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Idaho State Journal from Pocatello, Idaho • Page 7

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POCATELLO, IDAHO, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1975 IDAHO STATE 7 Yellowstone Avenue Becomes Construction Boulevard Realtors Hold Seminar Kelly Mann and John Wiegand of American Land Title spoke about closing procedures. John Clawson IMT rice president, discussed hanking and financing methods Gary Clawson, member of the Pocatello Board of Realtors was charge of the seminar. Thirty students were attendance, including some from Driggs Burlev and 35 r-' ear lci board con(in hold simUa? reaUors reSS Continuin 6 of Underwriters Sign Hansen George V. Hansen will be the guest speaker of the Life Underwriter Annual Awards Banquet Tuesday in the Idaho State Lmversity Student Union Building. The ceremony begins 7:30 p.m.

in the Bengal Lair Room. Sheldon A. Johnson will be the master of ceremonies for the function and entertainment will be provided by the Kinsmen. John Ricks will present the following awards: National Health Insurance Quality Award, National Life Insurance Quality Award, Million Dollar Round Table Awards CLU designations, Training Council Graduation Awards and Instructor Service Award. Following the award presentation, Life Underwriter president Ralph Smith will address the gathering.

IRS Rep to Rap Tuesday An Internal Revenue Service official will be the featured speaker at a Tuesday morning breakfast meeting of the Pocatello Estate Planning Council. Wayne Lungsford, IRS pension and profit plan specialist, will address the estate planning council at the Hotel Bannock, beginning at 7:30 a.m. His tentative topic will deal with the Pension Reform Act of 1974. The Pocatello Estate Planning Council meets the fourth Tuesday of every month. It consists of certified public accountants, attorneys, life underwriters, trust officer and other individuals interested in the estate planning fields.

Council officers are Herbert Wallace, president, Jim Manning, vice president, Theron Stokes, secretary, and Dale Jones, treasurer. Wallace replaced Ron Melton as council president last May. By MARK ME.NDIOLA Journal Staff Writer Yellowstone Avenue is being transformed into Construction Boulevard and other areas of Pocatello are also witnessing the erection of new business buildings. One of the newest additons to the Yellowstone Avenue Strip is the "Prime Cut Meat Market-A Restaurant." located directly south of the Howell Motel. Construction on the 5000 sq.

ft. building began Sept. 20 and the steak house is scheduled to open to business by the fourth of January. GM Construction, Oklahoma City, is the general contractor of the Prime Cut project. The interior decor of the structure, once completed, will be "very plush" and will feature antiques and items reminiscent of Pocatello heritage, according to Bill Keale, foreman of the steakhouse job.

The restaurant will contain seating capacity 250 customers and will feature a semi-self service salad bar. A second Prime Cut Meat Market is scheduled to be completed in Twin Falls once weather permits. Further south on Yellowstone, the Twin Pines Convenient Center is being prepared for occupancy with one tenant already entrenched in the building. Duffy's Duds recently held its grand opening in the edifice. Real Estate Management West is leasing agent for the structure.

Brennan Construction started work on the 16,600 sq. ft. convenient center about the middle of August. Office space is currently being leased and 88 parking spaces are available. Statewide Properties, Salt Lake City, is owner of the building opposite the Grand Central shopping center.

Next door to the Twin Pines Convenient Center, a new Uate City Heal Estate building is going up. The office building is tentatively scheduled to be completed in December. Construction began Aug. 15. The building will serve as the company's main branch office, bui Gate City will keep its office on E.

Center. Gene Hancock will manage the new office complex staffed with six sales associates. Jim Morphey, associate broker, will mange the E. Center branch. -Next door to the Gate City building is a new Taco Hell.

The Mexican food outlet is being managed by Craig Moss who co- owns the iranchise with his family. The building was completed nearly two months ago and was constructed by Construction. On the corner of Yellowstone and Aiameda, excavation work is underway on a $175,000 Burger King restaurant. Bengal Construction is presently Dietrich Landmark Purchased A building that has withstood more than 70 years of downtown Pocatello winters, floods and facelifts has been purchased by three area residents. The Dietrich Building--named after Judge Frank Dietrich who purchased the building in 1905--has been the home of many local businesses because the Arthur and Center Street site has afforded a prime downtown business location over the years.

