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Show Review - Thursday, March 31, 1983 - Page 3 oOrpfoeiis Hall iust danced with him three rL,-t- he beginning, middle and S dance. If we didn't come with a Me we didn't go home with one. There were dressing rooms at one the "women to go fix gUlves up pretty," and on the t side, there was a place to check and coats. There were no sing rooms in the hall then for 1basketball team. They had to run and back from the old Bell school (DUP Relic Hall now) where "Some cold showers had been in-stalled In winter it meant wading ' through as much as two feet of snow. During the dance Joe Clark would '"' eo around the floor about twice an evening and "push the dirt off with "'his mop," said Cora. "Then he sprinkled it with powder. He always wanted to keep it shiny and pretty." ' The dance was 50 cents. In Ross " west's time they got in to the game , and dance for $.75. Alvin Monson, George Ball, and he used to set up bleachers to pay their way in, then - hurry and get them put away after the game so the dance could begin. In 1916 Joseph Clark petitioned city council for permission to pay a license fee of $2 per dance for the summer season in lieu of the regular license. It was granted. The dances .; were highly successful, sometimes ; drawing 200 people to the elaborately-decorated hall. Rut it was pretty cold inside. They after a dance the girls went over to Oral Wadley's. "The boys went to the shop where they sold food and ice cream and meat pies. They'd bring them over and we'd warm them up and have them to eat before we went home," she said. Cora was in charge of finances for the basketball games held there. The two teams would always go out to eat after the game and the basketball organization paid the bill. They usually went to the Culmer Hotel where Smith's Drug now stands. In 1922 Alpine School District completed the new Pleasant Grove High adjacent to the hall and the Orpheus became from that time until the destruction of the high school building the gymnasium for the school. The name became lost in the annals somewhere but it did not stop serving crowds of all ages who came to spur their team with their enthusiasm nor did its springs stop giving in rhythm to the hundreds of dance partners that swept around the floor beneath false ceilings that took weeks to decorate. Guy Hillman remembers the long hours that went into preparing for a junior prom or a ball. "They would get up on the old pipes and suspend decorations from them. It took a lot of time and money," he said. Lois and Eleroy have not forgotten the elegance of the decor either. "They covered the beams and all the did many. "It moved with you," she said. The annual fall fair celebrating Pleasant Grove's birthday was held there all the while Druscilla was growing up. She remembers it as one of the really nice things they did inside the old hall. For at least one year in about 1960, Elsie Nystrom Whaley recalls it became the place where the girls put down their sleeping bags and had a slumber party. Since its rennovation last year, music has bounced off its walls during the Friday and Saturday night high school dances that have drawn crowds consistently ,from around the valley of up to 500 young people And beginning in April it may once again reverberate with the music of the dozen or so generations that have floated along or stomped their feet to the beat of their day on Joe Clark's spring floor. It may not be that we will again see "breezy green and pink streamers interlaced with dainty pink blossoms draping the ceiling and windows as ferns droop from suspended golden baskets" but some of the music, some of those who danced and played inside those Orpheus walls will again have a change to meet when the City Recreation Department schedules dances designed especially for youth, middle-age- , and senior citizens. only had two stoves to heat the place during Eleroy and Lois's high school days. "We nearly froze," said Lois. "Our dresses were ' made of pretty light material." And the girls had to wear their everyday shoes and galoshes till they got there and could change into their pumps in the dressing room. There was only one sidewalk through town then. Then the orchestra would start up. On special occasions there was a program to fill out. And the young man who came with a date tried to find dances for his partner as well. ,. "Home Sweet Home" was always the finale," said Eleroy. He squired girls from all over. Lindon was one place. He walked to get them and he walked them home. "I got to be a pretty good dancer. Helen Harvey was just a beautiful dancer; she taught me to really dance and glide," Eleroy said. One time partner Genevieve Fugal Wright and he even made it to the . dance finals at Salt Air. Cora Bezzant recalls one time windows. They were lovely," said Lois. Eleroy supervised decorations one year when the theme was a big Persian garden. "We made tran-sparent windows with a light behind each so we had colored lights all over. At the north end we made some desert tents out of black material. And out on the floor we placed big vases made of chicken wire and papier mache," he said. One time the setting was Japanese, another an old English street with street lamps. And the dance a waltz, a quadrill, perhaps even the trallahopsy. Through the years the hall has come to be known as many things to many people. Stanley