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Show j .- , ... I r . $ i s ; " 1 'If Ll .1 ,.;...-' - cs WS$M ?ss.?;? l?;:ll?i?i:i?i?ll FliHB??? '? v;??-: :??: ::?? ??????5?v: !;??? M;:fMM f " f f -A ! L l-l...... .,... .i l i V 1 I In ii It i- jkJ.wii J i . ' i C. (i. (NKAL) WHI'l'lO Will h'ad clianibor to brighter '56. I). JAMES CANNON Recounts Sugar House accomplishments. RAY D. FREE Led Businessmen Business-men through successful '55. Looking back over 1955, we can perhaps find more things unfinished unfin-ished than completed. Simpson Avenue is still a dream, . and the old Sugar House park still a rubble catcher. But progress has been made on many things. Committees have worked hard, and I am sure that many of their efforts will bear fruit in the coming year. In many ways 1955 has been a period of unifying, assimilating, and strengthening of our community. commu-nity. May the coming year see a fur-Continued fur-Continued on Page 7 GI'S PAPANIKOLAS Sees need for two shopping nights. We are very pleased with the fine reception, the people, and especially es-pecially the housewives have given Sugar House Shopping Center in its first year of operation. We do trust the convenient parking facilities fa-cilities and the service warrants their continued support. It is our hope that the merchants in the Shopping Center remain open at least two nights a week to add to the shoppers convenience. Today the Center can accommodate accommo-date 15,000 people per day as was indicated during the Christmas rush. As the demand increases, it is our intent to expand accordingly. accord-ingly. Our hearty thanks and appreciation appreci-ation to the buying public. The economic stability of our area is dependent upon the consumers purchasing ability. The merchants in the Center have dedicated themselves to serve the patrons of the Center. ELBERT R. CURTIS Foresees 1956 greatest yet. "Glorious Future Ahead! So said Elbert R. Curtis, president presi-dent of the Columbia Savings and Loan Association in Sugar House, and manager of the A. R. Curtis and Sons Company. When questioned about the new Sugar House Shopping Cent, Curtis Cur-tis was very enthusiastic over the progress made in 1955. "The growth of the new shop-. ping center has been not only gratifying but almost fantastic, with most of the stores far exceeding exceed-ing their expeectations," he said. 1955 saw new units composed of Baker Shoe Company's beautiful beauti-ful new store, the Skaggs Drug Center with both main floor and basement floor space, and the huge W. T. Grant Company store Continued on Page 3 Sugar House has enjoyed a very successful year in 1955. Business has held steady with the Christmas trade in most cases being better than last year profits have remained re-mained good. With the expansion of Sugar House to the Simpson Avenue project proj-ect and south on Highland Drive, it has greatly enlarged the shopping shop-ping district and has been the means of bringing many more people peo-ple to this part of town. Sugar House is in the center of one of the fastest growing residential resi-dential districts in Utah and it is the aim of yur chamber of commerce com-merce for 1956 to consolidate the various shopping centers to form one Sugar House for the betterment better-ment of all. This year of 1955 has been a year of accomplishment for the Sugar House chamber of commerce. com-merce. After a very successful Centennial year, 1954, it was expected ex-pected that there would be a letdown let-down in '55. Instead, the full head of steam developed in '54 was augmented in '55, and Sugar House racked up some new records. I ' For instance . . . Sugar House now has its own sound system, something unique in Utah communities. com-munities. It means music in the streets for special occasions, and also has some practical use in civil defense. The sound system was just one of many projects completed by the Retail Trades committee ( J. Gordon Gor-don Sorensen, chairman). In addition ad-dition to the annual Sugar Days, Expansion Days and Turkey Days, the retail committee caught the fancy of the public with a terrifc Dollar Days in February, and an "Open House in Sugar House" in March. And now, compliments are coming in for the Christmas decorations deco-rations festooning our streets. Sugar House got underway this fall on a film-showing project which has doubled value: (1) the film, "It's everybondy's Business. Continued on Page 2 HAIR CUTTING'S JOHN BURT'S LIFE AND WORK Through 45 years and cutting hair through six generations of the Smoot family, Jack Burt has been in business in Sugar House. I fThe veteran businessman observed ob-served his 45th anniversary December De-cember 21, and the Sugar House Rotary club presened him with a lovely potted plant in remembrance remem-brance of his years of service. "I have always been proud I came to Sugar House," he said. "It was just a narrow place in he road not a wide one and every street in and out of Sugar House has been widened since. "As a matter of fact, 21st South street here (his shop is located at 1096 East 21st South) was just an east-west sheep trail." The genial, witty and friendly John Burt recalled that W. D. Richards, Alec Curtis and Roy Free are the only three men in business today who were here when he set up shop. George Dixon, Continued on Page 4 I j j JOHN (JACK) BURT Goes into his 46th year here. provement in nearly all fields during dur-ing '55. There were many, many other valuable prjects and activities. An example of just one was the Tourist Committee, under Ford .Thomas Rose and Darrell Herzog. This group did a fine job, and showed us all the potentialities of the tourist industry. Sugar House saw marked im- air on the afternoon of July 14. The program committee handled all the monthly meetings of the chamber, culminating in the festive fes-tive