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Show Sugar Days Festivities Offer Queen Contest, Values: Rides Swreet-toothed Sugaf House began be-gan its annual Sugar Days today with every store featuring sweet bargains. Highlight of the four - day event comes tonight with the coronation of a new Sugar House queen. Surrounded by tel evi sion cameras and an anticipated crowd, the new queen will receive her crown, roses and gifts on the Sugar House Plaza. The Plaza ceremony will follow fol-low an early evening reception at Hotel Utah. A caravan of automobiles auto-mobiles will bring the attractive contestants through town to Sugar House for final judging and announcement of the winner and her two attendants. The program will be carried over KSL-TV. Sugar House shoppers will receive re-ceive free sugar on every purchase pur-chase Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Monday, according to L. L. Halversen, Sugar Days chairman. Business will remain open until 9 p.m. on Friday and Monday. Stores also will be passing out tickets for" free kiddles carnival rides next to the D&RG tracks on Highland Dr. The rides will consist of ferris wheel, merry-go-round, miniature train and others. The carnival will operate from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Thursday and Saturday and from 10 a.m to 9 p.m. Friday and Monday. Shoppers are invited to "come as you are," and plenty of free parking is available. Sugar Days plans are under the direction of Mr. Halversen who is working closely with Gordon Sorensen, chairman of the Chamber Cham-ber of Commerce Retail Trades Committee. Other committee members include in-clude Paul Pehrson, Chamber president; Henry Richards and Frankie Nielson. Mrs. Nielson is in charge of the queen contest. |