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Show TEMPLE SQUARE VISITORS TOP 100,000 IN OCT. For. the first time in history, of Salt Lake City's Temple Square the number of visitors to the historic his-toric area during October exceeded exceed-ed 100,000. The month's total was 100,227, as compared with 109,820 in September, Sep-tember, 1947, and only 48,085 in October, 1946. The October, 1946, figure, however, did not include attendance at general conference sessions of the Church of Jesus Christ of Later-day Saints. Subtracting Sub-tracting 30,000 from the October, 1947, figure, for est'imated attend- ance at conference two days, the I total is 70,227, a gain of nearly j 50 ahead of October, 1946. For the first 10 months of this year the grand total is 844,308, compared with 645,324 for the corresponding cor-responding figuies of 1946. The data were released Friday at the office of Richard L. Evans, director of Temple Square bureau of information. |