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Show A SIIARON DISTRICT 'W; ;', ? (C U jr T &eakiuG f XlJVnumt -- 's l;UVv Including Orem, tl e Berry Pickers From Provo Firms Will Be Welcomed Eusitie.-- s AT SCERA TiinpamM VuitnJ Postponed Priesthood Outing COUNTY Scheduled For July with PROTESTS WITH FILED CO!,1 'MISSION Three protests liatr been filed the Utah County Board of Commissioners against the prodeed to posal to give a the Defense Plant Corporation to the county road on the shore of Utah Lake, immediately West of the Geneva Iron and Steel Plant B. site.Protests were made by the Metropolitan Water District of Salt Lake City, through Its chairman Blair Rhhardon, the canal the presidents of the five associated Salt Lake County, Sharon Stake Priesthood outing combined with the. fathers canals oftheir through president W. D. and sons jamboree was to le put off indefinitely. On the Beers, and the Provo River WatAssociation, sponsors of contrary, the Stake Ptesidency announces that, baring an- er Users the Deer Creek project, through other wet period, the big outing will be held Saturday and a resolution of Its board of di- Sunday, July 25 and 26 at the same place as previously plan- rectors. In each of the protests it was ned. That is, at Giles ranch in the South Fork of Provo, pointed out that it Is necessary Canyon. to have access to the lake shore West of Geneva Works so that the Elder Palmer to Attend VISITOR streams flowing Into the lase at In an effort to make up for the that point may be measured. It la the caused by disappointment further stated that measurements postponement, the Stake Presihave been made for a number o$ dency has secured as one of the years of the Inflow Into Utah principal speakers and entertainLake and that It will be necesers at the outing and meeting for sary to continue this practice for Saturday and Sunday, Elder Lee a long time in the futuio. A. Palmer, field supervisor of the Aaronic Priesthood, operating If the road Is closed, the terriunder the direction of the Pretory West of the plant will be to a area wnere a siding Bishop's office. Elder Palmer has had a wide large part of the Inflow of the lake takes place. experience In working with young The matter came before the men, having traveled extensively for the church during the years County Commission last week on he has been active with the Prea request of the Defense Plant siding Bishops Office. He made deed Corporation for a a very deep Impression on the to all of the land within the site Aaronic Priesthood at a conferas well as the county roads which ence held In Sharon Stake several traverse It. The matter has been taken under advisement by the years ago. Board of Commissioners Activities for Saturday The festivities for Saturday 1 evening will begin at 6 p. m. Instead of 6:30 as was previously announced. The evenings are getting somewhat shorter and It was thought necessary to start somew'hat earlier with the games and events which must be taken LEE A. PALMER care of in daylight. Teams from Mr. Palmer will speak at Shareach ward are to take part In the softball contests. In addition to on Priesthood Outing at Giles the softball games there will be Grove, South Fork, Provo Canfoot races, horse shoe pitchlrg yon. Campaign For and other contests. Phonograph Records After the games a recess will Notice be taken for supper, which by this Begins In Orem time should he greatly appreclat-- j nil To Priesthood quored by the appetites whetted bv The American Legion and Its um and quorum workers. the mountain air. After supper All quorum meetings and e auxiliary, working in cooperathe the will he program priesthood meetings schtion with a group of nationally order of the day. Community eduled for Sunday, July 2d singing, stories, stunts by each of eminent artists has mapped plans will be cancelled and in the wards and a talk or story by for a nationwide a tlieir place general priestElder Palmer will be on this procanvas for old phonograph rec-- I hood the of both, meeting gram. Aaronic and the Melchizedords, in order to make availek priesthoods will be held Sunday Morning Priesthood able a permanent supply ot good (pt Giles' Grove in South Meeting music to the men of the armed at Fork In Provo, Canjon After Sunday mornings breakforces. 10 a. m. fast, which the committee estiThe campaign for Orem is now All Priesthood members mates will require until ten o'clock to prepare, consume, and are invited and urged to atunderway and will continue until tend tliis meeting s well have the utinsels and dishes clearAugust 2, with Leo Broadbead and Lyle McTkmald heading the as the big onting Saturday ed up. a general priesthood meetmovement. Every man, woman, ing for both the Aaronic and the night. and child throughout the Orem Melchizedek Priesthood will take Sharon Stake Presidency area can help in the campaign by place in the grove. A special contributing old records. If you has been prepared for this meeting. In it will he com Dined pate in the 01 ting, as this is a have any records you would like the High Priests meeting, Seven- general priesthood outing com- to give call Mr. Broadhead at ties Quorum meetings and the bined with the fathers and sons 16SR4 or see Mr. McDonald at Stake Priesthood Union meeting day. It was felt that la as much his hoi . This Is one way In for the month of July. Elder as all scout and other outings which you can help the war effort Palmer will he the principal have been cancelled because of at no expense to