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Show "Pleasant Grove, the Most Beautifully Situated City in Utah County" VOL. LXV, No. 7 PLEASANT GROVE, UTAH 84062, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1969 SINGLE COPY 10c .I - ..I . j . l .... in ii. iin sszssJtBOKMmm 1- WILL COMPETE Wrestlers competing at Craig Chynoweth, Neil Armitstead; Back Carbon this week are front, Mark Sanderson, row, Coach Ron Nielson, Dyke Meranda, Mike Phillips, Randy Strasburg, Shirl Tom- - Rondo Biggs, Dale Hardinger, Steve Poll- - linson. Row 2, Eugene Fowles, Ron Holman, man and Darold Henry, head coach. Pleasant Grove Wrestlers Win Final Match, Compete in Region Meet Friday and Saturday cisioned Kim Norris, 3-- 154 Bob Stevens, Orem decisioned Steve Pollmann, 165 Russ Robinson, Orem decisioned Thad Adams, 180 Rondo Biggs, P.G. decisioned Ron Cox, 3-- Heavyweight, Dale Johnson, Orem, decisioned Dyke Meranda, 3-- won the remaining six of their seven match wins by decisions. Orem won the other five weights on decisions. The results: 95 Shirl Tomlinson, P.G. de-cisioned Kelly Terry, 3-- 103, Richard Maxfield P.G., decis-ioned Mark Hansen, 12-- 112 Mike Phillips P.G. decision-ed Grant Hansen, 120 Mark Sanderson, P.G. decision-ed Kim Pyne, 4-- 127 Kevin Mangum Orem decisioned Neil Armitstead, 7-- 133 Ron Low-ry- , Orem decisioned Craig Chynoweth 12-- 138 Ronnie Holman, P.G. pinned Mike Roberts with 30 seconds left in first period. 145 Eugene Fowles, P.G. de- - The Pleasant Grove Viking wrestlers won their final match over host team Orem, 23-1- 5 and tied he Tigers with 5-- 3 Region Four record for the season. This put both teams behind Provo which has a 7-- 1 record in Region Four competition. All Region Four teams have completed dual competition and will have a week in which to prepare for the region finals to be held Friday and Satur-day, Feb. 14 and 15 at Carbon High School in Price. The first men in each weight division from each team will compete for a chance to go to the state meet this year. Pleasant Grove's Ronnie Hil-ma- n led the Vikings with the only pin of the meet as P.G. Utah Power & Light Co. Gives Details on New Expansion Plans Utah Power and Light Co., Monday discosed a vast new expansion program calling for expenditures of $233 million dollars throughout its service area in Utah, southeast Idaho and parts of Wyoming and Colorado during the next five years. The announcement was made by Utah Power and Light Co's newly - elected president E. Allan Hunter who pointed out that such expansion calls for investment at an average of $3 million each month over the next 60 montns. Mr. Hunter said that $134 million of the $223 million planned expenditure in the next five years would be new money from investors all over the nation. The remaining amount, he said, will be gen-erated within the company. "I know of no other company within the area that plans to pour such sums into our econ-omy in so short a time," he said. Looking ahead when develop-ment of the area's latent re-sources will create more and more demand for electrical energy and an accompanying growth, Mr. Hunter said the new facilities to be completed or under construction during the next five years would in-clude a minimum, of 660,000 kilowatts of new generating capacity. That's enough ener-gy to supply the needs of a city about three-fourth- s million peo-ple. The rest of the new facilities will include transmission and distribution lines, substations and other equipment through-out the utility's service area. They will provide service for new customers, for increased electrical demand of present customers and delivery of the same high quality service we have been delivering to our customers, Mr. Hunter said. The electrical utility execu-tive said this year the initial year of the five year program-U-tah Power and Light Co. dir-ectors have approved expend-itures of $26 million for new and improved electrical facil-ities throughout the four-stat- e area. The 1969 