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Show pi?mmit mw m$iawM "Pleasant Grove, the Most Beautifully Situated City in Utah County" VOL. LXV, No. 6 PLEASANT GROVE, UTAH 84062, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1969 SINGLE COPY 10c City Fathers Weigh Problems at Meeting Monday, Long Session Mayor Paul T. Fordham and all members of the Pleasant Grove City Council met in reg-ular session last Monday night at City Hall. It was a long meeting with many items of civic importance comnig up for consideration. Gilbert Horrocks of Salt Lake City reported that he is consid-ering establishing a home and an engineering office in Pleas-ant Grove He requested that he be employed by the City. He was advised that he would be considered along with other engineering firms for fut-tur- e city business. Veatrice Stewart, Alice Sim- - per and Lucile Hillman, repre-senting clubs interested in beautification, requested that the old City Shops be converted into a club house since the building was of historical im-portance. The council encouraged clubs to cooperate in financing the project and promised some fin-ancial help from city funds. The Council discussed the coming city beautification pro-gram and suggested several names for committee chair-man. The matter was referred to Councilman Jesse K. Thorne for further study. Bids were opened for the purchase of balloon tires for the cemetery truck. Cal and Paul's were the low bidders and were awarded the contract A draft of the contract for the proposed Tri-Cit- y Municipal Golf Course was read and sev-eral changes and additions were suggested by council members. It was agreed that private individuals should be asked to subscribe for mem-berships. The present city business license policy was reviewed and recommendations made, that the amount of the license fee be based upon total sales. Councilman Jay Harmer was authorized to have a new ord-inance drawn up in accordance with the recommendation and to become effective in 1970. Councilman Marvin Green reported that he had been re-quested by the Utah State of Employment Secur-ity to furnish a salary schedule of city employees. Councilman Green stated that such a sche-dule would be furnished as re-quested. The question as to what to do with pasture acreage, now owned by the city, came up for consideration. Councilman Thorne was authorized to re-ceive bids for the rental of the same. The Council approved placing a seal coat on the walls of the new City Shops. The Council approved extend-ing the deadline for accepting applications for the new post of "City Administrator'' to 5 p.m. Monday, February 24, 1969. The Council also approved placing three-wa- y stop signs at the intersection of Main and Center Streets. lis ' - ; ff ;'J r ; . ) $h N BEAUTY WEEK Robert Jensen and Dar-len- e Adams, beauticians, watch as Mayors Joe Christiansen and Paul Fordham sign proclamation designating National Beauty Week In this area. Many events are plan-ned by the beauticians for this next week. National leauty Salon Week Set For Feb. 9-1- 5; Events Planned National Beauty Salon Week, which will be observed from Feb. 9-- has been dedicated to bringing beauty to more wo-men with a special dedication to those less fortunate women, such as those in rest homes, hospitals and the State Train-ing School. Many of these re-ceive welfare or free services at the institutions as well as in the many beauty salons in the areas. This is a Valentine from the hair dressers. In some instances they have been called "Beauty Angels bringing a gift of love." National Beauty Salon Week gives the hairdressers of the area the opportunity to work to-gether as a group as well as display the spring hair fashions and bring them to the attention of the public. During the week a Hawaiian Luau dinner has been planned to be held Thursday, Feb. 13, at the Orem Jr. High School. Entertainment for the evening will be provided by Keaka's Dance Studio from Grantsville. Vermine Haws is the director. Also at the program hair fashions by the N. Utah Coun-ty Affiliate No. 1 will depict the new spring hair styles. The slo-gan this spring is "Crown Your Beauty with a New Hair Style." A very successul kickoff breakfast was held at Bill and Iva's Cafe in Orem on Monday, Feb. 3. Forty-si- x members were in attendance. Mae Wright, National