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Show 1 I I Spotlighting i ! UTAH i . . I i " 1 j State Fair Status Told . The Utah State Fair will be hek th's season, providing the officer. of the International Association of Fairs and Expwitlons succeed in I persuading the office of defense transportation to revoke a June I. 1945 ban on the holding of state and regional fairs, it Is explained by Sheldon R. Brewser, secretary-man-I auer. Falling the voiding of the ban, . tnd In view of the fact that there Is no ban on strictly local expositions, exposi-tions, the fair, like the play will Go on, but as a local exposition and publicized strictly as a Salt Lake City affair. Planning in this directilon Is now underway. j Revenue Controls Roads The amount of miles that state may have in Its intrregional highway high-way system is strlckly controlled by the necessity for certain high standard constrcutlon designs and the funds allocated for this purpose it Is explained by Row W. McLeee, commLsMon chief ennglneer. Too many miles on the Interregional vsem would force the state to use a disproportionate Fhare of revenue on these roads. The present designation desig-nation of interregional highways Is bared largely on military necessity f nd Includes highways, U. S. 91, U. S. 30-S and U. S. 30-50. Telling The Russians So the Russians may know the truth about the great state of Utah, the Department of Publicity and Industrial Development is fending Elmer Davis, Office of War Information Infor-mation head at Warhingtcn, D. C, Utah literature setting forfh In detail, de-tail, Utah's attractions, Industries r.nd opportunities. It seems that Mr. Duvis has found It necessary to revise re-vise the booklet, "America Illuster-nld" Illuster-nld" which his office is distributing distribut-ing In Russia, and which described rcveral western states, Including Utah, as a bleak and barren area with practically no industries and which depends almost entirely upon f'timing for its subksistence. ColUrU 19-million Nineteen million dollars approximately approxim-ately one-half the the total true rr venue of the Utah state government govern-ment has been collected as of the fiscal year ending June 30, 1945, ac-rcrd'ng ac-rcrd'ng to figures of A. A Flrm-ap.e.thc Flrm-ap.e.thc tax commission cashier. The nmount Is exactly $19502.077.32 and l a decrease of one per cent ever the prev'ous fiscal year's collections. Compared with the 1941 fiscal year, collections, the 1945 collections are s-dered a normal year During the ?8 25 pr cent greater. 1941 was con-past con-past five years, revenue from in-rome in-rome tax receipts, been taxes and, olemargarlne taxes have doubled ! and sales tax revenue Jumped 60, per cent. Revenue. from the eas tax! dvopied 11 per cent over the five rar period. The cigarette tax, drop-l "of1 14 per cent last year be'ow the, motor veh'cle registration fee revenue reve-nue Increased 10 per cent In 1945 over 1941 due to the higher fee received from the licensing of larger trucks. Resuerres Spotlighted "Utah's greatest resurces are metallls and nonmetalllc mineral."," Dr A. Ray Olpln, native Utahn, and State University announced during a now excutlve director of the Ohio Utah visit. He 'warned that western Industry murt develop Improved research re-search facilities if it Is to expand or hold Its own against larger concerns con-cerns which have their eres on the rich natural resources of this region. 'I see no reason why your raw materials ma-terials fhould be shipped away bringing a cheap price, and when processed, be shipped back at a considerably con-siderably higher price," he raid. |