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Show UTAH STATE FAIR DATES SET SEPT. 14 - 21 September1 14 to 21 Put these dates and the intervening ones down in your "do" book the "do" meaning to devote one or more of the eight days to visiting the Utah state fair. There's a reason. The 1940 fair is going to set new records in cope and variety of attractions for visitors. Contracts already signed for entertainment features assures this, while every advance indication points to the finest exhibit ex-hibit of Beehive state products ever assembled for public display. Entertainment for the folks who come to the fair this year is being made the outstanding qualification quali-fication for programmed events arranged by the Utah State Fair association. The fair management is determined to leave no stone unturned in efforts to provide attractions at-tractions that will leave every visitor vis-itor the feeling that his admission fee has been returned many fold in things seen at the fair. Acting on the assumption that people come to the fair to first of all be entertained, both by exhibits and "show" features, association officials are "going the limit" in making certain that the 1940 exhibit ex-hibit in all departments will eclipse all previous fair showings, and that the dally event programs will be filled to overflowing with new features of the calibre offered offer-ed by the nation's largest fairs. As for exhibits, the fair management man-agement has devoted untiring efforts ef-forts toward interesting producers in every county and in every field to enter displays in the various exhibit departments livestock, manufacturers, agriculture, horticulture, horti-culture, women's handicraft, fish and game, youth activities, machinery, ma-chinery, and art. The response has been statewide, assuring many new items for public inspection and a sum total of exhibits that will establish an all-time record. From an amusement standpoint even more pronounced strides forward for-ward have been made. The fair officials, due to most fortunate circumstances, cir-cumstances, have been enabled to book the greatest of the nation's fair entertainmeflt features the gigantic show-spectacle "Flying Colors." The circumstance was that this superb attraction had open dates enroute to the Los Angeles An-geles county fair at Pomona and The first anchors we have any record of were those of the Egyptians. They were made of stone incased in a rope network, and were called a "drag stone." The Chinese used iron and lead anchors 2000 B. C. The word anchor an-chor is of Greek origin meaning "hook" or "crooked." The Greeks used metal anchors with rope cable about 1500 B. C. Iron an-I an-I chors have been fished up from the bottom of the seas in Europe dated 600 B. C. Cast steel is now used for anchors. o Fresh from the excitement in France, our Ambassador Bill Bullitt Bul-litt is in Washington and telling the chief what he saw there, over his shoulder. embracing display of Utah-grown fruits. Already the best of all fair dog and horse shows are assured, and as usual the youth, of the state are looking forward to the state fair as the opportunity for public culmination cul-mination of a year's 4-H club and Future Farmers of America activities. activi-ties. Utah manufacturers will not be left behind in the march of state fair progress. Nor will the women of the state. Both departments are well advanced in the placing of exhibits. 1 The great agriculture building is being revamped to house the oncoming horde of exhibits. Always Al-ways the farmers's mecca, the 19 40 state fair will as ever present pre-sent a complete picture of Utah's agricultural resources and the many advances that have been made during the past year in production, pro-duction, soil conservation, and crop betterments. was induced to stop over in Salt Lake. City to present its complete program at the Utah state fair for a minor contract price. It may be stated without exaggeration exag-geration that "Flying Colors" is the foremost traveling outdoor) stage attraction operating in the United States today. Presenting at the Utah fair its entire show, it will afford Utahns an opportunity to see an attraction that heretofore hereto-fore has been booked at only the very largest of the nation's fairs and other events of like nature. More than 70 people comprise the great cast of "Flying Colors," plus a troupe of trained animals taking part in several of the spectacular portions of the long program offered. The attraction is presented on a 200-foot long stage and includes in addition to an enthralling en-thralling musical comedy eight vaudeville acts and a variety of circus features. Among the livestock exhibits there will be a special exhibit of purebred bulls, an event calculated calculat-ed to show just what Utah is doing do-ing to constantly better its dairy and beef herds. Animals from every section of the state will go on exhibition in this concerted effort ef-fort to center attention on the great advances livestock growers are making in breeding methods. Pleased with the great success attained at the 1939 state fair in the greatly augmented flower exhibits, ex-hibits, garden clubs throughout the state are combining to make the 1940 fair flower shows an outstanding exhibit feature. Or-chardists, Or-chardists, too, are concentrating on bringing to the fair this year a truly representative and all- The "torpedo" or ship worm, is not a worm but belongs to the family of mollusks. They bore into wood by the use of the filelike file-like edges of one of their shells. Tile shell remains the same size but the neck grows longer and longer as the burrow lengthens. Their food is procured by two small tubes that remain at the opening. This small mollusk has sunk more ships in the old days and sent more men to sleep beneath be-neath the waves than all the world's naval battles. o One American manufacturing company alone buys 150,000 bushels bush-els of corn a day from the farmer. |