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Show " "'"v v m ii mil . Review - Wednesday, April 24, 1985 - Page 2 . . X X - Strange hairdos OK on someone else's kid p.g. blab today, the 501's. Levi Strauss for girSfS buy side closure jeans youW Mymomusedtourspn, to , put their Levi's did not like to was and she often told jeans were so dirty thev n, '; alone. She was right Jeans did not fit so s in those days. In fact ifT little loose, all the better b I must say, that the style has greatly improved years. There is variety 1 something we did not have k The girls now are We,"rill pants. That is another 2'' capns that we wore in the u? and early 60's. They replacement for pedal?' that we loved so defc golden years. & We all went through a stage. we had to dye our hair or hi just to see what we wouldW ? another color. I don't ever rew of the homemade coloring look as good as the ones ftS? orginially. So, now, when we see the ki dyed and bleached hair andt hairdos, and odd looking clofc should remind ourselves that doesn't really change things ih ' brings back the old, over and ' again. However, I still think quills sticking strafe ' from the shaved head is still L' bit far. Do you? 8 - By MARCKLLA WALKER There were snickers, lots of stares, and little eye to eye contact as shoppers in the mall became aware of the boy with the bizarre hairdo. I'm not sure what it is called but it slightly resembles porcupine quills sticking up from the top of the head in two rows, one on either side of center. The rest of the head is shaved bald. This was only one more, although an extreme one, of several new hairdo's being worn around the area.. I haven't seen the porcupine quill look in Pleasant Grove and vicinity but there have been others. Most noticeable for both boys and girls is the hair style with the hair long on one side and short on the other. Usually it is bleached blond somewhere along the line. There have been a few who have had the hair shaved in alternating rows on one side of the head. Most of the teenagers around here still wear their hair in more traditional styles, but a few are daring enough to try something quite far out. Don't get me wrong, I am not criticizing the extreme styles. Some do get a second glance from me when I see them, but if that is what they want it is alright with me. It is alright with me, that is, as long as it is someone else's kid and not mine. My children point their finger and laugh when they see pictures of the duck wear their Levi's really low on the hips. It seemed that some of them were competing to see who could wear them the lowest and not lose them. The guy who came the closest to being like The Fonz in our high school, wore a ducktail sometimes, a black leather jacket, and his pants so low that one time as he bent over to get a drink from the fountain in the hall some one jerked his pants down and his jockeys were exhibited for all to see. Some guys still wear their pants pretty low. Usually they are not high school guys, but rather, are fellows who lived in the '50's and whose paunch has now made it difficult to get the pants any higher. Also, have you ever noticed that most men have no back side to speak of? No wonder their pants do not stay up too well. My husband, bless his heart, has a pair of grey pants. He likes his pants roomy and the kids say he looks like the back of an elephant from the rear when he has those pants on. But there is a lot to be said for comfort. I explain to my girls that we used to wear our Levi's rolled up to just below the knee. We'd borrow one of our dad's old white dress shirts that hung nearly to our knees and that was our favorite outfit. It sure was comfortable. We did not have designer jeans in those days. Any old pair of jeans would do. Boys wore Levi Strauss and they looked just like they do tails Most of the guys wore a crew head of hair cut. Some with a good were brave enough to wear the ducktail. , When Yul Brenner reached a peaK of popularity, a few very daring guys even some students at BYU, shaved their heads. That was very bizarre in those days. When Marlon Brando had his hair dyed biond for "The Young Lions," a ! war movie of the '50's, lots of guys went out and got their hair dyed blond. Girls wore their hair in a pony tail, page boy, flip, or brushup. There were not many extremes among the girls hair styles. who were really brave would Be part of leeway vote Local voters are being asked to study the proposed leeway vote by the Alpine School District, and to go to the polls May 7 to make their feelings about the proposal known. Most of them probably won't take the time. That's a shame, because the vote involves a three mill increase in property taxes, and will raise the average home-owner- s annual tax bill by about $30. That's an issue every voter should take an interest in, as he evaluates the proposal and decides whether or not to support it. However, it is the nature of these types of elections that they don't draw a big percentage of the registered voters. Consequently, small groups make a decision that affects a large number of people. The local nature of a leeway vote means it doesn't get the kind of coverage that accompanies the November general election for a U.S. president, which makes headlines