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Show FHESALT LAKE TIMES Poge Three FRIDAY, JUNE 29, 1973 Convention And Visitors Bureau Summer Alumni College Opens Plans 'Blitz' on Washington, DC At Utah State University a team of Salt Lake City dignitaries will blitz Washington, D.C., with an advertising and promotional campaign designed to attract the visitors and conventions to the Salt Lake Valley. Among those invited to travel with the blitz are Governor Calvin L. Ramp-to- n, Mayor E. Jake Garn, Commissioner Pete Kutulas, Fred Ball of the Chamber of Commerce, and Francis W. Haim, Wm. Backman, Lamar Williams and Garth Pymm from the Salt Lake Valley Convention and Visitors Bureau. Also there will be representatives from local business groups that are tourist or convention oriented. Miss Utah for Miss Universe, Julie Nebeker, will also make the trip as Miss Salt Lake Hospitality. The detailed plans were made public this week by Lamar Williams at l special event at the Salt Lake Valley Convention and Visitors Bureau office at the Salt Palace. Unveiled was the Bureaus newly designed VIP Guest Coach, a deluxe vehicle being used to show Salt Lake Valley to guests of the bureau who may be evaluating the city as a convention site. Actual details of the promotional blitz include the mailing of an original stereo record album explaining the many sights and sounds of the Salt Lake Valley, to be followed by a series of invitations to a special multi-medpresentation that simuan lates airplane trip to Salt lake City. The invitations will be sent to association executives and VIPs living in the Washington, D.C., area who are able to influence the bringing of conventions to the Salt Lake valley. Once the executives arrive at On September 18-2- 0, ia Fish Food Becomes a Costly Commodity The Division of Wildlife Resources may spend more than a quarter of a million dollars on fish food this fiscal year if we can get it at all. So stated Fisheries Chief Don aid Andriano at the Wildlife board meeting in Panguitch. He compared the quarter of a million dollars, with last years total of $135,000. Soaring fish food costs are a result of a series of problems plaguing the commercial fish food industry, which began when a Peruvian fishermen's hopes of a good spring catch did not materialize. Another possible fish food source, the hake fishery, is being converted to human consumption. Andriano said the Canadian herring fishery, a standby in the past, does not have an optimistic outlook, either. He said a vegetable protein substitute is being considered as a last resort. However, even its supply is questionable, due to weather caused proWe'll have duction problems. poorer feed, which will adversely affect hatchery raised fish, if this is the case, he stated. The Division's fish food contracts are coming to an end and commercial fish food suppliers have reservtaions about committing themselves to contracts. Additionally, disease free fish egg sources are becoming more difficult to locate. This adds to the problem of raising hatchery fish, because both cost and getting eggs at the right time are affected, he said. . the presentation, they will find themselves in a room designed to create the appearance of an Stewairline departure area. ardesses will serve refreshment while the participants await departure. Boarding time will be announced by an intercom and the visiting executives will be asked to enter the next room. This room will be designed as the interior of an aircraft with two rows of four seats each and an aisle down the middle. It will seat 50 people. The visitor will take his seat and then be treated to a multi media audio and video presentation involving film projectors, slides and stereo sound on five different screens. The presentation will extol the virtues of the Salt Lake Valley and its merits as a convention site. The presentation will also involve door prizes determined by the drawing of airline ticket stub numbers. Once the executives deplane, they will be presented with their luggage, which will consist of a master brochure designed to look like an attache case. Inside the brochure are full color inserts de scribing the principal hotels and restaurants and businesses and points of interest in the Valley. There will also be hidden in the brochure a special number entitling the winning executive to an expense paid trip to the Valley of the Great Salt Lake for him and his family. Two presentations, a breakfast and an after work social, will be held. For the Aggies who have wondered what they missed by leaving campus at graduation, Utah State University offers a chance to return for three days in August and participate