." I dashed over to the furnace and there lieing on the floor in an epeleptic seizure was this man. Iron was flowing in a near by trough and it was a miracle he hadn't fallen in. The ambulance was called and soon he was on his way back home. It was quite evident why he was not accepted in the army. Frankly, I was not quite prepared pre-pared (or some of the incidents that were to come. The 'best trompers' were generally good clean men of good character, but now I was meeting some men who did not measure up to these qualifications. A middle-aged man, also a recruit was sent down to me. He was of a frail build and looked under nourished nourish-ed but seemed anxious to work. He had taken his physical but it took two or three days to complete the blood test. On the third day the doctor called me "get that man off the job as quickly as possible, he has four plus tuberculosis, even his spit-turn spit-turn is infected." So I called him over to the office and informed him he must leave and told him of his condition. He laid his head on the desk and sobbed. "I wanted the job so bad" he said through his tears. In my life I had not seen many men cry and this affected me deeply. A few days later a young Indian In-dian was sent down. He was fresh from the reservation. A finer looking young man I had never seen. He was built like Atlas with broad shoulders and a body that slimmed at the waist. I was so thrilled to get such a beautiful physical speciman that I personally conducted him over to the furnace. When we arrived the furnace was being cast. A great wall of flame and smoke was shooting out of the top hole. On one side of the furnace floor a golden stream of molten iron was running in a trough. On the other side a stream of molten slag like a stream born of a volcano. I looked at White-Horse-Son-in-Law, (that was his name) and saw only the reflection of his eyes. He stood there silently for about a minute then turned around and walked away. I tried to remonstrate with him, but he kept on walking south without saying a word. I watched him as he headed toward the employment office where he was supplied with transportation back to the reservation. reser-vation. Somehow, iron was being made, but it was the beet trom-pees trom-pees that kept the furnaces running. West Point Exams Open to Seniors Physical Aptitude Examinations Examina-tions for Utah high school seniors sen-iors seeking admission to the United States Military Academy, West Point N.Y., will be held Nov. 26 at 9 a.m. in Salt Lake City. The examination will be administered admin-istered in the Jackling Hall National Na-tional Guard Armory, 1543 Sunny-side Sunny-side Ave. in room 205. This is part of a newly instituted cooperative cooper-ative effort involving West Point and the National Guard. It is used in determing each candidate's qualification for admission ad-mission with the class entering enter-ing West Point in July 1973. The test, also being administered adminis-tered at 181 other Army and National Guard sites, is limited to candidates who have been scheduled sch-eduled for the test by West Point. Similar examinations will be administered ad-ministered in January, February Febru-ary and March. Other candidates who are seeking admission to West Point and who have completed com-pleted necessary requirements will be notified by West Point of Terry Chatter was the winner of the Pinewood Derby held by Cub Scouts in Pack 3019 in the American Fork LDS Seventh Ward last Thursday night. Second place went to Steven the date on which they are scheduled sch-eduled to take the examination. West Point estimates that 1360 new cadets will be admitted in July. About 75 percent of the total is allotted to Senators and Representatives in Congress who nominate young men to fill Academy Aca-demy vacancies. Smaller quotas are provided, by law, for those enlisted men, sons of deceased or disabled members of the Armed Forces, sons of men in a missing or captured status as a result of the current conflict in Southeast Asia, participants of the ROTC program, and others who can qualify for Service-Connected Service-Connected nominations. Although the standards for admission to West Point are necessarily high, healthy, intelligent intel-ligent young men graduating from high school with good grades in strong academic programs should be competitive for admission. admis-sion. In most states it is still not too late for high school seniors to apply for admission to West Point with the class entering in the summer of 1973. Any senior who is interested in West Point should immediately write to his Representative and both Senators Sena-tors in Congress requesting a nomination. Seniors can also write to Admissions, Ad-missions, West Point, N.Y. 0996 for additional information on application ap-plication requirements. Scovill and third place to Clyde Crosby. A total of 20 cars raced in the competition according accord-ing to Edwin D. Scovill, cub-master. cub-master. The derby was held in connection con-nection with the November Pack meeting of the Cub Scouts with William Blomquist, Lindon Morrill, Mor-rill, Earl Johansenand Jim Hardy "Seat belts oren' t new. one on Dad years ago. Grandpa used CyT proud past, a perfect present. rTTfe JJQJJ Tfnrwn wmm rannn The world s finest Bourbon is all dressed up tor the Holidays, bo give. Sugar beets require a lot of water. One beet may consume as much as 15 gallons during a growing grow-ing season. Abraham Lincoln's father, Thomas, was born in Virginia. For 155 years England collected collec-ted a tax based on the number of windows In a building. "Hello, Millie. Joil thought I'd cull nod lay thonlit lot the meoler you knitted lot me.-' -ina mmm I JGRAPII I IllUBEAJjiyi tj r ISP::: 1 uciMit M POT! S BOURBON WHISKEY l"Sf i. Mill psiKMsnujiiGqi V-lvrt & TZJy'f l Jf j: J 'Wl M u j 1 UJ Z -1 z si i- ii is i- 2 serving as derby judges. Mr. Scovill was the starter and Mrs. Gloria Scovili had charge of the scoreboard. Terry and Steven are the sons of Mr. and Mrs. Scovill and Clyde is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Spencer Spen-cer Crosby. An award of appreciation was presented to Elwood Sorenson, out-going Webelos leader during the program. Directing the Cubs in Pack 3019, are Mrs. Sandra Richards, Den Mother inDenone; Mrs. Scovill, Sco-vill, Den Mother in Den Two; and Earl Johansen, Webelos leader. 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