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Show Colorful Dixie Round-Up Draws 2500 To Saturday Night's Program Crowds Line Streets To Mew Parades, Then Cheer Rodeo Contestants The three-day colorful Dixie Round-Up came to a successful conclusion Saturday night with the final dance of the event at the Recreation hall. The largest crowds to attend a Rodeo in St. George turned out each night with the final night topping them all with an estimated 2,500 in the stands. Crowds lined the streets to view the various parades, then turned up at the Rodeo grounds to cheer the contestants and closed each day's program with attending the big dances held each night. A large delegation came in from Las Vegas with many staying stay-ing the three nights and assisting with the various events. The Gilbert Gil-bert sound system was furnished through the courtesy of the Apache hotel, Cafe, Cocktail Lounge and the Western Casino. The Lions expressed their appreciation appreci-ation for the fine support that Las Vegas gave them. Many attended from other towns (Continued on page five) Round-Up Ends (Continued from first page) with groups being here from Pan-guitch, Pan-guitch, Kanab, Hurricane and Cedar City. The Hurricane group had a fine delegation in the Rodeo parade and assisted in every way possible. Amateur Rodeo Winners Only the amateur awards were kept by the local board from the Rodeo events. These were reported report-ed by Val McArthur as follows: Bareback riding, Earl May, Las Vegas, first; Gray Wilkin, St. George, and Bill Smirl, Kanab, tied for second. Calf roping; Ted May Las Vegas, first; Eb Davis, Las Vegas, second; Reed Mathis and Walter Shelley, St. George, tied for third. Team tying, Lee Hafen and Max Hafen, St. George, first; James R. Bunker, Veyo, and John E. Bracken, Brack-en, Central, second, and Mason Meeks and Herman Swapp of Kanab, third. First Day Parade Winners Awards were made to the following fol-lowing for winning in the first day's parade: The Soil Conservation float from the Leeds CCC camp won first place; Lady Lions, St. George, second; and the Paiute Indian dancers from the Paiute reservation, reserva-tion, Santa Clara, third. . Junior Parade Mrs. Duke Sutton reports the committee found it so difficult to judge between these many fine entries that provision was made for t more prizes than had first been scheduled. As chairman of this Junior Parade, she expresses appreciation for the fine cooperation cooper-ation given and to every entrant who helped to make this day's parade so completely gratfying. It is impossible to list every entrant en-trant but every one was especially attractive and expressive. The group entries awards gave Dixie Future Farmers first place, sponsored by Ashby-McQuaid, the group included LaMar and Nancy Sue McQuaid, Bobby Ashby, John Michael Hafen, Billie Allen and Rose Mary Andrus. Second place went to Dixie Sunshine Sun-shine group, three very pretty, very expressively dressed Dixie dolls and as golden as Dixie sunshine. sun-shine. Crane Simmons took first place in the singles, the theme being, "Training for Peace"; Linda Lou Crosby came second as the Gypsy, and first place for couples went to the two children of Mr. and Mrs. Hy Thomas, dressed as Raggedy Rag-gedy Ann and Raggedy Andy. Second Sec-ond in couples went to the little Hawaiians. The judges were hard pressed in making these decisions. In the Saturday night Beauty Parade, the Dixie junior college scored first, featuring Miss Corris Cram; the Liberty hotel second, with Mrs. Caroline Bentley Han-nig; Han-nig; and the Woodward high school, third, with Miss Lorna Fordham. |