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Show 8 - SUNDAY HERALD samKh.F!J- V r - VlMUIJt ' Mult!1 s j I " VsuUl La 47 MEW 1 Completion date for the new Metropolitan Life Insurance Com pany offices now under construction at 455 N. University AveL in Provo has tentatively been set for Nov. 1, company officials anj nounced Saturday. The building, owned by James Winter! on and leased by Metropolitan Life to house district and agency personnel, is of one $tory art brick and rock construction and features a garden area on the north side in front of the structure. of floor space is divided intcj inInside, the 5.000 square-fedividual offices for district and agency officials, as well as the main company office. Contractor for the new office building is Wesley Boardman. Architect is Bruce Dixon. According to Don V. Gamette, district manager, the company will move to the new location about Nov. 1 when the building is expected to be completed. M - ' - err IfV; New Metropolitan Life Building Progressing ' I f 'S I:': Workers In State Need Utah Plates J VOA rr-- I ,l M 4 warned Saturday persons working in the state who do not have Utah license plates' face citations and possible fines, , The warning fcame from John A. Burt, director, of the commis sion's motor vehicle dealers Administration. s j U-"'- I'M X- "?-j- Q N; Continental Trailways Shows New Luxury Bus ot Fi 404,100 Housing Starts in Western States! one-thir- , 32-pa- ge f Utah Canning Industry Spends $14,987,462 $3,-284,0- 86. tables to the processors and were paid $3,686,476 for their products. Annual purchases of other supplies and services accounted for Present at ribbon-cuttin- g CEREMONIES ceremonies Saturday which marked the official opening of the Provo fire substation on the Canyon Road were, from left: Mayor Verl G. Dixon; Arlon Van Orden, architect; Fire Chief Dean B. Muhlestein ; Edgar Ellis, chairman of the Provo Fire Rating Committee; Henry M. Stewart, supervisor of Provo City Water Department ; City Commissioner Luke Clegg; Wilson W. Sorensen, member of the fire rating committee; City Commissioner Smoot Brimhall ; Ron Boulter, member of the fire rating committee, and Chamber of Commerce President LeRoy Johnson. Ceremony Marks Opening of New Fire Substation 3 Suffer Minor Injuries In Accident in Orem 2-Veh- Acting as master of ceremonies was Provo Mayor Verl G. Dixon. Speakers were City Commissioner Luke Clegg, and LeRoy Johnson, president of the Provo Chamber of Commerce. Edgar Ellis, chair- man of the Provo Fire Rating Committee, cut the ribbon. The fire substation in manned 24 hours a day by nine men workshifts. ing on three three-ma-n housed at station the Equipment includes a 1000-- gallon- - a- - minute pumper and a smaller pickup type vehicle for grass and other small fires. Architect for the structure was Arlon Van Orden. Ralph Dixon was contractor. 64 tug-draw- 22-mi-le 20-kn-ot , Chryslers all new economy car! -- The W'OO ; Grove, which had stopped for a Ricky Dilley, 6, passenger in his father's car, also received minor injuries. According to investigating offi cers, Mr. Dilley was cited for driving too fast for existing conditions. None of the injured was hospitalized. es STUDENTS-LANDLORD- 1U1UIVU Blimps. trading . j es Martin-Ma- the-scen- es Gary Rosenlof Takes Basic Naval Training GREAT LAKES, 111. Gary L. Only extensive outdoor display Rosenlof, 18, son of Max F. Ros137 100 Is historical planes in the United E. o of enlof N., Orfm, j weeks basic States adjoins the Air Force Muundergoing nine the Naval Training seum located on Wright-Patterstraining at Air Force Base, Dayton, Ohio. Center, Great Lakes, 111. on . , way. right-o- f Golden Spike The sponsoring Balboa Island Sculling & Punting Society that's the same group that once "sailed" the desert from Los Angeles to Las Vegas, Nev., in a truck-drawn stall planned am Lylli aBIW Fading, Cleans Ilself mf mmmm iv.l WfUllfiJ 101-fo- ot to drive JjlJBk r" 15 1 ftHfivrarr-rtfirKM- I' 'Q . a golden spike in the shore to offi- cially link the harbor to their trackless railroad. iin n jiy turn-of-the-cent- Cl urff05 ij l!k Fl j lljj y j finrsn tor an etffl- JJ 1 ' JJ GALLON . on easily with brush or roller Don't 'take chances with questionable painta! Master - Mixed house paint matches or exceeds best sellers in all important factors. 