Show marine arine crops league doings A color guard of former marines assisted sst ed with the lower ng of the fis hag ag a at t T thoele tooele ele ordnance depot on Wednes wednesday dr and thursday june 25 and 26 the color guard was corn com posed of members of the marine corps league in tooele thoele who were at TOD drill ng for the centennial parade when guard john copley mentioned the fact that he was wa short handed for the flag lowering the boys formed a color guard of two ranks and assisted in the cere mony F remen on duty at the time were treated to an unexpected display of close order drill as the members of the detachment were put through their paces disregarding wind gnats mosquitoes dust and the cajoles of the bystanders after the gruelling gruenling gru elling practice se s ons that lasted until after dark the footsore ex byrenes went their separate ways but were amply y rewarded saturday when it was an bounced they had been awarded first place in the marching group after the parade saturday mr and mrs jack cummings and mr and mrs dick andrus attended the canyon party sponsored by the salt lake detachment of the lea gue the affair was held at george washington memorial grove in parleys canyon mr cummings is junior vice commandant of the lo 10 cal post while mrs andrus holds the position of sergeant at aw word has been received by the commandant that a 50 man dr I 1 team and band from the san diego marine base will be present at th the salt lake centennial celebration the marines will take part in many civic affairs give c conceits and make their regular weekly broadcast over one of the salt lake radio stations they will enter a 37 man drill team in the centen mal nial parade on july this vil be the highlight of their entire trip as the group has been a ly trained for the march the american legion has ex tended an invitation to the mar n corps league to enter their drill team in the parade at the leg on state convention in salt lake city in august merlin jones recently returned from the state agricultural coll college ge has departed for camp pendelton Pen deltan california for two weeks tr training aaning with the united states manre corps reserve mr jones was a lieutenant in the corps during the war in case anyone failed to rec cognize him the color bearer for I 1 the marine corps league in th parade was mr jay B hansan a marine of world war I 1 |