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Show Northern Utahns Gear for Holiday Visitors (Editor's Note: This la another In a series of "See Utah" articles arti-cles designed to better acquaint Utahns with their home state. They have been prepared by th Utah Tourist and Publicity Council. Coun-cil. Each week a different sector of the state will be featured). Days of '47 and Pioneer Days celebrations in Utah cities and towns will highlight upcoming July 24 observances in the Beehive Bee-hive State. D. James Cannon, director of the Utah Tourist and Publicity Council, has asked Utahns to get out and see some of the historical histori-cal attractions of their area while attending holiday functions. func-tions. In the Salt Lake area, for example, ex-ample, local citizens as well as visitors can take a little extra time to visit This is the Place Monument, Temple Square, the newly-restored Beehive House, Pioneer Museum and Village and other historical points of interest. in-terest. Parades will also be among the biggest attractions of the holiday celebrations. There will be three parades In Salt Lake City, beginning with the "Grand Horse Parade" on Main Street. July IS. This parade, billed as the "only all-horse parade In the nation," will feature more than 1000 horses from all over the west. Other parades In the Utah capital cap-ital city will be a youth parade July 19 and the traditional Days of '47 parade, July 24. Similar parades will be held In the Pioneer Pio-neer Days celebration In Ogden. Parades have been traditional on the July 24 fiestas since the early pioneers first began commemorating commemor-ating their arrival In the valley. By the 1880's three-mile long parades pa-rades were common. Pageants, too, have been a part of the celebrations with local lo-cal talent re-enacting the arriving arriv-ing of the pioneers to the Salt Lake Valley. In Salt Lake City this year the traditional pageant will be held In the Tabernacle July 23-25, with Broadway star and former Utahn Suzanne Storrs playing the lead role. In Ogden's pageant, "All Faces West," a musical drama, World-famous World-famous baritone singer Igor Gorin will star. This Is the 12th annual performance of this citizen-produced pageant, dated this year for July 20-22. Another feature of the Pioneer celebrations will be good old western rodeos. Excellent shows are scheduled for both Ogden and Salt Lake City. Dale Robertson, Robert-son, star of the TV show "Wells Fargo," will be the key attraction attrac-tion in the Utah capital city. A bullfight demonstration will be the highlight of the Ogden rodeo, along with a herd of wild buffa-1 los and a few other "death defy-irsr" defy-irsr" aet. In addition an all-Arabian Horse Show is scheduled in the Salt Lake City Fairgrounds July 20 and 21. There will be two main programs beginning at 7:30 each night Modern parades such as thos shown at right In tht Days of '47 celebration In Salt Lak City extend ex-tend for miles and last for hours. They are among tbs largest in the world. f ilia! II - ' . , n , Nil i' -j.:?.u : , . i e s ; , uuauuuj P t rKsc--; - V W: 4V'sx',,rUK ' tt rl -. fc&iiSL '&V'' ' J Mm -if.. 4 R . I'l' Hf |