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Show POLICE PRECINCT, MEMBERSHIP REPORTS TO C OF C f t I a -" 1 I 1 (f . STEPHEN RICHARDS Warns there is danger without action. "100 more in '54," Pehrson said this promotion, coupled with the centennial will net "Sugar House plans for the annual madi gras, set thousands more in '54." Boasting a committee comprised of every active member of the chamber, Barnes listed scores of new prospects, enlisted the help of the membership in adding to the rolls. Then he introduced the 13 new members to the luncheon group as: Jack Hewitt of Jack's Texaco Service Station, 11th East and Hollywood Hol-lywood Ave.; Cliff D. Shurtleff, advertising, 2672 Fillmore; Jack Dalimare, Pierpont Service Station-, 1277 East 21st South; Harry N. Poll, Poll & Austin Sound Service, Serv-ice, 2319 Highland Drive; William H. Thayne, Thayne & Co., realtors, real-tors, Redman Bldg. , Delos Burton, Unique Cleaners, 2364 Highland Dr.; Vogue Cleaning Clean-ing and Shirt Laundry, four locations loca-tions in southeast Salt Lake; Bill Marz, Wasatch Cleaning & Furriers, Fur-riers, 7th East and 21st South; John Snow, attorney, Skeen-Thur-mond-Worsley & Snow; Merrill K. Davis, attorney, Davis & Bayles, 53 East 4th South; Rudy Kahn, Rudy's Key & Repair shop, 1983 South 11th East; Arthur Rueckert, Rueckert Electric Co., 2200 Arbor Lane, and Lyle J. Rohde, architect, 1109 East 21st South. A 1 Reports of the activities of three vital committees of the Sugar House chamber of commerce were enthusiastically received Wednesday Wednes-day noon by the membership, lunching in the Sir Lester room of the Skillet on Highland Drive. S. Morgan Sorensen detailed the progress of his public affairs committee com-mittee which is tackling the knotty traffic-street parking problems; Stephen Richards, off-street parking park-ing chairman, told of the vital necessity of solving that problem, and Paul Pehrson, vice chairman of the retail trades committee, briefly outlined the Sugar Days promotion which will be engineered engi-neered this spring. John C. Barnes, chairman of the "100 more in '54" membership drive, announced 13 new names on the chamber roster, bringing the total to more than 140 members. mem-bers. Sorensen explained that his committee, com-mittee, already hard at work, would meet bi-monthly to wade head-on into the difficult street parking and traffic troubles that beset the area nov. He said Sam Taylor, Salt Lake traffic engineer, has promised within 30 days to come up with a survey showing what must be done to expedite traffic, to time-restricted certain areas for parking. He also announced publicly, for the first time, that the chamber is seeking additional police protection, pro-tection, asking the city and police department to establish a precinct '"nerve center" in Sugar House. Richards declared Sugar House has become the vital business area I it is today because of its free J and unregimented parking, both on and off-street, and he warned there is a danger this center might lose both unless strong vigilence is maintained by the chamber members and their employes in parking apart from the free customer parking lots and off the main Sugar House streets. He said there is some talk by some lot owners of closing their ground to all parking, that there is a move afoot to bring parking j meters into the area. Pehrson pledged himself to throw his organizational ability and strength into the come springtime spring-time Sugar Days promotion, declaring de-claring there certain "downtown interests who will be sorry and we'll be glad we live and work in Sugar House." In a sharp take-off on Chairman Chair-man Barnes' membership slogan I JOHN C. BARNES A good start on "100 more in '54." S. MORGAN SORENSEN A police precinct for Sugar House. |
