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Show I in the past ten years. "We are pleased to report," said Commissioner Commis-sioner Welling, "that more and more farmers each year are asking ask-ing for information on the seed they are planting. The seed laboratory lab-oratory is provided for in the state seed law and functions first as an official testing laboratory for enforcement of state seed regulations. The facilities of the laboratory are also available to any person desiring seed tested test-ed on payment of a reasonable fee." California On Her Toes The California State legislature legisla-ture has authorized the construction construc-tion of a three-million-dollar aerial tramway between Chino Canyon and Long Valley, 8,500 feet up the flank of 10,805-foot Mount Jacinto. It is planned to create a wonderland there for tourists, who can go from desert heat to winter snows in a few minutes. They can ski in the morning and swim in the afternoon. after-noon. Transportation Competition Railroads, bus lines, airlines and steamship companies are going "hog wild" over tourist possibilities next year. The rails are ordering new club streamliners stream-liners in bright colors drawn by Deisel power. The trains will have double bedrooms containing contain-ing individual toilets and showers. show-ers. Glass penthouse observation "casino" cars with smorgasbord buffets will accommodate fifty passengers. Bus lines will introduce intro-duce express liners and compartment compart-ment supercoaches seating fifty-one fifty-one persons, and carrying full toilet facilities, also a buffet and lounge. Air conditioning will be general and buses will ride easier and travel faster. ! Spotlighting I UTAH Bundy Urges Centennial Coin Utah's congressional delegation at Washington is asking for the minting of a silver dollar 1947 I centennial coin, the idea of ' which was presented to them recently re-cently by Ora Bundy, Chairman of the Utah State Department of Publicity and Industrial Development. Develop-ment. Mr. Bundy indicated that Senator Abe Murdock and Congressman Con-gressman J. W. Robinson were in hearty accord with the movement move-ment and have -introduced resolutions reso-lutions before congressional currency cur-rency and banking committees calling for the minting of the coin. Guest Preparations Underway With the latest national sur-. veys indicating that next year's tourist migration will be westward west-ward in a volumne never previously prev-iously experienced and that 87 percent will come by auto, a movement is now underway to make a good impression on Utah's 1946 visitors. Working in close harmony with the Department Depart-ment of Publicity and Industrial Indus-trial Development, the State Agricultural Ag-ricultural Vocational Department Depart-ment under Director Mark Nichols Nich-ols is sponsoring "Community Improvement Clubs" in Utah's 275 communities of a population from 100 to 800. No traveler who has toured Ohio, Iowa and other eastern states can forget the nicely painted, orderly arranged and well fenced homesteads with trim looking barnyards and all farm machinery under sheds. In 1946, Utah's communities will either make a lasting impression for good, or a distasteful impression im-pression of littered unkept farmyards, farm-yards, unpainted houses, barns and fences, unless action is taken tak-en at once. Losing no time, the agriculture department's program pro-gram for community beautifica-tion beautifica-tion is already underway. The program calls for the organization organiza-tion of C. I. Clubs in every community com-munity by the Agriculture instructor in-structor of the area's high school and the listing of every worthwhile worth-while beautification project. With the proper enthusiasm aroused, and cooperation secured of those having pride in the appearance of their own communities, everything every-thing should be in "apple pie order" when the great tourist migration starts through Utah next May. Ralph Parlette once said, "I judge a community by four things: the railroad station, which gives evidence of what the railroad thinks, about the community; com-munity; the hotel, which Indicates Indi-cates what the business interests think of the community; the postoffice, a criterion of what Uncle Sam thinks of the community, com-munity, and the homes! the appearance ap-pearance of the homes indicate what the people think of themselves." them-selves." Judging Utah's rural communities com-munities strictly by the appearance appear-ance of the farmstead buildings, fences, machinery, growing crops and quality of livestock, Ralph Parlette's criterion of necessity in some instances would not be too high. The story is told of how a former Utah chief executive who anxious to make a good impression impres-sion for the state rushed his party of distinguished eastern guests by bus from Salt Lake City to the southern Utah parks by night rather than have them see the tumble-down barns with machinery and trash littered over acre lots, ancient houses and other unsightly eyesores that would have left a lasting Impression Im-pression for bad on the guests. After two days in the parks, he rushed them back to Salt Lake, again by night In order to preserve pre-serve the fine impression made by the park visit. The forming of the "community improvement clubs" by the agriculture department depart-ment should correct In a largo measure any .such conditions if they cxl;;t and It will require a lot of extra work on the part of every citizen In every community to present his area for public Inspection next May and say: "here It l.s, I'm proud of It!" Serving Agriculture I Constantly seeking to render a "better .service" to Utah's agriculture agri-culture Industry, Agriculture Commissioner Tracy R. Welling announces the Installation of one of the finest and most up-to-date seed laboratories In the' west. Operating to the end that crop Improvement means "use of better seeds," the continued development of the agriculture Industry Is assured with a resultant re-sultant Increase In crop Income. Commissioner Welling calls attention at-tention that the new laboratory now stands ready at the Capitol to serve agriculture and Insure the highest quality of seed It Is possible to produce, free from noxious weeds. As a result a crop Improvement through the use of better seed, production of seed as an Industry has been Increased In-creased some six million-dollars |