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Show Spotlighting UTAH Winter IImt In L'tah .The State Press, during the past week or so, has noted the boom in applications to the Forest For-est Service for sites on which to build summer homes. This was particularly emphasized at Navajo Lake, where twenty-five applicants appli-cants have oversubscribed the lots on the zone originally planned by the Forest service for a summer sum-mer home colony at this location. From Logan Canyon and Bear Lake to Kanab and eastward through the Uintahs, Utah offers almost unlimited inducements to summer colonists. Some fine homes already have been built and more are bound to follow as soon as materials and manpower are again available. While contemplating the great value of colonies of summer homes, why not give a serious thought to boosting the . idea of winter homes in Washington County? We are prone to place all our emphasis on our comparatively compara-tively short summer season and ignore the fact that vast sums of money for recreation are also spent in the winter. Seventy years ago, Washington County was an important winter rendezvous. For two groups of people, Utah could well become a winter mecca during at least six months of every year. These are the devotees de-votees of winter sports, and those who require or enjoy an escape to a warm, dry, healthful climate. Believe it or not, this writer would rather own a winter home in Washington County than in any other area in the whole country. Would Double Recreation! The Scripps-Howard newspapers have started a movement to double recreational travel in America. "Let's make it a $15,000,000,000 business," they say. In view of the fact that Utah has 24 major scenic attractions, and more than 124 minor scenic attractions and is located on the cross roads of th nation, the Utah Department of Publicity and Industrial De-vlopmnt De-vlopmnt te heartity in accord with the suggestion. Cftah Raeing Asoociation Formed The development of horse racing rac-ing in Utah is promised by the Utah racing association, an organization or-ganization formed at Richfield. Tentative dates have been set for twelve 1946 meets throughout the state, and the association will make rules to regulate track conditions, con-ditions, promote the breeding of better racing stock, etc. Towns represented at the association's charter meeting included, Salt Lake City, Logan, Provo, Murray, Richfield, Beaver, Kanab, Pan-guitch, Pan-guitch, Payson Parowan, Fillmore and Manti. New Signs' on New highway signs, designating roads and towns will soon replace the old Utah highway signs. Forty tons of sheet steel has been purchased pur-chased by the state for use in the improvement. Weber Students Study South Utah Seventy-two geology students from Ogden's Weber College have just made a tour of Bryce, Zion and the Grand Canyons. Their objective was the study of geology geo-logy in a geologists paradise and is the resumption of the annual tours which ended at the beginning begin-ning of the war. Maurine Whipple Scores Again "This Is The Place: Utah" a new book, written by Maurine Whipple, is well described as follows: fol-lows: "A fine study of the Mormon Mor-mon state and its peculiar people', by an outstanding novelist (author (auth-or of "Giant Joshua") who was born a Mormon and was brought up and educated in Utah. |