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Show Labor Day Celebration Provides Fun for All THE DARKNESS was interrupted momentarily at 6 a.m. by a quick succession succes-sion of dynamite blasts that lit up the mountain side to greet the new day Labor Day 1973. It dawned clear and bright after two days of rain, hail, electric storms AND snow. The City Park was soon busy with the annual chuck wagon breakfast and many a cold body was warmed and heartened by the excellent food. The annual parade got off to a rousing start by repeated repeat-ed trips up and down Main Street of a contingent of four Salt Lake County Sheriff Sher-iff Motorcycle police. Sirens blared, the streets were cleared and the parade began. be-gan. Park City High School Pep Club had the honor of carrying carry-ing the American Flag and the girls were resplendent in their bright red and white uniforms. The Pom Pom girls made a fine showing. PARK CITY GIFTS and the Mount Air Stores combined to present a beautiful float a large American flag graced grac-ed the center of the truck bed, two lovely young ladies rode with it and the sides of the float were emblazoned with the words GOD BLESS AMERICA. The Park City Resort featured fea-tured the ski season with a real gondola full of children riding along; the Salt Lake City Post Office Band made its annual appearance and this year their pert baton twirlers used blazingbatons. One highlight of the parade par-ade was the Mountain Meadow Mead-ow Ranch float which carried a Children's Zoo and delighted delight-ed the crowd along the way. Immediately following this were three miniature clowns who delighted the onlookers. THE SILVER KING Lounge entered a spectacular gold float and the Silver King Lodge used pink for their entry. Margaret Carlson Spencer Spenc-er again brought her beautiful beau-tiful horse to Park City and once more the crowd exclaimed ex-claimed over the unusually elegant silver trappings. One new entry was a band of bagpipers the Salt Lake Scots and they were well received by the crowd along Main Street. The Salt Lake Band and the Bagpipers entertained entertain-ed as folks gathered down at the new City Park waiting for the races. FIRST PLACE winners in foot raceswereCraigVargo, Charlene Snyder, Eric Hays, Wendy Colovich, John Geor-gio Geor-gio and Stephanie Weaver. Each received ?3.00 cash; second place won $2.00 and third place received $1.00 each. The Scramble in the grass was a success for some and frustrating for others. One small boy was heard to say, 'Gee, all I got was nine cents!" Ladies of the Athenaeum were not to be outdone by the recent weather. Although many flowers around town were completely frozen out, some were salvaged and put on display for the annual (Continued on Page Three) k ' r . -: . it -Aj X - - t I : ' -l I ' I. -- -' V ; " . i '1 One of three skydivers says hello to good, old earth. Labor Day (Continued frnm Page One) Flower Show sponsored by the club. ALL MANNER of containers contain-ers were used there were lovely purple and white petunias pet-unias in a large plastic wash tub. An attractive arrangement arrange-ment of cat tails and fall foliage caught the eye of entertaining the dining room area at the Memorial Building Build-ing where the show is always held. A few bright pansies made a sweet miniature arrangement. ar-rangement. Nan McPolin, Mae Horan, Linda Simmons, Ella Soren-sen, Soren-sen, Lorena Bingham and Eleanor Bennett staffed the show and welcomed visitors from all over Utah, Wyoming and some from California. Those who donated flowers for display were Florence Audrey, purple petunias; Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Hendrick-son Hendrick-son with a large and showy Fhilodendron; Mr. and Mrs. Fraser Buck with asters; Mr. and Mrs. Thurlow Mac-Naughtan Mac-Naughtan who showed flowers flow-ers and a cluser of pink-cheeked pink-cheeked Thorn Apples; Mae Horan had African Violets; Linda Simmons had arranged ar-ranged the dried flowers mentioned above; Nan McPolin Mc-Polin saved some varicolored vari-colored sweetpeas; and Mary Lou Toly had two small arrangements ar-rangements suitable for a child's room, plus a lovely pansy ring of purple, lavender laven-der and white pansies with a pale blue Madonna in the middle. DAVE NOVELLE is a fine "arranger and director of affairs. He seems to have the knack ,( putting things together to-gether to the very best ad-I ad-I vantage. You could set your clock t by the 6 a.m. dynamite blasts - the parade appeared at the -head of Main Street by 10:30 and it was just about on the dot of 12:30 p.m. when the tthree skydivers landed at the , park. |