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Show Opening of Fair Is Postponed Until Friday, One To Storm- Will Continue Through Sunday I A million-dollar storm, falling as a gentle, saturating rain throughout Wednesday and amounting to .78 of an inch of precipitation, has made necessary postponement of the opening of the 1939 Beaver County Fair until Friday of this week instead of Thursday. Starting with the parade at 10' o'clock Friday morning, the fair and race meet will continue through Sunday, with that day probably the biggest in the entertainment enter-tainment history of southern Utah. The Milford valley has been visited vis-ited by heavier summer storms than that of Wednesday, but seldom do we have a rain of this type at this time of the year. Every droip of moisture remained where it fell to be of inestimable value to farm and range but this very fact worked havoc with the scheduled opening of Milford's first county fair. The new race track, pronounced pro-nounced by -race experts to be the best track south of Salt Lake City, became saturated with mV:isture. Though located on fast-drying bench ground, the long duration of the storm made it inadvisable to use the track before Friday. The 65 new race horse stables constructed as part of the $15,000 new fair grounds plant, are filled with horses from Utah, Nevada, Idahlo, Arizona, California and Colorado, with some 50 additional horses being taken care of around town. Late Wednesday evening two Reno horses are reported to have arrived, their owners drawn here by already widespread reports of 'our fine new race track. The 115 show pens are filled with various classes of livestock, poultry and pets and the new high school shop building is a colorful sight with 'the finest display of home science, art and floral exhibits ex-hibits ever shown in southern Utah. The educational ' display, a splendid one with all schools of the county capably represented, is located lo-cated in the hallways of the elementary ele-mentary grades building. The former high school gymnasium gymnasi-um is being used for display of agricultural and horticultural products, pro-ducts, with special sections devoted devot-ed to the forest service and to mining, both of which are reported to have unique exhibits that will prove interesting and educational, and should not be missed by anyone any-one attending the fair. Several interesting in-teresting commercial exhibits also are in place. The fact that indoors exhibits can be made locally under unusually unusual-ly favorable conditions and in close proximity to the race track 'and all within easy walking distance of town makes the Milford fair and race setup a natural for complete com-plete inspection and enjoyment by visitors and all are loud in their praise of what has been accomplished accomp-lished in Milford in only a few months time. |