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Show Salt Lake Ready For Celebrators Salt Lake is prepared to be host to 100,000 visitors at its "Covered Wagon Days" celebration, Pioneer day, July 24-26. It has invited the entire en-tire state to the most pretentious fete in Utah's history. Paying honor to the heroic band who trekked, into Utah on that memorable mem-orable July 24 of 1847, is the objective objec-tive of the three-day celebration. Outstanding among the features is a stupendous presentation in the University Uni-versity of Utah stadium, which seats 22,000. The show will be "The Spirit of Progress." Literally, "The Spirit of Progress" will carry the spectator through 200 years of vivid history of the Beehive state. The show will be held Saturday, July 25, starting at 8:15 p. m. James Cruze, himself a Utahn and now a famed Hollywood director, is supervising "The Spirit of Progress." He returned to his nativity na-tivity because of his intense interest in the "Covered Wagon Days." A gigantic pageant, circling the stadium enclosure, will depict various periods of Utah's history. Choruses of 1,000 voices, including members of the Tabernacle choir, will be a feature. fea-ture. A trained ballet of Utah girls, maidens from many cities throughout through-out the state, will also hold the spotlight. spot-light. On thei morning of Pioneer day, Utah's largest street parade will be the offering. The procession two and a half miles in length, will be marked mark-ed by representation from practically every county, city and town in the state. Forty bands from every section are a criterion of the general state representation. The parade, which . will get under way at 9:30 a. m., will be in charge of Brigadier General W. G. Williams, marshal of the day. The hundreds of floats will be taken to Liberty park immediately following the dissembling of the parade and will be exhibited throughout the day. On Saturday morning, formal dedication dedi-cation of the Salt Lake municipal airport will take place. Actively participating par-ticipating will be dozens of airplanes some bearing the United States Navy insignia and others carrying the Army star. Various commercial aviation avia-tion companies will join in the festivities fes-tivities at the airport, which ranks as one of the greatest in the nation, in point of daily business. A general religious service on Sunday, Sun-day, morning, July 26, in the Tabernacle,-wilb officially close the festivities. festivi-ties. Representatives from various denominations will speak. The executive committee, which in cludes United States Senator Reed Smoot and William H. King, has invited every Utahn and former Utahn to attend the celebration. |