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Show RONALD REAGAN FEATURES CLASSIFIEDS TV GUIDE PAUL HARVEY along the bear river ON AFTERNOON BY WASHINGTON'S BIRTHDAY SUPPLEMENT PEOPLE WERE STILL TO STREAMING nmivrc THE NEWS EXAMINER. PR! SIGN CITIZEN. CACHE CITIZEN. OUT OF THE SMITHFIELD STORE AND INSIDE THE GRACE PLACE CITIZEN AND WAS JAMMED THE LLAEUR WITH GARLAND IIMtS THOSE WAITING TO PAY FOR MERCHANDISE THEIR IN SMITHFIELD Store creates near traffic jam There is one time a year when Smithfield can expect at least a near traffic jam and that is on Washington's Birthday when Smithfield Implement stages the annual Krazy Daze sale. Not only do cars line up to get into the parking lot. but people have to park two and three Mormon" blocks away and walk to the store. They then jam the doors to get in when the store opens, wait in line for as long as an hour to pay for the goods they have decided to buy and then buck the crowds to get out of the store. I HAVE never seen anything like it," one customer remarked as she patiently waited to pay for an armload of merchandise in a line that reached to the back of the main part of the store. Another woman cheerfully greeted friends, visited with strangers and window shopped the merchandise while waiting for her husband to get through the checkout line. RALPH ROYLANCEi PILE UP (TOP) THEIR ASSISTS BUYS ON GROUP A THE OF CUSTOMERS CHEKCXOUT WHILE GROUP A OF WOMEN STAND Some years more than 200 persons have waited two and three abreast at the front door of the store for the store to open for the day . . just to . get there ahead "YOU SHOULD y SEE MY PICKUP TRUCK LOAD A CONTENTED CUSTOMER I tri? y'-'W- W .! 1 - ' - . if jt the crowds. Members of the Cache County Sheriff's office assigned to the store for the opening day just to make sure that there was no trouble. SAYS 'It I of & V-- . THE KRAZY Daze sale was started by the present owner of the business. Kalph Roylance, who took over from his father. Ralph said that he realized one day that there was considerable merchandise in the basement, some of which was bought during the second World War. Much of it ceiling still had the 01 price stickers. Soon after he read of a large hardware store that staged a Krazy Daze sale on Washington's Birthday and people line up for blocks to get in the building. "I decided that would be a good way to clear out a lot of dead stuff." He placed a full pigp il( 'n the area daily newspaper, gathered up some small baking pans that were included in the World War era merchandise to give away to the women as free gifts, marked other merchandise down to clear, and with two clerks waited for the special day's business. "The store opened at 8:30 a.m. and by 9:30 a.m. all of the baking pans were given away, and there was nothing to give away for the rest of the day. I could have given away 1000 of them." football game and people from as far away as Boise. Salt Lake City, Bern, Coke-villSt. Anthony, Brigham City. Ogden, Declo near Burley, and the area in between came to buy. "Last year's sale was a e. smash, but this one was even said a relaxed bigger. Ralph Roylance after the first day was over and there was only the comparative quiet of the second diay when the store was crowded even then. . i i - if. t j r "THAT SALE," Ralph said, just about caused a divorce between me and my i rather." Each year for the next three or four years, the company continued to give away special gifts to the women, which included a pan scraper or a spatula and even had drawings for gifts such as bicycles. And each year the response to the sale grew and each year the area of promotion grew, with advertising being sent out to a large area of Northern Utah and Southern Idaho. The sale was recently extended to the w Smithfield Implement's branch store. R & R Hardware in Tremonton. Now the free gifts and registeration for gifts have been dropped and emphasis is placed on special sale merchandise, clearance items and the lowering of most of the prices in the store for the two day event. WEEKS BEFORE the sale, Ralph along with the personnel get ready. This year some 89 typewritten pages were necessary to cover the price changes, the instructions to the staff and othe.1 items connected with the sale. Some 23.000 circulars were direct mailed to the entire area surrounding Smithfield. and advertising was carried in at least eight newspapers and on area radio stations. And this year, once again the staff got ready and waited for the "thundering crowd." And once again, Smithfield business district took on the appearance of the traffic waiting for a college f A CACHE IN r- - ; COUNTY CASE WHILE DEPUTY OTHERS 'v t SHERIFF STANDS CHECKOUT BY JUST |