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Show State ParkChallengesPioneerSpirit,FairbanksSays Outcome of the current campaign to establish a state park at the prison site will determine whether today's citizens have the vision and courage of their pioneer forefathers, according to Dr. Avard Fairbanks, speaker at Monday night's Sugar House SUP meeting. Speaking to chapter members assembled at Towne & Country Inn, 524-1 Highland Drive, Dr. Fairbanks, told of his experiences with the Dearborn Village development as a comparison to Utah's dress, the colored movie, "Valley of Triumph," was shown. Produced Pro-duced by the Department of Publicity and Industrial Development, Devel-opment, the film portrays how the desert was made to blossom by the industrious pioneers. Utah's remarkable scenery, its productive land, its buildings and ts people are shown in the 35-minute film. prison site state park. Mr. Fairbanks Fair-banks pointed out that the state park in Sugar House would net more in receipts each year than it would sell for at today's high prices. In addition, he said, every ev-ery tourist will enrich the state at least So per day every day that he vacations in Utah. Letter from SUP Head A message of support of the state park plan was read by Fred E. Curtis from. Jesse P. Rich, Logan, state president of the Sons of Utah Pioneers. Mr. Curtis, first vice president of the SUP and president of the Salt Lake SUP Luncheon Club, also read a letter whidh had been sent to legislators from his club voicing full support of the state park project. Economic Value Dr. Fairbanks, head of the School of Fine Arts at the University Uni-versity of Utah, first pointed out the cultural values of the Pioneer Pi-oneer Memorial State Park at the prison site. Then, he said, there are also many economic values in a development of this type. He added that Utahns are not worthy of their pioneer ancestry an-cestry unless they apply the pioneer pi-oneer spirit to the problems of this day. Dr. Fairbanks told of a conversation con-versation he had in Chicago with an artist of national renown re-nown concerning the pioneering spirit. The artist reminded Dr. Fairbanks that the Mormon pioneers pi-oneers built the finest, the biggest, big-gest, and the mpst permanent buildings of the past century. He challenged today's Utahns to duplicate the greatness of their forebears. Film Shown Following Dr. Fairbanks' ad- |