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Show Spotlighting 1 UTAH j Utah Schedules Unique Tourist Promotion Plan In an effort to secure for Utah a more justifiable share of the annual an-nual national tourist expenditure, the Utah Department of Publicity and Industrial Development will build eight "tourist greeting centers" cen-ters" at Utah's eight major doorsteps. door-steps. The tourist doorsteps are designated as Kanab, St. George, Wendover, Thompsons, Brigham City, Echo Canyon, Vernal, and U. S. Highway 91 on the Utah-Idaho border. Each greeting station will cost approximately $22,000.00 a total of $172,000.00 for the eight and will contain a spacious lounge, rest rooms with showers, and an ofice staffed by trained personnel who will have available various types of pictorial literature, road information, infor-mation, and the ready answer to tourist's questions about what to see in Utah. In short, the bureaus will do a complete selling job for the state, encouraging visitors to spend more time seeing Utah's scenic, historical and cultural attractions. If Utah's tourist visitors could be induced to pend just one more day in the tate, Utah would realize $30,000,-000. $30,000,-000. 0Q more in tourist income per season, it is pointed out. Construction is scheduled to start in the near future on the Kanab, St. George and Wendover tourist greeting centers, the Publicity Department De-partment announced. Harvard Scholarships Available To Utahns Harvard University has designed its national scholarship to attract students throughout the United States, and offers an invitation to Utah high school senior men students stu-dents to compete for what amounts to seven years of gratis training at the big eastern center of learning. Detailed information may be secured se-cured from the Office of the Director Direc-tor of Scholarships, Harvard University, Uni-versity, Cambride, Massachusetts. Utah Sees Huge Business Development More than 415 new firms listing seventeen million dollars in capital have been recorded on the corporation corpora-tion records in the office of Secretary Sec-retary of State E. E. Monson, during dur-ing the biennial period, July 1, 19-44 19-44 to June 30, 1946. The new businesses, busi-nesses, a large part of which have been started by war veterans, range from specialized laundry service to construction. For the proceeding pro-ceeding two fiscal years, only 192 new corporations were filed for operation op-eration within the state. National Guard Flags Return To Capitol An Armistice Day highlight will be the presentation of the colors the flags and guidons of three Utah National Guard regiments to Governor Herbert B. Maw on the south steps of the Capitol by Arnold Arn-old H. Rich, representing the War Department. Immediately following the traditional one minute silence at 11:00 o'clock A. M., Colonel Rich will review briefly the history of each of the units called to federal service March 3, 1941. L. D. S. Churchman Studies Navajo Needs George Albert Smith, L. D. S. Church President, pledged the assistance as-sistance of his church in efforts to improve living conditions of: the Indians who reside on the great Navajo Reservation which embraces embrac-es Southern Utah, Northern Arizona Ari-zona and New Mexico, at a three day meet of seventy-four other church and missionary organizations organiza-tions at Window Rock, Arizona. Will Survey Milk Situation The Utah Public Health Association Associa-tion will make a state-wide survey of the milk situation to determine if provisions of a recent state law governing standards of quality and purity are being met. Utahn Urged To Send Gift Celery Utahns are urged to send gift boxes of crisp, crunchy, delicious Utah celery to out-of-state friends during celery week, November 10th, to 17th. It is estimated that at least 50,000 boxes will be sent out of the state during that week. Utahns have been shipping this famous fa-mous product each November for the past twenty-five years. "National Publisher" features Utah The "National Publisher", a trade magazine serving the weekly newspapers news-papers and advertising agencies of the United States, -featured Utah on the front page of its current edition. The page, promoted and sponsored by the Utah State Press Association, states that "Utah is : on the march!" and tells the centennial cen-tennial story outlining Utah's march of progress during the past one hundred years. "There never was a brighter moment", mo-ment", declares the page, "to speak your piece in Utah, and incomar-ably incomar-ably the best medium is the weekly press". Utahn Given High Honor i Justice James H. Wolfe, member mem-ber of the Utah Supreme Court has I been named by President Harry S. Truman to a three-member emer-f emer-f gency board to investigate wage dispute between twenty-three shortline railroads arid fifteen non-; non-; operating railroad brotherhoods. |