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Show r Universal ricrpf lining "V Sk cityi K y " If ' ' Vol. 29. No. 41. Sugar House, Utah Thursday, October 24. 1957 10 Cents Westminster College Prepares For Gala . -- Week -- Long Annual Homecoming S r r . ! Queen Arlene Hall . . . to be crowned at Westminster Homecoming. cations, Mildred Wheeler Clark '35 and Virginia Ramsay Bats, '49 to '52. Decorations are now going up in Payne gymnasium which will be the scene of the gala Home-coming dance Friday night to cli-max the day. ' A colorful parade through the Sugar House district, a football game in the afternoon, a 'lunch- - eon and open house for guests, the annual Alumni Association din- - ner and election of officers, with ' all to be climaxed by a gala dance in the evening, will mark annual . Homecoming Day next Friday at Westminster College. Homecoming Week begins Monday and the en- -' tire program is under direction of - the Student Government Associa--. tion, of which Martin Allred is president. As honored guest of the day will be Otto A. Harbach, famous American composer, and an alum-nus of the Westminster Collegiate Institute in 1891, who is being honored Wednesday evening in the Assembly Hall on Temple Square. Mr. Harbach was one . of five graduates of the Institute that year. A classmate of Mr. Har-bach was Maude Adams, one of America's greatest actresses. Miss Arlene Hall on Friday was named Homecoming Queen, with Miss Betty Griffith and Miss Toni ' Fehr as her attendants. They were elected by the student body from a list of six candidates selec-ted by the "W" Club. Miss Hall is the. daughter of Mr. and Mrs Howard Hall, Orem; Miss Grif-fith, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Donald Griffith, Wells, Nev., and Miss Fehr, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Louis N. Fehr, 191 So. Fifth East Street, Salt Lake City. . The other candidates were Miss Regina Stewart and Miss Melva Lynch, both of Elko, Nev. and ' Miss Evelyn Fletcher, Salt Lake City. Crowning of the Queen will take place between halves of the foot-ball game which begins at 2 p.m. injhe Dan Hansen stadium. The Westminster team, which has won all of its five games played this year thus far will clash with Uni-versity of California of Riverside in what promises to be the key grid battle of the year for the Parsons. Invitations have been sent to parents of all students, Utah con-tributors to the College, alumni and others to be guests of the College at luncheon at Ferry Hall at 12 noon, and to attend an open . house immediately following the game, at the same place. From . 1 to 2 p.m. the guests will be tak-- j en on a guided tour of the campus and college buildings. The alumni dinner and election will be held at 7 p.m. in the Ferry Hall dining room. Early this month, ballots were sent to some 1100 alumni throughout the coun- - . try and results will be announced at the dinner. Candidates for the five offices of the organization, who were nominated by a com-mittee consisting of the present of-ficers of the association, the chair-man of the Alumni Affairs com-mittee of the college, and college ' advisors are: President, Donald Baxter, 52; George Dimos, '51; Vice President: Mildred Derry Du Bois, '39; Lois Wheatlake, '40 and " Beverly Turner Torgerson, '52; Beverly Turner Torgerson, '52; Secretary, Edna Mae Arbogast, I '54 and Donna Rundstedt, '57; I Treasurer, John M. Brown, '51 f (incumbent) and Cleo Mitchell, '51; Managing Editor of Publi- - i r V i " . . . . v y vrv L I Richard J. Maughan Young Attorney Writes Law Column 'Webb' A new feature, "The Seamless Web" (a series of informative articles on law) begins with this issue. The author is Richard J. Maugh-an, ' a young, practicing attorney of Salt Lake City. Mr. Maughan graduated from the University of Utah and University of Utah Law School. Following his graduation, he served as assistant to the A-ttorney General of the State. He and his 'wife and four child-ren make their home at 500 East 10th North in Bountiful. He is an active member of the LDS Church and PTA organizations. Always interested in politics and government, Mr. Maughan served as president of the Salt Lake Coun-ty Young Democrats. Symphony Sets Fall Opening The 1957-5- 8 Utah Symphony sea-son opens next week, Wednesday, October 30, and the year ahead looks like "one of the greatest the Utah Symphony has ever enjoy-ed," according to Raymond J. Ashton, president of ' the Utah Symphony board. Conductor Maurice Abravanel will be back for his. 11th season as musical director as well as conductor and all the principal players from last year, including Concertmaster Harold Wolf, will return. Nadine Conner, glamorous Met-topolit- an Opera star, will be guest soloist for the initial concert. Miss Conner is a favorite in Europe as well as America. She is well-- : known for her work in television and on radio as well as on the operatic stage. She will appear with Maestro Abravanel and the symphony in a concert at Ogden on Tuesday, October 29, as