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Show Women Leaders Honored At Galena Days Social 1 . Bingham's annual Galena Days celebration has been scrapped for the duration, but the boisterous boister-ous spirit of the pioneer-inspired holiday is in no danger of extinction. ex-tinction. The junior chamber of commerce dance at the Civic Center Cen-ter Saturday night, socially and financially u humdinger, was an outstanding observance which did not interrupt regular war production work as would a two-day two-day celebration. Honored at the dance were three women of Bingham district: dis-trict: a pioneer resident, an outstanding out-standing war-service worker and a mother of four sons in the U. S. navy. These women received the gifts and compliments usually given three girls chosen for beauty beau-ty and personality to reign as Miss Galena, Princess Silver and Princess Copper. Bob Jimas, chairman of the Galena dance committee, was master of ceremonies at a program pro-gram honoring the women. In introducing Mrs. C- E. Adderley, who was born in Bingham Canyon, Can-yon, the daughter of a pioneer mining man and his wife, John and Elizabeth Hocking, and has resided continuously in this community, com-munity, Mr. Jimas said: "We must pause during our fifth annual Galena dance celebration cele-bration to pay honor to three ladies, la-dies, representing you who are working on the home front and to remember and pay tribute to those who have left. The Bing-junior Bing-junior chamber of commerce is making plans to hold, when the war is over, the biggest of all Galena Day celebrations. Thus we can welcome back the men of Bingham whp have been fighting fight-ing for their country. "This year the dance will take the place of the -two-day celebration. celebra-tion. Galena Days was first started to honor the oldtimers of this mining camp and that still is the primary objective. For the present we have decided to do away with the selecting of the Galena queen and in her place to honor three ladies, one representing repre-senting the' oldtimers, one representing repre-senting the home war front and one signifying motherhood and its contribution to the war effort. "In giving our pioneer resident award to Mrs. C.E. Adderley, we remember her and her family's years of work in the building of Bingham Canyon. Our thanks go to her and in her honor I would like to read a Galena day poem written by one of our own members, mem-bers, Mr. Dale Johnston: (Continued on page eight) O |