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Show yV- '-v' " 4 w . . ' , L I A' V ; I ELBERT It. CURTIS COLUMDIA LOAN, HOME OWNED, OPENS OFFICES The Columbia Savings and Loan Association became the newest going concern in Sugar House this week, opening temporary offices of-fices at 1065 East 21st South St., in the new Rockwood block. Elbert R. Curtis, pioneer Sugar House businessman, will serve as president, with J. Fred Pingree, former Utah commissioner of finance, fi-nance, as executive vice president. CaDtilized for a quarter of a million dollars, the Columbia concern has $200,000 in paid up capital and is currently serving serv-ing 800 real estate mortgages under state regulation. The mortgages aggregate more than four million dollars, Curtis said, in announcing the new financing fi-nancing concern is the only Sugar House-owned and operated firm of its kind in the area. Columbia will make all types of loans, G. I., FHA, conventional and home improvement loans. It accepts saving accounts, and currently is paying four per cent on savings. It will broker mortgages mort-gages for investers. Other officers include Dr. LeRoy Kimball, vice president; T. J. Christiansen, secretary, and Leo L. Capson, Dee F. Anderson, Louis H. Callister, Sid N. Cornwall and George A. Dixon as directors. Curtis is president of the LDS general board of the MIA; president presi-dent Mountain Finance; Manager of A.. R. Curtis & Sons, and of Sugar House Shopping Center; a director in Curtis Coal, Deseret Book Store. Deseret Gymnasium, and is general business manager of Improvement Era. |