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Show County Fair Hits New Peak; Sugar House is Winner rides and shows, hand concerts and the race track attractions. Entrance to the exhibits and midway are through Murray City Park, while entrance to the race track 'is 100 yards further south on State Street, opposite the Murray Smelter. I w.:- j ( ' s t ; cp- -; F 'I x I I I I i ii iaMai iiUTI ii in 'i BihiftTa'iffevivtrii'''riiirt.i'i''vs'fi"s-rroiii QUEEN Norma Day, petite, dark-eyed Draper beauty, ha-i been chosen .(lucrn of th" Salt Lake County Fair from among fourteen community finalists chosen by the Lion's Clubs. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harmon E. Day, of Draper, and led the gland opening parade of the fair, and nightly presides at the sensat tonal Fair rodeo. Given the boon of good weather, weath-er, the tenth annual Salt Lake County Fair is expected to break existing attendance marks for the fifth consecutive year, E. O. Brothers, of Crescent, president and manager, announced following fol-lowing the opening Tuesday. Attendance at the opening parade, pa-rade, staged under the direction of B. A. Reynolds, at Murray Tuesday evening, and at Earl Hutchinson's sensational rodeo, presented at the race track, with thoroughbred running races as an added attraction, lent weight to the prediction. In the place of honor in the parade were Norma Day, of Draper, Dra-per, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harmon E. Day, the Fair Queen, with her attendants Delia Brady, Bra-dy, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Hyrum A. Brady, of Union, and Dolores Huffaker, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Clair Huffaker, of Magna. Representing their own communities, after having been selected- by the Lions' Clubs were Donna Madsen, Riverton; Amy Lou Lloyd, of South Salt Lake; Alice Boyce, of Sandy; Vonda Scussel, Bingham Can-1 yon; Mary Bowen, Midvale; Barbara Bar-bara Pyke, East Mill Creek; Jane Farley, Holladay; Betty Gerrard, Taylorsville; Belle Trun-nell, Trun-nell, of Murray, and Pat Midgley, of Sugar House. Salt Lake City was not represented. Judges were Fielding K. Smith, Newell Cotterell and C. B. Smurthwaite, of Salt Lake City. County Commissioner Com-missioner Gwynne Page, of Riverton, Riv-erton, was chairman of the queen committee, with Mr. Reynolds Rey-nolds directing the contest. Excellent attendance marked the first professional rodeo at the fair and the first in Salt Lake Conuty outside of the city. Producer Earl Hutchinson spared no cost in assembling 125 wild, bucking broncs, tough steers, speedy calves and mean and vicious Brahma bulls who pit their savagery against 100 of J.he nation's top rodeo hands. Special feature attractions were Bennie Bender, nationally famous, fa-mous, rodeo clown and bull fighter; Frank and Bernice Dean, of San Jose, California, trick riders, ropers and bull whip manipulators. The rodeo was to be presented each evening, Tuesday, through Friday, with the Saddleiers Ranch Days Horse Show, combined com-bined with horse races as the final fi-nal attraction Saturday. The first of three flpwer shows was held Tuesday and Wednesday, Wednes-day, the second scheduled for Thursday and Friday, and the third on Saturday only, with different contestants from all sections of the county in each show. For those who have not yet attended at-tended there's still a chance to see the exhibits, enjoy Monte Young's colorful midway of |