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Show Chamber Looks to Plans For the Year Ahead Forty-eight members and guests turned out for the weekly meeting of Moab Chamber of Commerce on Tuesday. Mrs. Marjorie Tomsic, Mrs. Dixie Barker and Mr. Harold Jacobs, all beginning four-year four-year terms on the City Council, were honored guests. It was announced that the Chamber has answered 1,379 letters of inquiry during 1975. A general break-down was: general inquiries, 643; student inquiries, 168; moving to Moab questions, 114;' Friendship Friend-ship Cruise, 42; Jeep Safari, 70; river inquiries, 105; with the balance being made up of miscellaneous inquiries. The packets sent oul during 1975 averaged 16 cents each for postage and, with the postal . increase, this average will go up to approximately 24 cents each year, it was announced. Connie Caouelte, Chamber of Commerce President, an- anounced the merger of the Chamber of Commerce, the Travel Council and the Economic Eco-nomic Development Committee, Commit-tee, following a meeting Monday. Ray Branscom discussed the progress of the Utah Transportation Transpor-tation Commission concerning air service for Moab. He said the Commission is petitioning the state legislature for appropriations appro-priations to continue third-level third-level air service for Moab. Local authorities are in the process of compiling records and statistics for presentation to the Federal Civil Areonau-tics Areonau-tics Board in connection with application for federal funding. fund-ing. The Commission is asking the State Legislature to appro- priate funds to cover the air service until that time. Tom Till, manager of Canyonlands Can-yonlands Field, gave a rundown run-down of the passenger boardings board-ings per day during the last few months: October-3.25, November-2.25, December-2 plus, and it appears that January will be running right al 2 boardings a day. |
