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Show Hifflnricane f each Day Begins Friday, 24th i Two Day Program to Include Rodeos, Fruit Feasts, Fights, Etc. A -A Good Brahma Stock To Be Used In Rodeo; Three Dances Scheduled HURRICANE, Utah With a 50-piece band from Cedar City leading the W'ay, the opening horsemen's parade of Hurricane's Fifth Annual Peach Day and Rodeo Ro-deo will officially get underway on Friday, August 24, according to Homer Englestead, general chairman. chair-man. The two-day program will include in-clude two big rodeos, fruit feasts, fight cards each night followed by dances. Featured in the first day's parade pa-rade will be the Rodeo Queen and her two attendants. Miss Leila Barber won the contest as Rodeo Queen, with Miss Aleen Allen of Leeds and Mrs. Dorothy McLeod of Rockville being her attendants. Others featured in the parade will be Miss Alice Gayle Baker of Cedar Ce-dar City, who won second place honors in the state bond contest, and Eb Davis, professional roper from Las Vegas. "Each year," declares' Homer Englestead, "the American Legion has been able to put on a bigger and better show. This year we fully expect this to be the best one that the Legion has ever presented. We have lined up some real Brahma Brah-ma calves and bulls that will provide pro-vide plenty of excitement for both the contestants and the spectators. Several of the professional cowboys cow-boys have asked to be permitted to take part in the show. We have agreed to let them, but they will be penalized five seconds so that the amateurs will have a chance to win, too." The entertainment and fights committee, with'Delon Bradshaw as general chairman, has a live committee in back of him. He has been lining up the best fighters available. "One thing sure," declares de-clares Mr. Bradshaw, "the boys will be in there swinging for all they're worth, all of the time." Although the frost got most of the fruit this season, the committee commit-tee in charge say they are making every effort to provide plenty of fruit for the feast which follows the rodeo each day. As an added feature at the rodeo a real Mexican bull fighter has been lined up to present a regular bull fight, as they do in Old Mexico. The people of Southern Utah, parts of Nevada and Arizona, are invited to come out to this two-day two-day event, Friday and Saturday, August 24 and 25, states Chairman Englestead. He declares there will be something doing each afternoon and night starting with the parade followed by the rodeos, fruit feasts, fight cards and big public dance each night on the American Legion open air pavilion. |