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Show Utah Press Assn 0 Box 132? S3lt Lake City, Inc Utah Skiio III 3 JfiaOWTC L lat rSlarbor. r - . 1 ' ' !. '"v U V . -Li ; 1 I U , id- 1 h v T y i. v "v , ' ,t .-.O. "VICTIM"- Kerry Hoglund of Pleasant Grove, poses as "earthquake victim" during civil defense drill. "Treating" him are American Fork Hospital nurses Vergie Scott and Rhea Pulham. The drill was held throughout the county. If an earthquake measuring 7.0 on the Richter scale occurred oc-curred in central Utah County would the emergency forces be able to handle it? County Civil Defense officials believe so after conducting a simulated earthquake on Thursday, April 8. James Tracy, Utah County Civil Defense director, said the theoretical quake occurred at 9:30 a.m. In addition to severe damage throughout the county, the simulation projected the, weakening - and eventual collapse- of Deer Creek Reservoir. Reser-voir. For the next two hours, with communications and electricity "out", hospitals and fire fighting fight-ing units were alerted, ambulances ambu-lances called out; an medical personnel notified. Members of the Central Utah Citizens Band Assn. hand- At a meeting Tuesday, April 6, members of the Shade Tree Commission discussed participation partici-pation of the city with residents in planting shade trees on city property and the removal of dead or diseased trees. It was moved by Eddie Smith that the Am. Fork City Shade Tree Commission participate in paying the cost of shade tree planting on city property. The amount decided upon was 50 percent of the cost of tree or tree to a maximum of $5.00 per tree. Trees must be on the approved Shade Tree Commission Commis-sion list or approved by a member of the commission. Residents are encouraged to plant only quality shade trees. Lazy Eye Clinic April 20 The Amblyopia Clinic will be held in Lehi and American Fork on April 20th. The clinic will be held from 9:30 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. at the Lehi Elementary Elemen-tary School, 765 No. Center St., Lehi, and in Am. Fork from 1:30 to 4:00 p.m. at the Greenwood Green-wood Elementary School, 50 E. 200 So., American Fork. It is important that all four and five year old preschool children participate in this free visual screening program. A child's central vision develops gradually through the first six years of life. Lack of central vision in one eye is called Amblyopia, It is gradual in onset on-set and is readily correctible if discovered early. If your child was screened last year and is not in school, his vision should be checked again because visual defects can develop rapidly, especially at this time in his life. In case visual defects are indicated, you will be notified so that a referral might be made for professional examination and follow-up for correction. Shads Tre Okays Fart carried notices to the various agencies to alert them of the drill . . . and what had supposedly suppo-sedly occurred. Ambulances transported "victims" - Boy Scouts from Pleasant Grove Troop 22 and students from Provo and Nebo School district schools to Utah Valley, Payson and American Fork hospitals. In this area, the "victims" were supposedly injured when a building in Pleasant Grove collapsed on them and injuries were varied. Mulages borrowed bor-rowed from the Utah National Guard in Salt Lake City made the injuries appear more real -and even grusome. Fire departments were sent to areas of "disaster" where needed, Mr. Tracy said,""and other agencies notified to direct dir-ect traffic, help with "injuries" etc. The police departments in e Commiss ideation To qualify for participation the following conditions must be met: 1. The tree must be planted in the parking strip between the . curb and gutter and the sidewalk which is city property. 2. Curb, gutter and sidewalk must already be installed. in-stalled. 3. Trees used must be approved by the commission. 4. a PAID receipt must be submitted sub-mitted to the office at city hall. The receipt must show the name of the nursery or place of purchase, the name and address of the purchaser and the full amount paid for the tree or trees. Approved bills will be submitted sub-mitted for re-imbursement. Fred Fish seconded Mr. Smith's motion and it was passed unanimously. An Arbor Day planting will be held at the Forbes School with the approval and assistance assis-tance of Principal Douglas Nicholes. Chairman Arlo Shelley conducted con-ducted the meeting. Assignments Assign-ments for the coming year were m ade as follows- Parks, Eddie and Lela Smith; planting, plant-ing, Arlo Shelley and Doug Mayne; Removal of trees, Alma Al-ma Madsen and Fred Fish; Secretary and Public Relations, Rela-tions, Jean E. Gordon. Community residents with tree problems (planting, removal remo-val or disease) should contact any member of the Shade Tree Commission for information or assistance. Trees available under the shade tree discount agreement are- Ash, cut leaf weeping birch, European white