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Show Universal ' " Hicrofifairg I V ' : r ' i," .: ;'. .Hi "Formerly The lews Bulletin" VOL. 17, No. 15 SUGAR HOUSE, UTAH, THURSDAY, APRIL 18, 1957 10 CENTS Sugar House Celebrates 103rd Birthday Next Week Final plans took shape this week for a gala celebration mark-ing the 103rd birthday of Sugar House. The areat Utah's first manufac-turing center, will be launcned on its 104th year with window dis-plays, a party for "oldtimers" and a Chamber of Commerce luncheon honoring long-tim-e businessmen. Actual birthday for Sugar House is Tuesday, April 23. Most business shops will begin decorating their windows today to tell of the area's history. Windows are being trimmed to depict eras stretching back 100 years in his-tory. Certificates of merit will be awarded businessmen in several categories in the window decora-tion competition. The awards will be made at the Chamber dinner April 24. Judges will inspect the displays on April 23, according to R. Bruce Folsom, who is In charge of this segment of the celebration. Sugar House residents of 50 years or more will be feted Sun-day with a tour through the SUP Pioneer Village at 2998 Connor St. The "oldtimers" will be met at the gate with surries and will be driven on a tour through the newly-expand- ed village. Mrs. Peg-gy Elton Gunderson is in charge of the village tour and program to follow. Master of ceremonies for the program in the auditorium will be Burt Keddington. A quartet , dressed in Gay Ninties costumes will honor the "oldtimers" with original songs composed by Mrs. Gunderson. The Sugar House queen and her attendants will act as hostesses and sing on the pro-gram. Mr. Keddington will sing a locally-writte-n song, dedicated to the SUP, and a slight of hand artist, Ranch Kimball, will round out the program. An Easter bonnet will be pre-sented as a prize and all women will be presented favors. Light refreshments will be served. The tours and program will be conducted between 2 and 4 p.m., Mrs. Gunderson said. Final event will be Thursday, April 24 when the Chamber of Commerce honors all businessmen in Sugar House 25 years or longer. M. J. Wright is in charge of the Chamber luncheon. 7 7 '"i ; , t - , '.: --- '. V - I ' ' v-- -; ' - A ;- - ' i r Mi Mayor Adiel F. Stewart Congratulations on Anniversary Mayor Hails Sugar House Progress As the Mayor of Salt Lae City, I tae great interest in all of the events occurring in this valley. After all, the growth of the valley areas is what maes this whole valley a veritable beehive of activity. From the mountains West to the mountains East and from the north to the South any growth and activity contributes to the weU' being of all of us. So I tae pleasure in noting the celebration of the 103rd anniversary of Sugar House. Through the years - the area has-distinguish- itself with wise leadership which in turn has promoted solid growth and business achievement. Tour past holds much of which you can be proud. Tour future appears to be a glorious one. I endorse your vision of maing it a cultural center of the valley and the state. '"Mayor Adiel F. Stewart Granite Area P-T- A Elects New Council Officers Mrs. James W. Ure was re-elected this week to her second term as president of the Granite District Parent-Teache-rs Assn. council. The council meeting was held Monday at Central Junior High School, 3031-2n- d East St., and was attended by school P-T-A presi-dents, principals and council of-ficers. Mrs. Cole R. Cutler was elected to serve as the new first vice president. Mrs. Justin E. Stevenson is new second vice president; Mrs. E. Nelson, secretary, and Mrs. Patrick Moriarity, treasurer. Dis-trict superintendent, David Gour-le- y, automatically serves as third vice president. All officers were elected for a two-ye- ar term. They were installed at the meeting by Mrs. Lee R. Fry, region one P-T- A director. The council heard reports from school P-T- A presidents and in-struction was given on the state P-T- A convention May 3-- 4 in Provo. The meeting also was advised of the new Granite P-T- A calendar plan to be put into effect next fall. The plan has been worked out by Mrs. Ure and Dr. Don McBride, supervisor of Granite dis-trict public relations. The plan will be used to reach a smoother grouping of activities at the schools, according to Mrs. Ure. It sets aside the first full week of each month for elementary school activities; the second full week for junior high school; the third week for senior high schools, and the fourth week for district-wid- e activities. Mrs. Ure said the council hopes the plan can be extended to in-clude all school activities and possibly even church and com-munity events. Clean-U- p Army Gives Area Spring Scrub An army of Sugar House busi-nessmen and residents manned brooms and mops yesterday to ive the area a good scrub down. Businessmen turned out early Wednesday morning to turn the hoses and mops onto the walks in ront of their stores. Attention was also centered on cleaning up resi-dential areas, with particular attention paid to vacant lots. Two mobile "canteens" moved about the area from 8:30 to 10 a.m. :o supply the workers with coffee, lonuts and soft drinks. An area clean-u- p captain, Dar-re- ll Howard, recruited a Highland High School class and "attacked" the 21st South St. area fronting the old prison property. During the week, four Sugar House service clubs combined ef-forts to put the rundown home for handicapped children at Fairmont Park in better shape. Lions Club members spent more than a week at the home doing masonry and carpentry work. Paint was contributed by area paint shops and three other service clubs, the Jaycees, Kiwanis and Rotary, pitched in to give the home a new