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Show Spotlighting -UTAH I TOURIST LURE SIGNS PLANNED As part of a long-range program to Increase Utah's tourist trade, the Utah Department of Publicity and Industrial Development will place colorful signboards at six key points in border states, It Is announced by Commissioner Rulon S. Howells. The huge slbns, 42 feet long and 12 '4 (eet high, each carrying a beautifully beau-tifully painted picture of Utah's major scenic attractions, will extend ex-tend an Invitation to the motorist to "visit in Utah." The high signs, 42 feet long and Pocatello, Idaho, to face eastbound traffic, on Highway 30 coming west near Cheyenne, Wyoming; cast of Denver, on Highways 40 and 36; east of Phoenix; west of Barstow, California and east of Reno, Nevada, Neva-da, on highways 40 and 50. ft ft RATE MAN URGES VOCATIONAL TRAINING Looking to the greater Industrlal-latlon Industrlal-latlon of Utah, Dr. Allen Bateman, state superintendent of public' instruction in-struction declares that it Is the duty of the State to train Its citizens citi-zens In vocational occupations to meet the expanding need for skilled skill-ed labor. As a beginning, Dr. Bate-men Bate-men recommended the creation of a vocational training school utilizing utiliz-ing two or three buildings at the Utah Ordnance plant, and the retention re-tention on a permanent basis of the Central Utah Vocational School at Provo. On December 13th, Dr. Bateman proposes to ask the state board of education for $150,000 to finance the Etdt Lake City school, and $75,000 for the Provo school. '47 PLATES SOON AVAILABLE Motorists may obtain 1947 automobile auto-mobile license plates at the State Capitol Beginning December 16th. TRUMAN PROMISES UTAH VISIT Governor Herbert B. Maw has personally invited President Harry S. Truman to visit Utah, July 24, 1947. the 100th anniversary of the arrival of the pioneers into the Salt Lake Valley. "The President," Bald Oovernor Maw. "told me he would put forth every effort to be here." |