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Show 1 oultry Day Utah's Biggest One Day Celebration Two mammoth parades and a great evening stadium show will be the highlights of Utah's biggest one-day celebration, cele-bration, Poultry Day, slated for Saturday, July 27. The parades will offer one of the most gorgeous arrays ar-rays of street pageantry ever seen in this part of the state, and the big evening show will offer an entertainment-packed program of spicy acts featuring entertainers straight from the big-time circuits. . With the mammoth celebration but one week away the general chairman, Dr. II. II. Ramsay, and his committees' are rapidly rounding into shape the many details which will assure the greatest Poultry Day American Fork has ever staged. All roads will lead to American Fork and thousands of Utahns are expected to gather here to join in paying homage to the poultry industry. Anticipating record-breaking record-breaking crowds, the committee is leaving nothing undone to provide entertainment for every minute of the day, from the daybreak salutes to the last strains of the band playing for the grand ball. Ruling over the celebration will be the Poultry Day Queen and Miss American Fork. The feminine "royalty" will be selected tomorrow night (Saturday) from a field of candidates nominated by the public. The Poultry Day celebration will be officially opened with salutes at daybreak. While the American Fork and visiting bands serenade the city, the crowd will gather for the morning parade. Always a most colorful and thrilling spectacle, with its beautiful floats and many bands, the Poultry Day parade promises to surpass any other which has been seen in this part of the state for many years. Ten bands Provo, Lincoln, Pleasant Grove, Lehi, Spanish Fork, Springville and American Ameri-can Fork high school bands, Cyprus Post 38 American Legion Junior Drum and Bugle Corps of Magna, Draper Junior and Vineyard junior will march in the procession and provide their thrilling music The floats of the Poultry Day Queen and Miss American Fork will be featured. At noon, thousands of chicken sandwiches will be dis tributed free to the hungry celebrants, giving them an op-portunity op-portunity to sample American Fork's chicken supreme-. From one to two o'clock a thrilling air show will be presented present-ed by Ray Elsmore and other pilots. A Utah Industrial League game between Provo and Helper will headline the sports program. This event will come at 2 o'clock, at the city baseball diamond. After a brief "breathing spell", the round of activities will resume in the evening. Starting off with a repetition of the parade at 6 o'clock, when many out-of-town people, will be off work and able to attend, there will be something to do all evening. At 8 o'clock the big stadium show will be "on tap" at the high school campus. Again this year that popular master of ceremonies, Mel Flegal, will be on hand,-bringing hand,-bringing with him a variety show featuring stellar performers. perform-ers. The grand ball at Latona, beautiful new pavilion on the west state highway, will climax the celebration. hni eo o 1 Lfli ,.! Lxxrx AMERICAN FORK, UTAH, FRIDAY, JULY-19, 1940 NUMBER 19 uieral Service Pave TrihlltP 10 )aniel Covington MnJ services for Daniel N. jgton, 52, foreman of the Big mwood CCC camp, who died iy of a heart ailment while ing on the forest service road its, were conducted Tuesday jug in the American Pork Third chapel, with Bishop Frank O. ey officiating. c lervices were opened with a by the Relief society trio, Mrs. ida Wagstaff, Mrs. Edna Boley Mrs. Leona Anderson, accom-d accom-d by Mrs. Ann Shipley. P. C. il offered the opening prayer, takers were Thomas O. Gun-a Gun-a of Windsor ward, Cotton-stake; Cotton-stake; James E. Ourr, super-of super-of the Wasatch national for-Scorge for-Scorge F. Shelley, and Ephraim d of Wayne county. Their talks Interspersed by a vocal solo, i Pilgrim", by Kenneth Robln-The Robln-The closing number, "Farewell pee" was sung by the trio. dosing prayer was offered by M Walker. H. E. McNeill, pr chaplain of the American k offered the dedicatory pray- tht graveside. Military cere- w were carried out by the ma ires. Covington was born May 7, at Orderville, a son of John T. Elizabeth Adams Covington. parried Leona Heath of Wayne had been foreman of various camps for seven years. Active D. 8. church work, he had B as bishop's counselor in Tor- rard and as Sunday School tintendent in Grover ward, both ayne stake. plvlng are his widow, seven ttd daughters, John T. Cov- P of Casper, Wyoming; Claron Won of Sandy, Mrs. Velma pr of Escalante, Dee, Darrell, ana Sheral Covington of frn Pork; five brothers and k