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Show Spotlighting UTAH "The Sunday nuirniiiR tiibcr-niielo tiibcr-niielo choir nut ion-wide radio liroadcast is the liiKKf st attraction in western America", declared u sophisticated visitor to Salt Lake City this week. "I've seen everything every-thing from San Francisco's opera season to New York's broadway shows, but to sit in the great tabernacle and to see and hear the broadcast, lifted me to new heights of musical ecstasy", he emphatically declared. A rata in Utah That Utah climate, mineral content con-tent of the food and water coupled coup-led with the high altitude, produce pro-duce better Arab horses than any other section of the country, is the declaration of W. T. Warren, superintendent of the International Internation-al Smeltering Company, Tooele, whose hobby is raising Arabs. The Arab pedigree is 1,000 years old. Only seven Utahns own Arabs at the present time. Parowan Worried With the deer season right around the corner and hundreds of letters and inquiries coming to Parowan citizens asking for at least ten days lodging during the deer season, the town's residents are at their wits end trying to solve the tourist problem. Located Locat-ed in the fishing, hunting and scenic area of the state and with no hotel and- an undersized camp ground, Parowan is fearful that they will be hard put to take care of the visitors. A spurt in building activity which soon promises Beaver new tourist cabins, garages, stores, barns, residence and other classes of buildings, indicates a healthy condition in that community. C'"lar City Recognized The forty-fourth year book of the National Society for the study of education, just off the press, features the Cedar City Coordinating Coordin-ating Council for its community program. The book particularly mentions that Cedar City has received re-ceived cultural advantages which larger cities might envy, and stresses the outstanding work of the Cedar City adult education committee. Bundy Reports on Genera The answer of Geneva's disposal may be expected soon, declared Ora Bundy, Commissioner, Utah State Department of Publicity & Industrial Development, upon his recent return from Washington. "The surplus property board probably now has the resport on Utah's steel plant," Mr. Bundy said, "and after deliberations by a subcommittee, congress will have 30 days to consider the report and the board's recommendations." While in the east, Mr. Bundy testified before various congressional congres-sional subcommittees on reclamation, reclama-tion, irrigation and other projects affecting the state. Where To Find It The Historical Society at the State Capitol Building has catalogued cata-logued the complete record of Utah enlistments, casualties and discharges in the Navy, Maritime Mari-time Service, Marines, Coast Guard and eventually the Army. This material is available to veterans vet-erans and other interested parties and represents the determined efforts ef-forts of secretary Marguerite L. Sinclair and her staff. Millard Geological Paradise It is suggested by an influential influen-tial Delta citizen that a school textbook sponsored by an interested interest-ed organization should be written about the scientific and geological objects in Millard County. A tourist, or even a Utahn looking at Utah's map would think the country blank, it was pointed out. By way of support, some of Millard's Mil-lard's attractions were mentioned as follows: A marvelous and gigantic fault; trilobites, (fossilized (fossiliz-ed crabs), millions of years old and 7,000 of which have been sent to the Smithsonian Institute; the upthrust of Crystal Peak; Topaz Mountains; the ample field of obsidian from which the pre-his-toric Indian made arrowheads; terraces of Lake Bonneville; craters crat-ers of the state's largest extinct volcanoes; sea coral i fossils near Leamington; the "Great Stone Face" near Delta, the finest natural nat-ural resemblance to any human face ever pictured by nature, and the ninth largest meterorite ever found in the U. S. all in Millard County. |