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Show Full Day of Activities Celebrate July 23rd Braves Leading Little Leaguers The Braves were out in front with four wins and no losses with the second week of the second half play completed. The Braves downed the Dodgers, with an overwhelming score of 17 to L Results of the week's play are as follows: July 12 Braves 17. Dodgers 1, winning pitcher was R. Hall and B. Allred. loser; Red Sox 5, Tigers 3. winning pitcher was K. Peck and losing pitcher was J. Peterson; White Sox 7. and Phillies 0, winner B. Loveridge, loser. V. Shelley; Pirates-1- . Cubs 0. winner B. Ellison, loser B. Fowler. July 14 White Sox 4. Red Sox 3, in overtime, w inner J. Trinna- man. loser. D. Hadfield; Tigers 6, Cubs 3, winner, L. Larson, loser, B. Goodwin; Pirates 7, Dodgers 5, winner, R. Peterson, loser B. All- red. The Braves won by forfeit from the Phillies. STARLITE THEATER MANAGER ILL IN HOSPITAL Gordon A, Haynes, manager of the popular Starlite Drive-I-n Theater in American Fork, is re ceiving treatment in a Provo hos pital for a kidney ailment. He was in the American Fork Hospital for five days before transfer. Special! Summer Tune-u- p be Get that tune-ufore you start your va p cation trip. wo77 77. iinnnn. Plans Progressing For Community Carnival Plans are progressing for an outstanding Community Carnival, to be held at Wines Park Saturday, August 27, it was reported by Virgil H. Peterson, committee talchairman, this week. Special of ent will be obtained from out Ralph fix you upl Wheels Balanced on Car with New Electronic ' Balancer Conoco Main Service I town sources, as well as locally, and entertainment attractive to all will be featured. Mr. Peterson is assisted on the W. general committee by George are Leany and Russell Innes, who supporting him in arranging the anbig day long event, the third nual endeavor of its kind. Funds will go to the Hutchings Museum project. Bring your vacation guests along with your entire family, Lehi residents are reminded. Where out of town relatives or friends are plan: to ning to visit encourage them the include to their make plans gathering, which will provide a fine opportunity to renew acquaintance with friends and former neighbors. "Come for breakfast, and stay for the day and evening," is Mr. Peterson's invitation. jn Participate in Pony Express Does Your Present Job Offer the Opporunity you Hoped For? If not, and you have any knowledge of - Thursday Friday Saturday - Dance 9 p.m. t St Joseph, Missouri, and the other at Sacramento, Cal- boys one ifornia leaped on their horses and sped west and east with their prec- ous mail, passing it on to other riders when they had finished their run. "News was needed by more than half a million settlers in the West; unification of the nation facing the Civil War was felt, and the newly found gold of California was needed to finance it, so the mail just had to go through. The Pony Express was operated by the great freighting firm of Russell. Majors and WaddelL which built 190 stations, bought 400 horses and hired 80 pony riders and some The employees swore on oath of good behavior on a small Bible which was presented to them by the op erators. "At relay stations the horses were changed about every ten miles or more, and at home stations the riders changed about 40 miles or more apart. The average time from Missouri to California was ten days. (Continued from front page) The route also goes through Camp Williams and follows the Redwood Road to Salt Lake Gty. Public Invited ' The public is Invited to view the ride and the changing of horses at points along the trail, but actual following of the riders may not be done, except by the attendants chosen for that purpose. Morris Clark and Duane Evans have been selected as aides to the Lehi riders. They will follow with trailers, ready to pick up the rid ers and their mounts at the end of their section of the run, which will be out in Rush Valley, some 50 miles south of 6400 South. Markers will fce placed Saturday morning, and the men informed as to the exact location of their rides. Seven riding clubs from this dis trict will participate. The mail pouches, weighing 21 pounds, will be taken from men from American Fork, by the Lehi riders, who in turn, will deliver the symbolic mail bags to members of the rid ing club from Orem. The indivdual runs will be made in 30 minutes each and will cover a distance of five miles. Original Want Ad The original want ad for riders, which appeared in a San Fran Cisco newspaper in 1860, reads as follows: WANTED Young, skinny, wiry fellows not over 18. Must be expert riders, willing to risk death daily. Orphans perferred. Wages $23 a week. Taken from the report compiled by Dr. Howard R. Driggs, Utah native, and. director at. large on the National Pony Express Centennial Association, and published Mortuary. in the NEA Journal for May, 1960, FIRST WARD MIA TO is the following pertinent information: HOLD CAKE SALE "One hundred years ago, two The First Ward MIA plans to hold a fund raising cake sale this Saturday, July 23, at Larsen's AG It is ideas, not vested interests, Market on Main Street. The sale which are dangerous for good or will begin at 10 ajn. evil. station-keeper- s. Cedar Fort THURSDAY, JULY 2L I960 THE LEHI FREE PRESS The riders had to ride day and night. Many times they outran hostile Indians and often faced blinding snows and howling storms "The Express ran for a little less than 18 months. It stopped in October, 1861 when the east and west telegraph lines met in Salt Lake City, making it possible to send messages by wire. The firm went broke on the venture." The employing more than 1,000 men and horses in eight states started Tuesday evening simultaneously in St Joseph, Mo., and Sacramento, Calif. The schedule is nine days to travel the 1,966 mites. And thus it will go, day and large-sca- le night, through whatever weather fate decrees, until the "mochila" is delivered at Needlerock on the lines Wyoming-Uta- h Saturday. . enclosed in special commemorative envelopes and handstamped with first-da- y issues of special Pony Express Centennial stamps. t if AIR CONDITIONING i" v HEATING - '' ' SHEET METAL WORK GUNTHER Sheet Metal Co. 31 North First West American Fork SK One at noon, one at night, One along the way You never outgrow your need For Milk. &r urum inrea glasses every day l v AMERICAN Hi 4 ""!?'