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Show Ground Broken At Randletl For L.D.S. Chapel, To Cost $30,000; Will Serve Uintah Basin Indian Mission Ground - breaking ceremonies" were held recently at Randlett for a $30,000 chapel to be constructed con-structed by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to "serve the Uintah Basin Indian Mission. First shovelful of earth was turned by Blanch Moyre, an L.D.S. Indian convert of the mission. mis-sion. Participating in the ceremonies cere-monies were James E. Bacon, mission president; Claude E. Allred, district president; Roy G. Adams, of the Ute Agency, and Rex Curry, oi the Ute Tribal Tri-bal Council; M. M. Johansen, of Boneta, and several other missionaries mis-sionaries and friends. Seventy-five per cent of the cost of the building will be borne by the Church of Jesua Christ of Latter-day Saints, the remaining twenty-five per cent to' be distributed between Duchesne, Du-chesne, Uintah, Moon Lake and Roosevelt stakes and the Ute. Indians of the area. The building, which is to serve the entire Uintah Basin and is to be built under the direction of the Uintah Indian Mission with Russel Todd as supervisor, should be finished early next year. The structure will be seventy-two seventy-two feet long by sixty-seven feet wide overall dimensions. It will be frame constrution with brick veneer finish, concrete and tile floors. It will face north on the improved oil road. Included in the plans are a 26' x 42' chapel, four 14' x 13' classrooms, a kitchen, two rest rooms, and a 14' x 24 area for missionary quarters, a foyer and two cloak rooms. Propane heat will be used. The 200' x 150' site for the new chapel was donated by Grant Pickup. |