[J. Reuben Clark]
Mayor Earl J. Glade and County Commissioner Edwin Q. Cannon came in to see me as Chairman of the This is the Place Monument Commission. They wanted to talk about the proposal of Horace Sorenson's group who allegedly represent the Sons of the Utah Pioneers, to make a Pioneer Village Park out of part of the penitentiary property in Sugarhouse. ...
I told them, as I had told Commissioner Cannon yesterday, that personally I thought there was an incongruity and lack of the finer sensibilities to make a state penitentiary into a Pioneer Village; I thought the relationship was incongruous. ...
[The Diaries of J. Reuben Clark, 1933-1961, Abridged, Digital Edition, Salt Lake City, Utah 2015]
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