Christmas party on Dec. 14. The parking committee, under L. L. (Hal) Halversen's direction, did a tremendous amount of spade work on two project: (1) the creation of a large parking area in the Old Sugar House Park; and (2) the institution of an area- JIM CANNON Continued from Page One. carries the message of the free enterprise system; and (2) everybody every-body who sees it (and about 2000 high school students have seen it to date) is made aware that the Sugar House chamber of commerce and Rotary club (film sponsors) I are on the ball. I This activity Is sponsred by C.G. (Neal) White's Business Development Develop-ment committee. That group also sponsored the very successful October Oc-tober Flower show, and has now arranged for a place for the state to issue license plates in January and Februray, 1956. Dale Curtis' program committee reciced the Sugar House Summer Outing, with the whole community communi-ty locking up and going to Salt- wide parking study and survey. Both projects will probably see their fruition In 1956, but only because a good foundation was aid in '55. For the first time in the 18-year history of the chamber, a Program Pro-gram of Work committee functioned func-tioned effectively through meetings meet-ings held in the early part of the year to determine what the chamber cham-ber should try to accomplish in '55. Joe Aquila directed this activity,, ac-tivity,, which helped focus our attention at-tention on "first things first." R. K. (Dick) Foreman's Membership Mem-bership committee not only "kept 'em alive in '55," but also added about 30 new members to our list of 200. C. L. (Bish) Rockwood's Finance committee had its work cut out for it with all these costly activities, activ-ities, but through the medium of letters and phone calls, the funds came in to keep the machinery moving. Public Affairs committee, with Horace B. Richards as chairman, in addition to Its work, had two sub-committees: Simpson Ave. Task Force (V. W. Mackay, chairman), chair-man), and Beautification (John C. Barnes). The latter committee saw that the famous hanging flower baskets were hung, and faithfully watered throughout the summer, using Sugar Huse's own "watering wagon." wa-gon." Other Public Affairs activities activi-ties took much time with full completion expected for the spring of '56. Watchdog of the state legislature and the national Congress was J. W. (Bill) Andrews, chairman of the Legislative Affairs committee. Bill's group did a fine job in encouraging en-couraging good legislation, and paved the way for some real accomplishments ac-complishments in this field. I dvia nd precautions. This will, permit convenient pedestrian traffic traf-fic between all stores in the center. cen-ter. There will be some landscaping landscap-ing and beautification work and additional parking facilities will be provided. Promotional plans projected for the coming year included beautification, beauti-fication, sign improved and great er parking facilities with proposed parking for employees in the old Sugar House park site. "1956 look very bright, indeed." Curtis said. y " Vv i V j . j ' L J E. R. CURTIS Continued from rage 1 all get under way. I Considerable additional parking has been provided at the front land at the rear of these beautiful j.ew units. I Wonderful cooperation has been given by the city commission, the traffic engineer and public saftey officers, in the matter of planning, signals, etc.," Curtis said. Wilmington Avenue has been re-greded and soon will be resurfaced. re-surfaced. Knox-Bradford of the Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad has been very helpful and has promised that one of the railroad tracks will be removed shortly, and with the railroad's permission, black-topping black-topping will be accomplished over the tracks and between the north and south units with proper safety HORACE A. SORENSEN Reelected Re-elected by ovation as president of the National Society of Sons of Utah Pioneers. f : - ' If I . - , - ' ' ' ' 1 . ) - . WILLIAM F. WALKER RETIRES Old Faithful in Sugar House, William F. Walker, superintendent of the Sugor House Post Office, retires after years and years of service. Walker, left, is flanked by his successor, Ernest Korgenski, and Salt Lake Postmaster David Trevethick. JACK BURT Continued from Pafte 1 then a bookkeeper for Granite Lumber, has since entered business himself. "I visualized great things for Sugar House many years ago but nothing like it is today. It has gone far beyond my hopes and dreams," Burt said. He recalled cutting the hair of W. C. A. Senior, first of the generation gen-eration of the pioneer Smoot family, fam-ily, and has trimmed Smoot heads through six generations. "Senior was 80 years old when I first cut his hair," Bui't said. JRetire? That is far from John Burt's mind. He said business will have to NOT pay, or he'll have to suffer mental or physical incapacitation incapaci-tation before he'll quit. "I like this work, I like Sugar House, I like to meet people, and retiring is a far away thought in my mind." John Burt and his late wife who passed away this year, lived at 2120 10th East, where they raised Wallace and Howard Burt, and Miss Ada Burt, Sugar House j woman of the year in 1953, and a past president of the Sugar House Business and Professional Womens club. Miss Burt is professor pro-fessor of nursing at the University i of Utah where she is widely rec- ognized as most expert in her work. i John Burt is probably a Democrat, Demo-crat, but he never talks politics or religion even though, characteristically, character-istically, he is a barber and talks about almost everything else in Sugar House and under the sun. RAY D. FREE Continued from Page One. hter closing of our ranks, a cooperative co-operative unity banded together in our common goal of building a greater Sugar House. |