Show ij Spotlighting UTAH IDAHO WANTS STATE PUBLICITY DEPARTMENT While the Utah State Legislature is pondering the fate fale of the Utah Department of Publicity and Indus Indus- Industrial Industrial trial Development the Idaho State Editorial Association has made a recommendation to the th Idaho Leg Leg- that they appropriate for setting up a publicity publicity city department to 10 publicize the state and encourage tourist trade In these modern times hardly any state in the Union is without its publicity department whose main objective is to attract tour tour- With the national tourist ex cx- this season expected to climb to more than ten billion dol dot dollars lars every state in the Union is bidding for a share from this pot of gold old New York state today leads all states in tourist income with California a close second Utah with more unique scenic at at- attractions attractions tractions than either cither New York or California is down lown the list SALT SAIT LAKE LAlm HOTELS LS AGAIN JAMMED I Sorry but we haven't haven t a thing vacant is again Il aln the familiar re rl rejoinder re- re rejoinder joinder to requests for hotel rooms in Salt Lake City CIl During nur Decem Decem- December December ber the pressure was vas off but things are different now nos' and 1 its it's the consensus of hotel managers mana that things are arc pretty apt to 10 re rc remain re- re remain main this his way all nil through the cen centennial tennial year Humor has it that the hotels in Salt Lake already have every room reserved for the week of July Jut Anyway those hose coming to the Capitol city had better heller make reservations days in advance ance 1 FOREST DRAWS UA WS VISITORS Recreational use of the Fishlake National Forest area which serves Sanpete Milliard Millard Pluto Piute Wayne Vayne and Beaver Deaver counties has doubled since 1945 Itis iUs reported from Richfield In 1946 visitors totaling spent an average of 23 days das in the forest forst for recreational purposes In the autumn deer cleer hunters were ivere successful in getting their buck and nn 85 elk hunters made a a Kill Sawmills took out board feet of lumber last year yar and the forest supports head of cattle and elk In Jn addition wa wa- wa water ter from this forest area is used in the counties mentioned above for domestic irrigation power and industrial purposes UTAH TOUCHED IN TEXAS The Daily Times Herald of Dal las has just published n a half page article on Utah's Utah ski areas the sec ond in a series serJ's of articles on Utah y e material was furnished by the Utah f of Publicity I and aid Industrial Development The Pad aci lie ftc Coast Review magazine publish publish- ed cd in San Francisco has lias just re- re requested requested quested the Department of Mo city to send semi I them an article on Utah I Utah and her hel industries for their 1947 19 annual The Publicity Depart Department ment furnished them with a Utah story for their 1940 1040 annual j |