Show wide f awake people How much Is it worth to be wide awake It can presumed be that everyone can recall becoming k better off economically or otherwise because of taking advantage advantage ad- ad vantage of an opportunity An opportunity they might well have missed had they not been wide awake This same thing can and does apply to groups of people r to whole communities There was WM evidence of this last week We Ve refer to the AI RIME AIME IE symposium For For four years AIME Symposiums have been held heldT x i- i T- T each year being more successful than those held previously pre pro vl fi The annual symposium wa WM by far the greatest of them all allf f r In the main most of us happy these sym- sym ms are held in Moab But have havo we ever considered t why Moab is the selected spot Could they not have been held in Grand Junction Junction- for example There Ther is one answer A certain group of people were wide awake Wide awake to the logical circumstances favoring Moab Wide awake and well aware that Moab has thas an enviable setting for such conventions that while the size of the community and its services might not not- be considered adequate they can through proper arrangement arrangement arrangement arrange arrange- ment be made to serve erve sufficiently the large number of people who i it could be anticipated might attend Enough if not everything is here in Moab for the AIME uranium symposiums Wide awake p people ople saw this and acted The results to t the e com community unity arp stupendous th through through ugh the amount of money spent in the community and more than that to the reputation and the advertising gained through being heats to these hundreds of people z The coming week end will find Moab again reaping the the results of If wide awake thing and action This tho Friendship Cruise on 01 the Green and Colorado rivers which it is 1 anticipated will place at least st boats carrying carrying car car- carrying approximately persons on the two rivers starting starting starting start start- ing Saturday morning from Green River and ending Sunday afternoon at Moab The Friendship Cruise is a preliminary to the big marathon race which will be held June 15 involving the same same mile two river course Both are now annual events bringing hundreds of people into Moab each year and providing an immeasurable able amount of publicity for this area The Green and Colorado rivers have been in existence existence existence exist exist- ence ence and navigable for of years They offer F the boater an experience he can get nowhere else in the thet ther t r f. f world extraordinary scenery and thrilling adventure Without question the most natural river run to be found anywhere it Because someone was wide awake Moab and Green River are arc finding permanent and ever enlarging places 1 in in the boating sportsmans sportsman's heart This Thia summer the Art the summer geological geola- geola geological field sessions of Texas Technological College will open in Moab This of and educational educational educational activities can and should develop into a far reachIng reaching reach reach- ing asset not only becoming important to Moab but J making making mak- mak l ing this this- a community of importance to hundreds of people people peo- peo bring them back again and again to the artistic and andr r geologic of which Moab is centrally located The beautiful and contrasting scene scenery y is a gift of nature to Moab as arc are the surrounding aspects Wide awake persons utilizing these natural assets k s sare are bringing to Moab an which can make this community amour Moab's pv py s a as a n nationally even world known attraction for tor the artist the fan camera the the student as well as being an idealistic spot ter or everyone to relax and enjoy the beautiful and magnificent mag mag- nf views view's are great and as yet their development has only started Nature gave pave us the resources Resources with many x u uses es Much tuch more development of these natural gifts Is possible Development which can result in Moab's becomIng becoming becoming be be- coming a mecca for fOl the traveling public and for those many persons persona who ho are seeking new places to live R Development which can be done by wide awake peo- peo Pie |