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It was hear-tening to learn the other day that a totally blind teacher had been chosen “professor of the year” by the Brigham Young University student body. Students from each cf the 11 colleges made nominations and n committee of student body officers and faculty made the final selection. The honored teacher ls Dr. Rlchard… Continue reading They CAN and DO Succeed

Thanksgiving marks the first celebration of what could well be called family season. Nothing brings families together as surely as the Thanksgiving and Christmas celebrations and in between, most of us spend a great deal of our time thinking about, planning for and carrying out plans to buy gifts for those we really care about.… Continue reading Holiday Season
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Provoans can take justifiable pride in the beauty of their wellkept city cemetery. But take a walk through the older sections and you will realize there’s a blight that only the citizenry can remedy – specifically lot owners and descendants of deceased persons buried there. Countless gravestones have deteriorated hope lessly through the ravages of… Continue reading Some Markers Need Repair

Millions of dollars worth of artifacts and art objects are stolen from museums each year in the United States – and the public is the big loser. When a valuable item vanishes, a piece of history is gone. This is in addition to its intrinsic value. Exact values are hard to establish but in 1978… Continue reading Thieves Steal Museum Items

It hashbeen called “the natlon’sT’memory.” It pre1 serves and makes available for research historically valuable records of the federal goverment. Three billion ‘ documents, beginning with papers of the Continental Congress. are entrusted to i its carej = . 3 – x — Such lsitbe National Archlves – a half-century old I thls month –… Continue reading 4′ /L//ja
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Scrlpu League Newspapers Owning a home ls part of the American drum – and building all or part of it yourself can add to the satisfaction besides helping to make the project financially feasible. Cutting costs ls the name of the game durmm current housing crunch brought on by ‘ tion and high interest rates.… Continue reading How to Cut Costs in Building Home

Edlwr’1 Note: This In ihe lint nl n series of four enlclee explorIng “allordsble nlterutives” In the housing crhls Induced by Inflntlnn ud hlqllhlnterest rates. By N. VER!. CIIIIISTENSEN Scripps Lupe Newspapers Remember when your father, grandfather or other kinsman with the help of an expert or two and an occasional assist from a neighbor… Continue reading Home Acquisition Pcses Challenges

In the wake 1 of lour state high school basketball tournaments 11A through 4Al, let’s take a tew minutes to remirnisce about the era when Utah had only a single tourney. Until 1944. old-timers will remember. little and bng schools were lumped together and the winner oi the 16-team tournament was the one and only… Continue reading HinE IZI6y Cuge Tecsm of 1930 Beat Expert’s Odds

By Ruth Louise Partridse On a bitter cold morning 1 February, 1896, Will Slick, a stl dent at the Tc-lluridc Sz-tmnl 4 Electrical Engineering, a r o s from his bed, went to the windn as people will on getting up, an what he saw startled him. Dres lng hastily he went out in in… Continue reading Remember Provo Canyon Snowslide
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By N. L. CHRISTENSEN Ever bear of the Onland School in Hubble Creek Canyon? Since time has a way of dimming memory and ohliterating facts, the story of this “one-room school” might have been lost to the puhllc were it not for a small volume edited and authored by Lucy A. Phillips of Springville, The… Continue reading Volume Details History of 1-Room School in Pioneering Ero