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Show A If Landon Pleased With Utah's Gift Provo Kepublican Presents Covered Waj'in Gift At Executive Mansion. Governor Alf M. Landon was "entirely pleased" with the gilt of a minkiture coverea wagon of salt which Utah Republicans presented pre-sented to him through Professor Ed. M. Rowe of Rrigham Young university, Utah delegate to the Cleveland convention, member of the notification committee, and official of-ficial representative of Utah at the notification ceremonies in Topeka, Kansas. "It is the best thing I have received re-ceived during the notification," asserted the swif t-smilinR O. O. P. nominee. "We'll keep it on the mantle in the executive mansion. Thanks lor it." The gift, presented on July 20, resulted in the following article in Topeka Daily Capital: Copper and salt and silver in an unusual combination found their way into the Landon home yesterday. yester-day. Utah Republicans made up and presented to Governor Landon a unique and interesting souvenir of his notification ceremony. It-was It-was presented to the governor by Edward VV. Rowe of Provo, Utah, professor of English literature at the B. Y. university, Provo. Professor Pro-fessor Rowe, who was a delegate to the convention at Cleveland and also a member of the notification committee, accompanied by Mrs. Rowe, and Ed Rooney of Topeka, made the presentation at the executive exe-cutive mansion. Utah's gilt to Governor Landon Lan-don is a miniature covered wagon made of crystallized Utah salt on , a wire frame. The wagon is approximately ap-proximately 12 inches by six inches. It was made by depositing in the waters of Great Salt Lake a wire framework of a covered wagon to which the salt in the water very quickly adhered and crystallized. ' ! A person not familiar with the heavy salt content of Great Salt Lake would not believe such a development possible, said Professor Pro-fessor Rowe. Nevertheless . it is what actually takes place and perhaps per-haps will be found no place else in the world. On the wagon has been fastened a plate, made of native Utah copper, on which is inscribed, "Utah's Republicans say 'Good Luck and God Bless You' Governor Gover-nor Alf M. Landon, July 23, 1936." There also is a miniature ballot bal-lot box of native Utah copper, on which the words "ballot box" have been engraved, and on the top in the four corners are four metal silver tablets made of native Utah silver on each of which is marked mark-ed "Electoral vote." Utah has four votes in the electoral college. The ballot box rests comfortably on the doubletree of the wagon. The Rowes left Sunday for Kansas Kan-sas City, Mo. They will attend the notification ceremonies for Col. Frank Knox in Chicago on July 30. |