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Show available for starting the project. A contract for the first section of the highway has been awarded to the W. W. Clyde Company of Springville, and calls for the expenditure ex-penditure of 51S9.194.50. Await Professional Advice Utah's two hundred motor court operators, who control some 1,600 rental units, will get Spotlighting I UTAH AYork To Start On Mormon Trail The beginning of construction on the Pioneer Trail Highway, following the route taken by the Mormon Pioneers over the Wasatch Mountains from Hene-fer Hene-fer to Salt Lake City, is sched- uled to begin in the near future, i An amoun totaling $2-10,000 ap portioned from the budget of the Utah Department of Publicity and Industrial Development, and derived from motor vehicle registration reg-istration funds, has been made the benifit of professional advice at their first annual motor court association convention to be held in Salt Lake City at the Hotel Utah, November 2nd. The operators will be told the "elements of successful advertising"; advertis-ing"; all about Utah's Centennial plans; what the National Parks do to promote tourist traffic; how the State Publicity Department Depart-ment sells Utah; all about the "trend toward socialization of property in America;" the importance impor-tance of "knowing your Utah" by a state publicity department representative, and "how to plan your public relations policy". The subjects will be treated by professionals, who it is said, really know the answers. Seeds Dropped On Ranges "A plane can seed 00 acres of sagebrush hills in a minute" says Tracy R. Welling, Utah State Commissioner of Agriculture, Agricul-ture, who points out that "planting "plant-ing grass from the air" on Utah's foothill country which could not be traveled by land machinery ma-chinery is proving highly successful. suc-cessful. Approximately 150 Utah farmers and ranchers now use planes to commute between remote re-mote ranches and cities, Mr. Welling declared. Utah Projects Saved Work will be resumed on three important Utah projects, Rep. J. Will Robinson announces. They are: The Provo' rier reclamation reclama-tion job, the Duchesne Tunnel project, and the Salt Lake Aqueduct. Aque-duct. Work on all three was suspended sus-pended early this season through congressional action cutting in half former Interior Secretary Harold L. Ickes' relcamation appropriation. ap-propriation. The "go ahead'.' signal on the Utah projects was given by President Harry S. Truman, through J. A. Krug, Secretary of the Interior, who wired Rep. Robinson that these projects, so vital to Utah, would be completed. com-pleted. To ready Capital For '47 The Utah Legislature will be asked for funds by Secretary of State E. E. Monson to " face lift" the Utah State capital inter-for inter-for before the 1947 Centennial visitors arrive. Dr. Monson's plans also call for brightening up the outside of the Capitol dome, begrimed by five years of weather, smoke and winter dirt, and letters have been dispatched to Utah counties advising them to "redecrate and bring up to date" their respective exhibits. Brothers Hag Rig Rear The first day's deer hunt by brothers Vernon and Maurice Barber of Salt Lake put bear steaks on the Barber table instead in-stead of venison. The huge animal ani-mal measured seven feet, two inches from nose to hind foot, and was the largest bruin ever killed in Holbrook canyon east of Bountiful. In Mill Creek canyon, east of Salt Lake, Mrs. Norm (Sally) Smith brought down her deer with her trusty bow and arrow at 70-yards distance. The kill entitled her to receive the big game award of the National Field Archery association. FOR BEST BUYS Patronize BULLETIN advertisers. |