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Show Page Thursday, November 3, I960 THE VALLEY VIEW NEWS 16 TOP AMATEUR HORSEMAN AWARDED BRONZE TROPHY i 1 -I I - i Jory, Inness In Retrospect . . . Keeping Our Guard Up! Perform In cOur Town The late summer and early autumn of the fateful year 1940 was, for most Americans, a time of great anxiety and uncertainty. Even now, twenty years later, the mood of those days is fresh in the minds of many of us. Veterans Day, 1960, seems to provide an appropriate occasion to reflect upon this aspect of the passing parade of U. S. history. This was the situation twenty Our Town, starring Victor Jory and Jean Inness, opened last night in Kingsbury Hall to a large student audience. All seats were free of charge to University students with activity cards. PERFORMANCES of the play will be given nightly through Saturday, beginning at ago: years across the At- lantic, France had fallen. The Battle of Britain was raging. In the Pacific 8:30 p.m. A matinee will be presented Saturday at 2 p.m. when all seats will again be free to students. Kice, America's top amateur Horseman ut The Year, receives the Martini & Rossi Trophy from Mrs. W. J. Barney. Mr. Rice, who won the title by a vote of the memberIMLW XOKJti...llrank ship of the American Horse Show Association, shares honors with Patricia Galvin, the societys choice for Horsewoman Of The Year. Each received a handsome bronze trophy, a replica of the world-famstatue of Duke Emanuele Filiberto which stands in the city of Torino (Italy), the municipality which he founded. Torino Students will be seated in the balcony without charge at the Wednesday and Thursday performances. All other seats at all performances will be available to students for half price. ed is known today as the worldwide headquarters of Martini & Rossi, leading makers of wines and vermouths. ING population in Salt Lake County demands the new, imaginative programs of these two young vigorous men! Wayne Buck CARLSON BRADY COUNTY COMMISSIONERS Paid Pol. Adv. by Salt Lake County Democratic Committee, Stephen P. Smoot, Chairman.. CAPABLE CONSTRUCTIVE CONSCIENTIOUS Wayne L FOR County Commissioner (4-YearTe- The play, a Pulitzer Prize-winnby Thornton Wilder, is under the direction of Robert Hyde Wilson. er It is the story of Americans in New Hampshire at the turn of the century, but it has a universal element which might make it the story of any town in the United States in any given year. George Gibbs and Emily Webb, the chief characters, might be any young couple who fall in love, get married, live and die; and the people they know in Grovers Comers might be the people anyone might meet on the streets of his home town, said Director Wilson. The present Salt Lake County Commission has dodged and doddered with these problems: Deplorable conditions at County Detention Home. Loosely administered County Hospital with resulting chaotic financial condition. Inadequate drainage and very hazardous waterways. mili-- . establish- tary ment, long neglected and overlooked, fell considerably short of adequate standards of oper- ational readiness. Then in the early fall of 1940 came the greatest mass mobilization in the peacetime history of the U. S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt ordered out the and many of National Guard us can remember the local units leaving the armories and starting down the long road that would lead, ultimately, to the field of battle. This memory serves to point up the special significance that Veterans Day, for some 1960, holds 472,000 National Guardsmen of the current-day force. Over a period of eight months the Guard during 1940-4brought 300,000 men to active duty, at once doubling the strength of the Active Army. 1, Guardsmen overcame equipment deficiencies to attain the desired degree of combat-readines- s. 8. Robert Patterson remarked, Their presence . . . gave the country a sense that it had passed the lowest ebb. There was, of course, a period of intensive training between mobilization and the battlefield. And if there is any single and essential lesson to be derived from this experience it is that there is no substitute for a trained and equipped military force in being. actualNumerous veterans non-coand 80 officers of the ly, form the backbone of the Guard today. The lessons of the past are not lost upon them and the fact that they ms continue to re- tain their association with the military is tes- timony to their d e t e r m to put these lessons to good use. Thanks to these veterans, to the young men who have entered the ranks, thanks to the unstinting support of the U. S. Army and U. S. Air Force and of State governments the. National Guard in 1960 stands at the very pinnacle of its history. It is, indeed, Keeping our Guard Up! in the true sense of these words for it has grasped the full meaning of the lesson of twenty years ago. 300-ye- s S A A T T U R D ar U R D COME IN ANDEtdZ&HER DELICIOUS PANCAKES? FREE? A A Y Y Nov. Nov. 5 arnrn l (4-Ye- ar Term) A Democrat Who Knows DEMOCRACY And Believes In Freedom (Paid Political Adv. by H. Ralph Klemm) BUCKWHEAT th 2 for 27 MIX (tangy) 5 th .Tk FOIL COIF IF SERVED ALL DAY For a change to Positive action, elect a YOUNG, VIGOROUS COMMISSIONER County Commissioner the U. S. rs rm) Salt Lake County needs New Vigorous Leadership) wmm Japan was on the march. Here at home They played an important part in the expanding citizen army which went into the field after Pearl Harbor and won the global battles of World War II of just as the citizen-soldiethe Guard had played a similar role in 1917-1Of the WW II Guardsmen, the then Under Secretary of War, 1 lb. Regular 76c - 71c 5C off 2 lb. Regular 1.49 1.39 10coff -- MIEWM-GCear- ais Store |
