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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
Fuscinuiing Tdle of Archives

President Reagan’s vow to “make the skies safer” and work to ease the nuclear war threat “hanging over manklnd” puts the civilized world’s challenge in proper perspective in the wake of Soviet destruction of a South Korean jetliner over the northem Japan Sea, killing $9 persons aboard. The President also called for justice in reparations… Continue reading U.S. Goal: Make Skies Safer

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
Of I896– If Was ‘Daddy of Them AII’

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

Bv V. LAVERL CHRISTENSEN Scripps League Wrlter An “American Inns of Court” pilot project – designed to help train law students in a non-academic setting, hone skills of trained lawyers. and generally strengthen processes of justice i is underway in Utah. with units functioning at Provo and Salt Lake City, The program. established as a… Continue reading ‘ Inns of Court’ Pioneered Here