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Show Full Schedule of Activities 1 Volume 90 Number 52 MANTI, UTAH 84642, THURSDAY, 11 JULY 1, 1976 5 a copy I Sanpete Dairy Princess, Attendants Named Joanne Cutler, a daughter of and Mrs. Leon Olsen, f Ephraim, was crowned 1976 Sanpete Dairy Princess at the conclusion of the annual Sanpete Dairy Princess pageant and banquet last week. Judges Mr. and Mrs. Robert " Wright and Mr. and Mrs. Charles Wamick named Jill - Marie Buchanan, a daughter of Jack Buchanan, Centerfield; f Lee Ann Jenkins, a daughter of : Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth W. Jenkins, Manti; Michelle Kennedy, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Kennedy, Ches- -' s ter, and Susan Rees, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Newell Rees, Wales, the attendants. I The contestants chose Anita i Young a daughter of Mr. and Keith Young, Sterling, j Mrs. Miss Congeniality. Announced during the banquet, which was held in the Moroni East-WeWard cultural hall were winners of the poster contest: Devra Webb, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Webb, Chester; Lori Ann Sorensen, a daughter of jMr. and Mrs. David E. Sorensen, Spring City, and Lee Ann Jenkins, Jill Marie Buchanan, Susan Rees, and Michelle Lowry, a daughter of Mrs. Jennie Lowry, Manti. Michelle Kennedy. Mr. 5 st DAIRY PRINCESS ROYALTY named this week Includes: Joanne Cutler center, princess, and attendants . to r., Tenth Annual Mormon Miracle Pageant Imminent The Manti Utah Stake is preparing to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Mormon Miracle Pageant. Rehearsals have been underway since June 1, scenery is being refurbished, costumes constructed and plans com- pleted for parking, seating and feeding the 110,000 visitors direction of Mrs. Macksene Rux, Salt Lake City theater personality. Her assistants are again Mrs. Jane Braithwaite and Mrs. Helen Dyreng. Most of the lead parts have been double cast, Mrs. Dyreng said. JoAnn Braithwaite, Manti, and Antoinette Berti, Mount Pleasant, will alternate as Mary and Tracy Frandsen, Center-fiel- expected. They will attend the pageants eight nightly performances on Temple Hill in Manti July 8, 9, and 10, and then resuming July 13 through 17. Curtain time each evening will be at dusk. The cast of 350 is rehearsing for the performances under the Will You Help? d, and Kerry Sorensen, New Ambulance Requires Personnel, Emergency-Traine- d Manti and Ephraim cities have on order a new ambulance which is to be delivered in late summer, according to Mayors Clair Erickson and Frank Wanlass. It is an exceptionally fine unit, the mayors said, which should contribute greatly to rapid and efficient medical care for residents of the two communities and the entire central Sanpete County area. By law, the ambulance must be operated by people who have successfully completed the Emergency Medical Training course especially de- signed for this important Mayor Erickson said. will be stationed in Ephraim and Manti on an equal time, agreed-upo- n service, The ambulance rotating basis, the mayors explained. This necessitates a crew of EMT trained people in each town, Mayor Wanlass said. The two cities want to get approval from the State EMT training office for a course at Snow College that can be completed in time so that EMT trained personnel will be available when the ambulance arrives. If we can get 20 people from each town to sign up for the course, we may succeed in getting it organized quite soon, Mayor Erickson said, adding that there is a critical need for EMT trained people. Citizens who have an interest in becoming EMT trainees and who have a desire to help their stricken fellowmen who may be in urgent need of help are asked to go to their respective city offices and sign up for the course. Will you help? the mayors asked. Magnificent Macksene 1 Report Updates Condition Of Manti Canyon Slide The massive earth movement in Manti Canyon the famous, or infamous, Manti slide is again in the news. Forest Ranger . R. Dick Allred, on whose district the slide is situated, this week released to the media a report which discusses in some detail geologic, economic and social aspects of what the report calls The Manti Canyon Cottonwood Earthflow. Some highlights of that report: by Frank Peacock The Macksene Rux