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Show i i Chronicle Sun Thursday, December 7, 1972 New social center mm. Liu The Lion House of which was comin 1856 under the dirpleted ection of Brigham Voung, Pioneer leader of the Latter-da- y .Saint Church, will continue to serve as the most unique social center in the world, said members of the First Presidency of the Mormons, headed by Church president Harold B. ," Lee. Chairman of the Lion House Committee will be Mrs. Florence S. Jacobsen who also is on the Historic Arts and Sites Committee of the Church. Mrs. Margaret R. Jackson and Mrs. Dorothy P. Holt also will serve on the Lion House committee, which functions under the direction of the First Pres lower floor, is open t( members and guests, and the upper two floors of the Lion House are available to the public by appointment. Groups who use the Lion House may be given an explanation of its history and function if they so desire. y It is a beautiful cement-covere- d adobe structure with green shutters and tall gray chimneys and has 10 d gables. The house was named for the carved stone lion, executed by William Wqrd, pioneer craftsman, over the first door portico. The Lion House, because it housed some of Brigham Youngs wives, has often been an object of great curiosity to visitors, who often have stood outside and counted the gables, in the belief that each gable represented a wifes apartment. Brigham Young, who is credited by some authorities with 26 wives, offered no assistance in this wifeguessing game. On the contrary, he seemed to take particular delight in keeping curious persons in suspense. Concerning family trips to the country, he once said: You know what they say about me in the East; should I take m, 90 wives and their children, with carriages and wagons enough to convey them, it would make sech a vacuum here, and so many others would wish to go, that there would be no Salt Lake City. I think I will take a few of them, but 1 dare not take the whole, for if I did they would then know how many wives I have got, and that would not do. Sir Richard F. Burton, who visited Great Salt Lake City in 1860, was one of those who the idency. The restored, historic Lion House comes under wide use for weddings, business meetluncheon ings, seminars, board meetings, breakfast meetings and childrens parties, where they dress in pioneer clothes, play pioneer games and eat pioneer food. The Pantry, a cafeteria operated in the Lion House on two-stor- steep-roofe- Dangerous metal fatigue failure in such things as airplane landing gears and automobiles someday may be predicted well before the first telltale signs appear as the result of a new process bei' OBITUARY Florence W. Wright Mr Florence West Wright, 75. 2025 W , died Aorwtay at thf ol a heart ailment Hcsuital McKay Mr. Wright was born Jan 13 1197, In a Ogden daughter M. of William Sarah Gibson West ' On Oct IS, 191 she was married to Raymond S Wright In Ogden. The marwas solemn-lieriage In the Sait Lake on Oct. UDS Tempi ROY Of 4731 S IS. 1924. reared She was and educated In Ogden and moved to I Roy on Sept. 1, 1941. a Red She Cross nurse eide World War during and continued es e nursess elde et the Dee Hospital. She had also been e Pink Lady et the Weber Memorial Hospital In Roy. She was e member of the Daughters of Uteh Pioneers Board in Ogden end Roy and was e member of the Ogden Taber-necl- e Choir. She had served as prasident of the Utah Municipal League Auxiliary in 1959 and was a member of the Ladies Auxiliary of Veterans of World War I. She was a member of the Ogden 1st Ward for many years whtr ihe was ReShe had also lief Society president. served on the Weber Stake Relief Society Board and had been e member of the Ogden 3rd Ward. She had been active In the Relief Society of the Roy 9th and 11th wards as class Instructor and visiting taacher. Surviving are her husband of Roy; two sons and two daughters, Melyin W. Wright, Roy. Gilbert E. Wright, Mrs. Thomas both of Buchanan, (Norma) Terraca. Mrs. Eldon R Washington Utah; 24 Child, Spr'ngvllle, (Arvilia) six grandchildren; one brother, Harry W. West, Soiene Beach, Calif. Funeral services wilt be held Thursday at 11 a m. at Lindquist and Son Colonial Chapet with Bishop Kay F. Heriog of the Roy 11th Ward officiating Friends may call et the mortuary Wednesday from 4 to 9 p m. and Thursday prior to services. Burial In the Washington Height Memorial Park wet by University of developed Drs. J. Utah researchers. Gerald Byrne and Roland W. Ure, both professors of mat- erial science, are using elec- tronic instruments to apply the theory of positron annihilation to the problem of metal fatigue. Physicians at the University of Utah Medical Center are running a Regional Diabetes Center in Salt Lake Citys Holy Lioss Hospital. Utilizing a live in ambulatory care program that may serve as a national model, the center teaches diabetics that life is still worth living fully. Diabetes is usually not a terminal disease, but for many of Americas three to four million diabetics, the disease can represent the end of quality living. Dr. Dana H. Clarke, assistant professor of internal medicine, believes the center is a form of preventative medicine and says the diabetic should have a whole new perspective about the disease by y the end of the program. Members of the University of Utah Instrumental Research Laboratory have ina vented a bat detector first in the biological research world. The machine detects, amplifies and records the high frequency signals that bats use to navigate. An artificial sun was also designed which uses light sensors and timing devices to duplicate precise environmental conditions. The inventions were made for a graduate student who is conducting