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Show Spotlighting ; UTAH AXXK.V GIt.WI) CANYON" Wendovur, the state's far west orphan city, whose wails about secession and becoming part of Nevada have become quite commonplace, com-monplace, has been advised by Gov. Herbert B. Maw to take their grievance to congress. "Congress is charged with setting set-ting state boundaries," Governor Gov-ernor Maw declared, and suggested sug-gested that while the Wendover-ites Wendover-ites were in Washington that they do the state a favor by asking ask-ing that Utah get back her northeast north-east corner once annexed by Wyoming, Wy-oming, also the north rim of the Grand canyon which geographically geograph-ically belongs to Utah. In the meantime, at St. George, Governor Maw in a jocular mood told citizens that if they also get the secession bug, he would insist on accompanying them, wherever they went. The Wendover secession talk began last June and has been agitated by a railroad clerk whose major complaint seems to be that hard liquor by-the-drink isn't available on the Utah side of the line. Fn,MS HIGHWAY A graphic view of Utah roads taken from a special state road commission "camera car" traveling trav-eling 40 miles-per-hour is expected expect-ed to record for laboratory study, the stajtes hazardous intersections intersec-tions and danger spots. The pictures are taken in color and when the project is completed will be shown to commission employes, and studied by maintenance main-tenance men and safety engineers. engi-neers. Ray H. Leavitt, commission chairman, is enthusiastic about the film possibilities and pointed out that by use of the same, many road hazards would be eliminated. NEW OFFICE BUILDING A million-dollar office building scheduled for location on the capitol grounds is being planned by Secretary of State E. E. Mon-son, Mon-son, and A. B. Paulson, architect, archi-tect, designated by the state building board to draw up pre-1 liminary plans. It is proposed to place the new building on the northeast end of the grounds on an eminence overlooking Memory Grove. It is expected that preliminary plans will be ready for presentation to the 1917 state legislature. HABITUAL CRIMINALISM A new law, one to curb the ! habitual criminal has been recommended rec-ommended to Attorney General Grover A. Giles by Brigham E. Roberts, third district attorney in his biennial report to the state. The new law would be foolproof fool-proof and would force old offenders of-fenders to serve commensurate time for their "experience" and death for convicts serving life maximum sentences who assault prison guards. Attorney Roberts pointed out the need for such legislation in view of the fact that the state supreme court "has so construed constru-ed the habitual criminal statute as to make it absolutely valueless value-less in the prosecution of criminal crim-inal cases." and also has made "ineffective the statute making it an offense for a life convict to assault a prison guard." 1 PREDICT EXPANSION Two prominent figures in the rail and steel industry, George F. Ashby, U. P. railroad president, presi-dent, and E. G. Plowman, vice president, U. S. Steel corporation, corpora-tion, while touring Utah this week, made this prediction: Utah has before, it an era of indus-' indus-' -trial progress, the like of which has never been known before in an interior region of the United States. "Geneva is the nucleus for one of the greatest industrial developments devel-opments ever known in the in-termountain in-termountain region," Mr. Ashby declared. "We of the Union Pacific Pa-cific are aware of the possibilities possibili-ties and are prepared for them." Tire |
