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Show 0 w Payson schedules Onion Days Events Plans are now being completed for the annual Payson Golden Onion Days and Homecoming celebration September Everything from horse races to a musical will be featured in this years celebration. The celebration, sponsored by Payson City, is in its 49th year, dating back to 1929 when the area was famous for its golden onions. Not many onions are grown in the region but the Onion Days name remains. Events include horse races, the World Championship Leaning contest, a musical, flower and art show, rock and hobby show, parades, swim meet, fire works display, band concert, a dance and the City of Fun Carnival. The Payson Community Theatre will open activities Thursday, September 1, with its presentation of No, No Nanette. The musical is set in the roaring twenties and features local talent. The Payson Volunteer Fire Department will ignite a fireworks display Friday at 9:30 p.m. at the race track. The famed Onion Days horse races are some of the biggest meets in the state" according to Payson Councilman Darrell Hiatt. Both thoroughbred and quarter horse races will be held Saturday and Monday starting at 2 p.m. Horses from throughout Utah and the intermountain area will be entered in the meet. Gymnasium (700 South Main) this year because of remodeling at the Middle School where the show is usually held. For the kids there will be a swimming meet at the Bicentennial Swimming Pool in Memorial Park Saturday, at 9:30 a.m. Registration for the meet will be from 8:30 to starting time. The meet is open to anyone under 18 years old. The traditional Sunday Band concert will be held in Memorial Park at Improving the quality of life will be the theme for two homecoming parades, one Saturday at noon and the other Monday at 10 a.m. The parade will start at 800 South Main, turn right on Highway 91 (100 North), South on 500 East and then right again on 100 South and end at 300 East and 100 South. Parade chairman, Police Chief Jim Box, indicated that there are many entries this year and he is looking forward to an outstanding parade. The rock and hobby show will be held for those who are willing to display their hobbies. The show will be held at the senior citizens center (182 North Main) Sunday and Monday from noon to 6 p.m. The flower and art show will be held Sunday from 1 to 9 p.m. and Monday noon to 5 p.m. The show will be housed in the Old High School 9 eassraazi UTAHS DIGEST RACE MEET f 'IVf f&xr - IBOR DAY HORSE KiY RACES! p.m. The Payson Retail Trades Committee is sponsoring a side walk sale, the world famous Leaning Contest and a Harvest Dance during the upcoming Payson Homecoming and Harvest Celebration. The sidewalk sale will be Friday and Saturday, September 2 and 3. Great savings will be found on the sidewalk and in the stores downtown in Payson. Shoppers will receive a free ticket from a participating merchant with each purchase made in his store. The tickets will be good for a chance on door prizes at the Harvest Dance. Paysons biggest spelling error will greet horsemen Could have made Utahs Biggest Race Meet at the annual Onion Days horse races at the Payson bigger by adding another g race track. The painter of the newly completed sign The by the downtown merchants. prizes will be displayed at the dance. You must be present to win. The Harvest Hoe Down, a dance sponsored by the Retail Trades Committee, will be free to the public. The dance will be held in Self's IGA Foodland parking lot at 60 East Utah Avenue Saturday night. The' dance, featuring live music, will get underw ay at 9 p.m. The Retail Trades Committee will also sell hot dogs, soft drinks and The dance brownies at the dance. and prizes are planned for family Admission to the entertainment. dance is free so we hope to have a good crowd out to celebrate with us, said Glenn Montegue, chairman of the festivities. Tickets will be selected to determine the winners of door prizes sponsored The internationally known Payson Leaning Contest will be sponsored by the Retail Trades Committee this year. Holly Broadhead, chairwoman of the event, indicated that the rules will be similar to those in the past but the location will be changed from the park to the corner of Main Street and Utah Avenue. Starting time will be 8:30 a.m. Saturday. The contest will continue through Saturday until all done oclock. even Another change this year will be the sponsoring of entrants by loc.d businesses. Everyone is eligible to enter the contest and possibly win the $50 first prize gift certificate redeemable at participating merchants. To enter just sign up at one of the participating merchants, The Payson Chronicle, Christensen's, The Fire House, Self's Foodland, Wilson's Style Center, Payson Furniture. Hairbenders, Sport Spot, City Drug, Spencer's Home Furnishings. Volume 89 Thursday, August 25, 1977 Number 34 Production Fairbanks home donated Madoline Dixon Descendants of John Boylston Fairbanks, sixth Mormon bishop in voted Saturday Payson (1862-1869afternoon to donate the historic Fairbanks Family Home on North Main Street to the State of Utah. By ), junction with a family reunion that started with picnicking and recreation events in Memorial Park. Later the group moved to the 100 block on North Main Street for an inspection of the historic