and leads off national and local newscasts for months before the polls open. Also, there not a lot of organized support for the leeway vote. Last year, when the district first considered the leeway vote, a committee was put together to drum up ' ' support for the proposal. The group was building a campaign to support the leeway tax, when a complex Utah Supreme Court ruling increased taxes for every homeowner in the state. As a result of the ruling, the district dropped the leeway proposal. When the district made the decision to go ahead with the vote this year, the committee was not used - leaving most of the campaigning for the 3 mill property tax increase with district administrators. As a result, the superintendent has been stumping for the voted leeway in PTA and other school-oriente- d meetings - places where district officials were likely to find parents concerned with the quality of their children's education, and receptive to talk of improving the schools. School district officials have visited with represen-tatives from the press and businesses as well, ex-plaining the proposal and how it will be used, and stressing the need for the increased revenue. Groups opposing the leeway have also arisen, and started spreading information from their point of view. For the most part, both sides are saying they don't necessarily want to save or kill the leeway, but simply want an informed public making a decision on how they will be taxed and how those tax dollars will be used. That places the decision for the upcoming vote directly in the laps of local residents. With the election two weeks away, it's time to take a good 'look at the arguments for and against the leeway and to make a decision. if Then, on May 7, it will be the responsibility of those residents to go to the polls and make their will known. It is difficult to know if a large turnout will favor or oppose the leeway - but it will be representative of the voice of the people. And that's what counts in any election of this nature. '50's with the crew cuts and Boys I Game of lifetime takes lifetime to play the editor's Golf. It's called the game of a lifetime. That's how long ago it seems I gave it up. So when John called and suggested we play nine holes some afternoon, I wasn't sure if I could still hit that little white ball, let alone drive it down a fairway. But it seemed like a good idea at the time. It had been so long I ' wouldn't have to worry about playing well, and could enjoy just playing. So we scheduled a day and hoped the weather would cooperate. 1 stopped visiting the golf course years ago after I decided it took too long to play a game and it created too much internal pressure for me to enjoy myself. I was introduced to the game at an early age - when my father would take me to Soda Springs (30 miles from home, but the nearest golf course at the time) and let me follow him around while he played. I was about 8 or 9 when Dad would give me a five iron, a golf ball and let me work my way around the course. I was about 12 when I was war-ming up with a driver and hit my big brother in the mouth when he walked behind me during my back swing. It took his front tooth out, root and all. By the time I was 14, my father and several, other men in our small community had garnered enough support in town to build a nine-hol- e municipal golf course - and the family took up the sport in earnest. My father helped me put together I was a lousy putter, had a hard time with approach shots, and sported a slice that was especially attracted to water hazards and the deep rough. When I left home for college, I took but 1 found I my clubs with me -- - had little time to play, and as a struggling student I couldn't afford the green fees. My studies took up most of my time anyway, and I gradually left the sport behind. With marriage, and then children, the practicality of getting away for two hours became even more remote, and so for years the old clubs remained tucked away in a basement corner, forgotten except for those brief moments when we considered selling them for whatever we could get for them. They were in such bad shape, it never seemed worth the trouble, so there they stayed - just one more piece of baggage to drag around everytime we moved. But time changes things, and by the time John called, I was ready to bring the clubs back into daylight and swing them around a little. With the prospects of a pleasant Thursday afternoon game, we scheduled a tee-of- f time at the Tri-Citi-course and hoped the weather would hold. It was great -- - just like the old times on the Montpelier Golf Course. Everything was just as I remembered it. I still couldn't putt, my approach shots were still too short, and the familiar sfo; carried my drives off to the iW My game had its ups and a beautiful putt i0 ' number 6 (the ensuing outcryj and amazement probably rui drives of several other golfcnp course), and then drove water on number 7 - twice. But I avoided all of that made me in the first place. I didn'i', my temper. I didn't even thrw, clubs. (The gentle tossing so it would land near mi: after I four putted the 4 does not count, of And overall the experience invigorating, relaxing, lite and thoroughly enjoyable. Tri-City- 's front nine t: challenging 