fiv-da- research on bat habits. University of Utah scientist has discovered a naturally occurring chemical which regulates fertility in mammals. Dr. Norman C. Negus, professor of biology, says the substance is present in green and growing plants. The chemical acts like a hormone in the body and suppresses the production of melatonin, a substance that inLabor-atc- r, hibits reproduction. tests were done on the montane medow vole, a Northeastern states rodent. University of Utah scientists have confirmed a correlation between earthquake "swarms and underground thermal features in the Intermountain region -- - a breakthrough which may held combat the worlds energy crisis. If we can develop an efficient method of detecting subsurface geothermal bodies, they may be tapped for a pollutionless source of energy, says Dr. Robert B. Smith, associate professor of geophyA sics. Road bids ready The State Road Commission of Utah opened bids today on the most expensive, single contract ever to be awarded in Utah's history. The project, from 1800 to 4700 South in Salt Lake County, is also the first of its kind in the world to be constructed on a National Interstate Highway System. This section of Interstate 215 will be constructed on an embankment composed of industrial waste. Seven million tons of mine tailing will be under a special provided agreement between the Utah State Department of Highways and the Utah Division of Copper Corporation. The tailing will be classified by Kennecott and loaded by the Ken-nec- contractor. compared to the official enof $14, estimate 038,852.98. The contractalso includes one stricture at 21st South, one at 3500 South, and gineers structures at 4100 South. Also included in the project is a section of the Salt Lake County storm drain system. That portion of the project will be financed mainly by funds from Salt Lake County. The contract calls for grading, draining and structures on the five mile project. Final surfacing, signing and striping will be completed after the embankment has settled and funds are available. Gibbons and Reed will be allowed 350 working days, or roughly two years to complete the project. In the contract the Highway Department has provided a corridor for use as a haul road along the north side of 21st South from the Kennecott tailing pond. The tailing material can be loaded with a high moisture content which will reduce dust problems in hauling. The contractor will be required to cover the embankment as he goes. Eight-ee- n inches of cover material will enclose the embankment to prevent erosion and provide for plant life. contract will be The concurawarded upon the rence of the Federal Highway Administration and Salt Lake County. and cloroom, sitting-rooset, simply and similarly furnished. There is a Moslem air of retirement about the. . . .House; the face of woman is rarely seen at the window, and her voice is never heard from without. The first floor interior of Lion House, remaining the much as it was originally, has a suite of sitting rooms on the west side. Beveled window casements, set in the thick adobe walls, are of paneled mountain mahogany, and the mantels are of simple design. Original furnishings, including a settle designed and made by Brigham Young, occupy the west rooms, and there is an excellent oil portrait of the Mormon leader on the wall. The floors are of the original wide boards, fastened with e iron nails. Centrally located on the east side of the Lion House is the Brigham Young Museum, containing numerous memorabilia of the Mormon pioneer leader. Centered on an octagonal mountain mahoJos-lin- s h gany table is a hand-mad- six-inc- Gibbons and Reed submitted a low bid of $12,848,489, two looked with great inquisitiveness at the Lion House, with a small acute ogive or gable It over each upper window. was finished in 1845 (1856), and is tenanted by the plurality wives and their families, who each have a bed- Terrestrial Globe, printed in Boston in 1854. glass case on the west side of tis room displays numerous personal effects, including a set of hinged ivory toothpicks, a walking stick graduated for various measurements, a pair of field glasses, a bracelet made from Sutters Fort gold and delicate brass scales for weighing gold dust. Also displayed are dishes and glassware, generojsly sized silverware, and a number of photographic portraits, including a daguerreotype in a frame, rem A mono-gramm- bullet-punctur- iniscent of an attempt on the Church leaders life. Another group in the Lion House Museum includes clothing used by Brigham Youngs Oriwives and daughters. ginal straight wooden chairs, cut and curved for an astonishing degree of comfort, are included in the collection, as well as the Church Presidents old green cloak and tall hat. In a small adjoining room is a rocker with padded leather wings, in which, Brigrehams granddaughters member, the Church leader took naps in his latter years. In the same room is a a framed group of photographs showing 21 of Brigham Youngs wives. A gentle sloping straight stairway, simply jeweled and banistered, leads to the second floor of the Lion House, from which nearly all the partitions have been removed to convert it into a spacious banquet hall. The lines of the ogives or gables are carried indoors by intersection - planes over each of the 20 narrow windows. of the Apartments "plurality wives are preserved only in present-da- y restrooms, each about 10 feet square, with a closet. In the basement, now used as the cafeteria, foundation stonework can still be seen, and layers of adobe brick. This part of the house originally was used as a dining room and kitchen, presided one of Brigham over by Youngs childless wives, and for storage purposes. Brigham Young maintained a sort of