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Show Skyscapper Window Washers in For Rude Awakening The pleasant thing about washing the windows of the Empire Em-pire State building in New York City is that it's only 1,472 feet to the street below. Now the fellow who swabs the three picture windows of the lodge on Grand Canyon's north rim can take one backward step and drop a mile if he is so inclined in-clined or isn't careful. With the spectacular Grand Canyon National Park opening open-ing up for visitors June 15, vacationists va-cationists who c"me to be awed by the mile deep gorge may experience ex-perience the unexpected thrill of watching the world's highest window washer in action every week or 10 days. Last year this routine but un-monotonous un-monotonous job was performed by Jim P. Jones, manager of the Wlge, which is owned and operated oper-ated by Union Pacific Railroad's Utah Parks company. A muscular, good-looking man with a Tarzan torso, Jones nevertheless never-theless admits that sponging off the huge windows isn't a sedative seda-tive for nerves. The worst feature of the task, Jones opines, was the shouts of well-meaning guests demanding he get off the window ledge. |