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Show Sugar House, East Mill Creek, Big Cottonwood to Celebrate . Centennial This Year; Plans Already Underway for Events Two Fund Projects Insure Important Future for Southeast Nineteen forty-eight, Centennial year for Sugar House and the southeast area, may well be the year in which Sugar House becomes not only the center of Salt Lake County, but also the state of Utah. Crossroads of tourist travel, winter sports gateway, gate-way, heart of Salt Lake's population, Sugar House stands on the threshold of a great new era in its history, it was disclosed this week as plans were unfolded by the Sugar House Chamber of Commerce. With this week's disclosure of events to come, it is now evident evi-dent that the Centennial year for Sugar House, East Mill Creek and Big Cottonwood will be the greatest year in history. Two programs, already off to a fast start are the Promotion and Development Fund drive and the Pioneer Memorial State Park project, both being sponsored spon-sored locally hy the Sugar House i Chamber of Commerce. Fund Drive Third Complete Ray E. Nilson, chairman of the promotion fund drive, announced an-nounced that almost a third of i the total funds has already been collected in the campaign to accumulate ac-cumulate $5000 for several big undertakings during 1948. Businesses Busi-nesses in the southeast area are being asked to contribute as much as possible to the fund on the basis that the promotions undertaken will bring more business bus-iness into Sugar House. Horace A. Sorensen, who is heading the Chamber committee for the establishment of a gigantic gigan-tic Pioneer Memorial on ihe prison site, announced that in the first few days of the new year three checks of $1000 each had been received by his committee. com-mittee. The checks have been deposited in a special fund which . is being temporarily administered administer-ed by the board of directors of the Chamber. The money contributed con-tributed now and in the future will be used specifically for construction con-struction of buildings on the state park at the prison site. Organizations Active , Mr. Sorensen emphasized that plans for the state park will benefit the state of Utah as a whole. Several statewide organ- izations have been actively interested inter-ested in improvements on the prison site's 180 acres. Notable among them are: (1) the Sons of Utah Pioneers who have suggested sug-gested the construction of a beautiful museum which will portray the dramatic history of Utah and the west for the benefit bene-fit of citizens and tourists; (2) the veterans organizations, which are working for a great auditorium audi-torium and veterans memorial to honor all U. S. veterans of all wars; (3) the Associated Clubs of Utah, whose leaders are now making plans for the landscaping landscap-ing and beautification of the park; (4) various art groups, who see in the state park an opportunity op-portunity to graphically present pre-sent Utah's eminence in the field of art and culture. Numerous other persons and organizations interested in Utah's past as well as Utah's great potentialities for future growth have offered their support. Mr. Sorensen and John C. Barnes sucessfully spearheaded a drive early last spring to have the entire prison site made into a state park. State legislators were enthusiastic about the plan andjiassed Senate Bill 20, providing pro-viding for the establishment of a state park, almost unanimously. unanimous-ly. "The next move is up to us," Mr. Sorensen said. "We here in Sugar House, knowing the amount of tourist travel along 21st South, are the ones who best know the possibilities of a state park as planned now." Savant Points Out Possibilities Avard Fairbanks, head of the University of Utah school of fine arts, has pointed out that Utah could become a world-famous center of culture and progress prog-ress if the citizens are aroused to action. The Pioneer Memorial Memo-rial State Park is an Integral factor in Utah's becoming great, Professor Fairbanks said. Mr. Sorensen and Mr. Barnes reiterated their 1947 watchword: watch-word: "It Is not too early for all the people of Utah and all the organizations interested in Utah's welfare to start planning for what they want established at the state park. To be successful suc-cessful as an expression of the hope and faith of Utah people both in the past, present and future, fu-ture, it must be designed and built the way the people want |
