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Show SPOTLIGHTING UTAH NORTHERN UTAH RESIDENTS HEARTENED 1 With the $12,000,000 Bushnell General hospital, originally scheduled sched-uled to close this spring, doing an "about face" and suddenly operat- ing to the full capacity of her 3,-500 3,-500 beds, individuals and organiz- I ations or northern Utah fighting to make the institution permanent were considerably heartened this week when veteran administration plans which called for closing Bushnell Bu-shnell at Brigham City and reduil-ding reduil-ding a $5,000,000 hospital in Salt Lake City struck a serious financial finan-cial snag in Washington. In addition it seems that the house appropriation committee is asking a review of the matter because be-cause of the great amount of protest pro-test received against abandonment of Bushnell and the expenditure of five million dollars for another hospital hos-pital only 50 miles to the south. Individuals, firms and organizations organiza-tions and the majority of the citizenry citi-zenry of Weber, Box Elder, Cache and Rich counties contend that it is a waste of taxpayers money to abandon a twelve-million dollar hospital to build another , one almost al-most in the same neighborhood. The matter boils down to this: that President Truman will decide whether Brigham City retains Bushnell, Bu-shnell, or the veterans administration administra-tion gets their way and builds a new hospital at Salt Lake City. In the meantime, the whole project is at a standstill and the veterans administration must await the president's decision. ORANGE A. OLSEN MEMORIALIZED Most Utahns remember Orange A. Olsen, former Manti forest ranger ran-ger who was killed a qear ago in a plane accident while counting elk from the air in Wyoming. A book, memorializing Mr. Ol-sen's Ol-sen's writing and photography relating re-lating his wide experience with game animals in Utah has just been released. Wildlife organizations, organiza-tions, schools and libraries through out the United States will receive copies. The book is said to be a fitting tribute to the man who dedicated de-dicated the best of his years ot the study of Utah wildlife. TEACHER PICKS UTAH'S MOST BEAUTIFUL BUILDING H. Reuben Reynolds, USAC art director, has named Brigham City's L. D. S. Tabernacle at "the most beautiful building in Utah." It is also reported that Artist Reynolds and his "art appreciation classes" will tour Utah soon to trace the influence of long-dead architects on Nineteenth Century and modern Utah structures. , Perhaps other sections of Utah will feel that Artist Reynolds has slighted them, because he chose the Box Elder tabernacle as the most beautiful building in the state before he and his art appreciation classes had inspected all of Utah"s fine outstanding buildings. Perhaps Per-haps the student from Manti, St. George or Cedar City will differ with their teacher in his selection. CEDAR CITY IN ART SPOTLIGHT 3T Cedar City's annual sixth art ex-i ex-i hibit will be held in the latter part of April. Hazel Cooley, exhibit scc-; scc-; retary reports a greatly increased , interest in the exhibit and re-1 re-1 sponse from artists in all parts of the country indicate they plan to , have paintings in the show. ; EPHRAIM SEEKS FLOUR SACKS 1 , You can buy flour at the Eph-raim Eph-raim flour mill providing you bring L your own clean empty sacks of the same brand. Lack of sack material ' due to strikes is the reason why . the mill is unable to obtain sacks , from their regular sources. I UTAHN EXPLAINS WHERE BUTTER HAS GONE "yWiere has the butter gone" nsks-.consumnr.s all over the countryATX coun-tryATX Morris, dairy specialist USAC, says the butterfat which goes into a pound of butter will sell for 56 cents, while the pound of butter is limited to sell at a ceil ing price of only 51 cents. In addition addi-tion to the cost of the butter fat in a pound of butter, there is the j cost of manufacture, sales and I overhead. With restrictions on ice cream, whipping cream, milk cream and cheese lifted, the answer ans-wer as to where butter has gone should be obvious to everyone, he thinks. UTAHNS ON "SELLING JOB" IN WASHINGTON Twelve prominent Utahns are in Washington this week on an important im-portant selling job that of selling the new secretary of the interior and the new commissioner of reclamation re-clamation the importance of cary-ing cary-ing out Utah's water development program. In Washington are: Ora Bundy, president national reclamation reclama-tion association; William R. Wallace, Wall-ace, president Utah water users association; as-sociation; Ed ri. Watson., state engineer; en-gineer; Roscoe Boden, chairman of central Utah project; fclyde