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Show Tuesday evening dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas L. Strike of Salt Lake City were Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Johnson and daughter Joan and Mr. and 1 Mrs. Tom Praggastis. The occas-sion occas-sion being Mr. and Mrs. Strike's fourth wedding anniversary by a state publicity department representative, and "how to plan your public relations policy". The above subjects will be treated by professionals, who it is said, really know the answers-Seeds answers-Seeds Dropped on Ranges "A plane can seed 60 acres of sagebrush hills in a minute", says Tracy R. Welling, who points out that "planting grass from the air" on Utah's foothill country which could not be traversed by land machinery is proving highly high-ly successful Approximately 150 j Utah farmers and ranchers now use planes to commute between remote ranches and cities, Mr. Welling declared. Utah Projects Saved Work will be resumed on three j important Utah projects, Representative Repre-sentative J. Will Robinson announces. an-nounces. They are: The Provo river reclamation job, the Duchesne Duch-esne Tunnel project, and the I Salt Lake aqueduct- Work on all ! three was suspended early this ' season through congressional action ac-tion cutting in half former Interior Inter-ior Secretary Harold Ikkes' reclamation re-clamation appropriation. The "go ahead" signal on the j Utah projects was given by President Pre-sident Harry S. Truman, through J. A. Krug, secretary of the in-1 terior, who wired Rep. Robinson j that these projects, so vital to Utah, would be completed. Spotlighting ! UTAH Work To Start On Mormon Trail The beginning of construction I on the Pioneer Trail highway, j following the route taken by the ! Mormon pioneers over the Was-' Was-' a tch mountains from Henefer to j Salt Lake City, is scheduled to begin in the near future-An future-An amount totaling $240,000.00 1 apportioned from the budget of I the Utah department of publicity ( ! and industrial development, and i I derived from motor vehicle re-! re-! gistration funds, has been made j available for starting the project. A contract for the first section 1 of the highway has been award-! award-! ed to the W. W. Clyde company ! of Springville and calls for the I expenditure of $189,194.50. Await Professional Advice Utah's two hundred motor I court operators, who control some 1600 rental units, will get the I benefit of professional advice at ! their first annual Motor Court association convention to be held in Salt Lake City at the Hotel Utah, November 2. The operators will be told the "elements of successful advertising"; adver-tising"; all about Utah's Centen-: Centen-: nial plans; what the national j parks du to promote touris traf-j traf-j tic; how the state publicity de-: de-: partment sells Utah; all about i the "trend toward socialization of property in America"; the importance im-portance of "knowing your Utah" Nevadans Like Utah Celery Crisp, crunchy, delicious Utah celery was doled out to Nevadans at their Boulder City decennial celebration by Governor Herbert Herb-ert B. Maw. Along with four Utah Eagle scouts, Gov. Maw played an important part in the 10th anniversary celebration of the distribution of power from Boulder Dam. To Ready Capitol For Centennial Visitors The Utah legislature will be asked for funds by Secretary of State E. E. Monson to "face lift" the Utah capitol interior before the 1947 Centennial visitors arrive. ar-rive. Dr. Monson's plans also call tor brightening up the outside of the capitol dome, begrimed by i five years of weather, smoke and winter dirt, and letters have been dispatched to Utah counties ad- j vising them to "redecorate and bring up to date" their respective respec-tive exhibits. Brothers Bag Big Bear The first nov'i HMr hunt hv brothers Vernon and Maurice Barber of Salt Lake City put bear steaks on the Barber table instead of venison. The huge animal an-imal measured seven feet, 2 inches in-ches from nose to hind foot, and was the largest brum ever killed in Holbrook canyon east of Bountiful. Above Logan, Ronald Bingham and Theo Perkins of Smithfield bagged a 368-lb- bear in Box canyon, can-yon, and also succeeded in knock- j ing over a buck, 150 yards from j where they killed the bear. In Millcreek canyon, east of Salt Lake City, Mrs Norm (Sally) Smith brought down her deer with her trusty bow and arrow at 70-yards distance. The kill entitled en-titled her to receive the big game award of the National Field Archery Ar-chery association. |