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Show I Evidently an opportunity exists ex-ists in Utah for private summer I camps which would cater to look-I look-I ing after children of wealthy i easterners. Utah apparently is fast establishing a favorable reputation re-putation among easterners as a j good place to spend the summer, j t Ogden Promoting Drive-in Bank In order to accomodate clients of Ogden'.? Commercial Security Bank who would like to do their banking from an automobile, the i banking company is now bringing bring-ing to completion a drive-in bank near the center of the city. Depositors De-positors or others may drive in and transact business with the I tellers without leaving their cars. ' A porch like projection over the drive-in area will give protection against rain or snow for those doing banking business. Five Million Dollars Slated For Utah Airports Construction of 31 new airports and improvement of 33 others in Utah has been slated by the civil aeronautics administration. Local and state sponsors must provide three and on half, million in matching funds. The plan is part of a three year improvement of the national airways system by the federal government. Canada Bidding For American Tourists More than 20 million United States citizens are expected to visit Canada thus summer, it is announced by the Canadian government gov-ernment travel bureau. Oddly enough, the bureau reports that Canada's only shortage at present pres-ent is of U. S. dollars. Utah, like Canada, is also short of U. S. dollars and the Utah department de-partment of publicity has under way a major program to get more tourists to Utah whose pockets are jingling with U. S. dollars. Turkey Looks to Ulah Hikmet Feridun, Turkish magazine mag-azine editor was a visitor in Utah recently and was eager to do an article for his publication on Utah. Information and pictures were furnished the gentleman by PID. Bryce Canyon Open Bryce Canyon national park is open to tourist traffic the year around, and while the park lodges lodg-es are not operating until early, summer, visitors to the area can find eating and sleeping accomodations accomo-dations at Ruby's Inn, located in the immediate vicinity. Many visitors find Bryce more ' beau- j tiful in the winter than during the summer. Utah Photographer Gels "Windfall" Joern Gerdts, Salt Lake City photographer has received a check for $435.00 from Colliers magazine for his color' photo of two children on a sleigh. The photo was used on the cover of the January 17 magazine. With national magazines going "all out" for color on their covers, and Utah being called "The Rainbow Land" because of its colorful scenic attractions, Utah photographers photo-graphers should take note that national magazines are begging for cover material. Wanted Children's Spotlighting 1 UTAH I Bridge Slated For Southeastern Utah The State Department of Publicity Pub-licity Is transferring $4000.00 to the State Road Commission to finance preliminary surveys for the proposed $100,000.00 bridge over the Colorado river a few miles above the town of Hite in southeastern Utah. An automobile automo-bile road, constructed into this region in 1945-46 by the PID as an access road constructed to one . of the state's most attractive and undeveloped scenic areas, was put out of commission recently when the toll ferry operated over the Colorado at Hite was swept , away and lost in the Colorado flood waters. j The construction of the proposed propos-ed bridge over the Colorado will break all geographical barriers for the first time between south-' south-' ern Utah and southeastern Utah and facilitate tourist travel between be-tween scenic attractions in remote re-mote sections of Colorado and New Mexico and Utah. Camps in Ulah Donald H. Parker, managing director of the New England Camp Directors' association, has requested the PID to give him a list of children's and adults' summer sum-mer camps in Utah. Mr. Parker points out that he is getting numerous requests from clients who want to send their children to Utah summer camps for the coming season. Parker has 81 New England camps listed under his supervision. super-vision. Unfortunately the. PID was forced to inform Mr. Parker that Utah has no privately operated summer camps for children as far as their information goes. The private resort, dude ranch and summer camp, he was informed, has never been developed to any degree in Utah. |