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Show Hii LINKING LEHI'S PAST AND PRESENT -LOOKING FORWARD TO TIIE FUTURE VDTXXVII "LEHI, UTAH, THURSDAY, JANUARY16,1947 NUMBER 27 On the'SunBeam with the Editor When we got back from the first session of . state press convention Saturday night, we . wd something that nearly burnt us up. During the afternoon the dry cleaning shop, which shares rcommon wall with us, caught fire. Lucky for s the middle wall held out, and only a bit of "moke reached our plant. The soot wouldn't have mattered much, anyway, for we probably have the smokiest old railroad-style heater in town as Ed jrsen can vouch for we're his steadiest customer custo-mer for soot remover. 0 m Good thing we were out of town when things rot too hot for comfort. Ben Stewart writes us from McKinnon, Wyoming, Wyo-ming, wondering why he has been missing his old home paper. On investigation, we find the type is so battered it would take an FBI man to help the postmaster untangle the address so all our readers should soon see their names and addresses ad-dresses in brand-new print. If you've been missing miss-ing yours, let us know. (And include news of your family and friends we're always glad to ret it.) . 0. B. Joyful, weekly contributor to these pages for over a year now, was wondering this week whether or not his column is pleasing to the people. If you read it, and like it, why not drop him a card, in care of The Sun, and tell him so ? While we were at. the state press confab Saturday, Sat-urday, we had lunch with Professor and Mrs. Carlton Culmsee of the U.S.A.C. Mrs. Culmsee was our English teacher back in the good old days at Provo High when she was Edna Ball. It seems she has gone into the writing field, too, and broadcasts a daily program over the Logan radio station under the name of Nan Cadwell. She should naturally follow some field of writing, as her husband hus-band is instructor of journalism, as well as dean of the college of arts and sciences at the University, Uni-versity, and taught journalism at the "Y." Local citizens are on the lookout for "Mr. People Are Funny," who is aboard a Greyhound bus for an undisclosed destination. Described as having a bald head, he should be easy to spot, unless the weather warms up enough for the local men to remove their headgear. From the dearth of cranial adornment in our town, it may easily be seen that our menfolks do indeed possess some- 1947 Legislative Sessions Get Underway thing "above the ears" it is in plain sight. That is a Dam iact. , The recent installation of telerjhone lines be. tween Lehi and Cedar Valley shows the trend of the times toward modernization. All these years without phone service. Cedar Vallev residents will now have an opportunity to have instant contact with the rest of the world. Lehi has been indeed honored by having two of our. own young women chosen among the three to represent Utah County during the Centennial. No other town in the county can boast this honor, yet' several of the other communities have paid tribute to these girls in special programs. Lehi should be ashamed to admit that our girls have been ignored in their own home town. Received a letter (anonymous but why?) the other day from a former resident of Lehi asking if the writer could contribute to our "Writer's Corner." If his other material is as interesting as his letter, by all means, he should send it in. ' (But sign your name this time note the rules at the head of the corner.) Trying to slide forward on our ice-covered sidewalks is a job enough in itself, but on some of the streets the walks are so twisted that one wonders if an experienced seaman could keep his bearings on them. Looks as if the city needs to level some of them out, come spring. May help to eliminate some of the mud that accumulates there, too. . C. N. Lund of the Salt Lake Progressive Opinion Opin-ion related this one at our table during the press association banquet Saturday night: A G.I. returned re-turned home after following a colorful career in the army, and the editor, in paying tribute to the young man, referred to him in his article as a "battle-scarred veteran." As luck would have it, the proof-reader slighted the article, and the GI was found to be a "battle-scared veteran" when the paper was printed. Outraged at what the editor had done to her son's reputation, the vet's mother took him to task over the error, and de- manded a correction in the next issue. The editor agreed, but in the correction the following week, which the copy-reader had been lax in correcting, the GTrasTtermed a "bottle-scarred veteran." R.S.B. UNDER TIIE CAPITOL DOME By James Conrad New Adult Class Starts Next Wednesday Keep Smilin by O. B. Joyful A LITTLE VOW FOR NEW YEAR'S By Mary Carolyn Davies Every hour and every minute Has a New Year's Day tucked in it, And each single one of