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Show DIXIE COLLEGE The F. F. A. band, c'omposed of seventy F. F. A. students, will broadcast over KSL, Saturday, October 2.J-J from 11 o'clock till 11:30 a.m. Howard Schmutz, Stanley Schmutz, and Carlos Schmutz, are Dixie's representatives representa-tives in this band. The band will be met at 7:15 a.m., at the Union Pacific depot, de-pot, by the Agricultural teaoh-! teaoh-! ers, iivj have breakfast at the ! Thuj! Square Hotel, at 7:30 i wi". :h.-m V i r:,.:ie!L,! :,e ! il.c C. HI at the Gait Lake . Tabernacle, from 9:00 until 9:30 a.m. Six thousand teachers will be present. pre-sent. The sophomores took - first place in the Founders Day activities, ac-tivities, Friday, October 19. They carried the scholar motive, with caps and specks, a banner representing re-presenting a diploma, and a table representing the "D". The color scheme was white and blue, the school colors. These colors are reserved each year for the soph-om'ores. soph-om'ores. The second years took second place, and the freshmen took third place. The weather was excellent; the students were in high spirits; and the day rolled along like a well-oiled machine. . The teachers are leaving Wednesday Wed-nesday or Thursday for Salt Lake City, to attend the U. E. A. institute in-stitute to be held there, this week-end. The Tennis club, sponsored by Mr. Paxman, has 'organized. Max-ine Max-ine Hafen was chosen president, and Ina Miles was made secretary. secre-tary. This club meets every Monday at ten o'clock. A fee of fifty cents is charged to any student who wants to play tennis, ten-nis, although students may attend at-tend Monday meetings without paying the club fee. A baseball game was played Tuesday afternoon at the park, between Dixie high and Moapa I Valley high. The score was 16 1 to 0 in favor of Dixie. The championship game in the , iuterclass series was played at ' 4 : 3 'J Wednesday afternoon, between be-tween the sophomores and the fourth years. The score stood 3 to 2 in the Sophomores favor. The dance held Wednesday night at the gym was a Scotch-hop, Scotch-hop, given for the yearbook fund. These dances will be held at intervals in-tervals during the winter. The j ! admission is ten cents for the I ladies, and fifteen cents for the gents. A regular student-body dance will be held Friday night, at the gym. j Ihe assembly Tuesday, was given by students from the northern north-ern and eastern part of the state, including Kaiie, Millard, and Garfield Gar-field counties. The following numbers were presented: introduction of students, Dean Boyack, Delta; a quartet, Harold Mace, Kanab, Mack Hoyt, Or-derville, Or-derville, Keith Ross, and Merlin Christensen, ;. Delta; a diologue, Edith Lang, 'Salt Lake City, and Lucile Stone, Panguitch; a duet, Merlin Christensen, and Keith Ross, Delta; ,'a horn solo (a burlesque), bur-lesque), Deli Chamberlin, Order-ville; Order-ville; a reading. Edna Rogers, Logan; a trumpet trio, Merlin Christensen, .Virgil Stucki, Delta, and Ivan .Hyatt, Parowan; a reading, M a' r g a ret Carpenter, Glendale; a tap dance, Iva Don Shumway, Kanab; a reading. Dean Boyack, Delta. Merlin Christensen announced the numbers. The assembly Tuesday, October Octo-ber 3 0, will ue a Hallowee'n program, pro-gram, given by the student body. A cross-section block of a long-leaf long-leaf pine tree, cut from - a tree 385 years of age, was added to the biology department, during the school term of 1933. It was contributed by Benjamin Swapp, of the National Reforestation Service. It has been set upon a specially constructed stand, and placed near the terrarium. Its surface has been varnished, and two measuring lines one line to mark off the diameter, and one to mark the radius liave been drawn across it. Below the line of diameter, the botony roll call of each year, since the log has become a part of the department, is placed; each name is- written by the stud-tni stud-tni himself, when lis hai completed com-pleted the course,' to preserve a : com- f his handwriting. ". -: S-IunniAs.ioiig the radial ra-dial markings of. the log.' is a list- of historical events, placed on the tree at the annual ring which denotes the age and size of the tree at the time the par-ticu'ar par-ticu'ar event took place. Iliis tree was 'One of many that began to grow in 15 4 5, at ! the mouth of the . Sevier River Garfield county, at an elevation ! of S.200 feet. It withstood many ' attacks by insects; Scores of its ; brothers fell in huge forest fires 1 which occurred at various periods. per-iods. But the tree stood courageously, cour-ageously, until 1930, when it fell, along with many other monarchy, mon-archy, during the first days of the depression. Its height at that time was 110 feet, and its total volume was 4.500 board feet. Gome of the important histcr-ical histcr-ical events that passed during its lifetime were: the settling of Jamestown, the Declaration of Independence, and the admission of L'tah into the Union. |