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Show UTAH CHOIR GROUP RETURNS FROM CALIFORNIA TOUR The Salt Lake Tabernacle choir, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Latter-day Saints, returned home Monday after a five-day visit to California, Califor-nia, where they presented four concerts and toured several points of interest. Rain spattered the union church service of the San Bernardino Covered Wagon days celebration Sunday morning, but failed to dampen the spirit of the choir. Amid a driving downpour the group sang and Gov. Herbert B. Maw and George Albert Smith, president, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, spoke to some 3000 persons assembled in Box canyon, which had been the scene of a great pageant Saturday evening. Speaking from beneath an um- Sbrella, Pres. Smith said: "It is wonderful to be out in this free country, even in the rain. We should be grateful for this land of liberty and for our divinely inspired in-spired constitution. It is the finest form of government that anyone in the world knows about and we would do well to uphold it." Referring to the LDS pioneers, Gov. Maw cited their "loyalty to God and their country." "They believed be-lieved in working for what they got. They were good people and anyone who will catch their spirit is a good person," he said. The choir, undaunted by the rain, sang: "The Lord's Prayer," by Gates; "Alluluia" by Mozart; "My Father" by Snow, and Beethoven's Hallelujah chorus from the "Mount of Olives." William M. Fisher, president of the Covered Wagon days observ- ance, expressed the thanks of the community to the choir. Lester F. Hewlett, choir president, responded. re-sponded. The appreciation of the San Bernardino council of churches church-es was expressed by Rev. Harold E. Johnson, associate pastor, St. Paul's Methodist church. |