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Show Canyonlands Rodeo This Week Premises Big Entertainment Some of tho top cowboys in tho nation are expected to compote this weekend in tho Seventh annual Canyonlands Canyon-lands Rodeo and festival to be held Friday and Satur. day at 8 p.m. The rodeo, which is sanctioned sanc-tioned by the Rodeo Cow-Inns Cow-Inns Association, is scheiTul-od scheiTul-od to include bareback riding, die bronc and bull riding, calf roping and steer wrestling. wrestl-ing. Purse for the professional profes-sional events is $1,00 aild the entry fee is $20 per event. ev-ent. In addition to the professional pro-fessional events, there will be a special section, amateur bareback riding to allow local lo-cal cowgoys to compete. Prize money in this competition compe-tition will be $100 and tho entry fee is $10. This year, as in the past, the rodeo will be produced by D. A. (Swanny) Kerby, who holds some of the top rodeo stock in the country. Rodeo parades will kick off each night's activities with lino up at 5:30 p.m. at the City Park. The parade will begin each night at C. Entrants En-trants in t lie parade are ask-ed ask-ed to pick up numbers for judging purposes at the courthouse court-house on Friday from Don Hoffman or Retty Bowen. Following the rodeo each evening about 10 o'clock, the American Legion will bo sponsoring a rodeo dance. Music for the event is to be provided by the Sundusters and admission charge will be $1.50 per person. Rodeo admission is $3.50 for over the chute reserved, $2.50 for south end reserved, $2.00 for adult general admission; ad-mission; and $1.00, student general admission. k x' I .J . , - . ; -v.- .. i yymyi ywyy:yymm:P,.. I mm i i ym. mm -.r m i ;.-;V-l .;::..". ; ...-; : , ..-.v.- -..-,-, ; . , ;'''" C' " ' ;'.''. --''".'.'-"-' " ' ' '- ' 1 i., r, . , ' . -- . , : ,- ''-- " ,, -y N v ' -; , ':.' -. ; ,. ', ' : - -. .' . - " . ' N Rodeo royalty will reign over the Canyonlands Rodeo this weekend and in addition will help with removing stock from the arena following each cowboy's ride. Queen for this year's festivities is Deanna Bates, left, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Don Bates. First attendant, center, is Colleen Wilcox of LaSal, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Max Wiicox. Serving as second attendant is Carolyn Dalton, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Neal Dalton. |