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Show EASTER SERVICES TO BE HELD IN ZION PARK; MANY T0PARTl C 1 PATE . ZION NATIONAL PARK, UTAH, April 16 Plans are now being completed for an outdoor Easier song service to be held in Zion National Park at 4:00 p.m. on Easter Sunday, under the auspices of the Zion Park Stake and the National Park Service, in which all the communities commun-ities of southwestern Utah are being invited to participate. The Zion Park Stake, through President Presi-dent Claude Hirschi, has sent letters of invitation to the stakes at St. George. Cedar City, and Kanab, and is now assured that a good representation of quartets and choirs will take part. The service will commence promptly at 4:00 p.m. on April-21 April-21 at the new outdoor lecture circle that has just been completed com-pleted near the south entrance of Zion National Park and which will be dedicated during the service. The program will last not over one hour, thus permitting permit-ting people to return to their homes before nightfall. After the opening prayer the service will consist chiefly of sacred songs by the various quartets, hymns by the entire assemblage, and brief remarks by the Presidents of the participating stakes. The ' principal prin-cipal speakers will be President Claude Hirschi, speaking on the significance of Easter, and a National Na-tional Park Service official, who will represent the National Park Service in a short dedicatory address. All persons, of whatever religious re-ligious belief, are invited to attend at-tend the service, joining in this Easter worship in the midst of some of the most sublime scenery scen-ery in God's creation. Those attending the service should take the first hand turn after passing the south entrance of the park. Adequate parking space will be provided nearby. It is estimated that the lecture circle will seat 1,000 people, but owing to he fact that permanent seats have thus far been erected for only 250, it is urged that all who can should provide their own folding chair. A portion of the permanent seats will be reserved re-served for elderly people who have no chairs. Superintendent Patraw expresses expres-ses the wish that this Easter service will be but the first of many such annual events, expressing ex-pressing the belief tlhat this would be a very effective way of bringing before the general public the musical talents for which Utah is justy famous. |