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Show Spotlighting UTAH i Box Elder Rooting For Amendment 8 Box Klderites want Utahns to j vote yes on Amendment 8 a luw permitting the .state to pur-; chase BUShneil General hospital for one dollar and centralize at the big multi-million-dollar in-; stallation, the state mental hospital, hos-pital, the reform school and other oth-er state institutions. Forty-five hundred dollars has been raised by the city, county, ihe chamber of commerce and the mewhanta of Box Elder to .sponsor a slate-wide newspaper I rid radio advertising Campaign urging Utahns to vote yes for the amendment. In the meantime 150,000 circulars are being distributed dis-tributed in northern Utah urging Up port for Amendment 8 Smith To Tell Zion and Bryce Story Charles J. Smith, superintendent superintend-ent of Zion and Bryce canyon national na-tional parks will discuss the problem pro-blem of "catering to the vacationist" vacation-ist" at the Utah Motor Court association's as-sociation's first annual convention conven-tion to be held at Salt Lake City Nov. 2. Motor court owners from all sections of the state will be in attendance to discuss "taking care of Centennial visitors". graphs and petroglyphs in Ashley Ash-ley Creek and Dry Canyons near Vernal reveal much new information infor-mation relative Utah's ancient cliff dwellers. ! Youthful Farmers Honored James H. Day, Draper; Lewis H. Gardner, Richfield and Theo j McKean, Birdsye all future , farmers of America, will be hon- j ored for their accomplishments at the annual meeting of the Na- I tional Association of Future Far- I mers to be held in Kansas City j October 20. Jobs Awaiting Utah Stenos The government needs typists and stenographers in Utah, and ! examinations will be held at a j number of points in the state to i fill positions. Post offices have full information and applications I must be on file at Denver not i later than October 31. Comments on Utah A New York Sun representa-J representa-J tive this week declared that Utah has tremendous tourist possibili- i ties, but lacks transportation and lodging facilities. Davis Numbering Streets All streets in Davis county which cross highway 91 will be named and numbered according , to the Lyman system, county ! commissioners report. I Juvenile Court in Spotlight Washington state has decided i that Utah's juvenile court is one of the best in the nation, and as a result, they will adopt the Utah system. The announcement was made at the annual Western Probation Pro-bation and Parole Officers association asso-ciation convention held at Seat-tie. Seat-tie. USS Utah Plaque at Capitol The USS Utah was destroyed by the Japanese at Pearl Harbor along with 58 officers and men. The ship's memory lives on at i the Utah state caDitol where Captain J. M. Steele, Denver, commander of the vessel at the time of the attack, has placed a memorial plaque, commemorating commemorat-ing the heeroic deeds of the ships personnel. Ulah Service Men Highly Scholastic Utah's service men led the I nation in educational status dur-j dur-j ing World War II, declares Col- onel H. Arnold Rich, state draft i director. Only 9.4 per cent of ! Utah inductees and enlistees completed com-pleted less than one year of high school, records reveal and 18.5. per cent completed at least one j year of college. Utah also led the nation in per-j per-j centage of men under 26 years , of age who were in the service. Vernal Man Featured Featured on the Standard Op-tical Op-tical comnany's "Builders of the West" program, H. B. Millecam, Vernal business man and sportsman sports-man has received national recog- j nition. The result of Mr. Mille- j cam's research on western picto- |