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Show - Free Prets - Thursday, September 15, 1983 - Page 3 Tingey's 'yard sale marks end of era A classified ad in today's Free Press tells quite a story. The yard sale price tags will mark the remnants of a retail business that was once one of the most prosperous and popular enterprises in LehL "We had to send all the help home and told them we were going to take inventory." Elva and her husband, Lee Tingey, opened the country store in 1944 after operating a Case dealership which had been located where The Hitchin' Post Laundromat and Beauty Parlor now stands. Merchandising must have been in her blood because after Lee died in 1959 Elva continued to run the business with the help of her sons, Darhl and ValDean. She closed the store in 1974 but kept much of the merchandise hoping to open another business after 6he'd had a YouH remember probably Tingeys Country Store and the voice of Elva as she advertised over the radio during the fifties. "Come on out to Tingeys Country Store," Elva would say on those commercials which were carried on airwaves all over Utah. "There is something for everyone at Tingeys Country Store at the Point of the Mountain," she concluded in her distinctive voice. rest Customers often mimicked She married Rulon Romrell and Elva's unique twang, children were the couple spent summers in taught to imitate her voice, and her and the winter months in Arizona. commercials were a byword in They served an LDS mission in most Utah Valley homes. Pittsburgh, Pa., and Charleston, Elva's distinctive voice earned West Va. Her life was happy and her notoriety beyond Utah Valley. full and she never found time or Then Vice President Richard inclination to begin another Nixon made Tingeys Country business venture. Store a must-visi- t on a trip to Salt Rulon died last year and even Lake City. though she'd hung on to the "It was very secretive," she said. Country Store stock hoping to open Ihi mi a it"" producing director for Utah Pageant of the Arts, more than 14 dump truck loads of trash have make up." Many customers of the old Tingeys Country Store will remember the ancient, all nickel, National cash register, the antique scales and the old popcorn popper. They are a few of the fixtures left over from the old store that will be included among things to be sold at Elva's yard sale. Their sale will mark finis to another epoch in Lehi's commercial history. K)K SAI.K-Kl- va Tingey Romrell displays some of the antique merchant wares from Tingey's Country Store that will be offered at a yard sale. Mii Ifrcc Press U S Central Utah dam. Now plans for the dam are off indefinitely until the repayment issue can be resolved. District officials said there would be water for the pipeline but some of it won't be CUP water. The Salt Lake County District is in the process of negotiating an exchange of water in Utah Lake for higher quality irrigation water that now runs through the Murdock Canal. That agreement, known as the y exchange, would provide 25,000 acre feet of water, but it would be owned by the Project-owne- Jacob-Welb- SLWCD. The CUWCD is also in the process of effective a complicated agreement that would exchange water in the Strawberry Reservoir, Utah Lake and Deer Creek Reservoir and result in a supply of CUP water in Deer Creek that could be put through the J-- 4 pipeline to Salt Lake County. "The Deer Creek exchange would be temporary," CUP attorney Ed Clyde told the directors, "The P 32 S No Take your Valentine on a... 0 West Main. I lah H4043 jtn. Published weekly bv Newtah. Inc with Telephone Numbers Advertising & Circulation 75ti Publisher Kditors Tour West 7.' News Travel Brett K liezam Marc Haddock BetK Fowler to the Caribbean Subscription price $9.50 per year Second class postage paid at One of the features to be retained is the original doors in the west wing, complete with brass hinges, been hauled from the site as he and transoms and the nostalgic emhis volunteer crews have begun bossed, stamped copper ceilings, work in renovation of the Pageant themselves collectors items. "We agree that the building had Center. Brockbank is excited about the outgrown its usefulness as a school," Brockbank said, "But it is potential of the building. "We plan to concentrate our ef- perfect for the purposes of a forts on restoration of the West regional arts center." Wing first," he commented. "Replacement of windows has begun, we have completed six studio areas, including the former girls gym and the original assembly hall, which was later converted to office space and a library." 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Jordanelle (Continued from page 1) specification work on the dam would be discontinued until the district resolves certain contract repayment issues. Water for the J-- 4 pipeline, 50,000 acre feet that was promised to the Lake Salt Water County Conservancy District by 1974, was to come from water collected in the should not be." Clyde also said that the agreements to Lake-Dee- r effect the Strawberry-Uta- h Creek exchange would be complicated. Jacob-Welb- y CUP general manager Lynn Ludlow said the agreements would for the reduce the urgency Jordanelle Dam. But Director Robert Hilbert, who is also general manager for the Salt Lake County Water Conservancy District, said the agreements won't reduce the agency's need for the CUP water. "It frightens the hell out of me to think Jordanelle can be 10 years board Hilbert told away," members. "The need for that water has doubled over the last 10 years. If we can't get that, then the needs for Salt Lake County will be met from some other source." HUbert said that if the Deer Creek exchange is made, it will only provide half of the CUP water the district promised Salt Lake County nine years ago. He noted that the price of the CUP water had also doubled over the past nine years, but said "We're not complaining about that. Our only complaint is we're not getting it," he said. Clyde said the costs were increasing because of delays in delivering the water, but he agreed with Hilbert about the need for the dam. "We cannot let down on the Jordanelle," Clyde told the board. r another store, she has now abandoned the idea and will just take life easy. The yard sale advertised in today's Free Press marks the end of an era. And, even though Darhl and his wife Rowena operate The Ceramic Center of Utah in what used to be the Country Store, Elva is now content to limit her activities to the Evansville Camp of the D.U.P., church, and in her words, "just try to stay out of mischief." Elva is donating many craft items to her D.U.P. Camp including animal and doll faces, "a lot of them you can't buy anymore," Elva muses. "I'll donate all they want to Jttesiorauon oegun on Am. Fork High School The long anticipated restoration of the old junior high school building, purchased in December, 1982 by the board of trustees of Utah Pageant of the Arts, has begun. The old "high school on the hill" was closed by the Alpine School District in 1975, but there was something about the majestic building that refused to die. Some people look at the building at 454 North Center and see a decaying monstrosity. 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