Show I WATCH FOR f f VARIETY TALENT SHOW COMING SOON t- t The Field House Follies The City of Vernal in Northeastern Utah highly respected re citizens Ashel Manwaring E is justly proud proud of being known as The Friendly 1 L Ballard Jr and W L Tullis The committee City but recently it has been the scene of some ruled unanimously and unequivocally in favor strange goings on that have been anything but of the Foundation and recommended that the friendly gifts be returned to the donor so that they could be enjoyed by the public in a Museum of Axis Arts Vernal is also famous for its industrious in- in inand and Sciences to be built and maintained by the habitants its honey and its ifs location in Dinosaur Foundation land where dinosaurs once frolicked It was now the Citizens Committees turn hull to 10 Of toOf late a strange performance ride on the Park Commission round merry merry round go-round known as th the Field House HoUle Follies has ex- ex ax until it was quite dizzy little honey and a steadily increasing amount of embarrassment to people interested in On November 30 1963 the Director of the fair play and in the welfare of their community Park Commission wrote a circular letter to the since the city is in danger of becoming known President of the Foundation which was dis- dis as The City That Killed Santa Claus courteous intemperate and quite unworthy of II a public servant of even the lowest rank Through un The sequence of events that led to this this letter the Director not only exposed himself happy situation Is substantially as follows addressee to a vast amount of ridicule but enabled the ad- ad ad to lay to rest some of the untruthful On January 14 1962 the President of The rumors that had been circulating for Dulany Hunter Foundation because of his high months many regard and affection for the Director Ductor of the Utah Field House of Natural History gave an out out- Even the Christmas Season was marred by standing collection of fluorescent minerals to the arrogant authoritarianism when the Director of people of the State of Utah with the understand understand- the Field House suddenly without previous or fug ing oring that it was to be housed in the Field House subsequent notice to the public began to keep in Vernal In addition he gave other collections the Hunter Collections Collection under lock and key and loaned several more and undertook to develop since then has only allowed privileged ed a spectacular dinosaur garden containing life duals to view them much in the same manner sized replicas of these ancient monsters as if they were his own private collections The gifts were subject to a few simple and This performance is particularly reasonable conditions that were primarily de de- de ible and petty because it not only violates an- an signed to provide for the safety and preservation other one of the conditions of the gift but also of the collections deprives the public at largo large as well as the don don- donors ors of enjoying the collections Furthermore These conditions were drawn up in the owners of the collections that are on loan with the Director of the Field House HOUle who are in the position of being unlawfully also accepted them as well as the gifts in be- be deprived of the enjoyment of their own property half of the State of Utah while it is apparently being held hostage Early in May 1963 after the gifts had been On February 3 1964 tho Attorney General placed on display In a new addition to the Field Mr A Pra Pratt t Kesler was attracted to Vernal by House which was officially opened by Governor the Increasing uproar Clyde differences of opinion developed between the President of the Foundation and the Dir Dr- Dirr DrAfter At After r with various various governmental ector of the Field House over the security and CIVIC civic organ organizations and conversing with measures that were then in force for the pro pro- other leading n he h declared that the there e was 0 of f the collections co 11 i ia ons a real dispute e and and promptly applied hImself to trying to 10 effect an equitable settlement The Director maintained that every rea- rea On February 4 State Representative Glenn precaution had been taken by putting the Atthe collections under uDder H Cooper added his efforts to those tho I of the At- At At glass providing a cow cow- torney General and worked out ben bell yes a cowbell for a burglar alarm which was signed both by the Director a settlement of the ling a fake radar alarm system etc Field House and the President of the Foundation The President of the Foundation declared and blessed by the Attorney Generals General's Office these precautions to be inadequate and and find find- Just as a settlement was in sight the Field fog ing Fielding himself unable to budge the Director of the House suddenly became a headquarters for a Field House appealed to the Director of the petition movement that was designed In effect Utah State Park and Recreation Commission to pull the proverbial rug from under the settLe settLe- settLement merit ment that thai the Director of the Field House had Then ensued a run around that would just jus signed make a story in itself but would shed very little glory administration of the State of Utah While these m have been going on O the Park CommIssIon continues to sit placid placid- For nine nino months the Park Commission de- de dely ly seeing nothing hearing nothing and above laved evaded and throw up smoke screens screen eon con conall all doing nothing tending that there was no genuine point of argument and that the donor was cons just a Recently y an ugly suspicion has been gain gain- ing ground gr und It is that the crank crackpot etc antics of the Park CommISsion are designed to force the Founds The Foundation asked over and over again tion into costly litigations and thus prevent II ft that the dispute be submitted to arbitration but from building the proposed Museum of Arts and the Commission resolutely Ignored these ap ap- Sciences This would undoubtedly eliminate peals It Would seem that it had precious little danger of competition with the Field House any faith in the Justice of its cause It I would srem em to to be high time that Cover Late in October 1963 a citizens committee ea nor Clyde gave his personal attention to 10 this un- un sm was appointed in Vernal to look into the dispute edifying spectacle so that the final curtain and marand make recommendations It consisted cf three fall faIl at long last on the Field House Follies may mar I THE DULANY HUNT HUNTER R FOUNDATION FOUNDATIONs s A Dulany Delany hunter President |