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Show w N P r 6 vo - 1-- S pens to Public rhisW eek wimmin ' i .. -- 4 ---- ---- 7tn " "S"- SUNDAY HERALD - is. KrJxy - , , r ft' "i ' ! V.--. ; ; !!' , -- 'I , 7 I ' n V ' 0 aU 3 . -- . W ?,t ,7 virn7..i 4 1 f - I L.. r. A r' A -- USE YOUR ARMS THIS WAY Instructor Johnny Velasco teaches Douglas Whitlock, son of .Dr. and Mrs, Loyd W:'-'- ' some of the finer points of swimming as other Provo boys look on at Provo's spacious new swimming pool at North Park: Tne . .... - ML. opened last Tuesday, for initial swimming lessons for chil- dren signed up with the recreation program. It is slated to open . to the public Monday afternoon. Pete Witbeck is pool manager. v 'MY TURN NEXT! Obviously one of the most popular spots at the new Provo City swimming pool is the water slide in the shallow water. Water runs down the slide to prevent friction, ' pool . : . ,. The swimming pool, for which Provoans have waited for a long time .wa built by Provo City in cooperation with the veterans organizations, as the first unit of a veterans memorial civic center. Spacious Pool Built as Memorial to Vets; Official Opening Tentatively Set Monday Provo's new Veterans Memorial, for a five-yefamily ticket 2162; J. J. Nusink, Veterans of its first stage completed, is ho Others bought two-yefamily Foreign Wars, Post 9276; and John bronze monument but a sky blue tickets for $25 or one-yefamily F, Mower, representing the tickets for $15. .These tickets were Judge Dunford served as pooli alive with splashing kids. Second unit of the memorial will not bought by rich Provoans. It chairman. be a veterans center, to be added was necessary for many families Provo architect Claude Shepherd to pay for their ticket at the rate Ashworth was. delegated To draw when funds are available. lesof as Last weekj swimming $!.a month, charged on their up plans for the swimming pool at the .hundreds light bill. This arrangerment was and veterans center. sons, opened pool, worked out through the cooperadripping-wet When funds lagged, Architect of laughing, shouting, of administration tion then the memorial told city commissioners, Ashworth a became city living kids, headed by Mayor George Collafd. "Use your funds for construction. to Provo's war dead. . This week, perhaps Monday, the Some of the teenagers for whom. 111 fit my fee into what, if any nnnl its doors to the cen- - swimming tickets . were purchased thing is left." . r will nnpn Other Problems eral public. A specific schedule of at sacrifice grew up; marrier, and not the only problem themselves became before be were will announced Funds later. hours parents, pool It was not easy for Provo to the last brick was to be cemented facing the" Memorial Board. ' on the municipal swimming pool. . In 1952. the Korean War broke get its new pool. Half a generation ago in the Through the original drive, bet- out, and steel and copper, vital 1940s Provo's crumbling old pool ter than $26,000 was raised as a for construction, were rationed. More years dragged by. Finally, was condemned by the health de start toward the pool. ; A major step towards construe steel again was available. partment. Provo High School long before tion of the pool was decision by The board, studying financing of had given up its swimming pool, Provo veterans to permit their other municipal pools, came to the and even Brigham Young Univer- share of the veterans memorial conclusion that if the veterans had no pool. levy of Utah County to be used for levy was used for the center, the sity II i iL lJu the pool. The Veterans Council mi uic siaica iiiu swimming pool might be financed alius j luv veterans contacted and seat every organi by swimming pool revenue bonds. larg largest city, county est city of Utah County, found it zation in the city, and got ap The proposal was put to the public during a special election, and self in the underprivileged posi- proval.Civic .Center tion of having no facilities for the issuing of $260,000 in pool revadults and youngsters. The original plans called for enue bonds was approved, along construction of a beautiful civic with $1,750,000 in sewer general Sad .Situation "The city's recreational, depart- center with a Veterans Memorial obligation and revenue bonds. ment classes in swimming had to building for activities of former Unfortunately, some cities had be conducted in Springville. Pro- servicemen, a . big auditorium, a had trouble paying back loans on voans drove to nearby small towns gym, little theater, veterans or swimming pool revenue bonds. more blessed with swimming fa ganization offices and outdoor pool. Provo found a cool market for sale cilities, if they had cars. Many Later a pool enclosed for year of low interest pool bonds. Still determined that Provo kids, sweltering in round swimming was favored. summer heat, sneaked a dip in It was first hoped that th vet Fhould have a' swimming pool, the erans center and pool could be board decided to go ahead, but build its center piecemeal. Since ;or even contaminated Utah .LakeJ built immediately. The .veterans suggested that there was insufficient funds for a In 1949, a drive for a new swimming pool got underway by civic their funds be used for the center, closed pool, plans were shifted for and the city appropriate tax an open pool, to be enclosed later. and women's ciubs and The Veterans Council agreed to commission, spearheaded by The moneys for a municipal poolr In 1950, a Veterans Memorial use the memorial levy for the Herald. paily i , , ml Board was set up under the ad- -' pool, but stipulated that the swim inciuaea j.ne iirsi commuiee of Mayor C. W. Love. ming pool be only the first stage ministration udge William Stanley Dunford, included RecFrank T.. Gardner of a veterans center. It Commissioner J. Earl Lewis. of waterthen Scofield commissioner Director Jessie . reation The popular drive had netted city D. Fourth District and L: B. Tackett, publisher. E. works; Judge Dun- - some $26,800 .in donations, while Firmage headed the fund drive ford, representing the Veterans; $50,000 had accumulated for Provo Council; Roland H. Jensen, Dis from the veterans levy. Provo City committee. , The public was asked to con- abled American Veterans; Robert then appropriated $50,000 for the tribute funds by buying family Crosbie, Spanish American War pool. tickets in advance of construction Veterans; . Russell L. Traher. Then the Memorial board ran Dean Mendenhall Post No. 13, into a temporary snag. of the pool. American Legion; S. Rex Lewis, Utah County Commission delay- -' .Paid by Month Some Provoans contributed $50, Veterans of Foreign Wars, Post (Continued on Page ar " ar city-at-larg- e. ar i -- --j r. r if?3 " 1 I : J - " ! T- - J V;. rLz- . f ''' v , - r I A , . . - -- t . "- swim-lovin- g . S . f . 1 WATER'S FINE! Although the new Provo swimming pool won't open to the general public until Monday afternoon, these four Provo beauties made a preliminary test and have declared the "water's fine." Left to right the girls are Kathy Elliott, Ann Tueller. Karen Dixon and Hanne j IN THE SHOWER Plenty of clean water is provided in the showers at the new Provo pool, as these boys will attest. Rules require that all swimmers shower before entering the pool. It's a wise health and sanitation requirement, All facilities at the new pool have the stamp of approval of the State Board of Health. y j the-cit- y. v - , , swim-hungr- - Baunholt. y . 1 . -- k ir r - - . L " y- -' I j I - " ' 1 L:- -. -- 4 : 5-- - La l- - .v a v dY- r -- . t f M m W w j. jrn 5 w - V M:w '-- - f-- V ... N fc. 'COME ON INV SONi' Wells L. Brimhall, age 3, gets a special introduction to the Provo swimming pool by bis dad, City Commissioner W. Smoot Brimhall. The city recreation department is "conducting swimming classes at the pooL (Herald staff photos by George Blaine Clay). - - - ' - X - V . mm IT'S EASY IF YOU KNOW HOW That's what instructor . Pat Campora might be telling Darlene Koralewski, daughter of Mrs, Barbara Koralewski as she teaches the girl to float during opening classes at new Provo swimming pool. Opening of the pool is a big thing for the children who have had to go put of. town for their swims since the old pool was outlawed by th health department some 10 years ago. A -. - - .... .i i i f ' - ' v. II --- 0 1 I I " i I ALL SEALED AND DELIVERED Mrs. Ray Calderwood, 828 S. 1100 W., Provo, receives family membership- - ticket from Mrs. Beulah Henrichsea at the Provo City Treasurer's office. Provo families contributed some $25,000 as a "nest egg" to get the swimming pool project going with the understanding they'd receive family memberships to the pool for one, two or three years, (depending on the size of the contribution). With Mrs. Calderwood are her daughter Susan age 11, and Mary Lynn Calderwood, 20 months. |