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Show GumManufacturersRecommend Price of 5-Stick Pack GoU Sunday August 16, 1 Building Utah Page 3 THE HERALD, Provo Permits $550,000 ho climb the he trunks with urces agreed that wally was chewing ne factory, additives give this m base flavor and smoothness. A h laid end to enc r earth at the equator um buffs asserted ns about 8% Sugar content in about three A breakdown discloses that National Ba permits 1080 N busine ADMIRING SUN-SPARKLED water from their overhead the Utah frait growers’ educational tour to the northwest orchard sprinkling system are Mr. and Mrs. Dean Gillman of Utah County, They expect to see more new ideas like this on figures Zion First led business Sept. 14-19. Utah State University is sponsoring the tour Utah Fruit Growers Planning Tour the Northwest they see types of yst systems, ferent strains Northw s gum were found in 1932 among the 2,000-year-old skeletons of ‘avemenin the American southwest Indians of New England hooked the first colonists on the habit of chewing golden biobsof spruce gum, fresh from the tree. Later Yankee peddlers went on the road tradingit. A jionar; was saved fi nibals by a gum-trading rescuer, and an African chieftain bought a bride only after agreeing to pay the father a dog, two water buffalo, a herd of goats, and six boxes of bubble gum. Gum makers urge chewers to be careful in disposing of the gum, but every year in New York City alone more than a million wads are scraped off the streets and sidewalks. us p r Murphy Valley, pears Lower Yakima the Wenatchee ght-plex will bebuilt River Valley, and apples at by Byron Ferguson. Yakima, Wenatchee and Summerland, British Columbia Residential permits numDr. David R. Walker, horbering 15 werevaluedat a total ticulturist with Utah State of $267,000 seven remodeling University, said this will be an and additions toresidences were excellent opportunity for valued at $20,700 two carports growers to personally see the valued at $1,000 and three improved methods production storage areas valued at $1,375. and |i i marketing employed by A permitfor a swimming pool gorwersin the areas most known July Fire Loss in Provo Post Office worth $3,000 was also issued. for the desirable fruit produced. information hecounty hy calling overhead many dif red delicious andgolden deliciousapples, high Washington quality peach and pear production, high density orchards, modern packing and attra ul will include a visit to Grand Coulee Dam. storage plants, apple rootstock A native of Orem, Dr. Pau! performance, various pruning Larson, head of the tree fruit systems including machine research station at Wenatchee, pruning, airplane spraying, will be the tour guide while in overtree wind machines, in- Washington teg-ated insect control and Registrations for the tour may research on harvest mechani- be made through the Conference zation, and Institute Division at Utah Thebusis scheduled to leave State University in Logan and from Provo at 6 a.m. on Sept. 14 with the county extension of- TYPHOON HITS JAPAN TOKYO (UPI) —Typhoon Wilda churned across the Sea of Japan today, leaving at least seven dead and thousands homeless ia southern Japan. The weakened typhoon swept through Nagasaki Friday night, cutting power and disrupting rail, sea and air traffic and leaving at least 4,000 persons homeless on the island of It will stop for persons going fices. Sept. 7 is the deadline for “¥ushu Totals More Than $7,000 Clean-Up Provo City Fire Department answered 55 calls in Provo during the month of July to put out fires on property valued at $537,300. Thetotal fire loss was valued at $7,495, according to Fire Chief Stanley Brown. Eight buildings valued at $533,500 suffered a fire loss of $7,070, and five automobiles valued at $3,800 suffered losses of $425. Other fires included rubbish and trash, six; grass and brush, 29; smoke investigation, cne; public assistance, two; false alarm, one; standby, three. The Provo Fire Department assisted in putting cur five fires in Utah County. The Substation answered 12 of the 55 calls and the ambulance answered 79calls for a total number uf139 calls for July. Comparingthe past two years, Provo Fire Department answered57 calls to prperty valued at $480,600 in July, 7°69, with loss of $1,040, and in 1968, answered 61 calls to property valued at $700,600 with loss of $1,768. In July 1969, the department assisted in puttingout three fires in the county ( no valuation listed) and in July, 1968, assisted in extinguishing 15 fires in the county on property valued at $110,000 with loss of $1,300. Seventy ambulancecalls were answered in July, 1969, and 74 were answered in July, 1968. Besides fighting fires the OPEN EVERY MONDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHTS UNTIL.. 