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Show Sun Chronicle Enjoy Thursday, September 14, 1972 accommodate a troop of cavalry, lays "Utah, a Guide to the State. There are monoliths measured in hundreds of tons balanced on decaying bases - high, thin sculptured walls of salmon-hue- d rock. There are chimneys of once towering spans which have fallen their buttresses pointing skyward. But there are others being formed, now deep caves, and a countryside of arches, in the main the product of wind weathering, whereas the bridges usually occur in a canyon as the effect of stream erosion and usually span something. The rock in the Arches National Park was laid down at the time of dinosaurs and it is said that northern tropical forests extended almost through the Colorado Plateau. The wind is tireless in the Arches region, and cowboys say it is useless to build a pine board fence because if the knots loosen, the wind blows through the holes and wears out the boards, which, enjoy those brilliant shades of red, yellow and blue as it arched across the shy? You can enjoy just such a fascinating feeling in Utah's Arches National Park which has just been dedicated near Moab where strange formations have been carved in the And -- k beautifully eroded land, between the Colorado River and U.S. Highway 160. Cowboys had their own colorful names for some of the formations Arch was known as the and Delicate Arch red-roc- the Wednesday, September 13, 1972 bright bold scenery by Glen Perrins Have you ever wanted to stand at the foot of a rainbow? was Clearfield Courier school-marm- s pants. These arches and dozens of others are found in this remarkable region of spectacular erosion of giant canyon walls with a lot of holes earvpa in them by wind and water. They vary in size from small ones to crawl through to immense spans jvhich could they beDiiiio add, is how come an arch! The Utah Guide book credits discovery of the Arches to Alexander Ringhoffer, a miner who worked his way into the section in 1922. Then came J.W. Williams and L.L. Bish Taylor, who packed in shortly thereafter and began a long siege to arouse the MerjDoraeiO Penrk cnr interest of the National Park Service, which was persuaded to recommend establishment of the Monument In eastern 1929. in 1935 Harry Reed, photographer an who Moab to test descriptions of the Arches scenery and was so fascinated by them that a year later he accepted the position as part- came to time custodian of the Monument. in the fall of 1936, Harry Sheep Goulding, trader to the Navajos of Monument alley, drove a specially equipped car to the Windows section of the Arches area. In 1937 Grand County ran a bulldozer and grader over Goulding's course, and the first tourists visited the Monument. and Flephants high butte; Three the 300-fo- ot Turret Arch, Gossips, the Klondike Bluffs and the Fiery Furnace which glows in the Devils Garden by' che light of the setting sun - and the sky will show clear and blue through the more t.an SO arches in Utahs new park, a spot as colorful -- as the foot 'f a rainbow! There is the famous Landscape Arch, the largest in Arch, the Double Arch, North and South arches and the famous Balanced Rock. Yes, if Mother Nature ever had a special project or private workshop, it must have been the Arches National Pari - the pride of Mother Nature near Moab, Utahs famout Canyonlands Country. the world, with a span of 291 feet. Also the Tower Arch, which gets its name from the gigantic pillar of rock which stands directly behind and towers over the arch itself Dont fail to see the Skyline -- In 1938, President Franklin I). Roosevelt, by proclamation, enlarged the boundaries of the Monument to 33,680 acres. It is crescentshaped, with the horns pointing west. Now a National Park with a dedication ceremony this summer at the Visitor Center, it has five sections, each in geologic interest and scenery and different. Arches, now a national park, has come a long way since those early ventures into its mysterious depths, and its red, dustry trails now have been replaced with miles of d roads. The primitive campgrounds have given way to a modern facility with running water and flush toilets. Visitors have jumped from an unnumbered few in 1937 to more than 200,000 last year. More developments are expected with the Arches now being a National Park, and more visitors will come to see the Cove of Caves and the massi arcs of streaked salmon-pin- n stone swinging outward and downward from Windows Reef the Parade of hard-surface- SUPPORTER of Arches National Park and Canyon Lands National Park is Senator Frank E. Moss shown here addressing a crowd at a National Parks Centennial -- - 1872-197- 2 program in scenice southern Utah. the immense size of scenic Southern-CentrUtah at the National Arches Monu SHOWING arches in ment, now a national park, is this picture by Utah Travel Council of Salt Lake City. al SERVICE MEN WEWS MARVIN V. CLIFFORD HERES ONE of more than 90 arches found in what is now Utahs Arches National Park in south-centrUtah near Moab, where Mothei Nature has formed arches and windows through the beautifully eroded red-roc- k region. Ceremonies at Visitors Center dedicated the area as Utahs Arches National Park. al w "rwjtiw CHRIS & DICK'S"! irurb'iiK- Mi HV$ j, GIGANTIC CARLOAD kt VfcV: SALE i 1 1 ' v : s tt , b. V MildTSOl n,nr r v t r f r - t Knox, Ky. He received instruction in the use of various kinds 1 S of weapons, maintenance of armor vehicles, map reading, communications, artillery adjustments, and mines and demolitions. Pvt. 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