these Is packed with possibilities Possibilities of pleasure, Of sharing with a friend some treasure, Of making a "Good Morning" cheery Make a good morning from a dreary Of shutting tight the lips to hide A bit of gossip safe inside, Instead of letting it get out To roam about, And maybe do More harm than you Would like it to. Let us take a little vow-since vow-since it is New Year now To be more kind, more brave, more gay This year, and make each single day That comes a model New Year's Day! SIMPLE FORMULA SMnTvr d 1 Wish every reader of "KEEP LLG" in particular and every other creature v gen a Yuletide of merriment and a New u , happiness, but I offer a simple formula Mich each one may realize the wish, u rnav ho -kc-n-j : .- - vuraicu in passing uiat evexy gicai, truth which is essential to our balanced and destined des-tined development may be stated so simply that any one may understand it. Before I send out my wish to you this New Year, I shall try to sweep from my mind and heart every trace of ill-will, whether it be harbored har-bored against a person or a condition or what not. And I shall try to fill the swept and gar nished places with nothing but good will. Then shall send out my wish in the hope that you may realize it to the full. If you will place your mind and heart in the same condition, wholly free from ill-will, wholly filled with good will, the Good Will wish will reach the Good Will Mind and heart, and the receiving re-ceiving heart will be as merry and as happy as the wishing heart. The wish will be realized. ' It is just as simple as that, and as true as anything in God's universe. A merry heart means merriness, and a happy heart means happiness, and nothing but merriment merri-ment and happiness can dwell in the pure vivifying vivify-ing atmosphere of Good Will. Try this simple formula. Help me to make this Yuletide wish come true. Valve World. When the Doorway of 1947 swung open, I hope you all walked through it to a year of abundance, peace, health and prosperity. " O. B. Joyful The Writers' Corner Contributions to the Corner are all original writings of local who extend a cordial invitation to all who wish to write, or P'&se 8re now WTiting, to send in some of their work. Both poetry and e used for publication if you desire, hut real name must accom- Pany au Manuscripts. We invite writings of youngsters as well. A LITTLE BOY'S LOVE KTedheF down almost at At f ; et- Vshe looked as a she was aaaWgbump 1 on top of her head. I A't her In own? eyes a beau-ti-ful Hi Sthe luckIest kid in this er W- , Vi Vs 80 soft j'est like siik nnks her milk. hTer,st every Place I go think she is some-thin swell to show. Her ribs look jest a little caved in, But I think I can bring 'em back out ag'in. All she needs is a bone or two; Maybe a piece of steak would do. I could give her half of mine Slip it in my pocket at dinner time. Once I tried to git her some cream, Dropped the jar and spilled the whole thing. Was my ma mad! Said, "take her, go sit on a log"! Gee, I sure love this cute little dog. ' Mrs. Theo. Pierson. Two Telephones Installed at Cedar Valley Two telephones have been installed in-stalled at Cedar Valley during the last three weeks, it is announced by Robert B. Leishman, district manager of the telephone company. One phone has been installed in an outdoor booth by Chamberlain's store, with an extension inside the building to receive calls, and the other is at the T. William Hacking home. Messenger service has been provided at both lines, Mr. Leishman Leish-man stated. This installation climaxes a project of three years' duration, a period of scarcity of materials, and was completed upon arrival of needed wire and fittings. The new line required three and a half miles of heavy copper-clad wire, Mr. Leishman said- Members of Utah's 27th Legis. lature moved into the business of lawmaking this week on Capitol Hill, while mulling over in the back of their minds the broad legislative program outlined by Gov. Herbert B. Maw in his general message. The Republican party for the first time in nearly a decade and a half is holding a major position in the Utah Legislature, and its over whelming majority in the House combined with a Democratic ma jority of only one vote in the Sen. ate, will determine the success or failure of the administration's pro gram. Cognizant of this fact, Governor Maw in the opening paragraphs of his address declared: "The people through their votes have divided the control of the two houses between their major political politi-cal parties. The responsibility for what is accomplished by this legislature, legis-lature, therefore, must be equally borne by both groups. This divided di-vided control can prove to be highly beneficial if the two houses will work harmoniously with each other for the general good, and if the legislature will permit the executive execu-tive