look. This year's campaign was under the direction of Mrs. Theo Ken-dall, chairman of the Chamber , of Commerce Operation Home Im-provement. She was assisted by eight area captains: Darrell Howard, for the 21st East and 21st South area. Clair King, Sterling Furniture cor-ner; Warren Ottley, Keith O'Brien corner; Bob Thomas, Hallmark corner; Ab Mattson, Pehrson Hardware corner; Howard Day, Simpson Ave. area; Lynn Booth and Dennis Rose, South Highland Dr., and H. A. Seiter, 7th East to 5th East area. The city lent a hand by furnish-ing trucks to haul away debris and several other trucks were furnished by Sugar. House bus-inessmen. Rotarians Hear Talk On Mexico The Sygar House Rotary Club will salute the Pan American countries and Pan American Day at its weekly luncheon meeting Thursday. Speaker at the meeting will be Eduardo Balderaz, LDS Church translater in Mexico. Mr. Balderaz will discuss the Latin countries and the significance of April 14 Pan American Day. Mr. Balderaz's visit was arrang-ed by Laird Snelgrove, according to Gordon Sorensen, Rotary presi-dent. Mr. Balderaz will bring with him Gen. Alfredo LaMont, Mexican consul, who will address Rotarians on the development of Pan Ameri-can countries and Pan American Day, Mr. Sorensen said. Chamber Campaign Nets 9 New Members For Rolls The Sugar House Chamber of Commerce wound up it s member-ship drive Tuesday with nine new members on the rolls. The drive was conducted from April 2 to 16 by the Chamber's membership committee. Henry Richards is in charge of the group. New members are: Nohlgren's of Salt Lake, Inc., 2960 Highland Dr., Ralph Nohl-gre- n; W. W. Rowley, 1524-llt- h East, Hoover Vacuums; Charles W. Romney 1421 E. 21st South, attorney. Pratt's Shopscotch, 1277 E. 21st South. Kay M. Eames, 1277 E. 21st South; John E. Kay, 1997-11t- h East St.; Dr. Wayne E. Kim-ball, 2013-llt- h Esat; Dr. W. Tru-man Rigby, 2013-llt- h East; and Stark Steering Shop, 1075 Holly-wood Ave. Sugar House On Brink Of Bright Era What's in the future for Sugar House. Well, nothing but good things, area busines'smtn and dvid leaders agree. The proposed city-coun-ty park at the old prison site and the rapidly expanding Pioneer Village at Connor St. should add nothing but cultural and recreational Im-provement to the area. New roads planned for the area, including a freeway, the Simpson Ave. link off Highland Dr. and new off-stre- et parking lots, will mean new business for the growing dis-trict. D. James Cannon, executive secretary of the Chamber of Com-merce, echoes the feelings of the whole area in saying: "We want not only to grow In business, but we want the area to become more beautiful and a cul-tural center for the entire state. "There's nothing but a very fine future in store for Sugar House. "We feel that with the proposed development of the prison site, plans for new roads and off-stre- et parking lots. Sugar House will con-tinue to grow." Milton Ballenger New Dean At Westminster A new dean has assumed his duties at Westminster College. He is Dr. Milton C. Ballenger, dean of Shurtleff College at Alton, 111., since September of 1955. He replaces Joseph N. TJemura. acting dean since July 1, 1956. Mr. Uemura, an associate professor of philosophy and religon, will con-tinue teaching at the college, according to Dr. Frank E. Duddy Jr., college president Dr. Ballenger comes to West-minster with wide experience. An ordained Baptist minister, he has served pastorates in Missouri and Connecticut From 1952 to 1955 he was a department director with the American Baptist Board of Education in New York. He was academic dean of Larson College at New Haven, Conn., in 1951 and assistant headmaster of Hamden Hall Country Day School at New Haven from 1949 to 1951. Dr. Ballenger married Marjorie Hansen of Salt Lake City while stationed with the Army at Ft Douglas from 1937 to 1939. The couple has four children. In another change, Dr. Duddy announced the appointment of Shirley Baughman, now reference librarian, as college librarian. She will take over in June, replacing John Church who has joined the staff at the University of Utah. Nominations Held By Lions' At Sugar House Meet Sugar House Lions Club mem--be- rs nominated for next month's elections and heard an address by Dr. A. H. Fechner at their bi-monthly meeting Tuesday night. Dr. Fechner, in charge of Veter-ans Hospital operations in Salt Lake City, told of the functions of the hospitals and of improved methods in treating patients. Nineteen names were placed in nomination for nine positions ia the club. Elections will be held on May 20. Nominated were: For president, Wilford Kimball, Clarence Rockwood and Dr. Joseph Brewerton; first vice president, Russell Crockett and Edward Clay-ton; second vice president, Walter Peterson and Miton Pexton. third vice president, LeRoy DeKarver and Eugene Clissold. For two-ye- ar director, two to be elected, Rolland Naylor, LeGrand Silver Clyde Miller and Armond Coes; Lion Tamer, Stanley DeJong and Owen Wright; Tailtwister, Frank Rasmussen and Dean An-dru- s, and secretary-treasure- r, Dow P. Brian and Parker Sears. Holdover directors are Raymond Hilton and Sherman Lowe. Journalism Professor Speaks To Jaycees The Sugar House Chamber of Commerce heard Quintus C. Wil-son, University of Utah journalism department head, at its weekly luncheon meeting Wednesday at Harmon Cafe. At the same time, Jaycee mem-bers reported excellent progress in their annual membership drive. Several new members have been enlisted, according to Jy E. Jen-sen and George Henry Johnson, membership drive I Named Deputy Allen T. Howe, a southeast Salt Lake City resident, has been appointed deputy county attorney effective this week. Mr. Howe lives at 1821 E. 3900 South, |