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Show h University LIL-r-'.r- S.qlt Like City iL, Editorial ti.h . . . Go to the People The Nei Silt (.oiuity iiooiJs, Wiints, and ran afford a civic auditorium. arena, and convention center. The Neighbor bclieveii that tlie pt'ojili of the county will approve a $15 million bond issue to build the facility, but only if the location is proper, so lliaL the people have an opjiortuuily to use il. There is much newspajier talk about selling the auditorium to the people; those who make such statements are not salesmen, or the' would realize that no salesman ever sold anything that the customer did not want to buy. The selfish people who insist ujKm a downtown site have not lieeu fair in presenting the fads, nor liave they presented all the fads. They would rather not have il pointed out that the whole county would pay for the facility. but the benefits would bo l eaped by Salt I -- ike (lily. 1 hey are not anxious to have the people realize that many conve.nl ion centers operate profitably away from the downtown men. and that having shops close to the arena is really not much to consider, because most of the stores are The first regional pistol tournclosed when the facility is in use, and vice versa. ament to be held in Utah will They do not point out that il is unwise to spend more be held at the Hnlladay Gun Club this week end. than 25 nf the total cost for the site, nor that the Top shooters from California, South site is the only one available, so far, for about 17 Utah, Nevada, Arizona and Wyo- in the of the $15 million. This saving on site cost would probably ming will participate V ii Cham- Pacific Central 7 I Regional hull instead of 12.KK. Jpionjhip. give the couiilv a There has been .no effort to inform the people that their Competition is open to members of the National Rifle Assn. site 10 of 15 means to miles hi traffic, from pet driving city But club officers said that due to the center of imputation in the county, nor that access would heavy early registration the be inconvenient from the great llolluday area, even after field may be limited to 100 entrants. the freeway and the bell route are built. Shooters will fire matches .22 caliber, centcrfiro and The Neighbor lielieves that publishing such informa- with .45 caliber pistols. Championtion is a duty owed the public by a good ship for the region will be deterncwsjiapcr. mined by the total scores fired Attendance at University of Utah functions is already with each caliber pistol. suffering liecause Salt Lake City has not provided adequate roads to handle the traffic. Moving these functions to anWSCS Meets at other part of the city where traffic facilities are even poorer Christ Methodist would solve nothing. The Woman's Society of Clu The men who have compiled the auditorium reorl tian Service of Christ Methodist church will hold their general have fallen into an obvious fallacy. meeting on July 11th at 9:30 A'o one can deny, even the resident in the remotest part a.m. Brunch will be served. Mrs Albert Keiser is chairof the amuty, that Temple Stpiarc is the heart and the core man of the program. of Salt Ijike County, mul of the state for that matter. Wo agree, heartily. Traffic in the area, alone, proves their point, and already freeways are lieing built to handle the automobile traffic to and from this heart. By Jay Ihil to double that traffic by placing a civic center Ovrrhcard in Holladay: next door, would not be doing a favor to either. The same people who are asking for a downtown When you expect a cherk, site have given us the answer. They liave nut tom down anything else that conics in the mail is junk. their downtown stores and built new . . . they have gone to the suburbs and built their new stores there. They have Talking with Commissioner Marv Jenson the other day should the civic to the And to center the people. go gone we saw ' Serving the Southeast Salt Lake Communities of Holladay, Cottonwood, East Mill Creek Literary Adventurers Gun Club Slates Wednesday, July Volume 8 Marv Jensen Says Best Arena Site Is 34th So. I To Hold Meeting The l.iterary Adventures club will hold its July 10 meeting at the home of Carolyn Griffiths. 