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Show H lity Prepares To Welcome Festival Visitors Turning the "keys to the city" over to 10,000 or more guests from over the state, Pleasant Grove will extend a hearty welcome next Wednesday to those who come here to participate in the celebration of the eighteenth annual Strawberry Day. As well as making its visitors feel "right at home," the city will leave nothing undone to provide a day crowded full of entertainment for young and old. From the early morning band serenades to the last strains of the dance orchestra playing play-ing at the Strawberry gardens, there will be "something doing" every minute of the day. Events include mammoth parades, air circus, sports, softball games, a big Strawberry dance, and carnival rides and shows. If past history holds true, attraction attrac-tion Number 1 again this year will be the serving of two tons 10,000 servings of luscious, red strawberries. strawber-ries. Celebration visitors will taste the berries, fresh from patches in the shadow of Mt. Timpanogos, which have made Pleasant Grove famous as "The Strawberry City," and will join with the city in honoring honor-ing the Strawberry. Ruling over the celebration will be two of Pleasant Grove's charming young women, who will be selected by popular vote as the Strawberry Queen and Miss Pleasant Grove. The young women, attended by a group of the city's most beautiful girls, will appear in the two mammoth mam-moth parades which will feature the festival. Opening the day's" program of royal entertainment will be a mammoth mam-moth parade, at 10 a. m. Besides the Strawberry Queen and Miss Pleasant Groves' floats, there will be scores of beautiful entries from civic, church and social organizations, organiza-tions, business concerns and sponsors from other cities. Comedy, too, will have its place. The stirring music of marching bands will add "that extra something" to the procession, at least eight bands from neighboring neigh-boring communities being expected to participate. The colorful parade will be repeated re-peated in the evening, at 6 o'clock. Being presented in the cool of the evening, and with hundreds of later-afternoon later-afternoon visitors coming from their work m Ogden on the north to Nephi on the south, this second presentation is expected to be as big an attraction as the morning parade. At noon, the free strawberries will be distributed. Efficient methods of serving will assure every visitor of being waited on in the quickest and most satisfactory way. Rich cream and sugar will be added to the berries, ber-ries, to bring out the full flavor of Pleasant Grove's famous fruit. At 2 p. m. thrills will be "dished out" in rapid-fire order to the crowd of spectators attending the air circus cir-cus at the ballgrounds. Stunt flying, 1 power dives, balloon bursting, .serpentine .ser-pentine cutting and delayed parachute para-chute jumps will be seen at this event. Entertainment for young and old will be provided at 3 p. m., when sports events will be held at the high school campus. Prizes will be given to all winners. Two sure-fire softball games have been lined up for 4:30 p. m. and 8 p. m. The first game will .star the Dennie's Own girls' team from Salt Lake City, tangling with Pleasant Grove's all-star team. The evening game at the lighted softball park will present a Salt Lake City colored col-ored team and a Utah-Wasatch league team in what is expected to be a thrilling contest. Ralph Migliaccio and his Chicago hotel orchestra will furnish their own danceable brand of music for the big official dance at the Strawberry Straw-berry gardens, at 9 p. m. Special attractions will add to the interest of the dance. All during the day, a gay midway will furnish entertainment for all. Monte Young's rides and shows, with many new features, will be on hand. The merry-go-round, ferris wheel, thrilling "rides," together with the sideshows and concessions, will provide pro-vide the carnival attractions which make a celebration complete. Committees in charge of Strawberry Straw-berry day this year are headed by Fred C. Shoell, president of the chamber of Commerce, as general chairman. Lyean Johnson is chairman chair-man of finance, and other committees commit-tees are as follows: Parade, Merrill Mer-rill N. Warnick, Mrs. H. S. Walker, Mrs. Millen Radmall, Mrs. Laura Robertson and Jasper Eves Jr.; serving committee, Blaine Swenson and a representative of each L. D. S. ward; music and recreation, Irwin Ir-win Jensen; queen selection, Harvey Smith; concessions, Harry Richards; advertising, Karl Banks, and membership, mem-bership, Frank Heidenreich. |