The building has been purchased from the Dietrich estate by Gray Brown, Bob Black and David Anderson. All three are employes of the American Land Title Company. The Dietrich estate was established in 1931 and consisted of his wife Martha and their three children, Frank Margaret Iff! and Isabel! Granter. The three new owners do not intend to make anv major changes in the building and will continue to rent to the current nine tenants, which include Royal Shoe Repair, Gem State Mutual, Bonnie Brown, owner of a stain glass shop, Roy Miller, a professional claims adjustor, Household Finance, Atkin's Florist, Maag Prescription Center, Beneficial Hearing Aid Service, and American Land Title Company. The property originally contained three buildings but a remodeling in 1937 connected the structures between Arthur Street and the alley on the 300 block of West Center.

Area businesses that have inhabited the structure include: Walgreen Drug, Molinelli Jewelers, Zweigarl Packing and Wards Flower Shop. Many law offices have been located in the building including those of Judge Swanson and F.E. Tydeman. cut moi ividy. I BUSINESS BITS.

Idaho Building Permits Drop RICHARD DAHL has been appointed industrial sales representative for Western Equipment Co. Dahl is assigned responsibility for sales rentals and leasing of Caterpillar diesel engines, generator sets and hydraulic cranes. He will also offer application engineering if assistance for customers. Dahl is a 1962 Boise High School graduate and a 1968 Brigham Young University graduate. He served in the Idaho Army National Guard.

Prior to joining Western Equipment he was a sales engineer for an underground mining equipment manufacturer. EDWARD K. GILL, Idaho First National Bank, has coauthored a bank management textbook published by Prentice-Hall, Gill, assistant vice president of the bank's trust investment department, began work on the literary project in the fall of 1971. Other co-authors include Edward W. Reed, senior vice president and economist with the United States National Bank of Oregon, Dr.

Richard V. Cotter, professor of managerial science, University of Nevada, Dr. Richard K. Smith, professor of finance, University of Montana. Gill joined Idaho First in June 1974 after serving three years as associate professor of finance, Boise State University.

Earlier he taught at Idaho State University and the University of Montana. JACK J. MENAKD, 909 E. Chubbuck Road, recently returned from a meeting of Common Cause regional coordinators held in Boise. Plans to make changes in Idaho State Government and launch a membership drive were discussed at the conference.

Menard has been regional coordinator for the citizen's lobby group since last May and was one of eight representatives in attendance at the Boise gathering. He is currently serving as a Chubbuck city councilman and is president of Hallmark Homes, Inc. and Tri-City Concrete, Inc. PAUL A. EIS, Pocatello, has been appointed an insurance representative for Horace Mann Insurance Companies, a leading insurer of teachers.

Eis is a graduate of Idaho State University and a former pilot for the U.S. Army. In his new position with Horace Mann, he will be responsible for selling and servicing the insurance needs of the Boise and Pocatello marketing area. Eis, his wife, Nancy, and their two-year-old son reside at 1190 Lavine. ROBERT JOHNSON, Norman Supply salesman, has completed a distributor sales training program held two weeks ago in Kohler, Wise.

The workshop was sponsored by Kohler one of the nation's largest manufacturers of plumbing products. Norman Supply, Pocatello, and 16 other U.S. Kohler distributors were represented at the seminar. JEFF BARTSCH, Columbia Paint has been promoted field sales manager. Bartsch, an employe of Columbia Paint for the past five years and recent recipient of the firm's 1975 outstanding salesman of the year award, will supervise sales in the company's Southeast Idaho and Montana factory-owned stores.

Columbia Paint factories in Spokane and Helena produce and distribute paint to its retail stores in Pocatello, Idaho Falls, and Lewiston, Idaho; Billings, Butte, Bozeman, Great Falls, Havre, Helena, Kalispell and Missoula, and Wenatchee, Richland and Spokane, Wash. WEBB TRACTOR American Falls, and Hesston Kansas, are co-sponsoring a two-and-a-hall hour live telecast of the National Finals Rodeo, Dec. 13. Only the season's top 15 money winners in each men's event and girls' barrel racing competition are eligible to participate in this "World Series of Rcdeo." Men's events include saddle bronc riding, bareback bronc riding, bull riding, calf roping, steer wrestling and team roping. In contention for the All Around Cowboy honor are Larry Mahan, Dallas, Leo Camarillo, Oakdale, and Tom Ferguson, Miami, Okla.

UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD has agreed to feature its X-95C miniature diesel freight train in the Downtown Merchants celebration, Nov. 28. Designed and constructed in the railroad's Omaha shops, the gasoline powered train is built to Is scale and runs on rubber wheels. It weighs more than five tons, is 84 feet long, five feet high and is powered by a 27- horsepower four-cylinder tractor engine. It is a regular attraction at parades, rodeos and displays.

TWENTY-ONE IDAHO STATE UNIVERSITY students, faculty members and wives have returned from a visit to the Federal Reserve Bank, First Security Corp. and Dean Witter and Co Inc. in Salt Lake City. The visit was sponsored by the ISU Finance Club of the College of Business, Making the trip were Darrell Scott, Dr. and Mrs.

Gary Wells, Karen Kruse, Mr, and Mrs. Brian Dial, Mr. and Mrs. Tracy Onnen, Karleen Cook Verl Ritchie and James Young, Pocatello; Cary Sato, George Minow and Jim Whitman, Idaho Falls; Robin Dunn and Kirk Hart, both of Rigby; Donita Kuhn, Gooding; Lyle Bankhead, Blackfoot; Max Buchanan, Indian Valley, and Mark E. Smith, Twin Falls.

Total value for authorized building permit construction in 39 major Idaho cities and unincorporated areas of seven counties during Oct. 1975 was 6.1 per cent below the same last year. The First Security Corporation reports total building permit values for October at $28,527,782, but notes new residential construction for 658 dwelling units totaled $16,252,245, an increase of 23.1 per cent in value compared with Oct. 1974. Nonresidential construction, however, valued at $8,059,896 was 25.7 per cent below the 1974 level.

Alterations and repairs totaling $4,215,641 were 33.2 pel- cent below Oct. 1974. For the first 10 months of 1975, total permit value was 12.2 per cent above a year ago, according to First Security. Construction contracts awarded nationally in September were also six per cent below the same period in 1974, according to F.W. Dodge.

The contracts totaled $7.69 billion. Dodge also reports nationwide nonresidential building For the fourth consecutive year, Bucyrus-Erie has won first-place classification in Financial World magazine's Annual Report Survey. An award was given in recognition of excellence for B-E's 1974 Annual Report to Shareholders. The bronze Oscar of Industry trophy was presented to the Milwaukee-based firm at the 35th Annual Report Awards Banquet held Oct. 24 in the Grand Ballroom of the New York Hilton Hotel.