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Thieves then broke a hole through the sheet rock in the ceiling, and entered the office. yacht iX VJKJU The announcement of the huge sales solved the mystery of recent in Sperry Rand heavy stock on the New York Stock Exchange in the past week. More than 735,000 Sperry shares traded hands in the ' first four dayi ol trading this week. Shortly after noon Saturday a 396,000 share Hock was traded. The stock exchange said its record books indicated that this was the biggest single block ever traded in a single transaction. Martin-Mariett- a gave no explanation for its pull out from Sperry Rand, but Wall Street sources said it represented the culmination of increasing disenchantment with the management of Sperry Rand on the part of Martin - Marietta officials. George M. Bunker, president of Martin - Marietta,, resigned from board of Sperry the nine-ma- n Rand early last month. At the time no reason was given other than the press of business at rietta. But the behind explanation was that Bunker's suggestions for injecting new life Into Sperry Rand had been either ' ignored or treated with apathy. es red light. M. D. Close Finance Company, 1435 S. State, sometime Friday along the WUU the 10,706,970 of May 31, 1962, Thursday of the infamous jweek the stock market broke. A large portion of total volume was accounted for by Sperry Rand which racked up a total of 615,500 shares on Friday and 1,350,000 for the week. Martin-Mariet- ta said it of its entire Sjperry had disposed Rand holdings during the Week. Trading for the week rose to 24,505,660 shares, the heaviest for a holiday week since 40,563,230 were tallied in the week of the May, 1962 market break, ajlso a I, short week. Volume compared with 23,5(28,270 shares in the previous week and in the similar! 1962 12,095,568 period. Dow-Jonrails closed at 173.48, off 3.38; utilities at 144.06 up 0.10 and 65 stocks at 262.64 up 0OS. NSosi . !' i ... TWIN BED MattrMs, Box Spring And mm Muckley said his company had disposed of all of its stock in Sperry Rand over the past several days. Martin-Mariett- a never disclosed how much stock it held In Sperry Rand but it was understood to OPEN FRIDAY AND MONDAY 'TIL 9 No Down Payment Needed Rough Seas Cause Delay In Trains First Run to Avalon ot 396,000-shar- e block pt Sperry Rand was traded on Friday, the largest single block ever traded in the regular way. Standard & Poor's index, after the labor day holiday, bounced back on Tuesday to a new record high of 72.66. The index closed the week at 72.84, up 0.39. Standard's 500 stock index is said to represent 86 per cent of the market value j of all common stocks listed on the "big board." The previous closing high was 72.64 recorded off Dec. 13, 1961. Dow-Jonindustrials closed at 737.983.07 higher than its previous record of 734.91 set on Dec. 13, 1961. The new high contrasted with a 1962 low of 535.76, reached during the sharp break in May inand June last year. Dow-Jondustrials finished the week at 735.37, up 6.05. Volume on Friday swelled to 7,160,000 shares heaviest since Burglars Steal Typewriter at Finance Company OREM -- i ? icle OR EM Three persons suffered misRibbon cutting ceremonies Satur- minor injuries in a two-cCen91 and U.S. official marked the at Highway opening hap day of the new Provo fire substation, ter Street Friday evening about 2737 N. Canyon Road, although 6:45.- the station has been in operation Lynn Dell Tyler, 35, of 49 W. the Fire Provo Depart- 6850 S-- , Eountiful, and his wife, by City ment since the beginning of Aug- Lorraine, 34, both received injurust. ies when the Tyler car failed to hitting City officials, members of the stop in time to keep fromAllen L. Fire Rating Committee and Provo into an auto driven by Pleasant Box 235, citizens attended the ceremonies Dilley, 48, Rt. 1, and toured the new station ; 1963-19- Martin- Vice President Marietta Joseph F. 1 Dow Jones averages Industrial and Standard & Poor's rose to record highs. 500 stock History was made too, when a ket RIBBON-CUTTIN- G Utah's canning plants process primarily fresh vegetables. Products include tomatoes, tomato juice, catsup and other tomato products, corn, peas, green beans, carrots, table beets,! potatoes and mixed vegetables. Utah fruit processed eneompass red sour cherries, purple plums and a minor quantity of apricots. Total expenditures in the mountain states of Utah. Colorado, Wyoming, and Montana with their 27 canning plants, were $22,774,-37- 1 for 1962. Employees in the four states during the processing The AVALON, Calif. (UPD season were 4,792 with an annual payroll of $5,117,892. Growers to be totaled 2,427 and payments to them were $5,713,976. Other pur- nation's first train ever delayed by rough sea chugged chases of supplies and services were $11,942,503. or tugged into Avalon harbor-depSaturday to the astonished of several thousand gaping view Institute of Engineers Schedules Meeting vacationers lining the pier of v The Great Salt Lake Chapter of the American Institute of In- Santa Catalina Island. The Sen. A. J. Volstead Palace dustrial Engineers will hold its first meeting of the year n 1914 a rented 250 West The Lake hour social North Salt at 10, Lounge City. Temple, Sept will begin at 6:30 p.m., followed at 