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Show 12,000 Attend Hike Program At Aspen Grove I; t Koach Summit in Hike following Program At - Aspen Grove. t" And still they came ! " Vith a steady stream oC 3rs pouring into Aspen ''rove, Friday afternoon and ', 'ling, all attendance rec-!js rec-!js for the annual Timpano- ' ',' hike and preliminary shire. Prfof. Churlcs. Weldermann of the University of Nebraska followed fol-lowed with a novelty musical number num-ber in which he produced sweet music from rocks and pieces of glass fashioned Into a zylophone arrangement. The "heavy" number of the evening eve-ning was the playlet, I the Spring Yoiing Mini's Fancy," staged by eight students of Prof. T. Earl Pardoe, assisted by Miss Monta Wentz. Seth Killings pleased with a number num-ber of artistic whistling solos accompanied ac-companied by Bert Halliday in one of which Reed Strong sang a tenor solo. One of the novelty numbers was the acrubatic stunts by La Rue Eriekson, who tied herself in several sev-eral knots. Aubert Cote and his midgets staged a demonstration in acrobatics. Tinip Sticks The Tlmp stick for the oldest man present went to August Hjorth of Springville who is Sti years old and Mrs. Mary" L. Crandall of Springville, 82, as the oldest woman. wo-man. The most distant visitor, Miss Arva B. Chrlstensen was' similarly honored as was the youngest boy to reach Timp at the 1S132 hik Carl Cox, then four years old. the press and Prof. E. H. East-niond East-niond who had charge of the decorations. dec-orations. A crowd estimated at 2000 started start-ed for the summit at the close of the program. No check was available avail-able at press time on the actual number who gained the top. pxm were believed to been broken. - i count of cars shows the ac-jl ac-jl attendance to have been 10,-, 10,-, blowing an average of five to j !, car. Including those who came ' .' after 8:30 p. m., the number stably exceeded 11,000. , creat Crowd With grea"y Improved seating ! ..(he annual pre-hike ceremonies rJ a high quality program, the ijir, which was handled in inas-.,ul inas-.,ul style by Coach G. Ott Rom- ;v was one of the most dellght-ij' dellght-ij' events ever staged since the option of the hike by Eugene Roberts way back in 1911. i view of that crowd from the ige was in inspiration. The en-.' en-.' hill slope of the Theater-of-rPines was jammed with teetn-t- humanity from the bottom to j a top and extending on both r as far as the eye could see. asides the 7000 persons who sat isn in the beautiful amphithea-a amphithea-a there were several thousand Jit unable to gain seats who ::p on tiptoes to get a view of j program. And a splendid program it was, enough variety and pep to keep li huge crowd in good humor. fich Romney interspersed the ::is on the stage with his characteristic charact-eristic humor and terse announce-lints announce-lints which kept the program run-:,ng run-:,ng without a dull moment, laidld Program Toe audience rose to its feet at ::i beginning to sing the national tbem. The opening number was : dance act under the direction of iss Margaret Burton, with 12 pis featuring Miss Betty Harap- Timp sticks were also presented to three special guests Preston G. Peterson, vice chairman of the state road commission, who was instrumental in securing the splendid splen-did road improvements to Aspen Grove; A. G. Nord, supervisor of the Wasatch National forest and Charles Weidermann, Nebraska educator. The presence of the Utah Oil Refining Re-fining company's Pep public address system was a great improvement enabling the most distanct spectator spec-tator to hear perfectly. A vocal ensemble sang three numbers under the direction of Prof. Gerrit de Jong, accompanied by Miss Ina Webb. The climax of the evening was the ceremonial lighting of the bonfire bon-fire by a group of girls under the direction of Miss Burton. The act was very Impressive and was staged stag-ed in full view of the audience. Accompanying Ac-companying the act the American Legion counted the age of the hike with 22 sky rockets. Acknowledgment for assistance to the physical education department depart-ment of the Brigham Young university uni-versity in staging the hike was made by Coach Romney to the Provo chamber of commerce, the Wasatch forest service, sheriff's officers of-ficers and state road patrolmen, |