DUP Confab Saturday A progress report on a drive to raise funds for the Sara- marie J. Van Dyke Carriage House will be among business conducted during the national convention of the Daughters of the Utah Pioneers Satur¬day. Mrs. Kate B. Carter, presi¬dent, said some 800 delegates from across the nation are expected to meet in the Hotel Utah Lafayette Ballroom for the 9:30 a.m. opening session. ABOUT $50,000 She is expected to announce purchase of ground for the new carriage house, located immediately north of the Pioneer Memorial Museum. Cost of the property was nearly $50,000." Mrs. Carter said a drive to raise money for the project, hopefully to be completed in time for a July 24, 1972, dedi¬cation, has been launched among the 1,200 DUP county companies and camps. Mem¬bers of each group have been assessed $2 each. ARCHITECT NAMED A. Jack Ehlers, Salt Lake City, selected as architect for the structure, will be intro¬duced during the morning ses¬sion. The carriage house will con¬tain a wagon used by Brigham Young, the only handcarts known to have crossed the plains between 1856 and 1860, and other pioneer paraphernalia. Mrs. Carter also is expected to announce the recent printing of Volume 14 of "Our Pioneer Heritage" series, the 32nd book published by the DUP. MORNING SPEAKERS Speakers at the morning session include Mrs. Carter, secy. Of State Clyde L. Miller’ Arlene Yancey, president of the Bingham Company in Idaho; and Dr. Hyrum L. Andrus, Brigham Young University. Pioneer musical numbers will be presented by the Ramona Camp Chorus, Riverside County, California, and the Kimberly Kitchen Band. Dr. Daryl Chase, president emeritus of Utah State University, will address a noon luncheon in the hotel’s Empire Room. He will speak on “A New Kind of Museum, the Living Historical Farm.” TRAVEL ABOARD At 2:15 p.m., DUP members will travel aboard chartered buses to Alta, where a marker telling the story of the early development of community will be unveiled. Cost will be $2.25 per person, which includes a sandwich and drink. Mrs. Carter said the public is invited to see “more than 100 maps of the early west that will be on display. The collection is to be moved to the carriage house.