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Show Horace A. Sorensen Gets National Planning Position Horace A. Sorensen was elected to a two year directorship of the American Society of Planning Officials at the national convention held in Boston, Mass., October 5 to 10. This report was made this week by Walter Bluecher, national secretary of the organization from his Chicago office. Mr. Sorensen and Leon Frehner, assistant Salt Lake County Planning Plan-ning director, attended the Boston convention, and with Mrs. Sorensen Soren-sen and Mrs. Frehner, made an extended ex-tended trip into historic New England, visiting hundreds of outstanding out-standing museums, celebrations and points of historic and modern significance. sig-nificance. The famous Sturbridge Village in Sturbridge, Mass., one of the finest examples of an 18th century 4 f ' V : ' . ' - , ' 1 r -.. M . j x-".'lp ' ed in Mr. Sorensen's dream of a Morman Pioneer Village and Museum Mu-seum to be erected on the old Utah Penitentiary site when it becomes a Sugar House park, that he promised to come here in late November No-vember or early December to lend his skill and advise to the project. Mr. Wiggins, incidentally has played a vital part not only in the village that bears his name, but in several historic undertakings in the New England area, including the revered Pilgrim Village ,at Salem, Mass. He is the dean of historic restorations all through the east. Mr. and Mrs. Sorensen with their son Stanford, motored up the coast . of Maine and through the White Mountains of New Hampshire where they visited the Great Stone Face, Bretton Woods, Burlington, Vt., Lake Champaigne, the birthplaces birth-places of the prophet Joseph Smith at Sharon, Windsor County, Vt., and Brigham Young at Whiting-ham, Whiting-ham, Vt. ; they attended the brightly colored Foliage Festival of Rangely lakes in northern Massachusetts, Mas-sachusetts, where the glowing autumn colors of the turning hardwood hard-wood tree leaves made and unforgettable unfor-gettable spectacle; the Utah tourists were privileged to see more . than one billion dollars worth of improvement construction in and. around Boston. And by far one of the most progressive sights they saw was; the Shoppers' World, most modern of all twentieth century marketing market-ing centers, located between Bos- ton and Worcester, Mass. "The heritage of our historic-culture historic-culture and the progress of those-who those-who continue to build New England Eng-land and the east must be brought home out here in the west, for we have played a great part in this nation's growth," Mr. Sorensen said. While in their sojourn, the Soren-sens Soren-sens visited with Walker Wallace, son of John M. Wallace of Walker Bank. He is now planning coordinator coordin-ator for National Store Planning and Research Inc., and was formerly form-erly with the Boston Planning Board. One of the most interesting folk they met was Wendell Hall and his wife. Mr. Hall is a wood carver known as the "Whittler of Nobleboro," who is one of the skilled craftsmen located .along "The Trail of the Handscrafts." Mr. Hall is whittling out two teams of oxen and covered wagons for the Sorensens. They also visited with Howard Barnes, son of the John C. Barnes of Crown Cleaning in Sugar House. Howard is a Harvard student stu-dent at Cambridge, and showed his guests the Harvard campus. The Utah visitors took time out from their historic research to visit the elaborate mansion of Vaughn Monroe, The Meadows just out of Boston. Another visit took them to the Boston pops bowl and still another to the battlefields of Lexington and Concord. HORACE A. SORENSEN village restoration, drew their attention. at-tention. It has more than 1000 visitors daily and is self-supporting. Another historic spot, the Wiggins Wig-gins Village of North Hampton, Mass., was of especial Interest to the Sugar House visitors. There they met Lewis N. Wiggins, Wig-gins, curator of that fabulous undertaking, un-dertaking, who became so interest- |