-- I II fess.-- DAIRY ASSOCIATION Of UTAH If Mm MOTOR CO. American Fork, Utah TRI-CIT- Y; WE'VE GOT IT...YOU 6ET ITI 2 EXTRA YEARS OF COLOR rffi BEAUTY WITH FULLER PAINT! PLUS-2- " July 21, 11. 23 R Visit to a Small Planet In Observance of Pioneer Days . Our Bank Will Not Be Open Monday, State Bank of Lehi . July 25 -- ... all Beehive State citizens in comthe centennial celebration memorating Joins DAYS OF '47 PIONEER DAYS ... in honoring the fond memory of those gallent with Jerry Lewis pioneers who . . . under the leadership of Brigham Young . . . surpassed seemingly insurmountable hardships in their heroic trek from Nauvoo to Second Feature Ride Lonesome this "Promised Land." in Cinemascope Left to right: S. Rex Zimmerman, Calvin II. Swenson, Howard YV. Robiiuon, Alvin Schow with Randolph Scott tllMMMIHtttttt' Sunday Monday - Tuesday July 24, 25, 26 David and Bathsheba Technicolor Feature with Gregory Peck and Susan Hayward -' Second Feature ' Miracle of the Hills A4W ,ttMMttttt Saturday Wednesday - Thursday - Friday 30 July 27, 28, 29, Anatomy of a Murder with James Stewart Second Feature The Lone Texan ' with Willard Parker 'l i iiiiir rum i iiiijiiiimwiw iihi Revolutionary now Fullor Exterior Houu Paint .withstands harshest western weather e Homes keep that 'fresh painted" look for yiari Roll or brush It en quickly and easily. Wide color selection. Closi or Sotln-fJa- Starring Rex Reasoh M - t, I f I YOUR AUTHORIZED DULLER. PAINT $ i Come In todayl 0EAUA " Lehi Lumber Co. State Street Lehi Phone PO 83241 at 3:30 pm Horses and men will be moved preinto position with clock-lik- e cision, at least an hour in advance of their turn, so there won't be a second's delay in advancing the mail eastward towards historic St Jo. and westward to Sacramento. The two chains of racing ponies each will carry 930 special letters selling, come to us. We need ambitious, hard working man for. sales representative. We will give complete training. Opportunity for high stable earnings. Apply in person to Mr. Lambert at . . . Show Starts 7:30 p.m. Gates Open at 7p.m. - Dies Suddenly sons-in-la- Come in and let ' Lehi Riders to (Continued from front pace) of Lehi. and Mrs. Joseph (Pearl) W on Wash & Lube - John S. Evans Watson. Venice. Calif. Funeral Held Tueaday w WWW WW VWVWVW WW WWWW WWW WW WWW I All of the sons and daughters Cases brought before the docket and their families, as well as the of Judge Leland Powell included brothers and sisters of Mr. Evans were present for the services, held the following: Tuesday at 1 pjn. in the Lehi Ersel E. Sprouse. Roosevelt First-Sixt- h Ward chapel. Bishop speeding, $10; Lawrence W. Jen- Teddy B. Parker of the Sixth sen, Salt Lake City, speeding, $10; waxd. officiated and also offered Richard Bert Northrup, Salt Lake the prayer at the mortuary, with City., speeding, $10; Ronald A. the family. Wagstaff, Salt Lake City, speed The organ prelude and postlude ing, $10; Joe E- - Woolstenhulme, were played by Mrs. Marilyn A. side of on road, $10; wrong Iriving Nielsen. Sylvester Evans, a brothJohn B. Smart, Bountiful, driving er, spoke the invocation at the with expired license $10: Phil- chapel. Salt M. Lake Birdall. City, ley The first speaker was Dean Pri speeding, $15; Rodger Ashcroft, long time associate in political Lewiston, speeding, $15; Sterling or, and civic affairs. This was follow Provost. West Jordan, speeding, ed by a vocal solo by Mrs. Cecil $15; Virginia Roberts, California, who sang, Evans, daughter-in-lapeeding, $20; Ola Snyder, Lehi, Nielsen Mrs. Perfect" "Prayer no operators license, $25. was the accompanist. Lake City, Kay Budge, Salt Succeeding addresses were given speeding, $15: Bruce T. Downing, by President Virgil H. Peterson Salt La,ke City, speeding, $iu; and .Staka President Herman C. Owen V. Green, American Fork, friends and asso Goates, posted bail of $150; Ardell Grave, ciates. lifelong $10; Pleasant Grove, speeding, As a musical a quar Jimmy D. Hatfield, Springville, no tette selection, interlude, I Need Thee EvPe license, $25; Wayne operator's was rendered by Katlv terson. Lehi, Public intoxication ery Hour," Norene Kopinsky, ryn Dorton, 30 days in jail; Keath Dean Pow Nielsen and Arlene Okey. Marilyn oi to failure ell, Lehi, yield ngnt Hyrum C. Evans, a brother, pro way, $20; Bradley Webb, Salt Lake nounced the benediction, and the City, assault and battery, case grave in the Lehi cemetery was pending. dedicated by Bishop Ernest B. Correction: Gary A. Hansen, Am- Garrett. Relief Society members erican Fork, reckless driving, post- cared for the many beautiful flow ed bail. He was erroneously wisted ers. Pallbearers included John La- in last week's paper as a Lehi Vance, Fay L. and Cecil Evans, resident. sons; John S. Exans, a grandson, and two Glen Was-de- n and James McKnight. Oral and Reo, sons, served as honorary pallbearers. Interment took place under the direction of the Wing Saturday and Sunday Specials Main Street Lehi Rodeo 5:30 pjn. 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