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Show Spotlighting- American Fork Senior Citizens 1 : , - - V L . , : A "if i k,vo o ' vv ! Wo JANE GORDON, a lifetime resident of American Fork, is more fondly known as Grandma Gordon by the neighborhood neighbor-hood children as well as by her own grandchildren. Jane Gordon "I came from a big family, and I like kids," says Jane Gordon and her feelings for children have often been returned. Known as Grandma Gordon by the neighborhood children and her own grandchildren, grand-children, she always has a supply sup-ply of goodies. "I have a cookie jar on the cabinet and as soon as the kids come in, they go for the cookies." Eut cooking has always been a favorite activity of Jane Gordon, Gor-don, who worked with the school lunch program for a number of years at the high school and at the Forbes school. "I love to cook, and I always have done," states Jane, recalling the numerous church banquets that she helped to put on during the course of her lifetime. American Fork has always been her home, ever since she was born to Ebeneezer and Martha Alice Parker Hunter on November 8, 1888. Ebeneezer, was a well - known educator in the area in those days. However, Jane left the area after finishing school to go to work in Eureka to work in a hotel. Later, she worked in a hotel in Mercur, but returned to American Fork after a short time there. While she was in Mercur, she met George Hudson Hud-son Gordon from Clover, Utah, and the couple returned to American Fork to make their home. Hudson became an electrician elec-trician for Utah Power and Light. Nine children were born to the Gordon Family, but two of the children - Alice and Paul died in their early childhood. child-hood. Tragedy struck the Gordons in 1941 when Hudson was called to work on a transformer that had been knocked out by a storm. While working on the power line, he was electrocuted. electrocut-ed. From that time, the responsibility respon-sibility of raising the seven children rested on Jane, who began her work with the school lunch program. Ilene, the oldest, is now Mrs. Floyd Loveridge and lives in Provo. Glen, who was a supervisor super-visor at the Geneva Steel Company, Com-pany, died two years ago. Arth AMERICAN FORK 4-H'ERS WIN AWARDS The 4-H Achievement Program was held last month at the Forbes School and Alta Bailey Bai-ley and Laurae Ault, 4-H Supervisors, Super-visors, would like to publicly thank Principal Douglas Nicholes for the use of his school for this program and to apologize for the conduct of some of the 4-H boys and girls. We want him to know that this is not the usual conduct of the 4-H'ers and we hope that it will not happen again. Joan Coombs was recognized for five years as a leader, Betty Harvey for 10 years and Laiae Ault for 15, years in the 4-H program. We are grateful to them and hope that they will be leaders in the program for that many more years. All of the 4-H'ers received a certificate for their years work and everyone above the first year received a pin or gift for completion. In addition to this, we had several who won trips or other awards. Tamara Harvey won a trip to Chicago in Safety, Sherie Ault and Kristine Varney won a trip to Denver in Meal Preparation. High blue ribbon winners at state contests were Sherie fi jlt and Kristine Varney in Home a ur operates Gordon's Photography Photog-raphy Studio in American Fork, and Norma, the wife of Dean Bateman, is the treasurer for the city of American Fork. Howard is a supervisor in the pipe mill at Geneva and lives in American Fork, while Donna, the youngest, lives in Lehi and is married to Dale Clark. The extended Gordon family has given Jane Gordon a large posterity including some twenty-three grandchildren, twenty-three great grandchildren grandchil-dren and one great - great -grandchild. Jane claims that family has always been the most important part of her life and says that the most outstanding out-standing experience of her life has been "just raising my family fami-ly and helping take care of them." Jane has been active in church and civic activities for a long time, working on the Old Folks committee for a number of years. She has also served in a relief society presidency in her ward and has been a Primary worker, a visiting teacher and a homemaking committee member. Last November the Gordon family got toether to celebrate Janes 87th birthday. However Jan, who has always been a strong promoter of parties for her family, was unable to do her favorite kind of family party par-ty - breakfast with bacon, eggs and hotcakes in the canyon. "She loves people and she's always been friendly." says Jean Gordon, a daughter - in -law, as she characterizes the life of Jane Gordon. "She's been a hard worker all of her life. That's one reason she can get around as well as she does now." You can feel good and still have high blood pressure -even if your're young and healthy. Be with-it. See your doctor for a check-up. Economics and Meal Preparation Prepara-tion and Mary Bushman in Horse Judging. Receiving county coun-ty medals were Janice Ault in Breads; Natalie Taylor, Clothing; Cloth-ing; Barbara Steiner Dairy Foods; Kristine Varney, Food-Nutrition; Food-Nutrition; Brent Ault and Janice Jan-ice Ault, Photography; Tamara Harvey, Safety; and Natalie Taylor, Dress Style Revue. Lisa Harvey won the $2.00 county award and Janice Ault and Brent Ault each won the $1.00 county award. i a1 nnm nrr r rt $176.40 MINI MACMfR S COMPLETE WITH "-sA THE EVERYTHING-YOU- TlLf.