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Show Spraaan! draw Mtnww "Pleasant Grove, the Most Beautifully Situated City in Utah County" VOL LX1V, No. 27 PLEASANT GROVE, UTAH 84062, THURSDAY, JULY 4, 1968 SINGLE COPY 10c Pleasant Grove City's Road improvements '68-'6- 9 Are Planned South to Orchard Drive. Third East, from Highway 91 to Eleventh North. Third South, from Main St. to Fourth East. First West, from Center St. to Eleventh North. Second West from Tenth North to Eleventh North. Tenth North, from First West to Second West. Thirteenth East from Second South to Sixth South. Fourteenth East from Second South to Sixth South. 1250 East, from Fourth South to Seventh South. Seventh East, from Center Street to Grove Creek Drive. Also a new surface will be applied on Twin View Drive, from Loader Drive to 1250 East Mr. Blackhurst said. City Councilman Paul Black-hurst announced the 1968-6- 9 program of road improvement Tuesday, for PI. Grove City. Mr. Blackhurst is chairman of the City Council Committee for streets and sidewalks. The program will be finan-ced by the expenditure of an anticipated $13,654 from the Class "C" Road Fund and other cash from the General Fund. In all, the city expects to spend a total of $53,050 for improve-ments and maintenance of streets and sidewalks during the fiscal year, 1968-6- 9. Lists Improvements Mr. Blackhurst listed the City Streets on the program to be "oiled and chipped" this sum-mer as follows: Eleventh North from Third East to Sixth West. Locust Avenue, from Second : f - ' 1 A .., MICHAEL FERRE Appointed new Police Chief PI. Grove City Names New Chief of Police Michael (Mike) Ferre has been appointed Chief of Police for Pleasant Grove. The ap-pointment was approved by the City Council at the regular session last Monday night. He succeeds former Police Chief Glen Newman, who will continue to serve Pleasant Grove as a member of the police force. Mr. Ferre was born in Ameri-can Fork Hospital, a son of Max and Mildred Swenson Ferre of Pleasant Grove. He graduated from Pleasant Grove High School in 1960 and has completed extension cour-ses from Weber State College. His qualification for his pre-sent position include the follow-ing: Camp Williams Police Aca-demy, 1964; Police Science Course, W.S.C., 1966; American Red Cross Advance First Aid Certification; Patrolman, PI. Grove Police Dept., since May of 1964; Secretary, Central Utah Peace Officers Assn. He is married to the former Karen Johnston, and they with their three children reside at 435 South 1300 East. Accidental Explosion Of homemade Bomb (ills PI. Grove Man The accidental explosion of a homemade bomb claimed the life of David Miller, 20, at 7:45 p.m. Tuesday, in a field ad-jacent to 'Same White's Lane', southwest of Pleasant Grove. He was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Ben Miller, 714 Grove-cree- k Drive, Pleasant Grove. According to Keith Bills, Dep-uty Utah County Sheriff, who investigated, David and a com-panion, Kenneth Hansen, 20, also of Pleasant Grove, were adjusting the bomb made from iron and filled with shotgun powder. Officer Bills said the youths were going to throw the bomb into a nearby pond to kill fish there. The bomb exploded in Mr. Miller's hands, injuring him seriously. He was rushed to Utah Val ley Hospital by Pleasant Grove City ambulance, but was pro-nounced dead upon arrival there. Mr. Hansen was not in-jured, Officer Bills said. Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday, July 6, at the Pleasant Grove Third-Sixt- h Ward Chapel. Friends may call at Olpin Family Mor-tuary Friday, from 7 to 9 p.m. and Saturday prior to services. Burial will be in the Pleasant Grove City Cemetery. David Miller was born July 1, 1948 in Heber City, Utah. He was an employee at Geneva Steel and a Priest in Pleasant Grove Sixth Ward. Survivors include his parents and five brothers and one sis-ter, Lynn G., Steven B., Clair W., Robert Joe, Jeffrey S. and Susan D. f i HAROLD ERICKSON Heads Lindon Lions Club Harold Erickson Installed as Lindon Lions Head Harold Erickson of Lindon was installed as President of the Lindon