'and well cared except .for that patch of it. ground that literally swallow;-driv-just feet in front of the number 5. The other golfers were, as ah; courteous. And the more I reflect o Thursday afternoon, the more: convinced that maybe I'm the game that I though! : outgrown. The problem is that spare and-a-ha- lf hours all at one still hard to come by - espei-with six kids at home all trying' my attention. On .second thought, that's i! more reason to head for the Fore! By MAUC HADDOCK a set of clubs, paid half of my annual fee so I could play any time, any day, and lined up some lessons so I could unlearn all of those bad habits I had picked up walking around the Soda Springs course swinging a five iron. I played a lot - but never enough to learn how to play well. I would par an occasional hole, but usually ended up one or two over par. Pizza deliverer responds derstand why Anderson's are going so far with this. And as for having valuables and children off the streets in case this "female driver" is around, most "bright" people, naturally do have their valuables and children off the street. "Female Driver" Editor: In response to the letter about the pizza deliverer: When I arrived at the door with the pizza, the customer first said, "You barely made the time delivery," then she tells me to drive slow. It's people like the Anderson's that make working with the public a terrible job. She expected me to be there sooner, yet drive slow also. There are no speed limit signs throughout that parking lot, but I did realize that there were children, therefore, I was not going at "a dangerous speed." The ball being thrown at me, that was the dangerous act! Suppose the ball had hit me in the head. My window was down. I could have lost control of the car and hit one of the children. As for the manager being rude, any human gets irritated after being bothered during a busy schedule, over nothing. There was not an accident, not even a close one, so I don't un- - City recorder hard post to fill By E. MARK BEZZANT There won't be another Johnson until there is another Johnson. On the front page of last weeks Pleasant Grove Review an article appeared telling about the resignation of the city recorder who was selected to replace Mark Johnson in the city hall. That was no easy task. You see the job discription to fill Mark Johnson's shoes went something like this. Work 6 a.m. to 2 a.m. (20 hours) six days a week. Take all calls and questions on the seventh from citizens. Be a member of the fire department. Be a member of the Chamber of Commerce and attend all meetings. Must know at least 80 percent of town's people, their relatives, and the history on problems relating to the city. Take the heat for and from the city council and other city workers. Listen to all cussing and keep smiling. Support all city policy and law. Know all city policy and law. Work in a cramped up corner of the city hall where your office will be a walk through to the safe. Know all about computers. Know all about the city' budgets. Take minutes at city council meetings that sometimes go on for seven hours, after putting in a full days work. Belong to National Guard. Take two weeks off each year to do National Guard duty (That is your vacation). City has good in-surance for the familiy you never see. An old car is provided on oc-casion to do city business in. (Usually worn out police car). Don't forget to arrange to see lights and music are on for Christmas time. Let people into city hall when you are off duty. Attend all meetings for mayor and council when they cannot go to represent the city. Memorize each employees retirement benefits. Take all complaints for garbage pickup, or non pickup as the case may be. Don't forget complaints on the dented cans. Between putting out brush fires (both kinds) make sure no one is over charged on water. Have a wife who will attend all city functions or not complain when you do. Wife must also provide salads for city parties. Hold down a second job doing taxes because the city salary isn't quite enough to make ends meet for a growing family. Notorize anything anyone wants notorized. Unfortunately the person chosen to replace Mark Johnson was unaware of all the job had entailed. In fact, those same qualifications just plain wore Mark Johnson out. You wouldn't ever hear him say it but you could read it in his face as time wore on. Above and hpvonii thp call of duty Mark Johnson hair everything he had to the Or Pleasant Grove and no ones! be required or expected to dt same - not even if it is Johnson. Those who worked with V Johnson miss him. He ' replacement should know the a: Pleasant Grove and have to damental skills to accorapK tasks of a city admin Hopefully someone who lives'; the boundaries of Pleasant u can be found. Regardless of the choice; will never be another Mark; until there is another Mark. and for everyones sake we; not expect it. My bestw!. to the recorder who jus and wish him the best of had a hard row 10 hoe. hard rmu to hoe. Ueaaant (Sroue i&euteui ISSN No. 2 U.S.P.S. No. 11 South Main Pleasant Grove. Utah K40C2 Published weekly except . y for Thanksgiving and Christmas by Newtah. Inc. Telephone Numbers Advertising & Circulation. News Publisher ; . Brett R. Bezzant Editors Marc Haddock