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Show Spotlighting UTAH j Unhappy Travelers From Brig-ham to Kanab, two of Utah's most colorful cities, situated situat-ed at opposite ends of the state, come stories about "unhappy travelers" who. during week-ends, find it almost impossible to get food and hotel accommodations. At Kanab, Editor E. Eugene Roberts Ro-berts calls attetion to the need by next summer for several hundred additional "tourist accomodation" rental units and mentions the thouands of dollars in tourist money now passing through that city which could be stopped at (Continued on last page) Spotlighting Utah (Continued from first v&ze) Kanab if additional eating and sleeping facilities were available. Said Editor Roberts: "There is a real opportunity here for one prepared pre-pared to take care of the traveler." travel-er." At Brigham City, Editor Bill Long laments the lack of tourist accomodations and hopes for the timely arrival of opportunity-seeking businessmen who will do something some-thing to make the "unhappy traveler" happy. "From 300 to 500 Bushnell hospital' visitors recently re-cently found themselves in Brig-ham Brig-ham on a week-end with only one restaurant in operation and a lot of them went hungry," said Editor Long. What To Do About It If such stories come from Brig-ham Brig-ham and Kanab, what's happening happen-ing to the traveler in the 850 miles between these cities ? one asks ; and are they also unhappy? Suggested Sug-gested recommendations: That restaurant operators on the state's highways unite to the point of seeing see-ing that sufficient eating houses remain open at all times to make the unhappy traveler "happy"; that hotel and motel operators lose no time in preparing for that great army of hungry, well-to-do travelers who will arrive here next summer anticipating good accomodations accomo-dations such as a hot bath and clean cool sheets in a modern tourist unit. No traveler should be allowed to leave a city in an unhappy frame of mind and this column says, ."You can't say we didn't warn you a year in advance. ad-vance. "Moral: Tourist complaints spread faster than a pestilence." |