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Show ) Page Twelve FRIDAY, APRIL 27, 1962 THE SALT LAKE TIMES 5,000 Shopping Centers Now Have Annua! Sales of 55 Billion Shopping centers have in-creased from about 100 to around 5000 in the past decade and now do an estimated volume of 55 billion dollars a year about one out of every four dollars spent in retail trade. Part circus, part civic center, mainly parking lot, the modern shopping center provides maxi-mum come-o- n with minimum traffic congestion, writes Don Wharton in a May Reader's Di-gest article, "Those Amazing Shopping Centers." Garden State Plaza in New Jersey is probably the nation's largest shopping center in terms of retail-sellin- g space: 1,350,000 square feet. Nearly as large and the most successful of all shop-ping centers, writes Wharton, is Northland, near Detroit. Northland, with 110 stores, 85 acres of parking lots, an 18-m- an police force and more than 4000 employes, does an annual busi-ness in excess of 100 million dollars. It has a mile and a quar-ter of storefronts through which 16 million people pass annually. Almost everything imaginable takes place in shopping centers. There have been cases of car theft, fatal accidents, murder, suicide. Every center's most com-mon problem is the shopper who can't remember where she parked her car. The usual solu-tion: put her in a shopping center police car, drive her up and down until she spots her vehicle. Keys locked in cars are another prob-lem and police cars carry door-openin- g tools. The article is condensed from the Plymouth Traveler, publica-tion of Chrysler's Plymouth Di-vision. cally opened May 1-J- 30. "During the drive every Ameri-can will be urged to buy extra savings bonds, join the Bond a Month plan at his bank, or the Payroll Savings plan where he works. "As much as our ability to defend ourselves, the protection of our freedom depends , upon our ability to maintain a sound national economy without which we could not long survive. In-vestment by each one of us in Savings Bonds is a contribution to the security of our country as well as to our individual secur-ity." U.S. Postal Workers Battling Time on Year Round Basis The habit of clock-watchin- g on the job is usually considered an undesirable trait; however, in the Postal Service there is no ob-jection to keeping an eye on the clock, according to Postmaster D. It. Trevithick. At face value this statement seems to be self-contradicto- ry, but the postmaster points out that the entire postal service is geared to the arrival and depar-ture of planes, trains, star, routes, and various other means of mov-ing the mail on a twenty-fou- r hour schedule. For this reason, postal employees are comstantly working against time, with one eye on the clock, in an effort to connect as much mail as pos-sible. To some cities or areas there are several dispatches each day from Salt Lake City, Utah, while to others there is a daily dispatch only. If mail is not deposited in time to be cancelled, sorted, and sent on its way, particularly to the cities where only one dis-patch a day is provided, it is de-layed twenty-fou- r hours in de-livery. Postmaster Trevithick says that mail which misses dispatch to Fillmore, Manti, Mount Pleas-ant, Cedar City, St. George, Pan-guitc- h, and Kanab is delayed 24 hours, as mail to these cities is sent off only once a day. Also, there is only one dispatch to parts of northern Idaho and Mon-tana. "Patrons, and especially busi-ness concerns, who mail fre- - quently to the same city should know the best time to deposit their mail in order to avoid missing important dispatches. An early dispatch will, in some cases, result in mail arriving at its destination in time to be de-livered the same day, while a later dispatch may result in mail arriving too late, thus necessitat-ing an extra day for delivery," says the ' postmaster. Everyone is interested in the most expeditious handling of his mail. Important dispatch infor-mation, available on request from all post offices, should therefore be obtained and used. Mailing early in the day is al-ways helpful. If dispatch times are known, mail may be sched-uled to meet these dispatches, often saving many hours in de-livery. . Local dispatch information and schedules may be obtained without charge by calling DA Ext. 349. 'mm I Cook iWodemX I m with a ' Iff and get an attractive with the purchase of any 4 new Gas Range .. . furnished and installed free in the area served by ,p Mountain Fuel Supply Co. KSiKp ' " For the finest, fastest, most economical, efficient cook-- fP; It j "V ing enjoy the wonders of a smart new beautiful Gas 1 ft !j I II f Range. It's cooler, cleaner smokeless, completely 1 1 U if I automatic! ""' iLnCiJiJl "" Gas burners reach high heat instantly change to any 5z& "in between" heats instantly "click" down to true TS simmer instantly. I You have a wide choice of modern ranges including f built-in- s so for cooler, more comfortable cooking, If select a Gas Range. II See Your GAS APPLIANCE DEALER for the newest ideas in cooking and for details on the free lamp offer ! AS (m) MOUNTAIN FUEL SUPPLY CO. iPi l " w A - , sWci$V : K ft' mf r rTfr iTtiiirrinrin irTfiirinriniMMimimni STRAIGHT KENTUCKY BOURBON AGED 6 YEARS FOUNDER MEMBER. THE BOURBON INSTITUTE 86 PROOF ' WHISKEY OANCIENT AGE DISTILLING Cft. FRANKFORT, KV-- Treasury Reports Utah Bond Sales "March purchases of United States Savings Bonds by Utah residents exceeded $1.5 million for the third month this year," local Bonds Chairman Frank A. Wardlaw, Jr., said this week. "Of the state's total of $1,577,-93- 8, Salt Lake County's share wsa reported at $635,964, bring-ing our three months amount to $2,007,121," he noted. Chairman Wardlaw also em-phasized the importance of par-ticipation by all citizens in the Freedom Bond Drive, to be lo- - Unhappy is the man for whom his own mother has not made-al- l other mothers venerable. Alvin Richter. |