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Show Dend Horse Point State Park Opens For Season on Easter Weekend Dead Horse Point State Fark is scheduled to open this year on Kas'w weekend, it was announced an-nounced this week by Fark Supervisor Su-pervisor Raymond Roper. No fees, however, will be charged charg-ed until April 15. Use fees in this area go for operating and maintaining present facilities and making possible new facilities. fac-ilities. A new campground, the Kayenta, w?ll be opened this year. Const met ion was be-Run be-Run on this 22 unit area about a year ago and it will be used Cor family type camping for those people who do not wish to camp on the point itself. Tltis new facility will also have flusli-type toilets and electricity. Presently the park is using two small generators to furnish power, they are, however, in the process of bringing higher voltage lines into the area. A rock wall will also be completed around the edge of the canyon at the Visitor's Center to make the view safer saf-er and more enjoyable. During Dur-ing the winter crews have been busy building the wall, erecting new signs, repainting repaint-ing old signs, and giving the Visitor Center a fresh coat of paint. Supervisor Roper will be assisted by four other workers work-ers this summer and issued nn invitation for all residents and visitors to visit the park. Those persons who visit the area after April 15, will be. required to pay a $1 fee for each car each day or obtain ob-tain an annual permit, "Fun Tag", for only S7. This tag may be obtained at Dead Horse Point, at other state parks or at the home office in Salt Lake City. The "Fun Tag" is honored in all state parks, but is not valid for Federal facilities. preliminary work on a number num-ber of projects. Last Friday Mayor Winford Bunce and Sam Taylor traveled to Salt Lake City where they represented repre-sented the local committee at the annual meeting of the Utah Industrial Development Executives Association, pending pend-ing the hiring of a full-tune director who will then serve that membersliifli. The committee plans to meet weekly with Mr. Hoffman Hoff-man following April 1, to guide his work and coordinate coordin-ate his activities with the various segments of the community com-munity the members represent. repre-sent. Preliminary plans call for temporary housing of the new director somewhere in the city-county complex, until un-til suejh time as -the new visitor center-office building is completed on north main, at which time offices for the committee will be made available avail-able there. |