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Show - - There's plenty of room in" our parks, but only I CURAD r percent has been developed for visitors. gives you w 11 n TT E2 C?0 n re 172J . 0 i .i ., a, 1 () 1' (clear... Can Uncle Sam's play areas meet the growing of influx travel-minde- d Americans? and will allow the parks to handle 80 million visitors by 1966. Some of the initial improvements already are completed. There is only one dark spot in the picture: "At current rates of increase' one park official predicts, "there will be 80 million visitors by 1962 four years before we'll be ready for them. And we may have 250 million vacationers by 1980!" Says Lemuel A. Garrison, superintendent of Yellowstone National Park: We are faced with the continual need to develop and staff our parks for the wisest use use that will result in the maximum enjoyment of all the natural beauties to be seen. We are engaged in a never-ceasistruggle to stay ahead of the increase in tourists." This sardine-lik- e crowding is leading the Park Service to the only other means of increasing its recreation areas: establishing new parks where sites can be found. The newest park, on the island of- St John in the Virgin Islands, was dedicated in 1956. Consideration also is being given to a park along the route of the old Chesapeake & Ohio Canal from Great Fall to Cumberland, McL, more than 150 miles. Such expansion is a must if the. parks are to accommodate a population expected to top 300 million in just 35 years. America is a panorama of mountains and valleys, plains and forests, seashores and deserts, lakes and rivers. And Americans want to see this land of theirs. Nowhere can they get a better picture of its beauty than in the national parks. These recreation areas are an investment g. in physical, mental, and spiritual Expansion for the benefit of all is a national necessity. ng this "extra" leisure will be spent in the national parks. To prepare for this influx, Congress initiated a huge ar expansion program for our park system in 1955. Conrad L. Wirth, director of the National Park Service, organized a team to bring the parks up to the standards which the American people want and have a right to expect The project, called Mission 66, is to be completed by 1966 the 50th anniversary of the National Park Service. The plan calls for building 2,000 miles of roads, 1,500 miles of trails, 109 visitor outdoor amphitheaters, and 300 centers, sewage systems. The number of campsites will be boosted from 12,000 to 25,000, providing facilities for 90,000 campers. About 1,000 new ranger homes will replace the slum-lik- e housing in which some park personnel now live. Mission 66 will cost some $800 million 10-ye- k - , well-bein- Family Weekly, June i, 1951 21 4 not just sH V - : So if - h - -- v I . you want invisible protection X vear the only transparent plastic bandage For invisible wear on face, under stockings, any place. Waterproof. . . medicated . . .with TekV pad that doesn't stick to the scab. 4 different shapes . .. in the special transparent package Bauer Black DIVISION OF THE KENDALL COMPANY M anspant i |