Show spotlighting UTAH 1 publicity head passes joseph J cannon commissioner ot of publicity tor for the utah department ot of publicity and industrial du development has passed to the great beyond but not without the deepest sorrow among his friends and acquaintances mr cannon cannoa had been ill for two months and was unable to overcome the ravages of a sickness which confined him to his bed since last august As a journalist radio writer a church worker a traveler and a family man he lived a rich life he left a tine flue record of achievement and an honorable and upright family who feel his untimely loss A long list of journalistic accomplishments will continue to do honor to his name would double recreational activity I 1 the scripps howard newspapers have stated a movement to double recreational travel in america lets make it a business they say in view of the fact that utah has 24 major scenic attraction attractions and to Is located on the cross roads of the nation the utah department of publicity and industrial development Is heartily in accord with the suggestion the howard people mention ralph towle high american express company official and hla bla 1941 prophecy said mr towle this five or six billion dollar travel bill of the american people is nothing compared with what it will be ten years from now I 1 estimate it will be ten billion annually garth cate nationally recognized travel expert predicts that americans will spent ten billion dollars for vacation travel lu in 1946 would amount to million something to reach for highly significant are questions the scripps howard people ask why have we been working for the last year and ter very Y successfully to interest the department part ment stores in the sales making potentials in basing year around merchandise promotions on recreational travel why have we suggested that basic amateur photography be taught in high schools why have we present edthe new trends In vacations the upsurge up surge in hunting fishing camping because they say we believe that vastly increased rec rea travel will spread em klyment in all trades and protes and create employment in the service and transportation trades and thus cushion the shock when the postwar production boom Is over that it can be a major cafor contribution to the maintenance 0 of full employment we believe that 16 15 billion dollars spent voluntarily by the people of the U S in recreational pursuits kursu its would be more affect ive than 30 billion dollars spent by the government in make work utah lacing association formed the development to fo horse horie racing in utah la Is promised by the utah racing association an organization formed at richfield tentative dates have been set tor for 12 1946 meets throughout the state and the association will make rules to regulate track conditions dit ions promote the breeding of better racing stock etc towns represented at the associations soc charter meeting included salt labek city logan provo murray richfield beav continued continued on page tour four spotlighting utah continued from page one er kanab panguitch Pan gultch payson Pa rowan fillmore and mantl manti lions want super highway western colorado groups and the vernal llona lions are getting their heads together with the objective of having highway V U S 40 placed on the super highway system now planned by the government salt lake population up salt lake cites population lb in now stabilized at which Is approximately above the last U S census figures Ilg ures the figure above Is cited as being responsible tor for the housing shortage and the crowded hotels now new signs soon new highway signs designating roads and towns will soon replace the old utah highway signs forty tons of sheet steel has been purchased by the state tor for use id the improvement weber students study south utah I 1 seventy two geology students from agdens Og deris weber college have just made a tour of bryce zion and the grand canyons thier objective was the study of geology in a geologists paradise and Is the resumption of the annual tours which ended at the beginning of the war provo pi oo 00 writer cited lt samuel W taylor hit the saturday evening post this month with a finely written war article lt taylor has achieved national success in article writing it was reported Af maurine aurine whipple scores again this Is the place utah f new book the initial local sales of which have been sponsored by br the Z C al I 1 book department and the J C penny book department part ment Is on sale now in salt lalie lake city written by maurine whipple and best described by the retail bookseller a nationally circulated trade journal the tha publication Is briefly told as follows A tine fine study of ithe mormon state and its peculiar people by an outstanding ing novelist author of oe giant joshua who was born a mormon anil and was brought up and educated in utah accompanying companying compa nying the text are photos in color and black and all selected by miss wripple 11 miss Whip whipples ples book Is attracting wide attention in salt lake cites book cover circles it t Is done in the same vivid language letting the chips tall fall where they may so characteristic of 0 giant joshua the authors first book like to see them live latin american audiences dont like to jo seg eq an actor die in one picture turn up a week later in another one U S movi emen are up a tree as ag to how to handle the situation the latin american movie tan fans demand their mone money back every time this occurs |