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Show THE SALT LAKE TIMES FRIDAY, JANUARY 5, 1968 Fashionable Georgetown Gains Unusual Historic Status Symbol U.S. Travel Fashionable Georgetown Like 2 Million in (with loving care by the colonial lands King George II. The young port prospered. It served a rich agricultural area of Maryland and Virginia. The flocks of turkeys and herds of cattle and sheep choked streets at harvesttime. Busy wharves sagged with times as the new federal capital blossomed and grew large ac- cording to LEnfants ambitious plans. Washington, D.C., captured most of the areas trade. The mayor, councilmen and mag istrates surrendered local government to Washington, D.C., in 1871. Georgetown never really lost its individuality, however. An influx of civil servants in World War I revitalized the community. Houses were restored and gardens bloomed again. Today Georgetown suggests a snug little village set apart from sprawling metropolitan Washington, now 2,500,000. Federal, houses Georgetown and Victoria ' At streets. shaded line night, old fashioned coach lamps flicker on pastel doorways. Often the austere facades of the houses give no hint of the luxuriant gardens in back. I think more effort is lavished on these gardens than any other plots of soil in the world, said a writer who lives in Georgetown. produce. A single hogshead of tobacco, reported a contemporary historian, brought enough It comes as a shock to George-townerbut their village charm to purchase all the luxuries a sometimes of course the in needed escapes outlanders. A family of the year. group visiting Italian school The nations capital, founded teachers turned down accommoin 1800 on swampy lands to the dations in Georgetown with the east and south, enhanced the complaint that the row houses towns prosperity. they saw were dim, damp and and diplomats much too small. Congressmen Said a bewildered hostess, liked the ports lively social life could anyone not like How handsome brick also the and dwellings that had been built Georgetown! s, N ew SweetenerFeatured Low-Calor- ie Alta Area Road Problems Aired By Winter Sports Group i Trips to Moon Washington, D.C., has received craftsmen. a rare status symbol. Later Georgetown fell on bad The square mile area of elegant townhouses, carriage lamps, brick sidewalks and ivy covered walls, has been designated a National Historic Landmark. It is one of the few continuously occupied living communities that has been so honored. Old Georgetown accepted the honor with aplomb. The old port at the head of the Potomac tidewater was a thriving town before the nations capital was founded, the National Geographic says. The Maryland Provincial Assembly created Georgetown in 1751 by voting to purchase 60 acres on the Potomac for settlement to be named after Eng- Its Page Five Some 103 million licensed drivers traveled an estimated 922 billion miles in the U.S. in 1966. This is the equivalent of nearly 2 million round trips to the moon. In racking up this mileage, Americans used about 94 million motor vehicles, including 78 million cars and 16 million trucks and buses. Figures compiled by Bureau of Public Roads show that the Americans rely on cars for the overwhelming majority of their business and recreational travel. Of all intercity travel, 92 per cent is accomplished by motor vehicle, 89 per cent of it by car and 3 per cent by bus. Among commuting workers, 82 per cent reach their jobs by car. Similarly, 82 per cent of all vacationers use their own cars. Breaking the figures down another way, the Bureau estimates that 44 percent of all car travel is for business reasons;. 18 per cent for family errands; 4 per cent for educational and religious purposes; and 34 percent for recreation. Driving for pleasure, the Bureau notes, is Americas leading form of outdoor recreation. Here are some other highlights from the Bureaus figures: The U.S. has 57 per cent of the worlds passenger cars. Of all the families in the nation, 78 per cent own autos; nearly one fourth have more than one car. Highway transportation accounts for one out of every six businesses and one out of every seven jobs in the nation. The number of motor vehicles in the U.S. and the amount of travel have more than trebled since the end of World War II. record-breakin- g The annual problem of accessibility through Little Cottonwood Canyon to the Alta ski area has been of vital concern to business, civic and state officials for many years. Representatives of the state highway department, high way patrol, sheriffs office, state developmental services department and the Salt Lake area and Alta Chamber of Commerce had a meeting to air some of these problems concerning this accessi- bility . There were three main areas discussed: 1. The problem of communication concerning alerting the general public about the road conditions. 