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Show AURELIA 3E.VNI0.V ". 'UEl'l? "7 - in, k T,hn)r, "-'.GUECNCSiF.L Sugar House Chamber Sets '47 Promotion Fund Drive CAMPAIGN OPENS TO RAISE $15,000 FOR STAGING BIG CENTENNIAL YEAR EVENTS Sugar House is going to town in 1947. A series of special events and promotions to focus the attention atten-tion of Utah and the west on Sugar House throughout the Centennial year is being outlined out-lined by the Chamber of Commerce. Com-merce. All of the special attractions attrac-tions have not yet been definitely definite-ly decided u)X3n. but the chamber cham-ber has outlined a tentative program, pro-gram, and a drive will start this week for funds to carry it forward. for-ward. The finance committee has set its sights for a S15.000 working budget to stage the program which will be by long odds the most ambitious undertaking the southeast area has ever envisioned. envis-ioned. A canvassing committee will start the fund collection this week, and it is the aim of the group to have the entire drive over with before Christmas. Chamber President Sam Xieh-oles Xieh-oles has named the following committee to conduct the fund , drive: Lee nalebout, Ron Henri- i ricks. Waller Peterson and Rus- sell Shurtleff. ' Merchants and business houses are urged to be ready for the committee members when : they call, and give generously, for this promotion is one which ; will pay off in increased business busi-ness to the southeast. A suggested sug-gested quota has been se' for each business in the area, ranging rang-ing from a few dollars for the little fellows up to several hundred hun-dred for some of the leading concerns, con-cerns, and it is hoped and ex- peeled that every concern In j the southeast will make a real contribution to the drive. By ' making this one big drive at this ! time it is explained that most firms can realize a tax-saving and at the same time get their next year's contributions taken care of so that it will not be necessary to have repeated fund drives and collections every time ; some event comes along during j the year. I The maior events contemplated contemplat-ed start with the current Christmas Christ-mas decorations the finest Sugar Su-gar House has ever had with a Santa Claus event on (he plaza in a week or so for the kiddies, md the playing of Christmas music and carols from the holly-dr-cked Christmas house in the nlaza throughout the shopping season. First big event of the new year will be a combination Founders Day and Spring festival festi-val during which the pioneers of Sugar House will be honored, and in addition, the stores will display their new lines and special spe-cial crowd-drawing events will be staged in the plaza. In midsummer mid-summer Sugar House will have a Pioneer Days celebration, tying ty-ing In with the big July 24 deal down town. Probably a local parade will be held. One of the biggest events Is the proposed sponsorship by Sugar Su-gar House of the Olympic track and field trvouts which will be a Centennial feature. This event, if it is undertaken, mav prove to be a money maker for Sugar House. A late summer party for all Sugar House people peo-ple and their families is tentatively tenta-tively planned, either in one of the canyons or at one of the resorts. A fall festival of some kind, possibly taking the nature of a harvest celebration and fall style show is the final event on the tentative program. In addition to those special events, the chamber has a number num-ber of major civic improvements outlined for the year. Some of these are already well underway and should move to completion during the new year, such as the installation of a "while way" lighting system and the removal remov-al of unsightly poles from the business streets, for which surveys sur-veys have already been made. |
