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Show DEFINITELY NO SLOGAN WILL BE ON AUTO TAGS Convinced that Utah motori.st3 and law enforcement officers are fed up with license plate slogans, the state tax commission decided the 1949 tags will contain nothing but identifying numbers and letters. let-ters. Since the commission announced a week ago it was studying the .slogan problem a number of suggestions sug-gestions have come in. Almost without exception the writers were opposed to slogans The state highway patrol joined in the protest, pro-test, pointing out that extraneous lettering makes it more difficult for officers to identify the numbers. num-bers. Commissioner Roscoe Ey Hammond Ham-mond said the 1949 plates will be white on black, the same as this year, but the form of the plate will be different. The letter prefix pre-fix will be at the left, and the word "Utah" will be under the figures. In arrangement the plate will be the same as the one used prior to 1946. After three years of slogans, Utah car taga again will be, simple and businesslike. This year the slogan is, "Utah, the Friendly State". Last year in honor of the centenial, it was "This is the Place," and the previous year it was "Center of Scenic America." By keeping the same color scheme white on black the commission com-mission will save $3500. The cost ( of using black on white is more because white would cover most of the surface and is a more expensive ex-pensive type of paint to use. Unless Un-less there is a change in form rt is considered good policy to change color schemes to avoid confusion with the previous year. G. Hal Taylor, of the tax commission com-mission legal department said the courts might hold that use of slogans on license plates is illegal, as they did in California. The decision de-cision there was that since tlie law specified what was to be on the plates, use of anything additional addi-tional could not be justified Utah has the same type of law. |