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Show . v - - - - . . , , " f " " " 'I i li:?-: - iv- I When The Walls Come Tumbling Down What Is In ! Store For The Once Utah Prison Property - EDITORIAL PAGE . . . We think the final site for Pioneer Village should be the newly cleared former state prison land. Now, not for one moment would we feel to censure Horace A. Sorensen or the Sons of the Utah Pioneers if he or they has turned against the idea forever. For it has been suggested before. The thought was once enthusiastically pursued though to no avail and though we understand that permanent footings are being erected for the "Village" buildings at their present site, this does not prevent us from once again reminding everyone including Sugar House-South-easterners that here is a heart-warming collection which will eventually eventu-ally equal Ford's Dearborn Village or Williamsburg - one which should be more easily accessible to the State's and the Intermountain West's hundreds of thousands to say nothing of the millions of tourists. Here is a location right on one of the main cross country arteries with plenty of parking space available. A multi-million dollar exhibit is now ready for it. Multi-million dollar? Yes!! Multi-million in its value as it stands plus its potential as it grows. Multi-million in its value as the onrushing years make it priceless. Multi-million in its value to the youth of the state and intermountain inter-mountain west into whose minds there must be instilled all that was good and glorious of a noble heritage. Multi-million in its value as a tourist attraction! If for no other reason than the last one the people of the Sugar House-Southeast area should rise up in mass and demand that such 'of the park as is necessary for the present collection and such more as may be necessary to allow the vision of its present owners to reach full fruition be set aside and cheerfully and gratefully donated to such use of it as the Sons of the Utah Pioneers direct always keeping in mind the welfare and continued growth of this lusty collection. How can our Chamber of Commerce, and Service Clubs, if interested inter-ested in bringing money into this area, pass this by? How can the individual merchants be so disinterested? How can the schools in the area turn their backs on this great visual aid? m , U How can the influential citizens of the state be silent? How can the Governor see this land frittered away for less than its greatest potential ? How can the Mayor stand idly by and see this light put under a bushel? -!,;'3S1 How can Commissioner Romney not lend to it his open support? Yes! It is bigger than Sugar House, the Southeast, Salt Lake City or the State. It is national, even international when one considers con-siders the many foreign visitors who are with us from one year's end to the other and in whom some of this precious freedom heritage will dwell forever once having seen it. There could not be a more ideal location than that now available at 1400 East 21st South, the cleared prison site. Here's YOUR chance, EVERYONE, to put one of the greatest tourist attractions in the intermountain west on a main cross country highway that Runs Right Through and Is In Your Own Area. ACT! NOW! |