yourself. So, the war emergency that an over give a record for the fighting men 'speaker at this meeting. No other pvents are scheduled night outing would In a measure and help Orem go over the top In for Sunday, so participants will makt up for the elimination of their drive, committee members w either remain to enjoy the cool of other summer outings and yet not urge. the canyon nr return to their Interfere with the emergency activities caused by the defense homes. The delay caused by the wet program and other war activities. . Aug. 1st Dead-Lin- e weather has made It possible for the committees to work out betOn Business License Mail ter programs for both Saturdav and Sunday fnorning. Applies One Way evening Orem business houses who have It also the renot paid their 1 9 J 2 license must permitter free-maThe freshment committee and camp privilege extend do so before August J or their refreshment committee and cams ed to members of the armed forcwill he closed, anarrangements committee to per- es does not apply to their wives nounces the Orem city council fect their plans. The entertain-- i or other relatives nor to any this week. A large number of ment Saturday night will be mail matter sent to the soldier the hiiMness houg have already! furnished by the Aaronic Priest-- j or sailor. Postmaster I. A. Smoot paid for their license btit a few hood division as a result of being had been advised today. are soil delinquent and have only defeated by the Melchizedek The free-ma- il provision is in- about ten days to fake care of Priesthood at the last Sharon tended to make It easier for men this matter before the dead-linstake conference in the attend- - in the service to keep in touch ounni members announce. ance contest. with their families and friends, Lb ensps an be paid to city The stake Presidency invites the Instruction pointed out. It Clerk V. Emil Hansen, at the all Meleh'zedek Aaronic applies only to personal letters Om m city ball any and day of the priesthood quorums to partict- - and postcards weih. ex, ept Sunday Raspberry 6 At Giles quit-clai- Attend or go to waste. Mr. Parlell PLAYGROUND late fruit will not be heavy this More Workers Needed Peterson and Mrs. Sundwall year as a large portion of tree This will be extremely helpful fruit crops has been destroyed by will be present to conduct If workers come In sufficient frosts and hall, but the tomato games and sports for all. numbers and stay long enough to harvest will present another difreally make a dent In the harvest ficult problem. There has been SPECIAL PICTURE SHOW Just what the doctor ordered of the raspberry crop. A check a considerable Increase In this for the family up on the business houses them- acreage over last year. A swell action picture. selves reveal that up to the time of the writing of this article there In the cool ROLLER SKATING were 115 who had offered to help the the farmers harvest their crops. The retail merchants and their employes agreed Monday to close their stores at 5:30 p. m., don working garb and go to the fields to help the farmers pick their raspberry crop. The decision was made after W. Leslie Mlldenhall, director of the Provo employment office, appealed to the Provo chamber of commerce to assist In securing pickers. The chamber in turn appealed to the retail merchants. Mr. Mlldenhall agreed to provide transportation for the workers to and from the fields and the clerks will meet at the Provo employment office at 30 North University avenue between 5:30 and 6 p .m. Tuesday. I Stores Listed While not all of the stores have been heard from, the following Is a list of the business houses which were contacted and the number of employees that have offered their services: Levens, V: Flrmages, 5; Sears, 15; J. C. Penney, 40; Co. 3; Taylor Brothers, 15; Kress 7; Butlers, 9; Lewis Ladles Store, 2; Farmers and Merchants Bank, 5; Post Office, 6. While this help will be greatly appreciatedy It Is pointed out By a ntimJiWof large growers of raspberries and cherries in the Provo Bench area, that It will take several times this number of extra hands to pick the berries even though they should woik full day periods Instead of an hour or two after business hours. of Attention Edgemont Ward Members evening. Confiscation of Rifles Continue " It has been deemed advisable by the Edgemont ward bishopric to postpone the ward outing which Another Orem youth lost his was to be held at Vivian Park on 22 rifle this week for shooting Friday, July 24th, due to the within the Orem city limits, many ward members who are In Marshall Rulon West reports. the midst of berry and fruit har- This Is the fourth rifle to be convesting, and would not be able to fiscated within the past two attend. weeks and rifles will continue to be taken as long as hoys Insist on using them within the limits of the city, Marshall West states. Many Orem youths fall to realize the dingerous risk they take when they use a rifle In the popusections, so In the Interest First Aid classes are being held lated of life and public property, such at the Orem City Hall every Frias of rifles day from 8 until 10 with Mr. precautions used seizing In the city are carelessly Imas First Aid Classes Held Each Friday instructor. Harry Butler the marshall explained. mediately following this class necessary there will be a course in general information to Civilian Defense Class Workers. All workers and the 31 Meets public are urged to attend these classes. At the expectant mothers class on Friday, July 31, 1942, a