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Show IPARK HIGHWAY DFFfGIALLY OPEN Dedication Ceremonies for Expended Ex-pended Route Take Piace n Denver ' lK'VKK. lug The National I '.i r ! -t n-I'o rk highway, extending 4500 miles through cloven national parks In nine western ntt .n dedicated ,i,d till h i .1' in i). l here li;.iu . Btephan T, Mather, director. of Lhc patlonal park service, nnd olflelnls of tin Null., ii. il I ' i r It - to-1 'a i K Highway WSOClfltlOn pai liripaii'il In the dodlca-rton, dodlca-rton, with officials of the American Automobile awoclatioDx Immediately following the dedication, dedica-tion, the officials planned to Start In twenty-five automobiles for h toui he highway, which Is Expected to tast for sixty days. Parts of nine transc ontinental roatia rnd motor roods connecting them are Included in I lie enlc h:,-',v . The piithfimttnK trip was conducted ! A. I, Westgard of Washington, v nut for t lie American Automobile association' Mcr- than 600 cities and towns are On thr. route, The Itinerary of the first official tOUl curries the party Into the Rocky .Mountain National park In Colorado Oil the first day. They will visit Yellowstone Yel-lowstone Park in Wyoming, Ql icier pi ik in Montana, paae through Idaho the wej Iti Rainier National park in Washington, travel through Micron to Crater Lake park, visit Lassen peak, Yosemlte, General Qranl ami itoose-selt itoose-selt pinks In California, Circle through Arizona to the Grand Canon and Or OCX ft corner of New Mexico to reach the Meaa Verde cliff dwellers' ruins in onlhwestern Colorado. Good roads meeting! arc to lie addressed ad-dressed by members of the part ai (Jasper and Coly, Wyo. ; Livingston Great Kails and Kallsjpell Montana; Rathdrum, Idaho; Spokane, Wenat-chee Wenat-chee and Seattle, Washington; r..ri-land. r..ri-land. Albany, Bugn and Medford, Oregon; Redding, Maryavllie, Sacramento. Sacra-mento. Sa.n Francisco, Fresno, Bakers-field. Bakers-field. Los Angeles. San Bernardino and Needles. California: Flagets.fr, Ari-sonu; Ari-sonu; Gallup New Mexico and Moulder. Moul-der. Fort Collins. Colorodo BprlngS, Pueblo nnd Durango, Colorado. A convention or the National Park-to-Park Highway association In Den- vcr Is planned after the eud of the tour, probably In November, included in the party are Director Mother, Mr. YV.v.r. , t; Holm, s and L L Newton of t'ody, Wyoming, Scot! Leavltt. Great Falls. Mont.; F J Chamberlain and Harry N. Bur-, bens, of Denver. |