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Show be realized from the sale of the I old prison. Plastic Plant For Provo j A plastic moulding plant to employ 60 persons is now being ! constructed at Provo. The plant will house the most modern plastic plas-tic injection, compression and extrusion ex-trusion moulding equipment, and it is planned to weave, eletro-plate eletro-plate and blow plastics. Production Produc-tion is expected to get underway this spring. Tourist Hotel for Cedar Breaks An S30.000 tourist hotel to be built on the highest rim of the canyon is planned for Cedar j Breaks by the National Park Service. An eight-mile road has been surveyed around the Breaks and National Parks Superintendent Superinten-dent H. B. Smith and Iron County Coun-ty Commissioners are working on the problem of obtaining a right-of-way over private lands owned in the region. West As National Playground The promotion of tourist travel to the west on an interstate basis was decided upon at the Western Governors' Conference at Cheyenne, Chey-enne, declared Governor Herbert B. Maw on his return to Utah. A national advertising campaign to' promote the west as a playground play-ground and recreation area for the nation will be promoted in the future by a representative Green River's geyser, more a myth, than a reality to Utahns, will soon be accessible to the traveling public. Long have Utah's tourist folders dramatically drama-tically portrayed this geyser, however the elusive spouter was located 13 winding and weary miles out in the badlands from Green River. Now comes Roy W. Cook, who has obtained control of the attraction so comparable to Yellowstone's "Old Faithful" and promises to spend $10,000 for the construction of a six-mile six-mile short cut road to the site of the rumbling belcher. compound, and 900,000 tons in one instance was converted Into alcohol which in turn was used to produce synthetic rubber." The discoveries of new uses for sugar and sugar beet by-products in industry and otherwise will add much to the Income of Utah beet sugar farmers in years to come, Mr. Lamborn promised. Vitamin Control In Utah The job of keeping Utah's foodstuffs and beverages free from filth, Insects and toxic preservatives pre-servatives has long been well done. Now, a new problem has . developed that of checking on committee to be named by western west-ern governors, he said. It will be a long range program and will not be put into effect until roads and housing conditions can be improved to the point where a huge tourist migration to western west-ern playground and scenic areas can be accommodated. Joe's Valley Reservoir Seen Advancement toward the building build-ing of the Joe's Valley dam is now seen in Emery County by action of certain interested groups. The Joe's Valley dam, if and when built, will be the largest construction job of its kind in southeastern Utah. Sponsors Spon-sors of the project point out the tourist attraction possibilities of the lake created by such a dam, and declare the shoreline would be greater than that of Fish Lake. State Senator Mitchell Melich of Moab, Chairman of the Colorado River Committee in reference re-ference to the construction of the Joe's Valley dam declares that the only thing needed to increase in-crease the productivity of Emery County land and to bring increased in-creased productive property to the region is the development of sufficient water, such as could be had through the creation of the Joe's Valley reservoir. Green River's Geyser Spouting in abject loneliness, The Green River geyser hourly spouts 80 feet into the air and tons of cold salt water drench the site during a 15-minute show. The water is vomited into the air under pressure of carbon-dioxide gas. Beet Growers Future Rosy "Most people think of sugar only as a food," declares Ody H. Lamborn, who represents processes pro-cesses of 95 per cent of all sugar consumed in the U. S. "During the war." he said, "sugar proved of inestimable value as an organic chemical claims made by food manufacturers manufac-turers that their product contains con-tains the all-necessary life-giving vitamins. The matter was laid in the lap of Utah's state agriculture department de-partment and now anything from "soup to nuts" can be analyzed ana-lyzed for vitamin content, says Tracy R. Welling, state board of agriculture chairman. The department's de-partment's $2,000 worth of new madern equipment analyses all foods claiming vitamin content for the protection of the Utah consumer. J Spotlighting UTAH All Utah To Hear President's Message Statewide observation of Utah's "Golden Anniversary" will mark Friday, January 4th, at Salt Lake ity. Special events are programmed program-med for the day, culminating in a public meeting at eight o'clock p. m. in the Salt Lake Tabernacle. Throughout Utah, schools and colleges will observe the day with patriotic programs. A message to Utahn's from President Harry S. Truman will be given at the Tabernacle by Utah's Senator Abe Murdock. At the conclusion of the program, pro-gram, the six surviving signers of the Utah Constitution, J. W. Kerr, Mons Peterson, Elmer K. Corfman, Noble Warrum, Sr., Chas. N. Strevell and Louis Coray, along with Chas. Richards, Rich-ards, surviving secretary of the Utah territory, will be presented with appropriate gifts as tokens of appreciation from the State of Utah. Vernal Enters Oil Limelight A seismic survey is being made within the city limits of Vernal to determine what oil prospects lie beneath the surface. A five-man five-man crew equipped with two rigs are making the explorations. Vernal is thought to be in an area where the Rangely productive produc-tive oil horizons can be penetrated pene-trated within a reasonable drilling drill-ing depth. Utah Pinenut Harvest Good From Enterprise, comes the news that while the Indians formerly harvested the pinenut crop, the whites have taken a huge interest in the same and nutting parties this season have brought in large quantities ol this delicious food. New Prison Soon Utah's new prison planned foi the Point of the Mountain, soutr of Salt Lake City will be constructed con-structed this spring. The project was started in 1939, but stoppec at the beginning of the war. Approximately Ap-proximately $300,000.00 will b( spent in construction of the nev prison, $100,000.00 of which wil |