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Show Spotlighting UTAH 1 I'fah Si'liodulos Unique Tourist Promotion Plan In an effort to secure for Utah a more justifiable share of the annual national tourist expenditure, expendi-ture, the Utah Department of Publicity and Industrial Development Develop-ment will build eight "Tourist greeting centers" at Utah's eight major doorsteps. The tourist doorsteps are designated as Ka-nab, Ka-nab, St. George, Wendover, Thompsons, Brigham City, Echo Canyon, Vernal, and the U. S. Highway 91 on the Utah-Idaho border. Each greeting station will cost approximately $22,000.00 a total of S172.000.00 for the eight and will contain a spacious lounge, rest rooms with showers, and an office staffed by trained personnel person-nel who will have available various var-ious types of pictorial literature, road information, and the ready answer to tourist's questions about what to see in Utah. In short, the bureaus will do a complete selling job for the state, encouraging visitors to spend more time seeing Utah's scenic, historical and cultural attractions. at-tractions. If Utah's tourist visitors visi-tors could be induced to spend just one more day in the state, Utah would realize $30,000,000.00 more In tourist income per season, I it Is pointed out. I Construction is scheduled to I start in the near future on the ) Kanab, St. George and Wendover i tourist greeting centers, the Publicity Pub-licity Department announced. Harvard Scholarships Available To Utahns Harvard University has designed design-ed its national scholarship to attract at-tract students throughout the United States, and offers an invitation in-vitation to Utah high school senior sen-ior men students to compete for what amounts to seven years of gratis training at the big eastern east-ern center of learning. Detailed i information may be secured from the Office of the Director of : Schlorships, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts. I Utah Sees Huge Business Development I More than 415 new firms list-i list-i ing seventeen million dollars in I capital have been recorded on the corporation records in the ' office of Secretary of State E. E. , Monson, during the biennial period, per-iod, July 1, 1944 to June 30, 1946. The new businesses, a large part of which have been started by war veterans, range from specialized special-ized laundry service to construction. construc-tion. For the preceding two fiscal years, only 192 new corporations corp-orations were filed for operation within the state. National Guard Flags Return To Capitol An Armistice Day highlight will be the presentation of the colors the flags and guidons of three Utah National Guard regiments to Governor Herbert B. Maw on the south steps of the Capitol by Colonel Arnold H. Rich, representing repre-senting the War Department. Immediately Im-mediately following the traditional tradi-tional one minute silence at 11:00 o'clock A. M., Colonel Rich will review briefly the history of each of the units called to federal service serv-ice March 3, 1941. L. D. S. Churchman Studies Navajo Needs George Albert Smith, L. D. S. Church President, pledged the assistance of his church in efforts to improve living conditions of the Indians who reside on the great Navajo Reservation which embraces Southern Utah, Northern North-ern Arizona and New Mexico, at a three day meet of seventy-four other church and missionary organizations or-ganizations at Window Rock, Arizona. Utahns Urged To Send Gift Celery Utahns are urged to send gift boxes of crisp, crunchy, delicious Utah celery to out-of-state friends during celery week, November No-vember 10th, to 17th. It is esti- mater that at least 50,000 boxes j will be sent out of the state during dur-ing that week. Utahns have been shipping this famous product each November for the past 25 years. "National Publisher" Features Utah The "National Publisher"-, a trade magazine serving the weekly week-ly newspapers and advertising agencies of the United States, featured Utah on the front page of its current edition. The page, promoted and sponsored by the Utah State. Press Association, states that "Utah is on the march!" and tells the centennial story outlining Utah's march of progress during the past one hundred years. "There never was a brighter moment", declares the page, "to speak your piece in Utah, and incomparably the best medium is the weekly press". |