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Show Chamber of Commerce Sponsors Membership Drive A drive is now being sponsored by the St. George Chamber of Commerce to bring its total membership mem-bership up to a point where sufficient' suf-ficient' funds will have been received re-ceived to enable the organization to carry forward its activities. In urging local citizens to join the organization, the board has issued a statement showing the many projects that have been carried through to completion and those that they are now working on. Following are a few of the projects pro-jects that the organization has had under consideration and a statement state-ment by Marion Snow, president of the organization, as to what has been or is being done with them: (a) Pays $25.00 a month to maintain main-tain the lease on the CCC camp at St. George. Had the chamber not underwritten this lease the camp would have been disbanded long ago. (b) Sponsored the State Peace Officers' Convention held in this city. It is estimated that $2000 was left in this community by these officers. (c) Assisted in financing the music festival which brought 1200 students to St. George and a 1000 needed dollars. (d) Spends $15 monthly to pay a secretary to answer all inquires from people all over the United States about St. George and its industrial, commercial, and scenic offerings. Many tourists and some residents have come to St. George as a result of the chamber's activities acti-vities in this respect. (e) Advertises the scenic attractions attrac-tions of St. George and vicinity by way of phamplets and paid advertisements in newspapers and magazines. (f) Carries forward many miscellaneous miscel-laneous activities such as supporting support-ing road improvements, getting government buildings and em- (Continued on page four) C. of C. Lists Work Accomplished and Needs (Continued from first page) ployees located in the city, boosting boost-ing the Dixie junior college and supporting all activities that tend to make a bigger and better Dixie. "Yes", says President Snow, "you may not be interested in a business directly affected by any of these activities; but if a tourist doesn't stop in your hotel he may eat food grown on your farm, carried car-ried in your neighbor's trucks, sold at your friend's grocery store. The pork chop he eats for breakfast break-fast may have come from your pig sty, and the sheets he slept in laundered in your neighbor's laundry. The gas the tourist uses, the tourist who came here because of a letter from the secretary of the Chamber of Commerce, may have been made in California, but it was trucked here by your neighbor's, neigh-bor's, who are carpenters, masons .and plumbers. The man who works the station may rent the basement apartment of your home and buy milk from another of your neighbors. neigh-bors. The money you get from rent helps to pay your ticket to another neighbor's theatre and part of it may go to taxes, which in turn helps pay the salary received by the school teacher who teaches your child and rents an apartment apart-ment from still another neighbor. What helps your neighbor helps you. "Please sit down and write your check to your Chamber of Commerce. Com-merce. We need the support of intelligent, in-telligent, forward-looking citizens like you". |