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Show tral Utah Project ( CUP). He later served as at-torney for the Salt Lake County Water Conservan-cy District and the Central Utah Water Conservan-cy District, two key organizations in the de-velopment and eventual operation and manage-ment of this important water reclamation project. His legal expertise was not limited to water reclamation. In 1962 Clyde was appointed to the National Advisory Council for Public Lands to review existing federal land laws. Then, with the beginning of rapid growth at the Salt Lake Interna-tional Airport, Salt Lake City hired him to settle a complex land problem to allow expansion. Committed to the values of higher education, Clyde served in various capacities at the University of Utah, including lecturer in the College of h w from 1945 to 1960. He was appointed to the uni-versity's Board of Regents in 1964 and in 1969 was elected president of the new Institutional Council which oversaw the school's growth. Later he served on the University of Utah Hospital board. Because of his years of service to the university Phi Delta Kappa honored him in 1973 as Man of the Year in Educafion, and in 1981 he received an Honorary Doctor of Laws Degree from the U. The Utah State Bar gave him its Lawyer of the Year Award in 1985, and in 1988 the U. S. Department of the Interior gave him its Citizen's Award. In the 1970s Clyde accepted appointment to the state's Constitutional Revision Commission and later succeeded Neal A. Maxwell as chair. The commission's objectives were to review the state constitution and make specific recommendations to streamline it and improve state government. Clyde did not aspire to political office, although he once served as chair of the State Democratic Convention. Rather, he worked behind the scenes to help revise state government, to provide direc-tion for an expanding state university and hospital, and to render legal counsel and direction for Utah's biggest reclamation project in its history. Ed Clyde died of cancer July 17, 199 1. Masons, Knights of Pythias, and Odd Fel-lows. He died September 1, 1963. Lantie Jesse Eldred Provoans received many benefits from this merry- go- round man. Born February 25, 1870, in Gardner, Illinois, to Florence Potter and Jesse Eldred, Lantie Jesse Eldred was orphaned at age 12. He bought a merry- go- round when he was 22 years old and headed west. In California he developed a suc-cessful carnival until the 1906 earthquake disrupted business. Before long Eldred and his carnival, which he operated until 1931, arrived in Provo where he spent the rest of his life. He ran a skating rink for a while and operated the Utahna dance hall from 1924 until 1951 when he donated it to the city. As the Eldred Recreation Center, it primarily served senior citizens. When it was demolished to make room for a new post office, Provo city erected a new senior facility, the Eldred Center, elsewhere. Since Eldred and his wife, Mildred, were childless they decided in 1955 to will their estate, valued at more than $ 300,000, to a Utah County foundation to encourage the building of a residence hospital for the chronically ill and aged. The old Utah County Infirmary was considered a fire hazard. In January 1959 the new 80- bed Eldred Sunset Manor ( also called Eldred Hospital) opened at 1775 South Dakota Lane, financed by county and federal funds in addition to the Eldreds' grant. As community needs changed the building was modified for other uses and the Eldred name dropped. The Eldreds' generosity also secured iron lungs for two hospitals, helped solve ambulance service problems, procured two- way radios for the police, and assisted many individuals fiqancially. The Eldreds " were not prominent socially," ac-cording to an editorial in the Provo Daily Herald. " They didn't make much of a splash in public af-fairs. They were just plain people- but with big hearts, people whose philanthropic activities will benefit the people of this area for years to come.'' L. J. Eldred received a Distinguished Citizen % ward from the Veterans of Foreign Wars in 1946. He was an active member af the Elks, L. J. Eldred, 7 953. Deseret News photograph. |
