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Show Utah Begins 75th Anniversary Of Statehood With Ceremonies President Richard M. Nixon is being invited to flip a switch in Washington, Wash-ington, D.C, January 4, to light a million candle-power candle-power strobe light atop the Utah Capitol Building as Utah celebrates its 75th anniversary of statehood, announced Governor Calvin Cal-vin L. Rampon. Arrangements are presently pres-ently under way by the Dia mond Jubilee Committee for President Nixon to participate par-ticipate in Utah Statehood Day. The lights atop the Capitol Ca-pitol building will flash 30 times a minute to give the appearance of a huge diamond dia-mond and will be visible 40 miles away, according to Arch L. Madsen. nresi- dent of Bonneville International Interna-tional and John W. Gall j-van, j-van, publisher of the Salt Lake Tribune, co-chairmen of Utah's Diamond Jubilee Committee. The co-chairmen said the busy schedule calls for several sev-eral noon programs in the capitol Rotunda, open houses hou-ses at businesses and cultural cul-tural sites, displays and exhibits, ex-hibits, receptions, speeches, audio-visual presentations, and other activities. Governor Rampton has designated Sunday, January Janu-ary 3 as "Cultural Heritage Heri-tage Day." Church services servic-es and open houses at a half dozen locations will focus on the state's religious relig-ious and cultural heritage. On Monday, activities will center around a "Statehood "State-hood Day" program at the Capitol. Rampton and former for-mer Governors will open a Jubilee exhibit at the. Utah State Historical Society Mansion following the noon program. The spotlight will be on "Education and Youth" on Tuesday, January 5, with essay contests in the schools and a Capitol program. pro-gram. Utah's progress in "Transportation and Communication" Com-munication" will be noted during activities on Wednesday, Wed-nesday, January 6. . Industrial exhibits will be on display all week at the Capitol to support the theme developed on "Utah at Work Day," Thursday, January 7. "Community Achievement Day" on Friday, Fri-day, January' 8, will spotlight spot-light the contributions of Cities and towns to Utah's growth over 75 years. On "Recreation Day" Saturday, Sa-turday, January 9, the public pub-lic will get free rides on the inaugural run of the "Heber Creeper" train and the Utah Stars professional profession-al basketball team will conduct a special Jubilee half-time program. Minority groups will be applauded in a special noon program on "Utah Ethnic Groups Day", Sunday, Sun-day, January 10. On the final day of the Jubilee "week" Monday, 'January 11, Utah's 39th. State Legislature will be hosted at a "Government Day" reception in the Gold Room at the Capitol. Members of the Diamond Jubilee committee include Milton L. Weilenmann, ex-ocutive ex-ocutive director, Depart.) ment of Development Services; Ser-vices; Dr. Charles S. Peterson, Pet-erson, director Utah State Historical Society; Jack II. Alston, director, Division Divi-sion of Industrial Promotion, Promo-tion, Wilburn C. West, director, di-rector, Utah State Institute Insti-tute of Fine Arts; and C. Lee Jorgensen, director, Division of Travel Development. Devel-opment. Other committee members mem-bers are Hugh C. Bring-hurst, Bring-hurst, director Division of Expositions; Dr. Glen M. Leonard, Humanities Project Pro-ject Director for the Historical His-torical Society; Diana Felt, inibllc service director l-KCPX l-KCPX - TV and LaMar 'fWJth, program director, KUTV. |