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Show Travel to Cedar Breaks down for 1973 Superintendent Gerard A. Hoddenbach, Cedar Breaks National Na-tional Monument, announced today that July travel In the Monument only decreased about 3 as compared to the same period of time last year. A to-tal to-tal of 15,090 cars were recorded In Cedar Breaks during the month and contained an estimated esti-mated 53,807 persons. Camping in the Monument for July was down 9.1 from 1972 figures. Camping during June and July of this year averaged 16.5 less than in 1972, principally resulting from spring snow keeping the campground camp-ground closed an additional 8 days this season. Visitor Center counts, when compared with last year, show a slight increase of 5.2 for the month of July but a 7.1 decrease for the year. Travel across the Pangultch Lake Road is still very slow and difficult due to continuing construction. This road is not recommended for camp ers, motor homes, or trailers. July temperatures were normal nor-mal at the Monument. Daytime temperatures averaged 64 degrees de-grees for the high with the warmest day at 79, nightime lows averaged 44 degrees with 38 recorded as the coldest night. Two and one-half inches of rain fell during the month. the National Society received the outstanding chapter award at the banquet held Saturday night, and Arthur Wiscomb, also of the East Mill Creek Chapter was recognized as the outstanding Individual member mem-ber of the organization. Orson A. and Rae Noble Christenson, Brig ham City, were named the outstanding SUP couple. Other awards presented at the Encampment, hosted by the Cedar City Chapter of the SUP, were as follows: Story telling contest, Marsha Ford of Salt Lake City, first for "Eliza," and Dr. Morris A. Shirts of Cedar City won second place honors for his "Two Fingers Pulls Through." Third place honors went to Hattie B. Mau-ghan, Mau-ghan, Logan for "Title Compassion, Compas-sion, White or Red." Over two hundred members and their wives were In attendance attend-ance at the Encampment which was regarded as one of the best in the history of the National Society. A highlight of the convention was the special program presented pre-sented by the Cedar City Chapter. Chap-ter. Narrator of the prograro which featured a color slidt presentation and several musical musi-cal selections, was Mrs. Bonnie Hobbs. Serving as chairman of the convention was Edwin C. Cox. Bill Lunt, president of the Cedar Ced-ar City Chapter served as host for the event. t |