doesnt walk into the rehearsal hall. She makes an entrance. Because Macksene is, first of all, an a brilliant one. As actress director of "The Mormon ... Miracle Cause a tremendous fall of rocks from the ledges west and south of Burnt Hill earth and Flat started the movement which gradually gained velocity as it approached Manti Creek. Results a disruption of the culinary water line which eventually required replacement of several miles of line; the threat of flooding, destruction of a section of the canyon road, substantial damage to irrigated lands. (Continued on Page 4) Mormon 99 People associated with the Mormon Miracle Pageant in Manti feel fortunate and grateful behind to have a prime-move- r the pageant with the quality and rich experience of Miss Rux.99 on-goi- The struggle of the 13 colonies for independence depended for its success upon their sense of togetherness, and we hope that residents of Ephraim, Manti and Sterling will likewise share, in a sense of togetherness, their experiences on this Independence Day weekend by participating in each others activities, Bicentennial chairmen of the three communities said. 5 JO Parade. Dee Burger clown will be grand marshall. More than 30 entries will be in the procession, including a Utah National Guard color guard, riders, drill teams and floats. 6:00 Town bring your own picnic on Snow College practice field. Snow cones, cotton candy, pop com, other goodies will be on sale. a program 6:30 Everything Went in 1976 on the television on Snow Stadium that is a rip-oshow, Almost Anything Goes. Four teams will compete in eight events. 8:00 Bicentennial dance on Snow tennis courts. And here la the schedule of M day events In Manti: 6:00 a.m. The American Legion Liberty Bell will ring in the Bicentennial birthday of American indcdendence. 7:00 a.m. Special Bicentennial breakfast at Legion Hall. Hot cakes, bacon and eggs all you can eat. Adults, $1.50; children, 75c; family, $6.00. The Legion will also sell chances on a 4-- H ...Patriotic speaker They are dark (no shows) on Sunday and Monday, July 11 and 12. Francis Urry and I were narrators for the Manti pageant way back in 1969, Miss Rux In some ways it remembers. was something primitive. Most of the lights were encased in tin cans. But it was an exhilarating theatrical experience for me, nevertheless. I could visualize bicycle. 9:30 a.m. Vernon Kunz Childrens races at Manti Memorial Park under the direction of the Center Ward Elders. A variety of races by age groups with prizes for all participants. 10:00 a.m. Special entertainment preceding in the original Grace Johnson book . . and I could see the possibilities g of the temple hill as a stage with the great, the potential inherent south-slopin- crystalline temple standing majestically as a backdrop to an g pageant of color and action, she remembers. The people in charge asked me if I would direct it the following year. I told them I would If I could rewrite it and stage it as I felt it should be, she says. Immediately, she was given the green light. For six months I researchever-movin- her husky, voice commands well-timber- authority. Her pauses are for punctuate. They communicate unspoken direction. Miss Rux is a Salt Lake woman. For six weeks each summer she moves to Manti, where she lives within a block of the temple hill the site of the annual Mormon Miracle a pageant, involving Central Utahns, whicli she has successfully directed for the past seven years. When darkness blankets the temple hill on the evening of July 8, Miss Rux will give the 9:20 signal to start the tape ushering in the plantive sound of a distant trumpet . . . commencing the 43rd production of the pageant which, for her, spans seven consecutive summers. On July 17, when this seasons run has its final performance, Macksene will have directed fifty Miracles. Ephraim, Manti and Sterling will celebrate the with a three-da- y observance this weekend that will have other elements in common beside the patriotic theme. One of the common elements will be the ringing of bells in the three communities for two minutes beginning at 12 noon Sunday. The three bells will ring in unison with other bells across the land in memory of the bells which proclaimed freedom 200 years ago. A second common element will be a Manti Utah Stake sponsored fireside Sunday evening at Snow