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Show Spotlighting ! UTAH j Unique Tourist Plan In an effort to secure for Utah a more justifiable share of the annual national tourist expenditure, expen-diture, the Utah Department of Publicity and Industrial Development Develop-ment will build eight "tourist greeting centers" at Utah's eight major doorsteps. The tourist doorsteps are designated as Ka-nab, Ka-nab, St. George, Wendover, Thompson's, Brigham City, Echo canyon, Vernal and the U. S. Highway 01 on the Utah-Idaho border. Each greeting station will cost approximately $22,000 a total of $172,000 for the eight and will contain a spacious lounge, rest rooms with showers, and an office of-fice staffed by trained personnel who will have available various types of pictorial literature, road information, and the ready answer an-swer to tourist's questions about what to see in Utah. )( In short, the bureaus will do a complete selling job for the state, encouraging visitors to spend more time seeing Utah's scenic, historical and cultural attractions. at-tractions. If Utah's tourist visitors vis-itors could be induced to spend just one more day in the state, Utah would realize $30,000,000 more in tourist income per season, sea-son, it is pointed out. Construction Construc-tion is scheduled to start in the near future on the Kanab, St. George and Wendover tourist greeting centers, the publicity department announced. Harvard Scholarships Harvard university has de- signed its national scholarship to attract students throughout the United States, and offers an invitation to Utah high school senior men students to compete for what amounts to seven years of gratis training at the big eastern center of learning. Detailed De-tailed information may be secured se-cured from the office of the director di-rector of scholarships, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. Huge Business Devlopment More than 415 new firms listing list-ing seventeen million dollars in capital have been recorded on the' corporation records in the office of Secretary of State E. E. Monson, during the biennial period, pe-riod, July 1, 1944 to June 30, 194G. The new businesses, a large part of which have been FOR BEST BUYS Patronize BULLETIN advertisers. started by war veterans, range from specialized laundry service to consturction. For the pre-ceeding pre-ceeding two fiscal years, only 192 new corporations were filed for operation within the state. Flags Return to Capitol An Armistice day highlight will be the presentation of the colors the flags and guidons of three Utah national guard regiments regi-ments to Gov. Herbert B. Maw on the south steps of the capi-tol capi-tol by Col. Arnold H. Rich, representing rep-resenting the War Department. Immediately following the traditional tra-ditional one-minute silence at 11 a.m., Colonel Rich will review briefly the history of each of the units called to federal service March 3, 1941. Churchman Studies Needs George Albert Smith, LDS church president, pledged the assistance of his church in efforts ef-forts to improve living conditions condi-tions of the Indians who reside on the great Navajo reservation which embraces southern Utah, northern Arizona and New Mexico, Mex-ico, at a three-day meet of 74 other church and missionary organizations at Window Rock, Ariz. Will Survey Milk Situation The Utah Public Health association asso-ciation will make a state-wide survey of the milk situation to determine if provisions of a recent re-cent state law governing standards stan-dards of quality and purity are being met. Send Gift Celery Utahns are urged to send gift boxes of crisp, crunchy, delicious Utah celery to out-of-state friends during celery week, November Nov-ember 10th, to 17th. It is estimated esti-mated that at least 50,000 boxes will be sent out of the state during dur-ing that week. Utahns have been shipping this famous product each November for the past twenty-five years. "National Publisher" Features Utah The "National Publisher", a trade magazine serving the weekly week-ly newspapers and advertising agencies of the United States, featured Utah on the front page of its current edition. The page, promoted and sponsored by the Utah State Press Association, states that "Utah is on the march!" and tells the centennial story -outlining Utah's march of progress during the past one hundred years. "There never was a brighter moment", declares the page, "to speak your iece in Utah, and incomparably in-comparably the best medium -is the weeekly press". l't;ih Given Hich Honor Justice .lames H. 'Wolfe, member mem-ber of the Utah Supremo Court has been named by President Harry S. Truman to a three-memlxn- emergency board to investigate in-vestigate the v acre dispute between twenty- three shortline railroads and fifteen nonoperat-ing nonoperat-ing railroad brotherhoods. |