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Show "Pleasant Grove, the Most Beautifully Situated City in Utah County" VOL. LXV, No. 8 PLEASANT GROVE, UTAH 84062, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1969 SINGLE COPY 10c - ' - - . ...... ...,.. . . ., y . ' . ' " J' l : - ... .. ! .Li ?J w ! f ; ji FFA OFFICERS Steven Pollmann president is backed up by FFA officers, from left, Harold Draper, historian; Ron Anderson, secretary; Kent Wadley, treasurer; Richard Maxfield, Kim Robinson, Sentinel; John Foote, reporter and Joel Adams, vice president. FFA Banquet is set for tonight at Pleasant Grove High School for club. futa Farmers ilanqtaei ki IKSi ScSiS Twaglk The annual FFA Banquet will be held tonight, Thursday, Feb. 20 at the high school. It will start at 6:30 p.m. with an open house followed by the banquet at 7:30 p.m. Special attractions at the op en house will be a tool iden-tificaio- n contest and a fitting demonstration on a pig, a horse and a calf and sheep. Guest speaker at the banquet will be Blaine Hales from the Federal Land Bank. Special guests will include the FFA Morehead and Ann Shifrer. Other guests will include personnel from the Utah State University and the Brigham Young University. FFA members will receive awards including the Founda-tion Award, the Star Green-han- d Award and Star Chapter Farmer Award. All FFA members and par-ents are invited. Members of the FFA Advis-ory Council are Charles Warn-ic- k, chairman; Marvin Green, S. Hal Haycock, Dean Adams, and Donald Pollmann. PG Cfy Council Has Busy Session With all present, except Councilman Marvin Green, Mayor Paul T. Fordham and members of the Pleasant Grove City Council held a busy meet-ing Monday night at city hall. Blaine Brailsford and Harold Armitstead discussed the pro-posed new road, which will be a continuation of Ninth South from Locust Avenue to High-way 91. James Hindley and Clive Beck discussed further devel-opment of a new grandstand at the rodeo arena. They report-ed that a dismantled steel grandstand was available at Las Vegas with an asking price of $50,000 though they felt it might be purchased for much less. They also said that freight trucks, returning empty from California, would transport the stands to Pleasant Grove for bare expenses. Mr. Hindley and Mr. Beck were advised to dicker for a lower price. Jack S. Pace, representing the Chamber of Commerce, proposed that the city join with the C of C in the publication of a 10,000 copy tourist and in-dustrial brochure for Pleasant Grove at an estimated cost of $1,500. Mr. Pace was advised that such a project would not be feasible until after the start of the budget year, July 1, 1969, but that the council would look favorably on the project when money could be budgeted for it. Sherwood West asked per-mission to install a trailer house on his own property. He was told that such a project was contrary to city ordinances and was advised to build a conventional home on his prop-erty. Bids for a new dump truck for the Streets Department were opened. However, no con-tract was awarded, pending ap-proval of the State Road Com-mission .relative to the use of Class "C" Road Funds for that purpose. Requests were received from Mountain States Telephone Company for permission to in-stall underground cables at various areas of the city. The request was tabled, pending further study. The Council set up definite and official rules and regula-tions relative to city employee vacation, sick leave, incapac-itation, overtime and time off. he CituncilenveenhuEvar-sjss- s The Council members voted thanks to the local chapter of University Women for the books the organization donated to the city library. Councilman Jesse K. Thome requested that advertisements for bids be published for rental of city owned pasture land and also for the purchase of the old cannery truck weighing scales. The request was granted. The council agreed to the adoption of a schedule of build-ing permits for church build-ings in Pleasant Grove. The council approved the at-tendance of Charles Holman at the Building Inspector's Semin-ar, to be held in Salt Lake City, Feb. 26, 27, and 28. The Council also discussed the possibility of converting 200 South into a one-wa- y Street. The proposal was referred to Councilman Paul Blackhurst and the streets committee for further study. 'x r C of C OFFICERS David Faux, left, new president and Ted Jones, vice president, look over brochure to be printed. 