DUP Willed $194,000 Estate A Tucson, Ariz., woman has willed her $194,000 estate to the Daughters of the Utah Pioneers, the proceeds of which will be used to buy or build a pioneer carriage house. Mrs. Kate B. Carter, DUP president, gave this report today at the annual national convention of the group at the Hotel Utah. Speaking for the DUP Cen¬tral Company, Mrs. Carter asked the convention to "en¬dorse the tentative plans (of the company) to enter into contract with the state to buy a carriage house; or if this does not work out to go for¬ward ourselves and build such a building." The will of Mrs. Saramarie Van Dyke, Tucson, stipulated that funds gained from sale of her estate be used for a DUP memorial. "We must be true to our trust and carry out the wishes of Mrs. Van Dyke." Mrs. Carter said today. "One room of the building must be set aside as a memorial to her and the building itself must bear her name." Mrs. Van Dyke, a long-time friend of Mrs. Carter, was a descendant of a pioneer family. The carriage house will be used to display pioneer vehi¬cular memorabilia, Mrs. Car¬ter told DUP members. "For years, we have want¬ed a place which would house such relics as the wagon that carried Brigham Young across the plains, the John¬ston Army wagon which we have in our (the DUP Muse¬um's), basement, the hand¬carts, the Yellowstone Stage buggies; sleighs, carriages and even bicycles and wheel¬barrows," she said. "There is also the fire en¬gine in Liberty Park for which we have been offered a large sum. A carriage house is the building we want to house such vehicles." Touching upon several other items in her report, Mrs. Car¬ter also noted that: -A new DUP company was organized in Houston. Tex., in September. "Our new pres¬ident, Julia Waldron, reports they have enough women for three or four camps in that area." -DUP historical markers now total 374. Four others are being prepared — in Duchesne County, Tooele County, in Paul, Idaho, and one for Amsterdam. Holland. -DUP chapters in Utah, Idaho and Arizona are con¬tinuing to publish local coun¬ty histories; Cassia County DUP headquarters in Burley, Idaho, are presently compil¬ing a county history. Luncheon speaker at the DUP convention was Neal A. Maxwell, commissioner of Education, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. In a speech prepared for delivery at the luncheon, Maxwell said the spirit of the Utah pioneers is encompassed in the notion that "these gal¬lant men and women had a specific purpose and mission; they knew where they were going and why as they came westward and as they later spread through the territory." On the other hand, Maxwell said, "If I were to cite one word to describe modern Americans, it would not be 'certitude' but 'ambivalence.' " The pioneers had the cour¬age to face practical prob¬lems, but with a cheerful heart, he said. The pioneers had "a sense of community." Today, however, "as Andrew Hacker observed, See Estate on Page B-4 DUP Is Given $194,000 Continued from Page B-1 America 'can no longer be a single nation possessed of a single spirit... Americans no longer display that spirit which transforms a people into a citizenry and turns a territory into a nation... '" Maxwell cited other com¬parisons between the pioneers and modern Americas: - "Pioneerism adjusted to the necessary existence of au¬thority," both democratically derived (the Northwest pioneers) and ecclesiastically extant (the Utah pioneers). "The increased resistance to authority in our society may create a number of spin¬offs, such as do-your-own- thing individualism, which is often heedless of others, or an¬archy, which, ironically, is much more controlling than authoritarianism." - The pioneers experienced "economic humility." "None of us wants harsh economic conditions, of course," Maxwell said, "but that should not blind us to the fact that our afluence today has many subtle consequences — not all of them happy."