branch of the government to cooperate with it in all instances where cooperation will be helpful or beneficial." On the whole the Governor's message mes-sage may be viewed as an economic security program. Major proposals in his program included: Agriculture First, creation of a non-partisan board, financed by a $1,0UU,UUU revolving iuna, 10 facilitate construction of small dams and reservoirs. Secondly, federal aid in construction of the Central Utah water and power pro- ject and an appropriation of $150,-000 $150,-000 to enable the state to employ experts to study ifid to protect the state's water rights on the Green and Colorado Rivers. , This latter program to be carried out in connection con-nection with the division of these river waters by Upper Basin States Compact Commission. Livestock Industry Additional financial support for livestock shows, large scale research in poultry poul-try and livestock diseases, control of predatory animals, agricultural research, research into supplementary supplemen-tary range grasses, fire control and soil conservation, plus studies into the advisability into the establish ment of meat and wool processing Dlants in the state. Mining and Manufacturing Amend Utah's taxation and regu latorv laws to encourage manufac turing enterprises to locate plants in Utah to process the state's raw materials. Tourist Industry Retention of the State Department of Publicity and Industrial Development for promotion of a more than $70,000,-000 $70,000,-000 tuorist industry in Utah. Roads Increase from 4 to 6 cents per gallon in tax on gasoline for a period of five years to initiate a 20-vear $275,000,000 road pro- cram at a minimum rate of $13,- 760.000 annually, to include $93, 000.000 in federal funds. ( lhis pro. BTam. outlined by lederal ana state engineers at the governor's request, covers only construction, recon ctmrt.ion and maintenance of the state svstm.) In addition, th governor urged amendment of present motor fuel tax laws so as to place same tax liability on interstate truckers as is now borne by intrastate truckers. Welfare Repeal of county property pro-perty taxes for welfare purposes to offset increased gasoline tax. (This would reduce assessments on homes, farms and other real property 5 mills in most counties and more than 3 mills in all counties.) Amendment of public welfare law whereby a welfare client's home "owned and occupied by him, and the lot on which it stands," may be the only real property disregarded in determining his public assistance grant. To allow the state to take liens on mortgaged property where monthly installments paid by th recipient, are included in state relief re-lief grants and are considered as capital expenditures by the welfare department. Centennial Immediate appro priation of $861,500 to cover Cen- A new adult education course, sponsored by the Parent-Teachers Association and the Alpine School District, will begin Wednesday, January 2 at 7:30 p.m. in the high school building, it is announced by Jeanne C. Jackson, adult education educa-tion supervisor. The course, which will be held each Wednesday for 8 to 10 weeks, is "The Family Rediscovers Itself" and "Family Fun," conducted by Edna Shelley Walker, formerly with the state department of adult education. The classes are free of charge, and are open to everyone interested. Some of the subjects to be cov ered in the course are: "Youth in the uncertain world," "Why an increase in divorce?", "Your Fam ily is your fortune," "Prospects for the future," and "Fun with the family in playing games, winter sports, serving foods, reading, drama, music, celebrating special occasions, and hobbies. Mrs. Jackson also announces that the sewing classes, being held on Monday evenings, will end this month, and a new sewing course will be given beginning in Febru ary. The former course has been free of charge, and some twenty women have brought their indi vidual sewing problems for assist ance from Mrs. Marcielle Hawkins Skinner, instructor. The first course has proven so popular that the new series will be given, and a small fee of $3.00 will be charged for the twelve-week period, amounting to 25 cents per class period. Membership will be limited to fifteen, and registration may be made with Mrs. Odell Peck, PTA president. . Mrs. Jackson points out that the classes will be devoted to individ ual sewing problems, and profes sional advice and assistance will be given. . Fire Damages Local Cleaning Plant In Flash Fire Saturday, $6500 Loss Lehi March Of Dimes Drive Begins The 1947 MARCH OF DIMES annual fund-raising drive of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis which sparkplugs the never-ceasing battle against polio, will be held JANUARY 15 to 30, it was announced today by Alex, Jameson, Lehi representative of the Foundation, The need for funds, Mr. Jameson said, has never been greater, since