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Show Spotlighting j UTAH UTAHN GOES TO HARVARD Dr. Chas. H. Toxier, head of the visual education department, Harvard Har-vard University and party of Boston, Bost-on, Massachusetts, are heading into in-to Utah's Monument Valley this week. Dr. Tozier's visit to Utah is ( significant in that Utah'sscenic at- ' tractions, her geological wonders, her rivers, mountains and deserts strike a greater response in the famed doctor's heart than other scenic attractions in the U. S. So impressed is this Harvard professor with what he found in Utah that he is returning to set up a permanent perm-anent visual education exhibit of Utah scenes at the well-known eastern hall of learning. The party was met at Zion by David H. Mann, of the Utah department of publicity and industrial development, develop-ment, who gave Dr. Tozier valuable valu-able information and direction that j will enable him to enlarge the scope of his efforts. TAKES HIS OWN PICTURES Dr. Tozier, old enough to retire, yet full of enthusiasm and good health, finds great pleasure in taking tak-ing his own pictures. Two retired millionaires, Alton B. Atwood, Chelsea, Chel-sea, Massachusetts, Frank M. Howard, How-ard, Winchester, Massachusetts, their wives, and Dr. and .Mrs. Tozier To-zier made up the party. They were enthusiastic about the photographic photogra-phic grandeur and majesty of Zion canyon that they started work with the first daylight and were loath to stop shooting pictures when it ended. end-ed. Their $3,000 worth of still and motion picture eqipment is all personally per-sonally owned; they paid their own expenses and the group was as happy as boy scouts on a country hike. Students to Her About Utah The group's enthusiasm for Bryce Zion, the Bridges, and the Arches was of the type that predicted more eastern visitors for Utah. He questioned M. Mann for two hours aboutMonument Valley, its roads, inhabitants, how to reach it and what to see. Next winter, students in the Harvard visual education classes will see and hear about U-tah's U-tah's scenic and geological wonders, wond-ers, thanks to Dr. Tozier. As can easily be imagined, this type of publicity is. the kind that can't be purchased, yet is of the most valuable val-uable to be secured and there is no doubt but what the future flow of tourist traffic into Utah will be considerably stimulated by Dr. To-zier's To-zier's lectures, his still picture exhibits ex-hibits and his motion picture demonstrations de-monstrations before Harvard classes. class-es. UTAH ON ROTARIAR COVER A Bryce canyon scene, a color photograph by Fred Bond,, nationally nation-ally known color photographer of Los Angeles, adorns the cover of the August edition of the "Rotar-ian." "Rotar-ian." This magazine reaches every Rotarian in the country and the cover is good promotion for Utah. Mr. Bond told the State Department Depart-ment of publicity that he is coming back to Utah this fall when the reds and yellows are in the mountain moun-tain forests to seek photogenic aspens as-pens or quaking asps for magazine maga-zine covers. After all, one Utah cover on a national magazine is more effective than 10,000 descriptive descrip-tive words. PRE-SALTED CELERY CUT The Utah celery harvest started in earnest this week at American Fork where hundreds of cars of an early variety will be shipped to eastern markets in advance of celery cel-ery yet to be harvested by other states. There is no argument relative rela-tive the superiority of Utah celery, the fact is attesed by eastern buyers buy-ers without quibbling.One American Ameri-can Fork celery farmer, whose farm is operated by share croppers, will realize the tidy profit of $12,000.00 from 12 acres of celery without turning his hand; nice business, this celery raising! The industry in Utah is only in its infancy. No! U-tah U-tah celery raisers are not interested interest-ed in growing pre-salted celery on the state's saline wastes. While entirely en-tirely possible, experimentation by Utah growers indicates Utah's crisp, chunchy, delicious stalks taste better if salted by the consumer con-sumer at the dinner table. Note: Utah Celery Week, Nov. ember 11 to 17. TOURISTS FLOOD STATE A two-hundred percent increase in visitors to the L D S Temple ! grounds since V-J Day it noted by officials in charge. Zion and Bryce report a 74 percent increase w'ith ears arriving daily from all over the country. The stay-at-homes are a-gain a-gain on the road, Utah lodges, hotels and filling stations are doing do-ing a spirited business. Utah's before be-fore the war tourist income was a meager $37,000,000.00 only one, one hundred seventy-first of the total ' national sum spent by tourists. If Utah should manage to get her forty-eighth honest share of the tour- ist money, it would reach the stag- ' gering total of $200,000,000. only a titheing of what California & New-York New-York gets from the travelers. U-tahns U-tahns don't know it yet, but the tourist business is the state's greatest great-est potential industry. WILD MUSHROOM SPROUT Edible mushrooms of the "Ink Cap" or Coprinus Comatus specie, a cone-shaped grayish-white mushroom mush-room with pink gills which turn inky with age and the