The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1956-09-28
NATIONAL PARKS
/ WERE SEEN BY 81
MILLION VISITORS
All Times Record Set This Year;
Ten Million Visitors in
July Alone

Washington-Nature's year-long
"spectacular"-the United States
National Parks-has proved its
enormous appeal once more.
Some 100000 visitors viewed
the magnificent displays in the
$50 areas of the National Park
Service during the first seven
months of 1856. One month alone,
July, set an all-time record with
over 100000 visitors, says, the
National Geographic Society. By.
October, attendance should reach
46, 100000, a milestone toward the
100000 visitors expected in
1866, the golden anniversary of
the Park Service.
Improvements in facilities are
making the parks even more enjoy
able. A midsummer ceremony at
Yellowstone inaugurated a multi
million-dollar face lifting, to in
clude a modern Canyon Village
with cottage units, a lodge, and
administration facilities. Compile
ton of the project next year is
step toward eliminating the devel-
oped area on the rim of the Grand
Canyon of the Yellowstone River.
Trailer Innovation
The first trailer area of it's kind
in a national park opened this
season at Golfer Bay in Grand
Teton National Park, Wyoming.
Undetermined visitors to the
wooded area on Jackson Lake, mir
roring the Teton Range, found ITO
paved spaces in staggered ar
rang6ment, offering individual
electrical and plumbing connec-
tons.
Renovations are planned at the
aforementioned Mckinley Park
Hotel in Mount Mckinley National
Park, Alaska, dominated by the
highest peak on the North Ameri-
can Continent (2O,32O ft.). The
area is favored for rugged views,
invigorating air, and it's wildlife,
including caribou and white Alas
ka mountain sheep.
Meanwhile, two national monu-
ment areas, Verendrye in North
Dakota and Fossil Cycad in South
Dakota, have been abolished by
Congress at request of the Park
Service, which regards them as
having less than national signifi-
canoe. 1t was earlier believed that
Sieur de la Verendrye, first white
man known to have entered North
Dakota territory, had used a high
point as an observation post, and
had moved along to explore the
Rocky Mountains. Subsequent re-
search failed to substantiate the
beliefs. Fossil Cycad Monument
was originally established in the
Black Hills to preserve the rem
nants of prehistoric trees, but ex-
cavators found it impractical to
remove the massive sandstone
covering them.
Utah Parks Consolidated
Zion National Monument, re-
gion of beautiful cliffs and can
yons that Mormon pioneers called
the Land of Zion," has been con-
solidated into Zion National Park,
resulting in a larger and more
complete park area. The two areas,
NOTICE of ADMINISTRATION
NORTH CAROLINA
DARE COUNTY.
Having this day duly qualified
as Executrix of the estate of Craw-
ford R. Austin; deceased, of Hat
teras, Dare County, North Caro-
lima, hereby give notice to all
persons indebted to his estate to
come forward and make immedi.
ate settlement; and those holding
claims against the said estate will
present them for payment within
TWELVE MONTHS from the date
of this notice or it will be pleaded
in bar of their recovery.
This July IA, 1856.
INEZ GASKINS AUSTIN, Ex-
ecutrix, Hatteras, North Carolina.