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Show Pleasant Grove Has Outstanding Exhibit At Fair Pleasant Grove's unusual community com-munity exhibit in which the town was featured as the heart of a thriving agricultural section, excited ex-cited much interest and favorable comment at the Utah county fair held at Provo September 5, 6. 7. The display had for its background back-ground a large pictorial map illustrating illu-strating the agricultural, industrial and cultural advantages of Pleasant Grove. Portrayed on the map were .Mount Timpanogos, the "G" mountain, moun-tain, the canning center, the civic building, the commercial dairy, the railroads, the pipe plant, the orchards, orch-ards, and diversified . farms, the dairy barns, the main street with its home-owned stores, the churches, church-es, represented by the Timpanogos stake tabernacle; and a beautiful home typifying the community as one of fine homes. Statistics giving proof of the advantages ad-vantages portrayed, accompanied the map. In the foreground, the - design, "the heart of the agricultural section" sec-tion" was worked out in fruits and vegetables. General chairman, Mrs. Lurena E. Warnick, designed and managed the exhibit, under the direction of the Pleasant Grove chamber of commerce. She was assisted by-Joan by-Joan Adams, who painted the map; S. A. Kirk, who compiled the statistics; sta-tistics; Mr. and Mrs. George Paul, in charge of gathering fruits and vegetables; Jewell Paul, Ruth Hoo-ley, Hoo-ley, and Irene Warnick, who helped arrange the display. Those who contributed fruits and vegetables for ;the design were: apples, Fred Scholes; peaches, Stena Christensen; pears, Clarence Ras-mussen; Ras-mussen; plums and prunes, Nyal Wadley; grapes, Clarence Wright; potatoes, onions, and carrots, Burton Bur-ton H. Adams; beets, summer squash, and yellow beans, Merrill N. Warnick; melons, green beans tnd cucumbers, George Harris; tomatoes, to-matoes, Arnold Hooley; canned fruit, Mrs. Merrill Warnick and Manila 4-H clubs; canned goods, Pleasant Grove cannery. The exhibit is now on display at the Pleasant Grove library. |