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Show The Name Should Be "Sugar House Park" People axe apprehensive about the future when lhey hare had an unpleasant experience in the past That is why Sugar House folks wonder what is going io happen about the naming of the new park at the old prison site location loca-tion it is still fresh in our memory how we were treated when the new high school was named. The majority, by far. wanted the high school named the Sugar House High. After much discussion during dur-ing which important Sugar House organizations went on record favoring that name, the Board of Education completely disregarded the wishes of the people and in an arbitrary manner selected the name of Highland High School. Now the park is to be named. The Sugar House Chamber of Commerce, this newspaper, and other important groups have gone on record as favoring the name Sugar House Park. In addition a contest to select a name produced a couple of bushels of letters containing con-taining suggestions all of them turned over to the Commissioners. Of these the majority favor the name Sugar House Park. Now the commissioners are going go-ing to turn over these suggestions to a committee composed of the same members as those who did the planning for the park in the first place. They will be dele-gated dele-gated the responsibility of selecting select-ing the name. This puts Sugar House residents, resi-dents, organizations and businesses business-es once again behind the proverbial proverb-ial eight ball, because this appointed ap-pointed committee owes no allegiance allegi-ance to anybody. It is true the committee is made up of fine men, but that does not insure a name for the park that will meet the approval or the majority of the area residents. They could come up with a name as foreign to the demands of the people as was the name Highland when applied ap-plied to the new school. |