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Show Universal fllMiy?-- . , , Cltyl ! "formerly The "Hjcuit Bulletin" VOL. 17. NO. 28 Sngar Honse, Utah Thursday. July 18. 1957 10 CENTS Highland Drive StripCelebrates Completion With Gigantic Three Day Promotion Five long years and a thousand problems later, the NEW Highland Drive road program is completed! It now provides a smooth flow of traffic and its special type of curbing makes it easy for motor-ists to enter or leave the main traffic flow at almost any point they choose. - Highland Drive and Sugar House businessmen are so enthused over the completion that they are cele-brating! During Thursday, Friday and Saturday, the "Highland Strip Business Section of the Sugar House Chamber of Commerce" (the new official name for High-land Drive merchants), are invit-ing residents of the eastside area to "come back and shop with i them again." "We don't blame people for not wanting to travel on Highland Drive, but we'd like to serve them again, so our merchants are going all out on a three day sales cele-bration," Ralph Jones, of Mt. Air Shopping Center and promotion ('Continued on Page 8) D-Jam-es Cannon Guest Speaker At Luncheon James Cannon, Director of ha Utah Department of Tourist Publicity, and former executive secretary of the Sugar House Chamber of Commerce, gave his talk, "Value of Tourists to Utah," which was interrupted two weeks ago with a "This Is Your Life show." The regular meeting will be held Wednesday .July 17 at the eau Brummel. Also present as guests, were Miss Sugar House, lovely Linda Shingleton and the Days of '47 Queen, Doro-thy Pohlmen and attendants Paul L. Pehrson, president.was in charge of the meeting and program. Frankie Nielsen arranged the fete for th Sugar House Queens at the meeting held Wednesday at the - Beau. t Allen Coombs and! Ralph Jones aren't declaring a political change but a new look In business on the Strip. Prizes Some lucky person and a co-mpanion will receive a fabulous holiday in Las Vegas, and a nameless little burro will be named at a drawing Saturday evening at Mount Air Shopping w Center. It has been a fun highlight of a gigantic promotion to set the business wheels in motion again on the new Highland. Strip Merchants have gone all out to offer loads of specials and bargains to the many shoppers for the three day gala event, and a second drawing of lux-ury merchandise will be held at the England Plumbing Supply at 7:00 p. m. to climax the affair. Days of '47 i Festivities High Lighted With j: Rodeo Clowns The outlandishly colored shirts and ridiculous, baggy pants of the rodeo clown, more than a laugh-provoki- ng costume, are respected badges of a rare kind of courage. " Clowns in rodeo are not only I specialists in comedy. They are there to prevent tragedy. They are brave men first and funny men secondarily. And the real reasons for there presence in the arena the brahma bulls are no laughing matter. To the average rodeo - goer, clowns are in the arena just to liven up the show and to provide a good laugh but to contestants they play more important roles: Insurance against serious injury or death!. For it's the job of the clown to distract the maddened brahmas when their riders have been thrown. To escape the bull's murderous charge, whether he is bucked or jumps off at. the end of the ride, the bull rider has to rely on a fast set of legs and the courage of the rodeo clown. The clown moves in to distract the bull and let the rider get to ( Continued on Page 5) Lt Butcher Grad. From Wash. D.C. i '' ' ' ff if Lt. Stanley D. Butcher of 1252 Ashton Ave. recently returned from Washington D. C. where he attended ,the Federal Bureau of Investigation Academy. Lt Butcher was appointed by Salt Lake Police Chief, W. Cleon Skousen to attend the three months course. This course is intended to familiarize the local Police Departments throughout the country with the latest de-velopments on police methods and procedures Mrs. Butcher and their two children, Danny and JoAnn were able to go to Washington D. C. and attend the graduation services in which Lt. Butcher was grad-uated with high honors. Artists Here For Days of 47 Two of the nation's biggest stars in the western music field Eddie Dean and Tex Williams will head a troupe of outstanding per-formers, at the Days of '47 Rodeo, schedule'd for July 18 through 24 except Sunday at the state fair-grounds, according to Lee E. Niel-sen, rodeo chairman. Eddie Dean and Tex Williams both have starred in movies, tele-vision, radio and recordings. Also appearing will be Louise Duncan, motion picture and sing-ing star who has performed at many of the top rodeos in the na-tion, riding and singing western songs. Eddie Dean, whose ability haa won him the nickname, "The Gold-en Voice," was destined