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Show 1 I On The Way To Celebration At Delta Saturday '"- " - r T . 'r 17- - rv-'- c , if v -- . s j ? K . . Committee members for High woy 6 Completion Jamboree at Delta Friday and Saturday take trip in the stagecoach that was delivered from Ely to take port in the parade Saturday aft-ernoon. Handling the reins is Mayor C. M. Pace, and beside him is Orvil Jeffery, who handles the finances for the affair, and Mil-lard county commission chair-man Golden H. Black, who is general chairman of the event. . In the seat are Mrs. Sebrina C. Ekins, and Mrs. Athena B. revw . . dKM: ..S28a3i Cook, publicity, and Earl Kelly, program chairman. At the back are John A. Day, parade chair-man, and Arv Hose, chairman of the fight card Friday night. Carl Ashby, square dance chair-man, was out of town at the time. i " Voiume43 Number is Delta, Utah, Thursday, September 25, "l 052" ' $3.50 aYece Delta Puts Out Welcome Mat For All For Friday And Saturday Celebration Thousands Expected For US6. Completion Jamboree Preparations to entertain the. thousands that will be in Delta Fri-day night and Saturday for. the U.S. Highway G Completion Jamboree are all well made. With a little coopen.Uion from the weather man to continue these bright September days, the Jamboree will be a huge" success and long remembered. . Monday a huge 9 was trucked into Delta, and will take part in the parade Saturday afternoon. The bomber, minus wings, is specially made up for public display. Thursday and Friday after-noons trips may be made through It, and all day Saturday it will be open ot the public. The stage coach from Ely's Pony Express celebration has already arrived for the parade. Reuben L. Turner is providing the four horses necessary for it locomotion, and will be the driver. There will also be a queen for the parade, with the arrivall of beautiful Miss Lavon Brown, re-cently crowned Miss Utah. First event of the celebration will be the amateur boxing and wrestling show in Palomar Friday night. A special feature is the Rex Layne, second ranking heavy wei-ght M the world. Continuous Entertainment . Saturday there will be enter-tainment all day and during the evening Besides the morning pro-gram, afternoon ribbon- - cutting ceremony and parade, there will be la carnival going, and six spe-cial acts and clowns have been obtained from Salt Lake to keep entertainment continuous. Free Barbecue The big free barbecue will be served at noon, on tihe Delta high school grounds. All beef will be served, as the elk 'first talked proved not available. This will cause a rejoicing among those who are not elk meat fans. Nick Galanas of Salt Lake City, wizard of barbecue, will prepare the beef and trimmings and a large group of local men and women will help serve. Ribbon Cutting The ribbon-cuttin- g ceremonies to officially open U. S. 6 will be-gin at 3 p.m. on Clark Street and Third West. Dignitaries who will officiate include Gov J. Bracken Lee and Sen. Arthur V. Watkins of Utah, and Gov. Charles H. Rus-sell and Sen. Pat McCarran of Ne-vada, state road commission and other state and national ifigures. The program will be broadcast that day over Richfield and Cedar City radio stations on a hook-u- p from Delta. Parade The colossal parade begins at 4 p.m. and will go from the over-pass east as far as there are any spectators to watch. Square Dancing Square dance teams and callers from all lover Utah will take part in the street dancing Saturday night, beginning with a torchlight parade. Food & drink concessions will be operated all day Saturday by Oasis citizens, who had the concessions at Dtys of the Old West. They are preparing for a large crowd and no one need get hungry or thirsty for long. . Banquet There will also be a banquet Saturday night in Deseret Stake house in connection with the As- - sociated Civic Clubs of Southern and Eastern Utah meeting. The public may attend, and should make reservations early with Glen Seegmiller and Merlin Christensen, or M. Ward Moody. Weather Warm And Delightfasl Some extra fine fall weather has been turned on here for the past week. Weather forecasts have included no frost warning, and the minimum temperature Sunday night climbed to 56 .at Deseret. The