| Show i j spotlighting UTAH utahna friendly As a means of determining j what the average tourist thinks about utah the utah depart ment of publicity is asking all tourists who visit the utah field house of natural history at vernal as well as a number of erce service stations around the 1 state to fill in and mail back a question alre aire the answers now being rc re cei vat to the 16 questions atel ater highly informative and pertin lent ent lo 10 the business of attracting 1 tourists Jouris ts to utah y all an of the re calved so far indicated that the visitors think utahna are friend ly courteous and hospitable in most cases they say that utah highways are good and many declare utah roads are better than roads of ada adjacent states most of the trav travelers spent two day days in the tile state ah and arnd arid d drove better than miles the visitors see seemed med to prefer to stay at motor courts which they thought to be better than the average found in other s states t a t es one party of two persons traveled miles in utah were in the state three days and two nights and spent a total of 00 60 which is broken down as follows gas oil etc 10 lodging 10 food 15 and miscella ne ous 25 judging from surveys conducted along same same lines the 25 under miscellaneous cel laneous is presumed to been spent in department stores while tourists on on the do not spend out of 60 for tor miscellaneous articles howe however v cr they do spend ap proximately 25 cents out oat of cv ev ery cry dollar in the stores on the main streets 0 of f our cities the above Is a good indication of what the tourist dollar does docs for utah i public protests tax i railroad tourist t traffic this summer shoma shoua be bygd de decia accia clar ciar ies jes 0 TV V gibson asson grai eral general gral agan arez anez athern southern pacific paci salt sait lake ot of I fice lir air gibsons report was ba based s ed on a survey which indi cates a heavy rail tourist traffic this seas season on he pointed out also that the railroads are working concert edly to get congress to remove the 15 per cent federal tax on transportation tickets in the meantime canada h has as taken advantage of the situation and a aern removed oved their war time trans transportation p or tation tax in conse quence a ridiculous redi culous situation has arisen Amerl ameri american can travelers are mailing checks to canadian t offices and pur purchasing chasing tickets for trips anywhere with in the US the postal authora t ties es say it t is s all right and the internal revenue department can find nothing wrong at this ti time me in I 1 n b beating ea tin g the tax according to reports canadian air line offices are arc doing a land office business in the them sale of tax free transportation to americans from detroit it is reported that th the e t town own 0 of f windsor canada just across the r river i ver is swam swamped p e d w with fth ith b business us i they have trouble even getting enough ticket agents to handle the business for instance the buyer of a round thip trip r P t ticket c c et from detroit to los A angeles n gc 1 e s can ean save and if he is going as far as honolulu he can save 80 in consequence of all of this does docs the united states cengr congress ess ta take ke action on th the e matter an and d remove ichiuji Vi the tic sau lau um old war wot time blib trans k ani por tation tax designed designed to keep A home lot jot at all As Is expected th thov chok take no zance of the situation congress men ardue argue th that atthe the tax Is isad need ed that dople dopie win travel tax or no tax that t 0 u can veep home that if rf the k cm em re bue sue erh eri c r enough eneo to tra travon trav howth vr of suckers kutac Km enough mac TAc to pay the tax ting 6 bus fitere d A it km k M in tha mea nUme canada is get set run into anto |
