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Show CLIFF MEMMOTT, Editor IT'S BACK TO SCHOOL FOR KIDS AND TEACHERS .... ' Tuesday ended a summer filled with pleasure and excitement for kids and teachers in the Uintah Basin, as school bells tolled and idle doors swung open to announce the beginning of the 1953-54 school year. Announcements from officials of the Duchesne School District and from Union High School indicated both systems sys-tems were staffed with a full corps of qualified teachers, who had come to the Basin highly recommended. Fortunately Fortun-ately for the young people whose lives are being influenced, a gTeat percentage of their teachers are returning to their various posts. . Too much praise can not be heaped upon those who direct the school system in our area or on those who mould the lives of our children as principals and teachers. . . To teach well one must be inspired, and inspiration comes from humbly approaching our task with a desire to give the best we can. f To the new teachers coming into the Basin for the first time, we bid you welcome and wish you well in your new field of labor. v E v 1953 DUCHESNE COUNTY FAIR GOES INTO RECORDS AS SUCCESSFUL PROJECT .... Any way you might look at the Duchesne County Fair last weekend, you'd have to say it was very successful and did a lot of good for the county of Duchesne, the Uintah Basin and the state of Utah as a whole. From the standpoint of entertainment, there have been none better Beginning with the "Miss Duchesne County" contest on Thursday night, continuing on with the Horse Show on Friday, and concluding with the Parade, Kids' ' Sports and climaxing with the Rodeo on Saturday, there was high class entertainment for every age level, and on a par with that found in any other part of the country. Twelve of the finest and most beautiful and talented girls in the country paraded their charm and talent on Thursday night everyone a queen in her own rights and each could well have been chosen to represent Duchesne County in the Miss Utah contest next week in Salt Lake City. . . Unfortunately, only one could be chosen for this single honor, and all Duchesne County can well be proud of the winner, who is a lovely girl, possessed with beauty, charm and talent that will be hard to overlook when the ; critical judges study the Miss Utah entries next week. Let me join all of the people in the county in complimenting Miss Esther Wogec on her selection as "Miss Duchesne County of 1953' a position she held in 1951, and wish her the best of luck in the big show next week. Likewise, let us all join in commending her attendants. Miss Janice Anderlon and Miss Lois Sadler and the other nine lovely, clean young girls, who were not chosen by the judges for the honor of reigning over the County Fair, but who could easily have been the winner. Something new was added to the entertainment feature of the fair this year on Friday night. A Uintah Basin Horse i Show brought together a long list of the best horseflesh in the country, where competition in the many classes was really keen. The committee, headed by A. Hale Holgate, deserves the plaudits of the citizenry of the county for the fine show he and his committee arranged and presented. The appearance of the Salt Lake Mounted Police, an all-Palomino all-Palomino posse, added greatly to the appeal of the show. A word of thanks is due the group of busy Salt Lakers who took time to come to Duchesne to make the show a success. s Another great transformation from other years in the past was noted as the Saturday afternoon parade passed in revue along Duchesne City's Main Street. Kvery float was a great credit to the sponsor, and reflects pride in the County Fair. It takes leadership and cooperation to make success, and Lowell Coleman and his committee came forth with the leadership, and those who entered floats gave the cooperation necessary to make the 1953 parade the best ever in a County Fair. Pages could be wiitten on the various livestock, home-making, farm produce, handicraft and other exhibits. ex-hibits. Each can be counted among the best ever to be presented to the fair-going public, and each department ' deserves praise for the fine job done in bringing together to-gether the exhibits that make a county fair. Duchesne City was the perfect host to the large groups of people who visited the fair begining Thursday and lasting til Saturday Mayor Otto E. Johnsen and members of h c'y cffuncil have contributed much td the success of e fair. They and the other civic-minded people of that y contributed freely of their time, talents and means to "sure the success of the fair as a host city. Especially Mould the people of Duchesne be complimented for their ; orts in erecting exhibit buildings, making corrals, level-ground level-ground and a hundred and one other unnoticed and un- entioned tasks necessary to. be hosts to a county fair. It would be unfair to mention names ol people in uchesne City to single out for praise, everyone who '"Ped deserves it, but to' fail to especially call attention the leadership of Allen Bojid, city councilman and direc-;!r direc-;!r Young Farmers training in the Duchesne area, who '.as chairman of the grounds committee for the fair, and e intelligent way he organized and directed the building ;;"gram, would be overlooking something important. It is , ' unbelievable the progress that has been made on fair grounds the past couple of years Mr. Bond has been (ioe eCtr' and with a lot of fine help' much has been Sitting on the sidelines, but doing much to insure e i success of the County Fair was the official family Duchesne County. The board of county commissions' commission-s' sort un things, gave unlimited aid and as-W'tv,nCe' as-W'tv,nCe' plus aPProvin9 financial assistance to the fair. 1 hout their help and the use of county equipment, e Job could not have been done. x It on't know just how much money belonging to the ;';siverS f the county wiu So' into the 1953 fair. . . But !:-mt 1 atn sure of no m.onev wil1 be appropriated and p of Under tne direction of the commissioners that will tot reater value to a11 tne People of the county than L which will be spent to' help finance the 1953 county . "ere is no conceivable way to measure the value of :EhtU?ty Fair' but when hundreds fof taxpayers are ' together in a cooperative manner to work for the (Continued on page 2) Editorial Viewpoints . (Continued from page 1) common interest of all the people of the county, then no value can be placed on good will that comes from the activity. I have said before in this column and I repeat it with emphasis, "There is no better way to my knowledge know-ledge to bring Duchesne county together, as a county should be, than through the medium of the County Fair. . . People from all parts of the county were working work-ing side by side to build a successful fair, and each takes pride in the job he did. Therefore, I repeat, the money invested by the county in the fair is the best invstment the officials can make in the welfare of the people of Duchesne County." As a concluding comment, I would like to extend a deserving word of praise to the fair board and committees which was headed by Dean C. Christensen, of Duchesne and Wesley R. Dickerson, of Roosevelt, as co-chairmen' Excellent leadership went into the planning, and fine cooperation co-operation came from the other members of the board and committee heads. Many long hours of meeting and planning plan-ning brought results A Very Successful County Fair! 30 |