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Show National Parks Advisory Board To Visit Proposed Canyonlands Extension Utah's state and federal parks and recreation areas will come under a week-long week-long scrutiny of the prestigious pres-tigious Advisory Board on National Parks, Historic Sites, Buildings and Monuments Mon-uments in late September and early October. The Advisory Board is headed by Dr. Melville Bell Grosvenor, President and Editor of the National Geographic Society in Washington, Wa-shington, D. C. Other members mem-bers who are scheduled to make the trip to Utah include in-clude Vice Chairman, Mrs. Marion Heiskell, Special Services Director for the New Yc-rk Times; the Secretary, Sec-retary, Mr. Paul Phillips, President of United Paper-makers Paper-makers and Paper-workers Union; Dr. Emil YV. Haury, head of the Department of Anthropology, University of Arizona; Mr. Nathaniel Owings, of Skidmore, Ow-ings Ow-ings and Merrill, a nationally nation-ally prominent architectural architectur-al film; Dr. Durward Allen Professor of Wildlife Ecology Ecol-ogy at Purdue University; Mr. Anthony A. Buford, a Missouri attorney and livestock live-stock grower; Dr. Loren C. . Eiseley, of the University of Pennsylvania; and Dr. Joe B. Frantz, Chairman of the Department of History, His-tory, University of Texas at Austin. Visit Potash Early Saturday, the group is tentatively scheduled to visit the Texas Gulf Sulphur Sul-phur Co. potash mine on the Colorado river, Dead Horse Point State Park, and Canyonlands National Park. Sen. Moss said that the group will return to Moab Saturday night, but again go into Canyonlands Sunday, camp out in the Park Sunday night and continue the tour Monday, leaving the Park in time to inspect Arches National Monument. Monday afternoon. after-noon. Sen. Moss noted that Harold P. Fabian, former National Advisory Board chairman and presently a member of the Utah State Park and Recreation Commission, Com-mission, has been invited to accompany the board on its trip. "Mr. Fabian is well known to all of the members, who have requested re-quested that he participate partici-pate to the fullest possible extent," Sen. Moss said. Review Additions The Advisory Board reviews re-views each legislative proposal pro-posal introduced in Congress Con-gress to create new National Na-tional Parks, Landmarks, and Historic Sites. Sen. Moss said that Secretary of the Interior Stewart L. Uclall relies heavily on the recommendations of the Advisory Board so that "areas of historical, geological geol-ogical and recreational significance sig-nificance are added to the National Park system." Sen. Moss, D-Utah, wHio will accompany the board to Utah, said Saturday that they will gather in Salt Lake City on Friday, Sept. 29 and then fly to Moab for their first overnight over-night stay. "The Advisory Board will investigate the areas Whicli I have proposed to be added to Canyonlands National Park," Sen. Moss said. "The new areas include in-clude The Maze, Lavendar Canyon and Barrier Canyon. Can-yon. An aerial inspection will be conducted of additional addi-tional lands to be added to the Glen Canyon National Nat-ional Recreation area located lo-cated west of The Maze." Sen. Moss said that following fol-lowing visits to state and federal parks in the vicinity vicin-ity of Moab, the Advisory Board will then fly to Hall's Crossing on the northern nor-thern reaches of Lake Powell for a three-day boat trip on Lake Powell. "During "Dur-ing this time, the Board will take side trips into prominent landmarks along al-ong the Shores of Lake Powell. These will include Bullfrog Basin, Hole in th3 Rock, Rainbow Bridge, Warm Creek, and Wah-weap Wah-weap developments." The Board wlill spend Thursday Thurs-day evening in Page, Arizona, Ari-zona, and fly back to Salt Lake City Friday morning. Several Park Service officials, of-ficials, including Director George B. Hartzog, Jr., will accompany the group on its trip to Utah. Sen. Moss emphasized that no public hearings will be held by the Board during its tour. "The entire en-tire schedule has been arranged ar-ranged to provide a local investigation of park and recreation developments in Utah, After the notes on the study mission have been compiled, the Board will meet in Washington to review the various legislative leg-islative proposals and then ' will advse the Secretary on national policy to he formulated," . Sen. Moss said. |