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Show BAND TOURNEY PARLEYCALLED PRICE Whether this city -will continue to sponsor its nationally famous band contest and music festival fes-tival will be determined on Tuesday. Tues-day. November 9. at a meeting of representatives of civic clubs, business busi-ness establishments and taxing units. Secretary Arthur E. Gibson of the Price chamber of commerce aaid Thursday. The meeting was called by the chamber at the request of Mayor J Bracken Lee, who raised a question ques-tion as to whether the enterprise justified the large expenditure re-quird re-quird properly to promote it. Mayor Les called attention to the fact the city alone spent M00O in helping to frnance the 1937 tournament and that a substantial sum was obtained from other sources. The band contest was inaugurated In 1931 and has been held every year since. It' annually attracts thousands of visitors and draws participants par-ticipants from Utah. Colorado, Idaho. Wyoming and Nevada schools. As high as SO schools from intermountain states have participated par-ticipated in one year, and the event has won recognition as one of the largest and most successful of its kind in the nation. In the last few years It hss re-reived re-reived official recognition as a re-' re-' f.onaT' competition of the national contest and awards were presented to the best entries by the National Association for the Advancement of Music |