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Show I Publicity Brings Requests jor Information on Moab j .Requests hive been comir? to the Times -Independent '-t copies of last year's Can- inlands Vacationer News- paptr and the Free Gift Packet Pack-et i f area brochures. These requests are in re-spoi.se re-spoi.se to a.n article published publish-ed by th-2 Utah Geological and Mineralegical Survey in the:r March publication. Ed. tor Dr. William P. Hew-i:t Hew-i:t stated the following in his article: "The spectacular recreation recrea-tion areas in the vicinity of Mjab in southeast Utah in Grand Ccunj'.y ari brought Grand Ccur.ty ar; brought Moab Times-independent, in its publication of brochures and maps advertising the area. The Times-Independent ;is to be complimented in it effort to make the possibilities possibili-ties of this part of Ultaii known to the public." One of the parties requesting request-ing the information packet, afxr reading Dr. Hewitt's article, said they were planning plan-ning a camping tour of tha Mcab area fcr Eurcpean visitors vis-itors this summer. Dick Wilson is at the present pres-ent putting together the 1970 edition of his Vacationer Newspaper It will be expended expend-ed to a 16 page tabloid newspaper news-paper containing many photographic pho-tographic features of the wonders won-ders of southeast Utah and will cover all of Grand and San Juan Counties, as well as the Lake Powell, Hanks-v3!le, Hanks-v3!le, Greon River area. An initial circulation of the picket will be 59.OC0. Last year 'the packets were distributed dis-tributed throughout this region re-gion being passed directly to 'incoming tourists by service stations, motels and restaurants. restaur-ants. The major motels reported to Dick Wilsn that the packets pack-ets fulfilled their purpose by keeping visitors in tne area longer than they had originally origin-ally intended. Other sponsors cf the program said that people peo-ple would sltudy the materials thoroughly, then spend their vacation seeing those things discussed. |