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Show The Salt Lake Tribune, Thursday, August 19, 19S2 H 3 Bench Ads Provide Controversy Continued From Authority YVY-- 1 pnnkied adequate bus benches (or patrons. The assistance afforded the UTA by the additional benches is used frequently by courtesy bench company officials as a reason for allowing the benches and UTA public relations sidew alk so that it can be seen from several directions. he said. If we had our preference, we would place the benches parallel to the sidewalk. In fact, were in the process of changing those benches placements as the contracts expire and are encouraging new advertisers not to place the benches sideways. These concerns and others will be addressed by the new regulations, said Ms. Minden. The regulations should be completed in about six weeks and will address the city's enforcement of its contract. standard issue become more equitable. Currently, a fee is required by Sandy for . signs. The practiee of allowing advertising on courtesy benches in exchange for allowing the benches is nationwide, said the spokesman. He said the (The fee) is not just a to the pot. sweetener These cities already signed the contracts ear lier without the fee " Ms. Muiden said the 10 percent payment will go toward stricter enforcement of the city codes and the citys contract and will help the double-- company charges approximately $53 per month for advertising compared to more than $4w) per month paid for billboards. There are about 200 to 300 courtesy benches in Salt Iike and Davis counties compared to about tun UTA benches. high-visibili- man Rod Clifford said, We think the benches can definitely be of vice to bus patrons if located properly. He added, though, that the UTA would like to have a say in the affair because "sometimes the benches cause confusion when theyre not placed No Enforcement at bus stops. Sometimes the past, the city's ."In someone will see a bench have been relarights and expect a bus to come she tively unenforced, along. said. If there had been Hesitate to Buy strong enforcement all The First Marketing along, a lot of the probGroup spokesman said lems we have wouldn't be benches usually are here. placed at bus stops "or In its new contracts. areas. He First Marketing Group is resaid advertisers are each municipaliluctant to purchase space offering it serves 10 percent of ty on a bench that is not the gross revenues it going to be seen often. receives. The company Advertisers also re- spokesman said this is quest that a bench be akin to paying a business placed at an angle to the license fee, adding that high-visibili- . Controversy over courtesy benches centers on whether service provided, demonstrated here by Teague Bengtzen, outweighs exemp-- 7 ting advertisers from sign ordinances. Sisters Meet Once Again After 42 Years Continued From WV-- 2 and found out the talk show is only on for 50 from ; minutes a day, 12:10 to 1 p.m. He was too late for the program that day and missed again the next day. He finally got through ' July 1 and explained over the air he was looking for Rita's family, leaving his number to call collect if t anyone knew the family. her brother, but Nancy said it wasnt bad news, As luck would have it, one of Ritas brothers, Jerry, saw the plea on a cable TV channel. Mary said the radio station is connected with the cable TV station and put Virgils message on the channel. home. On July 1 he turned on the TV to find out the time when Virgils plea Dashed across the TV. He called the radio station to get the phone number and called Virgil to see if it was Mary said her brother suffers from amyotrophic lateral sclerosois Lou Gehrigs disease Jerrys wife, Nancy, called Mary at work and told her to sit down. At first Mary thought something had happened to indeed his and is confined to his tf 3. 1v , ?! & '4 ), long-lo- st sister. ' ' M but news about Rita. Filled with excitement, Mary called another sister, Bernice Costello, 49, with the hopefull news. Within a week, the remaining members of Ritas family had been contacted and had called the Tolivers to talk with their sister. Mary and Bernice made arrangements to fly to Salt Lake and meet their sister. They arrived d here Aug. 8 for the reunion Knew Her long-awaite- AV1' V - recognized her immediately, Mary said. She has a picture of her sister taken in 1947 that d shows a pretty, Rita at age 27. Bernice, who was 5 I red-haire- After 42 years, Bernice Costello, left, Mary Cordisco, when Rita left home, said Ritas son by her first marriage, Owen Goode, looks just like his mother, as do Rita's three grandchildren. Her son is a truck driver in South Carolina. Owens father was killed the day he was bom, struck by a train at a railroad crossing as he drove to the hospital. Ritas second husband was Bill Patterson, one of the six marines who raised the Dag on Iwo Jima during WWII. Only two months after the famous picture was 1942. They were married in 1947. Virgil still talks with his family, and one of his brothers lives in West Orange, N.J., only a short distance from Bristol, Penn., where Mary and Bernice live. The two sisters plan to visit their brother-in-lawhen they return home. The familys only regret is this didnt happen 40 years ago. 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