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Show Know About Your Lehi Roundup Financing A Rodeo The problem of having enough inmoney to pay the many bills Lehi on the curred In putting Roundup has always been one of grave concern to the local committee. Thus far, with a carefully followed financial budget and practical business methods, the local men have been able to meet their obligations. This is not true of some other rodeo sponsors, who have thought all you had to do was put a horse, calf or bull In the chute and turn him loose. We suspect they learned the ropes rather painfully. It does cost money to sponsor a rodeo, particularly a rodeo as well established as the Lehi Roundup. First, there's the mat-- j ter of a producer. Some require a guarantee of specific sums. In the year 1947, Lehi guaranteed the producer $10,000. We lost $2200. Other producers receive a smaller guarantee plus a share of the gate. Still others are on a split of the gate 55 per cent, with 45 per cent for the local association. The Lehi Roundup is on a split arrangement, whereby the producer takes his half after all taxes, and he provides all stock, specialty numbers, cowboy judges, chute help, feed, and any other expenses concerned with the actual staging of the show. The local committee pays for all advertising, furnishes the prize money (In the Lehi Roundup this is $3500, set by the R. C. A.), pays parade prizes, queen expenses, contributions to community projects, expenses of tickets, etc. Let us take a typical past year as an example. The gross take of the four nights, with two bad cold nights to keep the crowd away, is about $12,000. Federal tax is the first expense to come out, amounting to about $2200. This leaves around $10,000 to be split. The committee gets $5000 of this, which, with $3500 deducted for the purse, leaves $1500. Advertising and newspaper space in special editions takes about $1000, leaving $500. Parade prizes and queen contests, etc., amounts to about $800, which leaves a deficit of $300. The deficit is made up from the sinking fund accumulated in the flush years. Added to the past year's deficit are the cost of improvements made at the rodeo grounds amounting to $600 in paint and materials. The local committee would appreciate suggestions on how the financial picture could be improved in view of bad weather and other factors which cut down the take. The mmittee has felt for several years that if the celebration paid its way it was worth continuing, in light of community prestige and the cooperation of working together for a common cause. However, under present conditions with the competition of TV and cold weather, it is not a gold mine. If it is alone money-makin- g what amateur show would draw crowds even on a warm, comfortable night to gross $20,000. No, there is not the money in rodeo that many experts and financial wizards think there is. Only by resisting efforts to dissipate the sinking funds have the Lehi Roundup Board been able to keep going during the past few years. We hope we can be in the rodeo business for another 14 years. We can with your support. self-appoint- ed Tom Mulliner Featured in State Fish find Game Magazine EDITOR'S NOTE The following account of the colorful activitwell Mulliner, ies of Thomas time and long known Lehi native resident of Fairfield, is through the courtesy of the State Fish and Game magazine. The story is the report of an actual interview with Mr. Mulliner now living in Tooele, and was featured in the magazine's "Old Timer" ed series. Glen Parker Serving in Korea X Corps, Korea Army Pfc. Glen L. Parker, son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Parker, Lehi, Utah, recently joined X Corps in Korea. The corps, one of three in the Eighth Army, coordinates an Ine tensive training proUN for units under its con gram post-truc- trol Parker, a lineman with 4th Signal Battalion headquarters, en tered the Army in November, 1952, and was stationed at Fort Ord, California, before transfer ring overseas. He was a lineman in civilian life for the Union Pacific Railroad, Portland, Ore. RUSSOXS VACATION IX CALIFORNIA Home after an enjoyable vacation trip to California are Mr. and Mrs. Rulon Russon, who were accompanied by their sons, Glade, 18, and Kent, 11. Going by way of Las Vegas, Nevada, and the Boulder Dam, they visited in Los Angeles, California, at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Duane Clark. Mr. Clark, well known former resident, Is a son of Stanley Clark. They enjoyed a trip into Tia Juana, Old Mexico, and to San Diego, where they saw the many navy craft in . . (Continued from lat week) It was necessary for me to travel at night so I could go by unnoticed. About this time my father took the mail contract from Stockton to Utah's western desert areas and to Nevada. We delivered the mail three times a week to the western towns. After the railroad came into that section, mail was delivered only twice a week. I also had the experience of driving the stage from Stockton to Ibapah. We really went fast too averaged ten miles an hour. Nothing exciting or unusual happened during the time I was driving the stage. I never worked inside very much. After I quit driving the stage I worked on ranches and herded sheep." This Old Timer did not like to talk about the ugly things which had happened. He enjoyed disthe good and noble cussing characters he had met, and he referred many times to the men and women who grew up with him as being good people. So often did he refer to the fine qualities possessed by his contemporaries that I finally began to realize why the look of kindness and sweetness came from his expressive face. Evidently he had only the good the harbor. Knott's Berry Farm qualities in people. This