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Show PIONEER MOTHER WINNING FLOAT "The Pioneer Mother" represented by Orina Carlson, Tommy Mitchell and Patsie Smith was the float that won first award in the Forty-Niners parade Friday afteroon. The float entered en-tered by the American Legion Auxiliary Auxil-iary was designed to represent the statue, The Pioneer Mother, that conveys con-veys accurately the courage and spirit of the women who payed so important a part in the settling of the west. Another float that proved appropriate appro-priate to the occasion was the one containing con-taining a card table with a group of sour doughs playing stud. Jo McCuan was doing the dealing while Steve Stoker and John Alburn were the players. The' Veterans of Foreign Wars -en tered a float containing a pup tent and a machine gun. The soldiers on the truck were G. T. Fitzgerald, Dan Davis, Ted Kronholm, E. H. Chilton, Gene Pitchforth, Rae Rickerson and Pat Reynolds. Utah's best crop was displayed in a truck With Al Kirk's orchestra in old time costume. The crop proved to be a group of youngsters dressed in the rig of the gold rush. The Richfield post of the American Legion entered a machine gun float and the fire department had the fire engine on display slicked up for the occasion. Advertising their hot dog concession, conces-sion, the Legion Auxiliary entered a group of cooks wheeling a hot dog cart in which rode the chef, little Vernon Ver-non Hughes, while Vera Yepsen, Nina Bingham, Thelma Zabriskie, Mary Nichols, Ethyl Nielsen and Emma' Clark enacted the cooks. One of the most amusing features of the parade, was a burlesque on the pioneer mother. Clarence Grimshaw dressed in pioneer woman's costume wheeled Harold Cline in a baby buggy, the latter propefty rigged out in baby clothes. While the most amusing float was that containing the city cage with Poontang James representing represent-ing the madman he was supposted to "be while Lewis Davis as his keeper bally-hooed the fight that was to follow fol-low the parade. The old time orchestra that saw service later in the gambling hall made its appearance in the parade as did the high school band. A number of clever individual characterizations were in evidence, among them, the Auxiliary Ladies costumed in bustles and plooms. Judges of the parade were: Mayor Hubbell, Les Clay and Rue Nielsen. |