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Show Boosters Needed .... Colorado Meeting To Organize Highway 40 On Friday, Sept. 28, at the Cosgriff Hotel in Craig, Colo , the old Highway 40 Association will again be reactivated when officers will be elected to direct the affairs of the group during' the next year and to devise means of .keeping the association a live organization that will work for the interests of the communities along the popular highway. According to Frank Ward, executive secretary of the Vernal Ver-nal Chamber of Commerce, el a meeting held in Vernal on Aug. 29, the needs of the association associ-ation were aired and a unanimous unani-mous decision was reached to reactivate re-activate the one potent organization organi-zation that did much to establish estab-lish Highway 40 as a desired coast to coast road by tourists. At the Vernal meeting it was pointed out that the AAA Association As-sociation of Salt Lake City is routing traffic over Highway 30 to Denver, and that the Highway High-way 30 Association had erected several new signs along Highway High-way 917 between Las Vegas and Cedar City in southern Utah and northern Nevada, inviting in-viting tourists to travel "Highway "High-way 30 The Best Route to Denver.' Another important report re-port that, along with these problems, prob-lems, will be discussed at the Craig meeting is a report that Standard Oil of California, in Utah, is routing traffic over Highway 30. According to a report coming from the Moab Chamber of Commerce Com-merce and other cities in the southeastern portion of the state, tourist business is off approxi mately 50 per cent this year. They were not positive as to the cause, but indicated that lack of proper promotion could easily be one of the main causes caus-es of the decline. "What is true of Highway 50 and other feeder feed-er roads into the national highways high-ways in southeastern Utah can be true along Highway 40 unless un-less something is done about it," Mr. Ward said in a letter written to the Roosevelt Standard and Uintah Basin Record this week. An invitation was extended Roosevelt and Duchesne to send delegations to the Craig meeting, meet-ing, which will begin at 2:30 p. m. on Sept. 28. It is anticipated antici-pated that the newly formed Roosevelt Chamber of Commerce will send a delegation to the Craig meeting to assist in selecting select-ing officers of the association and to discuss what can be done to stimulate the organization. |