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Show around the COR' , n SUGAR HOUSE E j Willi the Editor J j Hear about the Sugar House crime wave?. Seems one of the downtown detectives rolled up to a hamburger stand out here the other night, ordered lfi hamburgers, ham-burgers, and pinched the proprietor pro-prietor for contributing to delinquency de-linquency by means of one of those veterans' glass bowl drawing draw-ing deals. Salt Lake hasn't got a corner on vice, you bet. Crimp No. 2 Prowlers battered bat-tered away at the 'door of a safe at Deseret Industries early in the week, lmt failed to break in, and'loft (he place discouraged dis-couraged and I empty handed, according to llolger Larsen, (lie manager. Residents in the area above 17th E. and between 21st So. and the Country chit) some At of them have protested to the city commission against the placing of the salvaged portable houses from Dragerton or any other structures of that kind in their neighborhood. Can't say we blame the owners of ten to fifty thousand dollar homes for not wanting a shanty-town in their midst, but on the other h'and, the vets have got to live somewhere and if they were good enough to wear the uniform they ought to be good enough for any neighborhood. neigh-borhood. They not only can't find places to live they can't find places to work. Hardly a day passes but one comes in this office looking look-ing for a spot to open up a business. busi-ness. Matter of fact, we shoved the machinery around a little and made window space for one ambitious G-I who was stopped cold by the shortage of business space. We don't claim any particular par-ticular credit for it, but would like to make it clear that it was a desire to give him a spot rather rath-er th'an the lure of the few bucks involved that prompted the move. Chances are a lot of local lo-cal business houses could do the same and help some of these fellows fel-lows get established. Two of the Bulletin's charter subscribers (charter, that is, since the present management came in) are out for state senate sen-ate posts, and while we're not getting on the line (politically) just yet, we wish them well. They're Grant Macfarlane, senate sen-ate veteran and former president presi-dent of that body, and D. Howe Moffat of Murray, head of the state war finance committee throughout the war- Fine fellows, fel-lows, boh of them good horseshoe horse-shoe pitchers, handy with livestock, live-stock, and right there with bells on at the monthly concourse of the Saturday night dancing .club. Only thing, they're both Democrats. |