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Show Visitors Shatter Record At Cave For May Holiday FOURTEEN-YEAR MARK FALLS HERE ON MEMORIAL DAY A record year for visitors was in. prospect for Timpanogos cave thLs week, as the largest Memorial day crowd in fourteen years went through the famed cavern in American Amer-ican Fork canyon. Thomas A. Walker, national parks ranger at the national monument, said 273 sightseers were checked in through the cave gates. This was the largest Memorial day attendance attend-ance since 1924. With 2373 persons having visited the cave during the season to the end of May, the national monument is headed for a record year, Mr. Walker said. The highest end-of-May record is near 1700, he reported. report-ed. A number of school, club and oth- er groups have been among tne visitors this year. o |