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A majority of the U. S. Supreme Court justices is growing progressively impatient with death penalty appeals and is determined to shorten the path from sentence to execution. The public, like the justices, has reason to be concerned about the mockery being made of our criminal justice system through endless legal appeals and delays. Since… Continue reading Judges Seek Fewer Appeals

By DAWN TRACY Herald Staff Writer When an old Orem Llne electric railroad car collided with a Heber Creeper steam engine in the heart of downtown Provo in 1918, photographer Samuel Robinson grabbed his equipment. rushed to the scene and recorded the event. Since then, his photographs of Provo’s only train crash have appeared in… Continue reading Early Photographer Captures History of Provo

Shoplifting by customers and employees continues to grow as a crime and as a retail overhead cost that penalizes the buying public. In a yearly study for the National Mass Retailing Institute for l982, the Arthur Young accounting and consulting firm found that pilferage had risen 10 percent from the previous year. The study, covering… Continue reading Shoplifts Up During Holiday

‘lne traln wreck at (knter Sreetand Second West in Provo gt. 4, ltl;;1am’t massive from B t of darna e; unl three urs were derailegi. Y Nobody wu killed and only 14 persona were Injured enough to have their names llsted in newspaper accounts. Yet the accident was historic, Inaway.Howottandotwot1-alris collide right in the heart… Continue reading Heber Train. lnterurbun bollided at Center and 200 West

To those who remember .. and who cherish freedom Aug. 21 will be a sad anniversary. That was the day in 1968 – 15 years ago when a half million Soviet and Warsaw Pact troops invaded the beautiful and peaceful nation of Czechoslovakia and crushed a democratic reform movement which had blossomed that spring. “Truly… Continue reading Odious Anniversary Sunday

By N. LA VEBL $fl’lPlI IMI! NWIFFN “Thedreamofyesterdayiatlaehopeof today and the reality of tomorrow.” When in 150 Congress ordered a gold medal strut! in recomltim of Dr. Robert ll. Goddard’s pioneering research in rocketry, those words wu-e liucrlbed on one side. They were spoken by Goddard himself just after the tum of the century as… Continue reading Goddard: Rocket Pioneer

There’s a gap in the Herald newsroom that will never be filled, no matter who takes the position. That gap is left by Ray G. Schwartz, who started working for the paper in the old, of Herald building near the gas company in 1948. There are many quotes we remember by Schwartzy, such as, “Smile… Continue reading Schwurtzy, We Miss You

By RENEE C. NELSON Herald Today Editor During th War of llllil the British burned the U.S. Capitol and gllihite House. which was the home of the fourth President of the United states. James Madison. It was also during this war A with the bombardment of Fort McHenry e that Francis Scott Key was inspired… Continue reading War 0f 1812
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N By N. LAVERL Cl-IIIISTENSEN Special to the Herald Pioneering. indians. homesteading. romance – they’re all port of a new book. Lambs in the Meadow. authored and published by a Provo man. Lee Reay. The 275-page volume. available either in hard back or soft. is a humorous historical narrative of the town of Meadow and… Continue reading Provo Author Lee Recsy
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jl in the Paul Newman-Robert Redford ;:0vie “Butch Cassidy annd the Sundance . id,” the end for Butch and Sundance comes fn Bolivia around 1908, when they are cut ndown by gunfire from the Bolivian Army. TQ Wrong, says author Edward M. Kirby nl amn, Donn. In his just-published hook, The Rise It Falla! the… Continue reading Sundance died in Utah prison, author says