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Show Sugar House Plaza Jammed. For Big aParade, Festival IIAW TELLS PLANS FOR PRISON SITE A crowd variously estimated from 15,000 to 25,000 enough people anyway to entirely pack the plaza and main intersection turned out Tuesday night for the annual Sugar House Days of '47 parade and festival highlight high-light of which was Gov. Herbert B. Maw's pledge to urge conversion con-version of the entire prison site into a state park, including a war memorial building. By long odds the greatest celebration ever staged in the southeast center, the evening started with a colorful parade, led by the snappy Post 63 American Amer-ican Legion bugle and drum corps, and including a score of units, ranging from pioneer vehicles ve-hicles to sleek new cars drawing draw-ing beautiful floats depicting the area as a place of smart, modern mod-ern living and culture. From the plaza platform following fol-lowing the parade, Gov. Maw declared de-clared Sugar House would soon be the center of the city's population, pop-ulation, and that after carefully careful-ly considering the various proposals pro-posals for utilization of the prison property, he was convinced con-vinced it would best serve the public interest as a state park and recreation area, and that he would wholeheartedly urge this development at the next session of the legislature. Previously Pre-viously Mayor Earl J. Glade, County Commissioners Roscoe Boden and Gwynne Page, Chairman Chair-man Aaron W. Tracy of the state department of publicity and industrial development, Clem Schramm representing the United Unit-ed Veterans' Council, Harold H. Jenson and Wendell Ashton, retiring re-tiring and newly elected presidents, presi-dents, respectively, of the State Sons of Utah Pioneers, and other oth-er speakers had cited the great development of the southeast and urged the establishment of a veterans memorial, a pioneer village and other public projects on the prison site. The program and festival was in .charge of Horace A. Soren-sen, Soren-sen, Sugar House chamber president, pres-ident, and Con D. Silard, cham-' cham-' ber executive secretary, and ,' represented many hours of painstaking work and effort in which all Sugar House firms and organizations contributed. Entries En-tries in the parade included covered cov-ered wagons and old horse drawn vehicles, one of which carried the Happy Grandmas, ! famous old-time music ensemble; a handcart party led by Harry Fernelius of the post office; Jim Bridger and his seven lovely girl equestriennes from Davis county, several gaily decked bicycles, bi-cycles, and the big Sugar House floats, drawn by new cars manned man-ned by flashy Marines in full dress, and carrying beautiful girls and musicians. Most of these floats appeared again in the big parade downtown down-town Wednesday, but because of the rain the entries carrying the smart new furniture and modern mod-ern living depictions had to be eliminated. At the plaza program following the parade musical numbers were given by the Happy Grandmas, Grand-mas, the Grace Evans trio which also appeared on a float, and Hank Angell and his cowboy musicians who also played for the street dance which concluded conclud-ed the evening's celebration. The banging of fireworks added a festive air to the evening eve-ning which brought Sugar House the largest crowd in its history, his-tory, while the police detail under un-der Lt. Charles J. Larson did an excellent job in handling the terrific traffic jam that funneled through the intersection all night. |