Lions Club by Dist-rict Governor Albert C. Gros-gea- n at a recent meeting. Also installed were J.'Var Gillman, 1st vice president; Wayne Peay 2nd vice presiednt and Eskel Fudge secretary. Tailtwisters John Brandt and Ronald Brown Mr. Erickson began his year as president of the club on July 1. The retiring president is Don Gillies. A steak dinner was enjoyed by all the members present. The affair was held at the city park. Patriotic Program Sunday Planned By Timp Stake The traditional Timpanogos Stake Patriotic Program has been set for Sunday, July 7, according to President Ert-man- n Christensen. As usual the program will be held at the Utah State Train-ing School ampitheatre and will begin at 7:30 p.m. No other re-ligious programs will be held that evening, so that all who are interested may attend, President Christensen said. Stake President Boyd L. Fu-g- al will conduct the program, which will include a guest spea-ker, patriotic musical numbers and flag ceremonies by the Third Ward Boy Scouts. Everyone in North Utah County is cordially invited to attend, President Fugal em-phasized. City Court Business Light for Second Month, All Traffic Cases For the second month in a row, activity at the Pleasant Grove City Court was on the slow and easy side, according to the June report of City Judge Keith Anderson, Only 14 cases were handled and each one had to do with the operation of automobiles in a manner contrary to the traf-fic laws. Also the amount collected in fines and forfeitures was con-siderably below the monthly average. The total was only $297. The breakdown is as fol-lows: Running stop sign, 3; illegal parking, 2; illegal exhibition of speed, 2; speeding, 2; no 1968 safety inspection, 1; improper left turn, 1; no 1968 registration plates, 1; driving on revocation 1; failure to yield right of way, 1. Total traffic cases, 14. Of all of the above, only two cases were dismissed and no one was committed to the Utah County Jail. Police were active durnig the first month of summer as their daily log shows. Here are a few of the more interesting investi-gations: Man reports wife and child-ren missing; found them in Provo. Man reported beating his wife on Main Street. Local cafe reports petty theft. Assist-ed with a heart attack victim. Husband missing at 3 a.m., found him at 5 a.m. Woman reported swiping two end tables from local motel. Woman reported a missing son, we found him. Woman reports stray cat adopting her living room. Family fight at Northeast Section. Boy looking for girl friend at 1:40 a.m. Lindon boys throwing eggs at cars; have two suspects. Lewd phone calls reported. Two den-tists leave doors open after hours. Drunk wandering around seminary, just wanted a place to sleep. Family fight over fam-ily car. Gave stranded family a few groceries. Man reported parking horse on sidewalk, quite a mess. Kicked kids out of swimming pool at 2:15 a.m. Bogus check received at local motel. Short change artist reported at local fruit stand. Yamaha reported stolen; found on neighbor's lawn. Em-ergency run with stork to hos-pital. Woman wants to press charges against daughter's boy friend. Breakin and robbery at lumber yard. More lewd phone calls. Eleven kids in swimming pool at 1:30 a.m., removed them. City Council Considers Items of Civic Importance at Meeting sewer lines and connections. Mayor Fordham reported that sufficient signatures had been received favoring the Spe-cial Improvement District on First East from State Street to 11th North. Work on the pro-ject will proceed at once, the Mayor said. Michael Ferre was appointed as Chief of Police, replacing Glen Newman, who will con-tinue to serve as a police officer Ross Syphus, city engineer and his associate engineer, Frank Binnel, were present at the meeting. They presented a proposed agreement between the city and Engineer Associa-tes, relative to the Water and Sewer Extension projects. The agreement was turned over to the city attorney for study and recommendation. Several matters of civic im-portance were considered by Mayor Paul T. Fordham and members of the Pleasant Grove City Council last