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Show Page Sunday, May 21, 1972 HERALD, Provo, Utah 16-- THE Herald Want Ads Get Results Utah Valley Hospital Graduates fight as Medical Technologists of eight students from the school of Medical Technology at the Utah Valley IDS Hospital has been announced by Grant C Burgon, Hospital Administrator. Receiving their certificates were Diana Terry Christ ensen, The graduation Sacramento, Calif.; Theresa Ebert, Salt Lake City; Janice Love, Shelley, Idaho; Linda Miller, Pleasant Grove; Stephen Miller, Bountiful; J. Terry Pyne, Or em; Orval Taylor, Monahans, Tex.; and Nedra Voeltz Wise, Sandy. All of these rew graduates have also graduated from Brigham Young University or will do so this month. A banquet honoring these students was held in the hospital Guest sneakers were Dr. Richard A. Call, medical director of Utah Valley Hospital and director of laboratories; Grant C. Burgon, hospital administrator; and Dr. Roy W. Doxey, vice chairman of the Board ot Governors of Utah rsfotma National Registry of Medical Technologists. The clinical laboratory at the hospital is curre'itly performing more than one trillion tests each year so that the students have a 1 Till' Ik !?(? I Is PH I II varied training program. The students spend 40 hours a week in truung and rotate Valley Hospital. in laboratories Janice Love won the Student of through the Year Award by having the biochemistry, hemotology, microbiology, blood banking, highest grade point average. The hospital's School of histology, and Medical Technology offers a one-yeLectures pertaining to ihese internship iesigned to graduate a trained medical courses are given to the students technologist. Three to four years by certified pathologists. to Shawis Anderson MT (ASCP) of college are a this course. The trained is in charge of the student grad'iate is then qualified to take program at Utah Valley examinations given by the Hospital. ar te News of People You Know By MILDRED B. HALL J7M563-S7M5- 4 husband, Mr. and Mrs. Donald F. Duce and children. Mr. Cooper is recovering from 8 recent heart attack and surgery and has not been able to do much traveling fcr some time. law, Gary B. Erickson and their son, Lonnie in Orem. The Gunnells are in this area for the weekend where Mr. Gunnell is participatirg in a golf Roger E. and Tonja Billings, a couple with their daughter, Kimberley, expected to leave Provo today for Reno, Nev., where they will be making Mr. and Mrs. Robert H. Davis, their home, and where Roger is were among exhibitors in the friends employed. Among bidding them good Presbyterian Church Antique held in Salt Lake City speed are their parents, Mr. and Show Mrs. Evan Billings and Mr. and recently. Mr. and Mrs. Davis of Mrs. Norvel Anderson, all of Orem, have leng enjoyed working with and acquiring Provo. antinues as a hobby, and are now Mrs. Elwyn R. Binks of Provo in the process of opening an together with her son, Drew antique shop in their home. They Binks and her two grandsons, say that it will be another month Paul and Wayne Binks, of Orem, before they are ready and that Journeyed to Ferron, Ut., to showing will be by appointment spend the day on Sunday with only . mother and grandmother, Mrs. Mr. and Mrs. H. Edward Day Fred Zwahlen... of Provo will be leaving next Mrs. Kathleen SchroDer has week to make a new home in arrived from Portland, Ore., and Bountiful. Mr. Day has been is spending 10 days in Provo employed in aircraft mainassisting her daughter, Barbara tenance there for some time and and husband. Bruce V. Cook, will continue his employment following the birth of a baby boy there. The couple has resided in this are a for the past four years. for the couple. Provo-reare- d Mr. and Mrs. Fred W. Cooper were happy to be able to spend a day in Salt Lake City visiting with their daughter and her May 19 May 20 May 2 1. Friday Saturday Sunday 4 00 Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Whlmp Ewell of Provo, hosted a family dinner on Thursday at their home honoring their son, Rodney Ewell and his wife, Loma and their baby son, Rodney, prior to their leaving for Rodney's new assignment with the Army at Fort Riley, Ka. Rodney recently returned stateside after service in Vietnam, and has been on leave in Utah. During his absence overseas Loma made her home in Sargent, Colo., with her parents. The dinner also celebrated in advance the May birthday of Loma. Other guests bringing greetings were a brother, Gus Ewell and Mrs. Evelyn Lowrey, Mr. and Mrs. Donald Ellison and Mr. and Mrs. Lane Ewell. Mr. and Mrs. Verlan Gunnel! of Preston, Ida., are the guest during this weekend of their daughter, Dixie and their son-i- More than 100,000 children and 1.55 million adults in the United States are victims of rheumatic heart disease. n- for TACO TIME GLASSES GIVEN AWAY WITH PURCHASE rev tm "Any Time Is Just North of Provo High School Taco Time" Brovo City Center , 0 beAmiM of anew em, .H linlll IMH it I Excerpts from a forthcoming book on the history of Provo City by J. C. Moffitt PARCELS OF THE PAST Into the Valley They Came Almost two hundred years ago two Spanish Priests were organizing an expediton of men to find a new route from New Mexico to California. These men traveled northward and then westward ; While it is not absolutely certain that Provot was ever at the present site of Provo or even in Utah Valley, he was at the head of Provo River and learned the location of the mountain passes ard 'he trails leading to and through them. This eminent mountain man lived until after the founders of Provo were here as h coming through Strawberry Valley, over the summit down I Diamond Fork Canyon to Spanish Fork Canyon, and entered Utah Valley from that source. It was then September, 1776. Father Escalanle and Father Dominguez, leading this small group ol ten explorers, wrote their evidence of tin: beauty of the expanse of fertile land between the mountain on the east and the lake on the west, with Nebo on the south ami Timpanogos northward. They found Indians and believed here was an opportunity to return and bring them the message of Christianity. They moved on and other explorers ;:m! fur traders came. In the very early years following the turn of the century came Manue! Mestas and party. Between then and the arrival of the pioneers in Salt Lake Valley, several expeditions came. Jedediah S. Smith was at Utah Lake in 182G and gave it a name. Etienne Provo!, from whom came the name of Provo, was one of the greatest of the trappers and explorers of the mountain trails of the Rockies. He trapped extensively in 1824 and 1825 in what is now Utah. J .... P. ... .