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Show The Utah Enterprise Review , March 9, 1977 Page 17b Ball Speaks FredS. Ball is the Executive Vice President Salt Lake Area Chamber of Commerce The Decline and Fall of Salt Lake City?? recently read an article written by William Serrin, a journalist working out of Detroit. He said: lam outraged, and so is everyone I know-- . The city is in desperate condition. It may. in a real sense, be dead - the first dead large city in the nation. Young black hoodlums control many streets. People are held up. Homes are broken into. People are murdered. Victims are told that if they go to the police they will be killed. Street after street is lined with abandoned, vandalized stores. Houses and building have been burned by arsonists. Streets are filled with litter, and walls are painted with slogans, obscentities and the names of gangs - the Black Pillars, the Coney Oneys, the Errol Flynns. The city and the Detroit schools are broke. Police are laid off, and called back with federal money. First-grad- e classes will go only half-dayFall athletics are out. Other classes are cut back. Hundreds of good people are putting their homes up for sale. Buyers cant be found, and people take what they can get and leave." Sad, so very, very sad. 1 remember visiting Detroit many times over the past 15 or 20 years and recall watching the demise of that city. It is now a city seemingly without law. People can do just about anything they want and not be punished. Recently 1 read where some black teenagers ran amok at a concert. There young toughs slashed pockets with knives and stole billfolds. People were beaten. One woman was raped, another molested. The courts considered the hoodlums minors, and soon they were out on the streets. Law - society - has broken down and it will be a long time before the city recovers. There are many who think it never 1 s. Advertising is reaching people with your message. Advertising is an educational process, teaching thru impact and repetition. of the Salt Lake Look at what it costs to reach 1 metro population with the various media: will. This cant happen in Salt Lake City. We must not let it wont happen in Salt Lake City. We are so very fortunate that our downtown is thriving and growing and developing. There are those who criticize such projects as the Main Street Beautification Project, the tearing down of the decrepit old Constitution Building, the announced plans of the Beautification Project on Broadway and State Street, the proposed new Redevelopment Agency Project on Second South and West Temple but all of these They are meaningful. projects are good. They are generating improvement, progress and vitality in the downtown business district. It is still possible to walk down Main Street in the Dont ever try that on Mack Avenue from evening. Woodward Avenue on to the Grosse Pointes in Detroit. In Salt Lake City the trees, shrubs, bubbling fountains and the beautiful window displays, unmarred by iron bars or steel fences put up by fearing merchants as in many cities, bring a peace and contentment that is very enjoyable. This is a city with values. Cities without values are springing up in the country - for the sprawling, dirty, ugly, violent city is nothing if not a metaphor for the rest of America. There is a saying heard very frequently in this valley - it says, where much is given - much is expected." We as citizens have been given much - a beautiful city, a beautiful setting, a beautiful place to live, to raise a family and to work. Now, indeed much is expected from us. We must do everything possible to make sure that Salt Lake City does not have the decline and fall of many other similar cities its size ever happen in Salt Lake City. It Jr8 Posters m 15 10.00 9.00 12.00 1) Pinpoint coverage -- your advertising is where you want it - you pay for no signals or copies being sent to locations out of your market area. 2) Complete Coverage-Outdo- or reaches 98 of your customers daily. No worry about listening at the right time or reading the right page. can cover 3) Flexible-yo- u specific areas - change messages at will. 4) Colorful-creativ- e limited only by your imagination. 5) Effective -- let us share success stories with you. You could be one of them. That's our policy. We've been auditing the freight bills of many national and regional companies for overcharges since 1968. Our professional staff has over 110 cumulative years of experience. call today Outdoor Advertising , Inc. a Phone 466-222- 3 Newspapers That makes outdoor advertising very affordable. What else does Outdoor offer? NO RECOVERY NO CHARGE traffic audit systems 1 T.V. Daily Reach; Spring 1976 Media Market Guide" in the country. 2480 So. Main. Salt Lake City, Ut. 84115.(801) Radio 30 sheet posters offefary 0ain(ed ffluMUinS 30 487-882- 0ci(ei 3 8 yiect&cilt |