construction expenditure, he said, will bring to $228 million the company has spent in the last 10 years to pace the constantly increas-ing service requirements to the area. That sum is more than the utility spent in total invest-ment for all its history prior to the 10 year period. llllllB lllliiiiiw IflllllillS I ' s : 1 SPEAK HERE MONDAY Rep. Laurence J. Burton, and Rep. Leslie C. Arends, ., will give Lincoln Day speeches Monday, Feb. 17 at the Provo Eldred Center. Arends and Burton to Speak at Provo Banquet Monday Night Rep. Leslie C. Arends (R-Ill- ), the Republican Whip in the House of Representatives, will be the featured speaker at the Utah County Lincoln Day Ban-quet in Provo, Feb. 17 at the Eldred Center. Mr. Arends, asked to come to Utah for the special speech by Rep. Laurence J. Burton, has been a member of the House for seventeen consecu-tive terms and is fifth in sen- - iority among the entire House membership. Burton, who will be speak-ing at the Utah County Ban-quet himself, is one of Mr., Arends' Assistant Whips. The duty of the Whip Organization is to keep members advised with respect to the legislative program on the floor, conduct polls to determine party policy and strategy and obtain maxi-mum unity an dvoting strength on key issues. "It's a real honor having such a distinguished man as Rep. Arends in Utah," Burton said. The Utah County Banquet will begin first with a reception at 6:30 p.m., followed by din-ner and the speech of the guest of honor, Mr. Arends. Senior Citizens Entertained X Last Saturday Senior Citizens of the Pleas-ant area were royally entertained last Saturday at Pleasant Grove High School. The event was the annual Older Folks dinner par-ty and the homecoming spon-sored by the Timpanogos Stake Committee, Eldon Johnson, as general chairman. According to Ruth Cobbley, committee secretary-treasure- r, 300 Senior Citizens attended as well as 25 entertainers and stage hands and 54 committee members. A total of 72 hot din-ners were sent out to shutins. The "Day" got off to a prompt beginning at 10 a.m., when a fine travelogue sound picture was shown in the audi-torium. Following, from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. a visiting hour was enjoyed and Milt Brown and Mary Humphries entertained, as usual, with violin and piano yesteryear melodies. Also during the social hour several Senior Citizen couples put on a demonstration of ball-room dancing, including waltz-es and foxtrots. Vilace Radmall offered the invocation and grace on the food at the "cube steak and all the trimmings" dinner which followed. When all had eaten their fill William Hone, 94, and Pruie Coombs, 90, were introduced as the oldest man and woman present. Since Feb. 8 was Mrs. Coombs' birthday, Nancy Ek-in- s sang "happy birthday" in her honor. Special potted plants were awarded to both Mr. Hone and Mrs. Coombs. Also potted plants, which were featured in the "Spring-time" table decorations, were awarded to the oldest person seated at each table. Following the dinner, the guests adjourned to the audi-torium for the traditional after-noon entertainment. Welcome addresses were given by Presi-dent Elwood Allen and Mayor Paul T. Fordham, represent-ing Timpanogos Stake and PI. Grove City, respectively. Miss LaDawna Hiatt direc-ted a group of BYU students in a variety program of Folk Dan-cing that was highly enjoyed and to say the least. Nancy Ekins also thrilled the older folk with a series of "Songs of Yesterday" with uke-lel- e accompaniment and James Lee Curfew and Karl Bennett entertained with banjo duets. During his closing remarks, Mr. Johnson thanked everyone (Continued on page 6) Relief Society Will Hold Leadership Meeting on Feb. 20 Relief Society Stake Leader-ship meeting will be held in the Timpanogos Stake House on Thursday, February 20 at 10 a.m. All Relief Society ward officers and teachers are in-vited to attend. The Music department under the direction of Nancy Ekins and Catherine Rees will con-duct the