family home and a meeting held in the Cultural Hall at Park-hird Ward Church. Huish F. Yates, president of the family unit, presided. lhe executive committee mended the first named, but the majority voted lor the fourth alternative. During the discussion, J. Austin Cope, Spanish Fork postmaster, offered $500 to start a fund for restoring the house. He said he had chaired the $50,000 project when Spanish Fork City commissioned Avard Fairbanks to create the magnifi-can- t A brief history of the Fairbanks Dominguez-Escalant- e monument homestead was given by Avard T. lor their city park. He said he believed Fairbanks, world renowned sculptor, the laniily could raise the $25,000 grandson of John Boylston Fairbanks. tor restoration ol the home if it set a goal and worked toward it. Disposition of the property was Pres. Yates, a few days after the discussed with Rick Fairbanks as said the executive committee reunion, moderator. Each speaker was allowed was stunned with the results of the live minutes to expound his views ballot. He said, however, that they on 1) retain the house and all its were not giving up plans to restore the land; 2) lease the rear 80 feet; 3) home on its site in Payson, hoping that sell the rear 80 feet; 4) sell all some way may be worked out to the property and donate the house to realize this dream ol many years. He the state. also pointed out that removal of the home hinges upon the state legislature's willingness to spend $200,000 of the taxpayers' money for such a project. 1 The gift, however, is contingent upon whether or not the state legislature will appropriate the $200,000 needed to move the house from Payson to Salt Lake City. The home, vacant and uncared for the past 40 years, would be moved to the This Is The Place Monument where a pioneer village is being created. Personnel from the monument have indicated a desire to move the home to the site in Salt Lake City. Members of the Fairbanks Family lhe West Inc., cast their ballots at a business meeting held in con In fund-raisin- Have you ever had cheese cake with spice? 1 hats what Payson Community 'lheatre is serving during its Harvest Days production of "No, No Nan- ette". g Jaycees sponsor Fish Day Its almost as easy as catching fish in a fish hatchery, was one of the many comments heard at last years Fish Day sponsored by the Payson Jaycees. It will be that easy again Saturday at the pond in Memorial Park, according to Jaycee president Brent Burdick. The Jaycees are sponsoring the annual kid's Fish Day at the park just for the enjoyment of kids - boys and girls up to 12 years old. The sponsors are asking the participants to bring their own poles and bait. W. Ray Christopherson, of Spring Lake, will provide over $100 worth of trout. The trout will be planted in the park pond just before the event, which begins at 9 a.m. Kids can take fish from the pond until there are none left. The old John Fairbanks home, 143 North Main, has nearly been overrun Members of the Fairbanks family organization by trees and weeds. recently voted to donate the structure to the state for movement to Pioneer Park in Salt Lake City. date nears recom- Members of the Jaycees will have extra poles and bait at the pond in the event some one comes unprepared. Parents are asked to accompany their small children. Billed as the three lovelies, Venice Moon as Flora from Frisco, Kay Hickman as Betty from Boston, and Dora Schoenfeld as Winnie from Washington, are the dishes that really make Jimmy, (Arch Williams) reach tor the plop, plop, fizz, fizz. Helping Jimmy dispose of these tasty morsels is Cora Montague as his sensible wife, Sue; Jim Gadd as his lawyer friend, Billy Early; Doris Gasser, as Billy's wife, Lucille; Kathryn Pendleton as niece, Nanette; and Andre Thomas as Nanettes boyfriend, Tom. June Dickey as Pauline, the maid, has problems ol her own as she matches wits with a vacuum cleaner compelled to terrorize her. Backed by a talented troupe of singers and dancers, unequaled in P.C.'l. history, "No, No Nanette will be the theatre treat of the year. t ickets may be purchased at the door or at the Trolly. You may also send in the P.C.T. coupon then pick your ticket up at the door. For more information call 465-952- All held tickets must be picked up 15 minutes before curtain time at 8 p.m. Ticket prices are: $10.00 Pauline, played by Jane Dickey, grimace family; $3.00, adult; $1 .50 student and mind of it own in the Payson Community senior citizen. No Nanette. by aj ber vacuum exhibit a Theaters production No, Clement named to Council Santaquin Dee S. Clement, 34, became Santaquins newest councilman dur- ing a short ceremony at the beginning of the Santaquin City Council meetCouncilman Clement ing recently. was sworn in by Judge Jay O. Peter- son. to Genola recently and became ineligible for the council post. The Clement family has lived in Santaquin for 14 years. They recently built a new home and plan to make Santaquin their permanent home. Mr. The new councilman will take the place of Don Ray Nelson w ho moved Clement, an accountant for ment. "Many times people complain, and now I have the opportunity to hear the people and bring their thoughts to the council so they can be heard," Mr. Clement said. Dee Clement and his wife, MarRex, jorie, have five children: 18; Donna, 15; Debra, 5; and Raelynn, 2. 14; Tamera, |