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Show fke PPer That UaS More iVetcs That's Interesting, With The Features You Like to Read Brought Sunshine Into lehi Homes Since 1914 I Lehi Public Library LINKING LEHI'S PAST AND PRESENT - LOOKING FORWARD TO THE FUTURE i LEIII, UTAH, THURSDAY, MARCH 13, 1947 NUMBER 35 yy AH V-1 Retiring State Presidency Are Honored After Nineteen rears 01 bervice Honoring the retiring stake ir2ency, A. C. Schow, Rodney n ....j virp-il H. Peterson, and Herman v. - - me stake presidency as sectary sec-tary a program was held in the Lrn'acle Monday evening, with capacity crowd of stake members jj attendance. The new stake president, Herman Her-man C Goates, presided at the opening, and Harold W. Barnes offered the prayer, after which president Goates turned the remainder re-mainder of the program over to Raymond Stewart, who headed the committee on arrangements. Miss Kathryn Brown sang two joios, accompanied by Miss Norene Felt, and a string trio, composed jf Mrs. Raymond T. Bailey, Paul Barrett and Miss Ellison of American Amer-ican Fork played two selections. A solo "My Faith in Thee", was sung by Harold Fox, accompanied by his iaughter, Phyllis. Following an original tribute to the retiring officers in poetry, read by Mrs. Noy Christof ferson, President Pres-ident Schow, President Allred and President Peterson and their wives were presented with electric mantel mant-el clocks. Armond E. Webb and Frank Jones, counselors to the new president, then presented President Goates and his wife with an ident ical clock in behalf of his service as clerk. Response from each oj the four retiring officers followed. The closing numbers were a piano pi-ano and saxaphone number, and two readings by three young women wom-en of Provo. Dancing in the high school gym followed, with music furnished by Carter's 7 piece orchestra. State Bills Will Aid City Several bills in the legislature have been passed that will help Lehi City in its future, it is pointed out by Mayor Dean Pryor. Among them are: H. B. 20, which places a special improvement hens on an equal basis bas-is with property taxes. H. B. 58, enables cities owning their own water works to tie them in with a service rental fee and makes it possible to collect to collect col-lect both water and sewer rental fees on a monthly or other period basis, or discontinue water service. Liquor profits bill, will give to Lehi if present rate of sales con tinue about $500 for Public safety and health use, he concluded. Eleanor L Wright Passes After Long Illness Funeral services will be held Friday Fri-day at 1 p.m. in the Fourth ward chapel for Mrs. Eleanor Louise C. Wright, who died at her home Sunday at 9 p.m. following an illness ill-ness of six weeks. She was born in England and came to the United States when a child, spending her childhood at Payson. She had lived in Lehi 29 years, and served as a Relief Society Soc-iety teacher in the Fourth ward. Her husband, Samuel Wright, died 15 years ago. , She is survived by six daughters and three sons: Mrs. Bert Wright, St Anthony, Idaho; Mrs. Samuel Clark and Mrs. Vern Ambrose, American Fork; Thea, Louise, Frank and Dan Wright of Lehi; and Robert W. Wright of Rapid City, South Dakota; six brothers, W. R. Cottrell, Salt Lake City; Bert, Fred and Ernest Cottrell and Mrs. Saida Taylor and Mrs. Hazel Olsen, of San Diego, California; Chet and Mont Cottrell, Los Angeles, Ang-eles, Calif, Mrs. Bessie Ballard, Ogden; Mrs. Hilda Keetley and Mrs. Gladys Blanchard, Victor, Idaho; Id-aho; and a half brother, Fred Wright of San Francisco, Calif. Burial will be in the Salt Lake I City Cemetery. FLIES IN SEARCH OF SIGHT Keep. Similim by O. B. Joyful SCRIPT NO. 75 If we want to be happy, we must pursue hap- piness, not pleasure. And the measure of a happy in is his ability to be tough with himself and lender with others. . ' - "Reader's Digest It's all right to have a train of thought if you tee a terminal. , The man who loses his enthusiasm is out of the race. He who gives back at first repulse and with-striking with-striking a second blow, is not. and never will k a hero in war, love