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Show Clasped in a great fist of mountains, Salt Lake City rivals the beauty of any city in the world for its setting. But beauty is not all Salt Lake s valley offers. It offers plenty for the visitor to see and do. The heart of its attractions. naturally, is the crossroads of Mormomsm at Main and South Temple streets in downtown Salt Lake. Here you'll find Temple Square with its famous Mormon Temple, still the most renown of the many Mormon temples scattered throughout the nations of the world today. Temple Square houses a splendid museum of Mormon beliefs and history, plus the Tabernacle, home of the nationally aired Mormon Tabernacle Choir, the Seagull Monument, an assembly hall and the new inforGuided tours are mation center and organ recitals regularly, given also, each day at noon. Other church buildings and monu ments are located near Temple Square. Inquire at the information center for their locations. After your introduction to the heri tage that underlies Utah culture take time to discover also Capitol Hill, three blocks north of' Temple Square. Here you'll find art works, a cafeteria, gardens and the perfectly restored old territorial capi tol and former Salt Lake City Hall, now known as Council Hall, center of information for Utah's tourist indusfo-da- try. Council Hall can supply you with detailed literature on how to enjoy the rest of Mormon Country. How to get to the newly renovated Great Salt Lake Beaches, with some of the best sunshine in the world and water whose unique 22 per cent saline solution makes it impossible for you to sink in the lake. Ride the Sea Monster at Silver Sands Beach, or pedal a paddle boat or enjoy the snack bar or cool off under an umbrella. There's plenty to see and do at what is probably Utah's most famous attraction. Back in town you will enjoy Hogle Zoo and its wonderful kiddies zoo within the zoo, one of the cleanest and most completely stocked such menageries in the West Or visit Pioneer Village, a restored old frontier town featuring stage- coach rides and other amusements as well as a huge stock of the interesting paraphenalia that helped bring about the birth of the West. There's also Pioneer Museum on Capitol Hill. Theres Bingham Copper Mine, the world's largest open pit copper mine in which you could stand the Empire State Building and not have it reach the top of the pit, down it's so deep, being a and two miles wide at the lip. The Bingham Mine produces a fourth of the United States' copper. Tours are given here regularly aiso by the Kennecott Copper Corp. If you like flowers and meditation, you'll like the Interna' al Peace Gardens, a tribute to mans attempts to solve his problems rationally. The gardens feature a man made Matterhorn. Japanese gardens and pagodas and other constructions. Or if you just like flowers, period, visit Liberty Park's gc Jens, its and duck ponds, ride Tracy Aviary the paddlewheel steamer on the lake within the park, or swim at the public pool or play tennis or picnic or cool off under the park's beautiful trees Or you may enjoy just loafing while you watch others do all these things In addition there is the campus of the University of Utah, overlooking Salt Lake Valley, with a fine library and art gallery plus constantly changing .displays in the Student Union Building f aturing artwork and photography. You II find plenty of golf courses in Mormon Country at prices that will astonish an easterner, they are so reasonable half-mil- 13 |