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Show "We have notified Gov. Young-dahl Young-dahl that Utah will offer a free all expense trip down the Colo rado river with Utah's own Norman Nor-man Nevills, Internationally known river runner to the winner win-ner of the Minnesota Canoe Derby Der-by if they will send him west when the Mississippi race is over. We are sure that Norman Nevills, said to be the world's best river- man, will be glad to show the world's best canoeist how to run a few hundred miles of the Colorado Colo-rado river rapids." National Parks Readied A half a million dollars is now being spent by the Utah Parks Co. to put Bryce and Zion national na-tional parks in readiness for the thousands of visitors expected this summer. cipitation reports indicates that the depth of the lake is to a great extent dependent on the annual rainfall. Precipitation records show that Utah is now on the damp side of one of its regular weather cycles. A check of the depths of Utah's Bear Lake, Utah lake and the Strawberry reservoir, reser-voir, indicates that while the depth of the storage water in these lakes is man-controlled, water will now flow out of Utah lake and Bear lake by gravity, something that never occurs while the state is in a dry cycle. Hollywood Looks to Utah Motion Pictur Locations The Motion Picture Herald of April 16, published in Hollywood has this to say about Utah: "The Mid-continent Pictures Corp., and Utah Productions and Locations Co., have joined forces to produce pro-duce films in Utah. Besides working work-ing on their own productions, the companies will furnish locations to Hollywood companies." Checking with the Utah Productions Pro-ductions and Locations Co., the UP1D has been informed that several motion pictures will be filmed in the immediate future less than 100 miles of Salt Lake City and that many Utahns will be used as extras. Utah Sugar Manufacturer Earns Two Million Dollars The Utah-Idaho Sugar company com-pany earned a net profit of over two million dollars during the 12 month period ending Feb. 28, 1949. George Albert Smith, pre- Ization of Utah is seen in the completion of the $3,000,000 cast iron pipe plant of the Pacific States Cast Iron Pipe company at Ironton, central Utah. During dedicatory exercises held recently, recent-ly, it was pointed out that "what the west, makes, makes the west". The new plant's capacity will be 100,000 tons annually. Utah Accepts Challenge From Minnesota Governor In July, Minnesota will stage its annual Canoe Derby down 500 miles of the Mississippi. To publicize the event, Gov. Luther W. Youngdahl has challenged all riverment to compete and has made the brag that "Minnesota canoemen will probably win the race for they have been the best in the world for the last 100 years. Utah's Governor Lee also received re-ceived a challenge from the Minnesota Min-nesota governor to send the best Utah canoemen to take part in the event. Not to be outdone, Governor Lee answered that canoeing can-oeing is tame business in Utah; that the running of river rapids such for example, the Colorado, required real stamina and courage cour-age and that Utah would be glad to show the winner of the Minnesota Min-nesota Canoe Derby something about river running if Minnesota would send him west when the Canoe Derby was- over. Elaborating further on the subject, Utah's publicity department depart-ment chairman, Commissioner J. A. Theobald said. Spotlighting 1 UTAH 1 Great Salt Lake Deepest In 16 Years With Utah precipitation several sev-eral inches above normal since last October, Great Salt Lake is now the deepest it has been in the past 16 years. A comparison oi the lake depth gauge readings read-ings with annual weather pre sident of the Mormon church, is president of the sugar company. Utah Literature Placed In Chinese Libraries Utah Publicity Department folder files containing state promotional pro-motional literature is being placed plac-ed in the United States Information Informa-tion Service" library, also the libraries li-braries and universities of the city of Nanking, China, the UPID lias been informed by Elliott C. Annadhl, deputy director, Nanking Nan-king branch of the United States Information service. Industrialisation of Utah Shows Spurt Another step in the industrial- |