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Show Utah Parks Company Closes Lodaes For Another Season " Lodges of the Utah Parks Company Com-pany at the North Rim of Grand Canyon, Zion National Park, Bryce National Park and Cedar Breaks were closed Sunday following fol-lowing a successful summer sea-son sea-son that should reach beyond 125,000 total accommodations, according ac-cording to Rudy Iverson, purchasing purchas-ing agent for the company. Final meal served at each of the lodges was Sunday morning breakfast. However, Inns at Bryce, Zlon and Grand will remain open through October 15, it was pointed point-ed out and .lodging at the lodges are also available through that date. Meals can be purchased at the Inns. Total employment for the peck three months of the tourist season sea-son for the parks was about 800. A good percent of those were students of colleges and high schools in the Intcrmountatn area with a goodly number of those from this1 immediate vicinity. vicin-ity. This offers summer employment employ-ment for students, on a seasonal basis, and fiUs not only the needs of the company but the needs of the students as weU. Although the total accommodations accommo-dations for this' year are not quite up to the 1954 season, Iverson Iver-son reports that depending on the tabulations of the last two months the figure will be near the approximately 135-000 for 1954. It should be above 125,000 he said. Train tours that have been coming into Cedar City dally since June were discontinued Saturday Sa-turday with the final load coming com-ing Into town Saturday morning and leaving Saturday evening. Students' working at the parks |