Show civic clubs seek jobs for youth monthly session held at blanding anding BI saturday road improvements discussed urgent need to supply jobs for her youth brought forth a flow of eloquence at the meeting of the associated civic clubs of southern utah in session saturday at blanding anding BI and ended in the adoption by the association of a point program encouraging use of home products development of f natural resources and reduction of of taxes as a means of brightening the economic picture graphically summing up the situation T W jensen of mt aft pleasant said more than college graduates are leaving the state each year unless something is done immediately to provide opportunity port unity for the youth of utah the state is going to be up against it pretty soon the people in utah will be the old folks who want their regular monthly pensions our best talent is leaving the state annually said frank G Mar martines lines of richfield our state is losing population rapidly and we must find new industry to combat this menace D E baldwin of moab suggested that civic organizations unite in a movement to offer inducement to bring manufacturing plants into utah thereby providing jobs and at least partial solution to the problem other speakers on the topic were L A of milford mitchell ilenich of moab and daniel stevens of fillmore Fill road matters again came before the association when jesse nusbaum superintendent of mesa verde national park in western colorado said tourist travel at the park this year had increased by 45 per cent and pointed out that most of the parks visitors would include a tour of southern utah on their itinerary if roads were improved the associations road load committee and grand and san juan county commisso commissioners ners were delegated to get in contact with the utah state road commission in an effort to speed hard surfacing of U S highway no which passes through monticello and moab and connects the park with U S highway 50 at crescent junction it was pointed out that the state road commission had promised completion of the highway by 1940 A letter from ezra C knowlton chief engineer of the state road commission was read he promised expenditure of in im proving the snow canyon highway in washington county between enterprise and st george next winter the meeting closed with a ban and dance saturday evening many of the delegates sunday made a tour to the natural bridges national monument 54 miles west of blanding anding BI and then a journey south through monument valley navajo indian reservation grand canyon national park an and d the kaibab indian reservation of northern Ax arizona izona |