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Show MAG EDITOR LEARNS WHY TOURISTS VISIT UTAH Louisa M. Comstock, travel editor for a "home" magazine, recently spent a week in the Bee Hive state to learn "what tourists tour-ists want to see in Utah." Coming here at the suggestion of the Utah Department of Publicity Pub-licity and Industrial Development, Develop-ment, Miss Comstock saw nearly near-ly everything in the state a tourist might be interested in. Piloted around Salt Lake City by members of the state public- I a n d Industrial Development, I shows defiintely that the north-I north-I ern Utah metropolitan centers I are still continuing, and will ' continue, to make every effort to see that tourists get the idea that Salt Lake City is Utah. The only thng northern Utah has that Southern Utah doesn't have in better and more abundant abun-dant quantities is lots of residents. resi-dents. Our short-sighted neighbors neigh-bors up-state probably will some day realize that Utah cannot be made a truly great state in the eyes of the tourists until they put more emphasis on the little, out-of-the-way places, instead of emphasizing the populated areas and soft-pedaling the beauties and attractions of any area that would take a few dollars of tourist tour-ist money away from Salt Lake. ity department, Miss Comstock was particularly impressed with Utah's canyon retreats. She was thrilled with the shady rendezvous ren-dezvous in Mill Creek, City Creek, and Little Cottonwood canyons, and thought Brighton was a "refreshingly cool" and delghtful place for the "valley dwellers" to escape the heat. (The above item, released by the Department of Publicity |