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Show exoires 013087 7 A0 V HOfiG & SONS BOQKBINDERY, INC. I 17 RAILROAD STREET " MI 43- SPRIMGPQRT Vol. 8, No. 8 Wednesday, February 26, 1986 50 cents a single copy Fourteen hopefuls vie for queen of Strawberry Days if J r i f I " j 1 C Jf klj 1 Fourteen local girls will be con-testants in the Strawberry Days Queen Pageant slated for March 29 at 7 p.m. in the Pleasant Grove High School auditorium. Contestants are Melinda Merrill, Loralee Mecham, Tina Story, Lori Meldrum, Melinda Pymm, Shellie Eggett, Jackie Groo, Lisa Hollis, Pam Curtis, Lisa Spivey, Tammy Bird, Nicole Harmon, Adriene Christensen, and Sherry Card. The contestants will perform in an introductory number to open the show. Each will perform a talent number and will appear in evening dress attire. Bathing suit competition and interviews with the judges will be held earlier in the day without an audience. The queen and her court will reign over the festivities of Strawberry Days and represent the city at parades and other functions throughout the state during the year. Strawberry Days Queen candidates are, front L-- Adriene Christensen, Nicole Harmon, Tammy Bird, Lisa Spivey, Melinda Merrill. Back, Pam Curtis, Lisa Hollis, Jackie Groo, Shellie Eggett, Melinda Pymm, Lori Meldrum, Loralee Mecham. Absent were Tina Story and Sherry Card. Review wins again for best editorial The Pleasant Grove Review earned two first place awards among weekly newspapers of its size at the Utah Press Association's annual convention held in St. George Friday and Saturday. For the second year in a row, the newspaper won a first place award for best editorial -- - and for the second year, the prize-winnin- g editorial, written by Managing Editor Marc Haddock, dealt with U.S. Steel's Geneva Plant. The Review also tied for first place with sister newspaper, the American Fork Citizen, for best society page. Both papers, as well as the Lehi Free Press are published by Brett Bezzant. The Review competes in Group 2 in the newspaper competition, which is divided into three groups ac cording to circulation size. At the convention, Bezzant was elected treasurer of the organization which represents the more than 50 weekly and newspapers throughout the state of Utah. The Citizen took first place in general excellence for the second year in a row - winning four first places, three second places and two third places. The Free Press came in third place in the general excellence competition - receiving two first place awards, three second place awards and a third place. In society page and editorial competition, the three north Utah County newspapers published by Bezzant took all three places in the division. Improvements I considered for 1 700 East j Citizens living on 700 East in Pleasant Grove were asked to contact Edward Sanderson con-cerning their views on curb, gutter and sidewalk installation on their street following a meeting with the City Council Tuesday night. Last fall the residents of that area had asked the city for help in providing more safety for children walking to and from school on 700 1 East. They were concerned about speed, heavy traffic, the narrow street and the large number of children who use the street as a walkway to Pleasant Grove High School, Pleasant Grove Junior High School, and Central Elementary. At that time a four-wa- y stop was put in at 100 North and 700 East. This has slowed the traffic somewhat, it was reported, because drivers must prepare to stop whereas before they had a straight shot from 200 South to 500 North. In addition, the street wasstriped and a walking strip was provided at the side of the road for children to iij use on their way to and from school. 5 Since 700 East is the furthest east through street from 200 South to 500 i North, it has become a major ac-- cessway for traffic coming from the north east section of town. : Development of housing in that area has compounded the problem, the residents feel. Councilman Dale Warburton reported that it would cost each I homeowner about $15 per linear foot J to have curb, gutter, sidewalk and asphalt installed on the street. This 1 did not take into account the interest J for a Special Improvement District 1 which allows 10 years to pay for the I improvements, nor covering an irrigation ditch on one side of the road. n The cost for curb, gutter and i asphalt only would be about $10 per ; linear foot. If the Special Improvement i District was .approved the road ' would be about 66 feet wide which is considerably wider than it is now. Concern was expressed for those on a fixed income who would not See '700 East' on page 3 Block grant request for business loans and increase the economic base of the city, the mayor said. He and several of the councilmen indicated they would like to see businesses on the east side of Main Street im-proved but noted that the loans would be available to any business in the community. A committee would be selected to handle the funds, with the City Council's approval being necessary before the loans are made. Pleasant Grove City Council decided Tuesday night to ask for about $125,000 in Community Development Block Grant money to finance a revolving loan fund for businesses in the community. Citing a need for low interest loans for economic development in the city, the council unanimously agreed to apply for the funds which are distributed by the Moun-tainlan- Association of Govern-ments. , , Mayor David Holdaway said that the proposed use of the funds was one that was recommended in the guiufciiiiei for Community Block" Grant money. If the city is successful in its ap-plication for the funds, a committee will be set up to handle the low in-terest loans. The loan fund would be a revolving one that could continue to assist businesses in making im-provements and renovations over the years. It could help to create more jobs Strawberry Days Pageant appointed Marlene Simmons has been "named as the chairman of ' the Pleasant Grove Strawberry Days Pageant which will be held March 29. Assisting Mrs. Simmons will be Linda Kelley; Sandy Larson, tickets; Karin