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Salt Lake Telegram | 1952-03-01 | Page 9 | Nothing Serious

Type issue
Date 1952-03-01
Paper Salt Lake Telegram
Language eng
City Salt Lake City
County Salt Lake
Rights No Copyright - United States (NoC-US)
Publisher Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah
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Article Title Nothing Serious
Type article
Date 1952-03-01
Paper Salt Lake Telegram
Language eng
City Salt Lake City
County Salt Lake
Page 9
OCR Text I NOTHING Y SER OUS OUSBy r By Dan Valentine J THE TIlE NIGHT PEOPLE A littie little lit lit- tie tIc bit of Salt Lake City I y stays awake all an night While lule mo most t tf of f the city it il 51 sleeps C C p S lights h s sprinkle p r ink I c the I town and 11 it It the zero h hour 3 o 0 u r r 3 3 4 j am too early r jr to be morning r fir md and too late to be night the i. 4 I ity city looks like eke tOj aired a I ired Christmas 1 r t ree i t 1 A few cafes N r l I nth ith brave bra neon ar I N I i igns g n s m make a k e it t I J. J mall islands f fi I i h t tin in the ight g Dan Valentine Tired man the counters stiling stiling stiling sti- sti listening to stale ling yawns ns a okes of stale customers Here hd nd there young lovers sit in a looth lost to the thc world lost in buth Duth and dreams while time stilL stilLI I And on the streets taxicabs land and ready at cabstands and lase drivers sit patiently behind ic le wheels waiting for customers nd morning Of course the Western Vestern Union is open and at each end f Main Street the two hotels and land silent guard for the town townIe town town- le to Hotel Utah looks like a white giant giant and and on the other end f the street stands the thc New- New ouse Hotel with hundreds of appearing like eyes that r re e asleep And across the other side of wn the two railroad stations arm irm beacons of life aga against a adent alent allent lent dent night Now and then a train whistle the night now and then e faint drone of an airplane i ounces ounces off of the sky and fades I Ivay ivay vay way to the we wet t t. t r E The streets are arc naked naked except except t tf f course for an occasional fig- fig I re re scurrying along skirting the inges of the night night its its it's usually I I railroad man carrying a lunch ticket just going to work or orList orist List coming home but some- some lines imes mes its it's just a shadow scam scam- ping ering ring down the street like a Tightened girl So next tIme lime you cant can't find get Jeep get up and walk through alt Lake Lale in the dead of an aver- aver e ge ge night You'll see the night eople the night sights sights and and jull get to know that a city ally never sleeps sleeps sleeps-it it just keeps eking king away like an alarm clock etting ready to ring when dawn eaks down Main lain Street f One of the night people in Salt alt Lake is Jose Garr Hes He's been been jeen working in an night all restaurant restaurant here for more than ight eight years You wanta know what hat Ive I've learned after working work work- ing ng eight years of nights he lie asks Well ell Ill I'll tell you you the the theme one me ne thing Ive I've learned learned is that he the only really beautiful peo- peo people pic ilc in this wor world are the ugly ones nes JO 0 ODDS D DDS D S A ANn AND N D ENDS END E N D S Clem state chairman in harge large of defense bond sales has st received a shipment of wom's wom- wom ns n's s 's hats from Hollywood Th They y ill 11 ll belong to famous feminine ovie stars and Clem is cooking IP p a deal whereby Salt Lake allies idies will have a chance to push heir noggins noggin's in lids once worn ly y such famed queens as letty Hutton and Dorothy Lano La- La no nour ur JI Today's Valentine 1 Lets Let's jump to another stale to toive toive toive ive away today's Valentine It j foes oes es to Rep William Henry Harrison liar Har r i J 1 rison Wyoming 4 b c con congress congress- o n g gress I e s s- s l' l man who has fo p ji J A Just introduced iJ a bill 1 in Conto Con- Con Congress Y gress ress to ban the thc issuance of I i postage post post- J f age stamps for fori i 5 especial s special p e cia 1 occa occa- ons s. s Rep Harrison Harrion reports that it the government lO 10 c per 1 O to print the regular stamps lr hale hile Ile it costs per 1000 to rint the special issues He lIe says this is a waste and he heFt helI lI Ft the the banning of all ial stamp issues until the budget budgets s balanced He lie says stamps arcade are arc ade nade to send letters with with not hot to aste asle in albums A Valentine to aim im im I Sam the Sad Cynic Says I dont don't mind min if a man has a mind of his own own own-as as long IonS as he dont don't tr try to hive give me a piece of it A
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