Walker, 1942 graduate, recalls it was the most popular place in town. Guy Hillman remembers well the outstanding basketball players he played the game with and the many games held there. Drusilla Smith, a 1940 graduate, liked the spring floor as Leash is answer to problems of loose dogs in Lindon area Citizens of Lindon have com-plained recently of a rash of animal killings by various neighborhood and stray dogs who have been out loose. Gary Fryer lost a sheep last month that fell victim to dogs. The mauled animal had to be destroyed and Fryer has since sold his remaining sheep. He felt frustrated when he was not able to get in contact with the dogcatcher or the police about it. A dispatcher han-dling calls at the time had told Fryer the police did not handle those calls. Floyd Wiggington, who raises a special breed of mountain goats valued at $40-$17- 5 says he has had a lot of trouble with dogs over the last two years. He has lost several kid goats and also some pigs. "They jumped the fences and killed the little pigs. They don't eat them," he said. He feels a lot of the problem has been at night because owners let the pets loose to roam at that time. "I've had to shoot a few of them," he said. "It got to a point I didn't know what else to do." He had a calf last year that was pulled through the sagebrush by a dog and lost its leg. He feels the problem has im-proved in the last month though. "The dog catcher is doing a pretty good job. He cleaned up a lot in the last month." But animals are not the only ones that have been threatened. Lorna Fotheringham was walking down the street one afternoon when a dog started barking. She didn't feel afraid until it started growling and shortened the distance between them. It. grabbed for her leg. She changed her plans to go to the neighbors for a visit. She says she has seen as many as ten dogs running together and knows of three other people that were approached by the same dog who attempted to attack her. One was Kaye Chamberlain. She was walking down the road pushing a stroller with her daughter in. "A light colored dog came out barking. It didn't scare me at first," Kaye said. "Then another dog came out with it. I guess the lighter dog got brave and started getting closer. Then it started to growl. It was coming after me when Mr. Fotheringham yelled at the dogs and they took off," she said. She turned her stroller around and went home. Lorna Fotheringham says she hasn't seen her out on the road with the stroller since. Ed Bunker, part-tim- e dog catcher, says they have hauled about a dozen dogs to the Orem pound in the last month. He feels they have eliminated the major problem which was "the unlicensed dogs." Since he is only employed part-tim- e, about 10 hours a week, there are times when he is on his other job and unavailable. During those times the city takes messages regarding complaints and then hands them to Bunker when he is on duty again. The dog catcher has no set hours, but is usually on the job in the morning hours. When he is off-dut- the police have been requested by city officials to handle complaints. Some of the police officers have also expressed their concern over unleashed dogs they have found roaming the streets during their day and night patrols. In discussing the problem during city council meeting, Lindon Mayor Kenneth McMillan said they had gone to a part-tim- e dog catcher because the citizens had felt there was no need for a full-tim- e animal conti ol officer(ACO). It was decided at the council meeting to request the police department and the ACO to step up efforts to keep the dogs off the streets. It seems owners, though, have first responsibility to contain their animals, then the ACO, then the police. Matheson (Continued from page 1) ;X Water Management Agency to encourage the CUWCD to transport vthe water through a single con- - veyance, rather than built two new pipelines through the county !v At question is a method of con- - veying Central Utah Project water from the mouth of Provo Canyon to v ' Salt Lake County, where the need for the water is growing. ; Don Christiansen, Mayor of Alpine and chairman of the Timp Agency, X said he hoped the Governor would stay involved in getting a decision on :' the conveyance system for that '. . water. "I think about all we can say is ; ; that we have confidence that the ; ; Governor will continue to support us in our efforts to see that the best interests of the people are served.," Christiansen said. Local interests are concerned that appointing seven new members to the CUWCD board won't change the outcome of a vote taken by the board late last year to go ahead with construction of J-- 4 pending the Governor's okay. The new ap-pointments will make up slightly more than one third of the board, and some of the new members will probably be the same persons who now hold directorships. Under those circumstances, the board is likely to again vote for construction of underground pipeline. Bouft Be Misled! Tax Wiftlhtooldlfe Gnu Merest And Mvideed Is. A People feeeX There is a better way to catch the small percentage of tax cheaters than penalizing everyone through withholding. The IRS soon will start receiving previously missing ; information, particularly on U.S. Treasury interest payments, to match against tax returns and identify those people who don't file. 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