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Show Furniture Store Moving Into New Home On Hi-land ! Formal opening ceremonies at the new home of Standard Furniture Furn-iture s Holiday House will get under way at 7:30 p.m. Friday, September 18th. This new firm is located at 2855 Highland Drive. Many celebrities from city and state will be present for the opening including Governor George D. Clyde; Mayor Adiel F. Stewart; and Joseph Chandler, president of the Susar House Chamber of Commerce. Com-merce. There will be perfume souvenir sou-venir gifts given to the first 500 ladies. The opening will be filmed for TV and used on future programs. pro-grams. There will be radio interviews inter-views and plenty of music. Prizes worth $1200.00 in merchandise will be given away. Standard is giving up their downtown location and will operate exclusively from the Highland Drive Store. There will be approximately approx-imately 35 to 40 more employes in the.new store. Their new building was built at a cost of $250,000 and is a new concept in furniture stores, because be-cause it is all built on one floor. There are no partitions to obstruct ob-struct the view. It is of soft western rambler architecture and style. There are 30,000 square feet of floor space which is a SCPjo increase over their old location. lo-cation. Officers of the firm are James M. Armstrong, president; James M. Armstrong, Jr., general manager; man-ager; Frank Armstrong, vice president; pres-ident; Mary Elizabeth Armstrong,' secretary-treasurer. The architect was Lyle J. Rohde and the general contractor was Ghytraus Bros. Co. Store hours will be 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. except Friday and Saturday--9 a.m. to 9 p.m.' |