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Show just reverse the order . . . traveling travel-ing first to Green River, then via Hanksville to Capitol Reef, Torrey, Bicknell, Loa, Fish Lake and Richfield. Desert Scenery, Indian PowWow Highlight Memorial Day Touring geological specimens . . . dinosaur dino-saur bones and skulls, fossils, trilobites, etc., most of which were found in and around the Price area. If starting from Richfield, the traveler can motor over Highway 24 to Wayne County, stopping if the family desires to visit Fish Lake, where patches of winter snow are fast fading in the heat of spring. And for the angler who doesn't want to wait for the opening of fishing season, the Fremont River at Bicknell Bottoms and near Torrey offers spunky German Brown trout. This river is open all year to fishermen and yields some of its biggest fish in the spring and early summer months. Capitol Reef National Monument Monu-ment and the little town of Fruita are in full spring bloom at the end of May. The days arc pleas- I antly warm but not hot, and spring foliage lends color to every landscape. The drive through Capitol Gorge is unequalled un-equalled at any other season of the year. Goblin Valley, just off Highway High-way 24 near the little isolated town of Hanksville, also offers pleasant touring in spring. The fantastic formations of this unique state park indicate that it was appropriately named. At Green River you can visit the famous Robber's Roost country, coun-try, once the domain of western outlaws and since immortalized by the great western writer, Zane Grey. Between Green River and Price, the traveler passes within view of the forbidding San Rafael Swell which stands like the jagged ruins of an ancient city on the western horizon. If you start your tour at Price, The chant of full-blooded Indians In-dians in ceremonial war dances will fill the air at Richfield, Utah, May 29 to 31 at that community's com-munity's annual Indian Pow Wow. Meanwhile, two counties away at the town of Price, a museum displaying interesting artifacts of an ancient Indian culture will open its doors on Memorial Day for the 1962 tourist season. Though seemingly unrelated, these two events make Richfield and Price ideal starting places for a leisurely, fun-packed tour of Utah's Sevier, Wayne, Emery and Carbon Counties. (See map of proposed tour.) light hours of the holiday, with the War Dance competition be-beginning be-beginning at 8 p.m. at the Indian Dormitory campus. Prizes will be awarded to the winning dancers. There will be no admission charge to the Indian dances. However, donations will be accepted ac-cepted to help pay expenses. The Carbon College Prehistoric Prehis-toric Museum in the Municipal Building in Price features a fine archaeological display of the ancient an-cient Fremont Indian culture of central Utah, most of the artifacts arti-facts of which are unearthed in Carbon County. The Price museum, mu-seum, now a year old, also features fea-tures an excellent display of The summer season is just about here and it's high time Utahns resolved to get out and see what's going on in their own state ... to tune up the car and take the family to see some of Utah's natural beauty ... all hight here in our own backyards. With some 300 Redskins in full tribal dress performing traditional tra-ditional American Indian dances, Richfield will be the scene of a wild, colorful array of feathers, costumes and ornamental dress. Memorial Day will be the big day for the Indian dancers. At least 47 different tribes from Utah, Colorado, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Arizona, California and Montana will be represented in the Pow Wow. Events will include in-clude the famous "Bear Dance" at Paiute Village during the day- |