rainstorm Sunday evening brought .3 inches of precipitation at Deseret, somewhafmore at Del-ta, and was a light drizzle in oth-er places. The weather forecast received Wednesday was a five day fore-cast for the period of Sept. 24 through Sunday, Sept. 28, and said "Utah - Temperature averaging ab ove normal. No rain indicated." Pony Express Friday right in Utah The l'ony Express rides Friday night in every village, town and i in the state as the gigantic statewide drive for funds is con-ducted to erect the two massive Pony Express Memorials, one as Utah's gift to the nation in Wash-ington, D. C, and the other 'for placement on Utah's State Capitol grounds. Friday is the night when Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, cubs, club members and other junior organ-izations, between 4 .and 6 p. m:, will deliver special Pony Express collection envelope to ever iac -- cessible home in Utah. Volunteer women will go back after them between 7 and 9 p. m., according to the elaborate plans of the Pony Express Memorial Commission of Utah, which was given the responsibility by Gov. J. Bracken Lee of raising the funds to complete the two heroic-size- d Memorials. Alvin G. Pack, executive direc-tor of the commission, explained that these collection envelopes will be unique in several ways. First, it will naturally serve as a depository for contributions to the Bony Express Memorial fund. But, in addition, a special perforated flap .will offer both a special souv-enir 'Pony Express stamp and 'a valuable book titled "Rid-ers of the Pony Express". The stamp may be retained by all who contribute to the fund in anv amout while the official receipt on the flap, when the con-tribution is one dollar or more and the receipt is properly coun-tersigned by a agent of the Com-mission, will entitle the bearer to receive one free copy of Riders of the Pony Express compiled by Kate B. Carter. All rights to the book in this special edition have been generously assigned to the Com-mission by Mrs. Carter and the Daughters rl! Utah Pioneers, Mr. Pack said. The Pony Express figuresb y Dr. Avard Fairbanks first appeared in the Utah Centennial parades, and a movement was started to have them perpetuated in bronze. Dr. Fairbanks will start work, immediately on the huge task of the pony express figures. Twelve tons of clay will be re-quired to fashion the first clay models. Two tons of plaster of paris will be needed to cast the original molds and then more than thirty tons of bronze will toe need-ed to make hte two finished mem-orials. One will be placed on a special train to be carried to Washington, D. C, wheer the President a! the United States will accept it as Utah's gift to the nation in honor of old and modern postal service. The other will he placed on the Capitol grounds. More and More Come To Delta For Celebration More and more are coming to Delta Friday and Saturday 'for the Highway B Completion Jamboree. Ely is bringing a band with their delegation, and the band will give a concert on the street Saturday from 1 to 2 p. m. and also take part in the parade. Delta band will play numbers from noon to 2 p. m. Wednesday a message from Too ele said they were bringing down a float and 45 riders from the Bit and Spur, Tooele's riding club and a large number of junior rid-ers. Also 13 Tooele city officials made reservations for the ban-quet Saturday night in connection with the meeting of Associated Civic Clubs of Southern and Eas-tern Utah.. ' The banquet Saturday night will begin at 6 p. m. and will be con-cluded when the night festivities begin. Delta Second ward Relief Society are preparing the banquet. Jolly Stitchers, Rebekahs and Delta high school Pep Club will assist in serving the free barbecue at noon. The American Legion will lead the parade Saturday with la color guard. .The Union Pacific minia-ture freight train has already ar-rived in Delta, brought from Om-aha, Neb., in charge of four men. One hundred and forty-fiv- e sparklers have been obtained for the torchlight parade and snake dance Saturday night. Sixteen cal-lers are coming 'for the square dan cing and 2000 square dancers will be in the streets. Nineteen traffic patrolmen will be here Saturday to direct and handled traffic. Five hundred lbs. of