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Show Local Men Elected to Top SUP Offices at State Convention Group Backs Prison Site State Park Plan, Maps Mormon Battalion March in 1950 By The Southeastemer The name Sugar House took on added lustre last weekend when the local chapter of the Sons of Utah Pioneers played host to the statewide organization at Brighton. Hailed as the best annual encampment the S. U. P. has ever had, convention activities were climaxed with the election of two southeasterners to major S. U. P. offices. Fred E. H. Curtis, 1499 South Seventh East, was elected president of the state organization for 1949-5CK Richard A. Lambert, 2311 South Thirteenth East, was elected second vice president 'for the coming year. Both men have been active in both the local chapter and the state organization. Mr. Curtis Is currently a member of the Sugar House chapter advisory board and is former president of the Salt Lake S. U. P Lunch- eon Club. Mr. Lambert Is immediate im-mediate past-president of the Sugar House chapter. State Park Sugar House came into the limelight again at the Saturday Aug. 6, business meeting when a unanimous vote was recorded in favor of keeping the prison site-state park exclusively for the purpose upon which it was founded by the 1947 legislature. The resolution included the statement that SUP members are opposed to the sale of any part of the prison site property prop-erty for school purposes, or anything any-thing else. To substantiate their stand, the members set up a seven-man "Museum - State ' Park" committee to correlate affairs in regard to a Pioneer Memorial State Park at the prison site. State Senator Elias L. Day-told Day-told members that there was a crying need for a state park where tourists would be oriented orient-ed to Utah's attrations and encouraged en-couraged to spend vacation time in the state. The prison site-state site-state park would be directly related re-lated to other tourist centers such as the This Is The Place Monument, Temple Square, southern Utah scenic spots, and other historic and interesting places in. the state. More than that, the state park will be as useful and inviting to the ciii zens as it will to tourists because be-cause of its all-purpose auditorium, audi-torium, its amphitheater, its recreation areas and exposition grounds. Mormon Trail Senator Day pointed out thai the state of Illinois will probably prob-ably make a state park of the Nauvoo area. Plans for marking mark-ing the Mormon trail are progressing prog-ressing rapidly. When finished, he said, there will be thousands of tourists traveling over the old Morman trail to Salt Lake City. We need a state park at the prison site to greet these tourists, Mr. Day said. The SUP business meeting also approved a motion made by Harold H. Jensen that members mem-bers make a tour of the Mormon Mor-mon Battalion trail in January. 3950. Members would assemble at Mesa, Ariz., and then proceed See SI P on Page 7 SUP . . . through Tucson, Sant Fe and to San Diego. At Los Angeles and San Bernardino, big celebrations celebra-tions are being planned to greet the Sons of Utah Pioneers. Sugar House chapter members mem-bers staffed all committees which arranged the encampment. encamp-ment. George R. Biesinger, 1617 Harrison Ave., was general chairman. Horace A. Sorensen chapter president, greeted the assmbled delegates and members mem-bers Friday evening, Aug. 5, at the first program. Mr. Sorensen Soren-sen also played host to the members at his Edgemount Farm, 3000 Connor Street (2146 East), Sunday afternoon, Aug 7, for lunch and a tour of the SUP Museum. |
