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Show Galena Days Program Offers Best In Every Type Entertainment Bingham's Famous Main Street Now In Holiday Attire North America's premier copper-producing community, today begins the two-day Galena Days celebration, occasion for the home-coming of many former citizens. cit-izens. Conscious of the many distinctions distinc-tions of Bingham Canyon and aware that Galena Days offers a new high in all-around entertainment, enter-tainment, residents have made adequate preparations to welcome large numbers of old friends and visitors alike. All the carnival attractions of the usual civic holiday are in readiness for the expected influx of celebration guests. Cttiieni In Coitumt The banner-bedecked Main street carries out the Galena Days theme, and the same period has been chosen by: Bingham residents resi-dents as inspiration for their costuming. cos-tuming. For weeks male citizens have worn beards and plaid shirts and toted guns. This week .women adopted long dresses and sunbonnets and children, too, reverted re-verted to clothing of a bygone d3The Royal Salute at 6:30 a. m. of 21 blasts of powder at the Utah Copper company pit was also heard over KDYL by special arrangement of the celebration committee. The gigantic parade at 10. 00 a. m. is first event scheduled on the full two days' of diversified entertainment. Music will be furnished by seven bands, including in-cluding Bingham Central, Bmg-senior Bmg-senior and junior high, Sandy, Draper, Jordan and Midvalo bands. Many of the lloats are planned to bring back early boom days of Bingham Canyon and thus have a historical significance. signi-ficance. Both horse drawn and motor driven floats have been entered in the parade, Joel Jensen, Jen-sen, parade chairman, states. Following the parade Old Timers are to register at Bolog-nese Bolog-nese building from 11 a. m. on. Sports enthusiasts impatiently await the double header football game 2-5 p. m. at the Bingham high school stadium, Copperton, where Jordan will face Richfield and Bingham is to meet Park City. . . At 7 p. m. today dedicatory exercises ex-ercises for the new Bingham high school auditorium will be held. The Reverend John E. Carver Car-ver is principal speaker. Dr. C. N. Jensen is to preside and the welcoming address is to be made . by Dr. Paul S. Richards. The Utah State heavyweight and liehtweight championship titles are at stake at the high school gymnasium tonight at 8 o'clock. Windmill Pierce, 190 pounds, and Lee Robertson, 210 pounds, are the headline attrac-. tions and Benny Flake and Johnny John-ny Nunley, both 135 pounds, are the lightweights. Al J. AbleU announces two, good wrestling matches fill the remainder of the card. Concluding the program today will be the dance at the Civic Center, admission fifty cents per couple. Saturday's program 19 expected expect-ed to be run-off as announced: 10:00 a. m. miniature parade, in which school children will be the participants; 11:00 a. m., dedication de-dication of the Bingham-Copper-field tunnel at the Copperfield portal; 12:00 noon, OH Timers luncheon at Sturm's cafe; 11:30 a. m.-2:30 p. m., children's races, cash prizes, at Bingham Merc, corner; 1:30 p. m., Soap Box derby; der-by; 4:00 p. m. Rock drilling and muck loading contest; 5:00 p. m-. beard judging and ladies costume judging, Bingham Merc, porch; 7-00 p. m., Old Timers' program, Society hall; 9:00 p. m., Galena Days dances, Copperfield school, Civic Center and Society hall. |