---. 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Mr. Steele served as a scoutmaster scout-master for three years, as a troop committeeman for two years, as a merit badge counselor, counse-lor, and as a district commissioner commis-sioner for three years. He has also received the Scoutmaster Key award. He attended schools in American Amer-ican Fork and received in Masters Mas-ters Degree from Brigham Young University. He is employed em-ployed at U.S. Steel's Geneva Works. He is active in his LDS Ward, and has served as Elder's Quorum instructor and MIA secretary. He has been active in the Western Boys Baseball Association Asso-ciation program, serving as league president for two years and as assistant manager of a baseball team. Mr. Grace served as a scoutmaster scout-master for four years, and is presently a member of the district dis-trict scout committee. He has always been interested in helping help-ing and encouraging his scouts to become Eagle Scouts. He is a First Class Scout. His activities in his ward include in-clude serving as MIA superintendent, superin-tendent, in the FJders Quorum presidency, on the ward finance fin-ance committee, as a High Priest group leader, and as bishop of the ward. Currently he is a member of the American Ameri-can Fork North Stake High Council. He attended school in Lehi, and served in the U.S. Navy during World War II. He is an instructor at Utah Trade Technical Tech-nical College of Provo and has received special recognition for his interest in his students. Mrs. Greening has served as Stake Cub Scout Director since November 3, 1971, in the American Ameri-can Fork Stake. She was active in Primary for several years, serving as a teacher for different differ-ent classes, then as a councelor in the presidency, then as president. She also worked in the MIA program. Of her, it is said that "never has she been so she did not want to help the less fortunate ones whether they were small boys or older persons - or even The concern of the Heart Association As-sociation is not only for those alive today, but also for future generations. The road to healthier, heart disease-free lives for those now living and yet unborn is research. Second Miler who ever they were. Up through the years, she has been interested in trying to help young boys who did not seem to have many friends, or any one to care. And she is still unusually unusual-ly thoughtful of people who need a friend." She "loves her family very much and tries to get in touch with the ones who live close every day, especially if they are having problems. Her grandchildren adore her. "She also tries always to be home when her husband is at home, and to have his meals prepared at the time he needs them. He works shift work so she does her errands while he isn't there. "She calls her mother every day and does everything she can to make her life pleasant, taking her shopping, arranging her hair every Sunday and when she (Mrs. Greening) has several errands to do, she calls her mother to see if she wants to go with her so they can visit." She has never turned down any position she has been called to in the church. She is a native of Cedar City. Mr. Mecham attended school in Carbon County and graduated graduat-ed from American Fork High School. He also attended Brigham Brigh-am Young University. He is a veteran of World War II, having served in the U.S. THIS JOLLY FELLOW COMES BUT I ONCE A YEAR I BUT A GIFT SUBSCRIPTION TO I THE AMERICAN FORK CITIZEN 1 COMES EVERY WEEK OF THE YEAR! The perfect gift for STUDENTS AWAY FROM HOME, MISSIONARIES, RELATIVES, MARRIED CHILDREN, FRIENDS AND NEIGHBORS. The Citizen will bring home-town news and hospitality to the home of a special person every single week! Order now and save! 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He has served as an advisor to the Explorers, as assistant district dis-trict scouting commissioner, cub master, district commissioner, commis-sioner, district vice chairman, and as a district committeeman. committee-man. Mr. Jenks was born and raised in Salt Lake City, graduating from West High School in 19fi(). He has been employed by the Deseret Book Company for 13 years, presently present-ly selling their publications to dealers in Utah, Arizona, and parts of Nevada. Five years ago, he built a house in Alpine for his family, and is presently adding on to his home. Other than building, he enjoys playing the organ, snow skiing, water skiing, aand running rivers in rubber rafts. He has worked with boys since 1963 and for the past three years has been scoutmas- PLEASE SEND A GIFT SUBSCRIPTION OF The American Fork Citizen) TO: Name Address