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Show . Details Galena Days Acts, Parade, Contests Studied At Meeting At a meeting of the Galena Days committee members last Friday evening, budgets for this year's celebration were approved. Arrangements for several high class free acts, Including aerial acts, weight lifting and trapeze artists are being made, Willard Nichols, chairman of the enter tainment committee, announced In addition to the many events already scheduled, it is planned to hold a spike driving contest between track employes of the-Utah the-Utah Copper company with substantial sub-stantial prizes going to the winners. win-ners. V. S. Barlow, general foreman of the Utah Copper company track department, will make arrangements ar-rangements for this contest. From the 21 track gangs on the Utah Copper company hill, each gang will he represented by its three best trackmen. The committee decided that the beard growing will officially begin August 15, and the first Kangaroo court will be held August Aug-ust 18. Exemption tickets on beards may be purchased for $1.00. Moneys raised in this manner man-ner will be used in financing a better Galena Days celebration on Wednesday and Thursday, September 11-12. Walter Bolic and Jack Christ-ensen, Christ-ensen, Jaycees in charge of the Miss Galena contest in which a local young lady will be chosen to reign during Galena Days and two aids named to assist her, will be selected at a dance to be held at the Civic Center on Saturday Sat-urday evening, August 24. All girls between the ages of 16 and 21, unmarried and residents resi-dents of Copperfield, Highland Boy, Copperton, Lark or Bingham, Bing-ham, are eligible to enter this contest. The three winners will receive gifts and have a place of honor during the two-day celebration. cele-bration. From Joel P. Jensen, chairman of the Galena Days parade committee, com-mittee, comes a reminder that now is the time to begin planning plan-ning Galena Days floats. Mr. Jensen says that prizes will not be given for modernistic floats this year, as it is the desire of the committee to make the parade par-ade carry out the historical nature na-ture of the celebration. |