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Show Celebrate In IPayson During Homecoming Post Office Dedication Set for September 2nd Paysons new post office will be dedicated Saturday, Sept. 2, in ceremonies scheduled to begin at 10 a.m., Postmaster Francis Haskell announced today. This will be the second day of Paysons Harvest Days and Homecoming celebration. The new facility, located at 95 South First East, is part of the Post Office Departments lease construction program, the local postmaster explained. Under this program investment financing is used to obtain needed facilities which remain under private ownership, pay local taxes to this community and are leased to the Federal Government. This gives the Department some flexibility in adapting its building program to changes in vblume, transportation and population, Mr. Haskell said. At the same time, the need for large outlays of money from the Federal Treasury for construction purpose is eliminated. The Department is now concentrating on construction of new postal units only where they are most urgently needed. In areas where it is practical to do so, existing buildings are undergoing renovation. The fact that Payson has been chosen for a new post the postmaster said, office, reflects credit on our growing contribution to the economy and life of the nation. The postmaster announced that the following are among the guests expected to attend the local postal dedication: Senator Frank E. Moss, Senator Wallace F. Bennett, Congressman Lawrence F. Burton; also David A. Bunn, Post Office Regional Director, and all present and former postmasters and post office employees. Our patrons will find doing business here more pleasant. Their mail will be handled more efficiently and this building with its equipment will enable our postalemployees to work under the best of conditions. the postmaster commented. The new facility, he added, will be a link with a postal system that today has over 37th Annual Harvest Days and Homecoming Friday, September 1, 1967 Free Fireworks at the Race Track, 9 p.m. City Horseshoe Tournament, Payson Courts, 7 p.m. Saturday, September 2, 1967 Homecoming Street Parade, 12 noon First Horse Race Meet, Race Track 2 p.m. Sunday, September 3, 1967 Flower Show, Art Show, Home Art Show... Payson Junior High 1 School p.m. Free Water Show, Swimming Pool, 2 p.m. Homecoming Program, Nebo Stake Center, 7:30 p.m. Band Concert, City Park, 9 p.m. Monday, Sept. 4, 1967 Homecoming Street Parade, 10 a.m. Flower Show, Art Show, Home Art Show, Payson Jr. High, Open after the parade. Second Horse Race Meet, Race Track, 2 p.m. Free Water Show, Swimming Pool, 7 p.m. 44,000 postal installations. This system serves more than 195 million Americans and handles nearly half of the worlds mail, Nearly 700,000 postal employees are handling over 80 billion pieces of mail a year, including a billion parcels. Mail business in this area has gone up. The postmaster noted. For example, 10 years ago revenue was about $30,000 compared with $40,000 today. Postmaster Haskell stated that in 1943 when he started working for the post office as a substitute carrier, the starting wage was 50 cents per hour. The starting wage for a substitute clerk or carrier today is $2.64 per hour. In 1943 there were two regular carriers and one substitute. Today employees include the postmaster, the assistant postmaster, one regular clerk and two substitute clerks. Delivery of mail volume has increased from about 700 pieces of mail per day to about 6500 pieces of mail since 1943. The Payson celebration, held annually now for some 37 years at the close of the summer, was originally called Golden Onion Days and Homecoming. But why onions? Here is the logic of it all: The nation was trying to pull itself out of the Great Depression. In order to create more vridnes c. v.iowara, rigm, sianas field located east of Payson on Highway 91, when onions were raised for seed by local farmers and Harvest Days were known as Onion Days. Mr. Cloward, now 83 years of O'- - WORC the photo, all grown men and women today, are his children as follows, I to r: Maxine (Jameson), Beatrice (Ruegg), Rex Cloward, Howard Cloward and Marie (Woodhouse). business and activity, the governor and other officials issued a request for the communities of the state to initiate celebrations, using their best products as themes for the events. Brigham City chose peaches. About this time several Pay-sfarmers started raising onions and with bumper crops, they saw the treasure at the end of the rainbow that had been hidden through years of the depression. Charles E. Cloward, 83, now residing in Salt Lake City, and the late Charles Gale were the early onion farmers. Dr. L. D. Stewart, now deceased was mayor at the time and with an interest in horses, promoted horse racing as featured event of the four day celebration. scheduled With horse-racfor Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Monday (Labor Day) full programs were matched with some of the fastest horses in the area signed for the meet. Dr. Stewarts own horses were among the best. al betting at booths under the grandstand was legal and the citys percentage of the betting more than paid expences al of the celebration. After betting was the race meet was narrowed to two days, Saturday and Monday, but still some of the fastest horses in the area are signed each year for the two-d- ay meet. rn recent years the farmers of the community stopped raising onions almost entirely and it was actually necessary to purchase onions at the market to decorate the Onion Queens float for the parade. For this reason, the name of the celebration was changed to Harvest Days and Homecoming. The crowds, however, keep coming back for the big annual event, and besides horse races and the official Homecoming