Stadium. Guest speaker at the fireside will be R. LaVaun Cox, native son and former publisher of the Manti Messenger. Other program numbers will include selections by several choruses, including the Primary Choir, the Star Spangled Kids and the Stake Choir. The Stake Choir, directed by Harry A. Dean, will sing four songs, including This Is My Country and Utah, We Love Thee. The Sanpete Community Players will offer a special skit. At the conclusion of the program birthday cake and punch will be served to those in attendance. In Ephraim other Independence Day activities, including a parade and a program, have been scheduled for Saturday afternoon and evening. Mantis traditional Fourth observance will provide a full days activities Monday, beginning with a second ringing of the Legion Bell at 6 a.m. and concluding with a dance that evening on the Manti High School tennis courts. Along the way will be a Legion breakfast, fashion show, Miss Fourth contest, patriotic program, fireworks and a host of other events especially designed to keep everyone busy, happy and entertained. The patriotic program Monday morning at 11 a.m. will have Vernon Kunz, Manti Stake Patriarch as guest speaker, and Mrs. Jane Braithwaite and LaVar Jenson providing the music. Most of the Monday activities will occur at Manti Memorial Park, where civic and church groups will operate concessions that will add activities. spice to the nations independence ff dramatic effect. Her dark flashing eyes penetrate for discipline in the cast. They of the Miracle ; Gunnison, as Robert, in two principal roles. Marvin Higbee, Jr.,: Ephraim, will play the Prophet Joseph as a youth, and Fred Johnson, Manti, the Prophet as a mature man. Lee Barton, Manti, will continue in the role of President Brigham Young. The pageant production staff has developed a permanent and sound distance of the Mr. Dyreng We are now constructing 50 performance, said. He added that about Mrs. Phyllis new costumes, Carpenter said. Some of the 11,000 folding chairs will be new costumes are for the placed at the foot of Temple Hill are also performers in major roles; and that pageant-goer- s others are for dancing and other invited to bring their own lawn groups. Proper costuming for chairs and blankets for seating the pageant is a major element, on the spacious lawns, j Parking for 2500 cars and as we feel, in its audience appeal, and about 60 people are many as 100 busses will be involved in costume construcavailable within convenient tion and maintenance, makeup walking distance six to eight blocks of the pageant site. and hair styling. Sucthousand doUars has been management has spent' to improve the lighting, been perfected to the point R. Morgan Dyreng, pageant where the visitors can be on general manager said. Brigham their return journey within an Young University will again hour after the pageants close, provide and operate the sound (Continued on Page 3) system. Audiences of 20,000 or more will be within good sight wardrobe of 300 costumes. Bicentennial Celebration Extends Over Three Days ed, wrote, struggled O With a gesture director Macksene Rux explains a tine point to the Mormon Miracle cast. and sweat, she recalls. It was an excruciating experience. Sometimes I went absolutely dry. Then, there would be periods when dialogue and narration flowed through me like a flood. But I followed the coulsel given me by Mark E. Peterson, a member of the Council of the Twelve, whom I had sought out for advice, she says. He told me to clarify it for the I tried, she understates. First of all and to get the project in to motion Macksene donated $500 of her own money. Then came the taping. I had to find professional voices. Appropriate bridge and transi fashion show. 10:10 a.m. Childrens fashion show and freckle contest. Mantis younger set will show off stunning summer fashions. There will be prizes for all participants with special prizes awarded to the entry with the most freckles. Participants should be 13 years old or younger. A 75 or less word description of the outfit to be worn should be given to Karen Nell, Gail Buchanan, Darlene Blackham or Diane Williams by Friday, July 2. A practice will be held at 9:30 a.m. at the city park. 10:30 a.m. Miss Manti 4th of July contest. 6 will model Beautiful Manti girls age summer frocks and compete for Miss 4th of July title. Cash prizes for winners. 