Show H I I Spotlighting I UTAH I SNOWFALL FACTS 5 i I. I With heavy snows in the mountains ant and light snows in the valleys ample water is assured Utah for next seasons season's crops Deep snow in Utah mountains is I Ilko money in the bank Heavy snowfall is equally important to other states state which depend on irrigation Snow falls as a rule during some bOme I months of the year In in 47 states with Florida lorida being the exception Colorado gets the deepest white blanket with a yearly average of inches Wyoming comes next with Inches Montana next with and Utah with Inches I PRIMITIVE IRI TRAILS LURE LURG SCOUTS On the last last three days of December tho the explorer scouts of ot the Salt Lako Lake Council will don their warmest clothing snow shoes and knap sucks sacks and hike over the old Mormon Trail Trall between Salt Lake and Henefer Render They will spend two nights In the open I Next April the Senior scouts of the Salt Lake Council will embark on a a. tour of the Colorado River beginning April 5 In August the tho Senior scouts will en- en enJoy enJoY enJoy I Joy a high adventure trek into the wildest area of the High The Thelast Thelast last st named trip will take the scouts into inton a n mountain and forest region rarely penetrated by man iRE ARE WE STARVING i I A Utahn D. D Clegg who has devoted I II j I several years to research on foods and 1 especially celery points out that it is quite possible that we are I starving While we get plenty of or food Clegg Cl gg points out we are probably eating fruits vege vege- vegetables vegetables vegetables tables and grains which no longer con con- contain contain tain Lain enough certain vital minerals so Important to health I Healthy plants mean healthy people says Clegg Cleg you cant can't raise a strong race raco on a mineral depleted soil In support of his hl hi claims Clegg has had soil samples from various fields analyzed and can an readily show the soils in iii many In Instances In- In Instances instances stances are below standard in calcium Iron ron and 14 other Important minerals Ho He maintains that if It farmers would put back ack in in the soil the 16 minerals now being depleted vegetables would be In Insect In- In Insect sect resistant disease resistant and be because be- be because bemuse cause muse of their high mineral content would demand premium prices from con con- sumers umers WEST TO LURE TOURISTS j I A recent survey conducted by five leading Heading national magazines and other agencies reveals that the famed attractions inn of rf the ThA West Vet will lure one nii out nut Of nf every five American vacationers the com corn coming coming cornIng ing season The Tho survey indicated that the vacation trend toward the West is In- In in In- creasing i CHOICE CELERY SENT AWAY AYAY More than packages of ot extra fine celery has been sent by to individuals throughout the nation It is reported by Salt Lake firms who make a specialty qt of shipping fancy celery KAISER TO OPERATE IN L- L LUTAH UTAH Henry J. J Kaiser officials report that they are paying for the Iron Ironton IronI Ironton I ton and Sunnyside coke ovens blast furnace They expect them to be in inI I I operation by next April The plants The plants are I I in iii I central and nd southeastern Utah and will turn out pig iron I PROFESSOR DEFENDS UTAH I TAX Tt X RATES I Utah is not a high tax state claims claims' Dr D Dilworth Walker dean of ot the Uni- Uni University I i of Utah school of business He lIe Ie maintains that state gas income and sales taxes in Utah are as low or lower 1 states than those of ot other Western UTAH BUSINESS EXPANDS Tho The Federal Reserve Bank of San I Francisco says Utah's loan volume in 1947 is 29 million dollars above 1946 1948 Indicating a healthy growth of ot business and and a continuing return to peacetime economy GAINS SEE IN IN UTAH UTA INDUSTRY AGRICULTURE Plans for developing Utah's water resources if completed successfully maywell may maywell maywell well double the agriculture re wealth of ot the state says the Colorado River committee I p report Issued in Washington D D. C. C C I MAW SEES HUGE EXPANSION I PROGRAM Jv rw ri f Governor Herbert B. B Maw predicts predicts' that Utah will become the oil all center of the I United States even if we dont don't get a a. I drop of oil from wells in Utah Geneva Genava Steel he says will be the heart of a a. vast manufacturing empire The uThe war he pointed out would still stillI I bo ho going on if 11 it had not been for the great contribution of the Utah Copper Company Mine now Copper I to the war effort I PUBLIC lU OPINION ION IONi i j WONDERING JUST exactly what the United Nations has gained a critic of ot this organization might consider what Senator told the University of gt Michigan He lie does not deny that without the UN Russia and those sub subJect subject states state would no doubt be Just as aggressive but ho he suggests that then these hostile countries would have been ablo to conceal their aggressiveness As Asit it is the sessions of at the UN have brought these plans plans- Into the open where all can know of them This gives free countries the opportunity to prepare a defense and 1 a a. resistance Force is 15 a powerful persuader r l er but we wo know that when you arouse 1 public opinion you are creating a force that is pretty strong too NAVAJOS NA AJOS GET hOOD BOOD j I By this time hundreds of tons of ot food food- donated by is 15 being distributed distrIbuted among tho the Navajo Indian nation In Utah Arizona and New Mexico Mans Man's benevolence to man has again been dem ilem- demonstrated demonstrated and the hungry have been fed ted There are still several months of at winter wint ahead and it is hoped that th t since the newspaper talk about abou tho the Navajos is sub sub- subsiding siding the Navajoa d will not be forgotten and and- allowed to starve during the the- balance of tho the winter S I jJ |