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Show ( . 32,-- i 'Ji 'N f ' L)C 3B this week the Ben Lomond Beacon will be distributed to several stores in the North Ogden area and will be free to the public. Complimentary copies of the Ben Lomond Beacon can be picked up at Harmons, in the North Ogden Beginning Shopping Center, Stacy Square, and in Pleasant View, said Sue Ellen Sims, Ben Lomond Beacon editor. We hope that these complimentary copies of the paper will let the people of the North Ogden area get more acquainted with the paper and sub scribe to it in the near future, V The Ben Lomond Beacon is a weekly newspaper that is distributed each Thursday. Contributions are welcomed and will be put into the paper by contacting Sue Ellen Sims at Stable or Carol Shaw, Publications, con- tinued Miss Sims. Miss Sims said that the Beacon will only be given away for a short while and that each issue of the paper will contain a subscription ad for those that wish to subscribe to the paper. know aoout it," said Miss Sims. We want to get the readership of the Beacon going and this is why we are giving them away free for the next short while. Get a copy of the Beacon and read it. This is your newspaper, she concluded. The Beacon will print engagement and wedding pictures free of charge Any and also birthday pictures. news worthy item or picture that readers would like to see in the paper is important to us and we would like to 2 Vol. 2 No. 48 Tte t. 4 T--D PE BULK RATE U.S. POSTAGE PAID OGDEN, UTAH 8440,1 JD PERMIT NO278 December 29, 1977 Thursday, PH iJM.w North Oqden, Utah iWHWHW WUM Memories of North Ogden brought to present day by Glen Perrins & Charles B. Lockwood, the Beacon Writers Old-Tim- During the early pioneer days in Ogden and North Ogden, the settlers got haircuts the best way they could. The father, mother, the older brother, or one of the neighbors did the barbering. But there came a time when regular barber shops were established. Ralph M. Douglas and Lafe Farley operated shops in Ogden in 1871. George Thompson was proprietor of the Broom Hotel Barber Shop in the1 famous Broom Hotel at 25th Street and Washington Avenue, the present site of the Commercial Security bank. Then in 1877, Joe Harris located his, barbering business on lower 25th Street. Harris Barber shop did ladies hair dressing and also had a place in his shop for baths. Two other pioneer barbers were Walter Holbrook and J.A. Smith. The latter operated the Depot Barber Shop in the Union Depot at 25th Street and Wall Avenue. Goldsmith Marks, In 1888, Companys new shop, located near the Central Hotel on 25th Street, was completed and a new asphalt walk was laid in front of the building. Barber Union The same year, in 1888, the Ogden barbers met and organized a Barber Union, with William Planz chosen president and 0. W. Hively, secretary. The Union urged all barber shops to be closed on Sunday at 1 p.m. and on all holidays. Prices were fixed for hair cuts at cents and shaves at 15 cents. The union at that time wasnt very effective, however, since few members lived up to the agreement. The barbers did more than cut and dress the hair and beards and shave their patrons, some of them in the early days dressed cuts and wounds and did a little first aid work. It wasn't long until someone invented the barber shop sign, the white stripes signifying bandages over cuts. 35 Whirling Barber Poles Then came the familiar whirling electric barber pole which created Few quite a stir in Ogdens whirling barber poles are found in Ogden and other Utah towns today. With the popularity of beards, hey-day- s. mustaches and decline in number of barbershops, the whirling, electric barber poles are fewer and farther between, and even new laws such as the one in Palo Alto, California, say the poles must go. A law just passed by the City Fathers in this California peninsula city says that moving signs are illegal. So the electric barber pole, the signature of a barber shop must go. Barber poles have been with us for centuries and always gave us the location of a barber shop. Of course, in Ogden and North Ogden in the long ago, they weren't electric, but the principle was the same. In Ogden pioneer days the poles were made of wood, but the rolling red stripes were the same. Sometimes they were large signs, measuring a foot thick and six to eight feet high, -- and then again, they measured only three feet high and a half-fothick, but they all carried the same message. The barber shop signs remained in wood for many years until some ingenious inventor, long after electricity came into vogue, thought of giving them a whirl. So, whoever it was, encased them in glass and added a motor which turned them. Then the red and white stripes seemed to be perpetual motion the stripes never left the case, but they seemed to melt right into the top as they turned upl up, up. It didnt take long for this new idea to take hold and many a barber, with hair cuts at 25 cents and later 35 cents each, worked an extra hour or two each evening to buy an electric sign. Gradually they spread and before the old wood barber poles disappeared and the electric ones took long over. Its too bad, the signature of a barber shop is being outlawed in Palo Alto if the sign whirls, and barbers there who violate the new law face a fine of $500 or six months in jail. California should relent and let the barber poles whirl. The world needs more barber poles. Whoever would want to send anyone to jail because of a barber pole being given a whirl. The whirling barber pole is not just another sign, its a tradition, lets keep it in Ogden anyway. Its a symbol of barber profession a bit of vanishing Americana! mm ):A is DENNIS A. DeBOER running the length of the First Congressional District of Utah, in his 1978 Campaign for the U.S. House of Representatives. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Arend H. DeBoer of North Ogden. Running candidate Dennis DeBoer is running for congress. Beginning at the Northern end of Utah, Mr. DeBoer intends to run the length of the First Congressional District. Wanting to get to know the district better, he is taking advantage of his running abilities. On January 2, 1978, at 11 a.m., the campaign run begins north of RichBorder (U.S. mond at the Highway 91). Mr. DeBoer will be running on Saturdays, weather Utah-Idah- o permitting, beginning each time where he left off the week before. Then, in June, the DeBoer family will travel to the Southern end of the district and Mr. DeBoer will run North for two weeks. The length of the district, and hence the state, should be covered by A native of Utah, Dennis DeBoer has an admiration and love for the states unique personality. He feels he can represent this uniqueness in the United States House of Represen- tatives. He has had experience in teaching and communications, and is presently employed as a bank officer at First Security Bank in Bountiful. His education includes a B.S. from Weber State in 1968, and an M.B.A. from Indiana University in 1971. He and his wife and two sons live in West Bountiful. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Arend Ogden. H. DeBoer of North State Dayplanned From Howard and Bonnie Stahle and the staff of Stahle blications Utahs upcoming Statehood Day will be held in Moab on Jan. 4 and 5. The celebration, to be by the Utah State Historical Society and the community of Moab, has as its theme the history of outdoor recreation in Utah. The keynote address will be given by John D. Hunt, professor of forestry and recreation at Utah State University, on the theme of recreation in Utah. Several state and community officials will also participate. A banquet at 5:30 p.m., Jan. 4 will be followed by official ceremonies at 8 p.m. in Moab's Star Hall. will leave the A chartered bus Society, 603 E. South Temple, Salt Lake City, for Moab at 8 a.m. Jan. 4. Historical travelogue will be offered enroute. Tours will be provided for the afternoon of Jan. 4 and the following to National Arches morning Monument, Dewey Bridge or Castle Valley, and the downtown Moab area. A granny band concert and dramatic and musical presentations will be among the other activities provided. The bus will leave Moab at noon Jan. 5 for return to Salt Lake Citry. Round trip bus fare is $15 per person; dinner at the Wednesday banquet is $6 each. For bus and banquet reservations, contact the Historical Society at by Dec. 29. Motel reservations and meal arrangements should be made individually; motel information is available through the Society. 5 |