the nation just emerged from the worst epidemic of polio in the his tory of the National foundation In a flash fire which swept the cleaning room at Fashion Cleaners plant on Main Street Saturday afternoon, the entire west addition to the building which housed the cleaning equipment and filters was destroyed, with complete loss of equipment in the addition and smoke damage to the rest of the walls in the rear of the building. Loss is estimated by Clyde McKay, owner of the business, at $6500. All was covered by insurance, he said. 95 per cent of the clothing in the plant was saved without damage. Wayne Carson, who was operating operat-ing the cleaning machinery at the time, said a light bulb, burning above the washing machine, seemed to literally burst, a flame pouring from the inside, igniting the fumes from the cleaning solvent. Instant- for Infantile Paralysis, founded inj the room was in flames. Run Leah McKinney, Myrtle Ericksen and Norma Wilkinson went to Relief Society union meeting in Lehi Sunday. session; urged great-care be exercised exer-cised in deciding on advisability of purchasing Bushnell hospital property; pro-perty; requested study of the State Prison situation, and suggested adoption of retirement plan for state, county and city employes. While the governor agreed with the Utah Association of County officials as to the need for eliminating elimin-ating county property taxes for welfare purposes, he failed to touch on the subject o fcity and county participation in state liquor profits, a proposal urged by both the county coun-ty officials association and the Utah Municipal League. The governor touched but briefly the State Tax Study Committee's Droeram which is exxpected to re ceive a great deal of attention during dur-ing the session. This committee will -recommend a $3,800,000 tax reduction to be attained through $700,000 reduction in the pro perty tax for roads and streets; a $1,300,000 reduction m proetrty tax for welfare purposes (as proposed) by the governor) ' and a $1,800,008 reduction in unemployment compensation com-pensation tax. These reductions would be offset partially by $1,000,000 to be added through tax equalization for school purposes to the B and C road fund and Sl.999.000 additional to De oo tained through an increased mark- ud in liauor prices. A lenirthv incurance code has been prepared for submission by an interim legislative insurance otudv committee, while other in terim committees expected to report re-port are the Bushnell study com-mitttee, com-mitttee, set up by the special session ses-sion last August; the Legislative Budget Committee, whose work was suspended December 8, 1945, through lack of funds; the committee commit-tee to study racial discrimination and the Colorado River committee. It is interesting to note that the broad and varied legislative program pro-gram will be in the hands of a group of lawmakers experienced in all phases of everyday life. For instance, in the Senate are four lawyers, three educators, four farmers, two dairymen, two power officials, two businessmen, an insurance in-surance man, a merchandise broker, a minicipal employe, a druggist, a banker and an ex-publisher. Still more representative of the people are the members of the House where the membership is composed of five farmers, seven student veterans, 1938 to spearhead and coordinate the battle against the dread disease. "United States Public Health Service figures show", Mr. Jameson Jame-son said, "that the 1946 polio epidemic epi-demic is second only in severity to the great epidemic of 1916, the worst in recorded history." "The National Foundation also spend millions of dollars during 1946 in medical scientific research to trace the cause of infantile paralysis, par-alysis, Mr. Jameson explained. "It will continue to do so until the cause is discovered and conquered," he said "The people of Lehi, in common with Americans everywhere , Mr, Jameson went on, "have been most generous in the past in supporting the fight against infantile paralysis through the March of Dimes. Indi cations are that they will be even more generous this year because they know that this fight is their fight. They realize that the March of Dimes is. their best insurance against polio-and that the battle will go on in the laboratory until final victory is won and infantile paralysis joins" the other great scourges of mankind unmasked and disarmed by knowledge. "The annual MARCH OF DIMES, Mr. Jameson concluded, "is the only means the National Foundation has for financing its battle against infantile paralysis." o The stake Gold and Green Ball will be held February 15, it is an nounced by stake Y.W.M.I.A. pres ident Thelma Webb. A queen and two attendants are to be selected from each ward. The Lehi stake M.I.A. play, "It Shall Keep Thee," written by Na than and Ruth Hale, will be pre sented