Show spotlight spotlighting Spot ligh ting UTAH escalante Esc alonte sign intrigues tourists A utah historical marker located on highway U S 40 east of jensen near the utah colorado line points out that the first party of white men to enter utah father escal ante and his catholic missionaries passed that point in july 1776 westbound tourists entering utah find the marker very interesting for on july 19 out of state cars stopped and read the marker and 17 individuals photographed the sign it is reported by G E unter mann vernal geologist magazine editor to study utah louisa M comstock associate editor of better homes and card gard ens magazine has informed the utah department of publicity and industrial development that she will be in salt lake city on august 18 and spend four days gathering magazine material previous to her arrival here she will tour bryce and zion canyons during her visit the editor will be assisted by the state publicity department in gath ering information about utah favor far west A recent survey reveals that the average american tourist shows a distinct preference for the far far west forty three per cent of those surveyed professed a choice for the intermountain west and pacific coast areas while 28 per cent favored the northeast 18 per cent florida and the gulf coast 11 per cent the north central states and 8 per cent the appalachian highlands some of the above re spon dents had two choices the also had a arence in accommodations forty seven per cent favored hotels 39 per cent motor courts 14 per cent tourist homes mr and mrs E W steinbeck and daughters margene and carma left this past week for wisconsin where they will visit mr stein becks parents in ville georgia parkinson returned to her job ob in los angeles california after spending two weeks with her parents mr and mrs george park inson miss june grains of illinois is visiting at the home of mr and mrs samuel ennis mr and mrs bernard swenson and the r son ray and his daugh sonia sonja and gloria of pomona california returned to their home recently after fisting vis ting at the home of mrs ada sandberg for two weeks mr swenson is a brother of mrs sandberg MT mr arta ada Sand gand berc bero s s mrs george snyder and friends from salt lake vis ted mrs sandberg a few davs ago dr and mrs joseph merriott of alemeda california are visiting at the home horne of mr and mrs monte barrus with them is their daugh ter leslie dickie mcbride is spending the remainder of the summer at the home of his grandparents mr and mrs monte barrus PrinC principal IDal james R williams would like to know about anyone who has a home or an apartment for rent in grantsville Grants ville he ile is hav ing a little difficulty in housing so sox of the school teachers oh dear there goes the siren again I 1 wonder where the fire is this time so out to the car she boes to find out where the fire is up main street that is where everybody else is going I 1 can see the smoke my what an tune place just back of the city hall not far from the place where the fire engine is housed the engine backed into place and began to spray the fire it did didi i t take very long to get it put out so that everybody could go back to work it was a good thing it take long for that south wind was blowing it close to clark street the clue as to how the fire started seems to have been lost in the blaze at least I 1 cant find anyone who knows anything about it |