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Show Utah Press stocUtion t Third South 467 Salt Lake City, Ut, 84 III Vol. 1 Thursday. December No. 47 15iy)O0n)(i)OOAn)Inl t r 6, 1979 15' Single Copy faF(oJ(ol j A woman who purchased over $2,000 worth of goods from Christensen's Wholesale, 151 E. State, Lehi, Friday has been apprehended and charged with two second degree felonies, Lehi Patrolman Kerry Evans said Tuesday. Anne The woman, Alligood of Mountain Home, was arrested and charged with purchasing with a goods from Christensen's worthless check. f Two previous check fraud attempts -one at Patrick Dry Goods in Salt Lake and the other at Christensen's in Lehi -are also being investigated. Police say a woman made off with merchandise totaling over $6,500 in those two actions - all paid for with worthless checks. Each time, the woman allegedly paid for her purchase with a check from a banking account in a distant city. Friday's check was drawn from a bank in Duchesne, while police Stay a false account from a Heber bank Farn-swort- fif If ' y . -- Try Q ' was used in one of the earlier purchases. According to Laurell Dalton, a clerk at Christensen's, a woman entered the Lehi store Friday afternoon and picked out some small appliances, baby equipment, watches and material. Then the woman wrote a check to cover the purchase. "What made me suspicious," said Mrs. Dalton, "was that the check was not printed with the business's name and address." The customer explained that her's was a new business and she hadn't yet received her printed checks. What compounded the suspicion, however, was that the customer also said she had no identification, saying her purse had been stolen recently After the woman left, the clerk showed the check to store manager George Christensen who then called the bank. The bank reported that the check was useless, said Mrs. Dalton. As luck would have it, a highway patrolman was parked outside Christensen's store and the manager first alerted him to the situation. The h . Santa Claus Schedules LEHI POLICE CHIEF Berl Peterson and Patrolman Kerry Evans inventory goods totaling over $2,1 300 recovered last Friday in connection Musical To Begin Wednesday At LHS The first presentation of "Fiddler on 4heJReof" by the Lehi Higfc School will be Wednesday evening, Dec. 12. Curtain time will be 7:30 p.m. and tickets are available in advance for $1.50 or $2 at the door. The production will also be staged on Friday and Saturday evenings, Dec. 14 and 15. For those desiring to purchase their tickets in advance this can be done by 5 between 8:15 and 11:15 calling a.m. and 12:45 and 1:45 p.m. each school day. A family ticket may be purchased for $10 if obtained in advance. All seats are reserved. Tickets are also available at Wasatch Bank, State Bank of Lehi, Lehi Drug and the Lehi Free Press Office. The musical is in two acts and was adapted from the stories of Sholom Aleichem and written by Joseph Stein, with music by Jerry Bock and lyrics by Sheldon Harnick. The action takes place in Anatevka, an impoverished peasant town in Tsarist Russia, populated largely by g Jewish families. Meet Tevye, the dairyman - a pious man who has raised five daughters with the aid of quotations from the scriptures, most of which he invents himself . The people of Anatevka are simple and close to the earth. They hear little news of the outside world, and their lives are laws and governed strictly by age-oltraditions. Yente, the matchmaker, goes to Tevye's home to tell his wife Golde that the town's wealthiest citizen, Lazar Wolf, the butcher, wants to marry their oldest daughter, Tzeitel. Golde is delighted at the prospects of such a good catch for her daughter, despite the fact that the butcher is vulgar and as old as Tevye. Although Tevye is poor, he desires his daughters to grow up learned in the ways of the Good Book. He offers a young student and aspiring social reformer Perchik to give lessons to his daughters in exchange for food. Tevye meets Lazar Wolf at the local inn and agrees to let the old butcher marry his oldest daughter if he promises to keep her in comfort. While they are celebrating, news is brought that orders have been received for a demonstration to be held against all Jews in the district. While her father is offering her hand 768-907- hard-workin- e rrt I rtt r "SO YOU'RE FINALLY UP, MY BREADWINNER", says Golde, played by Donalyn Nielsen, as she scolds her husband Tevye, played by Carl Dastrup, for his late night drinking. Scene is from the Lehi High School presentation of "Fiddler On The Roof". Show will open next Wednesday evening, December 12, at 7:30 p.m. in the Lehi High School Auditorium. Advance tickets may be purchased at the school. Other showings will be on Friday and Saturday evenings, The jolly old elf with the bewhiskered face and the bright red suit will arrive : in Lehi Friday evening to flip the switch "that will illuminate Main Street with myriads of Christmas lights. He will head the annual Christmas ' Parade which preludes the Christmas -i liehtinsz . ceremony. The parade is Scheduled to begin at 6 p.m. Santa wilP arrive in a mysterious air conveyance, but will transfer to the big Lehi fire truck to greet folks who line the streets for the parade. All parents are invited to bring their children to the parade that evening to get a glimpse of the jolly old man. Santa will return to Lehi on Dec. 15. He will greet the little children and listen to their Christmas lists from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. He will find out at this time the conduct of the children and if they have more stars than black marks by their names. The Memorial Building will be Santa's headquarters for this visit. h j patrolman notified the Lehi Police and then took off in pursuit of the woman. Lehi Police Chief Berl Peterson said the suspect was apprehended by Duchesne police about 6 p.m. Friday at a roadside cafe. In her possession they found all of the merchandise, as well as the receipt she received from Christensen's. Discussing the incident, Chief Peterson said, "Sometimes luck has an awful lot to do with police work. This time we all just happened to be in the police station to receive the call and He credits the begin working." recovery and apprehension to the quick action of the Christensen's employees and