3396 South 3175 East. I Mary Garret will review the book Advise and Consent, by Tourney 10, 1963 Number 28 I Solid support for the 3100 South site for the the Salt Lake County civic center was expres-- . sed this week by Marv Jenson, county coin inissioner from West il would be too much, because So Jenson carried his re- the general rule is that not search a little farther, and con- more than 2.V ; of the total cost tactcd the Salt Lake City Lines, should be spent for a site, the They quoted a price of $100 a commissioner points out. :day to provide must c,inslll'r tbp mat- - tie service between downtown In "f convenience." Jenson Salt Lake and 34th South. . . Commissioner Jenson has continues. "Downtown streets it seems a bit strange to a trip to: are presently returned from just carrying me," Jenson continued, that I 3 of 14-0- 1 traffic. My the same people who are buildOre., where his pro-- opacity loads their homes in the suburbs tege Don Fullmer won a fight, ISTleSds me t?ffh!e Th2 ing and are moving their own A 20 month old Holladay girl and Jenson had an opportunity the public will not be very in- business operations to suburban was found dead in a culvert to study the Portland auditor-las- t terested in patronizing a public shopping centers are the same teentwo gct-u!jum Wednesday by meeting place that is so diffi- ones who are insisting on a in were who agers participating when the Portland Memorial cult to drive to." downtown location for the civic I a search for the girl. Coliseum was constructed, it "Besides. 1 dont believe the center." Mark G. Maxcy Mariclla Tolman. daughter of was planned for downtown, r public will vote for the arena Jenson pointed out that for & Mrs Eldon M. Tolman, j a cent to the existing auditor-423- 5 downtown. I think the public every new water connection Dr. was pulled jum. But costs were too high, will vole for a 'snow Highland installed in Salt Lake City there job'." from a debris filled culvert at and so Portland built its Cnlis-174Commissioner Jenson is con- are nine new connections in East 4045 South. rum l'-- miles out of town. The vinced that the talk about hav- county. I think we must the place The baby was the object of a fact that this was the proper ing an auditorium within our facility where the people arc two and a half hour search by .thing to do is borne out bv the walking distance" of hotels is going to be, he said. deputy sheriffs and residents in construction of the new Sheridan so much buncombe. He bases The commissioner calls atthe area. Hotel within a half-milfo the (his belief on information from tention to figures which bear Jim Whitcly. 18. 4257 Holladay new Coliseum, Jenson reports. Houston. Tex., where the audi- out the central lueation of the Rlvd. and Dick Gunderson, There are several factors. torium is about a South site. 1904 Gunderson Ln. found the Jenson says, -which have eon- - from the hotel area. It is about 5 miles from bah.v in the canal after the vineed me that a county site is Statistics from Houston show Lake Water Dept, had , superior to a downtown site. And that even where such a central Temple Square, and much closer , Salt than that for the bulk of popu: e long-timoff of flow water into remember,hc adds, turned the Mark G. Maxey, I don't location exists, less than 2ri of lation in Salt Lake City; only missionary in Japan, will be '.the canal, say that the 34th South site is the auditorium customers walk, a mile or two from most South the only one. So far it is the and mure than 98r use some Salt Lake homes; no more speaking at the Southeast Christian Church, 6880 South Highbest one proposed and I'll sup- type of transportation. than 7 or 8 miles for most Holland, July 14, at 7 p.m. port it and fight for it until a laday residents: 3 or 4 miles better one is Mr. Maxey has just completed presesnted. for Murray people; 5 to 6 miles Most is factor important 12 years of missionary service for Midvale residents; 6 or 7 ' A Jenson cost, declares. survey miles from Granger, and a on the island of Kyushu, the of the downtown site, including couple of miles farther from most southern of Japan's main leases that would have to lie Kearns. runs more than $13 bought, islands. Jenson reports he has been million. Even at half this price, warned that if he opposes the lie served in Japan as an downtown site, he is "dead Army chaplain just after the A South Cottonwood Village politically. Whether I am ever war. Later he and his wife de- youth has been named to attend elected to any public office cided to devote their lives to the U. S. Coast Guard Academy Salt Ljkc commissioners last 'again is not important to me Christian service in that coun- in New London, Conn. eek end were put on their j But I have a year and a half John Stephens, son of Mr & try. , , guard .'erning financing of . to serve of my term as county One factor in their decision Mrs Andrew Stephens, 1096 East ccntly come together for tlie I hnstmas lighting programs for commissioner, and I intend to entered the South the was that fact academy though Civir about the Japan Center, pose