Provoans will vote on a bond proposition, in addition to choosing a city commissioner and a city auditor, when they go to the polls Tuesday. They will be asked to approve or reject a $5,000,000 bond issue to defray one-fourth the cost of expanding the city sewage treatment plant and adding appurtenant facilities. The expansion… Continue reading Sewage Plant Expansion – Bond Issue Needed
Category: Civic Responsibility
Carpool: Check Benefits
Are Utah Valley people realizing the full energy-saving benefits available through carpools? It’s getting more expensive to drive to work alone. If you drive a subcompact 10 miles to work each day it costs you $646 annually, according to a recent Federal Highway Administration study. If you drive a standard size car it costs you… Continue reading Carpool: Check Benefits
Alpine School Bond Vote
Alpine School District’s proposed $12 million bond election, slated Oct. 4., raises some questions for the citizenry and school board to ponder. Apparently the money is needed, or will be needed as bonding capacity increases, judging by the superintendent’s report of population growth. Priorities have been established for new elementary schools in Orem and American… Continue reading Alpine School Bond Vote
Beautification: You Bet! / Hathaway Suited for Post
Beautification: You Bet! The city of Santaquin in southern Utah County has announced a cleanup and beautification campaign for May 3-10 to spruce up the community for the 1976 bicentennial. Beautification drives are excellent and every city and town should have one. Keying the projects to the bicentennial is good also bit getting ready for… Continue reading Beautification: You Bet! / Hathaway Suited for Post
About Crime Rise: How Concerned Are You?
Are you concerned about the alarming increase in serious crime in Utah Valley? Rape, murder, robbery, assault, etc.? We’d guess just about everybody is – but how many are concerned enough to assist with their money? Right now every concerned citizen has a chance to demonstrate his support by donating to the reward fund being… Continue reading About Crime Rise: How Concerned Are You?
Give to Rewards Fund
Utah County recorded a startling 33 per cent increase in serious crime in 1974. Despite continual efforts to upgrade police-detective procedures, solving serious crime is becoming more difficult… partly because of the increasing load. In 1974 only one in four serious crimes in the county was solved. Last November a 17-year-old Utah County girl was raped and murdered,… Continue reading Give to Rewards Fund
Our Soaring National Debt
Yesterday the Herald appealed for faith in America in overcoming the serious problems which beset the country. There are things government itself must do to inspire that confidence – and one of these is to establish fiscal responsibility in the nation’s capital. Over-spending over many years has spiraled both the national debt and inflation. Government… Continue reading Our Soaring National Debt
It’s That Season Again
It’s income tax return time again. The Better Business Bureau in Washington estimates 5 out of 10 taxpayers will have someone else prepare their returns. For those here in Central Utah who prepare their own, the Internal Revenue Service can provide guidance, if needed. This can be obtained in two ways: – By dialing a… Continue reading It’s That Season Again
On Future Provo Plan–Your Views Are Desired
A considerable number of people in our society are fairly cynical about government, and suspicious of what is being done while others complain that they feel powerless to have a voice in what govemment is doing. On the other hand, local govemment officials complain that they go to a great deal of trouble to tell… Continue reading On Future Provo Plan–Your Views Are Desired
Curb Crime Show Viewing
Henry J. Taylor, distinguished syndicated writer whose column appears regularly in the Herald, declares that “sadly, television plays an important part” in the climbing crime statistics across the country. Mr. Taylor – winner of many awards for philosophy, literature, science and patriotism – calls television the “third parent” in the home and says that during… Continue reading Curb Crime Show Viewing