Beauty Salon Week chairman for Affil-iate No. 1 was in charge of the event. Trend styles were pre-sented by Faye Rose and Gladys Smith, State Hair Fash-ion Committee members, both of whom are from the North Utah County affiliate. Reports were also given for National Beauty Salon Week. A IT- - " - i .... : - j LIFETIME MEMBER O. Lee Swenson presents plaque and congratulates Ertmann Christensen on being named "Life-time Member at C of C banquet held last Friday night. Ertmann Christensen Named Lifetime Member by C of C Ertmann H. Christensen, church and civic leader and businessman was named Life Member of the Pleasant Grove Chamber of Commerce at the annual membership banquet Friday night at the Pleasant Grove High School. Chamber of Commerce Past President O. Lee Swenson gave a brief history of Mr. Christen-sen'- s life and accomplishments and presented the official Life Member Placque. Mr. Christensen was born in Moroni, and educated in Mor-oni, Lapoint, Vernal Schools and Brigham Young University Vocationally he was employ-ed as an accountant for the Timpanogos Marketing Assoc-iation, Station Agent for the Salt Lake and Utah Railroad at Orem and Pleasant Grove and Cashier of the Bank of Pleas-ant Grove. In a civic way he has been secretary of the Orem Cham-ber of commerce and member of the Orem Town Board, presi-dent of the P. G. chamber of commerce and Plesaant Grove City Councilman. For the LDS Church he has been a Sunday School teacher, YMMIA Superintendent, Scout-master, Stake Clerk, Ward Bishop and is currently Second Counselor in the Timpanogos Stake Presidency. He married Lerene Vance and later, after her death, mar-ried her sister, Bernice. He is the stepfather of one child and the father of five. All have graduated from high school; four have graduated from college and a fifth will compete college this fall. Four of his six children have completed full term missions for the LDS Church. One Honor Student From P.G. at U of U Terri Ingersoll, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Morris G. Inger-soll, and a junior student at the University of Utah, was one of 1,084 students named to the fall quarter honor roll at that school. To be listed on the honor roll a student must maintain an average of 3.5 or better where 4.0 is equivalent to an "A." Geneva Works Celebrates 25th Anniversary Geneva Work, the backbone of Utah Valley'es economy, ob-served its 25th anniversary of steelmaking Tuesday. The 5,000 Geneva employees marked the occasion with de-termination to make it 50. While the plant has produced nearly 40 million tons of steel in its first 25 years, the Tues-day cleberation was focused on the start of production for the second quarter of a century of steelmaking in Utah. Gov. Calvin L. Rampton pull-ed a switch that signaled the tapping of an open heart fur-nace. He was assisted in this ceremony by veteran steel-makers who tapped the first heat of open hearth steel in Utah 25 years ago. As the furnace poured out its burden of 350 tons of molten steel shortly after 2 p.m. Tues-day, the second quarter of a century of steelmaking in Utah began. In an anniversary message to employees, Raymond W. Sundquist, general superinten-dent ,set the theme for the week-lon- g anniversary obser-vance : In keeping with the respon-sibility we share," he said, "this occasion must be a time for each of us to renew his commitment to uphold the fut-ure of our industry and to set as our goal the achievement of 50 years of steelmaking in Utah." He said that "there is no guarantee for us that we will reach this goal. We musi. work for it. Progress like this has to be won the hard way." The day's observance center-ed on this visit of the governor and the start of steel produc-tion for the second 25 years. Plant officials and about 50 civic and business leaders tour-ed the plant after the brief ceremony at the open hearth. At the conclusion of the tour the guests viewed a present-ation on Steelmaking in the West and were served refresh-ments in the GRA building. Beginning Wednesday and continuing through Saturday, plants tours will be held for Geneva employees and their partners. Buses will make regularly scheduled trips thru the plant for employees begin-ning at 9 a.m. and ending at 5 p.m. each day. C of C Hears Hughes Brockbank At Banquet Last Friday Evening "Chambers