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Show UTAH VALLEY NEWS Friday, November 17, 1939 Orem Town Board Sets Improvement Policy Orem citizens can have sidewalks and curb and gutter improvements throughout the entire municipality at the mere cost of 35 cents for sidewalks and 44 cents for curb and gutter for each lineal foot, according to a decision of the Orem! Town Board Monday night Several residences already have the sidewalk alongtheir entire frontage, and other citizens have wondered if the Town board had played favor- - culvert, and thue every resident I I ltee In constructing such Improvement. Likewise some businesses have had curb and gutter Improvements made In front of their places of business, but the Town Board wants It understood that everyone la entitled to the same Improvements If they wUl pay for them. The coet la not excessive. Curb and Gutter costs 1.50 per lineal foot, and sidewalks fl.25 per lineal foot. This cost Is distributed as follows: Curb and Gutter Schedule: WPA Labor Orem Town Board Property Owner TOTAL cU If 3 ...- Sidewalk Schedule: .WPA Labor Orem Town Property Owner - who desires aid under Orem Town Board sponsorship can carry out a real beautification program. Details of each project would have to be worked out with the Town board by each property owner. An announcement regarding water line extensions was also made hy the Town Board, in which it has become the policy of the Board to bring the water line to the property owner's premises, all the property owner being now required to do Is to carry the water from his own property line to his house. This will facilitate 70c water connections it 1 believed. 3 6c 44c fl.EO ANDERSON, The Coming Man How we congratulate Mayor 65e 25c Mark Anderson of Provo for his Every Uberal .25 splendid victory. Utahn should rejoice In the victory over the Power company, TOTAL yi.25 and keep Mayor Anderson In mind Similar WPA projects can be until he can be drafted for Goverset up, according to the Town nor. That's your plaes, Mr. Board decision, for the removal Anderson prepare for the Goverof fences, the changing of ditches, nor's chair." Progressive Opinthe grading of roads, the removal ion Balt Lake City, Nov. 10, of trees, or the construction of 1931. WHERE Thanksgiving Theme Presented By Dr. Eyring IS HE? (Week by week the Utah Valley News presents la this column Items of Interest about our Home Town Boye and Girls. If you know of some Provoaa who L "doing things out In the Mg world around us, tell the Editor about It. Our phone is IS). DON HENRY had one secret ambition, but ha used a lot of other vehicles to become what he Is now chief mechanical and electrical engineer In ths Charlie Chaplin studios In Los Angeles, Charlie's right hsnd man, npon whom rests the greatest responsibility for the perfection of pictures and the technical success of all studio work. DON Is the youngest son of Mr. and Mrs. Roy L. Gillespie of Provo, (94 North Fourth West), a graduate of the Provo high school in 1923, and later of the B. Y. U., where he first galasC fame as a cornet player which was one of the main vehicles used In rising to his ambition. Don's first opportunity was that Interstate Band conteat at Denver, when Professor 8auer sponsored Don as cornet player, and after a try-ohe was taken by the Railroad company to Denver, and there won the contest. His victory gave him an apprenticeship In the Companys shops In Balt Lake City where Don completed three years work In two, and received such a recommenda- ut 4 Utah Pioneers transplanted in Utah, not only the architecture but the spirit of freedom and democracy of the original New England pioneers of 200 years before, but they had a far easier task of it than our Pilgrim fathers had, according to Dr. Carl F. Eyring, dean of the school of arts and sciences at Brigham Young university, and recently returned from two years missionary work in New England, where bs served ss president of tlon from the Compsny that ho secured s position with ths the New England mission. Ewelyn Bteel plant in Callfornls ss electrical engineer. Hero ho worked for seven years and accomplished some outstand. Ing things for ths Company, among which was the Installation of two huge electric cranes In their yards. Ho also supervised the construction of the crane used her In Provo In the Provo Foundry on Fifth West street. But Dons secret ambition had never been satisfied. Ho longed for ths Movies", not as an actor but as a technician. Chumming with Bob Fairbanks, Don found one day the doors of United Artists studio open out wide for him, and he entered as their technician. It was a big success, and led him on to Charlie Chaplins studio where he now Is recognised as one of fllmdom's best electrical engineers. Don Is married, (the former Miss lAura Dennis of Mytun, Utah being the mother of his four children) and lives at 5635 He Carlin street, Los Angeles. remembers dear old Provo as the Home Town where hla Dear Mother lives, and where the friends of his boyhood always welcome him back. Dr. Eyring was spesking to the Utah stake high priests Sunday of afternoon on the theme Thanksgiving and Its Meaning to America, In which ho went back Into the historical and geographical background of this great Amerclan holiday, presenting the physical as well as the spiritual conditions which surrounded the earliest pioneers of America, who Instituted Thanksgiving during their second year In this new land. Not only was New England s barren, tbln sandy soil, over-ruby forest growth dus to abundant rainfall, which made agriculture difficult, but also beset with unfriendly Indians, and a severe n climate. At the same time the Pilgrims were Impractical, and poorly prepared for the rigors of the New World they had entered. One half of the colonists died the first 50 out of 102 Pilgrims. winter It took them many, many years to accomplish what was done in Utah In a few years, for In Uiah the fertile soil, and the ability to Irrigate it, made the desert bios, som as the rose. Pioneers entered these Valleys less than 100 years ago here, but for 200 years la New England they struggled and pushed ever out toward nsw lands and away from the barren coast, explained Dr. Eyring. Why the winds and tides drifted theee Pioneers to ths Northern coast, rather than to the Southern harbors where they planned to go, only Providence can tell, but the fact that they 4 declared Dr. Eyring, for hers In the Valleys of ths Mountain the Mormons have transplanted - ths churches, and the homes of the New England colonies. Ho referred to the St. George tempi and other church edifices of Utah as being replicas of New England churches. Likewise the Mormon pioneers ' preserved the spirit of freedom of worship and religions tolerance which possessed the r Pilgrim ' fathers. They came to America to worship as they - ehose. The Mormons left their birthplace to go West where they could worship as they choee. They brought with them, more than any other people, the spirit of the Pioneers. 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