potato chips and 420 dozen buns are ordered for the barbecue of 1000 pounds of beef. Three thous-and cases of pop are reserved for Saturday night alone. M. Ward Moody will emcee the banquet Saturday night, and mus-ic will be 'furnished by the Delta Harmonettes, Cherie Hannifin, Lila Mae Sampson and Bonnie Robin-son and Dale Johnson with his ac-cordion. Visiting dignitaries will speak, and Golden H. Black will propose a toast to Millard county. IFIower Show At l&elta ScEiool There were 248 entries in the sixth annual flower show at Delta elementary -- school this fall, and 43 sweepstakes were awarded, with some young exhibitors win-ning more than one. The show was the largest one yet put on, and a number of flo-wers entered were grown from the seeds given out in school in the spring. Mrs. Zola Bunker was in charge of the show, with cooperation of the teachers. 'Mrs. Ruby Bunker and Mrs. Melba Crafts were jud-ges and commended the pupils on their displays, which were varied and well arranged. Bouts Pull Crowd To Palomar For Fridays Events Palomar will be packed Friday night for the opening gong of the big amateur boxing and wrestling show that opens Delta's Highway 6 Completion Jamboree. Tickets are going like hotoakes, and more will be sold at the door. All is inreadiness for the big night, according to Arve Rose, the chairman of the fight card com-mittee. Opening the show will be the Hinckley Boy Scouts, to present the colors. Byron Carter will sing the national anthem, under direc-tion of Ladd Cropper. The bong - - the events com-mence. The show will go along rapidly, with all bouts. The amateurs will come 'first, then after a recess the ex-hibition bout will be on. REX LAYNE With Rex Layne, second rank-ing heavyweight of the world, in the ring as referee, and Bob Dun-lo- p and Dale Hall in a exhibition bout, fight fans Friday will have Madison Square Garden fare. This special attraction was arranged through the courtesy of Marve Jensen in cooperation with the Jamboree committee. The amateur bouts match the top ability in the looal boys with lads from Weber high school. Mr. Roseasks that the boys in the show be at Palomar Friday night at 6:30 p. m., to get ready for the show and have the at-tending physician's checkup. Ticket sellers are asked to check in their tickets by noon Friday with Cecil Baker, at Baker Phar-macy. Present Pageant Sunday Night in Deseret Ward A pageant, sponsored by Des-eret stake, will be presented Sun-day evening in Deseret ward. The adult Aaronic priesthood is espec-ially invited to attend. . The pageant has been presented here twice, in Delta First ward and in Sutherland ward, and the aud-iences were deeply interested. A great deal of time was spent in securing the script, and the story is designed to give spiritual up-lif- e and counsel. A large ohorus gives background music. Other wards may obtain the presentation of the pageant, and it is suggested that members of the bishropric of any ward .be pre-sent Sunday night so that they will know the nature of the pag-eant. A cast of 'five enact the script. Anthony is played by Stanley Dew snup. Charles and his wife are played by Ben and Manon Robin-son. The daughter, Mary is played by Dawn Hilton Porter and Layton Bishop is the Recorder. . tale Johnson j fe In Contest At State Fair Thursday, Sept. 18, was Farm Bureau Day at the State Fair, and he Talent Find contest was pres-ented in the afternoon before an audience of more than a thousand in the grandstand auditorium. Ten counties competed, with 35 numb-ers presented. Dale Johnson, son of Mr. and Mrs. Earl Johnson, of Sutherland, was chosen as one of the eight tinners. He played an accordion solo, "Lady of Spain". He, with the other winners, will be guests it the state Farm Bureau conv-ention in the Hotel Utah in Nov. The Millard County Associated Farm Bureau Women entered three fine numbers from Millard Count-y, with Mr. Johnson, Carl Oliver, and Carolyn Callister, vocal duet, and Mrs. Edith Anderson, piano solo. The local and county talent prog-rams were sponsored in August by the farm bureau women, who wish to take this opportunity to thank all those who took part. They congratulate Dale on his suc-ces- s, and hope that will give other Farm Bureau members an incenti-ve