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Show Universal Kicrofilnirg i VV , N "Formal? The Hews Bulletin" VOL. 17 NUMBER 20 ' SUGAR HOUSE; UTAH THURSDAY, MAY 23; 1957 10 CENTS Calvin Sorensen Attends Council Meeting In East S. Calvin Sorensen left Sunday for the National Institute of Retail Advisory Council of the Carpet Institute, Inc., in New York City. The meeting was held at the Plaza Hotel Tuesday and Wednes-day, May 21 and 22. The council is composed of re-tailers, representing department stores, home-furnishi- ng stores, carpet specialty stores, from the entire nation. Calvin was selected as a member last April. He ex-pects to return in about ten days. The purpose of the Council is to make available to the Institute membership, the best advice of outstanding retailers on the var-ious problems in which the manu-facturer, distributor and retailer have a vital common interest. Wilford Kimball Elected Head Of Sugar House Lions Wilford Kimball, assistant vice president and assistant mana-ger of Sugar House branch of Walter Bank, was elected new president of the Sugar House Lions Club Monday night Mr. Kimball steps up into the new position from the treasurer spot. These were the other offi-cers elected: Russell Crockett, first vice president, Walter O. Peterson, second vice president; LeRoy DeKarver, third vice president; Clyde V. Miller and Roland T. Naylor, two-ye- ar directors; Frank Rasmussen, tail twister; Stanley DeJong, Lion tamer, and Dow Brian, secretary treasurer. Holdover directors are Ray Hilton and Sherman Lowe. Maj. Gen. Maxwell E. Rich, state adjustant general was speaker for the electipn meeting. He discussed the Na-tional Guard and its effectiveness in the nation. - - ; jrjf ' --"A ' j The trio of beauties will regin over Sugar House activities during the coming year. Stores Wind Up Sugar Days; Campaign Declared A Success Sugar House stores wound up their annual Sugar Days last Monday and declared the pro-gram a 'whopping success." Throughout the four-da-y pro-motional campaign, the business sweetened their bargains with tons of sugar and kept the shoppers in a gay mood by flood-ing the area with music. Free rides for the kiddies were pro-vided with a carnival near the D&RW tracks on Highland Dr. Late hour (shopping Monday until 9 p.m. brought down the curtain on the activities for 1957. Holger Larsen, executive sec-retary of the Sugar House Chamber of Commerce, reported a general increase in business for the four days. Some stores, he said, doubled their sales. "We had 15U cases of sugar in our office and they've all dis-appeared." Mr. Larsen declared Monday. He said that the total amount of sugar given as free gifts with purchases will not be known until later in the week. Meanwhile the Chamber was making plans to honor the new Sugar House royalty at its next membership meeting in June. The meeting is screduled June 19 at Beau Brummel. The royal trio began a year-long reign this week after coro-nation ceremonies last Thurs-day on the Plaza. Cottonwood Heights Lions Name Officers Darld Long is the new president of the Cottonwood Heights Lions Club, succeeding Cecil Carson. The Butlerville area club held its - annual - elections-recentl- y " at Peelers Cafe. New officers take over posts July 1. Others named include Ormond Coulam, first vice president; Ray Carter, second vice president; Clair Anderson, third vice presi dent; Robert Jackson, secretary-treasure- r; David R. Brown, tail twister, and John Adioka, lion tamer. Elected one-ye- ar directors were Curtis McCullough, Herbert J. Allen. Five New Members Added To Chamber The Sugar House Chamber of Commerce is continuing the grow like Sugar House itself. Welcomed into the Chamber recently were these new members: Sun Insurance Service, Inc., 1055 E. 21st South, represented by Van N. Spencer; Ralph E. Painter, 560 E. South St., A & W Drive-In- n; Dr. W. W. Bosworth,' 1055 E. 21st South St., dentist; W. E. (Bill) Bond, 1053 E. 21st St, forist, and Gordon E. Harry, 981 E. 21st South, dry cleaner. New Queen Reigns In Sugar House Svelte Linda Shlngleton, a statuesque