quality and the Los Angeles Temple were had it effect on the looks and ex among the points of interest visited. Notes were kept to enable the boys to report on their Expert pression of this Old Timer. He commands the respect of all his fellow men. He is fond of children and they likewise are fond of him. Almost any day of the week will see him talking to some child on one of the streets in Tooele. A look of sympathy comes on the faces of the children when Old Timer explains to them that he let his whiskers grow long because several years ago during a hard winter his entire face was frozen, and since that time it has been necessary for him to go unshaven. Queried about having any hobbies, he said, "Yes, I have a hobby horses have been my hobby all my life. I have always been very fond of horses, even though several times they caused me to almost lose my life. In fact, the reason I had to retire four years ago from my ranching enterprise in Western Utah was because of a horse kicking my arm and disabling it to the extent that it has never fully recovered. I think horses are next to humans. One time I remember I was chasing a band of wild horses, and the fine saddler I was riding fell into a badger hole and threw me off. I was badly injured and lay un conscious for a long time. When I came to I could see by my sur roundings what had happened. I could hardly move because of a back injury I had sustained. Imagine being way out in the desert miles and miles from any human habitation without food and water and having no means of transportation. As I lay there on the soft desert sand wondering what I was going to do, I saw my saddle horse some distance away. He was slowly coming back to me. This fine horse walked right up to me and looked down as if he knew I had been hurt. I took hold of the stirrup and pulled myself to my feet and then guided him over to the edge of the wash, and once he was in the wash I was able to slide from the bank into the saddle. Can you blame me for liking horses?" Another of his hobbies is history. He owns most of the history books published about the various Utah counties. Those he does not already possess he is attempting to get possession of. Many of the Old Timers recorded in these history books were well known by Tom $ uVft! tfKi JrA yLX HOSPITALIZED FOR LEO INFECTION Henry Havilla, 15, is receiving treatment for Infection in the right leg, at the Lehi hospital. The infection resulted from a ruptured blood vessel. The injury took place in a gyro class at Lehi high school where Henry is a member of the 'Ninth Grade. The boy is in the care of Mr. and Mrs. Harmon Vance with whom he makes his home. 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Earl Smith enjoyed the company of a cousin, Mrs. Willard Neeley of Salt Lake that O Adjust Steering O Adjust Brakes Mrs. Arvilla Clark Jones Smith, Employment Office In New Location 49, of Draper, died in a Salt Lake City hospital Wednesday, April 28, following a lingering illness. A native of Lehi, Mrs. Smith was born December 15, 1905, a daughter of David and Sevilla Clark Jones. She was a member of the It was also announced that D. LDS church. E. Allen of American Fork, who She was married to Wilson J. recently joined the State Employment Service has been assigned to Smith, Jan. 24, 1924, in Provo. Survivors include her husband; work in the area, as farm placethree daughters and a son. Susan, ment specialist, to assist in handDraper: Richard W. Smith, Las ling the increased service provided Vegas, Nevada; Mrs. Don (Eliza-zet- h the farmers and agricultural workand ers. He will join Mr. A. L. Seely Riverton, Andreason, Crews, of Provo, who has operated the Mrs. Earl (Frances) Murray; her mother, Lehi, five local office for the past three grandchildren, and the following years. brothers and sisters: Mrs. Emily Brown. Idaho Falls, Idaho; Mrs. cemeOra Wright, Bountiful; Mrs. Edith took place in the Midvale those attending the Brown, American Fork; Mrs. tery. Among Mrs. J. C were and Mr. services Barta Has lam, Pasadena, Calif.; and Douglas Wanlass, Stephen Waldo Jones, Big Springs, Texas, Mrs. J. B. Watson, John S. Willes, and John Jones, Riverton. Evans, H. C Evans, Mrs. Geneva Funeral services were held Sat- Stewart, David Peterson. Alma urday at 1:00 p. m. in the Draper Peterson and Mrs. Duane Second Ward chapel. Interment Cabinet Work HA VILLA YOUTH critics of the Roundup want, we would do better if we sold peanuts or cracker jacks at the rodeo. The concessions have actually done better than the main show in so far as making money is concerned. But again, The Lehi Roundup, scheduled for June and 26 brings honor and focuses attention on the community. Therefore it deserves your wholehearted support. Boost, don't knock! The Lehi Roundup is an R. C. A, approved rodeo. Points scored in the show count towards the world's championship cowboy honors. An amateur show would eliminate the $3500 purse, but Special Death Takes Mrs. Arvilla C. J. Smith, Lehi Native Mulliner. Old Timer described life on the desert as being much different in the early days than it is now. The feed was lush and beautiful on mountains, desert lands. However, as large herds of sheep and cattle continued to increase in numbers, feed became scarce. The desert and mountains ranges so far as plant life is concerned do not look at all as they did in the early He remembered seeing days. much game but never hunted. He stated that, "When I wanted some game I just sat still and it hunted me." He saw many deer in the mountains. Antelope and a few mountain sheep were in the desert valleys and hill lands. So goes the story of another Old Timer. For better sleep, I 033 i i H 1 i 1 . THURSDAY, MAY LEHI FREE PRESS, LEI IT, UTAH in n"inii"--T- iiiii Vs s |