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Show Utah Parks Company Officials Plan For Outstanding Tourist Season "If the entire season is as favorable fa-vorable 3 the outlook at the present time, we will have an outstanding season." Those are the words of E.T. Murray, manager of the Utah Parks Company, in viewing the 19(51 tourist season which will begin for the Utah Parks on May 13 with the opening of Inns at Zion, Bryee and Grand Canyon. Several changes have been made this year in the operation of the Utah Parks Company, a subsidiary of Union Pacific Kail-road, Kail-road, but those changes are basically basi-cally connected with the disoon- tinuation of train service from Lund to Cedar City, Murray stated. stat-ed. I This year the daily train service ser-vice from Lund to Cedar City will be discontinued and tours of the Utah Parks facilities at Zion, Grand, Bryce and Cedar Breaks will originate from Lund. Buses ofj the company will meet East and West bound trains at Lund at 1:05 and at 3:05 p. m. and transport those patrons touring the parks to Cedar City and from Cedar City to the National Parks and monuments where they operate op-erate their facilities. t j Arrival Time 1 Patrons from the West will arrive ar-rive at Lund at 1:05 p.m. They will be brought to Cedar City for 'a short stay and will embark at j4:35 for Zion National Tark. Pa- trons from the Fast will arrive at Lund at 3:05. They will brought to Cedar City, where they will be joined by those from the West and will leave immediately for the parks. Several special tours will be catered by the Utah Parks during the summer fur which the sp"-cial sp"-cial train will be brought into Cedar City. First of these special groups will be the Rail Fans ot Los Angeles who will arrive hero on Memorial Day, Murray said. Several changes in the Company's Com-pany's policy have also been inade and will be put into operation opera-tion at the outset of this season, the manager noted. Of most:m-portaive most:m-portaive is the policy of not hiring hir-ing anyone under 18 years of age. Murray stated that inquiries regarding re-garding this policy have been received, re-ceived, but he pointed out that i the enforcement of this policy was simply an enforcement of I state law, which under the provisions pro-visions of the child labor laws, states that no one under 18 shall be permitted to work in the hotel business. Other minor stipulation stipula-tion of the law also make it un-feasibile un-feasibile to hire people younger than 18, he said. Improvement ot Zion A renovation program is also underway, 'he said. Workers have been at Zion National Park at the Lodge working for the past several sev-eral months and this week moved to Eryee. At Zion all of the public facilites of the Lodge have been renovated wit redecorating, new furniture and rearrangements of facilities. A similar program was begun at Bryce, he said. At Cedar Breaks, which he stated sta-ted would be open for three meals each day and where several sev-eral luncheons will be served to the regular tours, changes have also been made. The Lodge which I has been painted yellow in recent years has been sanded down and I returned to its natural log wood state. , Supplies Readied Supplies have been ordered and are now In the commissary in Cedar City ready for distribution distribu-tion to the parks, contracts for meat for the year have been signed and at the present time nearly all employment for the summer has been completed. Murray stated that from 75 to 80 percent of those employees were formerly with the company, either last year, or some time. in the past. Inns In Zion, Grand and Bryce Canyon National Parks will open with dinner meals on Saturday. May 13. They will remain open through October 8. At Zion however how-ever the Inn will be closed one week earlier, on October 1. Lodges at Zion, Grand, Bryce and Cedar Breaks will open June 10 and will remain open one day beyond Labor day, to Septei.iber |