Show easter song service zion xion national park april 23 the first annual easter song service recently held in zion national park was attended by an audience of from seven to eight hundred persons per sons representing all of the communities surrounding tile the park and augmented by out ot of aate visitors from Clai fornia nevada arizona idaho alontaga ilon Alon tana texas illinois pennsylvania and florida the program which was conducted jointly by the national park service and local church organizations featured the well known vocal choruses of southern utah anol ana also included a short dedication of the outdoor am phi theatre in which the service was held A major portion of the service cor aisted of vocal selections and community singing singers from the dixie junior college st george under director mcallister rendered rendered two fine numbers with their double mixed quartette and also wo two solos trees and the ithe voice of the deep A stirring so soprano p rano solo was contributed by the alie zion park stake and two numbers a double mixed quartette and a niale male quartette were contributed by singers from cedar city the entire program was fittingly centered around the idea of outdoor roister worship amid the natural beauties of zion canyon which formed a vast natural cathedral surrounding in the man made amphitheatre in which the audience was gathered A perfect spring lay day superb surroundings and a simple sacred service combined to produce an efel effect ct upon the aldi audience ellec which is seldom if ever attained in the more conventional types of easter wor bip the largest single days travel to dato date into zion I 1 national park was recorded on easter sunday april 21 35 when a total of 2002 persons passed through the park checking stations an inc increase rease of over 21 per cent above the previous high record for one day which was on oil easter sunday 1930 when 1652 persons entered the park |