Salt Lake Telegram | 1939-06-24 | Page 16 | Robbers' Roost Round-up Salute Tells Interesting Facts about City of Price

Robbers' Roost Round-up Salute Tells Interesting-FactsAboutMity-otriee ' '.''.''' :.::v.ifc,A - ' V iLJzn .- ' The Robbers' Roost round-up. a celebration that would make the famous outlaws who once hid out near Price. UUh, forget their bank robbing, was givsn a boost In a Tribune-Telegram radio program Friday night The program was held as one of the "Know Your IntermountaJn West" series. It was broadcast over station KSL and featured talks by leading cltixens of Pries and a radio quia contest on the intermountain west The round-up. which will be held In Price for three days, July, . 7 and (, received Its name from the notorious outlaws. "Butch" Cassidy, Blue John," "Silver Tip." and others, who hid out In Robbers' Roost, territory near Price, between bandit raids. Program Given Donald Hacking, chairman of the round-up, said In his radio invitation, invita-tion, the show will Include horse racing, a rodeo, parades, a carnival, a cowgirl queen contest and othsr events. History and resources of the city also wsre discussed in the program by J. Bracken Lee, mayor of Price. "Price differs from the average conception of coal mining camps. Just as cheerfulness and cleanliness differ from sordidness and dirt," said the mayor. "Price is a bright city a wideawake, wide-awake, vibrant city. It has fine homes and public buildings, excellent excel-lent recreational facilities, a fine asphalt street system carefully maintained and admirably lighted." Plenty of Coal "Indeed, the only similarity Price and Carbon county bear to a coal mining county Is coal; and as the world knows, we've got plenty of that, enough to supply the whole world for a long, long time," be said. In ths Intermountain quls contest con-test Dorothy Reeves won first place; Jean Gunderson, second, and Marian Clay, third. Other contestants contest-ants were Douglas Ward and Jerry Olson. The questions were planned to give the radio audience information informa-tion about scenic and historical facts of Carbon county. SHE DRAWS WINNING QUESTION FROM HAT Donald Hacking, chairman of Robbers' Roost Round-up, holds hli hat for Jean Gunderson, who draws a winning; question during Tribune-Telegram radio salute to Price.