in the USU Alumni College. USU is inviting individuals, married couples and entire families to return to the campus for three days of lectures, field trips, steak fries, theatre productions and recreation activities, capped with a production of The West: Americas Odyssey, a spec- tacular historical pageant depicting western expansion. Alumni College is a learning and recreational experience minus exams, said Dr. Val R. Christensen, dean of Alumni College. The format of the college is simple. Faculty members, each an expert in his field, gives lectures bearing on the overall theme. In order to take advantage of the musical spectacular, the theme is geared to western expansion. Lectures deal with western poets, writers, historians and environment. The faculty will include Dr. Leonard Arrington, former USU professor of history and now the LDS Church historian; Dr. Gordon Allred, professor of English, Weber State College; Dr. Clinton Larson, professor of English, BYU; Dr. Dan Jones, professor of political science; Dr. Austin Fife, professor of languages; and Dr. Cyrus McKell, director of Environment and Man Program, all of USU. The academic offerings of the Alumni College will be supplemented by cultural and recreational activities. There will be a trip to Minntonka Caves near Bear Lake and a steak fry in the Logan Car.yon. Participants will attend a Western Arts Festival on the Quad, a captivating comedy, My Three Angels, at the Old Lyric Theatre and Friday nights performance of The West America Odyssey at Spectrum. While parents are occupied in adult programs, children will follow a day long schedule of their own activities. For three to five year olds, the staff conducts a nursery school. A day camp is provided for the 6 to 15 year old group, with swimming, bowling, hiking and arts and crafts class. Baby sitting is provided the very young so that parents can attend theatre and musical pro ductions. Children 16 and older are invited to participate in the academic program with their parents. To insure that Alumni College is a family affair, the parents and children are given rooms in in the dorms. will have the individuals Single rooms in the High Rise apartments. Alumni who live close enough to drive to campus each day will register for a special fee which includes tickets to the theatre and musical productions, classes, steak fry, trip to Minnetonka Caves and other meals for ilirpp Hsvfi The Utah State University Alumni College is a variety of activities. It is exposure to the family quarters Savings Bond Quota Reaches 42 of Goal Savings Bond sales figures for May for Salt Lake County came to $872,613, bringing- - year totals to $4,436,600, it was to-da- announced by volunteer County Savings Bonds Chairman Henry Riggert of Salt Lake City. State chairman Wendell Gile and TSIA campaign chairman Harry Blundell jointly said that state Savings Bonds sales to date came to $12,263,093 or 42.1 per cent of the 1973 quota of In comparing this figure for the same period last year , Utah is ahead dollar wise in sales over $74,000 but lags behind per centagewise by 1.7 percent. Nationally May Savings Bonds sales, Series E and H, total $655 million, 14.3 per cent above last May and the highest on record for any month since the H bond was introduced in June 1952. Series E Bonds sales alone came to a record high total of $628 million a 28 year record high. H Bond sales of $27 million had reached the highest total for any May since 1967. Sales also exceeded redemptions for the 32nd consecutive month indicating the U.S. citizens find Savings bonds an attractive and convenient way to invest and save for the rainy $29,-100,0- 00. . day. academic arena, cleaning out the academic cobwebs, relaxing with new friends. It's alumni from the '70's rubbing shoulders with the early 1900s. It's also a youngsters first look at the campus and his first taste at being an Aggie, be said. Glen Scott is a big reason why our great big rollin railroad keeps rollin. Engines speeding over miles of steel track. Engines stopping. Starting. Pulling and pushing. Eventually, all of this work takes its toll. train has to run smooth, and Glen A smooth-runnin- g Scott sees to it. Glen is a machinist in the Salt Lake City shop. Thanks to him and his years of experience! the trains of Union Pacific keep rolling. On time. All the time. Glen is just one of the Union Pacific machinists who deliver their best so our great big rollin' railroad can deliver the goods. Because of the 27,000 U.P. people and the job they do, were not just another railroad. We're the Union Pacific Railroad people. And we can handle it. sum GoaaciKslOe DG the Union Pacific railroad people te |