birch, Catalpa, Flowering Cherry, Flowering Crab Apple, Ginko, Golden Rain, Hawthorn, Horse Chestnut, Linden, Honey ICE CAPADES American Fork Citizens are urged to register now for the Ice Capades trip to the Salt Palace on Saturday, April 17. Tickets for the group will be half price, only $3.00. Buses will leave American Fork Tabernacle Taberna-cle corner at 1:00 p.m. the cities involved, the Utah County Sheriff's office, and various city, county and state agencies took part. Mr. Tracy said he thought the drill went well but the projected injury and damage estimates show the need for such practice alerts. Under the best of conditions in such a disaster, there would be 25 35 fatalities and 2,000 injuries along with $500 million damage to personal and commercial properties, he said. Wayne R. McTague, administrator admin-istrator at the American Fork Hospital, praised the way staff members and other emergency personnel carried out their duties and said, although he hopes nothing of this nature ever dues occur, that1 if it does, he feels personnel, both medical medi-cal and other, will be able to handle it. ion Plan Locust, Maple, Oak, Flowering Plum, Sweet gum, Sycamore and Tulip Tree. With the annual Miss American Ameri-can Fork Scholarship pageant drawing closer, contestants are busy practicing, participating, and preparing for the best event. The pageant will be held on Saturday, May 1, and queen hopefulls are currently in the midst of selling tickets for the pageant as well as getting ready in other ways. The contestant conte-stant who sells the most tickets will receive a special award. Three more lovely misses are announced this week as pageant contestants. They are Natalie Kay Beck, 17; Belva Dean Francom, 18 and Julie Ewell, 19. Natalie Kay Beck Natalie is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Larry K. Beck. She is a student at American Fork High School and will graduate in May. Active in student affairs, af-fairs, she is associated with the pep club, girls athletic association, associa-tion, debate, and a cheerleader. She is also a ZCMI Youngtimer. She has had special training in piano, art and dance and will display her own original paintings, paint-ings, interpreted through dance, as her pageant talent. Natalie lists painting and sports has her hobbies with tennis her favorite participating participat-ing sport. Her favorite dish is beef stroganoff. Her answer to the question "what do you consider most essential to good health, beauty and intellect" was "in order to live life to its fullest, one needs good health, beauty and intellect. intel-lect. One does not come by ail three easily. They must be worked for. There are many Public Hearing Set For Harbor Proposal The regular meeting of the American Fork City Council was held Tuesday night at city hall under the direction of Mayor Malcolm H. Beck. An unusually large number of spectators and participants filled the chambers as Council-men Council-men Evan Brady, Donald Fox, David L. Greenwood, La Dell Terry and Rodney Tjrner dW cussed city husJitrss. Boat Harbor Lease Public Hearing A delegation of approximately approximate-ly a dozen opponents to city Volume 64, No. 9 Reservations Are Needed For Rotary Park Bowery Only the large bowery at Rotary Park is being reserved this year according to Councilman Council-man Rod Turner. The other boweries are on a first come first served basis." " ' v The Rotary Park bowery has been reserved for almost every Saturday from now until August Au-gust Councilman Turner said, and the other dates are being filled fast. Anyone desiring reservations may call Mr. Turner at 756-2338. Other boweries are at Evergreen, Ever-green, Lion and the high school parks. About 1,400 Vietnamese pilots were trained to fly helicopters at Hunter Air Base near Savannah Savan-nah between 1970 and 1972. things that I consider most essential es-sential ... "In order to have good health, one needs plenty of rest, a well balanced diet, as well as being in tune physically and mentally. "Beauty follows a good attitude, atti-tude, self discipline and personal person-al pride with one's self. "Intellect is a result of taking advantage of what our education educa-tion system has to offer. No one can learn unless the desire is there. "There is one major principle princi-ple that is necessary for all three and that is "as a man thinketh in his heart, so is he." "The body is the servant of the mind. At the bidding of unlawful thoughts, the body can sink into disease and decay at the command of glad and beautiful thoughts, it becomes clothed with youthfulness and beauty. Strong, pure and happy thoughts build up the body in vigor and grace. Change of diet will not help a man who will not change his thoughts. When a man makes his thoughts pure, he no longer desires impure food. If you would perfect your body, guard your mind. If you would renew your body, beautify beau-tify your mind. A sour face does not come by chance; it is made by sour thoughts. Free Clinic