David B. Covington of Pleas- Prove, John T. Covinsrton of City, Jane Covington of county, Mrs. Lydla Stewart ver and Mrs. Emily Origg of fr, uregon, and a grandchild. lies Imnnsed In Traffic Cases u iranic cases came before the t court of Justice of. the ! tolng L. Pratt, during the wt Jay storrs was fined $5 Wng a car wltnout Hght8; TOer C. VI;im:nn oro ttnA C to yield the right of way, I'S" an :intr from n nlitn- ""Won earlier in the sum- 0 Which Ariumonn'o . fed. Bee Hive Girls Plan Encampment Plans for the stake Beehive Encampment En-campment at Mutual Dell are being completed this week by the stake Beehive committee and activity leaders. A great deal of Interest and enthusiasm is being shown by the Beehive girls, in this year's new plan at the Dell. A most Interesting program of activities is being planned for the encampment, which will be held from Wednesday, July 31, to Saturday, Satur-day, August 3. It Is under the direction di-rection of the stake Beehive committee, com-mittee, Mrs. Myrtle Seastrand, Mrs. Haydee Iverson, and Mrs. Mildred Peters; and activity leaders, Jennie (Continued On Page Three) o New Electrical Agency Launched Announcement of a new electrical appliance agency, the Martin Nielsen Niel-sen Auto company, was made this week by the proprietor, Keith Nielsen. Niel-sen. The agency will handle Frigldaire refrigerators, ranges and hot water heaters, Thor washers and ironers, Hamilton-Beach mixers and vacuum cleaners, Proctor irons and toasters, and a full line of other electrical appliances. Offices are located at 277 West Main street. o Last Rites For Seastrand Boy Conducted Here The many friends of Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Seastrand and family paid last respects to their youngest son and brother, EuGene, at funeral services last Friday afternoon In the First ward chapel. Services were conducted by Bishop T. A. Greenwood. The services were opened with invocation by Orval Mercer, and a ladies duet, "Brahms Lullaby ", sung by Orpha Batchelor and Erma Adams. An original poem dedicated to the family, entitled, "Our Little Boy" was written and read by Miss LaVonne Brown. E. Ray Gardner spoke concerning the life of EuGene and told of his patience and cheerfulness- during his long Illness and suffering. Mr. Gardner, also spoke consoling words to the family. President C. E. Young, the other speaker, followed Darrel Wanlass who sang In the Garden of Tomorrow." President Young spoke of hope and faith and (Continued On Pnge Three) how the Latter-day Saints religion instills the faith that we will soon Duchesne Lions Entertain State Newspaper Folk Members of the Utah State Press association were royally entertained by the Duchesne Lions club and Editor, Edi-tor, and Mrs. Roy Schonlan of the Uintah Basin Record of Duchesne, at the annual summer press outing held at Moon lake, Saturday and Sunday. Upwards of seventy-five persons, Including editors of weekly newspapers news-papers and their partners from over the state, publishing and sales executives, ex-ecutives, and a number of guests, joined in the two days activities. Rustic Moon lake lodge, on the shores of beautiful Moon lake forty miles north of Duchesne was headquarters head-quarters for the outing. In a championship softball game Saturday afternoon, a team of southerners (American Pork being just south of the 'Mason-Dixon' line) defeated the northerners by a score of 23 to 19, regaining the trophy from the northerners. A. P. Gaisford, editor of the Citizen, was pitcher for the southerners. On his first trip to the plate, batted out a home run. Elisha Warner, editor of the Spanish Span-ish Fork press, and president of the association took the angling honors by bringing in the largest fish caught between sunup and noon, Sunday. Other fishermen brought in fine catches from the lake. The greater part of the time at the lake was spent In recreation-fishing, recreation-fishing, boating, horseback riding, hiking and sports. A barbecue lunch, a chicken and fish banquet, and a picnic lunch went over with a "bang". Many of the group went on guided tours through the Moon lake dam, nearby. A short business session of the association also was held. The press association members joined heartily In a vote of thanks and appreciation for the Duchesne Lions and Editor and Mrs. Schonlan of the Record. A. F. Gaisford and Francis Poster of the Citizen attended the outing. D. U. P. Prepares Special Program For First Ward A program Illustrating in song and story the discovery of America and the building of Zion, as foretold fore-told In scripture, will be presented by the Adams camp of Daughters of Utah Pioneers at the First ward Sunday School, Sunday morning. 