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Show Peach Day Parade Attracts Record Brigliam City Throng BRICHAM CITY-Off iciafly opened it 9 30 a. m. Friday with a bind concert, the 1837 Brigham City Peach Day celebration offered a thrilling spectacle to crowds expected-to reach 30,000 before night- 1 fall. The program will conclude Saturday night, 1 Peewits that narked tha Una offlT-' 1 inarch tingled with excitement as the colorful two-mile parade, headed by Mlaa Ellen Thompson. Peach day . Queen, and her attendants. Miaa Norma Facer and Miss Beryl Hansen, Han-sen, passed by. The queen and her attandanta were selected from M Box Elder county girls by Dick Powell, motion picture star. Their identity waa revealed re-vealed Thursday night during festivities fes-tivities at the Bluebird dance hall. Distribution of 1000 bushela of Tlden rip peaches and 20 tone of watermelon and cantaloupes be-- be-- n at 1 p. m, a a special feature of the festivities. A rodeo waa ached-ikd ached-ikd for 1p.m. and rapid moving "reatllng and boxing carda and ' mclng will be conducted la the evening. v Thirty-five multicolored floats were alternated with band from surrounding eommunttiea and towns Represented by bands were Box Elder Junior and ssnior high i schools, high schools at Beaver, Preston and South Pacha, Ogden city recreation band. The Bait Lake Tribune-Telegram youth activities band, the Bona of tha American Legion Le-gion band and drp corps from Ogden, Og-den, the Ogden Standard-Examiner ; drum eorpa and. the Union Pacific band from Ogden. Enthusiasm of tha fiesta waa ex-peeled ex-peeled la reach new heights Saturday Satur-day a the second day program opens. Free fruit will again be distributed dis-tributed to spectators commencing f at 1 p. m. by member of the Brig- t ham City post. American legion. ; The elaborate exhibition of agrl- cultural product on Main and For- eat street drew a big crowd. Mid-T Mid-T way attraction, a flower show at M VV't Forest street, arranged by ( Mrs. R. N. Price, president of the I Box Elder U D. 8. Relief society. and tha 4-H club exhibits, prepared I by Lester Nelson and Edward Ward, proved a strong magnet for I the Interest of thousand. J I i Is tfr, - , ( e f r MISS CLLEN THOMPSON She' feach Day Queen |