Show I Spotlighting 1 1 UTAH UTAH- 1 i WOULD PERPETUATE CENTENNIAL NI L EVENTS EV Pleased with the success of the Utah Centennial program of events even Governor Herbert B B. Maw will name a committee of ot leaders In drama art music and r athletics to study feasibility of per per- perpetuating perpetuatIng perpetuating national Interest national Interest events In Inthe Inthe the state of or Utah The committee will wUl be asked to make recommendations to tho the state legislature and should that body find It convenient to set up a revolving fund to pay the Initial costs the annual program could be b Gov Gov- Governor Governor i o Maw law pointed out 1 In the meantime the fame lame of the success of the Utah Ut h Centennial has reached California and Rodney C. C Rich Rich- Richardson Richardson ardson ardron coordinator of 01 California Cen Cen- Centennial Centennial Centennial j tennial affairs accompanied by Sen Sea Fred chairman of the California legislature Centennial committee have arrived In Salt Lake City to confer with Utah Centennial officials and learn how Utah put over a successful Centennial Lack of commercialism Is one of the tho t outstanding features of the Utah Cen Cen- Centennial Centennial Centennial tennial Mr Richardson commented J It 11 has been a true historical celebration tion The California Centennial celebration i 7 will last three years and be planned In three phases hases Gold discovery 1948 gold rush and the anniversary of or statehood 1950 f UTAH II SUGAR INDUSTRY An expenditure of 4 OO OO within tho the next three years for Improvement and anti enlargement of plant facilities is 19 announced by the Utah-Idaho Utah Sugar I company la In 1946 sugar beet growers served by the Utah-Idaho Utah Sugar company co pany were paid by that concern for their product and In addition growers received 41 from the government UTAH RAISES RAIS S GOOD TOBACCO CCO Proof that Utah soil and climate Is la conductive to the production of tobacco can cen be seen In the backyard of L. L L. L Jewell Cheyenne street Salt Lake City who has large healthy tobacco i plants ready for harvesting and process process- processing ing tog Mr Jewell is in a dither however howe there are no facilities in the west for processing tobacco and the crop Is too small to bother sending south Mr Jewell a n former Kentucky tobacco raiser planted the crop to prove to his 1119 Utah friends that Utah soil and climate will raise better tobacco than even Ken Ken- tucky There are no tobacco eating insects here here here- he pointed out as we have In the south ESCALANTE SIGN INTRIGUES I TOURISTS ej ejA A Utah historical hi marker located on 1 Highway U U. S. S 40 east of Jensen nearl ne r. r th he Utah Colorado line points out that the the first party of white men to enter Utah Utah Father Father Escalante and his hi Catholic missionaries passed missionarIes passed that point in July To- To 1776 Westbound tourists entering Utah find find Ind the marker very Interesting Interesting for for on I July 19 state out cars stopped 1 and anti read the marker and 17 Individuals photographed the sign It Is 19 reported by G. G E. E Vernal geologist UTAH UT DUDE RANCH R. DRAWS EASTERNERS Tourists from Boston Salem Mass from front Connecticut Pennsylvania New Jersey and Illinois are now horseback touring the wildest sections of south south- southeastern southeastern southeastern eastern Utah the area where the Green and Colorado rivers come to a Junction They are guests of the 4 M ranch of o MOnticello and are being guided by DY Ross Rosa Musselman MAGAZINE E EDITOR TO STUDY UTAH Louisa Lou a M M. Comstock associate editor of Better Homes and Gardens maga- maga zinc has Informed the Utah Department I of Publicity and Industrial Development I that she will willbe be in Salt Lake City on oU I August 18 iS and spend four days gathering magazine material Previous to her ar arrival ar- ar arrival arrival rival here she will tour Bryce and Zion canyons During her visit the editor wilt be assisted by the State Publicity De De- Department Department In gathering Information about j Utah AFRICA AS A TOURIST MECCA A meeting is being held in Algiers Africa Metes in October to promote tourist business on the Dark Continent The tourist business Is becoming such an Important economical factor throughout the world that nearly every every nation on the tho globe is seeking promotion of this lucrative industry FAVOR FA OR FAR R WEST WESTA A recent survey reveals that the average American tourist shows a n. dis dIs- distinct dIstinct distinct preference for the Far West Vest Forty three per cent of ot those surveyed pro pro- professed professed professed a choice for fol the IntermountaIn west and Pacific Coast areas while 28 per cent favored the northeast 18 per percent percent percent cent Florida and the Gull Gulf Coast 11 per percent percent percent cent the North Central states and 8 per percent percent percent cent the Appalachian highlands Some SOmeI of the above respondents had two 1 I choices The also had a n preference In accommodations seven Forty per cent favored hotels 39 per cent motor courts 14 per cent tourist homes |