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Show Monday, Mar. 26, j Is Proclaimed 'As Utah's Arbor Day ; Pointing out that beautification through planting of trees, shrubs : and flowers takes on added signi i-' ficance this year because - of pre-; parations for the 1947 centennial celebration, Governor Henry H.i Blood ssued a proclamation Wed-' nesday. designating March 25 as! Arbor day. j A state-wide beautification pro-; gram is now being prepared by j county, state and L. D. S. church committees. Xephi L. Morris of! Salt Lake City is cairman of the state committee. "The people of Utah, as represented repre-sented by their several, civic, religious re-ligious and official organizations", the governor said, "are setting themselves with an unwonted and inspired vigor to the task of improving im-proving and beautifying their surroundings. sur-roundings. Such an objective is always worth while. It is doubtly so in Utah at the present because of the approach of the centennial anniversary of the arrival of the first peirmaneht settlers in this region. "Utah expects to invite the world to join in celebrating the completion of the first century of civilization in these Utah valleys. Visitors will be attracted here by the majesty of our Alpine scenery; scen-ery; by the splendor and grandeur of our canyons; by the wonder of our salt beds; by the wizardry of the Great Salt lake; by the bounteous boun-teous supply of our natural re- sources, scenic and otherwise. Other hundreds of thousands will be glad to sojourn here because of the .kind of people who live in Utah, their traditions, their manner man-ner of living and their ideals. "For the reception of these guests, Utah plans to put her house in order. Trees, shrubbery and flowers are well nigh indispensable indis-pensable in the beautification of private premises and public parks and driveways. It is none too early to begin active work on this state-wide undertaking". "M |