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Show Spotlighting I UTAH 1 Nearly losing the $500,000 rubber rub-ber goods manufacturing plant to Brigham City, Nephi is happy in the announcement from the Thermoid company of New Jersey Jer-sey that "we have definitely selected se-lected the site at Nephi." Two days previous, the Ther- - Kioid company officials pondered ponder-ed a site at Brigham, where every ev-ery concession possible was made to induce them to locate their new plant in the Peach city. OIL PROSPECTS TESTED While oil men are keeping findings entirely secret, they are carefully probing every section of the Uinta basin for oil. With I the Rangely, Colo., oil field just over the line and producing heavily, intense interest is focused fo-cused on the Utah side of the field. Utilizing scientific apparatus appa-ratus in the form of portable seismograph units on trucks, major ma-jor oil concerns are carefully mapping the underground struc-tuers struc-tuers of the Uinta basin. Headed Head-ed by rapid working well drilling drill-ing units, putting down 100-foot holes six inches in diameter, the ! seismograph crews follow closely. close-ly. Two trucks with special built - in electrical equipment make up a seismograph unit. One truck locates at the drilled hole, and the other one sets up a half mile distant. A charge of dyna- mite is fired in the hole and the I miniature earthquake shocks set up by the explosion are recorded by the distant truck's electrical equipment. The resulting record indicates to the operators the underground un-derground earth structures in the locality which in turn, hints to the geologist a possible oil field. As can be readily understood, under-stood, their findings are a deep secret, and only the future will reveal whether or not Uintah county has an oil field similar to Rangely. SMOKING IN CAFES Robert Crookston, an occasional occa-sional writer in the Cache American Amer-ican newspaper, recently came out in a torrid attack against j smoking in Utah restaurants. ' Calling attention to the fact that Utah's laws forbid smoking in public places, Mr. Crookston maintains the present variety of food served in restaurants when well saturated with tobacco smoke makes mighty poor eating. eat-ing. He would have the police jail all who insist on smoking in Utah cafes and restaurants. By way of side comment on the subject, many New York cafes forbid smoking by patrons, calling attention to the fact that tobacco smoke spoils the taste of food. One other point worthy of mention 'is that the 15-car highspeed trains which operate every hour between New York and Philadelphia, carry ten passenger pas-senger cars in which smoking is strictly forbidden. Strange to say, seats in these cars are highly high-ly popular with the tobacco-using traveling public, Who seem to enjoy clean air for a change. GETS BUILDINGS After long and strenuous efforts ef-forts on the part of Iron county officials and Parowan .city, they have secured Parowan CCC buildings from the grazing service serv-ice which will be used for county fair purposes and exhibition I buildings. PLANTS STIR SNEEZES . Salt bushes, common in Utah, along with native grasses, page-bmsh, page-bmsh, Russian thistle, sunflowers, sunflow-ers, and rabbit brush are entering enter-ing into .a pollination period. While .few hayfever sufferers realize it, the above plants arc all guilty of making life miserable miser-able for the hayfever sufferer. . START ON MONUMENT The first stone in the scheduled sched-uled "This Is the Place" monument monu-ment will be laid July 24 at the I mouth of Emigration canyon. I Actual quarrying of granite for the monument is now going on at the quarry, three miles east of the old Wasatch resort in Little Cottonwood canyon. VACANCIES FILLED Willard A. Day of Duchsne has been named by Governor Maw to a commissionership on the state road commission, and Dr. W. M. Stookey, Salt Lake City, was named to fill Mr. Day's recent re-cent position as member of the state engineering comission's advisory ad-visory board. H. M. Chamberlain, Cham-berlain, Salt Lake City, was appointed ap-pointed a member of the state depository board for a two-yeai term, and Dr. John A. Anderson, Salt Lake City, was appointee! to a five-year term on the board of trustees, state hospital for treatment of poliomyelitis and other crippling diseases of children. |