| Show UPA NATIONAL PARTICIPATION places of tourist interest Buses took the conventioneers to Kennecott Copperpit toluncheon in Brighton at the head of Big Cottonwood canyon to Hill Air Force Base the Brown ing Museum in Ogden andbarbeque and rodeo in Morgan Saltair Resort unfortunately had been destroyed by fire in 1959 so there was no organized tour of Great Salt Lake on the bus journey sponsored by Kennecott Numerous visitors did travel there on their own needless to say since the lake is almost synonymous with the state of Utah post-convention trip by Union Pacific rail and bus tooksizeable number of conventioneers to Bryce Canyon Zion National Park and Las Vegas There they found what theybeen told about Vegas being the nationentertainment bargain was entirely true Paul Smith of the Rock Rapids Iowa Reporter NEApresident was invited to speak to Rotarians of Salt Lake City on the day preceding the conventionopening During an impressive half-hour talk he told the business and professional group Freedom of information is not freedom for newspa pers or for newspaper people alone It is the freedom of all private citizens to know to think to say and print what they think the right of the private citizen to have access to the sources of truth without fear of reprisal to seek information and to pass it on To the dismay of convention planners Bracken Lee turned what was to bebrief Wednesday evening welcoming talk into45-minute dissertation on the illegality of Federal income taxes Once UtahGovernor herejoined politics by becoming Mayor of Salt Lake City and was at the podium because his gubernatorial successor George Clyde was out of the state First Security Bank sponsor of the opening night banquet then screened its new documentary film Frontiers The Latter-day Saints Church again hosted convention delegates atbreakfast on Thursday which was followed byTabernacle Choir concert Ezra Taft Benson was the principal speaker Then one of several key figures in the Church hierarchy he was destined to become its spiritual leader Benson 379 Digital image 2005 Marriott Library University of Utah Al rights reserved |