2. The bypass road and parking lot. 3. equipment. Further meetings are planned with these responsible agencies to solve the problem. The bypass road was installed initially by the National Guard a few years ago as an evacua- tion access around the Superior slide area. However, it has become more evident that this road should allow traffic in both directions. There is an increasingly difficult situation with people who insist on traveling up the canyon when the car is not properly equipped with snow tires or chains or both, as the occasion dictates. We are now in the of process defining regulations concerning this problem in the hopes that safety of other drivers will not be endangered and congestion resulting from improperly equipped cars will be eliminated, reports Max Rich, executive vice president of the Salt Lake Area Chamber of Commerce. Defining regulations restricting autos not equipped with snow tires or chains during inclement weather, as of the moment, a procedure from the Utah State Department of Highways has been prepared outlining the Seasonal Factors official notification of road conditions. That procedure calls for Affect Job Loss the shed foreman at Alta or a Caused mostly by seasonal forest service representative to factors, initial, claims for unemnotify the Highway Department ployment compensation in Utah dispatcher who will in turn no- increased from 1,808 for the tify the press media by way of week of Dec. 23 to 1,949 during hot line service. It is expected the past week, reported the Emthat this report will be almost ployment Security Office. Some of the increase also came hourly and even more frequentconditions. inclement from a temporary layoff by a ly during The general public and service manufacturing firm in Brigham businesses catering to tourists City, it was said. As could be. expected, jobs may call a special number for made available in Utah Emup to the minute conditions. That number is in ployment Security Offices were Salt Lake City and will be in relatively few, but the 536 regservice 24 hours a day begin- istered were still more than a ning the first week in January. hundred higher than for the This procedure will provide cur- same week last year. rent and accurate information Continued claims at 9,158, to the news media and for Utahs were 3.56 per cent of all workers covered by state and federal Current Tax Guide skiing population. As for the bypass road and unemployment insurance laws. Is Still Official For the week of Dec. 23, the parking lot snow removal situaBecause there have been no tion, this problem results from ratio was 3.38 per cent and for changes in the federal income a shortage of manpower and of Dec. 31, 1966, 3.34 per cent. tax and social security withholding rates for 1968, employers should continue to use their present copy of Circular E Employers Tax Guide, Roland V. FALL CLEANING Wise, district Director of Internal Revenue for the Utah disIn Grandma's day, fall trict, has advised. housecleaning was an exMr. Wise stressed that emhaustive chore. To get her smokey, ployers should not be expecting kitchen shaped up, it was a new issuance of Circular E, easier to whitewash the also referred to as Publication walls than clean them. Not No. 15, but should use their only did she then have to current edition for withholding boil up her own paint," information and tables. but she did the backbreaking task herself. Employers can make certain they have the latest edition of the Employers Tax Guide by checking that the front cover bears the notation, Publication 328-555- 5 mtimm mv$ grease-spattere- d No. 15. calories in favorite holiday foods when Why leave unnecessaiy so easy to calorie-streamliyour recipes so that dieters you can may enjoy tlwm. In most dishes requiring sweetening,sweeten r, and new brand substitute the granulated Sweetness & Light for regular sugar, and, as a result, reduce the calorie count substantially. This latest aid to dieters represents an entirely new concept in tr sweetening. Not a concentrate, this imitation su-has the same sweetness as ordinary sugar. You use it just as you would sugar and in the same amounts, teaspoon for teaspoon, cup for cup. JV - -Look what happens when you prepare Spiced v-- -' calorie-trimme- d em way. More than half the r away . . and no one is the wiser! Spiced Peaches its now ne low-calor- ie While there has been no increase in the social security tax rate for 1968, he pointed out that the maximum annual income subject to social security has been increased from $6,600 to $7,800 for both employees and the self employed, effective on Grandma put together many of her own cleaning implements. She made a furniture polishing cloth by placing a piece of chamois for 24 hours between two sheets of blotting paper saturated with sewing machine oil. She also collected cotton batting and tied it together with wool strips to make a buffing cloth. low-calor- ie (Calorie-Trimme- 3 14 cans peach halves cups cider vinegar BtiOWiWa Pour liquid over d) 1 cup Sw; 3 sticks cim . 3 teaspoons wliotoaii:;.' low-calor- ie aawwv peaches;- cool; cover - Buy your face a razor. ? ' Makes 9 servings, each 74 CALORIES; 0.5 gram protein; trace of fat; 16.5 grams carbohydrate. (With sugar 151 CALORTES.) equipment. Many women have discovered that new s are the easiest way to zip thru fall cleaning. This cleaning cloth feel with a soft chamois-lik- e not only wipes, dusts, and polishes, but is perfect for or practically any chore-w- et Handi-Wipe- 3 and refrigerate overnight. Today's homemaker, an advocate of new fangled ways, knows the job takes half the time with the right GillctteTcchmatic Razor $193 dry. Z |