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Show UtahParksCompanyRushes Opening For Heavy Tourist Travel Season "With the amount of travel already scheduled for the Utah Parks for the month of June, it is likely that a new record of tourist travel to Grand, Zion and Bryce National Parks and Cedar Breaks National Monument will be set this season." ' So says Pat Rogers, manager of the Utah Parks Company, Com-pany, prior to the opening of the lodges at Zion, Bryce and Grand on Sunday, June 10. June is usually a slow month, Mr. Rogers said; now-x now-x ever, this year more reservations have been made for June than ever before in the history of the parks. With that as an indication of what Is to come during the 90-day season, Mr. Rogers is anticipating a record year. All is being put In readines for the parks opening on Sunday, June 10. On that date the three lodges and the lodge at Cedar Breaks will be opened with regularly reg-ularly scheduled tours.. Special train service into Cedar City from Lund will also begin on that date. Throughout this week employ-ees, employ-ees, principally students from Utah schools, have been arriving at the parks in preparation for the opening of the season. According to Mr. Rogers, about 75 of the approximately 850 employees of the various operations opera-tions of the Utah Parks Company, are students from schools, mostly most-ly in Utah. Of all the student employees em-ployees only about three per cent are from schools outside Utah. Several improvements have made for the 1956 season in the parks, the manager states, with a good share of those Improve ments at Cedar Breaks. At Cedar Breaks cabins have been modernized and a snack bar has been Included in the lodge. The addition of the snack bar at the lodge is mostly as a convenience con-venience to residents of this area who like to travel to Cedar Breaks for an afternoon or evening. eve-ning. Snack Bar Offerings At the snack bar will be sandwiches, sand-wiches, sundaes, hot dogs, hamburgers, ham-burgers, cheeseburgers plus fountain foun-tain service. This, Mr. Rogers pointed out makes it easy for a family in the area to travel to Cedar Breaks, have a light luncheon lunch-eon and enjoy the scenery. In the past the dining room facilities were all that were available. Breaking down the 850 employees em-ployees of the parks into their respective' locations with the company, Mr. Rogers indicated the approximate figures. At Grand Canyon, including the Inn and lodge, there are 220 employ, ees; at Zion and Bryce over 200 at each, with 50 employees at Ce-dar Ce-dar Breaks and at Hotel El Es-calante. Es-calante. Over 20 are located at the commissary lit CcuaZ City with 70 in the transportation department de-partment Lodges which opea Sunday will remain open through Sunday, Sun-day, Sept. 9. Inns at Zion, Bryce and Grand have been open since May 15 and will remain open through Oct 15. Cedar Breaks will conform to the lodge opening and close on schedule. Managers of the lodges at the parks this season were announced announc-ed as follows: At Zion Lodge will be W. A. Hansen, who Incidentally has received re-ceived considerable recognition as a result of studies he has made while In the parks; at Grand Canyon will be Fred Neuendorf; Neu-endorf; and Dalton Meeks, who managed Hotel El Escalante during dur-ing the winter months, has assumed as-sumed management at Bryce Canyon Lodge. At Cedar Breaks will he LaMar Snvrtcr. |