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Show valley. Their activity kept th government army at bay and caused it to make winter camp at Ft. Bridger. Mrs. Carter dubbed the present 265-member Days of '47 army" or workers as: "Our Modern Mormon Militia." "Of course, our committee members are only armed with enthusiasm," Mrs. Carter said and added, "we aren't the only ones who' labor hard to make the celebration a success. There are literally thousands thou-sands of families and businessmen business-men who do a tremendous amount of work also to make Days of '47 a success." The schedule of events which will be highlighted by a six-day rodeo starting July 18, will get into high gear Wednesday, July 4 th with a gigantic Cavalcade at Derk's Field. Admission will be free and the event will include music by the famous Utah National Na-tional Guard band, precision marching by the crack Guard drill team and will be topped off with a gigantic fireworks display. Committee Plans Days of '47 Program "It takes a lot of people to organize or-ganize and produce Utah's largest annual celebration. The Days of '4 7." Joe Chandler, President of the Days of '47 Committee said, as he pointed out that there were over 263 people actively working on some 15 committees to produce "the greatest celebration of them all" in 1957, Building this year's celebration around the theme: "They Came In 1857," the organization's festivities fes-tivities will portray some of the events which happened 100 years ago. Co-President, Mrs. Kate B. Carter, said that one of the most important events was the news of the coming of Johnston's Army. The news reached Erigham Young while he and a group of Saints were observing their 10th year in the valley with a celebration at Brighton. While they were camped, a horseman rode up and informed them that the government was sending an army to "stop the Mormon's Mor-mon's in their rebellion against the United States." President Young conducted an orderly evacuation evac-uation and returned to Salt Lake City where he took steps to protect the residents by readying the Utah Militia. This "Mormon Militia" was dispersed dis-persed to cover all entrances to the |