Monday night. All were present, except Coun-cilman Walter Reimschiissel, who is in the east, attending school. Riley Richards, representing American Legion Post 70, ask-ed that the Council appropriate $35 to send one delegate to Boys State. The request was granted. Heinz Leonhardt requested that the deadend street on Fourth East and Sixth South be oiled and chipped. The re-quest was granted pending the availability of funds in the streets budget. Councilman Paul Blackhurst reported that Harold Smith, former City Utilities Superin-tendent, had turned over to the city, maps of the water and Arvilla Harvey to Head Legion Auxiliary for Year The American Legion Auxil-iary held their election and for-eign relations meeting on June 21. Arvilla Harvey was elected as the new president for the coming year. Other officers elected at the meeting were Lydia Hilton, 1st vice president; Alta Niel-sen, 2nd vice president; Mary Washburn, secretary and repor-ter; Thelma Adamson, treasur-er; Pearl McMillan, Chaplain; Barbara Baxter, Sgt. at Arms and Geneve Dalton, historian. Past President Lela Banks installed the new officers. Mrs. Harvey also appointed new chairmen for the Auxiliary as follows: Civil Defense and Emergency Planning, LaVon Anderson ; Girls State, Eva Adams; Leg-islation, Lucile Walker; Rehab-ilitation, May Jensen; Ameri-canism, Lela Banks; Commun-ity Service, Ida Devey; For-eign Relations, Thelma Barnes ; Education and Scholarship," Re-v- a Ahman; Child Welfare, Syl-via Peterson; Gold Star Moth-ers, Venice Fugal; Music, Sar-ah Monson and Programs, Em-ily Pederson. President Sylvia Peterson conducted the meeting and a financial report was given by Mary Washburn. A musical program was arranged by Sar-ah Monson. Mrs. Joana Major sang two numbers accompanied by Irene Jenkins. Chairman Geneve Dalton gave a very interesting talk on her visit to Malaya. This was the foreign country the auxil-iary was assigned to study this year. Nominating committee for the election were Eva Adams and Emily Pederson, who con-ducted the election. A corsage was presented to the past president and her of-ficers, Sylvia Peterson, Emily Pederson, Alta Nelson by the new president. Delicious refreshments were served by Geneve Dalton, Ven-ice Fugal and Margaret Turner Californians Visit Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Hansen of Panorama City, Calif, are enjoying a week's vacation at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Rich-ard Weeks. Mrs. Hansen and Mrs. Weeks are sisters. Also enjoying their company is Mrs. Evelyn Bonebrake of American Fork who is Mrs. Hansen's mother. While here they will help celebrate Mr. and Mrs. Week's anniversary on July 4. There's no doubt about it. Mankind has passed through a passel of periods or "ages" since his advent upon the earth. There have been chan-ges galore, since the Stone Age, the Bronze Age, the Iron Age, the Machine Age and so on, up to the modern age of automation. Also, as each change has come, men have had less and less to do with their hands. Which of course means more leisure time and more oppor-tunity to get into mischief. It just so happens these days, that if a job can't be done with either a semi-automat-machine, it often does-n't get done. I observed an example of this here in Battle Creek the other day. A young man was mowing weeds along the sides of the city streets. His mowing ma-chine was semi-automati- A gasoline motor propelled it down the street and operated the cutting knives. Of course the operator had to steer the mower and punch a button when he wanted to start, stop or raise Or lower the sickle bar. As he came down the street, mowing the two-fo- ot high weeds, an empty garbage can was setting out in the path of the sickle bar. He could have stopped the machine, got down, moved the can to the sidewalk and then continued on with the mowing. But that didn't hap-pen here. He touched a button, raised the sickle bar over the can, lowered it and proceeded on down the street without even looking back. Of course, this saved time and he may have been work-ing at so much for the job. However, it left