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Show ' septembmi t. vm SUNDAY HERALD sropAT, Utah Countv. Utah 22 L ... ': . . 1 .fe.::.:-:-:-:.:.:.:.x:-x.x- . J it V ::, x S -- 1 v.. I s 4 r t k 1 ": ' ft . -- ?&Jif 1 XTSr ' - ' .... I - i v J ? ,, t I , w s ' s t : DOUBLE ARCH Not shown on the map at left, bul? very scenic nevertheless, is ArchesNational Monument where youll see such masterpieces of nature as Double Arch, picture above. it 's scenery in technicolor that you want, a look at some p the spots shown on this AROUND THE' COLOR CIRCUIT If- - take a trip to Southern Utah and .have . i map' Zijns, Bryce and Cedar Breaks are ' for the discerning traveler. t le spots, but there are .others, n best-know- H Magic travel Circle GREAT WHI E THR6NE Zions National Park is a fairyland of many wonders.one , of . which is me vjxeau vviute imone, picturea awve. it juts SKywara m majestic wnite m an area almost completely surrounded by colored formations.. Nfiture s Redlhead Colored Ca Mnong Utah Most Delightful Scehic Spots Note: This is an other in the Herald's series of articles on Utah scenic spots. By EDWARD COLLIER Mother Nature's capricious Utah's color canyon redhead flaunts herself in a country one ever forgets. way no There are six. major highway entrances to' the magic circles of this flaming, vivid land. We chose Kan ib, cosmopolitan little town where, more color movies have been shot on location than any other spot in America. Side roads beckon from the canyons that split the Vermillion Cliffs back of Kanab. Our first trip out o:, town was over the newly con pleted strip of black velvet (St ite 259) ' that, in an easy hour and a half, covers the 80 miles to Glen Canyon Dam. shot into the wind, Like an ar-o' world where gray-gree- n It pierces sago and black - greeri junipers grow from the red soil. This is the country of which Zane Grey wroto so lovingly, in. "Last: of the Plainsmen" and "Riders of the Purple Sage." ' Excitement Ahead ' There " is excitement at the end of the roid, where observation points have been built 89 that you can watch the daring construction' work from high above the gorge of the Colorado River. The highway bridge is scheduled for compleion in 1959; the dam 1 in five or. six years, before hues Eight getting back to Kanab, there is a pale: pink side road (State 136) hat leads to make-beli- e se land. First you spot Eaglt Gate Arch, a curi-ored and tan monolith formation with, a huge window-openin- Editor' - j . - r - , . : ur g. ; only a Fr close-u- p photos," hike. quarter-mil- e it's ' 2 . But the thing Which really . makes you rub your eyes, is a few miles 6n where, visible from the road, is a complete; but' de serted pioheer-da- y town which , theru'gged natural back ground. First of the. Authentic rough board structures were fits-int- . built as a et for 'Westward the Women" a few years ago: since then other movie companies have continued td add onto it for West-- 1 ern epics intil it has become a showplace. The owner of the ranch on which' it is located charges po admission. '. s . " " .. " Color Movie Mecc a We left Canab early in the morning, While the air was still cool;' for another magic circle' trip I 'starting in a never - never land', i, seldoAi seen by tourist . eyes. Sixteen miles north of Kanab you turn off v the highway (U.S.) 89 at a small sign which says .'Sand Dunes." This- - gravd eled, road, which does not show on Utah's beauti- fu' travel irap, runs for 10 miles through heavy sage, clumps of jumper and a few patched of orange colored dirt. Jackrabbits, looking almpst big enough for a saddle, dash across the road. . Then, v without, warning, you round a corner for a spectacle that only Alkddin could have d from bis lamp the Coral Pink Sandr Dunes. The sugar-fin- e sand extendi in hills, dunes, drifted, swirls dnd valleys until it runs into; distant but violently contrasting fed cliffs, dotted with .evergreens. As the. "sun climbs . higher the iose sand takes oil a bright orange hue. . Movie scouts know, about this glamorous freak of nature, too. Several years agq an Arabian Nights fantasy was filmed here in recent mbnths Hollywood used it as the locjale for a story about Timbuktu. Bui their tents .have folded, and not atrace of man remains aft ;r you have walked a hundred yards into the dunes. South froAi the Sand Dunes, the numberless road joins State 39 from Hurricane, the better -known route to Pipe Springs Na- tional Monument. This historic Mormon fort, v Just across the ' ' well-grade- . . con-jure- ; ,. " building. The fort was completed in 1870 at the direction of Brigham