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Show TOWN DRESS UP GROUP APPROVES PROGRAM TO REBUILD STORE FRONTS I More than a score of Main Street property owners and I business men met at the Town Offices last Tuesday evening; j to greet three up-state visitors who are specialists in the business of building- and beautifying towns and cities. And the group unanimously moved to continue the Main Street dress-up program inaugurated several weeks ago. Mr. Lewis Telle Cannon and his ?on, senior and junior partners in -he Salt Lake City architectural firm of Cannon and Mullen, made a survey of the town on Tuesday preceding the meeting, and are enthusiastic about the possibilities possibili-ties of the program as outlined. Pessimistic about the immediate availability of building materials, Mr. Cannon felt there was "a good vossibilUy" that the restrictions on materials and labor would be lifted by the time the paper work on the oroject was competed. He pointed cut that several months of surveys, planning and blueprint drawing would be necessary before actual construction could begin. A committee was appointed to work with the architects and the local property owners until the urogram has advanced sufficiently for another discussion meeting to be called. Also present at the meeting was Mr. Winder of the Utah State Department De-partment of Industrial Development Develop-ment and publicity. Mr. Winder stated that the dress-up movement, starting in Milford, has spread to the four corners of the state and has been of material assistance to his department in awakening the various communities to the necessity neces-sity for preparing their towns and cities for the state centennial and the thousands of tourists it will bring inside our borders. Mr. Winder also pointed out that his department receives dozens of queries weekly from various large manufacturing concerns which are embarking , upon decentralization programs and are looking for live-wire. live-wire. up-and-comihg: communities situated on main-line railroads, in which they propose to establish branch factories. These concerns, Mr. Winder said, are definitely not considering communities whose appearance ap-pearance stamps them as decadent, non-progressive hamlets. In closing .Mr. Winder offered Milford merchants the use of his department's specialists in sales techniques, should they desire to establish schools for training of i heir clerks in modern salesman-hin salesman-hin nrocedure. This service would lie frpe to Mjlford business men, ho said. Among the local speakers, Town oard President Cnrlyle Gronning approved the program, stating that ho envisioned a dress-up program beginning on Main Street and spreading to every home In Milford, making of our town one of the cleanest, most beautiful communities communi-ties in Southern Utah. Other speakers included J. C. Smith, who presided at the gathering; gather-ing; Lion President Vance Fisher, D. E. Kirk, Eddie Anderson and others. Appointed on the committee com-mittee to assist Mr. Smith In further fur-ther contacts between the Milford business men and the architects were D. E. Kirk, F. A. Stewart, Joe Murdock, George Jefferson and S. A. Williams. Photographer Hal Fisher took pictures of every building on Mnlp Street, Thursday, to forward to the architects for use in drawing preliminary sketches of the proposed pro-posed improvement. |