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Show 15,000 Throng City For j Gala Strawberry Festival; i Royal strawberries pleased the palates of thousands of visitors and royal entertainment gave them a round of pleasure, to win for the eighteenth annual Strawberry day unanamious acclaim as "the best celebration yet". Throngs estimated at 15,000 people swelled the city's population to several sev-eral times its normal figure Wednesday, Wed-nesday, as guests from over the state joined with the Strawberry City to pay honor to the important Utah county fruit crop. Colorful parades, thrilling sports events, carnival rides and shows, dancing and the serving of hundreds of pounds of luscious, red strawberries with sugar and cream gave them a fun-packed day which maintained Pleasant Grove's reputation as a good host. Ruling over the day were Miss Phyllis Gillman, the Strawberry Queen, and Miss Helen Henrichson, Miss Pleasant Grove. They appeared appear-ed on beautiful floats in the morning morn-ing and evening parades, presiding over perhaps the most colorful processions pro-cessions ever staged here on Strawberry Straw-berry day. The festival got under way with banu concerts at 9 a. m., and by 9:30 streets for several blocks were jammed jam-med with cars and spectators. Depicting in beautiful pageantry the "March of the Nations", the parade started over its long line of march at 10 a. m. Lee " Swenson, astride a fine horse, led the parade, followed by the Pleasant Grove high school band, playing stirring march music. parachute jump. Throngs of gay celebrants packed the outdoor dance floor, Strawberry gardens, for the official Strawberry day dance. All during the day, Monte Young's carnival attractions, featuring a long row of concessions, new sideshows, and new and thrilling thrill-ing rides in addition to the old favorites the ferris wheel and merry-go-round, dispensed fun and thrills to hundreds. Fred C. Shoell, president of the Pleasant Grove Chamber of Commerce, Com-merce, which conducted the celebration, celebra-tion, expressed satisfaction at the success of the day. "We feel that the celebration was a success in every way, and wish to thank all who cooperated to put it over," Mr. Shoell said. Enthroned on a glistening lloat of white satin and cellophane, Miss Gillman and her attendants, Mildred Mil-dred Bezzant, Dawna Baxter King, Bea Walker and Luana Lim, led the procession of floats. Miss Pleasant Grove, Helen Henrichson, Hen-richson, came next, on an artistic blue and white float. Her attendants atten-dants ' were Marilyn Richards and Katie Eves. After them came a series of floats entered by civic, church and social organizations, business concerns, and sponsors from other cities. Cheer after cheer came from the crowds as the beautiful entries, with the cliarming young women and boys and girls presiding over them, passed pass-ed in review. The entries included Daughters of Utah Pioneers; Miss America, featuring fea-turing Anne Marie Walker, a patriotic pat-riotic float entered by Smith Drug company; Windsor ward, "Russia"; Manila ward, "Norway"; Wasatch Inn, "Scotland"; Arrowhead Service, "Hawaii"; Mother's Club, "Japan"; Pleasant Grove Second ward, "Holland"; "Hol-land"; C. R. Clark, "China"; Third ward, "Utah"; Pleasant Grove Lumber Lum-ber yard, "Italy"; the Luncheonette, "Mississippi"; Bank of Pleasant Grove, "Navy"; Pleasant Grove Canning company, "Virginia"; Recreation; Rec-reation; First ward, "Palestine"; Boren Market, "Ireland"; Alhambra Theatre, "India"; H. W. Clark, "Egypt"; Christensen Store, "Turkey"; "Tur-key"; H. W. Jacobs, "France"; Smith Brothers, "California"; Peay Dairy, "Texas"; Pleasant Grove Mills, "Montana"; Walnut Service, "Georgia"; Geneva Service, "Iowa"; Thornton Drug, "Kentucky". Commercial floats were sponsored by Dixon-Taylor-Russell company, Utah Power & Light company, Salt Lake and Utah Railroad, Union Pacific Railroad, Comer Garage, Ahlander company, Standard Oil. The CCC, Greater Orem days, Provo Chamber of Commerce, and Ute Stampede were represented with outstanding floats. Bands in the procession were the Pleasant Grove high school band, the Hiawatha Junior school band, the Lincoln high school band, Vineyard Vine-yard school band, Provo high school band, Salt Lake Drum and Bugle corps, Nephi band, American Fork high school band, Lehi high school band, and the Salvation army of Salt Lake City. A good comic section brought laughs from the spectators. The parade was repeated in the evening, for an equally-large crowd of visitors. At noon, thousands of servings of strawberries were "dished out", with sugar and rich cream. Visitors acclaimed ac-claimed Pleasant Grove's strawberries straw-berries as truly worthy of a gala celebration. During the afternoon, visitors and townspeople participated in sports and games at the high school campus. cam-pus. The Pleasant Grove all-stars and Dennies Own girls' teams played play-ed an exhibition game on the campus. cam-pus. At 8 p. m. the Salt Lake Colored Color-ed team played a Utah-Wasatch league team. Headline event of the afternoon was the air circus, at the ball grounds. Airplane stunts, high in the air, thrilled the spectators. The circus was climaxed by a delayed |
