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Show Fourth of July Celebration Proves Successful Hobble Creek Riding club members mem-bers settled down to regular schedule sche-dule this week following many weeks of preparation for what was termed a highly successful and entertaining Fourth of July celebration in this city. From the day-break salute to the close of the final rodeo performance per-formance Monday evening, there was some form of entertainment for old and young. the greyest beard, which appeared I even greyer with his dark hair. To Carl Boyer went honors for the reddest beard, while A. L. Thorpe came in for the scroniest honors. The trimmist beard, exhibited by Paul Best, was a picture and represented rep-resented in our opinion, many hours of training and labor in trimming. The judges gave him a prize for his efforts. To R. H. Burwick went the prize offered for the roughest beard and to R. L. Diamond was given the award offered to the person per-son growing the blackest whiskers. The contest proved successful from an entertainment and advertising ad-vertising point of view and attracted at-tracted a large number of participants. parti-cipants. During the afternoon the children child-ren were entertained with races, games and various contests. There was also an extemporaneous baby show and an exhibition of pets, dolls, etc. on the park. all of whom were loud in their praise of work done by the club to convert wasteland into a place of western entertainment. Lucky Anderson, top performer in the amatuer rodeo, was presented presen-ted the coveted silver buckle by the club, in recognition of his superior performance. One of the most amusing and fun-provoking phases of the entertainment en-tertainment was the beard growing grow-ing contest, judged at the city park immediately following the public program. Taking the roll of judge in the contest was Springville's 1949 queen candidate in the person of Miss Marie Dean Bybee. Assisting her were H. M. Weight and Victor Vic-tor Frandsen. Equipped with a 3-foot ruler, shears, scales and other parafan-alia. parafan-alia. Judge Frandsen made close inspection of every entry with the following results: To Fred Averett and Tom Wheeler went the prize for the best matched beards. These sported spor-ted the popular holiday colors of red, white and blue in a dying job which might be the envy of today's to-day's younger set. Will Palfreyman was cited for The parade, witnesseu uy -..c the largest crowds seen here in some time, brought forth much fine favorable comment. Fffst prize for parade entries went to Haymond Drug Store, which portrayed por-trayed the theme progress from pioneer days to the present. Fnel s took second place for the exceptionally excep-tionally fine entry and the third place went to Snelson's. Most of the major business concerns con-cerns were represented by some form of entry in the parade and there were a number' of floats entered from Provo. Of special interest were the real Jemini Indians torought by the Central Utah Motor Co. for the parade. The Rodeo performance also attracted at-tracted it's share of spectators. |