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Show "Pleasant Grove, the Most Beautifully Situated City in Utah County" VOL. LXVI, No. 20 PLEASANT GROVE, UTAH 84062, THURSDAY, MAY 14, 1970 SINGLE COPY 1 0c Strawberry Days Rodeo Queen Tryouts Slated on Memorial Day Young horsewomen through- out the Pleasant Grove area and the State are invited to compete in the annual Straw-berry Days Rodeo Queen con-test, to be held May 30. Contestants will be judged on horsemanship, personality and western wearing apparel. must They be 16 years of age or old-er. Past queens are not eligible but attendants are. They must be available for Days radio and TV appearances. The Queen and her attendants will reign over rodeo festivities June 18, 19, and 20. There is no entry fee, accord-ing to Vernon Ahman, chair-man. Contestants may obtain applications by calling Mr. Ah-man at 785-369- 4 or by contact-ing him at 309 East 200 South, Pleasant Grove. Applications should be returned to Mr. Ah-man before the May 20 dead-line. Cash awards are $50 for the Queen and $35 for each attend-ant. The Queen will receive her entry fee for the Miss Rodeo Utah contest, when enters the state competition. S' ; ' ' " i , ' ' '.ft, . . f - -, ''.'" ' I , N A a ( ; 4 ...A 'p v ' f i ? ft i " , ' """ ' m&,:. ?;.; ' " 4 FLAGS AVAILABLE Utah Retail Grocers Association officers get ready to send out American Flags which will be sold in most grocery stores throughout the State of Utah. Utah Food Stores Will Offer American Flags For Sale Starting This Week, Says Association Ten thousand American Flags the first part of a 25,000 ship-ment, arrived in Salt Lake City recently abroad a special IML Flag Express from Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, to sup-port the Utah Retail Grocers Association Flag Waving pro-gram. The flags are being distribut-t- o food stores throughout the state, according to Harold H. Smith, Heber City, President of the association. They went on sale the 13th of May. "Our goal," says Mr. Smith, is to make American Flags avail-able at the neighborhood level. Many people who would like to have a flag and would display the flag don't have one because they have to write away or make a special trip some place to get one. By having them in the grocery stores, flags can be taken home with the groceries. We want to put a flag in every Utah home that wants to have one, wants to give it the respect it deserves, and wants to display it." The flags are five feet by three feet , stitched, color-fas- t cotton and come in a kit com-plete- with pole, rope, mounting bracket and display instruc-tions. Kits are expected to sell for $3.49. Individual grocers will give special discounts to scout groups, cub packs, ex-plorer posts and other civic or religious organizations that wish to sell flags. In addition to selling flags, the Utah Retail Grovers Assoc-iation will run an educational campaign about flags, the his-tory of our flag and the proper use of it, says Mr. Smith. - r ---I (':;:-C- " K . ::: STRAIGHT SHOOTERS-Winn- ing honors at recent Explorer shoot were Rick Phillips, Brian Christensen and Kenneth Phil-lips, front and Parke Hansen, third from left, standing. Ken won total aggregate trophy and Rick kneeling trophy, while team won grand total trophy. Advisors and coaches were George Fannen, Elton Robb, and Glade Hilton, standing Vikings Take Fourth Place in Region Four Track, Field Meet were as follows: Orem, 120; Payson, 43; Spanish Fork, 38; Pleasant Grove 29; Springville 28; Provo, 26; Carbon, 18: Am- - The Pleasant Grove Vikings won fourth place in the annual Region Four Track and Field Meet held last Friday afternoon at BYU Stadium. Orem's Tig-ers garnered first place in the ol event and smashed four records in the process. Point totals of the teams erican Fork, 2 and Lehl was held scoreless. Records broken by the Orem harriers included Alan McEw-an- , with a time of 22.2 in the 220; Doug Murdock, with a time of 1:57.8 in the half-mil- Gary Cramer, with a time of 4:30.7 in the mile and Juarez, Pyne, Eager and Hanks, with a time of 3:42.4 in the 880 relay. Ron Holman of Pleasant Grove was one of the best per-formers of the day. He won the javelin with a toss of 190 ft 2 inches, and was fourth in the Pole vault, which was won by teammate Mike Hatch with a 13 ft. 6 in. vault. Other Vikings who scored points were: Dean Williams, fourth place in the 220 yard dash. Pleasant Grove, third place in the medley relay. Steve Whitehead, second place in the javelin. Vance