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Show Utah Salt Headed for the Orient The American occupied areas in the Orient are hungry for salt they will get 110,000 tons of the famous Utah seasoner as fast as trains can deliver it to the west coast shipping docks. The salt will come from the famous Bonneville Salt flats at Wend-over. Wend-over. Nevada Notes Good Utah Publicity Work The Salt Lake Tribune of Friday, Fri-day, March 12, carries the following fol-lowing pertinent headline and article: "Good Publicity of UPID Wins Nevada Praise. The Reno, j Nevada . Chamber of Commerce Thursday gave the Utah state I department of publicity and in-j in-j dustrial development a pat on the j back in a letter to Governor H. B. Maw, congratulating the department de-partment on its 'constant good publicity'. "The letter written by Ray J. Kronemeyer, director of publicity pub-licity and promotion who recently recent-ly visited Salt Lake City said the progressive program of UPID is gaining world wide attention." Congressional Record Attests Utah's Education Level Oregon is proud of her educational educa-tional achievements, so proud that her congressional representative, represen-tative, Homer D. Angell has filed in the Congressional Record contents con-tents of a book prepared by Professor Pro-fessor Raymond M. Hughes, pointing out that Oregon ranks third in over-all educational performance. per-formance. The question naturally arises, "Which state ranks first in overall over-all educational performance?" - Professor Hughes, a man who knows his business, also professor profes-sor of vocational education at Iowa State college, points out In his book, "Education. America's Spotlighting I UTAH j Swiss Visitor Amaied John Swicky of Switzerland came to the United States this month as a tourist. In the old country he had heard about Utah and curiosity eventually brought him to Suit Lake City. He saw the Temple block and other tourist tour-ist .attractions and being an intellectual in-tellectual person, he visited the Mormon Geneological library. At the library he was shown the vast assemblage of microfilms on which is recorded geneology of thousands of people. "What about the 'Z's', he said to the attendant "have you any names in your files that start with Z for example?" "Oh, yes", he was told, "we even have the name 'Zwicky'. Fascinated John Zwicky was shown the geneological geneolo-gical record on the Zwicky family. fa-mily. To his utter amazement, it turned out to be his own family tree geneology, and climaxing the incident, he saw his own name in the records. Gasoline From Coal The U. S. Bureau of Mines is eying Utah's mighty coal deposits de-posits as a possible source for the production of synthetic oil and gasoline. The bureau has proposed spending $900,000,000 to construct 75 plants throughout the nation in any of the 20 coal producing states Utah is one of the states prominently mentioned. men-tioned. Utah's coal resources cover co-ver 13,000 square miles and son-stitute son-stitute approximately 196,000,-000,000 196,000,-000,000 tons of coal. The bureau is also interested in producing oil from Utah oil shale deposits. The production of oil from shale, it was pointed out, will be limited to four states, Utah, Colorado, Wyoming and Nevada. The bureau points out that the proposed synthetic program pro-gram would tremendously increase in-crease domestic mining of' coal and oil shales. Utah's oil shale outcrops cover approximately 2,500,000 acres which show a yield of from practically prac-tically no oil up to 60 or 70 gallons gal-lons per ton. The richest oil shales are found in the area west of Green River and eastward to the Colorado line in the Uintah basin immediately north of the Book Cliffs. It is estimated by the bureau that 75,000,000,000 barrels of recoverable oil are present in the oil shales of Utah. Upsurge Seen in Tourist Business More than $50,000,000 will Ije expended in Utah this year for industrial construction and business busi-ness expansion, it is estimated. Back of this important economic development is iron, steel, oil, gypsum, fertilizer, battery, chemical chem-ical and paint concerns which have undertaken or disclosed plans for new construction or expansion this season. Magic", that of the ten states with the highest educational ratings, rat-ings, Utah leads the list. If Oregon Ore-gon is proud, Utah should be doubly proud. j |