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Show Utahns Protest Ickes1 Fees for Movie Makers As Death Blow to State as Locale for Rims They've put the old west In a class with the automat The land that was glorified In "Stagecoach" and "Union Pacific" Pa-cific" is to be portioned out on a nlckel-in-the-slot basis, sold bit by bit, scene by scene, to the movie makers. In fact, they've Just about put the kibosh on the old west so far as the movies are concerned. Such forthcoming productions as "Brigham Young and "The Mortal Storm" would be shorn of their Utah scenery, and there would be no more pictures such as "Overland With Kit Carson." "Drums Along the Mohawk" and "Bad Man of Brimstone," sll of , which were filmed in Utah, I And thereby Utah will lose an enterprise that has brought hundreds hun-dreds of thousands of dollars Into the state and that has spread Its scenic grandeur before the eyes and ears of the world. It all happened through an order, from Secretary of Interior Harold L. Ickes. The order clsps such fees on movie msking on the public domain that production produc-tion of westerns would be virtually virtu-ally prohibitive In cost. Gus P. Backman, as president of the Mountsin States association, associa-tion, Saturday received a letter from Ray Carr of Richfield, executive secretary of the Associated Asso-ciated Civic Club of Southern Utah, revealing terms of the Ickes order and protesting against Its imposition. Applicable to aU but amateur and news reel motion picture photographers, pho-tographers, the order calls for a fee of 150 a day when a cast of less than five Is used; (250 with a cast of five to 25, and S500 a day for a east of more than 25. Thus, without paying thes fees, a movie company could not go on location on Utah lands under control of the forest service, serv-ice, the division of grazing, th bureau of biological survey, the bureau of reclamation or, more significant, the national parks service. |