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Show MAYOR OUTLINES PLANS FOR SOUTHEAST GROWTH AT CHAMBER LUNCHEON master plan for our city thor-uoghfares. thor-uoghfares. The matter of handling han-dling heavy duty traffic into and through our city is being given special study. "The east and west, and cross-valley cross-valley needs are being explored along with those of highways 91 and S3. "One of our great highway needs is a modern approach to our city through Parley's canyon. can-yon. Narrow roads with innumerable innu-merable turns are not modern. Between Susrnr House and Park City, the highway crosses the n. & R. G. W. tracks 13 times. Sometimes it almost sneaks around the corner to do so. "We have' assurances from the Salt Lake City Lines that not only will our north and south flow of city traffic be expeditiously expedi-tiously handled, but the cross-valley cross-valley needs will also bp ade- quately and promptly met. "In the southeast, we are especially es-pecially concerned about ingress and egress with the East Mill Creek and Holladay areas. We are hopeful of being able to nrevent traffic jams which make for danger, interfere with business busi-ness and distract our people." Mayor Glade was introduced by Horace A. Sorensen. chamber cham-ber president, and the meeting was presided over by Horace B. Richards, first vice president. Executive Secretary Con D. Silard read the minutes and read the names of the following new members: Mayor Earl J. Glade, Murray W. Whitney, accountant; Miss Mae Tibbetts, Hollywood Dance studio; Mrs. Alta Clark, Jim's Hamburger; L. H. Stratford, Wasatch Wa-satch Plumbing, and Jim Wilde, Utah Oil service. Development of cross-valley thoroughfares and transportation transporta-tion facilities, that is, east-west streets, further planning and zoning zon-ing for business expansion in the outlying areas and above all an easing of the OPA restrictions on critical building materials, were cited by Mayor Earl J. Glade as the big factors in the development of Salt Lake and the southeast. Mayor Glade addressed the regular September meeting of the Sugar House Chamber of Commerce Tuesday at Weasku Inn, and praised this section for' its forward looking approach to the problems which are daily presenting themselves as a part of Salt Lake's "growing pains." He also endorsed the plans developed locally for the future utilization of the state prison site, and invisioned a great building build-ing and business boom for this entire section. He related some of the zoning problems now facing the city, and urged that all Future developments devel-opments in this and other outlying out-lying sections make proper provision pro-vision for community business growth. "Southeast Salt Lake is one of our largest and most attractive attrac-tive home areas, and Sugar House is its business center," the mayor said. "Structures like the new tele, phone building and the Redman Van and Storage warehouse, now being erected, are indicative indica-tive of the class which characterizes charac-terizes the commercial developments develop-ments now under way in the southeast. "Surrounding Salt Lake are seven glorious canyons that are just a few minutes away from our homes . . In Salt Lake we must" coltaUoratewitrr-the "state and federal governments in making these incomparable retreat re-treat easily available to our people. With the return to peace-time! I urge private enterprise enter-prise to catch the vision of the tremendous community worth of these surrounding mountains, and to provide inexpesive transportation trans-portation to them. There should be available to everyone, for instance, in-stance, for a relatively few cents, travelling in groups, journeys jour-neys around one of the greatest canyon loops in the world; up Parley's to Heber, down the Provo to Wildwood, up back of Timpanogos to Aspen Grove, down American Fork canyon, and home. I seriously doubt that, in point of natural beauty of landscape, that trip can be equalled anywhere in the world. "We hope to build in our city incomparably fine thoroughfares. thorough-fares. As you have no doubt observed, ouf program is already underway. In collaboration with the state, we have a highway committee now working on a |