Presentation of the award were made before an audience of more than 1,000 business, industrial and financial leaders throughout the United Slates and Canada. Principal speaker at the dinner was L. William Seidman, economic affairs presidential assistant and Selected New York Stock Exchange Prices By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS AlcanAI AlldCh AlldSt AllsCh Alcoa Amax AHess AmArr ABrnds AmBdc ACan ACyan AmElP AmMot AmStnd Ampex Anacon Armco AtlRch Atlas AvonPd BeatFds BeechA BellH Bendix Boeing BoiseC BristM BritPet Brunswk Budd Burl In BurlnN Burghs CastIC CatTr Celaiise Cerro Crt-td Cessna Chmpln Chryslr CitSv CocaC ColgPal ColGas Comsat Con Ed ConFds ContAir ConCan ConOil ConDat Cowles CrwZI CurtW Dar'tin Deere DelMon Dillon Disney DowCh Dressr duPont EastAir EasKd Eaton El Paso Esmark EvansP Exxon FairC Firestn FMC Close Chg 21 Va 3.8 5 a 8 31 2534 20 a 5 7 '8-- Va 15' VB 5' a-- ID 24 7 3 4 88 Hi 441 i'a 17 41 -1 38 24 72 3 5s 12 5,8 8 3 ,4 28 31 5 Va 82 3 'a 68 17 13', 19 3 3 8 Vi 9 3 4 865s 27'a-- 'e 23' 4 32 13U 5 28 IB 185s-- 3 7 12 Vi 50 Va 24 3 a-- 5a 3,8 3 106 3 Vi 11 3 30Ve 4 3 8-- 'A FdFair FordM ForMcK FreepM Fruehf GamSk Ganet GenDyn Gen El GnFood GenMI GnMot GPubU GTelEI GTire GaPac Gilete Goodrh Goodyr Grace GrGiant Greyhd GulfO Hecla HollyS Homestk Honywll Idaho IdealB IBM IntHar InNick IntPap IntTT Jewel KaisAI Xencot Krafco Kresge LibMcN Litton Lockhd LonStl Macy MaraO MartMa McDnld McDnD Merck MMM Mobil Monsan MonDU MonPw Ml Fuel MtStTel NatDis NalGyp Natlnd NatStl NCR NiaMP NwtAir OcciPt OlinCp Omark OutMar Owen III PacGas PacPw PacTT PanAm PanEP Pasco PenCnt VB 18 3 Sa 235.8+ 343s-- 3,8 29 3 'Va 55 3 Va 24 42 3 8 32 3 'a 22 241,4 16V 2 21 Va 14 3 Vi 1 Va 3 323,8 28Va 14 3 a 25', a 54 I 3 21 3 40', s-- VB 33' 2 71 6i 2-- i.e 7 IB 14Va- Va 9 3 i 435s-- 1,4 1,8 va 77 3 4- 3 Ve 443 8- 5-a IB Va Ve 16 Ve 12 Va V2 35 1 12V4 14 Vi 29 3 IB Ve '-e 21 20 Vi 40V? P.8 PenDix Penney Pepsi Pfizer PhelpD PhilMor PhilPt Polroid ProcGm PSvCol PugSd Pulmn RCA RepStl Reylnd ReyMet Rockwl Satewy StJoMin StReg SCM Scott Sears SheMO SoCalE SouthC SouPac SouRy SperryR EWBnd StOCal StOInd StOOh StaufC SterDg StuWor Textrnx Teldyn 25 Texaco Texglt Tex Ins Textrn Thiokl Timkn TodShp TWA Transam TriCon TRW TwenCt UAL UMC UnCarb UnElec UnOCal UPac Uniryl UnilBds UnitCp VSGyp USIKND USStl UOP Utah In Varian Warnr WnAir WnBnc WUnion West El Weyrhr White Wolwth Xerox Zenith Sales 14 5 53V2-- 1 VB 52V2-- a 37 3.8 Vi VB 26 5 a 'A 57 3 5s 21V2 23 Ve 36' 43 3 3 1,4 1,4 1,4 141,2 1,2 47 1,4 19 VB 145 29' 2 52- 3 40? B-- 36 3 8- 5 8 69V2 183,4 42i 2 3 8 1,4 94 3 4 23' B- 12 3 4 3 8 2 4 a 8 3 s-- a 19i 26' a-- 3 a 24 3 4-- 4 IB 57 '4 '-a 4 3 Vi Vo 16 3 59Ve 95, VB 8 3 i Va 12 3 1 353 8 Va 52 V4 ,110,000 working on that project. A K-Mart department store on the corner of Quinn and 1'oleline should be completed by the first of January. MG.M Construction, Salt Lake City, is general ccntractor lor the project.

Building permit for the 72,000 sq. fi. store cost SI.2 million. Dyke's Polcline Electric. Bannock Paving and Kay's Plumbing, Pocatello.

have also contributed to completion of the new building. The manager will be in Pocatello about the I'lth of January, but the K-Mart store is no! scheduled to open uniil March 1. Construction began about the first of August. Across town, Mortgage Insurance Corp. has moved out of its old downtown office building into a new $250,000 building at 755 -N.

Arthur. Taysom Construction began work on the building last April. The new complex is located opposite the Okay Food Cener. Mortgage Insurancehad formerly been housed at 155 S. Arthur for nearly 40 years.

Dean Lloyd, executive vice president, told the Journal lack of parking space was a primary reason formoving. Office space is currently available in the new- building. Rhoads Inc. is also building a new warehouse across the street from its present location at 1009 S. Second.

