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V1 AW- ‘l : 'w fitanks for Kelp yi &': ' Offken of the High School Band were presented with a check for $50 Industries Manager Jerry Squlre Monday toward the band’s Days of ‘47 Parade travel And Bruce Raymond president accepts by Moab ' the check accompanied by Bo Johnson and Page Witnmer secretary Donations have also been made by the Ladies of Elks and Bob’s Sanitation Said Bruce a lot more money is still needed vice-preside- nt vir a? i Ti-- Area Rancher One of Four Utahns Named to National Board f mwm In this aerial view of die Windows Section of Arches National Park the gaping eyes of the North and South Windows can be The ' shadow of Turret Arch reveals its location and Double Arch is visible in silhouette beyond the loop road seen Four Utahns will serve on the National Advisory Board Council of fee De-rtme- the Mt by F Barnes A Aerial photos by F A Barnes Courtesy Bob Rynio Sky West Aviation Canyonlands Field Last year more than 275000 visitors entered Arches National Park to sample the wide variety of magnificent arches and other scenic beauty there It is quite likely however that fewer than a thousand took the opportunity to get a bird’s eye view of Arches even though this is the only way to acquire any kind of understanding of the geologic relationship between the scattered features in this sprawling park From the air is also the only way to encompass the whole of certain huge areas of fee the Fiery Krk such asFrom the ground near this labyrinth of vertical sandstone all that can be seen is a few of the outermost fins that form a wall along the paved road in the park From vantage points along the road before it descends into Salt Valley die Fiecan be ry Furnace glimpsed from above at a distance of several miles but wily from close by in the air can the true size and scope valley in the region that lies between Arches and US 163 As Courthouse Wash crosses this high- of this vast natural maze be seen in fell way and goes the length of Arches it changes The geology of Arches is complex and dramatically as it enfeatures miles apart ters and passes through the region of tilted geowould seem to have little relationship to each logic strata First it is Just an- other except that they are all red rock yet'iTTuther shallow drywash from an aerial vantage like hundreds of others point relationships can in fee area But as it encounters fee harder clearly be seen For example red and uplifted Entrada sandstone it cuts a narrow white Entrada sandstone cleft-lik- e channel befrom strata emerge Farther along this low the surface of the earth on each side of channel deepens and wibroad Salt Valley but dens into a spectacular where they occe arched canyon which high to join in a giganeventually broadens into tic anticline the rock is a valley with jutting abutments and gone and the grayish towers of rock This of Salt expanse Valley dominates On one side is fee Courthouse Towof this wide drywash the ers part of Arches From fee air and only remaining highly erodfrom fee air can this ed Entraida sandstone forms the Klondike spectacular metamor-osi- s of a desert wash Bluffs and on the other be seen in its entirety it forms the Fiery Furnace and fee series of From fee air fee warped giant fins and arches that and eroded landscape of extend to the north of Arches become a vivid- the Devil’s Garden ly real In the western part feu -- color map which can be studied as of fee park fee same immense uplifting feat a whole from high up formed Salt Valley and or examined in more deleft fee bare bones of tail from a lower elEntrada sandstone still evation Viewed from above standing on its flanks Delicate Arch does inalso tilted all fee strata to fee west of the deed seem a delicate red-wall- ed free-standi- three-dimensio- ng arc of precar- fragile iously balanced rock standing on a narrow ridge above a deep chasm Landscape Arch seems even more impossibly balanced on fee verge of collapse a slender thread of stone connecting two massive walls The redrock pinnacles of fee Windows Section wife their gap- ing windows and many arches stand in lofty splendor among broad desert meadows and from fee air it can be seen feat these isolated red towers are related to fee fins of the Fiery Furnace in fee distance Tower Arch from ab- ove seems to be lost giant fins of sal- sandstone and Garden Devil’s like looks campground disturbed insect col- any wife tiny creatures scurrying around among fee pebbles and grass And how many of fee multitude of landbound Arches visitors have seen where this elevated ends abi (ilateauland cl of fee Colorado River gorge? No roads or foot trails enter this hinterland of Arches nor do they penetrate to fee south of Wolfe Cabin where Salt VaUey joins - washes to plunge hito a spectacular canyon feat eventually reaches the Colorado after winding and twisting for miles along the southeastern border of fee park Arches National Park is spectacular beautiful and when seen from its roads and trails but only from fee air can fee full scope of this magnificent part be folly grasped Only those who have seen Arches from fee air can felly understand what they have already viewed from the ground It could be said feat seeing Arches from ab- ove provides a frame of reference for apprecia-amon- g ting this geologic