Show UNUSUAL OCCUPATIONS OCCUPATIONS- Ambitious Salt Laker Has Climbed in His Vocation To Reach the Heights Heights' Heights He's Hes He's Sign Rep Repairman irman T If Ic S y ya a 4 fr w 4 SEES THE LIGHT IN HIS CLIMB TO DISTINCTION PURSUING UNUSUAL OCCUPATION Glen Hales Bales you'll find him at the sign of the big red electric letters Editors Editor's note This is the first of a series of articles relating relating re- re lating latin how Salt Lakers derive their livelihood fr from m unusual occupations occupations' By BUFORD SOMMERS When a little boy boy- Glen Hales of South Eighth West street told himself he wo would ld rise in life He would climb and climb and climb Today he has reached the heights in Salt Lake City H He has' has been atop the beehive on the Hotel Utah He has climbed the t tower to the beacon on the First National bank building He has made his mark on the sign atop the Newhouse hotel the one I with the big red letters on the blocks Mr Hales Haies is with the service service department of an electric sign company and his tour of duty takes him to the illuminated heights of Salt Lake City Of course Mr Hales has to climb down too Once in a while he comes down faster I was working on a sign on a marquee of a downtown store a awhile awhile awhile while back when the marquee broke and I fell 12 feet to the sidewalk he recalls After a few broken bones mended he began his climb again If Mr Hales Hales' work gives him hima a tendency to look down on people people people peo peo- its it's because of the different point of view his job engenders The most remarkable sight was one morning when I worked on the Newhouse hotel sign he says The smoke cut off the view of oJ the city beneath me but knifing upward to the west were the peaks of the Oquirrh mountains mountains mountains moun moun- with the sun shining on the snow clad slopes I Mr Hales has worked on about every kind of sign Everything but the Indian I sign h he says |