of Commerce are America's greatest organi-zations for positive action," said Utah State Senator Hugh-es Brockbank last Friday night. He was guest speaker at the annual Pleasant Grove Cham-ber of Commerce banquet held at the Pleasant Grove High School lunch room. The speaker recommended that Research Parks as well as Industrial Parks be estab-lished as an aid to furnishing employment to Utah's young people. "We should be import-ing trained personnel and ex-porting manufactured products instead of the reverse," he em-phasized. Senator Brockbank, also pointed out that the present Utah Legislature should hold the line on taxes. The tax bur-den of Utahns is oppressive al-ready," he concluded. Chamber of Commerce Pres-ident, Gerald BelLston con-ducted the meeting and intro-duced the program numbers. Mayor Paul T. Fordham gave short remarks of weicome and encouragement to those pres-ent, and said that the city ad-- ministration was behind the C of C in their efforts for com-munity development. Prayer and grace on the food were offered by Merrill N. War-nic- k and William E. Petersen and Nancy Ekins favored with three vocal duets, "Fiddler on the Roof," Sunrise and Sunset" and "You Never Walk Alone." The singers were accompan-ied by Catherine Rees. A. B. Gibson, local repre-sentative on the UVIDA board of directors, introduced Roy Griffin, Pleasant Grove Bak-ery and Ralph Bonham, Sky-line Inc., two of Pleasant Grove's newest businessmen and welcomed them to the community. Mr. Belliston reviewed the 1968 activies of the CofC, em-phasizing in particular the suc-cessful membership drive and the establishment of the West Side Parking Plaza. He expres-sed appreciation to Pleasant Grove City, the Main Street businessmen and to the civic clubs, who assisted in the plaza project. C of C Secretary-Treasure- r Grant Atwood read the annual financial report. O. Lee Swenson, CofC past president, named Ertmann H. Christensen as the 1969 Life Member and presented the traditional placque of honor. Mr .Christensen responded with thanks and appreciation. The presentation of the past president's honorary placque was made to Mr. Belliston by Gerald Klemm. Newly elected Chamber of Commerce members to the board of directors were an-nounced as follows: Lloyd Ash, Grant L. Atwood, Don Crump, Maron Oveson, Keith Story, John Y. Swenson and O. Lee Swenson. A bouquet of flowers was presented to Lucile P. Hillman for her services as correspond-ing secretary. Another bouquet was presented to the wife of Senator Brockbank. Door prizes went to Lucile Carter, Ruth Robertson, Ruby Warnick and Bonnie C. Flet-cher. The cube steak dinner was served to 130 members, guests and partners by the Pleasant Grove Fourth Ward. Henrichsens Visit Son In Cape Kennedy, Fla. Mr. and Mrs. Arnold Hen-richse- n returned recently from Cape Kennedy, Florida area, where they visited with Mr. and Mrs. Keith Henrichsen and three children, who live at Sat-teli- te Beach, near Cape Ken-nedy. Keith works for General El-ectric and performed services in the construction of Appollo 8. While there the Henrichsens observed the launching of the moon orbiting sattelite. While on vacation they visit-ed Cyprus Gardens, Bush Gar-dens, the Everglades, Daytona Beach, Miami Beach and Key West. With Keith, Mr. Henrich-sen also enjoyed river and deep sea fishing. Bmtle Creek - aAiltMtoJ A nationally noted education-al psychologist said recently that young people are much smarter than they used to be. Well, sir, they ought to be, what with better schools and facilities and better means of communication radio, televis-ion, newspapers, magazines and so on. And all that is to the good, except when the youngsters turn their intelligence toward outwitting or bulldozing law enforcement officers or other authorities in acts of rioting and crime. An example of that reared its ugly head in Salt Lake County last week. A group of 17 youths, all of them 17 years of age, were arrested after one of the most prolonged and and massive forgery and drug pushing rackets known in the annals of Utah crime. Since last September, the arrested juveniles have been stealing prescription blanks from doctors offices and medi-ta- l clinics. In possession of these, the young criminals have been writing prescriptions for hallucinogenic drugs, forg-ing a doctor's name and then having