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Show NOTHING SERIOUS y Do VcfanffM At last Salt Lake liars are coming com-ing Into their own. Julian James, grand liar ex officio of the famed Arkansas).: Liars club, has . allotted three S honorary mem-' """" bershlps in the It exclusive organ!- l cation for Salt Lake's top three V Vrfj prevaricators. W Liar James wasrSMS' a recent visitor -J', ' " " j in Salt Lake, and i -w. 5 he firmly be I i 7 heves Salt Lake I yJ should be repre-1 Vjf sented in the! I vw group. U Hi. He sent three alentlne engraved, official membership certificates cer-tificates to me and they will be presented to the three persons who end in the best lira. Women are eligible; politicians are banned. They're professionals. Liejjnav.be tbougnlf. women, men, love affairs, babies, dogs, weather, fishing, hunting, sslary, value to organization, athletic prowess, 'etc., etc. So liars, send in those fibs cop one of these three exclusive memberships! mem-berships! Lirtla of This and Data It's nice to report that Francis L. Zynda, 613 Wilmington ave.. Is still holding down his usual last-place last-place spot in the new Salt Lake telephone directory . . . tirant C. Aadneacn, local attorney. Is the first person listed in the book . . . Salt Lake policemen report that tourists continually try to make left-hand turns at the corner of Main and 2nd South. They don't read the signs. How's Your Memory? Only about five out of every 100 persons can remember a license plate after a brief dance. This comes from police officer J. C. Mrtiarry of the Salt Lake police department's hit-and-run squad. However, the majority of people can remember the numbers. But they can't get the sequence right. In other words, after that first glance the license number 8940 may become 4980 or 9840. The numbers are right, but the sequence se-quence is off. The easiest numbers num-bers to remember are the straight up and down numbers like 1. 4. 7, 10. etc., etc. The curved 6s and 3s and 8s look too much alike at a distance. Souvenirs Are Big Business Of the tens of thousands who visit Salt Lake City during the summer months, probably not more than a few very few leave town without some type of souvenir sou-venir or memento tucked away in their grips. As in past years, local souvenir sellers say that the smsll bags of salt from Great Salt lake still lead the souvenir hit parade. But souvenir plates s h o w I n g the LDS temple are gaining in popularity. pop-ularity. Naturally, because Utah is a copper state, souvenirs made from copper are popular. And miniature statues of Brigham Young find plenty of buyers. About Paopla You Know Mrs. Raymond Lee, pretty civilian civil-ian worker at Hill air force base, has a pet skunk deodorized, of course I . . . Valoy Sorenson, coed colonel of the R O T C sponsor unit at the Utah State Agricultural college, col-lege, is just about the prettiest colonel in the business . . . Thomas R. Inre, president of Salt Lake's unique convertible club, has a loudspeaker in his car. He can talk from the car to curb by talking talk-ing into a small portable microphone micro-phone , . . There are 7000 rose plants in Salt Lake's famed municipal mu-nicipal rose garden . . . The famed Relief society of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was founded with a single 55 gold piece. It was presented to the small group of women founders by Joseph Smith. Today's Valentine Samuel E. Burton, Salt Lake father fa-ther of seven who lives at 618 W. O-Mtol nr. deserves a special ac-f ac-f ''' " 11 II olade he did T . Tsomething the glfite many folk. SV-LltwSe wou"1 ,,k 10 f'''f??'C told a hoarder Y?V 'V ott. - j A 0 , 1 Mr. Burton, vk.-o is a painter by trade, was in a local department store trying to buy a couple of badly needed sheets for his children. After I standing at the counter, he worked himself up so there was only one lady in front of him. However, this woman asked how many sheets the store had In stock. "About 25," was the answer. "Give me all of them." she said, and laid out the money. That was when Mr. Burton blew his top. He asked the lady if she ' would let him buy two of the sheets for his children. They were sleeping on , blankets. But the woman wouldn't listen. So Mr. Eur! on told all and sundry sun-dry off which is something a lot J of us have wanted to do but didn't. I Sam, the Sad Cynic, Says: I ascd to be all for Hawaiian statehood until this Hawaiian shirt erase kit Salt Lake. |