City....: State. FROM: Name Address City Mai Enclosed is my I to: The American Fork Citizen, American Farm Bureau Urges Ford Veto Utah's largest l.iini and ranch organization has sent an urgent appeal to Paresident Gerald R. Ford asking him to veto organized labor's latest legislative victory. Elmo W. Hamilton, president of the Utah Farm Bureau Federation, has written the President asking a veto of the common situs picketing bill recently passed Congress and now awaiting the President's signature. "The great need at this time in our nation is to reduce, not increase the power of labor monopoly. This legislation greatly adds to the overbalance of power in the hands of organized organ-ized labor and it will deal a serious blow to an already financially fin-ancially depressed construction industry," Hamilton said. The Farm Bureau leader said construction cost increases add to the cost of all consumer goods and manufactured items. "Agriculture is the largest single sin-gle user of manufactured goods. This new labor power will add to consumer food costs," He added. Under the newly passed legislation, labor unions will have increased power to shut down construction jobs during a strike or other labor disputes. CARD OF THANKS We gratefully acknowledge all acts of kindness and words of consolation expressed during our time of bereavement, caused through the passing of our beloved mother. To those taking part in the funeral services, ser-vices, for the beautiful floral offerings and other remembrances remem-brances ent, we are truly appreciative. Family of Margaret E. Earl ter and Deacon's Quorum advisor advi-sor in the Alpine First Ward. Of him it was said, "he gets along great with the boys. He is ambitious, determined, understanding, under-standing, and has a great sense of humor." He holds the Life rank in scouting. State check Please bill AMERICAN FORK CITIZEN Letters to DEAR EDITOR, My name is Connie Lind-quist. Lind-quist. Me and my Grandma Hill were talking about the protection protec-tion of all wildlife. We were talking about it's no fair for animals to die for no reason. My next door neighbors are always cruel to animals. One day I was ou.'side playing play-ing and my neighbor and his friend got a kitten and put it's tail in some gasoline and lit it on fire, threw it up in the air and then squirted it with a hose and then got rid of it. 1 found a pigeon in my yard and it had a hole in its chest. My neighbor caught it and said, "It's probably proba-bly poison . Now we can't eat it," and threw it. It flew back to my yard, but it couldn't fly very good. We were going to take it to the vt, but it was closed. The next day we were going to lake it, but it flew away. I'm happy the wound is healed. I found a quail in my backyard. It was caught in Geological Site Designated As Natural Utah Landmark Acting Secretary of the Interior Inter-ior Thomas S. Kleppe today announced an-nounced the addition of a portion por-tion of the Henry Mountains, known as the "Little Rockies," in Garfield County, Utah, to the National Registry of Natural Landmarks. The "Little Rockies" are among several mountain groups in the Colorado Plateau which were formed by igneous rock "plugs" uplifting the overlying sedimentary rock. Erosion of the tops of these structural domes has exposed the steep- sided igneous rock. Mount Holmes and Mount Ellsworth are the most prominent promin-ent features within the landmark. land-mark. This is the area where the concept of doming from central cen-tral plugs was first described in the geological literature, and it represents the classic site to geologists around the world. Most of the landmark site is owned by the U.S. Government and administered by the Bureau of Land Management; a small Zip. Zip me after Christmas Fork, Utah 84003 THURSDAY DECEMBER 11, 1975 the Editor some wire. I got it out of the wire and was going to take it to the vet, but it died so I buried it. Then about one month after I found a Pheasant with two B-B's in one wing and three in the other. We took it to the vet and didn't hear another word. During the summer we were in the gully and we saw a kid throw a rock and a bird fell. We went to get it, but it was dead so we buried it. I have found lots of animals and they are dead. What I didn't like the most was this man who threw a cat in a sack with a rock and threw it in the river. I saw some guy throw his dog out of his car. Me and my Grandma Hill love all animals. We don't like animals being killed for no reason. We love animals. Connie Lindquist P.S. I live in Ogden but I'm with my grandma in American Fork. portion is owned by the State of Utah. It is located 43 miles south-southeast of Hanksville. Landmark designation is in- tended to encourage owners to preserve nationally significant natural values. Areas are eligi- ble regardless of ownership, if they have been maintained in a relatively natural state. Since the program began in 1962, 396 areas have been recognized as natural landmarks, 1he Old 1m.&i "A person who hasn't many faults usually makes the most of the ones he has." VT |