| Show Clean up Utah is me of County meeting DUCHESNE A of White was L. Stark's opening to Uintah county and Chamber of Commerce representatives at in illustrated beautification lecture held In Duchesne the tourist entering Utah from any the broken down farm roadside Junk weed choked houses and dead the Impression that are a lot of down bums with a sloppy way of 4 million people who travel through Utah each and each takes that shocking impression back t is a miracle we have as many visitors as we and not surprising their average length of stay is only two to four Stark is at the top for has beautiful public and Stark but there It all too and particularly in our rural which is most of the state in are the signs of In his colored slide Stark stressed that financial means was not the reason for this unsightly People have become so used to the scene of ruin they actually don't To illustrate this he projected a slide of a shiny expensive automo- bile in a garage with walls up by poles and litter the yard that a visitor would fall over If didn't know the Stark encouraged youth groups and individuals to join in a massive clean-up campaign that would Invite the 4 million visitors a year to spend their entire vacation In Utah instead of just using it as a way between the East and Las Vegas or He pointed out that the expense would be very little In comparison to the gains in beauty and pride of the fire a few people and a book of matches will de wonders in eliminating those shacks and piles of In financial the assessed evaluation of those old buildings range from to on the tax rolls that people have been paying taxes on for many Removal and them would cut off that tax and increase the resale value of the land 20 Stark iris and were pointed out as excellent examples of what can be done in a town to make it inviting to the Stark said groups of Utah will all be asked to take on a beautification project tills year he pointed how one troup had made themselves by selling junk cars from their As guests of the Associated Civic Clubs of Southern and Eastern Lenn introduced to County Commissioners Rulon Hacking and D. Duchesne Commissioner Ralph Guy Taylor of the First Security Bank and Chamber of Commerce Lloyd Duchesne County agent for the Utah State University Extension Elden R. representing the Duchesne Chamber of the U.S. Forest The American Legion of The Salt Lake Other representatives of the in attendance were O. C. and Mark They are the true disciples of not who know but who love Frederick |
