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Show Spotlighting ! UTAH PKOJKCT COMPLETED Beckoning to next year's automobile au-tomobile tourist, the GI looking :for a homestead site, the placer miner looking for gold, the oil prospector and the explorer, the Ilanksville-Hite road was opened this week with history-making ceremonies. The road, built with Utah department de-partment of publicity and industrial in-dustrial development funds, is l, project designed to provide access ac-cess to virgin farm lands, oil and mineral territory and some of the state's major scenic attractions. at-tractions. Started many months ago, under un-der the direction of the late Ora liundy, department chairman, the road provides access to San Juan County from highway 89, and opens up a loop route for the tourist who wishes to visit the Wayne Wonderland, cross the Colorado by ferry, visit the Natural Bridges national monument monu-ment and return via Moab and the Arches national monument. !k JONES TO BE HONORED A bronze plaque honoring the late Randall L. Jones, the Cedar City man who promoted the transforming of a southern Utah "wilderness into the Cedar Breaks national monument, the Zion and Bryce Canyon national nation-al parks, and the North Rim of the Grand Canyon national park, "will be unveiled at Cedar City, Sept. 29, with elaborate ceremonies. cere-monies. The monument bearing the plaque was planned and built by Cedar City folks along with the Union Pacific "railroad, and was instigated by the Union Pacific Old Timers Club No. 12 of Salt Xake City. Stones for the monument monu-ment were obtained from the scenic attractions loved so well by Mr. Jones. 3MODEK MZE TABERNACLE One of the largest non-industrial air conditioning installations installa-tions in the west in planned for the ' Salt Lake tabernacle and "will be completed in time for ties at the state department of employment seceurity. FEWER LIVESTOCK The Utah state tax commission's commis-sion's biennial report reveals that there are fewer range cattle cat-tle this year than last. Last year's count was 259,187 and this year's count, 250,894 a considerable reduction. Scarcity and high price of feed, reduction in federal fed-eral range lands and a natural preference of breeders for quality qual-ity over quantity 's given as the reason for the condition. . SETS HEALTH RECORD That Utah is a healthy place in which to live is proven by the latest U. S. census bureau figures fig-ures which reveal that Utah's death rate Is lower than any state in the union. Reported by Dr. William M. McKay, state health commissioner, commis-sioner, the census figures disclose dis-close that the death rates were .computed on an estimated population pop-ulation of 630,000, and that the Utah ratio is 7.34 per 1000 population popu-lation as compared to the national na-tional average of 10 per every 1000. "Utah's health record on the whole for the year 1945 was very encouraging, McKay announced, an-nounced, and who went on to explain ex-plain that the ten leading causes of death in Utah were heart disease, dis-ease, cancer, accidents, cerebral hemorrhage, nephritis, pneumonia, pneu-monia, premature births, diseases dis-eases of infancy, diabetes and congential malformations. Fatal accidents in 1945 Jook the lives of 459 Utah citizens, Dr. McKay pointed, out. HIKE IX UTAH PENSION'S Wendell Grover, commissioner, commission-er, state department of public welfare, has revealed that a $150,000,000 federal grant will raise , the average welfare payments pay-ments in Utah from about $40 to $45 per month. The federal grant comprises half the total payment to dependent children, he pointed out, and declared that payment increases will be determined de-termined on a basis of help where need is greatest. UTAH BISOX Some 23 buffalo heifers and bulls planted in the Robber's Roost sction of Wayne county back in 1941 by the Utah fish and game commission have migrated mi-grated to the Henry mountain slopes of Garfield county and increased in-creased to 37 head, it is reported report-ed by ranchers. the 1047 Centennial. Church officials first considered consid-ered air conditioning the historic histor-ic building ten years ago and details de-tails were finally worked out this month. Air conditioning of the huge edifice will require an air flow of some 200.000 to 300,-O00 300,-O00 cubic feet per minute, ' but will insure complete comfort to occupants of the building during dur-ing the hottest summer days. Engineers preparing to start the project declare the building to be highly interesting from an engineering standpoint and they praise the soundness of the design. de-sign. . CHARTS OFFERED Chars devoted to food manufacturing, manu-facturing, meat packing, dairy products, canning, milling, baking, bak-ing, sugar manufacturing, confectionery con-fectionery and beverages, and "which reveal employment trends for the past four years, are now available for all interested par- |