well as the Salt Lake concert on Oct. 30th. Arrangements also have been concluded with Foodtown and AG Food Stores throughout the state to sponsor three youth concerts which will be open to all school children. The first of the youth series will be held at the Salt Lake Tabernacle on Saturday, No-vember 2J In addition to Miss Conner, Tos-sy Spivakovsky, world - famed violinist; Jose Iturbi, popular pia-nist and movie great; Grant internationally famed Utah pianist, and Luboschutz and Nemenoff, famed piano team, will be guest artists to appear with the symphony this season. Tickets for the concerts are now on sale at the Utah Symphony office, 55 West Firt South for as little as $1 per concert. "All Utah music lovers are urged to send in orders now for a wonderful winter of entertainment at this extremely low price. It is surely the greatest bargain in wonderful entertain-ment," reports David S. Romney, managing director of the sympho-ny.' Employment Report Released By First Security Utah's non - agriculture employ-ment last month reached an all-ti- me high of 252,000, up 4,000 over figures a year ago. That is the report of the First Security News Letter distributed this week according to C. G. White and B. W. Vincent, assistant vice presidents of First Security Bank of Utah, N.S., and managers of the bank at Sugar House. The News Letter is edited by Elroy Nelson, vice president and economist for the First Security Bank system, assisted by Harvey Frazier. Utah's employment in Septem-ber was the same as last year's 6,400. Department store sales report-ed for leading cities in Utah and Idaho for 1957's first eight months were the same as last year's, ac-cording to First Security, i Utah's new car sales reached 20,122 for the first eight months, slightly above totals for last year. Bank debits through September were up 11 per cent in Salt Lake City, nine per cent in Ogden and seven per cent in Boise. ' Prices received by farmers in Utah and Idaho from the sale of cattle are approximately six per cent higher than a year ago. Lamb prices are up five per cent and milk prices received by farmers are up slightly. "These are offset by somewhat lower prices for eggs and poultry as well as for grains and hay," according to the News Letter. Total cash farm income for the first seven months was up from 1956 by $5 million in Utah. Production of nonferrous metals in the intermountain region is run-ning noticeably below 1957 figures. Copper, is down ten per cent and lead and zinc down 20 per cent. Oil deliveries to Utah's refin-eries continues approximately four per cent above last year's levels. feisty m0& i f-- i y ' J 5 i ',4 i , hr4 I fx Sterling W. Sill E. Jordan Stake Sets Conference The East Jordan Stake quarter-ly conference will be held Satur-day evening and Sun, Oct. 26-2- 7 with Elder Sterling W. Sill, as-sistant to the Council of the Twelve, and Donald D. Davis, re-presenting the church welfare committee as speakers. A priesthood meeting is planned for Saturday vening, and the re-gular MIA Conference will be held Sunday evening. The Sunday morning session will begin at 10 a.m. and the afternoon session at 2:30. I ' w - VPv a IE ; ' I I Z V. J iV Jz "- - Thorpe B. Isaacson Speaker Slated for Conference Thorpe B. Isaacson, of the Pre-siding Bishopric, will be the spe-cial speaker at the East Mill Creek Stake quarterly conference, Sat-- urday evening and Sunday, Oct. ; 26. i Women's Voter League Urges Study of Gov't Dedicated as a non-partisi- an Citizen Educational Organization, with the primary purpose of en-couraging the active participation of all the women who are loyal American citizens in the govern-ment. This is a national organization, and each year subjects are select-ed to be studied on a national, state and local basis. At the present time, the various units of the Club are studying water conservation and they are still on a national basis. Next, they will study the state water conservation programs and needs, and following that, they will dis-cuss the local water situation. The women of the Salt Lake area are divided into Units, each of which meets at the home of one of its members for a study period and a social hour. President of the Salt Lake area is Mrs. Jerry Landa, 2150 Sunny-sid- e Ave. Training Class For German Shepherds Opens At their first meeting of the season, the German Shepherd Club of Utah announced the be-ginning of their new fall obedience class for German Shepherds ex-clusively. The school will be conducted by Mr. and Mrs. A. R. Birrell and Mrs. Jeff Kofoed, beginning on Sunday, November 3 from 1 p.m. until 3 p.m. in the Elks Boys and Girls Club building, 1338 South Main St., Salt Lake City. Officers of the club include: president, Mrs. Jeff Kofoed; vice-preside- nt, Mrs. Jane Nessbit; sec-retary, Mrs. Jan Davis; and trea-surer, Mr. A. R. Birrell. The Club extends an invitation to all owners of German Shep-herds to attend the training class at the Boys' and Girls' Club build-ing and become acquainted with their projected program. |