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Show Southern Scenic Area Opens With Program At Cedar Cedar City, June 1. Saturday ; marked the official opening of the great southern wonderland of nat-' nat-' ional parks and scenic attractions and - the day was particularly noticed here as a large company of tourists were on hand to make the regular circuit . tour of the canyons, in addition to : groups of visiting Shriners who were : making the trip to Zion National park only. In observance of the day an inauguration inaug-uration program was held at the ' Union Pacific depot here with S. J. Foster of Cedar City, presiding. lvlr. ' Foster introduced Mayor Eugene ' Christensen who welcomed the tour- ists to the city. E. T. Scoyen, sup-, sup-, erintendent of Zion park, was another anoth-er speaker, and he declared that he i expected to see sixty thousand tourists tour-ists brought to the park this year as compared with thirty thousand during dur-ing the 1928 season. He also told the tourists that they were given an unusual opportunity in the Utah scenic scen-ic wonderland of visiting three national nat-ional parks on one tour. D. S. Spencer of Salt Lake City, general Union Pacific passenger agent extended a welcome from the railroad rail-road and told the tourists that it they found the road bad in places, they should feel flattered to think that they were among the first few to visit the wonderlands. The party arrived in Cedar at 7 a. m. and en-Joyed en-Joyed the program after their breakfast, break-fast, leaving on the motor tour at 9 a. m. |
