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Show i t N I 1 ' "' ' ' ! : ,1 . - - -."' v - ; - - "; - ': - ' r1 ? " ; - . . " HEAD OF THE COLORADO KIVEK CANYON AT MOAB Here tlie Great Colorado Kiver Enters A Mile-Deep Gorjre That Continues Without A Break For Hundreds of Miles On Its Way To' The Gulf of California State Editors To Meet On Colorado River Southeastern Utah, that little-known little-known section of the state lying along the Colorado river, will be visited May 27 and 28, by the editors of Utah newspapers, who will hold their midsummer convention con-vention at Moab, county seat of Grand county. For two days the Utah State Press association members will be entertained by the Moab Lions club, the program calling for trip into some of the interesting scenic areas of the state. The editors will arrive in Moab Friday evening, May 26. After a round of golf at the Moab municipal muni-cipal links Saturday morning, a business meeting will be held at the Grand county court house at 9:30 a.m. Promptly at 10:30, with members of the Lions club acting as chauffeurs, the pressmen with their families will be taken to Warner Recreation park in the La Sal mountains, at an elevation of 10,000 feet. Here the traditional annual Softball game between the northern and southern editors will the visiting publishers and their be played. This will be a grudge contest, with the northern publishers pub-lishers striving to avenge the last two defeats they sustained at the hands of the southerners. At 12:30 p.m. lunch will be served by the Moab Lions, who will tempt the editorial palates with barbecued pig and lamb. At 2:30 p.m. the party will return to Moab by way of the scenic Colorado river highway. This road follows down the Colorado river canyon for 20 miles, and the trip is said to be one of the most scenic in the west. Arriving at Moab at about 5 p.m. the editors and their families will enjoy a three-hour rest, and at 8 p.m. a banquet will be served in their honor at the L.D.S. recreation rec-reation hall. The banquet program will consist of musical numbers, talks by distinguished Utahns, and other entertainment features. At 10 p.m., a dance will be given at the Grand county ballroom, with the Moab Lions club as host tc families. Promptly at 10 Sunday morning, morn-ing, the editors and members of the Lions club, with their families, will leave for the Big Flat, between be-tween the Colorado and Green rivers. An excellent highway leads to Dead Horse Point, overlooking the Colorado river canyon 3000 feet deep. The immensity and scenic grandeur of the view from Dead Horse Point is said to be unequalled anywhere. At 2 p.m. a beef-steak dinner will be served by the Lions club, and after the repast the visitors may leave for their homes without returning to Moab, as they will ' be 20 miles on their way. The citizens of Moab are mak- ! ing elaborate preparations for the ' newspaper convention. They feel that the visit of the publishers i will do wonders in acquainting the people of Utah with the scenic I resources of southeastern Utah, as : it will give the editors first-hand : information about a region of i which they previously had very I I little knowledge. |