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Show r Vhat you were doing in Pleasant Grove 40 years ago ! MARCELLA 'i " WALKER Underneath the ; sthead it read he !?Most Beautifully Situated City in Utah County's Indus rial j.ea" That was in 1952. !i J 1966 it read, "The 1st Beautifully ! stated, City in Utah County." Back in 1940 it said simply- "Pleasant Grove Review, pown in the basement ;' of The Review offices there are issues of the newspaper dating back ' to the 1940's. They are fun to read. The format . . w Hif fprent then At the movies was Mickey Rooney in Young Tom Edison, one can of corned beef was 19 cents, 2 pounds of powdered sugar was 13 cents and a three pound can of shortening was 51 cents . Sliced bacon was 23 cents a pound, butter was 31 cents a pound and the bakery had assorted layer cakes for 15 and 25 cents. On January 10, 1941 was a report that would make our present police department eat their hearts out. Marshal Golden Peay and George Paul presented Judy Garland in "For Me and My Gal" was showing at the Grove. By March of 1944, the Chamber of Commerce went ahead and had their annual banquet. They were concerned about planning for adequate employment for the boys serving in the armed forces who would be home when the war ended. President Ertman Christensen was in charge of the program. Participating were W.W. Warnick, James D. Thorne (first president of the PI. bonds. In November of 1947 Sampson card tables were $3.95, leather jackets were $21.95, double door bread boxes were $1.98, a 35 piece set of oven proof din-nerware din-nerware was $6.95, ladies dresses could be had for $3.95 and service for six silverware was $12.95. Clark Gable, Deborah Kerr. Sydney Green-street Green-street , Adolphe Menjou, Ava Gardner, Keenan Wynn and Edward Arnold were starring in "The Hucksters" at the Grove. included Rae Christensen, Marjorie Ellis, Maxine West, Eva Norton, Ruth Cobbley and Sadie Chandler. Dr. B.C. Linebaugh was attending a convention con-vention in Chicago. He traveled by train. The Cadmus Club had special guests Wallace Saling, Margene Page and Gayle Thorne. Tributes were given by Rose Hillman, Beulah Bradley, Ida Brimhall, Carrol Wells, Margaret Hayes, Ora Thorne, Phyllis Thomson, Winnifred Adamson, Dorace Rogers, Ella if J".'.:..." i ...... , I -? r . . va . ' v. ; - ; : ft . ,5 i i - V . . $ 1 I ' ",',' HERES A PICTURE to take you back a few years. Mayor S. Duane Hooper, left, shakes hands with Olin H. Rinie of Utah Power and Light. Looking on 1. to r. are Neils Fugal, Earl A. Beck, Co. Newman and Leo P. Harvey. Picture taken in late 1940's. the past year's report to the city council which showed there had been 24 traffic accidents reported in the city during the past year. There had been no fatalities and no one was seriously hurt. Property damage was small, $50 per accident as compared com-pared with $152 the year before. There were 126 arrests, more than the year before, due to great vigilance in the enforcement of city traffic rules. Beginning Jan. 16, 1941, a class in Poultry Problems was to be taught at the agricultural room of Pleasant Grove High School, according to Joseph Day, instructor. Grove Chamber of Commerce), William S. Smith, Elwood Allen, Earl A. Beck, Warren Kirk and Irwin Jensen. Also serving were Rulon Brimhall, Marilyn Richards, Dawn Marie Adams and Zoe Adams. Calvin Mills stationed with the U.S. Navy somewhere in the Pacific was advanced to Seaman First Class . At the high school a dance review was presented in conjunction con-junction with the music department and physical education department. The students at the high school had sold $27,792.44 in stamps and A program honoring Leroy J. Robertson, professor at BYU, was planned. He had lived in Pleasant Grove during his childhood. His musical composition "Triology" was given the.