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Show 7,r ft ( - , t t ,N i ' .,... ......... ;, ..., I Prayer room hi the Lion House where Brigham Young died attracts i, I - - r - - tourists. 14'r Centers u rc 114. ,7" 4 ' '. i :. ,,, ,,,,, .".'1 .,. ' :1 .. ,; 4 ,, ' .- .-' ; t-1 ... ' - ' - ''''t .. '' , , - t k , - - - , - ' ' 4,'"' ,..,s (,1- ' -- ;45- . -,,,,.. , ,,,,i ,k, . - i '.3 L k ... , kl I 16..............,,,i - -- -- 48 new National Historic landmarks. ' ' - - ' By GEORGE, L. SC017 - '&0elp . 4, -- s , ' - -- - - - the-val- tke-i)re- -- 't 4 - - completed-- - -, , , -- - ' achievement have been recog. - . sized as National Historic Land-marks by the AdvisoryN Board on National Parks Historic Sites, -Buildings and Monuments. 48 sites They were part of and monuments selected. The Temple Grounds and Lion !louse were classed with such other historical sites as Pearl Harbor-- - thP Brooklyn Bridge, the Cape Henry,Va.,andSandy, Hook lighthouses, Gadsby's Tav- ern in 'Alexandria, Va., Sheri-dan Inn, Wyo., the cable cars In San Francisco, and the 'LISS -- - Dewey's "Olympla",---Admir- al - flagship at the battle of Manila :, it -- - , - . -- , . -- (641r, Rouse., a - ;,.fi - ''' owgratimp."Nmow, I , -- f istered by the but will be designated by pronze plaques.' The Temple Square p 1 eq u e:,..- will read', "Temple Square sym-- bonzes the achievements in the Utah desert as well as Morm- on-religious and cultural individual- My," according to Utah's. Sen. Wallace F. Bennett report from . , the National Parks Service. ,,.- - - his family as the pioneers carved out an amazing cultural pattern - on Americal western frontier. -A large lion chiseled froin ne atop the front entrance gives the house its name. 4 now a place for receptions, 'pardes and informal meet-'- bigs.Original chandeliers of cut- glass, furnishings, cabinet work and staircases provide the au, thentic touch of pioneer culture. - A cafeteria established yam ago on the ground floor served , Students of the LDS University for many years and ai!iow feeds others who can enjoy their meals without tea, coffee or cigarettes. A Lion House is operated 7 under direction of the '17WW,A general presidency with.vol tours ,vIr teer guides conducting : tdght seeing groups. - , , - "- - - - Brigham Young's Ilan House home receives national recognition as ' historic -- , It is regular stop on tourist schedules, portraying as It does the mode of 'living es! tablshed by Brigham Young for w' be adminInterior Depart- - 6CHURCH . interest.,, - The sites will not - rnent, years-later-fr- Half a block to the east of Temple Square is the Lion - e'"4-- - - , , . . 40 - - ,,,,---- ' , ,a Washington,I.kC.fthatthese-twMormon Pioneer -- . s granite laboriously quarried, by hand from Little Cottonwood miles Canyon, The this remarkable feat of temple building has been one of the major points of terest in the mountain west. The tern pie wall, Assembly and now new construction. on Temple Square add to center-o- f national life and , --- - - Salt-Lake-- - - . . been given Temple Square and Brigham Young's Lion ilouse in Salt Lake City as nut, stan&fig landmarks in the his-- - ' Ntsical-settin- g of the United States. Secretary of Interior Stewart L. Udallnounced Tuesday in - ... fielectloi of such s A t e sk wtts .. center for the layout of ,Salt aries, they could not forsee the made possible by the Historie - Lake City's uniform streets and time when such prophets wouldL. bbeha as well as the ten-acr-e Parks and Sites Act of 1935 att. stand at the rostrum and speak to millions around the world as square which was to be the thorizing a national survey to meeting place for religious serv- perpetuate events and person- they do today over shortwave ' -- lees for members of the Church- radio broadcasts and- - television. ages of important historic-sit- es . , 's. ", ancLbuildings. ". Little did the pioneers at that singing of -the 'Tabernacle realize that the famous Salt was the first time Temple Square and the words of faith Char . : on Lake Tabernacle to be built from 'The 'Crossroads of t h e major project-- designated by the square would be the scene .West" each Sunday has become Brigham Young. Four days - ati; for many historic meetings as --1a tradition of the CBS radio net--er the pioneers entered - as Church conferences. the of Great.SaltLake,Brigwork. This broadcast is no in ley :7 to a spot on - While their faith was such that , Its 35th year. ' ham Young strode --the arid land, struck down his they knew the words -The late President John 1 :phets of God spoken from the scores Of ennedywasoncof to would be carried God." our pulpit bathe Temple at and national international fig-:- missionworld by Thbi spot bet,ame the local . parts of to speak from the Taber. nacle rostrum. Construction of the and was Temple started in 1853 om . ' It (' : -- - -- ' ',,4.'-- :72 ,., , ,, ,0-- 1.: -- ' 1.., ..-- r,,, ,....:' - ,t ,,,, l' -..,,,, oe-t- , , -.- 4...0r-I ti. ft ,f I .; World famous Mormon Temple and Tabernacle ---- -, '3':,.;. - , ''' ....- ) , . - I landmarks ---- -, ; I 0 become nation Week Ending February ), 1964 - - ' , - , - - - |