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Show r " i1 Published in the VOLUME l . I Outlook Interest of Blanding 3 the Surrounding Oil and Ifining Communities FRIDAY, BUNDING, UTAH, Wank Unite to Schedule Here July 24th Pioneer Day L.D.S. Blanding1 have joined forees to arrange Tennis Tourney a full day of publle entertainment for Pioneer Day, July 24. Starts Today tennis Aaronie Priesthood JULY 19&1 21, T--Z Employees Commi- The CITY REJECTS RESERVOIR BID sponsored ttee headed by Join Seely has tournament starts The with a City Council rejected as today eome up with the following: Swenson-Jon"too doubles matches of high" a bid of Black and 9:00 A.M. Tomorrow Palmer for enlargement of the v.s. Halliday-NielsoChildrens parade, on First (Saturday) the No. 3 reservoir. The bid of Black & Palmer, starting at Vint oppose ' Perkins Nielsen. OWest Street, home and ending at the pair Doubles finals will be played Blanding, Utah, was the only bid was $1487.90 little league ball park. Nonday 6:30 a.m. with champion-wh- ip received and 10:00 A.M. on the west court the engineer's estimate of game Childrens sports contests at while the consolation contest $15,801.60 according to Bud little league ball park. will be played on the east court Nielson at the City Hall. NOON RECESS Nielson said that the City had First round matches 1:30 P.M, no alternative but to refuse any start flies day with pairsingles musbid that was greater than the Variety program (mostly and times as follows: ings ical) at Recreation Hall. engineer's estimate sinoe the P.M. 3:00 Tuesday, July 25, J. Nielson project is to be paid for with County es n. Cochran-Hanoo- ck -- it a-b- ove for softball at the hli ' Vole T- -Z Uranium Employees of the' Mill at Mexican Hat voted an emphatic "no", yesterday, on the proposal to go union. Wards An 29 NO. Fan-M-D- ay 3 Met 10c of Out voted. The 69 eligible voters, election 67 was conducted by the National Labor Board and required Relations a two-w- ay vote. issue was whether to go under the Jurisdiction of the One Operation Engineers and Labors other issue was Union; the whether any union was desired. 56 11 DEAL voted for no union. voted in favor of going union. furnished to the City by Game Commischool field. Wednesday, July 26, Swenson the State Fish and who P.M. ssion 6:00 based its payment on Cochran. v.s. Smokeless (Boxing Smokers, Thursday, July 25, 3. Nielson theTheestimate. matches) at high school field. v.s. M. Jones. City has re advertised the 9:00 P.M. and will open bids again Saturday, July 29, R. Perkins project Dance (either at Recreation on July 27. v.s Hal 11 day. Hens game v.s. funds Hanccck. -- Hall or on cement i slab). i sioy wall wants mo smart milts for national parr National "A eastern Utah is Park in the canyonlands of southan investment for the future." these words Secretary of the Interior Stewart L. Udall summed up his convictions after a history-makin- g field trip through the red rock canyon country surrounding the Juno ti on of the Green and Colorado Rivers in Utah. Accompanied by government leaders and press re- With presentatives, Udall helicopter and on foot Journeyed by boat, , Jeep into the rugged wilderness lnspeot the possibilities of establishing a National Park in that area. While no firm boundaries were determined on the canyons to the trip, Park would in all embrace more than 1,000 square miles, proposed National probability mostly of publie lands principally in San Juan County and including .portions of Grand, dayne, Garfield, and Briery: Counties fantastically eroded This canyon oountry is the greatest scenic wilderness area of this type re- been in the Nation. In fact, it has most and as the largest described impressive red rock oahyon oountry in the world. The proposed National Park oountalns a vast variety of soenio and soientifio features whioh would soon plaoe among, the most Important of America's great National Parks. Inoluded are suoh famous features as the Needles Area, The Land of the Standing Rocks Monument Basin, Cataract Canyon of the Colorado River spectacular Indian ruins and petroglyphs and Island in the Sky with its famed Upthe heaval Dome and Grandview Point. Recognizing existing uses that confllot with National Park standards. Secretary Udall stressed the need for additional studies and consultation At present oil exploration with Utah officials is being carried out in parts of the area that would be inoluded in the proposed park.. Udall' stressed the importance of a conservation program for the canyonlands area which would recognize not only present land uses but also provide for preservation and publlo enjoyment of the seenio and scientific features. He pointed to the area's soenie grandeur as being its most stable asset, whioh, if properly protested, could- be an inexhaustible resource of major and Utah the of southern the in eoonosy importance maining it so-call- ed well-round- Cathwdralj' M A N T I - NAT IONAL L A SAL FOREST ed - Four Corners Country. "I am convinced,11 said Udall after the (COLUMN 3, PAGE 2) field ' |