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Show I '. 1 Spotlighting , UTAH I VACATIONISTS FAVOR FAR YTEST A recent survey reveals that the average American tourist shows a distinct preference for the Far West. Forty-three per cent of those surveyed professed a choice for the Intermountain west and Pacific Coast areas, while 28 per cent favored the northeast, 18 per cent Florida and the Gulf Coast, 11 per cent the North Central states and 8 per cent the Appalachian highlands. high-lands. Some of the above respondents res-pondents had two choices. The vacationists also had a preference in accomodations. Forty-seven per cent favored hotels, 39 per cent motor courts, 14 per cent tourist homes. UTAH GUARD TO TAKE 17-YEAR OLDS Col. Vasco Laub, assistant adjutant ad-jutant general, Utah State national na-tional guard, has received authority auth-ority from Washington, D. C. to - enlist 17-year-old youths in the Utah National Guard. With recruiting re-cruiting being a major problem, the new regulation will do much to fill the guard ranks, it was thought. I EXCELLENT Vacation business in 1947 in the United States will aggregate $15,700,000,000, (that's billions), is the latest word received from the Christian Science Monitor Travel Bureau by the Utah department de-partment of publicity and industrial in-dustrial development. Sixty million Americans are now taking vacations by motor. Motoring vacationists, it is estimated, es-timated, will spend an average of S7 a day, or $112 for a 16-day vacation. The average trip will be close to 3,500 miles, compared with an average of 2,567 miles in 3946. . I |