the prescriptions filled at drug stores and pharmacies in the Bountiful and Riverton areas. The drugs were then sold to adults and other juveniles at inflated prices or used by the youthful addicts, themselves, Officers estimate that at least 700 prescription blanks had been stolen and the majority of them used. What actually broke the in-vestigation wide open was the fact that the forgers mispelled the names of some of the drugs. Also that some of the prescrpitions were presented for filling by persons other than the ones named on the pre-scriptions. The fact that the racket has been going on for five months should stimulate a few red adult faces in the area invol-ved. Was it greed for the in-flated dollar, that prompted drug clerks and pharmacists to be sowewhat lax in the dis-tribution of narcotic drugs, especially to juveniles? What about the parents of the young forgers and drug ad-dicts? Seems that some of them would have "smelled a rat" and then notified the auth-orities. Certainly they have had time enough. All of this reminds tins writer of what a famous juven-ile judge said long ago. It was this "Behind every delinquent child or youth, there stands one or more delinquent ad-ults." If parents and other adults had only assumed their respon-sibility toward youth, much of the present juvenile and young adult rioting and crime would never have come about. A good example of the effect-iveness of parental responsib-ility became evident in a news-paper story last week. The in-cident happened at Brandies University near Boston, where a group of young dissenting Ne-groes were occuping an admin-istration building. A Negro woman rapped on the door of the adminisrtation building with the handle of her umbrella. After the door was opened, she asked for her son. When tlie boy appeared, she took him by the ear and mar-ched him home. Reporters, of course, asked her what promp-ted such direct and efficient parental action. She reportedly replied, "I have always thought that a university was a place for young people to get an educa-tion. Not a place to raise hell" And this column says, "A-men- ," to that. Young Marrieds to Hold Dinner and Dance on Feb. 22 The Stake Young Marrieds are asking that their members circle Saturday, Feb. 22 on the calendar and plan to attend the Timpanogos Stake Young Mar-rieds Annual Dinner-Danc- The event will be held in the Third-Sixt- h Ward Cultural Hall and will be priced at only $2.00 per couple, and bring your own dishes. Tickets may be pur-chased from your ward Young Marrieds leaders. Be sure to make reservations early, they advise, as only a limited num-ber of tickets are available. A dance band has been en-gaged for the event and a love-ly dinner planned. Senor Citizens Slate Trip to Valley Music Hall on February 22 Senior Citizens of the Pleas-ant Grove area will travel to Valley Music Hall Saturday, Feb. 22 to enjoy the 2:30 p.m. matinee of the Jimmy Dean show. The bus will leave city hall at 1 p.m. and reservations are to be made with Arnold Hen-richsen by Saturday, Feb. 15. Price for everything is $2.70 per person. : . ' f' r i i ; s. h SPORTSMEN'S OFFICERS Leonard (Pink) Carter, right, was president of the Pleasant Grove Sportsmens Assn. recently. Glade Sorenson is vice president and Mary C. Adams is secretary. Serving on the board of directors, Mr. Carter says, will be Dale Carter, Glade Hilton, Doug Luke, Carl Peay, Reed Radmall, Ben Miller, Elton Robb and Douglas Adams. The Sportsmen invite any-one interested to join and participate Congressman to Speak in Provo On February 17 Illinois Republican Congress-man Leslie C. Arends, House Minority Whip, will speak in Provo, February 17, at a Lin-coln Day Fund Raising Dinner, County Chairman Fred T. Wright announced Tuesday. Mr. Arends is the number 2 Republican in the U.S. House of Representatives and is a popular speaker in the east. Congressman Laurence J. Burton, who is an assistant Whip in the House, will ac-company Mr. Arends and intro-duce him at the dinner. Mr. Arends is expected to give an interesting report on the pro-gress of the new administration in Washington, D.C. The dinner meeting will be held in the Eldred Center, 270 West 500 North, Provo, at 7:30 p.m. on Monday, February 17. The general public is invited and tickets may be obtained from local Republican officials. |