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Show Universal Microfilming H4I Pierpont City 1 "Formerly The eu;$ Bulletin" VOL. 17, No. 12 SUGAR HOUSE, UTAH, THURSDAY, MARCH 21, 1957 10 CENTS Offers Views On Session ' D. James Cannon Returns To Desk From Legislature , . . D. James Cannon, executive sec-retary of the Sugar House Cham-ber of Commerce, has just ended 60 days of "wrestling" with Utah laws. Mr. Cannon represented district nine in the Utah House of Repre-sentatives during the Legislature 1957 session. He is now back at his desk at the chamber offices, better off for the experience. The Independent submitted three 1 t . i t " A... f fi questions to Mr. Cannon this week on general legislative action. Here are his answers: What would you consider the most interesting action of the leg-islature ? "The interesting thing about this year's legislature was the large number of bills introduced in con-nection with the local government survey. This was the first time in the state's history that so many bills were introduced to increase the efficiency of local govern-ment." Do you believe state finances were adequately served ? "The philosophy of this legisla-ture seemed to be built around the idea of taxation on basis of needs. 1 believe the state has a good chance operating until the next legislature within its present revenues. "I was personally in favor of a one-ce- nt statewide sales tax in-crease with V2 --cent to be returned to cities to help them with their financial problems." Was there anything about this year's session that disappointed you? "I was or of House Bill 2 which would have presented the residents of Salt Lake City four types of government and resi-dents of other cities two to four types of government on a local referendum. This bill was passed by the House "and, to my disap-pointment, was killed in Senate sifting committee." D. JAMES CANNON : v., . :v .: ....... . - f f,'" '5 irCi - , 4 tU I U 4 E v ill - ' - - 1 " 5 - , . 1 5 i v. i ii....' ... ... Thorn MeAn Shoe Store will put Sugar House's new business building officially "in business" when it opens March 28th. Rapidly Growing Sugar House Adds New Business Building Rapidly-growin- g Sugar House has added another business build-ing. March 28 will mark the opening of Thorn McAn Shoe Store, the first store in the new building near 2188 Highland Drive. It has been built by Hyland Lumber and Hard-ware Company. The building's main floor will also house Columbia Savings and Loan, tentatively scheduled to move in April 15, and Standard Optical. Definite date for Stand-ard's occupancy has not been set. Business offices will fill the second floor. According to its architect, John N. Clawson, the roomy structure has been built to enable easy addi-tion of new levels in the future. It is a steel frame building with brick and aluminum siding. It has approximately 5,600 square feet of space upstairs for eight to ten offices and 8,000 feet on the lower level for the three stores. An elevator provides easy access to the upper story. Contract Let For Work On Highland Contract for paving Highland Drive from 27th to 35th South has been awarded and work will get under way as soon as weather allows, C. Taylor Burton, chair-man of the State Road Commis-sion, announced this week. The $80,256 project is a follow-u- p to the recent curb and gutter work along the route. Contractor will be Gibbons & Reed Co., ac-cording to Mr. Burton. "The weather will be the only thing in determining how fast the work will go," Mr. Burton said. The road will be paved to the new curbing. Mr. Burton's announcement was made following his meeting this month with Jack Riley, president of the Highland Village Business-men's Assn.; G. Willis Carlisle, manager of the Highland Drive branch of First Security Bank of Utah, and Allan Coombs of Beau Brummel Restaurant. The businessmen's association, according to Mr. Riley, has been working for the project for the last Symphony, Choir three years. To Present Concert On Sunday The Westminster Community Symphony Orchestra, sponsored by Westminster College, will present its annual spring music festival at the college Sunday at 3 p.m. The 80-pie- ce orchestra will per-form works . of Tschaikowsky, Bethoven, Don Gillis, Howard Han-son and Aaron Copeland, according to Prof. Kenneth Kuchler, musical director and conductor. The orchestra will be assisted by the Westminster College Concert Choir, Prof. Kuchler said. James