opening exercises. A presentation will show that "Music Adds Excitement to Relief Society." Helps in the departments will be given for the coming month, for all departments except the Magazine department. Stake Dance for Saturday Night Cancelled Out Due to the regional high school wrestling tournament be-ing held this Friday and Sat-urday in Carbon, and also the high school Sweetheart Ball on Saturday evening, the Timp Stake MIA have decided not to hold a dance this Saturday ev-ening. Dances will resume the following Saturday night, Feb. 22, at the usual time and place. New cards will be needed af-ter March 1, and young people should get them from the ward bishops so they can have them to use after this date. Funeral Services Set Friday for Bonnie B. Sapp Funeral services for Bonnie Bradshaw Sapp, 38, who died on Feb. 11 in a Salt Lake hospital will be held Friday, Feb. 14, at 11 a.m. in the Timpanogos Stake House. Friends may call Thursday, 7-- 9 p.m. at the Olpin Family Mortuary, and Friday, at the stake center, prior to services. Mrs. Sapp was bom July 3, 1930, Hurricane, Washington County to Ellis DeLon and Annie Angell Bradshaw. She married Clarence Sapp May 22, 1947 in St. George. She was a Pleasant Grove resident since 1949 and was a clerk in the Smith Drag Co. She was a member of the LDS Church. Survivors include her hus-band, sons, daughter, Stephen, Stanley, Gregory, Lee, Wendy, all Pleasant Grove; parents, Hurricane; brother, sisters, Kent Bradshaw, Mrs. Mario (Lorraine) Davis, both Cedar City; Mrs. Clarence (Carmen) Cunningham, Coeur d'Alene, Idaho. Burial will be in the Pleas-ant Grove City Cemetery. State Press to Hold Annual Winter Meet The 71st Annual Winter Con-vention of the Utah State Press Association will begin this Fri-day and continue through Sun-day, February 16th. Members of the Printing and Publishing Industry of Utah, particularly publishers of Utah's weekly newspapers, will be attending session designed to further im-prove community journaism in the state. The convention begins with an open house reception on Fri-day evening, and then goes into two full days of sessions Satur-day and Sunday. Saturday will find the group listening to a Special Report from Governor Calvin L. Rampton, followed by a panel, "What's New on Postal Regulations." Two other panel discussions featuring Utah Weekly Newspaper Pub-lishers, "Good Front Pages Don't Happen," and "The Pros and Cons of Special Editions" will be heard. The keynote speaker at the convention will be Edmund C. Arnold, who will speak at the luncheon on Saturday, and con-duct a special type-desig- n clin-ic for two hours on Sunday morning. Mr. Arnold is with the De-partment of Journalism, Syra-cuse University in New York, as well as for a number of years being a special typo-graphical consultant for the Linotype Corporation. He has spoken to virtually every Press Association in the United States The convention will conclude with the annual USPA Better Newspaper Contest awards which will be presented at a luncheon on Sunday. Federal Tax Return Filing Should Be Sent to Ogden Federal income tax returns should no longer be filed with the Internal Revenue Service district office at Salt Lake City, but with the IRS Service Cen-ter at Ogden, 1160 West 1200 South, Ogden, Utah, 84405. This has been effective since Jan. 1. This applies both to tax re-turns with remittances and those with refunds due. The IRS Western Region, which includes Utah, is the la-test to require direct filing of all income tax returns with IRS regional service centers, under a law enacted Nov. 2, 1966, Ro-land V. Wise, District Director of Internal Revenue, said today. Direct filing of reums will eliminate initial handling at the district office, where they are packaged and shipped to Og-den for processing. Mr. Wise emphasized that di-rect filing will in no way cur-tail services taxpayers have been accustomed to receiving from the IRS district office. He said, "by relieving the dis-trict office of