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Show City's Dead Honored by Friends And Relatives The memories of loved ones interred in-terred in the city cemetery, were honored with lovely flowers Wednesday Wed-nesday by many hundreds of persons, per-sons, who visited the graves in keeping with the national custom of Memorial Day. A large number of people residing outside of American Amer-ican Fork came for the day and paid reverent tribute to their dead, along with the people of this city. Many took advantage of the clear, cool weather and the holiday after visiting the graves to enjoy trips to nearby canyons and resorts. In ceremony appropriate to the thirty-sixth annual observance of Memorial day, tribute was paid the dead in a short program held at the soldiers memorial monument at . the north end of the main drive. Post 49 of the American Legion with Commander J. J. Mercer, Jr., I in charge, conducted the program j which was as follows: "Bugle Call j Rag", The Americans Orchestra"; i prayer, Chaplain Delbert Chipman; I "Arlene," Orchestra ; address, Ex- mayor, Warren Anderson; vocal trio, King Drysdale, Howard Nel-i Nel-i son and Ai-lan Bastian; reading, Miss Helen Kirk with piano accom-jpaniment accom-jpaniment by Miss Lenore Crook-I Crook-I ston ; string duet, Carl Bennett and I Howard Nelson; Memorial day address, ad-dress, Henry E. McNeil ; "My Buddy," Bud-dy," dedicated to the soldiers who j made the supreme sacrifice and to j the late Elwood Dean, who was a member of the orchestra, played by The Americans; vocal solo, "Sleep Soldier Boy," Rulon Nicholes, with piano, cornet and violin accompani-j accompani-j ment, Howard Paxman, Howard Johnson and Milton Brown; "Taps" sounded by Harold Johnson and the echo sounded by Ferren Sager. Ray Shelley and Howard Nelson were vocalists of the orchestra numbers. |