for success if there is such a thing as luck. He is the seventh son of a seventh son and was born in the seventh month in Hopkins County, Texas. He was encouraged to go into the classical music field when he wag about 21, but he had been born and raised a country boy and country music . seemed to be his goal. Edtlie started his career in Chi-contlnu- ed on page 8 Meet To Be Held In Preston Annual Scandinavian Summer conference will be held Saturday and Sunday, July 27th and 28th, in Preston , Idaho, Holger M. Larsen announced this week. The . Saturday schedule calls for a meeting at 2:30 p. m. and an entertainment that evening. Meetings Sunday will commence at 10 a. m. and 2:30 p. m. A Scandinavian choir from Salt Lake will provide special music for the Sunday sessions. Speakers will be called up from the congreration to talk extem-poraneously. They will be alter-nated among the three Scan-dinavian countries: Denmark, Nor-way and Sweden. Some of the former LDS Mission presidents of the three I countries will speak. Mr. Larsen estimates that 600 persons will attend the annual conference, which was starttett . more than 80 years ago. First TV Program At SUP Village To Be Sunday First annual television broadcast from Pioneer Village will take place Sunday, July 21 from 2 to A p.m. on channel 5. Titled "Heritage" and sponsored by the National Society, Sons of Utah Pioneers, the show will fea-ture approximately 50 sequences depicting the life and culture of the Utah Mormon pioneers of the 1847-185- 9 period, said H. Ward McCarty, Executive Secretary. Nearly GO persons dressed in period costume, will appear on the show, using the pioneer relics housed at Pioneer Village, 2998 South 2150 East Street. A group of Ute Indians will ap-pear, singing tribal songs, and the SUP Pony Express chapters will demonstrate the mail - carrying chores handled by the original riders. A wagon circle and a handcart group will appear. Many other pioneer vehicles will be shown, in-cluding what is probably the last remaining wagon used by John-ston's Army when it invaded Utah. A beautiful white and gold horse-draw- n hearse will also be shown. Barbershop quartets will per-form in the vintage barbershop amid the tobls of the trade of 75 years ago. The television camera will go inside the Brown house which was Vacation School For Holladay Community Church Every child in the area is invit- - ' ed to vacation church school at Holladay Community Church start-ing August 5. Classes will run for two weeks, Monday through Friday, from 9 a.m. to 11:30. There will be games, crafts, story-tellin- g and singing, kindergarten through junior high. Charge will be a dollar a child, but no family need pay more than $3.00, even if it sends more than three children. You can register July 21-2- 8 by sending children's names, with a dollar each, to: Registrar, Vaca-tion Church School, Holladay Com-munity Church, 2631 East 48th South. , In charge of the school is Dr. J. Peter Bercovitz, consultant in Christian training at the church. Last year 119 attended. This year the staff is making plans for twice that many. I fa I i I Members of Sugar House Business and Professional Women's Club wUl i leave Saturday via United Airlines for the Western Regional Con-vention in Honolulu, Hawaii. Among those going are Hattlo J Hubner, Virginia Picht, Mabel Giles, Signe O'Brien, Bea Tet-- 1 erson and Arietta Elton w Off To Fall Market In Los Angeles Zoe Conta and Fran Watson will leave July 21st by air for the gift market in Loa Angeles. The twosome who operate the unique Zoe-Fra- n Gifts in the center of Sugar House, will at-tend the markets for a week and Fran will return to the city. Zoe will be joined by her hus-band, Al Conta and son and they will do the sights of Los Angeles including Disneyland, and drive down the coast prior to return-ing home. The gift shop will remain open the week, they are. gone. brought from Wanship and refur-nished, complete with a Saturday night bath scene. An oldtime blacksmith and cat-tlesho- es will ply his trade for home viewers, and the famous praying oxen of Pioneer Village will demonstrate their piety. Many Sugar House people will perform on the show. The cast will be composed of SUP members, their families and friends. Arrangements are already being made for the show to be shown on the entire Columbia Broads casting System in 1958 ' . Polio Clinic Planned At Libby Edwards School A polio clinic, sponsored by the East Mill Creek Health Council and the National Polio Foundation, will be held at - the Llbby Edwards School, 1555 E. 33rd South, Saturday, July ,22. The clinic will be primarily for the third polio shots and will be held from 5:30 p. m. to 7:30 p. m. There will be a charge of $1.00 per shot, it was announced hy the public health nurse. |