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Show C. Of C. Plans Tourist School For Late April The Cedar City Chamber of Commerce, Com-merce, with the cooperation of the Junior Chamber of Commerce, will conduct a tourist and trade school for all employees of the business institutions of Cedar City, it was announced today by Orville Isom, secretary. No definite date has been decided de-cided upon, but it is expected that the school will be held during the later part of April arid will continue con-tinue for a period of ten days or two weeks. Howard R. Gunderson, State Director of Vocational Education, Educa-tion, has promised to send a man to Cedar City to conduct the school who is recognized throughout the intermountaln west as an expert in such schools, according to Mr. Isom. Classes will be held twice dally, the same class being given in the mornings morn-ings and afternoons so that all employees em-ployees will be able to attend the complete course. The purpose of the school is to train all employees in methods of salesmanship, courtesy and approach ap-proach as well as to inform them of the resources of southern Utah, to-gtther to-gtther wieh the scenic attractions to be found in this section.' It is felt that the employees of the various var-ious business houses throughout the city play an important part in selling, not only the company for whom they work, but also the city and surrounding country to those people from the outside with whom they come in contact. It is also feit that if those employees are trained in making friendly contacts with strangers, they will help materially in creating a trade center here and In bringing in outside people. A meeting was held Monday evening even-ing with officials of both Chambers Cham-bers of Commerce and various employers em-ployers throughout the city fn order or-der to get the reaction of the em ployers toward the desirability of conducting such a school as has been planned. Several employers were present at the meeting and all expressed enthusiasm at the Mea and promised their utmost cooperation. co-operation. Mr. Isom requests that all business busi-ness people contact the officials of the Chamber of Commerce as soon as possible in order that they can ascertain the attitude of the townspeople toward the school. Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated, appre-ciated, according to Mr. Isom, and all question cheerfully answered. In order to make a success of the proposed pro-posed tourist and trade school, it will be necessary to have the closest clos-est cooperation among the various business houses and their employees and it is hoped that the town will get behind this project one hundred hun-dred percent. ft . |
