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Show Pioneer Museum Gets Windows Covered by City Thursday of last week acting act-ing mayor Cornell and city city superintendent Art Steele authorized the covering of the windows of the Pioneer Museum Mus-eum with heavy wire screens to protect the historic building from another breakin and loss of valuable relics such as occurred oc-curred in June, when a burglar broke in and stole the priceless gun and sword collection and the silver sacrament set. Prompt installation of the screens was done by Lynn Zu-felt, Zu-felt, shop foreman, assisted by Blaine Gray of the city street department. The protective measure had been requested by the museum committee of the Daughters of Utah Pioneers of PI. Grove and Manila and Lindon, who express their gratitude to the city administration and employees em-ployees for the speedy comple-Continued comple-Continued on page 8) Museum Protected (Continued from page i) tion of the project. Another needed job recently accomplished was the rehang-ing rehang-ing of the many framed photographs photo-graphs of pioneers that were thrown down and badly damaged dam-aged when the southwest corner cor-ner of the museum caved in last July. The photographs had the committee. John Thornton, been repaired and refinished by Effie Adams and Mr and Mrs. Harold Walker did the work to rehang the pictures. |