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Show ug-ust 25, 1939 Community Day A Big Success Ceil r.unity Day at Aft. Pleasant Wednesday was a success from, kerning till night. The day was fills i wi.h sctivity an a interest for cc:.i old and young. Toe parade on Ai-m street in the x'orning was in-:- ting frcm beginning to end. T.aare were floats fr;m the neigh-1 coiing tewns Which added interest a- picture. j At t.e dedication of the new City Hah Juaige Carisaonsen told about' many things woiicil happened durin" 1 the early days of the old town. Hilda Longsdorf read seveaal extracts; iram the irrinute Ibcok cf the early' City Acjxinistrackns. It as sa r.e' dilierent from w.aiat one finds today Darrell J. Greeni,ell, WPA Administrator Ad-ministrator for toe State of Uta:i, gave a general review of the assistance assist-ance the Federal Government had given to Mt. Pleasant and also to Sanpete countv. Hp pnumpratjrf t-n benehts which have been given to Mt. Pleasant, alxiong m-hicli he mentioned men-tioned the"L)c.xiestic Arts building at the North Sanpete Hig.i' Slaool; the New Aim,ory; ti.Se net; City Hall; oairb and gutter work dane in the tci.vn; improvement in the electric light systt(xi; the cemetery; the cul--nary water systclxa with seven miles of metal pipes to replace (wood Piles; and that 150 new accounts r.ad been added to the electric and water accounts making a total of 750; the streets program; the airport; air-port; the ewing project; the fruit preserving; the library; the nursery; nur-sery; all being given at a cost to the local com,mamity at about 25 cents on t is dollar. This, he said, gave Mt. Pleasant a purchasing power of about $5,000.00 per month. And he also stated that .the county was receiving re-ceiving $40,000.00 per month. Dr. A. L. Peterson Imiade the response re-sponse to Mr. Greenwell. Robert H. Hinckley, former mayor of Mt. Pleasant, and now chaiilman of the civil Aeronautics Authority, reminised a bit about what the town looked like when he was mayor and hci.v they worked to get improve-'.nients improve-'.nients to get up out ,of the imud. He urged cooperation in the ecl ximuinity and said that 'he was pleased to be here again and expressed the opinion opin-ion t.hif-. Mt Pl.ftq;nrtt. still bnii fl future to it. The OCC camp psrsonnel held open house for the general .'Jaiblic all day escorting the visitors through the camp .and explaining what toe CCC was trying to do for the general gen-eral good of the public. They served the. general public with sandwiches diu'hng the day and also served luncheon for the visitors at the ctyxp. A "Stag party" was given for a number of the business (raen of the town during the evening ihxurs which was enjoyed very imiuch. This was a fitting climax to the CCC prograi.rj at the camp. In the evening boxing iand wrestling wrest-ling was enjoyed by the sbrts and dancing brought the day's program to a happy close. |