The 19,200 sq. ft. is scheduled for completion this February. Rhoads also purchased the K.Vt. Frank warehouse.

950 S. First, for additional storage space. Between tit) and 140 more parking spaces will be added as result of the construction. Khoads is doing its own work on the building. Other new construction in Pocatello includes the Sandpiper Restaurant, remodeling of the Ginza and the Railroad Credit Union buildings.

contracts totaling $2.53 billion were 21 per cent below a year ago. Nonbuilding construction at S2.20 billion was 12 per cent below that in 1974. Dwelling unit construction, however, totaled $2.97 billion, up by 21 per cent from 1974. Nationally, during the January to September period, dwelling unit construction was down by 15 per cent, industrial and commercial building decreased six per cent and nonbuilding construction was 30 per cent above year ago levels, according to Dodge. Financial World Awards Bucyrus-Erie executive director of the Economic Policy Board.

Approximately 5,000 annual reports were reviewed this year in the annual competition to promote the improvement of a i a i a statements. Bucyrus-Erie took top honors in the Material Handling classification, Clark Equipment Co. placed second and Rexnord, Inc. was third. U.S.

Steel Shuts Down Wyoming Mine ATLANTIC CITY, Wyo. APA spokesman said Friday that U.S. Steel would close down its iron ore opreations here for four days later this month because sales are down at the Geneva Iron Works in Provo. Utah. Jack Bollow said the plant here would close at midnight Nov.

26and reopen at 12:01 a.m. Dec. l. Livestock SALT LAKE CITY (AP- USDA)--Utah, Idaho and Eastern Nevada feedlot and range sales for week ending Friday: Trade slow from last week's expanded volume; demand good; choice slaughter steers closed fully 2.00 higher; Hoi- stein steers .50 higher; slaughter heifers 1.00-1.50 higher; grade and yield selling continues: most feedlots not pricing cattle until next week; confirmed sales or. 3,500 steers and 810 heifers average price and weight of steers sold this week 44.00 and 1,162 Ib; last week 43.04 and last year 36.89 and 1,066.

Slaughter steers high good and mostly choice 1000-1350 Ib 43.50-45.50; most late sales 45.00-45.50; mixed good and choice 43.00-43.50; good Hoi- steins 37.50-38.00. Slaughter heifers high good and mostly choice 900-1050 Ib 40.00-43.00. Feeder cattle trade rather slow; few sales firm to 1.00 higher; some steer calves 2.00 higher; choice 400-550 Ib steers 36.00-38.00; heifer mates 26.0029.00; scattered loads choice 750-850 Ib steers 36.00-38.00; choice 575-735 Ib heifers 29.0031.00. Sheep slaughter lambs firm; choice 100-110 Ib wooled slaughter lambs 46.00 to mostly 47.00, including moderate volume at 47.00 for delivery through December, Wool approximately 110,000 Ib out of warehouses; grade 58-56s at 1.05; some 58-GOs at 1.20; clean delivered east. GM CONSTRUCTION WORKERS from Oklahoma, Newell and Hugh Putnam, build a brick entranceway for the new Prime Cut Meat Market on N.

Yellowstone. The steakhouse is one of many new business construction projects in Pocatello. See story. (Journal Photo by John Ilennings) We are pleased to announce the election of H. S.

Howell to Vice President Piper, Jaffiay Hopwood INCORPORATED Established 1895 Member New York Slock Exchange, Inc. 139 So. A Pocatello 232-6695 FAMOUS BRAND PREWASHED 'PATCHWORK" DENIM JEAN SALE! OUR MOST POPULAR PATCHWORK DENIM JEAN NOW ON SALE! RiG, 18.00 14 Sunset Sport Centers are having a fantastic sale on their most popular 'prewashed' patchwork dsnim jean in stock! Now you can have a European "square patch" denim jean at just a fraction of the price you'd pay for them anywhere else in town! Don't miss this week long sale on great fitting pre- washed jeans in sizes to fit both guys and gals! MPOCATEUO 625YelwstOM DADO FALLS 2090H.YelMstone.

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