or business. ' Tudor Lesson in Logic The only way to divide more is to produce sore. - , .,. The 6nly way, to produce more is to work more. Never in history have we in America had more manpower, skills, materials, money, tools, ideas to work with.....and a ereater future to work for. THE MANTLE OF RESPONSIBILITY The people Of this nnimtrv tiavfl reawakened to the realization that we have the world's highest standard of living,, not by mere chance, but be-tt"se be-tt"se We have built upon the foundation of free etrprise. Recent developments indicate that we "c turning to the original concept of a free ,10n, a land in which man may rise as high as !!andhis skill will permit. Now that we are regaining this freedom, the' mantle of responsibility for providing high employment employ-ment and maintaining and expanding standards of living will again rest upon the shoulders of private industry. If free enterprise is to flourish, industry must succeed in fulfilling these obligations. obligat-ions. And a large measure of its success will de pend on its ability to distribute the products of the factory, the forest and the farm, economically, efficiently and intelligently, so that more people may enjoy more of the good things of life. Harvey S. Firestone, Jr. PUT-OFF TOWN "Did you ever go to Put-Off Town ' Where the houses are old and tumbledown, And everything tarries and everything drags, With dirty streets and people in rags ? On the street called Slow lives old man , Wait, And his two little boys named Linger and Late, With unclean hands and tousled hair And a naughty sister named Don't Care. Did you ever go to Put-Off Town To play with the little girls, Fret and Frown. Or go to the home of old man Wait And whistle for his boys to come to the gate ? To play ball all day on Tarry Street Leaving your errands for other street, To stop, or shirk, or linger, or frown, Is the nearest way to this Put-Off Town. Unknown O. B. Joyful. The Write? ' Corner Contributions to the Corner are all original writings of local Wple. We extend a cordial invitation to all who wish to write, ttfto are now writing, to send in some of tlieir work. Both and prose are acceptable, but must be limited to 500 words, en name may be used for publication if you desire, but real ,me m" accompany all manuscripts. We invite writings of Asters as well. BREAD UPON THE WATERS Tfcen 6 s a red cross in her window jjj. VV1 -iuh3 in ner wii J a dollar placed it there; r ner it paints a picture dreams in her easy chair. fe knows that little sticker s with yours and mine, S.;, t0 some broken life hPe that's big and fine. , Agio11 emMem of sweet mercy on her window pane, IttoJf S 0Ut a ray of sunshine Wring's cold rain. w'lt0Fher heart comes stealing Wen that friendly sun Of J, "ng there the sweetness rve gladly done there. ro. Becausg cross in your window Uemi. fyU want to share Vnfi0!rnes and the heartache ghbor needs must bear? th. ... ,Cross in yur window in vnbread upon the waters,' ,ou note a brother's need. AN ODE TO MT. TEMP As I gaze out my window at this. prand old peak, I wonder why travelers go far to The beauties of nature in other lands When majestic Mt Timp is so near at hand. ; It stands like a guardian o'er valleys val-leys below And soothes the parched fields from its storehouse of snow. In summer it's dressed in rare shades of green Which change at eve to' a purple sficen. In autumn its coat is like Joseph's of Old In a blend of colors as red, green and sold. In winter it's robed in shimmering A vision to behold on a moonlit When spring smiles again on that ornn A old peak, ., rfpar traveler, to find jKJ UICi u-hat vou seek- Mrs. Theo Pierson Show Cover Far Above Average on High Elevations I DAI , i fcvCV - : . ' , v - i- fit ' I if i Lri U I f : r . I ' ' ; -V; I 1 -f i y L ? " :rni 4 k Kl 1 pL ;klL:A- -'y i ; J Thomas and Ray Kirkham Will Represent Lehi on Historical Nauvoo Trek BLINDED BY A BLOW on his head two years ago, Guillermo Gonzalez de Victoria, 14, is led from a plane by bis mother on bis arrival in New York from Colombia, South America. After the mayor of the boy's hometown became interested