10:45 a.m. Flag raising ceremony and patriotic program. Manti National Guard personnel will participate in special Bicentennial flag raising ceremony. Speaker at the patriotic program will be Vernon Kunz, Manti business and church leader. Special musical numbers will feature Manti pianists LaVar Jenson and Jane Braithwaite and former Mantians Adele Olsen Lambert and Earlene Christensen Voorhees. A large number of chairs will be available, but you are encouraged to bring your own. 12:00 noon Lunch and visiting time. Booths will be operated by Manti civic clubs and church groups to provide food and fun. Located on the tennis court area, they will offer hamburgers, hot dogs, soda pop, snow cones, pronto pups, home made breads, candies, root beer, pastries. Fun booths will include bingo, a fish pond, string pull, basketball pitch, dart throw, penny pitch and others. 1:00 p.m. Candy Scramble. Pounds and pounds of succulent candies for those who can get to it first. Conducted by age groups by the American Legion Auxiliary. 1:30 p.m. Egg Throwing Contest. A traditional crowd-please- r. Mothers and daughters will team up to compete for cash prizes. Fathers and daughters and husbands and wives will also get in on the action. Directed by South Ward Elders. 1:50 p.m. Horseshoe Pitching Contest. Both singles and doubles matches will be held at the horseshoe pits in the northwest corner of the park. Trophies will be awarded winners of both contests. Sponsored by Tennis Gub. 2:00 p.m. Free Swimming. ' 2:10 p.m. Money in the Haystack. Youngsters will participate by age groups to hunt lots of coins tossed into the haystack by the Riding Gub. 2:30 p.m. Greased Pole Gimb. There is a lot of suspense in this event as greenbacks lure young climbers up the pole. If you can reach the money you can have it. The biggest prize is at the top of die pole. 3:00 p.m. Square Dance Demonstration. For many years a top 4th of July attraction. The Sagebrush Swingers will allemande left at the north side of the tennis courts. 3:30 p.m. Pie Eating Contest. All ages from young to old can compete in this tasty and popular event. Everyone who enters wins, but special cash prizes will be awarded to the fastest pie eaters. 4:00 p.m. Softball Game. Two Manti teams will compete on the ball field at the southeast corner of the park. 4:30 p.m. Barbecue Turkey Dinner. The North Ward Boy Scouts will serve barbecued turkey and all the trimmings. Adults, $3.00; students, $2.50, and kids under six, $1.00. 5:15 p.m. Free Watermelon Bust. Hundreds of pounds of ice cold watermelon will be served by the Manti Lions Gub. 9:30 p.m. Fireworks. The Manti Volunteer Fire Department will be in charge of this special Bicentennial Salute from Temple Hill. 10:00 p.m. Dance on the Manti High School tennis courts. A Disco Dance for all Ages featuring Rich Erickson. $1.50 per couple; $1.00, single. 14-1- tion music had to be arranged, she remembers. I called on talented Mr. Reliable, the veteran actor, Francis Urry, to narrate with me again, Macksene says. In March of 1970 the entire cast met at the recording studios of Bonneville International in Salt Lake and taped. In two sessions, the dra- matic portion the dialogue and narration was complete. Gordon Johnson, a director at Bonneville, searched out and selected the music. The finished tape voices, sound effects, music, everything was mixed and on tape by the end of May, Macksene recalls. The music has to be descriptive, exciting a new experience for the pageant (Continued on Page 3) About the Writer FRANK PEACOCK, a Manti native, has played a character role in The Mormon Miracle for the past three summers. Theatre isnt foreign to Frank. After graduating from Snow College, he played two seasons of summer stock In New England. Following WW II he studied two years at North- . . . Frank has contributed occasional feature material to the Messenger over the past three years. western Universitys Medlll School of Journalism. Subsequently, he was employed as a continuity writer at KSL. In the 40s and 50s he was employed as writer, announcer and then manager of radio station KSVC in Richfield. He served four years as editor of Kennescope, an employee magazine for Kenne-co- tt Copper. In 1970 he graduated from the University of Utah School of Journalism. Frank Peacock |
