Show Would Raise Arches to Status Of Nat Park The Moab Lion club dissatisfied dissat dissat- with the meager appropriations appropriations doled out by the national national na nn na- na park service for torr or improving ing and maintaining th the facilities facil fadl In Arches national monument menu menu- ment voted Monday evening to sponsor a bill bUl in congress advancing ad the Arches Anches area from the status of a monument to a national park It was wha pointed out that plans for improvement improve improve- ment mont of the Arches are arc no closer clos cbs er a n reality how than they were 10 years ago and that there is little hope for any major development development development devel devel- work in the tho area as ns long longas as it remains a monument If advanced to the status of ofa a park appropriations will definitely definitely def def- be earmarked fort fori the area by bv congress It is felt that Utah's cO congressional gressional de delegation ign o will wholeheartedly support a movement to make the Arches a park and there theres a II that Dead Horse Point and the Fisher Towers may be be included in the with with- Utah has only tw two national national national na na- na- na parks Zion parks and Bryce Bryce Bryce- and the scenic attractions In the Arches arc aro recognized as fully justifying their t developed as a park The Lions LIons' club at Its meeting Monday voted to make the Arches park matter a major project for the coming year In spite of ol inadequate roads and other facilities travel to Arenas Arches monument the past year has almost doubled it was stated stated stated stat stat- ed at the meeting The number of visitor visitors increased from in 1947 1047 to in 1948 1048 Reports were made by committees com corn on financing projects carried on during the county fair lair The fight card netted the club about and the barbecue barbecue barbe bathe cue about C. C S. S Thomson was given a vote of thanks thanks- and a n box of cigars for cigars for furnishing furnishing furnishing fur fur- t the e beef for lor the barbe barbe- cue S k wenty members attended the meeting which was wras presided ed d over by Russell Mahan the president |