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Show Minersville Has 'Biggest' Fourth Celebration Minersville's 1956 1 Fourth of July celebration was "the biggest big-gest in the history of our community," com-munity," according to Mayor Milton Albrecht. The town was jammed with residents and visitors vis-itors from the 6 a. m. daylight salutes to the last strains of the dance music late in the evening. More than 20 floats competed for prizes in the parade, with the Legion Auxiliary taking first place in the Patriotic division, divi-sion, and the MIA first in the Beauty division. The Blue Ribbon Rib-bon 4-H Club was second in patriotic floats, and the Primary I Ass'n took second in the beau-1 ty division. I All participating floats received re-ceived a cash award. Max Carter, marshal of the day, was assisted by Gerald Eyre and Lee Gillins. Lorna Harris was Goddess of Liberty and her attendants were Shir-leen Shir-leen Davis, Sally Myers and Danean Davis. Ralph Pearson was the principal prin-cipal speaker and gave an excellent excel-lent address at the patriotic program in the high school, following fol-lowing the parade. The kid sports, races, etc., and the Little League ball game were directed by Thur-man Thur-man Eyre and Wayne Gillins. Merle Patterson won the women's nail driving cbntset. Eight excellent horse races, a girls' horse race, and several match races filled out the afternoon, after-noon, starting at 2:30. Two gymkhana events, a pole bending bend-ing contest and whirl-stakes, added to the fun of the riders and the entertainment of the spectators. Mayor Albrecht and his committeemen com-mitteemen expressed their sincere sin-cere thanks to all who paticipat-ed paticipat-ed and helped make the Minersville Miners-ville Fourth an outstanding success. |