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Show M r vil I C.KS PRESERVED . . . Fascinating villages. Indians centuries ago in inaccessible caves perched high in aB aiSi are preserved in Mesa Verde National park. The cliff 'wL which Cliff Palace (above) is typical, are noted for their gjoellence of building techniques. "(ly scenery E Forests, Cliff Cities w Diversity of Parks I WNU Features. HiMjonal Parks" has become a synonymous phrase for iKve scem ry, but there are also many other diverse represented in the national park system of the Unit-Ms Unit-Ms In Olympic National park in Washington, for ex-IlKre ex-IlKre unusual "rain forests," where, as a result of a mild "Wand abundant winter rains, a tropical appearing i lent baskets, they had no pottery, nor did they use the bow and arrow. ar-row. They lived in open caves and hunted with the throwing stick. Lat- ! er they learned the art of pottery making, acquired bows and arrows ar-rows and built simple pit houses. About the time that Charles Mar-tel Mar-tel was defeating the Moors at Tours, or roughly in the Eighth century, a new people joined the Basket Makers on the Mesa Verde and together they made remarkable remark-able cultural progress. On the mesa top they built hundreds of villages, some with buildings of mud and ! others of stone. They improved their pottery and began the weav- i ing of cotton cloth. These people apparently were peace loving, and in the 11th century about the time that William Wil-liam the Conqueror was landing land-ing in Britain, they also were beset by enemies. Many of them, therefore, moved off the open mesa top and constructed their villages in inaccessible caves located high in canyon walls. These villages, many of them well preserved today, are astonishing both for their size and excellence of building techniques. tech-niques. Toward the end of the 13th century, cen-tury, a 24-year-long drouth forced these people to abandon their cliff cities and move to more favorable lands. HOT SPRINGS National park, located lo-cated in a mountainous region of central Arkansas, contains in its thousand acres 47 mineral hot springs reputed to have therapeutic value. These springs were known to the Indians and early Spaniards, and were used by them. Within the national park are free campsites and there is a free government bathhouse for people who cannot afford af-ford to pay for private baths. PLATT NATIONAL park, containing contain-ing bromide and sulphur springs, is located at the town of Sulphur, Okla. Small in area, this park is known chiefly by those for whom the waters are prescribed. The park is provided with free campgrounds and picnic areas, and overnight accommodations ac-commodations may be found in Sulphur. s been created far north derate zone. Here also is of the rare Roosevelt elk, rotection of which a part rk was established as a lonument as early as 1908. (her hand, far to the south rr.pics in the southwestern B Colorado Mesa Verde Na-k Na-k preserves the ruins of a ':shing civilization which (ht to an end by a lack of The national parks also ft areas famous for their icg springs Hot Springs lark in Arkansas and Piatt lark in Oklahoma, lympic mountains are thousands of veterans of r II who returned to Puget :s from the Pacific thea-im thea-im far out at sea these sr.owy peaks were the coming sight of home. (Ppus, nearly 8,000 feet in I height, and a score or more I Parks of other ice" capped moun-" moun-" tains are in- iriSS eluded in the 1,325 square miles of ational park. Occupying if a great peninsula, this rrounded on three sides the Pacific ocean on the Straits of Juan de Fuca th and Puget sound on Within a few hours of I Tacoma are virgin forte for-te meadows, deep blue sparkling trout streams, titute one of the finest un-ierness un-ierness areas in the Unit-n Unit-n forests are found in r valleys on the west-I west-I where from Septem-luae Septem-luae 1 there is an aver-1 aver-1 rainfall of 142 Inches, feet. In these rain re Douglas firs, meas-to meas-to 17 feet in diameter feet in height. I many miles of foot and trails in Olympic Na- 'kand a motor highway en-he en-he peninsula. From this Sway other roads radiate 1 stances into the park. V CORNER of Colorado H Rocky mountains meet Highlands of the Southwest W5 a high flat-topped table-Wountain. table-Wountain. Early Spanish W called it the Mesa Verde, M-able top, heavily forested MP and juu.por, was always On this green mesa and in V and canyons peaceful Indians lived for 1,300 gating the soil and built MM or pueblos. To preserve ot these fascinating vil-Vm vil-Vm Verde National park Wtablisl:ed. The area of 80 square miles. S to archeologists the in- to An-erica from their ""raeland by the northern nd of years ago and ' untunes lived ag roving Wout the beginning of the E certain 01 early hunt- win the region of the Mesa liked the security el-h'sh el-h'sh mountain with r'. aid settled down nd. irhabitant o the fn, W,ere known a Basket Ue they made excel- www' 1aMy,WMiMa. fljfftflKy. SjwwfiCT&yy VBHaaBaBBBBaBaB VIRGIN FOREST . . . L"le pruce trees abound along Hon river In Olympio National park, one of the finest unspoiled wilderness wilder-ness areas in the country. . ' |