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Show "Know Your Utah" Week Scheduled From Jan, 4 To 10 Five years ago the Sons of Utah Pioneers started the observance of "Know Your Utah Week", a week set aside for Utahns to learn about their own state. The idea virtually caught fire and was so effective in making citizens Utah conscious, it has now become be-come an annual affair. The observance of "Know Your Utah Week", is scheduled this year from January 4 to 10 with some of the objectives outlined as follows: To bring to the attention of all citizens of the State the essential es-sential facts regarding Utah. To enable all citizens to intelligently intel-ligently answer tourist's questions ques-tions regarding Utah. To acquaint all .Utahns with Utah's interesting and unique historical his-torical background. To inform our people regarding regard-ing the place Utah occupies today among her sister states. To make the teaching of those fundamental facts regarding Utah a part of our regular educational procedure. To encourage all citizens of Utah to learn as much as possible about the State, its history, its natural resources, its progress, its status, and its future possibilities. possibili-ties. To make the average citizen a well-versed, well-informed individual indi-vidual who knows about and understands un-derstands the state in which he lives, its pepole, its environment, its blessings and its opportunities. To sponsor and encourage meetings, meet-ings, addresses, radio programs, newspaper articles,' school programs, pro-grams, window displays and other educational media. To make the breast of every Utahn swell with pride as he contemplates the past century of achievement and progress in his home state. We invite all organizations interested in-terested in thus educating the people of Utah, to join with us in fostering, promoting and disseminating dissem-inating interest in "Know Your Utah" Week, January 4 to 10, 1951. |