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Show !servatio!is Pouring in for Coming ep Safari Se! for Easter Weekend lnr of Commerce pre- IjjOqiliO Ik'K) ilIIHVllH'- $d.iy Uwt Potty J.i-vrot:uy J.i-vrot:uy for tho or-xin, or-xin, h-'il received ro-11S ro-11S from 227 people ill bo in MvVib next wtvkoiul for Uio Jivp Safari. Sa-fari. Mrs. Jaoohs indicated that most of tho reservations had inn frani tho Salt Ixike City and Sandy aroas and that banners wore now av- ailablo for sale to lxil merchants. mer-chants. Tho banners will welcome wel-come Jeep Safari pariteL-pants pariteL-pants to Moab. Next week's Tiimos-!ttKloHnlont will be devoted primarily to tolling visitors to the area of tlie trips available this year and sights Uiat may be soon on each. Chamber members are still trying to decide on nppru-priate nppru-priate name tasi for use during the Safari ami at other times during the year. This week, members were shown phusfic tags that can bo purchased from Spencer photo for $1 per tag if purchased pur-chased in large quantities. If purchased individually, the tags would cost $1.25 per tm.it. It was felt this amount was too great for the Chamber Cham-ber to supply tags for everyone every-one who would need one. More discussion was scheduled sched-uled by the Jeep Safari Committee. President Gelo told C of C members that she, Betty Jacobs Ja-cobs and Dr. Fred Beyeler had attended the annual banquet ban-quet of the Fruita Chamber of Commerce and that the Colorado group had expressed express-ed a great deal of pleasure in seeing them at the meeting. meet-ing. The Fruita C of C also asked to be issued invitations to the Monb Chamber's initiation init-iation night to be held next year. Dr. Beyeler told members mem-bers that President Gelo had been presented with a plant as a prize for representing the Chamber that had traveled trav-eled the longest distance. Featured in Book In other reports, Mrs. Gelo displayed an advertisement from Reader's Digest for a book called "America The Beautiful." One of the larger larg-er pictures in the ad was of Delicate Arch. The hope was expressed that a great many readers of the magazine might want to travel to Utah as a result of the picture and articles of the area. Two articles in the Digest deal with this area of the country. The first is "Standing Up Country," a story of Can-yonlands Can-yonlands National Park by Paul and Myriam Friggens and the other is "The Mysteries Mys-teries of Monument Valley," by Robert deRoos. A third article in the book tells of the Coral Pink Sand Dunes in south-entral Utah. A letter from the Grand Junction Chamber of Commerce Com-merce invited members to their annual buffet and program pro-gram to be held on March 26. Two tickets for the evening even-ing were enclosed and a preview pre-view of the program which will include a talk by a state senator from Ohio. Named to Board In other business, it was announced that Dixie Barker Bar-ker of KUTtA had been ap- pointed to the Board of Directors Dir-ectors of tfhe Utah Broadcasters Broad-casters Association. Mrs. Barker is the only woman ever picked to serve on that board and it is through her that the board is planning a meeting in Moab this year. A report from Mitch Williams Wil-liams told of his recent 25-day 25-day trip through Baja California Cal-ifornia and on through the Sierra Madres Mountains of Mexico. He told of traveling travel-ing a route that was practically prac-tically unknown and of malting malt-ing contact with Indians who said they lhad never seen any North Americans before. His description of the area told of a very primitive people peo-ple in many cases who still lived in cliff dwellings, many of whom did not speak Spanish. In his journey across ac-ross the wild and unknown country, he and his party traveled 400 miles in a five day portion of their trip. |