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Show S.H. Chamber to Open New Office Next Week arizing himself with the peop' and affairs of the southeast, and already he has formulated plans for the first big chamber sum mer activity. This will be a community celebration cele-bration and parade the evening of July 22, Monday, which will be the prelude to the big Pioneer Days celebration throughout the state. It is planned that the vari-out vari-out organizations and several business firms of the area will enter floats in this parade which will in turn be grouped as the Sugar House entry in the big July 24th parade downtown. In connection with the local celebration cele-bration some sort of a queen contest con-test is contemplated as well as various other entertainment features. fea-tures. The American Legion drum and bugle corps will participate in the event, and the color guard from the U. S. Marine Corps will be on hand to lend its dash and color to the bccasion. Entries in the parade will likely include some covered wagons, floats depicting de-picting the past, present and future fu-ture of Sugar House, several horse entries including probably a troupe from the rodeo, and it is planned that some of the entries en-tries will depict the future development de-velopment of the prison site. The next regular membership luncheon of the chamber will be held Tuesday, July 10, at Wea-skul Wea-skul Inn, at which time the membership mem-bership will hear from the new executive secretary, and prob-ly prob-ly some changes in the chamber's cham-ber's constitution and by-laws will be presented. Carpenters will be hammering and sawing away by the end of this week on the new Sugar House Chamber of Commerce office which will occupy the east half of the Bulletin building t at 1119 E. 21st So. At a meeting! of the chamber board Tuesday noon the appointment of Maj. Con D. Silard as a full time executive exec-utive secretary was approved, and authorization was given for the remodeling and furnishing of a chamber headquarters in the center of the business district. dis-trict. This office under the management manage-ment of Mr. Silard working in conjunction with the chamber board promises to be the center of business activity for the fast-growing fast-growing southeast section a bureau bu-reau where information of all na ture on the business and co mercial life of the community will be available, and tourist information in-formation as well. The office plans to send out monthly bulletins bul-letins to all chamber members and to promote in ever' way the development of business and industrial in-dustrial activity in this area. "There has long been a need for a headquarters and full time executive secretary for hte chamber," cham-ber," Chamber President Horace A. Sorensen said, "and in Major Silard I'm sure we have found job". Thsi centrally located headquarters head-quarters and information bureau ! Fm sure will be of inestimable value to the business life of this a man who fcan do us a valuable job. This centrally located head-center." head-center." Although Mr. Silard's engage ment dated from July 1, he has spent the past two weeks famih Short Story Group Chooses Officers "Plotting the Short Storv," will be the subject of discussion discus-sion when the Short Story Forum For-um meets Thursday, July 11. at 7 p.m. at the Sprague branch library. li-brary. The group which has been meeting weekly for the past month is growing in numbers, and William Clyde Behunin, a poet and prose writer of note who started the movement and was recently elected group chairman, expects it to develop into a real .cultural activity in this section. All persons interested inter-ested in writing, whether or not they have had work accepted, are invited to join in the discus-' sions which are taking up various var-ious phases of the writer's art. Subject of the meeting held last Tuesday (the meeting was moved ahead from the' regular Thursday date because of the holiday ) was "Pulp Slick Mas ter Fiction Formulas." Other officers of the forum named last week are Earl Beecher, vice chairman; David R. Cheney, corresponding secretary, sec-retary, and Brentnall H. Barlow, Bar-low, recording secretary. |