gymnasium for his children, using the equivalent of a present-da- y medicine ball for exercise. Good posture was encouraged among his by making them daughters wear wooden yokes to keep their shoulders back. In the afternoon he visited his wives individually, and at 7 p.m. he rang the prayer bell, calling his 56 children and their mothers into the Lion House sitting room. Here in the Lion House were held the family councils, including juvenile at which differences court, between children were adjusted by the father-judgThe family then retired, if no social events were planned for the evening, the women with their small children to bedrooms on the first floor of the Lion House, and those with older children to the 20 bedrooms on the second floor. One of Brigham Youngs wives taught all the children school lessons until he established a private school for Other wives sewed, them. made hooked rugs, knitted, wove, and made laces. Wives also waited on tables, laundered, cleaned and contributed their various talents to the household. He encouraged his wives and children to develop their One wife, Elia R. talents. Snow, widow of Joseph Smith the prophet who later was sealed to Brigham Young, was an accomplished poetess and author of the Mormon hymn, O My Father. FAMED LION HOUSE where Brigham Young once lived is again open to the public as a social center in Salt Lake. The cement-covere- d adobe winstructure with small-pane- d dows was named for the carved stone lion over the first floor LAVISH INTERIOR of the Lion House is now open for public in- spection as a social center and banquet hall with a new Lion House two-sto- portico. ry Committee in charge, e. nt Although he did not discourage young men courting his older daughters - most -- of his children were girls insisted on a bright lamp in the parlor on calling nights. If the suitors overstayed the' hour of 10, the Mormon leader would appear in the parlor, his arms fullsof has, and ask each young man to identify his own. Such was early life in the Lion House, now a popular important community social center. by Glen Perrins Tell all my friends hello in Roy, says Eugene Jeles-ni- k, who after is having now in Korea toured Alaska Girls, Girls. with Girls, The group is on a tour of Alaska and the Pacific, and includes Terri El- len, ConnieSommercoi n, Julia West, Sharon Tenney and Linda Almstedt, and afirstwomar escort! We found the weather a problem on our Alaskan tour before coming to Saigon, says Mr. Jelesnik in his letter to We were friends in Roy. in meeting some thwarted schedules by fog and bad weather, particularly in the Aleutians, but now were in the sunny South Pacific. This is the 11th overseas tour for Jelesnik - the group left Salt Lake City Sept. 28 and will return Jan. 24. He is nationally known as conductor of the Salt Lake Philharmonic Orchestra, when he isn't touring the world with his Talent Scout musicians and performers. He has escorted 11 ISO tours for the Department of Defense, and has just finished an Alaskan tour ard is now in the South Pacific. This time 1st Lt. S J. Sawyer S is for Sandra - and as far as anyone knows this is the first time a woman has been assigned to such duty of Mr. and Mrs. Russell Sawyer of San Diego, Calif., and is personnel officer at Ft. Wainwright near Fairbanks. As far as Capt. John Blair, Terri Ellen, special service officer at Air Force Base at Alaska, can recall she is the first woman assigned to a USO group. The group will entertain troops in Japan, Korea, Okinawa, Taiwan, the Philippines, Guam and Hawaii, after which Lt. Sawyer will return to Ft. Wainwright, first performance under fire on the fox hole circuit in the Mediterranean Theater of Alaska. To some, the idea of traveling with fivegirls, all of them young, might be appealing. The five girls, ranging in age from 18 to 22 are Connie Sommer-corn, singer-pianis- Julia t; West, pop singer; Linda Alm- stedt. acrobatic-contortionis- t; -- -- ' It is the first ldska. I have encountered a woman escort on any of my 11 tours," said Mr. Jelesnik. Its marvelous, especially since I now have five girls in the show. It makes my load so much easier with a female escort officer. In fact, I would stronglin time y recommend that fiom now more female escort officers be utilized escorting ISO on shows. It certainly would add another female dimension for the troops. Lt. Sawyer is the daughter baton twirler and drummer, and Sharon Tenney, singer-comedienn- e. Mr. Theyre great kids, said Jelesnik, who gave his operations in Italy in 1944. But in this job youre musician, master of ceremonies, father confessor and a handy shoulder to cry on. Lt. Sawyer fits in well with the group and likes the duty, too. Im very pleased to be chosen as escort officer for this USO troupe, she said in Alaska. Although things get rather hectic at times, Im enjoying the change of pace from my regular job in Alaska. I'm glad to have broken into another field for worn ,n which up to now has been for men only. Ray Davidson ROY o. Four S. Army speL. Raymond Davidson, son of Mrs Rue Lois Porter, 5324 S. 200 W., is serving with the 3rd Armored Division in Germany. A rifleman with Company B, 1st Battalion of the Divisions 36th Infantry, he entered the Army in November 1969 and was last stationed at Ft. Hood, Tex. cialist State Farm means fast, fair claim service anywhere. Call: 025-716- 9 m wtn. i. Scott Campbell - Army Private Scott Campbell, 18, son of Mr. and Mrs. Richard W. Campbell, 2566 W. 4700 S., is serving with the 4th Infantry Division at Ft. Carson, Colo. Pvt Campbell, assigned with Battery C, 1st Battalion of the Division's 19th Artillery, entered the army in July and completed basic training at Ft. 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