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Show ley" centennial music drama I staged in Salt Lake City will inaugurate in-augurate a new musical era in Utah says Dr. Lowell M. Durham, Dur-ham, Utah music critic. Next year he declared, will see more musical musi-cal productions staged in Utah. O Salt Lake City Has Growing Pains Salt Lake City's "metropolitan district" including all of Salt Lake county, South Bountiful, Woods Cross, and Bountiful now boasts of a U. S. Bureau of Census Cen-sus estimated population of 245,-000 245,-000 persons. This is an increase of 20 per cent since 1940 or an increase of 41,000 persons. The ! civilian population for the same area in 1940 was 204,000. Promised Valley, Success "Promised Valley" Utah major centennial event drew 104,000 people during 17 performances and cost approximately $160,000. Receipts totaled $180,432.52 of which $28,333 is federal amusement amuse-ment tax. Record Cloud Bursts Tremendous cloud bursts in the White canyon area of San Juan county recently sent vast streams of water down the dry gulches spanned by the Kachina, Owach-omo Owach-omo and Sipapu natural bridges in the Natural Bridges National Monument area. A wild stream 15 feet deep flowed under the Kachina bridge and six feet under un-der the O.vachomo bridge. Water flowing under the Sipapu bridge was a unique rarity, reported Wily Redd of Blanding. Southeastern Utah Marvelous, Reports Celebrity Ruth Palmer Chapin, New York, who just completed a Wonderland Stages loop tour of Capitol Reef, Hite, the Bridges, Monument Valley and Arches National Monument areas declared de-clared the trip was a thrill of a lifetime. Mrs. Chapin is a well-known well-known eastern business executive. execu-tive. Coal Ban Protested Coal operators of southeastern Utah have filed violent protests with the Salt Lake City commis- i sion over the recently adopted city ordinance prohibiting coal burning steam locomotives within with-in the Salt Lake City limits. Utahn Forsees New Musical Era Tiie success of "Promised Val- Spotlighting UTAH Movie Shorts To Publicize Utah Revealing some of the most colorful highlights of Utah scenery, scen-ery, a 16mm motion picture color film with sound will be available; soon from the film lending li-brary li-brary of the Utah Department of; Publicity and Industrial Develop-ment. Develop-ment. Six prints of the film have been ordered and will be loaned to clubs, service organizations and groups throughout the United Unit-ed States. The publicity department depart-ment plans to add a number of other lGmm film shorts to its library soon. Californians Like Utah Produce The bulk of Utah's fruits and vegetables shipped out of the state are enjoyed by Californians the Bureau of Agricultural Economics Econ-omics reports. During 1946, 653 carloads of Utah produce reached reach-ed Los Angeles markets. New-York New-York City got 155 carloads: Kansas Kan-sas City. 142; Chicago. 134; St. Louis, 122; and Philadelphia 112 carloads. |