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Show Page Eight FRIDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1962 THE SALT LAKE TIMES New Air Route Traffic Control Center to be Dedicated Oct. 27 The Federal Aviation Agency will formally dedicate its new Salt Lake City air route traffic control center building Satur-day, Oct. 27. The dedication pro-gram is schedluled for 2:00 p.m. at the new site, 2150 West 6th North, adjacent to the Salt Lake City airport. The building is one of 20 such structures being erected across the country by the FAA to more efficienly and safely control en-rou- te air traffic. It replaces the present Salt Lake City Center that has been located on the air port since October, 1938. The principal speaker at the dedication will be Najeeb E. Halaby, administrator, Federal Aviation Agency, Washington, D.C. Other invited guests include Gov. George D. Clyde, Senator Wallace F. Bennett. Sen. Frank E. Moss, Congressmen David S. King and Blaine Peterson, and FAA officials from the Regional Office in Los Angeles. The public is invited to at-tend. Following the formal dedi-cation ceremonies, guided tours of the new facility will be con-ducted from 2:30 to 8:00 p.m. Rober Mayo is the chief of the Salt Lake City Air Route Traffic Control Center. William Clark is in charge of all the electronic equipment, valued at 3 million dollars. The building is now complete and technicians have installed the many miles of wiring and electronic gadgetry necessary to carry on the control of air traffic throughout Utah, eastern Nevada and southeastern Oregon, plus extreme southern Montana and northwestern Colorado. On October 1, approximately 160 highly trained FAA Air Traffic Controllers and about 40 skilled electronic technicians moved from the present crowd-ed quarters in the FAA Weather Bureau building at the Salt Lake City Municipal airport to the iew facility. There, in a building specially designed to meet the demands of the expanding re-sponsibilities the controllers will continue their round the clock task of providing control and radar guidance to the nation's pilots. Electrical power needed to operate the many electronic de-vices would be comparable to the power requirement of a com-munity of 1,000 population and there will also be stand by equip-ment in the event of power fail-ure. The center is served by 45 telephone circuits. More than 400 miles of wire are required for the electronic radar and power equipment. Automatic humidity and tem-perature controls have been in-stalled for the comfort of the personnel in the windowless op-erating and equipment areas, and to cool down and protect the electrical equipment that must be operated 24 hours a day. Sec. Udall Attends Premiere of Canyonlands Film Tuesday Compressed into 45 minutes of sound and color film, the Canyonlands story, "which be-gan when time began," was shown Tuesday night in the aud-itorium of the Hotel Utah Motor Lodge. Secretary of the Interior Stewart L. Udall attended. He said, "The picture is a mas-terful interpretation of the mys-tery and beauty of this colorful wilderness area of southeastern Utah, which we hope some day to set aside as the Canyonlands National Park for the permanent use and enjoyment of the Ameri-can people." Photographed and written for the Department of the Interior by Charles Eggert, nationally known wilderness photographer, "The Sculptured Earth" was made possible by contribution of private funds donated to the National Park Service for this purpose. A vast region of extravagantly colored and wierdly shaped land forms were surveyed by the lens of Eggert's camera. His main challenge, he said, was one of restraint to select the finest scenery from a wonderland of superlatives. Wherever his cam-era turned, there was another view he "just had to record," in an unending series of scenic sur-prises and awe inspiring exhibit of nature's handiwork. Accompanying Eggert on his month long (May ne 6) trek into the canyonlands wilderness was Bates Wilson, superintend-ent of Arches National Monu-ment, who acted as logistics ex-pert, and four Moab Explorer Scouts plus others. through the center of the red rock land, and the Green River as large as the Colorado joins it. Both rivers flow through a labyrinth of gorges and below the confluence their waters go into Cataract Canyon. Benches a mile to 15 miles wide extend from the inner canyons to the colorful red sandstone cliffs on the surrounding highlands. This is a land of arches, spires and standing rocks, of broad plains, steep scarps, and intri-cately carved canyons, where the rivers and the canyons have proved to be effective barriers to travel. Much of the Canyon-lands country with its steep cliffs and rough terrain is little known and some is unexplored. While its remoteness protected it in ages past, modern technol-ogy in the form of the bulldozer and jeep have the power to per-manently destroy these values that set it apart. This is one of the reasons for taking immediate steps to insure its protection, the Secretary said. He traveled the Canyonlands country himself a year ago on foot, by boat, jeep and helicopter. The Canyonlands National Park would open the region to recreational and other visitors which would bring substantial economic benefits to the people of Utah. According to a report prepared by the University of Utah for the Department's Na-tional Park Service the proposed park would attract an estimated 250.000 visitors annually within 6 years, and within 10 years about half a million. Within 15 years, tourist spending would pour more than $10 million an-nually into southeastern Utah. Secretary of the Interior Udall has commented that the Canyon-lands "would undoubtedly be one of the greatest scenic at-tractions in the National Park System." Copies of the picture will be made for sale or loan to schools, conservation organizations, and other citizen groups who are in-terested in presenting and per-petuating the story of America's landscape. SECY. STEWART L. UDALL By boat, jeep and pack mule, the Eggert expedition penetrated the back country of southeastern Utah including the approximate-ly 332,000 acres which has been proposed for the establishment of Canyonlands National Park southwest of Moab. Located in the heart of the Colorado Plateau country, the area contains magnificent scen-ery and land forms of significant geological values, including such features as the Needles Area, the Land of Standing Rocks, Up-heaval Dome and Grand View Point. It embraces the confluence of the Colorado and Green, the triangle between these rivers, and an area on both sides of the Colorado River downstream. The proposed southern boundary will be contiguous with the northern boundary of Glen Canyon Na-tional Recreation area. The Colorado River cuts deep Rep. King Blasts Bennett- - for Schools Opposition Rep. David S. King this week again blasted his opponent for his "consistent opposition to each and every effort to im-prove the nation's educational system." Speaking to a group of his supporters at King for Senator headquarters, 402 South State, Rep. King said: "Senator Bennett's obstruc-tionism of educational progress puts him at odds with even his own party. The 1960 Republican platform endorsed federal aid 1for school construction. In his 1votes against education, he has I opposed his own party platform. "Despite our proven educa-tional needs for the next decade, Senator Bennett votes, time after time, against all eductional pro-posals. Yet in his traditional role as Utah's 'Mr. Negative,' he has refused to come up with a single positive suggestion of his own. "His record on educational measures can be summarized as one long 'No.' "In this last session of Con-gress, he was one of only six Re-publicans who voted against an educational TV bill aimed at helping our schools, colleges and adult education program use the TV transmission facilities. "During past sessions he has opposed increasing school lunch funds, and on four separate oc-casions he voted against using the revenues from offshore oil reserves for educational pur-poses. This tidelands 'giveaway' was the biggest setback Ameri-can education suffered in this century. Double shifts and over crowded classrooms could now have been a thing of the past in Utah if the wealth from this off shore oil were flowing to edu-cation in all the states instead of in the already oil rich states. "The minds of our young Americans represent our greatest natural resource. We can not afford to give them less than the very best, but the job is cer-tainly more difficult when Sen. Bennett votes against every pro-posal to improve the educa-tional opportunity of our youth." You said in 'Politics, Deseret News, Sept. 26,' that you have practiced law continuously since 1933. Tell the voters how many of those years and what years you were in private practice standing on your own feet with out a political appointment sup-porting such practice." Henderson Replies To Keslcr Claims "I have read my Republican opponent's boasting of his many Utah Supreme Court appearances and questioning mine," William H. Henderson, Democratic can-didate for Attorney General, said this week. 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