Hess, Weber county commissioner; Sel-vin Sel-vin Clark.Utah county commissioner; commission-er; John M. Neff, Salt Lake county engineer. Leon Christensen, Vernal, representative Central Utah project Lon Watson, secretary, Utah water users association; T. W. Jensen, secretary associated civic clubs of southern Utah; Senator Mitchell Melich, Moab; and Attorney General Gen-eral Grover A. Giles. During a five-day meet, the delegation del-egation will discuss, "Utah's share of the Colorado river," the central Utah project and the following smaller projects- Gooseberry, Sanpete San-pete county; Joe's Valley, Emery county; Hurricane, Washington county; Three Creek reservoir, in Beaver county. Staneker draw, near Vernal; Tysic near Jensen; Hardware Hard-ware at Blacksmith fork, Cache county; Randolph on the Bear river riv-er in Rich county, and Elbow reservoir reser-voir in Kane county. MORMON TRAIL HIGHWAY PROMISED A safe automobile highway over the old Mormon trail from Hene-fer Hene-fer to the "This Is the Place" monument mon-ument at the mouth of Emigration canyon has been promised by the state road commission. The highway high-way will follow the original wagon wag-on trail left by the Mormon pioneers pio-neers who first entered Salt Lake valley 99 years ago. The construction construc-tion money will come from the Department De-partment of Publicity and Industrial Indust-rial Development funds. The entire 14-mile stretch of road will be within a state park area and is expected ex-pected to prove an important tourist tour-ist lure along with the monument and the 577-acre park at the mouth of the canyon. It is the center of this park, on a knoll, that the $250 000.00 'This Is the Place Monument" Monu-ment" will be erected. The park will be of tlio mountain type and I plans call for Hip planting of 1000 trees, shrubs and flowers. Work on the park has already started. UTAH TAX INCOME HIGH A total of $4,190,811, including special tax collections, individual and corporation taxes were received receiv-ed by the state tax" commission dur ing March, the highest ever received receiv-ed in the history of Utah. The lifting lift-ing of gas rationing helped to up the tax receipts, and motor vehicle registrations also showed a six per cent increase over last year. TOURISTS ARE TRAVELING Tourists are already on the move the U. S. national parks service reports. re-ports. 24,718 persons visited the Grand canyon area in March, as compared with only 3828 the year previous. The Grand canyon is just over Utah's back fence in Arizona and most of these tourists visited 1 southern Utah's national parks ' during March. ' SALINA CANYON HIGHWAY IMPROVEMENT URGED In an effort to bring to completion comple-tion the Salina Canyon highway, j the Carbon county associated in-, in-, l.dustries and others are taking up the cudgel to win this long sought improvement. A private individual has promised to aid the project with a $5,000 gift as a nucleus for a fund to bring the road to completion. comple-tion. Carbon and Beaver county residents resi-dents maintain that the Salina canyon road is a most important cut-off for all southeastern Utah: that main line buses will traverse this section when a suitable highway high-way is completed, and that tourists tour-ists coming and going from California Calif-ornia would prefer to be routed through Carbon county. STATEWIDE CLEANUP RUSHED The L D S church beautification committee, and the centennial commission's statewide cleanup campaign organization are in perfect per-fect coordination in their cleanup activities in preparation for the 1947 centennial. The centennial commission's representatives re-presentatives are laynig the ground work for unified cleanup cooperation coopera-tion in every Utah community, and the church has written all stake and ward authorities to cooperate with the commission's activities. Salt Lake City, suddenly enthused enthus-ed with the necessity for a cleanup, clean-up, has started a cafnpaign of her ' own. The job of cleaning up Utah is scon as a tremendous one, and if it results in nothing more than removal re-moval of mountainous piles of ma-I ma-I nure from corrals near the stale highways into the fields, where it belongs, a major battle against one form of ugliness will be won. PARKING MUST BE PARALLEL: EXCEPTION Except where angle parking is permitted by local ordinance every vehicle stopped or parked upon a road way where there is an ad- ijacpnt curb shall be so stopped or parked with the right hand wheels of such vehicle parallel with and within 18 inches of the right hnnd ! curb. j "We never used to be able to find grandma's glasses, but now she leaves them just where she empties them." |