OCR Text |
Show i Spotlighting 1 UTAH 1 Guniher Sees Inside Utah John Gunther, nationally known author and commentator and now doing his latest book. "Inside America" visited this month for material. Piloted by the Department of Publicity and Industrial Development , Mr. Gunther when he saw "Geneva" said, "you can thank Hitler for bringing the steel industry to Utah". At Bingham Canyon, gazing into the great "copper pit" he said, "it's beyond anything any-thing I ever imagined". Will Issue Utah Stamp Senator Abe Murdock and Congressman J. Will Robinson have assured the Utah Centennial Centen-nial Commission that a United States postage stamp in commemoration com-memoration of Utah's 100th birthday will be issued probably in January of 1947. The art work on the stamp will be done by a Utahn, and the Covered Wagon Days Inc., is offering $100.00 in bonds for the best design. de-sign. Utah Draws Explorers Fifty student explorers under the tudorship of Ansel F. Hall, well known explorer and former national parks director and his staff are doing extensive exploring explor-ing in Southern Utah. The party is now camped at Mancos, Colorado. Colo-rado. Utah Sheepmen Promised Subsidy James A. Hooper, secretary Utah Wool Growers, advises that a bill to give a $2.00 subsidy to producers of lambs has been passed by both houses and is a-waiting a-waiting presidential approval. This means $40,000,000 to the sheep raiser and will put more lamb on the meat counters, it was said. O.W.I. Corresponds A letter has been received by the State Department of Publicity Public-ity from Mr. Elmer Davis, O.W.I. Chief, thanking the department for sending detailed information for the preparing of a corrected article in the forthcoming issue of the Russian magazine, "America "Amer-ica Illustrated." Stale Liquor Income Off The annual profit and loss statement of the State Liquor Control Commission reveals Utah's total liquor sales during the past 12 months to be $10, 862,676.58 with net earnings, (sales less cost) to be $2,371,423. 41. The net earnings are short of the previous year's record but is attributed to strict enforcement, and a shortage of liquor. An increase in-crease in net earnings is expected expect-ed for the future because of the more plentiful supply of straight bourbons and blended whiskies. |