7:30 by dinner, a business meet- Santa Fe parlor car that constitutes the sole property of the Long ing and speaker. Beach and Avalon Ephemeral and Hank Elliott of the Seattle Office of IBM will be the featured finished the Western Railroad speaker. The subject of his talk will be "Simulation Management's chanCataliHa of crossing Laboratory." to island the nel from Beach Long There are 30 members of this organization who are employed an hour and half overdue, slowat Geneva Works of Columbia Geneva Steel Divisions Industrial ed by choppya seas whipped by a Engineering Department headed by G. W. Schaumburg, works inwind. dustrial engineer, that take an active part in the regularly held One Emergency monthly meetings. Despite the weather, which harbor officials called the roughProvo Group Attends Convention in Colorado est this season, charter passengers said their greatest emerArthur R. Morin of Provo addressed 250 insurance agents and gency arose when the club car wives at the convention of the American General Life Insurance ran out of "refreshments" about Company recently at Boulder, Colo. He and Mrs. Morin attended two- - thirds of the way across. the confab along with Mr. and Mrs. Glen S. Shields, Mr. and Mrs. Hal J. Keller and John D. Chase. Mr. Marin Is general agent for the company here and the others are associated him in the Provo agency. ; By LEWIS A .WE BEL United Press International NEW YORK (UPD Financial observers saw history made this week when both the 'popular mar 'MKimimtrmii T"fcn ..'r- ; A total expenditure of $14,987,461 during 1962 by Utah's canning Industry was disclosed Saturday by Nelson W. Aldrich, Salt Lake City, executive vice president, Rocky Mountain Canners Association, following an annual statistical review. The report shows that Utah's 15 canning plants had peak employment during the canning season of 3,429 and a payroll of In the state 1,637 growers provided fresh fruit and vege- $8,916,900. -- ar The lure of the West is still as golden as it ever was. Take a look at what has been happening in those burgeoning Western d states. More than of the new houses built in the United States last year were built in the West. The number Is still growing. The NAHB, Journal of Homebuilding's correspondents came up with these facts in a special section in its September Issue: Thirteen Western States had 404,100 housing starts last year . . , That was 36 per cent of the nation's total of 3,451,000. The heavy housing demand will continue through the 60's. Western states will build 4,070.000 of the 16 million housing units expected to be constructed up until 1970. California led the nation in housing gains with an estimated 252,000 starts in 1962 compared to 201,200 in 1961, the Journal reported. It said there were substantial housing gains in almost every Western state, with only Colorado and Montana failing to record increases. holdings in Sperry. In a terse statement Stock Market Averages Rise To Record Highs j coast-to-coa- Marietta had dumped tts big stock Weekly Wall Street Roundup j 4v-fo- a NEW YORK (UPD Any linger ing speculation that a merger beand Sherry tween Martin-Mariett- a Rand Corp. might still be 14 the offing were dispelled Saturday (with the announcement that Martin- - '' et The sleek, Golden Eagle luxury service bus of Continental Trailways Bus System went under the scrutiny of Provoans Saturday during a display at the Riverside Shopping Center. st The bus service featuring a hostess aboard with lunch, dinner, and snacks served, will go into local operation as part of the Continental service Sept. 23. W. E. Rodrigue, Provo manager, said a display of the new luxury bus service will be seen at the Scate Fair. Hostesses Charlene Rain of Pittsburgh and Judy Lowe of Tucson explained the new bus to visitors during Saturday Provo display. Bus travel time between New York and San Francisco will be cut to 68 hours as a result of the food service which makes stopping for x hot meals unnecessary except for breakfast. 41 The Golden Eagle luxury bus will accommodate passengers. Interior equipment includes complete rest room, stainless steel galley with mechanical refrigeration, baby bottle warmer, electric razor, lounge area with game tables, extra-larg- e panoramic tinted winmusic system. dows, individual seat reading lights, and Hi-- Dumps Big Stock Holding in Sperry Rand Martin-Mariett- A SALT LAKE CITY (UPD Utah Tax (Commission official 'A5 W? Merger Rumors Dispelled As ; Lgs . . . COMPLETE MATTRESSES f See It Today In Our Show Room . . l9l to 8 Qualities choose from LIMITED TIME ersokHs "Your Full Line Chrysler Dealer" FR 241 W. CENTER 3-79- IN BUSINESS IN PROVO SINCE 1914 epeC NOTHING wt Estimates to Rebuild Your Present Mattress No Oblgation ... DOWN ... 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