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Show pJgc 2 TIM PS, PAKOWAN, UTAH, APRIL PA ROWAN' middle ot one of the most attr.u lice areas in the entire state but she needs to promote lur attractions or they are waited. She needs to promote mmc businesses, she needs to make her own people cognizant ol the netess o supHrting the businesses she already ha, .she needs leadership that tan an.! will work toward these ends. IAH OMAN TIMES Published and Printed at Parowan, Utah each Thursday Robert B. Mitchell, Publisher i jToo-Earl- 12, y l'UL Use Can Result In Road Damage HEAR! HEAR! W1' Land management agencies E V r tllAJJ SIAJt ASSOCIATION AAVP ACTS bv AS A the VAZ Sk? fa rye again urging c.iro The local chamber is not just lor businessmen, nor should public revwe a ewrr can ee traveling AS MANS AS T WLVB Lntered as Second Class Mail Matter in the Post Office businessmen be "AO expected to carry the whole load lor the roads during early spring and at Parowan, Utah, October 27. 1915, under the Act of community; any person who live- - in the community, whether summer months With each spring sea.n Congress of March 3, 1879. he is a businessman or a farmer, has exactly the same comes the urge to travel while Rates in advance $2.50 for promoting the community, md until such time as! Subscription per year on picnics: fishsight seeing, rates each one of us indie (dually are willing to Advertising upon request accept part of the ing, and in a general exodus responsduhty, we as a eommumty tan expect to rtmi.n static. toward the mountains and h.--. Five-Counti- es wavs .Wan v roads traveled at this time are extremely wet, Clean-U- p, I Fix-U- p Paint-U- p, C2 r , f fcoer. tfs many have been closed by The Mayor and City Council ol Parowan hae set the1 weather during the winter 4000' Ooo "V . fly I lie formation of a organization for the ordei-I- ) week of April ' as cleanup, paint-up- . CNe S week; a , a and systematic development of Southwestern Utah, both week toe to designed gne our city a lakt hlimg. Some of our js extreme mid' repairs" are JO) hum the standpoint of industrial and scenic attractions, Southern Utah community hast ken handed a rather black i if traveled costly to us o be one of the most worthwhile projects under-lakceye by one of our state daily pajxrs, and one that is in ail ly when they are wet In most in many years. probability, deserved. MINUTE MAN Realizing the need for a concentrated effort on the part he ther I arowan wax referred to or ul all of Southern Utah to speed the development of the not, we don t know'. ON GUARD area and to be in a much better position to present problems But if we were, we should make ttery auempt to get off the THEN AND NOW nt the entire section to state and national legislatures, the list, and if we werent, we still should put forth some effoit CC pasvX-Iron County Commission took the initiative in calling Com to make our town as attractive as poss ble with what we have to work with. C 6'MfrXTC1 missioners and public news agencies into a meeting Iasi if S, SAWV54 600 P.' ER 1 The entrances to town could certainly use some CREATE? 6N CAN EL hursday night to form such an organization. cleaning CMg&TiU TRENCH AT Tl With the aproval of the Glen Canyon Dam, Southern up, and we strongly urge those property owners on either CP 23 ! Utah seems to be on the verge of one of the brightest periods end of Main Street to do something to make our entrances in its entire history. The power that will be generated from more attractive. A tourist gets his impress on of a eommunin the Glen Canyon project will supply enough electrical energy as he drives into the community. We think we should create SE? ES SAVVL5 &CVD6 WILL EE FIFTEEN 5175 CLP MAT I, 1956. IT . to make the area attractive to industry, and with the wealth the kind of impression that tells a traveler th s is an attractive ESFCSE TUB 3 VA EC of natural resources already available, who knows what the place to stop. TP 15 AVE9CAKS CUC VS PEACE T . F J SCLJS SJCAV ASP COVTlVLE YOUKINVt r.V SNTt.VAM.Zlt A expansion might be in the next twenty years. VC c realize that the entrances aren t the only place th u I he Glen Canyon project, itself during actual construction, need a good overhauling. All through town there are old w ill provide employment for hundreds, to say nothing of the abandoned buildings, fences in a sad of Mining-Uta- h's state and weed repair, employment that will, in all probability, be provided in the grown streets and vacant lots. also know We that in many raw materials, such as iron. supplying In 1955 property taxes in Utah totaled cases it isn't possible either through ill health or $60,1 13,247, with finances, to the construction this of Though project will be a boon, do the kind of job on our lots