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In IIup Next Spring$110,000 Summers'-PortPool Nears CompletionCompletion in October I* ex-1 j pected for the S110.000 swim-!I mint pool being built throuxh I cooperative funds of Summers'-j Port. Inc., near Greenwood lane , off Kt, 100 in Godfrey at the , northeast corner of the Floyd Flexon property.The S21* by 75-foot L-shaped pool is being built by Cannon* Const ruction Co, of Wood River for 500 stockholders whose families expert to be sposhing in Its cool waters as soon as warm weather arrives next spring.It was a Sunday evening Inj December 1965. when Joe Shultz and Carl Crumrine, with their wives, were returning to Alton by train after a weekend In Chicago. Carl was telling Joe that hr thought he would build a backyard pool. Joe was pointing out the risks, responsibilities and heavy coats of building a back-., yard poof. Then Joe asked the question WTiy don't we atart . a pool aasor’atkjr?**Mow it Regan They had Just visited friends* in the Chicago area who belong- i i ed to such an association. ThatV t how it all began nine months* ago. Carl and Joe went to work ? on their friends. On the Sunday t , before Christmas, six couplest met at Joe Shull*' house to lay,- plans. This included the Crum-j- fines, the Dick Fishers, Jim| t Lyons. Howard Rhoads, Jackt s Hennings.The each agreed to bring arv* j other couple to their next meeting. In three weeks the group J had increased to 30 couples, each i of whom had put up 125 which- they were willing to gamble on* the success of the undertaking, t The final charter group which- actually numbered 37 couples t met regularly once a week.I Crumrine was elected chair-k man and Shultz served as0 — — _ ,.. * knight in the front yard, expect % ihe visitor to be a woman or » women. If, alter crowing to an-r itoume company, the rooster g mounted the fence and ciowed f '-K«in with his head away from d the house, the company would be ,1 unwelcomeej The c rowing of the rooster g could also be an announcement* of arrival of news. If the crowing occurred at noon it would be hasty news, that is. It* would come very soon. Three ’* crows meant a letter from afriend. The news was coming to kj the one at which the rooster looked after crowing.T® Thow la laive h» There were many other super-le stiuons attached to the rooster, ie A young lady wishing to win a y certain young swain had only to secure a feather from the y rooster’s tail and hide it in her e' glove. She then contrived to shake hands with the one sought. 1 ll‘ Failing in this, she could take 1 the heart of the rooster and, toss it over the left shoulder ^ while making her wish. The n results were said to be the same. ){j Perhaps lioth would make it doubly effective.To dream of a rooster at any time was a sign of good luck. A visiting rooster crowing in the sr yard was a sign of bad luck. IfPtreasurer. A dozen committees were hard at work. The site 1 committee investigated 123 pos- u si hie locations for the pool. The i engineers designed a pool to sr- 7 commodate 500 families and (l selected an engineer ami arrhi- t tert team from St. Louis, Os- n wald and Schmidt. fThe women worked on a name lt;1 for the organization and per- 1 fected plans for recruiting 500 r member-familles willing to put up $162 each. jProvide for Bonds fThe planners also made pro- 1 vision for raising $50,000 by Is- 1 suance of bonds to make the tot- 4 al of $117,500 which was the amount originally thought to be f adequate for the Job. yBefore soliciting general mem- 1 bership the charter group chose 4 a site, wrote the by-laws, secur- 4 ed a charter of incorporation. 1 chose a name, compleetd plan* r and specifications: in fact, had a complete package to present. « June I was set as the deadline for recruiting a minimum of 1 350 famiies. otherwise the; whole project would be aban- ; doned. This number was exceed- lt;I ed by May I and the first gen eral meeting and election of board members was held on May 10. Five hundred families were enrolled before June 1.The pool site has been leased from Flexon for the first 15 year*, with option to buy lor $15,000.Budget IncreasedThe original budget for th** pool has been increased from. S 117,501) to $142,500. Originally the pool members estimated, construction would cost SXO.OOo for the pool and shelter house. The contract figure, however ! totals $110,000 for the pool, the shelter house and a promenad*-deck.Within the charter group for the pool are engineers, lawyers doctors, builders, insurance and financial experts and business men. The maximum 500 members have been enrolled at $162 each and there is a waiting list.Robert Harlow, publicity chairman for Summer-Port, said today that there are on hand a few’ applications of members j whoae families arc moving from I Alton who wish to terminate j membership. These vacancies In j j the membership rolls will be filled from the waiting list, he said, as soon as new applicants are approved.Bond Sale t'ndcr Way j The $162 fee to tie paid by new applicants is made up of $135 I initiation fee which Included the I 1956 dues, and to this Is added $27 federal tax to make the $lf2. Yearly dues are expected to be approximately $35. subject to decision of the membership A bond sale to offset added cost* is now under way among the membership.Member families are invited to view' the site and observe the pitigress of construction, Harlow said. The concrete floor of the pool is about two-thirds completed. The steel is up for the 1 sides which will be of concrete blown into place by the Gunite! ! process.
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Alton Evening Telegraph
Alton, Illinois, US
Mon, Aug 20, 1956
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