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Show PLANS COMPLETE FOR TREK TO PIONEER CAMP 7 Final plans have been made and all is in readiness for the Saturday's hike and barbecue at Big Mountain being sponsored sponsor-ed Jby the Sugar House Sons of the Utah Pioneers: - More than 300 people are expected ex-pected to attend the fete, Wendell Wen-dell J. Ashton, president and general chairman announced Thursday. It will be held in the area where the Mormon Pioneers Pio-neers of 1847 made their last campsite before entering Salt Lake Valley on July 24. First event on the day's program pro-gram will be a hike from the flats 4n Mountain Dell to the camp site on Big Mountain. Leader of the hike will be M. Elmer Christensen, who will point out historic spots along the three mile trail. Brief ceremonies cere-monies Jin honor of the pioneers are scheduled to be held at the camp site, with John W. Boud, Sugar House attorney and former form-er navy chaplain as ispeaker. The hike is expected to take about two and a half hours. A program of 1 pioneer sports has been planned to precede the barbecue according to Lawrence L. Summerhays, sports chairman. chair-man. Events include horseshoes, stake pulling land strong arm contests. A frontiersman's barbecue will be served at 7 p.m. preceding pre-ceding the evening program. Guests will have their choice of beef, venison, elk, antelope or moose meat, acording to Frank E. Lees and James R. Cahoon. wno are in charge of the barbecue. bar-becue. Buttered corn, pickels, potato chips, punch and ice cream will also be served. Principal (speaker at the camp-fire camp-fire program, scheduled at 8 p.m. will be Dr. Howard R. Driggs, professor - emeritus of New. York University and president presi-dent of the Amrican Pioneer I Trails Association Mr. Asht-0"4 will be master of ceremoni'ea eei during the program Mr. Le.i will receive the Sugar Housj Camp's charter from Harold J, Jienson, past president of tia Sons of the Pioneers state, organization. or-ganization. Musical selections will be furnished by the Millennial Millen-nial Chorus, composed of former L. D. S missionaries to Great Britain. Community singing of pioneer songs will be led by N. Lorenzo Mitchell, accompanied pn the accordian by Cecil JVlanwaring. The beginning of the program will be signaled on trumpets by 1 Robert Wright and Earl Kitchen. Kitch-en. Dr. Lorin L. Richards, president presi-dent of the jSugar House Rotary Club and vice president of the Sugar House Camp, will offer the invocation, while I. A. Smoot, Salt Lake Postmaster, will pronounce' pro-nounce' the benediction. The camptire and grounds committee is headed by R. Emerson Emer-son Curtis, while Dr. Richards and .Eugene T. Whitaker are in ! charge of the reception committee. commit-tee. Mr. Ashton suggested those planning to attend bring camp stools or blankets to sit on during dur-ing the campfire program. The best way to reach the site is to drive up Parley's Canyon, about a mile, past 'Mountain Dell reservoir, to Emigration Canyon Can-yon road and turn left. The water wa-ter Department road to the site of the barbecue and starting point for the hike is about a mile north. Large direction sign will be posted to insure that no one gets (lost, Mr. Ashton said. Tickets are "still obtainable from committee members and officers, but those planning to attend ghould obtain them before be-fore Saturday morning inasmuch inas-much as none will be on sale at the canyon. |