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Show Spotlighting UTAH I Nephi's Gain, Brigham's Loss Nearly loosing the $300,000 rubber rub-ber goods manufacturing plant to Brigham City, Nephi is happy in the announcement from the Thermoid Company of New Jersey Jer-sey that "we have definitely selected the site of Nephi." Two days previous, the Thermoid Ther-moid officials pondered a site at Brigham, where every concession possible was made to induce them to locate their new plant in the Peach City. Uinta Oil Prospects Tested While oil men are keeping ! findings entirely secert, they are carefullly probing every section of the Uinta Basin for oil. With the Rangely, Colorado oil field just over the line and producing heavily, intense interest is focused fo-cused on the Utah side of the field. Utilizing scientific apparatus appa-ratus in the form of portable Seizmograph units on trucks, major ma-jor oil concerns" are carefully mapping the underground structures struc-tures of the Unita Basin. Headed by rapid working well drilling units, putting down 100-foot hnloc civ infhpc in Hinmptor the Seix'mograph crews follow closely. close-ly. Two trucks with special built in electrical equipment make up a Seizmograph unit. One truck locates at the drilled hole, and the other one sets up a half mile j distnat. A charge of dynamite is fired in the hole and the miniature mini-ature earthquake shocks set up by the explosion are recorded by the distant truck's electrical e-quipment. e-quipment. The resulting record indicates to the operators the underground un-derground earth structures in the locality which in turn, hints to the geologist a possible oil field. As can be readily understood, their findings are a deep secret, and only the future will reveal whether or not Uintah County has an oil filed similar to Rrange ly, Colorado. Woud Stop Smoking In Cafes Robert Crookston, an occasional occasion-al writer in the Cache American Newspaper, recently came out in a torrid attack against smoking in Utah restaurants. Calling attention at-tention to the fact that Utah's laws lorbid smoking in puDiic places, Mr. Crookston maintains the present variety of food served in restaurants when well saturated satu-rated with tobacco smoke makes mighty poor eating. He would have the police jail all who insist on smoking in Utah cafes and restaurants. By way of comment on the subject, sub-ject, many New York cafes forbid smoking by partons, calling attention at-tention to the fact that tobacco smoke spoils the taste of food. One other point worthy of mention men-tion is that the fifteen-car highspeed high-speed trains which operate every hour between New York and Philadelphia, carry ten passenger cars in which smoking is strictly forbidden. Strange to say, seats in these cars are highly popular with the tobacco-using traveling public, who seem to enjoy clean air for a change. Iron Countv Gets Exhibition I Buildings After long and strenuous efforts ef-forts on the part of Iron County officials and Parawan City, they have secured Parawan CCC buildings build-ings from the Grazing Service which will be used for county fair purposes and exhibitionv buildings. Utah Plants Stir Sneezes Salt bushes, common in Utah, along with native grasses, sagebrush, sage-brush, russian thistle, sunflowers and rabbit brush are entering into in-to a pollination period. While few hayfever sufferers realize it, the above plants are all guilty of making life miserable for the hayfever sufferer. Work Starting On Monument The first stone in the scheduled "This Is The Place" monument will be laid July 24th at the mouth of Emigration Canyon. Actual quarrying of granite for the monument is now going on at the quarry, three miles east of the old Wasatch Resort in Little Cottonwood Canyon. Plans State-wide Safety Meet Governor Herbert B. Maw is now laying plans for a statewide state-wide safety meet to be held in September. Governor Maw attended at-tended a national meet in May and plans to localize the techniques tech-niques of safety recently brought out in the national conference. State Vacancies Filled Willard A. Day of Duchsne has been named by Governor Herbert B. Maw to a commissionership on the State Road Commission, and Dr. W. M. Stookey, Salt Lake City, was named to fill Mr. Day's recent position as member of the State Engineering Commission's Advisory Board. H. M. Chamberlain, Chamber-lain, Salt Lake City, was appointed ap-pointed a member of the State Depository Board for a two-year term, and Dr. John A. Anderson, Salt Lake City, was appointed to a five-year term on the board of trustees, state hospital for treatment treat-ment of poliomyelitis and other crippling deseases of children. Wculd Oust Bad Utah Laws U. S. Attorney Dan B. Shileds in a Salt Lake speech before the Kiwanis Club, ured a "cleaning out" of "queer Utah Laws". "Utah has 150 queer laws on the statute books", he said. |