| Show Vernal's Big Three Day Three Three- Day Rodeo Opens at Fair Grounds Today Stage Set for Finest Rode Yet Presented in tu of Basin Riders Horses and Wild Horses Ready for the the- Show Show Cowboys lean Cowboys lean bronzed one one- one who have ridden in several rod rodeO already this summer were lolling I in shady cornets corners of or Vernal Verna Wed W-d- Wed Wed- Wednesday Wednesday relating stories of famoUS bucking horses horse and determined steers Guy Rife and his horse horse- wranglers horse I wranglers arrived Tuesday evening after trailing 91 wild horses from I th the Rife lUte ranch In Wyoming Work Work- Workmen Workmen men completed Tuesday to two neW sets of bleachers at t the fair groundS Rodeo committeemen were busy I Wednesday morning Installing ban ban- ban banners I ners and decorations on Vernal streets A 4 dozen or more trucks and trailers pulled Into town Tuesday to set up a big time circus Towns Towns- Townspeople people are wearing large Y hats lists and bright shirts and arid hand han handkerchiefs kerchiefs The stage is set fur for Utah s a premier wild west show the Vernal Rodeo which will get Wi- Wi under Wider un under der way ay ay at 1 I p m in today when Miss DUlie Billie Haslem Rodeo queen and Miss Virginia Dodds Miss Ml Vernal head the street parade parade- I which precedes the rodeo events I Vernal s popular cowgIrls co MIss Haslem and Miss Dodds who were lele elected ted at the Monday rodeo pre pre dance were visitors at the office of oe I Governor Henry H II Blood Tuesday when they extended to Utah a s chief f an Invitation to attend Vernal s celebration In their cow i cowboy cow cowboy boy regalia the girls were the ob object of much camera clicking dur- dur during during dur during ing their visit at Salt Lake City Veteran of three Vernal is Casey Davis Davi of Cheyenne who arrived Wednesday to compete for forthe forthe forthe the rich prizes With half halt a doz doz- dozen doz- doz dozen dozen en rodeos behind him this season including the Cheyenne round u round up round and the Monta Vista rodeo Davis is planning planning- to tame everything he h straddles at the Vernal show showS With I him at are Frankie and rAnd Jean Allen ot of Larkspur Cob Colo Frankle Frankie lout out of Vernal last y year ar with It a handsome cash prize tucked away in his Levi Levis s and ana has his eye on onI I some of this year years s rich prizes Jean is touted as one of the really I fine trick riders of the tha west and has appeared In several big shows this year Other famous cowboys who haV have been reaping 1 weekly rewards for for- taming fop I forI taming broncos at recent shows are Frankie Frankle and Billy BUly Kingham of Cheyenne and George Con Cou- Connell Counell nell Con nell of Dubois Dubols Wyo All the boy boys express an affection for or Vernal rodeos and Vernal crowds Jim Rhodes Dick Spencer and Dan Gardner of ot Neola Ivan Iran Bas Bas Bas- Bastian Baa tian tian of Whiterocks Charles Charlei Wash Randlett Indian Louie Loule of Duchesne D and Otis Otto Weeks And It W Colton of Vernal will be Lh the chief chiet local contenders for race race- racehorse hors horse hore priZe money Their mount lU will compete against rate first im tm imported ported horses Including the string owned by the Lewis boys of Mon Mon- Montrose Mon trose Colo Cola l Nothing has been left lett undone fly by Jack Douglass and his hia hardworking hardworking ing rodeo committee to Insure a smooth running spectacular show Commencing today the rodeo Will run toba throughout the three three days day to bg ba climaxed Saturday night by thO tb giving away may of the prize x at the dance |