of producing plays. It is cities in the county. do what I think is right while I evof to in almost four was 3400 South of Monday an aerial map the years progressive begin and is being The commission rcccivnt a hold this office, people. he adds. site and the surrounding area. ery field of human endeavor it organized in Salt Lake County. letter from John Q. Walker, I like my job, hilt I Sure, touched the been had Tlie first play to Ik? produced Slate Street Christinas by hardly Actually, it appears as if the like my self respect more." will Ik? Our Town by Thornton Committee for the Murray Jay-resite has been saved" for the Christian message. Even today Jenson paid compliment to the of out or Wilder. every three auditorium. Almost everything only one in which he said the Mur- work of the civic auditorium are There are still a couple of ray Jaycees would happily ac- board. These men have workaround has been built up, there- four hundred Japanese by making the land more expen Christian. leading male parts to be cast. cept $1,500 from the county for ed hard assembling facts, their After founding the Kyushu sivc, but it is amazing how Anyone interested in trying out their program. report indicates thsy have used much of the for the play or in joining tlie The commission approved a great wisdom, and that suggested Christian Mission in 1949, Mr they should site is still clear of buildings, contact Bill to Maxey and his wife began their Carl $1,500 contribution the Salt will stand up for what is right group The Salt Lake County Fire ston, 1195 Last 5810 South; Lake City Jaycees for down- - when it comes The area being considered is work inKanoya, a city of 70, to the sclectior The refreshment stand at the chase and approximately $20.00 town lighting at Christmas. It would adjoin the 000 over one thousand miles Department put in one of the pi7onc AM6-832of a site. of in of weeks busiest south Grand memory on stored were GreenTokyo. in the Central in Lille league ball park property candy bars that They are the only Americans most people last week when a .south, and have one full block field Village was looted Sunday' in the stand. there and Mrs Maxey teaches rash of grass and brush fires 1 Not content with just burglar-night for the second time in oMhe auditor-izin- g her children at home in addi- swept through the county. the stand the thieves jum property would be virtually tion to her household and misthree weeks. Largest fire in this area was The ball park is located on the poured the contents of the soft a straight line from State St. sionary activities. The Maxeys one at 7800 South and Danish to 1st West, which is not a have five children, the oldest Rd. The fire burned over 100 northern edge of Greenfield Vil- dispensers on the floor west at present, but a railroad daughter is now entering col acres of land and did damage street of acts 6000' and performed other lage at approximately to orchards, mink pens, and line, giving opportunity for lege. vandalism. Suulh and 1900 East. I Mr Maxey will be telling about other farm buildings. The stand was also broken trackage and a siding at the The refreshment stand was out near fire broke well Another as inr other as work his advantdefinite civic a center, June 16. reportedly entered from the into on Don Old Mill on Big Cottonwood Bullock, spokesman age for manufacturers who wish portant information about this Mrs west window which was iorced who operate to ship in equipment fur displays vital Asian country when he Canyon Rd., at approximately! mothers for the open. 6900 South on Friday. That at conventions. speaks here. The thieves took the handles the stand said that proceeds The. public is invited to this threatened the home of Mr & would extend south two It stand at the sales the from two from soft drink dispensers, Mrs Richard T. Bauer. to have blocks between Main and 1st meeting. Mr. Maxey will be heating plates that were used to were going to be used Bombers wcrcc called to belli convcrsa for in five about all personal West, giving the for oys cook hot dogs and hamburgers, a league party to drop their charges of fires a will conduct also lie blocks. lions, this city in. the league year. snow cone syrup, a new coffee playing which quickly brought Bentonite at out answer and that Mr Jenson period question pointed to be maker that mothers of boys in 'But proceeds will have the complex itself could be the end of the service as time the fires into control of the the league had saved and col- - used to make up the deficit of fire fighters. (Continued on Page 2) permits. the burglaries and vandalism. Icclcd trading stamps to pur-- 1 Alien Drury. I