Young, president of the Mormon Church and governor of the Deseret Territory. In contrast to the first two Magic Circle trips, the third covers two of America's most famed and beautiful ' national parks. From Mt. JCarmel Junction, the windshield of your automobile .becomes a constantly changing widerscreen color pano rama for the 25 miles (State 15) into" Zion National Park. ; The pavement is so smooth that we shot good movies from a, tripod in the car stopping, of course, for; color snapshots of such curiosities as Checkerboard Mesa,1 a Arizona border and hi the Kaibab Indian Reservation, is like an oasis in the arid land Tall shade4 trees two large mirror-lik- e pools o water; and red cliffs in the bac kground form the setting for the t wo well-prserved piflk ' sandstone buildings which; face each othjer across an enclosed courtyard. The original firing platform spans, the west wall of the yard, above massive e- ) wooden gates, ij u Some, of the old loopholes are still visible', but the most intriguing feature is that, Us a precau- tion against Indian attack and seige, the north sljructiife was built over 'the spring, with the Water running out unjder the south -- d butte by linesetched and with a deeply terra cotta border. Once past the Great Arch, the next visual thrills are views of Zion Canyon ' and the mighty battlements from the, windows of the highway tunnel. You know the meankig of the majesty of nature when you reach the flat floor of the canyon and stand, a tiny human being, looking up at the sneer multicolored walls the "towering temples of stone' as they were described by "the Mormon pioneers, who named this region "Zion," meaning "the heavenly city of God." This was my fifth visit to Zion and yet still new,, still awesome, criss-crosse- buff-hue-d - Algerian Rebe s Plot in Luxury - , , , : Ledders Operat e Openly I'h Cai ro Wi th Mr. Nasser Support Anti-Fenc- n Liberation Front ( F.L.N. ). Amid luxurious surroundings, every move in the bitter Algerian war Which a half million French troops liave been unable to end is plotted and planned with the blessfrom the U.S. Embassy. ' ings of jGamal Abdel Nasser. In Algeria itself, the rebels may Here more than ja thousand miles from the-- scene; of combat, be a secret army, melting into the is the headquarters of the National hadows whenever pursued. By TOM A. ClfLLEN NEA Staff Correspondent CAIRO (NEA) The rebellion against the French ih Algeria is being directed from a '.swanky apartment house in Cairo, not far i f -- j Pro vo Family Sees World In Moving From One i 1. .. 1 Big Steel Job to Another 1 ordinate all these functions into an operable unit. Then carefully One job after another and closely, he supervises and led John Manning an4 his family trains men until the "local talent" "around the 'world in foiir years." can take! over on its own on a pay Mrs. Manning is the jformer Zoe ing basis. Bullock of Provo, daughter of Mr. "I feel 'that I have been very and Mrs. K. E. (Bob) Bullock, fortunate in having one job fol : His most important work; has low so closely after another," been as a consultant engineer in says John. the past ; eight fyearst with five The family has gone clear different steel mills jaround the around the world. In 1952 they left world. John serves as a consult- wew York City to go to France ant in the installation land opera- and Belgium and from there to tion of rolling mills dedicated t$ Australia before home steel across the Pacificcoming the production of flst-roto Los An products. geles and Provo, in 1956. The older ' . r First In France children j Oathy and Bobby, were He supervised the first wide-stri- p born in Provo, but Jimmy was .mills in France (two .of born in Luxemburg. Visited Spain them), one in Belgiuim, one in Australia and one of the first in While in Europe they went to Japan. He goes' into a plant after Spain, Gibraltar, Scandinavian and countries and many others. construction rhas started checks the layout for (mechanical "We Went to every country exand electrical features to insure cept Portugal this side of ithe that the operation is parallel with Iron Curtain," said John, and addits American counterparts. ed, "The" trouble spots of North In addition, John checks order Africa were peaceful then and books, type of product tk be rolled, in many of the North ewere facilities available ican countries." 'and attempts to co- personnel John was born in Lackawanna, Y., and he worked in the east in Pittsburgh and Lackawanoa and the south in Alabama. While iiot a graduate engineer. John has amassed, engineering credits through night school at'. tendance! He came to Provo from Spo k me Wash. where he had start ed an aluminum strip raSX. : Was With Geneva He was selected for his firs foreign job, one in France, by a colleague while a supervisor at By PHYLLIS PHnXIPS big-ste- el j . lf ' . . 