Iron County Record | 1953-07-09 | Page 1 | Independence Day Quiet but Full of Activity

Independence Day Quiet But Full of Activity Independence Day was appropriately approp-riately but quietly celebrated in Cedar City with activities concentrated con-centrated in the forenoon and evening in order that residents could visit Parowan for a race meet and rodeo program during the afternoon. The miniature parade, sponsored spon-sored by the Lady Lions club, and a patriotic meeting highlighted high-lighted the morning program, with traditional children's sports sandwiched in between the two events. Former Congressman Walter K. Granger was the speaker at the patriotic meeting, and urged the people generally to guard carefully care-fully their freedom, and maintained main-tained that a strong non-partisan foreign policy on the part of the United States is the greatest need for the preservation of peace and the protection of our freedom. The miniature parade proved very successful with many beautiful beau-tiful floats entered. A complete report on the parade can be found elsewhere in this issue of the Record. A children's dance and a square dance for adults, both held at the city park, were featured fea-tured in the evening entertainment.