$25,000 first prize in the Relchhold competition, com-petition, the world's greatest prize ever given for a musical composition. In June of 1952, Mr. and Mrs. Paul Adam-son, Adam-son, Mr. and Mrs. Wallace Saling and Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Rogers attended the district convention of the Lions Club in Price. The commi ttee for the spring flower show Jackson, Thelma Adamson, Daisy Nielsen, Cummorah Cullimore and Ina Page. Van Heusen shirts were $3.95, ties were 98 cents and a box of three initialed handkerchiefs were$l. ; In August" of 1966 excavation began on the $85,000 addition at Bayly Manufacturing. Ethan Allen had been rescued from the cold waters of the Green River after a boat accident. King and Queen at Lindon Fair were Jeffery Ford and Holly Walker. Scott Hutchison and Kelli Walker were Sir Lindon and Lady Lindon. was a - ; yith weddings, deaths, ' gossip and what have ' you, all on the front ; page. . : Back in those days the paper also had several : inside pages with no local news, just syn- ; icated stuff of general interest, such as ; Hoflywood gossip, Drew Pearson, household hints, jokes, patterns, I etc. '. rnere was even an I American Fork ; Department. The ; "Citizen" at one time ; also ran a Pleasant ' Grove Department. ! This is National I Newspaper Week and to ; celebrate it with you we ; decided to run a bunch exerpts from several papers - beginning with II ! 1940 and continuing ' through to 1966. Read on and see if you ', or your grandparents ; are mentioned in here. ; For instance on June ; 7, 1940 the paper listed the following items: the ;! 19th annual Strawberry "! Day had been held in spite of the morning li, wind and rain. Vilace ! Radmall was parade chairman . The procession was led by I ; Richard Fenton as ' Uncle Sam, with Keith ! ! Jense and Marian West ;i as George and Martha : Washington. The ' ! colorguard were Shirley : Fenton and Vonda ,i ' Ackerman. They were 'i attended by Westley and t Henson Walker. Directing the parade were the Marshals of the Day: Reed Gillman, Jasper Eves, Easton Brown, Reed Walker, Harvey Smith, Ed Sun and Earl Loader. 1 Elda Clark in her ! white taffeta gown set with brilliants was the queen. Her attendants ' were Betty West and Evelyn Bush in the daintiest pastel yellow and lavender frocks. Four tiny pages, Royal Johnson, Lynn Paulson, Kent Walker and Don Wadley, completed the royal group. Beth Hooley was Miss Pleasant Grove, attired in sheerest white with her attendants Jewel Pa"l, Mary ' Christiansen and LuJeanOlpin. r Atnoon, EdHardman a"d his committee, . assisted by the CCC Camp, passed out about - 5.000 servings of strawberries and - "earn. Chamber of Commerce members in 1 charge were F.C. Nioell, Karl Banks, Vilace Radmall , Harry wnith, Harry Richards, "E. Bradley, Merrill Warnick, William C. ?mith and Frank r neidenreich. : In the same issue was to announcement of the marriage of Thelma talker, daughter of Joseph S.Walker, to Ira nstensen of Montana. The Manila 4-H Club, under the leadership of iss Leah Wadley, met ' we home of their ;uPervisor,Mrs.Lurene ' anuck.whogavea lesson on darning. Mr and Mrs. Wallace I Jcfarlane of San ; Mareno, Calif., were ' at the former's - Jr, J. m. Mac-, Mac-, Iartane and family. Hilrs- Lucile Wadley " "son and small - Sfer, Phyllis, of can forma, are visiting he home of the ' and?8 parents. Mr-, Mr-, and Mrs. R.D. Wadley. ' wv8!!d Junius "est had returned from u-in,lXtended vacatin stgh the eastern i'i Mrs. Lena Pearson, ' president of the local PTA, reported that the charge for school lunches lun-ches will be temporarily changed from two cents i to three cents until the ; serving dishes which were purchased are paid for. It is expected that this will be accomplished ac-complished in a month or two when prices will be reduced again to two cents. On Feb. 19, 1943, the Chamber of Commerce announced that due to gasoline and food rationing and the shortage of certain foods, it was not feasible to hold the annual banquet this year. The dance and election were i held however. Arza Adams was program chairman. Nominated for election were Arza Adams, Owen Ash, Ertman Christensen, A.B. Gibson, Clifford Hales, Robert Marrott, Golden Peay, Rulon Robbins, Fred Scholes, Ezra Swenson, Nyal Wadley and M. D. Wallace. Merrill Warnick was re-elected president of the Utah State Dairy Federation. This was hte fifth consecutive term in that capacity. BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION CANCELLED The family of Rosa B. Thorne would like it known that the celebration celebra-tion for her 80th birthday last Saturday was cancelled due to the illness and subsequent death of her husband. A notice in last week's newspaper had reported that the family would celebrate her birthday on Saturday. This celebration cele-bration was not held. |