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Show THE SALT LAKE TIMES FRIDAY, JANUARY 17, 1958 Page Three I All Girls Want to Get Sacked ' i ' "DEADY-TO-WEA- R dresses in the new "sack" styles are com-- A ing: from Paris designers who cater to the average French consumer, enabling-- customers to dress like those who buy from exclusive style-settin- g- couturiers. These ready-mad- e outfits for summer, 1958, were created by-- Pierre Billet. At left is a green tweed "sack" sheath; in center a two-piec- e, button-fro- nt dress of beige and white striped pique with sleeveless middy top; and , at right is: a blue wool "sack" with three-quart- er sleeves Governor Cites Need For '58 Traffic Safety Two hundred twenty-tw- o hu-man lives were snuffed out in Utah traffic in 1957, Governor George D. Clyde reported to fel-low Utahns this week. The bloody record was the next to worst in all the state's history. It was compiled despite strenu-ou- r efforts on the part of gov-ernment officials, law enforce-ment agencies and safety organi-zation in the state. In commenting on highway safety the governor said: 'Almost a week of the new year had gone by before the first 1958 highway death marred the record. Thie was a welcome res-pite from the death filled clos-ing days of 1957. Before we be-come complacent about our new safe driving habits, however, we should look back a year the traffic record for the early days of 1957 was also good, but driver carelessness later in the year still cost us 222 irreplaceable lives. "If we are to reduce 1957's tragic toll, we must have your full cooperation and support. The governor and all state officials, and the law enforcement officers and the courts and the schools and the dedicated safety organi-zations all these together, by themselves, cannot do the job. Without full public support, the efforts are largely in vain, as was proved in 1957. With whole-hearted public support, the state traffic toll can be cut to a frac-tion of its present frightful size as his been proven by experi-ence in Connecticut and other states. "When you take the wheel of a car you have a trenmendous re-sponsibility, for your own life and for the lives of your fellow citizens. Many New Products Found Accidentally The knack of finding something by accident, serendipity, records an impressive history in the an-nals of American firms, says the Christian Science Monitor. In 1879 a mishap took place in the Brooklyn print shop run by Robert Gair. A careless pressman, printing paper seed bags, overlooked a thin rule sticking up above th printing surface. Before it was noticed it had cut neat slits in 20,000 bags. But Gair did not fly into a frenzy. He locked him-self in the shop that night and discovered a way to cut and crease folding box blanks auto-matically simply by replacing the plates on his press with rules and knives. Today the practice is still followed in the manufac-ture of folding cartons. Gair's company prospered and over the years grew into an or-ganization of 40 mills and plants with annual sales of more than $150 million before merging into Continental Can Company. It was the folding carton which launched consumer packages and merchandising policies as we know them. In the 1880's the Quaker Oats people sensed the potential of advertising cereal to the house wife by using small packages on which the brand name could be printed. Daniel F. Gerber, president of Gerber Products Company, has gone on record as crediting his baby, Sally, for booming the sale of what was once a small canning factory. Mrs. Gerber had fed the family's first baby with hand mashed vegetables and she was understandably a bit tired of the saucepan and strainer routine when daughter Sally came along. She prevailed on Mr. Gerber to process the baby's vegetables with the plant machines he employed to puree tomatoes. The rest is history. Last year the Gerber firm raised its sales to a record of nearly $100, while happy toddlers ate its applesauce, sweet potato and vanilla custard. The year: 1904. The place: the St. Louis World's Fair. One day business was so brisk that an ice cream vendor ran out of plates. No man to turn away customers he darted next door to enlist the aid of another concessionaire, a gent selling sugar waffles for a penny. Here entered the cone. The waffle man, whose product customarily was baked on the spot and powdered with sugar, rose to the emergency. He deftly rolled waffles into conical chape which his vendor friend filled with ice cream. It turned into a carnival bo-nanza. The original name, "The "World's Fair Cornucopia," soon was shortened by a nation that likes brevitly into "cone." Then there's the potato chip. This crisp and curled salty prod-uct sprouted shortly before the Civil War at a fashionable hotel in Saratoga Springs, N. Y. There are two accounts as to the emer-gence of the first potato chips, but both stories agree it was ac-cidental. One story goes that financier Jay Gould and a group of friends dining one evening at the resort hotel, sent the French fried po-tatoes back to the kitchen with the complaint they were not thin enough. The cook, after the third return trip for the French fries, got so mad he shaved off paper thin slices of potatoes with a razor. These were tossed into the fat and incredibly enough scored a great hit. The other account states that the book was so busy slicing po-tatoes she mistakenly dropped a thin slice into a pan of fat used to fry doughnuts. The first gold-en brown potato crip formed before she could rescue the wan-dering slice. In any event this marked the start of the "Saratoga chip,"j turned out in htis mass produc- - j tion age by stainless steel ma-- 1 chines 60 feet long. Treasury Launches New Bond Sales As of this week tUah banks are prepared to service a new field of buyers of the familiar series and H savings bonds, purchases of which were former-ly restricted to individuals, ac-cording to Clem S. Schramm, state savings bonds director. Although the official Treasury announcement formally states that "partnerships, unincorpor-ated associations, corporations, state and local governments, labor unions, churches, fraternal, civic, service and veteran or-ganizations, eleemosynary insti-tutions, estates, trusts and other fiduciaries" are now eligible to purchase, its practical interpre-tation opens unlimited coverage to institutional investors, except commercial banks. "The guaranteed cash values, the 3V4 per cent interest return and their indestructible features make these bonds an advantage-ous investment for all groups. There is a bond to fit the need of any size organization. The E bond, whose interest accumu-lates, can be purchased in the usual sizes of $25, $50, $100, $200, $500, $1000 and $10,000 the purchase price being three-fourt- hs of the face value. The H bond, which pays interest by check ever six months, can be archased for $500, $1000 or value). Interest is paid at the rate of 2.25 the first year and then 3.38 for the next nine years, and the bonds can be redeemed at par," he said. "Since the Treasury announced its intention to broaden this pro-gram early in December, many investors have signified their decision to purchase. Each such investor is limited to the pur-chase of $10,000 face value in each type of bond during one calendar year. "During this present defense emergency in our country," Mr. Schramm said, "it would be best to both the organization and the nation if each group would re-view its present finances and if at all possible invest some funds in these 'Sharesin America.' 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The revolt of a few buyers, against the unending "bigger and bigger" tendency in American motorcars has found one means of expressing itself. This is the purchase of smaller foreign carr of British, German, French. Italian or Swedish design. Th'-numbe- r of sales in the United States this year is expected to reach 150,000 only an eddy in the market, yet enough that manufacturers may wonder if it is the start of a current. At any rate General Motors Corporation has announced that it will serve this growing field of demand by import and sale of two of its European-buil- t cars through some of its American dealers this fall. Ford and the American Motors Corp. for some time have offered English-buil- t cars in this country. Among those seeking prestige, luggage capacity or simply the feel of a heavy car, the demand for longer, sleeker, more gad-gete- d rolling palaces may con-tinue unhibited. But if city planners have any influence they will favor the small car driver, a gathering of them in The Hague recently applauded Lewis Mum-for- d when he decried the "fan-tastic and insolent chariots" that burden streets and parking lots. At any rate modern business is flexible enough to give the con-sumer a choice and will be re-sponsive to his demand. |