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Show Free Press - Wednesday, January Chamber to install new officers letters to C the editor Lame duck officials shouldn't be able to vote Editor: There ought to be a law against g defeated elected officials from enacting, or acting on, any legislation which affects future government, without getting the input and recommendations of the newly elected officials who are going to replace them. It used to be common courtesy to invite the newly elected officials to sit in and become acquainted with their new position, so that a smooth transition could take place. Two oi" our county commissioners were defeated this past year, but they were very active and influential in enacting laws before they left office. after the election in Right November, they hurriedly pushed through the Traverse Ridge agreement and service district. They rushed into completing plans and bonding for the new state-count- y building complex. They worked on the 1987 budget, ignoring any outside suggestions. The public meeting was a farce. They voted to raise the salary of Dr. Miner, a cousin of Commissioner Miner, to $69,000 per year. A last minute agreement with Mountain Bell for an enhanced 911 emergency service took place just one hour before the new commissioners were sworn into office. Orem City is already providing a emergency service for Utah There is now a new County. enhanced system which will provide the address and telephone number of the person making the 911 emergency call so that the accuracy and response time can be shortened. Mountain Bell is proposing five stations throughout the county, manned by personnel on a seven-dabasis. This new system evidently cannot be put into service for two years, but we will be paying Mountain Bell 50 cents per month now to ensure that the money will be there when needed. I believe this is probably a needed improvement which we should have, but I do not see the necessity of manning five stations with personnel, salaries and benefits. The present system in Orem is doing a very commendable job and I believe with the new enhanced feature it would be an even better and workable system for our county. It would be a lot less ex y, pensive to the taxpayer, but very much improved and adequate. I hope that our new commissioners will review all the actions of our past commissioners with a view to reducing county expenses and eliminate the necessity of raising property taxes any higher. This all points up to me the necessity for a change in county government so that we have more representation on the commission. Two people should not have the power to control decisions of a commission. We should have a five or seven member council representing the whole county. -- R.L. Wright Orem three-memb- Needs info on Lehi history Editor: I am working on a book about Lehi's historic buildings and institutions. During my research I have gathered nearly 500 photos, but I am convinced there are many more interesting phyotographs and documents available. If you have any historic Lehi items or know of anyone who does, please contact me so that I can make copies of them. I have my own photographic equipment and do not need to borrow originals. When my project is completed I intend on donating copies of each photograph to both the Hutchings Museum and the Lehi Carnegie Library. Please call me at Board members of the Lehi Chamber of Commerce will meet Jan. 22 at Porters Place at 1 p.m. for the January meeting. New president, Carolyn Player, will be introduced at this meeting. Marie Hutchiiigs, outgoing president, will remain on the board for one more term. Eriji Free press ISSN No. USPS S. Van I730-W- No. 0 Published weekly except for Thanksgiving and Christmas by Newtah. !:k. Lhl. I'lah MW1 Tr l;hHi Number Advertising News Publisher Editors & Circulation. Brett R. Beuant Marc Haddock Betty Fowler Subscription price $16" per year Second class postage paid at Lehi Post Office 768-423- 2. Richard 14. 1987 - Page 3 Wagoner PoalintslfT ScndaddHMtfcangnU P U bos 7 American Fork. I'lah um Lillie Continued from front page her sister, Dena Grant, worked. She decided to go into business herself when "Jennie Tanner, who operated a millinery and dress shop down near where Christensen's is now, got married and asked me if I wanted to take the store over. "I managed to get a loan for about $500 - I don't remember now just how much - and purchased the inventory. I inherited a lot of old hats and some house dresses with the store, but I never liked hats and didn't want to sell them. "We had housedresses - cotton ones that went for $3 a piece and we couldn't sell them. People just didn't have the money. We couldn't even sell the ones for $1.50." She recalls she got into baby items during the depression when a salesman from ZCMI was "good to me and let me have half of the merchandise he could get." Looking back over her first years in business for herself, she says she "wasn't new to the business because I had worked at the She says she "operated on a shoe string for a good long time," but "never went in the hole and I was able to hang on." She recalls moving from her first location on West Main when the landlady came in and told her she'd have to. She moved to what had been known as the old Grant Emporium building (the Grant Apartments) on East Main, where she stayed until the building burned to the ground in the late 1950's. She says when the building caught on fire "people formed a line" and carried her merchandise out, saving nearly all of it, then members of the National Guard stayed with it all night to protect it from looters. She then moved across the street into a vacant house for about three years before settling in her current location. "It's a joy to sell baby clothes. It's so cute when the young mothers come in looking for just that special thing for their babies. They come from Salt Lake, Draper, Spanish Fork as well as here. "I try to keep my prices down and had the nicest I've always customers. I let the customers make up their own mind, I don't try to high pressure them into it. "If it's a good day, it's a good day. If a bad day, it's a bad day. I just take it in my stride," she says. She now serves third and even fourth generations of her first customers. "A woman will come in to the store and say to me, 'Why I remember coming to your store with my mother when I was just a little and I guess they did. My girl' location has changed, but I've been here all the time." Lillie says she enjoys going to market and seeing the new items. She goes to Salt Lake four times a year for this. Over the 53 years she's been in business there has been a change in baby clothes, she says, with brighter colors and "cuter things" now than in the early years. "When sleepers with feet first came out, mothers were skeptical and didn't want to use them. Now that is the only thing they want," she -- laughs. "And a lot of these young mothers probably don't even know what an iron is. Everything - all these cute ruffles on the dresses - are wash and wear now. "Babies remain the same, but their clothes have changed." In addition to her store, she has for the served as secretary American Fork Irrigation company for over 40 years - since Sept. 30, 1942 - a job she says she thoroughly enjoys doing. "Back then you would pay an assessment of 50 cents. Now it's $10 and we're still cheaper than some others," she says. And during the war years she worked with the Red Cross. In addition to her major items of baby and toddler clothing, she has often accepted handmade items on from area consignment homcmakers, including fancy embroidered with pillowcases crocheted edges, handmade toys, baby booties and other items. Also for many years she did hemstitching and buttonholes for customers but says her eyes aren't as good as they used to be anymore and she has had to give that up. Although she never had any children of her own, Lillie helped raise many of her nieces and nephews, and now her grand-niece- s and nephews. They and many of their friends and children of neighbors look to her as their second mother - a designation she is proud of. They, and others, say "Happy 90th Birthday, Lillie," and many more to follow. Co-op- ." Lillie Shafter is still spry despite her 90 years, 54 of which she has spend operating a business in American Fork. URGENT PUBLIC NOTICE Hurry in today before if s all gone forever! 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