'Vivian Seastrand and Helen Pett will be the readers. Mr. and Mrs. S. P. Grant will sing a duet, "Reuben and Rachel", the ladles' chorus of the D. U. P. will sing three selections, selec-tions, "The Quilting Bee", "Joseph Smith's First Prayer", and "O Ye Mountains High", and Rulon Nich-oles Nich-oles will sing "God Bless America". Latona Features Fouf Big Dances Four big dances next week at Latona, newest and most beautiful dance pavilion in Utah county, will feature the Pioneer celebration. Dancers will "swing" to the music of "By" Woodbury and his popular N. B. C. artists, at a Pioneer Day eve dance, July 23. The night of the Twenty-Fourth, Howard Nelson and his orchestra will be on hand, and on Thursday night Carter's orchestra or-chestra will furnish the music for the popular Married Folks dance. Again Saturday night, "By" Woodbury Wood-bury and his boys will play for the regular weekly dance. Local Fellows Take Active Part In Boys State By Eddie Smith, Reporter nU-d: Two Charmins; Girls To Rule Over Poultry Festival Nation i f tu - rt an x-umiry uay JW" '""iTiratten xf. Miss jwnvt::pia;,to. Went , Saturday) at 10 tona" "uv.w-. me nance FOf tleiirlv ., . . ,1'b.-en. placed Jnnoml- - "": P'wte. and from this le the- Toyalty n ''" M mry Day cele-w"'k cele-w"'k Inter, Saturday, July mr1n . fcl a. l sport or 8t"t win 1 out-of-town iinlrn make deckl0. c winners u-in k. r ten and Mi. a.-. nHll omwnr nn SIWH-ifll floats ill the ! Poultry Day parade- and.rcccivalhe homage of the festival crowds. Additional nominations may be made today (Friday J. by filling, but the blank printed In another part of tills newspaper and sending It to the Citizen office. Entries which had been received up until th time this' issue of the Citizen went to press are: Louise Hayward, Edith Carlisle, Helen Haslam, Affra McNeill, Vivian Seastrand? Shirley Taylor, Faye Varney, Edna Bowen, Lois Shafter, June Stewart. Lora Grant, Norma Gordon, Elaine Nlcholes, Mildred Anderson, Maxlne Hawkins, Verdell Lee, Dorothy Wright. Dance Institute Slated Saturday W. O. Robinson, field secretary of the general board of the Mutual Improvement Im-provement association, will meet with the Alpine, Lehl and Tlmpan-ogos Tlmpan-ogos stakes at American Fork on Saturday. July 20, at 7:30 p. m., at a three-stake dance institute. All stake and ward dance directors direc-tors and instructors are asked to be present, according to Superintendent Clarence A. Grant and President May W. Halllday of the Alpine stake M. I. A. Pleads Guilty To Petit Larceny Pleading guilty, to charges of petit larccncy and reportedly admitting taking, money worn a.cftsh tUl'.at the Parduhn service station on the night of July 12. Ray Nielsen was sentenced sentenc-ed by Justice of the Peace Irving L, Pratt to serve six months in the county jail. Nielsen appeared In the precinct court on July 13. The complaint was signed by Jay Par-flutm, Par-flutm, proprietor, of the ' station.'' o '.' INVITE YOUR FRIENDS AND RELATIVES TO THE POULTRY DAY CELEBRATION Printed postal card invitations may be obtained free, for the asking, at the Postoffice. Supplied by the Poultry Day Committee. Impressive Rites Pay Tribute To Young Schoolboy Impressive funeral services for Era Doyle Gibbons, 12, were conducted Thursday afternoon in the Third ward chapel by Bishop Frank O. Shelley. Speakers at the services were Principal George W. Larsen of the Harrington school, of which the boy was a pupil; President Jesse M. Walker, and Bishop Shelley. The opening song was rendered by the Relief society trio, Mrs. LaDocla Wagstaff, Mrs. Edna Boleyand Mrs. Leona Anderson, accompanied by Mrs. Ann Shipley, and the opening open-ing prayer was offered by Glenn Baker. A duet, "The Lord Is My Shepherd", was sung by Jack Lee and Harold Greening, accompanied by Mrs. Gertrude Merikoffer. The closing song, "Lullaby", was given by the trio. George F. Shelley offered the closing prayer. George E. Abel dedicated the grave in the American Fork ceme tery. ; The boy died Monday of last week of. a ruptured appendix. He was born November 20, 1927, at Teasdale, Wayne ounty, a h of Era Benja min and Effie L. Pectol Gibbons He came to American Fork with his parents five years ago. He was a student tn the krat sr hools: -1 -Surviving are. lit parents, a sister. Ilia Effie Gibbons, and three grand parents. P.