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Show Highland Drive StripCelebrates Completion With Gigantic Three Day Promotion Five long years and a thousand problems later, the NEW Highland Drive road program is completed! It now provides a smooth flow of traffic and its special type of curbing makes it easy for motorists motor-ists to enter or leave the main traffic flow at almost any point they choose. - Highland Drive and Sugar House businessmen are so enthused over i the completion that they are celebrating! cele-brating! During Thursday, Friday and Saturday, the "Highland Strip Business Section of the Sugar House Chamber of Commerce" (the new official name for Highland High-land Drive merchants), are inviting invit-ing residents of the eastside area to "come back and shop with i them again." "We don't blame people for not wanting to travel on Highland Drive, but we'd like to serve them again, so our merchants are going , all out on a three day sales celebration," cele-bration," Ralph Jones, of Mt. Air Shopping Center and promotion ('Continued on Page 8) oontlnued from page 1 director for the celebration, said. Willis Carlisle, manager of the Highland Drive Branch of the First Security Bank of Utah, said, "Reduced "Re-duced prices, added services and ample parking will be offered to all who shop." Then he added, "Financially, this will mean new life for the Highland and Sugar House businessmen the 'Highland 'High-land Strip' has been changed to a good-looking business area from something that resembled a cow pasture." Sugar House merchants too, are pleased with the paved completion, for decreased traffic flow on Highland High-land Drive has meant a loss of business in Sugar House. Paul Pehrson, president of the Sugar House Chamber of Commerce Com-merce commented, |