a patch of high weeds about six feet square. And so, what could have been a nice clean job, turned out to be a patchy, ragged one. That, perhaps, is an exam-ple of the faults of automation. Many a man and woman, too, frequently finds himself or herself practically helpless these days, when the automat-ic gadgets conk out. Automobiles now must have power brakes, power steering, power windows, and automat-ic gear shifts. In fact, the dri-vers have so little to do, that they often fall asleep and kill themselves as well as some-body else. No one went to sleep oper-ating a Model-- T Ford. Just to hold the thing on the road was a full time muscular ef-fort. Operating the brakes, clutch, spark and throttle re-quired manual strength, skill and perpetual alertness. Anyway, during the yester-year, when everything was done by manpower, or horse-power, folks didn't need to "jog" daily to keep them-selves physically fit. Now, for those who do not wish to exercise in public, au-tomatic jogging machines are available for use in the priv-acy of the home. They are geared for the fast, slow, or needs of the fat or flatulent. So long 'til Thursday. Weather Runs Cold, Hot, Dry, But No Moisture It was cold Sunday morning in Pleasant Grove. The north wind, which blew all day Sat-urday dropped the official temperature to a chilly 35 de-grees. However, at several farms "below town," areas of corn, wheat and potatoes were frozen badly. According to reports, farmers in Delta, Loa and Hurricane were practically wiped out by last Sunday morning's cold snap. Damage to corn, wheat, barley, and pota-toes has been estimated in the thousands of dollars. Prior to the cold wave, day-time temperatures had been hot in Pleasant Grove. Last Thursday afternoon, the temp-erature was 96 degrees, follow-ed by 90 degrees on Friday. Calvin Walker, who was visit-ing near Salmon, Idaho, said that he drove through a bliz-zard last Saturday, with 3 in-ches of snow on the highway. Otherwise the weather period was dry. Not a drop fell over the Pleasant Grove area, although a few flakes of snow rode the wind into town. Skies were blue early Tues-day morning. The outside tem-perature was 48 degrees and the barometer was rising at 30.15. Some cloudiness Thursday and Friday," said the fore-casters. Statistics for the week end-ing at 6 p.m. Monday, July 1. Date High Low Pre. June 25 72 46 0.00 June 26 89 49 0.00 June 27 96 45 0.00 June 28 90 56 0.00 June 29 75 49 0.00 June 30 65 35 0.00 July 1 82 42 0.00 Summary Temperatures : Highest 96, lowest 35. Week's averages, high 81, low 46, and mean, 63. Precipitation for the week, none. Since Jan. 1, 10.12 inches. District 10 Riding Clubs Prepare for Show on Aug. 9--10 Representatives of the Dist-rict 10 riding clubs held their business meeting last Tuesday at an Orem cafe. Host for the evening was the Cedar Valley Riders. Vice - President Jim Green presided. The 1968 rule books were dis-tributed to all of the riding club members. The programs for District 10 show will be the same last last year, except the trailer race, which will be after the Matched Pairs. The first event on Friday will be the Men's Western Pleasure. Trophies, Belt Buck-les and ribbons will be pre-sented to the winners. The District 10 Show will be held August 9 and 10. The reg-ion show August 23-2- 4, and the State show Sept. 6 and 7. Mt. Timp Riders will sponsor their Play Day Saturday, July 13 at 6:00 p.m. at the Lindon Arena. The next District 10 meeting will be held on Tuesday, July 16, 8:00 p.m. at Bill and Iva's Cafe. The host for this meeting will be Utah County Sheriff's Posse Two Local Ladies Attend Shade Tree Meeting in Provo Those attending the Utah As-sociation of Shade Tree Com-mission convention at Brigham Young University on Saturday, June 29 from Pleasant Grove were Alice Simper and Lucile P. Hillman, Recording Secre-tary of the association. A very good illustrated lect-ure on Shade Trees was given by Ernest Reimschiissell, Pro-fessor, Brigham Young Univer-sity, Miles C. Labium of the Uni-versity of Utah Department of Botany talked on Utah's Unique Development. The luncheon