in his case, two airlines cooperated to fly him north so he could consult famous Manhattan specialists. (International) Former School Teacher Has Unique Job Miss Florence - Adams from Provo, former tesu-iier in the Lehi grade schools, with the Public rel ations office, GHQ-FEC, discusses the English Language with Mr. Joe T. Hirakawa, originator and conductor of the Radio Program "English Conversation," during her appearance on the broadcast during February. The program, broadcast over station JOAK, Tokyo, To-kyo, Japan, strives to explain the English language to the Japanese listening public. Miss Adams was previously as signed to the GHQ Special News Service before her promotion to the Radio and Pictorial Section, Gen eral MacArthur's Headquarters in Tokyo. Her new duties include many interesting assignments. In terviewing service men over the microphone for Home Town Radio Release, contacting people for Ra dio work, distributing spot news pictures, along with her appearance appear-ance over the Radio Station JOAK are among her , many activities with the Occupational Force in Japan. , City Receives Sewer Map From Engineer TAKING BASIC TRAINING The snow survey in American Fork canyon on March 1st re leased yesterday by Thomas A, Walker, custodian of the Timp- anogos Cave National Monument shows that this season's total percipitation from Oct. 1 to March 1, is far above any other year on record. At the Tunpanogos Divide, ele vation 8,300 feet, there were 76.38 inches of snow compared with 49 inches on the same date last year, and a 13 year average of 63.68 inches. At Altamount, elevation ele-vation 7,300 feet, there are 52.1 inches of snow, compared to 36.6 last year and a 13 year average ofl 43.82 inches. Water content at the higher level is 26.23 inches and at Altamount 15.08 inches. Percipitation from October to March at the Divide was 27.76 inches compared with ' 17.56 inches compared with 17.56 inch es for the same period last year and an average of 21.33 for a 10 year period. The snow cover, the survey shows, is above normal everywhere above the 6,500 level and below that point is below, normal. With the heavy snow fall over Sunday and Monday added to the above figures there need be no worry over the summer's water supply. Pvt. Boyd D. Wilkin, 17, son of Mrs. Rose J. Wilkin is taking an 8 week basic training course at Ford Ord, California, according to a news release received from army public relations office. Pvt. Wilkin is a member of Company A, 57th Replacement Training Battalion. He was a student at the Lehi High school prior to his enlistment for an 18 month period. Dr. T. C. Adams, engineer re tained by Lehi City, to design ard plan the sanitary sewer, met with the Mayor and City Council In a special council meeting last week. Dr. Adams displayed a tentative mapping plan, showing areas that should be serviced with the present residential count large enough to be economically feasiible. Some ar eas are marginal, that is, if a high percentage of the homes were con nected it could and would be included. in-cluded. Some areas right now do not have enough prospective sewer rental hookups to make it possible to include them at present. Later as they build up, extensions can be made. Mr. Pickett of the State Board of Health was also present and passed on to the council methods and procedures that may be followed fol-lowed in overcoming some problems prob-lems of control and financing. The finance committee with councilmen Gam Holbrook and Ferrin Gurney were assigned to investigate and report a plan for carrying out a campaign for initial payment fees and other related matters at the next regular meet ing, Tuesday, March 11. The entire group expressed themselves as favoring intensive work and all speed possible to get the program underway this summer. FIFTH WARD BANQUET PLANNED A banquet has been scheduled for Thursday, March 27 for all members of the Fifth ward, it is announced by Bishop Warren Goates. Proceeds will go toward the ward's welfare assignment. Committees are to be chosen to make arrangements for the affair. HOME NURSING CLASS VISITS TRAINING SCHOOL The Red