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Show T fir if. nil By NETIIELLA GRIFFIN the Word trom boulder Newspaper reports Indicate that the State Park and Recreation Commission is asking county commissioners' advice in designating places which may serve as state parks. Without presuming to offer suggestions to our county commission, one might suggest a few places in our immediate vicinity. The area near Hole-in-the-rock should be selected for its historic interest and for its situation on the bank of the future Lake Escalante. Then there is the Escalante River section near the present road crossing where Calf Creek, Death Hollow, Phipps Wash, and The Boulder enter the main canyon. There are some highly appropriate parts of -the Circle Cliffs country, notably Silver Falls Canyons and the Wolverine which abound In petrified wood. The Wolverine should surely receive some sort of protection right away. If hearsay evidence can be trusted(which It usually can't) two truck-loads of the petrified wood vhave been taken to California to be sold within the past few months. If anyone has specific knowledge of this kind of thievery, he should report it at once to C. J. Olsen, director of the State Parks commission. The newspaper account said first consideration was to be given to "This is the place" monument and "the mountain areas flanking Utah's metropolitan area", with the Great Salt Lake in second spot. When the law setting up the state park system was enacted last winter, an argument for them was that these parks would help to bring visitors to outlying sections of the state and thus help to shore up .e sagging Economy of these non-Industrial areas. Let us hope this part of the purpose of tho parks will not be overlooked. There I go, getting too serious again, after I had resolved not to. Neil Magleby criticized me the other day said 1 was losing the folksy touch. I told him I was leaving some of that to Fay Alvey these days. But I've been hunting .avidly for some news that might make an undertaker smile. The only thing I've .found was a couple of things that happened this summer. One was when a tourist found high water in Calf Creek fWhere we've been fording the stream all season because of the washed-out culvert. The man became very excited and iwent back and got a member of the road crew to tow his car across. He was so excited, in fact, that he forgot to get In his car, so that after it was safely across, the man was still on the .wrong side of the stream. The ether happened when the contractor for the hydro-plant arrived by airplane and radioed from above for someone to meet him at the airstrip. Tho foreman promptly dispatched hi wife in a car to the airstrip on Home Bench. She arrived very soon and parke-. her car on the edge of the strip. The boss signaled to her frantically to move back, since he needed all the space to land safely, She did not understand the signals nor .why he kept circling instead of .coming down. When his gas was almost exhausted, he finally got a message through to the foreman at the plant to send another car. This the foreman did, but the driver of the car, not knowing of the situation and seeing a car parked, drove his car up to the first car and parked alongside. The desperate flyer finally managed to inske the man understand that ho must move back, and so made a safe land ing. There was no one on hand Jto test his blood pressure. Jewel Moosman and Ann King, returned Sunday from Los Angeles where they have been employed this summer, 'ihey are making preparations to leave soon for college, Jewel to Brigham Young lor her sophomore year and Ann to. .enter the University of Utah as a freshman. Both girls will be using scholarships from .their respective institutions. Ann Coombs and her sister fAaiy are in Salt Lake this ,week, Mary is expecting to find em toyir' nt for the winter. Ann will return home before leaving for the British Mission. LaFay Coleman and his brother Jerry returned last .week from Kanab where they have been working all summer. Both have found employment at the hydro-plant here. Mr. and Mrs. Richard Heaps and Mrs Heaps' father, George Olsen of Los Angeles were visitors at the Burns Ormond home this week. Jasper Henderson of Can-nonville and Berlin Osbourn of Escalante were speakers at Sunday Sacrament meeting. Clyde and Irene King and their family, including me, and Emmeron and Renon Peterson and their children joined about thirty members of the Griffin, Shurtz, and Roundy families of Escalante for a campfire party Sunday evening on the Escalante river picnic grounds. Honored 'guests were Dean and Jerry Shurts who are. home for a visit from California. |