program and parades, the celebration continues to offer fire works and a horseshoe touron Substitute Carrier Teacher Profile One in a series of articles published to acquaint readers with the Staff of the Nebo School District Richard L. Wilson Is Named Principal Richard L. Wilson has been appointed principal of the Pay-so- n Middle School by the Nebo School District Board of Education, according to Superintendent Russell N. Stansfield. Mr. Wilson will replace Blaine Moore who has resigned in order to work'toward his doctorate at Greeley, Colorado. Mr. Wilson has been employed by Nebo School District for eleven years. During this time he has accepted a number of assignments involving various responsibilities the most recent assignment being that of an assistant principal of the Park-vieElementary School. His work at the Parkview and at his previous positions has won him the respect of his fellow workers, students and patrons of the school. Richard has taught in the elementary schools since 1956 with his assignments ranging from third grade to seventh. He has served various terms as a faculty representative in the Nebo Education Association. He has served on a variety of Association committees, the most recent being the committee of The Postmaster at Payson, Utah announced today that ap- plications for examination for Substitute Clerk and Carrier positions in the Payson Post Office will be accepted until further notice. No education or experience is required, however,, all applicants must be UnitedStates citizens to be eligible to apply. The Examination is opentoboth Applications for the Examinations can be obtained at the Payson Post Office, Applicants will be notified later of the time and place to report for the written test. The starting salary for these postions is $2.64 an hour with annual increases for six years to $3.17 an hour and addition- Professional Rights and Responsibilities. After graduating from Payson High School where he participated in sports, operas and student council activities, he continued his education at Brigham Young University andUtahState University. He obtained his masters degree in administration with a minor in consel-in- g and guidance in 1964. Mr. Wilson is a member of the Church of Jesus Christ Continued on Legal Page al increases every three years to $3.60 an hour. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race,. creed, color, national origin, or sex. Please Note IMPORTANT NOTICE Because of the Labor Day holiday on Monday, September 4th, all deadlines for the Payson Chronicle and Spanish Fork Press will be advanced one day. All news and advertising must be in the Press Office Saturday morning. It would be appreciated if everyone would cooperate in this regard. Awairafls BM Fir Sewage Bids for construction of the sewage disposal plant and improvements to the system were opened and studied by members of the Payson City Council at a meeting held recently in the Payson City Council Chambers. There were nine bids submitted on construction of the disposal plant, designated as schedule number one; six bids submitted for construction of the outfall lines, designated as schedule number two; and six bids submitted for construction of sewer collection lines on the east side of town not now serviced by the system. The last is designated as schedule number three. There were nine bids submitted on construction of the disposal plant, designated as schedule number one; six bids submitted for construction of outfall lines designated as schedule number three. Apparent low bidder on schedule number one and three is Turner Construction Co. of es men and women. w iifty Examination Slated Salt Lake City. Apparent low bidder for schedule number two is Superior Construction Co. Bids are being thoroughly tabulated by Call Engineering Co., engaged by the city as project engineer. Bids will be awarded at a later date. Councilman Lawrence Ewell reported that the city has been granted an additional $19,800 by the Federal Water Pollution Board for construction costs. With this additional loan the federal board is supplying 33 of the cost of the sewer project. The original grant of $198-00- 0 represented 30of the cost. In December, 1966, citizens of Payson voted to purchase $480,000 in general obligation bonds to supply a part of the funds needed. Total cost of the project is estimated at $800, 000. A sum of $121,825.50 had ac- cumulated from$l assessments to patrons monthly bills at the time of the bond election. From iPDaoiift this amount $15,600 has been withdrawn to pay current engineering costs as billed to July by John Call Engineers of Bountiful. Since July monthly sewer rates were doubled to $3 as planned when the public approved the bond election. To meet the pressing and urgent expenditures of Payson City Corporation, a tax anticipation loan in the amount of $50,000 from First Security Bank, Payson, was approved by the council. The motion was presented by Vernon Finch and seconded by Lawrence Ewell. Monte Taylor of Payson and his group of musicians have been engaged to provide speciality acts between races at homecoming. Drawings have been made for concession stand positions at the park during the celebration. Number one position goes to the Sixth Ward; number two to the Third Ward; and number three the Fourth Ward. Para-Mutu- pari-mutu- out-law- Local artists, members of the Art Show Com-mite- e for Payson Homecoming display one of the many paintings which will be on dis play, a scene from Payson Canyon. L to r: Verdene Page, Alta Cowan, Reta Page, Elsie Eckersley, Claudine Pulver, Eleanor Loveless. Schedule of Activities The 37 annual Payson Harvest Days and Homecoming Celebration will open with a bang Friday night, September 1 at 9 p.m. with free fireworks display staged by the Fire Department