Saturday, January 25 in the stake tabernacle. It is being directed direct-ed by Helen G. Jones and Arnold Brems of the Third ward, and has been chosen by the M.I.A. as their Centennial play. o ning to the back exit, he was bar red by the hot blaze, and he hastily made his way to another door, where he escaped. He received burns about the head. All the other employees were in the front of the building except Miss Mary Boyer, who was beside the back window, and was able to get to the outside door with safety. The others, Mrs. Henry Worthen, Mrs. Viola Brown and Mrs. C. S. McKay, were in the finishing department, de-partment, and were able to move most of the clothing from the building before smoke from the fire soiled it. Most of it required only repressing. The city fire department arrived in full force within three minutes, and in a short time had the fire out, playing four streams of water into the building .from both sides of the structure. Examination of the equipment in the finishing rooms at the front of the building showed that it was only, soiled from smoke, and is undamaged. un-damaged. The cleaning machinery will be replaced, Mr. McKay said. Further examination disclosed that, only fumes from the solvent were burned; 200 gallons of solvent in the washers and 600 gallons in storage tanks were left intact, despite the blaze above it. This would not have been the case if a highly volatile solvent such as naptha gas or even ordinary gasoline gaso-line was being used, Mr. McKay stated. The solvent in use is of a high flash-point type, requiring a high temperature for ignition, he said, and is non-explosjve. Had it been explosive, hardly any of the walls of the building, nor of the building adjacent, would be intact, he said. Reconversion of the plant was begun almost immediately, and "business as usual" was resumed by the middle of the week. Extensive Exten-sive remodeling will be done in the near future, Mr. McKay announced. Lions Circus Scheduled February 1 The 4th Annual Lions Circus will be held Saturday, Feb. 1 in the high school gym, it is announced by Stanley M. Taylor, publicity chairman. Wane E. Christensen is general chairman, with the following follow-ing committees: J. Maiben Stephenson, Ste-phenson, tickets and finance; Eldon A. Harding, concessions; George T. Strasburg, building and properties; W. L. Worlton, program; Ferd Evans, refreshments. Proceeds will be used for civic betterment, Mr. Taylor stated. Proceeds from the three previous years have gone toward the service serv-ice plaque now being constructed. Tickets will be on sale from Lion members. fair field VettA Don Whimpey and Boyd Holm-stead Holm-stead were our Sacrament meeting speakers Sunday. lawvers. two tennial Commission budget. ($500,-1 three educators, two dairymen, 14 000 of this amount would be set up in revolving fund and probably would be returnable from fees received re-ceived at special centennial events.) Other recommendations by the governor favored approval of his State Veterans Advisory Council report to be submitted during the businessmen, four railroad men, one former wave, four housewives, one real estate man, one plumbing contractor, two government employes, em-ployes, one gardner, one engineer, eight livestock men, one labor leader, lead-er, one coal mine operator, one office clerk and a mortician. Darrel Carson, son of Mr. and Mrs. Elvin Carson, was awarded a box of chocolates by the Sunday School Superintendent, Reed Carson, Car-son, last Sunday for having the best attendance during the year. Mr. and Mrs. George Carson (Melba Turner) are proud parents of a baby boy, born Jan. 12 at the Lehi hospital. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Carson have received word of the birth of a grandchild, a boy, born Jan. 7, to Mr .and Mrs. Duane Shepherd (Grace Carson) of Alpine. New Sunday School Officers Ray O. Walker has been named superintendent of the Fifth ward Sunday School, with Alva Ralph Wing and Paul K. Peterson, assistants. assist-ants. The retiring superintendency are Wane E. Christensen, superintendent superin-tendent and Ellis Sorenson, assistant. assist-ant. Glen Royle, also former assistant as-sistant to Supt. Christensen, re signed several weeks ago to attend dental college. Ila Wing was re tained as secretary. Mrs. Truman Carson has been enjoying a visit with her sister, Winnie, who is down from Rath-drum, Rath-drum, Idaho. The Trailbuilders of the Primary entertained the Homebuilders at their "Red Letter Day" at an ice skating party at the Sinks". Afterwards After-wards the group had a hot chili supper at the home of their leader, Leatha Carson. Harry Carson is suffering from a sprained ankle he got while playing play-ing basketball Thursday night Ralph DuBois i3 home convalescing convales-cing after a week spent in the American Fork hospital with pneumonia. pneu-monia. 4 |