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Show Readers9 Digest Reports on Utah Navajo Progress News that the Reader's Digest is featuring an article on the Navajos in the March issue is being greeted with enthusiasm by civic leaders in the Four Corners Cor-ners area. "This kind of publicity will bring more and more tourists to Utah to the Navajo reservation," says Joe Norton, president of the Monticello Chamber of Commerce. Com-merce. The Reader's Digest article, titled "The Navajos Feel the Wind of Progress," tells how the Navajo Tribal Council is using revenues from Four Corners oil and gas for a heartening self-help self-help program of education and industrial development. "Our largest Indian tribe now emerges from poverty by showing show-ing good sense in handling good fortune," says author O. K. Armstrong. Arm-strong. He describes the Utah Construction Company's plan to utilize reservation coal deposits for electric power production, and the tribe's own multimillion dollar saw mill project. The Navajos have captial and labor to assist further industrial development, de-velopment, and this in turn will add to the prosperity of Utah and other southwestern states. Businessmen in the southern Utah scenic areas are especially excited about new roads authorized author-ized by Congress last summer to bring more tourists across the reservation. When Navajo Route One between Shiprock, N. M.. and Tuba City, Aroz., is completed, com-pleted, they say, midwestern tourists can drive through Yellowstone Yel-lowstone and Salt Lake City, to Monticello, across the Navajo Reservation with its scenic attractions, at-tractions, to Grand Canyon and through Salt Lake City. Zion National Parks and back through Salt Lake City. In Flagstaff, Chamber of Commerce Com-merce manager Harold Jackson commented: "This is the time for southwesterners to familiarize familiar-ize themselves with the great social so-cial and economic changes taking tak-ing place on the reservation. If my 200 letters a day is any indicator, in-dicator, we must be ready to answer questions, give directions and provide accommodations for vistors interested in the reservation." reserva-tion." i 4 |