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Show WESTERN AMERICANA NON-C- I RCUIAT1N& SOUTH SALT LAKE NEWS Serving The Center Of Industry Volume South Salt Lake, Utah, Wednesday, 1 July 3, 1968 Number 10 WaUey" TEMPLE VIEW OUTDOOR THEATRE Salt Lake City, Utah Summer 1968 From the Editor: Several South Salt Lake families were privileged to attend the pre- mier performance of "Promised Valley" by special invitation. The Glen Stokers, Feredays, Dietzs, ps and Riches were among the several hunred guests present. It was a thrilling experience. For the next two months it is anticipated that 100,000 tourists and home folks will enjoy this musical and most outstanding drama of pioneer exAl-so- periences. c Prirniiged cVaIley' . the 1,700 Saints who had already arrived in the valley, but for the thousands of other emigrants who at that moment were beginning their journey from the east. All were dependent upon this crop to sustain them the following winter. One day in the latter part of May there came from the adjacent hills a black, moving blanket of crickets, devouring everything before it. Wave after wave descended upon the tender grain. Frightened by the awesome sight, men, women, and children alike attacked the hordes of crickets with eveiything they could manage. They tried brooms and shovels, beating some few insects to death. They tried fire, then water, but nothing could stay the plague. This home is another fine example of what home owners can do with a little effort each day. On the plot of ground where this home sits is a fine garden without a weed to be seen. Pride in home ownership is a great community asset. Homes are what people make them Wherever the homes may be Out chi the desolate desert Or set by the surging sea. ment the homes next door, the neighborhood or the city. CLUB NEWS July and August is vacation time for the Woodbine Circle. Meetings held July 3rd and August 7 will be at 8 p.m. at the Senior Citizens Center, 245 South 10th East. The Thimble Club will meet at the North Shelter in Liberty Park July 11 for a picnic dinner. Past Guardian Neighbors will meet at the Chuck -- A -- Rama, 744 East 4th South, at 11:30 a.m. for lunch. After lunch we will meet at the Senior Citizens Center for a business meeting and games. HUMBLE PRAYER Welcome to "Promised Valley, In despair they to their the dramatic story of the Mormon knees in a humble droppedto the God appeal Pioneers, told in dialogue, song, who they believed had brought them and dance. into the valley. As they concluded Written as a musical play by their prayer, they observed that the Arnold Sundgaard, Broadway playsun became partially obscured by wright, and Crawford Gates, noted what at first appeared to be a dark Utah composer and conductor, cloud, reaching back to die western ' Promised Valley centers around horizon. Then they saw and heard a small segment of Mormon history. more clearly - the cloud was thousBut this segment - the heroic trek ands of flying toward them from Winter Quarters, Nebraska, from the gulls, islands in nearby Great to the Great Salt Lake Valley - is Salt Lake. one of the significant migrations of Their hearts sank. Would the gulls now complete the destruction started history. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latteby the crickets? But no! The gulls r-day Saints, frequently referred had come to their rescue. The birds to as the "Mormon Church, was settled into the fields and began organized in western New York devouring the crickets. Filled, they State in 1830 and because of reflew away to disgorge, only to religious persecution moved westward turn to the battle. The crickets were successively to Ohio, Missouri, and destroyed, and the gulls flew calmIllinois. By the early 1840s the ly back to their island retreat. Mormon city of Nauvoo was the Again on their knees, the Pioneers thanked the Lord their God for this largest in Illinois. deliverance. He had spared their WINTER QUARTERS lives. Following the martyrdom of the The above article was taken from Prophet Joseph Smith in 1844, the the program of the "Promised Valpersecution mounted and in the winter of 1846-4- 7 finally forced the ley" production. Saints out of Nauvoo across the frozen Mississippi River. Establishing a temporary settlement at Winter Quarters (near present Omaha, Nebraska), they prepared for their great westward movement to the Valley of the Great Salt Lake. It is at this point that the musical, "Promised Valley, begins. Next door to the west of this home and garden a head-hig- h patch of weeds stands that fails to comple- in the use of fire equipment, distribution of hose and personel, and the proper use of water and chemiCity Hail News Brief the scene to witness the blaze. cals has been part of this fine trainThe City of South Salt Lake has Most of. the fire. equipment from ing school. Next Monday night, an1 will be of the on to was just released the official budgets the job program city station put other part for the fiscal year ending June 30, out the fire and protect other builddemonstrated. 