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Show fllraBant draw Setimti "Pleasant Grow, the Nt(tst Beautifully Situated City in Utah County" VOL. LXXIII, No. 10 PLEASANT GROVE, UTAH 84062, THURSDAY, MARCH 6, 1980 Single Copy 15 ay "THE BOOK WORM" Mark Carter and his mother Mrs Nanette Carter are operating new tusiness on PI. Grove's main street in Rasmussen building. The Book Worm . . . New Business Opens on PI. Grove's Main Street In attempt to provide a service to the businesses and members of the community. The Chamber of Com-merce would like to recognize one of the newer businesses. The Bookworm is a "dream come true," says Mrs. Nannette Carter. The dream of own-ing a book exchange is something she has wanted and worked for, for a long time. with some persuasion she was able to talk her son Mark into going in with her. The primary reason for the Bookworm is a service for the residents of the Northern Utah County-- Mrs. Carter relized that most people have used paperback books around the house that they no longer use and that they could be brought to a place of exchange. This is just how the Bookworm works. Used boks can be brought to the Bookworm and ex-changed for a small fee. There are several different trade and purchase plans which customers may choose from. The books are presently divided into categories such as historical, mystery, romance, western science fiction, children and teens, sports and so on. There are also additional distributor-ship for the new Boneville News books. The store is open from noon to 6 p.m. during the week and 10 a.m. until 6 on Saturdays. Like Mrs. Carter and her son Mark we invite you to see for yourself what a great service the Bookworm really is. Mark's thanks to his mother for all she's done. Council Met in Session Tuesday Night Pleasant Grove City Council meeting began Tuesday night with a surprise visit from three of Mayor Cornell Haynie's children, Mark, An-nette, and David, carrying a large bir thday cake. Council had met earlier in a special meeting to discuss the city's position in the state retirement System and then went on after the brithday celebration to proclaim 15 week, approved city participation in piping a portion of the Proctor Lane :t Ditch, discuss arrangements for ex- - "e isting subdivisions in annexed areas, s hear the UVIDA yearly report, x review plans for new developments 11 west of 1300 West, hear a request to open a fun center, met with the city 1, attorney to review legal proceedings, ;r and handle departmental business. si Several young people of the com-- Is munity attended the meeting to re- - le quest that the week of March 2 through March 8 be declared Utah it County Week. e This proclamation was signed and it council expressed their support of the d program encouraging all the t. youth of the area to participate in y --activities. L The youth then presented the coun- - d cil with several platters of home made r cookies. h Rose Hall, a representative from le the retirement board reported that it state law did not allow cities to r. withdraw from the retirement system r- - and also stated that most cities found d it very difficult to run their own retir- - h ement program. Upon questions of e the council about how much benefit d city employees actually received in d comparison to the city contribution, L Mrs. Hall reported that propor- - h tionately it was probably lower than the larger cities received. She agreed n to research this matter further and present the actual figures to the city 7 at a later date. n She went on to explain many of the commonly unknown benefits of the retirement program. :t City Engineer Lee Wimmer n reported on recent meetings with n Utah County officials to discuss ie drainage problems along Proctor n Lane. The county has proposed to pipe a portion of the ditch and widen t the road. Upon his recommendation st Council approved city participation 's to increase the size of the pipe from jr 36 inches to 42 inches so that it would e handle future increases in drainage. n- - The city will contribute 10 of the 't cost to a maximum of $7,000.00 Mr. at Wimmer then reported that ar- - It rangements had been made with ie developers to realign 1300 West at its intersection with the state highway, and Proctor Lane. Kraig Higginson representing the (Continued on page 3) j Utah Forum Will Discuss Role of 'Right Wing' The role of the Right Wing in Utah politics will be discussed by three speakers at the Utah Forum's monthly dinner meeting in March. The Forum, a democratic discus-sion group, will host Dale Lambert, State Democratic party chairman; Nancy Kader, Utah County Democratic Chair, and Bill Evenson, Utah County vice-chai- According to Evenson, "It is un-fortunate that Utah has become known as a haven for Right-win- ex-tremism. As far as I am concerned Utahns are swing voters, not radicals." The speakers all feel that Utah has taken on an unbecoming national political profile. The public is invited to the dinner to be held at the Provo Elks Lodge at 7:30,. March 7th. Reservations can be made by