at the Race Track. Feature event of the celebration promises to be bigger than ever this year. The two-da- y Horse Race meet to be held on Saturday and Labor Day afternoon will begin both days at 2 p.m. From advance information some 75 horses will be on hand to compete in the eight races each day. In addition to the horse races, formance will be held Sunday afternoon at 2 p.m. and the second will be Monday evening at 7 p.m. Food concessions at the Memorial Park will be set up by the wards. Monte Youngs Carival will provide additional entertainment at the park. They will set up in the street north of Memorial Park. several childrens pony races will be run. Also on Friday night, the Tournament City Horseshoe will be held at the Payson courts beginning at 7 p.m. The two big mammoth par- ades will be held again this year. At noon on Saturday the first parade will be shown. The big Labor Day parade will begin at 10 a.m. Popular features of the celebration has been the Flower Show, Art Show, Home Art Show and the H Club exhibit. These shows will be held again this year on Sunday and Monday in the Payson Junior High School. The show will open Sunday at 1:30 p.m. and will remain open until 10 p.m. On Labor Day the show will be open at noon and will close at 5 p.m. The annual Homecoming Program will be held in the Nebo Stake Center on Sunday evening at 7:30 p.m. A band concert will be presented Sunday evening in the park at 9 p.m. Swimming classes from the swimming pool will present two Water Shows. The first per Art & Hobby Show An invitation is extended to local artists to hang paintings in Paysons Annual Art Show, held in connection with the Flower Show duringthe Harvest Days Celebration. Rules are as follows: Each artist may exhibit two paintings and must be eighteen years of age or older. The pictures must be 16 x 20 or larger, ready for hanging, complete with wire and screw eyes and pictures previously exhibited in the Payson show may not be used. They must be painted not retouched photographs. Pictures made of other materials should be exhibited in the arts and crafts show. Pictures will be received at the Payson Junior High School from 5:30 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. Friday evening, September 1st and must be picked up Monday September 3rd at 5:00 p.m. A member of the committee will be in attendance, but can not be responsible for damage or loss of any picture. Please observe the above rules because any painting not complying with regulations will not be hung. 4-- Seeing patch of onions bring many nostalgic memories of Payson and those wonder-filled "Onion Days." his the Home-Ar- Flower-Art-Homea- Youngs street carnival. Folks still meet in the park, class reunions are held and everyone turns out to have one grand time just before settling down for school and other serious problems of daily life...MCD Remember. . . its Safety in driving. . . School has started and there are many of the Little Folks who will be venturing onto paths that lead them to school. Please. . . be careful and courteous! First Roene DiFiore, formerly of Payson, now residing in Richfield will conduct a community sing one half hour prior to the official Homecoming and Harvest Days program, Sunday evening, 7:30 p.m. atNeboStake Centef, according to announcement made today by Frank city Beckstrom, councilman who is program chairman. Mrs. DiFiore won the hearts of Payson citizens when she resided here several years ago, and gave generously of her talents to present minstrel shows and other musical events. She has been featured for several years as conductor of community sings during the Payson celebration. Mrs. DiFiore will teach at Dixie College the coming school season. She has appeared on programs all over the state, leading group singing at state Lions Club conventions, Utah Wool Growers conventions and others. While a citizen of Payson she wrote a song, both words and music, My Town Is Pay-so- n which is sung annually at the Harvest Days program. The program will feature Harold Hawker, bishop of Pay-so- n Second Ward and well known educator as speaker of the evening. The Choraliers, a male chorus directed by J. D. Christensen, will sing several numbers and Barbara Williams, talented violinist of Orem, will play. Harvest Queens, Linda Powell and attendants, Judy Jolley and Sharon Bowen; and Miss atPayson, Kathy Hogan and and Rae Buys tendants, Lynda Kathie Tervort will be presented. Pony Races Planned NOTICE Pony races will be held in connection with the Harvest Days celebration, Saturday, September 2 and Labor Day, Those interested day with the racing committee, Dr. J. R. Hogan, chairman. 4. September must register each to be displayed at Articles He's "Onion King." His claim to Fame . . . Bruce Walton for 25 years was the only man to raise onions in Payson for 'Onion Days." He still raises seed onions on 10 acres of ground. This hobby nets him a few thousand dollars each year. For the past few years he has had some competition from Grant Winegar. nament, Shows, water ballet, band concerts, and of course Monte Roene DiFiore ts Show, a fea- ture of Harvest Days and Homecoming, will be accepted at the school across the street from the park Saturday morning, 9 -12 a.m. The show will open Sunday at 1:30 p.m. and close at 9:30 p.m. and will open again Monday after the parade and remain open until 5 p.m. Articles should be picked up at 5 p.m. The committee in charge includes Janice Lundell, Crystal Reynolds and Zella Peay. SCAN BEFORE YOU PLAN Sept. 1 Payson Homecoming Days Class Reunions Sept. 3 Peteetneet Class of 1912, Oak Crest, 1 pm Sept. 3 Payson High, Class of 1927, Bob's, 9:30 a.m. Sept. 2 Payson High, Class of 1947, H. S., 7 pm. Sept. High School, Class of 1957, Oak Crest, 1 Sept. 3 8th Grade, 1912, Oak Crest, 1 pm 6:30 |