Lowe, fifth place in the javelin. Pleasant Grove, fourth place in the 880 yard relay. Democrats and Republicans to Hold District Meetings Monday Democrats of Pleasant Grove Precinct's Third District will meet to Monday, May 18 at 8:00 p.m., according to Harold Woolston, district chairman. The meeting will be held at Mr. Woolston's home, 790 North 350 East, Pleasant Grove. All interested citizens are cordially invited to attend and exercise their franchise. A mass meet-ing of Pleasant Grove 7th Dem-ocratic party affiliates will be held Monday night, May 18 at 8:00 p.m. The meeting is scheduled for the home of Harvey Danielson, 837 East 100 North, Pleasant Grove. Acting District 7 Chairman Alta Nleson requests a full at-tendance of all citizens inter-ested. Four other Democrat meetings are scheduled accord-ing to Ray Mills, precinct head. They are: At Leland Swenson's, RFD, Pleasant Grove, (Manila). At Glen Gilbert's, 691 South 300 East in Pleasant Grove. At Nick Zupan's, RFD 1, in London. At Donald B. Ash's, 361 E. 1st South in Pleasant Grove. ' A call about noon Wednes-day informed us that the Re-publicans would be mass meet-ing on Monday evening, but no places, times, or etc. was forthcoming. Republicans are meeting, however, and inter-ested people should inquire of their Republican District chair-man between now and Monday for time and place. Legion Auxiliary Plans Poppy Day Saturday, May 23 Members of American Legion Auxiliary are planning their annual Poppy Sales Day for Saturday, May 23, according to Thelma Barnes, chairman of the event. In calling attention to the coming community-wid- e activ-ity, Mrs. Barnes quoted as fol-lows from the special message from Marcella Davidson, na-tional president of the Ameri-can Legion Auxiliary. "We of the American Legion Auxiliary have been entrusted with the responsibility of bring-ing the little red crepe paper poppy to the people of Amer-ic-. "Each year we ask our fel-low Americans to wear over uieir nearis the red tlower as a gesture of remembrance for those who died in America's defense. "The basic purpose of Poppy Day is to offer the American people an opportunity to honor their war dead, while donating funds to aid the disabled vet-erans and their families." Mrs. Barnes urges everyone to keep May 23 in mind and to be ready with dimes, quarters and halves to aid in this once-a-ye- ar worthy cause. . Silver Lake Flat Road Closed During Summer Construction The Silver Lake Flat road above Granite Flats in Ameri-can Fork Canyon has been des-ignated a special service road and will be closed to the gen-eral public during construction of the Silver Lake Dam, U.S. Forest Service officials said recently. Officials said the purpose of the closure is to "protect the traveling public from undue hazards inherent to this road" during the construction period. Vehicle access on the road during construction working hours will be allowed only to authorized personnel & groups having need to be in the area, they said. However, full access will be allowed before and after working hours, on weekends, holidays, hunting season open-ing and at times construction work is not being done. Access by hiking and horseback will still be allowed. Road Blocked The road will be physically blocked and locked near its junction with the Granite Flat Campground to put the closure into effect. Stephen Rushton, forest rang-er on the Pleasant Grove Dis-trict, pointed out that the haz-ard exists in the area due to the face of the Silver Lake road being narrow and single lane, with passing possible only at switchback locations. "It would be impossible for a vehicle to pass a large piece of construc-tion equipment without danger, he said. Mr. Rushton said that the road travels steep side slopes which are not stabilized on eith-er cut or fill sections. Although rip rap, seeding and hand tren-ching has been done over the years, to stabilize the area, ef-forts have been in vain. Rail-road tie bin walls installed on the inside and dirt berms on the outside to stop fill unravel-ing have been partially succss-fu-l but have narrowed the trav-eling width down to one lane. Special Care Special care has been given to the maintenance of this "very delicate road" with a minimum amount of earth mov-ed during the grading opera-tions to assure that the outside berm has not been removed and that no additional cutting has been done on the inside shoulder to trigger more spiff-ing of the fragile cutbanks. Scout groups, stockmen, min-ers and prospectors, summer