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Show New Store Hours Announced For Lccal Firms Managers of general merrhan-Use, merrhan-Use, clo'.hinp, shuo and furni-Cire furni-Cire stores of Cedar City have ulop'ed a new sUre hour schedule sched-ule that bocarna effective today,, March 1, designed to cut down i m employee hours and yet not impair services. Under the new schedule these itores will open at 10 a. m., in-1 stead of the opening hour of 9 a. m. that has been in effect for the past several years. Closing Clos-ing hour will continue to be 6 p. m. The new hour schedule has not been adopted by grocery or hard- ware stores, the managers of these firms feeling that the later opening hour would lnconvenl-1 ence patrons. Other firms, such as drug stores and garages, of course, will not be affected by the change. Store hours may be modified by some firms for seasonal business, busi-ness, such as those catering to tourist trade, but generally the hours will be followed. Thurmer Jacobs, chairman of the Chamber Cham-ber of Commerce Retail Merchants Mer-chants Committee, states. Firms that have adopted the new hour schedule are listed by Mr. Jacobs as follows: J. C Penney Company, Wool-worth's, Wool-worth's, Sprouse-Reltz, Karl's Shoes, Fashion City, Singer Sewing Sew-ing Machine Company, Cedar Home Furnishings, Stokes Shoe Store, Mode O Day Dress Shop, Stevens Company, Mullett Jewelry, Jewel-ry, Castleton's, Roberts Furniture, Mary Palmer Shop, ZIon Photo, Kemp's Studio, Leigh Furniture , Company, Byers Jewelry, Prlscilla Shop, Marsden's Store, Cardon's Shoes, Chrlstensen's, Wood's, and North East Furniture Company. The hardware stores and groc-I groc-I ery stores will continue to operate under the hour schedule that each has had in effect in the past, Mr. Jacobs said. Mr. Jacobs also reports that for the convenience of merchants the Cedar City Branch of First Security Bank of Utah, will open at 9:30 a. m. giving the merchants mer-chants a chance to hancVe their banking before stores open for business. Closing hour at the bank will also be moved back a half hour, to 2:30 p. m., the merchants committee chairman 'reports. |