Show I IJ J 1 f J I SEN EDWARD KENNEDY and his wife Joan left pause as the children and friends of the Kennedy Kenned party board a Wilkins bus that took the group to Lodore canyon for a Hatch river run down Green River Kennedy Family Stays In Vernal on Boat Trip The Kennedy river party arrived InVernal in inVernal inVernal Vernal Wednesday afternoon of last week on Frontier Airlines for a four day river trip down the Green River o THE GROUP stayed at Motel Utah in inVernal inVernal inVernal Vernal Wednesday night and left Thursday Thursday Thurs Thurs- day morning on a Hatch River Expedition Expedition Expedition river run down the Green River A Wilkins Bus Lines bus was chartered to take the group to Lodore Canyon Thirteen members of the Kennedy clan launched their boats in Lodore Canyon for a 63 mile 63 mile river rat run down the turbulent Green River AMONG the party of 32 persons was Senator Edward Edward Kennedy his wife Joan the late Senator Robert Kennedys Kennedy's widow widow wi wi- dow Ethel and eight of her children and Mrs Patricia Lawford Edwards Edward's sister who had three children along Others included mountain climber Jim Whittaker the first American to climb Mt Everest Mr Whittaker and Robert Kennedy were the first men to climb a Canadian mountain named after the late President Kennedy Also on en the trip were Representative John Tunney D D D-Califor- Califor California nia his wife and their two children and Representative John D Iowa D-Iowa Iowa his wife and their two children THE FOUR DAY river excursion led by r f V 2 L 0 a E EETHEL ETHEL KENNEDY widow of Sen Robert Kennedy In boards bus busIn busIn In Vernal that took the Kennedy party to Lodore canyon where they began be be- gan a day 4 river trip v veteran guide T Ted d Hatch followed the Green River through th the 2500 foot 2500 foot deep Lodore Canyon then through 1700 foot foot deep deep Whirlpool Canyon to Jones Creek in Split Mountain Gorge The Kennedys planned to shoot such rapids as upper and lower Disaster Falls Triplet Falls and Hellcat Mile The trip was scheduled to end Sunday in the Split Mountain Gorge A NUMBER of the Kennedys led by Robert made similar floats down rivers in Idaho and Colorado in 1965 1966 and 1967 The late senator explained one of those trips with the comment Ive never done it before The Kennedys Kennedy's Green River float coincides coincides coin coincides coin coin- with the anniversary of the summer that Major John Wesley Powell led nine men down the then unexplored Green and Colorado rivers The group arrived back In m Vernal Sunday Sunday Sunday Sun Sun- day afternoon II r r r rj I II I J j t t t I i i it t t WHILE THE BUS was being loaded and final preparations preparations II I made for t the river river trip the Kennedy ennedY children R played tennis on the local motels motel's tennis court |