Salt Lake Telegram | 1933-10-24 | Page 11 | Pioneer Stake's 'Chest' Swelled Wied with Gymnasium Nearing Completion

Pioneer Stakes Stake's Chest Swelled Wide With Gymnasium Near Nearing ing Completion The theor theoretical chest of Pioneer stake i. i is swelled these days with justifiable pride and over the family tables in hundreds of homes on the west side of ot the city there is but butone butone one general topic of conversation The new gymnasium will be completed com within ten days In its building hundreds of or men have had an actual hand not just UI through ough the donation of funds but i in inlaying laying bricks mixing mortar digging pipe lines Jines installing electrical l fix fix- turcs tures Somehow to see family men all living In the same general neighborhood neighbor hood working side by side on such sucha a project Is reminiscent i of the pioneer days days when something was to be done I everyone pitched in and worked until un til Ul the goal was reached I The Pion Pioneer eel stake gymnasium is a project based upon that active prin ciple of the L. L D. D S. S church that Idle hands may easily become mischievous ones The building of the has provided actual work for those men who would otherwise have been unemployed ed There have been no salaries paid no money change hands for this labor In some in instances of need of orders for food and were given en in exchange otherwise the work was voluntary done for the sheer pleasure of contributing to a worthy cause To one man T. T G G. Burton Durton has been given the title The daddy of ot the idea The neighborhood lacked a central place where the young and old alike could gather ather to indulge in healthful exercise a gymnasium seemed an excellent ex idea The locale w was cho chosen en enat at South Eighth West street An Anold Anold old building was as torn down dOVin and what material could be used again was carefully salvaged Excavation was dug pipes laid On June 1 the corner stone was placed and throughout the months the work h b rf forward Some days only five tive or six men would be wO wo dl as many as forty would gather to labor x The church architects architect's office furnished turn furn the plans for tor the spacious building build build- ing actual construction has been under the direction of Fred J. J Heath Those who contributed no no manual labor gave funds to buy material and the heating plant A drive is b being conducted this thi w week ek ekby stake to raise by the M men of th the money for the athle athletic ic equipment When that is installed everything will willbe be in order for the gala opening And what a celebration it will bel