the burden of re-ceiving returns and preparing them for trans-shipmen- t, we will have a greater opportun-ity to render services to tax-payers." HfBattle Creek vicr- - All my life I have been happy to receive Valentines, particul-arly if those sent them "Cared Enough to Send the Very Best." But never have I been fortun-ate enough to receive one in the category of the ones to be re-ceived February 14, 1969 by the "honorable" U.S. Senators and Congressmen. A substantial majority of these gentlemen recently voted to accept a $12,500 Valenine, each, from the American tax-payers. And by this simple act, they raised their individual yearly salaries to $42,500, a bootst of 41 per cent. But that's not the end. Sal-aries of Cabinet members and Supreme Court Justices are to be raised by a greater percent-age than that. Also substantial raises will be awarded to Con-gressional assistants and oth-er administrative heads of de-partments. Nationally qualified econo-mists estimate that when all the greedy hands are with-drawn from the U.S. Treasury, the total grab will amount to $4.5 billion. This is about one-ha- lf of the total 10 per cent surtax expected to be received via the 1958 income tax returns. When the surtax bill was en-acted, Senators and Congress-men who supported it said that the purpose was to curb infla-tion and help balance the fed-eral budget. But now that the extra money is rolling in, they can't keep their "cotton pickin' fingers" out of it. There's little doubt that most of the newly elected Senators and Congressmen campaigned on a promise to hold a tight line on galloping inflation. How in heavens name can they now buck up to union and manage-ment leaders during the next round of unreasonable wage and price demands? Their own 41 per cent increase will cut the sand right out from under their feet. The impact of this latest treasury raid upon the middle class American taxpayers is terrific. This was exemplified in a conversation I had the other day with a veteran Utah County businessman. Said he, "During my long years of experience as a busi-nessman and taxpayer, I have never had such feelings of dis-couragement and almost utter despair. What little respect and confidence I held for our na-tional Congress have been com-pletely obliterated." Perhaps we Utalins can take a modicum of comfort in the fact that Representatives Bur-ton and Lloyd voted against ac-cepting the salary increase and Senator Moss was "paired it." However Senator Bennett, re-portedly a millionaire in his own right, voted to accept it. He reportedly said that he vot-ed to accept the whole pay raise package, so that cabinet and salaries could be raised. If that is the case, Utah's Senior Senator could donate the $12,500 to the Utah State treas-ury. Lord knows we could use it here. So long 'til Thursday. Post Office Will Be Closed on Feb. 22 Saturday, February 22 wil be observed as a national legal holiday, and all post offices and postal installations will be closed. There will no no city or RFD delivery of mail. Mail will be dispatched and special delivery service will be provided, how-ever there will be no window service. Orem Tigers Beat Vikings Last Week, Vikings Go to Payson Stan Sumner and the other Orem Tigers ran up a total count of three score and eleven to best the Pleasant Grove Vik-ings 71-5- 4 in a Region Four basketball game played last Friday on the Viking deck. Sumner, a smaller than av-erage guard, cast in 12 from the field and 2-- 4 from the foul line for a total of 26 points. Ben Allen, also from Orem, garn-ered 18 points for second spot and Mike Shoell, Viking, took third place in the shooting de-partment with 17. Others shooting in double dig-its were Paulson, Orem and Jorgensen, P.G. with 14 and 10 each, respectively The first quarter ended 12-1- 2 but the Tigers pulled away to a 36-2- 8 bulge at half time. From there on out it was just a mat-ter of holding then-- own unitl the final gun ended the one-sided contest. Pleasant Grove was hot