to enter this competition next year, as the Talent Find will be an annual affair at the State Fair and on a national program. KSUB Sound Truck And Mikes Cover Saturday Events Bob Heyborne, former Dellan and now assistant manager at KSUB, Cedar City, writes today that KSUB will give coverage of the Saturday events of Highway 6 Completion Jamboree. They have volunteered to bring their sound truck up Saturday mor ning and let the Jamboree com-mittee use it at their discretion with no cost. They plan to broadcast directly from the platform on Clark Street for the program Saturday morning and again at 3 p. m. for the rib-bon cutting ceremony. They will set up KSUB micro-phones and feed the programs by direct wire to Cedar City where they will be broadcast as the ev-ents are taking place. Aeixilflary 3B7 Mkes Report The Auxiliary of American Leg-ion Post 117 met Monday night in the Legion Lounge for their regul-ar business meeting. A program was presented, with two accordion solos by Colleen Kimber and a piano selection pla-yed by Eloise Bassett. A report of the District Confer-ence was made by President Iva Mitchell, and Unit 117 had the honor of having the largest dele-gation present and being the first in the District to go over the top on the membership drive. A committee of six members was appointed to assist with the Jamboree tea and will work with Mrs. Lucille Stephenson, chairman, representing the unit. Births This Week.. To Francis and Winnifred Olson Anderson, Oak City, a girl, Sept. 19. To Eldon and Josephine Rollins Hurst, Hinckley, a boy, Sept. 22. To Melvin and Marilyn Walker Church, Delta RFD, a boy, Sept. 23. Hcheknlas Plan Bazaar Date Betah Rebekah Lodge No. 47, BOP, announce that they will hold their annual bazaar and sup-P- o n the evening of Dec. 10. They will have a large number ' articles suitable for Christmas S'lts in their bazaar and will serve a hot supper. The public is reminded early to keeP the date in mind, and attend 'he Rebekah bazaar and supper. IKeSief Society IJisioEi MeetieB Deseret Stake Relief Society un-ion meeting will be Sunday, Sept. 28, at 3:15 p. m. in the stake house. " James Andrews, 13, from Leam-ington, had an appendectomy at the Delta hospital Sept. 19. 1TA Opens With Social October 1 Delta Parents-Teache- associa-tion will have their first meeting of the season on Wednesday, Oct. 1, at 8 p. m. in Delta high school 'The meeting will be a social, and entetrainment is m charge of Mr and Mrs. Auer Jensen, pro-gram ohairmen. Gwen Sheriff, old daugh-ter o't Mr. and Mrs, Guy Sheriff Lynndyl is a patient this week at the Delta hospital for medical treatment. Sample Fine Cooking At Demonstration , ... ; . , j ..1 ?u - - 2 - s ; ; . ri ' r vV I - 5 , . O - 'I ' . i Baker ham, stuffed frankfur-ters, vegetables, cake and pie, and other fine fare were pre-pared and then served to all present. Eliza T. Brinjhurst, home ec-onomist for Frigidaire, conduc-ted the demonstration. She is at left of table, and Mrs. Don-na Jeffery at right. Not only good to look at But 9ood to eat was the verdict 'hese ladies gave at the recent demonstration at Quality Mar-ke- t Appliance Store. Relief Society Opening Social Opening social for the Relief Society of Delta First, Second, and Third wards will be held Tuesday, Sept. 30, at 3 p. m. in Deseret stake house. All women of the wards are invited to attend. There will be a special program and light refreshments. Lessons in Relief Society will - start on the first Tuesday in Oct. Mr and Mrs. M. H. Workman vere in Salt Lake City from Sun-day to Wednesday, and attended the grocers' convention. In Junior Flower Show At Delta Elementary School . I . i PiSfi til t. " ' v."-- - v - 3 U 4 X , a- - y 7?1 (S-v,.-- . in art n Pupils at Delta elementary school proudly display the flo-wer arrangements that won hon ors at their recent Junior Flo-wer Show. Utah's best crop made an ex-cellent showing with a crop of their own. The flowers were those that the children had grown by themselves. Many of the blooms were grown from seed distributed the pupils this spring by show director Mrs. Zola Bunker and Mrs. Peter Grorming. This is the sixth annual Jun-ior Flower Show and is a pop-ular event with the youngsters, now planning planting lor next year. |