maly — or puts a beau-fe- e tiftil frame around a lovely landscape paint-- a ing awe-inspiri- ano-mon-pi- nk — — § 10 vOVGITiOi S IWa rOiCc At fee March 15 meeting of fee State Board of Education fee Governor’s Policy Advisory Council on Spanish Affairs and Speaking SOCK) made a recommendation feat a thsk force be established to tributary resolve fee problems in education for theChican-o- s Mrs WSSSMBSONUHiT"?1 BgESWS ng Cosine’ (Teles -- fora) Chacon was nominated and accepted to be ""toT a member of this task force to represent Grand and San Juan counties She will be working with 3 both school nt of fee Interior's reau of Land Manage- ment and will meet with 0 fee council May in Los Angeles Appointment of 20 new members has been announced by Secretary of fee Interior Rogers CB Morton The new appointments include George Buzianls county commissioner from Tooele and Paul Rattle executive director of fee Utah 18-2- earning fee administration of the national re- source lands Its mem- - Mining Association Salt Lake City In addxio H Wealey bers serve without Cherry of SiUna Sevier County will represent wildlife interests of Utah and Colorado and WW of Cisco Cunningham Grand County will represent Utah livestock- men com-pensati- v sr on except for reimbursement of travel and related expenses mi ’ The following topics' are planned for discus- sion at fee May meeting1 ‘ primitive area andvisi- tor management Na- - : ' The National Advisory tional Environmental Po-BBoard Council is a pubAct impact on livelic advisory committee stock management prowhich provides advice to grams criteria for utithe Secretary of fee Inwild corridors lity terior and fee Bureau of horseaand an as burros Land Management con "element- In mhltfole use management criteria for land tenure programs': Baison and coordination m between fee national advisory board and fee Se- cretariat of fee Interior Camping awards in fee Scout division went to Department Ths new board mem- -r Troop 803 with a first bers reflect fee recent place ribbon The LaSal decision to restructure Troop took second and Council i to : membership 316 took the third Troop new wife conform fee ' placf camp ribbon The Forest Service and Federal Advisory Act Broader and District Scouts would more balanced represen-tatio- n like to extend a “well : for fee umany done!’’ to fee boys and their leaders groups now interested in multiple use of feeptib-B- e lands is assured unFROM SANDY ft OGDEN der fee new structure' Mr and Mrs Lee Oy-l- er - were from Sandy and Mr Representatives added in fee areas of oil' and Mrs Frank Warner and gas environmental from Ogden spent Sunday outdoor recreaquality in Mow visiting relattion f state government' ives Mr and Mrs Fred and public utilities The Lathrop Beula Caillet total nember of board and Madge Warde While members was reduced here fee Warners and from 42 to 36 fee Oylers rented a home for their mother Mrs Lula Schmidt who lives in California but is moving to Moab to make her ey : - - Ponderosa Pine Planting In VAIVfifl flflVM Last Friday and Saturday Scouts and Explorers from Grand District held their spring Camporee at Buckeye Lake in fee Manti-La-S- al National Forest Fifty boys and their lead- JbVUIUd Com-mitt- ! ee ers participated The purpose of fee camp was to help fee Forest Service to plant Ponderosa Pine seedlings on the Carpenter Ridge area: The young men planted 1500 trees Saturday morning under fee direction of Gary Kidd of fee Forest Service Gary stressed feat fee most important thing wasn’t how many trees were planted but how weU they were planted and fee real test would be to come back next year and see how many were growing Top camping awards were given and two Exhome here for fee rest plorer posts were the of her life Lula will be outstanding units remembered as 'Lula George Huffman’s Post Shafer Sorenson a form2803 won fee presidenMoabite and a sister tial ribbon Both units er to Mrs Fred (Eva) were excellent examples of scouting at its best districts After a meeting this week in Salt Lake City Mrs Chacon will report on the proceedings to fee local SOCK) associations Mrs Chacon is organizing a committee of residents of both counties to help with the job and get information from areas she may not otherwise reach Anyone interested in being a part of this committee should contact her in Monticello BIRTHDAY DINNER Mrs Harold (Flora) Warbinton was honored pn her birthday with a dinner at home of Madge Virdn and after dinner seven other ladies came to a Bridge Party Prizes went to Mrs Emily Sic ley - high Verda German - second high and Etta Hinto - low VBiTfflG RELATIVES Mr & Mrs Paul Sha- Courthouse Wash broadens out in where fee Courthouse Towers loom above the paved road into fee park The Three Gossips can be mid-Arch- es seen In fee lower part of this picture discussing whatever they discuss in fee low sun of evening RPant fee weekend in Mo- ab visiting relatives Hospitd Donation Julio Peterson Grand County Junior High Student Body President presented a check for $25 to hospital Administrator J Monday from fee students at the sdiodl T!to mousy was v fee City of Moab by students helping in the city cleanup campaign and was donated to Allen Memorial Hospital for equipment in fee coronary care unit - $ 3K9pW!TO ’ 'r‘ - v- - ft-- : “ r ' i' ' t !'M S'—? yi - '( r" |