mining paying 18.14, or $10,907,168. In addition, that we would like to have still it will present some problems to this section which must mine occupation taxes yielded $1,764,690. Utah's bigdone, but in most cacs a little energy is about all that is be solved before hand. There will be roads that must be gest taxpayer is a major factor in sate and local When sou have aed a box necessary. For example, mining's school taxes pay for financing. be from the posibi lit y of making built, housing to constructed, and other problems of an Before the tourist season starts this more than 25,000 children in a year. educating lets a extra ou 'ear, have also premistake, attending nature. hard to make Parowan a lot more attractive, not try vented him from to be It wdl only the purpose of' the developing group to help tourists, but to ourselves. initiative. government and civic bodies solve part of these problems. John Erskine " From the earth comes an abundant life for all On top of the Glen Canyon project, this group must see that scenic and recreational areas throughout the South are opened and maintained. No other region in the West has as much to offer vacationists as does the southern end of Utah. The region abounds -v in scenery from deserts to high mountains, from wind and carved w'ater canyons to high mountain meadows and lakes. It offers some of the finest fishing and hunting in the West, it offers some of the finest tourist accomodations in most of the towns and cities, thoqgh this need isnt entirely taken care of. ft has a great need for more development in the most areas, such as the Kolob Canyons in the Zion Monument area; Cedar Breaks, Bryce Canyon, Capitol Reef National Monument and many others that offer much to the traveling public. The need for a connecting road between southeastern and southwestern Utahs wonderlands is becoming more and more pressing. Many areas that are rich in minerals must be developed, and the need for water, both culinary and for irrigation, must be constantly considered. This group has certainly cut out for itself a monumentous task, but one that can be accomplished thru cooperation such as was evidenced at last Thursdays meet. The only thing that might stand in the w ay of continued cooperation, as we view it, is the possibility that one county or community in one of the counties of the group, might get "hoggish" and forget about the development of the area as a whole, and concentrate too much on themselves. In this event all the good that can come from the organization could be nulified. This possibility must not be allowed to happen. Officers and members of the organization must constantly be on guard to seethat each problem is considered on its merits from the standpoint of all Southern Utahand Utah generally, and not on a local basis. They must w'ork closely with lexal groups, to be sure, but must never let the desires of one section overshadow the greater good of the whole area. To the Iron County Commission, and to the comnjission-er- s from Beaver, Garfield, Washington and Kane counties, the Times would like to extend its congratulations for the task you have undertaken, for your and for your spirit of cooperation. f iS VxT"r - Tmk -- Aw Wll'T' A n J Organization, w Real Step Forward five-count- V s y 23-2- fix-u- S p sc-r- I ap-per- unm-twnn- n j 1.- -6 T- -S V E W IWrcr-4- Sg Wf5r m TA E Biggest Taxpayer five-count- UTAH MINING ASSOCIATION y r c r u five-coun- ty A Chamber Of Commerce Is Everybody's Responsibility A reorganization meeting of the Parowan Chamber of Commerce has been called for Frdaiy night in the Iron Coun ty Court House. This meeing should logically be one of the meetings of the year if citizens would just consider the important part the Chamber of Commerce could and should play in the development that is sure to come to the southern end of the state. An organization of this kind must form the base from wrhich larger groups, such as the organization that has just been formed, can work. Orderly development on a large scale ihust come first from small beginnings. Civic groups must make wants of individual sections known before the larger bodies can be of much help. In rum, must get their ideas from individuals in the organiz ation. Since the prime purpose of a chamber of commerce is to promote development of its community, that is from source ; outside the city, such as attract ng industry and promoting tourist trade, it is an absolute necessity that the chamber the total support of a community. Even though 'her. arc a few outstanding leaders in each group, their leadersh p .me w dluvness to work is lost unles nicy have supr . Parowan probably needs a good live chamber as badly a any community possibly could. 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