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Show Spotlighting i UTAH J Utah Now Beautiful Travel into Utah's scenic areas is now double as coniparcd to what it was a year ago this month. 1 More than 4.000 visitors spent Easter Sunday in Zion canyon Snow banks are still encoun tered adjacent to the road in the higher reaches of Bryee canyon. Quaking aspen are just st.irt-ing st.irt-ing to put on their spring dress of green in the Utah mountains. In the higher altitudes, the aspen is still dormant and snow lies In deep drifts. Midway, a small town nestling mi the eastern slooes, below high i snow covered mountains three (miles west of Heber City, should prove an attraction for artists. Its beautiful green meadows, fine dairy stock, occasional trees, i mountain streams, old pioneer homes and deep grass growing everywhere even right uo to the sides of the roads, present an attractive picture. The place is ! an alpine paradise. Hollywood Comes To Utah Motion picture neople from Hollywood flew into Salt Lake ; City this week in an effort to secure electrical generating equip 1 ment powerful enough to light up an entiie street at a movie j location in Johnson's canyon, 18 miles from Kanab. Accompanied by Whit Parry, of the Parry i lodge, the group accompanied by Utah publicity department repre- sentatives flew to Ogden to ui-' ui-' sped motor-generator outfits for sale by the war assets corpora- shelter will be furnished by citizens citi-zens of Fruita am! Hanksville. The expedition is part of a plan to publicize Utah in geological circles. tion. The camera work on the picture will start about June 1. and it will be produced by Harry Sherman Titled "Ramrod'' the picture is strictly western and will feature Joel McCrea, Preston Pres-ton Foster and Veronica Lake. Andrea De Troth is the director. Most of the population of Kanab will be used as extras Paramount Para-mount is now making "Darling Clementine" in Monument Val ley. Shooting started May 10. County Data Being Gathered The Utah department of publicity pub-licity and industrial development develop-ment is seeking pertinent information in-formation on each county in the state. At this writing, a field man is visiting county seats holding sessions with county clerks and others in an effort to secure data on industries, towns, attractions, people, etc. The information in-formation will be used for publicity pub-licity purposes and to supply the many calls made on the department depart-ment for such data by various magazine publications. Utahns Optimistic All Utahns are optimistic "over the Geneva situation The submission sub-mission of six bids for the purchase pur-chase of the great $204 million plant is a vital move in the direction direc-tion of Utah's future welfare and industrial growth. Considerable work and effort has been put forth by organizations organiza-tions and individuals of Utah to secure this "war baby" as a permanent per-manent institution. Business groups outside of the state have pulled for Geneva, all of which indicates a general awareness of the importance of Utah's steel plant in the western economic and industrial picture. Ducks Unlimited For Utah In what promises to add great -j ly to the annual Utah duck har-i har-i vest, and in addition control bot- ulism in the Bear river migra-j migra-j tory bay area, is the proposed construction of the Deweyville dam on Bear river in Box Elder j county below the tow n of Col-linston. Col-linston. The Utah Fish and Game com-j com-j mission has made preliminary surveys of the vast areas lying west of the Bear river marshes ! and east of the Promontory mountains; they report these former barren wastelands to be changing. Because of the manip-Illation manip-Illation of the Bear river marsh ! area water, the lands mention-1 ed are now producing plant life! and furnishing nesting grounds j for millions of birds which mi-1 grate to Utah. The warm shal-i shal-i low water later in the season however, often breeds the fear-I fear-I ed "duck sickness" or botulism, . which can only be controlled by ' ! the use of additional water. Such , j water could be stored in the proposed pro-posed Deweyville dam, across which might also pass a highway high-way to connect U. S. 89 and 101. ' the Fish and Game department points out. A bill to get this pro-ject pro-ject is now underway before congress and is known as Senate Bill 2032. All interested should urge the immediate passage of this legislation. Wayne County Gets Visitors The ranks of the geologists planning to visit the Henry mountain moun-tain Laccoliths May 11 "and 12, has now swelled to 125, with jfjO : coming from out of the state Roads into the region recently improved will permit the use of trucks instead of wagons. All accommodations such as food and |