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Show j Chamber president asks cooperation of city businessmen The Parowan Chamber of Commerce held its meeting on Wednesday, May 3 at the Firelite Restaurant, where a buffet lunch was served to all in attendance. A number of important issues were presented pre-sented by the board members, and discussed among those in attendance. ' The tourist information project, pro-ject, spearheaded by Mel Eyre, is off to a roaring start.. Eyre stated that he and his committee com-mittee will have all their ground work ready to present to the city council for its sustaining sus-taining vote at the next council coun-cil meeting. It was decided at this time that the chamber general meetings will now be held on the first Wednesday of each month at 12 noon at the Fire-lite Fire-lite Restaurant, as a luncheon meet. A business session will be held on the third Thursday Thurs-day of the month at 8 p. m. at the high school.. Everyone is encouraged to attend these meetings. President Ronald Smith says "I would like to express my observation of the Chamber, not only, as a new businessman business-man of the city, but also as the newly elected president of this vital business and civic organization. "It was rather disheartening dishearten-ing to stand before the group that assembled at our recent meeting to find that out of all those present, only three were businessmen of the community. com-munity. It reminded me quite forcefully of an. incident that took place a few thousand years ago. A man by the name of Noah was told that a good healthy rain storm was on its way and that the entire world wbs going to be flooded away and that if he wanted to preserve pre-serve his life he would have to get busy and build an ark. Noah, being a community minded sort of a guy, set out to warn his friends and neighbors, neigh-bors, I have an idea that most of the comments Noah received receiv-ed from these people went something like this: Now Noah, No-ah, if you'll schedule this ark building project at a time that is convenient and at a place that is easy to get too, we'll support you. We may not do too much as far as actually actual-ly building the ark, but at least we'll be there to see that you do it right. But, if we have to go out of our way at all, that we're not really sold on your idea." Smith went on to say that ever since we've known that the freeway was to bypass Parowan wise men have tried to warn our business people that unless we begin some tourist appealing projects our tourist dollar would surely die. In a survey taken last week by the Chamber, our tourist dollar ranged from 10 in some businesses to as high as 80 in others. It doesn't does-n't seem practical to me that any one can stand to lose this source of revenue. Let me sum it up by saying that we have one more summer sum-mer when every person traveling travel-ing on Highway 91 must pass through our city. A certain number of these people are going to stop, and what we must do is provide them with t brochures and verbal informa-' tion concerning the recreation- j al advantages that our sur- rounding area has to offer. So that in future years when ! these people take a vacation 1 and find it necessary to exit from the freeway, they will.; j If we are to succeed at this extremely important project,; ; it will necessitate the support i of every business in Parowan City. It has to be a unified effort and as such we're appealing ap-pealing for your support. Please show you're interested with your attendance at our regularly scheduled meetins;. 1 Tnursday, May 18 (tonight I it 8 in the Tarowan llih |