Cross Home Nursing and Eugenics class of the Lehi high school made a field trip to the state training school at Am erican Fork Wednesday. The group of 70 senior girls were accompanied by their instructors, Miss Alice Dixon and Mrs. Mabel Jones. They participated in a clinic clin-ic and discussion of types of patients pat-ients being cared for at the institution, insti-tution, the obligation of society toward to-ward them and their needs. Funeral Services Today For 18 Month Old Child Lehi will be well represented in the Nauvoo Trek scheduled this coming July, for two of her native sons, both brothers, have been cho sen to make the trip. Thomas Franklin Kirkham of this city received re-ceived his call to go, and was later informed that his brother, Raymond Ray-mond Lee Kirkham of North Hollywood Hol-lywood has been chosen to repres ent his camp of the Sons of the Utah Pioneers on the trek. The latter lat-ter was chosen at a recent charter meeting of the camp. The sons of Utah Pioneers Caravan Car-avan will depict the original Pioneer Pion-eer Train of Brigham Young. To prepare this caravan, "Covered Wagon" tops are being manufactured manufact-ured in Salt Lake City which will be shipped to Nauvoo where a firm has been engaged to install the slipovers to the cars, thus to be as nearly as possible representative of the original "Covered Wagon". The Caravan will leave Nauvoo July 14th and arrive in Salt Lake City July 24th. On the journey stops will be made at all the places Brigham Young's train stopped, as follows: Nauvoo, 111., Montrose, Iowa; Garden Grove, Iowa; Mt Pisgah, Iowa; Council Bluffs, Iowa; Win ter Quarters (Omaha), Neb.; Loup Fork River; Elkhorn River; Platte River; Grand Island, Neb.; North Platte, Neb.; Northport, Neb Scottsbluff, Neb.; Ft. Laramie, Wyo.; Independence Rock, Wyo.; Devil's Gate, Wyo.; Martin's Hoi low and Rock Creek (Scenes of Handcart tragedies), both in Wyo ming; Pacific Springs, Wyo.; South Pass, Wyo.; Ft Bridger, Wyo. T, F. Kirkham and R. L. Kirk ham sons of George and Sara Rus- son Kirkham and grandsons of George William Kirkham. ' Georere William Kirkham and his wife Mary Astington Kirkham left their native land, England, April 11, 1859 and with their four sons, James, George, Joseph and Hyrum crossed the ocean in the sailing vessel "William Tabscot" with the William Bell company of 725 saints. Arrived in New York May 13, 1859. Arrived in Florence, Nebraska, May 25, ,1859. Had to wait there for oxen and wagon. Crossed the plains with the Robert F. Neslen Company, arriving in Salt Lake Sept. 15, 1859. "Moved to Lehi, Utah, in the spring of 1860 where they spent their lives in helping to build up our city, making roads, building fences, assisting in rearing our public buildings, and otherwise passing through the trials of pion eer life and the hardships of the early days of Utah". History of Lehi. While crosing the plains Grand father Kirkham drove two yoke of oxen to which he gave the names, "Tom and Jerry, Buck and Berry". Once the company was surrounded by a prairie fire, the cattle stam peded. Twenty people were hurt, one killed. They met herds of buf falo and many bands of Indians. The two older boys, James and George walked most offthe journey over the plains; the two younger boys, Joseph and Hyrum, twins, being but babes. Upon arrival in Utah, the family settled first in Sugarhouse, and later moved to Lehi, Utah, to make their permanent home. In young manhood the four boys formed , the "Kirkham" Band" which became famous in the region round-about for their dance music. The Band consisted of Joseph, first Violin; James, second Violin; Hyrum, Hy-rum, piccolo; George, Bass fiddle. George did most of the prompting for quadrilles with James assisting. assist-ing. All of them sang. George Kirkham was the town's Comedian. His comic songs, done in character, and his stump speeches were the delight of the people of his day. He appeared a number of times on the stage of the Old Salt Lake Theatre. He was a member of the Salt Lake Tabernacle Taber-nacle Choir and went with them to the World's Fair in Chicago. A few years later he traveled all down