Show i LW The Th Bicentennial celebration celebrationis is coasting downhill now that the finale of the July Fourth activities ar arts ard over over We can truthfully say the two day celebration was one of the best we have seen yet in Vernal The religious Service and the fireworks display Sunday were excellent The breakfast Monday had a continuous continuous' line The sky divers landed right on Main Street the he aircraft flyover fly Cly flyover over Was impressive and the parade started on lime time The one hour parade represented many hours of work an and rightly so this being the birthday celebration of our great nation The floats were elegant and the parade moved with dispatch but there was as one thing missing Where Where- was our or high school marching band A parade is not a parade without a band This problem is not new it has been experienced at other events when there has been a aneed aneed aneed need for a marching band The Vernal Junior High School band carried th the ball for a few years and provided their band for summer summer activities but this year even they are disorganized Why Cant Can't Vernal keep music instructors in the junior and senior high schools who will conduct a marching band program including summer months months' a activities s. s It seems seems to us tl that ai our young people are lre missing something by not participating in or witnessing witnessing witnessing wit wit- a good snappy snappy marching marching marching mar mar- ching band Lets Let's insist our school s hool program program provide this r musical 1 activity ty for our students as as as' well as for the enjoyment of the c community mm TT S Some m parade comments heard Monday were were I wish I h had d brought a a ch chair ir Our floats float's going to be a a winner Wh Where re are those snow on s coming from Throw y s same some me candy this way way Ive seena seena een a bigger truck than that k Say ISay this is great and iUs It It s awful hot ho tI J s ho share share these with you pert perhaps ps yoUcan tl find a Amoral a amoral tf moral there somewhere J All last week we heard rumors of an Indian uprising during the Fourth of of July weekend We were were told all kinds frightening stories of what was going to happen and of various Indian tribes gathering in the area In checking out the stories with law w enforcement authorities no one seemed to know much about the rumors and had no knowledge of any serious problems As far as we know nothing happened over th the Fourth of July to indicate any of the rumors tumors were true We are glad and wish someway these rumors could be stopped before they become accepted by many manyas as the truth and much damage is done to those about whom the rumors are spread Most of the Bicentennial projects using special funding from the state and national funds in Uintah County are well under way way- or are finished These worthy projects will be a monument of the Bicentennial for many years Those that come to mind include touching up up- the World War Watt I Doughboy statue publishing a new history book of the area by the local Daughters of the Utah Pioneers making the Thornburg trail over the mountain by the Boy Scouts building a public pavillion pavillion- skating rink at the County City ball park complex placing afountain a afountain afountain fountain at the Remember the Maine park building an Avalon community center and making a Presidents President's wives doll coll collection for display in the library Other projects include a film of the history of the Uintah Basin and its prospects for the future We hope there are enough months left and that the enthusiasm enthusiasm en en- th for lor the celebration lasts long j enough to complete all these worth-while worth projects Good luck Enjoying a special Bicentennial Bicentennial tennial birthday were Uintah County's two newest USA citizens citizen A boy was born at Uintah County Hospital to Ralden and lind Viola Dansie at pm p.m. on July and a girl joined him at pm p.m. daughter of Steve L L. L end and and Sandra Schurz Congratulations Congratulation What a great day to be born on oni I |