Smith, con-testants; Liz Curtis, special arrangements, Donna Ruf, judges; Linda Giles, publicity; and Bobbi Beagley, programs. Theme for this year's pageant is '' i iiat's What Drearns Are Made Of '"' Karen Harmer is the outgoing queen. Sharon Fullmer has served as chairman of the pageant for several years but "retired" this year. The pageant will be held at Pleasant Grove High School at 7 p.m. Tickets will be available from any of the contestants or from the pageant committee. Alpine opens text review tapublic-;p- March 3, 4 The public is invited to par-ticipate in the Alpine School District textbook adoption process by reviewing potential textbooks for science and social studies at the elementary level. The textbook review will take place on March 3 and 4 (Monday and Tuesday) from 1:30 until 7:30 p.m. in the Teacher Learning Center, 2nd floor of the Harrington Building, 40 N. Center, American Fork. Patrons wishing further on the reviews or on the textbook adoption process may contact Sharon Beck with the Alpine School District at 756-967- , ' ' '': - ... ... I .', j"- - ' ,s ? ' '; r A " ! ;' " ii r-- f ' . - ' - ' ' ' fu mW a o a n n r - .. r?r; . .. .... ... ,i; 1 - i s 'Ji!.-'- ' ..... 3 .,. "; '"L-'-- '- - v.,- VUlMUtll? is , . : - . , i, ' " ' ' , V",v J, - ." 5 " - ; 1 w- - -- ' . - , , v 4.ii i - , - vi- ,r , - .. , , 4 . . 4. J This is the way the old UP&L power plant near Battlecreek looked with its Greek ar- - Sam Hilton looks ove remains of the beautiful power plant that sat where Kiwanis Park is chitecture. now. Sam Hilton recalls turn-of-the-centu- ry electricity by GARY BEST ( Can you remember when candy bars were a dime? Better yet, how about as nickle, and a buffalo nickle at that? Sam Hilton can. On March 3 Sam will celebrate his 91st bir-thday. ' He was born before the turn of the century in Tropic, Utah. The year, a 1895. Sam was only five years old 1 when his mother passed away. A Shortly after his sixth birthday he J traveled by horse and buggy with 1 his father to Marrysville. There he not only saw his first steam engine train, but also rode on it all the way 'A to Salt Lake City to attend the LDS Churchs General Conference. While ! in the big city Sam's grandfather I gave him a pear and a banana - strange new fruits for a country boy of only six from Tropic. On his ninth birthday his family y went on a vacation to Cedar Breaks where they were snowed in for three days before they were able to dig out from the spring storm. In 1906, when Sam was 11, the family moved to the Provo Bench area, now Orem. Not long after that they relocated in Pleasant Grove and bought a Model T Ford truck. Mr. Hilton, Senior, and Sam used the truck to haul potatoes and raspberries to market in Salt Lake City. With some of the money they earned, his brother purchased a horse from an indian for $9, which the boys rode constantly. In high school, Sam studied electricity which would later serve as a background for a lifelong vocation. At age 16 Sam remembers attending school at the University of Utah. He lived with Judge John F. McLaine and South Temple where he worked nights for his room and board. For j ust a dime, Sam could buy a glass of milk and a large bowl of soup for supper. After college he spent six months in Nogalas, Calif, in the National Guard. Sam says it took six horses to pull each gun and cason in the gunnary u nit he was in. For a time Sam lived in the rough and up coming mining town of Fri sco, Utah, where he ran the flotation plant until the mine caved in. This brought an end to the Frisco Mine, and Sams employment. He served as a officer during WW I in bolh england and France. After the war he hired on with a Mr. Homer for a dollar a day planting trees, weeding, and digging ditches. In 1919 Sam went to work for Utah Power and Light and worked for a time at the Ohmestead Plant in the mouth of Provo Canyon. After that Sam transferred to the Soda Springs Plant in Idaho, but when the op-portunity afforded itself to manage the Battlecreek plant in Pleasant Grove, Sam jumped at the chance to move "back home." Sam says when the plant was built around 1907 it required the use of 20 horses and two steam engines to move the transformers and generator up battlecreek to the plant location. Two hundred feet of track would be laid into place, then they would pull the equipment up to the top of the track, disassemble all of the track below, and start over. For a time, water was also brought over from Grove Creek to h help provide enough water to generate the power needs. Water was piped from Battlecreek and Grove Creek to a small reservoir at the top of O mountain by means of a - wooden pipe. From here it was taken down the south face of the G mountain to the power plant in a high pressure steel penstock pipe. This pipe was 18 inch thick at the top of the mountain, however by the time it reached the bottom it was 12 inch thick in order to withstand the 850 pounds per square inch pressure at the nozzle. Sam was the chief operator of the Battlecreek plant until 1957 when the decision was made to dismantle the plant. A decision Sam says he thinks was a mistake. Sam worked six more years as superintendent of the Weber Plant. In 1963 he retired and moved back to Pleasant Grove, where for $375 he purchased the house he used to live in when he m anaged the Battlecreek plant. For an additional cost of $2,500.00 Sam had the house moved to its present location on 1400 East, about one half mile west of its original location. During his life Sam has been commander of the American Legion Post, President of the Lions Club, and a m ember of the Pleasant Grove Chamber of Commerce. He filled two stake missions for the LDS Church and served as president of the 44th Quorum of Sev enties for a time. Sam also served as scout master and obtained the rank of Eagle Scout, and all six of his sons are Eagle Scouts. Two and a half years ago Sam was awarded the Silver Beaver Award, scoutings highest honor. Next time you use Kiwanis Park, where Pleasant Groves Power Plant used to be, take a look around. Lots of Pleasant Groves early history abounds here. |