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Another Uvidu Milestone

Click to see original imagelt was the nlnth annual UVIDA installation bmquet and it can be safely said that each year for the Utah Valley lndustrial Development Association has been one of solid community effort for economic progress. UVIDA was born of a need for Utah Valley communities to work together. . .put their combined shoulders to the wheel to build payrolls to keep our young people home and provide a widening base for prosperity. One of the orglanirations beliefs is that a of Utah Valley benefits from an industry in any of its cities. Under that concept, UVIDA has worked for new plants for the “valley” rather than any one city or town. The policy has helped to promote intercity tmity. Clair J. Hadley of American Fork, outgoing president, outlined positive efforts of UVIDA and the public and private sectors during the past year at the installation banquet Wednesday. Combined private and public efforts, he noted, have resulted, in the past year and a half, in 25 buildings constructed and made available to industrial clients, with 24 of these occupied. “This represents an addition to ourt tax baseiof over $3.5 million in 1974 besides the number of new jobs they have made possible? In addition, companies already here, have been able to complete $12 million worth of expansion. Winston M. Crawford, former mayor of Orem, a UVIDA supporter from the first, was installed as president for 1975, with Raymond M. Klauck of Springville president-elect and County Comniissioiirer Verl D. Stone of Sparush ork held over as secretary. The Herald wishes them well in carryihg on the UVIDA tradition and meeting the challenges of growth and prosperity in the area. I l I O U Citizen s Tip Aids Law Once again a suspect in a Utah Val ey crime has (been apprehended because a citlren was willing to “get involved.” The arrest of a man, who now awaits preliminary hearing on a charge of robbing a Provo bank, came about after police received a valuable “assist” from a citizen. , W According to officers, the citizen discovered a coat in an alley a short distance from the robbery scene; hung the coat on a post; and then phoned police after reading a description of the robber in the Herald. The description mentioned a trench coat. The coat opened further leads which eventually resulted in an arrest. An arrest. or course, is not a conviction, and the suspect will not enter a plea until after the preliminary hearing in a ‘ U.S. Court in Salt Lake City. But the citizen’s help definitely has aided Provo police and the FBI in their investigation to this point. This is the third case that comes to mind wherein suspects in felony cases in recent years have been arrested because a citizen was willing to get involved. There are other cases still unsolved which might well be brought to conclusion if people who have even a scrapof evidence would step forward with it. We urge such persons to follow the example of the citizen who phoned officers about the coat.