1 of ads by Friends of Senator Watkins on constructive ' accomplishments of the Senator., No. 2 in a serie Arthur V. Watkins is the Great White Throne, Utah's This most famed landmark. white and giant mauve, gray stands aloof,, framed by contrasting red peaks. Circling west and north out of the park, there is a rewarding stop on U.S. 01, some 19 miles before reaching Cedar City, Only h a tiny sign indicates a entrance to ;Koiob Canyon. Starting up Taylor Creek, an uninteresting looking gulch, you are hardly prepared for the wild, hidden valley that opens suddenly after the twr mile hike. Although made a part of Zion National Park by Congress last year, it is known to but few Utahns. The yellow and crimson walls give Kolob Canyon such protection that the leaves do not begin to turn gold until late November, when winter already has come to the "outside." An old - timer told us the name was derived from an Indians word meaning "next to the seat of "God." Novel Canyon From pleasant and prosperous Cedar City, the Magic Circle curves east (State 14) up a beautiful new highway through Cedar Canyon, whose majestic cream-colore- d walls are a novelty in rainbow tinted southern Utah. The destination is Cedar Breaks National Monument, 10,457 feet high in .Dixie National Forest. The last few miles are through mountain meadows alive with UNITED -- ARTHUR V. WATKINS Ubited States Senator OUR WATER RESOURCES! WATER its conservation and use in agriculture, in industry anrl in the home this is one of the most important of . all problems . ! ' . co-sponso- red " $33,669,449 ($500,000 this year). Needed to complete: $2,500,000. 16-m- ile SEATON PRAISES WATKINS Pre of Best-know- ueneva SfKfy i'Mtr'T- - A STEEI, CONSULTANTj John Manning, who has been around the world as a jsteel. plant con ; sultant ssteei ; i'xanx. , mia-wa- y through that assignment he saw thie opportunity for other jobs and went after them.. His visits to European countries were mot all pleasure trips, because he saw mlany steel mills there. jJohn feels ttiat of all ' the places the family has been, Australia has thlc truest friends for them and fojr America. "Where we have lent money to make friends, we have not succeeded," he said. , J that Senator Watkins is needed to complete these jobs so magnificentlystarted is this statement by Secretary of Interior al Fred Sejaton, in an address to the National Reclamation Association last October: "And! in addition to President Eisenhower there is a man in this audience who played a major part in getting the Colorado Storage Project authorized. But for him there would have been no Colorado River Project. That man is Senator Arthur V. Watkins." DEMOCRATIC SECRETARY ALSO APPLAUDS Also, Democrat Oscar. Chapman, former Secretary of Interior " - . ; CANDIDATE, water-resourc- es i El-Meda- IF REPUBLICAN i1 facing Jtahns and other WesternersFortunately we have in Washington one of the nation's best informed and most effective advocates development program, of a sound and Senator Arthur V. Watkins. Here are the highlights 01 the important achievements of this man and his colleagues in recent sessions of Congress. The commitments to these water projects are many times larger than the total, authorizations for, all previous water projects from the time of statehood through 1948. WEBER BASIN PROJECT: Authorized by WatkinsV 1949 bill. He secured the first appropriation? and since has aided in getting, Still needed total arfpropriations of $38,838,153 ($5,273,000 in . 1958). ' to complete the project, an estimated' $29,811,847.-UP PER COLORADO RIVER STORAGE PROJECT: After years of vain effort during prior administrations, Senator Watkins won President Eisenhower's support for this project, in March 1954, and, working with other Upper Basin Congressmen, spearheaded a Successful drive for the project's "first phase," with authorization in by April 1956 of $760,000,000, the largest ever to be approved '"' .Congress.' f'f Sirce project approval in 1956, Senator Watkins has worked unceasingly for planning ahd construction funds. Appropriations to date: $116,175,335. Needed; to complete "first phase"! $643,824,665. VERNAL PROJECT (Uintah County) : First unit of the Central Utah Project which is the principal participating project in" the to begin Upper Colorado Storage program $1,000,000, appropriation ' . construction. Total needed to