American Fork Senior Citizens Citi-zens are sponsoring a free blood pressure and urine analysis analy-sis clinic to be held at the Legion Hall Monday, April 26th at 12:30 p.m. Senior Citizens from Lehi, American Fork and surrounding areas are invited. plans to lease the boat harbor were informed of a public hearing hear-ing on the subject which will be held next Tuesday at 7 p.m. at the city hall. City officials explained the contract has not been signed or approved, and additional input will be welcome. Since the subject sub-ject was not on the agenda for discussion at this weeks council meeting, however, the concerned con-cerned citizens were invited to study the proposed agreement and provide input or objections at the April 20 meeting. Plans to create a county service ser-vice district for the proposed four city sewer system began to take form this week as the county commission accepted the Timpanogos Planning Association Asso-ciation proposal to create the district. In a letter to the county commission com-mission the four mayors stated, "we hereby request that the County Commission take the necessary steps to establish a county service district for sewage treatment only." "We propose that the service . district include only the four Jf : J i i NATALIE BECK "To think well of all, to be cheerful with all, to patiently learn to find the good in all, such unselfish thoughts are the very portals of heaven; and to dwell day by day in thoughts of peace toward every creature will bring one good health, beauty and intellect." Belva Dean Francom Belva Dean is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Dean L. Francom. Fran-com. She is a senior at American Ameri-can Fork High School where she is secretary in the color-guard, color-guard, a gym assistant, and served as senior class hop co-chairman. co-chairman. She has taken piano lessons for six years, and has played clarinet in the high school band. She will play a piano solo for her pageant talent. She lists leathercraft and music as her hobbies, and she enjoys skiing and horseback riding. Her favorite dish is french toast and marble cake. For good health, beauty and fio If Zone Change The council approved a zone change from R-2 to R-3 at approximately app-roximately 200 No. Center Street at the request of Ralph Powers. Mr. Powers has appeared before the planning commission commis-sion and explained his plans to construct a 4-plex on property at that location. He said the property has 16,073 square feet, and off-street parking will be provided at the rear of the building. Councilman Brady recommended the zone change on behalf of the planning commission. com-mission. A public hearing has been held to discuss the change according ac-cording to Councilman Brady. Subdivision Approved Plat D, which includes 24 proposed homes No. of 700 No. incorporated cities (Alpine, Lehi, Pleasant Grove and American Fork) at the present time, with provisions being established es-tablished in the charter for the district to provide service for the unincorporated areas when the need develops," the letter further stated. Approval for the service district dis-trict is expected soon to provide time for a public hearing hear-ing to be held during the first part of May. Following the hearing, the TPA will wait 30 days to hear possible protests. A bond election is planned for 't BELVA DEAN FRANCOM intellect she believes a "proper diet and proper grooming are essential." But most of all, she says, "I feel that a positive attitude towards yourself and others along with high moral standards are important." Julie Ewell Julie is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Monte Ewell. A graduate of American Fork High School in 1974, she has attended Brigham Young University Uni-versity one year, and is currently cur-rently a student at the University Univer-sity of Utah. She is a music major at the U of U, attending on a full tuition academic scholarship and a music scholarship. She has had private piano lessons for 13 years, is a member of the Mas-terworks Mas-terworks chorus at the U, and received an honorable mention in the Utah Music Teachers Association piano competition. She has performed in many recitals including 3 solo recitals, reci-tals, has been a pianist and and E. of 350 E. was approved on recommendation of Councilman Council-man Brady. Speed Limit Sign Requested Nancy Pulley presented a petition signed by 29 residents in the vicinity of 900 E. requesting request-ing a speed limit sign at 900 E. Mrs. Pulley said they would like to have the sign read "SLOW-Children at Play-25 mrp." Although the speed limit is 25 miles per hour at that location, most people are under the impression im-pression the limit is 30 mpr Mrs Pulley noted. Many motorists dirve much faster, she added, and there are 72 children who live in the area whose lives are endangered. Mayor Beck referred the matter to Councilman Fox who AfRlV Thursday,' 1976 sometime in July. The new district will continue to be run by the