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Show Cedar City groups score first in cooperative planning for preservation of Historical Sites Felix, president elect, of the Iron Mission Park Commission; Commis-sion; Bill Lunt vice president of the Sons of Utah Pioneers, representing Edwin C. (Ted) Cox, president, and Zella Matheson, county officer of Daughters of the Utah Pioneers. Pio-neers. Kick-off speaker was John T. Bourne, a graduate student of Utah history at the University Uni-versity of Utah, speaking on a, subject of interest to all participating organizations, "The Technical History of the so that common concerns may be more adequately met. Ideas advanced in this session for possible use in effecting cooperative co-operative effort included: an inter-Organizational Newsletter, Newslet-ter, obtaining a Historical Reporter Re-porter to serve all five groups I and to contact all media, the use of students to help in doc-I doc-I umenting materials, catalogu- ing, researching, and collecting. collect-ing. The State officers offered editorial assistance for publication, publi-cation, strongly encouraging the writing and publishing of local history, and help and guidance in project planning and execution as well as inform in-form a t'ron on ways in which officers of historical organiza-tions organiza-tions can increase their know-how. know-how. The afternoon 4 concluded With Mr. Forbush showing, "Of Sticks and Stones", a film produced by the Utah lien-tage lien-tage Foundation and the Utah State Historical Society to dramatize the value of Utah's historical heritage. From a workshop on Local History Preservation held recently re-cently in the Special Collections Collec-tions Department of the SUSC Library, there emerged an innovation, in-novation, unique in Utah and perhaps, it was indicated by state officers in attendance, in the nation: cooperation between be-tween all of the organizations in the county concerned with the preservation of local history. his-tory. President's cf the workshop's sponsoring organizations, the Iron County Historical Society, the Iron Mission Park Commission, Com-mission, the Sons of Utah Pioneers, and the Daughters of Utah Pioneers, voted to organize or-ganize an Executive Council under the leadership of the college Special Collections Department, De-partment, to coordinate their efforts in the preservation of southern Utah history. Iron Mission". Using slides of illustrative material, Mr. Bourne gave much valuable information which, at the request re-quest of several, he agreed to send to the Special Collections Collect-ions Department for reference. He was followed by a symposium sym-posium made up of Mr. Smith, Mr. Forbush, and Dr. Leonard. Mr. Smith talked of funding, and of getting help of various vari-ous kinds from federal, state and local agencies. . He went into the kinds of help available avail-able for particular needs, and some of the problems encountered. The Council will consist of the presidents of, or authorized authoriz-ed delegates from each of the organizations who Will meet on a regular basis to further explore means df more ef fectively'working together and to build inter-organizational communication and exchange of ideas. Creation of the Council Coun-cil came as a result of an expressed ex-pressed need not only to know what everyone else is doing, but also to avoid duplication of effort. The decision came at the conclusion of an afternoon devoted de-voted to the consideration of problems faced by all local organizations: funding, building build-ing membership, collecting, documenting, marking trails, and preserving historic sites, under the able leadership of three preservation officers from the State Department of History. The state visitors were: Mel-viin Mel-viin T. Smith, director of the Mr. Forbush spoke primarily primari-ly of the preservation of sites and the kinds of things that need to be done on a local level and of soliciting the cooperation co-operation of citizens and businesses. bus-inesses. Dr. Leonard treated the problems of the local groups, local projects that can excite the citizenry and draw tourists, the economics of history, his-tory, and how to make what funds and manpower are available on the local level go as far as possible and accomplish ac-complish as much as possible. In the question and answer period that followed problems of communication and cooperation cooper-ation were explored and the Executive Council organized department and of the Utah State Historical Society; Gary D. Forbush. Director of Preservation Pre-servation Planning for the state of Utah: and Dr. Glenn M. Leonard, Managing Editor of the Utah State Historical Society "Newsletter" and Assistant As-sistant Editor of the "Utah State Historical Quarterly," who is in charge of publications publica-tions and chaiDter development develop-ment for the U9HS. Twenty-six participants ' In the workshop convened at 1 pjm. in the Special Collections Room. Following introductions of the stare officers by A. T. XhalMs, SUSC Librarian-Historian, and welcoming remarks re-marks by president Royden C. Braithwaite, the group was put into a nostalgic mood by a medley or old time tunes clayed on piano and violin by Melva Barton and Hazel Jean Robinson of Pargonah. Inez S. Cooper, Soecial Collections Col-lections Librarian and assistant assist-ant historian nf SUSC' introduced intro-duced the presidents nf the sponsoring grouos: Dr. Morris A. Shirts, Iron County Historical Histori-cal Society; Dr. George Strebel president, and Dr. Joseph T. |