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Show 'poultry-Turkey Festival Draws Crowd Of 15,000 It; Settling back to normal life again ,ter weeks of fevered activity, wierican Fork this week took stock s. poultry-Turkey day and brought the same verdict as that voiced n. tlie m0re than 10..C00 celebrants 'that the festival was the best ever ..(aged here. r with daytreak-to-midnight festi-ities festi-ities offering fast-moving enter-ainment enter-ainment Saturday the city paid iomage in a royal manner to its Important chicken and turkey in-ustries. in-ustries. Joining with the com-lunity com-lunity in celebrating the annual Ete were hundreds of visitors from if'.-er the state. High sPots of the day were the jorning and evening parade?, m ,),jCh "were presented, through ""oicrful, moving pageantry, a pic-jre pic-jre of the industries and resources the community and state. Ruling fver the long procession were Miss (aVee Hunter, the Poultry Queen, nd Miss Imogene Neff , Miss Amer-:an Amer-:an Fork. (J(f The Poultry Queen graced a beau-ful beau-ful silver and white satin float, 'harming attendants to Her Royal ighness were Miss Ruby Harring-r.jn Harring-r.jn and Miss Mary Walton. Pages "Ve David Davies and Elsmore tush. Miss American Fork ruled . Dm an artistic float, surrounded by jyce Houston, Helen Adamson and ary Chadwick. --Stirring music and the practised "-.arching maneuvers of the gay- liformed bands added sparkle to i fie parades. The American Fork ' lind, headed by its proud-stepping dor bearers and drum major, lea ijLe procession. Interspersed m the W'jumn were the Provo, Payson, easant Grove, Lehi and Vineyard inds, and the crack Garfield Drum id Bugle corps. A. W. Pulley & Sons' feathery at won first place in the float mpetition. Second place went to e Poultry-Turkey Queen's float, id third to the visiting Deseret ws entry. The Pulley float, Cov- Sed Wagon Days prize-winner, feared fea-red Mrs. Adolphus Pulley holding rein a golden peacock, with Miss innie Pulley and Miss Carolyn Pul-' Pul-' riding in swings on either side. rhrilling band music . . . colorful rades featuring nearly 100 floats . free chicken sandwiches for 00 persons . . . baseball and sports S: . spectacular airplane stunt and Juration flying ... the thrills and 1 of carnival rides and shows . . . , i-notch vaudeville entertainment m . dazzling fireworks . . . dancing der the stars. Ul these were combined in the inmoth celebration, offering a Ijlfind of entertainment from day-''ak day-''ak salutes which proclaimed the t to the last strain of dance music lch marked the end of Poultry-rkey Poultry-rkey day for another year. he morning parade started mptly at 10 a. m., the long pro-iion pro-iion marching eastward along In street and then doubling back, Tlftvln the applause of the thousands 11 people who thronged the streets. .lowing the parade the crowd njued to the city hall grounds, dU ere the sandwich committee ked at a fast pace to distribute 0 chicken sandwiches to the rjjjigry celebrants. J Iterally "out of a clear sky", Ray iS nore, local attorney and flier, ptffled over the city at noon, to U neck-straining crowds with -t flying of every description. I him came three other fliers, in planes, who staged a first-rate Ibition of formation flying. The J len's show continued for the bet- U Part of an hour, before the ies headed back toward the Salt i te airport. fjber and American Fork appear -n one of their traditional battles 0 he baseball diamond, as the fea-' fea-' event of the afternoon sports rywam. The visitors trimmed the 1 nine, io to 6, but had to put 1 good fight to do it. Greased climbing and other events ded out the afternoon enter- oient. capacity crowd turned out for (b'g night show at the outdoor t l-'tre n the high school campus, we rewarded with a stellar Jjlwevilie program. Singing, danc-instrumental, danc-instrumental, acrobatic and 1 numbers featured the enter-i-rtj nent- Tlle spectacular fireworks jfi a5' climaxed the show. ' orf!!i0Wing the show the crowd Pjd to the outdoor dance pavilion 'G Harrington school grounds, e the official Poultry-Turkey Qf nance soon got under way. j 11 P- m., threatening clouds way and released a sprinkle of The dancers and orchestra -n up the gay pace for a while, K oon were persuaded by the v downpour to move to the nail, where the dance went " nothing had happened. |
