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Show Fourth of July Celebration Was Best Yet Thousands of west Millard residents re-sidents celebrated a grand and glorious Fourth of July in a daylong day-long program sponsored by Post 117, American Legion. A daybreak salute brought citizens up and ; Clark street was packed at 9 a. m. waiting for the big parade. - This year's celebration was especially es-pecially good The parade was fine, led 'by the colors, Delta high school band and Junion Band, and many handsome floats. Hinckley had a float and presented their queen and attendants for 'July 24 celebration. Days of the Old West had an attractive float. And Delta volunteer firemen were in fine fettle, fet-tle, with a float whereon busy fire men doused flames in an old-time privy, occupied by two night-shirt-ed fellows. . Crowds followed the parade to the high school lawns, where child ren's sports kept the young people peop-le busy. The refreshment booths did a brisk business, and there was a large audience fqr the program. pro-gram. Marvin Bertoch, Americanism' chairman, of the American Legion depart of Utah, was the speaker on the program, and gave a stirring stir-ring talk on what Americans fight for. Mrs. Elaine Dekker gave an original reading that will be printed print-ed later in the Legionnaire. In the afternoon there was pony racing, swimming and a matinee. The big ballgame pitched Delta Merchants against Saturday league lea-gue team, with the league team winning, 11 to 6. Children's dance was the event at 5 p. m. The display of fireworks was the largest ever to be shown here, with 90 pieces displayed, concluding conclud-ing wifh the Legion emblem and the American flag. Hundreds of cars were parked at the racetrack and thousands of spectators enjoyed en-joyed the show. After ithe fireworks fire-works the big dance at the open air completed the day's celebration. celebrat-ion. Delta City Council expressed their appreciation of the fine program pro-gram and the way the celebration celebrat-ion was handled by Post 117, and said in their opinion the sum the city contributed toward the program pro-gram was the best investment they made this year. Frank Bishop, Post commander, i thanked the public for the sup-' port they gave them, and especial ly thanked the business houses for entering floats in the parade. Mr. Bishop also stressed the need in Delta of a place or park to hold celebrations, and hoped that steps would be taken soon in that direction. di-rection. He said the Legion would give one hundred percent cooperation cooper-ation in getting a place in Delta. |