at the foul line, pumping in 14 out of 18 for a 77 per cent total. The Tigers shot 46 per cent with their 7 out of 15. In other games played Feb. 7, American Fork edged Car-bon 59-5- Lehi swamped Pay-so- 75-5- 4 and Provo banged Springville 80-7- 0. This Thursday, tonight, Feb. 13, it's Springvile, 2-- 5 at Span-ish Fork, 3-- American Fork, 2-- 4 at Provo, 6-- Lehi, 4-- 1 at Carbon, 3-- 3 and Pleasant Grove 5 at Payson, 2-- Orem, in third place with 5-- 2, is having a bye this week. Orem G F P Paulson 6 2-- 3 14 Peterson 3 0-- 3 6 Allen 8 2-- 2 18 Crompton 0 1--1 1 Sumner 12 2-- 4 26 Allred 3 0--0 6 Prince 0 0-- 1 0 Totals 32 7-- 71 Pleasant Grove G F P Shoell 6 5-- 5 17 Ewell 1 0-- 0 2 Newman 3 2-- 4 8 Adams 2 2-- 3 6 Jorgensen 5 0-- 1 10 Ringger 2 1--1 5 Robinson 1 4--4 6 Totals 20 14-1- 8 54 Score by quarters: Orem 12 36 52 71 Pleasant Grove 12 28 37 54 Mild and Mellow Weather Hits Pleasant Grove "God Bless Our Mountain Home" could appropriately have been the theme song of residents of the Pleasant Grove area, as the weather per-iod came to a close at 6 p.m., Monday, Feb. 10. In fact, all day Monday the sun was shining brightly and the afternoon temperature reached 54 degrees. No daytime freezing temperatures were no-ted during the entire week. The average high was 46 de-grees. Two small snowstorms visit-ed the area during the period, but the two measureables and a trace totaled less than two-tent-of an inch of water. Most areas surrounding the north Utah Valley suffered high winds and heavy snows. The highways over Point of the Mountain were impassible at times. Once again Old Mt. Timp shielded us from the brunt of the storms for which we should all be thankful. Anyone like to move to New York City? Skies were blue early Tues-day morning. Outside temper-ature was 30 degrees and the barometer was rising at 30.05. Some high cloudiness and warmer, with a chance of light rain or snow later in the week, was the forecast. Statistics for the week, end-ing at 6 p.m. Monday, Feb. 10. Date High Low Pre. February 4 . . 43 15 0.00 February 5 . . 45 29 trace February 6 . . 41 32 0.08 February 7 . . 45 25 0.08 February 8 . . 45 17 0.00 February 9 . . 52 22 0.00 February 10 . 54 23 0.00 Summary Temperatures: highest 54, lowest 15. Week's averages, high 46, low 23, and mean, 35 degrees. Precipitation for the week, 0. 16 of an inch. Total since Jan. 1, 3.64 inches. Sun rises and sets, locally, at 8:10 a.m. and 5:50 p.m., MST. Special Education Classes Want Patrons to Visit Teachers of the Special Edu-cation class at Pleasant Grove Junior High School request pa-trons to visit he class in order to observe the children read. Class hours are from 9:30 to 10:30 a.m., any regular school day. Those interested are invited to call Mrs. Terry Chidester at 785-276- 8 or Mrs. Duane Major at 785-222- Theron H. Luke to Speak Monday at Writer's League Theron H. Luke, well-know- n journalist and Utah historian, will be the featured speaker at the February meeting of the Utah Valley Chapter, League of Utah Writers. The meeting is scheduled for Monday, Feb. 17, 7 p.m. at the Provo City Library. Mr. Luke will present "Re-searching the Utah Story." This is to provide specific helps to writers desirous of writing Utah's past and to enable them to enter the Sam W. Tay-lor writing contest for League Members. Mr. Luke has been on the staff of the Provo Daily Her-ald since 1945, and presently is city editor. He is a member of Sigma Delta Chi. A discussion period will fol-low Mr. Luke's lecture and research questions will be in-vited. Further information can be obtained by contacting Pat Seely, 785-381- secretary for Utah Valley Chapter, League of Utah Writers. Stake Priesthood Meeting Sunday Morning at 6:45 The Timpanogos Stake pres-idency has called attention to teh Stake General Priesthood meeting set for Sunday, Feb. 16 at 6:45 a.m. at the Timpan-ogos Stake House. Theme for next Sunday's meeting is 'Guidance of Youth' according to President Ertman H. Christensen. |