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Show Motor Vehicles Give Big Boost To Utah's Economy During Year vehicles, automotive equipment, petroleum products and tires and tubes in 1958. The amassed sale was $258,841,000. Garages and repair shops numbering report receipts of $19,954,000. A total of 4,100 Utah residents resi-dents held stock in automotive companies in 1959. Total road mileage in Utah was 33.671 in 1959, of which 18,429 miles were surfaced. Receipts from 29 auto and truck rental businesses in Utah amounted to $2,759,000. Tourist expenditures, which reached $1Q2,000,000 in 1959, rose to an estimated $108,000,-000 $108,000,-000 in 1960. A request to the Salt Lake City Commission to reduce building permit fee for the construction of fallout, shelters to a flat $1 to encourage such construction in and around private homes has been referred to the legal department. de-partment. The report came from Ben H. Smith, Salt Lake City Civil Defense Director. He said some persons are not obtaining permits because the fee is based on the cost of the shelter. A plan for relocating railroad tracks around the town of Mid-vale Mid-vale and for improving Center Street in the west of town was announced this week by the Utah State Highway Department. Automobiles and trucks give a big boost to Utah's economy. The service station attendant in Ogden, the auto parts warehouse ware-house worker in Salt Lake City, the new car dealer in Richfield these are only a few of the thousands of jobs involved in the business of distributing and selling and servicing motor vehicles ve-hicles in Utah. Hundreds of millions of dollars in wages and profits are collected col-lected annually by Utah workers and businesses of all sizes because be-cause of the state's transportation transporta-tion industries. The importance of motor vehicles ve-hicles to Utah's economy is reflected re-flected in a statistical report just published by the Automobile Automo-bile Manufacturers Assn. The report gathers the latest available figures from federal, state and private agencies interested in-terested in transportation. It shows that automotive operations op-erations in Utah generated more than $500 million in business activity ac-tivity in 1958. Sales of products and services accounted for 23.6 per cent of the total sales and service business in the state. The AMA report shows that 3,131 shops and plants involved in distribution, sale and main tenance of motor vehicles employed em-ployed 14,229 persons in Utah in 1958, totaling 18.5 per cent of the state's entire retail, wholesale whole-sale and service business working work-ing population. Total motor vehicle registrations registra-tions in Utah rose by 3.9 percent from 1959 to 1960 from 401,-555 401,-555 in 1959 to 417,219 in 1960. Utah motorists paid $20,010,-000 $20,010,-000 in federal excise taxes on motor vehicles, fuel and parts in 1959, plus an additional $25,-712,000 $25,-712,000 in special motor user taxes levied by the state. The latter comprised 30.9 per cent of all Utah tax collections. Trucks alone provided 39.9 per cent of all state motor user taxes, or a total of $10,383,000. Truck registrations, 78,003 made up 19.6 per cent of all motor vehicle registrations. . There were 211 franchised and 126 non-franchise passenger car dealers, 1,243 gasoline service stations, and 86 automotive accessory ac-cessory dealers in Utah in 1958. Total retail sales by these establishments es-tablishments was $243,796,000, or 26.2 per cent of all Utah retail re-tail business for the year. The AMA report listed 354 automotive wholesale businesses including distributors of motor |