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Show Thirteen Bands March In Parade At Music Festival The annual Southern Utah Music festival, probably the most colorful color-ful of all events on the school calendar cal-endar each year, came to Beaver founty this year, having been staged at Beaver last Saturday and with notable success in every way. A large number of Milford people motored to the county capital capi-tal for the occasion, in addition to virtually all of the students of the upper grades, and all found the festival thoroughly enjoyable in every way. From early morning until mid-afternoon, mid-afternoon, music students representing rep-resenting Beaver, Millard, Iron, Washington and Kane counties were kept busy with various individual indi-vidual and group contests but the olimax of the well-filled day came with the marching and maneuvering maneuver-ing of the the 13 bands on Main street and the massed band playing play-ing south of the Beaver high school building. A big dance, spon- sored by the Beaver band mothers j organization, concluded the day's festivities. Judges included Clair Johnson of , Ogden, former music instructor at Beaver; Leroy J. Robertson of Provo, J. Spencer Cornwall and 0. T. Christensen of Salt Lake, and Roy Halverson, William Manning and Frank Van Cott of Cedar City. Ratings of the contestants were not announced but were furnished music directors of participating schools, along with constructive criticism and suggestions, to be publicized as they saw fit. Milford students did well in all the events in which they contested, according to report, and the band made the best impression, both in marching and playing, in its career under Director Alvin H. Baker. The new girls' drum and bugle corps, sponsored by the Milford Mil-ford American Legion and Auxil iary, also made a splendid impression, impres-sion, despite the fact that the organization or-ganization was barely a week old! The band marching and maneuvering maneuv-ering was more than an hour late in getting underway but was completed, com-pleted, together with the massed playing, in good time and with a minimum of the usual misunder- j standing. i Arranging for the high school musical festival is a rather f ormid-! able undertaking for any community, commun-ity, entailing plenty of work and ( unselfish cooperation for every-' 1 ' i body, but a lot of Milford people, already are looking forward to the ' time, some two or three years j hence, when our community may j act as host. Milford's ideally I grouped school plant and athletic ! field, combined with the close proximity of the fair grounds, of-; fer advantages lacking in many of j the other towns within the district, ; while the promised early comple-1 tion of short-cut roads north and south of town will virtually elimi-. nate the distance disadvantages, j |