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Show Research Bureau Findings: Californians Swarming Utah by commercial carriers in 1967, most of them by airlines. The report, by Iver E. Bradley, assistant professor of economics, and Roger S. Lawson, assistant director di-rector of travel, states that the five adjacent states of Idaho, Nevada, Ne-vada, Arizona, Colorado and Wyoming Wy-oming accounted for 34 per cent of Utah's auto visitors. However, the big news is the growing stream of California visitors. visi-tors. The report noted that direct spending in Utah would increase over $20 million a year if each Cal ifornia visitor stayed in Utah extra day. Spending Z IT travelers in Utah last year a r ted to $172,310,000, which iST' r, g, WaMt The report also states th , though 1967 travel was hJ al" 1966 figures, it was 15 '1 the above the 1965 totals." A r J'" 6 639,000 persons visited u 1966 11 per cent above the 9 7 It isn't too hard to believe from looking at license plates, but it is now official. In 1967 there were more Californians in Utah than Utahns. . In fact, according to the University Uni-versity Bureau of Economic and Business Research, the number of out-of-state visitors nearly equaled the population of Utah during the month of July alone. Nearly 30 per cent, or 1,550,000 of the 5,220,000 travelers who visited Utah by motor vehicle last year were Californians. And, of the nearly six millions visitors to Utah last year, more than two-thirds were from western states. The Utah Traveler Index also revealed re-vealed that 700,000 visitors arrived |