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Show Clean-Up Army Gives Area Spring Scrub An army of Sugar House businessmen 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 residential 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-up captain, Dar-rell Dar-rell 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 efforts 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 Kendall, Ken-dall, chairman of the Chamber , of Commerce Operation Home Improvement. Im-provement. She was assisted by eight area captains: Darrell Howard, for the 21st East and 21st South area. Clair King, Sterling Furniture corner; 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 furnishing furnish-ing trucks to haul away debris and several other trucks were furnished by Sugar. House businessmen. |