what he called the excellent assistance of the Duchesne police. Also crediting the arrest to luck, Evans said if the woman had not stopped at the cafe, she might not have been apprehended. "It was important for us to apprehend her with the goods in her truck, which we did," he said. Police said the suspect was formally charged and then released. Police also note that the suspect herself owns a store in Altamont. City Delays Vote On Fire Contract Lehi Trip with check fraud. ln)(Sfc FT(oy(ol otfln) Lehi City will have to wait for a little while before accepting the Fire Protection Agreement between Lehi City and Utah County and it's ac- companying $38,1)00 revenue, fhe Vote deciding whether the city will enter into the agreement with the county was delayed at Tuesday's City Council meeting due to some ambiguity City Attorney Kenneth Ashton feels exists in the present agreement. He told city officials he would bring the matter to the attention of country officials and report the outcome to them. JoAnn Brown said acceptance of the agreement was almost certain after the wording was cleared Coun-cilwom- up-Cit- officials approved the sale of Electric Revenue Bonds for the purpose i f of construction of a power transmission lines, associated equipsub-statio- n, ment and administrative costs Tuesday.- Officials said the total cost of ,, ' the "newproject would probably be $600,000.-- ' ; ' Rushton said after the meeting, the revenue bond would not affect taxes in Lehi. The sale of another revenue bond, this one for sewer and water property ' and equipment storage area, was tabled. Mayor K. Blaine Singleton said he felt such a bond was inevitable, but it was now premature to consider the matter. Call it a sign of commercial strength or a sign of inflation, but City Councilman John Haws said it had become (Continued on Page 2) s(i c December 14 and 15. d Make-It-With-Wo- ol to Lazar Wolf, Tzeitel is promising her own hand to a meek and poor tailor named Motel. They inform Tevye of their plans and at first he is shocked that they have broken the tradition that the father chooses the husband for the daughter. However, he realizes their love is deep and gives his blessing. In order to convince his wife that his daughter should not marry the butcher, he pretends to have had a nightmare in which the grandmother of Golde comes and informs him not to let Tzeitel marry Lazar Wolf. Golde is very superstitious and agrees to her marriage to Motel. As a result, the age-ol- d tradition begins to break down. At the wedding the police break in and begin smashing wedding presents and furnishing. Tevye, for the first time, has no suitable quotation from the scriptures but simply looks up to God for some explanation. (Continued on Page 2) d Contest Monday 3 Art Cook Receives Conservation Award 5 Lehi Light Works Catches Christmas Spirit 5 You Better Believe It 6 Lehi Debators Place Third 8 Vocational Carpentry Class Gives Experience 9 Pioneers Win In Double Tourney 10 Indoor Sports Provide Winter Fun 11 Hearings On Geneva Start Today 15 Free Press Letters To Santa 16 Gift 0 Rama Drawing Set For Saturday The first Gift O Rama giveaway will be held Saturday at the bank parking lot at 1 p.m. Winners need not be present to win. An exciting array of Christmas gifts will be given away with Miss Lehi, Sandy Nielsen, drawings the lucky tickets from the huge drum. Tickets may be obtained from most Lehi merchants when a one dollar purchase is made. Sign your tickets and deposit them in the containers which are on display in each participating store. Members of the Gift O Rama committee will deposit the tickets in the huge drum to be thoroughly mixed and stirred before the drawing. The drawings will be held each Saturday until Christmas. Names of winners who are not present at the drawings will be posted in participating stores, and will be listed in the local paper. Layne Swenson is chairman of the Gift O Rama project. Lehi's Chamber of Commerce has sponsored the Gift O Rama each year since the forties in an effort to generate more excitement, happiness and unity for the city's citizens and businesses. The project is also an incentive to entice shoppers to stay at home and spend their dollars with their local merchants. A tempting array of holiday merchandise is on display in all Lehi stores and can be purchased at modest and fair prices from friendly and caring clerks. New Chamber of Commerce Officers Guy Cash, Marie Hutchings and Russell Innes. Business Leaders Elect Chamber Of Commerce Heads Chamber of Commerce board members were elected recently and new officers were named after a Monday morning business meeting. Russell E. Innes, local businessman, was elected to serve as president for the 1980 year. Guy Cash will be with Marie Hutchings as secretary. Outgoing officers are Layne Swenson, president, and Connie Nielsen, secretary. t, Newly elected board members are: Larry Baum, David Broadbcnt, DeVere Fowler, Melvin Hartshorn, John Hadfield, Cleon Leany, Mac Powell and Bert Snow. Holdover directors are Connie Nielsen, Layne Swenson, Brent Larsen, David Penrod, Dale Ekins, Betty Fowler and Carol Hebertson. A membership drive will begin immediately according to Innes and committees will be named after memberships have been completed. The annual Christmas Gift O Rama is in full swing under the direction of Layne Swenson. Hundreds of dollars worth of gifts and prizes will be awarded during the Chamber sponsored promotion, reported Swenson. A Chamber of Commerce meeting is planned for December 1? at 7 p.m. in the lobby of the State Bank of Lehi. Innes is owner of Alpine Printing of Lehi. He formerly was owner and editor of the American Fork Citizen, Lehi Free Press and Alpine Publishing Company. He recently retired as newspaper owner and plans to devote all the time necessary to make the Chamber of Commerce a vital force in Lehi's social and economic structure. Guy Cash, the new purchased Western Auto Store last year and has since expanded and stocked a variety of new merchandise. He operates the store with his wife, Mary Ellen. t, Marie Hutchings, secretary, with her husband, Harold, own and operate Hutch's, an appliance and sporting goods store on Lehi's Main Street. The Hutchings are long time Lehi boosters. Harold is now serving as Curator of the famed John Hutchings Museum. |