Baby Drowns J This Little League Refreshment Stand Burglarized Sunday shut-Jord- ; tr Holladay Canal July near-Iortlan- 1 p ad-M- Missionary To Japan Is 0 j e Speaker half-bloc- k N not Yule Lights Glare at Commissioners .r pur-573- 0 50-ac- i , I I "Vhn? , I ! Cottonwood Heights Park Depends on Tax Increase Members of tlie Cottonwood cral years ago. Council Commissioner Jenson told the Heights Coordinating were told last Friday night that group that no money had been if they expect to get enough . budgeted this year for a park in any area money from the County to pur- sitc in that area or chase a park site that they near by. This is the reason that should make plans to supixirt a he is proposing a half mill emerhalf mill increase in county tax- gency increase in the budget. es that Coinissinncr Marvin G. Many areas throughout the Jenson will ask for in August. county have expressed a need The group, representing the for parks in their communities civic clubs, FT A, but no site is available to them. combned churches and the Cottonwood Most of the communities can Heights Community Council, furnish the manpower and the met with Commissioner Jenson funds to develop the parks but to present a site plan and to it is beyond their financial abildiscuss the possibilities of be- ity to purchase a site. Commissioner Jenson pointed ginning a park program fur the out that a half mill increase in community. The s te that has been ap- county taxes will raise approxproved by the Coordinating imately $300,000 and that most Council and the Salt Lake Coun- of the money would be used to ty Recreation Department will purchase sites in critical areas be located adjacent to the pro- of the county. To increase the county budget posed Butler Junior High School and the Cottonwood Heights El- there must be an existing emerementary school. It is on 27(10 gency and a public hearing held East and approximately 7600 S. on the proposed increases. The site meets the requireCommissioner Jenson said ments of the recreation depart- that the need for additional rement set down in a study sev- - creational facilities in the coun j Thousands of spectators jammed Evergreen Ave. in East Mill Creek on the Fourth of July to view the East Mill Creek 1 Representatives of the Coorty has created an emergency ing to increase the lax levy tlie that as soon as other county hearing would be held, dinating Council told the comcould arrange the hear- - ably the second week in August. missioner that in considering the site location they had considered that it would be an excellent walking distance site for many residents of the community but that at the same time thought should be given to the acquisition of additional I,asl Thursday the East Mill, won first, place, second place inIthI! raff,ly rowiniJ ,Col Creek Lions Club staged their went to Defense of Freedom. 20th annual Fourth of July cele- third .1,1h,s. arca' P"-fo- r place winner was bration and parade before apj larly in the western part near All. proximately 4,000 pleased specGreenfield Village. The Fairy Tale division was tators. The site that has been selected in Awards were presented is presently owned by the Ilaycs! five divisions of competition to entrants in the parade. Estate and it is assumed that Hie Grand I'nzc winner was to gain the site for a park it Colthe family of T. Kirkwood will have to be condemned by the county. The site occupies lins, 2448 Evergreen Ave. with their float titled The East Mill approximately 15 acres. Creek Heir Force." The Collins The coordinating council unare the parents of six children derstands that the Jordan Board all adopted. All nf the children! of Education is anticipating putriKlc on the float with the excepting a swimming pool in the tion of the youngest member of of the parade were posed junior high school and the family. Mrs Emmett L. Morris. Mrs according to past practice the In the Patriotic Division the Howard B. Sunimcrhays and J. !pwl will be made available to float tilled In God We Trust Parr Godfrey. the public. prub-agcnci- East Mill Creek Lions Hold 20th Fourth Event "Justice"1 j pro-Judg- I ! I Lions Club 200th annual parade. Children of all ages made floats, decorated bicycle, costumed themselves lo strut in This map shows the proposed site of the Cottonwood Heights Park. The Cottonwood Heights Coordinating Council has approached the gala parade. Everyone agreed that the parade was truly one of the most outstanding in the twcnly year history of the Salt Lake County Commission the site for park use. to pur-chas- e the event. Hundreds of and executed entries leslilied to the community ini crest in I he ulebraliont d |