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Show Clyde Lodge dedicated hr use hy scouts A Scout Lodge where young fellows in the area may spend a few days or a weekend, was recently completed at Maple Dell in Payson Canyon and formally presented to the Utah National Parks Council by Wil-ford Wil-ford W. Clyde and his wife Jennie of this city. Begun in the spring of 1959, the building was designed to cost in the neighborhood of $25,00 but exceeded the amount before it was completed. It is located on 160 acres of coun cil owned property entirely surrounded by forest lands. The lodge to be known as the W. W. Clyde Lodge, is constructed con-structed of rough wood combined com-bined with rock. Its interior includes in-cludes a large hall with balcony, bal-cony, a stone fireplace is an attractive feature of the assembly as-sembly room which is decorated decorat-ed with Indian signs. A modern mod-ern kitchen, rest rooms and two sleeping rooms adjoin the main hall. Exterior of the front is mainly glass with the spacious spa-cious front porch and the balcony bal-cony divided from the interior by glass walls and doors. Ashworth architects of Provo Pro-vo designed the building and Darrell Wilson of Springville was in charge of the construction. construc-tion. Mr. Clyde is now serving his seventh year as president of the Utah National Parks Council which has increased in membership since he took office from 9000 to 14,600 reg istered scouts and over 5000 j adult leaders. ; Governor George D. Clyde, brother of the donor, spoke at the formal dedication of the lodge, describing the important part Scouts take in, the world I today. Elder Henry G. Moyle, second sec-ond counselor in the First LDS Presidency gave the dedicatory dedi-catory prayer. In attendance were about 300 citizens interested inter-ested in Scout activity. |