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Show Spotlighting 1 UTAH "Utah Friendly State" Declares 'Frisco People "Utah certainly is a friendly state", Utah Department of Publicity Pub-licity officials learned at San Francisco recently while operating operat-ing a tourist inlormatinn booth at the annual San Francisco Sports, Travel and Boat show. During the show which ran ten days UP1D officials distributed 11,900 pieces of Utah promotion- al publicity literature. Thousands of the 100,000 who visited the show stopped at the Utah booth , and asked for literature; hund- j reds asked many questions about j Utah and many volunteered the I information that in their opinion j Utah people were "friendly ' folks." This was but a repetition 1 of the PID's experience while at 1 the Los Angeles vacation show a week earlier, many people seeming seem-ing eager to inform PID officials in charge of the Utah booth that Utah people were "friendly folks." Brigham City Opens Tourist School Nearly one hundred Box Elder people who are chiefly employed in serving the public, will take a "tourist information training course" starting May 19 at Brig-Iham Brig-Iham City. The "Travel Host ! School" is sponsored by the Box ! Elder Chamber of Commerce and I the county schools. The instruc-j instruc-j Hon will be furnished by the i state department of publicity and will consist of a complete course I taught by well qualified instruc-' instruc-' tors. Travel Host Schools are for the 1 purpose of telling Utah residents "how to meet the tourist" and : induce him to see Utah's scenic attractions more. The department I of publicity is in a position to ! conduct similar schools through-; through-; out the state, and organizations j are invited to contact Commis-; Commis-; sioner Rulon S. Howells. Hite Auto Ferry In Operation Word has been received from Arthur Chaffin of Hite, that his auto ferrv will be in operation May 22. Mr. Chaffin lost his ferry fer-ry boat last winter when the Colorado river went on a ram- Eage. However, his new boat has een under construction for some weeks and will be larger and stronger for carrying cars across the river. The ferry furnishes an important connecting link between be-tween western and eastern Utah in the southeast part of the state. It is now possible for tourists and motorists to travel southeast through the Caoitol Reef Nation- I al Monument to Hanksville, cross the river at Hite and continue on to the Bridges National Monument Monu-ment and thence to Blanding. Here they may return north via Moab, the Arches National Monument Mon-ument and Dead Horse Point. The ferry fee is five dollars per car. Nat'l. Geographic Photographer In Southeastern Utah Jack- Breed, accompanied by Allen Cameron, and others, are now exploring and photographing photograph-ing little known areas in southeastern south-eastern Utah. Breed is representing represent-ing National Geographic magazine maga-zine and his pictures will appear in the September issue. |