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Show Sugar House Delegation Asks City Commission For Rest Room Thirty 3Ierchants Told City Will Cooperate; Library Grounds, Plaza Sites Discussed Rumblings which have been heard in Sugar House for at least 15 years exploded into action Wedneslay when approximately approximate-ly 30 business people boarded a chartered City Lines bus and traveled to the city commission meeting to demand a community rest room for Sugar House. Theme song of the group was "Now, not ten years from now," according to A. W. "Mickey" Hart, president of the Sugar House Chamber of Commerce. "With the apparent approach of another war, plans for a community rest room will have to be-delayed be-delayed for at least ten years if we do not act now," Mr. Hart said. Upon arrival of the large delegation, which included two business busi-ness women, Lincoln Hansen of the Sugar House Lions Club was the spokesman for the group. Mr. Hansen re-emphasized the need1 for a restroom in Sugar House to commission members. He pointed out that the problem had been studied for many years and that the only satisfactory satis-factory location for the comfort station was on the grounds north of the Sprague Library. To Mayor Glade's reply that it was legally impossible to get that property without permission permis-sion of the city library board, Ray D. Free stood up and asked (Continued on page four) RESTROOM .... (Continued from page one) why one small group could stand in the way of the progress prog-ress of thousands. Mr. Free quoted the Preamble to the U.S. Constitution which stresses the the words, "We, The People." If the people 'want and need some civic improvement, then a way should be opened to provide pro-vide them with it, Mr. Free added. i In order to clarify the legal aspects of the problem, Mayor Glade called in City Attorney Ray Christensen. Mr. Chris-tensen Chris-tensen pointed out that the library li-brary board had been empowered empow-ered by the state to administer its own property and affairs without interference from any group. Plaza Studied Horace A. Sorensen, another chamber spokesman, asked if it were feasible to build an underground under-ground restroom near the Sugar House Plaza. Joe L. Christensen, Christen-sen, commissioner of streets, promised that the engineering department would make an Immediate Im-mediate study and report to the chamber of commerce. Mr. Sorensen stressed that if anything any-thing were"- done near the Plaza, it would have to be carefully designed so it would not detract, de-tract, from the attractiveness of the monument. Other people who spoke in favor of the chamber position were: Clarence L. Rockwood, J. Roy Free, Stephen C. Richards, Rich-ards, A. W. Hart, Jack Burt, Lawrence Summerhays, and Fred Lawson. Each of the 30 members of the group introduced intro-duced himself to the commission. |