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Show Holding of Prison Land for Public Use Gains Support the land will be disposed of un- ! til after the next meeting of the legislature. ! Among the groups recently : coming out in favor of the Pi- j oneer village project as a state park, are several different chapters chap-ters or camps of the Sons bf 1 Utah Pioneers, and it is under- stood the Daughters of the Pioneers Pi-oneers are also in favor of the project. ! Sentiment is mounting up on the proposal to have the state reserve the entire prison site for public purposes, it appears from conversation and numer- ous communications received by I the Sugar House Chamber of Commerce since that group first advanced the plan. Latest group to go to bat on the project ,is the South Salt Lake Kiwanis club which is now , circulating a petition which will carry more than 100 names of influential citizens. Horace A. I Sorensen, chamber president, addressed this group last (Monday- at their dinner meeting at the Hotel Temple Square and explained the development program pro-gram which has now been outlined out-lined for the site, including the veterans' memorial building, the park, high school building, the pioneer village, and the southeast south-east associated civic club building. build-ing. A week earlier he-outlined the plan to the Footprinters association, as-sociation, and that group also went on record favoring the development. de-velopment. A committee consisting of Mr. Sorensen, John C. Barnes, who has been one of the foremost advocates of proper development develop-ment of the site; Thomas T. Taylor Tay-lor of the Salt Lake chamber, and Slack Winburn, local arch-tect, arch-tect, will call probably next week on the state commission of publicity and industrial development devel-opment and outline the plan in detail, (suggesting at that time that an expert on public planning plan-ning be engaged to draw up a comprehensive survey and program pro-gram for the development which will be presented to the governor- " ' " - -)" . The governor has already given assurance that no part of |