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Show I. Spotlighting .-UTAH, I C ALIFORM ANS SAY UTAH IS A FRIENDLY STATE During eleven days In April, a Utah tourist Information booth was sponsored by Che Utah Dept. of Publicity at the Southern California Sportsman and Vacation shew at Los Angeles. During the show, more than 350,-000 350,-000 people passed through the gates. Thousands passed by the Utah booth, admired Its attractive and colorful picture display and received an Invitation to vacation In Utah during the coming season. More than 20,000 pieces of Utah publicity literature were picked up and carried away by Callfomlans who visited the booth. Hundreds expressed ex-pressed pleasure In 6eelng Utah represented along "with other states, and Utah road maps were In high demand. The meet Impressive thing to PID officials Xn attendance was the fact that without one exception, hundreds hun-dreds of Callfomlans voluntarily expressed ex-pressed their opinion that "Utah Is a Friendly State." CTAn TRAFFIC FATALITY RECO.RD IMPROVED Beoause of an Improved traffic fatality record in 1847, Utah has placed second in the western region of the national traffic safety contest. con-test. In 1947 there were 188 traffic deaths In Utah as compared with 190 In 1946, a seven per cent decrease. de-crease. HOLLYWOOD STUDIO SHOOTS UTAH MOVIES Filming of two technicolor motion pictures about 30 miles northeast of Kanab is expected to begin the latter part of May by Universal Pictures Pic-tures Corporation. Returning Tuesday from Hollywood Holly-wood where he conferred with several sev-eral motion picture executives, Commissioner Com-missioner Howells of the State Department De-partment of Publicity and Industrial Development said the r.tudlo planned plan-ned to bring 60 actors, technicians and other officials. "Much of the beauty of the country coun-try near Kanab", said Mr. Howells, "will be depicted in the color films." After a conference with James Pratt, production manager .for Universal, Uni-versal, Mr, Howells explained that the studio planned to hire many Utah people In making the two pictures. |