calling Mrs. Raymond Duvall, Pleasant Grove. "GIRL SCOUT WEEK" Mayor W. Cornell Haynie has signed proclamation about Girl Scout Week. Scouter Ruth Hassenfritz and girl scouts Michelle Gates and Rebecca Hopkins believe that girl scouting promotes good activity for girls. Girl Scout Week Mar. 9 to 1 9 Mayor W. Cornell Haynie this week proclaimed the week of March 9 to 19 as Girl Scout Week in Pleasant Grove. The proclamation was signed by Mayor Haynie with girl scouts from Troop 496 at the ceremony witness-ing the signature. Mayor Haynie noted that the theme for Girl Scout Week is "Girl Scouting: Where the Future Begins" and said that "Girl Scouting has pro-ven itself to be more than just an after-scho- activity. It has been a pioneer in helping girls to determine their own destinies, and is helping them to achieve success in any under-taking." He continued, "The future of Plea-sant Grove depends on our young people of today. Girl Scouts have been in the forefront in providing ser-vice and contributing to the better-ment of our community. Girl Scouts deserve our interest and cooperation, and I urge the sup-port of all Pleasant Grove's citizens in the work they are doing to make our city a better place for all." In conjunction with Girl Scout Week, girls scouts will be ringing doorbells in Pleasant Grove from March 7th to 17th taking advance orders for those famous Girl Scout Cookies. These super saleswomen will deliver the delicious boxed cookies between April 18 and 28, and collect the 81.50 per box at that time. Watch for the girls and help them out by buying a box or two. Cancer Clinic Set For P.G. Ladies Friday, Mar. 28 A cancer clinic will be held for all ladies in the Pleasant Grove area on Friday. Mach 28. This will be at the Pleasant Grove Stake Center, 275 East 500 South, beginning at 9 a.m. A fee wil be charged according to your income. Fees will range from nothing for people with incomes less than $4,000 annually to $10 for those who make over $25,000. Appointments can be made by call-ing your Stake Relief Society Presi-dent. Pleasant Grove Stake - Sue Speed. 785-464- Pleasant Grove East Stake - Roberta Peterson, 785-431- Timpanogos Stake - Blanche War-nic- 785-202- No one will be admit-ted without an appointment. Police Solve P.G Crimes, List February Problems should help them by calling in anything that is suspicious or that might help them in catching criminals or lawbreakers. Chief Michael Ferre' and Detec-tive Thomas Paul solved a burglary at Jensen Brothers recently. One adult and one juvenile were arrested. Detective Paul also recovered some of the property in a storm drain. In other police action, Sgt. Steve Frampton arrested a juvenile involv-ed in a home burglary. Investigation is continuing in the location of some of the missing items. Patrolman Roger Ostergaard recovered a T.V. set that was stolen from the Grovecrest School. A juvenile was arrested in that case. Five persons were arrested for possession of marijuana recently, one for disturbing the peace, one for possession of drugs, two for asault, three for driving on revocation of drivers license, two for possession of liquor, one for public intoxication, and four arrested on warrants. Three juveniles were referred to juvenile court for shoplifting. These arrests as listed were all for the month of February. With the increase of people in our area, more incidents of crime will keep our police force busy. Citizens Sheriff's Deputies Make Arrest, Recover Property Merchandise valued at more than $25,000 was recovered by Utah Coun-ty Sheriff's deputies on February 26. Deputy Sheriff Richard Casto ar-rested two individuals at around 4:15 p.m. near 8000 North, just west of the freeway near American Fork, They were arrested for "possession of con-trolled substances." Those arrested were Terry James Eliason, 27 of Salt Lake and Glenn Roger Wilson, also of Salt Lake. Further investigation by the depu-ty and Utah County Sheriff's detec-tives David Lamph and Jay Colledge revealed more than $25,000 in stolen property in the vehicle. Most of this has been identified by Salt Lake officers as stolen merchan-dise from their city. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Hulbert were held up and robb-ed in their Salt Lake City home on Feb. 18. All of the stolen items from this robbery are included in the loot, most-ly Oriental antique items carved from ivory and jade. , Don't Limit Press Freedom Every company doing i business in America is required to pay taxes to do their share of ' financing government opera- - tions. But after those normal ; business taxes are paid, the I; Constitution specifies that no 1', taxes can be levied upon the press which will limit the ; distribution of news. j; The U.S. Supreme Court !; !; declared unconstitutional a '! Louisiana tax in 1934 because: j "It is measured alone by the ex- - tent of the circulation of the publication in which the adver- - ; tisements are carried with the ; plain purpose of penalizing the publisher and curtailing the cir- - '', culation of a selected group of newspapers." ' ,5 