Marcella Walker Subscription price $12" per year Second class postage paid at Pleasant Grove Post Office Postmaster: Send address changes to P.O. Box 7. American Fork, Utah &4003 Master plan study sites hazards, economic & geologic A Master Plan study for Pleasant Grove City was presented to the Planning Commission at a recent meeting, according to Building Inspector Fred Christensen. The study ws made by 22 students from Brigham Young University's Geography Department. Areas covered in the study include history and preservation, topography, vegetation, climate, geology, surface and ground water, soils, population, transportation, economic base, commercial ac-tivities, housing quality and solid waste disposal. The 87 page document contains pictures and maps and has a com-plete bibliography. i One of the items included under geologic hazards states that there are many possible geologic hazards j of Pleasant Grove, particularly along the mountain front. ' These include earthquakes, landslides, floods and mudflows. It further states that The Wasatch . Fault runs along the hills and mountains of east Pleasant Grove. In the past, seismic activity has been high along this fault. The Wasatch Fault is one of the highest seismic risk areas in the western United States. The study says that the present risk from faulting is highest in areas where development has taken place near the Wasatch Fault in Pleasant Grove. This risk can be minimized during future development of the foothills by increased awareness of the fault and methods used to deal with faulting and urban develop-ment. --i Land-us- e factors which should be considered in the fault area include building occupancy, building height, slope, surface materials, structural systems and quality of construction. The study also notes that as Pleasant Grove's population in-creases a nd the urban area expands, there wiil be a tendency to build in this hazardous fault zone. It probably is not feasible to prohibit land-us- e in the fault zone, but precautions should be taken to minimize the loss of life and property in the evnt of fault movement, the document states. Included in the study is a statement that mudflows from canyons along the Wasatch Front have been a major problem the last few years. Pleasant Grove has debris basins at the mouths of both Battle Creek and Grove Creek Canyons to help prevent such a disaster. Regarding ground water, the study states that Pleasant Grove is built upon alluvial fans from Grove and Battle Creeks, as well as Lake Bonneville sediments. The eastern half of town is well drained due to its elevated nature and the alluviam underneath. The area from about Main Street west and west of Highway 89 on the south is built upon lake sediments and is only about 25-7- 5 feet above the level of Utah Lake. These areas have high water tables and present problems to basements and septic systems. In the summer of 1984 much of the western half of the city had a water table depth of only feet. As a result of this problem Pleasant Grove requires more stringent regulations for septic systems than Utah County. Many septic systems in this area are failing. The solution is to connect all involved into the municipal sewer system, the study notes. This is currently underway and will con-tinue as funds are available. There is a small area on the east side of the city which isunstable enough to cause structural problems. The area is small and building permits are reviewed on an individual basis. Pleasant Grove has institutions in all three groups of economic ac-tivity: primary, secondary and tertiary. Primary industries are those that take natural resources from the earth, including farming and grazing. Secondary industries are the manufacturing firms, and tertiary industries are those activities which rely on human services. Most residents of Pleasant Grove work in another city. The majority of these work in the Geneva Steel Plant south of Lindon. Other places of occupation outside the Pleasant Grove City Limits are McNally Mountain States Steel in Lindon BYU in Provo and Salt Lake County ' Bayly Manufacturing is the largest employer within Pleasant Grove City with between 200 and 299 employees. Next is Western Utility Contractors with 85; Western Staes construction, 70; Jim Walter Corp 50-9- Ashrock Inc., 50; Skyline ndustries, 20-4- Global Coatings Inc. 20-4- and Southam and Warburton Aluminum, 40. The majority of the employed people of Pleasant Grove work in the tertiary industries, retail, trade, and services. Approximately 41 per cent are employed in some type of these activities. About 61 per cent work in technical and administrative sup while 49 r port occupations, work in service jobs. A major employer in tin is Ivan Walker, Inc. whic about 55 people. t The announced closure Nally Mountain States Lindon will affect the . Pleasant Grove where mft employees live. The uncertainty of w .. dustry as a whole in " ... suggests the need M , broader economic base, says. One of the big obstacle faces is in obtaining cosuj. is properly located lan the needs of all. uuw currently seeking too W for their lands. , $ The city is hP'"gfv downers may see "J(entiaP use compared to the especially in the r V ployment for citens economics of the situation- |