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Show Spotlighting UTAH I Information On G. I. Training . Howard B. Gundersen, state director di-rector of trades, industries and distributive education, emphasized that Utah is prepared to offer vocational vo-cational training covering a broad field under the G. I. Bill of Rights. Training-on-the-job, mentioned in a previous column, is but one phase of the program. Approved schools will offer: 1. Pre-employment courses, day or evening. 2. Part-time courses for the benefit of those already employed. 3. Courses of related and technical techni-cal subjects supplementing training-on-the-job. High school or college credit may be obtained if desired. Hours and length of course will depend on the needs of the trainees. Special Courses Offered Specialists from the school will work with advisory committees, composed of representatives of employer em-ployer and employe groups, to design de-sign and fit all training to the current, as well as the long range, needs of industry and the veteran. TVia firMi F .f J well as the number trained in different dif-ferent trades, will be decided by such committees. The driving thought behind vocational training in Utah, both for the G.I. veteran and for the civilian trainee, is to work closely with industry and labor, find out their needs, and tlen offer a service that will help solve their problems and afford continued upgrading and progress. Cockwith Explains Crater Frank Beckwith, editor of the Delta Chronicle and by heart a geologist, ge-ologist, is the first man actually to discover that the famous Pahvant Butte, in Millard county, a huge and extinct volcano crater, is only a youngster compared with a much older crater which Mr. Beckwith recently found circled the Pahvant Butte. Discovered by Father Esca-lunto Esca-lunto in 177(5. nearly 170 years ago, when he came through Utah and designated on his map as an isolated mountain in "The Valley of Salt," the Pahvant Butte is a half mile in diameter and S50 feet high. The Butte also is mentioned by Gilbert in his United States Geologic Survey in 1S90. However, it remained for Editor Beckwith to get curious enough about the Butte to fly over it in a plane, and in doing so discovered an older and more ancient crater ring, a mile i n diameter, circling Pahvant Butte. When Utah was considerably consider-ably under Lake Bonneville, Pahvant Pah-vant Butte was then a live volcano, building its cone nearly a thousand feet above the lake bottom and pos-pibly pos-pibly to th surface of the watar. Millions of years previously, however, how-ever, this giant had been' awake to a much greater degree and left the tell-tale crater ring first recognized recog-nized by Editor Beckwith from 3000 feet in the air. "If", questions ques-tions Editor Beckwith, "this sleeping: sleep-ing: giant awoke twice in the last billion years, who knows when it will awaken again?" ; Straight-Shooting Utahns i The most deceptive big game targets are antelope; they run 50 miles an hour, and weigh only 100 pounds, yet 40 out of 50 Utah permit per-mit holders got their animals dur ing the recent open season. That is straight shooting. Nor does all the straight-shooting glory go to the men: Joyce LeeMaster, 16, of Springville investigated a rumpus in the family hen house and found "a wild looking animal, like a cat, only larger, with a bob tail." Miss Lee Master's well-aimed shot from a trusty .22 rifle brought a chick-; (Continued on last paje) ! Spotlighting Utah (Continued irom first page) en-stealing bobcat's career to an end. Fourteen Cent Beet Seed Utah-grown sugar beet seed at 14 cents per pound for the producer pro-ducer promises much for the industry in-dustry in Utah. A Michigan firm will purchase all. the seed that can be produced from 300 acres now under contract in the Uintah basin. Production will run from 2000 to 3000 pounds per acre, promising a sizable return to the caref ul grower. grow-er. According to Russel Keetch and Marden Broadibent, county agricultural agejits of Uintah and Duchesne, respectively, the cash crop of beet seed will prove highly high-ly beneficial to farmers of the Uintah basin. Timp Cave Breaks Recors Timp cave is drawing them in! On Labor day, 815 people visited this magnificient scenic attraction near American Fork, an all-time record for visitors in one day. The cave is open to the public daily from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. until winter makes the trail impassable. Deer Casualties Seen Thousands of mustered-out service ser-vice men whose gun-conditioned hands are itching to fondle a deer rifle, along with Utah's meat-hungry meat-hungry sportsmen, will make an unhealthy combination for Utah's deer herds this autumn. In addition, addi-tion, hundreds of California and Nevada hunters will be heading for Utah mountains. State Game Director Ross Leonard's 6G wardens ward-ens are fully prepared for the big game season and 3000 safety promotion posters have been conspicuously con-spicuously posted. Fifty thousand "Ten Commandments of Safety" I have been sent to license agencies, . stores, and schools. Meantime, sportsmen who applied for special permits are receiving notification, notifica-tion, and some are getting refund checks. Drawing for 700 elk permits per-mits will be held October 12 and in addition to the regular elk sea-. sea-. son, scheduled for November 10 to 1 19, a special hunt is set for De- cember 1 to 10, for faking 125 ani-i ani-i mals of either sex in the Nebo-Mona Nebo-Mona area. |