demonstration of a baby's bath will Pre-Scho- Mothers July Children To Be Immunized ol he given. All expectant mothers are Invited to attend and visitors are also welcome. Since the 24th of July Is a holiday, there will be no class held on clinic for smallpox and diptherla for all children from 6 months and In- that date. cluding first grade, and for whooping cough from 6 months to 3 years will be held at the City NOTICE! and County Building on the 3rd Nutrition Class floor July 27th from 3 p. m. All children entering kinderMembers garten this fall are required to he The ladles who had pictures protected against smallpox and No Workers rcsoni so be sure you attend made of the Defense Nutrition In connection with the employ- diptherla Party at Olmstead can get ment situation, the offer of Oscar this clinic or have your family theirs any time at the Orem Immunize your physician Anderson, proprietor of the Orem Town Hall. Real Estate agency in Orem made in last weeks Voice of Sharon, has received much attention. In fact Mr. Andersons office has been besieged with nbmerou telephone calls and perosnal visits by berry growers who were after help, but up to date states Mr. Anderson there hasnt been one prospective fruit harvester put in Further evidence of the labor an appearance. Notwithstanding Word Dugway many pleas have been made by shortage In this section, even In farmers tn the sugar beet and the ranks of unskilled labor, was Has fruit growing areas the response found in the labor situation Pioneer Origin of helpers has been disc uraglngi which existed earlier this week. It is to he hoped that now that busito Roy Larson, According An Interesting sidelight on the Provo merchants have tend- ness agent for the construction the history of the west and ered their services, others who and General Labor union, local could just as well as not Bpend a number 6 5 3, last week there was parttcularily Utah which comes to the minds of the oldtlmers few hours a day picking fruit will called for 500 workers with only on the Covered Wagon 1ays Is offer their services In this war 300 available. the However, the origin of the term dugway. time emergency. Union .with some rustling, was A common name for a narFarmers In this area are not able to supply the entire 500. row mountain road. It is acceptThe Union which has a memasking for help as a matter of ed without question in these charity because they are paying bership of approximately 2.000. days, but the old timers tell of do are and to good prices furnishes all of the unskilled trying their part In producing food for labor for the Geneva Field Iron how in the days of the hardy the nation In this time of emerg- and Steel Plant and also for other pioneers when there w'ere no mountain roads the term came ency It is declared by growers, unionized jobs In the County. The Bnd they will have to stand a wage scale for this class of labor into being. the "Literally," they say, great loss If help Is not forthcom- is seventy-fivcents an hour, name Implies the method of with time and one half for over ing Immediately. wagon getting the covered time, which means time and one-hathe sides of steep around Many Men Drafted for any time over eight Agriculturists and particularly hours per day of forty hours per mountain slopes." The men In the wagon train dug a trench fruit growers have been heavily week. to the wagons and hit through the drafting of many The situation In Utah County then placing one set of wheels of their able bodied men and the Is claimed to he somewhat easier in the rut were able to hold the defense industries have (aken a than in the Northern rart of Utah on the mountain side as heavy toll of workers. where laborers, of any kind are wagon the teams r oxen pulled it over The demand for harvesters of almost impossible to obtain. the course, they explain. The Immunization Union Has Difficult Time to Supply Labor Interesting e lf axel-dee- p Land Purchased For New Brick Plant Lehi Brick Plant Costing $230,000, Gets Under Way m Ranch quit-clai- Poultryman Reminds Pullet Growers To Purchase of the site for the new war industry brick plant which Is to be built at Lehi in the immediate future has been made this week. Land on the Olaf Holm-stea- d Develop 1913 Flock and Thomas Sunderland The only hope for filling next farms, North and West of Lehi year's egg quota lies in the de- has been bought by the E. M. Smith Company of California velopment of vigorous pullets to add to the laying which Is to operate the plant flock this fall, Carl Frlschnecht, when It has been built. The conpoultryman for the Utah Exten- tract for the building of the plant sion Service reminds Utah pouly which will cost a quarter of a , million dollars, has been let to trymen. There Is always a tendency W. E. Ryeberv Company. during the rush of other summer For Geneva Field work to neglect the growing pulWhen completed the plant will lets. This Is especially notice- - manufacture brick for the new able during periods of emergency Geneva Field Steel Plant, and alsuch as the one at present, but so the plant at Ironton, which Is poultrymen must look ahead to being doubled In capacity. Herenext year, and take time to prop- tofore the same company has erly care for the chicks during manufactured brick in California summer months, Poultryman and shipped it to the Columbia Frlsehknecht states. Steel In Provo and also to the diets and steel plants In Pueblo Colorado. Properly balanced clean feed, are especially ImportWhen the new plant Is