home permittees, fishermen, hunters and sportsmen, area agencies and the general public are asked to cooperate with the forest service during the Silver Lake Dam construction period. Construction began in 1969 and will continue through 1970-7- under the direction of the North Utah Water Conservancy Dis-trict. BYU Education Week Gives Self-Improvem-ent Self improvement has a high priority in a Latter-da- y Saint home and we are admonished to teach one another and the Lord's grace will attend us. If we are to teach one an-other somewhat diligently, then each has the obligation to learn. Plan now to attend BYU Lea-dership Week Monday through Friday, June 8 to 12. Preregis tration for the week is $5.00 and for a single day $2.00. BYU education week is a hap-py way to spend a week of re-laxation and enjoyment, for it brings a special kind of growth to those who attend. Hundreds of BYU educators and outstand-ing local instructors combine with BYU's administrators and with the students to bring a rich experience to all who at-tend. We should remember also, that there are two kinds of edu-cation, one teaches us how to make a living, the other how to live. Sportsmen to Hold Membership Meet Tonight, City Hall A membership meeting of the Pleasant Grove Sportsmens Association will be held tonight --(Thursday, May 14) at 8 p.m.-a- t the Pleasant Grove City Hall, according to Leonard Carter, president. Guest speaker will be Bruce Terry, forest ranger of the local National Forest area. Mr. Carter announced that membership fees of the organ-ization of $2.00 per person are now due and payable to Mary C. Adams, secretary-treasure- r. He also said that the Sports-mens Club and the Grove Ward Boy Scouts will jointly sell tic-kets to the 1970 Strawberry Days Rodeo. Police Auxiliary Elects New Officers for Year At a special meeting held May 7, the Pleasant Grove Auxiliary Police elected offic-ers to preside for the next year Elected were Jonny Frampton, Captain; Dean Jensen, 1st Lt; Paul Maxfield, 2nd Lt.; Kay Carlson, secretary and Newell Larsen, treasurer. Officers who have served and were replaced were Kay Carl-son, Mark Johnson, Max Smith, Glenn Smith and Allen Zable. Also discussed at the meet-ing was a raffle to be sponsor-ed by the Auxiliary Police as a Police Benefit Fund, which will represent two $100 grocery or-ders, to be given away on June 20 at the Strawberry Days Ro-deo. Tickets will be sold by Auxiliary members for $1.00 contribution. Last year's raffle money went toward purchase of the new ambulance which is main-tained by the auxiliary police and will be used by them for ambulance service. The ambul-ance is on 24 hour call to resi-dents of Pleasant Grove, Lin-do- n and Manila areas, and for use in accidents involving any-one passing through the area. Battle Creek L :V I suppose the concern and respect for one's Alma Mater are emotions a person never outgrows. Such have been my feelings of late, while certain individuals were conspiring to "shut down" University of Utah A U of U classmate of mine, '67 years removed, expressed my feelings almost perfectly in the May 1970 issue of the "Daily Utah Chronicle." Call-ing his letter "Outside Help" he wrote as follows: Chronicle Editer: Four students are dead at Kent State University and stu-dents on campuses throughout the nation are questioning why. The story is repeated over and over again how helmeted and armed National Guardsmen shot down "four unarmed stu-dents like us who were merely exercising their constitutional rights." The National Guard is being accused of cold-bloode- d murder and slaughter. Certainly the death of any human being is a tragedy, but in the emotions of our regret and sorrow, let us not blindly point an accusing finger. The arrival of National Guard troops on Kent State campus was proceded by some demonstrations, dur-ing which property and build-ings were damaged and burn-ed. In California, such demon-strations have already led to widespread destruction and death in recent weeks. It was in order to prevent further and extended damage and destruc-tion that troops were called in. Questions should certainly be raised as to the preparedness of the National Guard to handle the situation effectively. But the fact remains that the Guard was the only alternative to con-tinued rioting and anarchy. The Guard came to Kent State campus. In attempting to disperse a mob of students they expended their supply of tear gas. Five or six hundred stu-dents surrounded them and be-gan throwing bricks