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Show others will arrive from the north forced down by the migratoiy instinct Tons of fish, shrimps, snails, worms, etc. are consumed by the birds daily while meandering meand-ering over the 58,816 acre. The 1 refuge is on the major duck fly-ways fly-ways of North America. Spotlighting UTAH Equipment In Readiness The Utah vocational training setup, because of previous experience exper-ience in war production employment employ-ment preparation is prepared to offer a highly satisfactory service ser-vice to the returned vet, ran One million dollars worth of model n. up-to-the-minute equipment, in addition to what was already-owned already-owned at the beginning ol the war, will be available to the discharged dis-charged soldier for Job training In addition, Mr. Gunderson, the local directors, and the instructors instruc-tors who have worked in war production training are fully conversant con-versant with the most expert methods in the supervision and training of men for after-war employment, yet their plan is flexible enough to be quickly adapted to any new needs that may arise in the training and employment fields. Training On The Job It is particularly pertinent at this time that employers through out the state know that they are entitled to act as agencies for training on the job if they are approved by the State Board for Vocational education. Superintendent Superin-tendent E. Allen Bateinan has been given the responsibility of supervising the training and of approval of all training agencies in the state. This will insure qualified instruction, adequate equipment and a continuing in terest in the satisfactory progress of every veteran. Any employer interested in hiring one or more veterans and in doing training on the job should immediately contact Supt. Bateman for application appli-cation blanks. Upon the receipt of applications, officers of the vocational vo-cational department will inspect and determine if the facilities are of such a nature that the veteran is assured of continued and satisfactory progress in his chosen work. Continued clarification clarifi-cation of various phases of this training, so vital to so many persons, per-sons, will be continued in succeeding suc-ceeding articles. I Would Lure Tourists The problem of getting the tourist into Utah and Nevada, of keeping him happy and showing him a good time will be discussed at Ely, Nevada, September 24. by the Utah-Nevada Utah-Nevada Hotel association. The membership of the association is made up of Utah and Nevada Ne-vada hotel, tourist camp, and auto motel owners, and a large representation from both sates will be present- The Utah Department De-partment of Publicity and In ; dustrial Development has been invited to participate. Finds Giant Frog A giant fossilized frog, two feet in length, has been found northwest of Monticello by a group of f-xplorers led by Ansel Hall of Colorado. Dr. Charles Camp of the University of California Cali-fornia is removing the ancient amphibian to the California University Uni-versity Museum. The creature was found in Beef basin, a little known or explored area, reports Walter Herz of Reno, a photographer, photo-grapher, who spent a month with "You can't say we didn't warn you a year in advance." Moral: Tourist complaints spread faster fast-er than a pestilence. Deer Casualties Seen Thousands of mustered-out service ser-vice men whose gun-conditioned hands are itching to fondle a deer rifle, along with Utah's meat-hungry sportsmen will make an unhealthy combination for Utah's deer herds this autumn. In addition, hundreds of California Califor-nia and Nevada hunters will be heading for Utah mountains. State Game Director Ross Leonard's Leon-ard's 66 wardens are fully prepared pre-pared for the big game season and 3,000 safety promotion posters post-ers have been conspicuously posted. post-ed. Fifty thousand "Ten Commandments Com-mandments of Safety" have been sent to license agencies, stores, and schools. Meantime sportsmen who applied for special permits are receiving notification, and some are getting refund checks. Drawings for 700 Elk permits will be held October 12 and in addition to the regular elk season, sea-son, scheduled for November 10 j to 19, 1945 a special hunt is set for December 1 to 10, 1945 for taking 125 animals of either sex j in the Nebo-Mona area- All of this promises to make 1945 Utah's biggest hunting year. ! Fourteen Cent Beet Seed Utah grown sugar beet seed at 14 cents per pound for the producer pro-ducer promises much for the industry in-dustry in Utah. A Michigan firm will purchase all the seed that can be produced from 300 acros now under; contract in the Uintah basin. Production will run from 2,000 to 3,000 pounds per acre, promising a sizable return to the careful grower. According to R. Keetch and M. Broadbent, county coun-ty agricultural agents of Uintah and Duchesne respectively, the cash crop of beet seed will prove highly beneficial to farmers of the Uintah basin. Best Fruit Harvest Topping all known records, Utah's fruit harvest is underway, with