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Show Temple Square greets 4 millionth visitor in 1988 A Tennessee woman was singled out Monday, Dec. 19 as the four-millionth four-millionth visitor of the year to historic his-toric Mormon Temple Square, Utah's most popular visitor attraction. attrac-tion. Teresa Hughes of Kingsport, Tcnn., and her husband, Stephen, strolled through the gates of the ten-acre, ten-acre, wallcd-in city block at 9:20 a.m., according to Joseph F. Home, director of the Square. The two were promptly treated to a special tour of the Square and the city and gifts from local merchants, I -e and county officials, and The Wen f Jsus Christ of Lattcr-IV-'01 which owns and operates oper-ates the Square with its historic Temple, Tabernacle and visitors centers. "We've never reached the four-million four-million mark in any previous year," Home said. "In fact," he added, "last year was the previous record year for visitors and the three-million three-million milestone was reached on Dec. 3, so we're way ahead of any previous year." , Hughes is chief technician in the radiology department of Indian Pass Hospital in Kingsport, Tenn. He and his wife have three children. A ceremony honoring the visitors was held in the North Visitors Center in front of the heroic-size white marble statue of "The Chris-tus,' Chris-tus,' ' a replica of the famed work by Danish sculptor Bcrtel Thorvaldscn, which stands in the Church of Our Lady in Copenhagen. Among the gifts presented: a miniature porcelain statue of "The Christus," a book, "The Mormons" Mor-mons" with signatures of President Ezra Taft Benson and his counselors, counse-lors, President Gordon B. Hinckley and President Thomas S. Monson; a gold plaque and a book, "Utah's Wasatch Front"; A Utah tee-shirt and a videotape, "Impressions of Utah;" a roundtrip airline ticket and travel bag from Delta Airlines, a cassette audio tape of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir's greatest hits, and a musical key ring that plays "Battle Hymn of the Republic," for which the Choir won a Grammy Award, a suite for a night at Howard How-ard Johnson's Hotel, a luncheon with officials of Temple Square at the renowned Lion House, which once served as a residence of 19th Century Mormon leader and western U.S. colonizer Brigham Young, dinner for two at the Salt Lake Marriott and Salt Lake Hilton. |