Salt Lake Telegram | 1944-02-22 | Page 13 | Park Workers Start Claring Play Center

Park Workers Start Clearing Play Center Building Purchased at af Cost of Elks Pledge Annual Maintenance Fee The holiday meant little to of the Salt Lake ake City parks department Tuesday as they started moving tons of federal government property from tram a building at 1338 South Main street treet which will become the nucleus of the city's newest youth activity center Thousands of dollars' dollars worth of property pr perty ranging from gas ranges to to typewriters t rs and bedding g salvaged salvaged sal sal- d from rom national youth admin- admin str and nd other the defunct i federal agencies m must st be moved from the th-e building to a warehouse at West Vest Sixth South street before remodeling remodeling re- re modeling modeling of r th the th str structure into 1 1 boys boys' and nd g girls girls' Clubs can cn an start explained ex ex- pl ined Parks C Commissioner Fred Tedesco Alex Jarvis 1661 Russet avenue avenue ave aye nue was was' busy tearing out partitions partitions partitions parti parti- while a crew v of other workers work work- ers ens using city trucks loaded the salvaged property and hauled it away away City commissioners purchased the building which cost more than to tor construct for Salt Lake Elks lodge No 85 has has' pledged itself to contribute 2500 a year for support of the boys' boys and girls girls' clubs In recognition of that civic service commissioners agreed the clubs sh shall ll be be named the Elks' Elks Boys' Boys club and the Elks' Elks Girls' Girls club