0avic!l Faux Mew CfC Presided David Faux, pharmacist at Smith Drug Co., was elected Tuesday morning as president of the Pleasant Grove Chamber of Commerce by the board of directors. He replaces Gerald Belliston as president. Elected to serve with Mr. Faux was Ted Jones, local bar-ber, as vice president. A sec-retary and treasurer will be selected soon. Mr. Faux said Wednesday that the first thing on the agen-da will be a membership drive. Board members will contact local businessmen soon to en-roll them as C of C members for this year. Mr. Faux also emphasized that C of C membership is not confined to businessmen. "Any-one in the community can join the Chamber," he said. Your financial and moral support of this organization is what makes it effective in boosting Pleas-ant Grove and its development. The C of C will also pro-duce a brochure advertising Pleasant Grove and opportun-ities here. Money has been ap-propriated from C of C funds for this purpose, and when the Pleasant Grove City officials join with their financial help, the brochure can become pos-sible, Mr. Faux said. Church, School Combine to Give Film on Problems of LSD Users Acting on the premise that an informed community has a better chance of becoming a safer community, two interest-ing and informative films rela-tive to the use and effects of LSD have been shown at the local high schools. The films titled "LSD" and "Trip to Where," were shown at the high school Monday and Tuesday evenings to a total au-dience of more than 1,200 stu-dents and parents. City Councilman Marvin R. Green, chairman of public safe-ty, spoke briefly between the showing of the two films. He explained what the local situa-tion is, with respect to the use of drugs by youth and children. "We should be aware and relative to the problems," Mr. Green said. Assistant Principal C. Don Crump said that the films were authentic, factual and well re- - ceived by those who attended. According to Principal John Gourley of the Junior High, one of the films "Trip to Where" was shown to the Seventh and Eighth grade students Wednes-day morning and afternoon. He also said that an anti-drug program has been going forward at the Junior High for the past three weeks. This in-cluded the showing of samples of marijuana products and mockups of the popular nar-cotic pills now in use. The Monday through Wednes-day showing of the LSD films in Pleasant Grove was initiat-ed by Bishop Leon Walker of London. Upon his recommenda-tion, Mayor Joseph A. Chris-tiansen, Lindon and Mayor Paul T. Fordham, Pleasant Grove, added their support. The films were secured thru the efforts of Richard L. Ben-nett, U.S. Army Reserve, Am-erican Fork. "If we can save only one child, our efforts will be repaid a hundred fold," Bishop Walk-er emphasized. Sweetheart, Sherrie Peay and her attendants Pam Duke, Jane Scheduling Meet For Rodeo Ground Set for February 26 The Recreation Department is inviting representatives from any club or organization who anticipates using the Rodeo Grounds this coming summer to a scheduling meeting set for next Wednesday evening, Feb. 26. The meeting will be held at 7 p.m. at the Junior High School. Xill .; JOHN F. CHANDLER Will speak at UVIDA banquet UIVDA Slates Banquet for Monday Night The annual installation ban-quet of UVIDA (Utah Valley Industria Development Assoc-iation) will be held in the BYU Wilkinson Center Skyroom Feb. 24. The event begins at 7:30 p.m. and John F. Chandler, vice president of Colorado In-terstate Gas Co., will be the featured speaker. Wayne Winters of American Fork will be installed as presi-dent of UVIDA for the vear 1969. He succeeds Max Elliot of Provo. Other officers for the com-ing year include B. E. (Bye) Jensen, Provo, president-elec- t and Stanley G. Roberts, Am-erican Fork, chairman of the Utah County Commission, who will be installed as secretary-treasure- r. Bob Karpowitz, .UVIDA man-ager, said the chairman in charge of the affair is out-going president Max Elliot. In-stallation of officers will be conducted by David Haight, member of the UVIDA execu-tive committee. WbStleCreek 5 Be. I like to read current mag-azines. In fact, we take so many that they pile up on us before we can get them all per-used each month. Interested as I am in things literary, I always read the book reviews and the reports of the soon to be released sound pic-ure- s. Hontesly, nearly all of them leave me almost prostrate with indignation, revulsion and disgust. The new novels, which are predicted by the reviewers to become the near future "best sellers" deal almost exclus-ively with sex. And worse still, the shady side of sex, at that. Such sordid, immoral activities as infidelity, incest, rape, per-version and even carnal knowl-edge are played up to the hilt. The new movies which are predicted to "pack them in," are just as bad, as far as sor-did sex is concerned, except that nudity and visual sex rela-tions are added to the list. On first thought, it seems hard to understand why reput-able book publishers will print and release such tawdry trash. But on second thought, I sup-pose they are willing to print anything that the public de-mands. They are in the busi-ness to make money. Likewise with the film pro-ducers. The sex pictures are cheap to produce. About all they need is to set up brothel and bedroom scenes. While the epic, cultural and historical pictures require huge expend-itures for sets, extras and of-ten travel away from Holly-wood. So, if depictnig the seamy side of American life "packs them in," the spetcators bring dollars with them. And inflat-ed as they are, that's what the producers are after. I often reflect upon how times have changed relative to reading habits. Before I graduated from high school I had read "Tale of Two Cities," "Oliver Twist," "Old Curiosity Shop," "David Copperfield" and the rest of the works of Charles Dickins. Also "Ivan-ho,- " "Merchant of Venice," "Julius Caesar," "Macbeth," "Lady of the Lake," "Lorna Doone," All of Cooper's Leath- -' er Stocking Tales" and prac-tically every story that Jack London and Rudyard Kipling wrote. As I recall, there was little immorality aud practically no sordid sex played up in any of the e reading I had done and very, very little dur-ing my university reading car-eer. One of my favorite magazines during the past 60 years had been the Saturday Evening Post. Established by Benjamin Franklin, in the late 1780s, it folded up the other day, due to lack of advertising and sub-scription support. I well remember how I en-joyed the short and continued stories that ran in the Post. There were western and his-torical tales of American In-dian and Pioneer life. And hu-morous stories about "Scatter-goo- d Baines" and the sales-man who peddled the "Earth-worm Tractor." Also featured was Ring Lardner's "You Know Me Al" series and Damon Run-yon- 's sports stories. It was all clean, stimulating and enter-taining fiction. As the older writers passed on, they were replaced by more modern ones. Also the color and tone of the stories changed. The stories began to empha-size the lower aspects of Amer-ican life. Mostly featured were stories about the mentally ab-normal, the psychotic, the schi-zophrenic, the criminal and the immoral. Disgustedly, I wrote the edi-tors one time and asked them if there were no more normal Americans living, then, who were doing decent enough things to write stories about. They never acknowledged my letter, so I failed to renew my subscription. I suppose, that if the morality of the American people is slip-ping, it is our own faults. As long as we are willing to spend our money for filth, filth is what we will get. There could be a better way. So long 'til Thursday. 7 1 PI. Grove Steel Workers Honored For Long Service Eleven Pleasant Grove work-ers were honored for "extended careers" at a special Service Awards Luncheon last week at Riverside Country Club. In all, 125 workers were so honored. Receiving awards from the Pleasant Grove area were Ilene P .Beck, E. M. Woolley, L. B. Rawlings, G. J. McQuivey, V. M. Bezzant, O. M Swenson, E. L .Mart, W. M. Johnson, W. A. Zobell, M. R. Wadley, and H. R Wadley. I WIN REGION 4 Viking wrestlers who won Region Four Tourney last week were Dyke Meranda, Rondo Biggs, Dale Hardinger, Steve Pollmann, Eugene Fowles, Ron Hol man, Craig Chynoweth, Jeff Harris, Mark Sanderson, Mike Phillips, Randy Strasburg and Shirl Tomlinson. Vikings replaced Provo as wrestling champions of Region 4 for 1969. FGHS Wrestling Team Wins Region 4 Meet The Pleasant Grove High School Viking Wrestling team won the 1969 Region Four championship in a two-da- y meet held last Friday and Sat-urday in Price, Utah. The Darold Henry coached Viking team displaced the Pro vo High School Bulldogs, 1968 champions, who placed fourth in the 1969 regional meet. The four leading teams and their total points were as follows: Pleasant Grove, 67; Carbon, 58; Orem, 55 and Provo, 53. Pleasan Grove boys who scored points in the meet were as follows: Mike Phillips, first in 112 lb. class; Mark Sanderson, third in 120 lbs.; Craig Chynoweth, fourth in 133 lbs.; Ronnie Hol-man, third in 138 lbs.; Dale Hardinger, first in 165 lbs. and Rondo Biggs, second in 180 lbs. Eugene Stubbs to Head Utah Feed Manufacturers Eugene Stubbs, Manila, was elected president of the Utah Feed Manufacturers and Deal-ers Association at a convention held last week at Ramada Inn in Salt Lake City. Virgil White, Salt Lake City, was elected vice president and Dr. Jay O. Anderson, Logan, was named secretary-treasure- r Speaking to association mem-bers, Angus H. Belliston, pres-ident of the First State Bank of Utah, Salina, said that there is sufficient agricultural credit available if Utah's ranchers and farmers are willing to pay relatively high prices for it. He added that ranching and agriculture, now moving to-ward extensive mechanization, are becoming more expensive and that heavy demands for credit and operation loans are being received by banks. The group also listened to Dr. Dr. Leonard U. Schruben, chairman of the department of business and economics, Cali-fornia Western University, San Diego. Dr. Schruben said that high transportation rates often cost more than preparation of feeds by feed manufacturers. H. Kent Fowles, Utah State Chemist, described the Utah Department of Agriculture in-spections of medicated feed plants, and said that testing by the state chemist's office can be of service to the feed manu-facturer as well as the fanner. The two-da- y convention end-ed last Thursday night. Senor Citizens Set For Saturday Trip to Valley Music Hall "Just a reminder" said Arn-old Henrichsen last Tuesday. The Senior Citizens' bus for Valley Music Hall and the Jim-my Dean Show, Saturday, Feb. 22 at 1 p.m. at the City Hall. All the reservations have been taken up and we expect a fine trip and show, he added. |