and con-crete. The Guardsmen fired and four students were dead. It's easy to say that the Guard shouldn't have fired, that they should have remained calm and cool. Or is it? The Guard is people, students like you and me. Putting a helmet on someone's head doesn't make him any less human, any less emotional. I'm in the Guard and proud of it. But that does not mean I want to kill someone. That doesn't mean that I wouldn't get scared if 500-60- 0 people surrounded me and started throwing bricks and rocks. Certainly the ration-al thing is not to shoot into the crowd, but neither is it rational to throw bricks at other human beings. Is mob violence ever rational? The only way a recurrence of this tragedy can be prevented is to prevent the violence which necessitates armed intervention It is ridiculous for anyone, par-ticularly 41 members of a uni-versity faculty, to call for an unequivocal ban on police inter-vention in student demonstra-tions as long as those demon-strations take on violent over-tones. There are students who would rather learn than riot and burn. If intervention by outside police is necessary to protect students' rights, then I support it. LARRY BRASIER Thanks Larry, and . . . So long 'til Thursday. J i ..-- i "jr. , - ' ' """"" " . ; f. 1 xv-- . j . , .. 4 GUYS AND DOLLS Pat Cummings, Ronald W. Hall, Joel Osborne and Wendy Woolsey will have parts in Guys and Dolls 'Guys and Dolls' Slated for May By Utah Valley Opera Assn. "Guys and Dolls" a musical fable of Broadway, based on a story by Damon Runyon, will be presented on the stage of the Provo High School Audi-torium on Saturday, Monday and uesday, May 23, 25 and 26 at 8 p.m. with a matinee on Saturday. The production, a Utah Valley Opera musical, will be $1.50 for adults, students at $1.00 and children at 75 cents. The Saturday matinee may be seen for 50 cents for all ages. Cast in the leading roles are Ron Hall, Pat Cummings, Joel A. Osborne, Wendy Woolsey, Gerald Smith, Derelys Anth-ony, Lucile Brown, Alan Smith, Gerald Johnson, Elwood Sund- - berg, Duane Major and Louie Youagheit. The production cast consists of the following: choral music, Ruth Melville ; orchestra, Ches-ter Stone; drama director, Da-vid Larsen; choreographer, Jo-an Christensen; costumes, Bret Hardy; lighting, Craig Fowkes; scenic design, Joel A. Osborne; decoration, Sharleen Pitts ; pub-licity, Virginia Evans and bus-iness manager, LaVorn Sparks. The show is the 1970 spring production of the Utah Valley Opera Association, and all fam-ily memberships will be honor-ed. Tickets are available in each community. Sherman Varney Receives Silver Beaver Award Sherman Varney, Pleasant Grove, was one of 17 Utah Boy Scouters to receive the coveted "Silver Beaver Award" at cer-emonies conducted at BYU on April 23. The event was spon-sored by the local unit of the National Parks Council, Boy Scouts of America. As a scouter, Mr. Varney has served as an Explorer ad-viser, member of District Com-mite- e, member of Troop com-mittee, Scoutmaster and Dis-trict Neighborhood Commis-sioner. Also ward Clerk, Coun-selor in the Elders Quorum, and as a member of Timpan-ogo- s Stake MIA board. He holds the Scouters Key and has assisted with numer-ous training conferences in Timpanogos District BSA. He attended the national jam-boree at Farragut, Idaho, where he did an outstanding job in giving leadership to both boys and their leaders. His wife is the former Mary Christiansen of Pleasant Grove and they have six chlidren. and they have six children. Vocationally, he is a Geneva Steel foreman in masonary and has a record of 25 years con-tinuous service. Swimming Team Plans Meeting For Today at 6:00 Parents interested in having their chlidren take competitive swimming classes and join the Pleasant Grove Swim Team are requested to be at a special organizational meeting Thurs-day, May 14 at 6 p.m. at the City Hall. According to Mrs. George (Ann) Gardner, president for the 1970 season, elections will be held for the offices of vice president and secretary. Also, the new swimming in-structor and coach will be in-troduced and class schedules, dates for meets and general or-ganization of parents to handle the meets at Pleasant Grove, will be discussed. Visit Parents Here Larry and Vicki Adamson of Bellevue, Washington, and two daughters Tiffany and Gina have been visiting with their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Grant Adamson of Pleasant Grove, and with Mr. and Mrs. Don Oberhansly, of Spanish Fork, during the past week. |