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Show Page three The National Enterprise, July 20, 1977 Summit voters jeopardize plans Historic status could benefit Exchange Place A His design landscaping Exchange Place. would include inlaid mosaic tile sidewalks, brass handrails and gas lamp posts, using common construction products from the turn of the century. These plans are pending Register The Felt, Newhouse, Boston, Judge, Stock approval. Exchange, Commerce Club, Newhouse Hotel, Post Office and New Grande Hotel buildings The buildings in the Exchange Place block are bonded by common historic significance were all contructed around 1905 by interests to compete with Mormon-owne- d and owners hope the National Register will accept the sites as historic landmarks this fall. offices near Temple Square, Roberts said. Miner John Judge, namesake of the Judge A place on the register would qualify the Building, coordinated financing and construcbuildings, erected between 1903 and 1915, for tion of the nine buildings. federal restoration grants and various tax Should the structures receive approval from exemptions. the National Register, Roberts said University Allen Roberts, officer of Historic Utah, Inc., is of Utah architecture students may be comcoordinating plans for restoring the build- missioned to submit remodeling ideas as part ings exteriors and grand lobbies as well as of their study exercises. Owners of nine buildings along Exchange Place will present evidence their property is of historic value to the National Register in Washington D.C. in September. non-Morm- that Joseph Smith was a charlatan or else that he was a biographies, which was to present motives and acts in the main in was then what demand, popular saint, did as good or evil, and men as villians or heroes. Our present age, more tolerant of the weaknesses of the flesh perhaps not inclined to call them weaknesses at all, understands not only that inconsistencies may be present in a sensitive and spiritual character, but also that they may add is seen now in a different man, even the anti-hera certain poignancy. The Of Joseph Smith we can light, as the man who demonstrates more about the human condition. t, advanced-thaof everything said far so than to fact any theory accept today what may be closer both for and against him, a great deal on both sides was the truth. . Today scholars and students of Mormonism are probing controversial aspects of church to the Church and its standards, are history. Mormons among them, while remaining faithful in the background. This has become left have their which facts usually predecessors examining Historical Department has opened its archives in Salt possible in large part because the Mormonresearch and made available to them vast numbers of Lake City in the support of such serious Hill n Donna materials. original previously " Earlier taking the view o, less-than-perf- on vote by Summit County voters on a zoning ordinance last week jeopardizes proposed development of the north slope of the Uinta Mountains by Alan Cooke. Cooke says he is still negotiating with county planners, hoping for a compromise on zoning restrictions which im- per unit requirement on construction of homes within the national forests. pose a The First Mormon The definitive story of a complex and charismatic man and the people who knew him. Donna Hill $12.50 527 16 pages bw pp. Illustrations, Notes, Bibliography, Index This is the first major biography of the founder of the Mormon Church since 1945 and the most fully authenticated story of Joseph Smiths life ever written. Based on original sources, including many letters and diaries to which no previous biographer has had access, the book reveals the ninetee- religious ferment and fervor that helped to shape Smith's he had his beliefs. As a teen-age- r, first vision of God. At twenty-fou- r, he published The Book of Mormon and founded his church, but was forever persecuted as he and his followers were forced across the New York to Ohio, country-froMissouri and lllinois-wher- e, when he was thirty-eigh- t, a mob killed him. This is the incredible story of a charismatic leader, one of the most complex and influential figures in seer, city American history-prophe- t, real estate agent, banker, planner, of lieutenant general businessman, militia, politician, instrument of divine revelation-- a man who believed in God but not in the contending, confusing sects of his day and, because of his beliefs, died a martyr. y This carefully documented of one of the most interesting characters in U.S. history will quickly be recognized as the definitive biography of Joseph Smith. A Doubleday Publication. Donna Hill, herself a Mormon, was After born in Salt Lake City. in a Library earning Master's degree Science at Columbia University, Ms. Hill worked at the New York Public Library, and is currently Assistant Professor and head of Teachers' Central Laboratory at Hunter College county services, Greenlaw says. 100-acr- e e island Cooke owns an within Uinta National Forest and had planned to construct 800-acr- dwellings there. The zoning restrictions prohibit this construction, he says. single-famil- y There's no way we could get to that kind of a development in case of an emergency, Greenlaw explains. Nonetheless, he and Cooke have met several times since votes were counted, hoping they can decide the fate of Cooke's 800 acres. . Utah International files suit over coal leases Utah International, Inc. has filed a complaint in U.S. District Court, asking the Department of the Interior to issue it a preference right coal lease. little-know- JOSEPH SMITH County planning director Max Greenlaw says the wilderness forest zone was added to the general zoning ordinance to protect aesthetics within the forest regions and prevent service problems for the county. Cookes acreage is four hours away from According to the complaint, the company discovered coal in commercial quantities on 560 acres in Kane County, Utah. The discovery took place in January, 1970, and by May of that year, the company had applied for a coal lease. When, in May 1972, Utah International asked the depart ment for a status report, the complaint alleges, it received no reply. A year later, former Secretary of the Interior, Rogers Morton, adopted a moratorium on coal leases, and, in February, 1977, Secretary Cecil Andrus extended the delay. 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