- O. Pectoi- and Mr. and Mrs. Wfriiam Gibbons, all' of "American "Ameri-can Fork. """ VUm -Hat '' tof - "Mahatma" Bailey, assistant football foot-ball coach at Washington Stale college, col-lege, was married recently, reports the American Magazine, and among his wedding presents were 26,000 old bata sent by his alumni friends. They all remembered that Bailey has a habit of throwing his hat dowa and Jumping oa it whenever his team faces a critical moment la a game. With Boys' State in its second week the fellows are getting more things accomplished and are now really getting results. The election smoke has cleared, the fellows are more acquainted, and now we can really hit the grindstone. grind-stone. The lectures have been given morning and night and the boys are really getting something out of them. The fellows from American Pork are scattered throughout the state and each have made friends with boys from all parts of the state; real friends they will never forget. This is a good place to learn social adjustment because we have plenty of time and opportunity for practice. Most all of the boys are friendly and it is very easy to get acquainted. The election results have showed that three of our fellows have elective elec-tive offices. Dick Walton was elected elect-ed County Auditor on the Federalist ticket. The two parties here are the Nationalists and the Federalist. The day before the state elections a third party was organized and called the Citizens party. Dan Hindley Was elected a City Commissioner on the Federalist ticket tic-ket and also was appointed entertainment enter-tainment chairman of his respective city. Eddie Smith was elected a County Commissioner on the Federalist tic ket and through a competitive ex amination given to about 100 boys was made a State Patrolman. He sang a vocal solo Saturday night on the Boys' State assembly program. These fellows are very fortunate to get offices and the experience they obtain will help them greatly In life. Boys' State sponsors three contests two essay and one oratorical. Glen Barrett has entered the oratorical contest and is the only fellow from American Fork to enter any of these. The opportunities here are abundant abun-dant and all the American Fork boys are exerting every effort toward getting get-ting the best of them. The Governor's Day is Thursday, July 18. Governor Henry H. Blood comes down and addresses us. The boys wish to extend Invitations Invita-tions to their sponsors, the public and the American Legion through which this camp is made possible, to visit the camp. We wish to thank Mr. Wllburn Hoggard for his efforts and time in helping us get here and in getting as many representatives as we have from American Fork. Main Street Project Hits Snag; Bids Returned Unopened, Upon Request of Federal Road Agency Lifelong Resident, Veteran Marshal Taken By Death American Fork paid last respects to a lifelong resident and a prom inent citizen, William E. Duncan, at funeral services Monday afternoon after-noon In the Second ward chapel. Mr. Duncan died Friday at bis home here, following a three-months Illness. He was 81. Mr. Duncan was born at American Ameri-can Fork on August 13, 1858, a son of John and Eliza Bowman Duncan, who were pioneer settlers of the community. He married Mary Bat rington, a daughter of American Fork's first mayor and bishop, Leonard Leon-ard E. Harrington, on January 11, 1880. . , Mr. Duncan had been prominent in civic affairs In this city, serving 23 years as night marshal of AmerU can Fork. In this position he served serv-ed faithfully and well. He became known as one to fulfill his duties without fear, and on numerous occasions oc-casions his bravery served him well in apprehending violators of the law. He also was employed for a number num-ber of years by a drug company and a power company, as watchman. A lifelong resident of American Fork, he was the city's oldest native-born native-born citizen. He is survived by his wife, seven sons and daughters, Mrs. Eliza Russell, Rus-sell, Leonard E. Duncan, Mrs. Millie Prince, Mrs. Ina Murphy, and Mrs. Florence Whitehead, all of Salt Lake City; Mrs. Velma Willis of Seattle, Washington, and Professor Delbert J. Duncan of Chicago; 13 grandchildren grand-children and seven great-grandchildren. Bishop Joseph H. Storrs officiated at the funeral services, in the Second Sec-ond ward chapel. The opening number was a violin solo by Max lne Taylor, accompanied by Mildred Richards. Clyde P. Crookston offer-ed offer-ed the invocation. This was follow ed by a vocal solo, "That Silver Haired Daddy of Mine", by Ray Shelley, accompanied by Mrs. Mary Humphries. Speakers were Lot Robinson, J Stanley Peters and Bishop Storrs. Following a vocal solo, "Farewell", by Mrs. Clifford E. Young, accompanied accom-panied by Mariam Young, James T. Gardner pronounced the benediction. benedic-tion. The grave In the American Fork cemetery was dedicated by Leonard S. Harrington. Gratitude For Pioneer Heritage To Keynote Utah's Celebration Pioneer programs will be held Sunday evening, July 21. in the