lecture by Ed. Maryon, Salt Lake Cit Forester talked on Municipal Shade Tree ordinances and enforce-ments. After lunch the group was taken by bus on a tour of the University Arboretum and Pro-vo City, and noted the great improvement of Provo City streets with their hundreds of new tree plantings. Mt. Timp Riders Will Present Play Day July 13 The Mt. Timp. Riders of Lin-don will present their Playday on July 13 at 7 p.m. in the Lindon arena. Some of the activities of the evenig will be the Pleasure Class, also Barrell, Poles and Keyhole racing. The calfrop-in- g, team roping, team roping, ribbon pull an dthe kids race will kep all spectators interest-ed throughouh the evening. President Darrell Frampton, officers and club members en-courages all interested persons to come and participate. A slight entry fee will be charg-ed. There, will be no admission charge and spectators are in-vited to attend. A refreshment stand will be open for the convenience of the public. Arts and Crafts to Register for 2nd Session on July 8 Registration for the second session of the City Recreation Arts and Crafts classes will be held on July 8 from 9 a.m. to 12 in the shop in the Junior High School. Any school age child 10 years or older may participate. Boys who have had shop and know how to use the tools may do a woodwork pro-ject. Classes will be held Monday, Wednesday and Friday in the morning for four weeks. Regis-tration fee is $1.00. Paul Fordham Wins TV at Gene Harvey Chevrolet Opening Paul T. Fordham, Mayor of Pleasant Grove, and a candi-date for Utah County Com-missioner on the Democratic ticket, was the lucky winner of the portable TV that was given away during the grand opening of Gene Harvey Chev-rolet on June 27 to 29th. Mr. Fordham, who is well known in the area as a part-ner in Cal & Paul's Ford Trac-tor Sales has long been active in church, civic and commun-ity affairs, stated that he was more than surprised at being notified of his recent win, and said all he needs now is the time to watch it for awhile. Mr. Harvey offered his congratulations to Mr. Ford-ham for winning the TV. Winners in Recent Sportsmen Assn. Drawing Named Pleasant Grove Sportsmen announced the winners of their recent drawing for prizes held Strawberry Day. They would also like to thank everyone for helping support them in their fund-raisin- g project. Next meeting for the Sports-men will be a canyon outing on Saturday, July 20 at 5 p.m. at the Riverside picnic area, American Fork Canyon. Every-one is invited to come out and enjoy the evening. Prize winners were Bill John-son, who won the rifle; Mark Johnson, lantern; Dale Carter, who won the cooler, and Dale Seely, who won a reel. Glen Bezzant won a fishing pole. Meeting on New Golf Course Set Friday At Jaycee Building According to Grant Loader a meeting on the new golf course has been set for this Friday, July 5, at 8:30 p.m. in the Pleasant Grove Jaycee Club House. Everyone in the community is invited to attend. This new course, sponsored by Lehi, American Fork and Pleasant Grove, will be located west of the State Training School. It is planned for an 18 hole course, with the first 9 to be open next spring. Questions and suggestions will be welcome. The new course will be named North Valley Golf Course. Timp Stake Saturday Night Dance to Start Again This Saturday After two weeks off for the Strawberry Days celebration and June Conference, the Tim-panogos Stake Saturday night dance will resume its regular weekly schedule at the stake house this Saturday. Beginning at 9 p.m. the "Pack" Combo will play. Price of admission is 25 cents and a dance card. Best dress is in order, and soft drinks will be sold, stake officials say. UTC at Provo Has 3 from PI. Grove On Spring Honor Roll Three students from Lindon and Pleasant Grove area at-tending Utah Technical College at Provo have been placed on the spring quarter honor roll, according to an announcement from the school. Danny L. Carter of Lindon, auto mechanics; Vickie Lynn Walker, dental assisting and Sherman Bronson, electronics made an average of 3.7 or bet-ter to qualify for the honor. |