complete: $5,500,000. . SMALL RECLAMATION PROJECTS: In 1956; Senator Watkins a new "small projects" program. and, inl 1958, secured for Utah two of the first four loan authorizations: South Davis Water Improvement District, $634,000; Bountiful Subconservancy District! $3,510,000. Repayable, these loans will complete these vital Davis lounty projects. small projects are bein& readied (Nte: Numerous other Utah!next for authorization and construction year and in' future.)) PRDVO RJVER ( Deer Creek) ) PROJECT : Before, entering Congress, S enator Watkins helped organize this project and during his 12 year; j of service in Congress he helped move it to completion by getting additional appropiriations. Total arpropriation s to date : far-reachi- ng . steel-makin- g SENATOR foot-pat- ' ex-liber- STATES j In Cairo, they operate quite open. ly, thanks to Nasser's support to the Recently, as an example nation, Nasser donated his month's salary as President of the United' Arab Republic to the rebel cause. Other government officials are being pressured to do the same. My quest for the Algerian rebel leaders, took me first to the Federation of Egyptian Trade Unions, purple-blu- e larkspur, Indian evawhere I met with shifty-eye- d paintbrush anS lavendar daisies sion. But when I tracked them with yellow faces. down the rebels were cordial Like so much of this land of enough. surprises, you are not ready for shock that' comes a hundred the Their propaganda chief, Dahlab! from the museum and rangfeet Saad, denied that the rebels have er called for Egyptian "volunteers" headquarters, tucked neatly to help them fight the French. into a forest grove. Plunging '.'Volunteers" of any nationality down abruptly is a fantastic ampwere not needed at this stage of hitheater-type gorge that looks as if the earth had been gashed the rebellion, he added. open and . was bleeding: Some 47 colors, with reds predominatiHowever, from Baghdad have come reports that Iraqi soldiers ng,; are in this abyss of eroded At the are "eager to join their Algerian spires and formations is bottom a of alcrevass deep brothers in fighting the common most eternal snow. enemy, colonialism." Final objective is Bryce CanAhmed a leader of National' Park, a fairyland yon the National Liberation Front, has of delicate and blended colors just returned to Cairo from Bagh- that lets your dad talks with Iraqi Premier Ab- riot. There are imagination run minarets, castles, del Kerim Kassem. He quoted silent natural cities, bridges and Kassem as saying that "free Iraq mummers forthe. magnificent cannot but support Algeria by all mations do not iook to same the possible means to help her, achieve any two And of instead 'persons. freedom." j the sandstone so prevalent in The rebel "brains' 'in Cairo style other parts of Utah's color counthemselves the "Committee of Co- try, tiie rock here seems as soft V ordination and Execution." .Of the as chalk. 14 members of this commil tee, five There are excellent foot ' and are in French prisons and another horseback trails down into the was killed recently in Algiers' com- shallow canyon, as well as a' bat operations, leaving eight active drive along the rim. Sunn is Ferhat set brings , out the more vivid members. Abbas, an politician, who colors, starting with sugar-whit- e now flits back and forth between at the tops of the pinnacles, on Cairo and Geneva, another base of down through yellows to rose " F.L.N. operations. and red. , I - ' ELECT - - under Truman, after lauding Senator Norris, Theodore Roosevelt, and other great conservationists in water resource development, said earlier to the Senate and House Joint Economic Committee: "You have a member of this committee that . . history will accord . . . a very respectable place for his efforts in conservation and development of the West . . . that is Senator Watkins . . . He has worked faithfully and hard for the conservation of the West ;: and the development Sof its water resources.,, Denzil A. Brown 3 for ; ' I j I STATE SENATOR Utah County District No. 1 Provo, Orem, Pleasant View, Vineyard, Lake view, Pleas1 ant Grove No6. Capable - Efficient - Qualified Good Legislation Depends Upon Good Legislators To injure the earliest possible completion and fullest develojment of Utdh's and the West's water rosourcesf Vote ""uesday7 September 9, for fv VOTE PRIMARY ELECTION SEPT. 9, 1958 Republican Nominee For United States Senate '11 Paid Political Adv.. by Denzil A. Brown for Senator Committee. Paid Pol tical Advertisement by Lane W. Adams, Salt Lake City; John B. - ' Stratton, Orem; Sterling E.I Price, Springville. .1 |