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Show . tVH "' : '.: i V ----- - r?- j -- Jj ir ! Santa Opens "Christmas in Moab" S.int.i C.l.uis. ri Jinii atop a Moab Fire Department cn- Christmas Parade, and visit with youngsters who cine, arrived in Moab Saturday to take part in the thronged to meet him following the parade. Christmas in Moab Event Continues As Happy Holiday Draws Near Continuation of the "It's Christmas in Moab" theme provided the major portion of discussion at the Moab Chamber of Commerce Tuesday lunch-eon lunch-eon meeting. A report on activities for last weekend from President Jacquie Gelo indicated in-dicated that the parado had been a huge success iind most of the merchants had reported increases in business traffic for the weekend. The parade featured fea-tured Santa Glaus and many of the children from around town were on hand to participate which made the event one of the most successful this year, ac. cording to many. Plans to continue promoting pro-moting Christmas in Moab were discussed at a meeting meet-ing for the retail merchants merch-ants on Monday with Chairman Dixie Barker in charge of the meeting. This weekend will mark the second of the promotion promot-ion and more and more businesses are planning to enter into the Christmas Christ-mas spirit. Most merchants have now agreed that they will lemain open until 9 p.m. this Friday evening and some, Family Budget Clothing, Moab Apparel, and Canyonlands Trading Tost, as well as those nor. ally open on Sunday, will also be open on Sunday to accomodate shoppers. In addition, the last week be. fore Christmas, most businesses bus-inesses will remain open until 9 p.m. each evening. ; Must merchants will also be featuring special holiday holi-day bargains each of the weekends remaining before be-fore Christmas. Friday evening, Santa Claus will be at Miller's Food town from 6 until 8 p.m. to talk with children. The jolly gentleman will be at Miller's Supermarket Supermar-ket on Saturday morning from 10 a.m. until 1 p.m. and will, be in downtown area from 2 until 6 p.m. talking with children. Those parents who decide de-cide to use the special evening ev-ening hours of shopping will be entertained by carolers car-olers at the many stores and the men of the household house-hold will have a special chance to do their shopping shop-ping from 6 to 8 p.m. Fri. day night when most of the clothing stores will be offering gift suggsetious and consultations especially especial-ly designed to help the man find the correct gift for his wife or sweetheart. Those shoppers who desire de-sire to visit the stores on (Saturday will have a chance to leave their children child-ren who are under 12 years of age in capable hands at the Holiday Theatre The-atre where two complete matinees and cartoon features fea-tures will be shown, be. ginning shortly after noon. The matinee will be "The Wacky World of Mother Goose." Members of the merchants merch-ants committee will meet arain, according to Mrs. Barker next Monday at 7 a.m. at Pearson's Family Restaurant. Other Chamber business included the announcement announce-ment of the general membership mem-bership meeting scheduled for Wednesday evening at the Sundowner with the installation of new officers offic-ers being the main order of business. Featured speaker speak-er will be either Representative-elect K. Gunn McKay or lion Swenson, new administrative assistant assist-ant to Governor Calvin L. Rampton. The new Utah Facts Eook is now available to promote industry in Utah with some 1000 copies distributed dis-tributed to key persons across the state. The book tells of the human and natural na-tural resources in Utah as well as Utah laws and how to do business in Utah. Chamber members may soon be able to view a new film by Robert Redford entitled "Reflections of Utah" in which viewers are given a look at Utah through the eyes of someone some-one who is a non-Utahn. |