TPA, the present board of governors. A mayor and a councilman from each of the four cities form the TPA. The county service district would give the cities the capacity capa-city to bond separate from their present bonding capacities capaci-ties as individual cities. All of the four cities would near their bonding limits as cities if they were to bond outside the proposed county service district. dis-trict. JULIE EWELL vocal coach for Rocky Mountain Moun-tain Regional Theatre, and has completed art classes throughout through-out high school and while attending at-tending BYU. During her high school years, she was a sterling scholar in English, an honor student, secretary sec-retary of the drama club, a member of the marching band that marched in the Rose Bowl Parade, and participated in plays at the school. She enjoys watercolor painting, paint-ing, drying flowers and backpacking back-packing and her favorite participating parti-cipating sport is volleyball. Her favorite food is Lasagne. In answer to the question, "what do you consider most essential to good health, beauty and intellect," she replied, she felt the most important element ele-ment to be self-esteem. "The value we place on ourselves, no matter what our natural abilities abili-ties are, will determine the realization rea-lization of our health, beauty (Continued on back page) Tm - 'is- 1 V ; m T im promised to take action immediately. imme-diately. Mrs. Pulley also requested a "T" sign at one location which would inform those unfamiliar with the road, that the road ends. Mayor Beck told Mrs. Pulley the city could not put a dip in the road because of possible liability if the dip created a hazard. Road Repairs Councilman Terry told the council two bids had been received for summer road work that his department will undertake. Council passed the motion to accept the low bid of Geneva Rock Products for $10,491 which included 850 tons of black top and 1,500 gallons of pre-mix. The streets in the city which are in the worst condition because of wear and tear from use and weather will receive a complete new overlay Councilman Council-man Terry explained. Shade Tree Commission The Shade Tree Commission will pay fifty percent for trees costing up to five dollars which are planted on city property according to Councilman Greenwood. The chairman of the commission, Arlo Shelley, may be contacted for further information. Property owners can also be reimbursed at thirty cents a square foot on cement replacement replace-ment it was noted.. Underground Utilities Project Mayor Beck told the council the money to put utility lines underground at Center and 100 East Street has been approved by the Community Planning and Development office. The grant is for $24,000, which is for the total amount of the project. Urban Road Project A cooperative agreement to provide for the design of an Urban System Project to improve im-prove 100 W. between Main Street and 700 No. Street has been approved by the Utah Department of Transportation and American Fork. The project cost is approximately approxi-mately $25,000. The federal share is ninety percent, which will be $22,500. The city share is estimated at $2,500. The UDOT will perform all the work required to complete the preliminary engineering and design and prepare the project for advertising for bidding. bid-ding. The design work will be done for an estimated amount of $15,000. Final plans, specifications and estimates must be approved ap-proved by the city, the Utah Department of Transportation and the Federal Highway Administration Ad-ministration prior to advertising advertis-ing for bids for construction. The preliminary engineering and design includes surveys, preparation of plans and profiles, environmental reports, hearings, roadway and right of way design, estimates and specifications, and bid documents. At the recommendations of Councilman Greenwood the council moved to pay the city share as outlined in the agreement. agree-ment. RR Crossing Improvement Mayor Beck noted the improvement im-provement of the Union Pacific Railroad crossings is underway, under-way, and said it was a much needed project which should have been done many years ago. Six of the crossings in the city will have lights and crossing cross-ing bars he explained. Other crossings in the city are being studied by the Department of Transportation preliminary to entering into a proposed second phase of the project. Several of the people attending attend-ing the council meeting asked questions concerning the Rio Grande Railroad crossings on the south side of the city. The condition of the crossing at Storrs avenue is particularly deplorable it was pointed out. Mayor Beck said he would send a letter to the railroad requesting request-ing improvement of the situation, situa-tion, with a copy addressed to the Public Service Commission. Commis-sion. A letter such as this usually gets results, Mayor Beck said, but asked the men to let him know if there was no action in 30 days. |