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Show Band Is Given Bid To Salt Lake Fete i .Because it rates as one of the best high school bands in Utah, at least in the estimation of B. A. Reynolds, parade director of the annual Pioneer Day parade of Covered Wagon Days in Salt Lake City, the Milford high school band has been extended one of the first invitations of high school bands to participate in the parade. An invitation to members of the band to take part in the national-: national-: ly-know-n celebration July 22 to 26 was sent this week to Harry Clark, director of the band. The celebration officials will bear a portion of the the expense of : transporting the band to Salt Lake City for the fete. ! From twenfy to thirty of the ; best bands of the state are expended ex-pended an invitation annually to j participate in the big Covered j Wagon day parade, which was j viewed in 1940 by appriximately j 200,000 persons. In no year in the modern history of the celebration, dating from 1931, have fewer khan 150,000 persons viewed th) i parade, considered one of the greatest in the west Every effort will be made by the Salt Lake committee to provide a good time for the visiting bands. Cut-rate prices will be provided i the theatres of the Intermountain j theatre chain, free admission to i Black Rock beach on the great j Salt lake, and innumerable eour-j eour-j tesies by Salt Lake firms and entertainment groups. Members of the band will be given an opportunity, op-portunity, in addition to the parade, to see the many free street shows and to participate in the carnival atmosphere of the celebration. I M |