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Show To Produce Wax , , , Merchants To Sponsor Trade Promotional June 12, 13, 15 The merchants of Roosevelt who are members of the Roosevelt Roose-velt Chamber of Commerce, will sponsor a pre-summer promotional promo-tional event next Friday, Saturday Satur-day and Monday, June 12, 13, and 15, at which time special bargains in merchandise will be offered the buying public. This announcement was made by President Paul Murphy, following follow-ing a .meeting of the board of directors last Tuesday. As he announced the promotional promo-tional event, Mr. Murphy also reported the appointment of Lynn Poulson, manager of Safe-ways, Safe-ways, as chairman of the Merchants Merch-ants Committee. He also announced an-nounced that chairmen of the other standing committees for the ensuing- year had been approved ap-proved by the board, but names would be withheld until they had been notified. Dr. Paul G. Stringham accepted the appointment appoint-ment as chairman of the Public and Business Affairs Committee. Several important matters were discussed by the board which was meeting for the first time in nearly two months. The Chamber will sponsor a boy to Boys' State, and are encouraging a delegation to attend the state association of Chamber of Commerce Com-merce officials at Brigham City on June 30 A request for the Salt Lake Tribune to purchase advertising space in one of their feature issues, was voted down in lieu of printing up a pam phlet advertising Roosevelt that could be given to tourists and sent to people requesting information infor-mation about our community. Another very important decision deci-sion reached by the board concerns con-cerns the littered Main Street that greets the eyes of visitors to Roosevelt. Kenneth Aycock, member of the city council, and a director, advised the group that they weren't able at the present time to hire a man to keep the streets clean, and ' urged the Chamber to exert its influence to' the individual business bus-iness man to keep the trash swept up and placed in containers contain-ers in front of his store. The secretary of the Chamber was instructed to write a personal per-sonal letter to each business establishment, es-tablishment, asking them to sweep their sidewalk, including the gutter, each day and deposit the waste in the trash cans along . the streets. Mr. Aycock said the city will have the cans emptied three times weekly, and oftener if the need exists, if the merchant will support each other oth-er and the city in doing a job of cleanliness. Authorization to repair the road signs near Heber and east of Vernal and have them ready for the coming tourist season. They will again attempt to have Roosevelt and the distance dis-tance from the city placed on state highway signs that now have only Vernal, and in some I instances, Duchesne, attached. |