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Show COUNTY FAIR PLANS ARRANGED Both beauty and talent from Salt Lake county communities will be honored at the Salt Lake County Fair at Murray, August 27, 28, 29, 30, and 31, E. O. Brothers, Bro-thers, president and manager, announced this week. From each Salt Lake county community, a committee from the Lions' clubs will select u young teen-aged beauty to repre-1 sent their town in the Parade of Pulchritude which initiates the j fair. Prior to the fair, representatives represen-tatives of Murray, Midvale, Bing-I ham, Magna, and Garfield, Riv-i erton, South Salt Lake, Salt Lake! City, Sugarhouse, Mill Creek and! Draper, will meet at which time j a committee under B. A. Rey- i nolds, chairman, will select the Rodeo queen. The only condition for the queen contestant is that she must be able to ride. The county beauties will lead the parade on the evening of August 27, which formally opens the fair. The queen will preside nightly on August 27, 28, 29 and 30 at the rodeo, and on August 31 at the Horse show, according to Mr. Reynolds. Contestants for the honors may enter only thru their local Lions' clubs. In addition to beauty, talent will have its place in the lair j The "Search for Talent" contest, I one of the annual features of the fair is already on. Under the chairmanship of Horace T. Godfrey, God-frey, of Union, Averyone with a flair for entertainment and who is an amateur is given a chance to compete. Age does not matter. All types of entertain-are entertain-are welcomed, including vocal and instrumental music, dancing, acrobatics, comedians, dramatists, magicians in fact anything to please an audience. Contestants must survive eliminations elim-inations in their own districts. To enter it is necessary to contact con-tact the representative in the school district in which the contestant con-testant lives. In the Murray school district, Lloyd Winn at the Murray high school, Jordan district, Emery G. Epperson, at the Jordan high school; Salt Lake City, Armont Willardsen, 316 South 4th East; and Granite district, Marvin H Strong, 3342 So. 1940 East Midvale, Bingham and Draper are in the Jordan district; Magna, Garfield, Mill Creek, Riverton and Cyprus in the Murray district; and South Salt Lake in the Granite district. More than $5,000 are being offered of-fered in awards for exhibits in the fair in many divisions including includ-ing livestock, crop exhibits, women's wo-men's fancy work, canning and preserving, elderly ladies' work, poultry, pigeons, rabbits, and all types of 4-H and FFA work and activities. There will also be two flower shows held during the five days of the fair with hundreds hund-reds of gorgeous exhibits. Those wishing to enter should secure a premium book. Admission Admis-sion to the fair and Monte Youngs midway is free Only charge is to the rodeo and horse show events ev-ents at the Fair Grounds race track. |