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Show it' & w County Pioneer Day Celebration Attracts Hundreds for Activities Hundreds of residents of Iron county were on hand Tuesday for th? Pioneer Day celebration which was held on a county-wide basis and also formed part of the Centennial celebration for Iron county. Main attraction of the day was the children's miniature parade in the morning, which i. sponsored spon-sored annually by the Cedar City Lady Lions. Taking the grand prize from the many colorful floats entered In the event was the "Merry Go Round", which was sponsored by North East Furniture and Hunter Hardware and Appliance Co. ' First and second prizes in the four divisions were: Primary division, di-vision, Third ward's "Book of Mormon", first prize; Second ward's "Old Fashioned Girl", second prize, Original division, : Zion Candy Kitchen's "Sweets for the Sweet", first prize; Cedar Music company's "Circus", second sec-ond prize. Centennial division, Modern Style Shoppe's "Miss Utah 1851", first prize; Lady : Elks "Honey Makers", second prize. Decorated vehicles, Trudy Knell, first; Linda Macfarlane second, and Nancy Ann Maddox, third. One of the features of the parade was the children and relatives rel-atives of men of the 213th National Na-tional Guard battalion in Korea, who inarched as a unit. The boys were dressed in uniform follow-ed follow-ed by the girls as the "Girls That the Men Left Behind". Ray Gleave, a native of Anna-Bella Anna-Bella and a student at Brigham Young; University, gave the prin-clpal prin-clpal address at the Pioneer meeting which was held following follow-ing the parade. During his talk, the speaker compared the idealism for which the pioneer fought with those for which some of their descendants are for in Korea. The meeting (Continued on Back Page) r " PARADE (Continued from Front Page) was under the direction of the Sons and Daughters of Utah Pioneers. Pio-neers. A sports program began at the city park at 2 p. m. under the direction of LaVell Chamberlain and Wallace (Red) Osborne. At 4 p. m. the Cedar City Jaycee-Ettes Jaycee-Ettes sponsored a talent show at the city park. Twelve contestants were entered, some in the 3 to 7 year old group and some in the 8 to 11 year group. In the first group, first prize went to LaRae Lamoreaux, 4, vocal solo, and I second prize to Christy Lynn Bauer, 7, Cedar City, tap dancing. danc-ing. First prize in the second group went to Laurel Smith, Cedar City, vocal solo, and second sec-ond prize to a group of girls singing sing-ing under the direction of Mrs. Beth Leigh. Following the talent show, there was a large turnout of young children for the Kiwanis club sponsored dance, which was held in the Open Air pavilion. The day's activities were climaxed cli-maxed at 8:30 with a dance in the Branch Agricultural college fieldhouse. Old time, modern square and ballroom dancing were featured during the evening. This was under the direction of the stake Mutual Improvement Association. |