wards of ..Alpine stake, in keeping with a thurch-wtae observance hon oring the Mormon pioneers . who braved hardships and trials to come to-"the 'Valley of the mountains" in 184T. Purpose of the special meetings Is to awaken among church members a deeper., gratitude forjjheijt; heritage, and to stimulate more interest in the celebration of the day when the Pioneers arrived In Utah the 24th of July. The First Presidency of the church are asking that members display their flags on July 24th and that they popularize Pioneer Day as much as possible. A special program Is being arranged ar-ranged for Sunday evening in the ('First ward, according to Bishop T. : A. Greenwood. In the Second ward, ! the Missionary cotnmlttee will be in I tiuarge, .Bishop Joseph' il. sions.'m- I nounced. In the Fourth ward, also, a siM'cial observance Is belnc olan- j ned, according to Bishop John W. putiey; Daughters of Utah Pioneers of the American Fork camp will present the. uroglatu In the .Third ward.Sim day evening. A pioneer theme will be carried out. featuring the follow lng numbers: A poem, "Pioneer Trails", read by Mrs. Relva B. Ross; violin solo, Miss Vllate Boley; Pio neer stories, Mrs. Ellen Tracey and Mrs. Betha Sagers; special musical numbers, the Goodwin sisters of Lehl. American Fork's $50,000 project for the widening and resurfacing of a section of Main street received an unexpected setback this week when bids, after being properly submitted by the contractors, were returned unopened to the bidders. The bids were to nave been opened at the state capltol Tuesday. Mews of the sudden side-tracking of the Improvement program -cam as a complete surprise to American Fork city officials and the general public. It was thought that the months of promotional work to obtain ob-tain the project had been brought to a successful conclusion and that the city would be assured of a wider wid-er highway; as a result the last-minute last-minute objections. Ja4ha:. project struck like a bombshell. Mayor O. DeVere Wootton was Informed In-formed of the new turn of events by Chairman W. D. Hammond of the Utah state road commission. Mr. Hammond's letter stated that bids were returned unopened when the federal public road administration entered objections to the project. The project was originally approved and properly advertised. In a statement to the Citizen Thursday, Mayor Wootton declared. "We dont Intend to let this project drop. We will bring every pressure to bear to have it carried through this year. Plans are now being made for concerted action on the problem, and the city's stand will be laid before be-fore the road commission in the near future." Mayor Wootton, elaborating on his statement, said that a committee of prominent residents will be organized organiz-ed to wait on the road commission and take up the matter with them. The city and Lions club committee, which was instrumental in promoting promot-ing the project, will form the nucleus of this committee, and the committee commit-tee will be greatly eenlarged by the addition of representative townspeople, towns-people, . From letters forwarded to Mayor Wootton by Mr. Hammond, it appeared ap-peared that the Public Roads Administration Ad-ministration feels the entire six blocks of Main street should be widened, wid-ened, rather than only the two blocks. Most optimistic interpretation of the action was that the project would be delayed but would go through, sooner or later. However, many Interpreted It to mean that the road commission is reviving its plan to by-pass Main street with highway 91 entirely. Mr. Hammond, in his letter to Mayor Wootton, stated: "We shall contact Mr. Finch's office as quickly as we can and endeavor to work out satisfactorily the problems that are raised. However, this action of the Public Roads Administration is definitely defi-nitely going to. cftuse a , delay In the project." (Mr. B. J. Finch Is the district enpineer of the Public Roads Administration). Mr. Hammond enclosed copies of letters and telegrams concerning the project. One from, N F. . McCoy, senior highway -wiKineer ol the Pub-. He Roads Administration to. Mr. Finch, dated July 10, pointed out objections 'to the . project. " If stated In part, that' "Traffic on the project, 4550 vehicles per day, justifies a four-lane highway through the town, and city condition -dictate provision , for a parking lane at each curb. The typical section proposed for use ... Is satisfactory, but the narrower nar-rower roadbed proposed for the balance bal-ance of the project appears decidedly decided-ly inadequate. It seems evident that the adequate Improvement of this street would require nothing less (Continued On Page Five) I r |