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Show DINOSAUR GROUP FORVERNAL MUSEUM READY TO CAST A sculptured drama depicting depict-ing a battle that took place 125 million years ago is being cast in lasting concrete for permanent perma-nent display at the Utah Field House of Natural History in Vernal. Three mighty dinosaurs, the largest of them 17 feet high and weighing five tons in finished fin-ished form, have been designed and executed in clay by Millard Mil-lard F. Malin, noted Salt Lake-City Lake-City sculptor. Fashioned with great care at the Otto Beuhner Concrete Products Co. plant in Murray, the trio of prehistoric giants will soon be cast in concrete, with completion and dedication at Vernal scheduled for June 1. Three main figures plus two smaller ones will comprise the finished group to be erected on the grounds at the state) museum. A life-size Cerato-s Cerato-s a u r u s, Camarasaurus and Stegosaurus closely grouped in fighting poses are the core of the group. Two smaller dino saurs, a Laosaurus and Dryo-saurus Dryo-saurus are to be placed nearby as if fleeing the battle of monsters. mon-sters. The idea of having the life-size life-size dinosaurs in dramatic action ac-tion came from Ernest Unter-mann, Unter-mann, curator of the Utah State Park system's museum at Vernal. He furnished sculptor Millard Malin with all necessary neces-sary data, based on skeletons of reptiles found embedded in the Dinosaur National Monument Monu-ment and other Utah dinosaur quarries. Funds fo production of the sculptured group came mainly from the Dulaney Hunter Foundation Foun-dation of Vernal. The display will honor the late Dot Hunter, Hunt-er, wife of Capt. S. A. Dulaney Hunter, retired naval officer and Georgetown University professor. The couple spent much time hunting dinosaur bones in the Vernal - Jensen area. A skeletonized dinosaur outside out-side the Fieldhouse, plus displays dis-plays of fossils and small-scale models inside the museum help make the Vernal "gateway" to Utah on U S 40 one of the state's most popular tourist centers. |