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Show 'Pioneer Village' On Prison Site ,j Gaining Support ev support for the proposal to create a pioneer village on the northwest corner of the present prison site a state park containing pioneer relics and other tourist attractions was given when the central organization organ-ization of the Sons of Utah Pioneers Pi-oneers this week threw its weight behind the movement and appointed a (committee to advocate the plan before the governor. gov-ernor. Joel Richards, prominent insurance in-surance man who was elected president of the SUP luncheon dub at its annual meeting, will bead the committee which will 1 ship meeting scheduled for 10011, Tuesday, May 21, at We-asku We-asku Inn. At this meeting John O. Giles of the IThis Is the Place" committee and Mr. Tracy will lie the speakers. Changes in by-laws and other important matters connected with t he chamber's activities are also scheduled to come 1tfore the meeting. Meanwhile the committee headed hv John C. Barnes is proceeding with pbns for the formation of an organization to push , development of the proposed pro-posed Southeast Associated Civic Clubs building on the prison pris-on site- I 1 I ? j wait on the governor to urge thai the 'entire prison site be reserved re-served for a 'state park and public buildings. The Sugar 1 louse Chamber of Commerce and other groups have (already gone on record protesting the sale of any portion of the site for commercial purposes. Mr. Richards' committee will also take whatever other steps are deemed adviseable to further the development of , the state park plan which is contemplated not as a feature of the centennial centen-nial celebration next year, but as a permanent project. Mr. Sorensen spoke at the SUP meeting and outlined the Sdea of the park which would be patterned after the Dearborn village near Detroit and the colonial co-lonial village at Fredericksburg, Fredericks-burg, Va., both nationally famed tourist meccas. The park would contein actual pioneer buildings, build-ings, implements and vehicles with completely furnished pioneer pion-eer cabins and forts. Another ELECTED Joel Richnrds, now SUP president heads committee com-mittee on proposed state park. attraction at the park would be a tourist center in which minia-ure minia-ure displays of "various Utah scenic and historic attractions in other parts of the state would be presented. The purpose of the project would be to offer a suitable j welcome and .information center ' for tourists entering Utah and to give them a preview of the state's many attractions, encouraging en-couraging them to prolong their stay here. Various civic and church officials as well as leaders lead-ers of ,the centennial celebration commission and Commissioner Aaron Tracy of the state publicity pub-licity and industrial development develop-ment commission have endorsed the project. The chamber of directors will meet Friday noon to outline I plans for next chamber member-l |