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Show and moustaches for the festival. Ogden, meanwhile, had concentrated concen-trated on the selection of a high school beauty to reign over its celebration of pioneer days. The city invited high schools throughout through-out Utah, southern Idaho, Wyoming Wyom-ing and northern Nevada to contribute con-tribute contestants. Members of the committee in charge of arrangements ar-rangements said that horsemanship horseman-ship will constitute 50 percent of the requirements with scholastic standing, personality and other, points listed as secondary. SEVERAL CITIES MAKE PLANS 1 FOR FESTIVALS America has moved further to- I ward general post-war gaiety this week following Cleveland's coronation coro-nation of its Sesquicentennial Queen and San Antonio's announc- . ed plans for a colorful water car- nival in conjunction with its Fies- ta de San Jacinto from Apr. 22 i to 27. An acquatic carnival, "Rhapsody "Rhapso-dy in Swimtme," will be featured in the festival of the Texas city, and the planning committee announced an-nounced it will stage a parade of decorated floats on the San Antonio An-tonio river as a special night attraction. at-traction. In the West smaller communities communi-ties were attempting to equal the larger cities in providing colorful festive events as Panguitch, Utah, ! revived its celebration of the 49'ers, Ogden advanced plans for the Ogden Pioneer celebration, and Central City, Colo.,. made initial ini-tial preparations for its "Ghost" Town, or Central City Festival. The Colorado festival is to take the form of a memorial to the two mile-high ghost town which was once known as "the richest square mile on earth. The festival is scheduled to open July 6 and will last three weeks. Scenes depicting the day of the western mining booms will be reproduced re-produced for the occasion when patrons of the affair appear in the dress typical of the era. A special operatic program is being planned for the festival. In Panguitch, costumes depicting depict-ing the styles common to the West of 1849 were also virually declared declar-ed a "must" for the occasion and the community reported many of its men growing special beards |