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Show Ear! Edwards Takes Charge Of State Crews at Dead Horse Native Utahn. Earl Edwards, former employee of the Bur-' eau of Reclamation, took over ov-er duties this week as chief supervisory ranger at Dead Horse Point State Park, it was announced. Mr. Edwards came into the post after it was learned that for health reasons, former Moabite Earl Worthington could not take the job as planned. Mr. Edwards was born at Sterling, Utah; and in 1937 went to work for the Bureau of Reclamation on a survey party at Price. He mapped the proposed Dewey Project upriver from Moab in 1941; and then went to Vernal in 1942 to begin work on planning plan-ning the Central Utah Project. Since that time he has worked work-ed on a number of projftgfs all around Utah and surrounding surround-ing states for the Bureau, including in-cluding work at Page town-site town-site in Arizona. In 1963 Mr. Edwards was the Bureau Engineer En-gineer in charge of construction construc-tion of Joe's Valley Dam in Emery county; and in 1966 he moved to Baker, Oregon to supervise building of Mason Mas-on Dam. He retired from the Reclamation Recla-mation Service this year, moved mov-ed back to Utah and accepted work with the State Park Commission. His family will join him later this month. Clark Anderson, State Park offjcial, who accompanied Mr. Edwards to Moab, said that staffing had been completed for the summer at Dead Horse and that an average 200 visitors vis-itors per day were visiting the attraction on weekends. He said that it was anticipated anticipat-ed that fees would be started at the park this Saturday, since the first complete seal-coating seal-coating of the road clear into the park had been completed. The fee schedule which goes into effect this weekend is as follows: An annual permit good at all state parks can be purchased pur-chased for $7. This should not be confused with the Federal Golden Passport. A daily fee of $1 per car for non-commercial vehicles, includes boat launching at State boating parks. A daily charge of 50 cents per person will be made for commercial vehicles. Special group use fees for camping and picnicking by-advance by-advance reservation are available, av-ailable, running from $5 to $50 depending on the size of the party. The State Park official said that completion of facilities for visitor and staff use, along with this spring's road work, finds Dead Horse Point State Park in its best shape this season. He said that one of the big problems left at the park is electricity. At present, a generator furnishes power but mechanical dififculties make this source a continuing continu-ing problem. He said that next year's budget request, to be presented to the 1969 Legislature, Legis-lature, will include $25 thousand thous-and to be used in bringing power from the Texas Guif Sulphur site on the Colorado river. |