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Show Ogden Offers Attractions For Pioneer Day OGDEN, UTAH Featuring the San Francisco sheriff's mounted posse, a $100,000 outfit that played play-ed a star attraction at the 1940 Golden Gate exposition in California, Cali-fornia, four nights of rodeo shows, street parades and a mammoth historical pageant, the Ogden Pioneer days celebration, to be held July 20-24, boasts the greatest great-est array of talent of ar?y summer celebration this year in the in-termountain in-termountain country. The possse riders and their costly equipment will appear at the rodeo shows and in the street parades. The troop is considered consider-ed by many to equal the performances perfor-mances of the world renowned "Royal Canadian mounted police when it comes to showy horses, brilliant maneuvering and general gener-al demonstration of the riding skil-ls. "The Trail Breakers", telling .an pantomine and song the stirring stir-ring story of conquering frontiers from the Atlantic to the Pacific Paci-fic seaboards, will be presented Sunday night, July 20, with a cast of thousands. This feature is to be presented as part of the Utah celebration in 1947 to acquaint ac-quaint visitors with the events leading up to the founding of the .state by Mormon pioneers. Still rated the big feature of the five-day festival are the ro- deo shows that will be held in the starlit municipal stadium. Professional Pro-fessional cowboys standing with-:in with-:in several points of each other for :ratings with the Rodeo Association Associa-tion of America prizes will contest con-test for the prize purse of $4000, in addition to commercial awards. Rodeo's No. 1 announcer, Abe .. Lefton, and the top-fli ght . funnymen funny-men of the business, Holmer Hol-comb Hol-comb and Jasbo Fulkerson, the guarantees there will be never a dull moment. New specialty act performers are Trixie McCormick, a leading feminine star of the sport, and William Jeffery and his trained cow horse "Chiquita". Other trick riders and ropers include in-clude Monte Montana and his riders, Dick Griffith, and Beren-ic Beren-ic Taylor. The celebration atmosphere will be kept going in the downtown district with two mammoth street .parades, including at least 35 floats each depicting an outstanding event in the nation's history between be-tween the arrival of columbus and the early ninteenth century, the period covered by the pageant production. Carnivpl bonsssionis and rides and secial stunts sponsored spon-sored by merchants are other attractions. |