1969. ings nearby. Regular firemen and Total estimated revenues: $445, volunteers were on the job. I have a remarkable memory, I 806. The City of South Salt Lake gave forget everything! It is wonderfully Total Appropriations: $445,806. this house to the Fire Department convenient. It is as though the world Next week, we will publish a more for a training center and experiwere constantly renewing itself for detailed report. mental purposes. For the past me. months, every Monday night, members of the department have conEditorial ducted training exercises in the house that has proved valuable to the trainees and regular firemen. How best to enter a closed, burning building; rescue people and save lives and property have been aptly demonstrated by those in charge of Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord; He is the training program. Also, speed trampling out the vintage where the grapes of rath are stored; He hath loosed the fately lightening of His terrible swift sword; His truth is marching on. Glory, glory hallelujah! Glory, glory hallelujah! Glory, glory, hallelujah! His truth is marching on. JULIA WARD HOWE. Yes, we 11 rally round the flag boys, we 11 rally once again shouting the battle cry of freedom; we will rally from the hillside, we'll gather from the plain, shouting the battle cry of freedom - the union forever, hurrah boys hurrah! Down with the traitor, up with the star; while we rally round the flag boys, rally once again, shouting the battle cry of freedom. GEORGE F. ROOT. There are many flags in many lands, there are flags of every hue; but there is no flag however grand like our own Red, White and Blue. The hurrah for the flag, our countrys flag it's stripes and white stars too; there is no flag in any land like our own Red, White and Blue. A fire was deliberately started at 76 East Oakland Avenue Monday night. A crowd of people rushed to America, My America Rodeo Queen Chosen MORMON BATTALION While recovering from the harsh winter and in the midst of preparing for the journey west, theSaintswere asked by the United States Army to volunteer for service. The war with Mexico had begun. In spite of individual hardships more than 500 Mormon men responded forming the Mormon Battalion and set off on history's longest infantry march, leaving their families to make their hazardous westward trek without them. The Pioneers were divided into groups for travel. Special parties were assigned to plant crops at strategic intervals for the larger groups coming later in the year. After overcoming the hardships of the wilderness, the threat of Indians, and hunger, the Pioneers entered desolate Salt Lake Valley on July 24, 1847. Brigham Young, gazing over the valley from his sickbed in a wagon, recognized the valley as shown him in vision . . . "This is the place. MIRACLE OF THE GULLS M. H. HOWLISTON. There is a land with sunny climes and snow capped mountain peaks; there is a land, a blessed land that all good men shoul seek; There is a land, a glorious land, under Gods blue sky above; it is the land, it is its America I love. America! America! Send thy beacon light America! abroad. America! Keep thy land a fertile sod. America! America! Worship God who dwells on high; America! America! Then thy glory will never die. C. E. A. While we celebrate and attempt to honor the flag and pay homage to the great American patriots who gave so much of their strength and inspiration to make freedom and liberty a reality, we should, also, consciously, remember the blood and tears that have been shed, the sorrow and pain endured, by the tens of thousands who have given their all to preserve those freedoms from generation to generation. The words of inspiration quoted above from songs written during the days of the Civil War, and later, certainly give strength to the cause of freedom in our day. We must not forget, we should not forget, as we celebrate on Thursday, July 4, 1968, that 500,000 of our American boys, (soldiers) are on this day, continuing to fight and die that the world might be free. Every day, every week, the casualty list grows. All too frequently now letters are received by Utahns saying, "We are sorry to inform you . . . but he gave his life for his country, etc. Well, where do we stand? What can we do? What will we do? Freedom and liberty must be earned. It must be a conscious part of our everyday living. Wickedness never was happiness. Virtue, sobriety, morality, integrity and honesty are just a few of the principles of character that must be honored if America remains the citidel of freedom inteded by the God of heaven. Though some would challenge the right of America to remain free, Americans will arise to meet the crisis of our day, and bring order out of chaos. God Bless America. my land, Miss Judy Baker will reign as Rodeo Queen over the 14th annual But the trials of the Pioneers were Salt Lake County Sheriffs Posse not yet over. By the spring of 1848 Rodeo mi July 4th, 5th and 6th at about 5,000 acres across the valley 8 p.m. at the Salt Lake County floor had been cultivated and plant- Fairgrounds, 5200 South State ed. The SDrouting grain gave promStreet, Murray, Utah. Her attendants are Sylvia Shaw of ise nf a ood harvest, not only for i Jolene Johnson of Salt Lake City. The Queen received $50 and her attendants $25 each, in a contest of Ogden and horsemanship and personal appearance from a field of 29 |