brunette from South High School, was chosen "Miss Sugar House" over 35 other con-testants. She was crowned queen by Mayor Adiel Stewart on the Plaza Thursday evening. She la and a dau-ghter of Mr. and Mrs. T. K. Shingleton, 25-13-7- th East St. Miss" Shingleton's attendants are Virginia Rohn, 17-year-- daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Rohn, 1871 E. 13th South St., and Karen Perkins,' 16, a dau-ghter of Mr. and Mrs. Baline Perkins, 1790 E. Siggard Dr. Miss Rohn is a student at East High School and Miss Perkins attends Olympus High. The trio of beauties will reign over Sugar House activities during the coming year. Granite School District Applies For State Aid Granite was among nine other Utah school districts to apply for state assistance for, construc-tion of school buildings, accord-ing to Dr. E. Allen Bateman, state superintendent of public in-struction. Funds will come from a $1.5 million appropriation set up for this purpose, Dr. Bateman said. City County Moving Cautiously On Plans For Prison Site Park City and county commissioners this week seemed to be moving cautiously in adopting plans for th new Sugar House area park. At a meeting last Monday, the two boards decided on further study of the developmnt of the old prison site. Named to make the study were City Commissioner L. C. Romney and County Commissioner Edwin Q. Cannon in cooperation with the special park advisory com-mittee. Commissioner Cannon said Tues-day he was trying to arrange a meeting with Commissioner Rom-ney and the park committee "just as soon as we can get together." The first decision, he indicatd, will be on the powers to be gramtd the committee on develop-ment County Commission Chairman Lamont B. Gundersen, who called the meeting Monday, said he be-lieved the first aim of the group should be a broad concept of what the "park eventually will be." The special meeting faild to give consideration to a name for the park. Recognizing the potential of the old prison land, Sugar House business leaders have long push-ed for its development as a park nd as a site also for a civic auditorium. "We feel that the city and county have at last recognized what a great park can be deve-loped there, " Paul Pehrson, president of the Sugar House Chamber of Commerce, declared. "This Is a good opportunity for the city and county commissions to build a monument to them-selves and to the state, Mr. Pehrson stated. NOTICE Due to the Memorial Day holiday the South East Independ-ent will come out a day early. It will be received by all its readers on Wednesday. Dead-line for news copy and adver-tising copy is Monday.. get your copy in early. Jaycees Luncheon Honors Winners Of Road-E-- 0 Event The Sugar House Jaycees hon-ored three winners of the area Road-E-- 0 at their weekly lun-cheon meeting Wednesday at Har-ma- n Cafe. The three were the best of a field of young drivers from Oly-mpus, Highland and Granite high schools in a written and road test last conducted Saturday on the State Fairgrounds driving course. J Winning he right to enter the 1 state finals were feese three, all j from Olympus High: I Larry Hathenbruck, 2025 At- - kin Ave., first place; Steven . Brown, 2559 E. 3020 South, sec-ond place, and Howard Steven-son, 2045 Walker Ln., third place. They were presented Ten-ag- e Road-E-- 0 trophies Tuesday at an awards assembly at Oly-(Oontlnu- ed on Patfe Z) Dilworth S. WooIIey Named To Salt Lake C of C Dilworth S. Woolley, vice presi-dent and general manager of Red-man Van and Storage, was among 10 to be nominated last week for offices in the Salt Lake Chamber of Commerce. Five of the 10 named will be elected to the chamber board of governors, according to L. B. Hampton, chairman of the nom-inating committee. Elections will be held June 8. Indian Hills School Plans Continue To Be Tossed The Salt Lake City School Board has turned over the Indian Hills School problem to Its build-ings and ground committee. The committee was instructed to decide if the proposed elemen-tary school should be redesigned. The board recently rejected all bids on the school as being too |