Agaricus Compestris, a white-capped, curved mushroom with pink gills are sprmgng up by the thousands n Utah higher altitudes. Utah mushroom mush-room epicures are taking delight in seeking out the palate-tickling vegetable flesh. Dormant until a- wakened by the recent torrential August rains, the delightful delk-a-cises are springing up along mountain moun-tain roads in great profusion. Mushrooms should be eaten while young and the majority of Utah species are nonpoisonous. OGDEN WRITER HITS ESQUIRE Keith Barrette, Ogden newspaper man and writer has an article in the September isue of Esquire titled tit-led "Gunsmith to America." His opening sentence is significant. "When you take down that favorite 'gun of yours, it isn't a Winchester, Remington, Stevens, Colt that you fondly finger, but a variety of the Browning." The balance of the finely fine-ly written article tells of the accomplishments ac-complishments of the late John Browning, famous Ogden inventor who actually was "Gunsmith to America." The Open Road Beckons Utahns, re-discover your state! As of today, you own 119,788 auto-mobiles;you auto-mobiles;you have the gas, the cash and the time See UTAH first! The open road beckons - -so thrill to the sights of your native state - - see Utah before a million easterners eas-terners crowd ahead of you. This plea comes from one who has just i completed a tour of Utah scenic attractions and who during the next few columns will endeavor to "spotlight" the unique and breathtaking breath-taking sights Utahns should see. Back to the Primeval For those who seek to get away from the beaten path; for those who would reach a place rich in big timber and glorious with spectacular spec-tacular canyons; for those who love blue lakes and great meadows lush with deep grass and resplendent resplend-ent .with wild flowers we suggest the "Skyline Drive." Little known to the general public, yet readily acessible to the motor vacationist, Sanpete, Carbon Utah and Emery counties offer a vacation area unexcelled un-excelled in the entire state. Fifty miles in length, entirely virgin.this mountain paradise is the highest and also the longest scenic automobile auto-mobile road in the state. Thfe road traverses the Manti National Forest For-est area and follows the high ridges ridg-es and peaks of the monstrous mountain range which separates Highways 89 and 50. The average altitude of the Skyline Drive is 10,-000 10,-000 feet. Unimproved, yet permitting permit-ting car speeds of 35 to 50 miles per hour, this little known drive is well marked and easily approachable approach-able from either Highway 89 or 50. Entirely Virgin The chief charm of the area lies in the fact that it is entirely virgin. vir-gin. While numerous canyon roads lead to the drive and offer splendid splen-did camp grounds, with national Forest improvements, the Skyline Drive as yet is untouched by signs of human habitation. No piles of tin cans, dead camp fire embers, the regular debris so common to many well traveled vacation lanes are seen, and the traveler has an appreciable snse of being far away from his fellowmen, and into a virgin vir-gin wilderness just as God made it. How to Get There A glance at the map of Utah will reveal the Skyline Drive taking off in a southerly direction from Tucker, Tuck-er, a spot on Highway 50, between Soldier Summitt and Springville. The Drive can be easily left when the road intersects the highway om Ferron to Gunnison, and to those who take the trip it is sug-geested sug-geested that the road from the summit down to Castle Dale be traveled, especially in view of the beauty of Cottonwood Creek Canyon. Can-yon. Wild Paaradise It would be unusal for ayone to make this trip without seeing numerous num-erous deer and an occasional lek. When seen along the highway, the animals are fearless and stare at a car in wonder. For the amateur photographer, the artist, the lover of nature, this area is an unspiol-ed unspiol-ed paradise. On the broad and level meadows often found between be-tween majestic peaks, the traveler finds great forests of giant quaking quak-ing asps, some 20 inches in diameter. diame-ter. From aspen groves, one enters en-ters majestic pine forests highlighted high-lighted by blue spruce. Occasional mountain streams of' cold water offer refreshment, and numerous large reservoirs and lakes are well stocked with fish, as an attraction to the fisherman. Snowbanks in August Even in August, when the city dweller is cursing the heat, it is lot unusual to find an occasional nowbank at the side of the rand. To the vacationist who distinctly remembers the heat he just left in the valleys, a frolic in the cool snow is a novelty. To those interested inter-ested in wild flowers, the columbine, colum-bine, the Colorado orchid, the Indian In-dian paint brush, and a dozen other varieties offer a new thrill. A Natural Playground Among those organizations interested inter-ested in this natural playground is the Carbon County Associated Industries In-dustries at Price, Utah. The invigorating invig-orating altitude, easy accessibilitv, the marvelous and distant views of valleys and mountain ranges, all make the Skyline Drive one of the "musts" for Utah vacationist and motorists. |