all crops showing a sizable increase over former years. The state's cherry trees yielded 4300 tons of fruit; apricot trees, 10,400 tons; peaches are estimated at 900,000 bushels; grapes at 900 tons; pears 221,000 bushels and apples 413,000 bushels. Apples were the only crop to show a decline de-cline over 1944. Timp Cave Breaks Records Timp cave is drawing them in I On Labor day, 815 people visited this magnificent scenic attraction near American Fork, an all-time record for visitors in one day. The cave is open to the public daily from 8 a m. to 5 p.m. until winter makes the trail impassable. impass-able. Millions Swarm Refuge There are now five million wild fowl on the Bear River Migratoiy Bird Refuge, 18 miles west of Brigham City, according to Van-ez Van-ez Wilson, superintendent. Migrants, Mi-grants, the birds will leave soon , for the south to winter while 1 a plane, and in doing so discov- j ered an older and more ancient crater ring a mile in diameter circling Pahvant Butte. When Utah was considerably under Lake Bonneville, Phavant Butte was then a live volcano, building build-ing its cone nearly a thousand feet above the lake bottom and possibly to the surface of the water. Millions of years previously, previous-ly, however, this giant had Ween awake to a much larger degree and left the tell-tale crater ring first recognized by Editor Beck-with Beck-with from 3,000 feet in the air. "If", questions Editor Beckwith, "this sleeping giant awoke twice in the last billion years who knows when it will awaken again?" Straight Shooting Utahns The most deceptive big game targets are antelopes; they run I SO miles an hour, and weigh only 100 pounds, yet 40 out of 50 Utah permit holders got their animals during the recent re-cent ooen season that is straight shooting. Nor does all the straight shooting glory go to the men: Joyce LeeMaster, 16. of Springville, investigated a rumpus in the family hen 1 house and found "a wild looking look-ing animal, like a cat, only larger, with a bob tail." Miss LeeMasler's well aimed shot from her trusty 22 rifle brought I a chicken-stealing Bobcat's career ca-reer to an end. Unhappy Travelers From Brigham and Kanab, two of Utah's colorful cities situated at opposite ends of the state corhe stories about "unhappy travelers" travel-ers" who during week-ends find it almost impossible to get food j and hotel accommodations. At Kanab, Editor E. Eugene Roberts I calls attention to the need by next I summer for several hundred ad-I ad-I ditional "tourist accommodation" rental units and mentions the thousands of dollars in tourist money now passing through that city which could be stopped at Kanab if additional eating and sleeping facilities were available Said Editor Roberts: "There is a real opportunity here for one prepared to take care of the traveler." tra-veler." At Brigham, Editor Bill Long laments the lack of tourist accommodations and hopes for the timely arrival of opportunity-I opportunity-I seeking business men who will do something to make the "unhappy "un-happy traveler" happv. "From 300 to 500 Bushnell hospital visitors vis-itors recently found themselves in Brigham on a week-end with only one restaurant in operation and a lot of them went hungry," said Editor Long. What To Do About It If such stories come from Brigham and Kanab what's happening to the traveler in ! the 350 miles between these cities? One asks, and are they also unhappy? Suggested rec- ommendations: That restaurant operators on the state's high- j ways unite to the point of seeing see-ing that sufficient eating houses hous-es remain open at all times to make the unhappy traveler "happy": that hotel and motel operators lose no time in preparing pre-paring for fhat great army of hungry, well-to-do travelers who will arrive here next summer sum-mer anticipating good accommodations accom-modations such as a hot bath j and clean cool sheets in a mo-dern mo-dern tourist unit. No traveler should be allowed to leave a city in an unhappy frame of mind and this column says, i I the group. Mr. Herz informed Utah Publicity and Industrial I Development department offic-I offic-I ials that the large and practical- ly unexplored areas, lying west of Monticello and Blanding, have a marvelous future for groups interested in exploration and archeology. Beckwith Explains Crater Frank Beckwith, editor of the ' Delta Chronicle, and by heart a geologist, is the first man to actually ac-tually discover that the famous Pahvant Butte, in Millard county, coun-ty, a huge and extinct volcano crater, is only a youngster compared com-pared with a much older crater ! which Mr. Beckwith recently found circled the Pahvant Butte. Discovered by Father Escalante j in 1 776, nearly 170 years ago ! when he came through Utah and designated on his map as an isolated iso-lated mountain in "The Valley of Salt", the Pahvant Butte is a half mile in diameter and 850 feet high. The Butte is also men-: men-: tinned by Gilbert in his U. S Geologic Survey in 1890. It remained, re-mained, however, for Editor Beckwith to get curious enough about the Butte to fly ower it in |