fx "BAKE AND TAKE WEEK" These 4-- H girls presented treats to Mayor W. Cornell and the City Countil to celebrate na-tional "Bake and Take" week. The Mayor also signed a proclamation recognizing 4-- H Week. Girls are Tina Jones, Stacy Bullock, Lisa Oscarson, Krystin Hill, Lisa Miller, Lisa Harmer, Michelle Tingey, Judy Voorhees, Karen Harmer, Connie Henrie. Mayor Proclaims 4-- H Week in Pleasant Grove j doing the best project in their area. Lori Voorhees, Karen Harmer and also won a national award for their energy conservation project. Since this is National 4-- Week we congratulate our youth and their leaders for their achievements of last year and encourage them to do even better this year. Now is the time to contact the Utah State University Extension Ser-vice office in Provo at 377-279- 7 for any help or information you need to begin this year's projects. Time is well spent in Do you know that there are 70 young people in Pleasant Grove who completed projects last year? Some of these did several pro-jects, not just one. In fact, the 70 of them earned 89 ribbons at the county fair, and most of the ribbons were blue! Many of their projects were considered good enough to represent our county at the State Fair, where they earned more ribbons. emphasizes record keeping, too. Most keep an accurate and current record book of their achievements. First Security Bank of Orem and the Bank of Pleasant Grove donate cash prizes to the youth who keep the best records. The two banks gave 27 award to Utah County youth last fall, and Pleasant Grove won 17 out of them. That's quite an accomplish-ment. Our 70 and their 20 leaders have represented Pleasant Grove well, both in quality of work and in quantity too. Lori Voorhees, Judy Voorhees, Karen Harmer, Lisa Harmer, Krystin Hill and Elizabeth Adams won the top awards given in Utah County for mL jgw life ELDER ROBERT j. ADAMS0N Robert Adamson Called on Mission Elder Robert J. Adamson, son of Mr. and Mrs. David P. Adamson. has been called to serve a mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-da- y Saints in the Japan Okayama mission. His farewell is scheduled for Sun-day, March 9, at 1 p.m. in the Sixth Ward, located at 700 East 500 West. Elder Adamson graduated from Pleasant Grove High School and LDS Seminary, he participated in wrestling .and track for four years, and served as band president. He attended Utah State University last full. All friends and relatives are invited .to the farewell to wish him well and 'hear his testimony. Elder Adamson enters the mission training center on March 13. ELDER DAVID RATLIFF Michael Ratliff to Go to Mississippi David Michael Ratliff, son of David M. and Marjorie R. Ratliff has been called to the Mississippi Jackson field of labor for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-d- t Saints. Elder Ratliff will be honored at a farewell on Sunday, March 9 at 8 a.m. in the Timpanogos Stake Center. He enters the Mission Training Center on March 13. Elder Ratliff is a graduate of Plea-sant Grove High School and Seminary and was an honor student. He also played varsity basketball and baseball. All friends and relatives are in-vited to come to the farewell and hear his testimony. 1l ELDER MARK J. ATW00D Mark Atwood Will Go to Georgia Elder Mark K. Atwood, son of Lynn (Rick) and Gay Atwood has been call-ed to serve a mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-da- y Saints, in Atlanta, Georga. A farewell is scheduled to honor him Sunday, March 9th at 1 p.m. in the Ward, 475 North 700 East. Elder Atwood will enter the mission home, March 13. Mark is a graduate of Pleasant Grove High School, while there he was active in football, basketball and baseball. All friends and relatives are invited to his farewell and hear his testimony. Steven K. Johnson Is Home from Mission Elder Steven K. Johnson, son of Mr. and Mrs. Clifford A. Johnson, has returned after an LDS mission. He has served in the Canada Vancover mis-sion field of Labor. Elder Johnson's homecoming, meeting is scheduled for Sunday, March 9 at 10:50 a.m. in the Lindon Second Ward located at 25 North Main Street in Lindon. Friends and relatives are invited to his welcome home service. Elder Gary Jackson Is Back from Mission Elder Gary Jackson, son of Bishop andMrs. Clinton Jackson, has returned from the Seoul Korea field of labor for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-da- y Saints. Elder Jackson's homecoming meeting will be held Sunday March 9. at 10:30 a.m. in the Manila First Ward. Gary and his parents invite all his friends to come and hear his report of his mission and testimony of the gospel. Homecoming Sunday For Debra Hamilton A homecoming will be held in honor of Sister Debra Hamilton, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Emron Andersen and C. Steve Hamilton, who has returned from the Quito, Ecuador mission. The meeting will be held Sunday, March 9 at 9 a.m. in the Pleasant Grove 10th Ward Chapel 475 North 700 East. All friends and relatives are cordial-ly invited to hear her report and testimony. |