Show 3 — STUDENT jp- TV - ft "Vcv i & & W if ®k § £S tfS' n 0 0 f 4 V ? if ££ r v W$h - 1765 i s s ” " &'-- ' MAY 7 A ? v sAy&- life ?A‘ s v' Z'- 4 st m )Hj f'"' ’ ct £ u and environmental planning students Michael Sessions Gary Bergeson Ferrin Rex Orrin Johnson and Frank Hunsaker are sketching suggested design plans for the Golden Spike LANDSCAPE ? L y !¥& — 1M'"TIW AsaP in twpbu jssk j V -- r ’ PICTURED HERE is a scene from last year’s pageant the driving of the Golden Spike Costumed performers are standing in front of the “Last Spike” Monument ARCHITECTURE ? V i National Monument and looking over artifacts discovered at the site Their suggested designs will be on display Monday Photo by Neil Simmons "It Linked The Nation" Gold Spike On Monday Aggies Will Be There ported by the thousands specifically to work on the transcontinental railroad The coolies employed by the Central Pacific were given a a dollar a day for grading roadbeds and layThe Golden Spike Association is offering to a real bargain to USU students— chance ing rails and ties sunThe Union Pacific employed Irish workers relive a historic moment while getting a tan maybe and the two nationalities laid track over Material Monday morning at Promontory Summit a 1000 miles of desert and mountains pageant reenacting the driving of the Golden for the Union Pacific had to be transported reached the Spike will be staged by costumed performers over half a continent before it The 96th anniversary Golden Spike cele- railroad bration begins at 10:30 Monday morning and The engins spikes rails and other iron several USU groups have been assisting in for the Central Pacific were loaded on ships in the East and taken around Cape Horn in its production 19000 mile trip Landscape architecture and environmental a have students Chinese and Irish staged the greatesta The prepared planning department laid monument for a national railroad suggested designs building race in history and The Promontory Summit will be a national par record ten miles of track in one day a by the centennial in 1969 The best designs project estimated to be completed in drawn by the classes will be displayed at decade took six and years annive on A Monday’s number Promontory Monday popular To catch the “spirit” of the monument sary program will be the stake race stage site the juniors and seniors journeyed out to by the Appaloosa Horse Club The mem“® Promontory armed with a snake bite kit will be garbed in authentic Indian dress in cold drinks and sketching equipment They re- Intermountain Indian Club composed of facturned with numerous artifacts left by the ulty members from the Indian School i railroad workers a century ago including Brigham City will perform a tribal danc rusty spikes and shovel plus an unused and Indian songs snake bite kit and ideas for designs Burton Dr Everett Cooley Director of the sww Taj tor associate professor and head of land- Historical Society will give a brief review scape architecture and environmental plan- the original event and relate plans for in site made into a national monument ning is supervising the project found Artifacts by USU anthropologists will Featured in the pageant reenacting also be exhibited at the program site A dis- original event will be Frank Davis son c play collected by Gordon Keller associate the telegraph operator who signaled the professor of sociology and social work and pletion of the first transcontinental rauw w the his assistants includes Chinese coins opium He will be taking his father’s roleof the Pf pipes opium vials pots dishes lanterns and cant During the actual driving vases nal spike 96 ago telegraph ireS USU’s Balladirs a folk singing group led connected to years the spike and the silver by Doug Brenchley will entertain the aud- mer used by Walter Davis to drive the sp By Sherjl Smith Student Life Feature Editor six-mon- th one-ha- XXXs Ts IX r Suzanne Croft is being assisted by enDavid Bunnell as she engraves one student gineering of several hundred miniature railroad ties to be sold at the program Monday Spurs will also be selling “originPhoto by Steven Harris al” golden spikes NEW SPUR WUW'JWIW wuwwmmb1' WfWWB18W wyBpr iw 12 t V- :V i f V v: ax r i v 4- V5&Vf:C DEAN CARLTON CULMSEE advser to the Chinese Student Association and Yu-S- i Fok examine the map to locate Promontory Summit the spot where the Chinese and Irish railroad workers met nearly a century ago Photo by Steven Harris ience with several folk songs including “Denver” and “The Honey Wind Blows” The recently-tappe- d Spurs are also staining and engraving miniature railroad ties to sell as souvenirs The Spurs will also be selling several hundred “original” Golden Spikes guilded by the Box Elder Sheriff’s Deputies and souvenir programs Arnold Air Society members and representatives from Angel Flight will be at Promontory to post the colors at the beginning of the program Joel Casey Jerry "b’-ast- o Lyman Fisher Kent Radford and Betty Amundson and Leslie Lund will attend A special invitation has been extended to the school’s Chinese Student Association the largest foreign student group on campus to attend the program A century ago Chinese workers were im lf in place The mesage sent to all stations b San Francisco and Washington D u “All ready now the spike will so0n nm en the signal will be three dots for tn mcncement of the blows Qpiinrf Visitors can reach the Summit 7 inute straight west from Corinnc on an?11 Thiokol and from Thiokol a fn ' roaj drive continues southwest on an ®“rccty up over Promontory range leadm0 to the monument mo- Last year 3500 people attended tne 1 gram and more are expected itjr There will be an increased seating cij re this year and Promontory Ward will ’ freshments General chairman of the ceremon) Stewart editor of university pubh ia join |