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Show Cotton Time Celeb ration Set May 9-14 Cotton Time is being celebrated May 9-14, marking the 25th annual observance of National Cotton Week. In addition to saluting America's foremost fiber, which accounts for 69 per cent of all textiles made in the United States, Cotton Week spotlights the 1955 crop of cottons for the home and for the whole family. Scores of cities are staging com- i munitywide Cotton Week celebra- tions, and thousands of stores are participating in the event, accord- ' ing to the National Cotton Council, ' sponsor of the observance. ' Officially opened with special j exercises at Cotton Exchanges in many cities at the opening of trading trad-ing on Monday, May 9th, National Cotton Week pays tribute to the country's biggest cash crop . and leading textile product. By overwhelming margins, American Amer-ican consumers have voted cotton their favorite fiber for apparel and ; ..si'' tutlus (me to 1 K ( J per, a menu of a restaurant with pome rather unusual kinds of food, and a copy of the ship's welcome to visitors. Kerril Sue Rollins, of Miss Taylor's class has been sick and has been out of school for two or three weeks. She has the flu. Que to such fast wind Tuesday, Tues-day, two of Mr. Fisher's class windows were broken. Mr. Fisher was absent Tuesday, Tues-day, April 26th, because of illness ill-ness is the family. Mrs. Bown took his place. Allen Mahoney and Robert Merrywcather were . in Salt Lake over the week end. Scout Camping Trip The Milford Second Ward Scouts went on a camping trip to Ranch Canyon April 22nd, at 5 o'clock. There were 14 boys and one assistant scoutmaster. The boys were as follows: Eddie Patterson, Dean Thomas, iJobby Allen, D;ivid Uffens, Cullcn Goodwin, Larane Hardy, Kojjer Myers, Mike Fisher, Larry Lof ihousc, Skipper Bris-co, Bris-co, Dion Lear, Billy Martin, Freddie Sticnfcls, Rodney Og-den, Og-den, and Pete Martin, the assistant assist-ant scoutmaster. There was only one short spell of bad weather. which lasted about 5 minutes. On a hike we saw four dead bobcats bob-cats and 3 dead porcupines. Lofthouse and Mrs. Virginia Gillins. Mrs. Cuma Goodwin j vas our guest. i We rode up in Mrs. Loft-house's Loft-house's truck, and she drove it. iVhen we arrived we split into two groups. One group went exploring and found caves. The other found a skeleton of a deer. The flesh had all rotted I away and only its white bones ; were left. i After we all worked up quite i an appetite we walked back and the teachers had a good fire I going. We then roasted wieners and marshmallows, then ate potato salad, cookies, and drank pop. It was a very good lunch. While we were roasting wieners, wien-ers, Trena and Barbara had . theirs on their sticks and had a wiener fight. We had a picture taken of the I achers and some of the girls. Some of the girls started to walk back, and told Mrs. Loft-, house to pick them up win n ' he came. They were surprised when she honked the. Jiorn and kept on going. The girls fin-illy fin-illy caught up. We rode home singing Glory, , Glory, Alalone. We went down Main street singing and saying hello and waving to everybody we saw. They all waved back and stared. That was the end of a perfect per-fect High-Path Day. t for household textiles, according to recent government surveys. Chemical finishes which impart wrinkle resistance and other special spe-cial properties have made cotton more versatile than ever before. With high-style designers of America, France, Italy and England, Eng-land, cotton today is a fashion favorite fa-vorite for all seasons and all occasions. occa-sions. Interior decorators also have made cotton a favorite for carpets, curtains, bedspreads, upholstery and many other household products styled for contemporary living. Yet with all its prestige as a fa hion fiber, cotton remains as naturally fresh, comfortable, washable wash-able and practical as ever. Consumption of cotton tn the postwar, era has been running about three million bales ahead of the six-million bale annual consumption con-sumption of the J9.":0's, and the industry in-dustry is healthier and more vigorous vigor-ous than at any other time in history. High-Path Day for Seagulls 'Ihe Second Warn Seagulls had their High-Path Day on April 25th. ValRae Chamberlain, Chamber-lain, Sherrie Lish, Barbara Jones, Rosemary Busico, Margaret Mar-garet Ann Whittakcr, Zola Hul-l.ngshead, Hul-l.ngshead, T r e n a Gronnmg, Diane Wilcock, Diane Clements, Nell Puffer and Judy lloiton were all the girls on the trip. The teachers were Mrs. F.lva |