| Show UTAH PRESS ASSOCIATION what governmental bodies were planning to do was vital to residents of Utahemerging counties and towns Achieving that was virtuallynever-ending struggle but one in which the association performedcommendable service for John Public In 1925 recognizing the impact roads and touring cars were to have on Utah the association passedresolution favoring formation ofstatewide automobile club The following summer at the invitation of the Logan Journal publishers cranked up their flivvers and drove to Cache Valley formid-July outing Forecast the host newspaper after two of its staff members had reconnoitered the proposed route of travel The roads were in excellent condition and this trip will surely prove an eye-opener to the visitors of the valleygreat fertility resources and beauty Page after page of the newspapers of the state will later be filled with praises of beautiful fruitful Cache Valley In June 1928 continuing to emphasize automobile tour ism the associationdelegates drove caravan-style to Castle Dale Price Helper Duchesne Roosevelt and Vernal Committees on finance transportation advertising constitution and by-laws newsprint and excursions were formed in UPAinitial years Brigham Young University graduate student Gary Wood recorded in his 1969 thesis An Analysis of the Utah State Press Association An enticing benefit of membership was the Union Pacific Railroadoffer of free transportation for any journeys undertaken by the group For many years even into the 1920s Wood pointed out the rail roads were extremely accomodating to the association providing transportation and dining service for annual conventions and other trips the group would take These junkets were often extensive One in 1896 was to New Orleans formeeting of the Western Federation of Newspaper Men Another in 1898 took newsmen to Omaha for the Trans-Mississippi Exposition In subsequent years members travelled together to the WorldFair in St Louis and to various destinations on the Pacific Coast Enterprising John Stahle Sr one of the association 248 Digital image 2005 Marriott Library University of Utah Al rights reserved |