in operant, Professor Frlsehknecht says, ation It will supply not only the along with providing more floor steel plants In Utah County, but and water space per bird as the will take care of the Colorado and Oregon plants as well. pullets grow older. The brick to be manufactured "Placing the feed troughs and drinking vessels up on wire bot- will be a silica brhk, which Is to tomed platforms wttt help to keep be used for specialized purposes the feed clean and provide better In steel and Iron blast furnaces. It Is expected that the new sanitary condition. Cool sleep- Ing quarters and plenty of fresh. plant will employ fifty to one clean water are additional Items hundred men. It is understood that will help to develop better that this plant will be permanent pullets to add to the laying flock as there Is continual need for a next fall, the extenslonist point- renewal of the brick used In the ed out. iron and steel furnaces j ' Me Progress (Mousing Fronlj One Hundred Units Now Approved bon-fir- door-to-do- a-- pro-gra- Army Free il t Progress is noted in the housing situation in Utah County when it was learned that 100 units had been given the go ahead signal this week from the Federal Housing Administration and the War m 2) su AEaIIPS Work on Air Field At Cedar Fort Begins Work has begun on the emerg- ency landing field In Production authorities. Groneman and company have Cedar valley, south and east of begun actual construction on five the State wells located in that valley, according to County Comhomes and Menlove and Litchfield contractors have five homes missioner Sylvan Clark of Lehi. on which the roofs are being built Utah county gave a lease on the These units are all in Provo It tract about a year ago. The lease was also learned that all of the has been renewed and leveling of and allotments for Utah County, ex- the field with cept twelve of the 300, have now graders has begun. The observation station for the been applied for. Approximatelv ion units have been forwarded field is to be located at Fairfield. from the Salt Lake authorities to The field will cover about 300 Kansas City for final approval bij acres, part of which has been the Regional Housing Adminis- leased from private parties. This tration in that city. Meanwhile is In addition to the acreage numerous housing promoters are based from Utah County. investigating the Utah County area near the Geneva Field and details have been frequently reported. but most of them fall to ipateralize because of lack of priorities on materials with which Canning for the school's ho to go ahead. lunch program Is getting undei The immediate housing situa- way but there Is a great need fot tion hasnt actually Improved. more garden produce, states Mrs There Is gtll a demand for hun- Zenda Rowley, chairman of tfTi dreds of homes but none are program for the Spencer school avallahle. Some remodeling l.a Parents having, children attend-ieotten under way recently and a the Spencer school, who would little relief will be forth coming like to have vegetables apply or from this activity. next .years hot lunches should get There Is still much talk of in touch with Mrs. Zenda Rowley hu'Idlng large h.orrarks to house She ran he reached bv ralllnf feel plant workers for the dura047J3. The vegetables most needed tion of the war and hat seem the onlv solution In slcht. right now are young table beets chard, and green beans. Othei Thomas C Peterson, member vegetables and fruits will alo h of the Brigham Young university needed anl may be turned In lat er In the season, b.t parents ar d facultv was C( a lieutenant in the United States Naval urged to- - get the garden vegetables in while they are young and reserve. ender and beore the nph of thf Nine rommittee.o, to work on late fruit comes on. air-pla- bull-doze- Vegetables Needed For School Lunch mtni-slone- actual emergency planning prob- Professor Frisrhknerht recnm separating the community trrk from older birds to growin proven infection jn tbe old flo, k carry Ion Abhmt and Bud Costello ing over into the voting s'ork and suggis's spraying most? wit appeared in Trovo this week on nicotine sulphate o KU,1 lice. a war savings bond ampaign. lems was set up at the Brigham Inune university plaining ervb e , yv WAR July 23, 1912 Thur.-day- , SUBSCRIPTION $2.00 Fer Ye.ur in Advance 1L)1 Although no special ceieoratton planned for July 24th we doubt Growers Need Many Hundreds of that you will find a place in Utah where there will he found more to Save Crop varied family entertainment. Here 25-2is the program: Sharon district raspberry and cherry growers read with 1 p. m. until dark, considerable interest the announcement from Provo Cham- SWIMMING The water Is perfect. Today Lee A. Palmer, Youth Specialist from P. ember of Commerce that the retail merchants and their (Wednesday) it was 80 degrees ployees are coming to the aid of the fruit growers in this PICNIC There are tables for Office, Will Camp and Meeting area in order to save several thousand crates of raspberries family picnics under the cool of the trees with plenty of cold and cherries which must be picked within the next few days Postponement caued by the rain doesnt mean that drinks available.- - Pickers Il.ir.t in West (Iroatost : is tIeoea Works Hun.e of Section of the Sharon District DRUM, UTAH, JULY VI. I'rovo It. F. D. VOL. IX, Number LI SLron PLieeiutview (Vmilwa Celt, Larjro poultry, dairy mdiHt nos )j r;J! . cieQjhicaiiihai Q&ui xumificL 2ifafi fat v.; I'tans fruit of CVhter mends |