& 1H fm :. ffmi ij, - in V-- ..,.., IJ 1 a M j; r,V.v..J permanent settlers. Many glowing reports of Utah Valley available to Brigham Young motivated him to seek confirmation of the claims he had received about the area by sending several of his associates to make observations. July 28, 1847, Orson Pratt climbed to an elevation on the Oquirrh Mountains where he could see Utah Lake. He suggested that the valley extending eastward from the lake should be explored in some detail. Within a few days thereafter, Samuel Brannan, W. W. Willis, and Jesse C. Little entered the valley and returned with reports that the streams, soil, and nearby timber provided evidence that this area could become a home for Mormon settlers. . mini Cultural and Social Activities in Early Provo in early Provo were as independent in their cultural and social activities as they were in the development of their industries. The Utah pioneers arrived in the Great Basin with plans for city building that had been created by Joseph Smith, the predecessor of Brigham Young. This was a different plan than tended to characterize the setting of the West and Midwest elsewhere wherein a single farmer or homesteader would live on the land he owned and was usually isolated from other people. It was Joseph Smith's plan to have people live together with their farm land outside of the towns and cities. This, he believed, offered better social and cultural activities. Moreover it brought together the people in a more tightly organized pattern for religious purposes. The Mormons April 3, 1849, three days after their arrival, the small colony of Mormons who had arrived at the banks of Provo River began the construction of Fort Utah. While the colony was at that place, there were problems in addition to fighting with the Indians. September 4, 1849, Brigham Young and others left Salt Lake City en route to Provo to make an analysis of the issues at that place. Within a few days Brigham Young, Willard Richards and others rode out from For Utah seeking another location for the city to be built. The Church Historian wrote, "They found a very eligible place, about two miles southeast m the fort, where it was decided to build a city a mile square and to make a survey of the land that would create a series of four acre blocks with streets extending north and south and east and west. t- "1 IT People died and babies were born. Government was establshed to protect and to help in building this frontier city. Provo has a proud history. Great and good people have lived here. The number of permanent residents has increased from those first few individuals to in excess of 50,000. All criteria including population trends portray this growth. More than 50,000 in 1970, Provo was 36,000 in 1960 and 29,000 in 1950 and so the numbers decrease from our day to the beginnings of Fort Utah. The school population growth equals or excels the total population increase. In 1920 there were 3,100 children in school. By 1940 there were 5,000 children in school. The 1960 records show 7,500 and by 1970 there were more than 9,800 school children enrolled. Indicating, in part, the economic growth of Provo are the following figures showing the assessed valuation in Provo by certain years: 289; 210; 518; The Provo Settlers Meet the Indians A council meeting convened in Salt Lake City on March 10, 1849, and therein Brigham Young asked for thirty men to go into Utah Valley to farm, fish, and "teach the Indians civilization." Whereas the country by that time hud been widely explored, some wanted to go. Others, undoubtedly, w jre invited to go. On March 18, John S. Higbee was appointed bishop of the parly. Isaac Higbee was designated as first counselor and Dimick B. Huntington as second counselor. The company was supplied with oxen, horses, cattle, farm implements, and other necessities for the journey. Six families and some additional men composed the company. The speed of travel was such that three days were required to reach Provo River. Preliminary negotiations with the Indians permitted the first Provo ."ounders to reach the river. A camp was established near the river. Soon afterwards a fort in the nearby vicinity was constructed. This became Fort Utah. The design of the Fort was to be a protection against the Indians. tA ,650 and This day, May 22, 1972, we are dedicating a Provo City Center that is one of the city's greatest achievements. 0 -- 4r -r4r? In describing this plan of settlement, B. H. Roberts wrote, "It was about this time (the spring of 1833 that a general plan of building Cities of Zion evolved, that is of great interest. In June the Prophet Joseph Smith sent to Zion the plot of the city to be founded at Independence which was to be a model for the rest, and which a few years later became the plan on which Kirtland was laid out . "Lands for agriculturalists sufficient for the whole plot are also to be laid off (outside the city) but the tillers of the soil as well as the merchant and mechanic will live in the city . . . . " ... ... The fanner, therefore, "will enjoy the same privileges of society and can surround their homes with the same intellectual life, the social refinement as will be found in the home of the merchant or banker or professional man." Provo, People, and Progress Present Provo is nearing the end of the first quarter in the second century of its history. Changes within this time typify the changes that have come to the nation as a whole. It was a humble beginning when the pioneers first approached the "banks of Provo River. Challenges were many but the founders had courage and firmly believed in their mission. The years came and went. Brovo City Water and Power Helping you and your city is the whole story at Provo City Water and Power. At the request of the Provo City Commission many public spirited citizens worked for months on all phases of details preparatory to architectural plans and a bond election to determine people's interest in such a project. The voting taxpayers overwhelmingly voted to bond themselves for $3,000,000 to assure the erection of this great edifice. The building is completed. It belongs to the people of Provo. The citizens are and should be proud of this great complex. To the Provo City Commission, all express gratitude for their wise leadership in this greatly needed achievement. |