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Show Explain Movement To Have Tourists Make Longer Stops Robert V. Quick and Ben Harri-i Harri-i son of Los Angeles, James Rowe of Salt Lake City, and Walter G. Lunt, hotel man and prominent commuunity worker of Cedar City, were guests of the local Lions club Wednesday evening as representa: tives of the California-to-Yellow-stone tourist association, which is being organized with a view to extending the knowledge of tourists tour-ists to scenic spots further removed remov-ed from the well traveled highways high-ways than those places they are now seeing. Chauncey W. West, exceedingly popular hotel man, who is back with the Newhouse hotel in Salt Lake after managing the Ben Lomond Lo-mond in Ogden for a time, is president of the association and Mr. Lunt is secretary-treasurer. Mr. Quick is executive field officer and Mr. Harrison and Mr. Rowe are field workers who will solicit memberships. Also, Mr. Quick is a writer of recognized ability and ! is being depended upon to publi- , cize the work of the organization : with a view to having tourists spend longer periods of time in the various parts of the west instead of rushing through. All the visitors spoke briefly at the meeting which, though not attended by a large membership, member-ship, due to so many being out of town, was declared one of the most interesting of the year. Richard Matarasso of New York, son-in-law of Lion O. C. Koch, was a guest of the latter. |