through Utah lecturing on the Choir's trip, displaying pictures, and entertained with his comic songs and speeches. He took with him on this trip two little daugh ters, Leah and Maude, who also appeared in song. George Kirkham's natural Inclin ation was to art. On one Fourth of July Celebration a large portrait por-trait of Bishop Evans was desired by the decorations committee for the Old Meeting House. None could be found. So, George Kirkham drew a portrait for the occasion. This particular pencil drawing was an inspiration to the lad, James T. Harwood, who later be came the student of George Kirk ham to learn his first lessons in painting. One of the very earliest paintings of the Harwood boy now hangs in the home of T. F. Kirkham. Kirk-ham. George Kirkham's parents did not wish him to follow his art inclination so apprenticed him to an Architect, so he became an architect and builder. He worked at his trade in the St George and Salt Lake Temples. From scraps of liynber from the latter building he made two Center Tables each containing 472 pieces in the tops. artistically arranged with a picture of the Salt Lake Temple in the center. Many of the homes in Lehi were built by this man. He filled a mission to his native land, England and 12 of his posterity post-erity have also filled missions, a great grandson being now in the mission field. This group repre sents 33 years of mission service. Lena F. Shields Dies After Heart Attack Mrs. Lena F. Shields, 79, died Tuseday at her home at 3:30 a.m. of a heart ailment. Born December 6, 1867 in Germany, she came to America 58 years ago, and has lived in Lehi 20 years. She married J. E. Shielils, Dec. 23, 1894 in Cripple Creek, Colorado. Colo-rado. He died in 1943. She is survived by one daughter, Gladys L. Shields of this city. Funeral services will be held Saturday at 2 p.m. in the A. H. Wing mortuary chapel. Friends may call at the mortuary Saturday morning until time of services. Burial will be in' the Lehi ceme- tery. YOU'RE TELLING ME! Stanley Leon Milner, 18 months old son of the late Leon Milner and Mrs. Don Southwick, died in the Lehi hospital Tuesday at 1 a.m after a short illness. He was born August 27, 1945 at Provo. He is survived by his mother, Mrs. Barbara Payne Milner South wick, his step-father, Don Southwick, South-wick, a brother,. Robert S. Milner, a step-brother, Tracy Southwick, all of American Fork; and four grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Payne of Payson and Mr. and Mrs. Arnel Milner of Provo. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. today in the Provo Manavu ward chapel. Friends may call at the family home, 447 Harrison Avenue, American Fork until time of services. Burial will be in the Provo cemetery. By WILLIAM RITT Central Press Writer Meat Consumption Americans consume 50 pounds of meat daily. millioa HERE HE COMES! THERE HE GOESI 'SIR MALCOLM CAMP-BELL, CAMP-BELL, holder of the world's motorboat speed record, was cabbed by a London bobby and ' fined for driving bis car at 33-miles 33-miles per- To Sir Malcolm that wasn't speeding that was just idling along in low gear. ! ! ! Sir Malcolm is a restless tel low. He always wants to get trom where he is to some place else right now! I ! ! Campbell, incidentally, 'was' the first man ever to drive an ' automobile at better than 300 per which is a speed cop's nightmare. i ! ! In those davs Sir Malcolm' . " t. . wasai iruiy nappy wnen at ue than' ; 'wheel of a -car unless every 60 seconds saw him better five miles away from where he. had been just a minute before.! ' When" 'Sir Malcolm noticeii J that the speedboat record was aj mere 124 m, p. b he decided ' he needed some -nice. salt sea , air in a hurry. . J ! X So Campbell got behind the; wheel of a hot-shot canoe called, the Blue Bird II and reeled off a quick 141.74 per, which is still-the still-the world's water speed record t I J We don't know just what'atel ;Sir Malcolm's plans for the fn-j - ture but If he starts lookingj wistfully at the sky 'it's ouij advice to the jet plane" boys to ' stand aside and let a guy who ican reallv travel show 'em how,' Deon Mickel Beck |