S. Vail is choir conductor. Prof. Harry Payne of the college faculty will be piano soloist in the Tschaikowsky Piano Concerto In B Flat Minor. The orchestra is now in its third season. Among its major accomplish-ments are two music festivals, a performance o f Mendelsohn's "Hymn of Praise," and a "Pops" concert. New Faces Seen At Chamber Meet New faces were in evidence Wednesday at the luncheon meet-ing of the Sugar House Chamber of Commerce. "Bring a guest" was the theme for monthly get-togeth- er and the stress was placed on civic im-provement." ' Chamber members viewed the film, "The Living City," a chal-lenge on civic improvement, at Beau Brummel Restaurant, accord-ing to D. James Cannon, executive secretary. . Committees Docket Meet To Plan Clean-U- p Campaign Five subcommittee chairmen of the Sugar House Chamber of Com-merce public affairs committee will meet Thursday at 9:30 a.m. in the Walker Bank board room, ac-cording to Neisen R. Bank, public affairs chairman. General plans for the year will be discussed including setting a date for a neighborhood cleanup campaign and a business district cleanup. Plans will follow last year's pro-gram. Students at Irving and Evergreen junior high schools will participate in a neighborhood cleanup during their spring vaca-tion. The traditional Sugar House business district cleanup will be held in April, the date to be an-nounced soon. Businessmen will take a half day off to clean streets, parking lots and areas near their buildings. City equipment will be used to re-move trash arid wash down streets. The five subcommittees meeting Thursday are traffic and roads, plans and zoning, commercial services, operation home improve-ment and parks and recreation. Nohlgrens To Open Restaurant On Highland Drive A new restaurant with new ideas in the particular business will open soon in the location of the famed Coon Chicken Inn on Highland Drive. A remodeling job which includes a spacious new front entrance, and remodeling the kitchen and dining rooms is near completion for the Nohlgren establishment. Ralph S. Nohlgren Inc., a well-know- n restaurant name on the coast and who continues to operate restaurants in Portland and Salem, Oregon, purchased the Coon Chicken about a month ago. Partners in the new firm are Nohlgren, Keith Snow, Donald Thomas, assistant manager; Robert Doner, chef; Ruth Haskens, head salad lady; and Mrs. Lavina Cook, cashier, hostess. The new concern will employ a staff of fifty. Mr. Nohlgren announced they expect to help make the com-munity, serve the community with a business which will be a credit to it and participate in community activities. "The cafe will cater to family groups and there will be no beer or bottles permitted," he announced. "Our improved methods make an operation whereby we can feed a family with a greater variety and in a wonderful atmosphere for less than home preparations and is especially fine for working couples," he continued. There will be two private dining rooms to cater to party groups and there will be organ music pro-vided for lunch and dinner hours during the week and all day Sun-days by Leonard Friendly and Cecil Andersen, New Parking Lot Offered Employees A new parking area for employ-ees of Sugar House businesses has been designated by the parking lot committee of the Chamber of Commerce. The area in the old park east of the Keith O'Brien store ha3 been leveled and is now ready for use as a parking lot, according to Newel Brown, chairman of the committee. Five years ago employee parking was no problem with 330 cars to be taken care of, Mr. Brown said, "but now we have 1,280 cars to handle." The committee is urging all em-ployees in this area to use the lot and walk the necessary distance to work. "This leaves more space for customer parking," Mr. Brown declared. Several other areas are being considered for employee parking. The old park area eventually will be blacktopped and lights erected, Mr. Brown promises. S isr 4 f V j The Westminster College Concert Choir will assist the West-minster Community Symphony Orchestra Sunday when it presents its annual spring musical festival. Polio Clinics Held Two southeast area polio clinics were running at high speed Mon-day night, giving polio vaccine shots to area residents. One clinic was held at Highland High School. The other was held at Highland School. The Com-munity Clinic was at Olympus Jr. High. Another Holladay clinic ii scheduled next Monday. |