9 Announced firemen attended classes given Postmaster Robert Q. Strong by Mountain Fuel Supply on dry powderfire extinguishers. Fire announced today ‘Clean-Up Week” for the Provo Post Oifice firemen painting andtesting the as part of a nation-wide postal announced in hydrants. Hose laying and activity DC., by testing was also done andflags Washington, Postmaster General Winton M. were displayed for July 4 and Blount. July 24. The week abatement program was carried on under The Postmaster General the direction of Assistant Fire announced the program today Chief Hollis Johnson. “to establish post offices as a In the fire prevention symbol of good housekeeping program, 19 burning permits and as a credit to every were issued, 14 new business community in the nation.” licenses were approved, 300 Mr.Blountpointed outthat, in businesses and one church were addition to improved inspected, two fire in- appearance for postal facilities, vestigations were conducted anc the national week is designed to one class on resuscitation and Provide practical values, two classes on the use of fire removal of safety and health extinguishers were held. hazards designed to reduce Firemen gave 199 hoursoncall- accidents and illness, and back duty for ambulances. repairs whereverfeasible. total of 364 personsvisited There are more than 40,0U0 the Provo Fire Stations during July including 263 adults, 23 Boy post offices, stations and Scouts, 51 students, four branches across the nation teachers and 23 pre-school involved in the ‘Clean-Up Week.” Postmaster Strong children. Firefighters who helped with noted that the post offices in the the tours and also with classes country expect to maintain on first aid, firemanship and improvement programs as a safety were Wilford Allen, Permanentactivity thatwill give Wendell Miller, Bob Bryson, a new looktothe postal service Carl Loveless and Rodney for customers and ercployees alike. Jones. JUST SAY “CHARGE IT” hydrant work continued, with WITH YOUR FAVORITE BANKCARD acy ESC E er THE INTERBANK CARD Walker Alta ing >Vaan Bywlhe Conte Bankard RICHARD COLLINS 02 25006 6 21 Getting ‘Hot’ Oil from Alaska MadeDifficult by Permafrost Permafrost,the frozen ground the Arctic and Antarctic,it poses Another method sinks stout pilings deep into the that preserves fossils of challenges for builders. the problem is that permanently frozen layer. And there always is permafrost doesn’t stay solid. presents difficulties in bringing {ts upper portion, known as the refrigeration, accomplished by out oil from Alaska. active layer, melts in the running iarge pipes under a Planscallfor laying 800 miles summer and slides around house, with open ends above the of 48-inch pipe from the Nerth precariously on the frozen, ground. The cold wind through the pipes keeps the ground from Slope oil field to the Gulf of bottom layer. melting. Alaska. Tilts Trees, Roads, Homes The National Science In thetaiga,or forested areas, Foundation, along with the oil trees lean at crazy angles as the companiesinvolved,is studying permafrost's active. layer the ecological effects of the alternately thaws and refreezes. proposed pipeline, and of In the open tundra, roads turn developing the North Slope. into roller-coasters unless constantly regraded. Refrigeration Considered The old joke about selling Heat from cooking stoves refrigerators to Eskimos may causes houses to sink kitchen WASHINGTON (UPI) — not be so funny after all. first into the slud, or muskeg, as Scientists speculate that it may the thawed layer is called. A Utah's U.S. Senators split their be necessary to refrigerate the building may cant when the votes Wednesday as the Senate pipeline where it crosses the permafrost melts around its rejected an amendment to sunbaked southern wall while prohibit expansion of the frozen tundra. The oil will gush from the remaining solid under the Safeguard antiballistic missile ABMsystem, 52 to 47. wells at temperatures reaching shaded, northern wall. 180 degrees F.. Up to two million Alaska Railroad trains Sen. Wallace F. Bennett, Rgallons of hot oil coursing sometimes haveto craw! slowly Utah, joined 29 fellow throughthe buried pipe each day across bridges so humped tha’ Republican senators and 22 would melt the permafrost and freight cars would come Democrats in blocking an cause uneven sinking. The pipe uncoupled at normal speeds. amendment that would have Air and water trapped beneath stopped the expansion of the might break, causing massive muskegas it refreezes can burst ABM system beyond two oil spills. Laying the pipeline above out of the ground with sufficient already sutirized sties. ground could expose it to rupture pressure to shatter a house. Sen. Frank E. Moss, D-Utah, and vandalism. Such a lengthy Engineers have learned to voted with 34 other Democrats barrier undoubtedly would raise roadbeds and buildings on and 12 Republicans who sought hamperthe annual migration of several feet of gravelto insulate to freeze deploymentto basesin Alaska’s caribou herds and them from the permafrost. Montana and North Dakota. other animals. Burying an insulated, refrigerated pipe is a possible answer. But frequent inspection or electronic monitoring to detect movementor strain will be needed, for permafrost can shift erratically on its own. Permafrost, meaning “perenially frozen ground,” covers some 24 percent of the Democrat world’s land area, or about 12.5 million square miles. Wherever Good Law Enforcementis Everybody's Business it is fond, in Alaska, Canada, Greenland, Scandinavia, the Pd. Pol. 4 a Jesse Evans Soviet Union, Mongolia, China, mammoths for 20,000 years and wrecks houses in a year, Utah Senators Split Votes On AMBIssue Vote JESSE W. EVANS Utah County Sheriff GREAT AUGUST COAT LAY-A-WAY DISCOUNT % BOYS’, GIRLS’, LADIES’, MENS’ NEW FALL AND WINTER COATSand JACKETS Buy Now From Firmage’s Terrific Assortment ........ And Save ABig, Big More Than 2300 to Choose From . OFF REGULARPRICE |